Chapter 263 New Road
On that day, Mr. Huang refused to turn to the south, and Tang Zhe often came back. Mr. Huang wanted to avoid people and avoid Tang Zhe, and rarely had the opportunity to go to Yu Nu. After a few days, he thought about it day and night, and almost got sick.
On that day, Tang Zhe went out early and said he wanted to go back north of Ruhe to handle affairs. After hearing this, Mr. Huang couldn't help but feel happy, feeling that his opportunity had finally come. Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old entered the inn and found Yu Nu, but would not come out again.
In the evening, Mr. Huang was upset. He went outside to buy a gourd wine, cut a large piece of cooked mutton, and returned to the room to drink. As soon as he walked to the door, he saw the little maid standing beside Yu Nu standing there and waved, "Mr., our wife has something to invite her."
When Mr. Huang heard this, he was overjoyed. He didn't have time to put the wine and mutton in his hand back into the house, so he carried it with the maid to the Yu Nu's house.
Yu Nu and Pingping sat at the table and talked. When they saw Mr. Huang coming in, they hurriedly got up and saluted. They pointed at Pingping and said, "This is my sister. Because there is something at home, I come to find me."
After hearing this, Mr. Huang hurriedly asked with concern: "I don't know what it is?"
Yu Nu shook her head and refused to say that, but just asked Mr. Huang to sit down.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little wrong, Mr. Huang took out two jin of money from his arms and handed it to the maid and said, "It's late, I'm impatient to cook. There's two jin of money here. You can take it out and buy some wine and meat back."
The maid took two stagnant of money and went out quickly.
Xiangcheng has become accustomed to using the Xiangyang Shuzi, which is much easier to use. If it were the past, the two-stalls of money were not light, and Mr. Huang could not carry it with him when he went out, and it was not appropriate to hold the little maid's thin body.
Yu Nu came to tea. Mr. Huang grabbed Yu Nu's hand and said, "Although we are in a dewy marriage, we always have some old love. If you have any difficulties, just tell me. As long as I can help, I will definitely help you!"
While talking, Mr. Huang secretly looked at the girl on the other side. Seeing that the girl's face was as normal, he felt at ease.
Yu Nu pulled out his hand and said, "Mr. Wait, I am the outer room of my official, you always know."
Mr. Huang nodded: "What does it matter if you live alone in Xiangcheng and don't live with the eldest lady?"
Yu Nu said: "In the outdoor room, you either have a poor family and can't survive. Or you are a man of the romance and misfortune and have been redeemed here. Who do the official think I am?"
Mr. Huang said embarrassedly: "Looking at how my wife looks on weekdays, she doesn't grow up like a poor family."
Yu Nu turned around and said with some resentment: "Yes, only people like me can be born after growing up in the wind and moon. My sister and I were both sold at my mother's house since childhood and raised by her. My mother was the leader of Kaifeng City when she was young and had the most famous reputation. When she was older and had no customers to help her, she bought a few of us sisters. She taught us to sing and dance since she was a child. She was a little older and went to the restaurant to sing."
Mr. Huang: "So that's it. I have never seen your singing and dancing, which is a pity."
Yu Nu shook her head: "Although my mother has been teaching since she was a child, we sisters are not talented, and we can't sing music or dance. Fortunately, we have two good skins and we have those lustful guests to help us."
In this way, Mr. Huang understood that these two sisters were not considered prostitutes, and could only be considered prostitutes.
The Song Dynasty was not allowed to engage in prostitution. The often-called female prostitutes sang and danced in restaurants and other places, and were nominally selling their skills but not selling themselves. Of course, in such an environment, as long as the guests could afford money, how many could protect themselves? When they get older, they either rely on savings to buy a few little girls, teach them since childhood, and wait for them to grow up to make money to support themselves. Or they are like jade slaves, who are used to be concubines for others. It’s good to have a fight with the eldest lady in the outdoor room, so they don’t have to fight with the eldest wife at home every day. Only when they live together can they not be able to live in peace. Of course, there is another type of person who is looking for honest people to marry. However, at this time, women with unknown identities are always looked down upon by others. If they get married, everyone knows their past experiences. How can they compare to their younger generations? When they are young and beautiful, they can play with their own temperament. When they are old, they are still popular.
In name, prostitution is a family. Mothers are really mothers, and their children are raised since childhood. Some families even do business with their biological daughters, mothers are mothers, and teapots are fathers. In later film and television dramas and novels, many girls in the brothels openly do business based on the special society of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Normal eras in history did not exist.
This situation took advantage of the loopholes in the Song Dynasty's adoptive daughter system. Because the constraints on the identity of slaves gradually became relaxed, the court no longer allowed real slaves in society, but changed to the employment system. Some wealthy families used the identity of adopted daughters to buy slaves. The often-used title of maids in the Song Dynasty was to adopt mothers, which is related to this.
