However, as the saying goes: If you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of being taken down by thieves. Just when Qin Tianxiao went home to celebrate the New Year, his stall was taken over by a group of thieves and ruffians nearby.

After the thieves found out that Qin Tianxiao had returned to his hometown and there was no one in the shop, they climbed over the wall and entered his shop on the fourth night after he left the shop (on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month).

After the thieves entered his stall by climbing over the wall and jumping out of the window, they looted all the valuables in his shop and then fled.

After hearing that the shop had been stolen, Qin Tianxiao couldn't help but feel anxious. On the one hand, he rushed to the shop and checked all the lost things. On the other hand, he quickly reported the matter to the government.

Afterwards, he asked people around to inquire about the whereabouts of the thief.

However, the society at that time was in troubled times. On the one hand, the palace had to deal with the peasant movements across the country, and on the other hand, it had to deal with the Red Army in Jiangxi. It did not pay much attention to such a small case of his.

It was just that under his repeated questioning and perfunctory questioning, he pushed the matter aside after the matter was over.

Therefore, even though he pressed the government many times about this matter, nothing came of it, and the matter gradually became unresolved.

However, what is fortunate is that when Qin Tianxiao temporarily returned to his hometown, he took all the money in the store back home. What the thieves stole were some gold and silver jewelry and the borrowed items they purchased.

The items did not harm the Qin family’s muscles and bones.

What is even more fortunate is that the pair of jade bracelets worn by Qin Yunan were also worn by Qin Tianxiao and his wife Wang Caiyu respectively at that time. They were very lucky to escape the disaster and were fortunately killed.

It was retained and finally passed to Qin Yunan's hands.

After seeing that the store had been looted, Qin Tianxiao was very anxious. While packing up the items in the store that had not been looted and preparing to reopen, he reported the case to the government.

However, since it was the New Year season at that time, government departments at all levels were on holiday. In addition, the society at that time was in troubled times. On the one hand, the government was busy dealing with the revolution of the Red Army, and on the other hand, it had to quell the banditry. For some major cases, it took its own initiative

Don’t worry, there’s no time to interrogate a case like his!

Therefore, almost no attention was paid to his case. The matter was slowly put aside and no news was heard from it. Afterwards, the matter was dropped.

Ever since Qin Tianxiao's stall was stolen by thieves, the Qin family's foundation began to slowly go downhill - the Middle Road declined.

Qin Tianxiao was greatly stimulated after his shop was robbed. From then on, he suffered from anxiety disorder. After less than two years, he died with regret.

Less than two years after Qin Tianxiao passed away, his wife Wang Caiyu also passed away due to excessive depression. Less than two years later, his wife also passed away.

After Qin Tianxiao and his wife passed away one after another, his third son, Qin Liangyu, continued to take over his father's business.

Qin Tianxiao had three wives, five sons, and seven daughters in his life. He also had an adopted son and an illegitimate daughter.

His ex-wife's name is Zhang Guizhi. Her father was once a minister of etiquette in the Qing court. She was Qin Tianxiao's wife since he was a child.

Qin Tianxiao's current wife is named Wang Caiyu. She was the wife with whom Qin Tianxiao fell in love since childhood when he was studying abroad. She is also the only wife who will accompany him throughout his life.

Qin Tianxiao's third wife was a married woman. The two of them had no actual identity. She and Qin Tianxiao had an illegitimate daughter. This daughter has stayed with her ever since.

Qin Tianxiao's ex-wife was once the daughter of an official. The two of them had been engaged in a child marriage since childhood. However, later, because he had always disagreed with the marriage, his ex-wife was forced to remarry.

Since Qin Wanxuan was an official at that time, he had a wide range of contacts and friends.

Among the officials he interacted with, there was a household minister, Lin, who had a very close relationship with him. Therefore, the two of them talked about everything.

The Minister of Household Affairs had a daughter who was 12 years old. Qin Tianxiao was only 7 years old at the time. So, during a casual chat between the two of them, he learned from Qin Wanxuan that his youngest son Qin Tianxiao had not yet made an appointment.

So, he became a relative to Qin Wanxuan.

Qin Wanxuan was very happy when he learned that the official was getting married and agreed to the marriage on the spot. Since the two children were young at the time, the parents finally agreed that they would officially get married after Qin Tianxiao turned sixteen.

However, things did not go as expected. In the year when Qin Tianxiao was ten years old, the Minister of Household Affairs was implicated in a corruption case. The family was sent to Ninggu Pagoda.

