Chastity Layman

In front of Lu Chengzong and other Lu's family, the eunuch sent by the emperor read the oracle to Fang Xuanling's wife Lu Shi in the main hall of Liang Guogong's mansion.

"Those beauties were rewarded by the Holy Majesty to Zuo Pushe as a concubine. If Madam refuses to accept it, she will be rewarded with poisoned wine!"

As he spoke, the eunuch waved, and an attendant brought a silver pot.

The silver jug ​​was beautifully sealed, but the words Jinshajiu were written on the outside of the silver jug.

Gold flakes wine is a highly poisonous wine that was widely used in the Jin Dynasty. It was also a poisonous wine given to ministers to commit suicide by ancient emperors. Empress Jia of the Western Jin Dynasty was poisoned to death with gold flakes wine.

The nobleman drank the gold chips, and suddenly lost the British dusk.

Gold is a precious thing, and death by drinking gold flakes wine is also a way of death in line with the status of noble ministers. But it must be better than swallowing a large piece of gold directly.

Lu Shi looked at the silver bottle of gold flakes wine, showing disdain.

Lu Chengzong stood up with a gloomy expression. He flicked the sleeves of his toga and said angrily, "Is this really the emperor's decree?"

The inner eunuch smiled sinisterly, "Our family is just a small eunuch serving the province, how dare we pass on a false edict?"

"This is just a small matter in Liang Guogong's mansion. The emperor is too lenient, isn't it?" a Lu family child shouted.

The eunuch was not afraid, "Fan Yang Lu is known as the heir of the three rites, why did he say such a thing, don't you know that there are seven rules for women, and jealousy is the fourth?"

The seven reasons are the seven reasons for a man to divorce his wife. As long as a woman violates one of these seven rules, a man can unconditionally divorce his wife and drive him out. The fourth rule of jealousy refers to the fact that a woman is very jealous, and the reason for divorce is family disorder. Society believes that a wife's fierce jealousy will cause family discord, and a wife's jealousy of her husband's concubinage is even more harmful to the continuation of the family.

Therefore, in the society of the Tang Dynasty, although the status of the big woman was extremely protected and the concubines were unshakable, the big woman was not qualified to prevent her husband from taking concubines, otherwise she would be guilty of the "seven rules of jealousy". A husband can directly divorce his wife.

Of course, most families do not have the conditions to accept concubines. Those who can afford to accept concubines are noble officials and powerful officials. In the era of well-matched families, the wives of wealthy nobles are naturally rich.

Women in the Tang Dynasty would bring a dowry when they got married, and the law stipulated that this dowry belonged to the woman’s private property. Even if she died, this property was left to her children. dowry.

Of course, the social atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was open, especially since the Northern Dynasties, Hu Feng was very popular, and there were more mixed blood, so the social atmosphere was also relatively open, and the status of women was relatively high.

For example, the famous Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was honored by the Turkic people as the sage Khan, but the wife of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Queen Dugu, was extremely powerful. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty gave birth to five sons and five daughters, all of whom were born by Queen Dugu alone.

In his later years, Yang Jian was greedy for a while, and a Yuchi family was lucky in the palace. As a result, when he came back from court, Yuchi's family was killed by the Dugu family.

Yang Jian rode away from the palace angrily. He rode his horse and ran for dozens of miles alone. He squatted by the river and wept sadly, but he didn't dare to do anything to Queen Dugu.

In addition to the reason for the deep relationship between husband and wife, Queen Dugu's family was very powerful, and under the social atmosphere at that time, the high status of women was also extremely important. You must know that Queen Dugu's father was Dugu Xin, one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, and Yang Jian's father Yang Loyalty is just one of the twelve generals under the Eight Pillars Kingdom.

The higher the status of a woman's natal family, the higher her status in her husband's family, even the emperor's couple, let alone the common people.

