Meet you in the most beautiful years

Chapter 5 I don't know why I suddenly fell in love with you (3)
At the age of 17, Zhang Wuling married Lu Ying, the second lady of the Lu family, a wealthy family in Yangzhou.Lu Yingyuan is also the daughter of a well-known family in Hefei. Because her grandfather was a salt official, her family moved to Yangzhou.Miss Lu Ying is outstanding in talent and appearance, virtuous and capable, and her reputation has spread early.Even though she was four years older than Zhang Wuling, in that era, a woman and a man were considered a good match for marriage.So Zhang Yun entrusted a matchmaker to make a match for this well-matched in-law.

Zhang Yunhe's dictation and Ye Zhishan's book "The Zhang Family's Past" contains the only photo of Lu Ying.A very quiet and elegant woman, wearing a Western-style dress with a waist and a drape, a Western-style summer hat with a flower on her head, and a small bag in her left hand. She has a slender figure, gentle and quiet, elegant and self-respect. She is a well-educated, classical woman. A trendy family lady.Against the background of black and white, you can still feel the skin on her lonely face with a youthful and plump luster.

Zhang Wuling is elegant and clear, exuding the quiet temperament of a scholar.Like Lu Ying, he has this quiet and elegant beauty.Their sons and daughters have inherited this advantage very well.

When Lu Ying got married, "the dowry procession stretched from Sipailou to Longmen Lane, a full line of ten streets", and the grandness of the wedding was unmatched in decades.

It is said that grandma spent a whole year buying a dowry, and there were so many things that were frightening to death.The Lu family hired a boat from Yangzhou to load the dowry and transport it to Hefei. Before the wedding, the husband hired a husband to put it in a box.There are several sets of red sandalwood furniture, not only the new house is brand new, because the Zhang family has a large courtyard with several entrances, and the Lu family even has a complete set of furniture in the lobby and the second hall.There are countless gold and silver jewelry, especially Cui, because my mother likes Cui.Everything in the dowry is complete, brooms and dustpans are also complete sets, and silver chains are hung on each broom. ("Old Stories of the Zhang Family")
Such a grand wedding has already made people dizzy, but it was not until seeing the bride that everyone realized what it means to be amazed.The red scarf was removed, and everyone in the room was stunned!The bride with shy phoenix eyes and slightly raised brows, like a hibiscus emerging from water and a beam of sunlight shining on a beam, is so beautiful that she is not like a mortal.This radiant and astonishing beauty made the bride's aunt faintly have an ominous premonition: it's too revealing, it can't be kept, and I'm afraid it won't live long.

It seems that the words of heaven is jealous of beauty are true. At the age of 36, this beautiful and elegant woman died of sepsis caused by tooth extraction. In the past 16 years, she left four daughters and five sons for the Zhang family, a total of nine children, and also left her children with the elegant temperament of her famous family.

The sadness of the mother's death is still fresh in the memory of the second young lady Yunhe.The distraught father sat beside his mother's coffin, staring at the beautiful pale face for a long time, no matter how much he persuaded him, he would not let the coffin be closed.Then one day, he sat cross-legged on a low square stool, watching the little sisters play, with tears in his eyes, that was the only time Yunhe saw his father cry.

Later, the pain of losing his wife gradually subsided. He finally married his stepwife Wei Junyi and gave birth to a son. Ten siblings.

The season for the birth of Third Miss Zhaohe is approaching early autumn.The sweltering heat began to dissipate, and Longmen Lane in Hefei was as cool as water in the morning and evening.In the wealthy Zhang family, she no longer seems to be cared for like the two elder sisters. Grandma has been looking forward to the Zhang family having a grandson for a long time, but when she landed, she turned out to be another rouge face.This disappointment had more or less an impact on her. She was rarely pampered since she was a child, and even the servants and Gangan (nanny) in the family took care of her more casually and neglected than her two older sisters.

When Zhaohe was five years old, a 16-year-old Wuxi female teacher surnamed Wan was invited to the family.At the beginning of teaching the sisters to read, the female teacher thought that Zhaohe was a boy, so she always hugged her in her arms. Later, when she realized that she was a girl, she never hugged her again.This sudden joy of being favored and suddenly lost in indifference is such a heart-rending blow to the young Zhaohe.

Although her mother loves her very much, she is always too busy to take care of her.So my mother often put her in her room and threw her a bunch of candied haws, and she played with it for as long as she wanted.The servant at home gave her the brown rice in his own bowl, and she also ate it with great relish.No one paid too much attention to her, and no one felt sorry for her.

However, this careless briefing is extremely beneficial to cultivating her tolerant and tolerant character.When she was a child, Zhaohe's face was slightly dark, gentle and kind, not at all as delicate and capricious as a young lady of the family.No matter whether the tutor hits her palm with a wooden ruler or her sisters bully her, she prefers to keep silent, neither cry nor complain.Therefore, in the future, she became a quiet, modest, flexible and informal woman, which is not unrelated to the education she received in her childhood.

