The road from Africa to Europe

Chapter 693 Huan Lang
What is that concubine's room?That is the woman who lives under the mistress, and the real man is husband and wife, but they are not husband and wife at all.In ancient times, even if a man had several concubines and even had children, he was still a single nobleman.

It is not uncommon for men to have concubines before marriage. Many of them are not so-called concubines, but common houses, but they have the same general function as concubines. Once they get married, concubines will automatically become the goods of the mistress.

"Book of Rites" says: Concubines who buy together, because they are inferior to public property.Husband and wife, the man dominates the outside and the woman dominates the inside, that is to say, the concubine's room is the servant of the main wife.

If it is too easy for the mistress to plot against the concubines, it is a matter of minutes. When the wives and concubines confront each other at the beginning, the main wife will stand in the general trend. In a big family, it is only natural for the mistress to train the concubines, and the concubines cannot resist at all. .

Ling Xiao naturally didn't know what the old man was thinking. If he knew, he would give his thumbs up, and he would nod again and again to say that he was really right. According to the rules of etiquette, the mistress absolutely has the right to deal with the concubine's room, and she can kill the concubine just because she doesn't like it room, and did not break the law.

At most, it is said that the mistress is jealous, and that the mistress is a bit dry.And the dead concubine died when he died. Could it be that a man who is a husband can take revenge for the concubine?
of course not!In the eyes of nobles, the life of a concubine is not human life, but just a plaything.Even children born to concubines cannot speak out for their biological mothers, because according to etiquette, the mothers of children are legal wives.

Even if the mistress is going to clean up, it is easy to put a few beauties on the husband, and the mistress is magnanimous and kind. The concubine who was executed before is definitely at fault, and she died for nothing.

This system of mistresses completely suppressing concubines has lasted for many years, starting with Zhou Li, and it was not until the period of the Republic of China that it fell apart.

Although many powerful people still loved three wives and four concubines during the Republic of China, there was a big difference in essence. The concubines during the Republic of China were called concubines.

Aunts and wives don't care about size, what matters is who is favored, and some favored concubines can overwhelm their original spouse and let the original spouse eat ashes in an unknown place, which should be the so-called collapse of ritual and music.

The old man naturally didn't know the situation in the Republic of China, but now it is the situation where the main wife crushes the concubine's room.He understands human nature very well. Once his granddaughter falls into the hands of He Wuniang and his wife, wouldn't he just rub it as he wants?

Even if he killed his granddaughter and still didn't get rid of his hatred, he could still pour some dirty water on it. I was afraid that he would have to go to the random graveyard to find his granddaughter's body. Thinking about it like this would make him shudder.

The old man has seen many things. A woman who used to be from a big family married and became his wife. It is a pity that her natal family was involved in an incident. The whole family was wiped out, and she died not long after. Yes, died of poisoning.

This is still the main wife, so the concubine's room is naturally even more despised.In fact, many of the dignified and elegant ladies in big families have a lot of lives in their hands. He has seen too many framing things, and he understands the problems too well.

In the past few days, he has thought about a question: Who will the two children follow in the future?If the two children were left in the He family, it would be tantamount to receiving the bad news of the child's death!He is old, and if he hears such news again, he will not live.

How to do?It is said that they are the He family, and they should stay in the He family as minors, and let the He family get married in the future, but the He family has too little human touch, and staying in the He family may become a stepping stone.

After pondering for a while, the old man decided to take the two children away. Originally, he didn't dare to take them away, because it would mean that his grandson and granddaughter would lose the protection of the family.

But after knowing that chaos is coming, the old man has a new idea. Every time a chaos comes, many people will die in the war, and there is never a shortage of people from rich and powerful families.

He family?snort!In a family that doesn't even care about the people of the clan, there have been few people who have vision and responsibility. Once danger comes, they will only think about how to escape, right?This family can't go far.

Since this is the case, the old man decided to wait for his granddaughter to get well before taking his granddaughter away. He wanted to take his two children to another place to start a new life.

He must work hard to live for a few more years, and it is best to find a safe place for his granddaughter before he dies. Even if the two children have no family members, there are others who can support them to live well.

It can be said that because the old man was in charge, the He family did nothing even though they had tens of thousands of ideas. Ling Xiao was naturally recuperating, and generally no one disturbed her rest.

Mr. Liu could see that his granddaughter became quieter after waking up, so he began to teach Ling Xiao to read. Of course, because of his weak body, he didn't have much time to study and spent more time resting.

Another reason is that most of the books nowadays are bamboo slips. A book consumes too many bamboo slips, and it is heavy to hold in the hand. I am afraid that it will hurt my wrist if I read it for a long time.

And this leads to the fact that if you move, you have to use a car to pull the book, which takes up a lot of space. Fortunately, there are brushes and ink, otherwise you have to engrave, and the speed is even slower.