Fang Xuanling and the Lu family are similar to Dugu and Yang Jian. Fang Xuanling was born as a Jinshi and started as a county lieutenant. His father served successively in the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty. He was the governor of Silitai in the Sui Dynasty. He is famous. Masters of calligraphy and literature, but compared to Fan Yang and Lu's family, the status of the Fang family is still far behind.

So when Fang Xuanling married Lu's family, it was Gao Pan, and Lu's family was married, so Lu's status in the family was very high. Fang Xuanling's fear of his wife was not only because of his love for his wife, but also because of Lu's natal family. related.

"Divorce your wife?" Fan Chengzong laughed, "Duke Liang dares to divorce his wife? How did he beg for a marriage so hard for my Lu family? Now he dares to divorce his wife? Does he dare?"

"Your Majesty, Duke Liang is the prime minister of the current court, and he is also your Majesty's favored minister. Your Majesty can't understand some behaviors." The white-faced eunuch is not afraid of the Lu family. He is just an eunuch and the emperor's private slave, so others are afraid of the Lu family. Hey, he is a servant of the emperor, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

"Madam, why is Liang Guogong taking a few concubines? Why does Madam have to do this?"

Lu Shi didn't say a word, and took two steps forward, grabbed the silver bottle in his hand, opened the seal abruptly, and poured it into his mouth.

"No!"

Lu Chengzong and other Lu's disciples exclaimed.

By the time the silver bottle was taken away, Lu Shi had already taken a few big gulps.

"Hurry up, get the dung water!" Lu Chengzong panicked, and quickly shouted, the woman of the Lu family is precious, but there is no need to drink poisoned wine just to stop her husband from taking a concubine, what a fool.

There was a sour smell in the living room.

"very sour!"

Lu Shi trembled sourly, "Why did the emperor insult me ​​Lu Shi so much, and why is the golden wine so sour?"

"This is obviously vinegar!" Lu Chengzong also smelled something wrong.

The white-faced eunuch really didn't expect that he couldn't scare Lu Shi, he really grabbed the silver bottle, opened it and drank a few mouthfuls, if it was real gold flakes wine, maybe Lu Shi would be doomed.

His face couldn't help but turn paler.

"This, this is actually vinegar!" The eunuch had no choice but to say so.

"vinegar?"

Everyone who did this was dumbfounded, what the hell are they doing.

How did the golden flake poisonous wine become a mistake?

The dung has been brought.

Lu Shi didn't want to drink feces to induce vomiting.

The Lu family surrounded themselves with white faces, and they all breathed a sigh of relief when they got the answer that this was indeed just jealousy.

At this time, the white-faced eunuch still had an edict to read.

"Sentence from the Holy One!"

"Fan Yang Lu, you can hear this decree, which means that you chose poisoned wine and refused to let your husband take a concubine. It really surprises me. But since you are not afraid of death, Lu, why do you have to be afraid of your husband? How many concubines do you take? Could it be that a few lowly concubines can affect and threaten your status as a big wife?"

"Mr. Lu, thinking of your deep love between husband and wife, I will not hold you accountable for being jealous of a shrew. You will keep the beauty you sent as a concubine, and let Xuanling relax and enjoy the blessings. Alright, I respect you!"

Lu Shi was a little embarrassed.

The expensive brocade dresses were stained with a lot of vinegar, and the strong acetic acid smell made tears flow.

Facing the second edict of the emperor.

Lu Shi was silent.

Lu Chengzong was a little ashamed and angry, feeling that Fan Yang and Lu family had been tricked by the emperor and Fang Xuanling, he called for Fang Qiao to give him an explanation.

"never mind."

Lu called his cousin to stop.

"Reply to His Majesty the Emperor for me. Of the ten beauties bestowed by the Emperor, I will select two Han girls as concubines for the left servant, and I will transfer the rest of the bearded girls of different races to my natal brothers as maidservants. These The humble daughter of a barbarian is not qualified to be a concubine in the Duke of Liang's mansion!"

Fang Xuanling was playing chess with the emperor in the palace, waiting for the servant's reply, he was already biting like ants, and he had no master. He was good at chess, but today he made mistakes again and again, losing again and again.

