Wear ancient times with a house

Chapter 10 Song Ru's marriage entanglement

Originally, if Song Ru had been a widow for the rest of her life, the Feng family would have done more to publicize it, opened up connections and reported it, and she would have won a chastity memorial archway.

However, the Feng family was too eager, how could they afford to wait for decades?I can't wait to "listen to heaven" immediately to let the emperor know that there is such a family in Yizhou Prefecture.

And the fastest way is to make Song Ru commit suicide in order to follow her husband.

The reason why Song Ru stayed with her was of course influenced by "The Story of a Martyr" in elementary school, but more because of her feelings for her deceased husband.

She was willing to keep the festival for her husband; she was not stupid enough to die for the Feng family.

Fortunately, although the Song family became a little richer after Song Nian was admitted as a scholar, Mrs. Song was afraid that her daughter would lose face in front of her sister-in-law, so she reluctantly spent a few dollars and bought her a little girl as a dowry.

This dowry girl saved Song Ru's life.When she found out that Feng Jiaming secretly forced her to commit suicide, Song Ru secretly sent the dowry girl out.

Song Ru's elder sister-in-law took charge of some of the family affairs, but she also turned a blind eye and let it go:
She didn't have the courage to ask her to stand up for her sister-in-law, and she was afraid of affecting the importance of the eldest house in front of her parents-in-law; but she couldn't bear to see her sister-in-law die.

Just let this little girl go, Song Ru's life or death depends on her own destiny.

Mrs. Song, who was informed of Feng's plan, was furious:

As mentioned earlier, the folk customs in the north are relatively tough, and the ideological confinement is not serious. Widowhood is common, and remarriage is also common.

Even in a family like the Wang family, where someone is an official, they value the reputation of the family members more than the Song family, and they are not so frantic that they force their daughter-in-law to commit suicide in order to seek recognition from the court.

What's more, the Feng family is a local gentry with hundreds of acres of land in the past hundreds of years, but now it's just a few hundred acres of land?It is too much to take for granted to plan to take a shortcut by taking advantage of a woman's reputation.

The old lady Song couldn't help but be considerate of the Feng family's long-term plan to turn around after a century of dormancy, so she turned her back on it happily, asked her relatives for help, called the door, and brought Song Ru back.

Aunt Song also quickly asked her son to find someone to pass a message to the Feng family, asking if they could bear the consequences of deceiving the emperor.

These words, of course, scare people.

If things get serious, the Feng family will certainly bear the reputation of being unkind and vicious, but they will also get the support of some "old scholars" who value the name of a woman's chastity so much that they almost go crazy.

And Song Ru couldn't get a good reputation either.Is it wrong for the husband to die and the wife to commit suicide and be buried?No, this is the "virtue of chaste women" highly praised by the emperor.

Song Ru actually needed her husband's family to force her to commit suicide, and even resisted. Doesn't it mean that Song Ru was not strong enough?Even the Song family's family style will be suspected by moralists with ulterior motives.

Therefore, Wang Pu just grasped the Feng family's obsession and prescribed the right medicine.

The aunt and sister-in-law cooperated tacitly, and the Feng family had no choice but to obediently send Song Ru's dowry back to the Song family. This in-law relationship was almost broken.

Song Jun listened to the indifference of the two old ladies who did not have the indifference of "the water poured out by the married daughter", but actively planned the future for the widowed Song Ru;

Hearing that Song Ru, who has always been quiet and reticent, saved herself so resolutely, she was completely different from the submissive ancient women she imagined, and she couldn't help feeling more fond of this family.

Song Yun also has a new understanding of the concept of this era.

It must be said that modern people also have a strong stereotype of ancient times.Binding feet, keeping chastity, and the chastity archway constitute almost all of Song Yun's impressions of the harsh living environment of ancient women.

Of course, it doesn't mean that there is no compulsory chastity, but this kind of extremely strict restriction often belongs to a small number of families, at least in the era when Song Yun came through.

This made her heave a sigh of relief: she is not a brave person, let alone has outstanding talents, and there is a high probability that she will live a life that most ordinary women will live.

Then, getting married is almost something that will be put on the agenda in [-] or [-] years.What would she do if she married a trash man into a wolf's den?
She didn't naively think that she could save herself by relying on space.Women in this era have no property rights or personal freedom to speak of, and fleeing will only be regarded as unowned goods, and anyone can resell her.

If her natal family doesn't care, she can only endure it, or die with her husband's family. There is really no better solution.

Fortunately, with their current attitude towards Song Ru, as long as they don't become monsters and betray their relatives, they will never ignore themselves.

The matter of Song Yun is still very early, and the focus now is still Song Ru.

Song Ru returned to her natal family, and marriage became a problem.

She was less than 20 years old when she was widowed, she had no children, and lived with her elder brother and sister-in-law all her life. Even if her elder brother and sister-in-law took care of her and her nephew was filial, she was afraid that her nephew and daughter-in-law would not feel at ease.

What's more, where should we be buried after death?
Daughter, cannot be buried in the ancestral grave:

For those who died before marriage, the parents would at most build another grave, bury a few utensils with them, and then tell the younger generations to go to worship the ancestors.In less than two generations, it really became a lonely tomb with no name and no surname.

For those who die after marriage, where and how to bury them are naturally decided by the husband's family.

Song Ru had already returned home, even though the Feng family didn't want their son to be alone underground, they still wanted Song Ru to be buried there, but she didn't want to.

After all kinds of considerations, she didn't have time to think about whether she was worthy of her late husband. As soon as Mrs. Song said she wanted to ask Aunt Song to find a suitable family, she nodded in agreement.

Aunt Song came here this time because she had a suitable candidate.

Aunt Song's vision and ability are very trustworthy. At this moment, when she speaks eloquently, the Song family is also listening attentively:

"The family I'm talking about is not someone else, but a branch of the Zhao family in Fucheng."

Mrs. Song is a native of this county, she reacted as soon as she heard it:
"But the one that moved out 25 years ago?"

Aunt Song nodded quite complacently.

She is close to her natal family, so she naturally knows what kind of family intends to marry the Song family in the past two years. She dares to say that none of them can compare with the Zhao family. It can't fall on Ru Niang's head.

Although Song Nian was not familiar with the branch that moved to Fucheng, he had some friendship with the Zhao family's children in this county.

The county seat is so big, and it is inevitable that families who have been in business for a long time will get married.Although the Zhao family was not related by marriage to Song Nian, they married a daughter to his cousin next door.

What's more, the county magistrate was transferred from outside. If he wanted to do something, he would inevitably use scholars from the local rich family.Like Song Nian, although he is still preparing for the scientific examination, he also does some things for the local parents and officials, which counts as the status of "on-the-job graduate student".

The situation of the Zhao family and the Song family is similar, some members of the clan have accumulated some wealth for their sons to study and take scientific examinations, and naturally there are promising children around the county magistrate.

Song Nian had frequent contact with them, and had heard a thing or two about the Zhao family's branch in Fucheng.

He hesitated and asked:
"But Zhao Yanlin from the fifth room of the Zhao family? I vaguely remember that he said that he is not willing to remarry in recent years."

(End of this chapter)