old grace

With the experience of the previous two obsessions, by the time of the third obsession, Xie Qinghe was already familiar with it.

This time, he became the youngest son of the Lu family in Nanxing, named Lu Yuan.I was five years old.

Xie Qinghe discovered that the roots of resentment among those possessed by the old resentment Demon Venerable were deeply buried when they were young.If it wasn't for being possessed by demons, they could only return to their own destiny, I'm afraid these few would like to go back to the time before reincarnation, and change the fate of the eighteen generations of their ancestors together.

This day is also the day when Lu Yuan's eldest sister, Lu Ze, gets married.

Just like Li Qian didn't want his mother Zhang to be sold, Lu Yuan didn't want his elder sister to marry his brother-in-law Yang Xianzu.

Li Qian thought that losing his mother was the beginning of his misfortune, while Lu Yuan believed that the elder sister marrying her brother-in-law was the biggest decision-making mistake of the Lu family.The Lu family's investment in Yang Xianzu did not reap the due returns.

In other words, Lu Yuan believed that his brother-in-law Yang Xianzu was a ruthless white-eyed wolf.

Li Qian's resentment brought Xie Qinghe back to the day when his mother was sold, and Xie Qinghe also prevented Zhang from being sold as he wished.

This time, Xie Qinghe did not stop Lu Ze from marrying Yang Xianzu as Lu Yuan wished.

The reason is simple, Zhang doesn't want to be sold, but Lu Ze is willing to get married.

This is the bottom line of practitioners.

Just like the same occasion and law, monks only do it for couples to make their families happy and their marriage happy.

If unmarried men and women beg monks to make peace with their favorite person, they will definitely be rejected by righteous monks.

Cultivators have the ability to change fate against the sky.The power is so powerful, if you can't respect other people's heart, pretend to be a god, and play with the fate of mortals, you will fall into evil ways and be abandoned by your ancestors.This is the truth that Shangguan Shiyi first taught Xie Qinghe before he taught the Creation Technique.

The gongs and drums are noisy, blowing and beating.

Xie Qinghe was hugged by the nanny for "marriage" and glanced at her brother-in-law from a distance.

Yang Xianzu, who came to greet the relatives, was tall, not handsome, but with a hint of heroism, unlike the sick scholars who are not working hard nowadays.

——It’s no wonder that the eldest sister secretly promised that her grandfather would marry her to a poor scholar who was unlucky and had died of her original spouse.

Lu Yuan is only five years old.

His daily life is very simple. Apart from eating and sleeping, he read and write with his grandfather Lu Xuan.

With Li Qian's experience of changing his destiny by studying for a Jinshi and becoming an official, Xie Qinghe lived a relatively leisurely life.

In the era when "everything is inferior, only reading is high", Xie Qinghe did not intend to let Lu Yuan give up the road of studying.Even if you don't become an official, you can live a decent life if you have the status of a scholar or a scholar.Therefore, you have to read books, and when you are old, you have to end up with an identity.

The age difference between Li Qian and Lu Yuan is not more than ten years old.People of the same era, the same imperial court, the same classic style of study, and the modes of reading and examination are almost the same.Lu Yuan can use all the experience that Xie Qinghe gained during Li Qian's time.

Therefore, Xie Qinghe can spare the time for studying hard in this life and do other things.

For example, in business.

Lu Yuan's greatest resentment was that all the property of the Lu family was "supported" by his brother-in-law Yang Xianzu, leaving nothing to him.

Xie Qinghe understood his thoughts.It's the same as Li Qian, all blame the ancestors for not living up to expectations.Li Qian only hated that his grandfather could not manage the family business, that his wife did not teach his grandfather well, that his grandfather was tricky and bad, and that his own father was worthless...

Lu Yuan's brain circuit is the same as Li Qian's.

It's all my grandfather and father's fault. It would be great to leave the family business to me. How can I make up for my brother-in-law? !

Xie Qinghe didn't think there was much problem with Lu Yuan's thinking.

