The centralization of power in the Ming Dynasty reached a peak, and it was not only ordinary people who suffered, but also women who were in a disadvantaged position. The control of women has also reached a perverted level in this era.

The Confucian thought of Cheng Zhu Lixue was further strengthened and developed in the Ming Dynasty, not only to inculcate the ideas of "three obedience and four virtues", but also to promote the concept of chastity of "self-chastity before marriage and observance of festivals after marriage", so that women were basically unable to participate in outdoor activities.

Gradually, the Ming women formed the status quo of "women's trips, not out of the boudoir", and the average lady can only stay in the house, and rarely go out.

The Wu family has a girl who has just grown up, and she is raised in the deep boudoir and is unknown.

Wu Qiuyu is undoubtedly such a woman of the era, since the last time she went to Chang'an Street to see the royal street Kuama, she has been staying at home, and now she has not gone out for nearly a month.

For this kind of otaku life, she has long been accustomed to it, and her curiosity about the outside world has turned into fear. She was dressed in a long white dress and was sitting upright in the gazebo, doing needlework.

The snow-white slender hand held a silver needle, embroidered a bright peony on the white silk, the peony flower appeared vivid, but her expression was depressed, and her clear eyes were covered with a faint layer of sadness.

Just yesterday evening, when she was about to call her father and mother for dinner, she overheard her father's conversation in the study. The mother actually planned to give her a marriage, and the object was the son of a certain squire's family, and she was asking for her father's consent.

After learning the news, she was extremely sad. But it's not that her father and mother suddenly want to "abandon" her, but that she hides a secret in her heart, and her wishful husband is not the son of the waiter.

After a whole night of thinking, she struggled for a whole morning today, and finally made up her mind.

When her mother returned from the incense at the Guanyin Temple and seemed to be happy, she found her mother for a showdown, on the grounds that she didn't want to marry at such a young age.

In her mind, this reason is undoubtedly valid, and it can make her confident. After all, she is only fourteen years old, which is enough for her mother to dispel the idea of marrying her.

She thought so, and she mustered up the courage to do it, and prepared a lot of arguments, believing that her mother had no reason to persecute her.

As a result, her mother giggled and put her arm around her to tease: "Silly girl, how could my mother be willing to marry you so early, this is just to help you settle your family relationship first, and then officially marry in two years." ”

Remarry in two years?

When she heard this, her heart immediately shattered, and this was not the answer she wanted to hear. In that moment, she didn't use a single word of the words she had prepared.

At that time, she wanted to explain her inner thoughts to her mother, and stand clearly against it, but she found that she did not have the courage to do so.

She knew that her mother had also misunderstood, and her mother must have thought that she was filial, rather than really opposing this family business. She was so depressed that she didn't know how she got out of her mother's room.

For this marriage, she is naturally 10,000 unwilling in her heart. She didn't want to marry the son of that squire, she didn't want to, she didn't want to.

It's just this, her mother is destined not to hear it, and she will not know it.

In this back garden with red flowers and willows, in this season of flowers, Wu Qiuyu's heart seems to be blocked by a stone, and he is very sad.

It's just that she has never been the kind of girl with a strong and outgoing personality, and she is not good at expressing her true thoughts.

No matter how unwilling she is, she has always chosen to submit to the will of her family.

For example, she obviously doesn't like to eat fish heads, but her mother said that fish heads are the most delicious, and she has always given them to eat, and she has never refused, not once.

For example, she likes to wear cyan dresses, cyan can make her feel happier, but her mother said that she looks better in white, and she has always given her white dresses, and she silently accepted it.

For example, she obviously doesn't like embroidery, but her mother said that women have to learn this, so when Rust Niang taught her, she also learned this skill meticulously.

For another example, she wanted to buy a beautiful hairpin on the side of the Drum Tower, and wanted to have a good stroll on the lively street. But the mother said that women can't show their heads, so she immediately helped her buy back several hairpins she didn't like, and she didn't say anything.

For another example, yesterday she knew that her mother wanted to marry her, she felt that the air at home was very depressing, and she wanted to take Xiaocui out for a walk, just to take a breath of outside air in the alley, but her mother stopped her when she heard the news, and she did not resist.

There are many, many more such things, and she is such a person.

I don't like to argue with my family, even if I end up being a little wronged.

But this time, she really wanted to argue, she didn't want to marry the squire's son. It was only when she discovered that her personality seemed to be fixed, and she had already been stamped with a cowardly chrome mark on her body, so that she couldn't muster up the courage to argue with her mother, and she didn't even dare to express her true thoughts to her mother.

How deep is the love? The sunset in the mountains is shining in the deep autumn rain.

She knew that they women had to listen to their parents at home and obey their father-in-law when they got married, and they were born without freedom.

It's just that she can't help but feel a little sad in her heart, she feels that if she can be tougher, maybe life will not be like this.

Maybe she doesn't have to marry the son of the waiter!

Maybe she can walk to the alley at home at any time!

Maybe she can eat what she likes, wear what she likes, and even go shopping!

……

At this moment, she felt so wronged, and she also felt that she was useless, and she wanted to cry here. Obviously, she wanted to refuse, but she couldn't say it, and it turned out to be what she is now.

Perhaps, this is her fate, God has arranged her path. She didn't have the courage to choose to fight, and once again passively accepted the family's arrangement, so she could only marry the son of the squire she had never met.

She didn't want tears to flow, so she raised her pretty face and opened her eyes slightly. She didn't want her mother to know that she was sad, and she didn't want her to know that she had shed tears, she would rather let all the suffering endure by herself.

Is that?

It's just that all of a sudden, she was completely stunned.

On the roof over there, there was magically a man's figure. Although it was a little far away, the figure was so familiar that it had even appeared in her dreams at one point.

When she saw the man turn around and wave his hand to her, she couldn't help but cry.