Chapter 379: What is a Lady?
At this time, Huo Feng didn't care about those minor details. He only heard the words "Marshal Jin liked it" and thought that even Liang Yu said this, so it must be true.
Suddenly her face became sad again, what does a real lady look like? She has liked to dance with guns and sticks since she was a child, and mixed with boys. Her mother was also like this, and her father liked her mother to be like that, so she treated her as a boy since she was a child.
She raised a child, and her mother almost lost her life when she gave birth to her. Her father felt sorry for her and didn't want her to have another child, so he decided to let her grow up and bring in a wife to inherit the family business. Then there was no need to deliberately temper her.
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Later, although my mother insisted on having a younger brother, she was already more than ten years old at that time, and her temper could not be changed at all. Her parents did not care. They said she was their daughter, and they were afraid that she would not be able to get married. What if ordinary people care about this?
, she is not worthy of a general’s tiger girl, so it’s okay not to marry her.
She is also determined to marry a man like a father like a mother, and the couple will love each other for the rest of their lives.
Her father wanted to pursue her mother, but it took her three full years before her grandfather, who opened a martial arts school, nodded. But she was not as lucky as her mother. She fell in love with Marshal Zhao at the first sight and couldn't tolerate her anymore.
Others just hope to fight alongside him, just like my mother did when she was young.
She didn't have the blessing of a mother, and Marshal Zhao didn't fall in love with her at first sight, but it didn't matter, she could take her time, get along slowly, and let Marshal Zhao see how good she was.
But if Marshal Zhao doesn't like a girl like her at all, what should he do?
What do ladies of the world look like? Huo Feng tried his best to recall the ladies of the world he had seen before. She still had to be like Miss Wu, wearing makeup and powder and combing her hair into a beautiful bun, right?
Thinking about this, Huo Feng pondered in the room for several days, and even ordered the woman in the house who was good at needlework to make a brand new embroidered skirt for her. The kind that ladies would wear, not the ones she usually wears.
Wear smart clothes or even men's clothes.
On this day, she tried on the newly made skirt, and asked Liang Hong, who was more skillful with her hands, to comb her into a relatively simple pony bun, add silk-wrapped plum blossom gold hairpins, and garnish with a few smaller plum blossom hairpins.
Wearing a pair of pearl earrings, there is a pair of green emerald hairpins on her wrists.
As for her cheeks, she just put on a little bit of lipstick. Liang Hong and Liang Yu have been with her since they were little. She never puts on makeup and powder, and naturally they don't either, so they don't know how to do it. I think I'll save this step for now.
She took a look in the mirror and found that she looked pretty. Liang Hong and Liang Yu kept praising her, "Miss, she is so beautiful. She walks out like this. Who can say that Miss is not a lady?"
"Really?" Huo Feng felt good about himself and turned around slightly, with the skirt of his skirt flying. He followed the example of a lady in his impression, walking one step at a time in three steps. It wasn't that difficult at all.
"By the way, miss, get another handkerchief and a fan. If you have something to do, cover your face. It will look more like you." Liang Hong suggested from the side.
"That's right, look for the handkerchief and the fan." Huo Feng's impression seemed to be that those ladies of the world always keep these two things in their hands.
Handkerchiefs are easy to find. No matter how rude her daughter’s family is, they don’t have many handkerchiefs. Liang Hong quickly found a blue handkerchief, but the fan was hard to find. There was no embroidered round fan used by her daughter’s family for decoration.
After looking around, I only found a paper fan used by a woman disguised as a man.
Huo Feng took the paper fan, opened it and fanned it twice. Not to mention that Liang Hong and Liang Yu felt distorted, even she herself felt bad, so she might as well save the fan for now, remembering that ladies of the world don't always carry it with them.
Fan.
I was about to go out for a walk when I heard a cry from outside the door: "Hey! Whose rich lady is this?"
"Mother." Huo Feng ran towards the direction of the voice without even looking clearly, and then he threw himself into Mrs. Huo's arms, and the mother and daughter hugged each other.
Mrs. Huo looked at her daughter lovingly and said, "Let mother take a good look at her. My daughter will grow up and know how to dress up like a big girl."
"I am already a big girl." Huo Feng showed his daughterly attitude in front of his mother and acted coquettishly at her.
"Yes, yes, my daughter is now a big girl." Mrs. Huo pursed her lips and praised.
Huo Feng lowered his head in embarrassment and then asked: "Mom, do I look good in this outfit?"
"It's beautiful, very beautiful." Mrs. Huo praised it sincerely.
"Does she look like a lady?" Huo Feng still didn't forget the word lady.
