Zhou Zuoren's grandfather, Zhou Fuqing, was a Qing Dynasty Hanlin and also served as a county official. Zhou Fuqing had several concubines, one of whom was a concubine, Zhang Shi, who bore him a son, Zhou Bosheng. Zhou Bosheng was many years younger than his eldest brother Zhou Boyi, two years younger than his eldest nephew Lu Xun, and two years younger than his second nephew Zhou Zuoda.
Although Zhou Bosheng is an uncle, he and his nephew Zhou Zuoren are about the same age, grew up together, and have a good relationship. Zhou Zuoren also wrote Zhou Bosheng into his own prose.
After Zhou Bosheng grew up, not only his parents had died of illness, but even his mother-in-law had died, and it was reasonable to say that he could marry freely and marry a woman he liked. However, he never married until he was thirty years old, when his eldest sister-in-law Lu Rui (Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren's mother) arranged for him to marry and marry Fu Shi.
What Fu's origin was, I couldn't find any information, and Zhou Zuoren didn't mention it in the prose. Fu's origins should be similar to Lu Xun's wife, Juan, or much worse than Juan. Because Zhu An married the eldest son Lu Xun, and the Fu clan married the concubine Zhou Bosheng.
Presumably, the Fu family should also be the daughter of an ordinary squire, and the mother's family will not be rich, nor will it be poor. Fu Shi is definitely not beautiful, because Zhou Bosheng does not love Fu Shi, and the husband and wife have a bad relationship. Zhou Bosheng also had a home outside his home, and he took a concubine Xu Shi outside.
Although not loved by her husband, Fu also gave birth to a daughter for Zhou Bosheng, but unfortunately the daughter died at a very young age.
Zhou Bosheng died of illness at the age of thirty-seven, and the Fu family did not leave the Zhou family to remarry, and has been living with the elder sister-in-law Zhou (Zhou Zuoren's mother, Lu Rui). Like Juan, Fu shi has been following Old Lady Zhou and serving Old Lady Zhou, and her husband does not ask her.
But Fu shi has not yet Zhu An happy, Zhu An also has a husband to send money to support her, can live with her mother-in-law for a lifetime, and Fu shi can not follow the old lady Of Zhou for a lifetime, this is because the Zhou family no longer lives in Shaoxing, moved to Beiping.
After Zhou Zuoren and Lu Xun returned from studying abroad, they did not want to work in their hometown of Shaoxing, so they decided to work and settle in Beiping, so they moved from Shaoxing to Beiping with their whole family. The whole family did not include the Fu family, and Mrs. Zhou sold the ancestral house in Shaoxing, gave some money to the Fu family, and let her return to her mother's house.
Fu shi also did not ask to stay in the Zhou family, with the Zhou family to live in Beiping, she obeyed the old lady of Zhou's advice, took the money that old lady Zhou gave her back to her mother's house, and then the Zhou family broke off contact with her, I don't know what happened to her in the future.
At this time, Fu Shi was only in her twenties, and no one knew whether she had remarried or remained a widow after returning to her mother's house. As a woman of the old-style family, she could not remarry, and the money that Mrs. Zhou gave to Fu was not enough for her to live a lifetime. Old-fashioned women do not have the ability to go out to work, how will Fu live in the future?
The young Fu family's marriage is unfortunate, the widow has no children and no money, can only rely on the mother's family to support, do not know whether the mother's brother or nephew can provide for her for life, she is not even as good as Juan, will be like Lu Xun's Xianglin sister-in-law?