Chapter 3: Sharp Words
That fat aunt is the third daughter-in-law of Qin Nuan's step-grandmother Liu's cousin's family, she came to the matchmaker today, she said that the object of her kiss is the only grandson of Qin Nuan's step-grandmother Liu's cousin's sister-in-law's family, that family has four granddaughters, the two eldest granddaughters are born to the daughter-in-law of Ming Media is marrying, and the two granddaughters are born to concubines, and finally the daughter-in-law gave birth to this grandson, what does the baby seem to have, and now she is sixteen years old, which is a good age to say kiss. There is a restaurant in the house, and the business is not bad, the scale of the restaurant is larger than Qin Nuan's restaurant, but Qin Nuan's family is in the countryside outside Yangzhou, and there are fields and Zhuangzi, whether that family has any land in the countryside, Jasmine hasn't inquired yet, because everyone doesn't know very well.
After speaking, Jasmine commented with disdain on the eldest aunt who came to kiss: "I also said that I came to visit my relatives to see the elders!
When Qin Nuan heard this, thinking of the fat aunt's expression and what she said, she snorted coldly in her heart, not to mention this kind of "baby pimple egg", there is also a mother-in-law, a mother-in-law and a mother-in-law, plus four sisters-in-law, how much self-harm and self-abuse she has to marry this kind of man!
"Well, what else, go on!" Qin Nuan looked at Jasmine with an expression of "Praise me, there is still a fierce material", and asked with encouragement as expected. Jasmine's next description is the attitude of the family, during Qin Nuan's rest, Qin Nuan's stepfather Shi Erlang also returned, Shi Erlang and Liu are very in favor of this marriage, how the old man of the Kua family is kind and generous, and how the baby golden grandson of the Kua family is excellent and smart...... But fortunately, Qin Nuan's mother did not let go, it should mean disagree.
That's normal!
Qin Nuan knew that her mother was a high-minded person, and the son of such a small rich man naturally looked down on her. But Shi Erlang's mother and son have always been poor before, relatives like Liu's cousin, who are relatively wealthy, basically don't walk around with them, after joining the Qin family, Shi Erlang's mother and son have lived a nourishing life in the past three years, and they have spare money on hand, and Qin's restaurants and Zhuangzi are booming, and these relatives have begun to walk around with them. Now that these rich relatives who couldn't be at home before have taken the initiative to come to their house to say goodbye, Shi Erlang's mother and son are naturally happy, not to mention, they can't wait for Qin Nuan to marry out soon!
Qin Nuan stretched, got up and asked Jasmine to freshen up her, and prepared to go to the main house for lunch. She was not in a hurry about this at all, because the Qin clan would definitely not agree.
Before I walked to the main house, I heard Liu's loud voice talking about the ancient times from a distance: "When we were young, at that time, the ladies went out to the street to bring the curtain away, and the scene was long, growing up to the waist, and later, the scene was getting shorter and shorter, only to the neck, just covered a face, turned into a hat, and then later, to this day, the little ladies don't even wear hats when they go out, and some of them are still wearing men's clothes! The old master in the school shook his head and sighed at the ...... of that person's heart."
Liu couldn't break that word, and he heard the voice of his stepfather Shi Erlang: "It's that people's hearts are not ancient!"
"Yes, yes, yes, it's just that people's hearts are not ancient!" Liu replied loudly.
"Giggles......" There was a burst of childlike laughter, it was Qin Nuan's younger brother Qin Kang.
Qin Nuan's heart sighed, where did the Liu family hear the story from, the little ladies all took the curtain to the street? Hehe, that is the aristocratic little lady of the Gaomen family, okay? For example, the big lady and little lady of an ordinary family like you, where did the curtain come from? Work honestly to feed your stomach, how can you care if you show your head! Also, the light veil that makes the curtain or the hat needs to be able to cover your face but not obstruct your vision, the price is expensive, you may not be able to touch it once in your life!
Qin Nuan smiled slightly, walked into the house, and saluted Liu: "Grandma!" and then saluted Shi Erlang, "Uncle!"
For her stepfather Shi Erlang, Qin Nuan has always only called him "Uncle", that "father" or "Grandpa" or something, she really can't call it, but Qin Nuan's younger brother Qin Kang, because when Shi Erlang entered the door, he was just an ignorant child who was less than three or four years old, and Shi Erlang loved him very much, so he kept calling "Grandpa, Grandpa" very affectionately, he always thought that Shi Erlang was his biological father.
"Ah, Ah Nuan, sit down!" Liu Shi hurriedly greeted affectionately, and said with disgust in his mouth: "You kid is right, the family meets every day, where is the need to salute!
"Sister, come and listen to Grandma's story!" Qin Kang, as a child who is only six or seven years old, likes to listen to the old man talk about the ancients.
Well, this is a time when there is no entertainment!
Qin Nuan smiled obediently and sat down uprightly on the side.
Shi Erlang hugged Qin Kang in his arms, smiled at Qin Nuan and asked, "Ah Nuan, Fairy Gu is still healthy, right?
Qin Nuan replied: "I heard my grandmother's little apprentice say, this time it probably won't be long, it will be around in about ten days and a half months!"
