Before talking about the story of Zhou Shuyi marrying into the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion, Ma gave Haitang a brief introduction to the situation of the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion.

The Zeng family of the Marquis of Yingchuan was originally the founding nobles of this dynasty, with Danshu iron coupons, hereditary replacement. However, the once prominent Zeng family actually weakened more than 50 years ago, lost its military power, and even the position of marquis was demoted from the first-class Pingxi Marquis to the third-class Yingchuan Marquis. The children and grandchildren are not angry, and they all rely on the ancestral foundation to support the scene. The Marquis of Yingchuan, who took office, had a female mother of the clan, but if he wanted to marry a lady from a wealthy family as his wife, he had to be picked.

The turning point in his fate was after he was appointed as the captain of the palace guard of a certain little prince who opened the palace. And that little prince was Emperor Deguang, who later ascended the throne.

When Emperor Deguang was in the palace, he was bullied by his favored brothers, and the Marquis of Yingchuan saved him twice, and made great contributions, and after Emperor Deguang succeeded to the throne, he became the commander of the forbidden army, and he was known as the confidant and favorite general of the new monarch.

Unfortunately, a few years later, he contracted a cold on a business trip and died in the prime of life.

At that time, his two sons were still young, and the orphans and widows were very pitiful. Emperor Deguang felt that he had not protected his loyal ministers and good generals, and felt guilty, so he took good care of the widows and orphans of the Zeng family.

The current Marquis of Yingchuan, who inherited the title, was a young man, and just turned sixteen years old, he was called into the palace as a royal guard. Emperor Deguang cared about his growth and marriage, personally gave him a marriage, and later appointed him as the commander of the forbidden army, which was very trusting. Every New Year's Festival, the emperor rewards the royal family with high-ranking officials and nobles, and the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion is always the first. In the past few decades, his family has been extremely wealthy, and if there is no accident, it is very likely that he will lead the forbidden army for generations, live with the country, and be a first-class noble family.

As Emperor Deguang's most trusted confidant and favorite general, the current marriage partner of the Marquis of Yingchuan must be decided by the emperor. However, the emperor did not know the situation of the famous ladies of each family, and did not want to entrust Empress Wu, for fear that Empress Wu would favor her mother's family and choose people from conservative families, but Sun Guifei had just given birth to a child, and her body was weak and she had no time to take care of him.

Empress Dowager Zhou took the hint and wrote a letter to her mother's family, asking the Zhenguo couple to choose a few good girls from the school-age girls in the family and send them to the capital for a blind date. Even if these Zhou family girls can't marry the Marquis of Yingchuan, there are still many excellent marriage partners in the capital!

After the letter reached Chang'an, the Duchess of Zhenguo personally selected three nieces - the couple did not have unmarried daughters, so they could only choose from among the nieces. All three of them are talented, good-looking, healthy, dignified, and gentle-tempered. Among them, the father has the lowest official position, and there are also four ranks, and the highest is from the second rank, regardless of family background or personal conditions, they are absolutely worthy of the Marquis of Yingchuan.

But before the people set off to the capital, the third room of the Zhou family came out of the moth.

For some reason, Mrs. Ma persuaded her husband to come forward with Zhenguo Bus and stuffed her daughter Zhou Shuyi into the list of three. Zhou Shuyi's generation is a generation higher than other girls, and she is the cousin of the same generation of Zhenguo Gong and the Queen Mother, although she is young, but if she really marries the Marquis of Yingchuan, it will actually make the Queen Mother Zhou quite embarrassed in terms of generation. However, Zhen Guogong nodded in the end.

As the leader of the team, the Duchess of Zhenguo took people to the capital for a blind date, but she did not mean to be specialized. She asked the mothers of the girls to accompany her, even if she wanted to set up a marriage, she had to let the mother-in-law personally inspect the future aunt, and then decide whether to marry the daughter, lest the girls encounter anything unpleasant in the in-law's house in the future, and their parents would blame the Empress Dowager Zhou and Zhenguo Gong and his wife.

