If the Marquis' Mansion gives birth to four daughters in a row, it will become a joke in the mansions of the Princes and Princes.

In this era, women who cannot have children are certainly heresy, but women who only know how to have children will still be criticized and bear unparalleled pressure.

Although the Qin Dynasty implemented the legal system, it actually inherited the Zhou rituals in many aspects. Not only the royal family, but also the people. Heirlooms followed the throne in accordance with the rules of establishing elders but not the young, and establishing legitimates but not the virtuous. The elders and young are orderly, and there are differences in superiors and inferiors. The children born in a common way have no status in the family.

Women who give birth to daughters will decline very quickly at home. For nobles of the level of kings, princes and nobles, daughters cannot inherit and carry forward the family, which is at most a tool for marriage. Moreover, from pregnancy to breastfeeding, there is basically no husband-and-wife life for more than two years. For nobles, they will favor the concubine and be satisfied. Over time, they will fall in love with each other. What about some people who give birth to a son in advance, the family relationship will soon become very strange. In order to let their son inherit the family property, the concubine will instigate men to divorce their wife and help them to properly support themselves. In the future, the illegitimate son becomes the legitimate son. The illegitimate wife often does something outrageous to keep her position, such as digging a pit to bury the illegitimate son, or even pushing the pregnant concubine into a well.

Moreover, due to children's problems, divorce is still allowed by law.

As the main body of controlling wealth and national construction, men have a relatively high status in society and family. Although the status of women in the Qin and Han Dynasties was much higher than that of the Zhou Dynasty, it was only relative. The seven rules were still more obvious. If there was any violation, they could divorce and remarry.

The so-called seven outbreaks are: disobedience to parents, no children, lust, jealousy, evil diseases, excessive words, and theft.

Childless means that one cannot have a son. Qin Law stipulates that if a wife does not give birth to a son within five years after marriage, then a man can divorce his wife and remarry. Although it seems cruel and cruel and very unfair to women, this is the limitation or need of the times, that is, to ensure the number of men, fighting, farming, corvee, etc. are basically men's affairs. Women's role in politics is almost zero, and their role in social life is to assist. Having children and taking care of their husbands and children is the biggest task of women.

This is true for ordinary civilians, and this situation is even more obvious in aristocratic families. Because there are many wives and concubines, it is rare to see a wife and concubine giving birth to many children. Because there are too many wives and concubines, there is no shortage of women at all, and they are rotated to favor, and the emperor is even more so. Women in the harem cannot sleep. Concubines who can give birth to a daughter are considered winners in life.

Therefore, among the aristocratic groups of kings, princes, princes, nobles, wives and concubines are contradictory groups, robbing each other of their husbands and calculating each other. The more the family without legitimate sons, the more obvious it is. The wives and concubines who cannot have sons will be given up by men and favor other women, and their relationship will soon become neglected.

Although Chen Xu is very fond of several women and basically does not favor maids and concubines in the mansion, men are men after all. With the company of young and lively beautiful girls in their teens, they must be more tempting than a group of women who have given birth to children. At first, they didn't think so, but after a few years, no one can guarantee that everyone can still get so care and love from Chen Xu.

Therefore, having a son is the biggest wish and knot for several women, especially Ying Shiman, because she has given birth to a daughter.

Although Chen Xu regards this daughter as a pearl in her hand and has all her resources, the rules since ancient times have been rules. In the future, she can only marry a man and marry a royal family and aristocrats, and will never inherit the title and control the family.

Therefore, even Fan Caiying knew that her identity as a concubine could never be changed, but she still hoped to have a son. Now that the Qinghe Houfu family has countless businesses, they will definitely get good arrangements in the future and will not be able to be glorious. However, there should be no problem in maintaining wealth and prosperity throughout her life. In that way, when she gets old, at least she will have a stable guarantee in her life.

For the prosperity of the family, taking concubines is naturally a fine tradition of the nobles. However, in order to keep the man's heart, all wives and concubines arrange their familiar maids to serve their husbands. Although it is still possible to turn against each other, after all, there are still some love between them day and night, which is much safer than finding a little vixen from outside.

After Shui Qingrou stood silently at the door for a long time, she left the living room quietly.

It was almost a luxury for her to have children.

There was an opportunity to change her destiny, but she used it to save her husband and never had a second chance.

But she never regretted it. Just like she met Chen Xu the first time she went down the mountain, for her, this was the arrangement of fate. God asked her to meet Chen Xu and met this man who made her follow her for the rest of her life. Protection was her only belief.

Chen Xu naturally didn't know that his group of wives were sad and depressed about giving birth to a child, nor did he know that he was worried about Yu Ji's growing up and snatching her husband from them. At this time, Yu Ji was dragged into a greenhouse by Yu Ji.

This year's greenhouse has been renovated and reinforced. It turned out that one greenhouse looked like about three acres of land, but this year it has expanded to five acres and adopted an m-shaped structure. The two greenhouses are merged together, so the greenhouse looks very spacious.

Moreover, this year, the five acres of vegetable fields have planted various fruits and vegetables that are available in spring and summer in different categories, especially the main ones are the husks made from the Western Regions, including eggplant, yellow light, watermelon, onions, carrots, and some coriander, and of course, there are also melons, celery, perilla, five-spice, bitter melon, gourd, leek, onion, garlic, garlic, etc. in the Central Plains.

