chapter Five
"Teacher, I'm being presumptuous. I haven't posted any posts yet. Don't be offended."
As soon as Lin Yunwan saw Lady Guo, she apologized.
Madam Guo quickly helped her up and said with a smile: "You child, how have you ever forgotten the three festivals of the year and my birthday? And you still tell me these false etiquettes."
"Come and sit."
Lin Yunwan took Madam Guo's gentle hand and sat next to her. According to this life, she and Madam Guo may not have seen each other for a few years. In fact... they haven't seen each other for more than ten years.
It turned out that the lady's hair was already white at this time, but she had never married. Although she had silver hair, she was very energetic, her complexion was rosy, her eyes were gentle and indifferent, and she looked like a person with no worries at first glance.
"Yun Wan, what are you looking at?"
Lin Yunwan regained her composure and smiled, saying, "It's nothing." She just felt that living a life like her teacher was not bad.
Madam Guo looked at Lin Yunwan from side to side. She hadn't seen him for a few years, but she always felt that this child was very different.
Lin Yunwan quickly smiled and said: "I came here this time because I want to ask you about something."
Madam Guo immediately shifted her attention and asked with a smile: "What's the matter? Just tell me."
Lin Yunwan said: "There is a female member of the Lu family who wants to reconcile with her husband's family, but with her status, it may not be easy to reconcile. I remember when I was in my boudoir, I accidentally heard you and my grandmother talking about you having a daughter. The student’s sister married into her husband’s family, and after finally reconciling with her husband’s family, she remarried to another family?”
Moreover, the female student’s family background is not ordinary.
Although the court allowed women to remarry, it was rare for a woman to divorce or be divorced from an official family, especially from a noble family like the Marquis House, which would never let a woman return to her natal family.
Not to mention Lin's Qingliu, who would rather let the woman hang with a piece of white silk than allow the female family members to return to the Lin family with Li.
"I know it's someone else's property. If it's not convenient for the teacher to tell me, it's okay."
Madam Guo felt relieved. She originally asked about it for the sake of the Lu family. She held Lin Yunwan's hand tightly and said, "It's okay to tell you this. My female student's father was originally a third-rank official, and her sister's husband's family Who knew that her sister's husband, although he came from a scholarly family, loved to hit people. The student's sister couldn't bear it for three years, and she was almost dead, so she told her parents about it. .”
Lin Yunwan was a little surprised. There were men in official families who beat people, but what she knew was that they were pushing and beating the wife to death during a dispute. She had never heard of a situation where someone was about to be beaten to death.
"The student's mother-in-law proposed a divorce because of this? Then her husband's family was the first to agree?"
"Oh, it's not that simple. Her natal family proposed a divorce and even joined in with her husband's family, but it was of no use. Her husband's family still refused to let her go. The laws of the court were there, and the woman was married off. She must die in her husband's family, and her natal family has no way to do anything."
Lin Yunwan asked curiously: "Then how did you get married in the end?"
Madam Guo lowered her voice and said, "Her family endured the anger for another year. Later, Empress Yuan died, and after the emperor established a new emperor, my student entered the palace and became the queen. The emperor stepped forward and ordered her sister's husband's family to write a letter of divorce."
Lin Yunwan was shocked, it turned out to be so.
How many women in the world are reconciling with each other and can the emperor be invited to come forward?
It was impossible for her.
Lady Guo said: "Although the emperor came forward to order the queen's sister-in-law to reconcile, the queen's sister-in-law had no choice but to marry away from the capital to settle the dispute. She could not return to her parents' home for several years. Even though she left the evil husband's family, she was still in harmony with her husband in the end. It is also unfortunate for parents to have their siblings separated."
This is the way the world is. No matter why a woman is divorced or abandoned, she is still the one who suffers.
Madam Guo asked again with concern: "Why can't the daughter of the Lu family get along with her husband?"
Lin Yunwan couldn't answer.
If her previous life had not ended like that, she would have remained firmly in the position of the eldest son and wife of the Marquis of Wuding Mansion all her life. In the eyes of others, she just couldn't get her husband's sincerity and had no children of her own, so how could she propose a divorce?
She was afraid that the teacher would be worried, so she smiled and said, "Maybe it's just a woman's complaint, and it may not lead to reconciliation."
Madam Guo knew in her heart that Lin Yunwan came to inquire, and the matter was definitely not as simple as "a woman complaining".
It's just that Lin Yunwan is the wife of the Hou family. She has her difficulties, so it's okay not to go into details.
Mrs. Guo still said a few words of sincerity: "It is not easy for a woman to survive. For example, I have never married. It is because my parents died young and I have no brothers or siblings. I am also very distant from my relatives. No one can control me. Besides, I am born with a bad temper." If you are strong and have some ability to support yourself, you can't ask for help from others, and you can't hinder others.
"To put it bluntly, how many women in the world are as 'lucky' as me?
"After an ordinary woman gets married, if she really can't live on, and she takes her mind off her husband, lives her own life well, raises children, and manages the house, she can live no matter what."
Lin Yunwan lowered her head slightly: "That's what the teacher said."
The two chatted some more, and Lin Yunwan was very concerned about Madam Guo's health and current situation.
Madam Guo felt warm in her heart and her smile was gentle: "My body is still the same. It's better when it's sunny and worse when it's cloudy. There's nothing to do on weekdays, it's just books and incense."
As he said that, he looked at the animal-patterned bronze incense burner on the small table, and saw a thin stream of smoke rising from it, as soft and white as mist.
"It's still the old Shantan."
Lin Yunwan could smell it. This was the fragrance that the teacher usually used.
Madam Guo nodded with a smile.
Lin Yunwan suddenly stared at Lady Guo and asked, "Teacher, have you dabbled in Buddhism and Taoism recently?"
"No." Madam Guo felt very strange. "You know, I don't believe in gods and Buddhas. I rarely even pray to gods and worship Buddhas."
Lin Yunwan was thoughtful, that was a bit strange, the teacher's previous life...
"Madam, there are distinguished guests arriving."
Madam Guo's maid suddenly came in to report.
The maids are all old people around her. Even if Lin Yunwan is a distinguished guest in front of Madam Guo, the guests coming now are even more distinguished than Lin Yunwan. Madam Guo knows it well.
Lin Yunwan stood up consciously and said: "Teacher, the student has been harassing me for a long time, it's time to say goodbye."
Madam Guo held her hand eagerly and said, "I am an old woman and have nothing to do. I am always at home. You can come back when you have time."
Lin Yunwan smiled and said yes, as if she mentioned it casually: "By the way, the student also wants to ask the teacher for a copybook, the "Bamboo Branch Calligraphy" that you used to teach me when I was a child."
Madam Guo agreed immediately and asked people to find and lend it to Lin Yunwan. She felt something was wrong for a moment, so she casually asked: "This post is for children who want to be enlightened. I remember that there are no children who want to be enlightened in the Hou Mansion, right?"
The maid took the post and handed it to Lin Yunwan. She couldn't bear the kindness of her elders. After accepting it, she lowered her head in shame and said, "The Lu family adopted a child in my name for his use."
Lin Yun Wanfu recovered and left.
Madam Guo's eyes were filled with astonishment. She was only in her twenties, so how could she adopt a child?
Could it be that the woman Wu Dinghou wanted to reconcile with was Lin Yunwan herself?
"Sir, what's going on?"
A distant and cold voice came, and Madam Guo came back to her senses and saluted the young and noble man: "His Royal Highness King Huan."
Lady Guo's distinguished guest is none other than the most favored Prince Huan today and the Queen's only legitimate son, Qi Lingheng.
