My Daming New Empire

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He adopted a nephew of his younger brother's family to succeed him from the beginning, but he still wanted a daughter, which could be regarded as a child bride for this son.

At the beginning, Mao was beautiful and literate, but because of the war, she was exiled in Shanyang Village and married Liu Yigen.

Because she manages the family well, the Liu family lived a prosperous life at the beginning.

Liu Wanchang is an outstanding talent, and his younger sister Cuilian was considered a beauty since she was a child.The patriarch of the Liu clan was still young at that time, knowing that Chang Xiucai wanted to adopt a daughter, after sinking the Mao family into a pig cage, he sold Cuilian to Chang Xiucai for five taels of silver.

Chang Xiucai was a good person, she treated Cuilian as her own, never treated her badly since she was a child, and even taught her to read and write.

Cuilian was called by her brother and daughter-in-law when she was a child, so she naturally knew that she was not her own.

It's just that the elder brother is a poor man. When he was nine years old, he got smallpox and didn't survive it.

Later, Chang Xiucai adopted a nephew from his younger brother's family. This nephew was seven or eight years younger than Cuilian, so he didn't mention the marriage again, and only raised a daughter.

Cuilian is also well-behaved. She has been loved and loved since she was a child, and she is extremely diligent. She is very popular with Chang Xiucai and her monogamous concubine.

Chang Xiucai has a good friend who is the merchant Fan's family. Although the merchant's status is not as high as that of the peasant family, they are rich and well-off.

The sons of the Fan family have all followed Chang Xiucai to learn and read since childhood, and the sons have also known Cuilian since childhood.

After arriving at Cuilian Cardamom, she proposed marriage to Chang Xiucai. Chang Xiucai was reluctant to give up, and kept her for another two years. When she arrived at Cuilian and Jiji, the marriage was finalized.

Cuilian and the second child of the Fan family were childhood sweethearts, but they persisted until the younger brother became sensible, so they married.

After marriage, the couple lived in harmony, and within five years of their marriage, they gave birth to two daughters and a son, and lived a peaceful and beautiful life.

Over the years, she would occasionally want to inquire about her life experience, but she was afraid that it would make Chang Xiucai sad. After all, Chang Xiucai treated her as her own and didn't want to make her adoptive parents feel sad.

On this day, as usual, she sent her husband out in the morning, let the little maid look after the children, and started making shoes for the whole family.

Chang Xiucai is a noble person, since she wore shoes made by Cuilian, she can no longer wear shoes made by others.

Although Cuilian is now married to the Fan family, she makes the shoes of her natal parents, younger brother, husband, and children herself.

It was almost noon, the restaurant hadn't delivered food yet, Cuilian was planning to go out to see what was going on, but she didn't expect her husband Fan Xuewu to come back at this time.

"What do you want, Mr. Xianggong?"

Fan Xuewu shook his head, he squatted down, picked up his son who had swooped over, and then stared at her and asked, "Does Cuilian remember when she was a child?"

Embarrassed, Cuilian thought her husband was making fun of her when she was a child, so she said: "Why are you mentioning that? My husband was like a bandit when he was a child, but now he is much more refined."

Fan Xuewu looked at her with concern, stretched out his hand to hold her hand and said: "I mentioned it to you last night, the imperial envoy came to Linzhou, saying that he was going back to his hometown to visit relatives, but unexpectedly, this noble person is you and me relatives."

Cuilian let out a cry, and seeing that her husband didn't seem to be joking, she asked suspiciously: "This has no beginning and no end, why did it involve the concubine again?"

Fan Xuewu handed his son to the little maid next to him, and asked her to take the children out to play, and then led his wife into the house and sat down.

"Although my lady has been reluctant to ask questions all these years, you know your life experience as a husband..."

Fan Xuewu told Cuilian's life experience, his father was killed by a tiger, and his mother was sunk in a pig cage, and he did not hide such things.Finally said: "You had an older brother, four or five years older than you. After your mother was submerged, your brother ran away. At the beginning of the war, there were bandits everywhere. I thought your brother was young. , I was afraid that something unexpected would happen, but I never thought that he would be blessed and fateful, and now he has become an imperial envoy."

