Although Han Jiang rejected Xu Jie, he didn't want to say it so deadly.

Han Jiang sighed at this time: "Anyway, I don't know what you really think, and I don't know what your uncle and uncle think, but after all, I don't want to chill your heart." Well, if your uncle really has any ideas, I'll meet him sometime. Or think that I am young, and my father can come forward. ”

Xu Jie understands that this is the biggest concession made by Han Jiang. He bowed: "Okay, I will definitely bring the words to my uncle and talk about it another day." ”

"Yes." Han Jiang bowed his hand and returned the salute.

Xu Jie left, it was Han Jiang who personally sent it to the door of the mansion, and Han Jiang would not make a mistake in etiquette.

Who would have thought that Xu Jie met a new guest.

Cui Yiye and Shen Yuran came.

Xu Jie greeted the two of them with a bow, and the two walked in front of Han Jiang after returning the salute.

Han Jiang said, "Brother Shen, aren't you going south?" Brother Cui, you are not in Quanzhou, how can you be in Lin'an? ”

Neither of them answered, but they just gave a salute according to etiquette, and Han Jiang didn't ask again, and was ready to lead the two to the flower hall together.

While bypassing the garden, Han Jiang noticed two servant women by the garden wall.

Out of curiosity, Han Jiang walked over.

It's a wall, but there's a set of wooden objects on the wall.

Han Jiang has seen this object I don't know how many times, every time I pass by the garden, I will see it, and I thought for a long time that Han Jiang thought that it was the garbage bin in the garden.

But today, Han Jiang saw two servant women take out a baby from the box.

That's right, it's a baby.

The servants of the Han family were very professional, they took a small quilt to wrap the baby in another layer, and when they saw Han Jianghao saluting Han Jiang, they went to the back garden.

What is it?

What does this baby mean?

In an instant, many questions rose from Han Jiang's mind.

Cui Yiye said at this time: "This year, it seems that there are more than in previous years. ”

Han Jiang didn't understand: "What more." ”

Cui Yiye pointed to the wooden object.

Han Jiang was even more confused.

Cui Yiye was surprised when she saw Han Jiang's puzzled expression: "You don't know? ”

Han Jiang shook his head: "I don't know. ”

Cui Yiye approached the object and first untied the thread of the bell on it, and then opened the cabinet door, inside was a movable button structure, there was a large drawer on it, and there was a cloth bag in the drawer at this time, the cloth bag was not tied, and it could be seen that it was a bag of money and a bronze medal divided in two.

Cui Yiye looked at the side, there was a round wooden disc there, and a very ingenious mechanism was made, and there were numbers on the wooden plate.

"Well, there are already fifty-nine ꓹ this month, which is definitely higher than in previous years. It's not the New Year yet, I'm afraid that your family will send someone to stay here in the next few days of the New Year. ”

Han Jiang is even more confusedꓹ What is this?

Cui Yiye closed the cabinet and hung the bell again before explaining to Han Jiang: "Every winter, many mothers who can't bear to throw their children into the river will carry their children to the rich area of Lin'an, and there will be a trapdoor on the courtyard wall to the east of the rich family's house, and the trapdoor needs some strength to open, and when it is opened, the big drawer is pulled at the same time, so that the number on the wooden plate is one more person, and the bell rings." ”

"It's called baby-turning."

Han Jiang didn't understand: "What about the good baby hall of the imperial court?" ”

"Imperial court, hehe." Cui Yiye smiled and didn't explain.

Immediately afterwards, Cui Yiye told a shocking secret that Han Jiang had heard for the first time.

Cui Yiye said: "Do you see the bronze medal? ”

"Yes."

"Splitting into two means that you can recognize your relatives in the future, but the rules are not like this. After being a baby according to the rules, it no longer has any relationship, whether it is dead or alive, whether it is a slave or a maid, or being adopted has nothing to do with the original parents. ”

Han Jiang didn't understand, and left a token to recognize each other in the future.

Of course, there may be something wrong.

No, this matter is far away, Han Jiang said: "No, didn't the eldest lady announce that she was exempted from the money for giving birth to a child, how could there be an abandoned baby, there must be something wrong with this." ”

Cui Yiye didn't explain Han Jiang's doubts, and continued to say what he just said: "Many years ago, there was a poor scholar who was sick, although he didn't die, but there was no rice in the pot at home, and his wife put the newborn child into the baby box, and five years later, Nashizi ranked first in the second class of high school. This man is my own uncle, you know. ”

"Cui Wei?"

Cui Yiye nodded: "Well, and his daughter is literate and hyphenated, and her piano skills are outstanding, according to the records on the Han Mansion roster, from the Cui family." I don't know what it's called, but I do know she's the lady next to me. ”

"Lanxiang? Does she know it herself? Han Jiang suddenly cared about this.

Cui Yiye nodded: "It's not a secret in my Cui clan, of course my cousin would rather be scolded by the cane in the ancestral hall, and even if he was expelled from the Cui clan, he still threw himself into your father's door without regrets, just because your father raised my cousin, although he is a maid, he is also a maid." ”

Han Jiang shook his head: "It's not a maid, it's a noble maid." According to the rules of my Han family, the noble maid is higher than the concubine. ”

During the Song Dynasty, concubines were divided into six classes.

Gui and Shang are the daughters of powerful families, big and flat are daughters of good families, and the concubines are basically a little bit of status in the family, there are small officials, and there are also big families, and the concubines are the daughters of the good families and the maids of the big women, if Danxia is the concubine, it is the fourth concubine. Further down there is Joy and Tricks, which are basically of pariahs.

Shadow and color are different.

Let's not say that they were raised as half daughters in the Han family, just say that their ancestors have the female doctor saint personally sealed by the emperor, which can shade three generations, plus the Xin'an Zhang family that made them naturalized is an official, and several people in the Zhang family have the official position of imperial doctor, so they are at least concubines, plus the palace has added a title, which is a concubine, that is, the level of a lady.

There are still some people like Xiangying and Cai in the Han family, if they get married, even if they are concubines in ordinary petty officials' families, no one will show them their faces.

To despise them is to despise the Han family.

Far from it.

Han Jiang probably understood what Cui Yiye meant.

Cui Yiye explained the significance of this cabinet, and also explained that the Han family broke the rules in this matter, which is enough to prove that his father began to reserve talents for the Han family many years ago.

Adopt a hundred, meet one is enough, and meet two is a hair.

Suddenly, Han Jiang thought of something: "Then, does she know it herself?" ”

Cui Yiye nodded: "I know, my distant cousin uncle met my father and daughter when he entered the Seventh Rank Official." ”

Han Jiang wanted to ask why Cui Wei didn't take his daughter back, but he didn't ask.

Han Jiang sighed: "It seems that this infanticide is still poor at the root. ”

Han Jiang understands that this is a common problem in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is not something that anyone can solve simply.