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Chapter 169 Past Events
Zhang Da didn't dare to delay and quickly ran from the front yard to the back yard. There was a door between the front and back yards, and he knocked on the door, "Someone come! Someone come!"
Mrs. Li, who was on night watch, came out and asked through the door, "What's wrong, Zhang Da?"
"A woman came to the door and said that the master had kidnapped her sister. She begged Madam to rescue her quickly!"
"what?"
Mrs. Li quickly opened the door and asked, "Really?"
"Really? Why don't you go out and see for yourself? The Master and the Madam have a very good relationship, and everyone in Chang'an is praising them. Is this man a liar?"
Mrs. Li didn't dare to make a decision. Zhang Da didn't know what the lady's temper was like, but she knew it in the backyard. The lady was coquettish and jealous. The master was young and energetic, and he was also good-looking. The lady didn't allow him to take concubines or find women. Maybe he was so frustrated that he really looked for one outside.
"I'll go inform the lady. You wait here."
"Okay, go quickly."
Mrs. Li went to the second courtyard at the back, knocked on the door, and told the maid Honghua who was on night watch what had happened. After hearing what had happened, Honghua quickly woke up Mrs. Qiao and told her what had happened with some trepidation.
Mrs. Qiao immediately became furious. She was woken up from her sleep and was already a little grumpy. When she heard that Zhang Yinhang had a woman outside, she immediately became furious.
"Impossible! The master has always been well-behaved and has never done anything beyond his rights. How could the master rob a poor girl? What a joke!"
Honghua waited on Mrs. Qiao, got off the bed, put on her clothes, and said carefully, "Madam, that person is yelling outside and ruining the reputation of the mansion. Why don't you call her in and ask her about it, and give her a few slaps to teach her a lesson!"
Mrs. Qiao nodded. "We should ask. It's the middle of the night and she's disturbing our peace! Bring her in!"
"Yes."
The order was passed down, and a moment later, Fan Zhen was brought in by Li Pozi. Li Pozi pressed Fan Zhen's shoulder and said, "Kneel down!"
Fan Zhen certainly didn't want to kneel, but in order to act more realistically, she fell to her knees and cried bitterly, "Madam, please save my sister! My sister was taken away by Lord Zhang!"
Seeing her dirty appearance, Mrs. Qiao covered her mouth with a handkerchief out of disgust.
Hongye was Qiao's personal maid, so of course she had to stand up for her master. She walked forward, stretched out her hand and slapped Fan Zhen hard in the face.
Fan Zhen's eyes narrowed slightly, and a strong murderous aura was about to overflow. She wanted to fight back, but she couldn't. The adults had said that Qiao must be led to Zhang Yinhang's outer house.
So she lowered her head, took the hard blow, and fell to the ground under Hongye's slap.
"Madam, I'm not kidding. Master Zhang said my sister looks like someone, like Mei or something..."
Qiao shuddered and sat up straight, "Who does it look like?"
"Something like a woman named Mei. I didn't hear it clearly. Madam, my sister was really snatched away by Lord Zhang. I didn't lie to you. Please save her quickly!"
The word "plum" cannot be mentioned in the Zhang family. Plum blossoms cannot be planted at home, plum blossoms cannot be used in paintings or embroidery, plum vases cannot be included in decorations, and even the names of maids and servants cannot contain the word "plum", not even homophones are allowed.
Plum is a taboo in the Zhang family. The reason for all this is that Zhang Yinhang’s ex-fiancée’s surname is Mei, and her name is Mei Lingyue.
At the beginning, the Zhang family of Longyou Road and Qiao Shangshan, the father of the Qiao family, who was the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Rites at the time, secretly united and agreed on a strategy to encircle and suppress the Mei family.
This strategy was ostensibly aimed at dealing with Mei Longgang, but in reality it was aimed at the Crown Prince.
Mei Longgang is the Prince's tutor, a person the Prince values very much. His previous position was the Chief Academician of the Imperial College, where he has many disciples. If he is brought down, it will not only hit the Prince, but also many officials of the Prince's faction. If they take the opportunity to bring them down, they can replace them with their own people, and their power will grow.
Therefore, to destroy Mei Longgang, they had to start with the area he was best at, which was cheating in the imperial examinations.
Isn't he said to be incorruptible and selfless? If word spread that he cheated in the imperial examinations and sold exam questions, how would the people view him? His reputation would be ruined! His students would also be considered fraudulent!
