Ma Liang and others were eating pastries when a half-grown man suddenly ran in from outside the door, holding a newspaper in his hand. He skillfully got through the crowd and came to the counter of the store. He jumped easily and stood on the counter.
The steward behind the counter seemed not to be surprised. Instead of scolding the young man to come down, he asked excitedly:
"What's going on? What's the big news again?"
The Bright Church has taken in a large number of orphans. These children usually help distribute newspapers at the newspaper office and are the most well-informed.
This young man is a newspaper seller specially invited by the shop owner in order to increase customer flow.
Once there is the latest news, the newspaper seller will immediately come to his shop to read the newspaper, which also attracts many guests who love to join in the fun and listen to gossip to come and dine.
Ma Liang and others stopped and looked at the counter curiously.
Just listen to the little newspaper vendor holding the newspaper in his hand and excitedly saying: "Someone is getting married!"
Marriage is a marriage. Ma Liang and others all know that Xu Jiajun stipulates that men must be over 20 years old and women must be over 18 years old before they can apply for marriage at the Xu Jiajun Military Mansion.
So, someone has already met the conditions, got permission from the leader, and successfully got married?
This is really new news to the customers in the store, and it is relevant to each of them.
Everyone urged the newspaper seller to explain it carefully. The newspaper seller said: "It's the news from Yuyang. Now the leader has approved the marriage applications of fifty groups of newlyweds. Thirty-five of them are already in Guangming."
They were married under the witness of the Son of God of the Church.”
"Before getting married, the newlyweds signed a prenuptial agreement, and the newspaper mentioned the situation of the two newlyweds."
"The couple is Zhou Bo, a male soldier from the Xu Jiajun, and Wang Yan, a local woman."
"Wang Yan is the eldest daughter in the family, and she has one younger brother and one sister. Before getting married, Wang Yan and her parents took the wood chips they had earned in the past two years, a total of 2,000 green chips."
"The Wang family's parents agreed and added a pair of wooden boxes. Two small courtyards in the county town house were used for their daughter and son-in-law to live alone. There were also 1,000 red chips for Wang Yan's dowry."
"The above-mentioned part of the money provided by the woman has been specially treated fairly. If the man and woman reconcile in the future, they do not have to return it to the woman separately. Both men and women can use it jointly."
Hearing this, the men in the store all laughed. This does not mean that I picked up a wife for nothing. Can I still get a dowry?
Still such a generous dowry!
The newspaper seller looked at everyone's satisfied expressions, smiled evilly, and continued:
"Zhou Bo, a male soldier of the Xu Family Army, is an orphan and was raised by his uncle in the family. Therefore, after getting married, the couple must jointly support the uncle."
The men nodded with satisfaction again, feeling that Xu Jiajun's pre-marriage notarization was really good!
Ma Liang automatically assumed that he was the man and thought it was beautiful, but it was so good that it made him feel cheated.
When a man and a woman get married, if all the benefits fall on the man, then what is the woman after? Is she after true love?
The newspaper seller chuckled, "At the same time, my wife Wang Yan will only have children in the future but will not be responsible for raising them."
"It means that after confinement is announced, Wang Yan will continue to work normally, while her husband Zhou Bo will either quit his job or find other ways to find someone to take care of the child until the child can go to school."
Suddenly, the faces of all the men in the store turned dark.
The newspaper seller had long expected this reaction, and his smile became even more cheerful. "During this period, my wife Wang Yan will also bear the family's living expenses and human relations."
"Oh, I just forgot to mention that Wang Yan is a female official in the Yamen of Hunu County, Yuyang County. Her salary is high and she has subsidies from her family, so she can definitely support her husband and children."
But even so, there is no reason for men to give up their jobs to raise children!
If a man takes care of a child at home every day, won't he be ridiculed by men all over the world if word spreads about it?
"Can Zhou Bo agree to this? He is Xu Jiajun!" Someone asked in disbelief.
The newspaper seller looked at the contents of the newspaper carefully and nodded heavily.
"Zhou Bo agreed. The couple had no objections. They signed the agreement and successfully passed the marriage application. They are now married."
The store immediately exploded.
"How could this be?"
"Even a female official can't bully us men like this, right?"
"We all know that the Xu Jiajun favors women, but we didn't expect that the men under the Xu Jiajun's rule would have to live like this in the future? This is too much!"
Several of Ma Liang's brothers were filled with indignation, as if they had been humiliated.
Ma Liang's mouth twitched slightly when he heard this, because his thoughts were different from those of his brothers. On the contrary, he thought this marriage was quite good.
Except for the fact that the man has to raise children, which makes him uncomfortable, he is not very resistant.
The man actually took advantage of everything.
Because the man's family was poor and he still had uncles to support. Although he was a soldier of the Xu family army, the woman Wang Yan was not bad either. She was still a female official.
The two have similar positions and are a perfect match.
Besides, from the generous dowry given by the woman, you can tell that the woman's family is low-income and wealthy, so there is no guarantee that Wang Yan was once a lady from a famous family.
And what is Zhou Bo's identity? More than 90% of Xu Jiajun's family was from tenant farmers. If we go forward two years, Zhou Bo would not even be able to see Wang Yan in his lifetime, let alone marry Wang Yan.
Thinking of this, Ma Liang felt that it would be acceptable if he was the one to raise the child. At worst, he would hire a nanny to look after the child when he was older. With Wang Yan and Zhou Bo's high wages, they would definitely be able to afford it.
The man only needs to spend more energy to take good care of the nanny and the child.
The more Ma Liang thought about it, the more he felt why such a good thing had not happened to him, but he did not dare to say it for fear that the excited men around him would jump up and beat him.
Of course, he wouldn't be afraid of a real fight, but the military regulations of the Xu family are here to stay. If he dares to fight outside, General Xu will pluck his head from his neck before tomorrow! Send him down to see the King of Hell!
The guests in the store had a heated discussion, and they all felt that men might face unprecedented oppression in Xu Jiajun's territory.
And the reason is very convincing - the leader is a woman! If women don’t help women, will they help men?
Seeing that the situation was getting out of hand, the store owner slammed the counter and reminded everyone, don't forget whose store this is!
Scanning the dark character "Xu" on the counter, the quarreling guests instantly shut up.
Seeing that everyone had finally calmed down, the newspaper seller raised his hands and comforted him: "Uncles, don't worry, I haven't finished reading yet. The situation is not as bad as everyone thought!"
The newspaper seller talked about the content of the pre-marriage notarization for the next newlywed couple. This time the woman was a young widow who was married for the second time and had a little girl.
This widow had fled from another place. All her former husband's family had died, leaving only the mother and daughter.
So he is the kind of person who is penniless.
The man's condition is slightly better. He is also a soldier of the Xu family army, but he is older, an old bachelor in his mid-twenties, and there are elderly people in the family who are in poor health and need to be supported.
The two of them didn't dislike each other, and they felt that each other was a good person, so they decided to apply for marriage.
The woman promised not to go out to work after marriage and to stay at home to take care of the housework, take care of the children and take care of the elderly.
The man also promised that all his monthly wages would be handed over to the woman and she would arrange all the expenses for the family.
This is a typical model that has been inherited by the Daqing Kingdom for three hundred years.
Ma Liang thought that the men in the store would be satisfied now.
