The Crown Prince quickly selected the two young ladies as his concubines. The King and the Queen Mother were overjoyed and sent them a lot of rewards. The young lady thought that she would be indispensable, but she never imagined that she would be the only one who failed to be chosen, so she was furious at home.
The stepmother sent someone to talk to her, and she recounted everything that happened that day. The stepmother also immediately noticed that there was something unusual about the "child lady" and sent someone out to investigate.
The news reached the Prince of Shu's palace that day. The Supreme King was very angry: "I know he has fallen in love with that woman."
When the Queen Mother heard about Tong Buye's identity, she hurriedly called her daughter-in-law to inquire. Ding Mei had already made a confession with the Queen, and the Queen then said with a sad face: "Queen, even the other women Yan'er despises me, but I only like that pink one."
Head. I don’t have the slightest idea.”
The Queen Mother said coldly: "You are his mother, you should teach him. Since he likes it, why not even take her as a concubine? If the Shu Kingdom established a concubine who came from the Jiaofang Division, wouldn't the world laugh at it?
Big teeth?"
The queen sighed and said: "She never said she wanted to marry that woman as her concubine. When I asked her, she looked blank and said, 'I didn't have this idea. Where did the queen hear the news?' She also didn't want her to be her concubine."
Concubine, I just keep it with you to do things. If you really want to take me in, it will be easier to handle."
The Queen Mother frowned: "How did that bitch get to my grandson?"
The queen said: "It's interesting to talk about." Then she told the story of Tong Buye standing in front of the palace of the Prince of Shu to peek at the crown prince, drawing a portrait to sell and being caught by the crown prince.
The Queen Mother couldn't help laughing when she heard this. "My grandson's portrait is so valuable!"
"The Queen Mother is not yet blessed with great fortune!" The Queen complimented, "I heard from the old ladies in the mansion that Yan'er looks exactly like the Queen Mother when she was young."
The Queen Mother just smiled, then suddenly came back to her senses, and said with a straight face: "What nonsense. How could she, a mere fan, paint the portrait of the Crown Prince and sell it."
The queen hurriedly said: "The money she got has been taken back by Yan'er. Besides, if it weren't for her, Yan'er wouldn't have known that those old dogs in the Jiaofang Division were so greedy. Yan'er said she was very useful.
Being able to serve as a staff member, he is now Yan'er's right-hand man and has come up with several brilliant ideas."
The Queen Mother thought for a long time and said: "In that case, let her be a staff member for the rest of her life. The parents will decide the marriage of their children. When I come back, I will choose a wife for him."
"The Queen Mother is wise." The Queen murmured, feeling anxious in her heart. The Queen Mother then ordered more dowries to be given to the two concubines to support her appearance.
It was an important matter for the Crown Prince to accept his concubine. Because the Queen Mother was anxious, she rushed into the palace more than ten days later. The Crown Prince placed the two of them in a courtyard to the west and sent them some books from the south to relieve their boredom.
Ding Mei had already negotiated with these two people, and her parents' family was only allowed to accompany a wet nurse and a personal maid. Miss Xin said that none of the maids around her could be used, so she simply followed the wet nurse alone, and the Shizi Mansion sent a few maids as supplements.
As a companion room.
That day, Tong Buye strolled to the courtyard to visit the two concubines, and asked with a smile if they needed anything else. They both said no. Tong Buye thought for a moment and said, "It's not convenient for you to go out and wander around here if you live here.
Is it better to move the west corner door closer, or to open a new door from the courtyard facing the street?"
The concubines looked at each other and guessed that she didn't want the prince to meet her by chance, so they hurriedly said: "Since the young lady is looking after us, just open the door from the courtyard."
Tong Buye said calmly, "Okay. I'll make some cloth clothes for you later so you can go out for a walk." She waved her hand and said, "Girls, you're free! You can go wherever you like."
Miss Liu hesitated and said: "Is this...convenient? Our apparent identity..."
Tong Buye said: "Do you have the words Prince and Concubine written on your face?"
"Never."
"But here we are again!" Tong Buye clapped his hands and said, "Who knows if you don't tell me? There are a lot of fun places outside. I can tell you, you will still get married in two years. If you don't play now, then
It's not easy to go out when the time comes." These two girls are only fifteen or sixteen years old, and they are the most playful age. In the past, the family was so restrained that they couldn't move. After listening to the young lady's encouragement, they couldn't help but want to move.
Tong Buye then called a daughter-in-law who was following her, "Take the girls for a walk." The daughter-in-law agreed with a smile.
The concubines hurriedly changed out of their crimson wedding dresses, took off hairpins, washed off their red makeup, and changed into everyday clothes. On the day of the wedding, less than two hours after entering the Prince's Mansion, the two concubines of the Crown Prince
I just stayed in the market and didn't want to go back home.
