"What's wrong? The old lady...said you?" Mrs. Yao asked cautiously.
"Alas..." Uncle Yao sighed.
Some of the things the old lady said were not suitable to be told to Mrs. Yao, so Mr. Yao could only pick up some that could be said.
He told Mrs. Yao that the old lady was not actually angry because Mrs. Yao arranged for a maid at such a time, which might affect his imperial examination. What the old lady was angry about was that their eldest son did not have a legitimate son yet.
They just want to bring out a bunch of bastards, which is the source of chaos in the family.
Mrs. Yao was stunned: "Old lady...really said that?!"
This is not something an old lady would say.
Thinking back to the beginning, who was the person who always wanted to arrange someone for their big house and gave her several maids who gave birth to children and raised them well?
"Well! The old lady said, you are still old, which is the best age for childbearing. If I don't work hard with you at this time to give birth to a legitimate son, I will instead have a bastard son with those messy women. This is not asking for it.
What's the trouble?" Uncle Yao sighed and said, "Oh... I also realized after the old lady told me that having more concubines is not necessarily a good thing. Think about it, didn't we just eat my aunt?
Is it the pain of a concubine? If we don’t learn this lesson, if there is another Aunt Zhang in the backyard in the future, then we will never have any more legitimate children in our house."
At the mention of this Aunt Zhang, Mrs. Yao's back felt cold: "It shouldn't be... right? We won't be so unlucky, right?"
"That's what I said, but the old lady said that even if it's not Aunt Zhang, it can be another old aunt? To be unfilial, the old lady just used the women in my father's backyard as an example..." Later,
Uncle Yao said it a bit implicitly, but the general meaning was conveyed.
When the Earl was still alive, there was no peace in his backyard.
The old lady also learned a "lesson" before she felt that having too many women in the backyard was not a good thing. Now the big house is in a special situation. If a few more women like that come at this time, she is really afraid that the big house will really have trouble in the future.
No heirs left.
When Mrs. Yao married in, the Earl's backyard had become peaceful, and not many dirty things were seen.
But Mrs. Yao has never seen the Earl's backyard, but she has seen it to some extent in her mother's house and what her mother revealed.
Suddenly, Mrs. Yao's heart tightened, and she realized that she had indeed done something stupid.
The education that even old ladies can wake up to, she actually...
"But, what if I can't give birth?" Mrs. Yao tightened her handkerchief, feeling panicked.
She didn't know that having too many women in the backyard would hurt her own interests and lead to all kinds of disputes, but didn't their big house have no heirs?
What's more, she will be thirty years old this year, and she doesn't know if she will be able to have children in the future.
"How do you know you can't give birth? My mother did some calculations and said that a woman's best childbearing age should be between twenty and thirty-five years old. You are only thirty years old now, which is the best childbearing age. Even if you give birth all at once,
If we don't come out, there won't be any good news in three to five years?" When Uncle Yao thought of what the old lady said, he felt confident and said, "Don't you know what my mother is capable of? What do you think of her?
When did you say you missed it?”
"I...can I really still give birth? I...I always thought that when I reach thirty years old, it will be difficult for me to give birth..." Mrs. Yao's voice was a little weak.
There is no way, this is the education she has received since she was a child. A woman gets married in her teens, becomes a woman at the age of twenty, and becomes a mother-in-law at the age of thirty. How can she still give birth at this age?
Uncle Yao smiled and said: "I think so too, but my mother said that if you stand at thirty, you will not be confused at forty. It can be seen that the age at which a person's body declines should be between thirty and forty years old, taking a middle value
That is thirty-five years old... and the age when a woman's body is in good shape should be between seventeen or eighteen years old and twenty years old. In other words, the best age for a woman to enter the body should be between twenty and thirty-five years old.
between."
Mrs. Yao's eyes turned red instantly, and she couldn't help but look at Uncle Yao eagerly: "Can I really still give birth? I thought I was already old, I really thought I was... already old,
I can’t give birth anymore. Sister Xin is already so old, she can even look after other people, and in a few years, I can be a mother-in-law..."
Tears just slid down her face, filled with Mrs. Yao's panic and confusion.
What's more, it's the fear that I won't be able to give birth.
As the legitimate wife and the eldest daughter-in-law of the Yao family, how could Mrs. Yao not be under pressure?
She didn't like her mother-in-law when she got married. Over the years, she only gave birth to a daughter, Yao Anxin. She was also given infertility drugs and was about to be old enough to be her mother-in-law. Can she really still give birth?
Uncle Yao looked at her with a somewhat distressed look.
He only knew that it was Mrs. Yao who took the initiative to arrange the people in the room, but he did not know that behind her suggestion, she actually hid so much grievances and cowardice in her heart.
At that moment, he felt distressed.
Thinking back to what his mother said about the natural opposition between his wife and his concubines, what on earth made Mrs. Yao muster up the courage to take a concubine for him?
Just thinking about this makes Uncle Yao feel a little uncomfortable.
This is his legitimate wife, the wife he married at a young age and wanted to grow old with.
They also had a waste of spending time before flowers and under the moonlight, adding fragrance to their red sleeves. However, as time went by and with their daily lives of daily necessities, some things gradually changed.
Maybe, his love for her is not 100%, but the friendship in his heart has never been less.
It can be love, family affection, or friendship.
For Uncle Yao, Mrs. Yao is special.
He took a step forward, took the handkerchief in her hand, wiped the tears on her face distressedly, and said softly: "Yes, I can definitely do it. You have seen how wise my mother is in the past two years.
, she dares to say this, it is true. When she was young, she may have made mistakes, she may have been biased, and she may be biased again in the future, but she is my mother after all, and she cannot just watch me.
Her own son walked into a dead end and ignored it. So this time, when she saw that we were about to go astray, she specially called me over to give me a lesson, and then scolded me to wake me up..."
"Well! I will be filial to the old lady in the future, really, I swear. I always thought that the old lady was partial. She didn't like me, always made things difficult for me, and will continue to make things difficult for me in the future... But I know now,
The old lady is partial, but no matter how partial she is, I am also her daughter-in-law, and she cannot leave me alone. And she likes Sister Xin. You see, how good she is to Sister Xin, and the new maid beside Sister Xin.
They were all retrained by the old lady, and all of them are top-notch, one is better than the others... Sister Xin was also taught extremely well by the old lady, and she is well-behaved and generous. I don’t even know.
It turns out that my daughter can be so outstanding." As she said this, tears were streaming down Mrs. Yao's face, and her heart was filled with emotion.
She admitted that because of this, she had always been angry with the old lady and avoided her because she didn't want to avoid the old lady.
But when she felt that she could not give birth and was afraid that she would be rejected by her husband's family, so she reluctantly arranged a room for Uncle Yao, it was the old lady who was the first to stand up and support her, telling them - you are all wrong, you
She can still give birth, but you are too impatient. You should wait a little longer...
