Chapter 1928
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When Zhang Jiujiu was six years old, Zhang Gensheng personally went to the county town and carefully selected a boy from the slave trader.
Logically speaking, such children were worthless, but Zhang Gensheng had his eyes on the fairest and cleverest child in this batch of children.
Zhang Gensheng spent two taels of silver to buy Zhang Fei.
Two taels of silver was not a small sum for the Zhang family. It was enough to cover the expenses of the Zhang family for one or two months.
Zhang Fei was the name Zhang Gensheng had given to the boy.
Zhang Gensheng raised Zhang Fei as his own son and provided him with food and shelter like his own daughter. He had the old servant call him young master.
When the neighbors saw this, they all knew that Master Zhang was making plans for his daughter.
Indeed, Zhang Gensheng had bought Zhang Fei for him to be his future son-in-law.
He thought that since they had grown up together and the Zhang family had raised the child, Zhang Fei would not mistreat Zhang Jiujiu in the future.
He had even sent Zhang Fei to a private school and provided for him to study for more than ten years.
Zhang Fei was not stupid. Although the two sides had never explicitly said it, he knew that he was not a child of the Zhang family and what kind of status he had in the Zhang family.
He wasn't really against it.
Zhang Jiujiu, who had been called little sister since she was young, was very charming. When she looked at people with her misty eyes, she could melt people's hearts. She did not look like a girl that could be raised in a small town.
Zhang Fei was even a little happy to have such a beautiful fiancée.
This was supposed to be a beautiful story of a kind country gentleman taking care of a poor student and marrying a beautiful wife after the student obtained scholarly honors.
However, no one had expected the following development.
Zhang Fei was a talented person, but his talent wasn't that famous among students all over the country.
However, no one had expected that this young man, who did not look very talented, would smoothly pass the provincial examination, the metropolitan examination, and finally the court examination.
Although he did not make it into the top three, Zhang Fei was successfully selected as a grand scholar.
This was a grand scholar!
Not to mention the small town that the Zhang family was in, even in the entire county, there might not be a single grand scholar in the imperial examination every year.
Greatly bringing honor to the ancestors!
Everyone said that the Zhang family had great luck in their previous life. They had casually bought a child and it turned out to be a grand scholar!
Zhang Gensheng was both surprised and happy. He felt that he had made the right move.
In the future, Jiujiu would be the wife of a grand scholar. Who knows, she might even be given a title!
However, he didn't think about whether Zhang Fei would be willing to find a wife who couldn't help him in his career.
Zhang Fei's heart was big.
After he became a Jinshi, he didn't rush back to his hometown. Instead, he took the money that the Zhang family gave him and stayed in the capital.
After a month had passed, Zhang Gensheng, who had been waiting bitterly, finally received a letter from the capital.
The letter was personally written by Zhang Fei. It meant that the Mingyi Marquis had taken a liking to him while he was in the capital and wanted him to be his son-in-law.
The marquis' power was Old Marquis's power of the Marquis.
What he meant was that his engagement with Zhang Jiujiu had never been officially set in the first place. Now that things were like this, they could just pretend that nothing had happened.
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