In the afternoon, the concubines finished listening to stories in the teahouse and left without finishing their thoughts. After walking for a while back on the street, Miss Liu accidentally turned her head and saw a group of people passing quickly behind them, and the young lady was among them. She thought:
Guess which one is the prince. But those people walked very fast and there were so many of them that there was no time to look at them and only the backs of their heads were left.
Miss Xin whispered from the side: "There is no prince here." Miss Liu turned her head. Miss Xin said, "My sister bought the portrait of the prince. None of the people just now are."
Miss Liu looked around and said, "Is the portrait you are looking at real? Everyone knows that the prince is extremely beautiful. There were at least three or four of the people in the group who were considered beautiful."
Miss Xin simply leaned into her ear and whispered: "Let's not talk about the portrait. I heard that the prince is not tall, and none of the three or four are short."
While talking, the young lady and others turned a corner. The daughter-in-law who followed did not pay attention to the idlers. Seeing them standing still, she asked with a smile: "Why don't you girls stop shopping? Are you tired?"
Miss Liu smiled and said, "I've just been sitting here for half a day and I'm already tired. Let's go for a walk!" She pulled Miss Xin and started running forward.
The daughter-in-law chased her from behind, shouting: "Slow down, my good girls."
This place is not far from the intersection. The two concubines ran twenty or thirty steps quickly and arrived at the corner. They leaned on the lattice door of the shop and leaned out to look around. They saw that Tong Niangzi's group was still walking forward in a hurry.
After a while, I entered a house. Looking from a distance, I saw two big stone lions sitting at the door of the house. The blue-tiled gate was very big, and they were all very curious.
Suddenly the daughter-in-law caught up, and Miss Liu asked: "Sister-in-law Zhao, whose mansion is that? It's so lively."
The daughter-in-law smiled and said, "How do I know? I don't recognize him."
A lazy waiter came out of the shop and said with a smile, "That's the Ma family in Song County."
The daughter-in-law said "Oh!" "It turns out it's his home." Naidao said, "This Ma Nai from Song County is a first-class figure. His grandfather once lived in Taichang Temple and married the daughter of King Yan. He was originally in Beijing.
He lives in Shu, who came to Shu with the Third Highness a few years ago, and is now a professor of Chinese studies at Shu University."
The waiter said: "He usually walks leisurely and fast, but for some reason he walked so fast just now." The two concubines looked at each other.
Just as he was talking, a few horses came running on the other road, and they passed the intersection in the blink of an eye. The daughter-in-law slipped in and shouted: "Your Majesty!" Everyone looked around hurriedly, and only the horse's tail was left on the back of the head.
Prince Pian and others also dismounted in front of the Song Mansion and walked straight in.
There is an octagonal pavilion in the back garden of Junma Mansion, standing in the middle of a lake. Song Junma personally led the prince to the end of the Jiuqu Bridge, and the prince crossed the bridge alone to the pavilion. A person in the pavilion was clumsily filling the tea stove.
He complained: "The charcoal of the Xiao Song family is not good, and I can't even burn it."
The prince took the charcoal tongs from his hand without saying a word, put it into the tea stove and fiddled with it twice. After a while, the charcoal fire started to light up. The man gave a thumbs up. "My eldest niece is very capable."
The prince said, "When I was in school, I often went to the forest park for barbecues with my classmates." Then he put down the carbon tongs and said with a smile, "What kind of wind brought Uncle Jia here."
The person opposite was Jia Cong. He set up a cup of tea and said, "I wanted to write you a long letter. After thinking about it, I realized that Chengdu is not far away, so I came here."
The prince was silent for a moment and said: "Why has my father been gone for so long?"
Jia Cong heheed twice: "Let me go to the south for inspection. First to Vietnam, then to Jiangxi, then to Fujian, then to Guangdong, and finally to Taiwan. I may not be able to come back in time before the year. I guess the letter should arrive in the next few days.
." The prince nodded and said nothing. Jia Cong continued, "I received an urgent letter from Wu Xiaoxi, scolding me."
"Um?"
"She said it was my idea to even think about it with her toes." Jia Cong said, "She said I brought trouble to you. You are such a big girl. Except for her appearance, everything is the same as a man."
The prince was startled and smiled calmly: "Thanks to Sanshu Jia's idea, otherwise I wouldn't know where to raise my children in the backyard right now. How would I have the opportunity to stand in the court like I do now?"
Jia Cong said sternly: "I thought that a woman dressing up as a man would be like in a drama novel. During the day, E Guanbo leads the world, but behind closed doors she is still a little girl. I didn't expect you to think of yourself as a man."
The prince said: "If that's the case, even my grandparents can't be deceived. How can I coax the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty?"
Jia Cong sighed: "Niece, you are too involved in the drama, and you may have some gender identity disorder."
“What is Gender Identity Disorder?”
"It means that the behavior, language, etc. are too boyish." Jia Cong said, "This situation is mostly born. Boys just like to needlework female workers, make fat and make powder. Girls just like to dance with swords and guns, and fight on horseback.
"
The prince smiled and said: "Jia Gui likes to fight on horseback."
