Marrying into a poor family

Chapter 35 The strange scholar

After selling the teahouse and sending her mother away, Qin Xiang calmed down and prepared to write the incense recipe.

But he paused when he lifted the pen, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

Qin Xiongfei's father, Qin Xiongfei, had many businesses in his family, but he started out by making incense.

Qin Xiong's husband loved fragrance very much, which was the original reason why Qin Xiongfei came to teach Qin Xiang.But later on, she really fell in love with this intelligent and spiritual female disciple, and passed on all the incense recipes and incense-making techniques that she had studied and collected to Qin Xiang.

Of course, none of these can compare with the Qin family's "Qin Family Incense Record".

In her previous life, Qin Xiang was dissatisfied when she learned about the marriage after she returned to the Qin family. However, Qin Xiongfei and his wife threatened her with Su's name, so she had no choice but to agree to marry.

However, Qin Xiang was not a person willing to suffer losses. Before getting married, she used her status as a senior official in her husband's family to forcefully obtain half of "Qin's Incense Record". Of course, it was later discovered that there were some changes in it and it was not the real "Qin's Incense Record". "Shi Xiang Lu".

After entering her husband's house, she had a falling out with the old man, but she also had a few years of quiet life. She devoted herself to studying the half-authentic and half-false "Qin Family Incense Record" in the back house. As a result, based on this book, , turned out to be quite insightful.

In her previous life, she had never used incense to obtain benefits, but it had benefited her reborn self.

Xiao Village.

When he was young, Uncle Six was fond of gambling and drinking. After constant persuasion from his parents, they decided to split up the family. After all the meager income he received was lost, Uncle Six restrained himself a little.

Seeing that he had made some progress, his parents still helped him arrange his marriage.

But Xiao Jiugui's reputation has long been known to everyone. Even people who don't cherish their daughters are afraid that they won't be able to get rid of them if they get involved with him.

After two years of this, Uncle Liu saw that he was approaching his thirties, and some of his peers were about to have grandchildren. He was also anxious, and finally agreed to marry Liu Xiniang, the widow of a dead man, and had to let Liu Xi follow him in.

Aunt Six was a talkative but very capable person. She couldn't hold her head up even though she was carrying an oil bottle. She got up earlier than chickens and ate worse than pigs. She even turned two thatched houses into four rooms.

However, Liu Xi did not live in a good house, so he still lived in the woodshed at the back. Half of it was the woodshed and the other half was Liu Xi's bedroom.

17-year-old Liu Xi wanted to escape from Xiaojia Village, but she was always held back by her mother's sad face and white hair on her temples.

Aunt Six often said: "When your father died, how many people advised me to give you away, but I couldn't bear to do it. Even though I knew that this man was a bastard, I still accepted him. Who said that he was the only one willing to let Liu Xi follow?"

Liu Xi lived in the Xiao family for 11 years with heavy shackles on his back. Only Xiao Chenyu would not laugh at him, but instead said that he was a filial son and a little man.

Therefore, he listened to what Xiao Chenyu said. When Xiao Chenyu asked him to agree to the marriage, he agreed without hesitation. When Xiao Chenyu asked him to come back and pretend to be ill to delay the engagement, he did so, even if he heard his family calling him names and scolding him for pretending to be ill every day. He tolerated being lazy.

It was at this time that Yanzi and the second sister-in-law pushed the door open and came in.

Yanzi frowned hard and waved his hand in front of his eyes: "Is this a place where people live? Why does it smell musty, smelly and stuffy?"

Sister-in-law Shan grabbed her sister-in-law and smiled at Liu Xi, who was half lying on the wooden bed: "I heard that Liu Xi was ill, so we came here specially to see you. Looking at your face, which is so red, it seems that you are well. "

Yanzi leaned against the door panel and remained motionless. Sister-in-law Shan took two steps forward and stood in the middle of the room to talk to the two of them.

It's a pity that Yanzi is arrogant, Liu Xi is lukewarm, and Sister-in-law Shan can't cook this cold dish by herself.So Sister-in-law Shan simply got straight to the point: "By the way, Liu Xi, this marriage should be settled as soon as possible. Since we have agreed to the marriage, it would be pointless to delay it like this, right?"