Mrs. Huo was startled for a moment, and when she saw Huo Feng's blushing face, her heart moved, but she pretended not to notice anything and said with a smile: "My daughter is a lady in the family."
"Really?" Huo Feng looked at his mother with bright eyes and said, "Am I really a lady?"
"Yes, your father is a general, so of course you are a lady." Mrs. Huo said with certainty.
"Is she the same as the lady that others say she is?" Huo Feng looked at his mother expectantly.
The smile on Mrs. Huo's face gradually solidified, but she still managed to smile and said: "Feng'er, why do you want to be like a lady?"
Huo Feng hesitated and did not dare to say anything.
On the other hand, Liang Hong, who was standing next to her, spoke quickly, pursed her lips and smiled: "Of course a woman will look after someone who pleases her. Madam, the young lady has a sweetheart."
"Liang Hong." Huo Feng glared at Liang Hong angrily.
Liang Hong pretended to be scared and stepped aside, but she still pursed her lips and snickered.
"Who is he?" Mrs. Huo calmed down. Over the past year, her daughter has been stationed in Luzhou with her husband, and she has stayed in Yuzhou to take care of her sick mother. Unexpectedly, after not seeing each other for more than a year, her daughter has a sweetheart. How?
Why didn't the husband mention it at all in the letter? Could it be that he was too busy leading the army and didn't know what his daughter was thinking?
Seeing his daughter speaking out for everyone, could it be that the man dislikes his daughter for being rude? Such a man is not a good match.
Huo Feng still didn't say anything, and looked at Liang Hong and Liang Yu with warning eyes.
Liang Hong and Liang Yu both lowered their heads and stepped back as much as possible. Although they were as close as sisters on weekdays, the master was still the master, and the maid was still the maid. There was a difference between superiority and inferiority. They would not forget their identities just by using the title of deputy general.
Mrs. Huo did not ask further questions, waved her hand, left Huo Feng's room, and went to General Huo to question him aggressively.
She took care of her mother and raised children in other places, but she really didn't have the energy to take care of her daughter. She thought that when her daughter was older and had acquired martial arts skills, no one would dare to bully her. However, she somewhat ignored the saying that a female college student should marry.
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General Huo was practicing dancing in the martial arts field at this time. When he heard that his wife was coming, he hurried over without even wiping his sweat. He was a good soldier in marching and fighting, but he was famous for being henpecked after leaving the battlefield.
For this reason, many of his subordinates felt a little aggrieved for him and encouraged him to revitalize his husband and take care of this woman, but he didn't care at all. He said that if a man is a man, what's the point of giving in to a woman? Hitting a woman is not a man.
What you do.
As a soldier, sometimes a war breaks out. It lasts for several years. My wife respects her elders at home and teaches her children to be the pillars of support like men. How can I be embarrassed to beat and scold her? If she is really unvirtuous, beating her will be useless. She will not change after being warned several times.
Just write a divorce letter and find another one.
Marching and fighting also pay attention to clear rewards and punishments, and there is no saying that you can conquer people just by beating them.
The daughter-in-law gets angry because sometimes he does something bad. For example, he stays out all night, drinks with his brothers, and worries his family, or when he comes back, he gets drunk and makes a lot of noise, disturbing the peace in the neighborhood.
If you often beat and scold your daughter-in-law and don't treat her as a human being, it would be better if you were rich and noble. If you make a mistake while marching or fighting, how can someone still take care of you? How come he has seen so many women over the years, whether they are village women or noble ladies?
Those who are naturally mean-spirited are resigned to the situation. Even if they are afraid of being beaten for a moment, if they dare not do anything openly, it will be miserable if they try to punish them secretly.
He had a naked brother who he grew up with. They grew up together in the same village. They practiced martial arts together and served as soldiers together. However, that brother was one step ahead of him in everything. He married a wife earlier, made meritorious service earlier and was promoted to squad leader.
The captain, and then the guerrilla general, saw a promising future, but it came to an abrupt end.
The reason is that the wife he married when his brother was not prosperous was an ordinary girl from the neighboring village. She had all the virtues of a country girl, worked hard, respected her parents-in-law, and of course had a bit of the country girl's spunk.
After getting married, as soon as the wife was pregnant with the child, the brother went to serve in the army. A few years later, he worked hard to earn military honors and returned home. The son was able to go to the village to make soy sauce, so he was naturally happy.
But the only fly in the ointment is that Yizhihua from the neighboring village, who was fresh and tender when they first got married, has turned into a yellow-faced woman in the past few years. Although they wouldn't misunderstand her as his mother when they walked together, people who were not familiar with her said she was his eldest sister or sister-in-law.