Li Qian is a fool, thinking about things that are difficult for others.Lu Yuan's thoughts are in line with the mentality of the world: Lu's family has males, why didn't Lu Xuan leave the family property to his grandson, but gave it all to his grandson-in-law?This thing is very strange.

It's just that Xie Qinghe never counts on other people's temperament, and his vision is not limited to one acre.

The so-called good man doesn't eat a separate meal, and if he thinks he has no money, he can earn it by himself?If you spend your whole life in the inheritance left by your father and grandparents, and you don't change your heart with resentment, don't you have to be possessed by demons?

After figuring out the situation a little bit, Xie Qinghe asked his grandfather for a capable young man to accompany him, and went shopping every now and then.

Shuanzi thought that he was going to eat, drink, watch tricks and juggling with the young master, but he didn't know that the young master didn't do anything when he went out, so he went to the warehouse and the pier to squat, and occasionally he could hear the young master sighing: "You can't make me grow older ..." Began to be possessed by demons at the age of five, and it took many years to delay!

Shuanzi chuckled: "Young master will grow up in the blink of an eye!"

Xie Qinghe cursed inwardly, let me see if you blink? !

After squatting in warehouses and docks for a few days, Xie Qinghe started asking prices on the street again.

How much does this thing cost?How much is that thing?How much is manual?How much is firewood?Ask in detail.

He did things with great fanfare and did not hide it, which made the manager in charge of the purchase of the Lu family very nervous. He thought of countless reasons to explain why the bill was more than the street price, and waited for the big housekeeper to check the account every day... The big housekeeper never came!

After asking, Xie Qinghe probably understood how mortals do business, and wanted to visit the hub city of freight transportation.

However, for the five-year-old Xiao Douding, it is impossible for his grandfather to let him go on a long journey.He can't do anything too practical.I really want to ask my father and grandfather for money to do business, I'm afraid I will be burned as a monster.

Now that he knows the hypocrisy of the years in the enchantment, Xie Qinghe is not in a hurry, just calm down and practice honestly.

In this environment, the effect of body training is not great. Once the demon is released, it will disappear, and it will not have any effect on the body.What he mainly does is the homework of cultivating the mind and nature, and he can practice at any time.Sometimes when Lu Xuan taught him to read and write, he could do two things at once.

Time flies, when Xie Qinghe was seven years old.

The brother-in-law's family sent someone to announce the good news, saying that the brother-in-law Qiuwei won the laurel and got to know Yuan.

This is amazing.

Nanxing was originally a place where the literary style was at its peak, and every time Yike had to kill dead bodies all over the field.According to legend, in Nanxing, it is even more difficult to pass the exam than to get the first place!

Lu Xuan was also very happy: "Okay, okay! The teacher has a spirit in the sky, so he should be smiling."

The teacher Lu Xuan mentioned was Yang Xianzu's grandfather Yang You, who was a classmate of Lu Yuan's great-grandfather Lu Jiru.

At the beginning, Lu Ji Confucianism rose to the top, the official residence of the second-rank Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and the Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion. Yang You was talented but failed repeatedly. He worked as a private school teacher in his hometown in Nanxing all his life.Lu Jiru respected Yang You's talent, and paid a lot of money to extend him as a teacher to serve as Lu Xuan's teacher. Yang You also devoted himself to Lu Xuan, and the relationship between master and apprentice was very close.

It's a pity, probably because Yang You taught his disciples too hard, so that Lu Xuan also inherited his tried and tested talent, stopped in Qiu Wei, and raised people all his life.

Since Lu Jiru has reached the second rank, it is not difficult to find a fat job for his son through the back door.It is true that Lu Xuan once served as an official.However, there is invisible discrimination in the officialdom. Those who are born as concubines are like children born to concubines, and they will always be shorter than the sons born by Jinshi.

Lu Xuan was arrogant and arrogant, but his academic qualifications were not good enough. After working for three years, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he resigned angrily and went home.

