Chapter 109 109 Late-married people enjoy the same treatment as unmarried people.
Xianyu’s current marital status is actually quite special.
When she was thirteen years old, she participated in the Eight Banners selection for the first time and was betrothed to the Fourth Prince by Master Kang as his principal wife.
However, because she was too young at the time and she had work to do, she did not get married right away.
This dragged on for six years, and when she was about to turn nineteen, she still hadn't held a wedding ceremony with the Fourth Prince - so, she was married, but it seemed like she was not married.
To put it simply, it means "married people enjoy the same treatment as unmarried people."
In response to this, another person involved, the Fourth Prince, said that as long as Fu Jin was happy, he was fine, really, nothing happened at all, haha.
Master Kong, who thought he had "good intentions" but ended up doing something bad, is actually very regretful.
Because, he really felt that Xianyu was too young at that time, so he gave the oral order to let her and the Fourth Prince marry later.
In addition, Xianyu is the same age as the Fifth Princess, and has frequently been in and out of the palace in recent years, often going in and out with the Fifth Princess, making them almost like real sisters.
In this way, Master Kang unknowingly began to treat Xianyu as his own daughter - not only him, but also Concubine De.
Not to mention that the Fifth Princess was her biological daughter, which made her feel particularly close to Xianyu, the Fifth Princess's study companion. Just the fact that Xianyu saved the Ninth Princess would make Defei grateful to her for the rest of her life - of course, it was actually Zhang Youshi and their medical research institute who saved the Ninth Princess, but Defei didn't care about that.
Without Xianyu, there would be no medical research institute.
Without the Medical Research Institute, how could doctors like Zhang Youshi get together to discuss treatment plans and finally successfully save the Ninth Princess?
In short, everything went so smoothly because of Xianyu.
Not only Concubine De, but almost everyone in the former court and the harem thought so.
Therefore, out of love for Xianyu, Master Kang, Concubine De, and even Empress Dowager Renxian, all disagreed with her marrying the Fourth Prince too early - the child was still young, and they had to wait until the Fifth Prince got married.
Xiaowu and the others were reluctant to let her go and wanted to stay for a few more years. I guess the Wang family felt the same way about Xianyu.
Originally, the Empress Dowager, Concubine De, and Master Kang were thinking of arranging a marriage for the Fifth Princess with a prince consort in two or three years, and then arranging the marriage of Xianyu and the Fourth Prince at the same time.
As a result, I heard - yes, one of the latest research results of the Medical Research Institute is that if a girl gets married too early, she will easily suffer from difficult labor due to premature childbirth.
This is fatal.
You know, dystocia is a terrible and difficult disease that ranks first in the mortality rate among women. They don't want their princesses to face this danger.
Therefore, starting from the fifth princess, the princesses of the Qing royal family in this world generally got married at a late age, after the age of eighteen. It is probably because they were afraid that this situation would occur.
Moreover, this trend was not only popular among the royal family, but also gradually became popular among the people. For a time, the maternal and infant mortality rates dropped a lot. Master Kang was very pleased and awarded a large sum of money to Xianyu and the Medical Research Institute, allowing them to build a special obstetrics and gynecology department...
Yes, after general practice and pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology also has its own specialized sub-departments. As for surgery, it has achieved cross-disciplinary integration - whether it is surgery to remove a tumor, bone setting, bloodletting, deformity correction, or even caesarean section, surgery is present.
The surgeons who performed the surgeries at the beginning were those Western doctors - the ones that Xianyu had brought back from foreign countries using the old connections of the old man from the Wang family.
It can only be said that the old man of the Wang family’s management of foreign-related affairs was not in vain. Not only did it make it convenient to exchange a few glass products from abroad, but Western medical knowledge could also be exchanged, which was great.
Although thanks to Xianyu and her medical research institute, the age at which women get married and have children has generally been postponed, and the establishment of obstetrics and gynecology has also reduced maternal and infant mortality rates, according to historical records, the Fifth Princess still could not escape the fate of dying young.
She was arranged to be married at the age of 18 and officially married at the age of 19. She was absolutely an adult, so she did not die in childbirth, but died on the way to accompany the Empress Dowager to escape the summer heat.
Yes, she died of heatstroke. It was outrageous. A young girl under 20 years old died of heatstroke. Who could believe it?
Now, there is only less than a year left until this incident occurs.
Because the fifth princess had been betrothed, and she was waiting to get married after the New Year when she turned nineteen. Then, in the summer of that year, she would die of heat stroke. Therefore, Xianyu had been paying attention to this matter, fearing that she would not be able to stop it in time and lose this good sister.
As the Fifth Princess' wedding approaches, Xianyu and the Fourth Prince's marriage is also put on the agenda.
In fact, Xianyu has complicated feelings about this matter.
At the beginning, she really didn't want to marry the Fourth Prince, otherwise, she would not have taken the initiative to propose a "contract marriage" to him.
But the Fourth Prince actually agreed.
Not only did he agree, he was also very contractual - although it was actually a contract marriage, on the surface, there was nothing unusual about it.
He even created a very affectionate and loyal personality because of this - anyone who heard that he had been very chaste all along in order to wait for the young Fourth Lady, and he didn't even have a concubine by his side, let alone a side wife or concubine.
You know, the other princes, not to mention their concubines, concubines, and side wives, even their legitimate wives have given birth to several children, but the Fourth Prince is still a single man, which makes Xianyu feel embarrassed.
