Wuchenju is Fengliao's yard in Prince Ying's mansion.
In the main room, Feng Liao was lying on a soft couch with her eyes closed, and Yong Ruo was sitting on a stool in front of the couch, silently giving him a head massage, hoping to soothe his emotions.
"Ruoruo, if I tell you: I am not a filial son, will you look down on me?" Fengliao asked Yongruo suddenly after her emotions gradually calmed down.
When he was asking, he closed his eyes and didn't look at Yong Ruo at all, only his slightly tense limbs revealed the tension in his heart.
Yong Ruoxin said: Sure enough!
She said very straightforwardly: "No! I'm actually not a filial daughter... I look down on you, but I look down on myself!"
Feng Liao's eyes opened wide, and she looked at Yong Ruo in amazement: "You... how are you... unfilial?" The tone was full of expectation.
Yong Ruo secretly smiled inwardly, but sighed slightly: "Most of the time, I will listen to my mother's words, but I will not obey her in everything. Sometimes, I will obedience to others; sometimes, I will kill before playing; sometimes, I will Convince her to listen to me…”
Feng Liao suddenly turned over from the couch and sat up, moved in front of her, and asked with great interest: "For example?"
Yong Ruo then mentioned a few examples of her "unfilial piety". For example: On the night of the Lantern Festival, when she went to sell flowers, she chopped them first and then played them. For another example, her mother said that her family was in a difficult situation and told her to be more patient when encountering difficulties. She promised well, but when she guessed that someone would come to steal something, she directly set up a bamboo nail formation, punishing Brother Wuer so badly, she never tolerated it...
"Wu Er's death, I have a clear conscience, and I am innocent according to the law. But his death, after all, has something to do with me... My son, do you think I am a poisonous woman?" Yong Ruo looked at Feng Liao and asked softly .
"No!" Feng Liao categorically stated her attitude, and then took her hand to comfort her, "Wu Er deserved to die, I can't blame you at all! Don't think about it anymore..."
Yong Ruo sighed, and showed a slightly bitter smile to Feng Liao: "Okay! I won't think about it anymore."
Feng Liao squeezed her hand, and let out a long sigh, with a feeling of "the same people who have fallen in the end of the world" in her heart.
Sitting silently with Yong Ruo for a while, Feng Liao suddenly asked her: "Do you know what the mother and concubine said to me before you entered the main room of Shou'an Hall today?" The expression was a little dazed, a little sarcastic.
"What did you say?" Yong Ruo said softly.
"The concubine mother said: You are from outside, you don't know the rules of the house, and I'm afraid you can't serve others. She wants to pick one or two 'proper people' from the big girls around her, and make me a beauty too. to serve me and to teach you..."
Feng Liao sneered and said, "I'm bored by the girls around her! Who cares about them coming to serve? It's not that the concubine mother doesn't know this, but she just refuses to give up, forcing people I don't like to go to her again and again. Stuffed around me!"
Yong Ruoqi said: "Why don't you like the girl next to the concubine?"
The ones she saw in Shou'an Hall before were still quite good-looking. Doesn't Feng Liao like to look at beautiful women
"I don't know!" Feng Liao tossed the three words to Yong Ruo very simply, "I just find it annoying! People say 'mother and child are connected', but I think my mother and concubine's hearts must grow in opposite directions! "
Yong Ruo twitched his lips when he said this: "How do you say?" He continued to laugh.
"What my mother and concubine likes, I always feel bored; what my mother and concubine doesn't like, I just like it very much. The girl is like this, the food is like this, the clothes are like this, and many other things are like this..." Feng Liao's tone seemed to be accusing Complained, "It's okay to have different preferences, but she also likes to control me everywhere! I wanted to eat one more crab, and she said: No, you are weak, and you can't digest it after eating. I want to see the lanterns during the Lantern Festival. The mother and concubine said: No, there are too many people on the Lantern Festival, what should I do if I collide? There are also people who are filming Hanako... "
Feng Liao began to complain about all kinds of "discord" between him and the concubine.
For example: the concubine did not let him look at the lamp, so he sneaked out to look at it by himself. In the end, he returned home having a good time, but most of the people around him were beaten half to death by the concubine and kicked out because of "negligence of duty" and "instigating the master to mess around". Feng Liao couldn't do anything about it, and felt extremely depressed and angry.
The small half who survived, and the other half who came later, learned their lesson and controlled him like a prison boss. When he climbed to the tree to pick a flower, someone would report to the concubine, causing him to be reprimanded and punished by the concubine to kneel.
Another example: He got a little closer to a certain little girl and made a few jokes. As a result, within a few days, the concubine insisted that the girl was a coquettish, restless, and regardless of his pleading, she sent the girl out for a match, and the match was a widower who liked to beat his wife.
