164.Chapter 164
The Wei family is a scumbag, and the Wei family man can't marry - this cognition, before today, was only the consensus in the elite circle; After today, the entire Wei family has spread throughout Xijing.
And with the increasing development of the postal system, the news that Wei Jialang abused his wife and almost died, will soon spread throughout the Great Zhou.
For a while, the Wei family, the newly released Captain Wei, became a freshly baked topic of conversation.
To say that whether it is the elite class or the common class, there are many things where husband and wife are not harmonious, but it is still very rare to almost beat his wife to death. It is even more unprecedented to make such a "family ugliness" into a stir.
The law of the Great Zhou Dynasty has always practiced monogamy and polygonal concubines, and even the number of concubines is strictly regulated. However, most of the powerful people in the dynasty, such as the king of Pingxi, the crown prince and others, had only one wife in the family, and there were no concubines, maids, maids, and the like. Under the upward and downward effects, the back houses of many powerful families, except for those who have been married for many years, rarely carry many concubines. Most of those who carry into the door of the house are those merchants, and in the eyes of the elite class, they are not in the stream.
There are so many concubines in Wei Dalang's back house, and in the entire Xijing City, there is no other semicolon. To put it bluntly, according to the laws of the Great Zhou, the number of these concubines is strictly exceeded. Wei Dalang was a mess, and he didn't think about bringing someone in seriously at all. To put it bluntly, the status of these concubines is actually not much different from that of "slaves".
But it was not the "concubine" who had the accident, but the wife.
In the courtyard of the deep house, it is not too rare to "die" one or two maidservants, or even concubines. But that's not a wife. Even in terms of social status and moral bottom line, the requirements for wives are much higher than those for husbands; But in the Great Zhou law, the status of husband and wife is equal.
Abusing his wife almost killed him, this is completely poking the hearts of the wives of the elite circle! It is unreasonable that the dignified housewife is treated as a slave who is beaten and scolded!
For this reason, the old men in Xijing City have not had a good time recently. There are not a few people like King Pingxi who were swept out of the house by his wife to be "calm and calm", all of them were confused, and they didn't know why they were sitting together.
Everyone else is like this, and the life of the parties is even more difficult.
The ancestral hall in late autumn is cold. Clear-cut brick paving with a small futon on top. Wei Dalang knelt on it, only to feel that the cold air climbed up from his knees, and his whole heart was cold.
The general's knees are tight. The Wei family relied on martial arts to eat, and he remembered that since he was a child, even if he made a mistake, he was never punished for kneeling. But now he had been on his knees for three whole days. In the past three days, he has not even gotten any food except for two bowls of rice soup in the morning and evening.
When Captain Wei pushed the door in, he saw his son, who had lost a lot of weight.
Wei Dalang turned his head and saw that he knelt on the ground and screamed sullenly: "Dad." ”
In just a few days, Captain Wei's whole person seemed to be several years old, and even his always straight back was a little rickety.
An old slave brought him a stool, he sat down, waved his hand to the old slave, saw the old slave quietly retreated, closed the door, and then turned his head to his eldest son and said: "You are so old, you can't beat well, and you don't listen to scolding, unlike when you were young." ”
Wei Dalang's heart jumped, and his intuition was not good: "Dad! I know it's wrong, I really know it's wrong! "He hasn't opened his mouth for the past three days, and it was fine to scream before, but suddenly he was so anxious that his throat was as uncomfortable as someone grabbing sand and grinding it, and he couldn't help coughing.
He couldn't understand that he just gave Huang two fists, why did things become the way they are now?
Huang is not pretty, but gentle and dignified. After they got married, they did have a period of affection. But as the days went by, he felt bored. Especially when she always controls him, this is not allowed, and that is inappropriate. Now that he is a school captain, he can be regarded as a big man who is a big man, where can he still be managed like a grandson by the Huang family?
If it had been before, not to mention that Wei Dalang coughed like this, he would have been a little unenergetic, and the old Captain Wei would have to shush and ask for warmth; But now, as if he hadn't heard, he stared at the rows of tablets under the candlelight.
After a long time, he sighed and said, "Daddy is old." Da Lang, you don't have to kneel, go back to the room to pack up your things, and go back to the village with your father. ”
When Wei Dalang heard this, the whole person was confused: "Go back to Zhuangzi? "The Wei family is not deep, and they have not purchased any land in the suburbs of Xijing, but in their hometown, and over the years, it has hundreds of hectares of fertile land. But what is that place? It can't be compared with the prosperity of Xijing at all!
"Yes, back to Zhuangzi." After the old Captain Wei finished speaking, he got up and left the ancestral hall, as if he didn't hear the sound of Wei Dalang getting up and falling, and even more like he didn't hear the voice of the inquiry about the captain's official position.
Now like this, does Wei Dalang still want to be his captain? In this family, I will be excluded to the point that I can't get by!
