Later, when Chang Bingbing was approaching her coming-of-age ceremony, she insisted on competing with the daughters of officials in the Capital City.
Whatever guests those young ladies invited, she kicked up a fuss and demanded that they be invited to hers too.
The Chang Family were only ordinary commoners. Even if they sent all her older sisters to become powerful men's concubines, they still could not secure those guests.
Madam Chang knew that perfectly well, yet for the sake of her most beloved youngest daughter, she dumped every problem on her married daughters.
She summoned them back to their maiden home every day, accusing them at every turn of having no sisterly affection.
She said that if they treated Chang Bingbing this way, how could she close her eyes in peace when she died?
But even if she cried her eyes dry, her other daughters had no way of inviting the guests who attended those official families' coming-of-age ceremonies.
In the end, Chang Bingbing pretended to be magnanimous and said she would not force her sisters to invite those people. They could simply consider themselves owing her a coming-of-age ceremony.
After that, whenever her older sisters refused to fulfill her wishes, Chang Bingbing would cry and say they owed her.
Later, she took a fancy to a provincial examination graduate who had come to the Capital City for the imperial examinations and insisted on marrying him.
Yet she did not want to return to his hometown with him, so she tearfully demanded that her sisters find a way to buy her a house in the Capital City.
The Tie Family's grandmother, the eldest sister, had it worst. Chang Bingbing said her eldest brother-in-law's smithy made the most money, so she should shoulder the largest share.
Tie Lihua was already ten