ebookland Chapter 152 She is like the sun
Chapter 152 She is like the sun
Su Zhen said: "Chun Yue, prepare some fragrant water for me, I want to have a good bath."
Take a shower, have a good sleep, and wake up tomorrow to a new day.
"Chunjiang, go tell the housekeeper that I'm going to Baixianzhuang in the countryside early tomorrow morning. I heard that there's been some progress on the new loom."
"Here——"
The two girls were a little at a loss.
The two of them walked out of the hospital.
Chunyue said: "Chunjiang, do you think Mr. Mo told the princess the truth?"
"Master Mo must be saying that he had no choice."
"He has already married someone else. As a princess, how can I be his concubine?"
"The Su family's legitimate young master will not take a concubine."
"Does that mean he wants the princess to be his equal wife?"
"There is no difference between a concubine and a concubine!"
The two discussed it for a while.
Xia Yang stood quietly by the side. She was in a bad mood. She recognized all the words in the letter, but the meaning of the words confused her.
Su Mo was honest and open. He did not hide anything and wrote down everything that happened truthfully, even the fact that he did not want to enter the room but was forced into the bridal chamber by the guards at Yao's order. He drank alone but thought Yao Yun was her after drinking.
He wrote about his resistance, saying that he wanted to divorce Yao Yun, but he also included what Yao said.
He wants to fight against Yao and fight for his marriage and happiness...
Xia Yang said: "No matter when, I will accompany the princess."
Su Zhen took the letter and said, "I don't understand what he means. He said he is a scumbag, but he is sincere and frank..."
Xia Yang took the letter. He wanted to read it, but he didn't open it in the end. Now that he had the chance, he would see what that bastard said.
Seeing this, Xia Yang was furious. The princess couldn't understand what was going on, but he was a man.
"Xia Yang, what does he mean?"
"In a word: he will marry the princess, and let the princess trust him and wait for him." Xia Yang replied.
But he didn't say in the whole letter that he would definitely marry her. He just said that his heart belonged to the princess and he was in love with her, but that was what he meant.
"anything else?"
"Princess, trust him and wait for him. He does everything for your future together and for your lifelong happiness. If he was forced to have a son with Xiao Yao, it was to be with you; if he was forced to love Xiao Yao without any doubt, it was to obey his mother's order..."
Su Zhen also read the letter, and it clearly did not contain such an idea.
Seeing her expression change slightly, Xia Yang decided to quit while he was ahead. "In the fifth year of Dezhi, Jiang Liang, the third place winner of the imperial examination, went to Beijing to take the exam. In the peach forest behind the Huguo Temple, he met Ding Furong, the legitimate stepdaughter of Lord Ding, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel. The two fell in love at first sight.
Jiang Liang had a fiancée in his hometown, who was the daughter of his mentor. This mentor was the governor of Qingzhou. Jiang Liang's Jiang family was an ordinary scholarly family in Qingzhou, but Jiang Liang could read at the age of three, write poems at the age of five, and write articles beyond his age at the age of eight. When he was nine years old, the governor Qin Yuanlin heard of his name as a child prodigy and asked his father to bring him to the banquet before the welcoming banquet.
After examining the situation, he was shocked to find that Jiang Liang was a god of literature, so he made an exception and accepted the ten-year-old Jiang Liang as his student, and betrothed his beloved daughter Qin Guixiang to him.
As a son-in-law, Qin Yuanlin devoted himself to teaching and guiding him in academic matters.
Jiang Liang won the third place in the imperial examination and returned home in glory. Before leaving Beijing, he told Ding Furong that he would not marry anyone but her. However, he returned home to get married and to take his wife with him to take up his post.
He couldn't afford to be branded as ungrateful, yet he also wanted to use the Ding family's connections to get a good official position.
Although he had already married Qin, he often corresponded with Ding Furong. In the end, Ding Furong refused to marry anyone else and cried and forced Minister Ding to find an official position and job for her. In the end, Ding Furong was still unable to get married until she was in her twenties.
