From an ethical point of view, a marriage without love is indeed a hooligan, but from a social point of view, arranged marriage has the effect of stability and unity, don't look at countless people since ancient times singing the praises of free love, from the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, but in life there are many free love and final relationship breakdown, arranged marriage has no emotional foundation, although there are many unhappy marriages like big luck, but social atmosphere and secular habits do not allow casual divorce, but make the marriage relationship more stable, To a certain extent, social harmony is ensured.

Jiang Tian admits the necessity of arranged marriage at this moment, but he does not intend to succumb to the pressure of society to marry Meng Daya as his wife, but because of the inertia of society, it is not something that he and Zhang Tao can control, even if one is the emperor of the dynasty and the other is a very human minister, they can not take a certain woman, but no one will dare to marry that woman again, which makes Jiang Tian invisibly have a moral shackle.

Speaking of this problem, we cannot fail to mention China in another time and space, the first law introduced after the establishment of New China included the "Marriage Law", and in the top-down seamless link of national policy propaganda, all kinds of free love to pursue a new life content abounds, so that decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, most families are composed of free love. Many people believe that this is due to the high level of brainwashing of the Turkish Communist Party, which has reversed the social atmosphere in China for thousands of years in one fell swoop. In fact, the real wind of free love is not our first creation, but in the Republic of China period by those who have the right to speak in the society "elites" touted and practiced by themselves, please forgive me for adding a quotation mark to the word elite, because in that wave of divorce from the original partner and remarry young female students, the vast majority of the so-called "elites" who broke the shackles of the old society and pursued ideological emancipation were selling dog meat on the head of a sheep just to find an excuse for themselves to spend their hearts and take a break from the yellow-faced mother-in-law, from the father of the nation to Xu Zhimo, Sun Yat-sen and Jiang @ Zhong @ Zheng married for their own political interests. Among all the influential figures in the entire Republic of China period, many were not ashamed of abandoning their wives, and even these well-dressed beasts were proud of their divorce. It is rare to be able to fall in love with Zhou Xiang so freely and be unswerving to his wife, otherwise how can he be loved by the people and be praised by the word Wenzheng!

In the final analysis, many reforms in New China, and even the changes that were later clamored by some well-known elites for the decline of Chinese tradition, can actually be found in the ideological enlightenment movement of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. A new system was used to integrate all the essence and dross and re-establish it. It was only through the intellectuals who were morally degraded during the Republic of China that the government saw the seeds of danger, so after the liberation, although it vigorously promoted free love, it also created integrated grassroots management organizations such as trade unions, women's federations, neighborhoods, and village committees, and they played an important role in citizen marriage to maintain family integrity as much as possible and prevent the family from breaking up and even causing social instability if there was a disagreement. Its function is completely consistent with the feudal ethics and morality of the old society, that is, marriage can be freely chosen, but divorce is not easy to do. Until the death of this management system after the reform and opening up......

This is Jiang Tian's entanglement, if you put it in your previous life, you can say it happily: I don't love you! Except for some families or individuals who marry for some interests, few young men and women will be entangled in this issue, but this society is not good, neither has experienced the ideological enlightenment, nor has a powerful state propaganda machine to carry out all-round coverage of ideological propaganda, the vast majority of people still follow the previous moral norms, regardless of whether this set of norms is reasonable, but as long as it exists, it must have its reasonableness. In other words, it is an ordinary person with a thin temperament, who cares about the life or death of a rural village girl, even if there is a Mr. Daode who is not accustomed to such a shameful thing, at most he will write a story similar to "Qin Xianglian" to criticize public opinion, but he will not really rescue such a hard-working woman, just like those well-known elite keyboard warriors in later generations, or those people are the modern reincarnation of these so-called Taoist gentlemen.

Jiang Tian can't be ruthless and sacrifice others for his own happiness, so he naturally falls into a dilemma, those women in the backyard have another view on this, good women like them have long known that they are not qualified to compete for the status of a wife, let alone the right to fall in love, except for the top Qing people like Xinyue, they don't even dare to imagine that they can get the status of a concubine in such an official's mansion. So you don't need to think about it, you know that if you want to gain a foothold in this family, the hostess in the backyard is the object that must be flattered, even if it is the arrogant Xinyue and Linglong, they are definitely not exempt from vulgarity.

So the house of Meng Daya, who was already very popular, was even more lively, and a group of people who knew the wind and the rudder gathered here early, ostensibly to chat with her to relieve boredom, but in fact, they wanted to find out the rules of the future Mrs. Jiang Mansion to manage the backyard. In many literary works, the little wife cleverly designs and tries to bring down the eldest lady of the main house, and finally controls the whole family, which is more like some deep resentful women using YY to entertain themselves, although in reality it is not impossible to have this possibility, but the success rate is not high. More often than not, before your plan is realized, Mrs. Zhengfang can find a reason to execute the partial house, of course, there is a certain family power of the partial house. But what is the background of these women in Jiang Mansion? Meng Daya is the eldest lady recognized by the old lady, and when it comes to backstage, she is the hardest in the family, so ask the likes and dislikes of the main house in advance, and it is better to prescribe the right medicine to avoid making trouble for yourself.

