C19

It is a disaster that cannot be avoided (4)

In the previous dynasty, the royal family had as many descendants as cow hair. As long as they were born on the ground, the imperial government would produce grain and cloth to support these princes. To a certain extent, it allowed these royal family members to go to great lengths to produce children. By the time the new emperor was born, the imperial government had already given up on him. The rules were set once again. A first-rate prince would serve his son in law, his son in law, and his grandson in law ? With this kind of analogy, the only thing left to pass on to the public was a false reputation, and no longer had any form of support.

In other words, from the beginning of the 'Medallion of Gratitude', the government had only raised three generations of princes and below, and only limited them to the direct line of descendants. As for the concubines, I'm sorry, but whoever gave birth to them would have to raise them.

This will make things difficult for these prolific princes. In the past, every family had thirty to forty children who were suspected of lacking some sort of function or function. But now, every child would have one more to eat, and the marriage would be in vain.

The somewhat barren prince could not do anything but lower his noble head. He "sold" the girls of bastard son that he did not even know of at a high price, "sold" to merchants who he had never put in his eyes before, but earnestly wished to raise their status through a marriage.

The bastard son was still alright, at least he could guarantee the status of a "legal man". A concubine would be in trouble. He had to pay attention to his face and even tell her that he was going to be the official wife before he was willing to marry her.

It had only been half a year since the "Medallion of Gratitude" had been introduced, and chaos had already erupted everywhere. Gu Mingde had long since heard of it, but he had already gotten married. Furthermore, his relationship with his wife was close, and after their marriage, he had given birth to two young girls.

But his third brother was different. In the eyes of a big brother, there was no good child in the world who was more sensible and obedient than his third brother. Such a good third brother was definitely worthy of the best woman in the world to match with. Thus, when he heard that his parents had such thoughts, he did his best to encourage them and was very happy to see it happen.

However, he had never expected that his younger brother, who had always been indifferent to the matters between men and women, would unknowingly start to show signs of enlightenment.

Gu Mingde's expression immediately darkened, his tone filled with warning: "Ming Yuan, there are considerations in our family, you better not secretly do anything that you're betting your life on, at that time, it will be the lady's fault. Look at our family, a normal family's girl, how could she marry in so casually? "

Gu Mingyuan's face paled, and for some reason, a hint of disappointment and pity surfaced in his heart: "Big Brother, what are you thinking about? "It's not like I've been busy all day long and you haven't seen it. Where did I get the time to make a personal life promise with someone?"

It was just a marriage, they didn't even know each other before they got married. Even after they got married, they would still be as amiable and amiable as before. Gu Mingyuan thought about the silly looking little girl who sat in front of the table near the window, and suddenly smiled. She still needed a few more years to get married.

"No is best. Mingyuan, I'll leave those words here for now. Think about it carefully, even if you didn't marry the prince's daughter, your future marriage wouldn't be too low. Our family isn't like the Du Family, where we don't care about marriage at all.

Gu Mingde was referring to the parents of the Madam Gu. As they were also of the Royal Merchant, the Du Family and the Du Family were happy to have the Old Ancestors come to the Du Jia Village to celebrate New Year together. As they were getting closer, they could not hide some of the Du Clan's rubbish, and it landed in Gu Mingde's ears.

For example, on the New Year's Eve, his Little Uncle did not appear and guard the year with the others. It was not because his First Aunt had said that he was sick, but because he had drunk too much and slept with a maid. Originally, sleeping with a girl in a big family was not a big deal. The bad news was that this servant girl was in his brother's house, so she was most likely his brother's family. If the two brothers shared a girl, it would be an ugly matter even if it happened to an ordinary family, not to mention a large family like theirs.

Only after Gu Mingde finished speaking did he realize that he should not speak of this nonsense to his brother. Fortunately, Gu Mingyuan did not understand the last part of the story, and pretended to care about his brother's matters and changed the topic.

While the Gu brothers were in a state of harmony, the Li family's three siblings was in a state of despair.

Mao Dou was originally waiting for his older brother and sister to bring him some delicious food from the town, but when he saw the expressions of the two as they entered the house, he knew that the big meat bun and snack he had been looking forward to all day was completely hopeless. He was sensible and unlike other boys of his age who were disgusted by dogs, he only pursed his lips in disappointment and went to the stove to pour hot water for the two of them.

Only now did Li Yannian remember that previously, she had only been in a hurry to escape, but she had forgotten about her promise to Mao Dou.

"Ah, Dou, sister was wrong. I forgot to buy you something delicious. Next time, I'll definitely make up for it."

Black Bean heaved a long sigh, it was not only his brother's food, he also did not buy the beans that he promised Uncle Li.

Li Yannian apparently thought of this too, and pouted towards the big rice bag: "Brother, measure the rice in two bowls, and give me fifty coins, although I didn't earn any money, I still have to give my money."

Speaking of money, Black Bean felt his heart ache. Nearly two thousand pieces of paper, just like that, had been taken advantage of by the Gu family. Ihee knew earlier, he would have bought it directly. After all, with a bit more than 800 yuan, she could have bought around 200 grams of Pure Silver, which was equivalent to 5 taels of silver from here. Even though he only had 10% of the original amount, at least he would be able to get it in the end. It would not be as bad as it was today. He would give it all to someone else!

Black Bean's face was filled with a gloomy expression as he muttered: "I got it, I'll go and return the oxcart now. Ah Dou, I'll help your sister make food."

As he spoke, he took two bowls of rice and ordered some copper coins to return the ox-cart to the Lee family.

Mao Dou answered crisply. His stomach was growling with hunger. He was waiting for his elder brother and sister to come back for dinner.

Seeing him acting so sensibly, Li Yannian's heart felt even more at a loss for words. In the evening, however, he steeled her heart and poured a pot full of oil, beat eight eggs and sprinkled the chopped green onions on top. The fragrance was really strong, causing Black Bean and the others to suck in a deep breath. When it was time to sleep, the two brothers were still rubbing their swollen stomachs.

Since the system could no longer count on him this month, Li Yannian put aside his big plan to earn money and discussed with Black Bean: "Brother, which day do you think is good?

"Tomorrow is fine. Tomorrow is good. When the time comes, we'll bring the muslin we bought last time. The two of you should pack up and go in the morning. "

"And a basket of eggs."

He didn't know if it was because Li Yannian was being paranoid, but he had a nagging feeling that Black Bean was trying to hold back his laughter. Alright, it was just that she had forgotten the limitations of the system and had gotten more eggs. Why did she keep making fun of her with this!

At this time, Mao Dou's soft voice came from the side. "Is Grandma's house stronger than Grandma's?"

The brother and sister fell silent.

After a long while, Black Bean started to console him. "Grandmother has four uncles, two more sons than Grandma."

Mao Dou was relieved. He chuckled sweetly. "Then the next time Big Brother Da Niu hits me, I'll let uncle hit him."

Da Niu was Big Uncle's son, and he was younger than Black Bean by two years.

This time, the two siblings were completely silent.

A child without a father or mother, what a pain!