Qiming 1158

Chapter 948 In a sense, Su Yonglin reversed history
How will you marry in the future?

Hearing what her mother said, Xiao Cui's heart froze again.

It's all cold now.

She was rather heartbroken.

She didn't expect that the only mother who could give her some warmth in that depressing home was actually on her father's side, not thinking about her at all, only thinking about her father and that illusory and ridiculous face.

She stared blankly at her mother, weeping silently for a long time, suddenly took a breath, wiped her tears, leaned back to the side, and distanced herself from her mother.

"Mother, do you think so? Do you really want me to marry that family?"

Mother Xiao raised her head and glanced at her daughter's eyes. She didn't seem to dare to look directly, or she felt a burning pain. After a little glance, she turned her eyes away, and her voice became much lower.

"I'm a mother, just... I just hope you don't ruin your reputation. No one wants you in the future. People will laugh wherever you go. This workshop can't support you for the rest of your life, right? In the end, you still have to get married. A chicken follows a chicken and a dog follows a dog. Whoever marry is not married? Isn't that what a woman's family is born to do?"

After speaking, Mother Xiao held Xiao Cui's hand with a little hope, and said in a low voice, "Just beg you as a mother, let's go, okay? If this goes on, your father will lose face, let's go. People are ridiculed, how are you going to live these days?"

After speaking, Mother Xiao sobbed softly.

Xiao Cui was silent.

She looked down at her mother's rough, chapped backs of hands, and remembered how hard her mother raised her when she was young, and when she was young, the man often came home drunk and rough, and her mother always hugged her and tried to protect her ...

Of course, in the end, there is always no escape from a beating.

That man was very vicious. Once he drank alcohol, he became even more vicious. He would always beat people, and his temper was also mild. Sometimes he could suddenly get angry when he spoke well.

She remembered the past, and she also remembered the present.

Xiao Cui remembered that when she was a little older and had memories, she heard from the neighbors on the left and right that the man used to be a lazy person and was unwilling to farm.

His family was not a tenant, but a self-employed farmer. His parents saved [-] acres of land in their entire lives, and they were looking forward to life, but they did not expect that the only child would be so ineffective, and he would rather sell the land for wine and drink instead of farming.

Such a person probably won't be able to get a wife, everyone thought so at the time.

But he didn't expect his father and mother to be so heartbroken, that he exchanged a wife for him with the money from the [-] acres of land, and this continued the incense.

Therefore, the villagers all sympathized with the woman, thinking that she must have done something wrong in her previous life, and the family promised this lazy man as a wife because of money.

That woman is Xiao Cui's mother.

Xu Shi resented that his father and mother did not leave all the land for him to exchange money to buy wine and drink. From the beginning of his memory, Xiao Cui never got a little bit of fatherly love from that man, only endless beatings and scolding.

That man always said that she was a loser and a loser, so she had no sympathy for that man, only deep fear and resentment, and resentment of her inability to change the reality.

Fortunately, taking advantage of the changing times and the opportunity of the factory recruiting workers, the man thought it was profitable, so he sent Xiao Cui, who was only 12 years old, to the factory in a hurry, asking her to work to earn money to buy wine for him.

Xiao Cui was sent to the workshop as a tool person. She was despairing and felt that she was going to die here, but she didn't expect that she felt a new life in the workshop.

Recognized the words, had a full meal, put on new clothes, new shoes, received wages, experienced the outside world, and met many sisters and friends who were impossible to know before.

She gradually felt that she should belong here, not the family of that man.

And here, she began to germinate the idea of ​​saving money and taking her mother and brother to leave that sad place forever.

So she found Fang Zhiqiang, a workshop instructor, and asked him if a female worker like herself could change her place of origin and live from one village to another.

Fang Zhiqiang was a little surprised at the time. He didn't know why Xiao Cui asked, but he still responded to her very gently.

As long as she is a citizen of Daming, has registered her place of origin, and proves that she has a family, she can settle down with the new family where they want to settle down.

