At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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"Chengzhi? Why are you here?"

Guo Chengzhi climbed onto the frame, and Cao Lan stepped aside to let Guo Chengzhi in.

"Auntie, are you angry?"

As soon as Guo Chengzhi sat down firmly, he looked at Cao Lan with a playful smile.

Cao Lan, who is in menopause, has an extremely sharp mind, and immediately guessed Guo Chengzhi's intentions.

"Your father asked you to come, right?"

"Hey, mother, don't be angry about anything. It's not worth it to get angry. Father has done something wrong. Please take care of yourself. You have been husband and wife for almost 40 years. There is nothing you can't do with each other. Do you understand?"

Guo Chengzhi held Cao Lan's hand and comforted Cao Lan in a low voice.

Cao Lan shook her head.

"It's not that I have to be angry with him, it's just that I'm not happy with what he said, and I panicked. He hasn't said that to me for so many years, and now he suddenly said that to me. has a problem."

Guo Chengzhi recalled the cause and effect explained by Guo Peng.

"In that case...the eldest father is indeed wrong, but is that the case?"

"What is this? Isn't that enough?"

Cao Lan stared at Guo Chengzhi.

"Father just said such a thing, didn't he do anything wrong?"

Guo Chengzhi asked strangely: "Mother is so angry, it must not be because of this matter, right? It must be something wrong with father. Mother, you tell grandson, grandson will solve your problems for you."

"What else did your father do wrong?"

Cao Lan's tone was a bit off: "I think I'm old, isn't that enough? Cheng Zhi, don't you think it's normal for your eldest mother to be old, and your eldest father has done nothing wrong?"

"what?"

Guo Chengzhi was stunned on the spot, and it took him a while to react, and hurriedly said: "No, no, grandson didn't mean that, grandson meant..."

"What is it? You have to do other things wrong to be wrong. Now he is not wrong at all, is he? Cheng Zhi, you are also standing with your elder father, thinking that your elder father is not wrong, but the one who is wrong is the eldest mother, right? "

Cao Lan's coercion was suddenly released, directly hitting Guo Jin's fragile psychological defense.

Guo Chengzhi had never seen such a majestic grandma, with his mouth open, unable to utter a single word.

Then he was kicked out of the car.

Guo Peng was sitting around a fire with Xu Chu and today's guards on shift, waiting for the food to be cooked while warming the fire, when he suddenly saw Guo Chengzhi walking over with a dull expression on his face.

"Chengzhi, what's wrong with you?"

Guo Peng had a bad feeling.

Guo Chengzhi raised his head to look at Guo Peng, and his eyes recovered a little.

"Father, did you really do nothing wrong? Apart from saying that Mother is old?"

"I didn't say she was old, but she misunderstood. I..."

Guo Peng seemed to realize something, and asked, "Chengzhi, don't you?"

"Mother kicked me out."

Guo Chengzhi looked frustrated: "Daddy has never been angry with me, Daddy, did I do something wrong too? Otherwise, why would Daddy kick me out? Daddy has never been angry with me .”

Guo Peng sighed and patted Guo Chengzhi on the shoulder.

"It's not that you did something wrong, but you just want to say what you did wrong. It's just that you are too young to understand women. You don't understand the root cause of your aunt's anger. It's like a doctor who treats a patient without prescribing the right medicine."

"what?"

Guo Chengzhi, who has not yet crowned and is unlikely to get married soon, looks puzzled.

"Forget it, she will probably recover when she thinks it through herself. The more we talk to her now, the angrier she gets. Let's wait a while, come on, Cheng Zhi, let's wait for dinner."

Guo Chengzhi was dragged by Guo Peng, and sat with Xu Chu and a group of guards, waiting for dinner.

But what Guo Peng said made him very concerned.

Don't understand women?

Guo Chengzhi recalled those women in his growth process.

Mother, grandma, and several aunts that my father later brought into the family, as well as several young sisters, the rest are the maids in the family.

There are also some female elders and peers who can be seen during family reunions during festivals.

