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Jade wept while pouring her heart out, but Wang Yanqing sat there as if indifferent, an outsider to it all. 。Even jade feels wronged like this, doesn't Wang Yanqing, the real person, really care How is that possible 。For ten years, since she was seven years old, being brought to the Zhenyuan Hou Mansion, her life had only been Fu Tingzhou. 。It is the eleventh year of Jiajing's reign now, and it has been eleven years since the twelfth emperor of the Ming Dynasty came to Beijing. 。During the Ming Dynasty, scholars and officials were clearly separated from commoners and nobles. Scholars were chosen through imperial examinations, with each generation replaced by a new one. If the next generation didn't study hard, their status would decline. However, military officers were hereditary, like the Wuding Hou Mansion and Yongping Hou Mansion. These families had held military power for generations, spending more time in the capital than even the current emperor. 。The Fu family rose to prominence in recent years, but their ancestors were also a military family. In the generation of Fu Tingzhou's grandfather, Fu Yue, they made military achievements and were enfeoffed as the Marquis of Zhenyuan by the former emperor Zhengde. 。For this reason, the Fu family always lowered their heads before the old-established noble families in the capital, such as Wuding Hou and Yongping Hou. 。,But after Fu Yue was buried, the couple of Fu Chang changed their words. 。They feigned ignorance of Fu Yue's meaning and grandly told Fu Tingzhou about the arranged marriage. 。Fu Yue said that there was no need to observe filial mourning, but his descendants could not overstep their bounds. Fu Tingzhou was not allowed to hold banquets, enjoy himself, or get married during this year. 。but they couldn't officially get engaged. They could, however, meet privately. Fu Chang and his wife went through several candidates before settling on the recently returned Yongping Marquis. 。,Since old Marquis Fu Yue passed away, Wang Yanqing's position in the Fu family has become awkward. Now that the Marquisate openly arranges a marriage for Fu Tingzhou, they don't even want to bother with appearances anymore.。

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