Qian Yan hurriedly stopped her and said, "Sister-in-law Li doesn't have to be busy, we are here to tell you, we can't stay with you today, we have some urgent matters to go back to the county seat, and we will come back to bother you when we have the opportunity in the future."

"That's really unfortunate, you wait a little longer, and I'll be fine right away."

When Li heard her say this, he didn't say anything to stay, after all, people had urgent matters to leave, so they couldn't have to stay with them.

Went into the house and took out the umbrella, which was to be returned to Tilt Yan, and used a bamboo basket to fill a basket of mushrooms she had just picked out.

"This is our unique mushroom here, it's the season to eat, it tastes very delicious, I don't have anything good, I'll give this to you and take it back to taste fresh, I hope you don't dislike it."

Looking at such a big basket, Qian Yan was a little embarrassed to take it for nothing, and wanted to give Li some silver, but the other party didn't want to live or die, and Qian Yan didn't want to push around with the other party, so after thinking about it, she simply went to the car (actually in the space) and took out a fish.

This is what they fished on the top of the mountain before, a grass carp of more than four catties.

Tilt Yan handed it to Li Shi and said before she refused: "Sister-in-law Li, we have accepted the mushroom, but you must also accept this fish, you can't refuse, this is what we just fished in the lake on the top of the mountain, we just ate this at noon, it tastes good."

I'll leave this one for my family to try, just add a dish in the evening, don't shirk, we still have it in the car."

When Li heard this, he took back the words that came to his mouth, this fish weighs four or five catties, and it is very big, and it is enough for a large family.

"Okay, then sister-in-law will accept it, you must come here in the future, and when the time comes, sister-in-law will cook your specialty dishes and entertain you well."

Qian Yan agreed, promising that she would definitely come again if she had the chance, so she said goodbye to the Li family who was sent out, got into the carriage and left.

After they left Xujia Village, they walked south again, and then went east on the official road.

Of course, it is impossible to go back to the county seat, they have already come out, and there is no need to go back.

The island in the middle of the lake and the traverser are ugly and ugly from time to time, and they are not ready to recognize each other anyway, so as long as the other party does not do too out-of-the-ordinary things, it will be like that.

To be honest, if the other party is a woman, it may be possible for Qian Yan to come into contact with the other party, and it is inconvenient for an old man in his fifties.

And seeing that the other party is adapting well, it means that he was also a man before the crossing, so forget it, there is no need to make extraneous branches.

They had just walked east for half an hour before they could move forward, the road ahead was blocked, this time it was not a big rock, but two groups of people were facing each other on the road.

Both groups were men, with older people leading the way and younger ones following behind.

There are about 30 people on their side, most of them are in their 40s, and there are about 20 people on the other side, and there are more people in their twenties and in the prime of life.

On both sides, except for the older one who took the lead, the people behind them were carrying sticks, and some even had stones in their hands.

In fact, both groups of people are dressed as farmers, but at this time, the farm tools are precious, and they will definitely not be willing to use them as weapons when fighting, so they are all made of local materials, that is, sticks and stones picked up on the side of the road.

The two sides did not move, but the atmosphere was also tense, and the two leaders were obviously negotiating.

They were forced to stop at the back, and they could only wait there for a while, and there were so many people that they couldn't come forward and drive them away.

In addition to them, there were two ox carts in front of them, but they were not blocked here, they should have been driven by the people in front, and they were empty, and there was not even a coachman.

Qian Yan listened to the negotiation of those people for a while, and then she was a little speechless, she at first thought that there was a conflict between two villages or two families, and it turned out to be about the remarriage of widows.

One side is the widow's mother-in-law's family, and the other is the widow's mother's family, and the mother's family wants to bring people back to remarry, but the mother-in-law does not agree, saying that the mother-in-law and two young sons are left who cannot live, and they must remarry to the mother-in-law to send them to the end, and the child can only be an adult.

Of course, my mother's family is unwilling, and I will send my mother-in-law to the end, who knows how many years she will live, just in case

I can live for thirty or forty years, and I don't know who will be sent away.

It will take more than ten years to wait until the child is older, and now the child is just three or four years old, and when the child is older, their mother is also old, what do they still marry, just wait for them to support the elderly.

The more he talked, the more excited he became, the two sides refused to give in to each other, and in the end they even said that they were going to go to the official of the government to comment.

