Zhou Pei is currently struggling with the fact that he is about to grow up.
As the little princess in King Kang's mansion, she was thirteen years old last year, and will be fourteen after the New Year this year. Fourteen is not a great age, but for girls, some things start to become urgent and obvious. The biggest influence is that the father, who has always been irresponsible at home, began to think about it during this New Year. Find yourself a concubine. I once asked her for her opinion, and she was still comparing the youth leaders in Jiangning area recently. These things made her feel a little distressed.
It's not that marriage is completely excluded. As Zhou Pei's county owner, the education she received since she was a child was actually excellent. As a woman these days, especially a royal woman who can be educated, it is not an exaggeration to say that all education from childhood was for the purpose of becoming a qualified wife in the future.
It is true that the extremely favorable environment can also easily cultivate some characters that are not very popular, but Zhou Pei is still relatively good in this regard, and she does not have no expectations for her future marriage. What the future concubine will be like, what it will be like to form a family with another man, and what to do after becoming someone else's wife, she will feel blushing when she thinks about these things. But on the other hand, this incident also clearly told her that she might only be a woman in the future.
Zhou Pei is unqualified in "Women's incompetence is virtue", she has extraordinary talent and quick thinking. Of course, this is also an unconvincing lie. Only a smart woman can truly control a family. A real stupid woman is easy to suffer. Xiao Zhoupei has seen many such stupid women in the palace since she was a child. Not like them.
She has had various teachers since she was a child, but the most important one, after all, is Grandpa Ma Kang. The old man was an angry youth, which had a great influence on her. Since she was a child, Grandpa Kang would teach her and her younger brother the honor of being the royal family of the Zhou family, and the ideal of creating peace for all generations to follow the sages of the past—more is actually taught to her younger brother Zhou Junwu, but as a royal family, she naturally has this kind of attitude. Qualifications and missions. For example, Aunt Huang is doing a lot of business with Grandpa Consort, and secretly supports the operation of Chaotang in the south. This is very convincing.
Kang Xian and his wife set an example and teach without distinction. As a result, Zhou Pei, who was sensible earlier, was infected more deeply and set up various ambitions since childhood, so she urged her younger brother since childhood. Although it is said that the royal family is more strict with their relatives, they must always have the idea of serving the country in their hearts, just like the grandmother of the emperor and the grandfather of the concubine. As long as there is hope, there is always some way to contribute to the country, and a sister with a strong sense of responsibility , As the younger brother, Xiao Junwu has become more gentle.
The two brothers and sisters walked all the way under such circumstances, and the father and Wang gave up and threw them to Kang Xian for discipline. Zhou Pei's sense of responsibility is getting stronger and stronger, but his younger brother is a piece of cowhide candy, adhering to the principle of being good as water, but there is no progress. When you read the book, your grades are so-so, and sometimes you are a little confused. If you want to say something about dying for the country, the little guy must stare in surprise.
It was clear that the state did not let them die. The father and the king spent all day fighting chickens and dogs, and the imperial court restricted the participation of royal relatives in politics. Since childhood, Xiao Junwu also knows these things, but Zhou Pei believes that where there is a will, things can be achieved. She and her younger brother have been in a free-range state since childhood, not in captivity, so she also knows how the current world is going. I have to do something myself, at least I have to urge my brother to do something, he is a man after all. Zhou Pei was anxious, but after all, her brother was only eleven years old, and there was always time to take it slow, but by this time, she knew that there was no time left.
Marriage is something that, as a woman, after all, there is no way to avoid it. She blushed because of the things her father said, and at the same time she felt uneasy, she also really found that once she got married, she could really only be a woman. , To manage the affairs of the family, to care for the husband and to teach the children, and the heart is too big, it is not allowed. Things like Aunt Huang and grandfather-in-law are extremely special after all. What will happen to their concubine
In short, what I thought and thought in the past, once I become a relative, I really have to let it go. Now I think about it, it's like every family wine.
The younger brother is also somewhat interested in things now, but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the things she wanted his younger brother to accept before. Everything came from that "barbarian" named Ning Yi. Ning Yi is currently her master, and it would be disrespectful to call him a barbarian, but that was a habit formed last year, and now it is only used for occasional slander.
This master is known as the number one talent in Jiangning. He is not just trying to make a name for himself. There is nothing to say about his talent. The talent is in his early twenties. But it is not serious at all, the lectures are casual, the attitude is sloppy, and there is no teacher's appearance during the class, and he always tells some small stories in the market, often making the hall laugh, like a storyteller's teahouse. It's nothing like the seriousness of Grandpa Consort, and I don't know how the two of them became friends.
