Chapter 10 Desire
  Shen Jia secretly sighed. She wanted to help her, but she didn't have any ability to help now. But if she didn't do something, she would feel as uncomfortable as being bitten by ants.

After pondering for a moment, she asked: "If you can live with a few children, would you be willing to divorce?"

Wang looked at Shen Jia in confusion and shook her head: "Harmony? Don't be joking. That's just daydreaming. How could the Li family be willing to reconcile? It means that the Li family is at fault. This is absolutely impossible. Yes, it is even more impossible for them to let me take my three daughters away. Now the eldest sister and the others can do a lot of work a day, and they will be able to get married in a few years and receive gifts. How can the Li family let our mother and daughter leave? ?”

Shen Jia was a little crazy. This wouldn't work, and that wouldn't work either. Could it be that he just watched the Wangs and their daughters being abused?

Shen Jia took out a few wild eggs from the basket on his back and said, "Since you often go up the mountain, when you encounter delicious food, you secretly hide it and take it home for your daughters to eat. Don't be so stupid and hand over everything." For that old godly woman in your family.

Just like these wild eggs, you find an open place to roast them, eat one yourself first, take a few home, and let your daughters secretly eat outside and rinse their mouths before coming back. In this way, who knows that you secretly eat them? Wild eggs? "

Shen Jia picked up a hatchet and cut out a relatively open area, pulled out a small pile of pine needles and turf mud, buried the eggs in it, and said, "Look, the eggs won't be cooked this way. You must be sure to bake them when baking." Cut down the surrounding grass and dig a hole to bury the ashes after roasting, and there will be no wildfires."

Shen Jia felt that Wang was too stupid and didn't know how to adapt at all. Since he often went to the mountain, the wild fruits on the mountain were available all year round and there were many varieties. Occasionally, he could pick up a nest of wild eggs.

She foolishly took it back and handed it in, only to have her daughter stand there helplessly watching others eating happily, while her daughter secretly swallowed the food aside.

When someone had eaten enough and left some scraps for them, they had to be grateful, but they never thought that Wang brought those things back.

Shen Jia sighed softly: "As a mother, you must be strong. For your children, you should take care of yourself."

Wang stared blankly at Shen Jiayuan's retreating figure, as if the door to a new world had opened.

She clenched her fists and made up her mind. She wanted to change herself. She couldn't go on like this. She had to live a few more years for the sake of her children.

Shen Jia's steps were a little heavy, and she felt deeply sad for the women of this era.

In the deep-rooted thinking of these people, women have no status at all. Women are accessories to men, and women should abide by the three obediences and the four virtues.

The so-called "three obediences and four virtues", the three obediences are to obey the father before marrying, to the husband when married, and to the sons after the husband is dead. The four virtues refer to women's virtue, women's words, women's appearance, and women's merits. This is the standard set for women in ancient times and the standard for men to choose wives.

There are also those poor women soaked in the bitter water of coptis.

Their parents, husbands, and parents-in-law rightly do not treat them as human beings.

Those who beat their wives, those who molest their daughters-in-law, those who pawn off their wives and sell their daughters, those who drown newborn girls, those who require newly widowed daughters-in-law to have their hair cut off or be buried with them, and even worse, those who sell newly widowed daughters-in-law to make a fortune... They abound.

At this moment, the seed of desire to change the status of women in this era was deeply buried in Shen Jia's heart.

When Mrs. Gu saw Shen Jia coming back listlessly, she thought something had happened? He hurriedly came over, held her hand, and asked worriedly: "Jia'er, what's wrong with you? What happened? Are you feeling unwell?"

Shen Jia put on a smile that was uglier than crying and said, "Nothing? I just met Wang, the third daughter-in-law of the Li family, on the mountain..." Shen Jia then told Mrs. Gu what happened to Wang.

Gu rarely went to the village to play. Kong usually told her all the big and small things in the village. She also knew a little about these things from Kong's mouth, but she didn't expect that the actual situation was even worse than what she heard.

Mrs. Gu touched Shen Jia's head and said, "Everyone has his or her own way of living. Her parents' family is not strong enough, and she can't stand up on her own. Who can blame her?"

Then Gu said: "You are already eleven years old now. You will be engaged in two years, and you must learn the rules and etiquette."

In the past, Jia'er was stupid and she just wanted her to grow up safely, but now she is no longer stupid and must learn all etiquette and rules. Otherwise, when you return to Beijing one day, if you still don't follow the rules and etiquette, you will be disliked by others.

"Mom, I'm only eleven years old, it's still too early to get married!" Shen Jia frowned slightly, feeling inexplicably irritable.

"It's getting late. If we are in the capital, we can meet each other. Women in the capital are taught rules and etiquette from the age of three, needlework from the age of five, and management from the age of eight. Every word and deed of the daughter's family is You should cultivate etiquette and rules from an early age and have etiquette etched in your bones. No matter where you go in the future, no one will be able to find fault with you." Gu said earnestly.

Then he added: "It's too late for you to start learning etiquette and rules now. In this era, no matter whether you are a big family or a small family, the requirements for women are extremely strict. They must obey the three virtues and four virtues, teach your husband and children, and must not do wrong." Half a step..." Mrs. Gu persuaded her earnestly.

"Mom, this is our own home. We don't talk about those rules and etiquette. It's great to be as comfortable as you want. Think about it, life only lasts a hundred years at most. There are so many meaningful things. You don't have to be bound to these useless things every day. Within the rules..." Shen Jia smiled, shook Gu's hand and acted coquettishly, brainwashing Gu at the same time.

Just kidding, Shen Jia finally resurrected her life, so she must have gotten comfortable somehow. If she has to abide by so many etiquette rules, smile without showing her teeth, wear skirts and so on, this is really difficult for people who are used to being free and loose. It's hard to accept.

Mrs. Gu was unmoved and said with a straight face: "No, you must learn the rules and etiquette from me for an hour every day."

"Oh." Shen Jiasheng rolled his eyes helplessly. She was very interested in returning to Beijing, but now that there were outsiders around, she couldn't ask too many questions.

Shen Jia killed all three pheasants and added rare medicinal materials to one to make a medicinal chicken. This was specially made for the two patients Shen Zhuoyun and Shen Hao.

One makes pheasant stewed with five-finger peaches. Lingnan is located in a special geographical location. It is adjacent to the ocean to the south and the Five Ridges to the north. It is rainy in spring and summer. The sky is hot and the earth is humid. The hot and humid air steams up, and people's bodies are prone to moisture. Five-finger peach and Smilax cocos stewed in chicken soup have very good effects on clearing the liver and reducing fire, detoxifying and relieving heat, removing dampness and stagnation, calming the nerves and nourishing the skin.

After the stove was built, Shen Jia made another stir-fried pheasant.

There is also a stuffed eggplant dish. Cut the eggplant into slices, make a slit in the middle, chop the lean meat and leeks into foam, pickle them and stuff them into the mouth. Fry until both sides are golden brown. Add perilla and add an appropriate amount of water to cook. .

Finally, I fried a wild vegetable, which was picked by Shen Jia on the way back. A little bit of red tastes good, and it also has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, anti-inflammatory and diuretic.

After lunch, Yang Dazhuang and Kong went back.

(End of this chapter)

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