Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Chapter 459 Continue on the road (please subscribe and vote monthly)
Qingyan quickly stopped her and said, "Sister Li, don't bother. We came here to tell you that we can't stay here today. We have some urgent matters to attend to in the county. We will come back to bother you again when we have the chance."

"That's really unfortunate. Just wait for me. I'll be fine soon."

When Mrs. Li heard what she said, she didn't say anything to persuade her to stay. After all, she had to leave on urgent matters, so she couldn't force her to stay.

She went into the house and took out the umbrella, which she wanted to return to Qingyan, and also used a bamboo basket to put a basket of mushrooms she had just picked out.

"This is a mushroom that is unique to us here. Now is the season to eat it. It tastes very delicious. I don't have anything good here, so I will give this to you to take back for a taste. I hope you don't dislike it."

Seeing such a big basket, Qingyan was a little embarrassed to take it for nothing. She wanted to give Li some money, but the other party didn't want it. Qingyan didn't want to push it back and forth with the other party. After thinking about it, she simply went to the car (actually in space). (inside) took out a fish.

This was a grass carp weighing more than four pounds that they had caught on the top of the mountain.

Qingyan handed it to Mrs. Li and said before she refused: "Sister-in-law Li, we accepted the mushrooms, but you also have to accept this fish. You can't refuse. We just caught it in the lake on the top of the mountain. We will eat it for lunch." This one tastes good.

I’ll save this for my family to try. It’s just in time to add a side dish at night. Don’t refuse, we still have it in the car. "

After hearing this, Mrs. Li took back her words. The fish weighed four to five kilograms and was very big. It could feed a whole family.

"Okay, then sister-in-law will accept it. If you come here again in the future, you must come over. Then sister-in-law will cook your specialty dishes and entertain you well."

Qingyan agreed and promised to come again if she had the chance. Then she said goodbye to Mrs. Li who was sent out, got on the carriage and left.

After they left Xujiacun, they walked south again, got on the official road and headed east.

Of course it is impossible to go back to the county seat. We have already come out, so there is no need to go back.

Both the island in the middle of the lake and the traveler have Chou Chou staring at them from time to time, but they are not prepared to recognize each other anyway, so as long as the other party doesn't do anything too outrageous, that's it.

To be honest, if the other party was a woman, Qingyan might actually have contact with the other party, which would be inconvenient for an old man in his fifties.

And seeing that the other party has adapted well, it means that he was also a man before time travel, so forget it. There is no need to create extraneous matters.

They had just walked east for half an hour when they couldn't move forward. The road ahead was blocked. This time it wasn't a big rock, but two groups of people confronting each other on the road.

Both groups are men. The leader of both groups is older, followed by younger ones.

There were about thirty people on their side, mostly in their forties, and less about twenty on the other side, with more people in their twenties in their prime.

Except for the older leader on both sides, the people behind were all holding sticks, and some even had stones in their hands.

In fact, both groups were dressed as farmers, but farm tools were precious at this time, and they would definitely not be willing to use them as weapons during a fight, so they all used local materials, namely sticks and stones picked up on the roadside.

The two sides did not take action, but the atmosphere was tense, and the two leaders were obviously negotiating.

They were forced to stop behind and could only wait there for a while. There were so many people, and they couldn't move forward to drive them away.

In addition to them, there were two ox carts in front of them, but they were not blocked here. They should have been driven over by the people in front. They were empty and there were no cart drivers.

Qingyan listened to the negotiation content of those people for a while, and then she became speechless. At first, she thought it was a conflict between two villages or two families, but it turned out that they were talking about the remarriage of the widow.

One side is the widow's husband's family, and the other is the widow's natal family. The natal family wants to take the person back to remarry. The husband's family does not agree, saying that the mother-in-law is left with two young sons who cannot live. If she wants to remarry, she must die with her mother-in-law, and the children will not grow up until they are adults. OK.

Of course, my mother-in-law is not willing to die for her mother-in-law. Who knows how many years she can live. If she can live for another thirty or forty years, who will be sent away may not be certain.

It will take more than ten years to wait until the children grow up. Now the children are only three or four years old. When the children grow up and their mothers are old, why should they marry? Just wait for them to provide for them in old age.

The more they talked, the more excited they became, and both sides refused to give in. In the end, some even said they would go to the government officials for comment.

