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Chapter 89 Yang Su?Wang man?
"My lord, there's a telegram from home, saying that Uncle Fu has brought someone to help Ms. Mu finish the housework."

"Patriarch Mu hopes that the family will convey his gratitude on his behalf."

"After you respond to Tianfu, Patriarch Mu will come to thank you again."

Ah Hu took a telegram and handed it to Peng Ke who was reading a picture book in the study, and reported the good news to him with a smile.

After receiving the telegram, Penke casually glanced at it twice, then put it aside.

Although the matter of the Mu family surprised Peng Ke, it did not stay in his heart for too long.

Having experienced the era of Internet information explosion in his previous life, he has seen too many bloody criminal cases caused by bizarre emotional disputes.

The Mu family can only be regarded as a classic case.

It was nothing more than Fang's and Sun Zhan's childhood sweethearts, who met again in Yingtian Mansion later, and the sky thundered, and they started such a deed.

Then his belly got bigger, and Sun Zhan thought about a certain serious birth for his child.

This is how the mu family's first son was murdered.

It's just that the bastard that Fang's conceived had an accidental miscarriage later.

Their plans for their own children all fell through.

It's not a failure, at least because Fang's son and mistress both passed away, Mu Guoli also helped him upright.

To be honest, it is really rare for this kind of concubine to be righted.

Even if it is a merchant's house, there are very few.

Out of a hundred concubines, there may not be one who can be helped to be a regular wife in the end.

Fang's wrist is also really good.

However, that Sun Zhan died too simply.

When Penke was going to see them, he prepared the poison, and committed suicide if he said he would kill himself, which was a bit too hard on himself.

Not everything in this world can die at once.

The Fang family arrested him and interrogated him, and he could also restore the ins and outs of the incident.

Apart from sighing in his heart at Sun Zhan's ruthless attitude towards him, Peng Ke didn't have any other thoughts.

In other words, there is nothing to think about.

Anyway, Fang's side has Mu Guoli to solve it by himself. No matter what Fang's confession is in the end, and what the result will be, it has nothing to do with Peng Ke.

His main energy now is on playing cat and mouse game with Wang Man, the patriarch of Hehuan Sect.

Jin Yiwei has already investigated the Qin family's successor Yang Su's information.

Needless to say, there are many doubts.

Yang Su's hometown is in Sanhe Township, Dushui County, Songjiang Prefecture, which is a place with a strong Jiangnan tradition.

It is a typical Jiangnan village where every household is half mulberry and half farmer, farming mulberry trees and silkworms while farming.

When Yang Su was 16 years old, she was betrothed to a family in the same village.

It's just that after two years of marriage, her husband accidentally fell into the water and died, and Yang Su became a widow.

She was not the rumored distant cousin of the head of the Qian family, a cloth merchant in Suzhou.

Or to be precise, she is the distant cousin of Mrs. Qian's family, not the head of the family.

In the 26th year of Hongwu, Yang Su went to Suzhou to find her distant cousin to seek relatives.

As a result, after this climb, he climbed to the branch to become a phoenix, and was taken by the head of the Qin family who had just experienced the pain of losing his wife.

The following year, she married into the Qin family and became the continuation wife.

This alone is already very suspicious.

Not only is Yang Su married once, but she is also not too young. She was 24 years old when she married into the Qin family.

Although a hundred schools of thought flourished in the Ming Dynasty, there was no such thing as the Confucian etiquette of the three obediences and four virtues for women.

There is no saying that you cannot remarry after you get married, and you must stay in your husband's family forever after death, and there is a set of sayings about chastity archways.

After all, in this era when the baby survival rate is low, every woman of the right age should contribute to the birth of the population. How can she be a widow for the rest of her life after her husband dies!
The Ming Dynasty respected the ancient times, and followed the old system of the Qin and Han Dynasties. It not only opposed widowhood for women, but also encouraged women to remarry at the government level, and remarried women could also receive subsidies from the government.

This is a tradition that has existed in China since ancient times.

In the Han Dynasty, there was a situation where the emperor married a second-married daughter.

For example, Wang Zhi, who was loved by Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty Liu Qi, and the biological mother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was a strange woman who kicked her husband away and entered the palace to serve the emperor.

Later, Liu Che also met his half-sister.

