Chapter 697: The embarrassment of not marrying with the same surname
"Don't! No! He's my son Zhuang Zhou! Zhuangzi! He is my son Zhuang Zhou......"
Hearing the voice of his son Zhuang Zhou, Dai Liuer shouted anxiously.
Just now! The short hunchbacked old man's body was too fast for her to react. Zhuangzi's speed is also quite fast, so that she can't see clearly. Again! It happened so suddenly that I didn't see that the person was her son Zhuangzi.
She has learned the martial arts of this short hunchbacked old man. With her martial arts, in front of others, if she doesn't make more than ten moves to the sky, she will be captured alive. She knows Zhuangzi's martial arts very well in her heart, Zhuangzi's martial arts are not as good as the end of the world, and he is between the brothers in black.
With Zhuangzi alone, how could he be the opponent of the short hunchbacked old man?
"Huh?" The short hunchbacked old man was about to abolish Zhuangzi with one palm, and even Zhuangzi dared to jump in front of him? What are you jumping on? If you shoot to death, you will shoot a grasshopper to death. I heard that it was the son of the little princess, so I quickly stopped.
"Mother!" Zhuangzi jumped down, stood beside Dai Liu'er, and asked, "Who is he?" So much too much? ”
After the fight just now, he had to take it. In front of this old man, he only has the part of being abused. If the old lady hadn't shouted in time, she might have been injured just now.
"Is he? He is? He's my father's benefactor! Dai Liu'er didn't know how to explain to Zhuangzi for a while.
"Mother's father?" Zhuangzi asked in surprise: "Who is my mother's father?" Mother? ”
He has never heard of his grandfather and grandmother? Doesn't seem to have one? It seems to say that my mother is an orphan. My parents are all orphans, especially my mother, and I don't have any news about my grandparents?
"Come here!"
Dai Liu'er grabbed Zhuangzi's hand and came to the short hunchbacked old man.
"Get on your knees!" Dai Liu'er shouted.
"Mother!" Zhuangzi glanced at his mother, and then at the short hunchbacked old man. But he still bent his knees and knelt down for the dwarf, hunchbacked old man.
"He is the benefactor of our family! Kowtow! Dai Liu'er shouted.
The mother's fate was difficult to disobey, and Zhuangzi had no choice but to kowtow to the short hunchbacked old man.
"Oh! All right! All right! Get up! Get up! Seeing this, the short hunchbacked old man hurriedly stepped forward and helped Zhuangzi up.
"It turned out to be a kid from the little princess's family! Talent! Talent! Sure enough, it's a talent! All-rounder! All-rounder! ”
Dai Liu'er hurriedly introduced: "This is my son Zhuang'er, whose name is Zhouzi Xiu." Thanks to the love of Yang Zhu's predecessors, he was accepted as a disciple; People in the world admire it, but they don't know what to do, and they are mistakenly called Zhuangzi. ”
"Oh! Oh! Oh! Zhuangzi! Zhuangzi! Sure enough! Great talent! The short hunchbacked old man responded happily, his eyes looking up and down Zhuangzi's body, left and right. At last! Freeze on Zhuangzi's face.
"Why are you so thin?" Seeing Zhuangzi's appearance, with prominent cheekbones and a few beards on his cheeks and chin, he couldn't help but sigh.
"My son cultivates the Taoist method, he doesn't sleep, he only sleeps for one or two hours a day, and he naturally loses weight!"
"Oh! Oh! Oh! The short hunchbacked old man said, thinking: It's not a disease, I thought it was a disease!
Little princess? How did my mother become a little princess?
Which little princess? Is it the little princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Great Zhou Tianzi is my uncle? Still is?
"Mother?" Zhuangzi was puzzled and asked, "What the hell is going on?" No way? Mother? Why are you a little princess? Is there any mistake? ”
"Zhuang'er! Follow me! ”
Dai Liu'er grabbed Zhuangzi's wrist again, dragged him to the secret room, and left.
Seeing this, the short hunchbacked old man hurriedly stepped forward, reopened the secret room, and followed Dai Liu'er's mother and son into the secret room.
"Mother?"
"My mother has found my mother's family! Zhuang'er! Come and meet your grandparents! Zhuang'er! Dai Liu'er was so excited that she was a little incoherent, and her voice trembled a little.
"Mother?" Zhuangzi asked suspiciously, "Who is my grandparents?" Mother? ”
I thought: How could I meet my grandparents in the secret room of the Song Palace? Don't? My mother is the princess of the Song Kingdom? I? I, Zhuang Zhou, am the nephew of the king of the Song Kingdom?
This, this, this?
My Zhuang Zhou Zhuang family is also a descendant of the royal family of the Song Kingdom?
This, this, this?
Thinking of this, Zhuangzi was a little unacceptable!
Albeit! Since the Spring and Autumn Period, there have been precedents of marriage between hereditary nobles and royals of the same clan in order to inherit the title and increase their power, but it is not public after all. The aftermath of consanguineous marriage has long been discovered.
Albeit! His own family and other families are all descendants of the royal family, but they can already be married. But after all, it makes people feel like a family, which makes people feel awkward and even shameful.
The redistribution of royal surnames, that is, the giving of surnames, is to reward meritorious offspring and to avoid the embarrassment of marriage with the same surname.
The concept of not marrying with the same surname became a major obstacle to the development of the population during the Warring States Period, when the population was in urgent need of great development. If the same surname cannot be matched, it will cause difficulties in marriage and hinder population development.
So! There is the practice of giving surnames and separating new ones.
Giving surnames and dividing surnames did not exist only in the Warring States period, in fact, they existed very early. Our wise men see these social problems.
Not marrying with the same surname is to prevent inbreeding from producing deformed, mentally retarded offspring, and it is not out of morality. But it was later passed down and became a moral concept, and because of this, it bound people's minds.
The young Zhuangzi was somewhat influenced by this traditional ideology.
So! He was amazed and temporarily unacceptable.
"Your mother is a little princess!" The short hunchbacked old man followed behind and said, "Your grandmother is Princess Qu, my master, and the princess of Chu. ”
"Princess of Chu?"
Zhuangzi thought to himself: Why did my grandmother become the princess of Chu again? What about my grandfather? Who is my grandfather? The person married by the princess of Chu is also a prince?
"Yes! I am also from the Chu State, I am the princess's retinue, and I am the ...... who protects Princess Qu."
Dai Liu'er didn't speak, and strode forward. When she reached the basement chamber, she opened one of the chambers, brought the oil lamp to the front, and shone it against the wall.
And then! Said to Zhuangzi: "Kneel! ”
Before Zhuangzi could see clearly, he heard the old lady's shouting and quickly knelt down.
"Lift your head up!"
Zhuangzi had to raise his head.
"This is your grandfather! It's your grandmother! ”
"Mother!"
Only then did Zhuangzi see clearly that there were two portraits hanging on the walls of the secret room.
"Kowtow!"
"Mother!"
"Kowtow!"
Zhuangzi didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he had to kowtow to the portrait respectfully.
"Get up! Get up! Get up! ”
The short hunchbacked old man hurriedly came over and helped Zhuangzi up, and then! He himself knelt in front of the portrait, kowtowed respectfully, and said, "Master! The little princess has been found, and she has brought you a little nephew! His name is Zhuang Zhou, and the world calls him Zhuangzi. He is also the inheritor of Taoist doctrine! ……”