My husband, who abandoned his father and kept his son, actually wants me to be his concubine.

Chapter 154 We had a great time chatting
Lu Jinshi said, "It's alright, I don't blame you. Did you just say that I look like someone from your hometown?"

Banxia asked, "Won't you mistake me for a monster and arrest me?"

Lu Jinshi smiled and said, "You are my husband's savior, so naturally I will not regard you as a monster."

Banxia followed Lu Jinshi to sit down in the courtyard. She smiled and said, "You really seem to be from my hometown. When we transmigrated here, many capable women began to abandon their fathers and keep their children. So I thought you were one of them, but I didn't expect that abandoning one's father and keeping one's children has been a practice since ancient times."

Lu Jinshi said, "No wonder He Jiayi always insists that I come from the same era as her. Aren't women in your era very comfortable?"

"Not exactly, but it's still much better than this world. Not exactly..." Banxia said, "In our world, there were actually quite a few people who valued chastity, while here, the concept of chastity is rarely mentioned."

Banxia smiled and said, "In our area, all women can study, unlike in Chang'an, where you are the one who runs a girls' school."

"Every woman can go to school? Even girls from impoverished rural areas and poor families can go to school?" Lu Jinshi's eyes lit up. "Can the world really become like this?"

Banxia nodded and said, "Pretty much. Every girl can learn to write and can study with boys."

Lu Jinshi couldn't help but sigh, "If only I could make the Great Sheng Dynasty like this in the future, so that every girl in the Great Sheng Dynasty could study and learn to write..."

Banxia said, "I believe you can do it."

Lu Jinshi said, "Tell me, in your world, could women also become doctors?"

Banxia said, "Yes, back then, doctors no longer saw patients in pharmacies. There were hospitals. There were fewer female doctors than male doctors in hospitals, but there were still quite a few. There were also nurses, who were like your maids... specializing in assisting doctors in taking care of patients so that they could rest and recover properly."

Lu Jinshi said, "That's wonderful. The women over there don't need to stay indoors, never stepping out of their homes, and can support themselves."

Banxia smiled and said, "Yes, it's a pity that I stayed until I was twenty-six. I had just graduated and started my internship when I encountered a medical dispute. A mother of a boy killed me, and when I woke up again, I was here."

Lu Jinshi looked at Banxia and smiled, "Then you are actually older than me. How about I call you 'elder sister' from now on?"

"I dare not accept the title of Crown Princess and call me sister."

Lu Jinshi smiled and said, "I opened a girls' school because my parents doted on me. Many people are just looking to see what happens. Even the girls in the academy are just hoping to get married. I don't know how long I can keep going."

When I was in Jiangnan, I once sent a female student who was about to marry a widower old enough to be her father to study. She thought that if she studied hard, she could become a female teacher and wouldn't have to marry a man over thirty-five. But she said that not everyone likes to study as much as she does. She only came to study so that she could choose a rich husband from Tianzhang Academy.

"Now that girls' schools have been established in Chang'an, many young women have come here to find good husbands. Even I have some doubts about whether establishing girls' schools was the right or wrong decision..."

“You’re right,” Banxia said. “For women in this world, getting married is like being reborn. That’s why they can only find one good husband. They don’t know that studying can free them from the shackles of marriage. After they learn and understand the principles, they can choose a better husband.”

Lu Jinshi nodded and said, "That's what I think too, Sister Banxia. I'm afraid it will be inconvenient for me to leave Chang'an City in the future while I'm in the palace. I would like to ask you to join me in spreading girls' schools throughout the entire Dasheng Dynasty, so that women in our Dasheng Dynasty can also have access to education, just like men, and can also read and understand principles. The views of women and children will no longer be considered shameful."

Banxia smiled and said, "With your words, Your Highness, I will surely risk my life for this prosperous dynasty." Lu Jinshi and Banxia chatted happily until dark. The palace maids had come to find her several times, but she was still talking with Banxia.

It wasn't until late at night that Lu Jinshi returned to his bedchamber in the East Palace.

They entered the East Palace's sleeping quarters.

Rong Yi, lying on the hospital bed, frowned and looked at Lu Jinshi, saying, "If you don't come back soon, I'll have to get out of bed and beg you to come back. Why did you chat with that female doctor for so long?"

Lu Jinshi recalled what Banxia had said earlier and smiled gently, saying, "I get along very well with her, like sisters."

Rong Yi frowned slightly, "Even sisters wouldn't chat like this day and night."

Lu Jinshi smiled and said, "I finally have someone who can run the girls' school with me. I know that when I first started the girls' school, no one was optimistic about it. I only relied on my parents' pampering. Only Banxia can fight alongside me."

Rong Yi chuckled and said, "I've been fighting alongside you. Where did you get the money to run the girls' school? You talk about divorce so easily. If we really get divorced, where will the money for your girls' school come from?"

Lu Jinshi smiled and said, "My mother has plenty of money too. If I ask her for it, she will always give it to me."
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Inside the He family mansion.

As the weather grew colder, the old lady He, who was used to a life of luxury, had no firewood or charcoal in her room, and it was bitterly cold.

The second master took the charcoal fire from the second household so that He Jiayi could use it first, since He Jiayi would be the future Lady of the Marquis and the only hope for the He family.

Liu Xiuxiu handed the hot water bottle she had filled to Old Madam He and said, "Mother, please use this hot water bottle to warm yourself up. I don't have much money left."

"You've already used up Jinlan's betrothal gifts so quickly?"

Liu Xiuxiu said, "He Tan stole Lan'er's betrothal gifts to gamble. He originally thought the betrothal gifts weren't much and kindly wanted to double them, but who knew he would lose them all..."

Old Madam He said, "Even Qin'er knows that winning money through gambling can ease the burden on the family. He Jinlan was unwilling to marry before. It seems that having a son is still an advantage in the family. Daughters are always a money-losing commodity. Although the He family has lost the title of Marquis of Yongxing, we still have Qin'er."

He Jiayi brought in a basket of charcoal and said with a light laugh, "Grandmother, you are right. This family cannot be without offspring to carry on the family line. If this vast fortune is not inherited by a son, won't it just be given to someone else in the future?"

If the eldest branch of the family didn't have Qin Ge'er, they would only have Lu Jinshi, an unfilial daughter. The He family would have to change its surname by now, as there would be no one to inherit the family business.

Madam He smiled at He Jiayi and said, "Grandmother never expected that among so many granddaughters, you would be the most intelligent and sensible. Your eldest uncle is not as sensible as you. He even said that I lost the title of Marquis of Yongxing and could not see our ancestors. But as long as there are male descendants of Brother Qin, how could our ancestors blame me?"

"How can the bloodline of the eldest son and grandson of the He family be easily severed by that mother and daughter?"

He Jiayi smiled and said, "So this is the retribution, isn't it? I heard that Lu Jinshi was reprimanded by His Majesty for being a jinx to her husbands and was stripped of her title as Crown Princess..."