Chapter 16: The Concubine
Jiang Yu wants to talk about his own father Jiang Kun, when he was young, he was handsome and chic, and he also had a bit of talent, he could recite chapters and play the piano with his hands, otherwise he would not have attracted so many women to admire him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
He was able to come from a Hanshi background and get into today's Shangshu in one fell swoop, so he naturally has a bit of scheming in the city.
However, in Jiang Yu's opinion, her father is really not a thing.
When he was young, he married his beautiful cousin Lin Shi, who was a childhood sweetheart, and relied on Lin to do embroidery and sell money to support his family and make him a bundle, so that he could be admitted to the exam.
As a result, after being lifted in the exam, he hooked up with a girl from a local squire surnamed Li, and the two secretly communicated with each other and taught each other privately!
In his heart, he secretly planned to marry the squire girl back home, and make a two-headed equal wife, regardless of size, and enjoy the blessings of all people.
But it's a pity that although Lin is not from an obvious background, she is a fierce woman. After learning about the adultery between her husband and the squire girl, she was furious, and took the young girl to resolutely reconcile with her husband, and left a copy of the letter of decision, vowing not to get along with her ex-husband to death!
After Jiang Kun and Lin reconciled, he naturally married a girl from the squire's family and became the squire's son-in-law. With the sponsorship and support of the squire's family and dotting around, a few years later, I went to Beijing to catch the exam, and successfully passed the Jinshi, and the ranking of the exam was not bad.
As mentioned earlier, although Jiang Kun is a bastard, he is still quite handsome.
At the Qionglin banquet after the palace test, Jiang Kun was favored by the youngest daughter of the then Taifu, Zhu, and hooked up with Zhu back and forth.
Jiang Kun lied that he did not marry a wife and was recruited by the Zhu family as a quick son-in-law, and at the same time sent someone back to his hometown to appease the Li family, and took the opportunity to poison the Li family without knowing it.
However, to Jiang Kun's pity, things did not go in the direction he predetermined, and before Li Shi was poisoned by the people he sent, Li Shi first heard the news that he was marrying another Gaomen woman in the capital.
Li Shi still has a lot of fighting spirit, and on the other hand, he immediately packed his bags, took his subordinates to Beijing, and ran to Zhu's house to ask Jiang Kun for an explanation.
Although Jiang Kun's new wife Zhu hated Jiang Kun's concealment, this husband was favored by Zhu himself, and Jiang Kun was quite good at rhetoric, and within two days, he coaxed Zhu to the point that he didn't know the north and the south, but he didn't blame her husband at all, but blamed Li Shi at all.
So he also had the same thoughts as Jiang Kun, and wanted to quietly solve the Li family, so that no one would know that Jiang Kun had married a wife.
An old servant who followed Li Shi to Beijing was a little clever, and when he saw that this situation was not right, his own young lady's life was only afraid of danger, so he ran to Shuntian Mansion with Li Shi to beat the drum and voice his grievances, and sued Jiang Kun to stop his wife and marry another, deliberately making things bigger.
A new science and technology scholar, just after he had a fame, he abandoned his wife and married another high-ranking man, this reputation is really not very good. In particular, some people are very unpleasant to see him as the Zhu family's fast son-in-law, and they can't wait to see his jokes.
There are also political enemies in the court of the Zhu family, and they even took the opportunity to participate in the Zhu family's book to take away people's husbands, and they also wanted to kill people.
This matter became bigger and bigger, and even the Zhu family couldn't control it, and it went all the way to the first emperor at that time.
The first emperor ordered someone to investigate thoroughly, this is not the first time that Jiang Kun has stopped marrying another wife, and in the end, the identities of Li and Lin Yu also came out.
The first emperor really wanted to dispose of Jiang Kun and reformed Jiang Kun's reputation.
But it's a pity that the first emperor had just ascended the throne at that time, and the Cui family of the later clan held military power and controlled the court.
And what is the relationship between the Cui family and the Zhu family, the two parents' family, the then Queen Cui and the current Empress Dowager Cui, are the cousins of the Zhu family.
Empress Dowager Cui, the Cui family and the Zhu family came forward together to protect Jiang Kun.
Jiang Kun also protected Li Shi to withdraw the complaint, changed his confession, and declared to the public that he and Jiang Kun were not married, and the two only verbally promised a marriage contract.
As mentioned earlier, Jiang Kun is quite capable of rhetoric and clever words, and secretly saw both sides of the Li family, so he made the Li family believe that he was forced to marry the Zhu family, and you Li is his favorite person Jiang Kun, everything he does now is for our better future in the future, now you are wronged to be a concubine for me, and when I am flying Huang Tengda and no longer have to be afraid of the Zhu family, I will help you to be the main room.
Looking at the previous Li family, when Jiang Kun had a wife and daughter, he still hooked up with Jiang Kun, and he knew that Li Shi was not as self-respecting and self-loving as Lin Shi, and he did not have Lin Shi's strong temperament and decisive determination, and he was fooled by Jiang Kun in a few words.
Li Shi thought to herself, Jiang Lang is the man she loves, Jiang Lang also said that he loves her the most, and now marrying Zhu is just an expedient measure, since she loves him, then she should suffer a little grievance for him.
So...... was really stupid, and accepted Jiang Kun's request to change from a wife to a concubine, and became Jiang Kun's Aunt Li.
Jiang Kun's stop of marrying another wife made a big fuss and it was hard to clean up, but Zhu could only finally compromise and let Li enter the door, and declared with a smile that he would definitely treat Zhu as a sister, and the two sisters had no distinction between the size of their left foot and right foot.
What Zhu thought at the time was, when your surname Li enters the door, I can still clean you up.
However, although the Li family does not have great wisdom, it is a little cautious, and the Zhu family itself is not a very smart person, after the two lived in the same house, the wives and concubines fought and spoiled them very much.
However, the family backgrounds of the Zhu family and the Li family are there, Jiang Kun is a mercenary villain, and in the Jiang family, in the end, the Li family suffers a lot, and the Zhu family suffers less.
Even so, it still allowed Li Shi to take advantage of the opportunity to give birth to Jiang Yu, but he couldn't underestimate Li Shi's scheming and cleverness.
Li Shi changed from a wife to a concubine and wasted his years in the competition for favor with the Zhu family, while on the other side, Jiang Kun's real original wife Lin Shi, after breaking off and leaving with Lin Yun, lived a hard life for several years, and finally married a businessman surnamed Li.
The Li surname Shangjia is a widower, and his ex-wife has a daughter who has never had a son, and after the Lin family entered the door, he added three sons to the Li family in a row, and he also got along well with his stepdaughter. And the Lin family is still a little prosperous, and since she entered the door, the Li family's business has become bigger and bigger, which makes her very respected by her husband's family.
Then after a few years, Lin Yu also grew up, looking slim like a hibiscus out of water, and she was really a beauty like Lin's.
It just so happened that one day, this beauty saved Ning Yuanhou, who was assassinated, and Ning Yuanhou fell in love with him at first sight, and resolutely married Lin Yu despite the orders of his parents, which became a beautiful talk in the capital.
Li sometimes likes to boast of being smart in front of Jiang Yu, but Jiang Yu sometimes looks at the wrinkles under the layers of rouge on her face, and then thinks about the life of Lin Shi, who is smart and who is stupid, it is really clear at a glance.
Jiang Wan has always loved to carry her identity, and she Jiang Yu is not pretending to be colorful, and calls her like a maid.
But in front of Lin Yun, no matter whether it's her Jiang Wan or her Jiang Yu, she can't afford to hold her daughter's shelf.