First round, seeking support.
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"No." Lady Wu Wang shook her head, "You see, you still think like a peasant. Yingzi is not becoming the principal wife; she's becoming a concubine."
Lady Zhang was speechless for a long while. In the world of tenant farmers, monogamy was the norm, and even among the wealthy families, taking a concubine was extremely rare. In her view, accepting a concubine and marrying a secondary wife were things unrelated to her and her immediate world; such actions were distant, unattainable practices specific to the lives of affluent officials and the wealthy.
Noble families don't marry concubines, do they? Isn't that just asking for domestic unrest and ruination?
"What's wrong with a peasant's way of thinking?" Lady Zhang finally spoke after a long while, "Living a straightforward life without messing with all kinds of nonsense, who knows what they are thinking? Got money? Got power? Does that change who they are? Decent people don't do such things!"
