Chapter 209: Princess Nishang (Five Updates)_1
Yang Ruxin turned and walked into the main hall, speaking as she moved, "Gu Qingheng, are you up yet?"
"I am." Gu Qingheng himself maneuvered his wheelchair out from the room.
"Are you familiar with the laws of our dynasty?" Yang Ruxin hurried over to help him into the courtyard. At this time, although the rooms in rural houses were quite spacious, they were all papered over with window paper, which was poor in letting light through; thus, even during the daytime, they seemed quite dark, not as comfortable as the courtyard.
"I am familiar," nodded Gu Qingheng, "Why? Have you gotten into legal trouble?" At just ten years old, he had been able to recite all the law books of the dynasty from memory.
"What trouble could I possibly cause?" Yang Ruxin burst into a smile upon hearing this. "I want to ask you, like with my family’s situation, if I were to become wealthy in the future, would those people from the Yang Family have any right to come and demand money?"
The corners of Gu Qingheng’s mouth lifted slightly. That girl sure thought ahead, but it also proved that she wasn’t foolish. In fact, even if she hadn’t come to ask, he had been planning to remind her these few days. Now that she had taken the initiative to ask, he could just as well remind her, to avoid future problems.
The laws of the dynasty were actually quite harsh on women. Of course, it wasn’t only in this dynasty; women had never been treated leniently throughout history.
According to the laws of our dynasty, it was clearly stipulated that a woman should abide by her father before marriage, her husband after marriage, her brothers (or younger) if her father died, her sons if her husband died, her grandsons if her sons died... In other words, a woman basically had no fixed property of her own; if her father and brothers were bad, her husband incompetent, her sons and grandsons unworthy, then that woman’s entire life would be doomed.