latelenovela Chapter 104 Bottom Line
Chapter 104 Bottom Line
The clan leader smiled and replied, "Not too much."
Qin Anqi stepped forward and shouted, "Qin Shu! I just didn't flatter you and stood on your side. Why do you have to humiliate me like this?"
Qin Shu laughed, "Fawning?"
She looked at Qin Anqi sarcastically, "It seems that my cousin is really not suitable for studying. It is said that reading can help people distinguish right from wrong. I think my cousin has read so many books that he has not even learned the most basic right from wrong."
Qin Anqi was immediately furious, "You are talking nonsense..."
Mo Laowu and Zhang Xing put their hands on their hips and stood in front of him like ferocious monsters.
Qin Anqi's arrogance suddenly disappeared, and he said in a timid manner: "I just insisted on my own inner thoughts and did not follow the crowd or flatter you. How do you know that they..."
Qin Anqi pointed his finger at the opposite side, and there was a commotion in the crowd.
He was slightly stunned, and then continued: "How do you know that they really think that the second aunt and the third cousin should be expelled from the clan?"
Qin Shu curled her lips and looked at the tribesmen, "Oh, what my cousin said, is it true?"
An elder in the clan quickly took a step back and said, "Well, that's what you think. We don't think so."
A cousin also said: "That's right. It's only natural that a son should pay for his father's debts. There's nothing to say about it."
Someone else said loudly, "Yes, Anqi, didn't you hear what your elder sister said? Qin Jingchang hired assassins to wipe out the whole clan after your elder sister left the city? Qin Anwen is so violent at such a young age. Isn't it all because of what his parents taught him?"
Qin Anqi was stunned for a moment, and after a long while, he blushed and said, "You, you guys, didn't say that at the time!"
The clan leader shouted, "Anqi, that's enough!"
Qin Anqi was so angry that he shouted, "I just feel that the crime should not be committed against my family, and the disaster should not be brought to my wife and children. What's wrong with that? Is it a big deal that she has money? Do you think it's reasonable to beat up a ten-year-old child?"
Qin Shu sneered and said loudly: "My cousin is right. It's great to have money."
"Since you are so kind and generous, why don't you also take out some money to support the clan school? Or you can bring Liu Yinghua and her son back home to take care of them. No one will stop you."
Qin Anqi fell silent instantly.
The clan leader walked into the ancestral hall with his cane, saying as he walked: "Open the ancestral hall!"
For a moment, Qin Shu really wanted to move her parents' graves out of the Qin family's ancestral tomb at all costs, draw a clear line with the Qin family, and cut off all ties with them.
She had farms and money, and had enough space to place her parents' coffins.
Why bother getting entangled with a bunch of ungrateful wolves?
But if you want to relocate the graves of your parents, you have to choose a location, do feng shui, perform rituals, etc.
It won’t take several months to complete.
She has more important things to do.
She could only place her parents here for the time being, and wait until she had taken revenge. If she could come back alive, she would bring her parents out in style.
Especially now, the clan members are so "bearing humiliation" and in order to keep Qin Shu and let her continue to serve the clan, they will definitely do their best to stop Qin Shu from moving Qin Jingyuan's grave.
Qin Shu knelt in the Qin clan ancestral hall, worshipped the spirit tablets of her parents, and watched the clan leader erase Qin Jingchang's name from the family tree.
Qin Shu's name was also recorded in the Qin family genealogy.
The appearance of Liu Yinghua clearly exposed the clan members' dishonesty and indecisiveness.
The clan leader had an embarrassed look on his face throughout the whole process and did not dare to mention the silver needed to build the Jingyuan Temple.
Qin Shu also pretended to forget about it.
What was supposed to be a grand ceremony ended in unpleasantness in less than half an hour.
Qin Shu "politely declined" the tribe leader's invitation to keep Qin Shu and her group for dinner, and quickly returned to Jinzhou City with her people.
Fubao's teeth were grinding.
As soon as the Qin clan members who came to see him off left, he immediately jumped onto the shaft of the carriage.
As the carriage shook violently, Fubao sat at the door and said loudly: "Young lady, you have a really good temper. They bullied you like this, but you still tried to reason with them. Our neighbor stole a chicken from my house, and my mother blocked his door and cursed him for three days."
Qin Shu smiled and said, "Your mother dared to curse in front of your door for three days because it was your neighbor who stole your chicken. But what if it was the head of the village who stole the chicken?"
Fu Bao widened his eyes in shock, "The village head would steal chickens?"
Qin Shu's anger was mostly washed away by Fu Bao's appearance. She couldn't help but smile and asked, "Just tell me if your mother dares to scold you?"
Fu Bao was so scared that he grimaced, "I definitely wouldn't dare to do that."
Qin Shu said quietly: "Not only do we not dare, even if the village took away all your chickens openly, your mother would only be angry but not say anything."
But when the head of the village saw a scholar, he would bow and call him "Master Scholar".
This is power.
That's status.
This is also the reason why the clan leader did not dare to oppose Qin Jingchang's adoption of his son to Qin Jingyuan, and allowed Qin Jingchang to control and persecute Qin Shu, but chose to turn a blind eye.
Because my father is a businessman, even if he has a lot of money, he has no power or status.
Qin Jingchang was a scholar and Qin Anning was a juren.
They were all people recognized by the court and had made great achievements.
If Qin An Ning had not been stripped of his honors for murder and escaping, the Qin clan leader might not have stood on Qin Shu's side.
Qin Anqi was also a scholar, so the clan leader also chose to keep the peace.
After more than twenty years of changes, the Qin family is no longer the impoverished Qin family.
Although there is no wealthy businessman in the clan who can afford to pay for the entire clan's education, it is still possible for several families to pool their resources to pay for a few promising children to go to school.
It is normal for people to forget about you when you leave.
Qin Jingyuan is already dead. No matter how much kindness he has shown in the past, it cannot compare to the incense offerings from future generations.
What happened today can be regarded as a test and touch of each other's bottom line between Qin Shu and the Qin family.
If Qin Shu continues to hold on to this matter, the clan leader may not let her go.
In this world, identity and status are an insurmountable gap.
This was also the reason why her parents betrothed her to Cheng Zonghao.
Cheng Mao, the governor of Jinzhou, also came from a poor family.
He was able to rise to prominence because he married the niece of his mentor, Grand Tutor Wei.
Now he is a governor of a prefecture, and the next step is to become a third-rank official in the court.
If the Cheng family was not so short of money, even if Madam Cheng and Madam Qin had known each other since childhood, Madam Cheng would never marry Qin Shu to her second son.
After marrying into the Cheng family, Qin Shu's status truly reached a new level.
If it weren't for the murder, Qin Jingchang would no longer be a good person. For the sake of his son's future, he had to establish a good relationship with Qin Shu so that he could use Qin Shu to get close to Cheng Mao.
Once Qin An Ning passes the imperial examination and becomes a Jinshi, with the guarantee of the marriage relationship with the Cheng family and the money used by Qin Jingyuan to bribe people, Qin An Ning will be able to gain a foothold in the officialdom quickly.
In order to win over Qin An Ning, the Cheng family will naturally maintain Qin Shu's reputation and status in the Cheng mansion.
A woman's marriage is essentially a collusion between two families and multiple forces.
It's not about emotions, it's about interests.
It’s a pity that Qin Jingyuan underestimated Qin Jingchang’s greed and cruelty.
As soon as he returned to the mansion, the doorman immediately reported, "My dear Miss, Madam Yu from the Xiao Mansion has been waiting in the mansion for a long time."