Chapter 577: No Way to Manage
Chapter 577: No Way to Manage
Just look at the fields and see only boys and no girls, and that's enough to explain the problem.
In a situation where boys are extremely favored over girls, the fact that there was not a single girl in the field could only mean that the girl had not survived at all.
Anyone who survives must be working in the fields.
Their parents would not allow these girls to stay at home and enjoy themselves without going out.
This makes them feel worse than killing themselves.
After entering the town, my guess was confirmed again. Look at the overall appearance of the women here, aren't they all dark and rotten?
And some people even stagger when they walk.
The men here don't work in broad daylight, but instead carry a wine gourd and drink leisurely.
They even cursed and complained about everything, and judging by their clothes, they probably weren't in good shape.
What does this mean? It means that the status of women here is extremely low, even lower than that of cattle and horses.
Looking at the faces and physical qualities of those women who walk unsteadily, you can tell that they must have given birth to a lot of children.
Moreover, she has not yet completed the confinement period, which has led to deficiency of qi and blood and short life.
Looking at those men who curse and do nothing, there is basically no need to guess what kind of life these women will have; it is foreseeable.
Here, women are not even consumables, they are probably just insignificant tools.
Whether people are happy or unhappy in life depends on their appearance, and it is the same for men and women.
If you want to know how a woman lives her married life, you don’t need to look at anything else, just look at her face.
Comparing her to her pre-marriage state, it's very easy to draw conclusions."
Yiren stopped talking, and I don’t know who she was feeling sad for.
Shen Ruyi sighed deeply. She had the ability to make this place rich, but she didn't have the ability to change the people's minds.
If you don't believe it, just look at future generations and you will see that even if a country becomes the most developed in history, it still cannot solve the problem of favoring boys over girls.
Unless it is a matriarchal society where women are in power, this mindset will not change.
Shen Ruyi really felt that it was a rare happiness for these girls to die shortly after birth.
After a while, Yiren said, "This is a place where people are eaten.
I bought a goose from them a few days ago, and at that time I didn't think that the old lady could be so bad.
She was smiling then, too. How could she become so ferocious and vicious today? "
"What's so strange about that? You bought the goose from her and she got a bargain, so naturally she welcomed you with a smile.
And since you are someone they can't afford to offend, they will naturally be more polite to you.
But a daughter-in-law is not like that. She may just be a tool that they bought at a high price, just to continue the family line.
How could she, a person who could heartlessly abandon her own daughter and granddaughter, feel pity for someone else's daughter - daughter-in-law?
If the daughter-in-law can give birth, perhaps the father will take care of her for the sake of his future grandson.
Now that he knew that his daughter-in-law had lost her last bit of surplus value, he naturally discarded her like a worn-out shoe.
So, my daughter-in-law and granddaughter will not survive anyway, it will only take one or two days.
To put it bluntly, everything she encountered with this kind of people was cruel, and this was naturally what she learned.
There is no possibility that you can make her suddenly become kind or wake up.
Maybe she doesn't want to, or maybe she just doesn't know how to do it.
She herself was a hollow person, acting according to animal instincts.
If you ask her to suddenly become a human being, she really doesn't understand or know how to do it, so I said I have no idea how to deal with such a thing."
"Ruyi, why don't we just take care of this? It's so painful for people to watch."
Shen Ruyi: "We can handle other things, but we really can't handle this. This is something rooted in these people's minds.
It has been passed down from generation to generation for many years, and they will definitely not listen to us.
It’s useless even if the government comes, really.
Unless this dynasty has women as emperors and women as officials, so that they can see with their own eyes the value of girls.
There is no other way.
But what do you think the possibility is for a woman to become emperor?"
Yiren shook her head and said, "Not at all possible."
Shen Ruyi: "Yes, there is no possibility at all. It's not anything else, but all men in the world disagree with this.
Because this is a benefit that only belongs to men, and the competitive pressure is already great enough.
You suddenly tell them that women have also joined the ranks of competing with them for education and official positions.
I'd be surprised if they didn't eat you alive."
Yiren asked: "Is this also the main reason why you don't want to get married and have children?"
“It’s not the main reason, but it’s one of the reasons.
The main reason is that giving birth to a child is like going through the gates of hell for a woman.
In the business of pregnancy and childbirth, women make the biggest investment but get the smallest returns, and may even lose their lives.
If you think about it carefully, why do you want to have a child? Isn’t it better to live a good life yourself?
If I die giving birth, and the child survives and suffers, then if I die, then all my efforts would be in vain and I would gain nothing.
Why bother, right?
What's more, there are thousands of things in the world, and you don't have to go through the path of getting married and having children.
Of course this is based on the fact that I am a woman.
If I were a man, my thoughts would change immediately and I would definitely get married.
Because I don't have to bear the risk of having a child, I only need to make myself happy and satisfied.
If my wife dies accidentally, I can just marry another one. It’s not a big deal. I can afford to marry another one.
Besides, I am not bad looking, and there are a lot of pretty girls throwing themselves at me.
Look, what did I lose when my wife died? To be honest, I didn't lose anything.
If I can observe filial piety for my wife for one to three years, I will be regarded as a loving and righteous person in the eyes of others.
Look, what have I lost? Just because I'm in mourning and not in a hurry to remarry doesn't mean I'll remain a virgin for her.
My wife’s death will not affect my visits to brothels and my continued life of debauchery.
What's more, I have a lot of concubines and maids to keep me happy.
Look, this is the gap between men and women. They are not equal at all and cannot be compared at all.
After you see through this, do you still want to get married and have children?
But once I put myself in the woman's shoes, I immediately think this is a weird thing and there is nothing to be done about it.
Maybe I am a selfish person. It is a rare opportunity for me to come to this world, so I just want to take good care of myself.
Eat what you should eat, drink what you should drink, and live a simple and happy life until you grow old.
It's a lifetime, so why take it so seriously?
As for offspring, I'm not a particularly outstanding person, nor do I possess particularly outstanding genes, so I won't pass them down."
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