"Although my sister obeys the master's orders and does not add a calling ring to the room, after you and the master worship heaven and earth, you must have your own envoy no matter what." Qingshuang, who is a waiter in the room, is definitely qualified to say this, if it weren't for the immaturity of her sister's heart, she would have the heart to let Youlan be Meng Daya's personal ring, this is what it looks like to lower her posture and take the initiative to please: "I don't know if there are any girls in this mansion who can be eyed?" ”

Anyway, my sisters have long been favored by the master, and now saying this can be regarded as a benefit for others, so that no one will be jealous of themselves. Meng Daya, a human spirit who survived in the troubled times, how could she not see her thoughts, but this can be regarded as a kind reminder that she does seem to be alone on her side. In front of these women who are more beautiful than themselves and more talented than themselves, the only way for him to keep his husband is not to stop him from looking for flowers and willows, and even take the initiative to find a lovely woman for his husband, which can be regarded as another sadness of feudal marriage.

"My sister has a heart." Meng Daya still looks confident, don't look at the appearance and talent are not the opponents of these women, but the strange thing is that she is a country girl who naturally has a sense of stability as a backyard hostess: "But you should know the temper of our master, he is most opposed to separating people into three, six, nine and so on, if it is not to maintain the dignity of the official family, he dares to do such a thing as driving himself to the court, so in the backyard of our family, there is no such thing as a lady and a maid." I think according to the master's meaning, everyone can be called Madame. ”

Although she said so, Jiang Tian also said that there is no distinction between wives and concubines without discrimination, but if anyone believes this, they can be regarded as stupid and cute. Even the brainless Youlan knew that this was unreliable, especially when it came out of Meng Daya's mouth, and only Xi Yun, who was on the sidelines, asked stupidly: "Sister, everyone is a lady, so who will serve Mrs.?" ”

The women chuckled a few times, and joked that Xi Yun didn't understand the careful thinking of these women, but no one would break this matter, only to see Linglong, who was rarely dragged by Xi Yun to be an audience, said with a straight face: "You are already the master's sister now, how can you still say these words that don't understand the rules?" There will always be only one lady in this garden, so naturally everyone will serve the lord and the lady together. ”

was counted down by the original master, Xi Yun was still a little timid, so she had to hide aside and not speak, Meng Daya saw in her eyes that she knew that she was naturally arrogant and arrogant like Linglong, especially when she was originally the daughter of an official family, if there was no accident, she should have found a wishful husband who was a family affair, and now although she has found a talent, she is not innocent. So the personality is naturally a little awkward, and I used to be angry with Xiyun because I was dissatisfied with what happened to me, but I had nowhere to vent.

Thinking of this, Meng Daya naturally also had some feelings about the fate of women, so she didn't have much reproach when she spoke: "My sister is serious, with my understanding of our master, although he is not the prodigal son of thin love, he is not a pedantic sour Confucian." I don't know what chance he got when I left home when I was young, and I learned a little from the emperor, but no matter how big the official is, his nature has not changed, I can't let go of you hard-working girls, I am afraid that the trust will ruin your happiness, and I am afraid that I will regret the marriage and delay the second half of my life, and my younger brother is now worried about how to get the best of both worlds. ”

The women were naturally surprised when they heard it, they were used to seeing every scene in the Qinglou, and some of them were even masters themselves, but as Meng Daya said, this Lord Jiang would be troubled by this kind of thing? That's just a good gentleman in the world, as far as they have seen in their lives, who would worry about a Qinglou woman? It's not just about putting your pants on......

was working in the cold field, and a sigh floated into the room: "It's still my sister who understands the master!" ”

Everyone saw that it was Xinyue who went to serve tea just now, only to see her frowning into the house, and then said the conversation she had just heard as it was, especially when it came to the girl who had already received the guest was sterilized, and there may not be any more children in this life. The end must have been a pile of dry bones on the mass grave. But after hearing that Jiang Tian foresaw this scene and kept them by his side, the complicated feelings were really indescribable.

