But Mr. Xu, on the other hand, sat silently in the corner drinking water, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.
Gongsun Zan sighed inwardly, "Mr. Xu, you are a man in his own right, let me see how long you can keep pretending!"
Gongsun Zan glanced at Xu Da with hatred, full of disappointment, but still held on to the attitude of having fun and said goodbye to Xu Da.
"Mr. Xu, from now on you will have a lovely wife and beautiful concubine in your arms. Please don't miss your official duties because of this."
After saying this, he nodded to Mrs. Wang again, as if you were taking good care of her, and then left.
Mrs. Gan had already received the news that her husband Zhao Bei had returned to the village, so she stood waiting outside the Xu family courtyard.
Seeing Gongsun Zan coming out, he gave him a blessing.
Gongsun Zan was in a good mood at this time, and looked back at Zhao Bei, indicating that he could go see his wife, and led the guards to go first.
Zhao Bei thanked him and watched Gongsun Zan walk down the hillside. Then he turned around and walked towards Mrs. Gan with a smile:
"Why are you here, Madam? Where is Adou? I have been busy with official duties recently and have been unable to come back. Madam, please don't blame me."
Mrs. Gan watched the two young girls walk into the Xu family with her own eyes, and now she saw that Gongsun Zan left and they didn't come out, she already knew it in her heart.
Facing Zhao Bei's inquiry, he immediately asked in an annoyed voice: "Master, what does the general want to do like this? My wife is such a good person, how can the general humiliate her like this?"
Mrs. Gan's reaction was completely unexpected by Zhao Bei. He thought that Mrs. Gan missed him too much after not seeing him for too long, so he went to the door of the Xu family mansion to wait to see him.
Now when I heard what Mrs. Gan said, I was stunned for a moment and then explained: "This is the general's intention. The general insists on this. How can I and other subordinates talk so much?"
"Besides, how can this be an insult to my wife? Isn't it a good thing that the general rewards Mr. Xu for his strong performance? It proves that the general values Mr. Xu."
After saying that, he realized that he, who never brought official business home to discuss with Mrs. Gan, actually told her about these affairs outside the house.
Zhao Bei immediately looked at Mrs. Gan curiously, wondering if she could understand what he was saying.
But he saw her looking at him with burning eyes and asking clearly: "Is this really a good thing?"
I'm afraid it's a great thing for you, sir! Mrs. Gan added in her heart.
As soon as the thought passed by, she was shocked.
Looking at Zhao Bei's surprised look again, he suddenly realized that he was really daring today. He quickly lowered his eyes and asked in a low voice:
"Master, are you busy and want to leave? If not, go and see Adou. The little guy is three months old and now is the time to have fun."
Zhao Bei swallowed his surprise, nodded, and followed Mrs. Gan to the hotel where he usually stayed to see his son Zhao Adou.
On the way, he discovered that Mrs. Gan was holding a book in her arms. Seeing him looking over, she smiled shyly at him and hid the book behind her back with a bit of embarrassment.
Zhao Bei did not ask about his wife's daily habits, because these affairs about women at home were nothing more than shortcomings of this family and that family, and were not worth taking up his precious time.
Seeing this, Zhao Bei just suppressed his curiosity and observed secretly.
Barefoot Doctor's Handbook Key Notepad... It should be these words. Although these words look like they are missing arms and legs, it is not difficult to recognize them.
He personally taught Madam how to read, and the notes in the notebook were indeed written by Madam in her handwriting. Perhaps she had not been able to write for too long and could not remember the gestures, so she made many typos.
But even so, it was enough to make Zhao Bei unable to sleep well.
Looking at Mrs. Gan who was walking a step behind her, she was still wearing the same dress she had been wearing when she came here, but it seemed that this dress could no longer contain her striding forward.
Zhao Bei felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart for no reason.
This sense of crisis does not come from Mrs. Gan, but from the Xujiazhuang mother and daughter who brought about these changes.
Especially the leader, Mrs. Wang, that strong woman named Wang Pingping.
...
In the Xu family courtyard.
Chun Niang and Qiu Niang stood outside the pavilion anxiously, facing the gazes of the Xu Yue brothers and sisters, wondering how things could turn out like this.
The two of them obviously came to the Xu family to be aunts, and they should have followed Mr. Xu. Why did Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu send them to the three brothers and sisters?
Do you want the young masters and ladies in the house to meet their future aunts first?
Seeing Xu Dalang, who was the same age as themselves, tall, handsome, and cold-looking, Chun Niang and Qiu Niang curled up their toes in embarrassment, feeling uncomfortable.
"Xu Dalang, you are scaring people." The second young lady of the Xu family shouted softly: "The ones you call father and mother are me and my mother. It has nothing to do with you. Just come with me. Can you stand aside calmly?"
An invisible person?"
Chun Niang and Qiu Niang immediately felt that the boy's terrifying gaze had receded, and they secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Their favorable impressions of Xu Erniang, who had saved them and Shui Huo, gradually increased.
"Get started!" Xu Erniang pulled Xu Dalang away and called Xu Yue, who was afraid of a fight between her and Xu Dalang, to come to the eldest sister.
Xu Erniang poked Xu Yue and signaled her to speak first.
Xu Yue cleared her throat and said to the two anxious people in front of her: "Sisters, my father is already very old. I don't want your good years to be wasted like this, so I let you two go free. You don't have to do anything in my house."
concubine."
What?!
Chun Niang and Qiu Niang raised their heads in surprise, looking at the articulate little girl in front of them, wanting her to repeat herself.
Chun Niang became bolder and stammered, reminding: "I, we were sent by the general, this..."
Xu Yue nodded, "We know, but hasn't he already handed you over to my grandma? So you are now members of our Xujiazhuang."
Xu Yue moved the small blackboard she had prepared earlier out of the pavilion, threw away the folding stick that Uncle Dayou had made for her, pointed at the words on the blackboard and read:
"The first rule of Xujiazhuang is that those who do not work cannot eat; the second rule is that women under the age of 16 cannot marry, and the men under the age of 18 cannot marry; the third rule is to follow the monogamy system, men cannot take concubines, and women cannot marry two men at the same time.
..."
There are also rules four and five, which to the ears of Chun Niang and Qiu Niang, are already like heavenly books.
But they remembered the last sentence - anyone who violates the rules of the Xu family will be punished by being sent to the mines to work as coolies, or beheaded on the spot in public display!
This is simply not giving people a way to survive!
Chun Niang and Qiu Niang knelt down with tears on their faces, crying and asking the Xu family to spare their lives. They could work as slaves in the Xu family, but they only asked not to let them go out to work.
Letting these two women go out to show their faces and work with men, isn't this going to ruin their reputations and make them die?
They were not allowed to wear skirts and were forced to wear low-class trousers, exposing a woman's most secret legs to others. It was so humiliating that the two of them wanted to hang themselves from the rafters by pulling a long piece of silk just thinking about it.
Xu Yue and Xu Erniang looked at each other, but they were embarrassed by them.
Is this going to kill you?
However, thinking about the environment in which the two of them grew up, the sisters couldn't help but shake their heads and let out a long sigh.
It seems that it is much more difficult to change these pampered women than to change ordinary peasant women.
What ordinary peasant women want is just food and clothing. For family livelihood, they not only have to take care of their children, raise silkworms and weave cloth at home, but also go to the fields to do farm work.
The need for survival makes them completely indifferent to these ethics of showing arms and legs.
But things like Chun Niang and Qiu Niang are different. From the very beginning, they have been trained by their families or women-in-law in a gentle and virtuous direction that caters to male aesthetics, and most of them don't have to worry about survival.
