Naxing's Xiaojiao slowly left the station of the Jiangxing Pavilion with the pregnant Miaozhu, and the four sedan chairmen were all black-armored guards of the first mansion in Jiejiang City, carrying the small sedan chair on the top of the mountain of the Jiangxing Pavilion, but they didn't feel a trace of turbulence.

After taking the warship to pick up the relatives, it only took half a day to go from Lanshan City in the middle reaches of the Lingjiang River to the Jiejiang City in the stomach.

It's just that unlike Tang Zhen's three media and six hires who are known all over the city, Miaozhu's arrival seems so quiet, because wives and concubines are different.

The main wife is the wife who marries the man after three books and six ceremonies, also called the main room, which will not only be written into the family tree, but also the children born are also called sons-in-law, and have the right to legally inherit the family property.

Not to mention that concubines can't be included in the family tree, their status is even lower than that of the main room by more than one grade, which also starts from the origin of the concubine.

There are roughly three ways for ordinary people to take concubines:

The first is to buy, because the people of poor families can't get by, they will take their daughters to the kind of open human market, or sell their daughters to the hook fence, or sell them to large families as maids, and a very small number of them are sold to others as child daughters-in-law, of course, the largest number is still the rich and noble people from the Qinglou to pay the Qing people or famous prostitutes.

The second is abduction, which is actually not appropriate, because all private marriages other than the three media and six hires are counted as concubines. Therefore, as the old saying goes, "if you are hired, you will be a wife, and if you run, you will be a concubine", only if you follow the orders of your parents and the combination of the words of the matchmaker can you be considered a legal husband and wife. Therefore, regardless of whether a man has a wife or not, a woman who "runs" elopely cannot obtain the status of a wife, but can only be a concubine.

The third is the most common, called robbery. The world of martial arts is extremely cruel, and there are frequent fights between families, so it is really common for snatching other people's concubines to become a matter of filling the house or rewarding subordinates. From the wealthy families to the rural tyrants, there are countless things to snatch folk girls as concubines.

In addition to the above three, the young master of a large family usually accepts the girl as a concubine, saying that she is a concubine, but in fact, she is a high-level subordinate and is subject to the control of the main room.

But there are exceptions to everything, and the identity of wives and concubines is not immutable, although the main room is the master of the backyard who governs all the concubines, it is not without the risk of being subverted.

If the master finds that the virtue of the main family is lacking and violates the law of seven outs, he has the right to divorce his wife, report to the sect to erase the name of the main family from the family tree, and then the head of the family can choose a concubine as the main wife through a series of processes, this act is called "Fuzheng".

And it is precisely because of the way of correcting that the relationship between the main room and the concubine room is more subtle.

On the one hand, the main room has almost the power of life and death over the concubine room, and on the other hand, the concubine room is eyeing the status of the main room, and their only means of sanctioning the main room is to blow the pillow wind to the head of the family.

So after a long time, it is inevitable that people will come to the impression that the main room is ruthless and the concubine room is tongue-in-cheek.

Miaozhu, who came out of the Star Pavilion, was still full of joy, but when he approached Jiejiang City, he became uneasy.

This fear was even worse than seeing the samurai of the law firm, and the thought of facing the future master mother made Miaozhu's legs tremble with fright.

Naxing's Xiaojiao slowly entered from the side door of the first mansion in Jiejiang City, stopped in a cold courtyard, and the four guards who carried the sedan chair left silently, and an old woman with gloomy eyes lifted the sedan door and dragged Miaozhu out of the small sedan chair.

"It's all procrastinating to meet the master, what a wild girl with no rules!"

The old woman scolded and scolded, while grabbing Miaozhu's hand, dragged her to the gate of the side hall, the panicked Miaozhu held the pregnant belly with one hand, let the old woman grasp it, her eyes looked privately, but her heart became heavier and heavier.

The cold courtyard seems to be uninhabited, the leaves that fell last autumn have been black and yellow, but there is still no one to take care of them, even the wooden barrels by the well have fallen apart, and it is already spring, this courtyard can make people feel cold.

After a few shivers, Miaozhu was dragged to the door by the old woman, and the old woman, who was still fierce just now, suddenly changed her appearance, knocked lightly on the door with her left hand like an eagle's claw, and whispered flatteringly and respectfully: "Madam, the girl has arrived." ”

The courtyard door opened faintly, and what attracted Miaozhu's eyes was the graceful and luxurious lady in the high hall.

But I saw that she was wearing a lychee red embroidered gold round neck placket sleeve jacket, a rose red bottom swirl pattern flower skirt, and a ivory white light yarn.

The black and shiny green silk, the hair is chic and chic, and the light and slow cloud temples are inserted with gold-inlaid bluestone and jade steps.

The skin is like a clotted fat on his hand wearing a bracelet with a red gold longevity lock, and a light gold satin waist is tied around the waist, and a sachet embroidered with the pattern of the birthday star Weng holding a sika deer hangs on it.

The beautiful woman leaned lazily against the handrail, and two young maids waited one after the other, one gently shaking the fan, the other pushing away the vegetables and fruits in front of the noblewoman, gently feeding them into the other's mouth with a jade spoon, and then lifting a porcelain urn to catch the kernel in the woman's mouth.

The woman's eyes flowed on Miaozhu's body like a flowing wave, and the little girl didn't know how to react, and the fierce old woman's vicious voice came from her ears: "When you see Madame, don't kneel down quickly, like a wooden pestle here!"

Looking at this familiar scene, in a trance, Miaozhu returned to that year, and was also dragged to the side hall by the family, the steward and the first lady sat on it, and her lover lowered his head and did not say a word, at that time, there was Liu Niang by her side, but today, she was the only one left, thinking about it, she couldn't help but be stupid.

The fierce old man saw that Miaozhu was still standing in a daze, his heart was furious, he reached out and grabbed the soft flesh of Miaozhu's hind arm and twisted it hard and stretched out his leg to step on Miaozhu's popliteal fossa (knee bend), the girl who was in pain screamed and knelt down, and the door of the side courtyard closed silently, so that there was only a candle in this dark room, like a torture room.

Miaozhu, who fell to the ground, said tremblingly: "Miao.. Miaozhu, I've seen.. Madam. ”

"Hmm~" After a lazy and proud snort, the noble lady in the high hall sat up straight, wiped her mouth with Spa Spa, and said slowly: "You slave really deserves to be killed, Miaozhu's belly is the child of the second son, even if it is a concubine, it is also the master, if you bump into it, you have a few lives enough to die, and you should not quickly make amends with the little woman." ”

As soon as the fierce old woman heard Madame's words, she quickly knelt on the ground, "snapped" her ear scraper, and kept flattering: "Madame said yes, Madame said yes, the old body will never dare again." ”

"Okay, okay, weird annoying, get out of the way. The noble lady waved her hand to the hall, and said to Miaozhu, who was trembling all over: "You are Miaozhu?" ”