"Elder sister, this is the Imperial Advisor I mentioned to you. You can call her Ruoruo from now on." Ye Wuxia stood beside her elder sister, speaking softly.
Sister Ye said in a trembling voice, "How could this be? I, a humble person, I..."
Before Sister Ye could finish speaking, her knees buckled.
Before Ye Wuxia and Fang Ruotang could react, he suddenly knelt down. Fang Ruotang was so frightened that she jumped to the side, barely managing to avoid being knelt.
Then, she said awkwardly, "Sister Ye, please get up."
Ye Wuxia immediately helped the person up.
Fang Ruotang winked at Ye Wuxia, asking him if they hadn't explained their relationship, otherwise why would Sister Ye kneel down to her right away?
"Elder sister, didn't I tell you that the Imperial Preceptor is a woman I like? We are close. You can treat her like a younger sister from now on. There's no need for such a grand ceremony."
"But... I... wouldn't someone like me affect the Grand Preceptor?"
Sister Ye looked self-conscious and uneasy.
Fang Ruotang's face was full of curiosity as she asked, puzzled, "Who is Sister Ye? An innocent woman who married a villain? This is none of your business! After all, you didn't know he was worse than a pig or a dog before you got married!"
Sister Ye was taken aback, and her gaze toward Fang Ruotang gradually became radiant.
"Besides, why are you punishing yourself for the other person's mistake? If you're really uncomfortable, just kill him yourself! Don't be afraid, I can protect you. Even if you kill him, you won't go to jail."
Fang Ruotang patted her chest and said with an innocent look on her face.
Ye Wuxia looked tenderly at the radiant Fang Ruotang. He knew she could help his eldest sister resolve her inner conflict. She seemed simple, but every time she said something unintentionally, it struck a chord with the other person, making them feel warm. This was why the people around her subconsciously felt close to her.
Who wouldn't love such a little sun?
“…But I’ve brought death to my parents and can’t have a son.” A glint flashed in Sister Ye’s eyes, then disappeared back into her shell.
"Your parents are also Ye Wuxia's parents. Did he also bring misfortune to his parents?" Fang Ruotang tilted her head, looking back and forth between Sister Ye and Ye Wuxia.
Sister Ye immediately retorted excitedly, "Impossible! How could my little brother bring misfortune to our parents? He is precocious and sensible. He was able to protect our parents and me when he was very young. He is the best little brother."
Ye's parents were weak-willed, and Ye's older sister was just like them.
Otherwise, her sister, who was a high-ranking official of the third rank, wouldn't have been bullied by an ordinary merchant.
"But don't you have the same parents? If you bring bad luck to your parents, then he will too! If he doesn't bring bad luck to his parents, then you won't either!"
Fang Ruotang's words left Sister Ye speechless.
She opened her mouth, not knowing how to refute it, and even felt that Fang Ruotang was right, but how could her capable younger brother be a jinx to their parents?
Since he can't, then she probably can't either.
"As for having a son, there are only men and women in this world. If you don't have a son, you have a daughter. Besides, whether you have a son or a daughter is not something we women can decide. It all depends on the man's body."
Fang Ruotang was someone who had been exposed to new ideas, and she understood these things.
"...But he had another son with another woman?"
"Let alone other women, even with the same woman, it's possible to have both a son and a daughter! Sons have XY chromosomes, and daughters have XX chromosomes. Men have XY chromosomes, while women only have XX chromosomes. So when a man and a woman unite, if the man gives the woman an X chromosome, she will give birth to a daughter; if he gives her a Y chromosome, she will give birth to a son. Therefore, whether a child is a son or a daughter depends on the man."
When Fang Ruotang learned about this knowledge, she was amazed.
After all, for the first ten years or so of her life, like everyone else, she thought that having children was a woman's job. But when she learned that it was a man's job, she even carefully looked up a lot of information.
"Is...is that so?" Sister Ye asked in surprise and confusion.
They don't even understand what X or Y means.
But she understood one thing: it wasn't her fault that she couldn't give birth to a son.
"That's right! So women who don't have sons don't need to be told what to do. You can turn around and scold them for being useless, for not even having the ability to give you a son."
Women have taken the blame for so many things; it's time for men to suffer the same fate.
"So that's how it is, so that's how it is."
Sister Ye lowered her head and spoke softly and hesitantly.
"Moreover, only daughters can carry on the family line. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited maternally and can only be passed on to offspring through the mother. This means that if a family has daughters generation after generation, then no matter how many generations have passed, their genetic origin can be traced."
Fang Ruotang was quite pleased to find this information when she was researching, but scientists from the previous century said that this statement was inaccurate and imprecise.
Fang Ruotang was disappointed for a long time because of this.
However, it's fine to use it to appease Sister Fang now.
"Really?"
"real."
Of course it's fake!
Fang Ruotang's inner thoughts were heard for the first time in front of Sister Ye and her daughter. Both of them looked at her at the same time, even though she was a child who had always been like a puppet.
Both boys and girls inherit genetic information from their parents, so there is no gender bias. However, if a family has daughters generation after generation, even after a thousand years, they can still trace back to the same ancestor. Anyway, I think having daughters is great.
"Grand Preceptor, you..." Sister Ye was speechless.
This time I saw it clearly. Fang Ruotang didn't speak, so was that what she really thought?
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