Mrs. Tai felt that the reason why there was so much chaos in this house was because of those concubines and aunts, and since these people had disturbed the house, she might as well mix up the water a little more, and also give these sons a few concubines and aunts, and also stir up the big house and the four-room inner house, and make it restless.

In fact, Mrs. Tai was able to think of this method, but her niece Mrs. Fifth reminded her of the awakening.

That day, Mrs. Fifth came to her with red eyes, saying that she wanted to take a concubine for the fifth master. Mrs. Tai was strange at first, but after listening to Mrs. Fifth tell her, she realized that "good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles". There have been a lot of gossip in Beijing, and many people chew their tongues there, saying that the reason why the fifth master went out to find the powder head was all because the fifth wife relied on her mother-in-law to be her aunt, and she didn't even allow the fifth master to accept a girl in the room, so the men had to go to the Qinglou to solve the slander.

Mrs. Tai knew that people's words were terrible, so she agreed, and after a change of thought, she ordered someone to buy two extremely beautiful and clever girls, and eliminated their deeds of identity, and gave them slavery, one to the eldest master, and the other to the fourth master, both of whom were good concubines.

The husband and wife have always been husband and wife, and they can be regarded as having the same smell, and the husband and wife are of the same heart, so they are extremely difficult. The eldest lady is also a powerful one, she first accepted two aunts for the eldest lord early, and the body deed was firmly grasped in her hands, not to mention, and over the years, the two aunts have never given birth to a son and a half daughter, either they have been lost, or they were born prematurely, and none of them can stand.

Mrs. Tai took advantage of this reason, only said that the eldest old man was not rich in heirs, and gave him a young and beautiful aunt Liu, and then said that the eldest son was rewarded, and the younger son also accepted a new concubine, so it was not good to leave one of the four sons, so she also gave the fourth master a beautiful aunt He Shi.

It was also a coincidence that among the several women sent by the Ya Po, those two knew that they were restless when they looked at their appearance and demeanor. If she had chosen someone before, Mrs. Tai would not have chosen this, but now, this kind of thing is just right.

Although I don't know what the eldest lady thinks, at least she took the new aunt to the courtyard of the big house with a smile on her face. The fifth wife was even more kind to the new aunt, and directly put the person into the fifth master's room, so that she could serve the old man well, and the fifth wife herself only visited once a day in the morning and evening.

There is only the fourth room, because the fourth wife is still recuperating outside, it is the fourth master who came to receive it, although in the past ten years, the fourth master and Aunt Liu have been in love, but in the end they have been a little tired of facing a face for more than ten years, and they will go out to steal from time to time. What's more, these days, Aunt Liu complains every time she sees him not crying endlessly, her son has not become a son of the world, and he is not happy in his heart, and he wants someone to comfort and be considerate, and he is even more upset when he sees Aunt Liu's style.

At this time, when he saw his new aunt He Shi, who was given to him by his mother, her little face was tender and beautiful, and her eyes tickled people's hearts as if they could speak. Immediately, he was full of joy and brought people back, and tasted it that night, so angry that Aunt Liu was noisy in the main courtyard the next day.

Since then, although the courtyard of the big house is still calm, but the main courtyard where the four rooms live is not very quiet, Aunt Liu wants to pick a new aunt everywhere, then Aunt He is worthy of being deliberately picked out by Mrs. Tai, and it is not a good stubble, relying on the fact that the fourth master is now favoring her, and everyone is an aunt, so she also quarrels with Aunt Liu, she is articulate, and people are spicy, I heard that sometimes Yifei helps her mother and can't say this Aunt He.

A few girls around Cai Wei naturally applauded this, this is why the wicked have their own wicked grinding, and see if the Liu family can come to find trouble with their own girls again. Although Cai Wei is also happy to see this, but when she thinks of her grandmother, who is most disgusted with concubines and aunts in her life, is now helpless, she is like many mothers-in-law, releasing people in her son's room, letting the wives and concubines fight for favor and quarrel, so that the husband and wife are separated, and the family is not harmonious, she feels that an indescribable taste is blocked in her heart, which is extremely uncomfortable.

She always felt that after such a fight, one side won, but who is the real winner, it's just a woman who embarrasses a woman, is it possible that all the wisdom and wisdom of the woman are used in this back house to deal with the sisters who are also women? In the final analysis, it is all to blame that the men of the Great Qin Dynasty can take concubines, concubines, concubines, and outer rooms, and make a bunch of people who share property, and women have to rely on men to enjoy honor.

When Cai Wei traveled with her father to Fujian, she met a missionary from Zealand and his wife. His wife's father, who was originally a Fujian maritime merchant, encountered a storm at sea when he went to sea, and did not know where he blew the ship towards, only to learn later that he had arrived in the far west of the land of Sealand, where the people of the country were blonde and blue-eyed, high-nosed and deep-eyed, and talked and dressed in very different clothes. Unable to return for a while, he had to stay there first, and gradually learned the language of his country, so he married a local woman and gave birth to a daughter. The daughter had been listening to her father's stories of her homeland since she had been listening to her father talk about the scenery of her homeland, so she married a missionary, and the husband and wife came to □□ together.

