The Qiao family is a large family in Yizhou with a prosperous population.
The ancestors of the Qiao family had meritorious services from the dragon, and they have been continuously rewarded for hundreds of years.
Qiao Zhiyuan, the great ancestor of Qiao's father Qiao Jingkun, was awarded the title of Grand Master of the Crown Prince. Later, he helped the young Prince to ascend the throne. He worked hard for several years and was loyal. The Prince appreciated his contribution and sent money, money, farm products and water to the Qiao family.
There are also many disciples who support me.
Qiao Zhiyuan's eldest son, Qiao Fangdong, was Qiao Jingkun's great-grandfather. Thanks to his father's painstaking upbringing, he was promoted to the Ministry of Personnel, the head of the six departments, and served as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.
Qiao Zhiyuan and Qiao Fangdong's other sons also had official positions. The Qiao family was once in a good position.
Unfortunately, neither of these two people live long.
When a person is in his prime, when it is time to show off his talents and lead his family to make great strides forward, they all fall seriously ill and die.
Qiao Jingkun's grandfather, Qiao Xiangyou, had little talent since he was a child and failed in many tests. However, because he was the eldest son of Qiao Fangdong, he was firmly in charge of the Qiao family.
Qiao Jingkun's father, Qiao Xingcun, inherited the talent of his ancestor Jiaoren. He was called Yizhou prodigy since he was a child.
At the age of ten, he was selected as a scholar, then he was selected as a scholar, and then he was selected as a Jinshi. His performance in the palace examination was even more extraordinary. Because he was under twenty, the former emperor ranked him second and was awarded the second place.
Qiao's parents' room regains its glory.
Before Qiao Xingcun was fighting against the emperor, he was spotted by the sister of Concubine Liu Zhuang, the late emperor's favorite concubine at that time, and begged to join the harem.
The late emperor wanted to marry the two of them and they would become a beautiful couple. However, Qiao Xing had already made an engagement in Yizhou and was waiting for them to return home after completing the imperial examination.
Thinking of the Qiao family's hard work, the late emperor did not force him. Instead, he gave a pair of gold and jade Ruyi as a congratulatory gift.
Qiao Xingcun's unmarried wife is Lan Qiying, the eldest granddaughter of the head of the Lan family in Yizhou, a scholarly family.
Lan's Qiying was known as a talented woman in Yizhou. She was a red needlework girl and was good at playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Since she was ten years old, there has been an endless stream of people seeking marriage, which has almost flattened the threshold of the Lan family.
In the end, Lan's grandfather chose Qiao Xingcun, the eldest son of the Qiao family, who was also from a wealthy Yizhou family.
The Lan family married into the Qiao family, served their aunt at the top, and served their beloved husband at the bottom. She also made good friends with her sisters-in-law and was friendly to her neighbors. She had a very good reputation in Yizhou.
As the next clan wife, she is praised by everyone in the clan.
Unfortunately, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not good.
Lan's mother-in-law, Fang, came from the Fang family, a wealthy family in a neighboring county in Yizhou. Because Lan's father-in-law, Qiao Xiangyou, failed to succeed in many trials and was unwilling to be favored, when it came time to get married, he became a married woman.
Although the Qiao family is one of the largest families in Yizhou, Qiao Xiangyou has some troubles. Therefore, when it comes to his marriage, he is neither good nor bad.
After many years of searching for the Fang family, the head of the Fang family thought for a while and only married off the youngest legitimate daughter of the Fang family.
Because she is the youngest among her brothers and sisters, Fang has been very pampered since she was a child. She is also ignorant of accidents and does not know how to make good friends with the Qiao family clan branches. Because she is the legitimate daughter of her original wife, she is rich and pampered, and she looks down on the side branches.
Zhi is old and unfriendly to the Qiao family's in-laws, and feels that their visit is just a sign of the autumn wind.
Qiao Xiangyou gradually became alienated from Fang because he had lost face several times, and his relationship with Fang was not very good.
After Lan married in, her husband Qiao Xingxun was young and promising, and was awarded the second place in the imperial examination before the age of twenty. This wiped out the shame of the eldest son Qiao Xiangyou, so Qiao Xiangyou still took a fancy to his eldest son and his wife.
The eldest daughter-in-law, Lan, came in.
Therefore, Qiao Xiangyou left most of the family affairs to the Lan family.
And because Lan's family was harmonious in life, her family's in-laws always had better friendships than her.
Seeing that she couldn't handle it, Mrs. Fang sent Xiao Fang, her natal niece who had been raised in the Qiao family since she was a child, on her son's bed.
First, she was treated as a noble concubine, and later, when she gave birth to the eldest son of a concubine, she was promoted to the second wife as a concubine.
Because of the support of the Fang family, the little Fang family was very proud of the Qiao family, and gradually became as good as the Lan family.
After Qiao Xingcun was appointed an official in Beijing, Fang ordered Lan to stay in Yizhou with his eldest son Qiao Jingkun on the grounds that his eldest son's wife had to stay in the old house to serve his aunt.
The young couple live apart.
Naturally, Xiao Fang took her eldest son with her. Before leaving, Lan promoted Xia, the eldest girl next to her, as her aunt and ordered her to accompany her husband to the capital.
While Qiao Xingcun was serving in Beijing, he never forgot his wife's eldest son and wrote frequently to inquire about him.
However, the separation lasted for a long time, and the love between the young couple gradually faded.
In addition to Xiao Fang and his aunt Xia, who had brought him to Beijing from his hometown, Qiao Xing had two other aunts in Beijing.
The Lan family was well-educated and neither jealous nor jealous. She personally prepared two generous gifts and ordered them to be sent to Kyoto.
Her husband's new love is in Beijing and the family is happy, and Lan can only stay at home to serve her parents-in-law and educate her son.
His eldest son, Qiao Jingkun, thought of his mother's hard work and studied hard since he was a child. He also followed his father's example since he was a child. He was very savvy in reading at a young age and was admitted to the scholar examination only one year later than his father.
For a time, the Lan family was even sung by the clan and the big families in Yizhou. It was said that she was a rare virtuous person, managed the family, supported her parents-in-law, and raised her children, and was a model of a good woman. It became a good story in Yizhou for a while.
The year after Qiao Jingkun passed the scholar examination, Concubine Liu Zhuang's natal sister became a widow.
Because she had been married into her husband's family for several years and had not given birth to a son or a daughter, the Liu family took her back to their own family.
Mrs. Liu was young and widowed. She remembered that when she was still unmarried, she saw a young man passing by on the royal street. He was handsome and well-mannered.
Now that she is young and widowed, and in the prime of her youth, how can she bear to sigh.
After returning home and meeting each other on the street, I thought about En En again day and night, tossing and turning and unable to sleep.
Then ask for a harem.
The late emperor couldn't help it, Concubine Liu Zhuang's nose burst into tears, and her face was haggard. He also thought that she was a widow at a young age and had no one to depend on for the rest of her life. If she hadn't been ranked second in the list, she might have been married and loved by her children now.
It's not like the flowers are about to wither at such an early age.
Therefore, he made a decree for him to remarry the Qiao family, and together with the Lan family, no matter how big or small, they would become wives on the left and the right. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly votes. You
