MTL - Happiness Consist in Contentment-Chapter 1

As one of the four imperial mansions of the Jin Dynasty, Liu Guogong's mansion can be said to be a clear stream in Beijing.

It's not that Liu Guogong himself is so upright and upright. In the eyes of outsiders, Liu Guogong himself is actually a mediocre person with no great ability—

I like doing business, I like making money, I don’t have any ink, and I can’t do anything if I can’t make money. Besides making money, I also like to eat and eat.

The reason why Liu Guogong's mansion is the clear stream in Beijing is mainly because of his ability to marry a wife and take concubines—

One wife and seven concubines, not to mention living together in harmony, there are a total of 40 concubines and children, and all of them are born safely and grow up alive, which makes people feel incredible.

The most puzzling thing is: the 22 sons of the concubines and the 17 daughters can still love each other without fighting and fighting, which makes people feel incredible to the extreme.

The wealthy Xungui in Beijing are all very envious of Liu Guogong, and think he is really a strange person!

But as Liu Guogong himself, he was very troubled.

why?

Because there are so many children!

Seeing that the children are all grown up, they start getting married one after another. The dowry, the dowry, etc., once the accounts are settled, okay, if you really want to follow the standards of high-profile families in Beijing, your entire family will have to be hollowed out.

He is worried!

Recalling that the deceased father saw his children full of children and left with a satisfied smile, he used to think that he was quite an arrogant person.

After all, the only thing that his father worried about after he got the title of the duke of a country was that he was the only seedling. In the future, the people of the huge duke's mansion were small, which made him marry a wife and take seven concubines one after another.

Well now, the population is prosperous. But thinking that in the future he will divide the family for his sons, he will have to pay a dowry to marry a daughter, and his son will also have to pay a dowry to marry a daughter-in-law. Only when these bills are placed in front of him does he know the pain of prosperity.

After the pain, Liu Guogong decided, anyway, when the child grows up, he has fulfilled his father's responsibilities, how should they live their own lives in the future, don't think about eating for the rest of their lives.

Therefore, Duke Liu discussed with his wife and set new family rules: all adult sons, no matter the concubines, will be separated as soon as they get married. Except for the eldest son who inherits the title, he can stay in the Duke's mansion, and everyone else has to move out.

As for the daughter, the dowry of the direct descendant is 20,000 taels, and the dowry of the concubine is 10,000 taels. The dowry of the son is also according to this rule.

In addition, regardless of the descendants of the family, it is a three-entry house, a five-hundred

acres of farmland, a shop, 10,000 taels of cash, and nothing else.

As the eldest son who is preparing to get married, the eldest girl and others, as well as the young sons and girls who are still young and will have to get married for several years, have no objection.

Originally, the food and clothing expenses in the mansion did not say that it was very rich, and the father of the countryman said all day long that he had no money, was poor, etc. The children actually believed it.

After all, the family has a large number of people, and the master and the servants who serve together, the monthly silver is a large amount of money, plus the clothes and jewelry all year round, some human exchanges, New Year banquets and so on, it is indeed Very expensive.

So, the family really has no money.

Since they have no money and are willing to divide their families with a bowl of water, they have nothing to say.

As for the eldest son, that is, the eldest son can inherit the title and get more than half of the family property in the future. Others said: Isn't this normal?

That is their family. The mother-in-law's wife is generous and generous. If you change it to another family, hehe, it's not bad to give you a thousand taels of silver. Do you still want to have a house, a farm, and a shop? What beautiful things are you thinking of?

As a result, Liu Guogong's house was once again because of the fact that after the woman got married, the family rules that separated the family were in Yang Ming in the capital.

Some people say that Liu Guogong is stupid. He has so many sons. In the future, everyone's money will be handed over to the Gongzhong.

More people actually say that Mrs. Guo's wife is stupid. Those sons and daughters, just give them a thousand and eighty-hundreds of money. It's also a house and a farm. They really feel that they have too much money to burn.

But some people think that Liu Guogong and his wife are kind, and they treat their concubines with such kindness, so they will not be too harsh on their daughter-in-law in the future.

In short, Liu Guogong's mansion has attracted a lot of discussion among the noble and wealthy because of the separation of the family.

