Phoenix Indus

Chapter 1

Jia Jun's family, a great merchant in Wenning, has been in business for generations. After several generations of ups and downs, by the generation of Jun Yili's father, he was already the richest man in Wenning City.After Jun Yili took charge of the family, the Jun family was even more famous for its empathy and righteousness, generosity and benevolence.Therefore, he has a lot of friendship with merchants, big and small, in many places, and even officials in many places are very respectful to the Jun family.

Three years ago, the daughter-in-law of the Jun family married into the Jin family, the richest man in Yongning City. Since then, the business of the Jun family has been smooth sailing. More and more shops have been opened, and the business has become more and more prosperous.

And when it comes to the Jin family in Yongning City, I have to explain it in detail. After all, the Jin family is not an ordinary family of merchants.The Jin family has also been doing business in Yongning City for generations, and now in the hands of Mrs. Jin, they have firmly established themselves as the richest man in Yongning City.

The mother of Grandpa Jin was the daughter of the teacher of Grandpa Jin's father. Later, because her parents died and she was lonely and helpless, she abandoned her noble thoughts and married into the Jin family as a businessman's wife.

Because of her father-in-law's early death and her mother-in-law's kindness, after she married into the Jin family, she became the head of the family, paying attention to learning and etiquette, rules and etiquette, hoping to improve the reputation and status of the Jin family and get rid of the smell of businessmen.

Therefore, Mr. Kim was strictly disciplined since he was a child. In addition to learning the way of doing business from his father, he also studied and learned etiquette from his husband.After the crowning ceremony, at the choice of his mother, he married Jin Taijun, who was from a scholarly family.

Grandfather Jin was deeply influenced by his mother. After the emperor lowered the conditions for obtaining fame in order to recruit talents, he raised his two sons more severely. , for the Guangzong Yaozu of the Jin family.

If you say that Mr. Jin's life is really good, you can get what you want.

Mr. Jin was ranked second in high school at the age of his age. Because of his kind and humble temperament, he was appreciated by the emperor and stayed in the capital to serve as an official.Later, he was favored by Master Liu, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and after the crowning ceremony, he married the eldest daughter of the Liu family as his wife.With the accumulation of achievements, Mr. Jin's official rank was promoted very quickly, and he gradually established a solid foundation in the capital.

Seeing that his eldest son is so promising, Mrs. Jin felt proud and complacent, and his ambition became stronger. He intended to move to the capital to do business and buy real estate, fulfilling his mother's wish to improve the prestige of the Jin family.However, Yongning had many ancestral properties and could not leave them alone, so the second son and his family were left behind to manage and guard the ancestral property.

Nine years ago, the eldest daughter of Grand Master Jin married the third son of King Anle.This King An Le is the emperor's cousin, although he has not made great achievements, he is deeply respected by the emperor.He has three sons and two daughters, but only the youngest third son is a descendant.Therefore, the position of Prince Anle's eldest son is none other than the third son, and the third daughter-in-law is firmly seated as the eldest son and concubine of Anle Prince.

With Prince Anle's Mansion as the backer, and Mr. Jin's outstanding achievements, generous and modest, fair and honest official, he won the respect and appreciation of the emperor.Seven years ago, Mr. Jin was promoted to the post of Shangshu in the Ministry of Rites and became one of the five confidant ministers around the emperor.

At this point, those dignitaries who originally disdained that Mr. Jin was from a family of merchants had no choice but to flatter and curry favor with the Jin family. Even merchants big and small from all over the country wanted to establish friendship with the Jin family.

As for how the Jun family could climb up to the Jin family and get married with their sons and daughters, it was Jun Yili's wife who was originally Yu Xian, and the wife of Master Jin Er, who was the wife of the second master, and they were sisters from the same country.

Jun Yili used to have one wife and one concubine, but they all gave birth to daughters.The original partner, Mrs. Li, became depressed and ill because she failed to give birth to a boy for the Jun family, and died of illness at a young age.The main room of Jun's family can't be suspended all the time, and the young daughter also needs to be raised.Therefore, one year after Li died of illness, Jun Yili married the third lady of Wenning merchant Jia Su's family as his continuation.Miss Su San's stomach is also very competitive. After marrying into Jun's family, she gave birth to a daughter and two sons successively, continuing the incense for the Jun family.

