I didn't want the day to be over, but in the evening, the fourth master wanted to remember the matter of his concubine and was almost stabbed in front of Mrs. Tai.

When the lantern was in hand, Yizhi and Caiwei were accompanying the old lady to dinner, when they suddenly heard some noise outside. Although Mrs. Tai was a little dazzled and deaf, she also faintly heard some movements, so she asked what was going on, Cai Wei hurriedly went out to see, and came back and laughed that it was a little girl who accidentally knocked over the tea bowl, and Mama Wang taught her a few words.

Mrs. Tai didn't say anything more when she heard this, but Cai Wei gave Yizhi a look when Mrs. Tai lowered her head and drank the soup and couldn't see it. The two of them finished serving Mrs. Tai, and chatted with the old man for a few more words, until Mrs. Tai felt a little tired and asked them to go down to rest, and the two withdrew.

As soon as she walked out of the door of the main room, Yizhi asked her, "What can't be done?" ”

Cai Wei took her hand and whispered, "Let's go back to the room first." He took her and walked to the west wing.

Before Yizhi entered her room, she had already heard a familiar sobbing, and when she went in, she saw her stepmother sitting on the kang crying sadly. After a closer look, I was taken aback, and saw that the golden silk mustache on the fourth wife's head was crooked to one side, half of her hair was scattered, and her face was full of tears, and half of her face was still high and swollen, with five red marks hidden.

Mama Wang, who was the most useful next to Mrs. Tai, also sat on the side, and when she saw her two sisters coming in, she hurriedly got up and said to Yizhi: "The fourth lady wanted to find the old lady, but fortunately I saw it in the bright room, I remembered the words that the girl told us before, and saw that the fourth lady looked bad, so I hurriedly stopped and brought it to the girl's house first. Although the old slave knew that it was a little inappropriate to stop a lady like this, but now Mrs. Tai really can't help being angry! This last sentence is addressed to the fourth wife.

Yizhi also sat down next to her stepmother and asked, "Why does my mother describe her like this, but the master is making trouble again?" ”

The fourth lady wiped her red and swollen eyes from crying, and cried: "I was about to have dinner, and the master suddenly came in again, took a piece of paper with a few lines of words written on it, and asked me to write my name on it and press a handprint. As soon as I saw the words written on the paper, I naturally refused to agree, and the lord was annoyed, and gave me a beating on the head and face, and insisted on forcing me to sign and draw a pledge. Thanks to my two remaining mothers-in-law, if they hadn't rushed into the house despite the hindrance of the master's maids, I am afraid that I would have been beaten to death by him! Woo...... Woo......"

"I know that my mother can't help but be angry now, but I really can't help it, where else can I go to ask for help in this house, and I ran here without thinking about it. I am not annoyed that you stopped me from seeing the old lady, you are also thinking about the old lady's body, but if there is no lady to call the shots for me this time! Then I'm afraid I won't be able to live! ”

Cai Wei stood aside, and when Jing heard this, she suddenly asked: "If Mrs. Tai really can't take care of her uncle's affairs and can't make decisions for her aunt, then my aunt might as well follow the request of the fourth uncle and record his brother and sister in her name, how can it be said that there is no way to live?" It's just that the days after that are more depressed and depressed, and there is no hope! ”

Hearing Cai Wei's words, the fourth lady suddenly stopped sobbing, and a resolute meaning appeared on her face, "Although I have a weak temperament, even if I am a clay man, I still have three points of earthiness, that is, the rabbit will bite when it is anxious?" What's more, I have been angry with that slut for so many years, and I went back to eating her plot to harm others, and framed a few maids and grandmothers who brought me over with my marriage, and even a brother who had formed a person was killed by her side. If I give the name of a sister-in-law over there now, not to mention whether there is still a place for me, I can't swallow it with this breath alone, I would rather fight to the death, and I will never let that pair of sluts who have rotten hearts get their wish! ”

