The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System fan fiction

Indeed... You are right but it's such a hassle though
It's a thousand tabs, so much that chrome didn't registers a number on it anymore. Just a freaking smiley that once you see it, you know that you have gone beyond.

It's not even compatible with my phone...

 

They're pretty and An Ding peak disciples are STUPID.

Lol, eternal exile. /notes this down

Yes, more candy is coming.

 

I'm on board with @UpInTheAir 's suggestion. EXILE THEM

 

- Spoil us more~!!!

- Pet you softly and hand you a soft blanket that had a cat print on it. Here, eat some milk chocolate, too. Just a little bit, okay?

- Yeah, marry the ones that are innocent bc not everyone in that household is a dickhead and or a bitch. Kids that are too young to understand are innocent, somewhat. Those that aren't innocent? They can go die for all I care.

- An Ding peak might be stupid but they aren't brain-death...

 

..../remembers the way readerz told me that An Ding's disciples had 40 iq.
40. IQ.

 

Candy!

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Tong fang were basically little more than maids, pretty maids who had been taken into the masters' beds, reliant on the goodwill of their masters and mistresses.

If the master was done with them, bored of them, he could sell them as he could any maid or normal servant. If the mistresses were angry, they could make their lives hell.

Of course there were tong fang who had made it to shiqie and shiqie who made it to ce fei, ce fei who made it to legal wife after the legal wife died, but that was in other less regimented households.

Tong fang didn't have job security. All they could hope for was to have good owners, and yet ambitious maids who thought they had good looks still kept trying to seduce their masters to have a hope of climbing the ladder and eventually becoming the legal wife.

It wasn't unusual to have maids who broke porcelain tea sets or other breakables, wearing thin clothing in hopes of attracting the master or masters' sons, kowtowing, bowing, acting all pitiful to make the wife and those higher up than her look like shrews, while she tried to pull off the fragile white lotus impression.

With the master dead and ten of his daughters and two of his sons destitute, the tong fang, shiqie and the children in question were little more than commodities on two legs, though the educated boys would likely be given some resources for face's but mostly left to fend for themselves in the world of scholar officials or the military, given a sum and perhaps a few mu of land and then as soon as politely possible, married to shu daughters of officials and then kicked out of the nest to make their own living.

The girls, vulnerable without prepared dowries were even further at risk but would inevitably have to be married out to shu sons of officials to preserve the household's reputation and get useful connections

Naturally, these tong fang, shiqie and their children tried to get their brothers outside to help them because any help offered would give them something other than the Junwang fei or her di sons to rely on.

Asking the sisters who married outside for help would be an exercise in futility. Having acquired the position of mother in law, what shiqie that had managed to move out before they could be sold off and their child was taken in by a ce fei would want to risk their hopefully better lifestyle by letting another woman near her daughter's husband?

Aoguang had seen it all before and had no interest in it nor had he any compassion to spare.

They had none for him earlier, after all. Never mind which of the people had and had not been there at the time, six years ago.

That left things up to the junwang fei and eldest di son to decide while Shifu observed them.

 

CANDY.

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Ten of the women Aoguang remembered and hated for their cruelty and contempt towards him and his mother were no longer there and had long been replaced by new women who had taken the Junwang's fancy in the intervening years.

As for the children, since Junwang Quan Shi sold them off in marriages according to age and valuable bloodline, of the ten girls who remained unmarried, some of them were of marriagable age only now, others were younger still, which meant the eldest had been only nine years of age or younger when Aoguang had been given to Cang Qiong's recruiters and entered Qing Jing. The two boys without assets or territory were definitely younger than Aoguang, probably thirteen or fourteen years from what could be seen.

Their mothers may or may not have been in favor six years ago. They weren't in Aoguang's favor and wouldn't be in the favor of the wife, di sons and ce fei who now had the chance to get rid of them and their children.

Even now, those ce fei, di sons and the junwang fei were looking for people to basically sell the girls and boys to in marriage.

The shiqie who had raised them with aspirations were likely doomed to be separated from them. As for the tongfang, they might part ways with the household permanently on an auction block.

The tong fang without children were going to be sold off despite their weeping and wailing. All that left for them was to try to make themselves appealing and pitiful to go to good owners.

The pregnant tong fang and the two pregnant shiqie were a more complex matter. Aborting the children even in secret would make for a nasty business so perhaps the Junwang fei would simply take them from their mothers the moment they were born and then either lock up the mothers or sell them the moment they recovered from childbirth.

 

@IzKir, pet meeee.

My lungs still betrayed me.

 

I think u need to go see a doctor, quick

 

:V
Thanks I guess.

 

*pets the fairy
If this thing persists: Go to a doctor.
Still at work. Free in about hour or so

 

I will wait.

 

Candy!

Spoiler

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Since Aoguang naturally didn't like those people, no matter how gentle Shifu was, he would take his student's words for it.

If Aoguang didn't want to deal with them, naturally he would not bother to make him.

At best this peak lord would simply ensure with the use of surveillance drones that the girls who were little more than children didn't fall into the hands of pedophile husbands, or allow the adult women to be bought by torturers and abusers like that beizhi whose dungeons Enlai turned into flaming rubble.

