"Brother Changquan, you are so awesome!"

Sheng Changquan still remembers the first sentence he said when he saw him studying.

At that time, all of her eyes and actions were full of extreme admiration!

Sheng Changquan knew that she was admiring those who could read and could read!

Speaking of which, Sister Shulan's every move seems to be filled with the gentleness and virtue advocated by scholars, and this temperament is very consistent with the preferences of scholars in this world.

It is obvious that this is the attitude that the Sheng family deliberately cultivated Shulan.

"What happened to Sister Shulan?"

Looking back on his former friendship, Sheng Changquan couldn't help but feel a little concerned.

"Sister Shulan, she...has a bad life!"

Seeing Sheng Changquan's concern, Minglan was sure of her heart, so she simply stopped hiding it. However, she did not say in detail, but instead asked curiously, saying, "But, brother, are you very familiar with Sister Shulan?"

"Or, are you still because of that childhood?"

Minglan remembers that when Sheng Changquan was very young, he, Sheng Changbai and Sheng Changfeng, followed Sheng Hong back to the old house in Youyang and participated in Sheng's ancestor worship ceremony, so she asked this question.

As for Minglan, she had never returned to Youyang before. After all, she did not need to inherit the Sheng family's incense and did not need to go back in person.

Of course, the only brothers Hualan, Rulan, and Sheng Changquan in the Sheng family had returned to Youyang before, but Molan and Minglan had never been there and were not qualified to come.

Because, they are all concubines!

He was both a concubine and a girl, so he was not allowed to participate in the Sheng family's ancestor worship ceremony.

"No."

Sheng Changquan shook his head and then told Minglan about what happened six years ago.

"That's how it works!"

Minglan knew it and then asked, "Brother, do you know Shulan's sister's husband, Sun Xiucai?"

Seeing Sheng Changquan and Shulan familiar with each other, Minglan immediately revealed the matter and added: "It's the scholar Sun who passed the scholar at the age of twelve!"

"Soicai Sun?"

"Sister Shulan has met someone wrong?"

When Minglan heard that Sun Xiucai mentioned, Sheng Changquan immediately guessed what the trouble Shulan was in.

"Um!"

Minglan nodded and then said, "Brother, you guessed it right!"

"Sister Shulan really met a bad person and married a ungrateful wolf!"

Speaking of this, Minglan couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and commented angrily.

"That scholar Sun is simply not a human!"

"Um?"

Sheng Changquan's expression changed, and he felt that things were a bit serious.

"Brother, this is the thing..."

As Minglan told her, Sheng Changquan gradually understood what was going on.

It turned out that since Sheng Changquan passed the college examination six years ago, Shulan quickly made a marriage with others, and the person she decided was nothing but someone else, and it was what Minglan mentioned before.

However, because Sheng Changquan went on a study tour with Mr. Zhuang after he received the "Court of the Court", he didn't know about Shulan's marriage.

Sun Xiucai, whose real name is Sun Zhigao, is a well-known scholar in the area of ​​Youyang County. He is from a poor family, but has a little talent for studying. At the age of twelve, he passed the college entrance examination and won the fame of a scholar.

Although the ranking of the college entrance examination was not high and he had only won a third-class epidhi, it was a very impressive achievement compared to others.

After all, Youyang is not a place where literary style is prosperous, and the quality of students within it...

Normal.

By the way, scholars are also called students, and they are divided into three levels.

First-class sacrificial life can receive the sacrificial silver subsidized by the imperial treasury, and can earn four taels of silver a year and a lot of food. Overall, it can also ensure the survival of a family of three.

Of course, this is not anything else, just talking about filling your stomach.

Second-class students have increased their growth, but they have no such benefits and can only enjoy some ordinary rights, such as rent-free, etc.

As for third-class students, they are appendages, and their status is lower than that of proliferation, but their benefits are generally the same. Apart from the sausage, there are only those ordinary rights.

But no matter what, scholars are always scholars, but are admired by many ordinary people. Therefore, Sun Zhigao was famous in the Yuyang area.

The reason why the Sheng family wanted to marry Shulan to the Sun family was that they valued his scholarly reputation. They thought 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 reason why uncle Sheng Wei was considering marrying Shulan to Sun Xiucai was the most important consideration of the future of the Sheng family.

Of course, the Sheng family here refers to the lineage of the Sheng family's big house.

Now, the Sheng family’s big house is taking the path of business, while the second house is an official. In addition to doing business, the big house also provides the expenses of the second house.

In other words, the Shengwei family is actually the God of Wealth of Shenghong's family. Every year, they send gold and silver to Shenghong's house one by one.

The money that Sheng Wei's family sends to the mansion every year is actually just a banquet for guests, and giving gifts during the New Year can support the ammunition that can be used to show off.

It is precisely because of the support of the Dafang lineage that Sheng Hong was an official in charge of the people without having to look at the faces everywhere, nor did he have to do corruption and bribery, so he was able to be promoted smoothly.