Lu Jiru also felt that his son's temperament was not good, and it would be safer to resign and go home than to cause trouble in the officialdom.

Lu Xuan began to marry a wife, have a son, take a concubine, give birth to a son, take a concubine again, and give birth to a son... His ideas are also very simple and rude. I have tried and failed, my son will always be a Jinshi!My family has the seeds of Jinshi, my father is Tanhua!

It's a pity that there are so many women in the back house, not to mention seventeen or eighteen sons, the only one almost didn't stop.

——Lu Yuan's father, Lu Lu, is a cripple who is unresponsive.Born with problems.

In Lu Lu's generation, he didn't dare to be a demon anymore. Firstly, he was afraid of the recurrence of the private affairs in the back house. Secondly, Lu Jiru was already dead, and the family's backer had collapsed. After all, when people leave tea cold, there is a little bit of humanity that needs to be used sparingly, which is completely different from Lu Jiru when he was alive.

Therefore, Lu Lu married only one lady, and gave birth to two children, Lu Ze and Lu Yuan, both of whom were healthy.

The servants of the brother-in-law's family also said that the brother-in-law will bring the whole family to kowtow to the grandfather later.

After the servants of the Yang family left, Lu Xuan hugged Xie Qinghe, patted his head, and sighed: "Why don't you get out with your sister? If you are a brother, she is a sister... Sigh."

Lu Yuan is 12 years younger than Lu Ze.

Before Lu Yuan was born, Lu Xuan planned to have a step-heir from the clan.

Since Lu Jiru, no one in the Lu family has been an official in the court, and Lu Jiru has been dead for many years, and the connections and relationships left by him during his lifetime are gradually decaying and disappearing.Contacts are not used, expired and invalidated.The Lu family couldn't wait for Lu Yuan to grow up slowly.

If Lu Ze is allowed to give birth and recruit a husband, he will definitely not be able to find a good son-in-law, and he will not be able to use the contacts that are about to disappear.Only step-heirs.

After Lu Yuan was born, things became much easier.Lu Ze doesn't have to guard the family, he can marry a ready-made and promising son-in-law, and the Lu family will help him out, giving his son-in-law a little of the favor left by Lu Jiru, and after the son-in-law becomes powerful, he will pull Lu Yuan by the way...Perfect .

Yang Xianzu is the perfect springboard for Lu Xuan to choose.

Firstly, Yang Xianzu was very talented and well-known in Nanxing, Lu Xuan was very optimistic about his future.

Although the luck was bad, after being selected as a scholar, the first time Qiu Wei died of his father, the second time Qiu Wei died of his mother and wife, and the third time Qiu Wei had a bad stomach, vomiting and diarrhea... the fourth time will never happen again Is something wrong? !

Secondly, the relationship between the two families is very close, they know each other well and have feelings for each other.Lu Xuan thinks that Yang Xianzu won't be ruthless after being entrusted by his family, right?Lu Ze married Yang Xianzu, who only had a reputation as a scholar, to fill in the house, it was definitely a marriage.What's more, the Lu family has to do their best to train Yang Xianzu.

Of course, if the genders of Lu Yuan and Lu Ze could be switched, why would the Lu family need to train a son-in-law?

Xie Qinghe sighed in his heart.

The roots of the Lu family have gone astray since grandfather Lu Xuan.

"Before my grandfather, did my family have noble relatives and friends who were officials at court?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Lu Xuan was taken aback.

"I once heard an old servant talk about ancient times, saying that our hometown lived in Jianshanao to the west of Qintou Village. It was all thanks to the old lady who plowed the fields and raised fish to support my great-grandfather, the Tanhualang. When my great-grandfather was young, he also had to go to the fields to farm. Yes, his old man is good at swimming, and he is famous in all towns and villages. During the Spring Festival, my great-grandfather rubbed the car of a fellow villager, so he arrived in Beijing to take the exam smoothly."

"He has no contacts in the capital, and no money. He is an official to the second rank, and he is admired by the countryside." Xie Qinghe can't say too much.

