Chapter 71, the "ordinary" life of a peasant girl (medium)

Sanya, Wang Qiu's office

At this moment, Wang Qiu, Huang Shi, Wang Meiling and Ma Tong and a few other idlers who are temporarily fine are studying the personal experience report of a certain peasant crossing woman who once worked as a slave in the Confucian Mansion of Yansheng Gong in Shandong Province.

-- As a symbol of Confucian civilization, the Confucian family of the sage race is a scholar and nobleman, so it has been favored by the rulers of all dynasties. Since the archway of the saint cannot be poured, the glory and wealth of the Confucian family can naturally be maintained forever from generation to generation with the help of the golden signboard of the Holy Gate ethnicity.

Countless families have died out with the rise and fall of dynasties, and even the son of Xie Zi, the king of Jiangdong who was famous all over the world, has long been buried in the pile of old papers and has become a distant history. And the Confucian family, which is older than the Eastern Jin Dynasty King Xie Shijia, is still a bell and a tribute from generation to generation.

Even the most noble royal family of this dynasty in the world, in the eyes of the descendants of the Kong family, they are just nouveau riche who are "rich and noble for only two hundred years".

The Holy Gate is a thousand-year-old family...... If it is said that the most "aristocratic" family in Chinese history, it must be the Qufu Confucian family!

For the owners of this family, these red tape, which are full of "aristocratic style", naturally means the decency and demeanor accumulated by history. But for the inferior people who serve them, it means countless headaches and disgusting stinking rules.

For example, Dai Erdong, or Yao Han girl, when he went to the master's house every morning to collect the gong bucket (the wooden toilet used by the ancients), there were many inexplicable rules - first of all, everyone in the family was raised with gold and jade, even if it was night incense, it was different from ordinary people, so the subordinates should never say the words "dirty and smelly". Secondly, when the next person carries the bucket, he should smile and walk lightly, as if he were holding a flower. If you show the slightest suspicion, you will inevitably have to wait for the crime of "disrespecting the master". Finally, when the servants enter the door of the master's house to carry the bucket, they must not raise their eyes, lest they defile the master's land...... This is basically the so-called "strict rules" of the family slaves that the heroines have shown off in those romance house fighting novels. But if you are not a master, but a slave who is "strict", then the feeling is naturally different......

Well, it's better to make pills from the dung of living Buddhas in Tibet and "reward" them to believers and pilgrims...... Confucius's approach is not too perverted.

Well, by the way, the object she serves is not a serious master of the Confucian family, but just a favored maidservant.

Yes, that's right, it's just serving a domestic servant girl who also signed a deed of sale and became a slave.

In a hierarchical feudal society, even if they are also slaves and maids, they must be divided into three, six, nine and so on. The most high-class nature is those domestic slaves and maids who are deeply trusted by their masters -- just like the big maids in "Dream of Red Mansions" who dress luxuriously, eat and live exquisitely, and are as delicate as "deputy misses", the house-born maids of the Confucian Mansion in Shandong, except for a few who are not satisfied, are also mostly wearing silk and satin, gold and silver jewelry, and their style of study is elegant, and their dignity and decency are comparable to the ladies of ordinary gentlemen's families. Except for serving the masters of the Confucian Mansion, there is no need to do any other work. When they are not serving their masters, when they return to their respective rooms, there will be special little girls who will serve them tea and water, make beds and fold quilts......

As for the newly bought slaves and maids like Dai Erdong, in a family like the Kong family, they are usually not qualified to serve the noble masters of the Confucian family, and can only do some low-level miscellaneous work, or serve those domestic slaves and maids who have been slaves in the Kong family for generations.

Naturally, the treatment of newcomers like them is much worse. It's just a few patched old coarse cloth clothes, only enough to eat a half-full variety of coarse grains, plus the leftovers that were not eaten when the host's family held a banquet, and even the theoretical "monthly money" was deducted by the stewards.

However, in the mansion of Confucius, their life is not the worst. Because there is a more pitiful group of people in the house.

That is, the tenants and messengers who have been on errands for the Confucian Mansion in Qufu for generations and paid tribute to them.

-- Dai Erdong's Daijia Village, where Dai Erdong is located, was far away from the Confucian Mansion in Qufu, and it took a day or two to walk back and forth, so he was lucky not to be assigned to the errand. Those tenants who were closer to the Confucian Mansion had the same heavy rent as they had the duty to serve their masters!

