When the legend of the ginseng immortal appeared in Changzhou, few old people can still remember it. However, Changzhou produces ginseng and is known to women and children in the seven countries.
The family that grows the most ginseng in Changzhou City is the Zhao family south of Wuxi River.
The ancestors of the Zhao family were officials. By this generation, the main family had moved out of the imperial city of Liangzhu and moved to Li'er Changzhou.
Zhao Qingyun is famous in Changzhou, not because he once served as Minister of Household Affairs, nor because His Majesty once gave the Zhao family a surname.
His current fame is all due to his grasp of the seasons. The ginseng he grows is sold out every year as soon as it comes out of the soil. Relying on the ginseng grown, Zhao Qingyun became a famous ginseng in Changzhou City in less than ten years. One of the wealthy businessmen.
Zhao Qingyun had a beloved wife, but unfortunately she contracted an illness and died on the way to Li'er, leaving behind a one-month-old girl whose maiden name was Lan Yin.
Coincidentally, this girl was already being married to someone in her womb.
Zhao Qingyun's father, Zhao Zhenxuan, had been an official in the court for thirty years. The old horse still had its moments of missteps, and he was ostracized by others in the court. After he resigned, his friend Sun Hongde also resigned and returned to his hometown. Zhao and Sun were in the same palace. I have been friends for many years and are old friends in the same county. They agreed to get married. Unexpectedly, they both only gave birth to sons. There was no choice but to let the two young people sworn brothers.
The two brothers also agreed that if they had children in the future, they would get married to a boy and a girl. At that time, they wrote a marriage letter, clearly written in black and white.
Sun Hongde was an honest official. He did not save much gold and silver for many years in the government. He died of illness a few years after resigning. On the way back to his hometown, the Sun family encountered robbers again and robbed all the remaining property. Since then, the Sun family has been in decline. Defeated.
Sun Hongde's wife was lonely and helpless, and he remarried with his son. He suffered a lot in her husband's family, but finally raised the child to adulthood. He was familiar with thousands of poems and books since he was a child. When he was still young, his mother married a daughter for him. She was an extremely upright person. The woman also knew a few words. After she got married, her husband taught her a few years of knowledge, and she was able to write poems.
His wife was pregnant, but Chunbang also let her go.
The two said goodbye with tears in their eyes. His wife watched him return to his hometown with great honors and fine clothes. Unexpectedly, he went to Beijing to take the exam, died on the way, and never came back.
As time went by, the child in his wife's womb had grown into an adult. According to what her husband had said before his death, the child was named Qingchen.
Life at home was difficult. At the age of fifteen, Sun Qingchen sold wine in a tavern to earn some gold and silver to support his family. He was also good at writing poems. He wrote a toast in the tavern and was noticed by people in the university hall. Reading aid.
A man who has never been to school since he was a child can write poems and essays as well as those who have studied hard in school for several years.
The green curtain moved, and Sun Qingchen slowly walked into the school and sat down at the side of the sandalwood table, waiting for the teacher to come. There were seven or eight students sitting sparsely in the hall, all of them from some respectable families in Changzhou. Although most of the children are concubines, they are still from wealthy families. The legitimate sons of the master's family usually do not go out to study. The family will invite their husbands to the mansion to be masters, specifically to teach the legitimate sons. These children who are not the children of the main wife also need to obtain academic honors. , after a few rounds, each found a school outside.
Before the students below finished speaking, they were all surprised to see a boy about the same age as them sitting next to the teacher.
Just as he was about to embarrass him, the gentleman opened the blue curtain and walked in, "Quiet!"
With just one word, the child below stopped talking.
The teacher looked at Sun Qingchen, who was sitting cross-legged next to him, and glanced out the window seemingly unintentionally, and said, "Since the student assistant is new here, it is a coincidence that there are new apricots blooming outside today. Why not write a few words to open the students' eyes?" ?”