After all, this is my grandfather.Slapping the grandfather's face was too fierce, and he might actually be slapped in the face by his grandfather.

But what he said was already very explicit.Great-grandfather Lu Jiru was a bachelor and got into the job of the Minister of Industry. Grandfather, you have a second-rank official's father, didn't you just go home in despair?Parents are useless, so what's the use of those great-grandfathers left behind in the officialdom?

Really fierce, can stand out without lifting.If you're weak, it's useless for Shang Shu to bless you!

Lu Xuan seemed overwhelmed by his grandson's sudden shocking words.

Xie Qinghe didn't like to show off, and he didn't brush up on Li Qian's experience when he usually did his homework.Lu Xuan only knows that his grandson's reading is as easy as lifting a weight, and it doesn't take much effort.In daily affairs, we only take a word of stability.

The seven-year-old saw through his intention of using his grandson-in-law as a springboard, and directly expressed a completely different objection!

After a moment of astonishment, Lu Xuan stroked his grandson's limp hair: "A child with a broad chest is far better than an old man! My family has such a beautiful child, haha, with such a beautiful child, how can we expect someone with a different surname!"

Destiny has undergone a subtle change.

Lu Xuan once asked Yang Xianzu for help. After Yang Xianzu won the first prize, the Lu family took care of it and sent money to the land in a hurry.

When Lu Ze married the Yang family, he brought a lot of dowry, but who would think that there are too many land deeds?In addition, the Lu family also used the contacts left by Lu Jiru to help Yang Xianzu inquire about the writing style and direction of the next year's master Chunwei.After Yang Xianzu got the second-class Jinshi, the Lu family selected officials for him and took the last bit of favor.

The contacts in the officialdom are exhausted, and Yang Xianzu still needs money to clear his way in the officialdom.The Lu family also tried their best.

After all, the Lu family is still counting on Yang Xianzu to be able to help his brother-in-law after he becomes prosperous.

Now Xie Qinghe's words convinced Lu Xuan.

In other words, it was the "spiritual energy" Xie Qinghe showed when he was seven years old that gave Lu Xuan the confidence to be proud.

At the beginning, Lu Jiru did not rely on others to pull him to the second rank.Lu Xuan thought to himself, my father should be the No. [-] scholar, and my grandson can't say that he will be the number one!

The contacts in the officialdom are expired, and Lu Jiru's old friends can't wait for Lu Yuan to grow up to insist on not dying or becoming an official. Therefore, Lu Xuan tried his best to use the contacts in the officialdom to find out the direction of Chunwei for his grandson-in-law , and worked hard on the selection of officials.

As for property...

Lu Xuan was unwilling to give Yang Xianzu all his strength.

After all, he didn't ask Yang Xianzu to "pull" his grandson. With such a backbone, the family business is left in the hands of the grandson, isn't it more secure than relying on others' conscience?Furthermore, when the granddaughter gets married, the dowry is already very rich.Would a normal family give one-third of the family property to the granddaughter and take it to the husband's house?

Xie Qinghe watched coldly all the way, and felt that the Lu family was not so bad at all, and wanted to go crooked every day.

Lu Xuan's obsession with putting his family property on his grandson-in-law back then probably had something to do with Lu Yuan's failure to live up to expectations.

——If it wasn’t for the fact that the grandson is so muddy that he can’t support the wall, would a grandfather bet his family fortune on the conscience of his grandson-in-law?

Yang Xianzu went to the place to select officials, and the eldest sister followed.Because the Lu family moved the old Shangshu's last little friendship, the official selection was not bad, and it was only three days away from home, a fertile and rich place.

In order to show his closeness, Yang Xianzu simply sent the two sons left by his original partner to his Yue's family, in name of asking his grandfather to guide them in their careers.

Without the two children left by the previous lady, Lu Ze and her husband naturally lived happily and intimately together.Let the two sons play with brother-in-law Lu Yuan and have feelings for each other. Once the Yang family is prosperous, can they still treat the Lu family badly?