However, Liu Guogong and his wife quickly set up marriages for the eldest son, the second son, the third son, the fourth son, the eldest girl, the second girl and other children who could get married one after another—

The families who get married are basically of noble and scholarly families, with a clean and upright family style, and their families are harmonious. Even if it is a noble family, it is a family with a bright temperament, a simple population and a good family style.

Anyway, their husband and wife don't ask for any noble family, but only ask for good character and upright family style, which is enough.

Furthermore, the amount of dowry and betrothal gifts that their husband and wife set for their children, although not as good as that of a top-tier wealthy and first-class family, is more than average.

Xungui's house is better. Especially the concubines, both men and women have a dowry of 10,000 taels, which is quite a lot.

Therefore, when the eldest son of Liu Guogong's mansion was married, the entire Liuguo Gong mansion was very lively, and the noble families in Jingzhong came to celebrate, which can be said to be very face-saving.

You must know that Liu Guogong himself actually has the title of a prince in the imperial court, and has no official position at all. If he is not a good person, and his popularity is good, these noble families may not pay attention to him.

At the same time, the house's Qi Yiniang gave birth to the third youngest generation in the house: the eighteenth girl, namely Liu Fang.

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Qiyuan is the courtyard where Qi Yiniang lives.

Liu Guogong's mansion is the founding father of the country after all. The mansion given by Tai/zu was really big, so the front of the meeting was lively, but the backyard was very quiet, especially the row of yard where the concubines lived. in this way.

At this moment, Qi Yiniang was so tired that she fell asleep.

Most of the other people in the yard went to the front to watch the fun, and the people who stayed to serve also took turns to eat. The lady of the country also gave a banquet, so that everyone in the house was lively and lively.

Therefore, there is only one grandmother in Liu Fang's house, and a little girl is guarding her.

Liu Fang is now a soft doll just born.

In the Great Jin Dynasty, an overhead dynasty, she was the youngest concubine in Liu Guogong's residence, ranking eighteenth. Then the second emperor, Emperor Wen of Jin, now reigns, and the current time is five years of Jin Wen.

Her father is Liu Guogong, the second Guo Gongye, her eldest brother is getting married today, this is what I heard from the girl just now, and the customs here are probably messed up?

Formal aristocratic banquets are popular to sit on knees and divide tables, and palace banquets will have tables and chairs divided tables, as well as clothes, formal dresses are mainly Hanfu, Quju Shenyi, but there are also horse-faced skirts, pleated skirts...

Well, in a word, it's right to be arrogant. As for whether or not to invade or not, it has nothing to do with Liu Fang.

In the end, Liu Fang's time travels back and forth, except that she has the background information of this world in her head, which can be retrieved and used at any time. It is like a smart map, and she has an adult brain.

There is no so-called golden finger.

What can a baby doll do? Eat, drink and sleep.

In addition, Liu Fang just closed his eyes and listened to the chats of the maids and ladies all day long to understand everything in the Guogong's mansion, as well as the gossip of other mansions in Beijing.

For the first three days, she couldn't open her eyes, and only after washing three

I opened my eyes, but my vision was blurry, like severe myopia. As time goes by, I will grow up slowly.

Speaking of which, it's really interesting to experience childhood again with memories like this.

In fact, there is nothing to say in the Guogong's mansion, that is, how much money the cheap father made today, how the elder brother Jin'er changed his ways to please his daughter-in-law and so on.

In short, Liu Guogong's mansion is peaceful and happy.

Liu Fang has an older sister with the same mother, and three older brothers with the same mother. The older sister is ranked eighth, and the older brother is ranked eleventh, eighteenth and twenty-second.

There are many sons and daughters in the palace, and the rankings are separated, and because there are too many children, the characters are the same, only the middle character is the same, and the last character is casual, as long as it is not taboo, you can use it.

The character generation of Liu Fang's generation is "An". In fact, the genealogy, character generation, and family rules were all created after her grandfather became the grandfather of the state. There was no such thing before.

Liu Fang's name is Liu Anfang according to the generation, her sister is Anfen, and her three brothers are Anting, Ankang, and Anqing. As for the other brothers and sisters, there are too many people, and Liu Fang can't match them.

That is, her brother and sister who were the same mother came to see her almost every day, and she remembered it. Others, I'm sorry, she's still a little baby, and she doesn't have enough brain capacity to remember. ╮(︶﹏︶)╭

However, it is said that in order to come up with a name, the cheap dad used all the words that could be used. Fortunately, after Liu Fang was born, including the first-born mother, no one else planned to regenerate. Otherwise, the cheap dad could only be Change the word next to the word to the name.