Even so, Master Liu can see that his granddaughter is very talented in reading, and he is very happy in his heart. You must know that he is a child who likes and is willing to learn.

On this day, the wound on Ling Xiao's body was basically healed, and he was able to get out of bed and take a few steps. Doctor Liao Ji took the pulse and told the old man that he was almost fine, just wait for it to take care of him slowly.

The old man can finally relax. As an elder, he naturally doesn't need to be filial to the younger generation. He remembered that he hadn't drank for a long time, so he asked someone to prepare some food and drank the wine happily.

Ling Xiao looked at the wine he was drinking, really didn't know what it was?Is this wine?Not very clear, there are some grain residues, emmmmm!Is this the ancient wine?
Liu Fuzi Ling Xiao, who looked at the happy drinking wine, didn't know what to say. He didn't know what to think, but he thought it was the fermented rice of later generations. Of course, there are still fewer particles in this kind of wine, but there are still a lot of them. It is far less powerful than the baijiu of later generations. The degree is very low.

The low alcohol content is actually very good, and it is not easy to get drunk. This kind of low alcohol alcohol is such an advantage, and drinking can make people feel cold, which is the favorite of men.

But according to later research: drinking is not good, and this wine does not only refer to white wine, but also includes wine, because alcohol needs to be excreted by the liver and hurts the liver.

Fortunately, Master Liu didn't drink much, so Ling Xiao didn't care, because he couldn't explain these things to him, and Ling Xiao remembered saying that a glass of wine a day in the early years softens blood vessels and is good for health.Forget it, or don't stop it.

Living in this world always needs some entertainment. Normally, Mrs. Liu reads books with bamboo and wooden slips in his hands. He is too tired. It is perfectly fine to drink some wine and relax.

It’s just that Ling Xiao sees that the current cooking methods are cutting and steaming. Naturally, iron pans have not appeared, and cooking has not yet happened. Even the so-called oil is mostly animal fat. It is better to look for vegetable fat and make vegetable oil.

These are things that come slowly, and she still waits for her body to recover before talking about it.In fact, it is not bad for people to be able to eat animal fat. Most ancient people were very short of oil and water in their daily life, and they could not eat enough food at all, and there was no hyperlipidemia.

Ling Xiao really wanted to know the current situation, and took time to talk to the original owner's grandfather, because she didn't know what the situation outside was like. After some conversations, she could be sure that there were aristocratic families in this era.

For example, the He family, in this place, belonged to the same existence as the toubob, but this family has never produced any top figures, that is, the father of the original owner had some real skills, but died because of the civil unrest.

Why do you say that the He family is considered a family?That's because there are still a few officials from the He family, but the official positions are very low, and they belong to the kind of officials who are not very popular.Even so, it is very difficult. You must know that ordinary people have no way to be an official.

Even though the He family is one-sided in this place, they belong to a very small family in the aristocratic family, because their children belong to the kind of low-level officials, basically there is not much room for promotion, because the above-mentioned official positions are held by other larger families. Members take over.

But it is much better than the poor family. Even if the poor family has some land in their family, they belong to small and medium landlords, and they have also studied some books, but the poor family has no chance to be an official, not even the smallest official position.

Unless there is something particularly prominent, it is possible for a poor family to rise up and become a member of the gentry, and will also be despised by the old family. The chain of contempt has existed since ancient times.

The people who accounted for the largest number in the entire dynasty were the common people. In the eyes of the emperor, the royal family, the gentry, and the poor, they were just small ants, who could be crushed to death with a little finger.

Ling Xiao didn't know what to say for a while after knowing this situation. The aristocratic family may have promoted the culture, but later the aristocratic family became a cancer.

The children of the aristocratic family are only thinking about their own family. In their view, it doesn't matter whoever is the emperor, even those murderous aliens are also fine. They just hope that their family will be proud.

EMMMMMM!No matter how you look at it, it feels very bad. Later, the aristocratic family lasted for hundreds of years. When the aristocratic family was the most proud, even the emperor didn't like it very much. It was not until the empress ascended the throne and suppressed the aristocratic family that the aristocratic family gradually declined in the Tang Dynasty.

Judging from the situation of the He family, the aristocratic family is a small world, and even if the people in it have the same surname, they will be divided into different classes, and the more direct descendants, the more nourishing their lives.

For example, if the original owner was born in the He family, she can be regarded as a member of the He family, but she belongs to the partial branch, which means that she has a normal relationship with the direct branch.

His father was a posthumous child, and his mother was depressed after giving birth, and did not live long in the end. There was only one old grandmother in the family, and the grandparents and grandchildren depended on each other.

It is said that the original owner's father's family property is not much, and the grandparents and grandchildren barely survived, but they could no longer afford to study. At that time, the original owner's grandfather happened to meet the original owner's father, and saw that the child was clever and accepted him as a disciple.

Later, the old man liked this disciple very much, and after looking at the situation of the He family, he wanted the apprentice to be his son-in-law, but He Jialang knew that the situation at home was very bad.

