Anyone who is thrown into the river by his own father will be greatly frightened and hurt physically and mentally.

The woman held her daughter in her arms and kowtowed to Ruoyin and the fourth master in the boat, "Thank you for your help." ”

"It's just a gesture, I can only save you for a while, I can't save you for a lifetime, and in the days to come, I still have to rely on you." Ruoyin said lightly.

When she heard this, the woman wept very sadly.

I only heard her say: "It's not that I haven't thought about getting rid of him, every time he beats me, I go to the yamen to complain, and I want to reconcile with him." But he didn't agree to leave with him, and the yamen couldn't do anything about him, and every time he ended up without a problem. ”

"Only once, he broke my hand, and the government willingly beat him dozens of boards, but he still didn't agree to leave."

"Later, there was another time, he beat me, and beat his daughters, I was in a hurry, so I slapped him, that time it made me miserable, I just slapped him with my hand, and the yamen sentenced me to a hundred boards, and almost didn't beat me to death, after I went back, I just lay down for more than half a year."

"Since then, I can only let him beat our mother and daughter, otherwise if the yamen sentences me again, the children will starve to death."

With this, the woman hugged the child in her arms tightly and shed two lines of tears.

It was a helpless tear that had been suppressed by her husband for a long time and by the rules of social imbalance.

Ruoyin sighed and whispered to Banmei: "Give her twenty taels of silver." ”

It doesn't cost a few dollars to treat diseases here, usually only a few taels of silver.

If none of this money can be cured, it will be basically difficult to cure.

And this woman looked like an honest and self-reliant person.

Even though the life is so hard, he doesn't give up the treatment of the child, but he just meets a peerless scumbag.

As a mother, Ruoyin can understand the woman's feelings about wanting to treat her child.

Just like the eldest brother's serious illness, she felt that the sky was about to fall, and secretly vowed to do her best to cure him.

Usually the buddy has a small illness, and her heart is also in her throat.

After a while, Banmei took twenty taels of silver and gave it to the woman.

"No, no, no, you saved my life, I can't repay it, how can I ask for your silver." The woman said she wouldn't answer anything.

"Isn't your child sick?" Ruoyin asked.

The woman ...... looked back at her little daughter on the dock.

"I'm not giving you money, I'm giving your child money to heal the sick." Anyway, the industries under her name are all over the Qing Dynasty, and she has made a lot of money over the years.

But she was kept in captivity in the Forbidden City by the fourth master, and her food and clothing cost him money.

As a result, she earned so much silver that she had nowhere to spend it.

Coupled with the property under her name, a small charity was established.

Every year, it will help some people in need.

So, she should do the woman a hand.

Hearing Ruoyin say this, the woman took her second daughter to kowtow to Ruoyin together.

"Thank you for your help."

"Thank you, pretty lady." A child's mouth is sweet.

Since Ruoyin and the fourth master had to continue their southern tour, they didn't stay here long.

She asked the woman and daughter to be sent to the dock, and then continued to take the boat with the fourth master.

After the boat sailed on the lake, Ruoyin and Siye had already sat down in the room inside the boat.

The two of them sat facing each other by the window, with a small table in between.

Ruoyin put her hands on her cheeks, her eyes looked at the lake, but she was thinking deeply in her heart.

After a long time, she glanced at the fourth master, who had been silent, and said, "Master, based on what we have experienced recently, do you have any ideas?" ”

"......" doesn't speak, it's gone.

"Okay, since you don't, but I have a lot of feelings, don't you think that the status of women in the dynasty is too low, just down to the dust?"

Fourth Master: "......"

"From our shopkeeper in the houseboat to the woman who sells sugar gourds, one is not wanting to marry but is forced to marry, and the marriage cannot be decided by herself. If you are bullied and become a defendant who has failed to resist, you can only seek death, and there is no way to reason. ”

"One is to work hard to raise three children, but because she gave birth to a daughter, she was disgusted and punched and kicked by her husband, and even her three daughters were abused by her husband. Several times he begged for peace with the yamen to no avail, and occasionally fought back to defend himself, but was punished half to death by the yamen. ”

I've never seen soft rice eaten to this extent!

On the other side, the man looked out the window, twisting the ghost-faced Buddha beads in his hand, and said indifferently: "Poor people must have something to hate, and the master thinks that they are all to blame." ”

"If the houseboat shopkeeper is to blame, I agree with it, but she became like that, more or less related to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, she has been in an oppressive life, and suddenly seeing Ye is so capable, it is like grabbing a life-saving straw."

The shopkeeper was indeed unpleasant, but aside from the previous unpleasantness, she was just talking about things.

If the law could protect itself, who would be inferior to ask someone who could take it in.

"But what did she do wrong with this woman just now? worked hard to bring up three children, and was self-reliant under the scorching sun, but was robbed of her hard-earned money by her husband, and wanted to go to the yamen to leave, but because her husband did not agree, she could only continue to live together. ”

These two people, if they are put in modern times, can support themselves with their own hands and live a pure life freely.

But in this Qing Dynasty, he became a person who could not protect himself.

In this way, regardless of whether they live on men or are self-reliant strong women, their status is lower than that of men, and they are not regarded as people.

Because as long as there is an unequal law, this will always exist.

Fourth Master: "......"

"Master, you are talking, you see your people so helpless, you are really indifferent, is your heart made of stone?"

"Presumptuous!" Seeing that the more the woman talked, the more outrageous it became, the fourth master frowned and coldly reprimanded.

Ruoyin pursed her lips: "......"

"The situation you mentioned has existed since ancient times, and this kind of unequal law has existed since the ancestors entered the customs. Every day in the Qing Dynasty, women are beaten by their husbands and bullied by the strong, which is a common thing, not a big deal. The fourth master said lightly.

Ruoyin twitched the corner of her mouth.

She once again thinks that there is an unbridgeable generation gap between herself and the fourth master.

As women in the new century, not to mention the complete equality between men and women, women must have status to some extent, and there should be laws and regulations to protect them if something happens.

But the fourth master is a native of the Qing Dynasty, and this feudal situation has long been deeply rooted.

Not to mention him, even the whole Qing Dynasty thinks that this is a common thing.

Maybe even those women don't think it's wrong, because they're used to it.

Ruoyin pulled her lips and tried to ask, "Master, if I am subjected to domestic violence, how do you feel?" ”

As soon as the voice fell, the fourth master looked at her faintly.

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