Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 1403

The hottest topic among the people of Jiangcheng these days is the return of the Ming family’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren from the capital to visit their relatives.

"He's just a grandson, and he can't go to the grave to worship his ancestors."

"As for daughters, once they are married off, they are like spilled water. As for grandchildren, the key is the word 'foreign'. They are all outsiders. No matter how noble and prominent they are, there is still a layer of separation."

"You just don't understand. In the genealogy of the powerful families in the North Wing, the ones whose daughters married well can be listed in several pages."

"What? A married daughter can also be included in the family tree? We don't have such a rule."

"We don't have such a rule. For ordinary people, a daughter who gets married can't become a queen or empress, so naturally there is no need for such a rule."

Some people saw with their own eyes that the carriages lined up were filled with gifts. They moved boxes in one after another for a long time, and the whole yard was filled with gifts.

Is it courtesy that the Ming family lacks? What the Ming family lacks is face.

It is said that all the relatives of the Ming family who came from the capital were from prominent families, truly powerful and aristocratic families.

In the eyes of Jiangcheng people, the Ming family has plenty of money. And now, the Ming family also has face.

Many people don’t know that the Ming family is actually struggling now.

Shi Anxia lived in the Ming family for three days and basically understood all the situations of this family.

Today, her great-grandfather Ming Chengyuan and his brothers and sisters are the main branch of the original Ming family.

The Ming family is not actually from Jiangcheng, nor did their ancestors accumulate wealth.

By chance, Ming Chengyuan followed an unremarkable old man to Jiangcheng and started a spice and tea business.

Ming Chengyuan was just an errand boy at that time.

But the old man has no wife or children and is all alone.

Ming Chengyuan has always treated the old man as his father, taking care of him and serving him wholeheartedly.

The old man was in poor health. Seeing that Ming Chengyuan was filial to him, he handed over the spices and tea business in his hands to Ming Chengyuan. He passed away soon after.

During those bad years, many places suffered from famine. However, the Ming family's business was getting more and more prosperous, and Ming Chengyuan also brought his brothers and sisters to work together, and the main branch of the Ming family existed in this way.

Later, Ming Chengyuan learned that his cousins ​​were living in hardship, and out of pity, he moved them all to Jiangcheng to settle down, and took them with him to make a living by selling spices and tea. This was the Ming family's side branch.

At first, these cousins ​​were indeed grateful to Ming Chengyuan, and they all called him "Big Brother and Big Sister-in-law" and surrounded him.

After a long time, they each started to have their own ideas.

Especially after Anxia's grandmother Mingzhen married into the Duke of Huguo's mansion, many people from the Ming family's side branches thought that with one person's success, the whole family would benefit, and they were eager to go to the capital to get official positions.

But the Duke of Huguo refused to accept the offer and only demanded money and property without doing anything. Later, after Mingzhen's death, the Duke of Huguo regarded the Ming family as a scourge and prevented them from seeing their grandson and granddaughter.

Not only that, the Duke of Huguo's Mansion also used its connections to intercept and block the Ming family's business.

The side branches were affected and complained bitterly. But they forgot that these businesses were originally allocated to them by Ming Chengyuan. And the indifference of the Duke of Huguo's Mansion was purely their own fault.

When Mingzhen married into the Duke of Huguo's mansion, it was not only because of Mingzhen's aunt Ming Lishu's introduction, but also because of the help from these side branches.

Otherwise, how could Mingzhen end up in this situation?

Unexpectedly, things did not develop as they expected. Instead, Ming Chengyuan took a lot of property from the Ming family, which made them heartbroken.

Because in the eyes of the side branches, they should also have a share of the property of the main branch of the Ming family.