Abandoned daughter takes charge of the family, so rich that even the best people can't envy
Chapter 418 Zhang Family Matters
At that time, he also comforted her: "Jinxiu is now the Crown Princess. All the wedding clothes and supplies have been custom-made by the royal family. You don't have to worry about it."
Unexpectedly, the daughter-in-law suddenly got angry and said nothing else, saying that the red veil must be embroidered by the girl herself, which would be auspicious.
Now that Jinxiu is busy, it's no different for her, her mother, to embroider for her. She can just let her daughter sew a few stitches when the time comes.
She thought her daughter-in-law was in a bad mood because she was reluctant to see her daughter get married, but why did Song Jinxiu look at her like that just now?
Could it be that she knows what happened at home a few days ago?
Song Jinxiu actually knew something about what happened at home these days.
During the poison in the haunted house, Jinfang's heterochromic Persian cat Xiaobai suddenly advanced after being fed a few nutritional pills by Junjun, and Song Jinxiu could inexplicably hear its telepathic voice.
So even though she lived in the palace these days, Junjun and Xiaobai were there, and whenever there was any news, the two little guys would meow and communicate in her sea of consciousness.
So, she knew everything that Zhang Zihan wanted to hide.
After Zhang Zihan's grandfather passed away, the first and second wives of the Zhang family tried every possible means to keep Zhang Zihan by their side.
At the beginning, they tried their best to please him, and the children from the eldest wife vied to be Zhang Zihan's aides and advisors.
When Song Jinxiu heard Junjun talk about this, she was amused.
The second branch was not willing to lag behind, and they got two beautiful maids from somewhere to serve as Zhang Zihan's concubines.
And the cousin of the eldest wife was even more bizarre. She sneaked in while Zhang Zihan was taking a bath and offered herself to him. When she hugged Zhang Zihan and asked for sex but failed, she shouted that it was indecent behavior.
In a rage, Zhang Zihan had his eldest uncle's younger sister-in-law, who was naked, sent to his eldest uncle's bed.
The eldest aunt's crying and yelling alarmed everyone in the princess's mansion. Aunt Chang even came over and asked if she needed help to deal with it.
Zhang's mother was so angry that her face turned black and she wanted to kick the two families out.
Not to mention that the Song family has a clan rule. "Men cannot take concubines, and women cannot be concubines." His daughter-in-law is His Highness's biological mother. Are they really that desperate to let Zhang Zihan take a concubine or a maid?
What's more, now that their son has a successful career and has two children, they have no intention of taking a concubine.
The maid sent by the second house is easy to deal with, just send her away and sell her off, but what this cousin did was too outrageous and too shameful. How could she take off all her clothes and have sex with someone?
You wouldn’t dare do this in the countryside, right?
Zhang's mother now felt that the servants in the mansion were making fun of them, so she made up her mind to drive them away.
But the people from the two families did not restrain themselves. Seeing that they failed to curry favor with Zhang Zihan and were still being driven away, they cried and shouted that the whole family had tightened their belts to support Zhang Zihan's studies, and now that they were rich, they didn't want them anymore. This was ungrateful.
They quarreled and argued with each other, and finally revealed a huge secret.
It turned out that after the two groups separated, the household registration was in the hands of the eldest wife, who settled in Yin County. Mr. Zhang had also contacted Zhang Zihan and the others.
After all, this grandson is a scholar and the family has high hopes for him.
However, those who fled famine were lucky enough to be able to settle down and get a few acres of thin land, and to build two houses to live in with their savings. They had no spare money to look for people, so the most they could do was to ask among the nearby refugees.
However, life was not easy for them when they first settled in Yin County. They were outsiders, so it was normal for them to be bullied.
That day, they had another conflict with the locals over a neighboring issue. The eldest son was beaten black and blue, and Old Man Zhang was so angry that he raised his hoe and shouted, "Just wait! I have a scholar grandson. When he comes, I'll make you suffer."
Everyone was delighted when they heard this. How could a scholar come from a family of these famine refugees? Who would believe it?
