Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 287 Mr. Zhang

Jiang Shangxian tapped her forehead lightly. He originally wanted to pinch her face, but Yingzi's face was too thin, not like a child at all, so he had no place to pinch her. "The reed mattress is not a good thing. I gave it to you, so just use it."

In fact, the Jiang family has quilts filled with cashmere and duck down, but if she asks to give them to Yingzi now, Jiang's mother and Old Lady Xia will not agree. After all, she is a bought slave, why should she use such good things?

What's more, the weather is getting hotter and hotter now, so there is no need for it.

Xiao Jiang felt that by the time the weather got colder, Yingzi would have developed a close relationship with the Jiang family, and it would be just right to ask for a cashmere quilt by then.

When Jiang Wangri and Xia Zhenying came back and saw that there was one more person in the house, they were so curious that they kept pacing around.

Although Xia Zhenying is also a girl, she is the only one in the Xia family. Only children are always different. She originally thought that her life was very miserable, but in comparison, she is actually quite happy.

Jiang Wangri was initially highly alert to the new person in the house, who seemed to be garnering his sister's attention - here came another person to snatch his sister from him!

After hearing about Yingzi's experience, the boy was so moved that tears welled up in his eyes. He said to Jiang's mother with snot bubbles in his nose, "Mother, you are so lucky for not selling my sister..."

Woo woo woo, he can’t live without his sister, he is a sister’s treasure.

Jiang's mother just slapped him farther away with a big slap.

This unfortunate child, is she the kind of person who sells her children?

However, Cui Bianxu's matter of buying people today gave Jiang's mother a great sense of urgency.

She had to hurry up and prepare a dowry for her daughter. A dowry means a dowry, and at this time it was called a dowry or a dowry.

There was a custom of setting up tents in the Tang Dynasty, so a hundred-child tent was a must, and it had to be set up in Cui's house in advance.

The next thing is the wedding dress and a series of new clothes. These need to be made by someone. Their own craftsmanship is not up to standard, and it would be a waste of the good materials sent by His Majesty and Cui Bianxu.

There is no need for gold, silver, jewelry, etc., as they are enough. You can just use cash to pay for them.

The Jiang family can't afford a profitable dowry like the dowry land, so this can be skipped...

Cui Bianxu, the maidservant who came with the dowry, had thoughtfully bought...

After calculating this, Jiang's mother relaxed again. There was not much to do, and she could take her time to find two embroiderers to take on the job tomorrow...

At night, Yingzi slept on her own simple little bed made of old wooden boards, with a soft reed fluff mattress beneath her and a soft reed fluff mattress covering her body. Although they were not new, they were clean and not dirty at all.

She was too excited to sleep, but she didn't dare turn over and disturb Jiang Shangxian, so she had to lie upright, occasionally turning her head to sneak a peek at Jiang Shangxian, who was lying on the bed with a homemade pillow between his legs and his butt sticking up.

Jiang Shangxian was actually a little uncomfortable. No matter how quiet Yingzi's movements were, there was still someone in the room. Noticing that the little girl had been peeking at him, Xiao Jiang, who was pretending to be asleep with his eyes closed, couldn't help but ask, "Are you uncomfortable sleeping?"

It is impossible to say that the bed made of old wooden boards is completely flat. Slight bulges are inevitable. After all, Lao Fan is not a professional carpenter.

"Just make do with it for one night. If that doesn't work, I'll take you to buy a small couch tomorrow."

Bamboo couches are cheaper, and Yingzi is small, so even if she uses a bamboo couch, she will feel much richer.

Frightened by her sudden voice, Yingzi, who had pulled up the quilt to cover his face, immediately revealed his furry, somewhat sparse and yellowish head when he heard this: "Auntie, don't waste your money, this is very good!"

She didn't dare spend money, fearing that if she did, she would be beaten and scolded, and might even be sold again.

When she was at home, she could eat meat once every Chinese New Year, but she could only eat a small piece. One time, she was so greedy. At that time, she was much smaller than she is now. When her mother saw it, she slapped her and knocked her to the ground.

At that time, Yingzi didn't know what anger was. She was just scared and regretful. She couldn't even feel the pain. She just felt like the sky was falling and that she had made a terrible mistake.

Afterwards, her ears were buzzing for several days, and if she bit something hard, the side of her head that was hit would throbbing with pain...

"Silly girl, how much does this cost? If you follow me, apart from other things, you will always have enough sleep, food, and clothes to wear. Now that you follow me, forget about the past."

Jiang Shangxian's face was a bit funny at the moment, his eyes squeezed so tightly that they had become a triangle, but his tone was so gentle that Yingzi would remember it for the rest of her life: "Starting tomorrow, you will practice martial arts with Erlang. In a few days, when we start learning to read with the teacher, you can join us. Since they have sold you, they have also repaid their kindness in raising you. You still have many good days ahead of you."

"Yeah!" Yingzi nodded heavily.

In fact, she didn't understand what it meant to learn martial arts or read. Her world was all about working, working non-stop. If she didn't work, she wouldn't have a bite to eat.

The next morning, Jiang Shangxian, who was squatting in a horse stance with Jiang Wangri and Yingzi, received his own schedule. It was from the respected crybaby boy: "Miss Jiang, Jiulang said that if you don't understand, let me read it to you three times."

Jiang Shangxian smiled and waved his hands: "No need, I understand it, but you..."

Jian Ming blinked and checked himself up and down: "What's wrong with me?"

"It's okay..." Jiang Shangxian waved her hand again. Forget it. She, Jiang, is definitely not a sarcastic person. She is just a little uncomfortable with not seeing him cry today.

"Go back and tell him, I understand, but do you know who the teacher he hired is?"

This Jian Ming really knows!

"She was a lady named Zhang. She was originally from Luoyang. After they got married, they had a disagreement and divorced. Her family was quite dissatisfied with this, so she returned her dowry and came to Chang'an with her maid."

As a relatively open feudal dynasty, the Tang Dynasty still had the traditional social moral constraints on married women, such as the Three Obediences and Four Virtues. The Tang Code also clearly stipulated the "Seven Reasons for Divorce and Three Reasons for Not Divorcing" policy to protect the husband's power. However, married women in the Tang Dynasty still enjoyed a certain degree of freedom to divorce, the right to remarry, private property rights, and parental rights after becoming a mother.

According to Tang law, a divorce like Mr. Zhang's was a symbol of the right to freedom of divorce. If his parents and grandparents asked him to remarry, Mr. Zhang would have to obey and marry again.

I think that when Mr. Zhang returned his dowry to her parents' home and ran to Chang'an, he gave up the unstable freedom that came with private property rights.

If the Cui family could stand on Mr. Zhang's side, the value of her being a freelancer would be much higher. This is also the main reason why Mr. Zhang agreed to join the Cui family.