Cai Wei smiled and said, "Since my aunt is not even afraid of death, then you can handle this matter by yourself, so why do you have to ask Mrs. Tai to make the decision for you?" ”

"You mean...... It's up to me—? The fourth wife's courage was suddenly gone, and she shook her head and said: "How can I have this ability, although I am not afraid of death, but I am just a woman's family, and I always have to abide by the three obedience and four virtues, how can I do it to the master?" But if the old lady comes forward, the lord will always have to keep filial piety. In the fourth wife's heart, she always felt that she was just an ignorant woman, except for clinging to men, she had no ability at all, how could she cope with such a big thing?

Yihua saw that her stepmother still hoped that the old lady would come forward to make her decision, so she couldn't help but be a little angry and said: "If grandmother hears this, if she is angry again, what is the use of the old man being filial piety and being obedient?" ”

At this moment, I suddenly heard a voice outside the door: "Girl, a mother-in-law from our master's side said that he wanted to take his wife back?" "This is the big girl Yuegui who was ordered by Yizhi to guard the door.

The expressions of everyone in the room changed, and the fourth wife's face became especially powerful, and her body was a little shaky.

The group was helpless, but saw Cai Wei walking to Yizhi's side and whispering a few words in her ear, Yizhi asked her in surprise after listening, "Why do you want me to say this?" ”

Cai Wei smiled: "It's just a delaying tactic, we have to stay here for a while before we can come up with a way, but if that's the case, you have to have something to do with it when you turn around?" ”

Yizhi didn't think about it and said: "As long as I can help my mother, what is there to be afraid of." So he went out and sent the woman away. The fourth lady looked at Cai Wei with some surprise, but saw her niece and smiled: "I have asked Sister Zhi to tell the mother-in-law that she already knows about this, since the old man thinks like this, she, as a daughter, has to persuade her aunt and mother, and the family is harmonious, so I want to stay here for a day or two, maybe wait until the day when the ancestral hall is officially opened, and my aunt will figure it out!" ”

The fourth wife was the most thoughtless, and when she heard Cai Wei's words, she didn't think about it, so she said sadly: "Is it possible that even you have to stand there and join forces to force me?" ”

Cai Wei hurriedly said: "Uncle, don't get me wrong, didn't I say it, this is just a delaying tactic, otherwise if the fourth uncle insists on taking my aunt back, how can we stop it, if it is always bad to make trouble, it is better to delay it with words for a while before making plans." ”

"But if you can delay the work of the previous day, how will you deal with it when the day of the registration? The mother-in-law told me that the master had invited the patriarch, and the ancestral hall would be opened the day after tomorrow to record his name. Yizhi sent the mother-in-law away, walked in and said: "It's a pity that my eldest uncle is not in the capital, and he went out to Beijing on an errand, and the second uncle is also in the field, otherwise I can order someone to go home and ask my uncles to make decisions for my mother." ”

Although the fourth wife is a concubine, she has always gotten along very well with her sister and brother, if she asks, her maternal brother will not ignore her, but it is a pity that he is not in Beijing at this time, it is really unfortunate, and the other lady who can rely on is sick like that. Seeing that the people in this room said that they wanted to come up with a way to help her, but this old and small, I don't know what way to come up with? But just came up with it, if there is no one who has the best to do, how can the best way be?

But I heard Cai Wei say: "What we want is the time to open the ancestral hall the day after tomorrow to record the name, if we can really wait until then, there is still a chance to give it a go, but if the fourth uncle forced the aunt to sign the name and press the handprint on the paper document before this, it will not be easy to do." ”

"Give it a go? How do you say that? Yizhi asked.

"My aunt even privately rejected the fourth uncle a hundred times and a thousand times, and it was not as decisive as rejecting this matter in front of the patriarch and a group of witnesses, and completely broke the idea of that side."

"This--, rejecting the lord in public, and refuting his face for this kind of thing, there is always something unsimilar in the eyes of relatives and uncles, I'm afraid not to say that I'm not a virtuous and generous person, but a little bit of jealousy."

