"Brother Changquan, you are so awesome!"
Sheng Changquan still remembered the first words the other party said when he saw him reading.
At that time, her eyes and movements were all full of extreme admiration!
Sheng Changquan knew that she was admiring those who could read and read!
Speaking of which, Sister Shulan's daily actions seem to be filled with the gentleness and virtuousness respected by those scholars. This temperament is also in line with the preferences of scholars in this world.
Obviously, this is the attitude that the Sheng family deliberately cultivated in Shulan.
"What happened to Sister Shulan?"
Recalling the past friendship, Sheng Changquan couldn't help but feel a little bit of concern.
"Sister Shulan, she...is having a very bad life!"
Seeing Sheng Changquan's concerned look, Minglan felt certain in her heart and decided not to hide anything. However, she did not elaborate. Instead, she asked curiously, "But, brother, you and Shulan Are you familiar with your sister?"
"Or is it because of what happened when you were a child?"
Minglan remembered that when Sheng Changquan was very young, he, Sheng Changbai, and Sheng Changfeng had followed Sheng Hong back to Youyang's old house and participated in the Sheng family's ancestor worship ceremony, so she asked questions like this.
As for Minglan, she has never returned to Youyang before. After all, she does not need to pass on the incense of the Sheng family and does not need to go back in person.
Of course, among the Sheng family, only the three brothers Hua Lan, Ru Lan, and Sheng Changquan had come back to Youyang before, but Mo Lan and Ming Lan had never been there, and they were not qualified to come.
Because they are all concubines!
As a concubine and a girl, she was not allowed to participate in the Sheng family's ancestor worship ceremony.
"no."
Sheng Changquan shook his head, and then told Minglan what happened six years ago.
"That's it!"
Minglan understood, and then asked: "Brother, do you know Sister Shulan's husband, Sun Xiucai?"
Seeing that Sheng Changquan and Shulan were familiar with each other, Minglan immediately revealed the matter and added: "It's the Sun Xiucai who won the scholarship at the age of twelve!"
"Sun Xiucai?"
"Sister Shulan, are you being unkind to others?"
Hearing Minglan mention Sun Xiucai, Sheng Changquan immediately guessed what the trouble Shulan was encountering.
"Um!"
Minglan nodded, and then said: "Brother, you guessed it right!"
"Sister Shulan is indeed an unkind person and married a white-eyed wolf!"
Speaking of this, Minglan couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and commented angrily.
"That Sun Xiucai is simply not a human being!"
"Um?"
Sheng Changquan's expression changed, and he felt that the matter might be a little serious.
"Brother, this is what happened..."
As Minglan told it, Sheng Changquan gradually understood what was going on.
It turned out that after Sheng Changquan passed the college examination six years ago, Shulan also quickly made a marriage arrangement with someone, and the person she had chosen was none other than the Sun Xiucai whom Minglan had mentioned before.
However, because Sheng Changquan went on a study tour with Mr. Zhuang directly after he became the "Head of the Court", so he didn't know about Shulan's marriage.
Sun Xiucai, whose real name is Sun Zhigao, is a well-known scholar in Youyang County. His family is poor, but he has some talent for reading. At the age of twelve, he passed the college examination with great success and won the title of scholar. Fame.
Although his ranking in the college examination was not high and he only got a third-class attached student, it was already a quite remarkable achievement compared to others.
After all, Youyang is not a place where the literary style flourishes. The quality of the students there...
so so.
In other words, scholars, also known as students, are divided into three grades.
A first-class gynecologist can get 4 taels of silver as a subsidy from the imperial treasury, and there is also a lot of food. All in all, it can guarantee the survival needs of a family of three.
Of course, this is nothing else but just to satisfy my hunger.
Second-class students, on the other hand, are reborn and do not have such benefits. They can only enjoy some ordinary rights, such as being exempt from rent.
As for the third-class students, they are attached students, and their status is lower than that of Zengsheng, but their benefits are the same. Except for the money, they only have ordinary rights.
But no matter what, a scholar is always a scholar, but he is a being that many ordinary people look up to. Therefore, Sun Zhigao has a good reputation in the Youyang area.
The reason why the Sheng family wanted to marry Shulan to the Sun family was because they valued his reputation as a scholar. They felt that he was a promising person and would definitely be an official in the future, so that the Sheng family could also get some help.
