Hearing her words, Zuo Youzhu and Zuo Youlan also walked over to take a look. They shyly looked at Xu Mingwei, but didn't say anything.
"Sister Ning is probably better at writing than I am. If you're practicing your sabre, spear, and staff at home, you should have quite the strength on your hands." Xu Mingwei let her see the small sandbag tied around her wrist, and said: "I still need to rely on this to get some strength out of me."
Xu Mingwei did not dare be greedy, and explained, "This is not what I was thinking, but what my Master Fang said."
"I heard it from my sisters. Master Fang's former fiancé broke off his engagement with her because of her father, Fang Huaishan. At that time, things got out of hand, and Master Fang was just a woman in her room, she was not satisfied with the man's condescending attitude, so she took the marriage contract signed by the two families and informed them of the whole family. "
Xu Mingwei only knew that Master Fang's marriage was bumpy and that they had been annulled by others, but she never expected it to be like this.
Zuo Youlan hesitated, "Can a woman enter the palace to complain? My father said that even the prosecutors outside had to hit them ten times. My mother is hurting me with a feather duster, how can Master Fang take this? "
Zuo Youzhu had obviously thought of the tragic memory of her mother hitting her butt with a feather duster, and she had a face full of lingering fear.
"Master Fang indeed suffered from those ten slashes. "The lord of the mansion pitied her as a little girl, and his father was a virtuous man among scholars. He had the yamen runners shut the door and let the old woman gently beat him up …"
Zuo Youlan did not believe it, and questioned, "How did everyone know about the fight after they secretly locked up? How could anyone else be willing to be so gentle? "
Fu Ninghui put her hands on her waist, "Do you still want to listen? Do you still want me to say that? "
Xu Mingwei had never seen someone who disregarded their image like her before, so she couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"All of you did it on purpose. If you don't want to hear the story, then I won't talk about it, hmph!" Fu Ninghui pretended to be annoyed and said.
Zuo Youlan immediately held her hand and did not let her go. She did not know what to say, so she was so anxious that her face turned red.
Xu Mingwei could not stand it, she went over and pulled the person back, and said, "If we stop now, I'm afraid that Sister Ning will be the one who will not be able to sleep at night."
Fu Ninghui laughed heartily after being seen through by her, "Alright, then I will continue."
"Master Fang received those ten canes and handed over a piece of paper. She wrote it himself. When the people of the Palace saw the beautiful handwriting, they liked the calligraphy. They loved the calligraphy and wanted to seek justice for the Master Fang, so they made the constables summon their fiance's family to face the court. Master Fang has the marriage contract, a betrothal gift, and is not one of the three people that won't marry. He talks about his fiance's family in the court until he's utterly ashamed.
"Then did Master Fang win in the end?" Zuo Youzhu who had not spoken from beginning to end asked curiously.
"Of course I won. It was personally decided by the Great Master of the Palace that within half a year, the's fiance's family would marry the Master Fang. Those who have not married after passing the time limit will go to jail. " Fu Ninghui was very satisfied with the effects of her story, and explained it in detail.
"But the Master Fang still didn't get married? What happened to her fiance's family? " Xu Mingwei asked doubtfully.
"This is the true legend of the Master Fang. As soon as the judge's verdict was passed, she kneeled down and asked the lord of the stage, 'Since there are three that should be married, should there be three that should not be married?' For a marriage, how can only men pick women, and not women choose men? "
A heroic spirit! Born in this era where men were blessed by the heavens, Xu Mingwei was really impressed by the Master Fang for having such magnanimity and breadth of mind, it was worthy of the title of a wondrous woman!
"At that time, when the great masters heard it, they laughed heartily, and asked the Master Fang what it meant by not marrying. Master Fang was not afraid, standing up and saying it out loud, "Unloyal and unfilial people cannot marry, unkind and unrighteous people cannot marry, and ungrateful people cannot marry!
Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air as they finally understood what was going on. It turned out that Master Fang coming to the government to sue his fiance was not to help him fight for his marriage, but to return the insult and contempt that he had suffered to the other party.
"Then did the lord of the prefecture agree?" Zuo Youlan asked.