You must know that as the He family member, he is very aware of his situation, and he feels that he has to give up when he is unable to find a referrer.There are also various situations in the He family. In order to live better, some people have to beat the autumn wind for a living all year round.

The original owner's father knew very well that the family had several acres of Susukida, but he couldn't continue to have the opportunity to study. Without Mr. Liu's family, he was a farmer, because he happily married Mr. Liu's only daughter.

After marriage, it was his father-in-law's personal connections that allowed him to go further, and he felt very happy. He was really willing to become a family with Master. After all, the He family did not pay much in his growth process.

And the He family didn't care when they knew that the children of the He family wanted to marry their wife's daughter. It would be better not to take up the resources of the He family. Anyway, the He family could go further, which would be very beneficial to the He family.And the original owner's father belonged to a very side branch, so the He family naturally didn't care whose daughter he married.

Waiting for He Jialang to become a famous person later, the members of the family also made some efforts to make him an official. Unfortunately, the He family also had enemies, so naturally they didn't want to watch the rise of the He family, so they secretly moved hands and feet.

He Jialang was assigned to a barren area in this way, and the He family saw that it was useless, so they stopped helping. With the help of his father-in-law, He Jialang brought his family to take office, and he lived well there.

Some of the real stuff, he still has some prestige among the barbarians, but some people couldn't stand it and finally did something when they went out, and it looked like he died at the hands of the rioters.

His wife was shocked and angry when she saw her husband's body, and she had to prepare a vigil for her husband. She couldn't sleep for several days, and she was close to a nervous breakdown. She accidentally fell to her death while going out.

It is really miserable to leave the original owner and the younger brother as two children.Fortunately, He Jialang's subordinates are not bad, and the natives in the barren land still like this Han official very much, so they specially bid farewell to him when they went out.

Then they sent this group of people to the gathering place of the Han people before returning. The original owner and his group returned to He's house relatively safely, and began to watch the spirit, only to meet another bear child.

After Ling Xiao knew the whole process, he didn't know what to say, but he had to admit that there were too many accidents in life, and they had to face blows from fate one after another.

After Ling Xiao waited for his health to recover, he met the younger brother of the original owner, a kid named Huanlang, and found that the kid had lost a lot of weight.

When he saw his sister, he wanted to move forward, but he didn't dare to move forward, because he knew that his sister was injured. He had been very afraid these days, even if his sister would disappear.

Ling Xiao looked at the teary-eyed kid and laughed. Huanlang couldn't help this smile. He ran to his sister, climbed up, jumped over, and burst into tears.

This is a sincere cry, the kind of cry that will cry until the tears and snot flow from the nose, venting the anxiety and fear in his heart with crying, he is really scared!

Ling Xiao gently circled Xiao Huanlang, her eyes were slightly red, she understood Xiao Huanlang's fear, which was the reason why the closest family members left one by one.

The father and mother have passed away one after another, giving the child a heavy blow, just like that, without saying anything, disappearing all at once, and never coming back again, Huanlang is so scared!
Also, the elder grandfather has aged a lot, with a bit of sadness on his face, which makes Xiao Huanlang feel very bad. He always feels that if he can't see his sister, maybe one day he will disappear somewhere he doesn't know. place.

Now he is very happy to see his sister, she is still alive, he is a little scared, although he is still young, but he knows a lot, he is really afraid that his sister will never get up again.

A Niang just didn't get up after lying down for a long time, he was afraid!I was very scared when I saw my sister lying down all the time.If Grandfather hadn't stopped him, he would have wanted to run in a long time ago.Grandpa didn't let him in, saying that my sister needs to rest more in order to be healthy.

Seeing his sister sitting up today made him very happy.Waiting for sister to wave to him, it was simply inexplicable surprise that he was so excited, so excited that he couldn't speak, he just burst into tears.

The old man on the side felt sad when he heard it, and he gently wiped away his tears.If the granddaughter can't resist this time, I'm afraid the little grandson can't stand it either, hey!Fortunately, I survived.

Ling Xiao resisted the tearing feeling from his soul, and Huan Lang's crying, he wanted Huan Lang to shut up but thought about it, no!He softly comforted the frightened Huan Lang.

Xiao Huanlang cried and cried and gradually stopped crying. If he cried too much, his eyes would hurt. Ling Xiao hurriedly wiped away his tears and nose, and saw Huanlang yawn.

He wants to sleep a little at the moment, you know he hasn't had a good sleep in the past few days, and he has been not very at ease. Now seeing his sister wake up, he finally feels at ease and can have a good sleep, so he snuggled up My sister fell asleep, her hands still holding onto Ling Xiao's clothes.

Ling Xiao felt that the bed was big enough, so he didn't let Huanlang go back to his room to sleep, and covered it up for the child. The body was still weak, so he fell asleep too.

(End of this chapter)