The wife of Master Jin Er died of dystocia when she gave birth to her eldest son.The eldest son was born prematurely, and has been sick all the time since he was born.The second master of Jin was busy with the Jin family's business all day long, worried that the young son-in-law would have no one to take care of him, and saw that there was no mistress in the inner courtyard of the Jin family to take care of affairs, so half a year after his original wife died of illness, he married the second young lady of the Su family as his continuation.After Second Miss Su passed through the door, she added a son and a daughter to Mr. Jin Er.

The eldest son of the direct line has been bedridden for many years, unable to inherit the family business, nor can he run the Jin family's business, so the marriage is very difficult.Master Jin Er and Mrs. Jin Er took a lot of thought before they hired a prostitute daughter from a scholarly family to come in.

The eldest son cannot inherit the family business, and the eldest daughter-in-law cannot take the responsibility of being the mistress, so the burden of inheriting the family business falls on the second son and his wife.

Moreover, the daughter of the second wife married the eldest son of Prince Anping as his wife under the help of her cousin, Princess Anle.This King Anping is the emperor's cousin, deeply trusted by the emperor, has great prestige in the court, and has made great achievements.

The mother of Jun Yili took a fancy to these two points, so she took advantage of Mrs. Jun and Mrs. Jin's second wife as siblings, and married the eldest daughter of the Jun family to the second wife of the Jin family by virtue of the Jun family's reputation, status, and reputation. The second son is his wife.

Just as the saying goes: when the cup is full, it will overflow, and when the moon is full, it will lose money.

A year ago, Jun Yili, an upright man in his prime, took his two sons to visit the ancestral grave during Chinese New Year. He caught wind and cold, and became bedridden after returning home. He passed away within three months.Only Mrs. Jun was left to shoulder the responsibility of the entire Jun family, serving the elderly Jun mother, raising the young children, and taking care of all the affairs of the mansion.Fortunately, thanks to the blessing of the eldest son-in-law, I don't have to worry too much about the Jun family's business.

Although Mrs. Jun was born in a merchant's family, she married into the Jun family for 14 years and became the inner courtyard of the Jun family for ten years, but she is only 29 years old.Jun Yili's death made her feel that the sky and the earth were falling, and she wished she could follow her.But thinking of the two daughters who have not yet left the cabinet, and the two sons who are not yet adults, she can only grit her teeth and force herself to support the affairs of Jun's family.

There is another saying: Blessings come without pairs, and misfortunes never come singly.

One year after Miss Jun came out of the cabinet, that is, two years ago, Second Miss Jun also made an engagement with the uncle of Jia Qiao's family, one of the top merchants in Anping City.

It's just that he didn't expect that Master Qiao committed suicide by taking poison before Jun Yili's Qiqi was over.

It turned out that Mr. Qiao mistrusted his old friend, so that not only the money but also the goods were empty, and even the people who escorted the goods were killed.Master Qiao had no choice but to sell his property and shop to pay off his debts. He also felt ashamed to meet the relatives and friends who dissuaded him in the past, and felt sorry for his family, so he took poison and committed suicide when he was not prepared.

Mrs. Qiao didn't want to stay in that sad place of Anping anymore, so after Master Qiao's May [-]th, she brought her two sons and two daughters to help Master Qiao's coffin, and moved back to her hometown - Wenning Qiao's Village .

Fortunately, when the Qiao family sold Wenning's property and moved to Anping, they left the ancestral house of Qiao's village.It was originally intended to have a cheap place to stay when returning to the hometown to worship the ancestors, but I didn't expect that it would become the only place for the Qiao family in the end.

The Jun family's family background, status, and prestige naturally make it impossible for them to withdraw their marriage.Mrs. Jun could only grit her teeth, feeling sorry for Miss Jun's misfortune, and at the same time sent a steward to help the Qiao family resettle, and sent a lot of money and goods to relieve the Qiao family's plight.