"The Palace Mistress changed the judgement on the spot and ordered the Master Fang to cancel the engagement. The fiance family had to return the marriage contract and their trusted followers, in the future, both man and woman are not allowed to interfere." Fu Ninghui was excited, her mouth was already dry, she could not remember if he wanted to drink a cup of water, so she stopped her words to let them continue.
"Master Fang is so handsome!" Xu Mingwei couldn't help but exclaim in admiration, making her three little friends faint from listening.
Fu Ninghui curiously asked, "What is handsome?"
Xu Mingwei pointed to her and said, "It's exactly like you, straightforward and open, who have the guts to do things that others do not."
Fu Ninghui opened her eyes wide, thinking how the Seventh Sister knew how mischievous she was at home, could it be that she had also secretly asked him about it before?
However, Zuo Youlan did not have the patience, and anxiously asked, "What happened next, how is Master Fang's fiance's family?"
She thought that if that family made a fool of themselves in front of others, there would be no good ending for them.
Fu Ninghui sighed, her tone was no longer as jubilant as before, "The man's family was pointed and laughed for half a month, and very quickly, they married another girl, and the next year, they gave birth to a fat son."
Zuo Youlan, "..."
"Sister Ning shouldn't tell stories in the future. They're really sad." Zuo Youlan said softly.
Xu Mingwei sighed in his heart. It was no wonder that the Master Fang had an ice-cold expression. No matter who it was that was bullied to this extent, they wouldn't be able to feel joy in their heart.
"This is probably the disparity between men and women." Xu Mingwei said.
Fu Ninghui and the twins turned their heads and looked at her with a bit of surprise.
"What? What did I say wrong?" she asked suspiciously.
In the end, Fu Ninghui was still a bit old, so she explained the feeling that the twins had hidden in her heart, saying it clearly, "Since Master Fang's lawsuit is over, I've returned to my hometown to be scolded by my family, to be expelled by my family, but I clearly didn't do anything wrong, and yet, I can't tolerate it. The male side was mocked for a moment, but in less than a month, the entire world has forgotten that he was once called unfilial in the court. Is this the unfairness between men and women that Seventh Sister spoke of? "
Xu Mingwei nodded, she still did not understand what she said.
"Seventh Sister knows that when this matter was brought up in the inner court, most of the women still looked down on Master Fang somewhat. When something happened in the family, they should have cut off their relationship with the male side sooner, so as to not unreasonably implicate the male side. Even if he was dissatisfied with the man's withdrawal, he shouldn't have caused such a ruckus and caused people to laugh. In their eyes, the only thing that the man has done wrong is that he married someone else too early.
When Fu Ninghui told her about the discussion between the aunt and what she had heard, she was completely stunned. What's the use of reminiscing about old times when you've already married someone else? She wouldn't be able to exchange it for silver even if she couldn't fill her stomach. Yet, after spending some effort pretending to remember her fiancee who had been annulled in front of others, she became a righteous man in the eyes of the crowd once again? She even wanted to win a sigh from the crowd. What a good husband, and she even stayed for a year for the family that had broken off their engagement. That was something that was hard to come by!
Zuo Youlan and Zuo Youzhu had also been raised on this kind of inculcation, so in their eyes, Master Fang's insolence was far greater than others. After hearing about it and being stunned, there was no more him. Now that he heard Fu Ninghui's explanation, he finally understood what Xu Mingwei meant, and couldn't help but to stare at her.
But in his heart, he was thinking, as expected of the disciple of the Master Fang, speaking words that were so scary.
"Normally, I would say the same thing, but no one agreed. Today, with the Seventh Sister, he finally found someone he knew. Seventh Sister, we have to interact a lot in the future. If Mu Xiutian is free, you are welcome to come to my house to play. I have a very strange Western clock in my house. It jingles when I leave, and at the hour of one hour, there will be birds coming out to sing. How interesting. " Fu Ninghui clapped her hands and laughed.
The twin sisters had become friends with Xu Mingwei earlier than him. Seeing that she was so close to Xu Mingwei, without showing any expression of jealousy, they instead focused on the Western Bell and asked curiously, "Then why did the clock only go for an hour? "Then how do you know when it is?"
The thing that Xu Mingwei found strange was that the Tianqi had actually managed to get things done, and in her eyes, a look of surprise was revealed, the situation in which they were speaking was not too sudden.