Chapter Twenty-Three: Ma Ai's Heart

was told by others about her life experience all of a sudden, Ma Ai looked a little flustered, she stood there crampedly, her head down, her little hands kept twisting the corners of her clothes, and her eyes were full of panic. When Vincent saw her appearance, the smile on the corner of his mouth became stronger, he touched his chin, and said playfully: "I saw you just now that you seemed to be in a bad mood, why is that?" ”

Ma Ai hesitated slightly, but decided to tell the truth, the original Ma Erkui used to be the vice minister of the Ministry of Construction, and since his death, according to the welfare of the Federation, his widow and direct children will be supported by the Ministry of Construction. At the beginning, it was okay, after all, many of the people on duty were promoted by Ma Erkui or directly led, so they were not bad for their mother and daughter. However, after Xingtian's power was stabilized, he felt that it was a big burden for the department to spend so much money to support so many idlers, especially the wives and children of Ma Erkui and Wang Sixi.

The Ministry of Construction, as the most oil and water department in the Federation, has a very high salary for ministers, and there are many benefits distributed in the department, and they are indispensable every time. Ma Erkui is dead, and Wang Sixi, who has the best relationship with Ma Erkui, is also dead, Ma Erkui is usually wooden and has no friends, so the mother and daughter have found the leaders in charge of their subsidies several times, and all they get are extremely frustrating answers.

However, to make matters worse, Xingtian was executed, and the new acting minister was a young man, a very young man who grew up after the apocalypse. The first thing he did after coming to power was to weaken the subsidies for those widows again, at this time the subsidies were so small that a family could not sustain them at all, Ma Ai's mother was injured when she gave birth to her, and she couldn't work at all, and the two of them relied on this subsidy to live, and now the subsidies are so small that they can't make ends meet, and the two of them are suddenly anxious.

After many inquiries and inquiries from Ma Erkui's former subordinates, they finally learned a little bit of the inside story, the newly appointed minister was lustful and had to fly to the country almost every week to enjoy the gentleness of a woman. It's not that he doesn't want to look for it in Huaxia, the first is because Huaxia is very strict with the atmosphere of officials, and once he is caught or reported by a competitor, his career will be completely finished. And the most important thing is that there are really not many beautiful adult unmarried women in China, Xijing Palace has 3000 beauties as palace maids, and every year the most beautiful girls who have just come of age will be recruited into the palace, here is the concentration of the entire Chinese beauties, almost all the top beauties in China are here, but who dares to touch the palace maids?

Those palace maids who have served in the palace for 8 years and left the palace will be robbed almost as soon as they leave the palace, before Vincent was not in the country, almost all the palace maids who came out were perfect, without a skill, and only served people, and the beautiful palace maids were undoubtedly the best candidates to be concubines. The federal constitution for all classes of marriage rights almost to the point of harsh, all slaves, regardless of men and women are not allowed to marry, slave women are the playthings of all commoners and above, slave men can be driven at will, even if they kill a slave, only a small amount of money is enough, no need to go to prison.

A Dalit woman can marry a commoner man, but a Dalit man is not allowed to marry for life, and if a Dalit man is found to be having a cheating affair with a woman, he will be burned at the stake. Commoner men are monogamous, that is, they can marry one commoner wife, two untouchable concubines, and no upper limit on slave women's playthings, as long as you raise them, but they can only marry commoners, but they are not qualified to marry citizens. Citizen men, on the other hand, are monogamous and can marry two citizen wives, 5 commoner concubines, untouchables and slave playthings, but they can only marry citizens, not nobles.

As for the aristocracy, it is polygamy, the wife can be a nobleman, a citizen, a concubine can be a citizen or a commoner, as long as you can raise it, you can marry as many as you want. The reason why such a law was enacted is because the continuous wars in China, coupled with the massacres of Vincent, have completely imbalanced the ratio of men and women in China, and the ratio of men and women has almost reached the point of 1:4. That's why the state encourages people to marry more wives and have more children.

After all, the reason why the minister forcibly weakened the subsidies of those widows again was to satisfy his **. You must know that most of the current widows' husbands are people who served in the federation from the beginning, because in the early days of the founding of the country, the country was relatively chaotic, so there were more people who died, so there were many widows left. At that time, the wives they picked were all among the best beauties in the Federation, even if they were now middle-aged, they still had charm, as for those who raised their daughters, their daughters had grown up at this time, and that youthful vitality made the minister's saliva even more. As it turned out, he achieved his desired goal, and in less than 2 months, at least 4 women and two mother-daughter couples climbed into his bed under the pressure of life.

However, what made him most greedy was Ma Ai, Ma Ai's mother was a well-known beauty at the beginning, and later Ma Erkui's honest image won her heart, and Ma Ai was even more blue and better than blue, and her birth and fall were much more iconic than her mother. The minister once said that Ma Ai must be accepted as his concubine, it stands to reason that the descendants of a broken aristocrat like Ma Ai are not even as good as ordinary citizens, and if there is a minister who wants to accept her as a concubine, she should be high. Helplessly, the minister looked extremely ugly, his face looked as if he was disfigured, and he still had a strong fox smell on his body, and in the summer, his office was full of this smell, which made people really unbearable.

Such a character can climb to such a high position, I have to say that it is a miracle in the Chinese officialdom, Ma Ai, who has always been poor, some high-minded, and some arrogant, is so likely to accept his request? Under Ma Ai's death, Ma Ai's mother can be regarded as raising her backbone, that is, she would rather starve to death than compromise with him. As a result, waves of persecution followed, leaving Ma Ai and her mother exhausted to cope. Today's ball, Ma Ai is also a veteran nobleman because of Ma Erkui's relationship, although she is a dilapidated nobleman, but she is still eligible to receive an invitation, but there are so many people on the dance floor, she doesn't know any of them, and those who know her disdain to communicate with her, and she feels extremely lonely so she came to this corner alone.