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Chapter 31 Cao Nier is going to school

Bang!

"I won't marry, and I won't marry even if I die. If I want to marry you, I will marry you and marry yourself!"

After saying that, Cao Ni'er kicked the stool down and turned around and left. Old Cao was so angry that he cursed, while Chun Erniang laughed awkwardly, and Sun Yue and Sun Chunming looked at each other.

If it weren't for the beginning to end, the father and son would have thought that they were going to marry him to the stupid son of Lao Cai.

But in fact, what Chun Erniang said this time was really a young talent. The only son of Liao Yuanwai in the west of the city, she is only fifteen years old this year. She looks very handsome, so she helped her father manage the business very well. Cao Ni'er herself has seen him. Liao Yuanwai's family is also a good family. No matter from any angle, they are all good matches.

Chun Erniang also cursed in her heart. She had just started talking, but you would give her a chance to recommend it. Why is your marriage so hard to say?

"I'm so angry! I'm so angry! Is there anyone who talks to her father like this? It's simply unfilial! Unfilial!"

Zhang gently slid Lao Cao's head and said, "No way you are like you? My daughter's house is thin and I can't bear to part with you. You are here to entertain Chun Erniang. I'll ask about Ni'er's situation and see what's going on."

Since moving to a new house, the original Widow Zhang has finally been coaxed by Lao Cao. Now the two of them are sleeping in the same house, and Widow Zhang has become Zhang. However, Zhang's family is dead, and she has no business to do anything, so she gives her a name or something.

Sun Yue jumped up and said, "I'll go too, I'll go too." Then he and Zhang entered Cao Ni'er's boudoir.

But when Cao Ni'er was sitting alone on the bed and sulking. Seeing that Zhang was coming, she turned sideways and pouted.

Sun Yue took off her shoes, jumped onto the bed, and smiled and said, "Sister, why are you angry? I remember a few days ago, didn't you tell me that Mr. Liao is quite handsome?"

"Go! What do children know about every family?"

Zhang also sat over and said with a smile: "What's Ni'er thinking? Tell me about it. I'll tell you, "I don't like that Mr. Liao?"

Cao Ni'er said aggrievedly, "I'm angry with my father. He is so anxious to get me out. Aunt, tell me, I won't marry you. My mother is old and sick, so she can't be without relatives to take care of her. Let him talk about this later."

Zhang smiled and said, "Silly girl, no one who doesn't marry a woman. She married early, we chose others, but we married late, but they chose us. Your eldest mother has the care of her aunt, so don't worry."

Cao Ni'er pouted again, turned her face away, and said angrily: "Anyway, I won't marry, I won't marry even if I beat you to death. I have just learned to read and read. I don't want to marry a man and have a child so early, and revolve around a man and a child all my life."

Zhang said in surprise: "Which woman is not revolving around a man and a child? Is it possible that you, a child, have to be a sister-in-law in the future?"

Sun Yue smiled and said, "Sister, don't you want to marry a scholar?"

Cao Ni'er's face turned red and she nodded shyly.

Zhang was happy and said, "It turns out that he is so arrogant. It's okay. When the spring results are released, my aunt and your father will go and block it. I promise to catch a man in green for you. How about it?"

However, Cao Ni'er became even more angry and said, "I don't want to catch my son-in-law below the list, it's so shameless. Besides, how many of the so-called green-clad men are? Last year, the shopkeeper Zhang next door caught one of their daughters, and they were all forty-three. Are you looking for a husband or a father?"

Catching a son-in-law under the list is considered a unique marriage culture of the Song Dynasty. Every year when the rankings are released, wealthy families in Kaifeng will bring their daughters and servants to gather by the Jinmingchi Lake. When they catch a new Jinshi who is slightly pleasing to the eye, they will snatch the new Jinshi home. They will snatch the green robe when they go home. Because the new Jinshi, except the top scholar, are given green robes, so they are also called snatch green robes. There is a poem saying: But I remember that Jinmingchi is on the way, and they are fighting to see the green robe in red dress.

Sun Yue complained: "Using our family's conditions, a man in green under 30 doesn't have to think about being able to catch a fifty person, even if he burns a high incense, I have heard a poem, 'I will only need to read a hundred chunks of documents, and I will only need a green shirt when I am old. But the matchmaker asked me about my age, thirty-three years ago.' Aunt, I think it's okay, it's appropriate to grab a wife with my eldest mother."

Zhang said with a bad face: "Go! If you don't help me, then you say, this is not OK, that is not OK, what do you want?"

Ms. Cao held it in for a long time and said, "I want to choose myself."

Zhang said angrily: "Choose yourself? Which one to choose? Which one do you choose?"

“I want to go to school.”

ha?

Zhang was stunned, "Go to school? What kind of school do you have to go to? I'm going to die! Whose girl goes to school? Will you still marry again? This is a sin! Brother Yue hasn't even gone to school, what kind of school did you go to?"

Sun Yue said: "I'm wrong. It's not that I don't go to school, but I just look down on those elementary schools. To be honest, if there is a child this year, I will take it like taking things out of my pocket. Even the Ming Jing is 70% or 80% sure. It's enough for me to be a teacher for them. If it's not that I'm too young, I'm going to find a college."

Zhang slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, I don't understand this or that. It's okay if a girl's baby is studying and literate, but what's going to school?"

Sun Yue said, "I think it's OK. What's wrong with a woman going to school? It's not that she's not gone. Almost all the women from high-ranking families are going to school. They don't know how to be polite if they don't study. My sister is so beautiful, why should we ask people to pick us? Why are you catching a man in green? No, my sister, if you want to marry, you have to marry a man in green."

In fact, during the Song Dynasty, women had a very high status, not much different from the time of the Tang Dynasty. The so-called "not leaving the door without going out" is basically nonsense, and there are not many people going to school, but very few, mostly children of noble families. Although Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism became the Song Dynasty, it was a matter of the Ming Dynasty when it was held on to the altar. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that it developed to the point of perverting. In the Song Dynasty, no one took their plans seriously.

The Song Dynasty had a big female literary giant like Li Qingzhao, Su Xiaomei, and Tang Wan. Of course, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, only Liu Rushi and Xiao Fengxian were there.

As for nonsense such as starvation and loss of rituals, if Cheng Yi dared to say it twenty years ago, Fan Zhongyan would have to slap him with a big mouth, because Fan Zhongyan's mother took him to remarry. After his son died early, he would marry his daughter-in-law to his own student. Sima Guang also advocated women to study and school in public many times.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, it was not a rare thing for women to study and go to school, but they just couldn't enter the academy. Sun Yue agreed with Cao Ni'er's idea.

Zhang sighed and said, "Whether, I can't talk to you anymore, let your father go and say you go."
Chapter completed!
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