If the matter really gets taken to the government, my husband’s family will probably be defeated.

Because this time will not prevent widows from remarrying. Before the Song Dynasty, the court had regulations that, except for the "Mrs. Gaoming" granted by the court because of their husbands, ordinary women could remarry as long as they met the following four conditions.

In ancient times, people paid great attention to mourning, so the first condition is that a widow cannot remarry during the period of mourning for her husband.

Generally, after the husband's death, the wife must mourn for him for three years in her husband's home. During this three-year mourning period, the wife is not allowed to remarry.

If the wife remarries during the mourning period without the consent of her husband's family, the wife will violate the laws of the court.

Although the "Book of Changes" talks about "from one to the end", it tells everyone that women should keep chastity. Once they marry their husbands, they will spend their lives with them and cannot change them. Even if the man dies, he cannot remarry.

Cheng Yi, a Neo-Confucian scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, once said, "Death by starvation is a trivial matter, but losing one's chastity is a very serious matter." This means that even death by starvation is a trivial matter, but losing chastity is more terrible than death by starvation.

But this was only believed by a few people at that time. Most of them were self-righteous people who wanted to save face and suffer. In reality, women in the Song Dynasty could remarry.

Not only can you remarry, but sometimes they are even very popular.

In fact, the principle of "from beginning to end" was never strictly implemented before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, even in the Song Dynasty when Neo-Confucianism began to rise.

Not to mention too far, let’s start with the Han Dynasty. The founding emperor of the Han Dynasty took in Bo Ji, the wife of Xiang Yu’s general, Zhao Ji, the concubine of Zhao Wang Zhang Ao, etc.

His grandson Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty also married Wang Quan, the ex-wife of Jin Wangsun, and this queen also gave birth to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The same goes for intellectuals. Sima Xiangru eloped with Zhuo Wenjun. At that time, Zhuo Wenjun was also a young widow whose husband had just died.

It was even more remarkable at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cao Cao attacked Yecheng, and it is said that he took a fancy to Yuan Shao's daughter-in-law Zhen.

However, Zhen eventually became Cao Pi's wife, and Cao Zhi was probably also fascinated by Zhen, so he wrote "Luo Shen Fu" and left a public case.

As for Queen Mu of Liu Bei of Western Shu and Mrs. Xu of Sun Quan of Eastern Wu, it was not their first marriage when they married. In the Tang Dynasty, according to Zhu Xi, a master of Neo-Confucianism, "The origins of Tang Dynasty originated from Yi and Di, so the disrespect of boudoirs was not considered unusual."

This means that the royal family of the Tang Dynasty was of barbarian origin, so it was not surprising to them that the women of the Tang Dynasty corrupted the family tradition.

I'm afraid Zhu Xi didn't think it was strange, because he looked down on ethnic minorities, and even looked down on the high status of women.

But what he said is true. Tang Taizong married at least two remarried women, not to mention that the Wu Cairen he favored in his later years married his son Tang Gaozong.

Princess Taiping, daughter of Wu Zetian and Li Zhi, was married twice, and Princess Anle, daughter of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian, was also married twice and almost became the crown princess.

The most shameless person is probably Li Longji. This Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty even snatched his own daughter-in-law, and turned the longevity princess Yang Yuhuan into his daughter-in-law and made her a noble concubine.

Women in the Tang Dynasty were very free and their lives were even more open. According to statistics, twenty-seven princesses in the Tang Dynasty alone remarried, three of whom married three times.

Since the Tang and Song dynasties were relatively recent, this custom had actually been passed down. The Song Dynasty inherited this "glorious tradition", and remarriage became a common phenomenon from the royal family to officials and literati.

For example, Song Taizu's sister married Miford first and then Gao Huaide, the first of its kind.

Wang Anshi presided over the remarriage of his daughter-in-law and found another husband's family. Yue Fei's first wife, Mrs. Liu, remarried twice. Even Cheng Yi, who advocated "consistency and perseverance", did not object to the remarriage of his niece-in-law.

With the example of the royal family and the leading role of officials and scholars, the common people, not to mention the common people, don't care about the principle of "consistency and end up", and they will not agree that "starving to death is a trivial matter, and a breach of integrity is a minor matter." "Great" logic.

In order to make a living and pursue personal happiness, the women of the Song Dynasty divorced when they should and married when they should, without any ambiguity at all.

