The old lady found out that Mengxi was a concubine, and when she was frowning, the servant came up with a clever plan, asking the old lady to find a mistake to demote the second grandmother to a concubine, and then hire a concubine as a wife, the old lady listened, shook his head, and said weakly:

"Silly boy, how can there be such a simple thing, we are marrying the second grandmother with the gift of a wife, according to the law of Daqi, as long as Xi'er does not come out of Fan Qi, he cannot be divorced, and his wife must be a concubine is just the ancestral training of my Xiao family, not the law of Daqi"

"Old lady, the slave didn't say that he divorced her, but demoted her to a concubine"

"Our Daqi law stipulates that a woman who enters the door with a wife ceremony cannot be demoted to a concubine, and even if she commits seven offenses, she can only be divorced, not degraded."

It turns out that the status of the concubine in Daqi is incomparable with the wife, one is the master, the other is the slave, the other is the sky, the other is the earth, the concubine is only the private property of the husband and wife, and life and death are all in the hands of the husband and wife.

It is precisely because of the lofty status of his wife that the Taizu of Daqi was afraid that the people would spoil his concubine and kill his wife, and he was chaotic, so he promulgated a strict law, and the law of Daqi stipulates that a woman who enters the door with a concubine ceremony can never become a wife, and a woman who enters the door with a wife ceremony cannot be reduced to a concubine.

This is exactly what makes the old lady have a headache, if Xiao and Meng don't have a round house, then the old lady can use the excuse of the Xiao family's ancestral training to take a break from Mengxi, with the wealth of the Xiao family, as long as they come up with enough money, the Li family will not disagree.

But now, the two of them have a round house, it is different, the ancient woman's concept of chastity is quite strong, ruining a woman's innocence is equivalent to taking this woman's life, especially this kind of family, everything pays attention to the rules and decency, round the house, Mengxi has been engraved with Xiao Jun's brand in this life, born is the Xiao family, death is the ghost of the Xiao family, even if Mengxi agrees to be divorced and wants to marry someone else, the Xiao family will not let her remarry, divorce her, she can only be lonely in her mother's house for life, or in his Xiao family's family temple with green lights, in short, in a word, in a word, Now that the two of them have completed the house, if Mengxi is taken off the court, this life will be ruined, don't think about finding a good match.

After all, the ancestral training of the Xiao family is not the law of Great Qi, at this time, the old lady took the ancestral training of the Xiao family as an excuse to take a break from Mengxi, so how could the Li family agree? A good daughter, how can you be so cheap? The family can't be so unreasonable! The Li family really wants to go to the court, and according to the laws of Daqi, the Xiao family will not be able to win this lawsuit.

The Xiao family has ancestral training, what did you do earlier, use our daughter Chongxi, if your grandson dies, our daughter is widowed, we also admit it, but now your grandson is ready, and our daughter is also used by you, but what ancestral training has come out, you want to repent of marriage, say it to make everyone peaceful, how can there be this reason? Is this purely overwhelming? After all, the Li family is also a big businessman, not a small family, and it can be settled with a little money, the bigger the family, the more decent the rules, it's really stiff, that really hurts the dignity of the Xiao family, and his Xiao family can't afford to lose this person!

The old lady suddenly remembered the matter of the half-moon period, whether the fortune teller's words were true or false, it was about Jun'er's life, and he would rather believe that he had it, not that he could not believe it, and he would not be able to move Mengxi within half a month, and he had to continue to use other people's daughters.

That's it, Jun'er is still young, and she can always think of a way to divorce her before taking over as the head of the family, so she will talk about this matter slowly, think about it for a long time, and look up and ask the waiter:

"Who else knows about this?"

"Except for the slave maid, no one knows, as soon as the slave and maid learned about this and knew that the stakes were important, they sealed their cousin's mouth early, and hurried back to report to you, so that you can get an idea early"

"You did a good job, don't let anyone know about this matter, including the second master, did you hear it?"

"Slaves know what to do"

"Go to the account office and get some silver taels, go and seal the mouths of those who pass the word, you know what to do"

"Yes, the slave knows"

"Tell the eldest lady, starting from the fifteenth, I want to fast for three days, go to Jingyun Temple on May 18 to repay my vows, send a small servant to go back to the eldest master, let him arrange it, now Jun'er is sick, it is all the virtue of God's good life, from the sixteenth, the Xiao family will give porridge outside Jingyun Temple for three days, one to thank God, and the other to pray for Jun'er"

The old lady remembered the wish she made in Jingyun Temple when Xiao Jun was seriously ill, so she instructed the servant to write the way.

"Yes, the slave will arrange it."

"You go down, just let the waiter come in and serve."

"Yes"

"Come back" When the waiter walked to the door, he was stopped by the old lady again

"What else does the old lady have to order?" the waiter hurriedly turned around and walked back.

"Tell the eldest lady, just say what I ordered, Jun'er's body has not recovered yet, and the original matter of the second grandmother's visit to the ancestral hall the day after tomorrow will be temporarily canceled, and another one will be chosen later."

"Yes, the slave will arrange it."

The waiter turned and walked out of the old lady's room.

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The old lady's preference is the vane of the Xiao Mansion, with the word of the servant, the senior management of the Xiao Mansion soon knew that the old lady canceled the second grandmother's visit to the ancestral hall, which means that the old lady does not recognize the identity of the second grandmother's wife, according to the customs of Daqi, marry the wife into the door, the first day of worship, the second day of tea, the third day is the ancestral hall in the clan, only after worshipping the ancestral hall, the identity of the wife will finally be recognized by the clan, and the wedding will be completed.

Mengxi Chongxi, because the second master is sick, so the old lady set this matter on the seventh day, although it violates the custom, but it is excusable in the end, and now cancel the day of worshipping the ancestral hall, it is difficult to say, one day is also him, ten years is also him, but as long as one day does not worship the ancestral hall, the wife ceremony is incomplete, and the identity of the wife is not recognized, which is a big deal.

After the eldest lord knew about this, he was very confused, he was satisfied with this daughter-in-law in his heart, I don't know what kind of medicine the old lady sells in this gourd, how to say that it was canceled, and he didn't discuss it with him, who was a father.

I don't know who the old lady listened to again, shook his head, after all, he is his mother, this ancient Pepsi filial piety is the first, the things set by the mother, although I don't understand, I don't dare to disobey, I plan to find a chance to talk to my mother, set the date earlier, the daughter of the user Chongxi, who has already wronged the family, can no longer let the family live in the house so unexplained.

Listening to this matter, the happiest is the eldest wife, she understands, this means that Mengxi has fallen out of favor in front of the old lady, see who will protect her in the future, remembering yesterday's letter from her sister, saying that her daughter Zhang Xiu was in love with her cousin Xiao Jun, and refused to marry, and finally forced each other to die, her husband's family couldn't do it, so she directly withdrew the marriage, listen to her sister's meaning, Zhang Xiu said that as long as she can marry her cousin, she can be a concubine, how can the eldest lady be willing to let her niece be a concubine? Anyway, Jun'er is still young now, and she can slowly figure it out in the future.

The old lady canceled the matter of worshipping the ancestral hall, which was tantamount to making matters worse for Mengxi's future days in the Xiao Mansion, but Mengxi didn't know this, she was leading the newly bought maid Zhiqiu to visit the Xiao family's compound at this time.