Tang Miao has lived in Taoyuan Valley for almost seven years and often exchanges letters with Ye Zhou.
When Luo Yunyan went to visit the Duke of Xiangguo's Mansion in Kyoto, the children in the mansion told her that this was the mistress their father was going to remarry. Upon inquiry, she found out that she was the high priestess of the Gu tribe, young and beautiful. When she came here, she was received by the emperor and the empress, and the fifth prince was also invited to accompany her.
Tang Miao sighed and said that he was useless. His dream was shattered and he mustered up the courage to leave, but Ye Zhou tripped him up and he couldn't go to Jiangnan, the place he had been dreaming of.
When she settled down in Taoyuan Valley, she decided to start a new life. When Ye Zhou came to find her, she served him like a loser. She even wanted to follow him to southern Yunnan because she was worried about him. Ye Zhou refused, but later wrote her a letter asking her to wait for his return, and she waited obediently.
As a result, he fell in love with a young girl in southern Yunnan. She was young, beautiful, and had status. How could I compare with her? Fortunately, I was a dismissed concubine and I got a lot of money. Thinking of this, I felt at ease.
I'm glad I took this step, otherwise I would have to worship a little girl as the mistress of the house, and I would have to bear the embarrassing name of "favored concubine".
But not long after, she received another letter from Ye Zhou, saying that the high priest did not speak the Central Plains dialect well and did not understand the Central Plains etiquette, and that he had nothing to do with the high priest, so she should not think too much about it.
She received the letter and warned herself not to think too much about it, as they were all dismissed concubines.
But when her daughter came to see her, she showed her the letter and asked her hesitantly, "What does your father mean by this?"
The daughter laughed and said, "After all, my aunt is still different in my father's heart. The only thing that happened in the Duke's Mansion was that the head steward received a letter with six words: 'Not the mistress, please stop making trouble.' Everyone has calmed down since then."
Ye Qiu, the daughter, added, "If Auntie doesn't want to be with Father anymore, I have nothing to say. If you think this will be better for my brother and me, I'm afraid you're wrong.
If the father remarries a young girl, and the father is a man of around 40 years old, he is still in his prime, and they will definitely have their own children, real legitimate children. It is unlikely that they will adopt the adult children of concubines.
If the father remarried an older woman, this woman would either be of unusual social status or deeply loved by the father. She would be a powerful figure for the concubines' children.
It has always been the case that a mother is honored by her son, and a son is honored by his mother. When the aunt is at home, the father has a bond with her, and the children have an extra layer of protection. If the aunt leaves, the bond is not severed, and the children are left to support themselves.
If Auntie is not doing well and wants to take another step, my brother and I have no intention of stopping her. We are grown up and not troublemakers. We can take care of ourselves.
But if Auntie doesn't have a clear idea, her spirit will also be inconsistent. It's better to wait and see. After all, there are not many people in this world who are stronger than my father. Auntie has always been beautiful and gentle. She has had a relationship with my father for more than ten years. She is not someone that can be easily surpassed by ordinary women.
"For so many years, I've been labeled a favored concubine, and I think it was just a random choice made by my father among the three concubines. But I don't think there was any random choice, it was all done at his will."
Tang Miao's heart was in turmoil after hearing this. He knew that his personality was that of a rabbit: timid and indecisive. He finally took a step forward, but now he had no idea what to do next, so he just went with the flow. He then told his daughter that he had already been laid off, so it was not right to communicate with her father like this.
Ye Qiu asked in detail and said with a smile, "Why do I feel that this matter has not been completed? If Auntie wants to take another step, it is safer to find an official mediator. Why not go to the official mediator and try it out to find out whether Auntie is free and can take another step."
Tang Miao's horizons gradually broadened as she began her career as a housekeeper, learning as she went. Although her son and daughter were illegitimate, the Duke's family had no legitimate children, and these children were all raised with first-class education, attending the finest academies and private schools. They were taught etiquette by various maids, needlework by skilled embroiderers, and even housekeeping and accounting by the Duke's old housekeeper herself. From childhood, they attended palace banquets and autumn hunts, interacting with the highest levels of Kyoto nobles. Aside from her own status as a mother, which was somewhat lower, these children were truly raised as noble children.
When her daughter said there was something wrong with her dismissal, she thought it was probably true. Sure enough, the next day she went to the official media to ask, and they said she couldn't take the job, especially since she was a married woman. How could she find a matchmaker? Tang Miao was dumbfounded.
"Can't I have my own independent household registration?"
The official media said: "Our dynasty was founded during the chaos of wars and succession of three dynasties. At that time, there were many women who lost their husbands and relatives and had to live alone with their young children. There were also elder sisters who lost their parents and relatives and had to take care of their younger brothers and sisters. There were many widows and orphans. Under various circumstances, if adult women could not open accounts, it would be very inconvenient.
Therefore, in our dynasty, adult women have always been able to open their own independent household accounts. However, in daily life, after more than a decade of stability, it is indeed rare for women to open independent household accounts. Women with fathers, husbands, older brothers, or adult younger brothers, whether married or unmarried, often register their household accounts under their fathers, brothers, or husbands, or even under their grandfathers, maternal grandfathers, or uncles.
Women who open independent households are mostly widowed or single women with no one to rely on, or those who have retired and have no family to return to. But this does not mean that just because you have an independent household, you have already separated. Even those with husbands can open independent households, and you are one of them.
"How do I get a severance pay?"
"Officially recognized documents include marriage certificates, contract agreements, divorces, separations, divorces, abandonments, and releases. There are also family trees, which indicate under what circumstances a document will be issued, primarily to determine if a child under your name has been transferred to someone else's.
Your document is incomplete, please ask your husband to make a copy for you."
Tang Miao sat there for a long while, then got angry and quickly wrote a letter to Ye Zhou.
Ye Zhou accepted it, but didn't respond to her furious reply. After waiting a few days, he wrote back, describing how he couldn't eat or sleep well in southern Yunnan, how the mosquitoes were as big as buckets, how the damp, hot miasma was overwhelming, how his body was covered in rashes, and how the epidemic was still spreading. He had so much to do every day that he could only get a few shut-eye. He was so thin that he needed to wear his belt half a circle longer.
The letter was so badly written that Helan Cheng couldn't bear to read it.
Although I despised it, after reading what Ye Zhou wrote, I took out the letter I wrote to my wife and added a few lines.
After receiving the letter and reading it, Tang Miao forgot why he wrote the letter. Instead, he spent half a month to send two huge and terrifying packages.
Tang Miao, who has lived in Taoyuan Valley for more than six years, recently discovered that a strange family of neighbors had moved in.
That house is even more remote than hers. Who lives at the top of that difficult mountain path?
Her location was high and far away, but the view was first-class. Even if that house had the same view as hers, it was really not suitable for living. It was too inconvenient. It used to be where a monk lived to cultivate his mind.
If it was to save money, then the people coming in and out when moving in, and the things they carried, didn't seem like the owner was short of money.
The hostess was sent in under strict protection, while the host was elusive and only came once every two or three days.
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