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Upon hearing this, the emperor laughed and said: There was one before, but not now. However, I have given her an imperial decree allowing her to have independent marriage. If any of you like, you can tell her yourself.

The county princess has her own criteria for choosing a son-in-law, and I cannot interfere.

After hearing this, Prince Tianxue thanked the emperor and said to Zixue: I wonder what conditions the county lady has for her future husband?

Zi Xue thought for a while after hearing this and said: First, you cannot marry a wife and have a concubine in the same room with you, and second, you will not take a concubine in the future.

Leng Fei was stunned when he heard this, thinking that Zi Xue was joking, but when he saw that the other party did not seem to be joking, he asked curiously: I wonder if the county lady can explain to me why this is happening?

Zi Xue said: With my looks, would a man need other women? Then why take them into the mansion? Can't I just stay a widow? This is the first reason. The second reason is that if there are too many women in the backyard, there will be more trouble. They will either think about framing me or framing me all day long.

Those of you who have concubines in your backyard will be familiar with this.

No matter what the reason is, if the man I marry has concubines in his family, I will either prepare to be a widow or I will kill them directly.

After all, I am an uneducated person, so I naturally don’t care about the three obediences and four virtues and the rules for women.

Zixue's words shocked everyone. In this imperial era, Zixue's behavior was already considered heresy.

But no one could say anything to refute it. Not to mention the major families, wasn't it the same for the concubines in the palace?

They are either harming this or that all day long, and they have even more women in their harem. What's the difference between them being a widow all day long?

Leng Fei said: Is it okay if I clear out the backyard before marrying you?

Zi Xue shook her head and said: If he can abandon a woman he has slept with, then why should I marry her?

Although I have confidence in myself and I know that this man will never abandon me, I don't like to give up my ex-woman for a more beautiful one.

I won't marry a man like this.

Leng Fei said: What if they haven't touched it? They will just be dismissed. After all, you also said that if you marry them, they will also be widows.

Zi Xue said: Since they can be dismissed, why should we accept them in?

Don't say that it was given to you by others. If you just accept it when others give it to you, you have no opinion of your own. What kind of prince are you if you can be easily controlled by others?

Not to mention that you can't refuse gifts from others, even gifts from your father can be refused. Does the emperor just like to give women to his son at will?

Is this because she is worried about her son's failure, or is she worried that they will turn against each other in the future if she doesn't have children?

They are not born from the same mother. No matter which country's emperor is, how many of them have not killed each other? Don't say anything helpless.

In short, no matter where you are, as long as there are many women and children in the backyard, there will always be many people with ulterior motives.

Having many offspring is not necessarily a good thing. It is not certain how many of them will be left alive after a hundred years.

Zi Xue's words silenced everyone present, including the emperor.

How could the emperor not know about the frame-up by the concubines in the harem?

Don’t the emperors in those TV dramas seem to be fools?

As an emperor, how could he trust the person beside him when he even doubted his ministers and his own son?

Emperors of all dynasties grew up in the harem. After ascending the throne, how could he not understand the things going on in the harem?

Unless this emperor is nothing, a complete waste, perhaps he knows nothing.

Leng Fei also pondered for a long time and still didn't know how to answer.

As princes, which one of them has not been framed since childhood?

Who doesn’t know how to be on guard after being victimized many times?

Isn't it the same for everyone, since they are always being victimized, and therefore they have to be cautious in everything they do?

Now that it had been spoken out openly by the county lady, they realized that they had been following the same old path generation after generation, and even though they had experienced it themselves, they wanted their children to go through it as well.

To put it bluntly, it’s not that I don’t understand, but that I just don’t want to understand.

The prince of Shengfei Kingdom said: I am Hu Cheng, the fifth prince of Shengfei Kingdom. I would like to ask the county lady, you said you don’t want to find a husband with wives and concubines, so do you have a man you like now?

Zi Xue shook her head and said: When I was at home before, I never even left the house, how could I meet a man?

Hu Chengdao: What if no one can meet your requirements?

Zi Xue was speechless and said: There’s nothing I can do about it. If no one can do it, I will just not look for a husband.

Why do you have to lower your standards and look for people you dislike?

You won't be happy then, so why make things difficult for yourself?

I finally got an imperial decree to choose my own marriage. How could I be so stupid as to give up my freedom for a man who is not worthy of me?

Why did everyone think it made sense after hearing it?

Even those women in your harem actually feel that if they had such an imperial edict, they would make the same choice.

Even if you don't get married, it's better than living in fear with a group of women competing for a man all day long.

