After the carriage entered Cui Mansion, Yan Liu went directly to the resettlement yard.
Now that she is apparently dead, in order to save herself a lot of words and unnecessary trouble, it would be better for her not to appear in front of others and wait until she gets to the capital.
A year ago, her grandmother in Jingcheng wanted to take her to live in the capital for a short time, and she would get married in the capital next year.
However, he accidentally fell from the boat into the river and died immediately.
As long as Yan Liu thought about what happened before and after he fell into the water, his brain would throb and hurt, and he couldn't remember anything at all.
When Xiao Jing entered the door, he saw Yan Liu's lips were pale and asked worriedly: "Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
He turned around and arranged for the boy to call the doctor to come and see him.
Yan Liu quickly stopped him and said, "It's okay, it's an old problem."
Xiao Jing remembered that she didn't have these problems before, but Yan Liu was resolute and it was difficult for him to persist.
We are not at home now. The level of doctors here is limited, and Yan Liu also said that he knew what the cause was, so it would be difficult for Xiao Jing to intervene.
If there is really something wrong with Yan Liu's body, then her pulse is not something that can be leaked.
There must be a sense of propriety between them, just as Yan Liu can never ask where she has been this year unless he takes the initiative.
After the two of them finished eating, they freshened up again, but Cui Zuoliang hadn't returned home yet.
Xiao Jingdao: "Why don't we talk about a few rounds?"
Yan Liu had just rested in the afternoon and was not sleepy at this time. But when she heard Xiao Jing's words, she suddenly felt very sleepy.
He changed the subject and said: "Looking at the behavior of the servants in this house, the master of this house must be extremely tolerant."
Xiao Jing understood the implication of her words and said: "The servants in this family are a bit out of line."
The two chatted for a while, and Yan Liu was about to turn around and go back to his room to rest when there was a knock on the door outside the small courtyard.
Yan Liu heard the servant's report and was shocked: "Are you talking about the second young lady of the Xiao family? Are you sure you are not the second young master of the Xiao family?"
It was completely dark at this time, and they were resting in the front yard again. This...how could this happen...
Yan Liu turned around and sat next to Xiao Jing again, saying: "I have never heard that the Cui family has any plans to train their daughters to become officials. Moreover, you have never seen each other before. Why are you here looking for you so late? What's going on? thing?
She still wants to surrender to you privately, but what kind of bargaining chip can she offer? "
The relationship between Yan Liu and Xiao Jing is not limited to male and female. First, because of the incident, they suddenly had to borrow Xiao Jing's carriage to go to Beijing, but also because the two have known each other for many years.
Of course, none of the above is the most important. Yan Liu's greatest confidence in acting as she pleases is that she was trained according to the heirs of her family. The world judges her using the same evaluation system as Xiao Jing, and does not treat her as a mere accessory. .
She couldn't figure out the reason why the second mother-in-law of the Cui family came late at night. Is there going to be any big changes in Fancheng?
Because she couldn't think of the reason, her frown deepened.
Xiao Jingdao: "I advise you not to think too deeply about it.
I don't know what the second young lady of the Xiao family is like, but Cui Zuoliang has always liked gentle and virtuous women. "
Yan Liu retorted: "My daughter is always different from the women around me."
Xiao Jing said lightly: "But he is not one of them. He demands the same for his own daughter. He demands the same for all women in the world."
Yan Liu was not excited after hearing this. He only smiled and said: "He would never use that set of words to me, nor would he say that to my grandmother."
Xiao Ding nodded and said, "This is natural."
Yan Liu used to call her grandmother "grandma" because she had the closest relationship with the grandmother in Beijing.
This is not only about emotions, but also about interests. She is the only heir expected by her grandmother, and her grandmother has great expectations for Yan Liu.
When the dynasty was first established, there were still women who worshiped the prime minister, and there were also many women among the nobles who held titles.
But decades have passed, and Confucianism is now prevalent, and together with it are the three obediences and four virtues that were previously shelved.
Especially in the past two decades, the social atmosphere has become more and more conservative, and it will never return to the scene when the dynasty was first established.
Yan Liu has long accepted this phenomenon and has even discussed the causes of this phenomenon with her grandmother many times.
But in the end it all turned into a sentence of helplessness.
This is the same thing as before.
She was born into a noble family, and it was impossible for her to clean up the carrion of the imperial court now for the sake of disasters a hundred years later. This would certainly avoid uprisings in various places and prevent the Wei River from flowing across the river for several years, but it would put her family in danger.
After all, despite the calamity a hundred years later, her family may choose the right person again and usher in the next hundred years of prosperity.
And now she is the highly regarded child of her family. From the moment she was born, all the injustices to women in the world will not befall her.
Her elders carefully cared for her growth. She would worry about her heavy homework and dislike the complicated thoughts of her subordinates. However, she has never been defined as what a woman should be. What she came into contact with was what the heir of a big family should be. How to do it.
No one told her that she should be gentle and kind and not fight with others. She was taught to do whatever it takes, and she was also taught to be upright and upright.
In her private life, she was never told how to teach you how to be unpopular with your husband's family in the future, and how to do whatever you want.
The husband's identity or even his beauty is not important. What is important is that he has a good mind, is not extreme, is a kind person, and can live well and manage the back house well.
As for the others, apart from the people at the top, what kind of people can’t be found in a family like theirs?
As for you saying that men are not willing to stay at home?
She just wants the best years for them, she has never been affectionate.
And when Yan Liu enters the court, he will no longer worry about being bound by the rules of women in this world.
Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer women working in official positions, but they are not gone.
According to the current tacit understanding, after officially becoming an official, she should be treated according to the standards of a man. It can be said that she is corrupt and lustful, and she cannot run the family, but I feel that she cannot be criticized for not continuing the incense of her husband's family, being unable to maintain chastity, etc.
Otherwise, there will be unrelenting revenge from all stakeholders.
When the power of women becomes weaker and weaker, they will retaliate more violently and warn everyone who tries to break their wings.
Especially those who have no heirs but only daughters, they are even more disgusted with these statements, because they want to give away their life's wealth to others.
When a daughter inherits the family, the elders are not worried about your lack of ability or immature means. They are just worried that you will not be able to stand up.
I'm afraid that you have been affected by the social disciplines formed over thousands of years. You will think about finding a reliable person before anything happens. When you get married, you will give everything to your husband. When you have a child, you will focus on the child.
You must first be yourself, you must realize that your family is on your shoulders, and you must clearly understand that you will not be anyone's vassal.
As long as they have tasted true freedom and tasted the beauty of power, no one is willing to go back.
It’s just that most people don’t have this opportunity or talent.
Yan Liu thought that maybe in a few hundred years, all women would be imprisoned in men's backyards, and they would create a new evaluation system to evaluate women in order to allow them to serve them better.
But she can't do anything about it, because it is too far away, because it requires unremitting efforts of several generations, but it is not worth it to wrong the present for the distant future.
Nowadays, most people are much better off when they get married than when they work alone, because there is always someone to rely on, and because men will not make excessive demands on them.
Because there are independent women of their own in both the government and the public, men can only attract more women to return to their homes by improving their treatment, and there are also rules formed over thousands of years to tame their spirits, as well as their own relatives and elders. Outsiders brainwash them together, and they have too many methods.
Yan Liu thought that in that kind of environment, she would hesitate or even give in. What's more, she never knew that she had another path.
Fortunately, she has a good background. Her elders are willing to cultivate her as a descendant of the clan rather than as a tool for marriage. She can get help from her own family, so she has no trouble walking this path. Not hard, even too smooth.