From the emperor to the common people, they don't mind the second marriage of women.

Even the royal family likes this kind of mature woman, because it is easier for those who have given birth to have a second child, which can increase the fertility rate of royal family members.

This situation did not change much until the Tang Dynasty.

From the nobles to the common people, they often practice second marriages.

Those princesses in the Tang Dynasty often remarried.

However, after the Song Dynasty, it may be because of the revival of Confucianism and the prevalence of Lu Confucianism that gradually the nobles and people with status were less likely to marry second-married daughters.

Maybe concubines will accept concubines, but if you are looking for a concubine, you usually don't choose the second married woman.

Even if the other party may be a good match for him.

Therefore, for 300 years in the Song Dynasty, when the Zhao royal family relied heavily on Lu Confucianism, the social atmosphere gradually became conservative.

Even now that the Mohism is rising again, and Ming Dynasty has once again entered a period of contention among a hundred schools of thought, the social atmosphere has not changed so quickly.

In folklore, remarriage has not been rejected since ancient times, and remarriage is a very normal thing, so there is nothing to say.

But for a family like the Qin family, after 300 years of Lu Confucian influence in the old Song Dynasty.

Even if they are businessmen with relatively low political status, it is impossible for them to marry an older mature woman who was married once at the age of 24.

It's quite strange that the head of the Qin family would be so determined to marry Yang Suba in a sedan chair.

Moreover, the eldest son of the Qin family has never been rumored to like mature women before.

On the contrary, after his stepmother, who was only four years older than him, came in, the rumor that he liked mature women began to gradually spread.

What kind of woman can be so attractive as to affect the aesthetics of the father and son?

This is really too grassy.

Another very strange point is.

Since Yang Su married into the Qin family, she never returned to her natal family, and basically cut off contact with her natal family.

Although the Qin family would give Yang Su's natal family various gifts for the New Year during the holidays, it was a lot of filial piety.

But Yang Su never went home again.

This made Yang Su's reputation in his hometown worse.

Many villagers in Sanhe Township who are acquainted with the Yang family think that Yang Su is a white-eyed wolf.

After climbing a high branch, you immediately turn your face and deny anyone, it's not a good thing!

But after seeing this information, Penke had another idea.

in case.

Is Yang Su not the same Yang Su as before?
Maybe she was killed by Wang Man on the way to Suzhou Mansion, and then she replaced her identity?

That's why she didn't go back to her natal family and cut off contact with her natal family.

Because if she returns to her hometown, her family will find out that this "Yang Su" is not the Yang Su they know!
In this way, the logic is reasonable!

It's just that all of this is just Penke's speculation, without any actual evidence to prove it.

However, sometimes.

Doubt is evidence!
　Although there is no exclusive respect for Confucianism.

　　But different dynasties will definitely have biased learning.

　　Just like the current Ming Dynasty, Gongyang, Mohism, military strategists, and legalists are the most prominent schools.

　　I think with my superficial view of the world, the weak chickens in the Song Dynasty still have some reasons.

　　Combined with the situation of suppressing martial arts and advocating literature in the Song Dynasty in real history, there is also Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism.

　　I think that making Lu Ru a prominent scholar in the Song Dynasty can be used as one of the explanations.

　　However, it needs to be emphasized that the laws of the Song Dynasty did not contain any provisions to suppress women's right to remarry.

　　But the upper class dignitaries have begun to be less accepting of remarried women.

　　Rich people and noble officials have to marry a "bride", even if they are married, they still need a bride.

　　As we all know, the upper and lower floors never pee in the same jug.

　　It was normal for ordinary people in the Song Dynasty to remarry, and it would not involve morality, and would even be encouraged.

　　In fact, the situation of restricting women's remarriage should have reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty.

　　You can search for "Chastity Archway" and "Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism Development" to learn about the specific situation.

　　Anyway, later generations misunderstood the doctrine of Neo-Confucianism that death from starvation is a minor matter, but injustice is a major matter.

　　In the Qing Dynasty, it was true that from the Eight Banners to the poor, they could not remarry.

　　This world only advances the degree of "distortion" of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism a little bit.

　　So in the early Ming Dynasty in this world, there were only some nobles and rich people with high status, who had the intention of rejecting second-married women.

　　However, with the revival of Baijia, this situation should not continue to deepen.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)