Because his daughter was relatively young at the time, the official left his daughter with the Qin family before being exiled to the army and asked Qin Wanxuan to take care of his daughter.

Faced with his friend's request, Qin Wanxuan readily agreed to his friend's request and took his daughter back home, hoping to wait until his son Qin Tianxiao grew up before marrying the two of them.

However, things were not what he thought. As Qin Tianxiao grew up, he began to think about private villas. Later, he drank some foreign ink and studied abroad for several years. He saw some of the world and became more open-minded.

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While he was studying abroad, he met his current wife Wang Caiyu. From then on, the two fell in love and became privately engaged for life.

After learning that his son was in love outside, Qin Wanxuan couldn't help but became furious. He began to block their marriage and locked him up at home.

However, at this time, Qin Tianxiao had already made up his mind and fell in love with his current wife Wang Caiyu. Because of this, the relationship between father and son was very tense. In the end, Qin Tianxiao actually ran away from home with his current wife.

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After the two of them ran away from home, they opened a stall in his hometown, Shangqiu County, and started a stall business.

After a long time, Qin Wanxuan saw that his son Qin Tianxiao was determined to live with his current wife. When he felt that he could not resist his son, he had no choice but to agree to the marriage.

Although Qin Wanxuan agreed to the marriage between his son Qin Tianxiao and Wang Caiyu, he was a person who valued friendship very much. He felt that this matter was a bit disappointing to his friends. So, he regarded Qin Tianxiao's ex-wife Zhang Guizhi as his adopted daughter and gave her to him.

Her rich dowry sent her off to get married.

In this way, after Qin Tianxiao finally ended his ex-wife's marriage, he married his current wife Wang Caiyu.

After the two of them got married, they devoted themselves to opening a stall in Shangqiu County, Henan Province and started doing business.

Since the shop was stolen, Qin Tianxiao and his wife were severely affected psychologically by these blows. Later, they both suffered from depression. After a few years, they both passed away.

Since the Qin family was robbed, the Qin family's disciples have begun to decline.

Just before Qin Tianxiao's wife passed away, she passed this pair of bracelets to her second son Qin Liangyu (Qin Yunan's grandfather) and his wife.

In this way, the pair of bracelets was passed down to Qin Yunan's grandfather, Qin Liangyu.

After Qin Tianxiao and his wife passed away one after another, their second son, Qin Liangyu (Qin Yunan's grandfather), inherited his father's business and continued to run the stall business.

Qin Liangyu is the third son of Qin Tianxiao. He has a brother and a sister above him. There is also another brother who adopts someone else's child. This child is Qin Tianxiao's ex-wife, who adopts someone else's child.

It turned out that since Qin Tianxiao, on the order of his father, married his ex-wife (the daughter of the Minister of Civil Affairs), his ex-wife had never given birth. In addition, Qin Tianxiao had gone abroad since he graduated from the private concubine.

He stayed abroad for three years in order to escape from marriage. During this period, he only returned home once every year at the end of the year to reunite with his ex-wife for a few days. As a result, his ex-wife stayed alone in the empty house for a long time. After a long time, his ex-wife

As a result, I suffered from depression and rarely spoke.

After seeing his daughter-in-law staying alone in an empty house for a long time and becoming depressed, Qin Wanxuan couldn't bear it. So, he asked someone to adopt a child from outside. As an adopted son, he adopted him to Qin Tianxiao.

Therefore, Qin Liangyu is only the third son of Qin Tianxiao.

Not only that, Qin Tianxiao had a romantic nature. While he was studying abroad, he once fell in love with a married woman. Moreover, this married woman once gave birth to an illegitimate daughter for him. His illegitimate daughter,

After he returned to China, he stayed abroad.

Qin Liangyu was very fond of Qin Tianxiao because he was smart and studious since he was a child. Therefore, Qin Tianxiao and his wife left all their property to him.

Therefore, after Qin Tianxiao and his wife both died, his second son Qin Liangyu inherited all his properties.

However, something unexpected happened. After Qin Liangyu and his wife ran the store for a few years, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, which lasted for eight years.

Because the Kuomintang adopted a policy of passive resistance, the result was successive defeats. Shanghai and Nanjing fell one after another.

The Japanese imperialists burned, killed, and looted along the way, and committed heinous crimes of extermination of humanity.

In order to escape the killings of the Japanese invaders and flee famine, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Shandong, Henan and other places abandoned their families and poured into the pass.
Chapter completed!