Chapter 97 Bullshit Rules
As the four of them came out, Charlotte ran in with her horse, "Look, I brought my Annie to play with you."
Luo Jiu smiled and asked casually: "I didn't expect you to come here today. You have guests at home. Doesn't the Earl require you to be at home?"
Charlotte sighed helplessly, "You mean Fred? I hate him so much, I don't want to accompany him. Dad wants me to accompany him, he might as well let me die."
"Ah?" The four were very surprised. "If you hate him so much, why do you want to get engaged to him?"
Charlotte shook her head in frustration. "You are not from here, so you don't know the rules here. If there was a choice, why would I choose him?"
Luo Jiu's eyebrows moved, "Is it because of the limited inheritance rights?"
Charlotte nodded, "Yes, you know?"
"I've heard of it." Luo Jiu has recently studied world history and has a general understanding of the relevant content.
The so-called limited inheritance rights were the inheritance regulations of the British Empire for a long period of time.
Any noble title, land, and property can only be inherited by sons.
If there is no son, the inheritance will be passed on to other male relatives, such as nephews, nieces, or even cousins.
In short, no matter how many daughters you have, or how distant your distant relatives are, biological daughters cannot inherit any title or property of their father. They can only watch their father hand over everything to outsiders who have nothing to do with them.
Under this legal provision, many nobles chose to let their daughters marry their distant heirs. Charlotte's marriage was formed in this way.
In the past, Zhong Jialing had only seen similar regulations in TV dramas and movies such as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Downton Abbey", and she thought they were unreasonable. Now that she saw it with her own eyes, she found it even more absurd.
But in the current social environment, faced with such an arrangement, Charlotte had no choice but to agree even though she was extremely reluctant.
"What can I do? Dad is old and his health is not very good.
He often told me that after he left, Kayla and I would still have to survive, and the old servants in the manor who had worked for us for most of their lives would also have to survive.
If Fred is to keep us all from being kicked out, I have to marry him."
Luo Jiu gently placed his hand on her shoulder, "Don't be so depressed, maybe we can find other ways to solve the problem."
Charlotte shrugged, “My head is breaking, there’s nothing I can do.
Unless... unless Kayla gives birth to a son.
Kayla is forty-two, so maybe she can still make it, but my dad will be sixty in two weeks.
My biological mother died of illness when I was three years old.
Dad married Kayla ten years ago, and if they could have had children, they would have done so long ago."
Luo Jiu disagreed, "Nothing is absolute in this world, if we all think together, we will always find a solution.
Besides, since you hate Fred so much, do you want to sacrifice yourself and live with him for the rest of your life?
Even if he inherits everything from Earl Grant, you can still live without marrying him."
"Not marrying him?" Charlotte's eyes showed a trace of confusion. "If not marrying him, who else can I marry?"
Zhong Jialing said: "Can't you just not marry anyone and live on your own? Women can also support themselves."
Charlotte was surprised and said, "How is that possible? A lady is not allowed to go out and show her face in public, not to mention that most jobs are not allowed for women to do at all."
"Who stipulated this?" Luo Jiu said angrily, "You already have cars, telephones, and refrigerators here, and it looks so modern, but your system is still stuck in the feudal society.
These regulations are ridiculous. Doesn't anyone raise any objections?
Oh my God, I'm going to study law, I'm going to be your lawyer, I'm going to help you with the lawsuit."
Charlotte smiled bitterly and shook her head, "Lawyer is a profession that women are forbidden to work in."
"Fuck!" Feng Qi couldn't help cursing, "What a bullshit rule."
"Hey." Charlotte held their hands, "I feel much better now that I've talked to you. I was almost suffocating at home.
You don't have to worry about me. By the way, I want to tell you something new.
Fred had no idea what evil had possessed him last night. When he woke up in the morning, his face was covered with round bruises, some blue and some red.
Hahahaha, I’m dying of laughter.
His head was swollen like a pig, and he locked himself in the room. He didn't have the energy to go against me these past two days."
"Oh God," Charlotte clasped her hands together devoutly, "Thank God for your arrangement."
The four "gods" were now standing beside her, trying hard not to laugh.
Charlotte asked Luo Jiu: "Do you think there will really be a day when women don't have to get married, can go out to work, and can live a free life?"
"Yes." Luo Jiu answered confidently: "And it won't take too long, more than a hundred years later, it should be ready."
Charlotte sighed, "It's a pity that I will be dead by then. But I really envy the girls more than a hundred years later. They can live their lives the way they want and happily."
She looked into the distance, her eyes filled with regret and longing at the same time.
That night, Luo Jiu was reading a book on law. The three of them came to her room, lying down one on the east side and the other on the west side, and started to talk in bed.
Luo Jiu: "I have a new plan. I think if we can help Charlotte solve the inheritance problem, we can help many noble women who have the same dilemma as her.
If we have this group of powerful allies, it shouldn't be a problem to ask them to support us with a few ships.
Furthermore, this time and place is in great need of a gender revolution. If possible, we might as well start abroad.”
Cheng Yaoyao couldn't help but worry, "It's too early. It's 1908 now, and Ginsburg isn't even born yet."
Luo Jiu flipped through the book and said calmly: "Ginsburg is not born yet, so we will be Ginsburg."
Feng Qi looked at Zhong Jialing and asked in a low voice: "Who is Ginsburg?"
Zhong Jialing spread her hands, she didn't know either.
Cheng Yaoyao added: "She is a female equal rights activist and the second female justice in the history of the US Supreme Court. She has made many contributions to breaking gender discrimination and fighting for women's rights throughout her life. However, she will probably not be born until more than 20 years later."
Zhong Jialing hurriedly asked, "Charlotte can't wait that long, what should we do?"
Luo Jiu flipped through the pages of the book, "Don't worry, let me take a look, maybe there is a loophole I can exploit."
Zhong Jialing and Cheng Yaoyao quickly took a copy of the legal book in Yingwen, and the three of them studied it together.
Feng Qi: "I think we should just kill all the inexplicable distant heirs and let them rob other people's things."
Zhong Jialing didn't even raise her head, "Don't talk."
Feng Qi curled his lips, took a midnight snack from the space, and ate it while accompanying them.
After a while, Luo Jiu suddenly closed the book and said, "Don't look for it anymore. There is no loophole for us to exploit."
"Ah? You give up so quickly?" Cheng Yaoyao couldn't believe it. This was not Luo Jiu's style.
Zhong Jialing: "You have thought of other ways, right?"
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