Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 4

The Tianxi Courtyard of the old lady is located in the middle of the right side of the Yushi Mansion, and the Xiefang Courtyard is behind it. Liu Yuzhi's master and servant only need to walk along the Chaoshou corridor to get there.

Tianxi Courtyard is relatively quiet, and there is a small nunnery in the backyard.When Liu Yuzhi brought two maids into the main room of Tianxi Courtyard, Mrs. He, the third grade Shuren, was already sitting on the arhat chair and chatting with the two stewardesses.

"Daughter-in-law pays homage to mother-in-law, good luck to mother-in-law." Liu Yuzhi stepped forward and saluted generously.Chunxi and Chunyan also bowed deeply with her.

The woman in charge who was sitting on the left and right of Mrs. He hurriedly stood up and avoided it.

"Yuzhi, you're a little late today." Seeing her daughter-in-law's eyes tinged with rosy cheeks, Mrs. He who came over said with a smile, "Get up and sit down."

"Thank you, mother-in-law." Liu Yuzhi got up now.

"Greetings to Da Furen." The two women in charge hurriedly greeted her after she got up.He Yushi has five sons, and half a year after the eldest son He Junhua got married, the second son from the concubine also got married.

"Mama Qian, Mama Zhao please." Liu Yuzhi said with a smile on her face.These two women in charge have followed the old lady for more than 20 years and have always been the old lady's confidantes, so the old lady will let them sit down and talk when there is no one else.

Liu Yuzhi sat on the waist drum stool in front of Mrs. He and began to exchange pleasantries with her.Chunxi and Chunli stood behind her and listened silently.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law drank tea and chatted for a while, Mrs. He asked kindly: "Yuzhi, you have been in my He family for a year, are you still used to it? Although Huanglin is not far from Yong'an, there are some living habits in the two places. Quite different."

Liu Yuzhi nodded dignifiedly, "Daughter-in-law is fine, thank you mother-in-law for caring about daughter-in-law." After speaking, her beautiful lips curved into a precise and perfect arc.

"That's good." Mrs. He nodded, hesitated a little, and asked, "Yuzhi, you and Junhua have been married for a year, why hasn't there been any good news?"

Liu Yuzhi was slightly taken aback, then quickly bowed her head and said, "Mother-in-law, my daughter-in-law may not be fully used to the climate of the capital." Carrying on the family line is the biggest task in every woman's life.

Mrs. He looked at a woman in charge beside her, and said, "Yuzhi, I want to tell you something."

Liu Yuzhi was stunned for a moment, the tone of her words was quite negotiable.

"Mother-in-law, please tell me, daughter-in-law should share her worries." She bowed slightly.

"Yuzhi, you are also from a family of officials and officials. You should know that when a man is sixteen or seventeen years old, there will be a servant girl in the house. Junhua has two servant girls, one of which was assigned to another courtyard before you entered the house." My boy, there is another..."

Mrs. He paused, and said: "That one was originally a first-class maid by my side, and she is still pregnant, so I plan to make her Junhua's concubine."

Liu Yuzhi's complexion changed slightly when she heard about the maids in the room. When she heard that one of them was pregnant and her mother-in-law was going to raise her as a concubine, her face turned pale, and she tightly grasped the pink and blue embroidery in her hands. Pa.Before she gave birth to the eldest son, her husband-in-law had the eldest son.

She didn't know that there was another person who was more shocked than her, and that was Chunxi, because this was a fragment of her nightmare!
Chunxi's shock caught Chunli who was standing beside her, and Chunli nudged Chunxi calmly.They are maids, no matter what happens, they must stand firmly by the young lady's side.

"Yuzhi, you are familiar with women's rings, and you are reasonable, how should you handle this kind of thing."

Mrs. He said, "Zi Yan entered our residence at the age of seven and has been serving in our courtyard. I am quite satisfied. She is smart and sensible, and Junhua is also very satisfied with her. Whether her children are male or female, they are all It's my son's blood." Mrs. He still has some genuine feelings for the well-behaved maid who has been raised in front of her.

The mother-in-law first asked why she didn't have any good news, and then said that she carried the pregnant Tongfang as a concubine, clearly using pregnancy to suppress her!

Liu Yuzhi's face was pale, and her bright red lips were pursed into a straight line.If a serious family encounters this kind of thing, they will definitely use abortion pills to kill the evil seed, because it is disrespectful to the in-laws!Could it be that the He family thinks that the magistrate's daughter married far away in the capital, and her natal family can't do anything to her and can't make decisions for her?
Nightmare fragments appear in reality!
Chunxi clenched her fists nervously, lowered her head slightly and looked at her young lady.

According to the laws of the Daqing Dynasty, civilians were not allowed to take concubines, and the number of concubines that officials could take in varied according to their rank.

Princes can have eight concubines at the first level, princes at the county level can have six concubines, officials with first and second ranks can have four concubines, officials with third and fourth ranks can have three concubines, and officials with fifth and sixth ranks can have two concubines. , one concubine of the seventh rank, eighth rank, and ninth rank.

The Daqing Dynasty made a strict distinction between prostitutes and concubines. The sons born to wives were the sons of the prostitutes, the heirs of the family. The children born to concubines could inherit a small amount of their father’s inheritance, while the children born to maidservants had no right to prostitutes, regardless of the identity of the mother or the child.

He Junhua is a fifth-rank official and has the right to take two concubines.Now his mother wants to take a concubine for him, but according to the rules, if his wife does not agree, he still cannot take a concubine.

"Mother-in-law. The daughter-in-law has only been in the house for a year, and the husband-in-law immediately takes a concubine. The face of the daughter-in-law..." If she disagrees, the big hat of jealousy will come down, and she will lose the favor of her parents-in-law and husband-in-law from now on.

After a long time, Liu Yuzhi said with great difficulty, "Mother-in-law, can you wait for half a year and let Miss Ziyan come in after a year and a half for the daughter-in-law?" She is very displeased with her husband.

"This... six months?" Mrs. He suddenly hesitated.

Half a month!
Chunxi tried hard to control the horror in her heart.If the nightmare is real, the lady can only delay it for half a month. After half a month, Aunt Zi Yan will enter the door with a six-month-old belly. After that...

(End of this chapter)