Introduction: If you are a promising young talent, many rich nobles want you to be a son-in-law, why don't you do it? I think that many people can't ask for this, after all, this is beneficial to their future and career without harm, but in the Song Dynasty, there was a promising new branch of the jinshi, refused to be a rich son-in-law, insisted on marrying the daughter of a commoner, why is this?
It turned out that this jinshi's name was Zhang Xiaochun, the character Yongxi, living in Teng County (present-day Tengzhou City, Shandong Province) in the late Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Xiaochun's family was poor since childhood, and the family was so poor that he could hardly afford to pay Zhang Xiaochun's private school. However, Zhang Xiaochun is brilliant, excellent in academics, his neighbor's surname is Ji, is a kind person, the family is relatively wealthy, because the historical records do not record his name, we let's call it Ji.
Ji Shizhai was kind and kind, thinking that Zhang Xiaochun, who was brilliant and studied hard, was a material that could be made and would become a great instrument in the future, so he took the initiative to say to Zhang Xiaochun's parents: "Let your children study in my house, his food, accommodation and study expenses are wrapped up in me, what do you think?" Zhang Xiaochun's parents saw such a good thing, naturally they could not ask for it, and they agreed without hesitation, and zhang Xiaochun began to live in Ji's home.
A few years later, Zhang Xiaochun was already a young man who was dancing, looking like Swen Junxiu, a talented person, and he was very simple and generous, and he had great respect for the Ji couple, and the Ji family was very satisfied with Zhang Xiaochun, and he had the heart to let Zhang Xiaochun be his son-in-law. At that time, Ji Shi had three daughters, and the eldest daughter was the same age as Zhang Xiaochun, so he mated the eldest daughter Xu to Zhang Xiaochun, which was considered to be an engagement, just waiting for Zhang Xiaochun to marry home in the future.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiaochun did not have time to get married, he passed the jinshi, which is a great honor, because in the Song Dynasty' dynasty that emphasized literature and light martial arts, the treatment of civilian officials was extremely high, and the examination of jinshi meant that one foot stepped into the career path, and there would be endless glory and wealth in the future, and it was even more enviable to compete in the siege of the city and seize the wall, which can be said to be a step to the heavens.
Moreover, there was an unwritten habit in the dynasty at that time, where dignitaries and dignitaries liked to choose young people of good character and talent to be their sons-in-law among the new scholars, because these scholars would be their colleagues in the future; moreover, they did so in order to choose a fast son-in-law for their daughters, and second, to add new strength to the future consolidation of their family's power, after all, in the court of deceit, one more relative would be one less enemy.
At that time, Zhang Xiaochun, who was in a dignified manner, became a "sought-after commodity" for the princes and nobles to choose a son-in-law, and many dignitaries and dignitaries hoped that Zhang Xiaochun could be his son-in-law, Zhang Xiaochun was not stupid, and naturally knew how much the son-in-law who was a magnate would help him in his future career, but he still refused all politely. Zhang Xiaochun did this, there is only one reason, he already has a marriage contract, he feels that he was generously favored by the Ji family in his early years, without the support of the Ji family, there would be no he is today, he can not live up to the Ji family, this is the responsibility that a real man should have.
In this way, Zhang Xiaochun went home to marry the eldest daughter of the Ji clan, but unfortunately Zhang Xiaochun's wife was not in good health and died of illness a few years later, and at this time, Zhang Xiaochun had already been an official in Hedong Xuanfu and knew Taiyuan Province, and later the Northern Song Dynasty fell, Zhang Xiaochun became the left chancellor of the Jin Dynasty, and his identity was not the same as before. After zhang Xiaochun's wife died, many people advised Zhang Xiaochun to marry a famous bridesmaid to continue the string, but Zhang Xiaochun smiled and did not answer.
It turned out that in order to repay the Ji clan, Zhang Xiaochun decided to marry the second daughter of the Ji clan as a wife, but after the Ji clan learned of Zhang Xiaochun's idea, he categorically refused, because the second daughter of the Ji clan was a blind woman who could not see things with her eyes, and zhang Xiaochun was a member of the imperial court at that time, and marrying the daughter of ordinary people had lost her identity, and the Ji clan refused to climb high. However, Zhang Xiaochun insisted on marrying, and he pleaded very sincerely with his father-in-law Ji Shi: "I have received great kindness from my father-in-law, and I really want to marry Ling Jealousy as a wife, and besides, Ling Jealousy is blind, I will not marry, who will really take care of her in the future?" ”
Ji Shi saw that Zhang Xiaochun's attitude was sincere, so he agreed, so Zhang Xiaochun married Ji's second daughter and became Ji's son-in-law again, and Zhang Xiaochun was very kind to his blind wife, more gentle and considerate than his ex-wife. Ji's second daughter gave birth to two sons for Zhang Xiaochun, but she herself fell ill and died shortly after, and Zhang Xiaochun was distraught.
At this time, Zhang Xiaochun's father-in-law offered to let his third daughter also marry Zhang Xiaochun. Because Ji Believes that Zhang Xiaochun refused to marry the magnate in order to repay himself, he married his daughter twice, and this friendship is precious. Moreover, from these two marriages, Ji Shi also determined that Zhang Xiaochun was a good husband with feelings and righteousness, and was worthy of her daughter's life, so she made this decision.
Zhang Xiaochun refused at first, but could not stand the strong demands of his father-in-law's family, had to marry the third sister of his original wife, at that time, the third daughter of the Ji family was still very young, Zhang Xiaochun was considered to be "old cow eating tender grass", but after the two married QinSer and Ming, and gave birth to two sons, after which Zhang Xiaochun's four sons became high officials, living very happily, it is precisely because Zhang Xiaochun did not live up to his original intention that he achieved a love legend that was full of anger.