The mothers of the other three girls all readily agreed to accompany them, but strangely, Zhou Shuyi's mother, Mrs. Ma, did not plan to follow. She said that she couldn't rest assured that her husband couldn't be relieved, and she refused to let her daughter-in-law Zhou Ma come forward, so she entrusted the matter to a four-grade nephew and daughter-in-law who was with her - the latter was a husband and daughter who had more dealings with her, and she was simply flattered to be entrusted by her.

Ma Shi talked about the farce in the Zhou clan before the departure, and his expression was incredible: "I went to see the eldest sister, and I saw that Mrs. Shuyi cried into tears in front of relatives, friends and outsiders, and clamored to let the old lady accompany her into Beijing, and Mrs. Ma was unmoved...... From the forehead, they only said that the eldest sister's stepmother-in-law spoiled her daughter, and she would spoil people, but she never expected that she would have such a hard-hearted heart for her daughter...... Even the old lady of his family said that his old troubles were no longer a big problem, there was no shortage of people waiting at home, and it was nothing for his wife to leave for a few months, and his daughter's family affairs were important, but Mrs. Ma just refused to let go......"

Zhou Shuyi is the old daughter of Mrs. Ma, her mother was in her forties when she was born, and her father was old enough to be her grandfather. In addition, she is of high rank, and girls of about the same age in the clan call her aunt and respect her everywhere, she is used to being arrogant, and it was not until that time that she could not ask her mother for permission to accompany her to Beijing anyway, so she restrained some of her temper.

What happened to these four girls after they went to the capital, Ma is not very clear. She only knew that one of the girls who went with her returned to Chang'an with her husband the next year, mentioning the old things, saying that Zhou Shuyi was the most talented and beautiful of all the girls, and once thought that the Marquis of Yingchuan would definitely choose her as his wife, but she didn't expect that before she arrived in the capital, the Marquis of Yingchuan had already looked at each other with another famous lady, and also greeted the royal front. After the Duchess of Zhenguo took the daughter of the Zhou family to the capital, she saw the Queen Mother, and knew that the best family affair was no longer a play. But don't worry, there are many children of noble and high-ranking officials in Beijing, all of whom are good marriage partners. Soon, several daughters of the Zhou family had their own marriages.

Only Zhou Shuyi, as if she had an obsession with Yingchuan Hou in her heart, resolutely refused to accept other objects. Helplessly, the emperor decreed that the Marquis of Yingchuan was married, completely cutting off her hope. Empress Dowager Zhou originally planned to find another young talent for her, but she didn't expect her to turn her head and set her eyes on Yingchuan Hou's younger brother.

The second master Zeng is two years younger than his brother and Zhou Shuyi, and for some reason he is infatuated with this girl who wanted to be his sister-in-law. He personally went to ask his mother and brother to come forward and propose marriage for him. Yingchuan Hou was not very happy, but he couldn't resist his younger brother, so he had to agree.

Zhou Shuyi married the younger brother of the Marquis of Yingchuan and became the second wife of the Marquis of Yingchuan.

Empress Dowager Zhou and Duchess Zhenguo were actually not very satisfied with this family business, and always suspected that Zhou Shuyi had done something bad. But the emperor has already given marriage, what can they do? I had to send a letter back to Chang'an to inform the news, so that the third room of the Zhou family could prepare a dowry for Zhou Shuyi.

Zhou Shuyi's father was not very satisfied with the choice of son-in-law, but Mrs. Ma was very happy, and cried with joy with the people around her: "My daughter finally married and returned to the capital, and I finally got my long-cherished wish." ”

Ma said to his granddaughter: "If she hadn't said it herself, who would have known that she had always wanted to marry her daughter back to the capital?" I've never heard her talk about it! ”

Begonia just wanted to sneer in her heart.

The Yingchuan Hou Mansion was still the Pingxi Hou Mansion more than 50 years ago, and this name is so familiar. Song Yuzhu's original fiancé was not the prince of Pingxi Hou? She colluded with the enemy proton, betrayed her fiancé's family for her lover, and took revenge on her family and lover after retiring from the marriage. Regret it again now? Do you want to marry your daughter back to the Pingxi Hou Mansion and continue the life you once ruined?

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