In 1906, Lu Ying, the second young lady of the Lu family in Yangzhou, was married.
The Lu family in Yangzhou is a famous and prestigious family, and Lu Ying's father is still a salt official, and the family is rich. For her marriage, the Lu family was preparing the dowry 1 year in advance.
She married in Hefei, and the family transported the dowry from Yangzhou to Hefei, hiring ten ships.
On the day of the wedding, the sending line stretched for several miles, from the Fourth Arch Building to Longmen Lane.
Her dowry list was frighteningly large. The rosewood family has 6 sets, gold and silver jewelry, silk silk, precious calligraphy and paintings can not be counted, even brooms, dustpans and other small items are also complete sets, and there are silver chains hanging on them.
The wedding was huge, countless passers-by watched the liveliness, including an old lady, but sighed and said: "Don't you smell the water overflowing, and the moon profit is losing?" ”
The old lady's words are probably saying that the marriage is too dazzling, and the bride may not have a good life.
As she said, the life of the bride Lu Ying is fixed at the age of 36.
After 16 years of marriage, she had 14 children, but her mother-in-law was not satisfied with her, and she killed her grandson.
After her death, her husband soon married a new daughter-in-law.
Carefully selected marriages
Lu Ying's marriage was a powerful alliance carefully selected by the family.
Her husband, Zhang Wuling, was 17 years old at the time. His grandfather was Zhang Shusheng, a representative figure of the Western affairs faction, an official to a feudal official, and his family had 10,000 acres of fertile land, and under the name of Zhang Wuling, there were 100,000 stones of rented grain every year.
The most valuable thing is that Zhang Wuling does not smoke, drink or play cards, and has been addicted to books since he was a child, and is erudite and talented.
They are typical parents arranged marriage, they have not met before marriage, but the cave room flower candle night, Zhang Wuling unveiled the hijab, immediately moved his heart.
Since the beauty of ancient Yangzhou, Lu Ying is even more beautiful. Not only that, she is also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, good poetry books are talented, and her temperament is very good, which is unforgettable.
Unfortunately, the old people of the Zhang family did not like such a beautiful Lu Ying, they said: "Beautiful women, do not live long." ”
Zhang Wuling is the eldest son in the family, and Lu Ying is naturally the eldest daughter-in-law.
After marrying into the Zhang family, Lu Ying single-handedly took over the entire Zhang family.
The Zhang family is a large family, from the aunt left by grandfather Zhang Shusheng, down to the five wives left by the father and other uncles and aunts, little uncles, little sisters-in-law, plus the servants of each room, more than 40 people, but Lu Ying handled it very appropriately.
From the taboo of taste and external procurement, to the interpersonal communication and the etiquette of the big and small, Lu Ying handled it with ease and etiquette.
On the birthday of the elders, the gifts she prepared were very intimate; the disputes of the peers, she could explain them in two words; the disobedient slaves, she could also clean up the proper.
Under the management of Lu Ying, the life of the Zhang family began to become comfortable, although some people were not convinced, but it was only daily friction, and Lu Ying never bothered about it.
What Lu Ying was most afraid of was her mother-in-law's broken thoughts.
Pressure from generation to generation
Lu Ying, who married into the Zhang family, has always had a big mountain on his head - the heir.
The descendants of the Zhang family, by Zhang Wuling's generation, there are already very few people, so extending the heirs is a very important task for the eldest daughter-in-law.
Lu Ying was in good health, and his stomach was also very competitive, and soon after entering the door, he was pregnant with 3 children in succession. Unfortunately, the first 3 litters were all daughters.
When the first child was born, the mother-in-law did not have any gossip, was very happy, and was also very distressed about Zhang Yuanhe, who had just been born.
When the second child gave birth, although the mother-in-law was a little disappointed, she was still reasonable.
When the third child gave birth, the mother-in-law's face was very ugly.
At that time, people did not understand chromosomes, did not understand having children and daughters, and were determined by men.
Mother Zhang began to mutter in her heart, thinking that Lu Ying could not give birth to a son, so she began to gently and secretly persuade her to be generous, meaning to take a concubine for her husband.
Zhang Wuling did not care, but advised his wife not to worry, children are destined fate.
Soon, Lu Ying was pregnant with her fourth child, this time a son.
