Fang Qi couldn't help but recall, she hadn't seen her father for more than half a month, and when she looked at it, she saw a high-sounding ...... Wrong, my father who is not smiling, is gratifying that he has changed out of his official uniform and is wearing a half-worn robe, which seems to have been "intercepted" by Zhou Xiaoniang, and what is even more gratifying is that although the eyes that came over were indifferent as usual, there was no anger.

This shows that Zhou Xiaoniang really didn't listen to the eldest lady's discord, and blamed her for blocking the good marriage of the fourth sister.

Well done, Zhou Xiaoniang, I really didn't overestimate your mind - Fang Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why is Sanniang still here at this hour?" Qin Jing asked casually.

"Mrs. punished her son for copying the Book of Filial Piety, and only half of it was copied at this hour." Fang Qi looked at Jiang Yuan's resentful gaze and said pitifully.

"Then hurry up and copy it." Qin Jing didn't pay much attention to Fang Qi, put aside these words and raised his feet and entered Mrs. Wang's house.

Jiang Yuan looked at Fang Qi and returned to the ear room dejectedly, and spat on the ground: It is really worthy of the cheap seed born of a lewd prostitute, how old will she be to make a demon and bewitching this, but she doesn't want a righteous gentleman like Da Langjun to look at such a prostitute style at all, how beautiful she is, how cunning she is, it's not that she is boring.

Fang Qi didn't know how his father and his mother had talked, but she concentrated on copying the remaining half of the filial piety as soon as possible, and she rushed to report to her mother, but this time she was simply stopped outside the door by Jiang Yuan, Fang Qi pretended to be reluctant to leave, and when she got out of Ming Yuxuan, her stomach was already empty, and she almost didn't salivate when she smelled the ink earlier.

As soon as he stepped into the courtyard gate of the Qiuliang Pavilion, he instructed March who was waiting there: "But I am so hungry that I have gold stars in my eyes, I won't go into the house first, hurry up and bring me the pastries in the pavilion, the food should not be delivered tonight, why don't you ask me for a bowl of millet porridge?" I'm not picky tonight, that's all I need to fill my stomach with. ”

March cried with a sad face and complained: "Originally, the slave maid deliberately left a few plates of tea fruit for Sanniang, how do you know that Mangzhong didn't ask us a word, but actually gave Gu Yu a few shares of the tea fruit left for Sanniang, and only a bowl of millet porridge was left, how could this fill Sanniang?" ”

When he was hungry, his temper was especially great, and Fang Qi's eyes barely jumped out of the fire, so he sat down in the pavilion in the courtyard, and his voice was raised: "Call me Mangzhong, I want to ask her if she knows the rules!" ”

Na Mang Chongyuan was paying attention to the movement in the ear room, listening to the anger of the Fang period, she was not afraid of panic - the amber in the Erniang courtyard was specially looking for her to ventilate, and it was undoubtedly true that Sanniang provoked the eldest lady to hate, in the past, these slaves and maids respected Sanniang, just because the eldest lady was willing to cherish Sanniang, even if the eldest lady changed her attitude, what were she afraid of?

Don't look at the girls in the mansion, outsiders listen to them and say that everyone is beautiful, but at home, they are divided into a concubine, a concubine who is hated by her mother, and her biological mother has long fallen out of favor.

didn't wait for March to call people, Mang Chong actually pulled the door and walked out by himself, and didn't wait for Fang Qi to question, she squatted down and saluted first, and then defended herself: "How did the slave think that Sanniang came back from the eldest lady's courtyard so late, and she didn't have dinner, it was when she cleaned up the house earlier, and she saw a few boxes of tea and fruit on the desk, thinking that Sanniang must be lazy to eat, such a hot weather, you have to let go of it overnight, isn't it a pity?" And at that time, March and August were not in the house, so the slave maid took it to share it with Gu Yu and the spring equinox. ”

Fang Qi didn't deliberately suppress the fire, and sneered: "You come closer, let me look at your ears." ”

Mang Chong was surprised, and he didn't understand what Sanniang's intention was to look at her ears, so he didn't want to do something at her, right? ! But after thinking about it, if Sanniang really dares to be rude, the eldest lady will have an excuse to punish him heavily, and she will be beaten a few times, wouldn't it be worth it in exchange for a reward? So it really took a big step forward.

"Yo, I don't see your ears are growing into the tips, huh? You can hear my conversation with March with the door closed in the ear room, but it is not because you have stolen the pastries in my house, and you are a thief, so you listen to the movement by the window. ”

After saying this, Mang Chong's face was red and his neck was thick, and he argued forcefully: "The pastries in Sanniang's house were originally never stopped from being eaten by the subordinates, why did the slave maid take it today and become a thief?" ”

"Look, how dare this slave and maid hit me in the face? In March and August, you two are still the big girls in my yard, do you just watch this slave bully! Pull her down, lock her in the firewood room first, and when I go back to the eldest lady tomorrow, I will call the official tooth to sell her! "Fang Qi was furious.

I don't want to be afraid, but I also raised my head: "Sanniang wants to hand over the slave and maid to sell the official teeth, I'm afraid I can't, although the slave and the maid are the subordinates of the Xiangdi, but they are just hired workers who have signed a living contract, and they are just slaves and maids, but they are serious and good books, but they are not as good as those real official slaves who are killed and sold by the owner's family." ”

This cannot be said to be arrogant.