Jia Cong also smiled and said: "That's different. She asked us to go through the military training in the barracks. After training, she got better and was naturally better than ordinary girls. People envied her and she felt very happy, so she liked her. She didn't really like her.
.Well, if we take this topic a little further, it has to do with the nature of the living organism itself."
The prince suddenly became interested. "What's going on?"
"In nature, including the early days of our human society, the purpose of male creatures' survival is to continue their own genes. Bulls, wolves, and tigers all have to fight to show their strength to females in order to win her heart. And females in order to
The offspring can have better genes, thereby gaining a greater survival rate, and will also choose strong males as partners. Humans are also animals. So human males are naturally brave and aggressive. This is just like the boys in your school.
Football is the same thing. Isn’t it more exciting when there are girls watching?”
The prince smiled and said: "That's what happened."
"Females are usually responsible for raising cubs. Female needlework is a job of taking care of the family. Most girls are naturally interested in these things, and they are subconsciously training themselves to learn how to take care of cubs, preparing themselves for future motherhood.
Prepare."
The prince laughed again: "The word cub is so cute."
Jia Cong also smiled and said: "Of course, there are also males who raise young in animals. Isn't that the case with seahorses? Humans are highly intelligent creatures. Human society is much more complex than animal society, so there are many choices. Some boys are born to want to be
Women, some girls are born to want to be men. These individuals are a very small number in the population. But because our human population is so large, the absolute number is not large."
The prince thought: "What Uncle Jia means is that even if I want to be a boy, it is not uncommon."
"It's rare, but there are many of its kind."
The prince nodded. "But I was not born with it."
"In fact, there are more gender identity disorders caused by acquired upbringing. A man who was raised as a girl since childhood, and a woman who was raised as a boy. You are obviously acquired." Jia Cong said, "If I had known that you would be able to pretend to be a man.
If you are so devoted, I will definitely not come up with such a bad idea. However, it is difficult to buy regret medicine in the world. Now that the matter has come to this, the eldest niece should calmly think about it carefully. Your experience determines your present, but the future can be changed."
After a long while, the prince said in a daze: "What are you considering?"
Jia Cong said cautiously: "Consider whether you like to be a man or a woman. And whether you like a man or a woman." The prince frowned. Jia Cong said, "Unfortunately, psychological research in various schools has just started. There is a reporter at the Tianjin Pier.
I met such a girl during the interview. She is a woman, but in terms of gender perception, she wants to be a man, but she is a **, so she likes men. She is by no means an ordinary girl, she is looking for a man in her partner*
*Person. Do you understand what I mean?"
The prince stretched out his finger to draw a symbol on the case: "The body is a woman, and the consciousness is a man, right?"
"Yes." Jia Cong nodded. "You are really smart. But the country cannot accept her yet, so she took a boat to North America."
"Huh -" the prince breathed out. "Axi also said that he will go to North America next year. He is a **."
Jia Cong smiled and said: "The whole society there is relatively accepting of all kinds of people. A survey said that more than half of people are bisexual, and there are fewer pure homosexuals and pure heterosexuals. I haven't verified it, so I don't know if it's true.
Fake."
The prince nodded slightly. After a while, she said leisurely: "My plan is to slowly appoint female officials in the court, and slowly let the civil and military officials accept female heirs."
Jia Cong said: "Then you need power." He winked, "I must have helped you by coaxing your father to go on an inspection."
The prince snorted and said coldly: "Where are your guerrillas?"
Jia Cong spread his hands: "I don't know. But I know who did it. I can't offend people who are behind the scenes." The prince glanced at him, showing disbelief. Jia Cong said seriously, "My power is only to point out the general direction.
Not only do specific matters have no say, many of them have no right to know. This will be the case in the country of the future, and it will no longer be the world of one person."
The prince looked at him for a long time and suddenly asked: "Uncle Jia, is your master a rebel?"
Jia Cong was stunned for a moment, then understood what he meant. He looked around a few times and whispered: "Keep it a secret. I haven't told anyone else about this except my wife." The prince nodded repeatedly and leaned closer to him.
Cong whispered more and more softly, "They are not, I am."
The prince was shocked: "Ah?! You are?!"
Jia Cong nodded: "I am. I have seen the world three hundred years from now."
The prince's eyes lit up: "What's it like? Is it like what's written in science fiction books?"
"Well... it's not exactly the same." Jia Cong said, "Technology has naturally developed a lot, but human nature has remained roughly the same. The discrimination in the entire society is much less than it is now, and young people have a higher degree of freedom."
When the tea boiled, Jia Cong stood up and thought about what he should do. The prince directly picked up the teapot and poured water into the pot. "Uncle Jia Cong wants to turn the present into the future?"
"How is that possible? Social development and technological development take time. But I hope to reduce discrimination as much as possible and try to give young people more choices." Jia Cong said, "After all, people nowadays are also flesh and blood, living people.
.They also have the right to be respected and live a better life."