Although he learned some things about women in school for a while, and then he suddenly became particularly interested in the breasts of the maids who served him, but soon, without knowing what happened, those young maids were replaced by middle-aged ones. women.

He was quite depressed at the time.

And then he was taken out of Luoyang City by Guo Peng, and he galloped in the vast world. What he saw was the sky and the earth, and his eyes were full of new things. Every day he saw a different scenery, but he had no time. Pay attention to women.

Now that Guo Peng mentioned this matter, he realized that there really didn't seem to be any women in his life who had nothing to do with his family. Of course, he didn't know what a woman was.

So, what is a woman?

Guo Chengzhi began to think about this problem.

But after all, he didn't help Guo Peng solve Cao Lan's matter, and almost got himself burned, and was targeted by Cao Lan.

This matter was finally resolved.

A day later, Guo Peng personally grilled some meat skewers and took them to Cao Lan to eat. He humbly apologized to her and asked her to pinch his arm for a while, which finally let the breath out of her heart.

The dead knot was uncovered, Cao Lan was not so angry, and the crisis was resolved.

This is how a woman's temper is. Sometimes she comes quickly and violently, but she also goes away quickly, with no twists and turns.

The key is to prescribe the right medicine.

Seeing Guo Peng talking and laughing with Cao Lan again, Guo Chengzhi was very surprised, and talked to Guo Peng about it when it was convenient for Guo Peng to go out.

"Father, what's going on? Why did Mother suddenly talk to you again?"

"what happened?"

Guo Peng smiled wryly for a while, lifted his sleeves, and let Guo Chengzhi look at the bruise and purple nail prints on his arm: "Your aunt's nails were specially manicured, it hurts to pinch, and it took a long time , I remember that when I was fighting with the rebels, it didn't hurt that much when I was shot by an arrow, and this woman was cruel enough, and she was so fierce..."

Guo Peng couldn't help complaining.

"…………"

Guo Chengzhi was shocked.

"Why, do you think your aunt really has no temper? That's against you, not me. "

Guo Peng shook his head: "Chengzhi, you are still too young, you haven't experienced this, you still don't understand women, after you get married, especially after you take a concubine, you will basically understand the situation that Daddy is in now .”

Guo Jin's eyes twitched.

"If you get married...will you be pinched? Will you be pinched so badly? No way? Aren't women all virtuous and virtuous...?"

"what?"

Guo Peng blinked, realized that he seemed to have misunderstood Guo Chengzhi, and hurriedly said: "That's not the case, what Dafu means is that after you get married, you will live with your wife until Dafu grows up." At your mother's age, you can understand the feelings of your eldest father."

"Unbelievable..."

Guo Chengzhi's eyes flickered with confusion.

He really doesn't understand at all.

Chapter 1599 It's time to discuss Guo Chengzhi's marriage

Seeing Guo Chengzhi's puzzled look, Guo Peng laughed dryly and patted Guo Chengzhi's shoulder.

"Chengzhi, you are also 16 years old, and you are only a few years away from being crowned. In the past few years, your elder parents, as well as your parents, will help you choose a suitable wife."

"wife?"

Guo Chengzhi was a little dazed.

It is difficult for Guo Chengzhi to conceive of an existence that has never been experienced and has no consciousness.

"Well, when it comes to you, marrying a wife and taking a concubine is a big deal, and the person you choose is either rich or noble, and the scope is indeed not big, but it doesn't matter, it will never make you dissatisfied... You probably don't have anything that you like very much. Woman? Now."

Guo Peng carefully observed Guo Chengzhi's complexion, just like the head teacher of a student suspected of puppy love.

Guo Chengzhi shook his head decisively.

"Father, I... I am surrounded by people who can be my grandmas."

Thinking of those young and beautiful maids who disappeared inexplicably before, he looked frustrated and dissatisfied.

Guo Peng nodded, expressing satisfaction.

The children of the royal family can't mess around, especially the first heir of the third generation emperor. This aspect must be paid close attention to, just like Guo Jin's marriage, Guo Peng is very concerned.

If some scandal or the like spreads, there is no place for Mr. Guo's old face.

