Chapter 868: Equal rights

If you want to say it, it's no wonder that Lin Daojing wants to use the hands of the Xu family to rectify that brother-in-law, but Li Xiucai is like a stone in a pit, which is annoying.

After the conflict between the husband and wife that night, my sister didn't want to be angry with her husband, so she put down her body and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, go to bed early, don't vomit these idle gases." ”

After finishing speaking, he helped her husband to lie down, but unexpectedly, some things could not be compromised lightly, and she expected that the other party would know how to do it if she was soft.

If she is strong to the end, maybe her husband will retreat, and Li Xiucai is just a little unsatisfactory, his wife is gentle and generous, young and beautiful, she speaks and does things in an orderly manner, and her mother's family is rich, which makes him have a lot of face, and foot binding has been reduced to a small road, and it can no longer become a socially recognized custom, can you be dissatisfied?

Therefore, he has scruples, and is embarrassed to speak, since this night, through the small conflict of half-truths and half-truths, seeing that his wife is not stubborn with him, he thinks that he is afraid of him, and since then he has often put on the frame of his husband, and resorted to suppressive means, to become a man who says the same.

In addition to accusing his wife of not binding her feet, he also accused her of not liking to apply grease and powder, not liking to wear bright clothes, being strict with her subordinates, and setting up the rules of a young grandmother. In short, the horizontal is not good, and the vertical is not good, which makes my sister annoyed.

After entering Beijing, my sister continued to use the strategy of overcoming rigidity with softness, not wanting to conflict with her husband, worried about being talked about and dissatisfying her parents-in-law. In the face of her husband's unbridled accusations, she began to watch the wind and act at the opportunity, but she still insisted on herself and didn't want to follow the crowd like those married women.

There were several times when I saw my husband's face was not good, and I reluctantly followed him. Or simply don't open your mouth and let him yell in the house, or hide in her mother-in-law's room and sit down. When I see my husband talking and laughing, I am in a good mood. Take the opportunity to enlighten him with soft words.

However, my sister's hard work has made her husband more and more stubborn and unappreciative. Fortunately, the father-in-law and mother-in-law were very satisfied with this knowledgeable and tolerant daughter-in-law, so they did not favor their son, but preferred their daughter-in-law. Reading books and newspapers is up to her, and Li Xiucai is helpless.

My sister's name is Yayun, and she sat quietly in her small hall and read a book on this day. There was only a maid in the room who accompanied her. Now the weather in August, the early autumn is clear, the south wind is blowing, and the carved windows on all sides are hooked.

The courtyard is full of greenery. A piece of life. There are a few peony flowers blooming on the flower stand, there are a few plantain plants in the corner of the wall with heart leaves, and there are white and purple roses on the flower wall on the west side.

The sweet fragrance and the breeze hit the nose, which was really soothing. Yayun sat by the window, holding a book "On Women" in her hand.

Speaking of which, for the feminist movement, the former Xu Hao naturally scoffed. Because he's male. But the ideas of later generations will make him disagree with the ancient ideas, and then encourage the rise of women's rights. It is also a disguised means of innovation, not to underestimate the women's liberation movement, which was inspired by the bourgeois rebellion against the supremacy of the monarchy, and women began to question the sanctity of male power.

If we look at the history of modern China before and after the May Fourth Movement, we can see that China's feminist movement closely followed the trend of the times, which had a crucial and huge impact on the later founding of New China.

In today's Ming Dynasty, many women have the ability to reason, realizing that inequality between men and women is caused by traditional customs and gender-specific education. In addition, Xu Hao desperately wants the country to have more abundant human resources so that people can make the best use of their talents, which is very important to improve the competitiveness of the whole nation.

Therefore, in this book "On Women", there are naturally extremely advanced views, such as being a man first, and then being a man or a woman, and women should have the same right to education as men, as well as the right to go out to study and work.

Regardless of whether they like the ancient society or not, how the male students are obsessed with the life of the family and the world where men are respected, the times are always going to develop forward, even if Xu Hao does nothing, the equality of men and women in China will follow, and it will rise with it, and eventually all aspects of future generations.

Xu Hao sent someone to greet his aunt's family, and it was reported that his cousin was very angry, both civil and military. Wen can write a thousand words, Wu can wear Yang in a hundred steps, I hope the rumors are true.

He went out shopping alone, and after passing through the inner city, he came to a ten-mile-long street, and the shops on both sides became more and more neat and magnificent. Xu Hao walked and watched the business on the street, facing a wide stone arch bridge, under which there was a wine shop, and the erected signboard read, "Three fresh noodles, ten small bowls".

Having too much to taste, Xu Hao got on the bridge, ran over to the hall, and said with a smile: "Guests use wine? Dinner? Today there are live carp, and there are freshly peeled shrimp alive. If you want wine, there are sorghum in the north, burning knives in Liaodong, aged Shaoxing in the south, and rose bergamot in Guangdong. ”

As he spoke, he put a pair of ebony chopsticks, two side dishes, and a colorful wine glass on the table.

Xu Hao thought about what to eat, and he said: "There are shark fin and duck in the store, which can be eaten fresh or dismantled." ”

Xu Hao said: "You don't need it, you just give me two taels of local old wine, a big bowl of three fresh noodles." ”

"Where's the dish?" The runner asked.

