Chapter 109: Old Things
Zheng Qiaoyan's father Zheng Yun and his wife became relatives at the age of fifteen, and soon had a son.
Because of his good appearance and talent, and his brother-in-law in the family is capable, with military merits and years of hard work, he is already in the general army of Hangzhou, and it is also because of his sister's help that Zheng Yun won the appreciation of Meng Jianshen, who was in the Ministry of Rites at that time, and married his second daughter Meng Zuoyi to Zheng Yun, who had a promising future at that time.
It was also because of Meng Jianshen's recommendation that he was waiting in Beijing and stayed in Beijing to serve.
However, Zheng Yun still thought of his hometown son Zheng Peilin, and sighed for a long time, after he and Meng Zuoyi got married for a year, he was finally discovered by the Meng family that he had an eldest son in his family.
Originally, he only thought that he only had a wife and had died, but now that he learned that he had a son, Meng Zuoyi did not give up and asked him what he planned to do with the son at home.
According to Meng Zuoyi's meaning, Zheng Peilin was passed out to be the heir of Zheng Yun's cousin's family.
But Zheng Yun was unwilling, he thought that he had a good wife, and said that he should not treat her son lightly, and planned to take Zheng Peilin to study in the capital.
It is said that those who know the times are handsome, but Zheng Yun was high-spirited back then, and he only felt that he had a great future and would definitely be able to do something in Beijing, not a person who knew the times. He also remembered the love of sharing joys and sorrows with his wife when he was young, and loved and pitied this eldest son very much. Now that his wife has gone before him, if she can't even take care of the son she left behind, won't she be a father in vain and a husband in vain?
But Meng Zuoyi is also a fierce character, she feels that Zheng Yun's family has hidden from their Meng family that Zheng Yun already has an eldest son before getting married, which is to deceive first, and then to take the eldest son into Beijing, which is an insult to her.
Moreover, Meng Zuoyi grew up in Beijing since she was a child, and often mixed in the circle of young ladies in Beijing with her brothers and sisters, and her vision and knowledge are far from being comparable to Zheng Yun from the place.
Zheng Yun was proud of being an official in Beijing, and he thought highly of himself, but Meng Zuoyi always looked down on him, feeling that he was far worse than those young ladies in Beijing in her prima, and there was no way to compare.
Meng Zuoyi was also 10,000 reluctant to tell her about this family affair that her parents told her, and she always felt that her mother was partial, and she didn't want to find a son in a big family, but she just said such a poor boy from a poor country.
Zheng Yun remembers the gentleness and virtue of his wife every day, how he has to serve and be deferential, if his wife is there, seeing his achievements at that time, he must have been content, and he can only say words of admiration and support. Zheng Yun looked at Meng Zuoyi with more and more disgust.
The two have been discordant for a long time, so they took advantage of Zheng Peilin's incident to make trouble, both of them did not give an inch, and then they ended up wanting to reconcile.
This is not only the husband and wife, but also the two-sided family is-for-tat with each other.
Zheng Yun's parents went early, and his eldest sister raised him since he was a child, and his eldest sister helped manage the marriage, and his sister and brother-in-law were also poor couples.
The husband and wife were also extremely protective of Zheng Yun's younger brother, Zheng Yun's brother-in-law was prosperous at that time, and he was willing to whisper to a minor official in the Ministry of Rites, and he was also very indignant about their idea of making Zheng Peilin an heir.
And the eldest daughter of the Meng family at that time entered the palace early, originally obscurity for many years, but in those years it was also time to run, and the nobles had been sealed, and when they were being favored, the concubines were about to be sealed, and the Meng family relied on their daughter to gain power, where would they give in to a magistrate.
None of the two families was willing to speak softly, so they really divorced like this.
And it was only after the two reconciled and separated that Meng Zuoyi found out that there was already a fetus in the womb.
The Meng family was originally going to buy medicine and fell into the child, but Meng Zuoyi somehow picked up the medicine bowl at that time, but felt that the little baby in the belly was moving very much, as if he didn't want to leave, Meng Zuoyi was reluctant to leave the ghost for a while, and he actually kept the child at home.
When the month is old and it is discovered, it is too late.
Keeping a child like this, Meng Zuoyi's life is ruined.
The Meng family was angry, so they also used some means to seize Zheng Yun's official position in Beijing and send him back to Hangzhou to wait for his post.
After Zheng Yun returned to Hangzhou, he was depressed for a while, but fortunately, his sister and brother-in-law felt sorry for him and ran around for him. Later, he was also diligent and honest for the officials, and he really did a lot of practical things for the people, with outstanding political achievements, coupled with the help of his sister and brother-in-law, he worked hard for more than ten years to achieve the position of the prefect of Hangzhou.
And the daughter of the Meng family is also quite favored, she was pregnant again, gave birth to a prince, and her mother was crowned a concubine because of her son's preciousness.
The father and brother of the family are also stained with the light of their daughters, and then they have been promoted, Meng Zuoyi's father has been promoted from the Ministry of Rites to the Ministry of Officials, and it is also because the Meng family is becoming more and more powerful in Beijing, so he also re-gave Meng Zuoyi another family, but she is now a person who has been separated once, and it is difficult to be a wife.
But on the contrary, she is a person whose heart is higher than the sky, and she refuses to marry a non-emperor general, and she doesn't want to marry someone like Zheng Yun again, she would rather be a concubine for the prince than a wife for Baiyi.
Her mother also doted on her, and she was so troubled that she couldn't do anything, but she really relied on her, and because of her sister, she was carried into the Yongjun palace as a concubine at that time.
Later, it was also in the past ten years that he gave birth to children to King Yongjun, and was carried as a side concubine.
It's just that at the beginning, in order to be able to enter the county palace, Meng Zuoyi could no longer keep Zheng Qiaoyan by his side, so he left Qiaoyan in his mother's house in Beijing, originally hiding from the outside world that he had a daughter, but after all, he had been raised to the age of three, and there was no impermeable wall in this world, so he lied that he died of illness.
At the beginning, Zheng Yun's suffering, Meng Zuoyi has also tasted it now, and she is also reluctant to Zheng Qiaoyan, but there is no way, she only tells her mother to raise Qiaoyan well and find a good family for her.
But the Meng family was still afraid that the county prince's mansion would find out about Zheng Qiaoyan's existence and affect Meng Zuoyi, so after Meng Zuoyi got married, they secretly sent Zheng Qiaoyan back to Hangzhou and lost it to her father.
Since then, Qiao Yan has never seen her mother again, nor has she seen anyone from her mother's family. It's just like a discarded child who was raised in his aunt's house, Zheng Yun felt that Qiaoyan would be better educated by her aunt, but no one could say the miserable Qiaoyan in it, and his father couldn't understand it, so he waited until Zheng Yunzhong had an official position and his own mansion before taking Zheng Qiaoyan home.