In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was a wealthy merchant named Zhang Qingyang in the rich land of Jianghuai, who ran several shops, selling silk and satin. He has no children under his knees, and a daughter stays in the boudoir.
When his daughter reaches the age of marriage, what kind of husband he finds for his daughter has become a major matter on his mind. Their families are not short of money, they don't have to look at each other's family backgrounds, and they don't ask for the right person.
Zhang Qingyang wants to find a good character for his daughter, as long as he is good to his daughter. In the future, all his family property will belong to his daughter and his future son-in-law.
He believes that as long as his son-in-law is reliable, his daughter will not be too bad to follow him. In fact, Zhang Qingyang already had a suitable candidate in his heart, and this person was the guy who took care of the store for him.
This guy's name is Chen Alang.
Chen Alang is a talent, his head is very bright, he takes care of several shops for Zhang Qingyang, which saves Zhang Qingyang a lot of thoughts.
The family is going to recruit a son-in-law of Chenglong, and Chen Alang is very suitable. He went to Chen Alang to discuss it and see if people meant it
For Chen Alang, this is simply a pie falling from the sky. He has long had a soft spot for Zhang Qingyang's daughter Zhang Qianqian, but considering his identity, he has never been embarrassed to show it.
Now that the prospective father-in-law has come to the door, how can he refuse.
He hurriedly agreed, Zhang Qingyang arranged the marriage for them, and the newlywed Yan'er ran the family's shop together, and the business was getting better and better.
Married and childless
Zhang Qingyang was very satisfied with them, and both of them were very filial.
Time is like an arrow, and the days are more than ten years, and Zhang Qingyang has also passed away. For so many years, Chen Alang has been really good to his wife Zhang Qianqian. However, the two have always had a regret, that is, they did not have a son and a half daughter.
Zhang Qianqian also felt guilty about her husband Chen Alang, after all, in ancient times, there were three unfilial pieties, and no queen was the greatest. She suggested that her husband Chen Alang, if not, find a concubine, right?
No matter how you say it, you can't break it.
For his wife Zhang Qianqian's proposal, Chen Alang was still very moved. However, he has always loved his wife very much, how can he let his wife down and marry someone else?
He told his wife that they were only in their thirties now and that there was no need to rush. There is still time in the future, maybe you will be able to conceive in two years.
Due to Chen Alang's repeated refusal, Zhang Qianqian could not continue to insist. She also hopes to be able to continue the offspring for her husband, and the family property cannot be inherited by no one.
It is also strange to say that when two people are about to be forty years old, the heavens will not fulfill people's wishes. Zhang Qianqian still didn't get her wish. Chen Alang is about to celebrate his 40th birthday, and he invited relatives and friends to the birthday banquet.
During this period, relatives and friends flattered him, and they all felt that he had a successful career and enjoyed all the glory and wealth, which made everyone very envious. But there was one thing in his heart that he was unhappy about, and that was that he had no heirs.
As he said, even if he is rich and rich, without a son and a half daughter, and no one inherits Nuoda's family property, it makes him upset enough, Chen Alang suddenly mentioned this matter at the banquet, and Zhang Qianqian listened to it in her heart.
Maybe the speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional.
Since this is a regret for her husband, she has to make up for it for him. Besides, in their time, it was normal for a big man to have a group of wives and concubines.
She plans to introduce her husband to a concubine.
Concubinage
Because he proposed to his husband last time to find him a concubine, his husband did not agree. This time, she was afraid that her husband would continue to reject her, so she planned to find one for her husband in private.
After finding it, I will recommend it to my husband, I believe that my husband will agree, they are all over forty years old, and they can't afford to delay.
Coincidentally, in a bazaar, Zhang Qianqian saw an old man, with a twenty-eight-year-old girl, two people wearing shabby clothes, with a thick layer of mud on their faces, they were begging for food.
Zhang Qianqian stepped forward to inquire about them, only to learn that the crops of the two people were flooded because of the heavy flooding in their hometown. I had to come out and beg for food. They say that the two are father and daughter.
Zhang Qianqian saw that they were pitiful, so she took them home.
It turned out that the old man's name was Liu Biweng, and her daughter was called Liu Cuicui, who was sixteen years old. After Zhang Qianqian took them home, she asked them to wash up and put on the new clothes they had bought for them.
And let them have a full meal.
During this period, Zhang Qianqian found that Liu Cuicui was beautiful, handsome and cute, and looked like a beauty. Isn't the husband struggling with the fact that he has no heirs?
Isn't there a ready-made little beauty in front of you now?
She thinks Liu Cuicui is the right person.
So, she found Liu Biweng to discuss with him, and asked him to marry his daughter Liu Cuicui to Chen Alang as a concubine.
For Liu Biweng, this is definitely a good thing.
If Liu Cuicui is married to Chen Alang, they will no longer have to wander. Brocade clothes and jade food, you can squander it casually. There was no reason for him not to agree, so Liu Cuicui married Chen Alang and became Chen Alang's concubine.
When Chen Alang saw the handsome Liu Cuicui, he didn't say anything anymore and agreed to take a concubine. They got married, and it was another newlywed Yan'er, and in the first few days, Chen Alang ran very diligently to Liu Cuicui's room.
He really wanted an heir.
Premature babies
This time she married Liu Cuicui really did not disappoint Chen Alang, Liu Cuicui's stomach quickly reacted, in fact, a few days after they were in the cave room, Liu Cuicui had a pregnancy reaction.
