"Door-to-door pairs" have been the marriage and mate selection concept of most of our families since ancient times, and "the fate of parents and the words of matchmakers" is the ancient way of marriage and union. But in a notebook written by an ancient man called "Records of the North East Garden", he saw a wonderful marriage. The protagonist of this marriage is named "Tao Wenyi Gong" in the author's pen.
Who is this "Tao Wenyi Gong"? Why is there no name but only honorific title? It is understood that the author's own name is Liang Gongchen, and "Tao Wenyi Gong" is likely to be the famous minister "Tao Shu" in the late Qing Dynasty. Because his father Liang Zhangju happened to be Tao Shu's fellow jinshi, for the same year. The two families are very close to each other, so the author calls him "Tao Wenyi Gong" to show respect.
So what does this story look like? Let's first introduce the protagonist Tao Shu. Born in the forty-fourth year of Qianlong (1779 AD), Tao Shu was a native of Anhua, Hunan, a loyal vassal of the Daoguang Dynasty during the Qing Dynasty, and a representative of the Jingshi sect. During his lifetime, he was honest and honest, for the country and the people, building water conservancy, innovating the salt administration, and so on.
Even the later "Three Masters of the Xiang Army" Zeng Guofan, Hu Linyi, and Zuo Zongtang were influenced by Tao Shu, and some people have always believed that the "Three Masters of the Xiang Army" were the inheritors and promoters of Tao Shu's thought. Liang Zhangju was born in the 40th year of Qianlong (1775 AD), although he was four years older than Tao Shu, but he was a jinshi in the same year as Tao Shu and served as an official in Beijing together.
The two have similar interests, and they also think through the concept of official, and they are beijing officials together, and they naturally walk together. Based on this matter, the in-laws of the two families also walk around for a long time, and the women move around more, and they become friends who talk about everything. At that time, the author Liang Gongchen, who was still very young, listened to his mother once sigh for the Tao family's aunt, and it turned out that the Tao family's aunt was actually a lady who married on behalf of Miss Tao.
It is said that when Tao Shu was young, he had not yet obtained the meritorious title, and there was only a room of books in his home, and there was nothing. However, Tao Shu's father is known for his talent, and Tao Shu has also been known as a "prodigy" since he was a child. Therefore, at that time, there was a family surnamed Huang who was quite rich in the same place who wanted to marry his daughter to Tao Shu, and Tao Shu's father agreed when he saw that Tao Shu had also reached the age of marriage.
The two families then began to walk the ceremony, Najib, ask Cai, mention relatives, etc. Step by step, three books and six ceremonies are about to be completed. Another local Wu family, which is richer than the Huang family, went to the Huang family to propose to the Huang family, just for miss Huang's good name. It just so happened that Tao Shu also came with the news that the township test had failed, so Miss Huang stopped doing it, crying and making trouble, that is, not marrying Tao Shu.
It is reasonable to say that it is good to retire at this time, but the Huang family loves face very much, and they do not want to bear the ugly name of "hating the poor and loving the rich, treacherous", and they are distressed about their daughters. So at the moment, he did a very unexpected thing, that is, a lady in the Huang Mansion, packaged as a lady, and married Tao Shu.
In this way, on the wedding day, the two flower palanquins went out. One is really a thousand gold, a little squirrel. Zhen Qianjin entered the rich and noble door, and the little girl entered Tao Shu's house. In fact, on the wedding night, seeing the rough fingers and abdomen of the little girl and the pair of heavenly feet, Tao Shu knew in his heart that this wife was fake. He inevitably hurt the two families, as well as the lives of the people in front of him, so he silently planned to endure.
But unexpectedly, at this time, Xiao Gui directly said all these things like a car, and also asked Tao Shu's forgiveness. Tao Shu's heart softened at once, and at this moment, he really regarded him as a wife. In the following time, the two husband and wife were reconciled, and the little girl had been doing a good job of Tao Shu's kenneth help.
In the seventh year of Jiaqing (1802 AD), Tao Shu went to Beijing to participate in the nongshu section examination, 63. In April, he participated in the temple examination and was fifteen in the second rank, and later approached the Hanlin Temple, becoming a noble Hanlin official. The little lady became the official lady, and the original lady did wash her face with tears all day after marrying the Wu family.
It turned out that after marrying the Wu family, her husband was killed by mistake because he participated in a brawl, and his father-in-law was soon angry and died. Leaving a widowed wife to guard the great family business, the Wu family clan directly expelled her from the house in order to compete for the family property, saying that she was divorced on behalf of her husband. It is no longer the Wu family.
Xiao Gui once accompanied her husband Tao Shu home to visit her relatives and met the officially depressed young lady. Remembering the love of Zeng Jin, he took fifty taels of gold to help him, and secretly put the gold down and left. Unexpectedly, at this time, Miss Huang happened to see the little girl, and she actually stared at the little girl with a vicious face, and used a hateful tone to indicate that the little girl had ruined his life. The little girl didn't say anything when she saw it, just turned around and left, and then she never heard from the young lady again.