If you really want to make trouble to the government, it is estimated that the in-laws' family will be defeated.

Because this time will not prevent widows from remarrying, before the Song Dynasty, the imperial court had regulations that except for the "Lady of the Decree" who was awarded by the imperial court for the sake of her husband, ordinary women could remarry if they only met the following four conditions.

In ancient times, people were very particular about mourning, so the first condition was that a widow could not remarry during the mourning for her husband.

Generally, after the death of the husband, the wife must hold a mourning vigil for her husband in the husband's house for three years, and during these three years of mourning, the wife is not allowed to remarry.

If she remarries during the mourning vigil without the consent of her husband's family, then the wife is in violation of the laws of the imperial court.

Although "Zhou Yi" talks about "from the beginning to the end", telling everyone that women should keep chastity, and if they marry their husbands, they must spend their lives with them, and they cannot be replaced, even if a man dies, he cannot remarry.

Cheng Yi, a physicist in the Northern Song Dynasty, even said that "death by starvation is very small, and death by starvation is a great matter", which means that starvation to death is a trivial matter, and if there is no chastity, it is even more terrible than starving to death.

But this was only believed by a few people at that time, and most of them were self-righteous and wanted to save face and suffer from the crime, and in reality, women in the Song Dynasty could remarry.

Not only can you remarry, but sometimes it is even very sought-after.

In fact, the principle of "from the beginning to the end" was never strictly enforced before the Ming and Qing dynasties, even in the Great Song Dynasty, when science began to rise.

Let's not talk about it too far, let's start with the Han Dynasty, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty himself accepted Bo Ji, the wife of Xiang Yu's general, Zhao Ji, the concubine of Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, and so on.

His grandson, Emperor Jing of Han, also married Wang Huan, the ex-wife of King Sun of Jin, and the empress also gave birth to Emperor Wu of Han.

The same goes for intellectuals, Sima Xiangru eloped with Zhuo Wenjun, who was also a little widow who had just died of her husband at that time.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao attacked Yecheng, and it is said that he took a fancy to Yuan Shao's daughter-in-law Zhen.

And Zhen finally became Cao Pi's wife, and Cao Zhi was afraid that he was also fascinated by Zhen, so he wrote "Luo Shen Fu", leaving a public case.

And Empress Mu of Liu Bei of Western Shu and Mrs. Xu of Sun Quan of Eastern Wu were not their first marriages when they married them.

When he arrived in the Tang Dynasty, according to the master of science Zhu Xi, "Tang Yuanliu came from Yidi, so the rudeness of the boudoir is not different."

It means that the Tang Dynasty royal family was born in the Hu people, so it is not surprising that the women of the Tang Dynasty corrupted the style.

Zhu Xi was only afraid and didn't think it was strange, because he looked down on ethnic minorities, and even more on the high status of women.

However, what he said was true, Tang Taizong had married at least two remarried women, not to mention that the martial artist he favored in his later years married his son Tang Gaozong.

Wu Zetian and Li Zhi's daughter Princess Taiping married twice before and after, and Princess Anle, the daughter of Li Xian of Tang Zhongzong, also married twice, and almost became the imperial concubine.

The most shameless is probably Li Longji, this Tang Xuanzong even robbed his daughter-in-law, and insisted on turning Princess Shou Yang Yuhuan into his daughter-in-law and making her a noble concubine.

According to statistics, there were 27 princesses in the Tang Dynasty who remarried, and three of them married three times.

The Tang and Song dynasties were the closest to each other, and this kind of atmosphere was actually handed down, and the Great Song Dynasty inherited this "glorious tradition", from the royal family to the officials and scholars, and remarriage became a common phenomenon.

Like Song Taizu's sister, she married Mi Fu first, and then married Gao Huaide, which was the first to start.

Wang Anshi presided over the remarriage of his daughter-in-law and found another in-law's family. Yue Fei's first wife, Liu, remarried twice. Even Cheng Yi, who advocates "from the beginning to the end", and his niece and daughter-in-law remarry, he did not object.

With the royal role model

Coupled with the exemplary and leading role of officials, scholars and doctors, not to mention the people, the common people do not care about the great principle of "starting from the beginning to the end", let alone agree with the logic of "starvation is very small, and loss of discipline is very large".