"Well, that's good, it's hot now, and it's hard to go out!" Shi Erlang nodded.
Liu's words continued: "In the past, even the princess had to take the curtain out of the house! And wow, at that time, the little lady could marry when she was twelve years old, and if she didn't marry at the age of eighteen, the family would be punished by the government!"
Qin Nuan sneered in his heart: Liu's balabala has talked so much nonsense, all for the sake of foreshadowing! Are they so eager to sweep her out of the house! Fortunately, they are not in charge!
Qin Kang's eyes widened and he said in surprise: "Really, does the government still have to take care of other people's family affairs?"
Qin Nuan took over the conversation and told Qin Kangdao: "Brother, the first emperor Renzong has changed the rules when he was in his majesty, and a woman must be at least fifteen years old before she can marry, and there is no longer a mandatory rule that she must marry before the age of eighteen!
Although Qin Kang was a six- or seven-year-old child, he already knew that this matter had something to do with his sister, so he breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and said happily: "Sister, she is not yet fifteen years old!"
"Ah Nuan has studied in the boudoir, but he knows more than us! Ah Nuan is smart and knowledgeable, but unfortunately the court does not allow women to go to the scientific examination, otherwise Ah Nuan will definitely be able to take the female examination before returning to glorify the ancestors!" Shi Erlang smiled and nodded in praise.
Qin Nuan lowered his head and took a sip of the cool pulp, didn't answer the stubble, and sighed in his heart: Do you think you said sour words in such a sincere and pleasing tone, I don't know if this is sour words!
Qin Nuan scolded on one side, and on the other hand, he sincerely shouted to His Majesty Renzong, "Your Majesty the First Emperor, Shengming!"
The era she came to was called "Tang", she thought it was the "Tang Dynasty" in history, but later found out that it was not, although it was also called the Tang Dynasty, but there was no mighty Emperor Zetian, no merry Tang Ming Emperor, no beautiful Yang Guifei, but there was an Emperor Renzong who had never appeared in history, the first emperor Renzong and his mother, the Empress Dowager, vigorously advocated the establishment of boudoir schools.
His Majesty Renzong means that in addition to serving her in-laws and obeying her husband, she also has to govern the family and teach her children, and the mother is illiterate, ignorant of the meaning of the book, and unreasonable, which will directly affect the internal environment of a family, as well as affect the growth of children, in a small aspect, it affects a family, and in a large scope, children are the future of the country, and the growth of children affects the prosperity of a country.
Tsk, what a benevolent and far-sighted emperor! So as long as he is not a stone-headed, he has not resisted boudoir learning. Of course, there may be a few stone-headed rotten Confucians, but there are no ones who dare to speak up, the iron fist of the mother and son of the first emperor and the empress dowager has made many vassal kings and feudal officials frightened, not to mention a few sour Confucians.
Qin Nuan went to school for several years and was a direct beneficiary of this policy.
Because of this policy, the social status of women has also been invisibly improved, and at the same time, Renzong has revised the law, stipulating that "a woman can only marry when she reaches the age of fifteen", because women under the age of fifteen are not growing enough, and if they marry and have children, it is easy to have all kinds of life dangers, and the death of both mother and child is a common thing! At the same time, his old man also canceled the inhumane stipulation that a woman who is not married at the age of 18 will be fined and matched by the official media.
Qin Nuan thought of himself, and silently called out to His Majesty the First Emperor, "Your Majesty Shengming!"
A few people were gossiping here, Qin walked in, Qin's servant maid Gardenia and Liu's little girl Xing'er followed closely with lunch, Liu stopped "reminiscing about the past and mourning the present" and began to eat.
Eat without saying a word, this rule is now better implemented in the Qin family. During the period when Shi Erlang first entered the Qin family, the Liu family actually wanted to break this rule, and finally in the embarrassment of talking to himself countless times, he finally stopped this innovative movement and honestly became her cheap mother-in-law.
Because his son Shi Erlang did not support her, Shi Erlang thought that since he had said goodbye to the years of living in a thatched house, he should also say goodbye to the habit of living in a thatched house, and he felt that it was a very naïve act for the old lady to try to declare his authority as a mother-in-law in this way.
After lunch, the Qin family took Qin Kang out at the invitation of a neighbor, and Liu and Shi Erlang did not find an opportunity to talk to Qin about the benefits of this family affair, so they dispersed.
Liu wanted to talk to Qin Nuan and say something considerate, but Qin Nuan also had "business" to be busy, she wanted to paint peony patterns for Wang Qingya, the daughter of Wang Xiucai's family on East Street, and it was both chic and rich, and it took a lot of effort to confess to Liu, and she went into her room and never came out.
Wang Xiucai's family has some prestige and prestige in this small neighborhood, his eldest queen Qingya is Qin Nuan's friend in the boudoir, and now the marriage date has been set, and the in-law's family is a family in Dongcheng, which is a very prestigious family. Wang Qingya was busy embroidering the dowry, and since she asked Qin Nuan to help, the Liu family didn't dare to go to Luo Qin Nuan.
It wasn't until sunset that the Qin family took Qin Kang back, and Qin Nuan also came out of his boudoir, and the family was ready to have dinner together in a harmonious and happy atmosphere.