The prince of Caiyun Kingdom said: I am the sixth prince of Caiyun Kingdom, Xia Jun. According to what the county lord said, if you don’t meet a man who is willing to give up his harem for you, you won’t marry, right?

Zi Xue said: It’s not because of me that he gave up, but whether he can do it himself.

What do you mean by "for me"? If he hadn't met me, and had met the woman he truly loved, wouldn't he have given up the idea of ​​taking a concubine?

These are not about who is for whom, but whether a man will give up more women for the sake of one woman.

And if a man wants to marry me, he must write a divorce letter to me in advance.

If he has a relationship with another woman in the future, I will just take the divorce papers and leave. I will not quarrel with him or make things difficult for him or that woman.

The prince of Jianwu State asked curiously: "Why? Aren't you angry? Your husband is with another woman, and you don't mind at all?"

Zi Xue said: I don’t mind, because the fact that they are together means that he and I are not suitable for each other. He doesn’t even have me as his only woman, so why should I be angry for a man who can give up on me at any time?

Not to mention being sad, because it's not worth it. I am the kind of person who will let go if you dare to make a mistake.

You princes and princesses may not know who I am. I am a woman who has severed ties with my family and whose ex-fiancé was snatched away by my own sister.

Or I have lived in an environment where my whole family knew about it but I didn't.

I don't mind what others say about me, and I even feel disgusted when I see those people, so I ask the emperor to sever ties with them as my family.

I also used the silver bestowed upon me by the Emperor to pay off all the expenses of my former home.

The silver earned over more than ten years adds up to less than a hundred taels. What do you think I still care about?

After this sentence was said, the first person to react was not the princes and princesses of various countries, but the War King, who stood up and said: What? Less than a hundred taels in more than ten years?

Is your life in Zifu even worse than that of a maid?

Zi Xue did not say anything, but Yue Ling, the maid beside her, said: The county princess has lived in the Zi family for more than ten years and has less than six pieces of clothing in total, and she sewed the clothes herself, and the needle and thread were all bought by the maid with her own money.

There are six pieces of clothing, and if any are too small, just use other clothes to fill them up. Even so, the Zi family will still say that you are dressed poorly and it would be embarrassing to come out.

Therefore, Madam Zi never brought the county princess to any banquet in the entire capital. Other young ladies had gold and silver jewelry, but our young lady only had a wooden hairpin on her head that she had polished herself.

Because our county princess has no monthly salary, if the two maids around her hadn't felt sorry for her being treated like this by her family at such a young age, people who didn't know would have thought she was a bought maid.

In the room there was a broken table, a stool and a broken wooden bed.

They ate the same food as the maids, or maybe it was other people's leftovers.

Therefore, Prince Zhan should go and see where the county princess lived before, and then evaluate whether our county princess is well-educated.

This maid really disliked Prince Zhan, so what she said was really unpleasant.

Prince Zhan's face turned pale, but he still asked: Why didn't she tell her parents?

The maid laughed and said, "Prince Zhan, why don't you ask Lord Zi, Madam Zi, and Young Master Zi if the young lady has looked for them?" But what did they say?

People said that the county princess was being pretentious. She had so many clothes, but she still wore such embarrassing clothes that even beggars wouldn't wear.

They never listened to what the county lady said, but were persuaded by their eldest daughter, Miss Zishuang.

I guess everyone still doesn't know what Miss Zishuang said. She said that the county princess is still young and doesn't need to wear too good clothes. She has some very new clothes and will give them to her younger sister.

It can also save some money for parents. The county princess rarely goes out, so there is no point in wearing such nice clothes, and it would be a waste of money.

Well, nothing the county princess eats or uses is good. As long as she eats a little meat, people will say that the county princess is young and can’t eat meat all the time. Eating too much is bad for her health.

So the county lady would never ask them for things again from then on. Before, she thought that she was engaged and would get married eventually, so she didn't care about these things. At most, she would just stop interacting with the family in the future.

But she didn't expect that her fiancé would actually sleep with her own sister, and the whole family knew about it except her. If it hadn't been spread out in the capital, the county lady might have been deceived all along.

The War King almost fell down when he heard this, not because of anything else, but because he was too shocked.

Such a Zi family is really unexpected.

The emperor did not stop it at all. It seems that he has some opinion about the Zi family.

At the banquet, the Zi family members wished they could bury their heads in the ground. Now it was no longer a question of whether it was embarrassing or not, but a question of whether they could continue to live in the capital in the future.