Of course, divorce as soon as you want, and marriage as you want, must be permitted by law and recognized by the world. Otherwise, everyone can do whatever they want, and society will not be in chaos.

Besides, without a system to protect it, the property cannot be disposed of.

How can you live your life without the support and protection of the whole society if you are penniless and clean? Therefore, it is troublesome for men and women to get divorced, not to mention that in the feudal era of patriarchal society, Women in the Song Dynasty needed more support and protection.

Fortunately, the Song Dynasty was still very humane in this regard. From the government to the family, the rights of ladies were respected, and this was reflected in laws and systems.

If a woman in the Song Dynasty lived in a family with a relatively decent economy, she would have the same rights as a man since she was a child.

For example, the family gets a share of the annual land rental income, and she also gets a share of what others share.

For example, the family's land and real estate also have inheritance rights according to the rules. Even if her parents pass away and she is left helpless in the family, these properties will be distributed to her bit by bit when she gets married. This does not mean that she is about to become a person with a foreign surname. different.

Another example is that from childhood to adulthood, you will receive a sum of clothing fees or clothing materials every once in a while to buy new clothes. When you grow up, you will also have jewelry to wear.

Of course, if you get married and don’t want to leave your natal family, or if you get a son-in-law, your income will not change, and what is hers will be hers.

So to sum up, women were still very secure during the Song Dynasty, and there was no problem with widows remarrying.

In the end, the two groups of people didn't come up with a conclusion. Seeing that it was getting dark soon, they actually said they would continue tomorrow and dispersed.

Qingyan: "..."

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Ingots:"……"

"Can't they talk about this in their own homes? Why do they have to talk about it in official channels?"

Qingzhu just came out of society, so he didn't understand it. Since he didn't understand, of course he asked directly.

Qingyan looked at the two groups in front of them walking towards the fork in the road, and was speechless at the development that started but ended.

However, he still explained to Qingzhu: "I guess I don't want to be convinced by anyone, and I don't want to go to the other party's territory, so I chose this middle position."

Qingzhu nodded in understanding. It actually didn't care about this. It was more concerned about, "Then should we continue on our way now, or should we go back to space for dinner?"

That's right, it's time to eat. Ever since it ate the food made by Chou Chou, it has fallen into the temptation of delicious food and can't extricate itself. Nothing can compare with it. The sky is big and the earth is big, and eating is the biggest.

Qingyan was immediately amused by its words. She used her spiritual sense to explore it and said, "Then let's go a little further. There are villages on both sides of here. There are more people passing by. If we disappear suddenly, it will be easy for others to see us. The five people in front of us will Behind the land is the wasteland, let’s go in from there.”

Qingzhu nodded, "Okay, let's continue on our way. We have to walk five miles for a while, and it will get dark soon."

Qingyan extended her spiritual sense and looked towards the family home of the widow who was going to remarry. She was just a little curious and wanted to see what the widow looked like.

My consciousness circled around the village before I found the house. I found that the little widow looked familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere.

She thought about it carefully and found that there seemed to be no such person among the people she had met before. When she spoke to her family again, Qingyan suddenly remembered that when she visited Xujia Village the night before, she seemed to have seen a person. I went to have an affair at night, and the woman who came out of the house to greet me was this little widow!

The moonlight was very bright that day, and the young widow walked into the yard again, so Qingyan could see clearly. Could it be that the person she had an affair with was the person she was going to remarry?

That's not right. Since this is her natal family and her husband's family is in the village opposite Guandao, how could she be in Xujia Village at that time?
She listened to the conversation of the family for a while, and then they all walked to the open space and prepared to enter the space, and then she understood the reason.

It turned out that her aunt was married to Xujiacun, and her husband died a year ago. Only her two daughters were married, so her aunt was the only one left in the family.

She met her affair partner when she went to see her aunt last year. The man was also from Xujia Village. He was a widower whose wife had just died a year ago. The two had been together half a year ago, just because she was still alive. There was no mourning period, so we kept coming and going secretly.

It wasn't until the three-year mourning period started this month that she asked her parents to come to her home and tell her husband's family that she wanted to remarry.

She had a widowed mother-in-law and two young sons. Of course her husband's family was not willing to do so, so they asked someone from the clan to make peace. Unexpectedly, the two sides almost started fighting if the explanation didn't make sense.