The road from Africa to Europe

Chapter 281 Tao Er
You must know that the so-called five non-marriages have appeared in marriages since the Qin and Han Dynasties. It is recorded in Dade's "Da Dai Li Ji Ben Ming" at the end of the Western Han Dynasty that five non-marriages were recorded. If you don't marry, you have no teaching precepts.

If it is translated in vernacular, it means that the girl whose mother died early grew up without her mother's upbringing, and that girl didn't know how to be a wife or mother before she got married.

That is to say, after losing her mother as the eldest daughter, her value in the marriage market, which was already very miserable, also plummeted, and she became a defective product that everyone looked down upon.

This is also one of the important reasons why after a man loses his wife, the relatives and friends around him must have a man remarry. Anyway, the stepmother is also a mother, and the situation of girls will be better.

Of course, in a situation like the original owner's, the death of both parents has no possibility of making up for it. Naturally, Mrs. Li is not optimistic about the future of her niece, so it is just right to be a foil for her daughter.

Mrs. Li thought in her heart that when her niece came to the second room in the future, she should be with her daughter, and she should remember the kindness of the Tao family's second room, and let her be courteous to her younger sister.

She decided to teach her carefully, thinking about the situation in her heart, only educated girls are worth money, and nieces are not very easy to marry if they are not doing well in the official family.

But Mrs. Li also knew that there had always been only men who couldn't marry a wife in this world, and there was no woman who couldn't get married, and her niece would never die in her hands.

After rolling her eyes several times, she thought about how to maximize the interests of selling her niece. If it didn't work, she would marry into a merchant and get a sum of money.

Of course, because of Li's own experience, she doesn't plan to let her niece read any miscellaneous books such as history. Smart people can see too much from it.

Mrs. Li intends to let her niece and the concubine of the second room read more serious books such as women's rings. Women don't need to be too smart, as long as they live.

Although the status of merchants among scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce is very low, the kind of people who want to marry are rich and like arty.

Her eyes lit up a little after she had some flirtatiousness. A daughter from a declining family can receive a large amount of dowry, and she can definitely buy it at a good price.

And she thought that even if her niece disagreed in her heart, she, a daughter of an aristocratic family, would marry into a merchant's family?No one will pay attention.

Tao Er would naturally listen to her, and would not stand up for his niece. The eldest niece could only be obedient in the end.

Li Shi was very happy in her heart. Thinking of this situation, she felt like she wanted to fly.

Forgive my niece for not daring to resist. You must know that she has the kindness of nurturing the big house girl, and she will be spurned by others if she speaks out.

The reason why Li Shi dared to plot against the eldest house was that she understood Tao Er's disgust towards the eldest house.

So no matter how much she tormented Dafang's children, Tao Er would not feel that Mrs. Li had done anything wrong.

In the days to come, the three children in the long room will be firmly held by her.

If the operation is good in the future, you can definitely use Dafang to make a lot of money.

These calculations belong to private money, which is owned by her alone.

It is even possible that the family has the money for the marriage of their children.

Mrs. Li still realized one thing now.

The sons and daughters of sister-in-law Han will listen to her from now on.

This discovery made Li feel indescribably happy.

After she got married, she was jealous of her sister-in-law Han's good luck and happiness from the bottom of her heart.

As the son of the Tao family, Tao Da is much better than Tao Er in various abilities.

In addition, the big house has always been monogamous, and no one can intervene in the couple.

However, Tao Er has always had little goblins, which made her feel that she would spend a lot of money as a wife.

Even though Dafang's family left the capital after resigning from office, Li Shi was still a little bit uneasy.

The reason for this is that Mrs. Han got the love of her husband, which made Mrs. Li jealous.

She wholeheartedly wants to raise her children. It is impossible for her husband to train her children, but her children can.

At the same time, she was secretly afraid that her sister-in-law would educate her nieces and nephews better than her, which worried her very much.

The death of Tao Da and his wife made it possible for her ambition to come true. The two boys are still young and they may not be able to remember their parents.

Even the eldest lady is not very big, so she can try to shape them into some mediocre people, Li Shi began to think in her heart.

After thinking it over clearly, she packed up her thoughts and let Tao Erlang know that if Erfang raised his niece and nephew, he would definitely not lose money.

After he heard his wife's words clearly, he felt much better in his heart. Now that the matter was a foregone conclusion, he still accepted it, and he felt that he was really good.

The husband and wife discussed it for a while, and decided to give the niece a blow in a short while, so that she would not dare to speak. The three siblings living in the second room must be obedient.

The reason why she gave her niece a blow was because Li discovered the problem. She asked Mother Liu about the situation early in the morning, and knew that the servants of the big house were under the order of the big lady.

Moreover, the person who came was wearing plain clothes and said that Dafang's niece could not come to the door. This made Li Shi quickly have his own thoughts in his mind, and the Dafang couple might have an accident.

The guesses along the way were based on this guess, so that she didn't notice any problems with her clothing along the way, and just wanted to get to the place quickly to find out.

