Concubine's Handbook of Good Life in Ancient Times

Chapter 19

The older generation can only recite poems, and those who can't tell the difference between ordinary and mediocre go to write poems, so don't laugh your ass off.And Shu Ning hates stealing poems very much, if you don't have the ability, don't steal other people's poems to satisfy your own vanity.If you don't steal from others, one day you won't have to steal, so what should you do?

So it's better to honestly admit that I don't know how to do it. Although I can't be a talented woman, choosing a daughter-in-law for my son as the wife of the family is not about choosing someone who is talented.On the contrary, those girls who are really famous in the capital are not easy to become the best daughter-in-law candidates in the hearts of those wives.

Talented girl, although she has a good reputation, the wife of the family wants her daughter-in-law to be someone who can only recite poems and fight against each other, and knows nothing but romance.If it’s just the youngest son marrying the youngest daughter-in-law, you can ignore this point, but the daughter-in-law doesn’t even understand housekeeping, so such a daughter-in-law can’t do anything but help her when she gets married, let alone become a son’s good helper up.

What is a good wife?Naturally, it is a wife who can help her husband.If you can't help your husband, then you might as well choose a few stunning concubines for your son. If you want to be talented, you want to have good looks. In short, as a regular wife, you must never choose such a girl.

However, it would be better if the main wife is talented and good-looking and can be a virtuous housemate, but generally speaking, women don’t deliberately become famous outside. For women, fame is a double-edged sword. There is a good side and a bad side The side of fame, especially when it is the man's mother who chooses the wife, becomes the hurtful side.

"Sister Shuning, you don't need to do this."

Seeing Shuning's wry smile and refusal, Chang Ziluo remembered that the eldest girl of the Yongning Hou's mansion had discredited the second girl as a younger sister. Although people who had a good relationship with Shuning in private knew that she was not good at poetry, they would not pass it on. After all, there are quite a few girls who can't write poetry, and for women from aristocratic families, writing poetry is just for fun, who would take it seriously, and they don't depend on it for food.

"That's right, sister Shuning, everyone is happy too, who would take it seriously."

Miss Huang also heard rumors about Miss Fang's inability to write poetry, but such rumors are only taken seriously by playboys and sour Confucians, who in real aristocratic families would care about such rumors.After all, even if there is a talented person who can't write poetry, it can only be said that this person is not good at it, and those who are not out of their minds will not take it seriously.

As for Miss Fang herself, I didn't see that the wives of the current aristocratic family didn't like her well, so they didn't include her in the list of choosing their daughter-in-law at all.

"Pfft, I know, thank you sisters for your concern, I'm fine."

Shu Ning couldn't help laughing, in fact, she really didn't care much, although everyone thought she should care.In fact, you will only know after you really come to ancient times that few things written in the novel are true, and the upbringing of the children of the aristocratic family is much stricter than in the novel.As long as the aunt is not brain-dead, whoever a normal educated girl would frame a girl from another family in order to chase a man, not to mention that the other party may not like her, if she really dared to do so, it would be tantamount to ruining her own reputation.

The reputation of ancient women is so important, not because of rumors like Shuning who can't write poetry, if they dare to run after a man and hurt the family's reputation, the family can send them directly to the temple as aunts.

In ancient times, the clan was the mainstay, and no matter whether it was a direct branch or a side branch, everyone had to work hard for the family.When a man does something wrong, everyone will say that the prodigal son will not be exchanged for money. When a woman does something wrong, she will not be able to lift her head up for the rest of her life. Even if she sincerely corrects, she will not be able to live again like a man. Because the world is harsh on women, they can only bear the burden. fame for a lifetime.

So Shu Ning was really curious about how Aunt Tao raised her daughter so that she didn't even care about her reputation and only wanted to seduce men.Doesn't she hate her daughter very much, because the girl from the church hall Hou's mansion is such a dirty trick.

"Just smile. It doesn't matter if sister Shuning doesn't know how to write poetry. You can appreciate the beautiful peonies. If you like, my sister will give you a pot of white peonies that you like most when you leave."

(End of this chapter)