But it was said that as soon as Cai Wei entered the bright room, she heard Mrs. Tai shout in a deep voice: "Wei girl still won't kneel down for me?" ”

Unconsciously stunned, he said, "But what mistake did my grandson make to make my grandmother so angry?" ”

Seeing that she was still standing in place, Mrs. Tai couldn't help but be even more angry in her heart, and said angrily: "Didn't you hear me telling you to kneel? Do you dare to obey the elders' orders? ”

Yizhi grew up beside Mrs. Tai since she was a child, and she knew her grandmother's temper the most, so she hurriedly pulled Cai Wei's sleeve, signaling her that no matter whether there was a mistake or not, in short, it was always right to kneel down first and let the old lady dissipate her anger first.

Although Cai Wei was a little aggrieved in her heart, she still knelt down, and no one brought her a brocade mat to pad her knees, so she knelt directly on the ground on the hard, cold terrazzo tiles.

"I don't know what mistake my grandson made, and I still ask my grandmother to make it clear?" Although Cai Wei vaguely expected in her heart why Mrs. Tai was angry with her at this time, she still couldn't believe that just because of such a trivial matter, she could make her grandmother speak so fiercely about herself?

"Don't you know? Let me ask you, why didn't you tell me when you returned before, because I thought that when you bumped into the foreign man, there was your own uncle in front of you, but it turned out that your fourth uncle had already left without a trace. As soon as the two gentlemen Zou and Geng you sent left, there were only you and the foreign man left, what kind of system is this? Besides, you've already said that the reputation of this daughter's family is more important than life, don't you know? Even if your mother dies early, where this little woman's life is, she should always sue you, right? ”

If Mrs. Tai just said Zhou Caiwei's words, even if she was mean, Caiwei would not take it to heart, but when she heard her talk about her mother in such a tone, Caiwei couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately raised her head and retorted: "Obviously, there are two grandmothers Du and Guo by my side, and there are all the people on the side, where is there only me and that son?" Besides, I always wore a hat, and I thanked him because he mentioned my father, and I was not rude to ask myself! ”

Because her father has always been open-minded, he often likes to hear her speak differently when teaching his daughter to read, and he also has a different view from the world on the defense of male and female etiquette, so Cai Wei wondered why her grandmother would be so angry about such a trivial matter.

"You ——!" Mrs. Tai didn't want this little girl to dare to talk back, and she said something a little like that, so she only asked her: "Then why did you deceive the elders, and didn't reply to me that your fourth uncle left you to go back to the city alone, are you trying to bully the elders?" ”

"My grandmother is my elder, but my fourth uncle is also my elder, I am a junior, even if the elder is not, how can I take the elder's mistakes to another elder and tell it?"

Mrs. Tai sneered: "You thought about being a secret for His Holiness, but I never thought that you wouldn't tell me about this, since I didn't know the situation at that time, I wouldn't restrain people." You think that there is no difference between your behavior and behavior, but you don't know what it is like in the eyes of others, if those subordinates spread some words out and say that you are a private man, your reputation and family affairs will be completely ruined? ”

Cai Wei was surprised: "Why did grandmother say that? My grandmother is the most honorable old feudal lord in this house, and my grandmother doesn't know anything about this house, and it is for this reason that my granddaughter dares to be a venerable one, because if my granddaughter doesn't say it, my grandmother will definitely know, and this is one of them! ”

"Moreover, my parents often praised me at the beginning, saying that Uncle Anyuan's mansion from my grandmother to my second aunt was a good family, and the male and female servants in the family were all very strict in discipline, and they were the least likely to make trouble by talking about tongues and rumors. Besides, I am the granddaughter of my grandmother's grandmother, the niece of several uncles and uncles, and now I live in this house with my sisters. With this layer of stakes, what stupid person would spread rumors and make trouble? ”

Mrs. Tai didn't want her granddaughter to speak so eloquently, so she couldn't help but stop talking for a while, but a mother-in-law standing next to her looked a little embarrassed, it turned out that it was this mother-in-law who was poked and teased to tell Mrs. Tai about today's events.

