"Huh." Qu Ning raised her eyebrows: Jiang's words were quite open-minded, if you ignore the faint self-abandonment in her words, for a woman who only knew three virtues in the past, it would be regarded as a huge improvement, so she smiled and asked, "Mrs. Yun, oh no...... Jiang Niangzi, now that the matter has come to this, I take the liberty to ask, in Jiang Niangzi's heart, do you have plans for your future? ”

Her eyebrows are calm, her tone is calm and calm, and she has a powerful liliang that infects people's hearts. It's as if there's nothing she can't get over here. And this calm mood is indeed contagious.

Jiang's heartbeat gradually slowed down, and although the grief full of satisfaction was not less than half a point, the initial resentment that seemed to vomit a mouthful of blood at any time when he heard the bad news at first glance had disappeared a little, at least, and his chest was no longer so suffocating and uncomfortable.

But if she really wanted to make up her mind, she just opened her mouth and couldn't say it, she felt that her eyes were blank, and she couldn't see the way forward: "I ......" served her in-laws at home for so many years, she really didn't know how she could live her life without this home.

Qu Ning glanced at her, knowing that she was still the master of the six gods, and let her think for a moment, then she held her rough hand and said softly: "If Jiang Niangzi has no idea at all, you might as well listen to me." ”

Jiang looked at her blankly, his eyes were full of moisture and expectation: it was like looking at a life-saving straw.

Qu Ning smiled bitterly. She asked herself if she didn't have the ability to be a life-saving straw, nor did she have the ability to save people's hearts, all she could do was to put the choice that Jiang could make in front of her—even if, in fact, this choice itself was the most cruel fact: "Miss Lin already has the flesh and blood of someone in her stomach, and this is undeniable." And Master Yun's heart is afraid that it has completely deviated. If Master Yun treats you as a wife for half a minute, he will definitely not wait for the matter to come to this point, there is no way to retreat, and he will only tell you when the melon is ripe. Although these words are cruel, if Jiang still has luck in her heart and still has the idea of reuniting, then the strategy she will talk about next is to be a villain in vain.

Things are so bad that they can't be any worse, and it's better to die and come back to life.

But the premise of the victory of the mourning soldiers is to know clearly how bad their situation is.

When Qu Ning said this, she didn't hesitate, and after speaking, she turned her head to look at Jiang, the woman's eyes trembled, her long eyelashes trembled, and tears fell down drippingly.

"I ...... I know. Jiang Shi wiped away his tears as he spoke, "The love between him and me as husband and wife is over." ”

Her hopeful eyes gradually turned to despair, and Zuihou was as calm as stagnant water: "I have always been obedient to him in everything. If he still has me in his heart, he will know very well that if he wants to take a concubine, I will not stop him from speaking to me, and I may even help him to open up, because it is the love of his heart. If he had a son, I would treat him as my own. But he didn't want to wronged the woman for half a point, and he didn't even think that he was so ruthless, for me, who had already entrusted half my life to him, this was already forcing me to a dead end. So...... It is indeed too reluctant to be a husband and wife. ”

Qu Ning sighed secretly: Indeed, according to the temperament of a typical woman in the Republic of China like the Jiang family, if Master Nayun just wanted to take a concubine instead of stopping his wife and marrying another, she was afraid that she would feel sour at most, so she would also accept his aunt and wife. Only now, Master Yun and Miss Lin have already married each other, and she has to vacate the position of his wife, so she has died of that heart.

"Jiang Niangzi mourns, for a man whose heart is no longer in you, what you do is wrong. Regardless of whether you are gentle and considerate or kind and well-behaved, as long as you still occupy the position of your wife and live, this is already a mistake in itself. Even if you try to please him, no matter how much you do those compromises, I'm afraid it won't help, so you don't have to think about this. Qu Ning sighed lightly.

Jiang's disadvantages are too many and there are too few chips: "I say something ugly, in terms of beauty, you are not as good as Lin." In terms of talent, she graduated from Nanyang Girls' School, and you have only skimmed the four books and five classics. In terms of family background, the two of you are on par. On pampering......" she sighed and shook her head, "your only bargaining chip is that you are still the wife of that man's rightful name." This is your only, and most important, chip that can make the difference between victory and defeat. ”

Qu Ning sneered and said categorically: "For you, it is better to be still than to be still, as long as you are still his wife and live well in this position, it is enough." ”

Jiang Shi shook when he heard this, and looked up at Qu Ning in surprise.

Qu Ning smiled slightly: "You are the wife he is marrying." How can this identity be wasted? ”

***

Coming out of Jiang's dilapidated and low-rise house, Qu Ning looked at the lead-gray, cloudy sky and let out a long sigh.