Xu Hao pointed to the table and said, "These two dishes are enough for me to eat." ”

Who knew that it was boring to make a big deal in the hall, and thought that a rich boy had come, so he pursed his mouth, turned around and said loudly: "Two taels of old wine, three fresh noodles and a bowl." ”

Soon the hot wine was delivered, and the runner turned around and left, Xu Hao ignored him, and slowly tasted the wine while looking at the shore. The weather is good, the wind and the sun are beautiful, there are rice washing by the river, there are washing vegetables, there are washing clothes, Jinling has changed a lot in recent years, the sewage is discharged from the culvert, until the mouth of the sea to build a special canal, the river is basically kept clean, anyway, there is no industrial pollution, there is no need to study the waterworks for the time being, and then there is no electricity and generator or anything, and you can't get it if you want to.

The workers are women, young and old, and there are a dozen children flying kites on the shore. There was a small kite hanging on the willow top, and he couldn't get out, and a young man passing by took a bamboo pole for him to pick it up, but the bamboo pole was short and the willow tree was too high to reach.

Xu Haozheng could see that he was stunned, and the gong sounded coldly, which was deafening and startled.

Li family, Yayun was thinking about the ideas in the book, and suddenly heard a melodious sound of the piano across the wall reaching his ears in the wind, and asked, "Is there any school next door?" ”

The maid replied: "There is no school, but a young grandmother of the Zhang family next door heard that she came from Hangzhou, and what college is she studying in." ”

Yayun seemed to think for a moment when she heard this, and then asked, "Is this young grandmother Zhang's maiden family surnamed Lin?" Did you know? ”

The maid hurriedly replied: "Yes, I didn't know that a few days ago, a mother from her family came to visit the door, and said that it seems that grandma and the young grandmother in her house used to live in an alley in Hangzhou, and I forgot about it." ”

Yayun nodded when he heard this, secretly thinking that it must be a neighbor friend in Hangzhou, which is also a coincidence. However, the family is a family of eunuchs, and I heard that she was married to the third son of the Rongguo Mansion, so it is inconvenient to recognize each other in the past, just because she can't afford it, unless she can take the initiative to come and visit.

It turned out that next door was the house of Zhang Yuan, the third eldest of the Zhang family, and after Zhang Yu died, he didn't want to face his brother and sister-in-law all day, so he simply moved out. His wife, Lin's father, was a prefect and has now been promoted to the imperial history.

If Miss Lin can come over and talk, it must be a quick thing to do a Chinese word exchange.

Yayun was thinking about it, looking back at the peony flowers outside the window, as if she was smiling and nodding with her, her husband Li Xiucai walked in, his face was cold and indifferent, not as happy as yesterday.

She immediately put the book on the table, stood up and greeted him, but Li Xiucai walked directly to the table, her two eyes turned twice on the book "On Women", and suddenly her face sank, and said: "I really haven't seen you woman, a good woman, don't do all the serious things, but want to do these things that waste time." Even if you like to read, and you don't read so many well-behaved poetry books, but you want to see this kind of obscene heresy that disturbs people's hearts, don't you hear the old saying that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented? Even if you have the ability to reach the sky, a woman will always have to stay at home and teach her husband and children. ”

Yayun was angry and funny when he said something that he said on his head and face, and said with a smile: "Aren't we women human?" Why don't women even have the right to read books, shouldn't women have self-respect and self-love? ”

"People are people." Li Xiucai looked disdainful, "But compared to men, it's far behind." ”

Yayun asked, "How so?" ”

Li Xiucai raised his head and said, "Haven't you heard the old saying that men and women are five hundred levels apart?" ”

Yayun said, "I haven't heard of it, may I ask you from which book did you read it?" Show it to me. ”

Li Xiucai naturally couldn't find the source, and said angrily: "You laugh at me and have no origin for this, okay, even if I don't have a history, do you know what 'Mencius' said, 'If you go to your family, you must respect, you must abstain, and you must not violate the master', how to explain the four words "do not violate the master"? You said that I haven't heard of my five hundred level, and I haven't heard of those women you talked about in the past, so I don't bother to refute you, but today you came to tease me. ”

Yayun pointed to 'On Women' and said, "The fact that this book can come out shows that the truth in it is insightful, so you might as well read it." ”

Li Xiucai sneered, reached out and picked it up and threw it into the yard, "You are considered to be a student, and treat these crooked heresies as scriptures and history, no wonder the whole person is chattering." ”

The maid thought that the young master was going to tear up the book, and she was so frightened that she didn't know what to do, and when she saw that he just threw it out of the window, she took the opportunity to run outside to avoid the limelight.

Yayun Zhengse said: "The book cites the scriptures, the husband and wife are enemies, the wives are together, and the husband and wife are harmonious and the family is successful." Let's ask if the synonym of the word enemy is not equality, what is it? If one of the husband and wife only knows how to suppress his wife, and the wife is depressed, how can he be harmonious? Since there is no harmony, the family will not be the same, isn't it the harm of unequal power? Aren't these texts all ancient teachings of the sages? Dare to ask which point is deviant? (To be continued......)