Lu Xuan couldn't help stroking his beard: "Be informed and be interesting."

If he hadn't seen Lu Yuan begging Yang Xianzu's youngest son for money in a low voice, Xie Qinghe would have thought that Yang Xianzu was "sensible".

Now he can only eat the cake while writing: "Hehe."

It was inconvenient for Yang Xianzu to leave easily while he was in office, but his elder sister Lu Ze would go home every three to two months, first to visit his grandfather and parents, and second to visit his two "sons".She doesn't care about the schoolwork of her two sons, but only cares about food, clothing and daily life, acting like a virtuous stepmother.

Lu Ze is 12 years older than Lu Yuan, and he also raised his younger brother, so he must be closer emotionally than his two stepson.

She doesn't care how Yang Xianzu's son studies, but Lu Yuan.

Seeing Xie Qinghe sitting at the desk writing at noon, sweat pouring down from her forehead, she brought her maid over, removed her younger brother's writing desk in two or three strokes, wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, told him to drink mung bean soup, and Li persuaded with distress: "People like us, why do we need to study and write so hard?"

Xie Qinghe couldn't tell for a while whether she was stupid or bad?

"Nephew Feng and Nephew Hu are working hard, and so am I..." Xie Qinghe didn't finish his sentence.

"Where is the nephew? Even if it's my sister who crawled out of my belly, it's still a nephew." Lu Ze lovingly touched his younger brother's face, "Can the two of them compare with you? Poor little boy who has never been loved by mother and father." .The Yang family has no ancestral property, and my dowry is all food and clothing. If you don’t study hard, will you still want to divide my dowry if you split up in the future?”

Naturally, there is no reason in this world to divide the family and take away the stepmother's dowry.What caught Xie Qinghe's attention was the words "mother is dead and father is not close".

"Brother-in-law isn't close to them?" Xie Qinghe asked.

"I live in the same door, and I usually don't say a few words. When I talk, I have to curse." Lu Ze shook his head, "Let's not talk about them. Brother Yuan, sister made clothes and purses for you, and some of your favorite food dessert……"

Xie Qinghe doesn't know whether Lu Yuan likes it or not.He really likes the beautiful new clothes of the embroiderer!Exquisite Dim Sum!

So, this sister, is she really stupid, or... really bad? !

Xie Qinghe couldn't see it.

There was Lu Xuan in the front, and Lu Ze in the back. Both grandparents and grandchildren counted on Yang Xianzu to "pull" his brother-in-law. The "resistance" of Yuan's study and progress, how could Lu Yuan, an eight or nine-year-old child who grew up normally and did not hang up, not be raised and abandoned?

Xie Qinghe began to feel that it was not unreasonable for Lu Yuan to resent his grandfather, this unlucky boy was indeed led astray.

It is difficult for people to escape the influence of the family. Lu Yuan was brought up together by his grandfather and eldest sister. Lu Xuan was in charge of his studies and thoughts. Before the age of five, when Lu Ze was not married, he was responsible for Lu Yuan's daily life and food. .These two people had too much influence on Lu Yuan.

Yang Xianzu himself is a very talented person, he is also very smooth, and he looks very personable, this is an absolute plus.Furthermore, with the support of Lu Ze's generous dowry, he can enjoy a lot of money in his official career.

When Xie Qinghe slowly left the Tongsheng Examination, Yang Xianzu was already a fifth-rank official and went to the capital.

"You don't want to go to the hospital to take the test, but you want to go to business?" Lu Xuan wanted to drag his grandson here and beat him up. "A mere boy, how decent is he?"

"Next year." Xie Qinghe has no idea about the exam, but doing business is more challenging.Haven't done it after all!

"It's as if you can do it... What are you doing?" Lu Xuan stared angrily.

Xie Qinghe has already skillfully ran to his bookcase, opened a drawer, and took out two bank notes: "For me to lend you? Would you like to write a note for you?" Seeing Lu Xuan's mouth twitching, he really Turning around, I wrote an IOU on the side of the desk, "For the sake of my grandson's first business, you don't need to charge interest. You take it."