However, she became pregnant one after another, her body did not rest well, and she was bleeding profusely during childbirth, and the child could not be born and suffocated.
This time, the mother-in-law changed her face, and even scolded Lu Ying: "You killed my grandson!" ”
In the society at that time, if you can't give birth to a son, you are sorry for your ancestors, you are unstable, and you are tongued.
The Zhang family has a lot of mouths, the housekeeper will always offend people, and finally, people up and down the Zhang family believe that it is Lu Ying's sake that led to the death of the child.
Lu Ying had just given birth to a child, and she suddenly lost her child, she was sadder than anyone, but now, the whole family blamed her.
She began to be depressed.
At that time, Zhang Wuling had been busy with his business outside and was often away from home, but even so, he was still keenly aware of the changes in his wife.
He imposed a ban on the whole family on the spot, forbidding anyone to mention the child.
Then, he took Lu Ying away from home, first to Shanghai, and then to Suzhou, where he set up a Leyi Girls' Middle School to accept the daughters of poor families and workers to study, and did not charge their tuition.
Leaving the gossip of a large family and the careful company of Zhang Wuling, Lu Ying began to walk out of the shadow of losing his son.
She began reading with her 3 daughters, and filled her home with books, encouraged the maids to read books together, and held reading contests and prize money.
Driven by her, the Zhang family likes to read up and down.
Later, she became pregnant with her fifth child and was still a daughter, but at this time, she was no longer so tormented.
Since then, she has become pregnant one after another, giving birth to sons.
After 16 years of marriage, she had a total of 14 children, but unfortunately only 9 children survived, 5 sons and 4 daughters.
Fenghua just happened to die unexpectedly
Lu Ying raised her children very well, especially her 4 daughters, who later became the famous "Four Sisters of Hefei".
Ye Shengtao said, "The four girls of the Jiuru Lane family, whoever marries will be happy for a lifetime." ”
The famous sinologist Fu Hansi, the language master Zhou Youguang, and the literary master Shen Congwen were all Lu Ying's son-in-law, but unfortunately, she did not have the opportunity to see all this.
At the age of 36, she had just given birth to her 14th child.
The delivery went well, but she suddenly had a sharp toothache.
The doctor pulled out her teeth, but he couldn't stop her bleeding, so he watched her bleed and die.
Her life, stuck at the age of 36. Some people speculated that Lu Ying may have suffered from "scurvy", which was almost equivalent to a terminal illness at that time.
The Zhang family is a big family, and it cannot be without a hostess.
Less than a year after Lu Ying's death, Zhang Wuling married a new daughter-in-law.
The new daughter-in-law's name is Wei Junyi, and she was born in Xiang mendi. She married and had 3 children, only 1 son survived.
Unlike Lu Ying, she believes that women do not need to receive any education, so she obstructs the four sisters' studies at every turn.
Zhang Wuling was often absent from home, and the four sisters were angry about it, but one thing they did before their mother died paved a way for them.
Before his death, Lu Ying called all the servants to his side, and each of them gave them a big red envelope and pleaded with them to treat their children kindly.
She had always been very kind to the servants, and the servants thought of her well, and protected the children everywhere.
As soon as Wei Jun did not let the four sisters read, the servant secretly told them the news of Zhang Wuling and asked them to make trouble.
As soon as Wei Jun closed the confinement of the four sisters, the servants secretly helped them unlock.
Before his death, Lu Ying liked Kunqu opera very much, often took his daughter to listen to the opera, and later grew up the four sisters, all of whom were good at singing Kunqu opera, and were proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and also erudite.
Perhaps, the good relationship that Lu Ying formed before his death protected the children to grow up smoothly.
Lu Yingying died young, her life ended at the age of 36, her daughters lived a long life, all lived to more than 90 years old, and the family was happy and the marriage was happy.
Life is like a reincarnation, we are in it, it is difficult to ask whether the effort is worth it.
Just as Lu Ying took care of the family for her husband, she gave birth to 14 children in 16 years, but less than 1 year after her death, her husband married a new person.
But there are often touches in life.
Just like those servants who protected the children to grow up, they received a little kindness from Lu Ying and have always been grateful to her.
Maybe life is like this in the world, some things can not be forced, a smile, some things can not be put down, there is no remorse, as long as there is no shame.
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