Because these fruits and vegetables were grown early and had sufficient water and fertilizer, they began to mature one after another after October, providing many rare vegetables for the Hou Mansion in winter. At the same time, they also gave Ying Shiman, Meng Wan and Fan Caiying, the three pregnant women and mothers, with sufficient nutrition. They were raised by Chen Xu, and all of them had a lot of weight.

In addition to these green and lush green flowers like stars, Xing'er and Yu Ji and others have planted many flowers and plants, roses, peonies, peonies, orchids, daffodils, lilies, etc. There are 20 to 30 species, and now they are blooming in the greenhouses in the cold winter. The buds and flowers of various colors are pleasing to the eye.

"Brother Xiaoxu, do you think peony is beautiful or peony is beautiful?"

Yu Ji jumped and pulled Chen Xu to the front of a piece of flowers and plants she planted. Sure enough, she saw several peonies and peonies that were already full of buds, which had begun to bloom.

"Boyant and peony are both beautiful. These two flowers should be plants of the same family..." Chen Xu spoke and took a deep breath before a peony flower that had just bloomed, and he was almost drunk by a faint fragrance.

"Why is it called a plant of the same family?" Yu Ji looked at Chen Xu with big and lively eyes.

"Same family... Well, this explanation is very complicated. Just like buffaloes and yellow cows. Although the appearance is different, they are actually a kind of cow. Although the branches and leaves of peony and peony are different, they are very similar. When they bloom, the petals are layered and colorful. The fragrance of flowers is fragrant and can not dissipate for a long time. Moreover, white peony and elixir have medicinal value to clear heat and relieve pain, so they should be plants of the same family... If these flowers are cultivated and bred well, hundreds of different flower shapes and colors can be cultivated in the future. I have seen in three volumes of heaven that exquisite gardeners can cultivate tens of thousands of different peony flowers. Therefore, peony is also known as the national beauty and heavenly fragrance, which means wealth and happiness. It is the most beautiful flower in my China..."

"So Brother Xiaoxu won't stop me from planting these flowers in the future?" Yu Ji jumped up happily.

"When will I not let you plant flowers? I just don't want you to plant too much without vegetables. Look at how much you planted..." Chen Xu stood up and pointed to the half-acre garden.

"It's not much... It seems a little bit too much... I originally thought that Brother Xiaoxu could make perfume in winter..." Yu Ji stammered and her cheeks were a little red.

Chen Xu shook his head laughed and cried: "Even if you plant the entire greenhouse with flowers, you can't get a few bottles of perfume in the end. In the end, it's not worth the effort. Moreover, we don't have fresh vegetables to eat in winter... Eat... Well, these words have already started, and you probably can eat them~" Chen Xu reached out and grabbed a peony flower and stuffed it into his mouth.

"How can I eat this flower? Spit it out quickly!" Yu Ji was anxious.

"Don't make a fuss, it's delicious when you eat the petals. You can taste one too, and it's fragrant and fragrant!"

"Really, Brother Xiaoxu, don't lie to me!"

"I lied to you, it's really delicious. We will pick more later and I will use the petals to make you a delicious dish..."

"Oh, it's really delicious. It's a faint sweet taste. Hide quickly. Don't let your aunt see it, otherwise you will scold me again!" Yu Ji pulled Chen Xu and hid behind a bush of peony flowers.

Behind the green cucumber rack, a graceful woman slowly walked out. It was the water that had just left silently from the living room. At this time, she was holding a small bamboo basket in her hand and looking for crispy and tender cucumbers on the cucumber rack with green flowers in full bloom.

However, when she saw the branches shaking and vaguely saw two people, one big and one small, hiding sneakily among the flowers and wondering what they were doing, her face was slightly stunned and hesitated for a moment to leave, but when she heard the dialogue inside, she couldn't help but slowly walked over again.

"Well, it smells so good. I would have a lot of things last year!"

"Peony is cold in nature. Eat less so as not to damage the stomach!"

"Crazy~~"

As they mumbled, the two of them felt their eyes lit up. A bunch of flower branches was brushed away by a hand. Then they raised their mouths full of petals and looked blankly at a familiar and beautiful face.

"Gentle?" Chen Xu stood up for a moment.

"Aunt..." Yu Ji was so scared that she hid behind Chen Xu, secretly spit out the petals of her mouth, and wiped her mouth clean on Chen Xu's back.

"Puchi~~" Looking at the embarrassing look of the two of them, Shui Qingrou couldn't help laughing, and reached out to help Chen Xu wipe the juice from her mouth with her sleeve and said, "Husband, you are not a child, how could you eat flower petals with Yu Ji? If it spreads out, it will make people laugh!"

"Hehe, who dares to laugh at me!" Chen Xu swallowed the petals and smiled dryly out of the flowers, pointing to a piece of peony and peony that was beginning to bloom and said, "You are here just right. Please help me pick some of the blooming peony and peony. I will make you a flower cake to eat later!"

"Can flowers still be eaten?" Shui Qingrou was slightly dazed.

"Aunt, the peony flowers are delicious, fragrant and sweet, and they are all sweet after eating..." Yu Ji leaned out from behind Chen Xu and said.

In the entire Hou Mansion, the only person Yu Ji was afraid of was Shui Qingrou.

Yu Wuya, the father, has basically never cared about her since he picked her up, and then he wandered around everywhere. Yu Ji grew up with Chen Xu's family. Chen Xu was extremely spoiled to her and gave her whatever she wanted. She was exactly the same food, clothing, housing and supplies as Xing'er. She was completely a family member. She was the most harsh person to her on weekdays. She was punished to kneel down and stand or even spank if she did something wrong.
Chapter completed!