Noble First Daughter-in-law

Yu Mingyue sneered: "You, when you marry a man, you actually help him take concubines and persuade him to rest with other women. Do you know how embarrassing it is for a woman? It's a shame that you are still called a concubine. What virtuous——"

At this point, she stopped and gritted her teeth hard.

"...?"

Shang Ruyi was stunned. Although she had thought of many reasons why she "looked down" on herself, this...

She didn't even care about being angry, or the word "history book" that she just barely heard from Yu Mingyue's mouth, but she swallowed most of it herself. She just frowned slightly and looked at the other party, thought about it, and calmed down He said: "I'm not jealous or independent. What's wrong with admonishing my husband to go to his concubine? Should Mrs. Chu stay alone in the empty boudoir? Do you know how sad it is for a woman to stay alone in the empty boudoir after she gets married? ?As a woman, I can't be so domineering, let alone let others experience this kind of pain."

Speaking of this, Shang Ruyi's tone became heavier.

If I remember correctly, Yu Mingyue's mother - of course not the Yu Mingyue in front of me, but the Yu Mingyue who had long since passed away. Her mother was abandoned by Yu Dingxing.

Even if she hasn't experienced it, she should at least have heard about it and have some feelings in her heart.

“What does other people’s suffering have to do with me?”

Unexpectedly, Yu Mingyue sneered and said, "What I'm saying is that a woman like you is a disgrace to women!"

"..."

At this moment, Shang Ruyi also vaguely felt that the Yu Mingyue in front of her was no longer the usual Yu Mingyue. Although she usually had a arrogant attitude towards him and hated their group, she always spoke in a cloudy and malicious manner. , but it has never been expressed so clearly.

Looking at her red eyes, Shang Ruyi understood that it was probably because of drinking and eating in the hall just now that the mask she usually used to cover herself could no longer stretch.

Her malice seemed not only directed at herself at this moment.

It's about something that Shang Ruyi doesn't know.

Thinking of this, Shang Ruyi completely gave up being angry with someone who was already drunk, who might be about to reveal all her secret thoughts, who might be coming from hundreds of years later. She calmed herself down and said in a calm tone: "I How can you embarrass a woman? Why don’t you tell me and I’ll listen.”

"Haha, hahahaha,"

As if she heard some joke, Yu Mingyue stretched out her hand to support the pine tree next to her. The turbid air and tightness in her chest made her want to vomit, but she couldn't. She could only suppress the nausea, gritted her teeth, and vomited viciously. She said to Shang Ruyi: "A man and a woman should be monogamous and stay together until they grow old. There are no concubines or side concubines. This is called a pair for life, do you understand?"

"...!"

Shang Ruyi's eyes suddenly lit up.

One pair for life people?

These words, like a warm current, melted into her heart all of a sudden, making her feel an unspeakable sense of relief. She subconsciously turned around and looked into the dark night, where the lights were still bright, like a dazzling heavenly palace. In the Baifu Hall, I thought of Yu Wenye who was still being toasted there, and of the mutual understanding and love between the two people along the way.

Monogamous, stay together until old age.

One pair for life people.

If so...

Thinking of this possibility, she smiled subconsciously, and there seemed to be some expectation in her smile.

But the next moment, a gust of cold wind blew, causing the pines and cypresses around Yu Mingyue to sway slightly and make a rustling sound, which also made Shang Ruyi wake up again.She looked at Yu Mingyue with a complicated expression, speculating on her experience in her heart, and then thinking about the world here, she slowly said: "This is indeed very good."

"..."

"But whether they are concubines or concubines, they cannot be treated as wives. They don't have many choices."

"It's that sentence again!"

When Yu Mingyue heard this, her face became even more gloomy - it was this sentence that made Shang Ruyi say something back to her when she was ridiculing Lu Xiao. Now it came again, but she reacted quickly and immediately sneered: "You have to marry? Can you die without marrying? Can you die without a man!?"

Her words shocked Shang Ruyi.

But after thinking about it again, she still said: "But, how can a woman survive if she doesn't get married? You and I are born into wealth, but -"

At this point, she herself smiled bitterly and said, "Not to mention that you and I were born into wealth, but we still suffered all the hardships of being a woman."

Just after her father died, she was kicked out of the business by her elder brother Shang Shoufei at the funeral hall.

As for Yu Mingyue's own experience, she experienced a lot of pain after being abandoned with her mother, and finally had no choice but to commit suicide by drowning herself in a river.However, she had another adventure, and was resurrected by the soul in front of her, so that she could live a new life and "spout nonsense" here again.

It's a pity that she couldn't cross the river by herself, but after being rescued, she immediately turned around and laughed at the drowning man.

"I don't care how you survive!"

Seeing Shang Ruyi's wry smile, Yu Mingyue seemed to understand what she was going to say after "being born into wealth". She suddenly seemed to have lost her mind due to anger, and waved her hand vigorously: "In short, for a man to take a concubine , and you even persuaded him to go to another woman, you just embarrass women!"

Shang Ruyi sneered: "How can you ignore it? We are in this high position, so we can't just care about ourselves."

"..."

"There are so many women in the world, but you and I are not the only ones."

"..."

"You can't survive yourself, but you let others take this road."

This sentence suppressed Yu Mingyue. She had a lump in her throat and her eyes became clearer. When she looked at Shang Ruyi again, she became stern again and sneered: "Do you have to be raised by someone? I don't know how to find it myself." Work?"