However, after she had made her suggestions and hints many times and the Fourth Prince remained unmoved, Xianyu no longer bothered to care.
After all, the reason the Fourth Prince told her was that he also had his career to attend to.
This is not wrong.
Because in recent years, the Fourth Prince has been very, very busy.
Ever since he performed outstandingly in the Jiangnan imperial examination fraud case and the Beijing imperial examination fraud case, Master Kang has assigned him more and more tasks. In addition to the fact that Master Kang recognized the ability of his fourth son and wanted to train him, there was another reason, that is, both he and the Fourth Prince had heard Xianyu's thoughts.
Yes, that’s the voice of “The Fourth Master is the heir to the throne.”
This is a "secret" for Master Kong and Siye.
Although everyone says that "heaven's secrets cannot be revealed", those who have had their secrets revealed will definitely think that this is a good thing and that they are very lucky to know these "heaven's secrets".
The same goes for Master Kang and the Fourth Prince.
At first, of course, both of them were shocked.
But after being shocked a few times, the father and son gradually accepted this setting - later, this matter even became an unspoken secret between the father and son.
Now that the heir to the throne has been determined, it's like knowing the ending of the story in advance. Although there is nothing new, it is stable.
Moreover, only Master Kang and the Fourth Prince knew about this matter. No other members of the royal family knew about it. At that time, they didn't know that someone in the harem had increased Xianyu's favorability. For example, Concubine Wang also knew about this in advance. Although she learned about it by chance, she didn't show any abnormality after knowing it.
Apart from the "hard control" of the system when she heard this voice, she would never dare to tell such things to anyone even if she was beaten to death.
In short, although it was such explosive news, both the former court and the harem were quiet.
Wang Ziteng and Wang Yao certainly knew about this, but they were both very tight-lipped and would never reveal any information about such an important matter to anyone.
The same goes for Old Lady Wang and Sister Feng.
Those two were busy building the Wang family's beautiful new house - in the second year after Xianyu was arranged to marry, Feng Jieer finally started the process of recruiting a son-in-law.
She was originally two years older than Xianyu and was already sixteen years old at that time.
Although she was not too old, after going through the process of selecting a son-in-law and examining him, she was already 18 years old by the time of the wedding.
It should be said that the old lady of the Wang family and her sister Feng Jie made a move, which was a powerful combination. Shouldn't it be easy to get a qualified son-in-law?
But in fact, this matter was not simple at all, and it took them two years to complete it.
Moreover, the son-in-law they found could only be considered barely suitable - until before the marriage, Feng Jieer once said in a "bedside chat" with Xianyu, half-jokingly and half-seriously that she wanted to "get rid of the father and keep the son."
It's true that most people can't do what Feng Jieer does, but fortunately, in the Wang family, Feng Jieer can do it as she pleases.
Because, whether it was the old lady of the Wang family, the person with the highest nominal status in the Wang family, or Xianyu, the person with the highest actual status in the Wang family, they all supported Feng Jieer.
The situation on the women's side has already been decided, let alone on the men's side.
Wang Ziteng, the actual person in charge of the Wang family, is a typical daughter slave. As long as his beloved daughter Xianyu agrees with something, he will support it without a second thought.
Wang Yao, the next generation leader of the Wang family, is a top-notch "sister control". As long as his beloved sister Xianyu wants to do something, he will support her with both hands and feet...
Therefore, with both the inner and outer house powers so one-sided, the opposition voice of Feng Jieer's father, the eldest master of the Wang family, was very weak - of course, he also had helpers, his eldest son, Feng Jieer's half-brother Wang Ren, still supported him.
Unfortunately, this Wang Ren was not a kind and righteous person - it would be better to say that there was nothing about him that had anything to do with benevolence.
It really proves the saying that if you lack something, you should flaunt it. This is true for both Wang Ren and the eldest master of the Wang family who gave him this name.
The funniest thing is that even the second wife of the Wang family's eldest master, Mrs. Li, Feng Jieer's stepmother, stood on the same front with Feng Jieer, which made the Wang family's eldest master and Wang Ren, father and son, even more funny.
Therefore, their two voices of objection had no effect on Feng Jieer's process of marrying a son-in-law.
Then they started to do some weird things - including but not limited to stuffing a bunch of ugly people into Fengjie's selection team, and using various methods such as intimidation, coercion and inducement to "persuade" some of the better candidates to withdraw...
In short, they also made a lot of contributions to Feng Jieer's late marriage.
Fortunately, the old lady of the Wang family and Feng Jieer were no pushovers. Not only did they successfully resolve various crises, they even gave the father and son several sets of combined punches, making them lose both the wife and the army - for example, they instigated those son-in-law candidates who were gangsters to ask for benefits from the eldest master of the Wang family and Wang Ren - playing with division and infighting. Feng Jieer is a professional at this. You can learn about the two peaches to kill three warriors.
Furthermore, those truly high-quality candidates are never afraid of intimidation and can withstand all kinds of tests of coercion and inducement. Therefore, the matter between the eldest master of the Wang family and Wang Ren is actually helping Sister Feng to select better candidates...
In short, no matter what tricks the Wang family's eldest master and Wang Ren use, the Wang family's old lady and Feng Jieer always have ways to fight back beautifully, and they don't even need the help of Xianyu and Wang Ziteng - that's really a slap in the face, so refreshing.
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