Li Yan'er's heart pounded and pounded when she heard this, and she said in her heart: "This big bad guy didn't know where to think of so many strange words, what husband and wife, listening to it in the ears to shame a person?" Li Yan'er snuggled in his arms with a red face, and said softly: "Such a shameful word, how many times do you say it, but don't say it again?" "It's only been a few times, so how can it be done, nice words, of course you have to say it for a lifetime, right, wife?" Yang Zheng said unashamedly. "This bad guy is so shameless, if you say such a shameful thing, you have to say it for the rest of your life, and you won't be ashamed of it?" The eldest lady blushed, bit her red lip, and muttered quietly.

Li Yan'er blushed and said, "Can it really be called for a lifetime?" "My day, isn't my husband and wife a common name between husband and wife, why does this girl never seem to have heard of it, is it not popular at this time? Shouldn't it? Yang Zheng was a little stunned and glanced at Li Yan'er in his arms, with a shy face. He remembered that he had heard it said in his previous life that the title of husband and wife became popular in our Tang Dynasty.

It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar named Mai Aixin, who felt that his wife was old and decrepit after he passed the examination, so he had the idea of disliking his old wife and accepting a new love. So, I wrote a pair of couplets and put them on the desk: "The lotus is ruined, and the fallen leaves return to the roots to become old lotus roots." It so happened that the couplet was seen by his wife. The wife sensed that her husband had the idea of abandoning the old and accepting the new, so she wrote the following couplet: "The yellow rice is ripe, and the bran is blown to see the new grain of rice." "Rice" to "lotus", "new grain (bride)" to "old lotus (old puppet)", not only very neat and appropriate, novel and popular, but also interesting,-for-tat. Mai Aixin read his wife's couplet, and was moved by his wife's quick thinking and love, so he gave up the idea of abandoning the old and accepting the new. When the wife saw that her husband had changed his mind and did not forget the old love, she wrote with a pen: "My husband is very fair. Mai Aixin also waved his pen and continued to write the following couplet: "My wife is a mother-in-law. This educational story quickly spread and became a good story for generations, and since then, the words "husband" and "wife" have been used in Chinese, and there is also a custom of calling each other "husband" and "wife" among husband and wife.

However, in the previous life, some people who did not understand said that the titles of "husband" and "wife" were first popularized in Hong Kong and Taiwan before they were introduced to the mainland. In fact, the titles of husband and wife have not only become popular in the Tang Dynasty, but also in the Great Song Dynasty, and the famous "Water Margin" has been talked about.

Chapter 45: Pan Qiaoyun said to Pei Ruhai: "Don't panic, I've already thought of a plan." My husband spends about 20 days a month in prison. I bought Ying'er and taught him to serve in the back door every day. If your husband is not at home at night, he will come out with an incense table and burn night incense, and you may as well come in. As for the examples of calling a wife a wife, there are countless examples in ancient books, "Dream Pen Gives Flowers, Hangzhou Sayings" has: "Beat your wife, scold your wife, and have no money to buy a wife." "Mirage Building" miscellaneous drama: "You are a turtle who is afraid of your wife." "It is said that these intimate words between ordinary couples should have been strange a long time ago, right? Why is this girl like she's never heard of it before? ”

How did he know that although the title of husband and wife seemed intimate, in ancient times, it was not popular, first of all, there were many nicknames for "wife". "The Book of Rites•Qu Lixia" contains: "The concubines of the Son of Heaven are called queens, the princes are called wives, the doctors are called widows, and the concubines are called wives. At that time, the "wife" was only the spouse of the common people, and had no identity. The official position is generally called "widow". The wife of the concubine is called "Neizi", which generally refers to the wife and concubine as "Neiren". In the higher echelons of government, the title of wife reflects the hierarchy. For example, the wives of the princes are called "Xiaojun", after the Han Dynasty, the emperor called his wife Zitong, and the wife of the prince and minister was called Mrs.; The literati called it clumsy and cheap; Yashi is called a broom. The merchant is called the cheap; The scholar is called his wife; The sour show is called a lady; The farmer is called Aunt Mother-in-law. Cultivated people are called wives, ladies, and seats; The uneducated is called a wife. Young people call daughters-in-law; The old man is called his wife. Express intimacy: heart, baby, dear, the title of wife, not as good as the previous world, everyone can open their mouths, like Li Yan'er, the eldest lady of the official family does not go out of the door, these intimate words between husband and wife in the market, how have I ever heard it, and I feel extremely shy when I hear it for the first time today.

Yang Zheng looked at the girl's shy appearance, his heart was very happy, and he looked up to the sky and said: "Actually, in this life, husband and wife really want a good name, what is cheap, clumsy wife", "Jing wife", "widow", "mountain wife", "good wife", "good wife", "benevolent wife", what "official", "son", "Langjun", it is not as good as the husband and wife, listen to the comfort, call Shunkou, you have not heard of it, it doesn't matter if you can shout or not, the important thing is that the two sisters like it, in the future, Your husband and I shout like this every day? Do you think it's good? ”

Li Yan'er blushed with shame, gently rubbed her little face on his chest twice, and said shyly: "People are determined to follow you in this life, you can call it whatever you want?" ”

It's decided so quickly, can you let go first? Yang Zheng pretended to be surprised.