Jiang Liang had been in office for several years, and he had a lovely wife and beautiful concubines. He was very happy surrounded by his wives and concubines, and he had five children, both legitimate and illegitimate..."
Su Zhen forgot about his own affairs, "What happened next?"
"Ding Furong will not marry anyone but you. Minister Ding has managed to transfer Jiang Liang back to the capital. Qin is the legal wife, so she naturally does not agree to make Ding Furong a co-wife, and is only willing to take her as a concubine.
Ding Furong was deeply in love and asked to marry you as his concubine.
Minister Ding and his wife had been beaten and scolded, but nothing could change their situation. In a rage, Minister Ding submitted a memorial to the emperor, using his connections in official circles to help his eldest son get promoted twice before retiring to his hometown.
The eldest son was born to Minister Ding’s first wife, and Ding Furong was born to his second wife.
Ding Furong married Jiang Liang, who lived a prosperous and respectable life. However, the good times did not last long. He found out that there were many sixth-rank civil servants in the capital, and he wanted to get promoted, so he asked Ding Furong to ask Lord Ding for help.
Although Lord Xiao Ding is the eldest son, the two of them are not born from the same mother, and Lord Xiao Ding has long been tired of his sister. Earlier, he asked his wife to say a few perfunctory words to her, but after a long time, he was even more unwilling to pay attention to her.
Jiang Liang could not get promoted, so he took out his anger on Ding Furong. The difficulties caused by his wife and the schemes of the other concubines made him look as old as a woman in her thirties only three years after marriage. He had two miscarriages in three years, and finally managed to keep the third baby. During the birth, she had heavy bleeding, and a daughter was born, and Ding Furong died.
Su Zhen thought for a while, "Is there a reason why Ding Furong had a difficult delivery?"
"She was plotted against by her wives and concubines. When she was giving birth, she should have been drinking labor-inducing soup, but she was given three bowls of pregnancy-preserving medicine. Do you think it is possible for her to give birth to a girl smoothly?"
Su Zhen was terrified.
"Qin is not a good person. Ding Furong's family background and status are higher than hers. With such a noble concubine, she may be changed from wife to concubine at any time. How can we keep her?"
Jiang Liang was a real person, but he was not among the important officials in the capital.
"It has been more than ten years. After Jiang Liang's father-in-law passed away and Minister Ding retired to his hometown, he is still a sixth-rank civil servant. He has no foundation, no connections, and he has not been able to control the Ding family. It is extremely difficult for him to get promoted."
Jiang Liang came from an ordinary scholarly family.
The imperial examination system of the Great Qi Dynasty was not perfect. There had never been any imperial examination in the previous dynasty, and it was almost entirely based on recommendations. Even this imperial examination system was a method devised by the emperors Taizu and Gaozu who ordered their ministers to consult ancient books.
Because there were conventions and experience in recommending people to enter officialdom, even if there were imperial examinations to select talents, 30% of the recommendations were still retained.
The common people are not very enthusiastic about poor students taking the imperial examinations. Without connections, even if they enter the government, they will be blamed by the elders of the aristocratic families. Rather than this, it is better not to enter the government.
Su Zhen moved his steps, "Xia Yang, are you trying to tell me that Su Mo and Jiang Liang are no different? Su Mo knows my true identity?"
"I don't know."
Su Zhen's identity is a secret, and only a small number of people in the Surveillance Guard know it.
"Since he doesn't know, what does he want?"
"If he is sincere and wants to marry the princess as his equal wife, will you agree?"
"Love is one thing, marriage is another. What I want is 'to have the heart of one person, and to be together till old age'. I will never share a husband with anyone, and I will never marry a fickle person. If by then, if he doesn't love me, then turn around, and we will never see each other again!"
This was the princess he knew, as proud as ever.