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Her original hesitation was a fear of changing the status quo.

But Li Ruyi's words convinced her.

After all, she is not very old, only thirteen years old this year. Even though she is disciplined by Sun, she is not dull.

"Then...it's not easy to establish a female household..."

It is naturally difficult to establish a female household in Da Qi, not to mention the many prerequisites and requirements.

Both parents are dead, there are no relatives or elders, there are no male children in the family or the male children are under ten years old...

In addition to these preconditions, there are many postconditions.

For example, persuading corvée.

According to the laws of the Great Qi Dynasty, corvée labor was performed based on household registration. Construction of water conservancy projects, bridges and roads all required people to do the work.

This is also one of the reasons why many families do not want to split up even when they are living in hardship.

However, the Li family's situation is special. If the head of the household is Li Zhuzi, because there is no elder above him, the family can be exempted from corvee labor until the male member of the household reaches the age of twelve.

But if it is a female household, there is no such saying.

However, in the minds of people at that time, women were weak and there was not much point in doing corvee labor. Unless the family was in real difficulty, no one would let the women in the family do corvee labor.

So new rules were extended.

That is, female households must redeem themselves from labor service, and in order to encourage them to rely on men and marry as soon as possible, they must be redeemed from labor service every year regardless of the circumstances.

The amount of silver required to redeem the labor service is neither too much nor too little, about five taels of silver a year.

This amount may not even be enough to pay for half a meal for a person in a wealthy family, but in a village, it is a huge sum of money.

Li Ruyi was also someone who had seen how the wealthy and powerful behaved, and he knew too well that the gap between the rich and the poor was insurmountable.

Of course, she didn’t have any dreams of getting rich, she just didn’t want to leave her fate to others anymore!

It would be best for her to quickly go to the village head to finalize the matter while the clan grandmother has not set her sights on them in the past few days.

Li Ruyi would not tell these to her elder sister. She just picked out the good things to say to her elder sister.

"Big sister, although it's hard to establish a female household, there are ways around it. After all, the head of the village is our cousin. I'll talk to him and it will work out."

The eldest sister had limited knowledge and only considered this step. She had no idea what would happen after establishing a female household. She wanted to ask Li Ruyi something, but she couldn't. She just felt that this matter was not that simple.

Li Ruyi was afraid that she would notice something unusual, so she brought up a topic that interested her to distract her.

"If we were to open a new household this time, I'd actually like to change the name."

The eldest sister's frown suddenly relaxed a little, and there was some surprise in her eyes.

"Change your name?"

Their names, from Zhaodi to Pandi to Laidi, are indeed very common nowadays.

When she was very young, Li Ruyi disliked her ugly name and had two big fights with Sun and Li Dagui. Only then did she reluctantly change her nickname from Pan Di to Pan Er.

But what is the essential difference between 'Di' and 'Er'?

What she hated most in her previous life was her own name! When her parents were alive, she was hoping for a son.

Now that her parents are gone, she is Li Er Niang who works hard for her younger brother.

Later, she was sold to a brothel. She was no longer even a stepmother, but directly became a lady named Qu who pleased the customers.

Later, in order to save the third brother, she got involved with the second master Zhao and became the weak and gentle Aunt Bai Hualian.

But that was not the end. She also called herself Nugu, Xianle, and Mengniang. At the end of her life, she became a bitch in the doctor's eyes...

In her previous life, she had used many names in her more than 30 years of life, and her life was also displaced by these names.

She doesn't want to be controlled by others in her life again, including her name!

So she wanted to change her name, not to please others, but just to make herself happy.

"Yes! I want to change my name. I want to be called Ruyi."

In this life, she hopes everything will go well for her.

For some reason, the eldest sister's heart, which was originally confused and helpless, trembled when she heard this name.

"Well... I don't know what to call it, but if we can really establish a female household, you can change it if you want! I'm a person without any ideas anyway."

Li Ruyi smiled and pulled her hand.

"What do you want to be called, sister?"

The eldest sister felt a little confused, always feeling that some things seemed to be turning in a direction she had never seen before.

She shook her head.

"I do not know."

Li Ruyi did not force her and helped her to imagine.

"How about you call yourself Jixiang? Look, your name is Jixiang and my name is Ruyi, so let's call ourselves Jixiang Ruyi..."

When the eldest sister heard this, she burst out laughing.

"I thought you were so serious! You're just imagining things after all this fuss."

Li Ruyi's own name is not made up, but she certainly wouldn't say that.

"Anyway, I don't want to call Zhao'er Pan'er, it's so annoying! If you don't like Jixiang, we can think of something else. Do you have any wishes?"

Seeing her eyes full of expectation, the eldest sister also thought hard about it.

"Hmm... I still can't think of it. Jixiang is pretty good!"

Li Ruyi's eyes lit up.

"If you think it's good, you should call it auspicious!"

The eldest sister organized her limited vocabulary, but couldn't think of a better name than Jixiang.

"Well...then let's call him Jixiang!"

After saying this, he suddenly felt lost again.

"But we named it Jixiang Ruyi, what are the names of Sanmei and Zhuzi?"

Li Ruyi had done nothing but flattery in her previous life, and had plenty of good words to say, but she was not in a hurry to make a decision for the third child.

"Ask the third sister first. Maybe she has a favorite name! Of course, you should change your name to one you like."

The eldest sister thought about it and felt that Li Ruyi was right. She didn't even notice that she had deliberately ignored the pillar.

"Okay, then when are you going to tell me about this?"

Li Ruyi felt that this matter should be dealt with as soon as possible, because thanks to Li Dagui's lack of brains, there were many people in the village who were eyeing their family.

Some are eyeing the family land, some are eyeing the eldest sister's marriage. If the dominant power is still in Li Zhuzi's hands, they will definitely be as passive as in their previous life.

"I'll go tomorrow morning! If anyone asks you tomorrow, tell them I'm going to prepare funeral supplies for mom!"

The eldest sister doesn’t quite understand.

"Hmm? You want to keep it a secret?"

Li Ruyi couldn't explain it to her clearly. People like her elder sister can do nothing but accept everything. She would never doubt others before they do something bad.

Even if someone hurt her, most of the time she would just quietly bear it.

Her personality is more like Li Dagui, neither good nor bad.

Be diligent and hardworking in small matters, but start to act stupidly when big things happen.

Li Ruyi had no intention of teaching her. Sometimes a person's character is destined and cannot be changed. Destroying the relationship will only add to the troubles.

As long as she becomes the head of the household, controls her own destiny, and helps her elder sister at the same time, her elder sister will always be able to live a better life than in her previous life.

"Of course we have to keep it a secret, especially from our clan. If they knew we were going to open up new land again, who knows how much effort they would put on the pillars!"

"They don't want us to have the strength to work for them, so they will definitely find a way to stop us."

Li Ruyi sighed symbolically and tried to flatter Li Zhuzi in front of her elder sister.

"Zhu Zi is young and naive. He can do nothing but bully others. He can be coaxed into losing his mind with just a few pieces of candy! If you don't consider him, who else can?"

"It will only take a few days. Once the household registration issue is settled, it will be too late for those people to do anything!"

These words instantly convinced the elder sister.

She nodded quickly, thinking that Li Ruyi's consideration was very correct.

But she didn't notice that Li Zhuzi now had no one to turn to. From the perspective of outsiders, the only property the boy had was from his three sisters!