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The brother began to dislike his daughter-in-law, who was not a submissive person. He thought that in the past few years, he had been serving his parents-in-law, pulling the children, and boiling the water snake's waist into a bucket. He had worked so hard and accomplished so much, but now he was despised by the man. Naturally,
They were also aggrieved, so they had all kinds of quarrels.
The brother was so stupid that he couldn't quarrel with his wife, so he used his fists to talk things over. He must have beaten her into submission. He went back and forth to make her so angry that she didn't dare to say anything in front of him.
Originally, this was not a big deal. Couples in the country were usually like this, bickering and fighting all their lives, which was quite lively.
But after all, that brother still despised the wretchedness. He couldn't do such an inhumane thing as abandoning his wife and children, but he took a beautiful concubine. She was a young lady from a down-to-earth family. She spoke softly, and her figure and steps were better than those of ordinary girls.
Beautiful dancing.
Since then, their family has become lively. Can a wife who was born in a village and a beautiful concubine who was born in an official family live in the same place? They are noisy all day long. The beautiful concubine will definitely not be able to quarrel with the main wife who is born in a village.
I couldn’t win, but I wasn’t willing to be outdone, so I cried,
I cried all day and almost died. My tears kept flowing for three days without stopping. The brothers still dealt with the disputes the same way, beating, of course, beating their wives. The beautiful concubine was delicate and weak, and could be blown down by a gust of wind. How could he do it?
What about beating? He couldn't bear to do it.
After just a few times, the wife was subdued again and did not dare to fight with the beautiful concubine again, so the beautiful concubine gained the upper hand. The brother did not say that he would spoil his concubine and destroy his wife, but he simply looked at it from a man's point of view.
The beautiful girl who can be admired and the strong-backed village woman who can work as well as men, there is such a huge gap in strength, it is only human nature for him to prefer a concubine.
But as a man, especially a man who jumped from a villager to a guerrilla general, he doesn't know anything about backyards, inner courtyards, and bloodless struggles. He simply wants to have a gentle concubine to take care of him when he returns home, and a warm and fragrant soft jade hug.
I am full of hope and want to live a good life as an official. As for my old wife, I can provide her with good food and drink, and wear silk and satin to earn her a job in the future, so I can't just say I'm wronging her.
After that, the beautiful concubine gave him another lovely child named Yuxue. The beautiful concubine who was born in an official family was better than a village woman even in giving birth to a child. She could recite poems at the age of three, while the concubine who was ten years old only knew how to eat all day long.
Compared with his stupid son who was as stupid as a little fat pig, he was in the sky and on the earth. This man's heart was even more biased. The servants acted according to the prevailing situation, but his wife and eldest son were not treated well.
The brother was at a loss, immersed in the gentle land. Even if his wife complained in front of him, he didn't care. As fierce as his wife was, most men couldn't beat her, and she could be bullied by the delicate concubine. Until one day, he went out to beat her.
Zhan received a letter from home, saying that his eldest son had died of a sudden illness, and his wife had gone crazy. He hacked his concubine and the youngest son to death, and then set fire to the house. His old mother escaped under the protection of servants, but
I was so frightened that I became paralyzed.
When the brother heard such bad news, he was immediately stunned. He was not careful during the battle and was cut off from his horse. One of his legs was lost. He could not become a general and could only drag one leg home.
Most of the family property was burned in the fire. After returning home, he spent more than half of it to treat his mother's illness and to recuperate himself. He had no choice but to return to the countryside with nothing.
When he returned to the countryside, he was still criticized by the villagers. His father-in-law came to the door again and again and publicized his scandal everywhere.
It is said that his eldest son was not very seriously ill at first, but the concubine relied on his favor to control the whole family and prevented anyone from calling a doctor. In the end, the minor illness turned into a serious illness.
He grabbed a kitchen knife and put it on his younger son's neck, fearing that the eldest son would die before the doctor came. Even so, the doctor came just as the eldest son breathed his last breath.
Naturally, the wife went crazy. After hacking her youngest son and her beautiful concubine to death, she held her son's body and set it on fire.
Everyone in the virtuous village of my previous wife knew that the spittle behind everyone's back could drown him.
He went to see the brother twice and gave him some money. This man has been like this for the rest of his life. He only has one leg left and no girl is willing to marry him. However, his mother managed to persuade him and bought a daughter-in-law with the money given by the brothers. She is lovely.
Within two days of coming here, he rolled up Xinruan and ran away.
The brother kept regretting it. Not to mention the bright future, if he had not taken concubines, no matter how noisy he was, he would still have a family, a mother-in-law and a son, so the family would not be ruined.
He deeply believed that it was troublesome for two women to have one husband. Not to mention why officials were like this. The rich families in the city had three wives and four concubines. The more they married, the more they died, and how many were left?
Chapter completed!