Originally, Wei Taizu established the country, and the people of the world were classified as good people, and the law was revised to strictly prohibit the sale of human beings, but the rich and noble families needed slaves and maids to serve, so they turned to hire, and the hired slaves and maids were no longer as in the past, "the law is better than livestock", and the master family was no longer allowed to flog and kill slaves and maids privately, and the hired slaves and maids could not be sold, but high-ranking officials and ministers like Qin Xiangdi would have official slaves assigned by the imperial court, and these official slaves were different from good names and could only be sold, but only through official teeth, Because not all portals are eligible for official slavery.

For example, in March and August, they were official slaves, and they were not allowed to let go of their good life, and they could only marry official slaves, and the children born were also slaves.

"I didn't know that you were a good person, but I said something stupid, but who said that the employment of a good family can provoke the master's disobedience? And I didn't say that I would kill you, it was nothing more than to lock you up in the firewood room as a punishment, since you are a good person, you can't be sold by the officials, and when I return to the eldest lady tomorrow, I will terminate the employment contract with you and drive you out of the prime minister's mansion. ”

Mangzhong panicked at this time.

You must know that the employer signs an employment contract with the employee, in David is guaranteed by the person in the dental shop, if Qin Xiangdi terminates the employment contract with her, he will inevitably declare to the dental company that she has made a mistake, then she will not think that in the future, there will be no more dental shops willing to recommend her to other employers, her father died early, her mother also remarried to another family, the brother and sister-in-law have a difficult livelihood, so she found the tooth shop to work as a domestic helper in the rich family, if she makes a mistake and is driven away, the brother and sister-in-law will not give her a good look, and then she is old enough to marry, the brother and sister-in-law in order to save her consumption, must be just find an idler to marry her!

David's people, the girl's family is employed by a wealthy family, and she has gained some knowledge, and when the employment contract expires, she can often marry into the door of a wealthy family, and she will not worry about food and clothing in this life.

Mangzhong wanted to be soft at this time, but Fang Qi didn't want to give her a chance to be soft, and shouted: "What are you two still doing in March and August?!" ”

In March and August, Zhou took the mango seeds to the firewood room, and the Zhou family came out of Fangfei's boudoir staggeringly, and before anyone was in the pavilion, he smiled and said: "Why is Sanniang so angry today?" ”

Fang Qi hurriedly got up and was about to salute, but Zhou hurriedly stepped forward to help her: "Sanniang and Siniang live in the same courtyard, and I can be regarded as looking up and not looking down, so polite can see outside, I just listened to it for a while, and I pity Sanniang is still hungry at this time, and there are still some tea fruits in Siniang's house, if Sanniang doesn't dislike it, let the maids take it." ”

Fang Qi was so hungry that his kneecaps were weak, where did he still dislike it, thanked Zhou Xiaoniang, and then let Gu Yu, who had already been frightened on the side, go to fetch it, and when he filled his stomach, he thanked Zhou Xiaoniang again, and he was still sitting and talking in this pavilion.

Zhou persuaded: "Speaking of the servants in the Qiuliang Pavilion, they should indeed be treated, but Sanniang and Siniang are the same, they all have to look at the face of the eldest lady to live, knowing that this slave is nothing more than looking at the eldest lady's eyes, so why bother to please the eldest lady?" So according to me, it's just a matter of keeping the slave and maid in the firewood room for one night. ”

Fang Qi knew that Zhou was testing her, and said: "Xiao Niang is for my good, and I also accept Xiao Niang's love, but I can't bear this tone anymore no matter what!" ”

As soon as she observed, she saw that Zhou's eyes were a little brighter.

Very good, Fang Qi thought, it seems that he is expected to be able to further form an alliance with Zhou Xiaoniang.

David's law prohibits concubines as wives, that is to say, according to the law, concubines have no possibility of correcting, but David except for those who were convicted and were not official slaves, all the people are good people, and even the singers actually enjoy the freedom to marry with good families, so although the status of the vast majority of concubines is lower than that of the main wife, but the marriage between the husband and the husband also needs to be deed, and the concubine cannot be bought and sold by the husband, and the concubine also has the freedom to ask for divorce and another marriage.

Therefore, in such a situation, when a man really intends to take a concubine as his wife, it is not impossible to think - as long as the wife dies or is divorced, the man first dissolves the old contract with the concubine, and then officially marries the matchmaker.

Although it is not common in reality, it does exist.

Zhou Xiaoniang is a serious good book, although her parents are still in Beijing at this time and have not been able to be pardoned and returned to the guard, but she has a very important bargaining chip is that she has a son under her knees, Qin Ze's body is not to mention entering the office, there has always been a danger of early death, so Zhou Xiaoniang's Qin Zhi has become an important hope of Changfang, so even though she knows that her background is very different from that of Mrs. Wang, she has never died of the idea of correcting.

Mrs. Wang is already half a hundred years old, in case Qin Ze has a good deal, Mrs. Wang will follow if she is too sad......

Zhou Xiaoniang thinks that she is more than ten years younger than Mrs. Wang, and she has great hopes to wait until the day when Mrs. Wang dies first.

Of course, it would be better if the Wang family had a bad reputation before he died, and the Wang family would have no confidence to prevent Da Langjun from taking a concubine as his wife.

However, Mrs. Wang is still alive and well now, Zhou Xiaoniang must have scruples when she acts, she needs someone to use to fight with Mrs. Wang, of course this person is not her own child, there is no more suitable person than Fang Qi.