There was such a scandal as a maid fornicating with someone in the Hou Mansion, and it was still a year-end banquet where the powerful people in Beijing were present. Xie Houye was furious and ordered the housekeeper and his grandmother to deal with it severely. Because the New Year is approaching, I don't want to kill people and collide with family luck. Then the maid was punished with a cane for thirty and sold to the teaching department. Because the fornication with the man was not a slave of the Hou Mansion, he was bound and sent to the government to be imprisoned, to be interrogated after the year.

There was this episode in the middle of the banquet yesterday, and Xie Wan and Ye Zhiqiu were very familiar with each other in the second half, and the conversation between the two was very speculative, and there was a feeling of "meeting and hating each other". I sighed in my heart that I didn't have much interaction when I was in the temple. On the second day, Xie Wan came to visit unexpectedly.

"Hey.... What do you want? But scared yesterday? Xie Wan saw Ye Zhiqiu in a daze and called.

"Uh...... Something strange. Since the maid is going to steal a lover. Why do you have to be in the Hou Mansion when there are many people? ”

"It's a little strange for you to say that. I heard my grandmother say: That man is a vegetable farmer in the village, and he often delivers vegetables to the house on weekdays. That girl is a rough girl in the backyard, and she is not a girl in the kitchen, how did you meet each other? ”

"Not this one. Regardless of how they are.... The two are happy...., since it is an affair, it must be a few people when they are secluded, how could it happen that yesterday, they were also met by Liu Yan and them. ”

"yes, how did she find you in the backyard? Ah.... Don't think about that, it's a shame. Fortunately, you lost the front yard yesterday, otherwise it would be bad for you to clear your reputation. ”

"Hmm. By the way, who is this Faculty Division? ”

"This sectarian department belongs to the Ministry of Rites. Responsible for the celebration and welcoming the guests to play music, and at the same time is the official brothel, with many musicians and female ........ Well, it's an 'official prostitute'. Originally, the priest was the family of those who committed crimes and had their homes raided. But our emperor was merciful, and the emperor is not yet in power. So in the past twenty or thirty years, there have been no criminal officials and daughters who have been raided. In recent years, some of the women in the Teaching Workshop Department were recruited from the Qinlou Chu Pavilion for the people, although this kind of woman is also registered in the Teaching Workshop Division, but when she is old and decrepit, she can redeem herself and leave. There are also many folk Qinglou women, thinking that they can get to know some dignitaries and nobles if they can marry into a wealthy family as concubines, and they can have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives. ”

"Isn't it okay for the housewife to beat and scold and even sell the concubine at will?" Ye Zhiqiu thought of the concubines that Ye Ping raised outside, the dead died, and the ones who were sold were sold.

"You don't understand that. The concubines are also divided into concubines who enter the door; a good concubine who spends money to buy from outside; is still a cheap concubine on the top of the slave family. The first two are still half masters, and the children born can also enter the family ancestral hall. It is also considered that the mother is more expensive than the child, and the status is secure. Only the concubines are kept outside, and they can't enter the house, and they can be beaten and scolded and sold by the housewife at will. ”

"What about the children born to concubines?"

"Just take a surname, keep it outside. Neither can be included in the ancestral hall genealogy, nor can they share half of the family property in the future. After Xie Wan finished speaking, she looked straight at Ye Zhiqiu. Do you know why I didn't treat you in the first place? ”

"Huh?"

"Because of envy, jealousy."

"Why do you envy me?"

"Because your father is in a high position, but your mother is alone. Although your Ye Mansion is sparsely populated, it is not as rich as the Hou Mansion. But there's no such dirty stuff as it gets. Which deep house compound with a concubine room does not have some unsightly deeds? I'm afraid that human lives alone are not much missing. For those women in the deep house, the lord's favor and children are the only reliance, and the most will be when the woman gives birth, do some tricks. ”

"If they can choose, they must not want to be concubines with others." Ye Zhiqiu sighed.