Speaking of this, Feng Liao crazily complained: "How did my concubine know about the joke I was making with that little girl? Are those girls and women around me not only prison bosses, but also spies
"... A few jokes are 'humeizi' and 'restless', no wonder those girls either pretend to be dignified with a dead face, or pretend to be virtuous with a fake smile, thinking that they can climb up if they are loved by their mother and concubine. Going to Gao Zhi’er?! Damn! They don’t take a pee to see what kind of virtue they are! Even if I look at them more than once, I feel disgusted!
"... And that little girl, she is only thirteen years old! My concubine concubine gave her to such a person... How cruel! When I found that girl, she begged me to save her with a bruised nose.鳏夫揍了一顿，逼着他写了休书，又备了份嫁妆，让那丫头到外地另嫁了… ”
From then on, Feng Liao's rebellious heart was completely ignited!
As long as it is something that Concubine Shen likes, Feng Liao will feel bored; if it is something that Concubine Shen dislikes, Feng Liao will immediately feel a little fond of it.
He began to cultivate his own manpower—Yong Ruo knew that Feng Liao's own manpower training had nothing to do with the "City Mansion", it was purely a rebellious action of a rebellious teenager who wanted to get rid of his mother's control and strive for independence and privacy.
He was still soft and hard, and asked his uncle the emperor to open a mansion for him in advance.
After opening the mansion, Feng Liao has her own territory, her own team, and her own financial resources, so it is much more convenient for her to do things.
He found excuses to dismiss the people Tai Concubine Shen had placed beside him one after another, and replaced them with the people he cultivated himself, and life went much more smoothly.
Concubine Shen did not know what kind of mentality she had, and she began to build a room next to him, which inspired another wave of rebellious actions by Feng Liao, and triggered the tragedy of "attempting to climb a high branch and unfortunately falling" that Zhu Ying said.
Those two girls, Yue Moo, were indeed good-looking. Concubine Shen and many people in the mansion praised them for their beauty.
The two of them also wanted to climb high, so relying on their looks, they often showed courteousness in front of Feng Liao, seduced them intentionally or unintentionally, and secretly competed with each other.
Unexpectedly, Feng Liao didn't like Concubine Shen's maids at all, and even less favored Concubine Shen's favorite girl!
He was repeatedly seduced by them, and he was completely sexually harassed by two people he didn't like, and he just felt disgusted and bored. But at that time, he was still concerned about Concubine Shen's face, so he couldn't just say that Concubine Shen's confidant girl was not good, so he just acted like a gentleman and ignored those two girls.
Later, Concubine Shen wanted to reward these two "good girls" to Feng Liao as housemates.
Feng Liao couldn't bear it anymore and completely broke out! In front of Concubine Shen, he belittled the two maids whom Concubine Shen loved very much, completely cut off their Qingyun Road, and slapped Concubine Shen heavily in the face.
Concubine Shen has been an old concubine for a long time, and she is used to it. Such "good intentions" met with such fierce resistance from his son, so he was so angry that he lost his temper severely.
Later, as Zhu Ying said, Prince Ying escorted Feng Liao to apologize to Concubine Shen.
It's just that the Prince of England is used to being a gentleman, and he only cares about "filial piety", only cares about how wrong Fengliao's "disobedience to his parents" behavior is, and completely ignores the rebellious spirit of a sophomore boy.
Feng Liao was still uneasy at first, but after being reprimanded by him like this, the rebellious spirit once again gained the upper hand, she would rather play mischievously, cry and cry, and refuse to admit her mistakes and make amends.
The Prince of England was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and when he was about to start a family law, Feng Liao got a quick wit and remembered the word "Zhengzi", and immediately reversed the situation.
"... At that time, I said: 'If a country has admonishing ministers, the country will not be destroyed; if a family has sons, the family will not be destroyed'. It is clear that the mother and concubine do not know people well and employ them improperly, but the eldest brother and sister-in-law pretend to be ignorant and just blindly flatter and flatter them. , I don’t know how to advise, so that the mother and concubine made mistakes without knowing it, and made mistakes again and again, pampering some treacherous villains... For example... And for example... "
As soon as he raised the banner of "Zhengzi", he found moral support for his rebellious behavior, and all anxiety and guilt were swept away.
Therefore, he used his eloquent skills to reveal all the unruly things he knew about the people around Concubine Shen, defending the justice of his behavior of "contradicting his mother and concubine", and returning it to the Prince and Princess of England. Putting on the hat of "foolish filial piety" made Concubine Shen even more embarrassing!
This time, Feng Liao won a complete victory.