Of course, the premise is that the villages they want to settle in still have quotas, because the quotas for each village are limited, and now there are many people who want to move back from the county seat to live in the countryside waiting to be arranged, so the quotas may be tight.

Xiao Cui asked him again if moving with his mother and younger brother was considered a family.

Fang Zhiqiang didn't understand. The factory data showed that Xiao Cui's father was still alive, so he wanted to ask the specific reason, but Xiao Cui didn't say it, just asked if it was okay.

Fang Zhiqiang told Xiaocui, explaining that the definition of family in the law is that if there is a relationship between husband and wife, it is a family. Otherwise there is no point.

If there is no relationship between husband and wife, it cannot be considered that there is labor force that can be cultivated and productive, so wouldn’t the land be abandoned?
Xiao Cui was very dissatisfied and argued with the instructor, saying that she and her mother and younger brother are also a family, why can't they divide the land and the house?
Fang Zhiqiang was helpless and could only explain again and again that this was a rule of the Ming Law, and it was not something he could change. Even if she made trouble to the county or state government, it would be the same, because this was not something they could change, and it would make no sense for Xiao Cui to continue making trouble.

Xiao Cui was anxious and helpless.

"Although my father and my mother are husband and wife, I have never felt that they are one family!"

Abandoning these words, Xiao Cui ran away. She did not give up, and was always looking for new solutions.

Fang Zhiqiang probably also noticed what was going on inside, so he told Xiao Cui that he remembered it wrongly, and there were special provisions in the Ming Law.

In the context of the war just ended, it is normal for family members to be disabled. Therefore, the imperial court relaxed the conditions for settlement. In the case of family members who are disabled, as long as there are male laborers over the age of 15 in the family, they can be regarded as a family and can have settled status. qualifications.

After Xiao Cui found out, she was silent.

She was just 13 years old at the time, and her younger brother was only nine years old, which meant that she would have to wait another six years for the eligibility for permanent residence.

Xiao Cui felt that she didn't want to wait any longer, so she asked Fang Zhiqiang if there was any other way.

Fang Zhiqiang thought for a while, but reluctantly told Xiao Cui that there was another way, that is, to spend money to buy houses in the county town, and then move to the county town and become a city resident.

In this case, it is enough to give up the original rural household registration.

However, this is not a good idea in Fang Zhiqiang's view.

Because Laiwu County is still relatively "desolate" at this moment, and there is no supporting land and agricultural policy, entering the county to settle down means self-financing and no land security.

However, it is precisely because of this that the qualifications for hukou in rural areas are bound to land, houses, agricultural tools, etc., and the resident needs to provide labor security, while urban areas do not have this concern.

In the current social stage, cities are all consumption-oriented cities, and are the settlements of the upper class. The upper class such as bureaucrats, landlords, gentry, and wealthy businessmen live in the cities, and then some service industries and related service groups are produced.

They constituted the bourgeoisie of this era.

Although the commoners still occupy a large number of the bourgeoisie, the reason why they exist is mainly because of the existence of these superior people, so they exist.

They rely on the wealth generated by the oppression and exploitation of the upper class to live in the city. Now that they have been swept away and eliminated by the class, then they have no service objects, no money objects, and no source of income.

It can be said that there was a relatively rapid urbanization process in the Song Dynasty, which was based on the unprecedented high-intensity exploitation and oppression of the Song Dynasty.

It was the Song Dynasty's unprecedented oppression and exploitation of peasants that led to a wave of urbanization in an era when the productivity was far inferior to that of modern Europe, and the original burgher class and civic culture were born.

A considerable number of citizens were forced to be born, they did not become citizens voluntarily. The Song Dynasty could not guarantee to provide enough urban jobs to support these citizens who lost their land, and a considerable number of citizens lived a very miserable life.

And now, in a sense, Su Yonglin has reversed the course of history.

(End of this chapter)