Lu Xuan was so angry that he blew his beard, and finally put away the IOU: "Never mind if you lose money or make money, you will end up next year! You are not young anymore, can you have a long-term heart? If you don't want to take the exam, first marry a wife young married woman……"

That's not okay.Xie Qinghe quickly slipped out of the study: "Shuanzi, let's go."

Xie Qinghe has a calm temperament in everything he does.He didn't do business on a whim, he just chose a seemingly uncomplicated industry in a regular manner, looked at a trade route, and bought down and sold up.It was only when I started doing business that I realized... that this work is really not done by humans.

The general environment emphasizes agriculture and suppresses business, and business taxes are relatively heavy. What's terrible is that there are various kings of hell blocking the way, and little ghosts robbing.

Why do you say collusion between government and business?If the merchants did not collude with the officials, the business would not be able to continue at all.Yang Xianzu heard that his brother-in-law was doing business, so he kindly sent a post. If it wasn't for the protection of this post, let alone making money, it would be good if he didn't even take the money with others.

Xie Qinghe faintly felt that this post was unacceptable.Is Yang Xianzu's advantage so easy to take advantage of?He accepted Yang Xianzu's post, and his small business made hundreds of 80 taels of silver, and his grandfather was afraid that he would give Yang Xianzu tens of thousands of taels.Is it a loss?

Since you live a life as a mortal, you have to abide by the rules of a mortal.

Xie Qinghe began to worship the top of the mountain from Nanxing County.

After all, the Lu family was a gentry in Nanxing, and when Lu Laoshangshu was in the court, he had an old shadow on Nanxing.Even if it doesn't affect the incumbent chief, he still has to give the Lu family some face, right?The Lu family wanted to go to Beijing to make trouble after being offended. Old Shangshu Lu was also registered at the court, and the Lu family was not easy to provoke.

What's more, Xie Qinghe is not going to force Nanxing County to do bad things.

Let's collude with the government and businessmen, you provide me with protection, and I pay the protection fee!

Nanxing is rich, prosperous, and has a prosperous academic atmosphere.Those who can come to this place to be the head of a county are not people without background.Befriending one is equivalent to befriending a litter.Xie Qinghe took his grandfather's post and knocked on the door. Nanxing County admired Xie Qinghe's gold letter very much. After agreeing to give [-]% of the profit, Nanxing County was even happier. Industry.

Xie Qinghe also felt that being an official was not as good as doing business in this world.

Liao Liao has been fooling around for a year, and when he got on track a little bit, he left the business to his clan brother to take care of it.

He plans to go to the next test.

Instead of using Nanxing County as a talisman and giving most of the benefits to Nanxing County, it is better to become an official and serve as a talisman for the clan brothers.

- Seventy percent!Can you believe it?

After a year of hard work, I have to share [-]% of it with others!

The strange way is that everything is low-grade, but reading is high.It's strange that my grandfather used money to feed his brother-in-law desperately.There is no one in the family who is an official, let alone can't do business, I'm afraid I can't even keep the family business!Well, go back to Li Qian's road and become an official.

Of course, besides studying and becoming an official, there is another way to get ahead.

Like Xie Qinghe, Shenshan Xunzhen asked, once he got mixed up with the Hanjiang Sword Sect, even if he was an outer disciple, he would no longer be bound by the secular world.

The problem is that studying to become an official is still a bit feasible. It is not difficult for Xie Qinghe to really become a martial arts monk, but it is simply an impossible task for Lu Yuan.If you really want to live Lu Yuan directly as Xie Qinghe to solve Lu Yuan's old grievances, I'm afraid that the old grievances will not be eliminated, and the new hatred will regenerate, and Lu Yuan will die of anger immediately.

When Xie Qinghe walked into the examination room, he couldn't help but wonder whether my road of studying and becoming an official was also an impossible task for Lu Yuan?