Cuilian had burst into tears long ago when she heard about her life experience, and at this moment she couldn't help but said in shock: "You said yesterday that the imperial envoy is the father-in-law in the palace, isn't my elder brother..."

"Being able to serve the emperor is not entirely human. However, no matter what, he is also your own brother."

"How did Xianggong understand so clearly?"

"The imperial envoy went to Shanyang Village today to worship the ancestors, and then arrested all the clansmen who occupied your house and land. Then I asked about your news. I also just received a message from Wu Dianshi, and I just learned the news .The imperial envoy is going back to the city soon, and he made it clear that he wants to see you."

Cuilian sat on the edge of the bed, as if she was stupid.Knowing her life experience suddenly, she couldn't accept the news for a while.

It was Fan Xuewu who reminded: "Don't be dazed, hurry up and dress up, and you will see your brother in a while. Don't make him feel that I have treated you badly."

Cuilian panicked at this moment, reached out and grabbed Fan Xuewu's hand, tremblingly said: "Sir, I'm afraid..."

"Don't be afraid, that's your own brother, not an enemy. Those things are over, and now our husband and wife live in harmony and beauty, which is the business."

Cuilian was still trembling all over, hugging her husband's waist tightly, tears streaming down her face.

Liu Wan didn't expect it either. After turning around, it turned out that the restaurant he stayed in yesterday belonged to his sister-in-law's.

To have a large restaurant and many shops in the county seat, the Fan family is considered to be in a good position.

All he wants to do now is to see his sister as soon as possible, to know what she looks like now, and how she is doing well.

As a rootless person, he has long stopped treating the Liu family as his relatives, and his younger sister is now his only relative.

"Xiao Shanzi."

"The servant is here."

"You go back to the county seat on horseback, load the gifts I prepared into the car, and deliver them to Fan's house in the east of the city. My sister is also a lucky one, and now she has three children. You go to the market, Pick up what the child eats, uses, and plays with, choose the best ones and buy them for me."

Liu Wan has accumulated a lot of property over the years. After staying with Zhu Zhanji, he basically has no place to spend money, and he has no other hobbies, so all his money has been saved.

When he came back to find his sister this time, he had already prepared all kinds of gifts. He had prepared several boxes of high-quality gold and silver jewelry produced by the inner supervisor alone.

Xiao Shanzi is his apprentice. Although he is only 17 years old, he is also a smart person. He can rest assured that these matters are entrusted to him.

When the convoy returned to the county, it was already meal time.Xu Gang, the county magistrate, waited in person at the west city gate, beside him, there was Fan Zhengyi who had met once yesterday.

Fan Zhengyi was originally named Fan Zhengyuan, but in order to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's yuan, he changed his name to Fan Zhengyi.

He received the imperial envoy yesterday, and as the owner of the restaurant, he got a seat at the reception banquet.However, he is just a merchant. Although he is rich, he has no status and cannot be the chairman at all.

But he never thought that the identities of the two of them had fundamentally changed today, and the imperial envoy had actually become his relative.

As soon as Xu Gang met, he congratulated Liu Shaojian, "Congratulations to Liu Shaojian, but he never thought that Lingmei could be found so easily, and she is a familiar acquaintance of the lower officials.

"Thank you, Xu's parents, for your hard work. It is also thanks to you that I was able to find a girl so smoothly. This Uncle Fan, the boy Liu Wan is very polite."

A smile appeared on Fan Zhengyi's face. Cuilian, who he also watched and grew up with, has always been very fond of.Although there was a marriage contract earlier, the children were still young at that time.

So he has no taboos and insists on asking for a marriage for his son.

Now that he has been married for five years, he has given birth to two granddaughters and a grandson.

The young couple have a good relationship and are close to the family. Although they live apart now, they always bring their children back to be close to the elders every few days.

Now, a relative suddenly fell from the sky, and he was still the attendant of the grandson.

Taisun who is that?The grandson of Jian Guo now, the future emperor!

Moreover, this relative is still highly valued. Just because he is less than 30 years old and can become an imperial envoy, he is known to be highly valued now.

Through Xu Gang, he also knew that Liu Wan was a young prisoner, and the servants were already middle- and upper-level officials. With such a strong support in the family, they would no longer be afraid of being bullied.