But I heard Mrs. Tai sigh and said: "What you said was good, but since something happened in the house, it has been chaotic for a while, and it is inevitable that there will be lax discipline for subordinates these days. Cuiyun, go and talk to Mrs. Five, and say that the people who went out with the car today will keep their mouths in check, and they are not allowed to chew their tongues, and if there are those who can't control their mouths, just punish me heavily! ”

He looked at Cai Wei again and said, "No matter what, there is always something wrong with you today, since your father sent you to this mansion to be raised, I can't help but discipline you strictly." First go back to your own room and think about it, copy the "Boudoir Fan" fifty times and send it to me. After thinking about it, he changed his words and said, "That's it, let's copy the "Sutra of Amitayus" for me a hundred times and send it over!" ”

Zhou Caiwei was so young that she was reprimanded by her grandmother, and she didn't even bother to eat the food she was sent after returning to the bedroom. It's just that the orange and the sweet orange are laid out on paper and ink, and then they have to start copying the scriptures.

Mama Du asked her why she suddenly copied the scriptures in a good manner, but what accidents didn't happen? Cai Wei pursed her lips and didn't speak, her nurse knew that it was inconvenient for her own girl to talk about this matter, so she hurriedly told her everything one by one, and said sadly at the end: "When our wife didn't go out of the pavilion to live in this mansion, she was often reprimanded by the old lady like this, and she was often scolded for no reason. ”

After hearing this, Mama Du thought for a while, and then said gently: "At this moment, the girl must feel a little aggrieved in her heart. ”

Zhou Caiwei's eyes turned red, nodded, and listened to Mama Du continue: "It's no wonder that the girl feels wronged, I don't know how the girl was taught by Mrs. Zhou first, but since I arrived in the Zhou Mansion, I have known how the girl was raised by the master for more than three years." The old man raised the girl like that, of course, for the good of the girl, so that the girl could see more of the world, but that was not the way ordinary people raised their daughters. ”

"If all the women in the world were raised like a girl, naturally they would not feel that there was anything wrong with the girl's behavior today, but it was just a sentence or two with my old master who met by chance, and it was not an exaggeration. It's just a pity that the etiquette has become more and more strict for women in the past thousand years, and the Western Qin Dynasty was okay, because of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Xiaogao (for details, please refer to the author's previous article "Rebirth of the Favor of You"), at the beginning of the women were quite free. But the more I go on, the more I attach importance to the woman's innocent reputation, but in the Southern Qin, who proposed that 'starvation to death is a small matter, and a loss of festival is a big thing*', in the end, it is not so important to the chastity of women, and the widow can also be Jiao, there was a rich widow first, and the two prime ministers in the court were still vying to marry her! ”

"When it came to our Yan Qin, several emperors in a row were very much advocating the science of 'preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires', and later because Empress Tianshun actually took the throne of her son and established herself as the empress, and even chose a bunch of faces like the male emperor to serve as her male harem. Although the waist pole of the women during her reign was a little erect, as soon as her son Emperor Xianzong was reinstated, she increasingly asked future generations of women to follow the rules of etiquette and law, and attached great importance to women's chastity and martyrdom, from the beginning to the end. It's okay for girls in poor people's homes, but all those who have a little foundation, their daughters are all raised in the deep boudoir, and they are not allowed to meet foreign men, and they don't even let girls read poems and songs, because they are afraid that they will be moved by poems such as those resentful Sichun. ”

"If the woman in the boudoir occasionally has some misconduct and is rumored to come out, just spit can drown people! More than 20 years ago, there was an official lady in Beijing, who had already made a marriage, because once accompanied her mother to the temple to make a wish to make incense, when she went out to get into the car, suddenly a gust of wind blew her hat away, so that the man next to her showed her appearance and painted a painting, and was used by her in-laws as a reason to withdraw from the marriage, because she could no longer marry, she had to be young and left home. ”

"There was also a young lady who was even more innocent, who was only five years old, and because she had no intention of taking a cake from a servant to eat, she was scolded by her father, saying that as a woman, how could she accept the food of a male servant at will, and that she would never have such a daughter, unless she starved to death to prove her name. As a result, the young lady really didn't touch a grain of rice for seven days and seven nights, and starved to death**. ”

Cai Wei that day, because her father only taught her the subset of scriptures and histories, and she didn't have enough time, where did she have the time to tell her about these things, she couldn't help but ask: "I only know that this world is strict with women, but I don't know that it is so strict, why do we have to lock the girls in the second door so much here, but although the young ladies in Sealand are also afraid of reputation, they can still talk and walk with men, and even dance hand in arm?" ”

