Chapter 519: Finale
Zhou Qin bit his lip and hesitated for a moment, then raised his head as if determined, "Mother, second sister-in-law, I have something to say to you." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Jian Ying nodded and motioned for her to say.
Fang also restrained his thoughts and waited for the right color.
Zhou Qin took a breath and said slowly: "My cousin said in the letter that she will definitely do a good job of what she has started, and she will never give up halfway."
It's the beginning stage, and there are countless problems to be solved, and she can't do it alone. She needed someone she trusted and could understand her thoughts, and she asked me if I would like to go to the capital to help her.
Mother, second sister-in-law, I want to go! ”
When her eyes lit up and she was depicting the future, Jian Ying had a premonition. It was not at all surprising to hear her say this at this time.
Jian Ying knew Zhou Qin and knew that she was not a reckless girl, and she said that if she wanted to go, she must have thought it through.
"I support you, but I can't do anything about it, and I have to have the final say in my mother."
After saying this, he looked at the Fang clan with Zhou Qin.
Fang Shi frowned and frowned, "But you are already in your twenties, you should find someone to live a few children, so that you can live a good life......
"Mother, I know you're thinking about me." Zhou Qin interrupted her with a wry smile, "You have been worried about me a lot in the past few years, you should know in your heart, there is no one in Jinan Mansion that I can marry."
At my age, I either marry someone to fill the house, or I marry someone who is defective and does not seek improvement. If you were willing to let me marry those individuals, you wouldn't have delayed it until today, would you?
The capital is rich in resources and talents, and I may be able to meet a good man who doesn't care about my age and doesn't dislike me for showing up.
Don't worry, I won't make a personal deal with anyone for life. If you have someone you like, I will be the first to talk to you, please make the decision for me. ”
She doesn't have the lofty ambitions of Fang Yiyun, and she is more emotional than Fang Yiyun.
When I first went to help Fang Yiyun, I wanted to find something to do for myself, so as not to waste time in the house and worry about my family. In the past few years, she has devoted herself to Pear Blossom Garden, not to achieve any dreams or ambitions, but simply can't let go of those poor children, and can't bear to leave them alone.
She didn't get married, not because Young Master Teng and his ilk left a psychological shadow and were disheartened about marriage, but because she didn't meet the right person. has been delayed for all these years, and I am even more reluctant to find someone to marry and make do with an unfamiliar man.
She wanted to go to the capital, on the one hand, she really wanted to help Fang Yiyun, and on the other hand, she considered that if she continued to wander in Jinan Mansion, there would not be much change, so it was better to go to the capital to explore and try a new life.
Even if you can't meet the person you are destined to do, it is better to have something to do than to become a resentful girl in the mansion with nothing to do.
Jian Ying saw that Fang's expression was shaken, and she hurriedly beat the side drum, "Mother, the third sister is reasonable. If you're worried about what will happen to her when she's alone, you don't have to.
There are my grandmother and eldest uncle in the capital, your mother's family, Prince Yong's son and concubine, plus Miss Fang and the eldest prince, even today's saint has to call her nephew, so many high-ranking and powerful people take care of it, what can happen, who dares to call her an accident?
The third sister is no longer a child, so it's better to ask her to go out. As the saying goes, the tree dies, the person moves, and when you go to the capital, the circle of communication is wider, and you have seen more people and things, and the opportunity will come faster.
Some things may not happen if you try, but they will never happen if you don't try. ”
Fang Shi pondered for a long time, let out a long sigh, and looked at Zhou Qin, "I'm not the kind of person who is stubborn and inflexible, if you insist on going, I won't stop you, and I'm not afraid that others will say that I treat my concubine harshly."
But on your mother's side, you have to tell her well. ”
Since the death of the old King Ji'an, Concubine Qi Shu has become more and more sensitive and fragile, more greedy for money, and more and more pestering Zhou Qin. If he was a little unsatisfactory, he said that he was a lonely widow who was helpless, and he was clamoring to go underground to find the old prince.
Zhou Qin went to the capital to help Fang Yiyun do things, so he couldn't drag his family with him. If Concubine Qi Shu knew that Zhou Qin was going to leave her and go to the capital, she might not know how to toss.
Thinking of Concubine Qi Shu, Zhou Qin also had a headache, "Why don't you hide it from her first, I'll leave quietly, and tell her after I'm gone?" ”
Fang Shi shook his head, "This is not a way, you better talk to her, and then leave." ”
"Yes, my daughter will tell her about it." Zhou Qin replied with a bitter face.
Fang Shi stretched out his hand and pulled her to him, "You have decided on the date of departure and let me know, I will write back and ask your grandfather, uncles, aunts, cousins and sisters-in-law to take care of you." Don't be polite to them, just go to the house and ask them for help.
Take a few more people with you when you leave, and I'll prepare more for you. When you run out of money, write back, and I'll send someone to deliver it to you. If you're out there alone, you can't treat yourself badly.
You are your daughter's family after all, don't work too hard, don't get tired. We have to guard against men, and women have to guard against some ......"