However, if you do this, the big house is not a loss.

Sheng Wei and Sheng Hong both knew that only by maintaining a good relationship between the two families, Sheng Wei had money and Sheng Hong supported him, could they develop better.

When it comes to marrying Shulan to Sun Xiucai, Shulan's mother, Li, thinks that if only Sheng Hong is an official, what if one day it is unreliable?

Of course, the cousin did not have a relative who was from his son-in-law, so he gave money to houses and industries. The purpose was to send his daughter to Sun Xiucai for the sake of planning for the future.

Of course, this is not only Li's idea, but Sheng Weita... may not have no such thought.

By the way, at the beginning, the Sun family looked down on the Sheng family, and of course, their family now looked down on the Sheng family.

In other words, the Sun family has always looked down on the Sheng family's big house, thinking that their family is a merchant family, and their girls are not worthy of him, a scholar.

If the Sun family had not seen that his family had given a lot of dowry and that there were also Beijing officials (referring to Sheng Hong) among their relatives, then Sun Zhigao really didn't want to "betray" himself.

However, the Sheng family did not know the dislike of the Sun family. However, the world is like this, and officials really look down on business. For the future development of the Sheng family, Sheng Wei and the others could only pretend to be ignorant and please each other more, and gave them more money and shops to the Sun family, hoping that they could feel the sincerity of the Sheng family and be better to Shulan by the way.

In the opinion of Sheng Wei and others, it doesn’t matter if the Sun family looks down on him now. Anyway, as long as Shulan has a son and a half daughter left, the two families will fight against real relatives. By then, everything will be easier.

Little did they know that their actions would only backfire, which made the Sun family increasingly look down upon and...

greedy.

At first glance, this matter seems a bit ridiculous. After all, hasn’t Taizu improved the status of merchants?

How come Yuyang is like this again?

Actually, there is a reason for this.

First of all, the place here in Youyang is remote and the traffic with the outside world is not very smooth. As the saying goes, since ancient times, the imperial power has not been sent to the countryside, which is the reason. Therefore, it is inevitable that there are still the old concepts of the previous dynasty.

Secondly, although Taizu raised the status of some merchants, the world still dominated the officials. In other words, if the family wants to develop, this official power is indispensable.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the Sun Sheng and the other families have such an attitude.

After saying that, Shulan has been suffering from sorrow since she married into the Sun family.

Shulan's husband Sun Zhigao was young and successful, but later he gradually became dissatisfied with the fun. The Sun family was willing to marry the Sheng family, which was because their family was almost unable to survive.

After Sun Zhi was in high school, he became obsessed with the scholar. He only knew how to get drunk with some friends in Hualou and do whatever he wanted. After getting married with Shulan, he not only ignored his wife, but also never touched Jingyi, who was once proud. He knew how to eat, drink, play, and have sex. After a few years, let alone scholars, he was afraid that even ordinary children would be incomparable to them.

Not only Sun Zhigao, but Shulan's mother-in-law Sun Huang is not a good match.

Not only is she vulgar and has poor words, but she is even her character and style.

Not to mention that she didn't care whether her son was studying hard or not, even when Shulan fulfilled her wife's responsibilities and wanted to persuade Sun Zhigao to make progress, Sun Huang did not allow it. She only knew to follow Sun Zhigao blindly, thinking that he was a talented person and didn't need to study hard, as if he would definitely win the exam room next time.

The "mysterious" brain circuit among them is really impressive!

And this is not the most vulgar. What is most shameless is that Sun Huang, as her mother-in-law, actually asked Shulan to serve her all day and night and sleep with her.

When Shulan got married, she was not a maid without a dowry, but Sun Huang was deliberately trying to mess with Shulan, and she had to do everything herself. She also called it a rule that she made for her daughter-in-law as a mother-in-law!

However, Sun Huang's life almost broke up Shulan and Sun Zhigao's husband and wife. They may not be able to have sex once a few months. How could a child be born?

Therefore, in recent years, Shulan naturally did not give birth to a man or a woman for the Sun family, so her status in the Sun family has become increasingly lower.

Not only do she often have to wash clothes and cook for her mother-in-law, Sun Huang, but she also does the bath water, chamber pot and so on. Sometimes, when Sun Zhigao and his son are in a bad mood, Shulan even has to be fisted by their mother.

At this moment, Shulan became the lowest servant of the Sun family and lived an inhuman life.

After listening to Minglan's story, Sheng Changquan's eyebrows were also frowned. However, he did not say anything else first, but just asked back: "Sister, do you know about this, uncle, aunt and the others?"

Although Sheng Changquan felt very uncomfortable, he thought of other questions as soon as he heard the news, such as whether Shulan's biological parents knew about this?

What is their attitude towards this?

"Brother..."

Minglan glanced at Sheng Changquan in a complicated way and knew what he meant: "Brother, why do you think so?"
To be continued...