How will you get married in the future?
Hearing what his mother said, Xiao Cui's heart felt cold again.
It's all cold now.
She felt quite depressed.
She didn't expect that the only mother who could give her some warmth in that depressive home was actually on her father's side, not thinking about her at all, but only thinking about her father and that illusory and ridiculous face.
She stared blankly at her mother and cried silently for a long time. Then she suddenly took a breath, wiped her tears, leaned to the side, and put some distance between herself and her mother.
"Mom, do you see it this way? Do you really want me to marry into that family?"
Mother Xiao raised her head and glanced at her daughter's eyes. It seemed that she didn't dare to look directly, or she felt burning pain. After a brief glance, she looked away and her voice became much lower.
"As a mother, I just... I just hope you don't ruin your reputation. No one will want you in the future. You make people laugh wherever you go. This factory can't support you for a lifetime, right? You still have to get married after all. Marry If a chicken follows a chicken and a dog follows a dog, who will you marry? Isn't this what women are born to do?"
After saying that, Xiao's mother held Xiao Cui's hand with some hope, and whispered: "As a mother, I beg you, let's go, okay? If this continues, your father will lose face. Let's My family is a shame, how can I live like this?"
After Xiao's mother finished speaking, she sobbed softly.
Xiao Cui remained silent.
She looked down at the back of her mother's rough and chapped hands, recalling how her mother had worked so hard to raise her when she was young. She also recalled that when she was young, the man would often come home drunk and violent, and her mother would always hold her in her arms, trying to protect her. …
Of course, there was always a beating in the end.
That man was very fierce, and once he drank, he became even more fierce. He would always hit people, and his temper was also very quick. Sometimes he would suddenly become angry even while talking.
She thought of the past and the present.
Xiao Cui remembers that when she was a little older and had memories, she heard from her neighbors that the man was originally a lazy person and was unwilling to farm.
His family was not a tenant, but a self-cultivator. His parents had saved twenty acres of land all their lives through frugality, and they were looking forward to life. However, they did not expect that their only son was so incompetent that they would rather sell the land for wine than farm.
Such a person would probably not be able to find a wife. Everyone thought so at the time.
But he didn't expect that his father and mother were so upset that they bought him a wife with the money they exchanged for thirteen acres of land, thus continuing their good relationship.
Therefore, the people in the village sympathized with the woman and felt that she must have done some evil in her previous life to be promised to this lazy man as his wife because of money.
That woman is Xiao Cui's mother.
Perhaps she was resentful that her parents didn't leave all the land to her in exchange for money to buy wine. As long as she could remember, Xiao Cui never got a little bit of fatherly love from that man. All she got was endless beatings and scoldings.
That man always said that she was a lost star and a loser, so she had no good impression of that man. She only had deep fear and resentment, as well as resentment at her own inability to change reality.
Fortunately, taking advantage of the changing times and the opportunity of recruiting workers in the factory, the man felt that it was profitable, so he hurriedly sent Xiao Cui, who was only 12 years old, to the factory and asked her to work to earn money to buy wine for him.
Xiao Cui was sent to the factory as a tool. She was originally desperate and thought she was going to die here, but she didn't expect that she felt reborn in the factory.
I learned how to read, had enough to eat, wore new clothes and new shoes, got wages, saw the outside world, and met many sisters and friends whom I would never have known.
She gradually felt that she should belong here, not in that man's family.
And here, she began to have the idea of saving up money to take her mother and brother away from that sad place forever.
So she approached Fang Zhiqiang, the factory instructor, and asked him if a female worker like herself could change her place of origin and live from one village to another.
Fang Zhiqiang was a little surprised at the time. He didn't know why Xiao Cui asked like this, but he still responded to her gently.
As long as she is a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, has registered her place of origin, and proves that she has a family, she can settle down with her new family wherever they want.
Of course, the premise is that the village they want to settle in still has a quota for settlement, because the quota for settlement in each village is limited, and now there are many people who want to move back to the countryside from the county seat waiting for arrangements, so the quota may be tight.
Xiao Cui asked him again whether moving with his mother and younger brother could be considered a family.
Fang Zhiqiang didn't understand. The factory information showed that Xiao Cui's father was still alive, so he wanted to ask the specific reason, but Xiao Cui didn't tell him and just asked if it was possible.
Fang Zhiqiang told Xiaocui that the definition of a family in the law is that there is a relationship between husband and wife. If not, it cannot be recognized, because the quota for settlement means a house and a piece of land, which requires productive labor force for production. Otherwise there is no point.
If there is no relationship between husband and wife, it cannot be considered that there is a labor force that can cultivate and produce, then won’t the land be abandoned?
Xiao Cui was very dissatisfied and argued with the instructor, saying that she, her mother and her brother were in the same family, so why couldn't they divide the land and the house?
Fang Zhiqiang had no choice but to explain again and again that this was a stipulation of the law and it was not something he could change. Even if she went to the county or state capital, it would be the same because it was not something they could change. There was no point in Xiao Cui continuing to make trouble.
Xiao Cui was furious and helpless.
"Although my father and my mother are husband and wife, I have never felt that they are a family!"
After leaving these words, Xiao Cui ran away. She did not give up and was always looking for new solutions.
Fang Zhiqiang probably also sensed something inside, so he told Xiao Cui that he had remembered it wrong and that there were special provisions in the Ming Law.
In the context of the war that had just ended, it was normal for family members to be disabled, so the court relaxed the conditions for settlement. In the case of family members being disabled, as long as there are male laborers over the age of 15 in the family, it can be regarded as a family and can have a family. Eligibility for settlement.
After Xiao Cui learned about it, he fell silent.
She was just thirteen years old at the time, and her brother was only nine years old, which meant that she had to wait another six years to be eligible to settle down.
Xiao Cui felt that she didn't want to wait any longer, so she asked Fang Zhiqiang if there was any other way.
Fang Zhiqiang thought for a while and reluctantly told Xiao Cui that there was another way, which was to spend money to buy a house in the county, and then move to the county and become a city resident.
In this case, all you need to do is give up your original rural household registration.
However, this is not a good idea in Fang Zhiqiang’s opinion.
Because at this moment, Laiwu County is still relatively "desolate", and there are no supporting land and agricultural policies. Settling in the county means being responsible for your own profits and losses, without land security.
However, precisely because of this, the qualification for settling in rural areas is bound to land, houses, farm tools, etc., and requires settlers to provide labor protection, while cities do not have this concern.
At the current stage of society, cities are consumer cities and are the gathering places of the upper class. Bureaucrats, landlords, gentry, wealthy businessmen and other upper-class people live in the city, and then some service industries and related service groups are generated.
They constituted the civil class of this era.
Although civilians still account for a large number of the civil class, the reason why they exist is mainly because of the existence of these superior people, so they exist.
They live in the city relying on the wealth generated by the oppression and exploitation of the superior people. Now that they have been wiped out and eliminated as a class, they have no one to serve, no one to make money, and no one to serve. sources of income.
It can be said that there was a relatively rapid urbanization process in the Song Dynasty, which was based on unprecedented high-intensity exploitation and oppression in the Song Dynasty.
It was the Song Dynasty's oppression and exploitation of farmers that was unprecedentedly serious, which led to a wave of urbanization in an era when productivity was far less than that of modern Europe, and thus gave birth to the initial citizen class and citizen culture.
A considerable number of citizens were forced to be born. They did not become citizens voluntarily. The Song Dynasty could not guarantee to provide enough urban jobs to support these citizens who had lost their land. A considerable number of citizens lived a miserable life.
And now, in a sense, Su Yonglin has reversed history.