Speaking of which, the main reason why uncle Sheng Wei was considering marrying Shulan to Sun Xiucai was because of the future of the Sheng family.
Of course, the Sheng family here refers to the main lineage of the Sheng family.
Nowadays, the eldest family of the Sheng family is pursuing a career in business, while the second eldest brother is an official. In addition to doing business, the eldest family also provides for the expenses of the second family.
In other words, the Sheng Wei family is actually the God of Wealth of the Sheng Hong family. Every year, they send carts of gold and silver to the Sheng Hong family.
The money that the Sheng Wei family sends to the government every year is actually the ammunition that Sheng Hong can use to entertain guests and give gifts during the New Year to support the occasion.
It is precisely because of the support of Dafang's lineage that Sheng Hong can manage his affairs as an official without having to look at people's faces, let alone engage in corruption and bribery, so he can be promoted smoothly.
However, if you do this, the big house will not actually be at a loss.
Both Sheng Wei and Sheng Hong knew that only by maintaining a good relationship, with Sheng Wei having money to contribute and Sheng Hong supporting them, could they develop better.
When Shulan was married to Sun Xiucai, Shulan's mother Li felt that if Sheng Hong was the only official, what if one day she became unreliable?
Naturally, the cousins did not have a biological son-in-law, so the purpose of giving money, a house, and property was to send their daughter to Sun Xiucai so that they could plan for the future.
Of course, this is not just Li's idea, Sheng Wei... may not have this intention either.
By the way, the Sun family looked down on the Sheng family at first, and of course, their family looks down on the Sheng family now.
In other words, the Sun family has always looked down on the grand family of the Sheng family, thinking that their family is a family of merchants, and their girls are not worthy of a scholar like him.
If the Sun family hadn't seen that the dowry given by his family was very large, and there was a Beijing official (referring to Sheng Hong) among his relatives, then Sun Zhigao really didn't want to "wrong" himself.
However, the Sheng family is not unaware of the Sun family's dislike. However, the way the world is, officials do look down on business people. For the future development of the Sheng family, Sheng Wei and the others can only pretend to be ignorant and try to please them even more. The other party gave some extra money and shops to the Sun family, hoping that they could feel the sincerity of the Sheng family and treat Shulan better.
From the perspective of Sheng Wei and others, it doesn't matter if the Sun family looks down on her now. Anyway, as long as Shulan has only one son and a half daughters left, the two families will be real relatives who fight constantly. By then, everything will be easy to handle.
Little did they know that doing so would only be counterproductive, making the Sun family look down upon and...
greedy.
At first glance, this seems a bit ridiculous. After all, hasn’t Taizu already elevated his status as a merchant?
Why is it that Youyang is like this again?
Actually, there is a reason for this.
First of all, Youyang is a remote place, and communication with the outside world is not very smooth. As the saying goes, the imperial power has not gone to the countryside since ancient times, this is what it means. Therefore, it is inevitable that the old concepts of the previous dynasty still exist here.
Secondly, although Taizu elevated the status of some merchants, officials still had the final say in the world. In other words, if the family wanted to develop, official power was indispensable.
Therefore, it is inevitable for the Sun Sheng family to have such an attitude.
Then again, Shulan has been suffering a lot since she married into the Sun family.
Shulan's husband, Sun Zhigao, was successful at a young age, but later gradually began to lose his ambition by playing with things. The reason why the Sun family was willing to marry the Sheng family was because their family was almost unable to survive.
Sun Zhi became a scholar after becoming a scholar in high school. All he did was spend the whole day getting drunk and misbehaving with some of his friends. After he got married to Shulan, not only was his wife at home ignoring him, but even Jingyi, whom he was once proud of, was no longer there. He doesn't touch it anymore, and he just knows how to eat, drink, play and whore. After a few years, let alone a scholar, I am afraid that even an ordinary child will not be able to compare with it.
Not only Sun Zhigao, but also Shulan's mother-in-law, Sun Huang, was not easy to get along with.
Not only is she vulgar in nature and unbearable in words, but her temper and style are also difficult to describe.