Li Yan'er knew that he was joking, but she still pulled his arm with some worry, raised her little face, pouted her tender pink mouth, and snorted softly: "Don't think about it, if you dare to let go of me, I ...... I, I'll die to show you! ”

"Am I kidding? Like a good woman like Sister Yan'er blinking at a first-class woman, how can I be willing to let go? Isn't it, big wife? Yang Zheng stretched out his hand and nodded on Li Yan'er's dexterous nose, turned his head and said to the eldest lady with a smile.

The eldest lady's pretty face immediately rose with a blush, turned her head and glared at him fiercely, and said, "You, what are you shouting nonsense?" “

Yang Zheng grinned and said in his heart: "This girl's face is still so thin, it seems that she still needs to strengthen her practice?" “

Li Yan'er smiled and said, "Sister is shy, right?" “

Yang Zheng sighed and said, "It seems that the glorious and arduous burden of being called "husband" is about to fall on you, Sister Yan'er, are you afraid?" “

Li Yan'er listened to his husband and wife's call, and said in her heart: "Why is this person's face so thick, such embarrassing words, I don't see him blushing all day long, and I don't know how his face grows?" “

Yang Zheng saw Li Yan'er blushing with shame, lowering her head and not making a sound, thinking that this girl couldn't wipe her face and didn't like the title of husband. Said softly: "What's the matter, my little obedient is unwilling?" “

Li Yan'er was shocked, and hurriedly said, "No, no?" I, I just feel a little ashamed, or, or, you let my sister shout first, maybe my sister shouted out, I listen to it well, and I dare to shout it? "My day, it's just a husband, you don't need to come first and come later, isn't it okay to shout whoever you like?" Yang Zheng shook his head and smiled bitterly twice, seeing that this girl's face was full of shyness, she couldn't help but cry and laugh, and slowly moved her eyes to the eldest lady's face.

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The eldest lady blushed like fire, glared at him fiercely, and said sharply: "What do you see, I don't know you well, so I don't need to shout such embarrassing words?" You'd better leave it to Sister Yan'er, right? "Shame on you, shame on you there?" Yang Zheng said with some dissatisfaction.

The eldest lady sneered, blushing and said: "I see that you know a lot on weekdays, why are you confused in this well-known title today, and I don't know if you are really confused, or are you fake?" “

Yang Zheng said in his heart, "What's really confused, fake and confused, this girl is talking more and more strangely, listening to the tone as if shouting "husband" is so embarrassing?" ”

Seeing his blank look, the eldest lady gritted her teeth and said, "Do you know what those eunuchs in the capital are called?" ”

Yang Zheng said in his heart: "Do you want to test me?" He said angrily: "It's good to say, the temple people, the yellow gate, and the mink." Honorific titles of internal officials, internal ministers, middle officials, and middle nobles; Humble names of internal erections, eunuchs, eunuchs, eunuchs, should be so much, right? ”

Yang Zheng thought that his answer would satisfy the eldest lady, but who knew that the eldest lady burst out laugh and said, "It's about good, but it's a pity that one less title is said?" ”

"Less? Shouldn't it? Isn't eunuch just called these titles, can't he be called a husband? Yang Zheng said to himself.

As soon as Yang Zheng's voice fell, the eldest lady couldn't hold back any longer, covering her small mouth and giggling.

Li Yan'er also blushed with shame, covering her small mouth and snickering.

At this time, Yang Zheng was a little dumbfounded, and thought: "How can my husband still have some trouble with the eunuch, if the eunuch is called husband, then the hundreds of millions of wives in the previous life have an extremely noble and intimate tone, shouting their own man's husband and husband are so energetic, not ashamed but fashionable, do you really want your husband to be a useless eunuch?" Aren't those women brain-dead? ”

In fact, it's no wonder that he doesn't know that the word "husband" first appeared in ancient times, and it is indeed a curse. At that time, some eunuchs still liked to visit brothels with their hearts, but the money was spent, but they couldn't complete it, so they touched and pinched indiscriminately, and tortured prostitutes very hatefully to relieve the itch in their hearts. Beijing prostitutes are most afraid of encountering such customers, and calling them "husbands" in private is really a kind of contempt and insult. After the abolition of eunuchs in the Republic of China, the first Westernized Hong Kong people called their husbands husbands, so those fashionable women screamed and followed suit. In the nineties of the last century, first in the forefront of reform and opening up, Guangzhou and Shenzhen appeared in the "fashion fever" of "husband", and then quickly spread throughout the country and could not be contained, slowly the word "husband" became the name of the husband by all names, I thought that such a moving festival, I had to let the two girls be moved, who knew that stealing chickens did not become a loss of rice, shame not to say, piggyback on himself also scolded a beating, it can be seen that reading is not excellence, should really kill the individual? “