Li Shimin was too bored to win, so he just threw the chess pieces and couldn't play.

Finally, I waited for the servant's reply.

"Mr. Lu is really a strong woman!"

Li Shimin couldn't help being amazed when he heard that Mrs. Lu was jealous.

Fang Xuanling was frowning, this time he really overturned the jar of jealousy, and he didn't know how to face Lu Shi when he went back.

"Xuanling, you should be happy. Before, the Lu family didn't let you take a single concubine. Now, with my efforts, I have finally left you two. It's a pity that those barbaric girls are all beauties. In vain, the Lu family is cheap."

Fang Xuanling smiled helplessly, "Thank you Your Majesty for forgiving the clumsy Jing."

It is said that after Fang Xuanling came home that day, Lu Shi was punished by standing beside the bed all night after being sore.

The story of Fang Qiao taking a concubine and Lu Shi being jealous also spread throughout Chang'an immediately, and jealousy became synonymous with jealousy.

Of course, as the prime minister's wife, Lu dared to directly refuse her husband to accept concubines, and even refused the emperor's interference.

The one who was most unhappy about this matter was Lu Chengzong, who originally lived in Xuanling's house temporarily, but who would have expected that this would happen, he thought that the emperor and Fang Xuanling had joined forces to play tricks on the Lu family and insulted the Lu family.

If it wasn't for Fang Xuanling's persuasion, Lu Chengzong would have brought his clansmen back to Fan Yang. Although he stayed in the end, he no longer wanted to live in Fang's house.

Lu Chengzong shook Fang Xuanling's face, and then shamelessly took away the six orchid beauties whom Lu Shi laughed at.

Fang Xuanling sent them all the way to the door, watching them go away with smiling faces.

"Father, cousin and the others are too bullying, they are guests from afar, our family treats you so wholeheartedly, yet he is so rude to you!" Fang Yi said dissatisfiedly.

"If children are ignorant, don't talk nonsense. It's your uncle's house. When you have time, go and walk around to see what they need. Our family will try our best to meet it."

"I won't go." Fang Yizhi was young and could not understand the domineering Lu family.

"Fuck!" Fang Xuanling scolded his son in dissatisfaction, "You are still young and don't understand many things. When you grow up, you will understand what father means."

Pingkang Square.

Qin Lang was having breakfast in his own tea house in the commercial street. This tea house was similar to a tea restaurant in its business style. It had all kinds of snacks and also sold tea. From morning to night, one could stay here all day. , all kinds of dim sum can not be repeated. While drinking tea and snacks, you can also listen to books in the morning, listen to music in the afternoon, and watch dances in the evening.

Qin Lang poured some balsamic vinegar into the dipping plate in front of him, served it with steamed dumplings filled with mutton, and then a bowl of mutton soup, which was delicious.

"Madam Lu is really amazing." Qin Lang sighed after hearing the story of Lu's jealousy.

"That just shows that the Lu family is used to being domineering and unreasonable!" Cheng Chumo ordered a plate of horse meat buns, buns as big as fists, and he took two or three mouthfuls of them.

"The Lu family has left the house, where do they live now?"

"Just Pingkangfang, the other courtyard of Fang Xiang's family near Beiqu." Lu Chengzong left Liang Guogong's mansion, but ended up living in Fang Xuanling's other courtyard in Pingkangfang, which is also funny.

"Sanlang, the Lu family has really started to rent out the restaurants and prostitutes in Pingkangfang, paying directly with Huang Chengcheng's gold. Damn, what a rich man!"

"Do you really want to hire all the restaurants and prostitutes?"

"Well, all inclusive."

"Don't the Lu family know how many restaurants and prostitutes there are in Pingkangfang now? This package costs a lot for one night."

"He has a lot of gold, and he's being bold. Let's talk, get together with wine, meet friends with poetry, and anyone who can't compose and recite poetry is welcome. The Lu family is the host!"