As for the grandchildren, Liu Guogong said: He doesn't want to care about the names of his own children. →_→.

After the eldest brother got married, the second brother married his daughter-in-law. At this time, Liu Fang was already able to crawl, and began to babble and learn to speak, and the eldest sister-in-law, the imperial concubine, was also pregnant.

When the second sister-in-law came in, the third brother was about to get married.

Not long after the sister-in-law gave birth to her eldest son, Liu Fang was one year old, and she was arrested for Zhou.

When the third brother got married, the second sister-in-law was pregnant. Not long after the second sister-in-law was born, the eldest sister got married, then the fourth brother got married, the second sister got married, and the third sister got married...

When Liu Fang was about to get married at the age of fourteen, there was only the eldest brother's family in the entire palace, the sixteenth sister An Qian, the seventeenth sister An He, and Liu Fang and her biological mother, Qi Yiniang.

The other brothers have all moved out of the Guo Gongfu, and the sisters have also

They were all married, and the aunt and the others moved to their sons' homes one after another because of the birth of their grandchildren, and went to take care of their grandchildren.

There is only Qi Yiniang, and Liu Fang is not very worried about it. She wants to wait for her to move to the eleventh brother after she gets married.

The sixteenth sister An Qian and the seventeenth sister An He are already engaged. The sixteenth sister will get married in August, the seventeenth sister will be next year at the latest, and finally Liu Fang herself.

Therefore, starting from the end of the nineteenth year of Jinwen, Liu Fang went out with his mother-in-law and attended banquets everywhere.

It's just a pity that, from early spring to midsummer, a full half year passed, and Mrs. Liu Guogong did not set a marriage for Liu Fang. Liu Fang herself is not in a hurry, anyway, she is only fifteen after the new year, is she still young?

On this day, Liu Fang was staying in his room to practice calligraphy, and the calligraphy and painting ran in angrily, and Shumo, who was waiting in the room, frowned and said, "Why are you always so frizzy, what kind of formality do you have? "

Calligraphy and painting was getting angry, and she had a rectal temperament. Hearing Shumo's words, she couldn't bear it, and replied: "I'm almost dead of anger, what else can I do to be indecent?"

Liu Fang kept writing with a calm demeanor, without shaking her hands, she said lightly, "Who is this who is messing with our calligraphy and painting girl?"

The calligraphy and painting said aggrievedly: "Girl, the slave is not angry for herself, but for you."

Shu Mo shook his head and said angrily, "I see, the girl is not wronged at all, but you are very temperamental."

Liu Fang smiled, finished writing, put down the pen, cleaned her hands, took the cotton pad from Shu Mo and wiped her hands, and said, "Tell me, what little things are going on outside to make our calligraphy and painting girls angry? Are you on?"

Shumo watched Liu Fang sit on the soft couch aside, poured her a cup of tea, and stood aside to watch the calligraphy and painting.

The calligraphy and painting said to Liu Fang, "Girl, you don't know, people outside say it very badly. It's clear that the lady of the country doesn't look down on those playboys, she loves you, and she doesn't want you to be wronged, so she rejected several of them. People who come to ask for a kiss. But they say that you have no talent and no virtue, so you can’t get married. What else do you say, you…”

Perhaps the latter words were too ugly, and the calligraphy and painting hesitated and did not say it.

But Liu Fang can probably guess it, it's nothing more than what, with a temperament like a female yaksha, fierce like a tiger or something.

It was not the first time she had heard such gossip.

Speaking of which, these words were definitely not spread by family members.

But she grew up gradually, and others made it up.

Probably because she is the most unattractive in their family, that's why these rumors spread. Or, she is not too enthusiastic about attending banquets on weekdays, and she interacts with noble ladies in Beijing, which is why she is in this situation.

But no matter what, she doesn't care.

As far as appearance is concerned, everyone in the family is good-looking, handsome in men and beautiful in women, and she is probably more than beautiful, but she is definitely not ugly and shameful.

Probably everyone is used to the good-looking young girls in Liu Guogong's mansion. Suddenly, when she is so beautiful, others will naturally feel "ugly".