The evil cultivation of immortality, starting from an apprentice in a medicine shop

Marry together?

Big brother's is yours

What do you mean?

Polyandry?

Qiu Zhen was shocked by his big brother's words.

After he built his foundation for 100 days, his ears were not as spiritual as his eyes, and he did not open the [Heavenly Ear], but he was sharp-eyed and sharp-eared.

Even if the environment was noisy, he could hear clearly and would never make a mistake.

He saw that his big brother Qiu Qing looked serious, even with a bit of pleading.

He understood that his big brother was not joking, but a decision that he had seriously considered.

"This"

Qiu Zhen felt very complicated.

Marriage in this world is more diverse. Most ordinary families have monogamy, and rich families have one wife and multiple concubines.

As for polyandry, it mostly exists in remote places and extremely poor families.

The family does not have much land and no good livelihood. The brothers are very poor, so there is a special situation where two brothers or even several brothers marry one wife.

With two or three adult laborers, it is not a problem to support a family and reproduce offspring.

The emergence of "polyandry" is a forced choice under harsh conditions.

However, the Qiu family is not so poor at all.

The family has ten acres of land. If they cultivate it carefully and take good care of it, plus doing odd jobs and doing some side jobs on weekdays, it is not a problem to support the family.

The two brothers were raised in this way.

Whether it is the laws of the country or the clan etiquette, the heir to the ancestral property of the Qiu family's ten acres of land is the eldest brother Qiu Qing. As a younger brother, he can only share his parents' property with his eldest brother after his parents pass away.

Qiu Zhen is truly propertyless and unemployed, but his eldest brother is not.

With the conditions of the eldest brother Qiu Qing, it is not difficult to find someone to match him with a wife with ten acres of land. There is no need for the two brothers to marry the same wife.

"Brother, there is no need to do this."

Qiu Zhen shook his head repeatedly and flatly rejected the eldest brother Qiu Qing.

However, he was somewhat touched in his heart.

Everyone has selfishness and possessiveness.

The eldest brother Qiu Qing was only eighteen years old, simple and inexperienced, and his words were a bit childish, without long-term and profound consideration.

However, it is rare to have this heart.

Even Qiu Zhen, who was determined to be a Taoist, was somewhat touched in his heart.

"Brother, you should marry and have children, and I don't need you to worry about you."

After saying that, Qiu Zhen said in a very firm tone:

"I will become a martial artist and make a name for myself."

"Alas~"

Qiu Qing was not surprised at his younger brother's reaction. He sighed and said:

"Brother, I know you are strong-willed and want to make a living on your own, but don't force yourself. You are handsome, have the skills to prepare medicines, and are proficient in medicine. You can open a small medicine shop and run it. When the time comes, you can find a matchmaker. Getting married is not a problem, this is also a way. "

"You usually practice martial arts, and your savings may not be enough to open a medicine shop. Your parents have some money, so it is not a problem to set up a medicine shop."

As he said this, Qiu Qing also became energetic and talked endlessly:

"You don't have to worry about your parents. They can really be angry with you. You don't have to go back and give in. Big brother will come forward to help you smooth things over. You just go home and open a medicine shop."

"Crack!"

The crisp sound of breaking a miscellaneous wooden stick sounded with a knee.

In the light of the fire, Qiu Qing's dark face was full of excitement and sincerity.

Qiu was really stunned.

In fact, in the past ten years, he had a good relationship with Qiu's father and mother.

His parents loved the youngest child, and he was handsome and obedient since he was a child, so his parents naturally spoiled him.

However, since he became enlightened, the relationship has deteriorated.

It's not that he still doesn't know how to behave after two lives, and he doesn't know how to please the two elders.

The "generation gap" between the two sides is really too big, and there is a whole world between them.

In daily life, Qiu Zhen goes along with the two elders and lives in peace.

However, he will never compromise on some major life decisions.

Speaking of which, he was born handsome and was favored by a rich family in the neighboring village a few years ago, who wanted to invite him to be a son-in-law.