At this time, Mama Du really felt that it was a little bad for her young lady to know so much about the "world" before, so she had to put on a straight face and said: "No matter how good the Sealand Country is, it is also an overseas country that is not far from us, and the girl will listen to the benefits of the Sealand Country, and she will still live here for the rest of her life!" In the past, the girl was spoiled by the master at home, and it was just a matter of some outrageous behavior. But after all, the girl is not as good as being in her own home, with the old man taking care of her, but living in this Anyuan Uncle's Mansion, in the end, she still has to 'follow the customs'! ”

Zhou Caiwei's heart moved, and she couldn't help lowering her head and slowly thinking about her words about raising her grandmother.

Mama Du said again: "Mrs. Tai wanted to have a very strict family education when she was young, and she has experienced so many springs and autumns, and she knows that in today's world, it is not easy to be a woman, so I will have this admonition to you today." Don't complain about your grandmother from now on! ”

Cai Wei hurriedly said: "Mama also underestimates me too much, what kind of person does this treat me as?" Even when I felt wronged before, I also understood that although my grandmother was a little harsh and her words were a little harsh, she still had a good heart for me. also specially ordered Sister Cuiyun to spread the word and not allow the people below to talk nonsense. Originally, I was going to be punished for copying "Boudoir Fan", but it was changed to "Amitayus Sutra", and I thought that if I was punished for copying "Boudoir Fan", it would be true. The reason why I am unhappy is because why did my grandmother say that about my mother in front of me? I am a woman, do you have any indifference after listening to it? I only hate that my mother has passed away for so long, but because of me, I was rejected by my grandmother like that. ”

Mama Guo hurriedly comforted her and said, "How can this be blamed on your head, it's all because the old lady has never liked your mother." ”

Mama Du also said on the side: "Besides, I think today's matter, the girl is actually not rude, the situation at that time is really unavoidable, and it is in the public, the girl is wearing a hat and the two of us are by the girl's side, unless someone deliberately wants to make a fuss about this, crooked gossip, otherwise it really doesn't matter." I think that the reason why Mrs. Tai is so angry is mostly because the girl did not return to her in time and the fourth master left first. ”

Cai Wei listened, lowered her head and thought about it for a while, and couldn't help sneering: "It turned out that someone wanted to sue the fourth uncle, but I made a supplement first." I knew that even if I didn't say it, someone else would tell my grandmother about it. ”

"The girl didn't say that she was afraid that the fourth master would turn around and find out and hold a grudge against you, but since the old lady knew, according to her temper, and the fourth master was not pleasing to the eye, when the fourth master came back, she would definitely call him over and scold him. In case the fourth old man misunderstands that it is the old lady who sues sù, then-" Mama Guo said worriedly.

Mama Guo's worries are really reasonable, at this moment, she has been called back by Mrs. Tai, and the fourth old man, who is being trained by the old lady to have a head that is not a head, and a face that is not a face, really complains about his nephew and daughter in his heart.

Originally, he didn't really want to send those two old Confucians, and that kung fu was not enough for him to use to get a knighthood! His mother forcibly sent him there, but after a hard trip, not only did he not fall behind, but he was scolded a lot.

The lady above was still counting him one sentence on the left and one sentence on the right, the fourth master pursed his lips, lowered his head and listened, and did not dare to refute his mother, only slandered in his heart, "They all left their nieces and daughters halfway down the road, and came back first, how could the fifth master not be scolded by his mother when he did this, and when he came to his fourth master, it became a big mistake?" The mother's heart is too biased! ”

The fourth old man stood and listened to the lesson for two quarters of an hour, until Mrs. Tai was tired of scolding and dropped a sentence, "Don't leave my eyes quickly, so that I don't have to be angry when I see you!" These days, you stay at home honestly, and you are not allowed to go out and hang out again! Fang came out of the upper room as if he had been pardoned, and walked all the way to his outer study with his head down.

He was so depressed not because he was scolded by his mother again, anyway, since he was a child, he has long been used to being scolded by his mother, what really makes him unhappy is the news he heard when he hurried back to the city today, if this news is true, it is okay for his mother not to let him go out to do some things these days. It is said that the boss actually planned to give the title of Earl An Yuan to his second brother's heir! It was a thunderbolt in the clear sky that hit him squarely.

