Daily life of the mistress

Chapter 84: Little Cui

Lu Kuan is Lu Lingyun's half-brother.
    He was also the younger brother who carried her on his back when she got married.

    Among the three sons of the Lu family, two are Liu's legitimate sons, and Lu Kuan is the only illegitimate boy.

    The status of illegitimate sons and daughters has never been high since ancient times.

    It is said that a mother is honored by her son, and a son is honored by his mother.

    In wealthy families, illegitimate sons and daughters will have a much better life, but most of them are invisible in the family and not many people care about them. In poorer families, the status of illegitimate sons and daughters is even lower.

    For example, the illegitimate sons in the houses of local gentry and foreign officials mostly serve as managers or heads of the village for the legitimate sons. If the family is divided, they will be kicked out with nothing.

    In the final analysis, there are too few resources, and even less can be distributed to illegitimate children.

    Of course, there are some exceptions. If the concubines are extremely favored and their children are favored by the head of the family, they will also receive many preferential treatments.

    But these are only a minority, and Lu Kuan is one of the majority. As a bastard in the family, Liu doesn't like him at all, and Lu's father doesn't care much about him either. Even if he is a man, he is just a transparent one.

    However, Lu Lingjun remembered that in his previous life, he was the most promising of the three brothers of the Lu family and passed the imperial examination to become a scholar. However, his family had no resources to provide him with. He stopped taking the imperial examinations after failing to pass the provincial examination. He got himself a job as a clerk at the lowest level and left the house to live on his own. Later, he became a seventh-rank official.

    The other two brothers of the Lu family also failed to pass the imperial examination. Relying on all the family resources, one was a sixth-rank official and the other a seventh-rank official, both of whom were civil servants with no real power.

    As long as the Lu family bets on Lu Kuan, even if Lu Kuan does not have the ability to make the Lu family rise, the Lu family can still maintain its current status.

    What impressed Lu Lingjun the most about her half-brother was not that he had always been low-key and positive, but that in her previous life, after she returned to the capital in glory, everyone in the Lu family fawned over her except Lu Kuan. And when she encountered a natural disaster crisis in Jiangnan, no one in the entire Lu family asked about it. Only he sent her a letter, asking if she needed help.

    Lu Hanyi had just made a scene there, and Lu Lingjun felt that she also needed to support a member of her mother's family. This life was different from her previous life. In her previous life, she and Li Wenxun fought alone and started from scratch. In this life, she married in the capital, and she would basically not leave here in this life, so it was inevitable that she would have to visit her mother's family.

    The power of her mother's family will also be one of her strengths. She has people in her mother's family, so even if she doesn't need them, it will give her confidence.

    She planned to train Lu Kuan to be her family member.

    After a while, a young man about fourteen years old followed Shuanghong over.

    "Big sister? You're looking for me?"

    Lu Kuan was very surprised to see Lu Lingjun looking for him.