Tang Jian looked at her with puzzlement and admiration in his eyes, Jiang Juan and her discussed secretly for a long time, until Zuihou's tears dried up, and his expression gradually became firm. Jiang Juan went from being at a loss at the beginning to having a backbone, and even having expectations, but it was just from Qu Ning's guidance.

At a certain moment, Tang Jian felt that what he saw in this sister-in-law was no less tenacious than the brother she admired the most.

The ancients were humane, talking and laughing, the canopy was wiped out, and the momentum of talking and laughing was like this?

But she listened quietly and carefully, but she still didn't quite understand what it was, seeing that Qu Ning had successfully comforted Jiang, but as soon as she went out, she still looked gloomy, so she asked curiously: "Sister-in-law, that Master Yun and Miss Lin are so aggressive, do you want Sister Jiang to spend with them?" ”

Qu Ning glanced at her and patted the legal text in her hand: "Because of this." ”

Tang Jian didn't understand.

Qu Ning explained to her in detail: "For the Jiang family, a man's heart can't be pulled back, so the most important thing is the division of property after the divorce. However, according to the current law, if she is divorced, she will not participate in the division of the joint property during the life of the husband and wife. The only thing Jiang could take away was her dowry. "The law of this era did not have such a provision as to calculate the wife's contribution in the family, so the husband's is still the husband's, and if the wife is divorced, she can only take her own dowry and get out of her house. The laws set by men are naturally directed towards men.

"But Sister Jiang's dowry ......" Tang Jian understood, and a trace of surprise flashed on his face: That's right, when the Jiang family started, the Jiang family and the Yun family were both equally poor, so the dowry was almost equivalent to nothing.

"Hmm. Therefore, if she agrees with the man and divorces, then she is almost equivalent to leaving the house. Of course, if the man had a conscience, he would pity her and give her some alimony, but that alimony was only a drop in the bucket compared to the wealth and status he now had. Qu Ning sighed, this era is so unfair to women, "That's why I told her, don't agree to divorce." ”

Fortunately, the court in this era is very cautious in awarding divorce, and it takes a long time, even if Master Yun wants to put pressure on the court with the power in her hands, she has a way to solve this.

"I can only drag it out......," Qu Ning squinted his eyes and said coldly, "Because that woman's belly is getting bigger and bigger day by day, she also has to make frequent moves for the evil seed in her stomach." Do more and make more mistakes, it's not your sister Jiang who should be in a hurry now. ”

"Yes...... But isn't the child innocent? Isn't it pitiful to be born an illegitimate child......" Tang Key's eyes widened.

"Innocent?" Qu Ning sneered, "Whether the child is innocent or not depends on his mother." The child's mother wants to use him as a tool to fight for fame, and his origin itself is a sin. As for us laymen, we can take care of our own lives and protect the people we want to protect, it is already a blessing, and the excess mercy is best not to give alms to some unworthy people. ”

Glancing meaningfully at Tang Key, who seemed to be thoughtful, Qu Ning smiled and patted her on the shoulder: "Third sister, it's a good thing to be kind-hearted, but kindness regardless of the occasion or situation will become cruel to oneself and relatives." "Do you really want to be endlessly tolerant of your second sister and fourth sister?

Tang Jian lowered his head. Qu Ning nodded, then smiled, touched her apple face, changed the topic with a smile, the smile on her face completely diluted her murderous aura, she took out the small note written by Fang Cai Jiang to her, looked at it one by one, and then made a bitter face, and threw the note to Tang Key, "Third sister, these addresses, take a look, which one is the closest?" ”

"Hmm," Tang Jian honestly took it, read them carefully one by one, and then pointed to one of them, unaware that he was completely distracted, "This one, it's only about a quarter of an hour to walk over." ”

"Okay, then let's go next, let's go to this house."

***

After this day's visit, Qu Ning returned home, not only with heavy steps, but even her mood was already very heavy as if she had been filled with lead.

Pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, the first thing she saw was just such an example of Jiang, but after a whole day of visiting the homes with the addresses on the note, what she saw was a huge iceberg under the water.

These "military families" have their own contacts with each other. After she gave Jiang an idea, she asked her if she knew any other examples similar to her, asked for the addresses of those people, and went home with some small gifts to visit. Fortunately, if the name of the young marshal's wife is reported, this visit can be said to be unfavorable, otherwise, she will not really be turned away by those people. Now they all have a natural closeness to her identity, and she can often find out the bottom clearly in a few words.

After visiting the family in person, she found that the situation was far more serious than she had imagined.

At the beginning of the uprising, it was said that the army discipline was strict and the system was strict, so the combat effectiveness was also very strong.

Most of his men were young officers, and they were under thirty at the time of the uprising. Therefore, the oldest she saw today was only thirty-eight years old, still in the prime of life.