Qiu's father was very happy when he heard this, thinking that this was a good way out, and he agreed without hesitation.

Qiu Zhen was shocked.

The son-in-law who is in the limelight and eats soft rice is mostly the product of artistic processing, just like the female ghost and vixen who fall in love with the scholar in the mouth of the storyteller.

To put it bluntly, a "son-in-law" is a "tool man" recruited into the family by a family with daughters but no sons for reproduction and survival. He lives under someone else's roof and has a low status. He is a truly humble person.

Good things are not his turn, and he must be indispensable for corvée and border garrison.

In the woman's family, he also has to endure the humiliation and contempt, and finally the labor income belongs to others.

Perhaps, in the eyes of Qiu's father and mother, this is a way out.

But in Qiu Zhen's eyes, it is undoubtedly a quagmire of life, a tiankeng.

Once you fall in, it will be difficult to climb out, and you will have to take a lot of detours and spend a lot of effort.

So, he went to the door of the rich family as soon as possible and broke off the marriage.

This incident made Qiu's father and mother lose face, and this was the beginning of the breakdown of the relationship.

However, what really made the relationship between the two sides unable to ease was not the "breakup of the engagement", but that after Qiu Zhen entered the Qingmu Medicine Shop to work, he did not give all the wages to Qiu's father and mother, but kept most of it for martial arts practice.

Before the real separation of the family, all the money was "common property".

The skinny monkey Shen Liang and the big head Zhao Dou, except for basic expenses, basically took all the money they earned from working in the Qingmu Medicine Shop home to their parents.

Qiu Zhen's behavior of "withholding" and not giving, and only occasionally supplementing the family income, is undoubtedly "treasonous", selfish, and a rebellious son who has no regard for his parents and family.

This world is not as enlightened as the later generations, and all parents are "family heads".

Parents' words, matchmakers' agreements, control of financial power, and their words are final.

Qiu Zhen did not do many "disobedient things", but each one was fatal, and any one of them was a "bad thing" of treason.

In the eyes of outsiders, he is a complete "unfilial son" and a selfish act.

If he were an ordinary teenager, even if he had a firm heart, he would probably find it difficult to withstand the pressure of secular public opinion.

Qiu Zhen is different.

Having lived two lives, he deeply realized that now is the most critical period for him to accumulate original capital and grow rapidly.

His own resources are not enough, and he also subsidizes the family income with all the surplus labor. It is undoubtedly a step to self-destruction and it will be difficult to turn over in his life.

Even if you encounter a good opportunity and have an idea, you will easily miss the opportunity if you are short of money and cannot put it into action.

This is also true. He has no savings, so he cannot rent a small courtyard in Xiangyang Village. If he practices Jinbo Xian Gong in Qingmu Medicine Shop, there will be many people and his cultivation will be discovered, which will definitely leave hidden dangers in the end.

What is the change of fate against the will of heaven, all turned into falsehood.

This is like encountering a dangerous shoal on the road, Qiu Zhen took the risk to cross the river alone.

As long as he crossed it and had experience, the whole family could cross the river by feeling the stones.

And a large family crossing the river together is basically impossible, Qiu's father and mother will not take this risk, they will only wait there and spend their lives in mediocrity.

In the end, the whole family can only stay where they are and it is difficult to turn over.

This view can be understood by many people in later generations, but in this world, there are very few like-minded people.

"Brother, we'll talk about opening a medicine shop in our hometown later."

Qiu Zhen shook his head and refused. Without further explanation, he changed the subject:

"By the way, Boss, how come you have time to come to town today? Did something happen at home?"

"Nothing happened at home."

Qiu Qing saw that his younger brother didn't pick up his words, so he didn't continue to preach. He just sighed in his heart:

"There is something unsettled in the mountains. There are many more ferocious beasts around than before. People from several villages in our township came to the town to buy some weapons and traps for ferocious beasts. I came to see you on the way."