To be honest, she admires that barbarian's talent after all. Whenever he makes thought-provoking remarks, sometimes casually saying things will make people amazed. Not long ago, because of what she was thinking, she casually asked in class: "Why do people have to get married?" Zhou Pei's mind is actually a certain thing that does not need to be discussed. , These truths about the Dao of Human Relations, anyone can quote the scriptures and say it, and she doesn't know why she suddenly asks it.
The students in this class that Ning Yi is currently teaching are generally younger. Since the Su family is run as a private school, there are also several little girls, who are Zhou Pei's age. But when a girl of hers asked this sentence, there was silence in the classroom, and all the children blushed. Only Xiao Junwu nodded: "Yes, yes, why, those girls hate them the most, they always cry..." Xiao Junwu has a gentle personality, and is more popular among his sisters and sisters among his relatives, but he can't think of himself. The feeling is like this, as soon as these words came out, the girls from the Su family over there turned black.
"I hate you too!"
"I won't play with you."
Xiaojunwu quickly explained, and the scene was chaotic. Zhou Pei actually regretted it when he asked. He expected that it would be easy for Master to answer, but Ning Yi thought about it for a while and said something that made everyone stunned.
"There is a saying, it's more interesting..." Ning Yi smiled and began to speak, the classroom was quiet, everyone raised their heads and listened carefully, but Ning Yi pointed at Xiao Junwu, "For example, Junwu , you are now the only child at home, with only one elder sister, no other brothers and sisters."
Jun Wu nodded vigorously.
"This situation requires you to have a father, your father has a son, your grandparents, they must give birth to a son, and that is your father, your grandparents, and you must also have a son, your grandfather, And then, the next generation, the previous generation... and so on, thousands of years ago, do you know how lucky you were?"
After all, the children's comprehension ability is still a bit poor, Ning Yi waited.
"Let's think about it, it may be a little strange, but if you are an ancestor of yours thousands of years ago, what would you need to pass down your blood from generation to generation. Jun Wu, you want to get married, and you must give birth to a son. Come."
Jun Wu blushed for a while, and the children all laughed.
"Your sons have to get married, they have to have a son, your grandson has to get married, and also have to have a son, your grandson's grandson... until your father, he has to get married, and then have a son , will have the present you. We are all here, a bloodline, thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of generations of people, each generation, they must have a son, and each generation must have a son …”
"Look at Uncle Huang, who sells noodles on the street. Their family has no children and no daughters. For example, they have been very sad recently. The only seedling of the Qi family went out to run a business. Come on. Last year, a lot of people and children died in the flood. There are many, many people. It took thousands of years to spread here. In the middle of it, all kinds of things will happen. , gave birth to a daughter, and now there is no more of you, or, since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, after all, there have been many turbulent times. Your ancestors of a certain generation encountered military disasters and natural disasters and died before leaving children. This is also very possible. …”
"However, in such a dangerous process, hundreds of thousands of couples, our ancestors, none of them died before giving birth to children, and... they all gave birth to boys, thousands of couples. , all have boys, and their children must have boys. The same is true of your mother's blood, your grandparents must have daughters, and then onwards, grandmother's parents must also have daughters... Every generation has daughters, and daughters must also have daughters. After giving birth to daughters, all of them have daughters, the possibility is even smaller, who wants a daughter? Your family is all about sons and daughters... "
Ning Yi smiled: "Everyone, you will feel that it is a matter of course for you to be here, but think about it, everyone's ancestors have gone through many generations and avoided many dangerous possibilities. This bloodline, they The generation has not been broken. It is passed on, passed on, passed on, passed on... It was finally passed on to you, how lucky you are, so you may feel that the blood in your body, with your father, Grandpa, and even the connection between generations of ancestors, they have gone through untold hardships to let this bloodline pass down to the present, and then with you, this is thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, and tens of thousands of years of hard work, you also I can't bear to let it break like this..."
Almost all of the children in the classroom were stunned, some understood, some did not understand, and some only understood a little. Zhou Pei understood it. She had heard many things said by her grandfather when she was a child, and had read many poems and pictures. Originally, she thought she understood what grandeur is, such as countries, such as the Great Wall, such as the Silk Road. Ah, for example, her favorite "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" and "Sleepwalking Tianmu's Farewell", but no matter how magnificent and gorgeous things are, they can't compare to what I heard today.
She could almost feel that the two bloodline lines that started thousands of years ago—no, even from the beginning of the world, when there were human beings—can be drawn from thousands of years ago and stayed in her body for such a long time. For thousands of years, it has not stopped for a moment.
To be able to say such things lightly, this teacher of mine... is indeed a very powerful person.
But when he was talking about this kind of thing, even the slightest rhetoric was useless, which made her almost hate him. How could he do this!