After marriage, she had concubines, and Xu Lingyi never broke off a substantial relationship with concubines
In the contradiction between the irreconcilable modern concept of monogamy and the reality of polygamy in ancient times, Xu Lingyi, as the Marquis of Yongping, had a deep feudal ideology, and it was impossible to have no concubines in ancient times, and it was impossible to be as single-minded as modern men at the beginning. But there were still concubines after marriage, and I never broke off the substantive relationship with concubines, which is also the place where I am most interested in this pair of Xu Lingyi and Eleven Niang.
The following is a brief introduction to the women in Xu Lingyi's family.
Aunt Wen, originally a young lady of the Shangjia family, is the most commercially gifted person in the family, who is trained by the mother's family as a successor, good at account management, and in the Chinese aunt is also smart and clever, speaks decently, and cultivates her son better than her sister-in-law.
Aunt Qiao, who was originally a concubine of the Guogongfu, was designed as a concubine by Yuan Niang, but in fact, it was Aunt Qiao herself who volunteered, so Xu Lingyi began to be full of pity for Aunt Qiao.
Aunt Qiao, who married Xu Lingyi as a concubine, only wanted to rely on pregnancy to win favors, and secretly took medicines from her mother's house to make her easy to conceive, so as to get pregnant. After becoming pregnant, she wanted her mother to gain a firm foothold in the Xu family with her son, and she also wanted to use the child to make the mother's family profitable.
Xu Lingyi very much hates his wife's interference in his family, Aunt Qiao actually violated his taboo, and after the child was gone, Aunt Qiao also changed from pity to disgust at the beginning, and finally never got pampered again, and died alone.
Aunt Qin, from a low birth, was valued by Hou Ye after the slave maid gave birth to a son who lifted the aunt and gave birth to the eldest son for Xu Lingyi.
In Xu Lingyi's eyes, she was just a loyal and honest person, and she wouldn't pay much attention to it. However, Aunt Qin was a person with a deep heart, but her knowledge was limited to the inner house, and she had never had spiritual communication with Hou Ye.
Bai Yueguang Aunt Tong is one of the tongfang, she has served Xu Lingyi since she was a child, the two grew up together, the feelings are naturally deep, the temper is good, and the looks are beautiful.
However, Hongyan Died at the most beautiful age, or because she died tragically for Xu Lingyi to give birth to a child, so that she died for more than ten years Xu Lingyi still chanted from time to time.
In addition, there is a Yang Aunt and Yuan Niang's personal maid Qiu Luo, which may not be described in a large length in the book and in the play, so I will not elaborate here. Xu Lingyi's concubines all served Xu Lingyi according to the original rotation system, and Xu Lingyi treated them very fondly and considered it his responsibility to take care of them.
In Xu Lingyi's Marquis Mansion, after the death of the original Yuan Niang, the concubines and the concubines in the same room all fought openly and secretly, and the undercurrent surged forward. As soon as eleven women came, they would face the spoils of being framed by these women's calculations, and the situation was very difficult.
Eleven Niang was transparent and knew Xu Lingyi better than they all
After Yuan Niang's death, Eleven Niang married Xu Lingyi as a stepwife, and the most brilliant thing about Eleven Niang was that she knew her own situation and knew what her initial wish was.
She has a saying that I especially appreciate: "People always forget what they originally want because the environment they are in has changed", and too much coveting what should not be will eventually make desire dominate and gradually lead to destruction.
She understood that no matter how loving she was, Xu Lingyi would also strictly follow the teachings of the feudal etiquette system and maintain a distance of respect and inferiority. For the sake of the family's interests, sacrificing the love of the ego, even if it is guilty for a lifetime, it will not fight for you or anything, just like treating Aunt Tong.
She also understands that the concubines of the high-gate families want to marry Xu Lingyi a lot, but they will also pull out a lot of other interest entanglements, marrying him is the interest of marriage, and this is what Xu Lingyi hates the most, so Eleven Niang has scrupulously abided by her duty all her life, being a virtuous wife, never taking the initiative to harm people, silently paying for Xu Lingyi.
It is precisely because of the eleventh lady's indisputability and thoroughness that the contradictions in this inner house are precious and capture Xu Lingyi's heart. After falling in love with Eleven Niang, xu Lingyi's aunts were expelled from the palace due to infighting, or sent to the temple, or lonely to death, and finally only Eleven Niang was left.