The minister didn't say much, and wrote on the paper, "After the rain, the apricot blossoms faded away in red, and the pearls were smoky. The flowing water carried the fragrance and the people gradually drifted away, and it was difficult to keep the spring heart silent. I hate to say goodbye to the king and grandson, and I will die at dusk when I climb the tower. , Who picked the green plums? Where is peace now? The green poplars are still in the south."
After reading it, the teacher read it out loud. He didn't say anything bad, but he didn't nod. The students in this school are all experienced. If the teacher thinks it's good, he will naturally blurt it out. If he thinks it's not good, he will directly call them "idiot". "But this time, the gentleman said nothing.
The students below listened and whispered among themselves in twos and threes. It turned out that the new student assistant was indeed quite capable.
Suddenly I heard someone say from below, "The words are good words, but... they are too weak. They seem to come from a woman's mouth, without any heroic spirit, and are completely feminine! Hahahahahaha..."
A few people didn't see this, but they also burst into laughter.
The gentleman hissed, frowned and said, "Why don't you also use this apricot blossom as the theme to compose a song?"
Those who were laughing so hard immediately closed their mouths and lowered their eyebrows.
The gentleman looked at the man who just spoke.
He is the youngest son of the Zhao family.
There are two girls and one boy in the Zhao family. One girl is the flesh and blood of the late wife, named Lan Yin. Later, Zhao Qingyun married another wife. Her wife was the legitimate daughter of a well-known family in Lier, the Xu family.
Mrs. Xu married into the Zhao family and soon gave birth to a daughter named Lan Ruo.
Unexpectedly, her vitality was damaged during childbirth, and the doctor said that it would be difficult to have children in the future. Zhao Qingyun was worried about the incense, and soon took in his concubine, Yan, who was as beautiful as a flower. She was a singing girl in Qin Tower. When entering a house, one is not given a title, and it is not a shameful thing if one is not included in the family tree.
This woman lived up to her expectations and soon gave birth to an heir to the Zhao family and gave birth to a lively boy.
The fight between the two ladies over the years is a thing of the past.
As for the girl who had not been protected by her mother since she was a child, she could be called the legitimate daughter of the Zhao family.
The food and clothing are not as good as those of her younger siblings. The furnishings in the boudoir are plain and tidy, just like a man's study. The clothes she wears on weekdays are old clothes without patterns. The cardamom girl is in love with beauty, but she spends all day I was bored in my room, reading and writing.
On this day, Zhao Lanruo came back from Prince Bolu Jingsi's Mansion and said with a smile, "Miss Baili invited me over to a banquet and asked about my sister?"
"Yeah." She responded softly.
Lan Ruo didn't come to her often, and she was the one who didn't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything. Today, she came up with some torture ideas. Lan Yin sighed alone, and she used the same tricks every time. She doesn't find it boring either.
"You don't even want to ask me what Miss Baili said about you?"
"I don't want to." Indifference is the only way to solve difficulties, and this is the case in this family.
She hummed, "I still want to tell you."
"what ever."
Zhao Lanruo was so angry that he snatched the book from her hand and threw it on the ground, "You don't care about merit, so what are you doing reading these words every day? No wonder Fu E said you are Bingjian, but you are just cold!"
Zhao Lanyin has her own plans. Now the sixth school in Liangzhu Middle School has opened a female school. She heard that the imperial court may establish a female official system. If His Majesty agrees, this female official system will be a great opportunity for her and she can always get out of here.
When it comes time to get married in two years, her father will have to listen to the rumors and promise her to any of his old friends. As long as she is someone prominent in the family, even if it is to extend the marriage to someone else, his father will probably nod.
Thinking of this, Zhao Lan had a headache. Her strength was still weak. It was a fantasy to use this strength to fight against her father. If she wanted to control the way forward, she would have to spend more effort to pave the way for herself. Unlike This little girl, without using her brain, her mother has already planned everything for her. She is only one year old, but she has to learn to live harder.
Sometimes, Zhao Lanyin really wanted to let her mother fall asleep and tell her why she had to give birth to her and make her a child of the Zhao family.
(End of chapter)