Back to the marriage proposal, helping the incompetent husband to rise to the top

Chapter 18 Confrontation
"Yes." Chu Yanrong held her hand gently: "Mother misses your second brother very much, but she can't get away.

You and Chen Xi go and bring him back as soon as possible, okay?

He is coming back from the south, so he shouldn't be far away."

South side...

Ye Wanqing understood her mother's intention, and her eyes were slightly hot: "Okay."

Chu Yanrong touched her head and said, "The carriage is outside the mansion gate. The money and pass are ready. You can call Chen Xi and set off early."

Ye Wanqing choked up: "Okay..."

Chu Yanrong hugged her and said, "Father and mother are waiting for you at home. You must return safely."

Outside the mansion, the carriage and attendants were already in place.

Chu Yanrong was fully prepared. She assigned a few nimble maids to serve on the road, a skilled cook, two palace doctors, and hundreds of strong palace soldiers...

In addition to food and clothing, a lot of supplements and precious medicinal materials were also prepared.

It doesn't feel like picking someone up, it feels more like dressing up for a trip.

Lying in the carriage, Ye Chenxi was very leisurely: "This is the first time I'm going to a place so far away from Beijing since I was a child.

Moreover, mother has entrusted me with the important task of protecting you."

Upon hearing this, Ye Wanqing looked up from the sutra and said, "This is the first time I've been out of Jindu since I was a child, except for the palaces and Buddhist temples outside the capital."

"It's true." Ye Chenxi turned over and sat up: "There are so many beautiful mountains and rivers in Western Wei, poor girl, I haven't seen them all."

Pitiful?
Ye Wanqing closed the scripture and looked at Ye Chenxi calmly: "Which woman in this era is not living a miserable life?"

Ye Chenxi was stunned.

A corner of the car window curtain was lifted.

Ye Chenxi sat up straight and looked out through the gap opened by the girl.

It was morning and the streets were busy.

It is not yet Mid-Autumn Festival, but beautiful lanterns and colorful silks of all colors have been hung on the streets, and the streets are bustling with traffic and pedestrians.

And looking around, there were no women to be seen...

Women in the Western Wei Dynasty rarely showed their true faces in front of the opposite sex after they turned ten years old, let alone wandering around the streets.

When an unmarried woman goes out for something, she must cover her face with a veil or a veil.

Getting married is based on the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words, it is a blind marriage.

After marriage, if the husband's family has strict etiquette and strict discipline, they will stay in the back house most of their lives, helping their husbands and raising their children...

The only opportunities to go out in a year are visiting relatives and friends, the Lantern Festival, the Qiqiao Festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The most stringent controls on women are usually found among prominent families and wealthy households.

Women from ordinary families, on the other hand, tend to live a slightly freer life and would go out from time to time to help the men at home with housework to supplement the family income.

However, ordinary people have their own sufferings.

The Western Wei Dynasty still retained the imperial examination system of the previous dynasty, but in the past hundred years, there were very few private schools left, and most schools were opened by aristocratic families.

Students need to take an entrance examination and must be able to read some characters before they can register.

The annual tuition fee is dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver.

For ordinary people, it is already difficult to support a family, so how can they afford to pay for their children's education?
Most ordinary people, from birth to death, cannot even write their own names.

Although this era seems prosperous and peaceful, it is a tragedy for women and ordinary people.

So, she wanted to resist.

"Sister."

Ye Chenxi suddenly called her.

"Ok?"

Ye Wanqing lowered the carriage curtain and turned to look at her elder brother.

Ye Chenxi looked at the girl with clear eyes: "Sister, I seem to suddenly understand why you want to marry An Lan."

"Really?" Ye Wanqing smiled barely perceptible.

"Yeah!" Ye Chenxi nodded vigorously: "You are right, as a woman, we can't live as happily as we men.

Men can go out and have fun at will since they were young, and visit brothels at the age of thirteen or fourteen. When they grow up, they have countless wives and concubines at home. But you women are always locked up at home.

Look at you, we were born on the same day, I have been playing around since I was a child, and you, either stayed in Jinghong Garden or stayed in the Queen Mother's Palace...

I have countless friends, but you don't even have a close friend.

So, you want to marry a reckless and lawless man to fight against the strict etiquette and laws of the Western Wei Dynasty, right?"

Fight against strict etiquette and laws?
Ye Wanqing was surprised.

She always felt that Ye Chenxi lived a naive life and was ignorant of the world. He knew nothing and didn't worry about anything...

But unexpectedly, he actually lives a very transparent life.

Ye Wanqing laughed at himself and said, "The Western Wei Dynasty has been established for hundreds of years, and its etiquette and laws have their own set of rules. How can I compete with them?

How can I, alone, fight against millions of people?
I have done my best to secure a free marriage for myself."

"That's hard to say!" Ye Chenxi snorted, "What if, after you take the lead, all the women in Western Wei stand up and oppose blind marriage?"

All the women in the Western Wei Dynasty?

Are you all standing up against blind marriage?

Ye Wanqing's heart was moved: "It would be great if that day could come."

Unfortunately, she never got to see that scene until she died of illness in her previous life.

……

After the fall, the weather did not cool down.

The further south the carriage went, the hotter it became.

Halfway through, Ye Chenting sent a letter.

"My second brother said that Master Yao is compiling a book called "Travels in the Western Wei Dynasty" to record the local customs and humanities of various places..." Ye Chenxi frowned: "They went to Yinxu County."

Ye Wanqing paused.

She vaguely remembered that at this time in her previous life, she had already accepted Lu Jilian's proposal and the two families were discussing the marriage.

After receiving the letter from home, Ye Chenting ended his study tour early and returned to Beijing to prepare for his sister's marriage...

But in this life, the second brother did not return home early.

Moreover, he also went to Yinxu County.

What a coincidence.

Ye Wanqing wrote a letter: "Tell my second brother to tell the people traveling with him to leave Yinxu County as soon as possible."

"The date of writing was two days ago." Ye Chenxi said in embarrassment: "Today, they may have settled down in Yinxu County."

Ye Wanqing: “…”

What is the current situation in Yinxu County?
If you go in, wouldn't that be courting death?

Ye Chenxi quickly comforted her: "An Lan must have arrived in Yinxu County and started to evacuate the people, don't worry."

Yes.

Ye Wanqing calculated silently: "If he hadn't been delayed on the way, he should have arrived yesterday at the latest. Today, he should have gone to patrol the lake."

"Yeah!" Ye Chenxi nodded vigorously.

Ye Wanqing picked up the scripture on the small table and looked through it for a long time, but did not read a single word.

So she changed the book.

Seeing her absent-minded appearance, Ye Chenxi asked the doubts that had been bothering her for some time: "Sister, if you are worried about An Lan, why did you agree to let him go to Yinxu County?"

"He had his reasons for going." Ye Wanqing explained.

Ye Chenxi was confused: "Why?"

Ye Wanqing, who previously thought that her elder brother was very insightful, had a complicated look in her eyes: "Because the emperor's order is hard to disobey, and because I am gambling."

She spoke the last sentence so softly that almost only she could hear it.

"what?"

Ye Chenxi became even more confused.

(End of this chapter)