"Mr. Sir?"

Another word she had never heard before, Shang Ruyi looked at her in surprise: "What is a public seat?" Yu Mingyue bit her lower lip and glared at her, disdainful and speechless: "Work! Work! It’s about supporting yourself!”

"What about supporting yourself?"

"You work, people give you money, and then you support yourself! Whether it's picking manure or chopping firewood, is it so difficult to support yourself?"

"Who would hire women to pick dung and chop firewood?"

Shang Ruyi thought it was ridiculous, and while shaking his head, his eyes gradually became contemptuous: "You just said that I had lost my reputation when I went into battle to kill the enemy. Why are you asking a woman to pick dung and chop firewood at this time?" Really? You are being too duplicitous."

"..."

"Besides, even if it's picking manure and chopping firewood, men are stronger than women. Who would hire a weaker person to do this?"

Yu Mingyue was furious: "What about weaving? Aren't you men farming and women weaving? Weaving, weaving, we can do it! There's no need to go out and show off!"

Shang Ruyi said: "Weaving does not require publicity, but not every woman in the world can weave."

"..."

"As I said before, there are too few choices for women."

"..."

"Besides, you said that she must be a 'public seat'. Then after a woman gets married, she takes care of her husband, raises her children, and presides over the palace. How can it not be the 'public seat' you mentioned? The difference is that she has to work hard and hard, unlike in the court. Zaifu, what’s the difference between Mr. Academy?”

"..."

"It's just that the salary on one side is visible, but the salary on the other side is invisible."

"..."

"Why do you think it's so unbearable to get married? Then what are you doing -"

"you!"

Yu Mingyue was full of anger, and she clenched the hand holding the tree trunk into a fist. Shang Ruyi frowned slightly. She seemed to feel that the other party was already eager to come up and tear her hair off. Although she was now Princess Qin, and Yu Mingyue's status meant that if she dared to attack her, she would have enough reasons to let her die without a burial place, but she was still a little surprised in her heart.

This person indeed has no idea of ​​superiority and inferiority at all, so her instinct is to resist some things and people that make her unhappy. However, perhaps it is the teachings given to her by others that make her realize that she cannot do this - act recklessly.

Could it be said that in the world she lived in, there was no hierarchy between superior and inferior?
Shang Ruyi's mind was in a daze again.

She subconsciously said: "Yu Mingyue, what is your 'hometown'-"

"okay!"

Yu Mingyue waved her hand and interrupted her harshly. As if she didn't want to dwell on things that she didn't even understand, she just said coldly: "In short, I just don't like you. If you keep concubines for your husband, I will look down on you!"

Shang Ruyi's brows gradually wrinkled.

Although she tried her best to control her emotions and wanted to dig out some of the secret thoughts that she usually hid from Yu Mingyue's drunken mouth, this naked disgust still made her a little uncomfortable.

look down?
At most, she felt a little uncomfortable... Although she had to suppress this discomfort under Princess Qin's dignity, how could she be looked down upon by others?
She thought for a while, then breathed a sigh of relief and said calmly: "I don't know why you targeted me so much on this matter, but I do this to honor heaven and earth, and to my conscience."

"..."

"Besides, letting him go to the concubine more often is not only selfless in my heart, but also makes Mrs. Chu's life easier."

"..."

"What's more, this move is also to open up branches and leaves for the royal family."

"..."

"After all, he is the King of Qin and the prince of the Tian family. If I - I mean if, I cannot give birth to a son, at least there will be concubines and others who can give birth to sons and inherit him -"

"Son, son?"

Hearing these four words, Yu Mingyue suddenly sneered, her eyes full of disdain, and even more contemptuous and lucky that Shang Ruyi hit her knife head, and said: "I can't listen to such words, give birth to a son and give birth to a son." Son, what’s the use of having a son? Does his family have the throne and want to--"

At this point, she stopped herself, her face looking so stiff that it was ugly.

After a while, he murmured: "Damn, there is really a throne to inherit."

I need to write a little more digression in this chapter
This is an article I have wanted to write for a long time, a dialogue between ancient and modern times, because I find that more and more people are insulting the ancients from the moral high ground, but completely ignore the limitations of the times.In fact, if we put aside the limitations of the times and only look at individuals, many people who point fingers at the ancients may not be more tenacious and wiser than the ancients who still stubbornly survived in harsh environments.

For example, I spent a few days and didn’t understand the structure of mortise and tenon joints (-_-)

Of course, I don’t mean to praise the ancients, nor can I praise the decadent system. What I praise is always people’s noble sentiments and good character.
As for the decadent system, apart from being trampled by the wheels of history, which makes people happy, its only function is to set off the unyielding nature of human nature in novels;

Every step of our progress today was actually made slowly over thousands of years by the pedantic ancients in everyone's eyes. From raw food to cooked food to delicacies, from knowing one's mother but not knowing one's father to monogamy and polyconcubine, to Monogamy and bigamy are against the law, even if one step is taken away from it.

And what you and I have in front of us will definitely be replaced by more advanced ones a few hundred years later.

I hope that people in the future can have a fair evaluation of mediocre people like us living in the contemporary era.

Of course, my opinion is definitely not completely accurate, it is just my narrow opinion, and this dialogue between ancient and modern times is not over yet. Modern people represented by Yu Mingyue cannot really be so worthless (this is the desire to survive), and everyone is welcome to discuss it. .