Master, he believes your second uncle must be holding back some secret knowledge. He wants to learn something others don't know to increase his own competitiveness.
Since he can't outdo your second uncle, he has set his sights on Lord Zheng Ziling, aiming to replace him.
Zheng Ziling: Eating melons (watching drama) only to find it's about me now? I'm the soft persimmon to be squeezed? Zheng Ziling Persimmon Cake JPG.
"This disdain for women is a common ailment among most men of this era, especially scholars. But from what you're saying, his case is particularly severe?"
"Critically ill, beyond the cure of medicine! In his family, his mother gave birth to eight daughters before having him. The entire family treasures this sole male heir more than the imperial family treasures the second, third, fifth, and sixth princes!"
"Does their family also have a throne to inherit?"
Yue Fuguang's joke made many present hearts skip a beat, thinking to themselves that the little immortal lord remained as outspoken as ever, treating imperial authority as nothing!
"Not quite. Their family is considered relatively well-off in the village, with twenty acres of land and five thatched cottages waiting for him to inherit.
His family has many women and few men, which is why this person seems exceptionally precious! Of his eight sisters, aside from those given away, abandoned at infant towers, or sold, the remaining four were all raised by his parents to be 'brother-obsessed'."
"Four Fan Shengmeis? Did they ever awaken later?"
"Master, this era did not offer them the chance to awaken. The social norms of Dayan make it very difficult to cultivate flowers with their own independent thoughts."
"Indeed, such are the social norms! There must be quite a few in Dayan like Gao Ming, with the whole family supporting one person. It's not particularly rare."
"The key point is, after he later passed the imperial examination at the county level and became a Xiucai, he married the daughter of a landlord. According to him, after his wife bore him three daughters in a row, she one day eloped with his fellow student.
Gao Ming is quite open about these past events, which is currently a point praised by many of his colleagues."
"What? His wife running off with a fellow student is a good item on his resume? It can even be praised by colleagues? Are the preferences of Dayan's monarch and officials so bizarre?"
Dayan's monarch and officials: I am not, I do not, do not spout nonsense!
"Perhaps they appreciate his courage in facing his shameful past, his openness in having nothing he cannot speak of to others, and his honest, upright character?"
Led by Emperor Mingxi, the majority shook their heads in their hearts like rattle-drums—no, no, they do not appreciate it!
While some people's eyes flickered—isn't this worthy of praise?
"It was also because of this that his current father-in-law, Gu Yutong, took a liking to him and married his own concubine-born daughter to him!"
Gu Yutong, whose name was mentioned, felt his eyelid twitch, thinking to himself: could my third son-in-law really have problems?
Actually, he had a bad feeling about it for a while. The fact that his son-in-law couldn't hear the little immortal lord's inner voice had already given him unpleasant suspicions.
Almost two or three months had passed without incident, and his anxious heart was nearly settled. Never did he expect to be singled out today.
None of the matters exposed by the two informants in this court session were minor. The changing of the guard in this court, with the old replaced by the new, was all due to the melon-eating antics of the little immortal lord and the divine artifact, those two ancestors!
Today, his son-in-law was probably in grave danger!
Gu Yutong glanced at his old friend Zheng Ziling. His son-in-law even wanted to replace old Zheng? How was he supposed to face his old friend after this?
Maybe... let him have two moves head start next time we play chess? Really can't offer more than that!
Zheng Ziling: Do I lack your two moves, or is my seat worth only two moves?
"That Gu Yutong who died trampled by horses when Dayan perished? His tastes are indeed unique!"
Gu Yutong: Don't make such personal attacks! He now avoids horses from afar. He used to take a carriage to court, but now he's switched to a sedan chair—what more does he want him to do!
He stole a glance at Zhao Zhifeng, who always kept a few pieces of pastry in his robe, and felt somewhat balanced.
Zhao Zhifeng glared at him sideways, unconsciously touching the pastries from Mi Fu Ji in his robe. He absolutely would not starve to death holding half a piece of coarse steamed bun in this lifetime!
"Did his first wife really elope with a fellow student?"
How could she believe that! This topic suddenly reminded her of a similar video she saw in her previous life...
"Of course not. Women of this era, especially those from lower social strata, are taught to be excessively gentle, kind, and submissive.
His former wife, Mrs. Han, was born into a landlord family with several hundred acres of land and a few shops. She was taught from a young age the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, to be respectful and kind. How could she possibly do something like elope!
From the moment Mrs. Han entered the Gao family with a large dowry, his family began living off their daughter-in-law, eating her food and drinking her resources, yet still complaining that her dowry was too small, that their lifestyle couldn't compare to that of wealthy masters in the county town.
The two old Gaos felt that since their son was the only Xiucai in the village, he deserved to live like a great master in the city.
If their daughter-in-law couldn't provide that, it was because she was incompetent!"
I can go to her !
Yue Fuguang had been surrounded by 'good people' lately. She hadn't encountered this breed of extreme scumbags for months and was momentarily at a loss for words, only able to curse internally.
Many others also looked embarrassed. Although some of them came from humble backgrounds and had also used their wives' dowries.
But after achieving success, they quietly made up for it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have a firm voice at home and feared colleagues might gossip about it.
To so righteously have the whole family freeload with such audacity—probably only this Lord Gao could manage it!
Gu Yutong was startled. Could he have truly misjudged the man? Was his own daughter's dowry still safe?
He seemed to recall his wife mentioning once that when their third daughter returned to her maternal home, the clothes she wore and the jewelry she adorned were still those made for her by the Gu family when she was a maiden.
Several of the more valuable pieces of jewelry had never been seen on her at important occasions again!
"So Gao Ming lied. His former wife didn't elope; she died or was he locked her up?"
"Master, do you think Gao Ming would waste food on a person with no value? Even though that food originally belonged to his former wife, he wouldn't be willing!
To him, a woman who cannot bear him a son does not deserve to live!"
"By that logic, shouldn't the one who most deserves to die be his own mother? After all, his mother also only had him after giving birth to eight children.
Besides, isn't the determination of a child's gender decided by the man? Why blame his wife?"
"Master, the people here are ignorant and foolish. They all believe that not bearing a son is the woman's fault."
The crowd of high officials labeled as 'ignorant and foolish': The child grows in the woman's belly; isn't the gender determined by the woman? This is even harder for them to accept than the dangers of consanguineous marriage!
"Are they truly unaware, or are they deliberately shifting the blame onto women to cover up their own inadequacy?"
"Others may not know, but the Gao family certainly believes that not having a son is Mrs. Han's fault.
Even Gao Ming's mother, Old Lady Huang, who gave birth to eight daughters in a row, thinks so. Before Gao Ming was born, she wasn't as assertive as she is now, usually only daring to bully her own daughters.
Her oppression of her several daughters is no less than that of her husband and son. In fact, the person in the family who hates the daughters the most might still be her.