He was not without complacency in his heart, but he was also quite uneasy. After that, for a long time, he couldn't eat, couldn't sleep at night, and repeatedly dreamed that he was mad at his mother and concubine, and was convicted of a heinous crime, to be hacked into pieces... Then he woke up from the dream.
Until the night of the Lantern Festival, he met Yong Ruo, who said to him: "In essence, etiquette is something that binds people."
This sentence completely reached his heart! It made him feel like when Yu Boya met Zhong Ziqi: It turns out that I am not the only one who is dissatisfied with those etiquette dogmas and wants to resist! She can say such things, it seems that she is smarter than me, and she understands more thoroughly than me...
From then on, he regarded Yong Ruo as his confidant, and it was hard to let him go.
Yong Ruo feels that the conflict between Feng Liao and Concubine Shen can be summed up in one sentence: a story that must be told between a mother who pays too much attention to her son and her adolescent rebellious son.
In modern society, most of the families in this situation will be on the verge of panic.
But the feudal era was different from modern society.
In the feudal era, "filial piety" was the basis of morality (evidence: "filial piety is the first of all good deeds") and a universal code of conduct.
"Unfilial piety" is not only a moral issue, but has also risen to the legal level, and is one of the "ten heinous" felonies.
This is actually quite inhumane!
It deprives children of their human rights from both legal and moral perspectives, making children a vassal that their parents can dispose of at will. Fathers can beat and kill their sons, elders can drown babies, but children and grandchildren can't "disobey their parents and respect their relatives".
A person with good moral character who does something "unfilial" will not only have to bear the forceful suppression of his elders and the condemnation of public opinion around him, but he may also suffer from his own inner torment—because the brainwashing education he has received since childhood will continue to Tell him: This is wrong! This is so wrong! This is a "heinous" crime!
In this case, those who have been completely brainwashed by "filial piety" will live a little easier.
Because when they restrain their emotions and desires for "filial piety", they can get a sense of moral superiority, and use this spiritual reward to compensate for the pain they endured when restraining their own nature!
Feng Liao is probably the type of person who has not been completely brainwashed, but will live a more painful life.
He disapproved of Concubine Shen's behavior, and was unwilling to be manipulated by Concubine Shen, but he couldn't yell at his elders like those rebellious children in modern society, fighting head-on for his own independence—because that would be "unfilial"! That is "heinous"! Then you have to bear the double judgment of your own heart and the whole society!
All the resistance he can do can only be roundabout, tortuous, and half the result with half the effort.
If the resistance is unsuccessful, he will be even more aggrieved; if the resistance is successful, he will probably not feel very happy.
So Feng Liao would ask her: "I am not a filial son, will you look down on me?"
Yong Ruo suddenly felt that Feng Liao was very pitiful!
She won't have the slightest psychological burden to contradict her elders, she just needs to stay out of the conversation. Feng Liao wanted to resist Concubine Shen's manipulation, but she had to bear more pressure and suffer more.
Now, he just refused one or two rooms, and he has endured such a lot of pressure and expended so much effort.
In the future, how much effort and pressure will he have to put in to fulfill his promise to her
Yong Ruo felt that his decision at the time was very wise - he did not cling to the title of a "regular wife", but saw the reality rationally, and directly let him "take the next best thing".
Otherwise, I don't know what the situation is now and what will happen in the future!
"Ruo Ruo, I can't be filial to my son, so I can't blame my mother and concubine for not caring about my wishes, can I?" Feng Liao said sadly, "Everything in the world has a cause and effect. I just can't figure it out: What is it? What cause has led to the current effect? What kind of effect will these causes produce now?"
Yong Ruo thought for a while, but in the end he didn't keep silent, but said: "I have a guess, whether it's right or not, you can judge for yourself, okay?"
Feng Liao's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly said, "Tell me!"
"The cause and effect of this can be summed up in three words: who is the master." Yong Ruo said slowly, "The concubine wants to be your master, but you want to be the master yourself. These two contradictory causes, This has led to the result of "disharmony" between you and the concubine. And the cause of "discord" between you and the concubine will eventually lead to two completely different results: first, you no longer think about your inner house. Be the master, everything is at the disposal of the concubine. Second, the concubine no longer wants to be the master of your inner house, and everything is at your disposal. Before either of these two things appear, the conflict between you and the concubine will There has been."
Feng Liao fell into deep thought.
After a long time, he said softly: "In the future, I will take good care of my concubine and do my best to make her live a happy life in return for her kindness. But I will not let my concubine be my concubine." Lord! If she wants to meddle in our affairs, I will deal with her to the end..." His expression was mixed with joy, sadness, sadness, and relief.
Yong Ruo sighed inwardly: This is a long road of resistance!
Moreover, Concubine Shen is not the big boss, but the emperor!