Although Miss Jun is a concubine born in a concubine's room, she is of the blood of the Jun family, and even if she leaves the court, she is also destined to be the master.Therefore, since I was a child, I just learned some needlework and needlework, in order to leave the court and not be talked about and laughed at my in-laws' house.

Now that the Qiao family has fallen, Second Miss Jun has passed through the door. Although she is still a grandmother, the life of Qiao's family cannot be as rich as it was before, and Second Miss Jun cannot be as leisurely as she was in her natal family.

Although Mrs. Jun loves her dearly and does not want her to suffer, but for the sake of the future, she can only take advantage of the three years of filial piety to re-educate her.Let her make complete preparations as soon as possible, don't wait until she enters her in-law's house, and live life without knowing how.

Therefore, under the order of Mrs. Jun, Miss Jun’s biological mother, Aunt Jiang, took care of Miss Jun’s learning of cutting, sewing, and feeding every day. up.The purpose is to let Second Miss Jun live a poor life and a hard life after getting married.

The weather in late summer and early autumn is cool and the air is fresh. The vegetation in the Jun Mansion is still lush, and the flowers in the garden are still competing for beauty, and they have not faded away with the arrival of autumn...

Jun Xueqi took her maids, Yue Ling and Shui Ling, to sit in the water pavilion in the garden. While watching the maids play with the paper kites with her two younger brothers, she drank the new tea brought in by the steward of the tea house, and ate the milk from the nanny Shen Nao. Mammy made the snacks with her own hands, with a happy smile on her face.

Yue Ling said worriedly: "Miss, Madam has been to Yongning for many days, and she will be back soon after some calculations. Instead of watching the two masters study hard with the husband, you took leave of absence from the husband for them, and brought the two The master is playing in the garden. If the wife finds out, the lady will be scolded and punished."

Jun Xueqi waved her hands indifferently, and said with a smile: "It's okay, the old lady nodded her head for today's leave. Brother Jun and Brother Luo wrote some good poems yesterday, which won the praise of Mr. After dinner, I showed it to the old lady, and she was so happy that the old lady recovered from her illness a lot."

Shui Ling agreed with a smile and said: "No, the old lady was so sick that she didn't even come out of the house a few days ago, and her complexion was very bad. Except for the young lady and the second master, no one wanted to talk to her. Today not only sent someone to call the young lady I went to have breakfast with the two masters, and my face became much ruddy, even smiling at my concubine."

Jun Xueqi sighed, put the teacup back on the stone table, and sighed bitterly: "My aunt has been wronged for so many years, and life is not easy. Don't be like those shallow-sighted bastards on weekdays, and treat my aunt with respect. Be respectful, she is the half-master of our family after all. Besides, since the master left, my aunt has been helping the wife to take care of the affairs of the house day and night.

Shui Ling pouted and defended: "Miss also underestimates the slaves, are they the kind of bastards who watch people order dishes? Our sisters have been with the lady since they were young, and it was Shen Mama who made the adjustment/ If you teach me, you can naturally tell the difference between good and bad, good and evil, and you know your own duty, so how could you disrespect my aunt?"

Jun Xueqi looked at the aggrieved Shui Ling, and said with a smile: "I just told you a few words in vain, take a look at you, and give me back a full load of words."

After finishing speaking, he picked up a piece of chestnut cake from the dim sum plate on the stone table, and just took a bite when Shen Xinyue, the daughter of Nanny Shen, walked in and said with a smile: "Sister is also here to play? Sit down and have a sip of tea." , Eat a piece of dessert. Mom is getting better at making desserts, and today this chestnut cake is even more delicious than last time."

Shen Xinyue smiled and said: "Madam is back, now I'm going to talk in the old lady's room. Miss and the two masters also go back to the yard to change clothes, go and see Madam."

As soon as Jun Xueqi heard that it was Mrs. Jun who had returned, she hurried out of the water pavilion and ordered the nannies to take the two masters back to change clothes, while she hurriedly walked to Jun's mother's yard.

(End of this chapter)