In the name of the Confucian Mansion, Dai Erdong, or the slave of Yaohan Girl, knows: mountain patrol households dedicated to the Confucian family's mountain patrol, pig households dedicated to raising pigs for the Confucian family, flat burden households dedicated to carrying tables, chairs and other utensils for the Confucian family, grass mowers specially for the Confucian family, Jing carbon households specializing in supplying firewood and charcoal fired from wattle strips in the house, pasting households specializing in the windows of the Confucian family, wine households specializing in making wine for the Confucian family, vegetable households specializing in delivering fresh vegetables to the Confucian family, and broom households specializing in making various brooms for the Confucian family. The firecracker households that specially lit firecrackers for the Confucian family, the walnut households that specially supplied walnuts to the Confucian family, the apricot households that specially offered apricots to the Confucian family, and the pear households that specially offered pears to the Confucian family...... And so on and so forth, and so on.

Almost everything in the Confucian family was done by a large number of tenants who worked for it. Countless ordinary people from all over the country and eight miles revolve around the masters of the Confucian family -- this is the family style that the Confucian family in Shandong has always been most proud of.

What is a family style?

That's the ultimate pampering!

Thousands of subordinates, in order to serve up to dozens of masters all day long, this is not called pampering, what else can be called pampering?

At first glance, this seems to be nothing, and the homes of those modern rich people have not hired a lot of housekeepers and servants?

But the problem is that these families who pay tribute to the Kong family are actually volunteers for free!

Why is it gratuitous?

According to the Kong family, you lowly people are tenants of my family, in addition to paying the rent on time, we can do things for such a noble family and pay tribute, we already look up to you, and we should feel honored, right? How can I still want my family's payment?

-- Regardless of whether it sounds like a strong word or a reversal of black and white to modern people, at least in the eyes of Confucius, these words are absolutely justified.

As a result, the life of these Confucian tenants who were on duty became even more miserable -- for example, whenever the weeds in the Confucian family's yard were overgrown, the grass mowers would go to the Confucian Mansion to cut the grass for more than 50 consecutive days. But the problem is that when the courtyard of the Confucian Mansion is overgrown with weeds, it is often the time when the fields are busy with farming. Grass mowers often delay their own harvests because they have to mow the grass for the Kong family for free.

However, the Kong family has never been willing to reduce the rent of lawn mowers because of this. So much so that every time the grass mower is bad, there are often people who starve to death because their families are not able to pay the rent of the Kong family. But the Kong family didn't care - the family starved to death, and then randomly assigned another grass mower.

Belch? All starving? It's okay, there are a lot of homeless people outside, just recruit a few more households!

Even more unfortunate are the radish households, who were originally the grass mowers of the Kong family, and they originally had to bear the labor of mowing the grass.

Once, when they were mowing grass for Confucius, they distributed the radishes they brought to other Zhuangzi mowers to quench their thirst, and they were discovered by Confucius on the spot. After tasting the radishes, a certain master in the Confucian Mansion thought it tasted good, so he ordered the household to be designated as the radish household. Every year, in addition to paying heavy land rent, bearing the miscellaneous taxes of the government (many taxes are actually made up by the officials, and the things they receive also go into their private pockets), and mowing grass for the Confucian Mansion free of charge, they also have to give a large number of radishes to the Confucian Mansion as usual...... As a result, it was only three years before the family was ruined.

Then, another family was designated as a radish household, because they had never planted radish before, and they didn't know where to get it, and they couldn't hand it over at all, so they were seized of the land by the Confucian steward, and the whole family was driven out and became homeless......

-- In a radius of 100 miles around Qufu, anyone who has been a tenant of the Confucian Mansion knows that they must be cautious, do not do anything superfluous for the Confucian family casually, and do not offer anything superfluous. Otherwise, once it is listed as a law by the Confucian family, it will not be able to get rid of it from generation to generation, and it will harm the descendants.

As for the matter of "Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road", it happens every day in Confucius. Every day, there are so many leftovers that are thrown away in the Confucian Mansion that they can be piled up into a hill, but they never refuse to take less from the tenants even half a bucket of wheat......

There are always some people who say that China has no real family, which is a pity. There are always some people who like to write essays and reverie the noble style of the family.

Then it's best to understand that when you go back, it's probably not the nobles who have anything to do with the family, but these radish households and grass mowers.

The Confucian family has been inherited for thousands of years, and after so many dynasties, this is finally the most typical family, right?

But under the rule of the Kong family, how did the tenants of Qufu live a life that is worse than death?

