281. Suing her husband (I)
"Xie's, this is Yao Die'er, from now on she is my serious concubine, I will allocate the Yulan Courtyard for her to live, and in the future, she should be clothed, fed, housed, and transported, just like other concubines in the house, you must not treat her harshly, Yao Die'er, and the main mother will see the ceremony."
The more Zheng Congji thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense, he quickly changed from apprehension at the beginning to righteousness, he took Yao Die'er home without his wife's consent, and swaggered her to his wife, pointing to Lan Die'er to introduce his wife.
"Yao Die'er has seen the eldest lady." Yao Die'er saluted to the Xie family in a kind manner, and said in an official dialect that was not yet very proficient.
It has been more than half a year since she came to the Central Plains, and she has learned many of the etiquette of the Central Plains very well, but she still does not speak the official language very fluently.
Xie Shi glanced at them lightly, turned around and left without saying a word, Yao Die'er stood up straight and looked at Zheng Congqi with a blank face, Zheng Congqi's face was blue and white for a while.
After a while, he squeezed out a smile on his face, and said to Yao Die'er: "It's okay, the Central Plains woman is not as atmospheric as your grassland woman, she is sticky and jealous, I have ordered someone to clean up the Yulan Courtyard, go, I will take you over for the husband." ”
Yao Die'er didn't seem to understand it, but she didn't care about it soon, since she decided to enter Zheng Congji's backyard, she would try to accept the rules here, and Xie refused to admit that she also had benefits for the time being, that is, her current household registration was still in her hands.
As long as the household registration has not been officially transferred to the Zheng family, and the household register of the court has not officially changed her to Zheng Congji's concubine, once she can't stay in the Zheng family, she can leave at any time.
It is true that she likes Zheng Congji, but she is far from liking him to the point of seeking death and life for him.
Zheng Congji naturally didn't know what was going on around him, he saw that Xie Shi didn't give himself face so much, and didn't want to admit the existence of Lan Die'er, he was quite annoyed, but Yao had no way, and after taking Yao Die'er to Yulan Courtyard, he went to the backyard in person.
The stewards who should manage food, clothing, housing and transportation in the backyard were all summoned, and asked them to supply food and clothing to the Yulan Courtyard according to the standards of the concubines in the house, although the person in charge of the backyard was his wife, but he didn't believe that his legitimate master had spoken, and these people dared to snub Yao Die'er.
As for Yahuan, when Yao Die'er came out of Menglin's house, she brought two bearded girls that she was used to, and Zheng Congqi helped her buy two from the market, plus a rough mother-in-law, she had a concubine, and there were five people to serve her.
Zheng Congji Yao Die'er is indeed spoiled to the bones, he is worried that the housekeepers at home will have one set in front of him and one on the back, and when he is not at home, he will embarrass Yao Die'er, and he specially built a small kitchen for her in Yulan Courtyard.
He knew that Yao Die'er was rich, and if the food and clothing in the house were insufficient, making her uncomfortable, she could also let Yahuan go out to buy it.
Xie Shi turned a blind eye to all this, she neither quarreled with Zheng Congji, nor did she let her subordinates deliberately embarrass Yao Die'er, she lived her life peacefully as if nothing had happened.
The only problem is that she has always refused to admit the identity of Yao Die'er's concubine, without the approval of the master's mother, Yao Die'er's identity as a concubine will not be able to go up.
Zheng Congji was both apprehensive about this, and had a bit of luck in his heart, maybe his wife was just temporarily angry, and when this anger passed, he would go to Haosheng to accompany her, and she would be able to recognize Yao Die'er
Time continued to slide in this complex and contradictory mood of Zheng Congji, and in a blink of an eye it was the eighth day of the first month of October, that is, the twentieth day of Yao Die'er's entry into the mansion.
Yongzhou Mu is a member of the three grades, and the person sitting in this position is Yang Gongren, under normal circumstances, he does not need to report to the Yamen every day, he is more often in the three provinces and six departments, and ordinary civil cases are usually handled by Changshi.
It's just that this year's situation is a bit special, in the first half of the year, because tens of thousands of Hu people moved into Anchang, the Hu and Han sides had a lot of contradictions in mixed housing, and he had to help Wei Zheng and spend his old nose to solve this problem.
After that, he can't be completely assured, as long as Li Shimin doesn't leave him to have anything to do, he will come to the state government to sit on duty, but fortunately, there have been no particularly difficult problems in the past two or three months.
Today, when he suddenly heard the sound of the drum, he was not in a hurry, but he went to invite the drummer to the hall, and he straightened his clothes and went to the hall, and as soon as he sat down on the throne, the drummer was brought in.
After Yang Gongren saw the appearance of the drum beater, he couldn't help but be stunned, without it, the dress of the woman in front of him, as well as her appearance and temperament, looked like the head of the eunuch's house.
Such a family, even if there is something at home, it is impossible for her to be a woman and a Taoist family to beat the drum of grievances.
Yang Gongren forcibly controlled the strangeness in his heart, slowed down his tone and asked, "I don't know what grievances this lady has to express?" ”
"Anrenfang Zheng family's housewife Xie sued her husband Zheng Congji for ignoring the laws of the court, spoiling concubines and disaster wives, and being immoral" The person who beat the drum is naturally Xie, Xie walked into the inner hall, first bowed to Yang Gongren in a proper manner, and then said without hurry.
Anrenfang belongs to Chang'an Dong City, mostly for the middle and low-level officials, and relatives of the princes and nobles, Zheng Congji is only from the official of the five grades, and it is not easy to have a house in this place soon after coming to Beijing.
Yang Gongren was taken aback, and didn't know how to interface for a while, although the court did not prohibit men from taking concubines, but the law is still very strict about the distinction between wives and concubines, that is, the protection of the main wife and the children of the concubine is in place.
If an official dares to do the thing of spoiling a concubine and killing his wife, once he is denounced, he will be severely reprimanded by the emperor, and the heavier person will be dismissed and exiled.
Of course, in this patriarchal society, husbands and wives are expensive, and husbands and wives are one, and under normal circumstances, few wives will come out to sue their husbands for spoiling their concubines and killing their wives.
Because once this crime is confirmed, her husband's future will not be wanted, when the emperor has a deep relationship, the emperor thinks that a man can have three wives and four concubines, but he must not divide wives and concubines, otherwise the house will be in chaos.
And the lady in front of her calls herself Xie, and then thinks of Zheng Congji's background, most of his wives are from the Langya Xie family, such a woman, she won't not understand this truth, what kind of bastard did Zheng Congji do to make his wife so angry?
Because he was so shocked, Yang Gongren didn't react for a long time after listening to Xie's words, and finally Xie broke the deadlock: "The details of the concubine body have been drafted, please take a look." After speaking, he took out a prepared complaint from his sleeve.
Soon, a master came over and took it and presented it to Yang Gongren, Yang Gongren took it and took a look, his face became more and more strange, and the complaint in Xie's hand said that if the situation was true, Zheng Congji would not be a concubine and kill his wife.
He was so helpless that he forcibly took Hu Ji into the mansion without the wishes of his wife, and placed her in his own mansion without official documents, and treated her as a concubine