After that incident, for some unknown reason, Aunt Zhou started talking more and breaking her lips a lot. She told Su Yiqing that all the maids and wives who followed Su Yixiang were sent to Zhuangzi.

The mother-in-law said that she has a son and a daughter, and in a few years she can come out to live with her son in old age. But the maids are miserable, they are all assigned to rough men in the village who can't get a wife. The maids who can follow the lady are all

They were carefully selected for their appearance and intelligence. They were released and many small landowners and merchants rushed to get them.

Now, these maids who are somewhat better than the ladies from small families are marrying the lowest farmers who can't even marry their wives. When Su Yixiang's personal maid Zhu'er knew that she was going to marry someone older than her father

Even older, a man who lived in a thatched house with only four walls was hanged with a rope that night.

Su Yiqing felt cold all over her body. I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me. She felt deeply guilty.

She also knew at that time that if she ran out so boldly to say these things to Mrs. Cen, some innocent people would be affected, but she had no choice and couldn't care so much.

She really didn't expect that the punishment would be so severe, let alone that people would die.

When Grandma Zhou said this, she kept observing Su Yiqing's face.

Seeing a look of remorse on her face, he changed the topic and told her that the fourth bedroom was really uneasy recently. The two maids Mrs. Cen gave to the fourth bedroom were not treated as aunts, but only as ordinary maids.

house.

Because Fourth Master Su wants to formally adopt a second wife. The daughter he is marrying is the daughter of an innocent family.

The government said that raising an aunt is different from getting a second wife. Carrying a aunt is just a lip service, and the government only acknowledges it. The outside world does not recognize this kind of aunt being carried by a maid, but this is not the case for a second wife who is carried in by an innocent family.

Su Yiqing likes to read. She has read all the official and unofficial histories of past and present lives. She knows that the laws of each dynasty are different and the treatment of concubines is also different.

Take the past two dynasties as an example. A concubine is a concubine. Once she is a concubine, she will be a concubine for life. It is absolutely impossible to correct her. Promoting a concubine to a wife is a violation of the law. Once the incident occurs, she will be imprisoned.

But in the previous dynasty, there was a great man who had power over concubines. He just changed the law and let the concubines be straightened up. There was some opposition at first, but then everyone gradually tasted the benefits.

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If the concubine's status is low, then there will be far fewer women willing to be concubines. If there is the possibility of correcting the concubine, then there will be more women who are willing, and there will be more opportunities to choose. Which man doesn't want a few more noble-born concubines?

Beautiful concubines, the status of the children born from such concubines is also higher. Men can not care whether the woman sleeping next to them is of low status, but they cannot care about their children.

There are also some promising people among those born from concubines who have become officials in the court. If their mother's status can be improved, they will naturally be willing to do so.

However, in order to prevent concubines from causing trouble, after several reforms, it became clear that only good concubines, that is, serious second wives, could be corrected. Those concubines, singers, and the like who were born in lowly backgrounds were not qualified, and this kind of

The number of concubines is also limited, scholar-bureaucrats can only have two, and ordinary nobles can only have one.

Of course, behind closed doors, you can accept as many as you like. Isn’t there just one title? The so-called aunt is just like the concubines in the palace who are called empress. The queen can be called empress, and ordinary concubines can also be called empress.

They are called empresses, but their grades are very different.

Generally speaking, noble families don't like to have such a second room. There are many noble families in the noble family, and the fight for the title is already troublesome. Even the same mother will fight to the death, let alone other things. It is easy to do this.

The family is in chaos, so usually in an honorable family, the main wife has no one to leave, or the wife is seriously ill and cannot take care of the housework, so the second wife is brought in to help with the household chores.

Official families are different. If the son of the main wife is not successful, he needs another son who can read to take care of him. Otherwise, he will easily fall into decline. Therefore, the official family has more good concubines, and the mother is more valuable based on the son.

Although Mrs. Chen from the fourth room said she had no son, she did have a daughter. There were also concubines around her. She was in good health, so it was not necessarily impossible for her to be reborn. Fourth Master Su did this clearly to slap Mrs. Chen in the face. The daughter of the merchant Chen was brought in.

However, the second bedroom comes from a scholarly family. In terms of family background, it is much better than that of the Chen family.

You can imagine how difficult life will be for Chen in the future.

What Su Yiqing doesn't quite understand is, since everyone knows that this is the source of family chaos, why does Mr. Su do this? She has also met Mr. Su, a shrewd and capable man, and he will not be stunned by true love.

Bar?

After thinking for a day and not being able to figure it out, I saw that Aunt Zhou seemed to want to give her some advice, so I avoided people and asked Aunt Zhou quietly.

Grandma Zhou smiled and said, "When Miss grows up, I know that Miss is smart."

Su Yiqing didn't take Grandma Zhou's compliment seriously, thinking it was just a perfunctory remark.

Grandma Zhou suppressed her smile and whispered: "Miss, what I said to you, mama, you can't say it to anyone else."

Su Yiqing dared to talk nonsense and nodded vigorously.

Aunt Zhou then said: "The fourth master has been very careful in his calculations. The new aunt comes from a scholarly family. Although she is a bit down and out, some connections are still there. The young master of the fourth room is studying and going to school, and if there is good luck in the future,

If you are successful in being promoted to a scholar or something, it will be easy to get around. You have four houses and a lot of money. All you need is connections. If you can become an official...many things will be different."

Su Yiqing understood that if the fourth house could get an official, there would be no need to rely on the uncle's house. The officials would protect each other and there was money to clear the way. The fourth house could be separated. Although the road was long and difficult, it would be better than being manipulated by the uncle's house now.

Be strong.

It's just that even Aunt Zhou can see Fourth Master Su's plan, can others not? Will they watch a chicken that can lay golden eggs run away?

After half a month of confinement, Su Yiqing was finally able to leave the yard. However, after what happened last time, Mrs. Cen didn't like to see her very much. When they were greeting each other and joking together, she would always ignore her on purpose. Occasionally, she would not be left alone if she had some gadgets.

Don't give it to her alone, just pick the worst one and give it to her.

The master was like this, and the servants were even more neglectful. The maids and women around Su Yiqing were also ostracized.

Everyone felt quite resentful.

Only Grandma Zhou became more and more attentive.

Su Yiqing was confused again. She didn't know what was going on in Nanny Zhou's mind. When she was good in the past, Nanny Zhou would just do her duty and get by, without showing much effort. But when something happened to her, Nanny Zhou was more attentive.

stand up.

It's the same thing. It's easy to distinguish between doing one's best and doing one's duty.

Xu's attitude has also changed, but Xu is Su Yiqing's biological mother. She has neglected her daughter for so many years, and it is not unusual for her to suddenly have a conscience problem, especially since she is now eleven years old, barely old enough to talk about marriage, and she cannot help but be sloppy in her upbringing. In the past, Cen

Mrs. Cen was here, and Mrs. Xu herself didn't have a very good reputation for her temper, so she just let it go. Now that Su Yiqing was despised by Mrs. Cen, her mother-in-law should pay more attention to human nature.

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