Now that they learn that Liu Cuicui is pregnant, the family is very happy.
Liu Cuicui was taken care of very well, and what was unexpected was that other people were ten months pregnant, and the fetus fell to the ground. And Liu Cuicui was only eight months pregnant, and she gave birth to the child.
This is a premature baby, or a boy.
Premature babies are not easy to live, and Chen Alang is worried. However, the doctor told Chen Alang not to care too much about it, because Liu Cuicui's child was very healthy, although she was only eight months pregnant and gave birth, but this child was much healthier than other people who were pregnant in October.
Hearing the doctor say this, Chen Alang put his heart in his stomach.
Time flies like a white horse, two years have passed, Liu Cuicui's child has always grown up very healthily, Chen Alang named his son Chen Chunsheng. What Chen Alang didn't expect was that his wife Zhang Qianqian was also pregnant.
And he also gave birth to a son.
He named this son Chen Xiasheng again, and in his later years, he had two sons, which made Chen Alang happy every day.
When the eldest son Chen Chunsheng was 5 years old and the youngest son Chen Xiasheng was 2 years old, an accident occurred, and the eldest son Chen Chunsheng died, and the death was very strange.
How did he die when he was not sick or sick?
Adultery
Chen Chunsheng's mother, Liu Cuicui, cried to death, she said that her son Chen Chunsheng was killed by Zhang Qianqian, because on the day of her son's death, she and Liu Biweng went out, and the two went to the temple to pray for blessings.
Unexpectedly, when I came back, I heard the news of my son's death.
She asked Zhang Qianqian, what kind of food did Chunsheng eat?
Why did you die?
Zhang Qianqian said that she ate corn paste, usually their son does not eat corn paste, and corn paste is eaten by Chen Xiasheng, because he is young and likes to drink corn paste.
Therefore, in their opinion, Chunsheng's death is related to Zhang Qianqian.
Zhang Qianqian shouted that she was wronged, how could she kill someone?
Liu Biweng thought that it must be Zhang Qianqian who couldn't tolerate Chunsheng, and was afraid of dividing up their family's property, so he poisoned Chunsheng, who was not his own.
They reported to the official and asked the county lord to give them an explanation.
The county lord learned that Chunsheng was indeed poisoned, and he had arsenic in his stomach. Someone must have put arsenic into the food that the child ate, who is this person?
The county lord learned some things through the visit, he arrested Liu Cuicui and Liu Biweng, and questioned them separately, he asked Liu Cuicui, what is the relationship between you and Liu Biweng?
At the beginning, Liu Cuicui still said that they were father and daughter.
The county lord didn't believe it at all, because according to the people in their house, this Liu Cuicui often went to Liu Biweng's room in the middle of the night, and sometimes saw her come out of Liu Biweng's room early in the morning.
If it really belongs to the father-daughter relationship, why do you often run to Liu Biweng's room in the middle of the night?
The county lord asked her to tell the truth.
Knowing that her adultery with Liu Biweng was exposed, she had to tell the truth. She said that she was indeed not Liu Biweng's daughter and had an improper relationship with Liu Biweng.
Manslaughter of parents and children
The reason why she went to Liu Biweng's room was because Liu Biweng threatened her. Otherwise, just say something. It turned out that Liu Cuicui's child was not Chen Alang's, but Liu Biweng's.
Liu Biweng used this to blackmail her, and often asked her to go to Liu Biweng's room in the middle of the night.
is also because Chen Alang's body is not as good as before, and he often sleeps in Zhang Qianqian's house. She was very dissatisfied with Chen Alang, and every time Liu Biweng called her, she passed.
However, Chunsheng's child was indeed born by her, and she couldn't kill her own child.
If it wasn't her who killed Chunsheng, it would be Liu Biweng?
The county lord brought Liu Biweng for interrogation again, and at first he didn't admit it, but through the county lord's investigation, only Liu Biweng had bought arsenic in the entire house.
If he hadn't poisoned it, it wouldn't have been someone else.
Liu Biweng saw that he couldn't quibble, so he just told the truth. The arsenic was indeed put in the corn paste, and his original intention was to poison Chen Xiasheng.
Originally, he asked Liu Cuicui to marry Chen Alang, just because he felt that Chen Alang had no queen, and Liu Cuicui was pregnant with his child at that time, so that his child could inherit Chen Alang's family property.
He did it for the money.
However, what he didn't expect was that Zhang Qianqian gave birth to another child. Zhang Qianqian is the wife, and the property must be left to the wife's children.
He didn't want to lose his wife and soldiers, so he thought of a plan to put arsenic on Xia Sheng's favorite food, wanting to poison Xia Sheng to death and blame Zhang Qianqian.
Unexpectedly, on that day, Chunsheng was uncomfortable, so he drank Xiasheng's corn paste. In this way, his own son Chunsheng was poisoned by him, and he did not kill his son on purpose.
The matter was all investigated clearly, Liu Biweng, who killed people, was beheaded, and Liu Cuicui, who had an affair with Liu Biweng, was also punished accordingly. The reason why she was with Liu Biweng was because she was abducted by Liu Biweng. In the end, both of them were punished by God.
And Zhang Qianqian's life with her husband and son has returned to normal. Now they are a family of three, and they are happy. Again lived an enviable life.