Family Rejuvenation Begins with Marrying a Wife

[A century of development of small families in the south of the Yangtze River] [Struggles within the house] [Enter the imperial examination] [Family portraits] In the 39th year of Jiajing reign, Taiping County, Taizhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province Lin Wenyou, the son of a declining scholarly family, had no reputation as a scholar, but he still accomplished nothing despite his age. The widowed mother is strong, the young sister is waiting to be married, and the family is in dire straits. In order to solve the predicament, her mother asked her uncle, who was a merchant, to talk to a matchmaker and propose to marry Song Lingqiu, the concubine of the county bookkeeper's family. After they got married, she learned that her husband had a cold nature and was in constant trouble in the house. When a bride enters the house, she walks carefully every step of the way; when a scholar goes for an examination, he walks on thin ice. On the one hand, it is the difficult climb to gain fame in the imperial examination, and on the other hand, it is the business game of the imperial family. Starting from marrying a wife and having children, let's see how a Jiangnan family navigates the road of rejuvenation in the cracks of the world. (There are no very focused male and female protagonists. It can be regarded as a group portrait novel, focusing on the development and reproduction of the family, from a coastal county to taking over the two capitals step by step)