Because this lady can also speak the words of the dynasty, Cai Wei heard a lot of customs from her, and what surprised her the most was the monogamy system of Sealand, although the aristocratic men could also go to other women, but they could only communicate privately, without a name or share, and the children born could only be illegitimate children, without any inheritance rights. It is said that the previous king married three queens and still did not produce a son, and although his mistress bore him a large number of sons, none of them could inherit the throne, and finally had to change the law of the kingdom and make his eldest daughter queen.

If one day, the Great Qin Dynasty is also like the Sealand Kingdom, only monogamy is allowed, and concubines are not allowed, even women can inherit the throne and ascend the throne as emperors, and folk women can also set up households, how good it would be!

April of the nineteenth year of Lin De can be called an eventful autumn for An Yuanbo's mansion, and it was also in April of this year that Cai Wei performed a ritual for her father Zhou Zhen, officially removing filial piety. This time, she didn't have to buy the sacrifices herself, so Mrs. Tai sent a message and ordered the eldest young grandmother to prepare a qiē sacrifice for her and send it to her Qiutang Courtyard.

Although the person who handled it still secretly deducted a little, he still wanted Cai Wei to pay more money to buy some good ones to use, but Mrs. Tai's words still moved Cai Wei. I feel that my grandmother finally saw her own filial piety, and finally felt a little more love for her granddaughter.

After performing a sacrifice to her father in the last room, Cai Wei knelt in front of her father's spirit for a long time, and when she finally walked out of the room, it was already twilight outside, and a light moon was quietly hanging on the horizon.

Cai Wei looked at the few fragments of starlight next to the shallow moon, and suddenly said, "Mama, I understand why my father sent me to this mansion. ”

What she said had no beginning or end, and her nurse and the two big maids were a little confused, but Mama Du replied with a smile: "It's good that the girl understands!" ”

It seems that Mama Du has known the reason for this for a long time, and the reason why she has not said it is because she hopes that she can realize her father's good intentions!

In the past two years in Bofu, Cai Wei has not been comfortable at all, and she has been bullied by people from time to time, and she has been extremely aggrieved, which can be said to be swallowing her anger and walking on thin ice. Whenever she was wronged, she would also think about why her father would send her to this complicated Anyuan Mansion according to the wishes of her deceased mother, and if she sent herself to live in the mansion of his friends of life and death, it would definitely not be like this.

But just now, when she was in front of her father's spirit, she recalled her father's voice and smile when he was there, and taught her all kinds of careful teachings. She suddenly understood the painstaking nature of her father's move.

This is an experience arranged for her by her father.

Because her father has never taken a concubine, the wives and concubines in the back house compete for favor, and the dispute between concubines and concubines, all of which she has never seen. Although his father has done his best to arrange a good family for her, who can guarantee that she will not have to face the open and secret battles between the concubines and aunts and the relatives of her husband's family in the future?

It was her father who asked her to live in the intricate relationship of Uncle Anyuan's mansion in this back house, and after seeing all the calculations in this back house, lest she be at a loss because she had never experienced such a situation in the family house in the future.

After all, several of her father's friends have never taken concubines, the house is clear, if she goes, she is still like the pampered flowers in the greenhouse, she can't stand the wind, can't blow the rain, once she is delicate, when she leaves the greenhouse one day, when the wind, frost and sword on the road of life are coming, how should she deal with it?

"How stormy it is on the road of life!"

This is a sentence that her father often said in Japan, and she didn't care about it when she heard it at first, thinking that there was always a big umbrella of her father to block the wind and rain outside. But now that her loving father has passed away, she has no mother and brother, and she is the only orphan girl left in the world, who will shelter her from the wind and rain?

And her road ahead ......

Cai Wei looked at the dark night sky that was getting darker and darker, and she didn't know how long it would take to survive the dark night before she could see the bright and sunny light again.

But her father once said, "No matter how difficult the road ahead is, you can't give up easily!" ”

Yes, even on the road of life after that, no matter how much wind and rain there is, she is not afraid. Because she has a good father who takes care of everything for her. not only taught her to read and reason, but also told her about many people's □□ and sinister places, and invited Mama Du to accompany her, and then sent her to this mansion to practice. And most of the time her father also entrusted someone else to take care of her in this capital, and found the Guhong Taoist for her, eliminating her name as Chongke, so that she could return to the protection of her grandmother.

Father has done so much for her, as long as she thinks of her father's loving heart for her, no matter how stormy the road ahead, she will not be afraid, but will only walk calmly and smile at the west wind.

(End of Volume 1)