The Marquise: I Earn My Own Worship

Baoshou also brought people to beat up her ex-husband. As for the concubine, although she was protected, she still grabbed a bowl of medicine and swallowed it.

After the divorce, she returned to Prince Rui's mansion and lived like she did before she got married.

But, it's still different.

It’s not that she doesn’t feel good at home. She is still very comfortable at home, and her father is also very happy to have a child around him all the time.

Baoshou also said that this has always been her home and has never changed.

Later he took care of her in her old age and saw her to the end of her life.

Of course Chu Qinmei was moved, because she felt more comfortable at home than anywhere else.

She was a maiden before, and now she is an old maid.

Chu Qinmei sat there drinking tea, the rising steam blurring her eyes.

In the morning, the doorman came to report that the bodies of that family were at the execution ground and no one was collecting them, so he asked her what she thought.

You said that you were asking for trouble and implicated your clan members. You didn't have any close friends, and after you died, there was no one in your family to collect your body.

She is not so kind as to repay evil with kindness.

But she is still alive, so we still have to be careful about our reputation.

It's just a little silver, let the servants find a place to bury it.

Anyway, all the family members are dead, so it doesn’t matter whether there is anyone to worship them or not.

Thinking of this, Chu Qinmei felt a little disappointed.

She also began to worry about what would happen after her death.

A married woman cannot be buried in her parents’ ancestral tomb, nor can she have a tombstone or a grave built there.

There is a special case for ordinary families. After death, they are buried next to the ancestral tomb and are worshipped by their children and nephews.

But generally, women will choose to remarry after getting married. Even if they die, they would rather die in someone else's family. At least they will have a place to be buried after death.

The people here attach great importance to their affairs after death.

This is also the reason why divorces are rare in this era.

Chu Qinmei was the same. She was troubled because, as a member of the royal family, she had more shackles than ordinary people.

Now that the war has stopped, the State of Chu encourages its people to have more children in order to increase its population.

Women who were divorced or lost their fathers were encouraged to remarry.

As a member of the royal family, Chu Qinmei became the top official in the royal family who urged them to get married.

There were countless matchmakers who came to her house, and Chu Qinmei picked and chose again, but she didn't like any of them.

Prince Rui watched from the side with his eyes wide open, saying that it was not okay to be picky, and scolded her, saying that she had stayed at home for too long and was disgusted with the doghouse at home.

He was secretly worried. Perhaps as a father, he also thought about what would happen to his young daughter after her death.

He even thought that if it really didn't work, he would wait until he died first and ask Baoshou not to seal the tomb door. After his aunt passed away, he would carry his aunt's coffin to the tomb next to his and the princess's.

It’s just a bit unfair to Eleven that there is no proper tomb chamber and tomb name.

Prince Rui was very worried, and his already sparse beard fell out even more. He sighed quietly in private.

How could Chu Qinmei not know this? She felt bad when she thought her old father was still worrying about his daughter's funeral.

Isn’t it just about finding a husband’s family and entering the ancestral hall?

It’s not a big deal.

Baoshou has grown up and can support his aunt.

She is thirty-nine now, not yet forty, and is ready to find a husband and live out her retirement.

Although she is almost forty, perhaps because she has never given birth and she takes good care of herself, she looks much younger, only about twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

There were many matchmakers, but Chu Qinmei didn't like any of them.

Family background is not important. At her age, she has a title and money, so she doesn't lack anything.

It would be best if the family background was clean and the inner courtyard was cleaner, without so many dirty things to spoil the mood.

And cheap children.

Once this request was made, the matchmakers no longer dared to come.

A widower with such good conditions has no shortage of women. He can even marry a young woman in her twenties. Who would be interested in you, who is old and ugly?

There are many widowers in the capital, but it is difficult to find a suitable one.

After much difficulty, he found a family he liked. The man never remarried after his wife died, but he had countless concubines and many children.

I thought about just making do with it, but Baoshou went to check it out and came back shaking his head saying that this was not a good match.

Chu Yuhui never expected that the first big thing he would do for his family after growing up would be to find a husband for his aunt.

My aunt and my father are siblings, and she has no children, so she treats him more like her own son.

His first thought was that he would take care of his aunt in her old age and see her to the end of her life. Since he could not enter the royal ancestral land, he would place his aunt's plaque in front of the royal family.

But after he dies, he can tell his son and let his son be like him.

But what about my son’s son and his grandson?

As time goes by, people will slowly be forgotten.

My aunt said that she would find someone to live with in her old age.

Chu Yuhui thought about it and decided that if the husband’s family was not good, he would just take the woman back and raise her at home.

When the time comes, send her to the ancestral tomb of her husband's family.

It sounds a bit unbelievable, after all, no one has ever practiced this.

Because of this, it became a little difficult.

He won't compromise on better people, and he doesn't look down on inferior people.

After finally finding a family, Chu Yuhui went to inquire privately about the secrets of the rear house. He didn't want his aunt to still worry about these things at her age.

It has been dragging on like this until now.

When the weather turned cold, several of King Rui's daughters came back to visit their old father.

Everyone was talking in the greenhouse, and there was a stove next to it where dates and some dried fruits were roasting.

It was very hot in the greenhouse. Everyone was wearing clothes that were neither thin nor thick. Only King Rui was wearing much thicker clothes and there were two braziers around him.

He is old and in poor health. He has been ill frequently in the past two years. The imperial physicians have examined him several times, and they all said that he probably only has one or two years left.

Seeing his daughters around him, Prince Rui leaned back on the couch, looking very relaxed.

He knew his own body and was just counting the days.

He is still worried.

The youngest daughter has no place to go, and the only grandson has not yet started a family.

It really worries him to death at his old age.

There are only so many topics to talk about, either gossip about this family or that family.

Even though they are of noble status, their lives are the same.

The youngest sister is here, and the topic always revolves around her.

"Why don't you find a family with many children and take one in to raise as your own."

As the eighth brother Chu Qinmiao spoke, the fourth brother Chu Qinxiao beside him also responded.

"It would be nice to have a child as a companion."

Chu Qinmei shook her head and used a pair of tongs to fiddle with the red dates on the stove. When one was fully roasted, she put it into the cup on the side where the milk was being warmed.

"I don't want to raise one. It's a waste of time and effort and it's not worth it."

This is the truth, they were not born in the first place. After death, they all have to be worshipped, so whether they are related or not is not important.

Filial piety is of paramount importance. As long as you are nominally the elder, you must be respectful, otherwise your spine will be broken by the world.

As the second child, Chu Qinyao is the oldest and most stable among the children except for her eldest sister.

"Take your time to look for it. There's no rush for this kind of thing."

Ordinary people would like to take a statue of this Buddha home. The remaining money from its fingers would be enough for them to eat and drink well.

They don't consider such family backgrounds, for the simple reason that they cannot be passed down for several generations.

Without the ability to resist risks, once there is a natural disaster or human unrest, the incense supply will be cut off.