Perhaps it was because the cultural atmosphere in Hefei at that time was not in line with Zhang Wuling's ideals. In 20, he took his family of more than [-] people and left Hefei, where his ancestors lived and created a foundation, and moved to live in Shanghai. At that time, the beautiful The elegant Lu Ying is still alive, and the third lady, Zhao He, has just turned eight months.The family first lived on Maigen Road, and then moved to Tiemalu Tunanli.A large house with two floors, seven floors and seven floors, and a yard so big that a dozen tables of banquets can be set up. This is something that is unimaginable in today's Shanghai where every inch of land is expensive.

A few years later, an accident when his grandmother died changed Zhang Wuling's plan to live in Shanghai for a long time.The funeral was held in a very ostentatious manner. In those few days, there were more than a dozen tables of guests in the Zhang family's compound every day, and monks were invited to perform ceremonies and set off flames.In this rush, a bomb appeared at the gate of the Zhang family!This unexpected shock made the whole family think that a huge disaster was about to come, so they had to hastily advance the day of the funeral, and even the things placed in the mourning shed were fake.Fortunately, nothing happened in the end, but Zhang Wuling decided to move out of this place.

So, when Zhaohe was seven years old, Zhang Wuling moved his family again and came to soft and beautiful Suzhou.For the Zhang family, if their mother hadn't passed away in [-], the good times in Suzhou could be described as happiness.

Suzhou, with outstanding people, is very suitable for the elegant Zhang Wuling.His life in Suzhou is leisurely and fulfilling.In addition to going to the guild hall to read Kunqu Opera and browse local newspapers, he also likes to take the servants to visit the book market when he has a little spare time. Later, he became familiar with the bookstore. As long as there are new books in, the bookstore will send the books directly to Zhang’s family in bundles. , and even the Zhang family's collection of books is notoriously rich in Suzhou.

Based on Zhang Wuling's obsession with culture, it is not surprising that he later became a famous enlightened educator.At this time, influenced by the May [-]th new trend of thought, he changed his name to Zhang Jiyu and his style name Jiyou with the hope of a new life and the sense of mission of democratic progressives to reform China.In [-], he invested and founded Leyi Girls' High School in Suzhou. Not long after the school started, his wife Lu Ying passed away.Since then, he has been indifferent to gain and loss of fame and fortune, and only focused on running a school. He eliminated the enthusiasm for life in calligraphy, painting, poetry and ink and Kunqu opera, and sent away the long flow of time day after day.

No. [-] Shouning Lane, this garden-style mansion and the childhood time in the mansion, like a boat carrying moonlight, ran aground in the memories of Zhang's famous ladies, exuding a warm and dreamy light.

Memories, as in the past, still filled with the joy of early spring.

Oh, oh, step on the waterwheel, there is a snake in the waterwheel.

Sister Peony is getting married, and Sister Pomegranate is a matchmaker.

Lay house frames in the peach garden, get married in the plum garden.

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How beautiful the moonlight was then.On a summer night as cool as water, in a garden-like house, the young Zhaohe and his sisters slept on bamboo beds, watching the countless stars in the night sky, while learning to sing this Suzhou dialect folk song from the gang.

Fireflies, holding small lanterns one after another, flew back and forth, and the fragrance of apricot, jujube, and various flowers and plants in the garden came in bursts, like a quiet dream dyed with long fragrance, and also like a dream in a fairy tale. In the castle, there lived a handsome prince and a beautiful princess.

The Zhang family lived in this spacious garden-style house for several years.Fourth Miss Chonghe was adopted as a granddaughter by her second grandmother in Hefei not long after she was born. She has been receiving the best education in Hefei until her second grandmother passed away before reuniting with her family.Therefore, her childhood was missing the feast of her siblings.

The boudoir of the three sisters is on the upper floor of the third house. Open the window and you can see the back garden. The pavilions, pavilions, flower corridors and waterside pavilions in the garden seem to be a painting of a wealthy family in an old drama. However, it has not been staged at that time. A romantic story of a gifted man and a beautiful woman, it is just the cradle of the gifted man and beautiful woman's childhood.

The garden is huge, with water pavilions and pavilions, rockery, flowers and plants, fruit trees, and the white walls and black tiles are beautiful and quiet. This scene should only be seen in the sky, in dreams, in books, and in plays.But it is not the garden in the "Peony Pavilion", and ladies don't need a matchmaker to lead the way and sneak around.As long as we leave the study every day and release the birds back to the forest, the place will no longer be quiet.Sometimes we imitate Wang Xizhi's "washing inkstone in the pond", and more often we climb mountains and play with water insanely. ("Old Stories of the Zhang Family")
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