Chapter 216 The Righteous Way (5)
Chapter 216 The Righteous Way (5)
What Bai Lingyi meant by this is very interesting. If women compose poetry to sell their bodies, then does that mean that correspondingly, men compose poetry to sell their genitals?
Thinking of this, Lu Changqing was inspired to write a line of poetry: It took me ten years to cultivate beautiful chrysanthemums, and I will sell them to the emperor's family.
Wow~ This world is truly a mosaic of literature.
When Lu Changqing walked to the front yard, he happened to meet his sister-in-law He Guiyi who came to pay her respects at the door.
Lu Changqing was the first to greet the other party, "Sister-in-law."
He Guiyi glanced at Lu Changqing and called out indifferently, "Fourth sister."
Lu Changqing asked knowingly, "Sister-in-law doesn't look well, is she sick?"
He Guiyi was in a bad mood not because she was sick, but because her husband had hired a maid last night and she had just gone to the maid's room and had her force-feed contraceptive soup.
"Nothing, I just didn't sleep well last night."
"You didn't sleep well. Does your elder brother know? Sister-in-law, you are still pregnant. You should take care of your body." Lu Changqing deliberately showed a concerned look on his face, but his tone was shady. "I say to my elder brother too. This is your first child. You should be careful about everything. Why did I ask you to come to pay respects to the mistress so early?"
He Guiyi kept a stiff smile on his face and said, "Thank you for your concern, Fourth Sister. Your eldest brother is busy with his studies, so he doesn't need to worry about these little things."
"Hey~ How can this be considered a small matter? This is your child, the first grandchild of our Bai family."
"Thank you for the reminder, Fourth Sister. I will be careful." After saying that, He Guiyi ignored Lu Changqing, shook her sleeves, and walked inside with the maids.
Lu Changqing looked at He Guiyi's back and smiled. This woman and her husband Bai Mingzhou were a perfect match.
The same hypocrisy, the same falsehood.
The man couldn't control himself but wanted to pretend to be a loving wife. He was afraid that he would have an illegitimate child and ruin his reputation, so he tacitly allowed He Guiyi to feed contraceptive soup to those concubines.
He Guiyi didn't dare vent her anger on her man, so she could only vent it on these girls.
It is said that if you are not from the same family, you will not enter the same door. In the plot, He Guiyi has learned the true skills from her mother-in-law Du Hezhi. When she teaches these "restless" girls a lesson, she calls them vixens and bitches. Her mouth stinks as if someone died in her mouth.
She even calls herself a lady of noble family. If Lu Changqing were to say, she is not as good as her, at least she has self-knowledge and has always admitted that she is a black-hearted, foul-mouthed and uncultured person.
But He Guiyi and her husband are different. They are two-faced people. They are a perfect couple in front of people, but a vicious husband who harms his wife behind people's backs. The crazy woman and the crazy husband are of the same bad taste.
The contraceptive soup of ancient times is not the modern emergency contraceptive pill. Ancient medicinal materials were so precious, how could they possibly give good medicine to ordinary servants?
Therefore, people are usually given a big stew of medicine containing mercury, alum or other strong corrosive agents. Drinking this stuff for a long time can easily cause heavy metal poisoning.
Lu Changqing didn't know what happened to these girls, because the plot only wrote about the tears of the noble men. As for the lower class people, especially these girls, the creators only described their debauchery and restlessness.
I really want to pull all the creative teams in this world over here, and let them experience the life of the lower class people in the extreme environment they artificially created, and see if they dare to stand high and mighty and point fingers at these poor supporting characters.
Lu Changqing himself knew that characters like He Guiyi were written to serve the plot and serve men, and they themselves had no choice.
But Lu Changqing has played too many minor roles. She can't empathize with these nobles or upper-class women who kneel down and surrender to men by beating and killing other women. In simple terms, they are feudal wives.
All she could do was not kill them herself. As for how much they would realize in the end, that was up to them.
Lu Changqing bent her knees slightly to greet Du Hezhi. Du Hezhi waved at her impatiently, and Lu Changqing stood up and stood aside.
Without the mistress's order, none of the children could leave. This is filial piety.
Hahaha.
While other people were enjoying themselves with their loving mother and filial daughter, Lu Changqing just stood there like a wooden stake, his mind wandering in space.
After a while, a maid came to report that the second girl had returned.
Du Hezhi glanced at Lu Changqing and said, "Go down. There is nothing for you to do here."
Lu Changqing bowed and responded, then turned and left.
In the plot, Bai Lingyi came back with a slap mark. She had been married for three years without a child, and her husband was a coward who only knew how to beat women at home. He had a lot of concubines, but she still treated her dear husband as a treasure.
She was beaten every now and then, but she was still thinking about managing her broken marriage. She never thought about divorce and didn't even look for the reason from her husband. She just thought it was because she didn't have children.
According to the general novel routine, there are two endings for this kind of brain-dead cancer: either the woman wakes up and divorces the scumbag to be alone, or she continues to work like a slave for the man and dies miserably in the end.
But the creators of this world are different. They found a third way for Bai Lingyi - she stopped fighting for the housekeeper's power, went home and tried hard to get pregnant and have a baby, happily washed men's underwear, and finally won the favor of her husband with the help of her brother who passed the imperial examination and her brother-in-law who held a high position in the government.
Her husband respects her not because of her, but because of the men from her family, which once again proves that the world is a huge ditch literature.
As soon as Lu Changqing returned to his room, Lin Wenqing called someone over.
"I heard your second sister is back?"
Lu Changqing nodded.
Lin Wenqing asked, "Did you see anyone?"
"No, the mistress kicked me out."
Lin Wenqing gloated: "He must be afraid of being laughed at."
"Mom, are you happy?"
Lin Wenqing readily admitted: "Of course I am happy. As long as I see Du Hezhi and her bunch of kids in trouble, I am happy."
Lu Changqing: …
Lin Wenqing snorted coldly, "So what if she's a legitimate daughter? So what if she's in an earl's mansion? As long as the man she marries is not good enough, isn't that still a joke?"
Look at what he said, everyone in the Bai Mansion is a joke.
Seeing that Lu Changqing was distracted, Lin Wenqing patted her arm and said, "I'm talking to you, are you listening?"
"I'm listening."
"Your second sister is probably here to cry again this time." Lin Wenqing curled her lips and said disdainfully, "She always acts like a mistress in front of me. I didn't think she was that great because she was taught by Du Hezhi."
This look of a smug villain was so vivid that Lu Changqing took note of Lin Wenqing's tone and contemptuous expression at that moment, and would act like that whenever she wanted to annoy someone in the future.
"But then again, your second brother-in-law is really useless. He is neither good at literature nor martial arts, and he has a bad temper. He is just born into a good family. If he were an ordinary family, your father would have taken your second sister back long ago."
"Mom, you are wrong. If it was really an ordinary family, Dad would not marry my second sister to them. Dad is a man who values profit the most."
Lin Wenqing choked and said, "You can't say that. It's also for the benefit of the family."
Seeing that Lu Changqing didn't take it seriously, Lin Wenqing said seriously, "Don't let outsiders hear this. If someone tells your father that you're talking about him like this behind his back, he'll be unhappy."
Lu Changqing nodded to indicate that he understood. As the saying goes, like father, like son. Just look at what kind of person Bai Mingzhou is, and you can tell his father wouldn't be a good guy either.
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