But if you think about it carefully, Guo Chengzhi has never had contact with outside women other than family women since he was a child.

As the first successor of the third generation, Guo Chengzhi grew up receiving elite education since he was a child. The thing he does most is study, and the people he contacts the most are his family members, besides teachers and classmates.

In the past two years, Taixue began to carry out intensive physical and hygiene education for teenagers, so that they can understand the human body. Of course, there is also knowledge about that aspect, which can be regarded as enlightenment education.

This is also a result of the Yellow Dragon Palace meeting that year, and it is the inheritance and development of the White Tiger Temple meeting.

Guo Peng redefines the content and time of the enlightenment education for noble children, and made some age corrections, but the others have not changed much.

After studying for a while, Guo Chengzhi seemed to have changed a bit.

I heard from Cai Wan that during that time, Guo Chengzhi began to be inexplicably concerned about the maids around him, often staring at them, wondering what he was thinking.

After being discovered by Cai Wan, he discussed with Guo Jin, and Guo Jin thought that in order to prevent accidents, he directly replaced the young maid serving him with an experienced old lady.

Then Guo Chengzhi was quite lost for a while.

He was only 14 years old at the time, and Guo Peng also felt that it was too early to practice.

Although it is said that the children of the royal family have their own practice norms, 14 years old is indeed too early.

At that time, Mr. Guo was limited by the factors of the times, so he had to get married early and let Cao Lan give birth to a child early to stabilize the Cao family's mind. Otherwise, the Cao family would be suspicious and would be bad for everyone.

In order to protect Cao Lan and maintain Cao Lan's status, letting her conceive and have a son is the best and only way. Otherwise, the most difficult thing to do is Cao Lan herself, and Guo Peng can't protect her.

Now the social concept has been slightly relaxed and progress has been made. Although the pressure of survival among the people is still great, early marriage and early childbearing are still advocated. However, out of consideration for the lives of the people, Guo Peng still forcibly promoted the minimum marriage age of [-] for men and [-] for women. .

This is the regulation of ordinary people without official positions.

Within the ruling class, Guo Peng advocated that men should talk about marriage when they are eighteen and women should be sixteen.

Prior to this, in the early days of the establishment of the Wei Empire, the social economy had not yet recovered. In order to get rid of the pressure of raising children, especially girls, people in some areas actually let them get married before they were ten years old, and they had children at the age of eleven or twelve.

After hearing these things, Guo Peng felt very guilty.

Early marriage and early childbearing due to poverty and early death, and early death due to early marriage and early childbirth, have fallen into an endless cycle. To make the childbearing age a little later, the whole society needs to be comprehensively improved.

It took time, and Guo Peng couldn't do it at the time.

Therefore, after the country was unified and the society was stable in the later stage, Guo Peng promulgated many policies aimed at maintaining women's reproductive safety, such as setting up reproductive health centers in the countryside, raising the age of marriage, and so on.

In order to make people abide by it, he also continued to reduce agricultural taxes, cancel the exorbitant taxes in Han Dynasty, improve the level of hygiene, and reduce the difficulty of ordinary people's survival.

If it is not forced by survival, the per capita survival rate is too low, and Guo Peng feels that not many people are willing to marry off their daughters who are less than ten years old.

Over the years, with the further prosperity and stability of the society, the news that folk peasant women marry and have children at the age of eleven or twelve has never been heard again. people's cognition.

This is something that Guo Peng feels gratified about.

As for the inside of the ruling class, it is much simpler.

No matter what era, their survival difficulty is definitely not lower than that of ordinary people, so the survival rate of their children is generally higher.

For this reason, it is not difficult for them to marry a little later, because marrying their daughter a year later will not cause the whole family to have nothing to eat and go bankrupt.

The initiative of men's eighteenth and women's sixteenth is also popular within the ruling class-although it is an initiative, it is not enforced, but if you do it early, there will be hidden future burdens.

This kind of hidden burden is not reflected on the surface, but it is faintly known to everyone, and can be recognized by officials as unspoken rules that must be followed, otherwise the future will be worrisome.

How can bureaucrats be willing to delay their future for such insignificant things?