So, Dai Erdong, a crossing woman who once also had the attributes of small freshness and petty bourgeoisie, finally had an epiphany under the torture of endless suffering:

The so-called aristocratic style, the so-called nobility of the family, and the so-called gentleman's demeanor......

It's just a group of moths raised with the flesh and blood of poor people, showing off their good teeth and big bellies.

Facing the bitter cold wind, looking at the master who was warming herself with a hand stove and admiring the snow, she lifted the stinky wooden toilet with a bitter face, and thought hatefully: If I can go back to modern times...... Whoever mentions to me what family style, what aristocratic spirit, labor and management will paste her blood-stained sanitary napkins!

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“…… Well, it seems that this lady who has crossed has finally awakened the most simple consciousness of class struggle! ”

Wang Meiling held her cheek in one hand, poured herbal tea into the porcelain cup with a silver kettle in the other, and said to her son at the same time, "...... So what's next? Did she lead the slaves and tenants of the Confucian Mansion to make a revolution? ”

“…… How can it be? Not to mention whether she has such guts, and besides, no one will listen to a little girl! ”

Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders, "...... It was only then that she discovered the fact that there is pity for hateful people......"

-- Half a year after being abducted and trafficked into slavery in the Confucian Mansion and responsible for serving a favored maid from a family slave, Dai Erdong was shocked to learn that the eldest maid she was responsible for serving was about to be taken over by a master of the Confucian Mansion!

Moreover, the other party is an old man of the Kong family branch, who is over sixty years old! Despite this, this old man is still old at heart, and he is superstitious about the art of monasticism - but the problem is that if he goes to the mountains and old forests to live in seclusion and cultivate, of course it will not hinder anyone's affairs; If he opened a furnace for alchemy in his own house, it would just be a waste of money, and at most he would poison his own body...... But it's a pity that this old man is practicing the art of the room, and he needs seven virgins to be used as "furnace dings", and he goes to bed with him to practice yin and yang together!

Therefore, the big girl who Dai Erdong was serving was honorably "opened" by this old man to accept the house, and she didn't even have the status of a concubine!

-- No way, no matter how they usually wear gold and silver, and eat and dress well, in the final analysis, these big girls are still slaves who have signed a deed of sale, and have no personal freedom at all, and have no right to maintain their honor at all. As for whether it will become a man's plaything, it purely depends on luck.

Taking "Dream of Red Mansions" as an example, Baoyu is a rare good master who is considerate of a girl, and he is not in a hurry. So except for those who are willing to take the initiative to climb the bed, such as attacking people, other girls can actually maintain chastity. Jia Lian is watched closely by Wang Xifeng, Rao is like this, and he will go outside to hunt wild food whenever he has time, if he changes to a slightly weaker young grandmother, which girl in Jia Lian's room can still keep his chastity?

It's a pity that this big girl in the Confucian Mansion doesn't have such good luck, but she has to dedicate herself to an old man at an age like a flower.

But apart from a little regret that she was not very lucky, and she was not favored by those young masters, the big maid did not have any intention of resisting, let alone thinking of escaping from the mansion - after all, the life of high-level servants like them was much more comfortable than that of the ordinary people outside, and those big maids in the Confucian Mansion were serving tea and water, doing needlework, writing poems and tearing fans, and they didn't have to do any heavy work, they simply lived the life of an official eunuch. If you become a maid in the room, give birth to a child and raise an aunt, you can be regarded as half a master. Even if the housewife is not good at talking and fails to become an aunt, she is later assigned to the housekeeper in the house, which is more decent than marrying a butcher outside, killing pigs and farming.

So, the big maid was sent to the Taoist temple where the old man of the Kong family "lived in seclusion" along with the other six big maids who were born slaves and maids. And as a maidservant who served this big maid, Dai Erdong, or Yaohan girl, naturally followed.

“…… And then what? And then what? Is it the old man of the Kong family who played double cultivation who gave Dai Erdong a good time? Or was the big girl she was serving unbearable, and she was also killed by her master in bed? Wang Meiling's eyes sparkled, and she asked with great interest (heartlessness).

“…… It's not that exaggerated! First of all, Dai Erdong's dark and thin face has to be regarded as an ugly girl in this year, the old man has been rich and noble all his life, and his vision is very high, where can he look at her? Secondly, that guy is an old man in his sixties after all, and he is not the kind of muscular strong man who is as fierce as a tiger wolf, even if a little loli can't withstand his big stick, can't seven loli deal with him? ”

Wang Qiu rolled his eyes and replied, "...... The real problem is that the old man in the Confucian Mansion who practiced double cultivation will soon be unable to bear his body and bones! ”