But how could the imperial examination papers be placed in the Mei family and not be found by the emperor's men?
The only way is to make them members of the Mei family, gain their trust, allow them to enter and exit the Mei family at will, and put the test questions in Mei Longgang's study.
Therefore, the Zhang and Qiao families turned their attention to Mei Lingyue. She had just grown up and it was time for her to find a husband. Wouldn't it be enough to become her fiancé?
The Zhang family and the Qiao family formed an alliance. When officials formed an alliance, they naturally used marriage. Before implementing the plan, Zhang Yinhang first got engaged to Qiao Benwei, and the two families exchanged tokens, so that the alliance would be more solid.
But they kept quiet and began to implement their plan.
The first step is to find an opportunity for Zhang Yinhang and Mei Lingyue to meet at Ci'en Temple in Chang'an, and at the same time grind off the axle of Mei Lingyue's donkey cart. At this time, Zhang Yinhang appears and acts as a hero to save the beauty, winning Mei Lingyue's favor.
Young and naive girls can easily develop a liking for handsome young men who are willing to help them.
Later, Mei Lingyue recalled this encounter many times. In the drizzling rain, her car broke down and she was stranded on the roadside and couldn't go home. A young man in sky-blue clothes came from a distance holding an oil-paper umbrella and lent her his car.
He was tall, with a fair and handsome face, a low and gentle voice, and his hand holding the umbrella handle was slender and strong, so different from hers.
Mei Lingyue's face turned red, like the persimmons hanging on the tree in autumn, and the girl's feelings were born from this.
Later, they met several times again, and the two families gradually became familiar with each other. A year later, they got engaged as a matter of course.
Mei Lingyue always thought that she and Zhang Yinhang were destined to be together, but it was not until her death that she realized that all destiny was man-made.
In the second step, the Qiao and Zhang families, together with the people behind them, nominated Mei Longgang as the chief examiner of the imperial examination.
The third step was that after the imperial examination papers were compiled, the person behind the scenes took out a copy and asked Zhang Yinhang to put it in Mei Longgang’s study.
In the fourth step, Zhang Yinhang sacrificed his own family for the sake of justice and exposed Mei Longgang's cheating in the imperial examination. Because he was Mei Longgang's son-in-law, his words were particularly convincing, and Mei Longgang was indeed thrown into prison.
In the fifth step, the Qiao family, the Zhang family and the people behind them attacked together like hungry wolves, and in one fell swoop, they pulled down Mei Longgang and his disciples. Even the prince was reprimanded by the emperor.
The plan was a success.
The Zhang and Qiao families were very patient. Three years passed from the first meeting between Zhang Yinhang and Mei Lingyue until Mei Longgang was beheaded.
This huge net took three years to weave and finally fell down, and Mei Lingyue was just the fuse at the beginning.
But because it lasted too long, the aftereffects were also very serious.
Zhang Yinhang and Mei Lingyue had physical contact, and Mei Lingyue became pregnant. Zhang Yinhang was so immersed in the role that it seemed as if he really had feelings for Mei Lingyue.
This was something Qiao Benwei could not tolerate. Zhang Yinhang was clearly her fiancé, and they clearly knew each other and got engaged first, but she was like a rat in a gutter, unable to make it public. She could only watch Zhang Yinhang and Mei Lingyue act as a loving couple every day. She was very sad.
First he felt sad, then resentful, and then he hated Mei Lingyue alone. He wished she would die immediately, the more miserable the death, the better.
But she never showed it at all. She happily got engaged to Zhang Yinhang and happily married him. In the nine years since then, they had a pair of children.
Zhang Yinhang was also good to Qiao. In order to appease her resentment, he first lured Mei Lingyue to commit suicide, and then dealt with her family, allowing Qiao to avenge her great hatred and feel much better.
After getting married, Zhang Yinhang never took concubines or other women, not even a roommate, and only stayed with Qiao.
Qiao's father, Qiao Shangshan, was promoted. The original Minister of Rites was the prince's man and was dismissed by the emperor. Qiao Shangshan took his place. Zhang Yinhang was also promoted several levels because he put justice above his own family and finally became the Minister of the Secretariat.
Everything was perfect and they all rose to prominence.
But the calmer they looked on the surface, the more turbulent their hearts were. Although this huge encirclement and suppression was over, it left a deep mark in the hearts of Zhang Yinhang and Qiao Benwei.
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