sinovels Chapter 455 Women disguised as men
Chapter 455 Women disguised as men
"What I said just now, those are ordinary couples, and many couples don't know anything about each other before they get married. They are...blind marriages. If you are unlucky, you can only knock out your teeth and swallow it in your stomach." Wu Youwei said: "I just miss your cousin, even if he is the son of a noble princess, the emperor's nephew, the eldest princess of Chongqing can take Seeing so many portraits of ladies, it can be seen that they have been carefully selected, and there are many people who are not suitable? Think about it, if your cousin really married a woman who is kind on the surface but vicious on the inside, Not to mention what will happen to Zhou Xian, even the next generation will be affected..."
The little prince nodded understandingly: "Then how can we avoid this from happening?"
He doesn't want to be with his wife in the future, and it's the same.
"Unless...unless women can be made like men, such as imperial examinations, women can also take exams. The exams may not be poetry, poetry, calligraphy and painting, but cooking, female celebrity, living at home, and How to educate future generations..." Wu Youwei said: "Actually, the best way is to let women go out of the house."
"They can't even get out of the second door, how can they get out of the house?" The little prince said helplessly: "None of the two lonely sisters has ever been out of the palace..."
As he was talking, the little prince's eyes lit up immediately: "Why don't you take your sisters out to play?"
Princesses are not as good as the ladies in Beijing. At least the ladies in Beijing can admire flowers and draw pictures. As for princesses, they live in the palace.
Wu Youwei also thought of this: "Is it suitable?"
He has lived here for so many years, and he knows how perverted the etiquette of this era is. He can use his strength to cause harm in Shanghai. That is because Shanghai is newly built and far away from the Central Plains, and it is too poor there. How could the ancestors say that "the warehouse is full and the etiquette is known"?
People can't get enough to eat, so who cares about what?
Both men and women go out to find work and work in the fields. Even the little girls raise chickens, ducks, geese, dogs and pigs at home, and the boys herd cattle and sheep and collect firewood.
What about here?
This is the capital!
Those old scholars have no other skills, but they must be very good at doing things.
"Gu... Gu wants to invite them to go shopping." The little prince was helpless: "Is it not possible?"
The little prince grew up in the palace, and the teachings he received were very orthodox. Even the harem was dirty, which was taught by Wan Zhener, but...about women, no one taught him at all, because he It's a boy.
"I'm afraid...not possible." Wu Youwei shattered the little prince's expectations: "Every lady is a lady who doesn't leave her home, let alone princesses."
The little prince thought for a while: "Then...the woman disguises herself as a man?"
Wu Youwei was drinking tea. The steamed stuffed buns with mushrooms and salted eggplant mixed with sesame oil were a bit salty when he got up in the morning. He just took a sip, and when he heard the little prince's words, he spit it out immediately. !
"Why does Your Highness think so?" Wu Youwei was stunned.
Children's thinking is really incomprehensible to adults.
"Just think about it, if a woman can become a man, she can go out casually." The little prince said wearily: "But it seems impossible, even if we go to the sisters, the sisters... I'm afraid it will be too late." Would not agree to..."
Wu Youwei was amused: "Since that's the case, why don't you give it a try?"
The little prince became interested: "Okay!"
The two of them stopped going to class. The little prince took Wang Zhen and a few court ladies and eunuchs to Zhaode Palace. Yihao, Wan Zhener went to see the queen. Come back, there is a large group of eldest princesses and aunts at the Empress Dowager Zhou's place. Since they got married, they haven't lived in the palace, and everyone doesn't get together on weekdays. Now they finally have a chance, and they are very lively. The trouble was chatted in Qingning Palace.
The Empress Dowager Zhou is also happy to be with the princesses, it's so lively!
However, the gathering of married women is not suitable for princesses who have not left the cabinet, so they came back early.
Especially the eldest princess, she is about to wait until she is about to surrender.
Although the palace doesn't talk about outside affairs, but occasionally it is heard that the princesses are not doing well.
This matter was found out by her little uncle and younger brother. At this time, the eldest princess's mood was not as calm as it appeared on the surface.
Myself, and my sister....
The fifth princess went through the door and saw His Royal Highness waiting for them inside.
"Brother?" The fifth princess smiled, "Why are you here?"
"I'm waiting for my two sisters." The little prince also smiled.
"Why is His Royal Highness here?" The eldest princess also came in: "Shouldn't you be in class at this point?"
The little prince made a half salute: "I have met the eldest sister, the fifth sister."
"I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince." The two also returned a half-respect.
Although they are brothers and sisters, but the etiquette cannot be discarded.
But because of the moment of saluting, the little prince suddenly understood that the sisters who were educated in this kind of court etiquette would not go out with him disguised as men...
But he still wanted to give it a try: "I just want to go out, I don't know the two sisters, can we go together?"
"Have you told the queen mother? Mother and concubine haven't come back yet!" The elder sister said, "Where are you going?"
"Really?" Fifth Princess said, "Is there anyone else?"
"Go out privately, um...shopping." The little prince said, "Is that okay?"
"Shopping?" The two princesses were stunned.
"Yes!" The little prince nodded.
"Royal Street?" This is the street that the eldest princess can think of.
"It's the street outside." The little prince corrected: "There are many interesting things,"
He hoped that his sisters could know the outside world, instead of being bored in the palace. Ever since he was taken out by Wu Youwei, he felt that the palace was depressed.
"But...can we go out?" The two princesses looked at each other.
"Yes... yes... you can disguise yourself as a man!" The little prince gritted his teeth: "Go out and play!"
