Since the canal thawed, ships from the south came to Tongzhou Port through the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. The canal has resumed the grand occasion of ship travel. The ancestor said to Wei Zi: “Xia Jiao family, now Xia Jiao is the shopkeeper of Baoqing Store in Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou. You live there all year round. You have to send the shop’s staff to the dock every day to guard the official ships from Suzhou. We have relatives from Suzhou and Wang Ge Lao of Suzhou. We come to Beijing to attend Dehua’s wedding.”
Wei Zi quickly wrote a letter, and the person who wanted to be properly delivered to Xia Shou in Tongzhou. Xia Shou had already started to revitalize the Baoqing store under the guidance of Cao Ding and his wife. He was so busy that he could not touch the ground every day. He received his wife’s letter and did not dare to neglect it. He sent two friends to the canal wharf to guard day and night. As long as it was an official boat from Suzhou, he would go over to see if it was the family of Wang Ge Lao of Suzhou.
Dear readers, maybe you wonder, the Zhang family is a relative, most of the relatives are relatives, princesses or nobles, why do they have high-ranking officials like the cabinet masters of the cabinet?
This is to tell the Zhang family’s invincible luck in getting married!
Back then, before the Zhang family had a crown princess Zhang, it was just a scholarly family in Cangzhou and a prominent family in the local area. At that time, my ancestor had a younger sister-in-law, Miss Zhang, who is now the relative aunt of the marquis of the east and west palaces.
When my ancestors got married, Miss Zhang was still a little girl. My ancestors spoiled Miss Zhang as their daughter. Later, my ancestors also gave birth to a daughter – the current Queen Mother Zhang.
Although Miss Zhang and Empress Dowager Zhang are aunts and nieces in terms of age, they are not much different, and their aunts and nephews are very close.
When Miss Zhang grew up, she naturally wanted to get married. The Zhang family took a fancy to a Jinshi. Although she was a Jinshi when she married, she was a Jinshi!
This Jinshi is Wang Yang, from Suzhou, a prodigy, the first place in Jie Yuan in the provincial examination, or Hui Yuan in the imperial examination, and the third place in the first class after the palace examination! This Tanhualang was a bachelor’s lecturer in the Hanlin Academy at that time.
Wang Jiao had no children and had only one daughter with his dead original wife Wu. For the sake of his offspring, he naturally wanted to marry a young second wife and have a son. He felt that the Zhang family had a scholarly family and was of equal status. At that time, the Zhang family spent a Jinshi, named Zhang Qi, who was the uncle of the marquis of the two palaces. He became the chief censor and was in the third rank. It was the honor of the Zhang family’s generation.
Zhang Qi was a regular graduate of the imperial examination, had a smooth career and good character. Wang Yang thought that since Miss Zhang was Zhang Qi’s cousin, he should be good, so he agreed to the marriage and married Miss Zhang as a house.
Later, Wang Yang had a successful career and was promoted to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel. He also gave birth to two children with Miss Zhang, the eldest son Wang Yanzhe and the second queen Yanlin.
But Wang Yang never expected that his wife, Miss Zhang, would be elected as the crown princess, and in the same year, he was also named the Queen of the Ming Dynasty!
Since Zhang’s family flew outThe Queen, the Golden Phoenix, changed from a scholarly family in Cangzhou to the most prominent relative of the capital, and changed her family!
In this way, the Wang Family and the Zhang Family, who have been in the past for generations in Suzhou, Jiangnan, and the Zhang Family, the first relative of the Ming Dynasty, are no longer in a good match, but the situation is gone, and the two families have already married and have given birth to a pair of children, so it is impossible to repent.
Wang Yang was also an official in his studies and became an official, and he rose to prominence. He served as the Minister of Revenue, and also joined the cabinet and became the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion. Since then, people have called him Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang was a decent and noble person. He looked down on the actions of the two ignorant marquis of the Zhang family, the Zhang family, so he never went to the Zhang family to eat the meal or interacted with the Zhang family. He could not invite his uncle Mr. Wang to any banquet at the Zhang family.
But Mrs. Wang Ge, Miss Zhang, had a good relationship with Queen Zhang’s aunt and nephew. She often brought her children to and from the palace to talk to Queen Zhang. At that time, the ancestors also lived in the palace. Therefore, Wang Yanzhe and Wang Yanlin grew up by the ancestors, and they were very precious to the nephews.
So, the couple had their own things, and Miss Zhang took her children to and from the palace or went back to her parents’ Zhang family for a walk; Mr. Wang thought the Zhang family was a stranger.
Later, Miss Zhang died of illness. Later, Mr. Wang could not bear the misconduct of eunuch Liu Jin. The two had disagreements in politics and had the same power. Mr. Wang simply resigned and took his children back to his hometown in Suzhou!
After Mr. Wang returned to Suzhou, he soon married Li, a family member, and lived a leisurely life of making friends through literature.
The ancestor was very worried about whether this stepmother Li was good to Wang Yanzhe and Wang Yanlin, and he was very fond of this nephew who had gone far away in Suzhou, so he used the excuse to invite the Wang family to attend the wedding of Miss Zhang Dehua. Before the Chinese New Year, he sent someone to Suzhou to send invitations and must take the brother and sister to the capital – because Mr. Wang would definitely not come, so he could only ask a pair of children to attend on his behalf.
Wait, and on February 14th, on a day when “the grass grows and the beards fly in February, and the willows are drunk with spring smoke”, only three days before Zhang Dehua’s wedding, a fast horse galloped to the East Mansion.
The newly appointed mistress Xia, the ancestor of Songhetang, personally went to the ancestor of the Yiyuan Palace to announce the good news. “The official boat of the cousin and his cousin arrived in Tongzhou in the middle of the night last night. It is estimated that we will come to our house as soon as the afternoon!”
In fact, Wang Yanzhe, the brothers and sisters of Wang Yanlin are a few years younger than Xia, but their seniority is higher. Xia wants to call them cousin and cousin.
The ancestor was extremely ecstatic. Mr. Wang was willing to let his children come to the capital to attend Zhang Dehua’s wedding, which gave her and Empress Dowager Zhang the face.
The Wang brother and sister represent the Wang family, the elder of Suzhou Pavilion. With such a distinguished guest, the Zhang family of the foreign relatives is more respectful, and the grand wedding adds even more glory!
But some people are happy and some are sad.
Ziyunxuan, Ruyi couldn’t believe her ears, “Madam, say it again, Miss Wang wants to live there”
“Cheng’en Pavilion.” Madam Wang said, “Old ancestors said that Miss Wang likes to live in a place with a wide and pure vision. This place must be Cheng’en Pavilion. To entertain guests, of course, the host will follow the guests and arrange for Miss Wang to live in Cheng’en Pavilion. The tables, chairs, benches, bedding, curtains and tents in the main courtyard of Cheng’en Pavilion should be complete, just send a few maids and mothers to serve.”
Ruyi said, “Then I will move to the Ziyunxuan room to live in, so as not to disturb Miss Wang’s purity.”