But the huge victory did not bring about institutional progress, on the contrary, what she saw today was a jaw-dropping corruption: almost every husband and wife has some problems of one kind or another, but the better ones have not mentioned divorce, but most of the wives have only become decorations, and there is not much difference from the main wives of the old society.

There are still concubines and even concubines in the backyard, and one of them has more than 20 concubines in the teacher's house!

There are also a few other families, the husband has not returned home for a long time, and the wife has become accustomed to it, and he can only smile bitterly when he sees her.

There are several others, and the daughter-in-law she saw was exceptionally young and beautiful, but she took the big house in Beijing in the name of "lady", but in fact, the real lady was still left in the countryside. This situation is not uncommon.

The wife of the chaff does not go to court, and in the eyes of these people, it has become an empty word.

Although the corruption brought about by victory is a process that almost every victorious regime goes through, in just ten years, do these people still have the blood and courage of the beginning, and the heart of the progressive revolution at the beginning? Now succumbing to * and indulging in pleasures, can these people really become the hope of the nation? Qu Ning thought about it carefully, and only felt the indescribable bitterness in his heart.

Qu Ning gave instructions to those wives one by one at that time, and lightly mentioned the preparation for the establishment of the "Chinese Women's Rights and Interests Federation". But looking at the reactions of these women, she is really not sure how many of those women who have become accustomed to this kind of life can wake up from this kind of insensitivity that is obviously unequal.

Thinking about her plan in a mess, Qu Ning almost didn't know what to eat—she let the two maids help her pick up the food casually, and she only mechanically filled it into her mouth.

After messing around and half full, there was still most of the food left on the table, and Tang Shaoshuai saw that he had returned home.

Qu Ning only came to her senses at this time, and after glancing at Tang Zhong, she reluctantly smiled and ordered left and right: "Go and pass the food to the young marshal again." He apologized to Tang Zhong again, "Sincerely, I thought you were going to return late today, so I didn't wait for you." ”

"It doesn't matter." He had already walked quickly to the table, his sharp eyes swept away, and he only asked Su Qin, who was standing on the side, to add two bowls of rice for him, and then chewed it like a whirlwind, and he didn't even think that the dishes had been eaten by her.

After filling up a little, he raised his eyes and glanced at Qu Ning, whose eyes were lowered, and his eyebrows were slightly frowned: "Why did you only use so much today?" He sandwiched a bun for her, and ordered in a cold and hard tone, "Use it with me a little more." ”

The whole cage of big meat buns was sent up with the rice, probably to satisfy someone's huge appetite, and it was the size of half a soup bowl, Qu Ning glared at him a little speechlessly, but since he was coerced, she couldn't disobey his kindness, so she asked for another bowl of clear soup, and began to swallow it little by little.

Seeing her obediently eating, Tang Shaoshuai seemed to be satisfied.

Seeing that although she was eating in small bites, Zuihou also ate most of it, so he said coldly: "Are you going to visit my subordinates' homes today?" ”

She wasn't surprised at all that he knew her whereabouts.

Qu Ning only paused slightly, then nodded honestly.

"What does it feel?" He asked her directly.

Qu Ning hesitated for a moment, and waited until she met his calm and unpretentious eyes, she hesitated, and slowly confided the truth: "I just think that Tang Jiajun is no longer the Tang Jiajun I heard about before." ”

What she said was a bit clueless, but Tang Shaoshuai understood it as soon as she heard it.

He had almost eaten by this time, so he waved his hand to let the maids remove the food from the table, and when the room was empty, he reached out and took a towel to wipe his mouth: "How do you want me to cooperate?" ”

Unexpectedly, he did this, Qu Ning was stunned for a moment, and then looked up at him in almost disbelief, but only looked at a pair of black eyes that implied a swirl of suction.

Surprised but for a moment, Qu Ning smiled when he came back to his senses, and said bluntly: "It's great that you are willing to cooperate with me." ”

In the face of Tang Shaoshuai, she didn't hide much.

After thinking about it, she told him about Master Yun and Miss Lin that she saw today, and then said to him, "Your subordinates, it's not the first time you've done this, right?" Slanted at him, "Concubines have become a common practice, and some of them simply want to change the wretched wives of the family, I used to think that the Tang family army was really going to reform the life of feudalism, but now it seems that your blueprints, that is, a castle in the air, those words, are just selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, right?" ”

Tang Shaoshuai raised his eyebrows and listened to her venting, and raised his two thick eyebrows slightly: "Are you a radical general?" ”

He reached out to hold her chin and forced her to meet his eyes, "I don't like you like this." If you don't want to say anything, this evil fire has also been brought back to your home. Her jaw ached with that hand, but the piles and piles she saw now were like a depressed breath, entrenched in her heart.