She gave a lot of instructions, Zhou Qin was moved and reluctant, and hugged her and cried.
Jian Ying was infected by their emotions, and she couldn't stop her red eyes.
Ji Shi has not been able to interject, and he doesn't have much affection for Zhou Qin, so he persuaded him lightly: "Mother, third sister, don't be sad, aren't you still leaving?" ”
Zhou Yuan led his three nephews to run over, and when he saw that his mother and sister were crying, he ran over and took his sleeve to wipe Fang's tears, "Mother doesn't cry." ”
Dabao took a look, ran over and hugged Zhou Qin's legs, and coaxed Zhou Qin with Jian Ying's words that often coaxed him, "Auntie, don't cry, if you cry again, your face will be pockmarked." ”
Sanbao hugged Zhou Qin's other leg in a similar way, drooling and calling "Auntie" indistinctly.
Xiaobao didn't go to join in the excitement, walked to Jian Ying's side, and stood quietly with her.
Zhou Qin was so shouted by the two little things that his heart melted, and he hugged them and cried for a while.
Concubine Qi Shu knew that Zhou Qin was going to the capital, so as expected, she made a big fuss and held a hairpin against her neck to threaten Zhou Qin. Zhou Qin persuaded and begged, but she just didn't give up.
Zhou Qin had no choice, so he gave her all the keys to the dowry box, and promised to gain a firm foothold in the capital, and then take her over to enjoy the blessings, and she would give up.
A few days later, Fang Yiyun sent someone to pick up the children of Lihuayuan, and Zhou Qin went to the capital with the visitor. Soon after arriving in Beijing, a letter came to Jian Ying, saying that she was fine in the capital.
Fang Yiyun got her help like a tiger, and in just two years, she set up a number of women's schools, and also opened workshops and shops for women to work, which caused an uproar in the capital.
Some people say that she instigated women to show their heads and violate morals, and some people say that she sold her reputation and betrayed the names of other women to add glory to herself, which is extremely shameless......
The opposition was louder and louder, and there were also officials who expressed their rebuke, asking the saint to abolish Fang Yiyun and set up another virtuous concubine for the eldest prince. At first, those women of the noble clan who were greedy for freshness or were dissatisfied with the low status of women were either coerced by their families or could not withstand the pressure themselves, so they withdrew one after another.
Only the women from poor families, either because they were desperate or because they had benefited from it, sensed its benefits, and still followed it.
Although she was once in a difficult situation, she never thought of giving up, and with Xiao Wei's support and Zhou Qin's company, she still did what she had to do.
No matter what era it is, whenever someone makes a change, there will always be a group of people who indiscriminately jump out to oppose it. After seeing the strangeness, I slowly accepted it.
Initially, it was the female guards who were accepted by the scholars, and the ladies of the scholars hired a few girls who knew kung fu as guards in the "contract system", and the news of being rescued by the female guards after swimming in the lake and falling into the water spread, and the ladies and ladies of those famous families followed suit, and it once became a popular trend in the capital.
If a lady doesn't have one or two well-trained female guards by her side, she feels that she has lost her value.
There was a person who was very opposed at the beginning, couldn't stand the begging of his wife and daughter, and was embarrassed to go back on his word and hire the person cultivated by Fang Yiyun, so he simply invited the fist and foot master into the mansion and trained a group of female guards for them.
Punches and feet can't be done quickly, training is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and girls with good bones may not be found, and most of them give up in the end.
If you accept the same, there are two, three......
Those who don't care much about the etiquette of the family, according to their own minds, choose a daughter-in-law for the sons and daughters of the family from among the female students, and those who open shops must be able to settle accounts, those who open workshops will find the corresponding knowledgeable ones, those who can read books will choose those who can write poems and paintings, and those who can cultivate farms will find those who know how to farm......
For a while, there was a wave of picking daughters-in-law in the capital, during which many ridiculous things happened that were contrary to the original intention. Although there are constant twists and turns, they are also stumbling forward.
In the thirtieth year of the Apocalypse, the saint abdicated and became the emperor on the grounds of poor health. The eldest prince Xiao Wei was not expected to return, and was enthroned as the emperor, and after some struggle and mediation, his wife Fang Yiyun was appointed as the queen, and Zhou Qin was named the female official of Fengluan.
After ascending to the back position, Fang Yiyun vigorously promoted the feminist movement, sent female officials to several large state capitals, opened women's schools, set up factories, and shelters and nurses to accommodate and teach women of all ages, living in difficulty, and having nothing to rely on.
Because of her experience in leading everyone to be self-reliant in the widow ~ women's ancestral hall, Ling Ruo became a female deacon in Jinan Mansion after Jian Ying's recommendation, in charge of three women's schools and two workshops.
One day in March, the wind was beautiful, Jian Ying held her seven-month-old belly, nestled in the soft chair in front of the window and basked in the sun, drowsy, she heard Xueqin shouting outside the door: "Madam, Madam, the third young lady is back!" ”
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