Ling Xiao, who was listening, pouted slightly at this. The original owner was really unlucky, and the so-called second uncle and aunt were not good people. Fortunately, Ling Xiao knew what to do after knowing the situation.

Besides, after Mother Xia came back yesterday, she told Ling Xiao what she had encountered in the second room. She was very glad that the eldest lady found out that the second room was not worth relying on at all, otherwise it would be easy to get in and difficult to get out.

Ling Xiao asked Mama Xia to go down to rest for a while, and at the same time see how the mourning hall was getting ready. The official observance of filial piety would begin the next day, and they happened to meet in the mourning hall, and took the opportunity to suppress the arrogance of the Erfang couple.

Ling Xiao was not disappointed when he discovered the strange behavior of Tao Erlang's family. He could realize his own ideas by grasping the shortcomings of the two people. Anyway, she would not live with Tao Erlang and his wife, so she naturally waited for the arrival of these two.

On the other hand, Tao Baozhu wholeheartedly hoped that her mother would come, but she waited all day and fell asleep very late after a lot of tossing at night. Even the crowing of the rooster did not affect her the next day, and she was finally woken up when it was time to eat morning food. , Woke up with a little sleepiness.

Because the official vigil will start from today, this time Cherry ordered people to cook a lot of court food. Because of the observance of filial piety, there are no meat dishes, but the taste is not bad. Naturally, Ling Xiao knows about the period of filial piety and cannot eat meat.

So in a short time, in order to ensure the nutrition needed by the human body, you can eat some soy products, such as tofu, dried tofu and other foods, which belong to vegetable protein, and according to the ancients, they can be eaten during the filial piety period.

But as a person from modern times, Ling Xiao feels that custard still needs to be supplemented. You must know that the human body needs protein for development, and vegetarian protein can supplement part of it, but the human body also needs animal protein.

Forget it, after the [-]-day hot filial piety period, add some animal protein such as custard to the children. This is for the benefit of the two children. Ling Xiao planned in his heart what to do so as not to cause trouble.

Good nutrition in childhood is good for the development of children's brain and body. Children must pay attention to it, otherwise they will be mistreated if they keep their filial piety.

After the meal, Ling Xiao took a few children to the mourning hall to guard the spirit. During this time, the three boys were more obedient, and Tao Baozhu didn't dare to object.

Just when she felt that everything was very tormenting now, Tao Erlang and his wife finally arrived. The couple sat in the car and looked at the not too big courtyard.

The two people felt a little disgusted after seeing it clearly, especially when they heard a series of vicious dog barking, and even a big dog came out, but luckily they were quickly called away.

Li's brows frowned slightly, she actually smelled a foul smell, so disgusting, she took out a Supa and gently covered her nose.

At this time, Mother Su had already received the news, so she brought a few people to meet her. When the couple saw it, their faces were a bit ugly.

The younger niece and nephew didn't go out to greet the elders, which made the two of them very upset and wanted to have a fit.

At this moment, they saw clearly that Mama Xia was wearing filial piety clothes and leading someone over, which made Tao Er and his wife shut their mouths at once.

It was because they remembered that they were too hasty when they left in the morning. Although they were plain clothes, they were not the filial clothes that should be worn.

The person behind Mama Xia was holding a wooden tray, on which were two sets of cut-off filial piety clothes, and the rough clothes still had frayed edges.

"What does this mean?" Tao Er was startled, he had only thought about the death of his hated elder brother.

Completely forget that there are still parents living there. If the elder brother dies, the parents are afraid that it will be bad.

Then he wears filial piety as a brother and as a son is fundamentally different, Tao Er's expression changed drastically.

"The old slave told me yesterday when he went to the mansion, and the old lady and the two of them left together."

Xia's mother's words made the two Tao and his wife's complexions suddenly become very ugly.

The two of them only thought about how their children could sleep peacefully when they came back.

One was on the bed thinking about the situation after his brother died.

Both unconsciously ignored the safety of the two old people.

In fact, Mother Xia was very upset.

The two of them actually forgot to wear filial piety clothes.

Even if the old man did not find the body, he is not sure.

But as a brother, Tao Er still had to wear mourning clothes for his elder brother.

After looking at it, Mrs. Li suddenly remembered, "Hey! We don't know about this."

Turning around, she asked, "Mother Liu, why didn't you remember what happened yesterday?"

Nanny Liu knelt down and kowtowed to plead guilty, Mrs. Li turned her head and glanced at Mama Xia, then kicked Nanny Liu.

Xia's mother didn't intend to pursue it at all, she directly took the second bedroom couple into another courtyard to wear mourning clothes.

After the two of them changed their clothes, Xia's mother said, "Mistress and the others are keeping watch for their grandparents and parents, so they can't come out to greet them for the time being."

Tao Er and his wife were a little unhappy because they didn't see anyone welcoming them, and they even wanted to have a fit and give Ling Xiao a big blow.

But the two of them have not been wearing mourning clothes since they were singled out at this moment. No matter how you look at it, there is something wrong with them. At this moment, they have no intention to find fault at all.