Not to mention that she didn't care whether her son studied hard or not. Even when Shulan fulfilled her duties as a wife and wanted to persuade Sun Zhigao to make progress, Sun Huang didn't allow it. She only followed Sun Zhigao blindly, feeling that He is a great talent and does not need to study hard at all. It seems that as long as he enters the examination room next time, he will definitely pass.
The "mysterious" brain circuits in it are really impressive!
And this is not the most vulgar, the most shameful thing is that as mother-in-law, Sun Huang actually wants Shulan to serve her all day and night and sleep with her.
Shulan was not without a maid as a dowry when she got married, but Mrs. Sun Huang deliberately tormented Shulan. She had to do everything herself, and even said that this was the rule she set for her daughter-in-law as her mother-in-law!
However, by doing this, Sun Huang almost broke up the married life of Shulan and Sun Zhigao. The two of them may not have sex once in several months. How could there be a child born?
Therefore, in the past few years, Shulan has naturally not given birth to a boy and a half girl in the Sun family. Therefore, her status in the Sun family has become increasingly low.
Not only does she often have to wash and cook for her mother-in-law Sun Huang, but she also does the bathing water and chamber pots herself. Even sometimes, when Sun Zhigao and his son are in a bad mood, Shulan even has to endure the pain. The fists of their mothers.
At this moment, Shulan seemed to have become the lowest servant of the Sun family, living an inhuman life.
After listening to Minglan's story, Sheng Changquan's eyebrows were also knitted tightly, but he didn't say anything else first, he just asked: "Sister, do uncle and aunt know about this? "
Although Sheng Changquan felt very uncomfortable, he still thought of other questions as soon as he heard the news. For example, did Shulan's biological parents know about this?
What is their attitude towards this?
"Brother..."
Minglan glanced at Sheng Changquan complicatedly and knew what he meant: "Brother, why do you think so?"
"If uncle and aunt knew that Sister Shulan was like this, how could they remain indifferent?"
"Yeah?"
Sheng Changquan shook his head and expressed his opinion.
"Sister, that's not necessarily the case!"
"What?"
Minglan didn't believe it.
"Sister, think about it!"
Sheng Changquan began to analyze the details and explained: "Sister, what do you think of the strength of our Sheng family in Youyang City?"
"Is there anything in this city that we want to know but can't find out?"
After Sheng Changquan asked a question, he continued: "To be honest, I don't believe that uncle and the others don't know what kind of life Sister Shulan lives in the Sun family!"
"After all, Sister Shulan is their biological daughter. How could they not intervene without any help?"
"I dare say that among the people that Sister Shulan is marrying, there must be spies like the eldest aunt!"
Sheng Changquan's mood changed rapidly and he began to speculate about the truth behind this.
"this……"
Minglan was a little shaken by what Sheng Changquan said.
Although she didn't want to think so, she had to admit that Sheng Changquan was absolutely right.
Because, in the three acres of land in Youyang, the Sheng family is really a dominant force, and their family's strength can definitely be regarded as one of the top three families. It is said that they don't know anything about the Sun family. Situation, that was obviously a joke.
"Brother, what do you say..."
Minglan said hesitantly: "Then tell me, uncle and the others, what are they thinking?"
"How could they watch their girls suffer like that?"
Minglan's expression was a little painful, as if she felt the same as Shulan.
"Sister, it's not right for you to think this way!"
Sheng Changquan shook his head and said with relief: "Actually, uncle and the others also have their own difficulties!"
"If you think about it carefully, I'm afraid it's not easy to solve Sister Shulan's matter."
"What?"
Seeing Sheng Changquan start to speak for Sheng Wei and the others, Minglan's expression changed a little.
"You are the one who said they were bad, but you are also the one who said they have difficulties!"
——Minglan’s expression said.
"hehe!"
Sheng Changquan understood the meaning on Minglan's face at a glance and couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Sister, don't be anxious!"
"Actually, I think uncle and the others are waiting for an opportunity!"
"Opportunity?"
Minglan was doubtful: "What opportunity?"
"Is it possible that it will take another five or six years for this opportunity to appear?"
Minglan had already believed Sheng Changquan's statement and couldn't help but sneer!
"If this opportunity doesn't come again, will they still let their girl suffer this torture?"
"this……"
Sheng Changquan scratched his hair in embarrassment and whispered: "Sister, I think the opportunity that uncle and the others are waiting for is our family!"
"ah?"
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