Liu Xi frowned slightly and said, "It's okay to get engaged, but what about giving us a piece of land to build a house for us?"

"Tsk!" Yan Zi stood at the door and snorted coldly, causing Liu Xi to glare at him.

Sister-in-law Shan scolded her sister-in-law so much that she would never be allowed to return to her parents' home again after she left the house.

But that's a story later. The first priority now is to get engaged, and then we can have a family.

"Of course it's not a lie. The old man has already said that he will pay for the money to repair the house. As for the labor, just the Xiao family members will help, and your family will provide meals."

Liu Xi sneered: "I'm afraid my parents may not be willing to provide food."

Sister-in-law Shan covered her lips and smiled like the ladies: "Your parents have agreed, so don't worry."

Liu Xi lowered his eyelashes, the sadness in his eyes lingering. He lowered his head and said: "Then I will leave the engagement matter to my parents. I will concentrate on recuperating. When I recover, I will go to the county dock to earn some money." Come back and get married."

Shan's sister-in-law thought she was moved by the house thing, but she felt disdainful in her heart, but she had a bright smile on her face. After receiving Liu Xi's words, she pulled Yanzi away.

After coming out, Sister-in-law Shan lost her good looks towards Yan Zi. On the way home, when no one was around, she scolded Yan Zi in a cold voice: "The scandalous things you did would have been settled in other people's homes. If it wasn't for Grandfather said that if I punish you, it will only strengthen your reputation. You think I am willing to meddle in your business, and you still shame me. Do you really think that you are still an innocent little girl? Bah, a man who has been married has been divorced. Women don’t have a clear understanding of their own identity.”

Yanzi had tears in her eyes, but she didn't dare to argue with her second sister-in-law. She knew that the only one who could really help her now was this second sister-in-law.

There were two people sitting at the next stop of the memorial arch. From a distance, they didn’t look like they were from the village, nor from the neighboring village. Sister-in-law Shan couldn’t help but walk over and take a look.

The archway is particularly important to the Xiao family, and it is the basis for the Xiao family to be different from others.

Yan Zi also followed Sister Shan and walked over. She saw a man wearing a fur collar sitting in front of the memorial arch. He was meditating on a futon with his eyes closed. A burner of incense was lit in front of him, and thick smoke was floating in the air.

There was a tea tray beside him, and a teapot sat on the small stove that was burning red, and the smoke with the fragrance of tea gurgled.There was also a rather nice carriage parked in the distance.

The other was a young man of thirteen or fourteen years old. Judging from his clothes, he must be a man's servant. He had a book frame in front of him and stood with his back straight. When Sister-in-law Shan and Yanzi came over, he hurriedly made a With the movement of booing, he hurriedly walked to Sister-in-law Shan.

"It's true that we, master and servant, have no intention of disturbing you. We will leave after my young master communicates with the ancestors of the Xiao family."

Sister-in-law Shan was stunned for a moment, then looked at the beautiful man with fair skin and said, "Who is he? How can he communicate with the ancestors of our family?"

The young man cupped his hands and said: "My young master's surname is Cheng. He was a scholar last year. He was going to Fucheng to continue taking the exam. But for some reason, last night my young master suddenly dreamed of your ancestors. When he woke up, he was clamoring to go to Xiaoxiao. What kind of plaque does the village worship? We asked many people before we found this place."

Sister Shan and Yan Zi were stunned by these words.

The young man continued: "My young master said that this place is exactly like in his dream, but not to mention that my young master has been here before, even Qijiang County is his first time. Do you think this is strange?"

Seeing that the man was still meditating with his eyes closed, the third sister-in-law said a few words casually, and hurriedly took Yanzi back, who didn't want to leave. She wanted to tell her grandfather and family members about this strange thing immediately. It must be the ancestor of the Xiao family. Appeared.

However, why did the ancestors of the Xiao family entrust an outsider to show up in their dreams?
(End of this chapter)