Back then, Anyuan Bo Cui Yuan gave the daughter of the postman twenty taels of silver. It was because this action of his was seen as a real act of lavishness by the postman that the postman, with the mentality of making a good use of the rare commodity, let his daughter give birth to Cui Cheng.
He was thinking that if he could earn twenty taels of silver by letting his daughter accompany a nobleman for one night, then if he raised the nobleman's son, wouldn't he be able to earn two or three hundred taels of silver in the future?
As for his daughter, in order to earn more money for the betrothal gift, he married her off far away as a widow as soon as Cui Cheng turned one year old.
Yiding thought very clearly that since the nobleman never came back to see his daughter, it was obvious that he was tired of his daughter, so there was no need for him to keep him at home and eat for free.
But Cui Cheng, who is half of the nobleman's blood, is different. Yiding judges others by his own standards and believes that people in the world must attach more importance to blood ties and heirs than women.
Even if the nobleman will not take Cui Cheng away, he will definitely not reduce their reward money because they raised Cui Cheng.
In addition, it will cost money for Cui Cheng to start a family and build a career, so by then he will have to give two more benefactors.
With this idea in mind, Yiding raised Cui Cheng. However, as time passed, Yiding never saw Cui Cheng's biological father Cui Yuan again.
Year after year of waiting ended in vain, and the postman had actually lost hope.
However, when Cui Cheng was twelve years old, Yiding's dream suddenly came true without any warning.
Cui Yuan, who was in urgent need of a son, took back his illegitimate son who was living away from home, and changed his surname to Cui and named him Cheng.
Cui Cheng looks very much like Cui Yuan, but influenced by the environment he grew up in, Cui Cheng not only has no skills, but also resembles the postman in temperament, character, and living habits.
He is sloppy, stingy, likes to take advantage of others, is incompetent at anything, and is the best at passing the buck. He appears to be honest and obedient, but in fact he has a lot of ulterior motives.
Most importantly, he is short-sighted, seeks profit, and is greedy. He is a person of poor character.
Many people in the capital knew that although Cui Cheng was registered under the name of his stepmother by Cui Yuan as soon as he returned to the Cui family, he was not willing to spend time trying to please his stepmother.
Even in front of his biological father Cui Yuan, he appeared to be very submissive and submissive, but in fact, he turned a deaf ear to what he said and did not take his biological father's teachings and admonitions seriously at all.
His biological father asked him to study hard and practice martial arts diligently. He agreed on the surface, but in fact he was short-sighted and racked his brains every day to figure out how to ask his biological father and stepmother for money and things.
As for what to show filial piety to his biological father and stepmother during festivals and holidays, I'm sorry, Cui Cheng has no such idea in his mind at all.
The servant next to him reminded him, but he always fought back by saying that he "didn't make money".
The other party said that he didn't have to prepare expensive things. As long as he put some thought into it, his biological father and mother would be happy even if the things were worthless. But for Cui Cheng, wouldn't "cheap" things still cost money?
Anything that requires money is almost like asking for his life, so he naturally doesn't want to do it.
When the servant saw how stubborn he was and how he didn't know how to adapt, his enthusiasm to show himself and become the young master's confidant suddenly cooled down completely, as if someone had poured a basin of ice water on his head in the coldest days of winter.
As for Cui Cheng, his biological father spent nine years teaching him carefully from the age of twelve to twenty, but he was still not good at either literature or martial arts, and looked like a real loser.
His uninhibited and enterprising attitude finally made his biological father and stepmother completely disappointed in him.
Besides, he was so stingy that he was unwilling to even use his biological parents' money to please the other party. How could his biological parents continue to give him money?
But he didn't know how to reflect on himself, and just kept blaming his biological father and stepmother for not treating him well.
Fortunately, he still had some brains and did not dare to show his resentment.
But secretly, he hooked up with a merchant girl and secretly became her husband and wife, thinking that he could get both the woman and the money and take advantage of her.
The merchant was not a wealthy businessman, and it was rare for his family to marry a son of an official, so he not only gave the daughter he liked to him as a concubine, but also gave her a large dowry.
His stepmother had completely despised this hopeless child and pretended to be ignorant of all his affairs, while his father had no idea that his son was actually keeping a mistress behind his family's back.
However, he also didn't care about his mistress at all. After he got both the woman and the money, his true colors began to show. When his mistress and the daughter she gave birth to fell ill, he not only refused to call a doctor or send them to the clinic, but also stopped his mistress from paying for medical treatment.
The concubine had no choice but to secretly use her limited private money to go to the clinic to treat herself and her daughter when he returned home.
Perhaps because he tasted the sweetness of this incident, Cui Cheng not only used his concubine's money to support several more concubines, but also, very strangely, he began to covet his future wife's dowry before the marriage was even settled.
Although he didn't learn any real skills in the years since he came to Beijing, he did learn the rules of marrying into a family of equal status in the capital.
In his opinion, since his father was an earl, his future wife had to be a lady from an earl's family.
Of course, it would be best if his biological father and mother could arrange a marriage for him with a girl from a marquis's or even a duke's family.
The mansions of marquises and dukes are definitely richer than his uncle's, so he can make a fortune by marrying a wife.
The most important thing is that if he can marry a girl from a marquis's or duke's mansion, he won't have to rely on his biological father and stepmother for everything in the future. He can rely on his wife to get more benefits from his father-in-law's family.
According to the normal thinking process of a person, it is already very strange that Cui Cheng can think like this, but the most strange thing is not that he thinks like this, but that he actually speaks out his thoughts with confidence.
It's so weird that any sane person would not marry their daughter to him.
Cui Cheng's marriage was delayed again and again, and his biological father Cui Yuan was so anxious that he lost a lot of hair.
The big one was ruined, and he was hoping that the big one would give birth to a few small ones so that he could start practicing from scratch, but the big one couldn't even find a suitable marriage...
Cui Yuan, who is eager to have a grandchild, undoubtedly wants a daughter-in-law who he and his eccentric son think is suitable.
And Xiao Lu knew his mentality, so she chose his son Cui Cheng to be the eldest princess's husband.
The eldest princess has lived in the deep palace for a long time and knows very little about the people outside the palace. She has no trust in the queen, Xiao Lu, so she secretly comes to Xiao Yuanjin and Yu Zizhen, who are like conjoined twins, for help.
She hoped that Yu Zizhen could help her investigate Cui Cheng and the Cui family, but unexpectedly, Yu Zizhen didn't need to do any temporary investigation at all.
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