This is the limit of his benevolence, okay?

One has to hold some kind of human fellow feeling, even for petty people, after all.

It is probably best to have the women purchased or bid for by proxy within a certain limit of funds and sent abroad, to the nomad lands to live as the wives of this or that merchant, steward, man at arms or soldiers who have earned their retirement.

If they still complain because they want to enter another noble household, don't look at him for sympathy, okay? He is all out.

Apparently, two of the pregnant women died in childbirth. One foot in the grave and all that. The third as expected, was sold off against her will after her recovery, after the child was born. The children of those three were to be raised by the ce fei and junwang fei respectively.

That left the two boys who had to become dependent scholars relying on the di sons' budgets for them and their mothers and what little stipend was given to them until they could earn their keep as xiucai after the exams.

 

YAAYYYYYY CANDYYYYY

 

Right, back to Sun Jin, Ma Kong and wrapping up Wu Gui. /checks notes.

 

Just abandon them to their fates. The ce fei won't have any say on what happens to the lesser concubines (dongfang, etc). Only the dowager/head of the household has a say.

Ce fei have no power when it comes to the estate and the other concubines. Unless it's a very unusual household in which one ce fei happens to be much wealthier than everyone else, which isn't the case here.

When the junwang dies:

the most senior male heir takes everything
the heir will decide what, if anything, the others can have
not including whatever the others were already given when the junwang was alive

the heir would be, in the proper order:

the oldest di son
if there is no surviving di son, then the di son of the oldest son (grandson of the deceased)
if there are no surviving di grandsons, then the oldest di uncle (the brother of the deceased, born of the same di wife)

if the junwang's mother is still alive she would decide the fate of the lesser concubines

the ce fei are wives - lesser wives, yes, but they are wives. they have to be provided for properly. it would be shameful if their house failed to take care of the deceased's concubines

the shu daughters will be married off properly, with someone of the appropriate rank - the family would lose face if they married off too low. I mean like, they would never marry them off to peasants or anything like that...

I am not sure what would happen to the tongfangs kids but they should be fine. I mean, they wouldn't be sold off or killed since they are the junwang's kids. The heir would face society's judging eyes if he was too cruel to the kids. They are his half siblings.

I guess my point is that it's a matter of "face." They can't openly dispose of the kids because the neighbors would talk.

 

Candy!

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While the household and lands of the former Junwang Quan Shi had been passed down to his eldest di son, and the younger di son had acquired his mother's lands and a wang title, the sons of the ce fei had only their mothers' dowry lands and the five shu sons started working on making their land grants from the emperor useful, the remaining unsettled children, shiqie and tong fang were finding out that their past scheming for favor led to no good end.

Favor after all, was only of use when the person who you relied on as a backer was still alive to keep you out of trouble.

In fact, scheming for favor and using that favor to flaunt as a flag to defend yourself and aggrandize your own reputation was like being a parasite and bragging about the larger beast whose belly you were hanging from, like a vampire bat or whose guts you had made a home in, like a ringworm.

Elder Qiang and his fellow elders of Purple Cloud Chasing peak were also learning that very same lesson.

Having pushed the responsibility for the fiasco on the sons of the Ao and Wu families, those families had withdrawn all funding, support and in addition had begun blackening their name as a midranked sect.

With three families down including the good Mang family which had withdrawn after their boy had also been thrown out like dirty water, all of which had grudges, that left the Qiang family resources the many factions which had taken to holding sect resources and begrudging them to their rivals and the sect's currently grubby reputation.

Some of those minor factions were in fact thinking of splitting from the sect as it was, starting their own even smaller minor, newborn sects.

One of the minor factions had already left.

Elder Qiang had said it was good riddance to bad rubbish, but it was only the start of the snowball going downhill.

 

I was going with the ce fei have a say because the Junwang married them specifically for financial and military assets. These would be (emotionally) valued daughters, useful for holding as hostages against their fathers to make them do things.

If their dads die, well, they're useless, but right now their dads are still alive and have big sticks. And the junwang fei was of a princely family and brought lots of $$$ and land in the marriage so she passed her stuff to her younger kid.

But the rest of it is good, let me edit it all in.

 

Thank you, @readerz
I will be editing everything in so please refresh the aoguang centric posts in an hour.

 

the fei is the di wife, right? the fei would have a say, certainly.

see it would be like this:

- the di son is the heir and normally the heir's mother would now be the dowager of the family (that would be the junwang fei)
- the di son would take all of the property and business
- but the fu (household, the family's internal affairs) is the fei's business, she will normally take care of everything there
- the dowager would be in charge of the: family household (not the business) allowance, property maintenance, daily expenses (food, etc), servant's salaries, servant's discipline, household rules, all important rites, all guests, parties, etc.
- the heir's wife would have help the dowager with all that
- marrying off anyone would be handled by the dowager, the heir and the heir's wife

I mean, the new junwang would have inherited all of his father's positions and businesses so he will be busy. All the household stuff will be left in the hands of his wife and mother.

I meant the ce fei (the concubines) would have no say

they would have a say about the assets they put into the family...but are you sure? because ce fei don't normally have dowries. i can imagine that the ce fei would have a say over their own sons or daughters but not over the others' sons and daughters