He has not been liked by his parents since he was a child, there is a stable eldest brother, and a well-behaved and obedient younger brother, he has neither talent nor talent, he is not literate, martial arts, and even his appearance is not as good-looking as his two brothers. Seeing that he has been pressed by his brother and brother for so many years, it is easy to have a chance to make him stand out, but he can't compete for a yellow-mouthed child?

The fourth old man was walking slowly forward with his shoulders hanging down here, and suddenly someone slapped him on the shoulder, and when he looked back, it was his eldest brother Zhao Mingzhen (quan).

It turned out that the eldest master had already gotten the news, and when he heard that his fourth brother might not be able to compete for the title, he planned to help his fourth brother in his heart. He had been sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight before, and the two did not help each other, but in his selfish heart, he really hoped that the fourth master could win.

It's really because he, the fourth brother, is the most foolish, and he is the only one on the side of the branch who is willing to be close to him, and his fourth brother's favorite concubine, Aunt Liu, is also the eldest lady's aunt and cousin, if the fourth room gets the title, for their big house, it is naturally much better than letting the parents and daughters of the fifth room and the heirs of the second room get the title.

And he hated his mother-in-law deeply in his heart, and blamed her for refusing to agree to what he invited that day, and insisted on snatching this title from his mouth, causing himself to fall short, and then he has been relying on the power of her mother's family and her own son to suppress himself and not be promoted, otherwise, with his own talent, why would he have survived in the military department for so many years, and he is still only a six-grade master?

Since his grandmother dislikes the fourth master the most, he prefers to help his fourth brother get the title, when his grandmother asked for him to be knighted, and his grandmother was hindered by his mother, and now he also wants his grandmother to taste the taste of failure. He also stabbed the old lady in the heart, but he was happy to do anything that could block his mother-in-law.

It's just that he has already decided in his heart to favor the fourth master's room, but he always feels that it has not yet been the time for him to make a move, and seeing that it has reached a critical juncture, he hurriedly came to negotiate with his fourth brother.

Zhao Mingyi took the fourth master out of the house, went straight to the drunken immortal building to ask for a private room, poured a few glasses of wine for his fourth brother, and let the fourth master pour out all the anger in his heart and the resentment in his stomach.

The eldest lord listened to him patiently one by one, and then he held a few strands of his long beard and said: "No wonder your sister-in-law vaguely heard that your fifth brother and sister want to set the granddaughter of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites for Brother Ming." I think that's why the Ministry of Rites will help that side speak! ”

The fourth old man opened his eyes and asked him, "Now that the second brother's filial piety has not passed, how can she dare to say goodbye to Brother Ming?" ”

"I didn't officially pay a salute, but there was a verbal agreement between the relatives in private, which one of you will take the blame?"

was so angry that the fourth master slammed his fist on the table, shaking the plates and lamps on the table.

His eldest brother is still coming to pour oil on the fire, "I said fourth brother, are you willing to give this title to your childish nephew today?" If Brother Ming is the second brother's biological son, then this title should naturally belong to him. But Brother Ming is not the biological son of the second brother, the so-called brother and brother, how can this be that you inherited this title, how can it be his turn? 's mother is also too eccentric, always facing the fifth room, and personally asks Brother Ming for a seal. Fourth brother, you are also her biological son, but she treats you like this, as if you were born to your aunt like me! ”

The fourth master was even more indignant and aggrieved by his teasing heart, poured himself a large glass of wine, poured it into his stomach in one go, and said angrily: "What if you don't give it to that kid?" First his mother helped him, and now even the Ministry of Rites is on his side, how can I fight with others when I have no money, no power, and no one? ”

The eldest man smiled: "Who said you have no one?" Your eldest brother and I are on your side, and I will help you get what you should have. If you will listen to me, this title will be in your pocket, and it will never fall into the hands of anyone else! ”

When the fourth master heard this, he saw a guiding light in the dark night, and hurriedly asked his eldest brother, "Please tell the eldest brother quickly, if the eldest brother can really help me win the title, I will never forget the kindness of the eldest brother in the future!" ”

"I helped you just for our brotherhood, and for the sake of this word justice, how can I repay me by pointing to you? Listen to me, since the fifth room is relying on this relationship, why don't we also draw a scoop according to the gourd, and also learn from them, he has a son, you also have a daughter, and now there is a good family that can help you succeed, it depends on whether you are reluctant to kiss your daughter?