Chapter 215: There's always someone to do
"Rubbish! Why don't you hurry up and call Madame..."
Liu De is going to be pissed off by these fools under him, and none of them are worry-free.
"Yes, yes..."
The messenger stood up, spread his legs and ran to the backyard.
The backyard of Liu's mansion is huge, and Xu's courtyard is at the back of the entire mansion, and after the messenger runs there, the time for a stick of incense has passed.
"Madame is in the courtyard of the lotus lady..."
The big girl next to Xu's side smiled and said things that made people vomit blood.
Liu Meilian's courtyard is the most gorgeous small building of the Liu family, and it happens to be diagonally distributed with the courtyard of her wife, which is far away!
The subordinate who passed the message held his knee and gasped a few times, and rushed out without stopping.
The poetry meeting was held in the courtyard of the Liu family outside the city, and for this poetry meeting, Liu De almost sent all the subordinates of the Liu family to use, and there were more than a dozen people left here.
Those people also went to the front yard to help, which caused the messenger to run back and forth.
By the time Yun Shu saw Mrs. Xu, it was already an hour later.
"The women have seen the lady!"
"Hurry up, please!"
Yun Shu waved away the guards and kindly pulled Xu Shi to sit beside him.
"Madame neednot be polite... I asked my wife to come over today because I have one thing to ask for..."
"You're really lifting up a people's woman..."
The stool under Xu's buttocks didn't dare to sit down at all, and only shallow to one side.
I don't know if it's because she's too attentive or what, she always thinks Yun Shu's eyes are weird...
"If you have anything to say, as long as the women of the people can do it, the women of the people will do their best..."
"It's not a big deal..."
Yun Shu poured a cup of tea for Xu's family, and was not in a hurry to say the purpose of inviting her, "Madame, taste my tea..."
"I'm not used to drinking strong tea with a lot of spices, and I always think it tastes weird... This tea tastes like it has a different flavor..."
Xu Shi couldn't figure out Yun Shu's purpose today, so he picked up the tea and drank a cup without knowing the taste, but he didn't taste anything.
"How does it taste?"
Taking in Xu's trance, Yun Shu squinted his eyes and snickered.
Xu Shi was slightly stunned, and hurriedly replied, "Good tea..."
"It's good if you like it, I thought you didn't like it..."
Yun Shu picked up the teapot as he spoke, helping Xu Shi refill the empty cup with tea.
"I heard that the Xu family started with cloth... Can Madame understand this knowledge? ”
Hearing that the topic was coming, Xu immediately came back to his senses and nodded apprehensively, "Understand a little..."
"That's fine..."
Yun Shu breathed an exaggerated sigh of relief, "I finally found someone who understands this..."
"You... But want to build a fabric workshop? ”
If it was this kind of thing, Xu didn't dare to say that he knew much, but he also knew a lot.
Xu's father only has one daughter, and the family's workshop, recipes and other secrets are all open to her.
She grew up with her father in the family's cloth workshop, and she knows the process well.
For some of the Xu family's unique cloth production methods, Xu's father taught her hand-in-hand.
If Madame Yun wanted to build a fabric workshop, she might be able to help a little...
"That's right!"
Yun Shu glanced at her approvingly, "The woman here in Wei County has a humble status, she is tortured by her parents at home, and she will be despised by her in-laws when she gets married..."
Yun Shu sighed, "It's too difficult for them to live in this life..."
Wei County is one of the few impoverished counties in Jizhou, not only with the smallest population, but also with the lowest economy all year round.
The more economically underdeveloped the region, the more serious the preference for sons over daughters becomes, especially in Wei County.
The man in the mountains could not marry a daughter-in-law, so the whole family tightened their belts and saved a sum of money to buy a daughter-in-law and come back to inherit the lineage.
The women who were bought not only had to bear heavy labor, but also lived until they died...
Even if the poorer people don't have enough money, there is only one way to replace it.
If you have sisters and sisters at home, you can exchange your sisters and sisters for other people's sisters and sisters, which is a family exchange.
A woman who has been "swapped" has a better life than a livestock.
When those animals still have a little rest, they don't have a chance to rest in their lives...
If there are no sisters, then the brothers will pool the money together to buy a daughter-in-law and come back, which is the "co-wife".
This re-surveying of cultivated land actually made Yun Shu find many villages where "co-wives" exist in those mountains with beautiful corners.
Although Yun Shu didn't see it with his own eyes, he could imagine how miserable those women lived just from other people's words.
If the family is really poor and there are not many brothers, then there is still a way to pass on the family lineage to the next generation.
Those men who have wives and really can't survive will "pawn" their wives and let their wives bear children for each other.
Since it is a pawn, there is still a time limit, and if the wife fails to give birth to the child within the agreed time limit, the other party will renew the contract.
If a child is born, the wife will be taken back by her husband after the agreed deadline, and she will never see her child again for almost the rest of her life.
Almost all the wives who have been "pawned" have not been pawned only once, and their lives are worse than that of a...
Yun Shu didn't believe it when she first heard about these things, but there were some things that she couldn't believe it.
The facts are there, and she can't afford not to face them.
So she desperately wanted to do something to change the fate of those women.
It is certainly not enough to curb these phenomena through policies alone, and other means must be matched.
Yun Shu thought about it a lot these days, and finally decided to start with the economy.
The so-called: the economic base determines the superstructure.
Only when a part of the economy is reached or more than a man, the ordinary family will attach importance to the status of women, and will not buy and sell at will and marry lightly.
To achieve this, it is necessary to create more jobs for which women are qualified and to provide women with job opportunities.
Therefore, Yun Shu decided to quickly put the matter of opening a women's workshop on the agenda.
If you want to change, some things, some efforts, someone has to do it, so why can't this person be her?
She has many advantages over others, and the system alone can save her a lot of detours.
When people live, they must always truly shine once.
She doesn't just have to do it, she has to do it well!
Even if this path is difficult, it must be tried first.
"yes..."
Mrs. Xu's eyes were a little sloppy, "This world... It is always difficult for a woman to live..."
Because her father only has one daughter, the Xu family's wealth has become the "meat in a bowl" that others worry about day and night.
All the clan relatives of the Xu family have the idea of "eating out of households", in a vain attempt to take the Xu family for themselves after their father's death.
's father thought of countless ways for her, and the candidates for her son-in-law were even more picky.
Her husband can't be too weak, and a husband who is too weak will not be able to stand the Xu family, resulting in the loss of family wealth.
Her husband can't be too strong, and a husband who is too strong may turn around and bully her after mastering the Xu family's property, taking concubines and maids...
But the father's heart of love for his son is all cheaper than Liu De's scum!
Xu Shi trembled with anger when he thought of this.