The Wei family has been inherited for several generations, and it is not only Wei Dalang who can marry and give birth. Originally, he gave the rank of lieutenant to the eldest son of the concubine, and he was subjected to a lot of pressure, but now that this matter comes out, when the rest of the Wei family is dry, can't they eat?
Especially now that the men of the Wei family go out, they are all looked down upon, and they eat a lot behind closed doors. The girls of the Wei family who have not been out of the cabinet have little influence; But the unmarried boys are miserable, all the ones who don't have to talk about marriage don't have to think about it, one of the engaged ones counts as one, and all of them come to get out of the marriage, and even affect several in-laws. Many people are thinking about teaching Wei Dalang a lesson.
For this reason, Captain Lao Wei is not even the patriarch. Returning to Zhuangzi for retirement is already the most decent retreat he left for himself and his son.
No one expected that this matter would be handled so cleanly.
Huang did not come forward from beginning to end, and received compensation that belonged to her.
"Three thousand six hundred and fifty-eight taels of silver, I asked the Wei family to wipe zero, a total of three thousand seven hundred taels." Princess Pingxi spread out a passbook, showed Huang the number on it, and helped her put it in the makeup box next to the bed, "Your dowry is also being sorted out, and it will be brought over in the next two days." ”
Huang was stunned, isn't this bit wrong? "It's good if the dowry can be taken back, and the other concubines don't dare to bear it."
Princess Pingxi's brows furrowed: "Don't speak." Where are the two fists of the warriors easy to suffer? The girl next to her hurriedly walked over and helped Huang lie down, "This money is from my family Erlang to help you come back." Since the Wei family gave it, you take it. I don't like it, how much is your dowry worth? Now that you have injured your internal organs, you will not be able to eat many things in the future, and your body and bones must be well recuperated. Is it a shame to take this money? ”
Huang was born in a scholarly family, but his father died early. She and her mother have been living in her uncle's house, and the dowry is not much at all. And at the beginning, their mother and daughter were under the eaves, and there were always many inconveniences. She and her mother didn't know the outside news in the inner house, and the marriage with Wei Dalang was almost half-deceived and half-deceived. It's just that her mother was still there, and she had to endure it. Now that her mother has also passed away, she doesn't have any thoughts, such a thing happened, so she dared to stab Princess Pingxi directly, which can be regarded as a broken jar, but she didn't expect it to be such a result now.
"That's what the princess said." Huang's face was pale, but at this time he showed a little smile, "The concubine will have to live and recuperate in the future, and it is not a shame to hold this money." "The doctor's diagnosis, she knows that just the medicine used these days will cost a lot of money, and if she doesn't take this money, she can't even afford to pay the medical expenses that the palace has given her. People are not related to her, and they can't even talk about how familiar they are, and her skin is not so thick, so let the Pingxi Mansion give her all this money.
Princess Pingxi finally showed a smile and patted Huang's hand through the quilt: "You take good care of your illness and relax." She stood up and prepared to leave, not wanting to rush in at the door with a golden streamer, and a huge fat dog jumped directly onto her lap, startling everyone around her.
"Wang!" The fat ball spun around Princess Pingxi's lap to show off her new outfit in all directions.
Princess Pingxi looked at the fat ball with the backpack on her back and rubbed it twice: "Erlang made you a new backpack?" It's so pretty! ”
The corners of Huang's mouth twitched. Such a big dog, is it not sinking in the princess's arms?
The fat ball turned his head and bit open a bag very flexibly: "Wang! ”
Princess Pingxi originally thought that it was food or water, but it turned out to be a booklet.
As soon as the fat ball saw the brochure in the hands of the target, he immediately jumped off the ground and disappeared with a jump. The second dog said that he had completed the task and gave it something to eat, so run quickly, otherwise he would be snatched away by the big fat brother!
It was said that the booklet was not actually bound, but a clip was used to clip the page. There is no cover, and the first page is densely packed with small print. Princess Pingxi glanced at it, smiled and sat down again, handing the booklet to Huang: "This is not for me." ”
Huang took it suspiciously: "Girls' school? ”
Fat Ball had already run to the small kitchen at this time, squeezed in from the middle of his brother and sister's father and mother, wagged his tail and threw himself on Ruan Bai's legs, who were facing away from it: "Wang! ”
Ruan Bai was almost knocked on the board by it. It's not that he can't bear the weight of a dog, but this little short leg directly pounced on his knee socket and almost knelt down!
The big fat rushed over and slapped his brother "gently": "Wangwang!" "Everybody is waiting to eat, don't make a mess.
A slap from a big dog like a calf made the fat ball roll directly into the straw pile on the side, but it was not injured, and soon rushed out with a body of straw, grinning and wanting revenge.
"Smack." The sound of the porcelain plate on the dog's dinner table made all the fat people ready to go.
There were about the same number of melons in five porcelain plates, with a little more big and a little less fat.
Ruan Bai clapped his hands: "Eat." "Ye Dong sent two carts of melons from Zhong'an, the melon meat is crisp and refreshing, not very sweet, and can be eaten by dogs.