Qu Ning was inexplicably unwilling to show weakness at this time, raised his chin and looked directly at him, looking unafraid: "Your subordinates have become like this, as a young marshal, do you feel that you have no responsibility?" ”

Tang Shaoshuai squinted and looked at her for a long time, and there seemed to be a coldness in those deep eyes that made her dare not look directly.

Tang Jinzhi was very unhappy in his heart: his woman, weishenme, wants to fight with him here for the joys and sorrows of others? There is even a little grievance: it was his subordinates who cheated, and it wasn't that he wanted Xiaoxing to marry Mrs. Ru...... It's a no-brainer.

But the two looked at each other, Zuihou still agreed with him first, snorted lightly, and retracted his hand - the skin under his hand was so delicate and smooth, and it was really bruised and swollen, it was not he who was distressed to Zuihou?

"That's it." He leaned over and whispered in her ear in a way that seemed to bite her ear, "If you want to talk about other military styles, I may really be responsible, but I do have a clear conscience in this matter." You have to blame, and you have to figure out the truth before you blame, it's bulging like a bun, and it will break if you poke it. As he spoke, he poked her white cheeks, and then sighed, "Well, they are my soldiers, and I should be responsible for this anyway." You have to cooperate, and I will give it to you soon. Just wait. ”

Unexpectedly, it was a tough appearance, and the man who had always acted his own way was first convinced, and it was completely unexpected to hear him speak like this, and Qu Ning became more and more surprised.

As soon as the anger that came out of nowhere disappeared, she lowered her head a little embarrassed, and reflected on how the atmosphere that had obviously started to be harmonious and happy came to a stalemate: "...... I was impulsive. ”

"It's good to know the impulse," the man smiled slightly, stretched out his long legs in military boots like an uncle, gently tapped her calf forward, and rubbed it twice like a cat teasing a dog, "Come, take off your boots." ”

...... "Don't you want this guy to be so aggressive!" Is it amazing to have long legs or what? Although it's right that he is very handsome in military boots with long legs, he wants her to help him take off his ......

Qu Ning hadn't been fluted for more than three seconds, and the foot in the tough leather boots was already slowly moving upstream, and seeing that it was about to hit the side of her thigh, Qu Ning immediately shuddered and shouted to stop - this continued and it completely became: "Okay, okay, I'll take it off for you." ”

While squatting down to take off his boots for him, Qu Ning was still thinking about their issue.

He should have complied, but he always felt a little vague: I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, anyway, he just wanted to make her look like a flower in a fog.

Now that he seemed to be in a good mood, his eyebrows softened, and Fang Cai's fierce color gradually dissipated, she raised her head and deliberately softened her voice: "Sincerely, what do you mean when you say that this matter has nothing to do with you?" Also, I said I wanted you to cooperate, but you told me how you plan to cooperate! ”

Tang Shaoshuai smiled in a low voice: "I didn't plan to answer the latter question. Since you and I are husband and wife, there should be a tacit understanding between husband and wife. Isn't it? Shouldn't you wait for me to say how I'm going to cooperate? Or do you not know your husband at all, eh? ”

"......" Qu Ning was dumbfounded by his rhetorical question: crooked! She's not a roundworm in his stomach!

But looking at the way he looks, he knows that he can't ask anything about this question. This guy deliberately didn't say it, could she really be stalking?

She was helpless: "What about the first question?" ”

"Alas," Tang Shaoshuai sighed, pulled her up, who was still half-squatting on the ground, and sat beside him, "That's it, for the sake of Madame's rare carelessness to serve me once, I'll give Madame a little hint to you." Miss Na Lin went to Nanyang Women's College, which is an aristocratic girls' school with a high threshold for admission. Ordinary people can't get in if they are idle. ”

Qu Ning listened intently: she hated that she knew too little about this shijie. Like these things, Tang Jinzhi didn't say anything, she really didn't know anything. Such doubts were simply passed away.

But with a little bit of his dial, she understood.

If Miss Lin's family background was very good, she would not live with a man at will or even get pregnant.

In this era, although the defense of men and women is no longer as strict as that of the previous dynasty, the X behavior before marriage is still a manifestation of no upbringing and training.

So, since Miss Lin's family background is not enough to enter Nanyang Girls' School, who gave her a guarantee in the first place?

She was about to ask again, but Tang Shaoshuai just smiled and hooked the tip of her nose: "Madam, we should go to bed." ”

The author has something to say: Today's favorites, in order not to affect the position on the folder, so I wrote these two chapters early in the morning, and put them in the manuscript box at the set time before sending. Only this once, it will be back to normal tomorrow.

This month, if there are no major changes, it will be two changes per day. 8 o'clock in the morning, 8 o'clock in the evening, one shift each.

I won't say much else. Happy reading the article.