After the husband and wife put on the filial piety clothes, Tao Er remembered that he was going to Ding You, which made him a little desperate, what should he do?What if Shouxiao comes out without a job?This discovery made Tao Er a little desperate, but he had to change into filial piety.

Fortunately, he was supposed to guard the spirit, and this unrequited expression was very suitable. Xia's mother coughed lightly and said: "At that time, someone saw the old lady getting into a bullock cart and wanted to escape, but the flood chased her. After going up, I never saw the two of them again."

"Later, I tried to search again, but I couldn't find where I went. I couldn't come back in the flood." Xia's mother went on to say that Li also remembered the matter of keeping the spirit. Didn't care about other people's life or death.

If this matter is known to outsiders, they will definitely be impeached. This discovery made the faces of the husband and wife change, and the original idea of ​​finding fault disappeared.

After putting on the heavy filial piety, the husband and wife were taken into the mourning hall. Only the spirit plaques were placed in this mourning hall. When Tao Erlang saw it, he knelt down suddenly and then wept loudly.

Thinking of his current official position flapping his wings and flying away, he wants to cry. The problem is that he must not reveal his thoughts at this time.

I saw him beating the ground while crying, and calling daddy repeatedly, crying until his body convulsed, what should I do in the future?

Ling Xiao naturally knew the behavior of their husband and wife during this period of time, and didn't care about the death of the elder brother and his wife at all.

She watched the actions of these two people with cold eyes. She belonged to a person who had always been very selfish, and she was only thinking about benefiting from it.

Fortunately, Yuzhen is here this time, which is equivalent to finding guardians for the three siblings.

Otherwise, either follow the Tao family, or go to the original owner's mother's family.

No matter which one is, you have to live with some outsiders, which is sad.

Ling Xiao didn't intend to go to someone else's house to live under the fence at all.

She has seen Dream of the Red Chamber, so she naturally knows something about living under the fence.

You must know that Lin Daiyu's mother is the beloved daughter of the ancestor of the Jia family, and the Jia family is the uncle's family.

As a grandmother, Jia's mother loves her granddaughter very much, and always treats her as an eyeball.

But Lin Daiyu still had a bad time, one of the two uncles didn't care about things, and the other didn't care.

One of the two aunts can't take care of herself, and the other can't wait to separate Lin Daiyu from her son.

Under such circumstances, the servants with a pair of rich eyes thought that Lin Daiyu was here to beat the autumn wind, saying that she was mean and petty.

This happened when Jia's mother had the right to speak in Jia's house. If Jia's mother did not have the right to speak, Lin Daiyu might have to eat chaff and swallow vegetables.

For this reason, Ling Xiao has deep doubts about the life under the fence, digging into the original owner's memory, her uncle's family is not in the capital.

The original owner's mother was the old daughter of two grandparents, she was quite favored in her natal family, and she was once angry with her husband's family after she got married.

Fortunately, the grandfather and the old couple were there at that time, and they went to Tao's house to seek justice for their daughter, and the husband and wife became a loving couple.

However, the two grandparents died one after another later, and the original owner's uncle Ding You went to other places to be an official, and the family followed.

In other words, the uncle's family is not in the capital, so it is naturally impossible to adopt the three siblings, which is actually good!
She really didn't want to live in the original owner's uncle's house, she was extremely uncomfortable, maybe not good.

Let's talk about it later, if the original owner's uncle's family is good, then it's good to be a relative.

After digging through the memory of the original owner, Ling Xiao discovered that the original owner should have a relative.

The cousin of this body is about the same age as the original owner's mother.

What's even more strange is that the two of them are not real sisters.

But I don't know why it looks super like.

Those who didn't know thought they were twins.

Most people think that if two people look alike, it will feel good.

But in fact this is not the case. The relationship between the two has always been quite flat.

The original owner once asked the reason, only to realize that the two of them didn't get along well at all.

Because they look too much like each other, there are outsiders comparing two people everywhere, which leads to the general relationship between the two people.

The cousin's aunt married into the Xungui's family because of her talent, while the original owner's mother, who was very low-key, married into the aristocratic family.

There should be quite a few in-laws with the Tao family in the capital. Ling Xiao's head hurts when he thinks about it, there are so many relatives of seven aunts and eight aunts.

Fortunately, the other in-laws are far away and can basically be ignored. She is going to keep her filial obedience in this other courtyard, waiting for the return of the original owner.

During this period, I will help the original owner to educate the two boys well. I hope the original owner will come back soon. She will not marry with this body. If the original owner does not come back, she plans to become a monk first and wait for the original owner to come back. .

After waiting for the original owner to come back, should he continue to talk to Dang Kun?Or marry?It's all about the original owner. Ling Xiao still understands the situation in ancient times. Women are usually ready to get married when they are young, which is too young!

Many families can usually find their future son-in-law when they are around ten years old. Ling Xiao will not get engaged. Her situation determines that it is better to be single.

(End of this chapter)