I trade in both worlds

Xu Xu gently pressed the door handle without hearing any sound. He pushed it slightly and the door opened. He didn't expect that the door lock would be so easy to open. It was so convenient to lock and open the door. After trying a few times, he looked at Xu Ziqing with surprise and said, "This door lock is really good."

"Yeah, yeah." Xu Ziqing continued with her words, trying to use the conversation to ease her nervousness.

Xu Xu opened and closed the door several times, and asked doubtfully, "This door is indeed useful, but it's a pity that it can't be locked. Anyone can open it. If a thief comes in, won't everything be stolen?"

"Ah?" Xu Ziqing blinked and looked at Xu Xu for a while before he realized what she was talking about: "Oh, this, if we are outside, we need to use the key to lock it. From inside, we can turn this button to lock the door."

Xu Ziqing demonstrated how to use the door lock. Seeing that her nervousness had eased, Xu Ziqing asked again, "What's your name?"

Xu Xu paused, thinking that she should not be a bad person, and mustered up the courage to say: "My name is Xu Xu, and my family calls me Xu Xu."

"Xuxu, hello, my name is Xiaoqing." Xu Ziqing immediately turned on the familiar mode: "How old are you? I am 26 years old."

Xu Xu was a little frightened by her enthusiasm and said nervously: "I, I'm 20 years old."

Xu Ziqing held her hand and said happily, "You are younger than me, so you can call me Sister Qing, or Xiaoqing."

"Sister Qing." Xu Xu called obediently.

"Hey." Looking at her well-behaved appearance, Xu Ziqing felt like he was bullying a child. He looked at the utility room and lowered his voice to ask, "Are those brothers in there your brothers? Where are your parents?"

Xu Xu looked at Xu Ziqing with a questioning look on his face: "What are parents?"

"Oh my." Xu Ziqing forgot that they were ancient people, patted his forehead and said: "Mom and Dad are what you call father and mother."

"Oh, so that's what you mean." Xu Xu couldn't understand why he had to call his parents "dad and mom".

However, it is normal for two different places to be addressed differently: "My parents are gone, the two older children are my twin brothers, and the two younger ones are my children."

"What? Your child?" Xu Ziqing was shocked. She was only 20 years old and already had two children that big. "You are only 20 years old. You gave birth to two children that big at such a young age. It's a sin."

Xu Xu looked at Xu Ziqing in bewilderment: "Why is it a sin for me to have a child at the age of 20?"

"Uh..." Xu Ziqing realized that what he said seemed a bit ambiguous. Afraid that Xu Xu would misunderstand, he smiled awkwardly and said, "Xu Xu, I'm not saying you're committing a sin. I forgot that you both got married at a relatively young age."

"Here we have regulations that the minimum marriage age for women is 20 and for men is 22. It is not good for both men and women to marry too young, because their bodies are not fully developed yet."

"Secondly, they are not mature enough mentally. Besides, there are many women who are still unmarried at the age of 30. So when they hear that you are only 20 years old and have a child that big, they will... hehe."

Xu Xu was so surprised that her mouth opened into a small circle and her eyes almost popped out: "30 years old and still not married? Don't you government care about that?"

"Ah? Why should the government care?" Xu Ziqing asked in disbelief, "Does your government also care whether people get married or not?"

Xu Xu nodded: "Yes, we used to have a rule that if a man was over 17 years old and a woman was over 15 years old and unmarried, the government would force her to marry. Later, due to the war, no one cared about it. The new dynasty has only been established for two years, so there was no time to regulate it, so the marriage age has been a little later in recent years."

"Fuck." Xu Ziqing's eyes were filled with disbelief and surprise: "Is it so cruel?"

"Uh..." Xu Xu felt that her choice of words was inappropriate, but she didn't know how to explain it. After thinking about it carefully, she actually felt that what she said made some sense. Before the war, most of them got married at the age of 13.

Zhang Yunxiang has said before that if a woman gets married too early, it will harm her health, especially when it comes to childbirth. Giving birth at too young a age is basically like having both feet stepping into the gates of hell. It is also not good for the child, as the mother's body is not fully developed and the child born will mostly be weak, so many children will die young.

As for Xu Xu, Zhang Yunxiang was unwilling to let her get married too early. When Xu Xu was 13 years old, she got engaged to Yang Erzhu. The Yang family wanted her to marry him that year, but Zhang Yunxiang insisted on staying for two more years.

If possible, Zhang Yunxiang wanted to keep Xu Xu until she was 18 years old before getting married, but the world was such that she was afraid that if she delayed it too long, the Yang family would not agree. She was also afraid that by the time she got older, all the people left would be ugly and she wouldn't be able to find a good husband.

Thinking of the children inside, Xu Ziqing asked curiously: "Xu Xu, how old were you when you got married?"

Xu Xu replied: "15 years old."

Xu Ziqing's eyes widened: "15 years old? This..."

At the age of 15, I was still in junior high school. In modern times, people of that age only know which milk tea is delicious, which takeout is tasty, and which celebrity is pretty. At the age of 15, I couldn’t even tell the difference between lettuce and bitter lettuce, but others were already getting married, having children, raising them, and doing housework.

Different times have different ways of survival, and there is no such thing as right or wrong. As time goes by, the pace of progress will always change with the times.

"Yeah." Xu Xu nodded. "Although the government doesn't care about it now, it's hard to find a husband when you're older, so most people get engaged at 13 or 14 and get married at 15. Some people get married at 16 or 17, but they're rare."

"Alas." Xu Ziqing sighed and asked, "By the way, how old are the children?"

Xu Xu replied: "My twin brother is five years old this year, my son is three years old, and my daughter is more than seven months old."

Xu Ziqing suddenly remembered that she hadn't seen a man from beginning to end. Where was her man? He was gone too? Xu Ziqing pretended to be casual and asked, "What about your husband? How old is he?"

"I got a divorce." Xu Xu lowered his head. He didn't dare to look at Xu Ziqing. He didn't know whether the divorce here would be viewed differently from theirs.

"Divorced? With the children?" Xu Ziqing was indeed surprised. After all, divorce was not an easy matter in ancient times. She had to divorce with two children and support her younger brother.

"Yeah." Xu Xu continued to lower his head.

"Why divorce?" Xu Ziqing was just gossiping and curious: "Divorce shouldn't be that common in your country, right?"

Not sensing Xu Ziqing's ill will, Xu Xu looked up and saw her face full of curiosity. She nodded, "Yes, very rarely. He tried every means to divorce his wife in order to marry the daughter of a high-ranking official. My second uncle and the clan members helped me get a divorce with my child."