Chapter 13: Still a Little White (Asking for Recommendation Votes)
Later, people gave up their efforts on the formation diagram and instead cultivated women who were good at embroidering formations.
Needle and thread are easy to obtain, but not every woman who picks up the needle and thread embroidered can become a formation diagram.
The brocade mansion came into being.
In the Great Shang Dynasty, after every woman was born, when she reached the age of being able to hold needlework, she had to learn needlework, without exception.
This is also the reason why the Xu family bullied the dumb mother and daughter in every possible way, but still had to let Xu Sanchun learn needlework and embroidery. This is the first article of the law of great commerce, and no one dares to disobey it.
This law guarantees that every woman can embroider. On this basis, the six-year Brocade Mansion Embroidery Lady Test is to select women who can embroider the formation map, and concentrate on cultivating and cultivating them, so that they can serve the imperial court.
Before the Shang Dynasty, the study of formations was in a state of chaos.
It was the founding emperor of the Great Shang Dynasty who founded the Brocade Mansion, forming a channel that could continuously obtain the formation map, so that the formation could be used by the emperor to the greatest extent. In the end, after defeating other countries and dominating the world, there were big merchants.
Therefore, the status of the brocade mansion is high, and the female officials inside are transcendent and respected. Therefore, in the Great Shang Dynasty, although men were superior to women, there was no custom that women could not leave the house and could not show their heads.
Adult women go out alone and don't attract attention. Capable female shopkeepers, female doctors sitting in the hall, etc., can be seen everywhere.
In the state capital, women's schools will be opened, and qualified women can participate in the imperial examination like men after entering the school. After gaining fame, you can set up a female household on your own, and you can also get an official position.
Although there are very few women who are qualified to attend women's education, it is even more difficult to gain fame. There are very few women who can come this far. But the status of women is really much higher than the ancient times that Xu Sanchun knows.
At the very least, you don't have to wear a veil when you go out, and you don't have to be afraid that you won't even show your face, otherwise you will be accused of behaving in a debauched manner.
These things, everyone in the Great Shang Dynasty knows, is common sense. However, Xu Sanchun was stunned when he heard it.
Dark Moon? Formation? Brocade House? Women's Imperial Examination?
Xu Sanchun found that she thought she had figured out the customs here, but she was still a novice? She's completely messy, yes, that's the word, messy.
She only felt that her mind was a mess, and it took her a long time to barely clear it up.
"Dumb girl, has the dark moon in the sky always existed?" She gets to the heart of it all—Darkmoon.
The dumb lady shook her head, "Pangu opened the world, one eye hung high in the sky, it was the sun." The other eye is long and left and right, and is for the moon. At that time, there was no existence of the Dark Moon. ”
"It is said that the dark moon suddenly appeared in the night sky before the Great Shang Dynasty, causing chaos in the world and wars everywhere."
I see, so it makes sense.
Such an anomaly, let alone in ancient times. Even in the modern world, it doesn't have to cause turmoil. The time when the dark moon appeared was probably the darkest and most chaotic period.
The appearance of a moon out of thin air, even if Xu Sanchun uses modern science, it is an inexplicable thing.
Modern people know that the moon revolves around the earth because of gravity. I don't know if this is the earth Xu Sanchun, but since it is extremely similar, it must not be far away. It is precisely because of the presence of the moon that the tides occur.
And the Dark Moon, like a third person stepping in, didn't it cause a great chaos of gravity? It doesn't look like so.
In addition to the change of dynasty, people have become accustomed to the presence of the Dark Moon and the changes it brings.
"How many years has it been in the Great Shang Dynasty?"
The dumb lady looked confused, and thought for a while before gesturing: "It's been at least hundreds of years, it's been too long, no one can tell." ”
A dynasty that has been so long that even the people can't tell it clearly, the history before the appearance of the dark moon has become a legend. The world looked similar to the ancient times she knew, but it was full of weirdness.
In her impression, there has not been a dynasty with a centralized monarchy that has been able to stand for hundreds of years.
Seeing her pondering, the dumb lady did not disturb her. Glancing in the direction of the main house, the dumb lady gritted her teeth and squatted down to pry a mud brick for building a bed.
The brick didn't look unusual, but it slowly loosened as the dumb lady pryed it. The plaster fell in a platter, and after a while the dumb lady finally succeeded in taking out the brick, and reached out for a small box wrapped in oilcloth.
Xu Sanchun came to his senses at this time, and watched the dumb girl open the three layers of oilcloth wrapped inside and outside, revealing a beautiful silver box.
The silver box is white and shiny, and the lid is engraved with an unknown flower, and the petals of the branches and leaves are lifelike, and the lines are soft and elegant. In the middle of the flowers, there is a turquoise pure opal.
This is the most beautiful thing Xu Sanchun has seen since he came here. No, even in modern society, she hasn't seen it.
Back then, in order to learn Chinese painting well, she studied history and saw many antique pictures. It's just that this is not her main interest, and she has not actually seen it in the museum.
Therefore, this silver box is the most beautiful handicraft she has ever seen. Her instincts told her that it was a treasure.
However, the dumb lady is obviously so poor and has no long things, how can there be such a good thing?
This box alone can make her live an excellent life, how can she succumb to this place and be bullied by the Xu family?
The more Xu Sanchun thought about it, the more confused he became.
She had just discovered that the world was so strange, and then even the mute girl she thought was the only one she could trust, was full of mysteries.
The dumb lady held the silver box, with memories in her eyes, and melancholy and sadness.
She turned the flowers on the box three and a half times in a clockwise direction, and then pressed the opal, which made Xu Sanchun stunned.
This opal, which looks very expensive, is actually just a switch?
So what kind of treasure is in this box?
The silver box opened, and inside was a flower identical to the one on the lid. This flower is carved from pure gold, and the stamens are made of gold wire, as thin as a hair.
However, Xu Sanchun has painted countless flowers, described a lot of flowers and plants, and I don't know how many discarded sketch papers, but I have never seen such strange flowers.
Perhaps, it is a unique flower in this great Shang Dynasty?
The dumb lady picked up the flower, and Xu Sanchun noticed that there was still a yellowed deed in the box.
"What is this?" Xu Sanchun finally couldn't help it and asked.
The dumb lady made a boo gesture, carefully wrapped the page of the deed book, put the silver box back, and restored everything to its original state.
"You must not marry that grandson as a concubine. My brother is just greedy for money, which I saved when I was younger, and it comes in handy right now. ”