Chapter 929: Xun Qiancheng (2)
Because the area surrounding Xun Family village was relatively flat and the land was fairly fertile, crops grew better there than in other places, which meant that the villagers lived a slightly better life.
Of course, this "better life" was only relative. The villagers could all fill their stomachs, didn’t need to sell their sons or daughters, and as long as they worked hard, no one would starve to death.
Xun Qiancheng’s father was a stone mason who could carve steles and gravestones, as well as make millstones and mortar, so his family lived a fairly decent life. Coupled with the fact that Xun Qiancheng’s mother was also skilled at running a household, the couple built the only pure brick-and-tile courtyard in the village and owned more than thirty acres of land. In the entire village, even the village head could not compare to them.
However, Xun Qiancheng was an only child and his parents inevitably spoiled him a bit. Nevertheless, he was quite gifted when it came to studying, even seeming to have been awarded the title of scholar. But afterwards, he didn’t study seriously, and his father called him back home.
With his father pressing him, Xun Qiancheng didn’t do anything too outrageous.
Latter, his father found a marriage match for him, a young woman from the Bai Family of Baimu County. Bai Family’s old man was also a stone mason, working in the same trade as Xun Qiancheng’s father, but since they operated in different areas, there was no conflict.
But it was said that Xun Qiancheng had met a girl in the brothel, and he was so enchanted that he lost his soul to her. Naturally, he was reluctant to marry the girl from the Bai Family, but his father wouldn’t allow it, and in the end he obediently went through with the marriage. However, after being married for a year and the Bai Family girl not becoming pregnant, Xun Qiancheng called her a hen that couldn’t lay eggs.
Yet, Bai Family’s daughter finally fell pregnant the next year and gave birth to a daughter, who was Xun Hui. But just as she finished her confinement period, her father-in-law, while quarrying stone to save his son, was injured and passed away in less than half a month.