"Alas......" Meng Daya was also stunned for a while, and then a thousand words turned into a long sigh, she turned her head to look at the other women: "My younger brother is still the stupid boy at the beginning, he always thinks that he can save the common people by reading a few books, who will save him in the end?" If I hadn't said yes...... Why bother him so much. ”

What has already been promised? Naturally, she had already agreed to Mrs. Jiang to be her daughter-in-law. In fact, no one thought that Jiang Tian would be so resistant to marrying a woman who has no emotional foundation, including those women who are not as good as Xinyue and Linglong in terms of appearance and talent, and they also have a sense of loss in their hearts for no reason.

is different from what others think, Jiang Tian's criteria for choosing a wife are not complicated, because there is no standard at all, to put it bluntly, this benevolent brother was not married in his previous life, and he has not figured out what kind of wife he wants. That is, the wife who has a common language with himself is the ultimate pursuit. At this point, I have to say that Xinyue sees it very accurately, in addition to her own desire to explore science, she has a good idea of Jiang Tian's literati, but unfortunately she doesn't know that science is not Jiang Tian's pursuit, but more like a skill that she has to master in order to complete a certain job, so she always passes by the identity of a confidant.

Jiang Tian's tangled things are opened by other people in this era, it is not a problem at all, whether these women in the backyard are talented or captivating, there is no second person who can climb to the identity of a wife except for a Meng Daya, so what is there to be entangled? Anyway, it is impossible to stop Jiang Tian from taking a concubine as Meng Daya, so give her a name, and it will not prevent her from looking for flowers and asking willows. Of course, for the news that Jiang Tian is about to marry a wife, not only the women in his house have all kinds of thoughts, but even the Su family who is far away in the suburbs of Beijing is also sighing, if it wasn't for the fact that he was blinded by lard, then it should be Su Yuniang who is ready to marry at this time.

Out of politeness, it is impossible for the Su family to remain indifferent, even if the Jiang family does not send an invitation, but with the current status of the Su family, they will not expect people to take the initiative to invite, and it is the proper attitude to express congratulations in a hurry. So Su Yuniang came to Jiang's Mansion with a cart of farm products.

Outsiders may mistakenly think that she regrets her marriage at the beginning, and now she takes the initiative to squeeze into the back house of this master, but Jiang Tian knows that her real mind is completely looking for an opportunity to get close to Wu Yuan, I have to say that sometimes once a woman enters the love mode, her IQ may be infinitely close to zero. Just like Su Yuniang now, she knows that she can't climb at all, but she is still obsessed with being able to take a look at her sweetheart, and if she can say a word, it will be even more exciting for a few days and nights.

Not to mention her luck, the timing of this time is just right, Wu Yuan and Zhang Huan have not left Jiang's mansion, I heard that in order to congratulate Lord Jiang on marrying his wife, the farm specially selected some good melons, fruits and vegetables to talk about his heart, Zhang Huan, this curious baby, naturally wants to see the gifts, Jiang Tian didn't think much about it and asked Steward Guo to pass Su Yuniang to the living room, when she walked in, even Wu Yuan, who didn't plan to look at her more, had to admit that Su Yuniang's changes during this time were indeed not small.

The first feeling is that there is no longer the delicate feeling of being raised in the boudoir, although she has groomed and dressed up as much as possible before coming, but she can still see the sunny beauty of a working woman from her slightly dark skin and slightly rough hands. Even though she herself doesn't think this is a good change, and wants to restore her original appearance as much as possible, but it makes her face have a confident temperament that ordinary village ni does not have.

Jiang Tian was okay, but Wu Yuan, who was a little embarrassed, couldn't help but look at Su Yuniang a few more times, this look made the other party care more about the eyes of his sweetheart, and there was a little more shy twisting under the original confident and sunny temperament, which can be called the culmination of the posture of the little daughter, even Zhang Huan felt that this natural posture was better than those pretentious rich daughters, not to mention those charming women in Jiang Tian's backyard.

Fortunately, Jiang Tian has seen all kinds of beauties, both ancient and modern, and their experience is by no means comparable to everyone here, but he will not be stunned by this fresh perception, seeing that everyone is a little distracted, he took the initiative to say: "Miss Su is tired, I don't know what special product she sent?" ”

Su Yuniang, who was still peeking at her sweetheart, hurriedly collected her mind and said softly: "Jiaci heard that Lord Jiang will get married soon, so in order to show his distraction, he sent the people's daughter to send some worthless local products, if it can help make up a few snacks at the wedding banquet." ”

After speaking, Su Yuniang presented the gift list, Jiang Tian opened it and looked at it and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, this gift list seems to be some ordinary crops, considering that it is late autumn, Beijing City in October of the lunar calendar, there are not many fresh vegetables and fruits in season around, and the Su family sent them except for some potatoes and yams, all of which are out-of-season vegetables! The price may not be worth two taels of silver in the summer, but at this moment it is definitely a heavy gift, if it is two months later, the price of such a car of fresh vegetables can definitely sell sky-high!

Closing the gift list, Jiang Tian was a little surprised by the Su family's handwriting: "This gift is really too valuable!" Although I know that this is all grown in greenhouses, when it comes to the market price at this time, it is worth dozens of silver, especially this potato, if I remember correctly, it is one of the crops that the military is collecting! ”