After the turmoil of the late Tang and Five Dynasties, some new atmosphere appeared in the Song Dynasty. One of them was that the official and the people no longer valued their origins. The civil uprisings called for the noble and humble, both rich and poor, and the officials gradually abolished the slave system and changed it to the employing system. This reform is of great significance and has created a new era. In the world, only Europe completed the capitalist revolution to achieve this. However, the Song Dynasty's military strength was weak, and slavery was popular after Mongolia entered the Central Plains.
By the Ming and Qing dynasties, they all regressed at this point. As for later generations, it was not until Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty that abolished China's untouchable system, which was to make gold for the Qing Dynasty. Before the Song Dynasty, the untouchable system began to collapse and the Song Dynasty was basically abolished. At this time, the so-called prostitute was not strict, nor was it involved in flesh and blood transactions, but just women who sing and danced. Prostitute was not born with, nor could it be abolished. As for industry and commerce, there was no provision for generations to inherit, and the restrictions were gradually reduced.
In short, when Chinese history developed to the Song Dynasty, some new atmosphere emerged. The entire society no longer valued origin, but rather its status and wealth in the real society. The restrictions on personal life began to decrease, the system of slaves and servants began to abolish, and the entire society began to enter the era of employment. With the invasion of Mongolia, this positive change was interrupted. Later, the Ming Dynasty was influenced by Mongolia and retreated greatly than the actual Song Dynasty. Not to mention that the Qing Dynasty had to add a layer of national oppression, which was even more step back than the Ming Dynasty.
It is difficult for later generations to maintain an objective attitude when looking at history. For example, in the Song Dynasty, the praises and praises to the sky. The prosperity of society, the prosperity of the city and the culture reached a peak. The darkness of the blackness goes to the soil. No one can win the battle outside, and there is only one Kaifeng Prefecture in the internal prosperity, and the people in other parts of the world live in poverty. Prosperity and culture are only for a few people, and most people live more miserable than other dynasties.
Such emotional statements are of no benefit to correctly understand Chinese history. Objectively speaking, in terms of ideology and culture, the Song Dynasty was a peak of Chinese culture. It was not only the prosperity of poetry and culture, but also because of the intentional breakthroughs of literati. The orthodox debate in the Northern Song Dynasty made the Song Dynasty's understanding of the orthodox dynasty, represented by Ouyang Xiu, evolved to evaluate the chaos. To a certain extent, it was not the same as the later poverty. This major change was a major achievement in China's thoughts. Not to mention the numerous Luo School, Shu School, Guanzhong School and other names, as well as the debates of Shigong School, Neo-Confucianism, etc., which deeply investigated Confucianism.
In social governance, whether it is the court, the people, officials or farmers, they no longer think that their background determines a person's life. For example, a later generation said that "Hanjiao Fu" was the best parallel prose in the world, and the false entrusted by Lu Mengzheng. Lu Mengzheng was poor when he was young. Later, he became the top scholar in high school, and his nephew Lu Yijian's contribution, created a typical wealthy Lu family in the Song Dynasty. The reason why it is typical is that the Lu family was a family heir of academics, rather than relying on how much land it has become a big landlord. Of course, Lu Mengzheng was the top scholar. No matter how poor his literary literacy, he could not write "Hanjiao Fu". Not to mention that the prime minister Du Yan, who had wandered around since childhood. Later, he became a Jinshi and became a prime minister.
However, based on this, we cannot think that the Song Dynasty had achieved some great level in social governance. Systems are systems, regulations are regulations, and they may not be effectively implemented in reality. For example, the defects of the system of adopting children and raising children are used to pursuing adopted children and raising children, and the reality of doing slaves and pursuing the name of adopting children and raising children is widely present. Although there are many discussions in ideological terms, there are very few that can be implemented in real institutions.
It is neither possible to deny the progressive nature of the Song Dynasty in ideological discussion and pioneering, nor to exaggerate the advanced nature of its society. The Song Dynasty only had some useful beginnings in ideological and cultural aspects, which was progressive than the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
As for the military of the Song Dynasty, it should be a waste of nothing, and it should not be an exaggeration to future generations teach more lessons than experience.
Yu Nu and Pingping are born like this. The mother was a female prostitute. When she was old, she bought them two girls. Unfortunately, they had no talent and could only rely on betrayal to support the family.
After listening to the story of Yu Nu, Huang Yuanwai secretly looked at Pingping sitting on the side. Sure enough, although Pingping was quiet, she was charming in her bones and looked like she had a unique flavor. After looking at Pingping, then Yu Nu, they both had their own good things.
Yu Nu said, "Kaifeng City was broken, and I was separated from my mother and sister. After meeting an official, I became his outer room. My mother and sister fled to Chenzhou, but had no choice but to do old business. A few days ago, Pingping met a locomotive, and her parents fled to Tangzhou, where she lived very proudly. Unfortunately, this locomotive didn't have much money and could not redeem Pingping's body contract."
Mr. Huang was stunned and asked, "Since you don't have a body contract, how can your mother let Pingping come to Xiangcheng?"
Yu Nu sighed: "We were raised by our mother in the end. It was better to say that it was a physical contract, but it was better to say that it was her pension money. It was because of her pension, and she had no choice but to control us. "
Chapter completed!