In order to make a living and pursue personal happiness, the women of the Great Song Dynasty divorced when they should divorce, and married when they should marry, without ambiguity at all.

Of course, if you say you will leave, you will get married, and you must obtain the permission of the law and the approval of the world, otherwise everyone can do whatever you want, and the society will not be chaotic.

Besides, without a system guarantee, property cannot be disposed of.

Divorce to get penniless and clean out of the house, how to live that day, therefore, without the support and protection of the whole society, it is a troublesome thing for both men and women to want to divorce, not to mention that in the feudal era of the patriarchal society, women in the Great Song Dynasty need these support and protection even more.

Fortunately, the Great Song Dynasty was still very humane in this regard, from the government to the family, and respected the rights of ladies, and it was also reflected through laws and systems.

A woman in the Song Dynasty lived in a family with a decent economy, so she would have the same rights as men since she was a child.

For example, the family has a share of the annual land rent income, and she also shares as much as others share.

For example, the family's land and real estate also have the right to inherit according to the rules, even if her parents die and she has no support in the family, these properties will be distributed to her little by little when she gets married, and it is not different because she is about to become a foreign surname.

Another example is from childhood to adulthood, every once in a while you will get a clothing fee or clothing fabric, which is used to buy new clothes, and when you grow up, you will have jewelry to wear.

Of course, if you don't want to leave your parents' house after getting married, or if you recruit a son-in-law, these incomes will not change, and what should be hers is hers.

So to sum up, women were still very secure during the Song Dynasty, and there was no problem for widows to remarry.

And these two groups of people didn't discuss a result in the end, seeing that the sky was about to get dark, they actually said that they would continue tomorrow and dispersed.

Tilt Yan: "......"

Gold: "......"

Ingot "......"

"Can't they say that in their own homes? Why do you have to stop talking on this official road?"

Qingzhu has just come out of society, so it doesn't understand it very much, and since it doesn't understand, of course it asks directly.

Qian Yan looked at the two groups of people walking towards the fork in the road on both sides, and was also a little speechless about this anticlimactic development.

However, he still explained to Qingzhu: "It should be that no one is convinced, and they don't want to go to the other party's territory, so I chose this position in the middle."

Qingzhu nodded as if he didn't understand, it didn't really care about this, it was more concerned about, "Then should we continue to hurry now, or go back to the space for dinner?"

That's right, it's when to eat, since eating the food they made, it has fallen into the temptation of food and can't extricate itself, nothing can compare, the world is big, and the meal is the biggest.

Qian Yan was amused by its words, and probed it with her divine sense and said, "Then let's go a little further, there are villages on both sides here, there are more people passing by, we suddenly disappear and it is easy to be seen, five miles in front of us is a wasteland, let's go in from there."

Qingzhu nodded, "Okay, then let's continue to hurry, we will have to walk for a while, and it will be dark."

Qian Yan reached out with her divine sense and looked at the maiden family of the widow who was going to remarry, she was just a little curious, wanting to see what the widow looked like.

It took him around the village to find the house, and found that the little widow looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

She thought about it carefully, there didn't seem to be such a person among the people she had met before, and when she spoke to her family again, Qian Yan suddenly remembered that when she went to Xujia Village at night, she seemed to have seen someone who went to cheat one night, and the woman who came out of the house was not this little widow!

The moonlight was bright that day, and the little widow walked into the courtyard again, so she could see it very clearly, and that one was with her

Wouldn't it be the one she was going to remarry?

It's not right, since this is her mother's house, and her mother-in-law's house is in the village opposite the official road, then how could she be in Xujia Village at that time?

She listened to the conversation of the family for a while, and then they all walked to the clearing and prepared to enter the space, and then she knew the reason.

It turned out that her aunt married to Xujia Village, and her husband died a year ago, and only two daughters were married, so her aunt was left alone in the family.

She met her cheating partner when she went to see her aunt last year, the man was also from Xujia Village, a widower whose daughter-in-law had just died for a year, and the two had been together half a year ago, but because she had not been out of the mourning period, she had been secretly in contact.

It wasn't until the three-year mourning period came out this month that she asked her mother's family to come to the door and told her in-laws that she wanted to remarry.

She has a widowed mother-in-law and two young sons, of course the in-laws are unwilling, so they asked the clan to make peace, but they didn't expect that the two sides almost fought because it didn't make sense.

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