Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Chapter 1235

While feeling emotional, Wei Wu asked again:

"Yuxuan, how long have you been planning this?"

"I didn't plan it. It just came to my mind the day before yesterday."

"The day before yesterday?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Wu was stunned, then turned to look at the four silent little girls beside him, but he was mainly looking at Leah.

Then he said with a slightly doubtful tone:

"The day Leah burst into the room and caught us?"

"Yes!"

Zhu Yuxuan nodded in acknowledgment, and then continued:

"My husband told me the other day that I didn't need to be too shy. I should just think of Leah and the others as dowry maids, and I wouldn't feel awkward."

"I thought about it and it's true. Qingxia Liya and I are like sisters, so I went to them."

"But I know my husband doesn't like to force others, so before this, I specifically talked to them and asked them."

Hearing this, Wei Wu turned his head and looked at Qingxia and the other three, and then saw four pretty faces blushing and nodding.

From the shy expressions on their faces, it can be seen that these four little girls did not resist and were all willing.

So Wei Wu was silent for a moment, then looked at Zhu Yuxuan again.

"Yuxuan, what are you going to do with Qingxia, Liya, Nazha, and Reba next?"

Although Wei Wu is the head of the family, he basically doesn't care about family affairs and leaves them all to Zhu Yuxuan.

Moreover, in the current situation, the arrangement for the four little girls is decided by Zhu Yuxuan, the legal wife.

This does not mean that Wei Wu would disown his wife after being beaten, but rather that he did so out of respect for his first wife.

Many people think that in ancient times, there was a system of three wives and four concubines, but in fact, starting from the Western Zhou Dynasty, marriage has been monogamous.

No, to be precise, it should be a system of monogamy and polygamy. A man can have concubines and maids, but he can only have one wife.

Only children born to the wife are legitimate sons and have the true right to inherit the family's wealth, fame, and title.

Children born to other women are all illegitimate and have no status.

And the most important thing is that in the family, there is no superiority or inferiority between the wife and the man, both have equal status.

The status of women was very high before the Southern Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism emerged during the Southern Song Dynasty, which suppressed human nature.

Although the status of women has been lowered, the wife is still the wife and has a lot of say in the family.

So Wei Wu was not shirking responsibility, but the decision was made by his wife Zhu Yuxuan.

As for Zhu Yuxuan, she had already made arrangements in her mind, so she immediately said:

"My dear husband, Qingxia, Liya, Nazha, and Reba have been by my side since the day I entered the mansion. They are like sisters to me."

"So I hope they are not just Yuxuan's dowry maids, but I hope that the husband can give them status and marry them as concubines."

In ancient times, concubines also had different identities and status. The so-called noble concubines were also called concubines or side rooms, and they had a formal status.

Although it is not like marrying a wife with three books and six ceremonies, a sedan chair carried by eight people, and a formal matchmaker, a formal ceremony is still required.

Their status is much higher than that of ordinary concubines. Then there are the concubines who are obtained through buying and selling.

The last is the concubine, who is a maidservant in the family who has been promoted to a higher position, but she has no formal marriage contract and her status is not high.

Logically speaking, the four little girls were all maids, and even if they became concubines, they should be servant concubines, not noble concubines.

However, Zhu Yuxuan made it very clear that she didn't want to be just a dowry maid, which means that the basic tone is that of a dowry maid.

The maidservant brought by the wife to her husband's house as a dowry has a much higher status than an ordinary concubine, and Zhu Yuxuan is a princess.

The princess's dowry maid was turned into a concubine, and logically speaking, she was a noble concubine, so there was nothing wrong with her arrangement.

Wei Wu naturally would not object to this. In fact, he did not want to let Qingxia and the others down.