Volume 1, Chapter 5, The Sorrow of the Concubine
Gu Ning is a concubine, and most of his concubines are destined to be unacceptable, either slaves and maids in the family, or bought from outside, like Aunt Shen and Aunt Cui, they are simply from low origins. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Of course, there is also a difference between a lowly and a lowly status.
After careful investigation, Aunt Shen was born in Le, he is the daughter of the advocate family, and he is under the management of the teaching workshop. In terms of identity, she is a singer, before she was with Gu Ning, she was an alternate singer in the teaching department, and after following Gu Ning, she was a singer raised by the Gu family and dedicated to serving Gu Ning, that is, a family singer.
And Aunt Cui is from a lowly background, he was a prostitute before he entered the Gu family, because Gu Ning liked it, so he entered the Gu family and became a prostitute of the Gu family.
From a legal point of view, none of them are concubines.
The Great Wei Dynasty inherited the previous dynasty, and most of the laws of the previous dynasty were used in this law, and in the laws of the previous dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that the good and the poor should not intermarry, and it was illegal to take a maid as a wife and a maid as a concubine. In addition, the law also clearly stipulates that concubines must be from good families, just as a wife must go to the government to issue a marriage certificate, and concubines must also go to the government to apply for concubine documents.
The Great Wei Dynasty also inherited the relevant decrees.
In other words, from a legal point of view, Aunt Shen is not Gu Ning's concubine, and the two daughters he gave birth to, Gu Qiyi Niang, and Gu Qiwu Niang are not Gu Ning's daughters. They are just Gu Ningyang's singers and singers' daughters, that is, family plays.
Similarly, Aunt Cui, who was originally a prostitute, was not Gu Ning's concubine in law, but a family prostitute raised by Gu Ning, and Gu Qisanniang was not Gu Ning's daughter in law, but the daughter of a family prostitute, that is, a young prostitute in the family.
Cheap concubines will not be registered on the genealogy, let alone appear on the Gu family's household register. Legally, they were not concubines, but merely domestic servants or prostitutes. The children born of lowly concubines are not concubines and concubines from the legal point of view, but slaves, housekeepers, and housekeepers born of prostitutes, housekeepers, and houseprostitutes.
This is the sorrow of a concubine.
Even if they truly love their husbands, even if they live a life of fine clothes and food, but in law, they are not human beings, they are just playthings, and even their children are not recognized, and can only be classified as lowly and repeat their miserable fate.
The advocate is a singer, and the same as the prostitute, although both are lowly jobs, but there is still a clear difference in social class. At least, the identity of the person in contact with the advocate is also a little higher, so Aunt Shen is also more knowledgeable than Aunt Cui.
Aunt Shen knows better than Aunt Cui that some people outside will accept a concubine to marry a concubine to fill the house, or to marry a concubine to someone else's concubine. But this kind of concubine is a concubine born to a serious concubine, that is, the so-called daughter of a good concubine. A daughter born to a cheap concubine like them can't marry in a dignified manner without getting a serious identity, let alone a future.
When Gu Ning was there, Aunt Shen was thinking about getting a serious identity for her daughter, at least she had to be Gu Ning's serious concubine, even if she recorded her daughter in someone else's name, Aunt Shen was willing.
In order to achieve this goal, Aunt Shen didn't know how much effort she had spent, seeing that Gu Ning had agreed, but at this time, Gu Ning died.
Aunt Shen's little wish also came to naught.
He had to start over,
Get an identity for your daughter.
If his daughter wants to marry in a dignified manner, she must have a decent identity.
Aunt Shen regretted it very much, why did he get so confused that day, thinking that he would have Gu Ning's favor and everything would be fine? How could he think that as long as Gu Ning continued to spoil him, when his daughter's age came, Gu Ning would definitely get his daughter's identity and household registration done?
If he also had An's heart that day, not to mention the current stewardship, even the identity of his two daughters would not have him worry so much.
Although the An family was Gu Hai's concubine, the An family seized the opportunity to completely change the court and became the official eunuch of the new dynasty. If he had curryed favor with An Shi at the beginning, then now he can use An's power to make Xiao An nod. As long as Xiao An's nods, the An family will definitely not object, at that time, as long as he spends a little more money to go to the government to make up a concubine document, and hang his two daughters under that document, won't this identity be solved?
He woke up too late.
At that time, he thought that Gu Ning would definitely be fine, as long as Gu Ning was there, the identity of his daughter was just a matter of Gu Ning's words. But who would have thought that Gu Ning would die of a rescue? Although it is said that Gu Ning was posthumously named Zhongjing Uncle, although it is said that Gu Yu attacked the knight without degrading, but for Aunt Shen, it is no different from the sky falling.
Because his identity as a daughter did not come down!
Aunt Shen's eldest daughter, Gu Qiyiniang, is fourteen years old this year. According to the law of the Great Wei, he was registered at the age of fifteen. If he doesn't do anything, will Gu Qiyi Niang follow him to return to Le after a year?
How can Aunt Shen give up this?!
What kind of life are those female companions who used to be happy now, will Aunt Shen not know?
Slaves and maids can also let Liang go out and marry in a dignified manner, and it is more difficult for a happy woman to find a decent husband than to ascend to the sky. With Aunt Shen like this, being held in the palm of Gu Ning's hand for fifteen years is already a great blessing. More of them are rewarded to the people below by the master as playthings, and they are tossed to death, not one or two.
Not to mention other people, the Gu family has singers and dancers, all of whom are fifteen or sixteen years old, and there are almost no girls above twenty.
Aunt Shen didn't want her daughter to fall into that kind of field.
But now, An's doesn't like him, his wife Song, that is, Gu Hai's wife, naturally hates concubines, not to mention that he is a cheap concubine and doesn't even have the qualifications to enter Song's courtyard.
Otherwise, why did Aunt Cui dare to calculate him and his daughter?
Even Aunt Shen was determined to please Xiao An's and repair the relationship with Xiao An's mother and son, but she had to give up because Xiao An was ill.
Seeing that her daughter's fifteenth birthday is coming day by day, but this identity has not yet come down, Aunt Shen is so anxious that she wants to hang herself.
It was at this time that Aunt Shen saw a glimmer of hope.
That is the treatment of the girls in Gu Qiqi Niang's house. It does not refer to the number of first-class and second-class girls in Gu Qiqiniang's house, but refers to the monthly money of the first-class girls and second-class girls around Gu Qiqiniang.
Although it was only a little bit, it was enough for Aunt Shen to see a lot of things.