Chapter 19: Concubinage and Divorce
"Granny Song, I'm here to bother you with something." Tang Qian'er said first when he entered the door.
"Just come and bring something." Mrs. Song smiled and said, "You don't have to work hard, you can say hello, and I won't go to the door." "The Gan family is her living signboard, she gave birth to twelve children smoothly for the Gan family, and now they are all alive and well, what a blessing it is, some people believe in this when they find a stable wife.
"It's not easy to talk about at home." Tang Qian'er said, "My mother-in-law knows that my body is not very good after giving birth to twelve, and it is inevitable that I will be a little powerless to serve my shopkeeper, I want to ask my mother-in-law to see for me, whether I have lost my husband and want to marry a second time, or the family is poor and difficult to find my in-laws, I want to be young and good-looking, I want to find a concubine to enter the door and serve the shopkeeper for me." ”
Mrs. Song laughed twice, "Don't you have a ready-made one?" What else do you want me to look for? ”
"If you say it, your mother-in-law may not believe it." Tang Qian'er said with a smile, she said this today just to let Mrs. Song spread the word, "This white jade lady is really not that I don't want to let her enter the door, but Ah Weng doesn't agree." ”
"I used to live outside, although it was far away, if the shopkeeper was willing to run, I wouldn't say anything, but he didn't like to go, I didn't listen to my persuasion, I thought there must be some reason I don't know, I don't care."
"Now that a good concubine is accepted into the door, Ah Weng and the shopkeeper should not object." Tang Qian'er said.
"If you really want me to look for it, then I'll look for it, if you want to be young and good-looking, what else do you need?" Mrs. Song asked.
"People have to be decent, we are not a rich and noble family, we can only ensure that she has food and drink to live a stable life in the next life, and there are many people in the family, I am afraid that it is not good to think about coming in as a petite." Tang Qian'er said.
"Okay, mother-in-law, I know, I'll inquire for you, and I'll give you a letter in three or five days." Mrs. Song said.
"Don't make a noise before it is done, lest it be bad, and when it is done, your mother-in-law's happy money is indispensable." Tang Qian'er said.
The Zhang family said that they wanted to move their family to Fucheng, the words spread suddenly, and the matter was urgent, saying that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival was going to be spent in Fucheng, Zhang Xiuniang went back to her parents' house, compared to her mother's family worried about what she would do in the future, she was more happy for her mother's family, leaving this Ruyi Fang, and no longer had to suffer the anger of the Gan family, as for her, where did she live.
Zhao Siniang is beating her son here, "You want to die, let the serious Yue family go, don't want the serious mother-in-law, you want that prostitute." ”
"Mother, but Hongyu has a body, it's been five months, she asked someone to see it, and said it must be a son." Bai Da said, "I finally have a son, how can I give up." ”
Zhao Siniang thought for a while, "You took her back, it's been five months, I don't believe that she can ruthlessly beat the child, not to mention such a big month, a bad one is one corpse and two lives, she is now Naqiao, you stabilize her first, wait until the child is born and hold it to your daughter-in-law to raise, a secret prostitute, how can you be your leading lady." ”
Bai Da was unwilling, and he was still grinding his mother.
"Do you still have something to hide from me?" Zhao Siniang asked.
Bai Da thought about it and told the truth, "Hongyu has saved some money over the years, and she is not stupid, if she doesn't give her a name, how can she take out the money and use it." ”
"Anyway, isn't the Zhang family going to Fucheng, I heard that the house is going to be sold, and I will definitely not come back in the future, that Zhang Xiuniang is not as good as Hongyu without her mother's family, so she said that she had nothing to do and divorced her. She must be reluctant to let those two girls take a piece, the Zhang family has money to sell the house, let them pay, and let her take her two daughters away. Bai Da said.
Zhao Siniang glared at him, "How much money can that red jade have, have you seen it with your own eyes?" "A woman's mouth is used to deceiving people, and if she doesn't see real money, she won't believe what she says, no matter how much she spends it.
"See." Bai Da nodded, "There are really a lot, there are a few silver tickets for one hundred taels, and there are some scattered silver ingots and gold beads, there are also three or four sets of gold heads, and there are many pearls and gems. ”
"Where did she get all that money?" Zhao Siniang didn't believe it. This is the foundation of several generations of a solid family.
"She wasn't born to do a secret business, she got married first and had a dowry, and the man who died later left her some." Bai Da said, "She has been a good woman, so she doesn't want to do this business, but she is also lucky and pregnant with my seed." ”
"Are you sure it's your child?" Zhao Siniang asked.
"My mother-in-law, I spend ten taels of silver a month to raise her, and she dares to serve others to try?" Bai Da said.
Zhao Siniang gritted her teeth and hit him, "No wonder I only saw going out to do things, but I didn't see the money coming back, ten taels of silver, you are willing to do it?" ”
"No, for the wages you do, where did you get ten taels of silver to support a woman a month?" Zhao Siniang asked.
Bai Da was hesitant, and he was beaten by Zhao Siniang a lot before he said that the white carpenter instructed him to collect the balance of several houses before going out, adding up to forty or fifty taels, all of which he spent all of them.
"Mother, you have to help me, Dad is coming back, if I don't make up the money, Dad will have to kill me." Bai Da begged for mercy and said, "When Hongyu enters the door, her money will be my money, I will make up for my father's vacancy, and I will honor my mother for the rest." ”
Zhao Siniang was dizzy for a while when she heard this, gritted her teeth and scolded, "You are so bold, you dare to ignore so much money, you spend it on women without blinking your eyes, how did I give birth to your unpromising son." Still helping you? It's not an exaggeration to let your father beat you to death, you self-inflicted oneself, you loser. ”
"I can't help it, I don't have a son when I live to this age, no one looks down on me, I know, if I don't have a son, this father will be left to the second child." Bai Da said aggrievedly, "It's all my father's own son, if it's all left to the second child, then it's better for me to spend it all." ”
Zhao Siniang was angry and anxious, "If you don't beat your daughter-in-law twice, your family-in-law will already take the money to give birth to a son for your concubine." ”
"Can the concubine from the pawn have a son, but now that there is a ready-made son, why should you go far and near?" Bai Da said, "What's more, I spent so much money on Hongyu, if she can't enter the door, the money will be wasted." ”
These words came to Zhao Siniang's heart, now Hongyu's money is no longer her money, in Zhao Siniang's eyes, her money is given by Bai Da, if she can't go home, she has to scratch her heart and liver, and grab the sky.
But Zhang Xiuniang can't take a break easily, Zhang Xiuniang has a lot of dowries when she gets married, and she has been allowed to eat it in her stomach all these years, and Zhang Xiuniang will vomit out if she takes a break, which is also her life.