Many people came to Qing Shi Town for Zhu Zhu's wedding.
The Zhou family elders, along with Zhou Tao's family, Zhou Xing's family, Zhou Lin's family, Zhou Wencong, and Zhou Shifan, all came.
The Xu brothers also arrived.
In addition, Mr. Yang and Mrs. Qi, along with their child, also came from Qingshi Town.
Yue Xiu and Pei Jing also came with their wives. How could they not come when their junior sister was getting married!
The entire town of Qingshi came together, forming a long convoy.
Fortunately, the Li family mansion in Limai is large enough to accommodate everyone.
Zhou Lei also returned to Beijing with his wife and children.
Zhou Lei passed the imperial examination a few years ago, ranking seventh in the second class. He did quite well. With his sister-in-law Li Mai being a royal physician and the Crown Prince's favor, he was given a county magistrate position to gain experience.
The Crown Prince ordered him to remain away for three years, after which he would be transferred back to the capital to serve in the Ministry of Revenue.
Zhou Lei also got married, marrying the second daughter of the Vice Minister of Revenue. The reason he was able to marry such a noblewoman was because he was honest, capable in both literature and martial arts, and was first favored by his father-in-law. In addition, he was Li Mai's brother-in-law, so Vice Minister Li was very satisfied with this son-in-law.
Li Xiang, the second daughter of the Li family, was also a good person. She was the daughter of a civil official, but she liked martial arts. Knowing that Zhou Lei knew kung fu, the way the second daughter and Zhou Lei developed their relationship was by practicing kung fu together. The two got along very well. After they got married, Li Xiang followed Zhou Lei to a local place to serve as an official.
This time, when Zhuzhu got married, her family returned to the capital together.
After meeting Zhou Lei this time, the Crown Prince inquired about the situation in the local area, and Zhou Lei reported everything to him. He said that he would transfer Zhou Lei back to the capital next year.
Zhou Lei agreed.
This time when he returned, he also moved back to his mansion in the capital with his wife and children. It was a medium-sized mansion that his elder brother had bought for him in the area where officials lived when he got married.
He only lived with Li Xiang for three months after their marriage. Three months later, he was assigned an official position, and the couple left the capital together.
Thanks to Zhuzhu's wedding, the whole family was finally reunited.
When Zhou Lei got married last time, only Zhou's parents and Lu Qian and Zhou Tao came; Zhou Lin and the others couldn't come.
The Gu family didn't come. There was no way around it; the Crown Prince had too close a relationship with them, so they couldn't just show up here for fear of their identities being discovered, which would harm the Yun Prince's Mansion and Li Mai.
Both King Yun and King Gu Zhe have tried to establish mutual trust and trade relations between the two countries, but so far they have not been able to do so. They have simply maintained a tacit understanding and peaceful coexistence for more than a decade without fighting.
The Gu family did not dare to show up rashly, after all, the Gu brothers were now border generals, and many people in the Song State's general's mansion knew them.
Li Mai told Gu Zhe that she could only wait until Zhu Zhu got married before she could bring her family to reunite with them and have Cheng Cheng and Zhu Zhu offer them a toast.
Old Man Zhou's family has now grown into a large clan.
Zhou Lin and Xu Yue have three children: their daughter Zhou Mengying, their eldest son Zhou Mengrong, and their second son Zhou Mengxun, also known as Xunbao.
Zhou Xing and Xu Shun also have three children. A few years ago, they had another child, a son named Xu Yiqiu.
Zhou Tao and Lu Qian have two children: their eldest son, Lu Zhaonian, and their second daughter, Lu Zhaoyang, also known as Yangbao.
Zhou Lei's family currently only has one son, named Zhou Mengpeng, also known as Pengbao.
Zhou Wencong and Zhou Shifan sat together, keeping Old Man Zhou company. Looking at the Zhou family's current wealth and prosperity, they were filled with emotion.
Think back to the life the Zhou family lived seventeen years ago, and look at it now. Who could have imagined that only a little over a decade has passed?
Looking back at the villagers who were still planting flowers and vegetables in an orderly manner, they shook their heads and thought, "The bigger your heart, the longer your future path will be!"
However, they felt that this was also a reward for the kindness of the two elderly people in Zhou Sanli.
The Zhou family's transformation began when they married Li Mai.
If Zhou Sanli and his wife hadn't treated their daughter-in-law well back then, perhaps she wouldn't have stayed with Zhou Quan, and she wouldn't have been able to lead Zhou Sanli's family to where they are today.
Actually, if you think about it carefully, it's not just Zhou Sanli's family that has changed; the entire Zhoujia Village and the Zhou clan have all undergone significant changes because of this family.
The villagers now live a life where they have no worries about food and clothing, only they don't have the immense wealth and luxury that Zhou Sanli's family enjoys.
The Zhou family's Wende Academy is now quite famous throughout the Song Kingdom, and some even rank it sixth among the top ten academies in the country.
Many students from the north choose to study there with peace of mind, and then take the autumn and spring imperial examinations.
Because Zhou Wencong is still the dean, but he has recruited more than ten teachers who were successful candidates in the imperial examinations or the imperial examinations. He has granted them the status of professors and allowed them to take on students and teach one to three students who are specifically preparing for the autumn and spring imperial examinations.
Of course, Zhou Wencong lived up to expectations. He participated in the imperial examination with Zhou Lei and Yue Ze. Yue Ze failed, but he and Zhou Lei became the top scholars in the provincial examination and then passed the imperial examination together.
He ranked fifth in the second class. The emperor originally wanted to keep him in the court and let him teach at the Imperial Academy, but Zhou Wencong declined, saying that he still had Wende Academy to manage. He said that there were dozens of students at Wende Academy, and it was a greater responsibility for him to teach them to become successful, because they had all gone to Wende Academy because of him.
Since he had this intention, the emperor did not try to stop him. Naturally, he praised him again, rewarding him with a lot of money and good things. He insisted that Zhou Wencong renovate his house into a grand mansion with blue bricks and tiles after returning home.
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