He thought that the two sisters would not agree, he just wanted to give it a try and already knew the answer...
"Okay!" Who knew the eldest princess nodded, "We don't have men's clothing."
The little prince was stunned.
The eldest princess smiled, and reached out to touch her younger brother: "Sisters know that it is for our own good that you can tell us."
Whose younger brother will secretly take his sisters out to play?
In fact, they have also heard people talk about the outside world, and they yearn for it, but...the princess is not a prince, so she cannot leave the palace, especially the eldest princess. Know nothing.
Although it is said that someone serves you, it is different from knowing the outside world yourself....
Wu Youwei was waiting for someone in the East Palace. In fact, he felt that there was no hope.
If it was the prince, he might still sneak out to play with His Royal Highness, the princess... especially after seeing the lives of those aggrieved princesses, he was already disappointed with this feudal ethics.
Fortunately, because the first empress of Ming Dynasty, Empress Ma, had big feet, so the princesses of Ming Dynasty all have natural feet, that is, their natural feet are what they are, and they are not like the "three-inch golden lotus feet" seen by later generations. ".
In fact, foot binding was not popular before the Qing Dynasty, and it was limited to a few ladies of the family. It was not when they were young that they began to bind their feet, but after they grew up, they just wrapped their feet with soft cloth to avoid walking too much. It will hurt your feet.
This kind of "foot binding" will not cause fractures and deformities. In addition, ordinary working women do not bind their feet, otherwise there will be no women working in Ming Dynasty.
Wu Youwei was thinking about things while drinking the refreshing mung bean soup.
"This is the mung bean bowl cake newly made by the imperial dining room." The daughter of Omiya brought some snacks for Wu Youwei to enjoy.
"Yeah." Wu Youwei took a piece, um, it tastes really good, it's mung bean paste wrapped in a layer of glutinous rice skin, not so sweet, but very refreshing to eat.
While eating, the little prince came back, followed by two...princesses!
Wu Youwei: "???"
I didn't guess right, it really came!
Wu Youwei is also in his 30s. After meeting each other, he avoided going out and waited at the door.
Inside, the little prince asked someone to find out his own clothes. The clothes he is wearing now can be worn by the fifth sister. Wang Zhen, as the head of the East Palace, also has some casual clothes, one is a brocade dress made of Japanese satin, which is too small Some, he hadn't worn them yet, so he took them out for the eldest princess to wear.
Because Wang Zhen was castrated when she was a child, so his figure is not tall, and the clothes are made small, which is just right for the eldest princess.
But the boots belonged to the little prince, because girls don't have such big feet.
The little prince's current boots are worn by the eldest princess, and the boots worn by the fifth princess when he was five or six years old are worn by the fifth princess.
When he reappeared, it was a handsome young man leading his two younger brothers.
"I've met Master Wu." The eldest princess smiled playfully.
The corners of Wu Youwei's mouth twitched at that time: "Your Highness, you should salute like this, men salute like this, and you must not open your mouth, because you are wearing men's clothing, but it is a girl's voice, which is easy to pass through. Yes, get four pieces of dough and plug the pierced ears. Whose boys have pierced ears? Only men of different races have pierced ears!"
So he worked for a while, and when he came out, Wu Youwei said again: "Go get some gray stuff and apply it on your face, how can a man be as white as your two Highnesses?"
Wang Zhen went to the kitchen in person, sneaked some clean ashes back, and made a face for the two princesses, which made her look more natural.
Wu Youwei saw the two princesses in high spirits, he suddenly thought of something, he only thought about the feudalism of this era, but forgot whose children these two princesses belonged to.
Their father was Emperor Xianzong, and their mother was Concubine Wan Gui.
To say that the love between the two of them is really unprecedented and unprecedented.
Coupled with Wan Zhen'er's teaching and the influence of Emperor Xianzong, the two of them really followed their parents and did not want to be bound by etiquette.
When everything was ready, Wang Zhen turned into a housekeeper again, with a big bag of copper plates, broken silver and bank notes, but he didn't bring gold.
Bringing twenty bodyguards to guard the East Palace, Wu Youwei thought about it, and sent someone to find Wanxi's eldest son. He is now a general banner in Jinyiwei. Wanxi's eldest son is called Wanzhuang, because Wanxi's wife's surname is Zhuang.
There is no one in the family anymore, so Wanxi named the eldest son Wanzhuang, also wanting the daughter-in-law to have a psychological dependence.
The son adopted by Wantong is called Wan Kun, and the baby he gave birth to is called Wan Qinglin.
Wan Zhuang didn't come here alone, he brought all the people under his banner, they were all dressed up as ordinary people, hiding around, and Wan Zhuang followed them.
He is the cousin of the two princesses and married again. He is about the same age as Wu Youwei. With Wanzhuang here, it is more appropriate for him to come forward for certain things.
In fact, Wu Youwei's best candidate was Wantong, but this guy disappeared without a trace, so he had no choice but to call Wanzhuang over.
Wanzhuang looks a lot like Wanxi, and they have similar personalities, honest and honest.
However, the Wan family can be regarded as a well-known family in Beijing because of the relationship of the little prince. When Wan Zhuang goes out, people also respect him three points.
After seeing the ceremony, the group got into the carriage. The two princesses brought their nanny, who was just a nanny, and they didn't change their costumes. The eunuchs who followed them were all familiar servants.A group of people took the token of the East Palace and really walked out of the palace gate!
On the other side, someone had already reported to Emperor Xianzong that the little prince had left the palace with the two princesses!
"Going out of the palace?" Emperor Xianzong was taken aback: "Whose house did you go to?"