Cai Wei said: "Then my aunt will list all the grievances in my heart and the law money to it one by one, there are always many reasonable people in this world, and the relatives have listened to the grievances of my aunt, but all reasonable ones only sympathize with you, and will never say that you are not virtuous and jealous." ”

"But, but in this public, and the master of the house made a fuss, and said a lot of things that should not be said and embarrassed, if I really did this, then it was really no sense at all, even if there was that reasonable person, I am afraid that there will be few people who say that I do not have the decency of the family, but like the village shrew, I am afraid that I will no longer have a good reputation for being virtuous and generous."

Cai Wei said: "If my aunt still cares about this good reputation of being virtuous and generous, then I will simply follow the order of the fourth uncle and recognize the pair of brothers and sisters as my children, but my aunt will never refuse in her heart?" Besides, what about the village shrew? Although they are illiterate and have never studied, they are not like the women who have read too much "The Four Books of Women", and they are burdened by false fame for a good reputation. For the sake of a virtuous and generous reputation, he endures humiliation and anger all day long, and it is better to be an ignorant village woman, when she is cornered, she can do many spicy things to protect herself from being bullied. ”

At this point, Cai Wei couldn't help but think of the family house cases that her father had told her, and said: "When my father was the secretary of Dali Temple, he had seen a lot of cases, and sometimes he would talk to me about them. There are two cases of family homes that I will never forget. There was once a poor talent, the family was so poor that they couldn't open the pot, the mother and son were about to starve to death, and they married the daughter of a butcher in the village after being told to plot, and they relied on the financial support of their father-in-law to continue to study and go to the exam. ”

The butcher's daughter was unwilling, and her husband scolded her for not being virtuous and ignoring the law of the three nos, and insisted that she was suffering from a serious disease, and divorced her with a letter of resignation. The butcher's daughter didn't know a single word, and she had never read a women's book about being chaste and virtuous, and no one dared to marry her for the rest of her life, and she still sued her ex-husband for taking a concubine as soon as she was promoted, and sued the court, making the person disgraced, and even the fame of the person was revoked. ”

"There is another one, her husband died early and left her only a seven-year-old son, and her husband's family insisted on forcing her to remarry in order to get her family's house, and planned to secretly sell her to a merchant as a concubine, and even wanted to be greedy for her dowry. The woman was forced by the tribesmen, so she simply took a knife and destroyed her appearance, and burned her house to the fire, and took her child to throw it into the fire. This is the only way to complain about the evil deeds of her husband's family in front of the county honor, and bluntly say that she would rather destroy her face and burn the house, just not to remarry and rely on her son for her life. The county also took pity on her orphans and widows, so he beat the gang of people who forced her to remarry with eighty boards, and ordered her people not to force her to remarry. However, after this trouble, the woman could no longer stay in her husband's village, so she had to sell the rest of the family property and take her son back to her mother's house. ”

These women in the house have lived in the big mansion in Beijing since they were children, and even there are some disputes in the inner house, and they are all "folded in their sleeves".

But I heard Yizhi say: "The two women in these two cases, although they are a little fierce and extreme, have made a big fuss regardless of their face and reputation, and they have fought to the death, although they have lost 8,000 themselves, but in the end they have also injured 10,000 enemies, and they have never let the traitor who bullied them get his wish." After speaking, he looked at the fourth wife.

The fourth lady couldn't help swallowing her saliva and snorted: "They are all rough women who don't know the rules of etiquette and rules, so they can do this, but after all, I am from everyone's background." Since childhood, I have learned all kinds of women's etiquette and rules one by one, and I always have to take care of my face and appearance, but how can I be like them, and I am also like this? ”

No, Mama Wang, who had been sitting quietly on the side, said: "That's not what I said, there are women in Beijing who dare to make trouble like such village women." ”

If you want to know how it will be later, and see the next breakdown!