"Mother, I don't want to be locked up at home all day and be tied to everything. After getting married, just like the eldest sister, look at the face of the mother-in-law and the face of the husband. I have the ability to do it myself, even if I am a scholar, I can also do it, and I can do it as an official, why do I have to look at people's faces to live? ”

That's what she really thinks.

Through the beginning, she knew that she had worn it in ancient times, and her requirements were very low, and she felt that as long as she had a little money, she could find a suitable man and live a stable life. In her previous life, she was alone for almost 30 years, and in this life she wanted to have a home, to be accompanied by someone who knew cold and hot, so that no one would remember her when she died.

Lovely people's requirements will change with the change of circumstances. She came to this world, with her mother and three sisters, she felt that she had a home, and it didn't matter if she got married in this life or not.

On the other hand, this time and space is a continuation of the Song Dynasty, although "Cheng Zhu Lixue" has not yet appeared, the slogan of "preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires" has not yet been shouted, and the moral and ethical tools of "Three Principles and Five Constants" to enslave the people have not yet disappeared, and the constraints on women are not as perverted as in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but this is a feudal society after all, and the status of women is low and unfree. Du Jinning didn't dare to be alike, when he restored women's clothes, how would he live in this society.

If you don't get married, even if you find a way to set up a female household, a woman will live without property and personal safety; Let's get married, in this era when the junior is legal, who knows what kind of man he will meet? Swore before getting married, and changed his mind after getting married, is this kind of thing still rare? Maybe in the end, she will have to have a house fight with the man's mother and concubine for the sake of her children.

If you cross over, you will face that situation. But she is now wearing men's clothes, the sea is wide and the sky is high for birds to fly. She relies on her own ability to make money to eat, makes mentors and friends with her own ability, is free and unrestrained, she has found a way for her to live comfortably in this world, and she really can't imagine that one day she will be locked up in the palm-sized world of the back house, living that kind of aggrieved and boring life.

So even if there is a glimmer of opportunity, she wants to fight for it.

"As for the risks, I've thought about them." Du Jinning said, "During this time, people have been coming to propose marriage to the third sister and the fourth sister, and you have seen a lot, the third sister is almost sixteen this year, and the third sister is also fourteen, and she has reached the age of marriage." As long as they get married, they will no longer be the Du family, and even if there is any disaster in the family, it will not affect them. The fourth sister is still almost old, but after I finished the hospital exam, I have to wait for more than two years to take the township exam again, and she is always old enough. At that time, there will only be the two of us left in the house. ”

As she spoke, she looked at Chen: "Mother, in fact, you are still young, are you willing to remarry?" If you want, I will ask someone to help you find a proper family in Fucheng, the kind with good character and no children in the family. If I give you all the teahouses and bookstores in Fucheng and other counties, you will marry me, and it will have nothing to do with me. ”

She smiled: "With such a placement, even if something happens to me here, it won't affect you." ”

"What are you talking about?" Chen's tears couldn't help but flow, "When I told your grandparents that you were a boy, my mother had the idea of living and dying with you." As long as your three sisters are properly placed, your mother will not blink an eye even if she accompanies you to the sword mountain and the sea of fire. Raising you as a boy is a decision made by the mother, it is the mother's fault, and it is not your fault. As for your sisters, if it weren't for you as a man, they would have been sold long ago. Now you can talk about such good family affairs, marrying a good in-law, and having a rich dowry, all of which you give them. Even if they take some risks for you, what? Whose life is so precious that they only enjoy benefits and do not take responsibility? So Brother Ning, don't say anything that drags down or doesn't drag. ”

She raised her red eyes and looked directly at Du Jinning, with unprecedented firmness in her eyes: "Don't worry about boldly going to the test, my mother supports you." Your third sister was careful when she was a child, and always said that you affected her and made her unable to live a good life. Now I don't delay her, I choose a family to marry her. Anyway, because you have a good future, the dowry that accompanies your eldest sister is also visible, and there are a few families who come to propose to her very good, and it is not bad to treat her. ”

Speaking of this, the door was pushed open with a "clang", and Chen and Du Jinning were startled. When I looked up, I saw Du Fangling standing at the door.

"You ......" Chan stood up and asked nervously, "When did you come?" ”

"Mother, I heard it all." Du Fangling didn't know how long she had been standing at the door, and her voice was a little hoarse.

"You ......" Chen was at a loss and turned his head to look at Du Jinning.

"Third sister, come in." Du Jinning was very calm, "Close the door." ”

Du Fangling walked in, closed the door, and walked in front of Chen and Du Jinning, staring at them tightly, biting her lip and not speaking.

Du Jinning looked at her: "Now that you know, what do you think?" ”

Du Fangling's lips were about to be bitten out of blood.

She seemed to try her best to suppress her emotions, and after a while she asked Chen, "Mother, Brother Ning...... Is it really a woman? ”

Chen was silent and nodded with a heavy gaze.

Du Fangling's gaze turned to Du Jinning again, and her eyes were very complicated.

"......At that time," Chen's voice was hoarse, "because I gave birth to three daughters in a row, your grandmother was dissatisfied with me, and she was reluctant to spend money. Fortunately, your grandmother is here, I originally gave birth to Brother Ning for two or three hours and did not give birth to no strength, heard your father's bad news, fainted on the spot, or your grandmother pinched me hard to wake me up, and told me, what I have in my belly must be a boy, no matter what, I have to leave a queen for your father, and give birth to the child, otherwise I can't live with him. After hearing this, I used all my strength to give birth to Brother Ning. Your grandmother was afraid that I wouldn't be able to survive, so she told me that she had given birth to a boy and asked me to raise the child well, and that a child without a father and mother would not survive. For this, I survived in one breath. ”

"When your grandmother went to the stove to serve chicken soup, your grandmother suddenly rushed in, picked up Brother Ning and was about to drown her, saying that she was a father. I was busy saying that she was a boy and wanted to leave a follow-up for your father, and your grandmother let Ning Ge'er go under the persuasion of your grandmother. ”

Probably remembering that scene back then, Chen's whole body trembled, the knuckles of his clenched fists turned white, but tears fell unconsciously one by one.