Someone teased him: "Old man, you are bragging, aren't you? You say you are the grandson of a scholar, why don't you say you are the grandson of the top scholar?"
When Mr. Zhang saw that people didn't believe him, he snorted coldly and asked his eldest daughter-in-law to go home and show them his grandson's scholar certificate.
This scene happened to be seen by the daughter of a local landlord.
This girl wanted nothing more than to be the wife of an official, but the official looked down on her. As a second-best option, becoming the wife of a scholar wasn't an option either, but there was only one short, thick scholar in the village, and he had been snatched away by her cousin. Now she was searching everywhere for a scholar.
I didn't expect that I would be unable to find it even if I walked through iron shoes, and it would take no effort at all.
When he went home and told his parents about it, they frowned and said, "He's a refugee from famine. Even if he's a scholar, he's still poor."
The girl said: "Don't look down on the young man because he is poor. I want to marry a scholar."
The landlord's family had no choice but to ask someone to propose marriage to their scholar master.
When the Zhang family heard that the landlord's daughter had fallen in love with their scholar and was willing to marry him with a dowry of 20 taels of silver, they thought it was a perfect gift!
But then they were in a dilemma. It was true that they had a scholar in their family, but now this scholar was lost. They couldn't marry someone with a rooster, right?
Besides, they encountered bandits at that time and the situation was chaotic. In order to escape, they even... Is this scholar still alive?
But if I reject this marriage, it will cost me twenty taels! She's a landlord's daughter! Maybe she'll even get a few acres of land as a dowry?
The family discussed it behind closed doors and decided to let the third son of the eldest wife replace Zhang Zihan to get married.
After all, the third brother also attended a private school for two years. Others are illiterate and cannot replace him even if they want to. If you are illiterate and someone asks you to look at a deed or something, wouldn’t you be exposed immediately?
The marriage between the two families went smoothly, and the Zhang family's status in the village rose rapidly. The third son of the Zhang family walked with his head held high and spoke to people in a lot of nonsense.
The landlord's daughter was delighted to hear the third son of the Zhang family talking nonsense. She said to him, "You are such a good student. You should continue to take the imperial examination. Go to the county government office to register. If you can take the Chunwei exam, I will ask my parents to sponsor you with fifty taels of silver to go to Beijing to take the exam."
Fifty taels?
When the Zhang family slept at night, they felt like money was flying all over the sky.
After discussing it, the family decided that for the fifty taels, they had to sign up and go to Beijing to take the exam.
To register at the county government office, one had to transfer his household registration to a scholar, so the Zhang family went to his hometown to transfer Zhang Zihan's household registration. This was why Song Jinxiu couldn't find the household registration when she went to Zhang Zihan's hometown.
The girl from the landlord's family got a scholar fiancé, who was tall and handsome compared to her cousin's short scholar husband. So the girl from the landlord's family showed off in front of her cousin.
My cousin is also a proud person, and she feels unhappy that her husband is outshined by others.
My cousin said, "Marry a man to get clothes and food. Why should a man be so good-looking? He can't eat it, so why don't we let our husbands compete in literary talent?"
The landlord's daughter clapped her hands in agreement, "Let's compare literary talent, great! Mr. Zhang can't speak without using the correct words, so is he afraid of writing poetry?"
However, fake is fake. The third son of the Zhang family only knows a few words, so how could he write poetry?
My cousin's short and thick scholar saw the problem and asked three questions in a row:
"What was the topic of your county exam?"
"What are the questions for your prefectural examination?"
"you College Examination What is the policy paper you wrote?
The three questions directly led to the Zhang family being sent to the county jail. As a result, the entire family was affected, and the county magistrate of Zhang Zihan's hometown was also investigated.
After an investigation, it was discovered that the people who stole the scholar's household registration were not just one family. Because the county magistrate failed to provide disaster relief, he was punished for multiple crimes and his head was removed.
The Zhang family escaped disaster because the Yin County magistrate fell in love with the daughter of the second wife.
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