"That makes sense. By the way, the master's eldest daughter really wants to marry a commoner? I heard that I lost my mother since I was a child, and I was just a poor scholar. ”

"Well, really. Li Fuzi taught at his uncle's school. ”

"The Xu family is also a famous gentleman of the family, and your grandfather was an official to the bachelor of Hanlin before he became a scholar. In such a bad household, the master was willing to marry his daughter. I heard that many powerful families went to propose marriage, but the master was reluctant, why did he end up being a poor scholar? ”

Ye Zhiqiu smiled, she knew that Xie Wan was just curious and wondering, and what she said was also the truth, and there was no mockery and belittling in her tone.

"Master Li's character and talent are excellent. The uncle only wants his daughter to be happy and healthy, and he doesn't care much about the family background. ”

"I really envy your cousin, you can marry the person you like. Unlike us, in the future, we will either enter the palace as a royal concubine, or find a family to marry. ”

Ye Zhiqiu frowned, a little surprised.

"You wouldn't have thought about it, would you?!" Xie Wan was even more surprised. These are all things she has known since she was a child, and her background determines that marriage is not up to her own decisions.

"No, my mother never told me that. I thought I could be the same as my cousin. Find a lover, a couple for a lifetime. ”

"How is that possible! Don't say that your grandfather is a general who protects the country, just say that your father is an official to the military department, how can you make your own decisions in the future marriage contract. Xie Wan was so shocked that she stood up unconsciously. Then he thought of something, looked depressed, and sat down again. muttered: "Daddy said that your father is honest and upright, and he is out of place among the officials in Beijing. Your grandfather too, in order to avoid the high merits of the master, voluntarily retreated to the border. Your Ye family is not the same as us........ It's impossible for me to marry Lin Gongzi....." The more she talked, the more depressed she became, and finally brought out some crying.

"You..... Don't cry....... Although the Lin family is an upstart, they are also relatives of the emperor. It is said that the Hou Mansion is also a good match, and it is still possible for you and Lin Gongzi. ”

"Really?! But neither my grandfather nor my father looked down on General Lin. said that he was lustful and amorous, and the Lin family was by no means a good match. ”

"Uh..... Lin Gongzi has a human character, we have been in the temple for more than three years, and we should have heard of it, and it is by no means like his grandfather. I believe that in the future, as an official of the same dynasty, your father will have a better view. Ye Zhiqiu really felt so, so Xie Wan also had some hope in her eyes.

"That's good. Fortunately, the emperor is about to be in power, and Lin Gongzi will do a lot! Speaking of his sweetheart, the eyes that had just cried appeared with a smile. Ye Zhiqiu, who was watching, was a little branched. Then she remembered that there was something else to do.

"Do you know how to get into the Workshop?"

"What are you going to do there?"

"I still think it was a little strange yesterday, how could it be so coincidental that she splashed water on me, and then Lin Yan went to the backyard to find me? I always feel that there is something else going on. ”

"If you have anything to ask, just send a maid. Why deign to go to that kind of fireworks land. Xie Wan disagreed.

"I want to ask her myself, do you have a way?" Ye Zhiqiu couldn't say it clearly, if it weren't for the help of "Lin Yanning" who sent Ying Qi that day, I'm afraid her reputation and innocence would have been ruined. There are some things that only she knows, so she can only ask.

"Do you have to go?"

"Hmm. I also asked my sister to help me think of ideas. Ye Zhiqiu's words were sincere, his expression was serious, and he didn't seem to be joking.

"There is a way. It is....... My brothers would occasionally go to the Church, and I would beg them to take me with you when I went, and then you would come with me, and the women disguised as men would follow them. It is..... It's not a rule to do that. If my father or your father knows, there will be good fruit for us to eat. After today's conversation, the two have made friends. Therefore, although Xie Wan was embarrassed, she still said a feasible strategy.