After Cen Erniang returned to the plum garden to freshen up, she lay down on the bed in her bedroom and couldn't sleep for a long time.

Today, she not only learned the shocking secret from Yang Er and his wife, but also almost killed Yang Er by mistake. Previously, although she had let go of cruel words from Yang Er and his wife and the Gao family, saying that she would kill them. But really doing it, almost killing a living person by mistake, is another feeling.

Over the years, due to the complexity of the living environment and the frail health of her mother, she began to learn to be a housekeeper early, dealing with the ruthless Gao family and the Feng family, and she also heard a lot and was used to the selfish methods of killing people in the inner house without seeing blood.

But after all, she is still a little girl who is well protected by her parents, and she has never really faced blood and death.

Suddenly, she saw Yang Er being hit by her and his face was bloody and blurred, the kind of fear that was cold to the bones made her never forget, and when she closed her eyes, Yang Er fell to the ground with a bloody face.

Cen Erniang stayed awake all night.

On the second day, she got up early, went to Nuanmei Hall to have breakfast with her parents and brothers, and when her brothers left, she avoided the Lin family and quietly told Er Ye Cen the origin of Feng's fetus. I briefly told Er Cen about my experience last night. only omitted the part where she stunned Yang Er and couldn't sleep at night.

Second Master Cen had no objection to taking in Peng'er, and he was also very shocked when he suddenly heard the origin of Feng's evil birth. After being surprised, he saw that his daughter's face was ugly, so he asked Cen Erniang a few words with concern, but Cen Erniang avoided the topic. In less than half an hour, he lost his spirits and fainted again.

Although Lin's heart fell on her husband, she also noticed her daughter's abnormality. She pulled Cen Erniang to talk and wanted to explore, but Cen Erniang was perfunctory, and she didn't ask anything in the end.

Cen Erniang still had to go out to deposit the silver ticket into the bank, so she came out of Nuanmei Hall and returned to the plum garden, planning to dress up as a maid again.

But after changing her clothes, she suddenly remembered that she had deposited all the money in the second room into the bank. In two or three days, when their family leaves the Cen family and goes to Anping Town, it will cost a lot of silver.

In addition, after they left the Cen family, the deed of sale between Libai and Shuying had to be returned to them, and Libai had to be given 5,000 taels of silver, so that he could go to Dongcheng to build a small shop, buy a house, and prepare a dowry for Shuying. She took out 15,000 taels of silver tickets and hid them under the warm green brick in front of her bed, and covered the movable green brick to move the warm collapse back to its original place.

After doing this qiē, Cen Erniang came out of the bedroom, put on the hat prepared for her by Shuying, and Shuying who was guarding outside, came out of the plum garden one after another, went straight to Wutong Courtyard, and went out of Xifu with Libai who was guarding the side door.

After walking around the crowd on the street as usual, Cen Erniang went straight to Xiangfu Ji with Libai, and under the courtesy of the shopkeeper inside, she deposited the "dowry" silver in her name.

In order to facilitate storage in the future, Cen Erniang exchanged all the 15,000 taels of silver for gold, and exchanged a total of 1,500 taels of gold. She asked the shopkeeper to exchange a hundred taels of gold nude, which was easy to carry, and the rest was exchanged for a golden ticket.

Cen Erniang thought that although this golden ticket was easy to carry, she was afraid that it would be difficult to redeem it when she went to that small place in Anping Town, so she thought that it would be better to take some silver tickets. She thought that the stub of more than 20,000 taels of silver was still in her purse, so she took out the stub, discussed with the shopkeeper, and exchanged the silver ticket of 10,000 taels of silver for the purchase of travel utensils, buying a carriage, hiring a dart master, and preparing the tuyi ceremony.

Coming out of Qianzhuang, Cen Erniang and Libai turned all the way to Liushu Hutong. Along the way, the bustling crowd not only did not make Cen Erniang dizzy, but gave her a strange sense of security.

Cen Erniang's spirit relaxed, followed behind Libai, and walked forward leisurely, thinking of the "dowry" silver that she had saved from the Gao family and the Feng family before, she couldn't help but start to think about it......

In Dajing, when it comes to marriage, I have to mention Jing Taizu.

Taizu ascended the throne as a young man, and had a deep love with the Yuan Hou Floice, less than a year after the seal, the Yuan Hou was pregnant, when the Yuan Hou was fifteen. It was fortunate that the Empress Yuan was pregnant, but because the Empress Yuan was young and weak, the fetus was unstable from the beginning.

After the imperial doctor Zeng Jianyuan fell into the fetus, he will raise his body, and it will not be too late to prepare to give birth to a child in a few years. But Empress Yuan insisted on saving the fetus, and finally lost her body, and gave birth with one corpse and two lives.

Taizu was very sad and angry, and wanted to connect the three clans of more than a dozen imperial doctors who failed to protect the fetus after the Yuan Dynasty. Another imperial doctor jointly advised: A woman's early marriage and early pregnancy are not good for herself and the fetus. Empress Yuan was young and frail, and she should not have given birth, but it was Empress Yuan's insistence on protecting the fetus that caused the final death of one corpse and two lives. insisted that Taizu should not punish the dozen or so imperial doctors. Otherwise, the medical officers of their entire imperial hospital would have to resign en masse.

Taizu was very angry when he heard this, and insisted that even the imperial doctors who spoke up should be killed together. But if this is the case, I am afraid that no healer will dare to be an imperial doctor in the future. Then the princes, ministers, royal relatives and nobles, where do they go to see a doctor? How can this work?

In the end, the angry Taizu was advised by the Manchu officials, and finally regained his senses, calmed down, and released a meddling imperial doctor.

After this incident, Taizu promulgated a "Marriage Decree" for women to "marry at fifteen and marry at eighteen". The "Marriageability Ordinance" stipulates that a woman can only marry at the age of 15. And after the man is eighteen and crowned, he can marry.

After this law was promulgated, the woman married later, which was indeed beneficial to herself and the fetus in her womb.

As a result, this decree has been preserved to this day.

It has been nearly two hundred years since Taizu. Nowadays, women, especially girls who have not left the cabinet in high-ranking families, have many late marriages. Most of them only began to negotiate marriage and prepare for the dowry after the fifteenth and the fifteenth year.

However, since the previous Emperor Jingming succeeded to the throne, wars broke out in the southwest and northeast of Dajing. The government recruited a large number of soldiers, and although they finally repelled the barbarians, they fought fiercely for several years, and many of the young people of Dajing died in the battle. As a result, there were many old and weak women and children in the entire Jing Dynasty, resulting in a sharp decrease in the number of troops.

In order to balance the population, Emperor Jingming amended the "Marriage Law", stipulating that when a woman reaches the age of thirteen and begins to marry, she can marry and have children when she reaches the age of fifteen. Those who have reached the age of eighteen must be married. Those who do not marry at the age of 18 or their families will be fined 50 taels of silver, or they will be forcibly ordered to marry by the official media. As for men, if they have reached the age of fifteen, they will be counted as having a crown, and they can marry a wife.

At the same time, the first emperor, Emperor Jingming, and the current Emperor Jingxuan, both encouraged widows to remarry.

After the revision of the "Marriage Decree", most of the women of appropriate age in commoners and merchant families began to negotiate marriage at thirteen and married at fifteen. However, almost all the girls of the official family and the hairpin family mostly follow the old order, and they still start to marry at the age of fifteen, and they will not marry until they reach the age of eighteen.

Cen Erniang only turned thirteen years old in June this year, and she has not yet started to discuss marriage, but she has already saved a large amount of "dowry" silver for herself in the money bank.

Thinking of this, Cen Erniang blushed suddenly.

Lipper led the way, and he had been paying close attention to the movement behind him, when suddenly he stopped following his footsteps. He turned around sharply and looked back, afraid that Cen Erniang would be taken away. When he saw Cen Erniang standing unharmed not far behind him, his tense heartstrings loosened slightly.

Libai approached Cen Erniang and asked softly, "Girl, why don't you leave?" ”

"Nothing." Cen Erniang was happy: Fortunately, she was wearing a hat, otherwise she would have blushed inexplicably in public, and it was really difficult to see people, she sighed lightly, "Let's go." ”

"Okay." Lipper turned and continued to move forward, but subconsciously slowed down. He thought that Cen Erniang stopped earlier because he was walking too fast and she couldn't keep up.

What a beautiful misunderstanding.

Even though Cen Erniang is everyone's young lady, she has been smart and cute since she was a child, not only her appearance is pleasing, her small mouth is sweeter, she is born with her own ability to coax people, plus her memory and understanding have inherited Cen Erye, she is very outstanding, and she can learn almost everything as soon as she learns. is not only favored in the West Mansion, but also the elders of the East Mansion and the South Mansion, who also love her very much.

Cen Erye's implementation of a free-range policy for his children. And the third master Cen almost never cares about his grandchildren, he pounces on the second master Cen who can add glory to his face.

Second Master Cen never restrained children. Since childhood, as long as Cen Dalang and Cen Erniang have learned the homework laid by their father and husband, they can go out to play accompanied by the little maid and the guard.

The folk customs of the big scene are open, and many young women are walking outside. However, the ladies are generally only allowed to go out on festivals. And for the sake of fame and safety, they will wear hats, and there are guards behind them. Ordinary civilians and merchant women will wander around the streets with a grin, without even wearing a hat.