Lord Fourth, Madam Has Tricked You Again

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

The woman held her daughter in her arms, Ruoyin and Fourth Master in the boat kowtow, "Thank you for your help."

"It's just a small effort. I can only save you for a while, not your whole life. In the days to come, I still have to rely on you." Ruoyin said lightly.

Upon hearing this, the woman cried very sadly.

Just listen to her: "I didn't think I would get rid of him. Every time he beats me, I would go to the yamen to file a complaint and want to make peace with him. But he did not agree to make peace with him, so the yamen couldn't help him. Every time it ends without disease."

"Only once, when he broke my hand, the government slapped him with dozens of boards meaninglessly, but he still didn't agree with him."

"Later, if he hit me again, even if he hit my daughters, I was anxious for a while and slapped him. That time I was miserable, but I slapped him again. I was sentenced to a hundred boards, and I almost didn't beat me to death. After returning, 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 sentence me to punish me, the children would have to starve to death."

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

It was the tears of helplessness that had been suppressed by her husband for a long time and by the unbalanced rules of society.

Ruo Yin sighed, and whispered towards Banmei: "Give her twenty taels of silver."

It doesn't cost much money to treat illness here, usually only a few taels of silver is enough.

If none of the silver can be cured, it will basically be difficult to cure.

And this woman seemed to be an honest and self-reliant person.

Even though the life was so bitter, he didn't give up the treatment of the child, but met a peerless scumbag.

Also as a mother, Ruoyin can understand the woman's desire to treat her child.

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

Usually, the elders have a slight illness, and her heart also mentioned her throat.

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

"No, no, you saved my life. I can't repay it. How can I ask for your silver." The woman said she refused to accept anything.

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

"..." The woman turned her head and glanced at the little daughter on the dock.

"I'm not giving you money, I'm giving your child money to heal the disease." Anyway, her industry was spread all over the Qing Dynasty, and she has made a lot of money over the years.

But she was raised in the Forbidden City by the Fourth Master, and she spent his money on food and clothing.

As a result, she earns so much money that she has nowhere to spend.

In addition, the industry under her name established a small charity.

Every year, we help some people in need.

So, she should be a help to this woman this time.

Hearing what Ruoyin said, the woman kowtowed to Ruoyin with her second daughter.

"Thank you for your help."

"Thank you pretty lady." The child's mouth was sweet.

Since Ruoyin and Si Ye still continued their southern tour, they didn't stay here much.

She asked them to send the mother and daughter to the pier, and then went on boarding with the Fourth Master.

After the boat sailed on the lake, Ruoyin and Si Ye 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 his cheeks in his hands and looked at the lake, but he was thinking deeply in his heart.

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

"..." If you don't speak, there is no more.

"Well, since you don't have one, but I have a lot of thoughts, don't you think that the status of women at the time is too low, it is almost low in the dust?"

Fourth Master: "..."

"From our shopkeeper in the houseboat to this woman who sells candied haws, one is forced to marry but does not want to marry. The marriage cannot be the master. If she is bullied and becomes a defendant who is weak in resistance, she can only seek death without reason. ."

"One is to bring three children with great pains, but because she gave birth to a daughter, she was disliked by her husband, punched and kicked, and even the three daughters were abused by her husband. Several times to ask for peace with the yamen did not result, and occasionally fought back. In self-defense, he was punished to death by the Yamen."

Haven't seen soft rice to this extent!

On the opposite side, the man looked out the window with the ghost face beads twirling in his hand. It didn't matter to say: "Poor people must be hateful. Lord thinks they are all responsible."

"If the houseboat shopkeeper took the blame, I would agree, but she became like that, more or less related to the laws of the Qing Dynasty. She has been living in an oppressive life, and suddenly saw that the master is so capable. It's like catching a straw."

The shopkeeper is indeed unpleasant, but putting aside the unpleasantness before, she is just talking about the matter.

If the law can protect oneself, who would be inferior to beg a capable person to take it in.

"But this woman just now, what did she do wrong? She worked so hard to bring three children and was self-reliant under the scorching sun, but was robbed of her hard money by her husband. She wanted to go to Yamen Heli, but because her husband did not agree, she could only continue. Even if they were beaten, the yamen would be biased against her husband."

If these two people are put into the modern era, they can both support themselves with their own hands and live a clean life freely.

But in this Qing Dynasty, he has become a person who cannot 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 are unequal laws, this situation will always exist.

Fourth Master: "..."

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

"Presumptuous!" Seeing the woman talk more and more outrageous, Fourth Master frowned, coldly reprimanding.

Ruoyin pursed his lips: "..."

"The situation you mentioned has existed since ancient times. This unequal law has existed since the ancestors entered the customs. Every day in the Qing Dynasty, women were beaten by their husbands and bullied by the strong. This is common, not What a terrible thing." Fourth Master said lightly.

Ruo Yin twitched the corner of his mouth.

She once again believed that there was an impossible generation gap between herself and the Fourth Master.

As a woman in the new century, not to mention that men and women are completely equal, women have to have a certain status, and there are laws to protect them when things go wrong.

But Si Ye was a Qing dynasty, and this feudal situation had long been ingrained.

Not to mention him, even people in the Qing Dynasty think this is a common thing.

Maybe even those women feel that there is nothing wrong with them, because they are used to it.

Ruoyin pulled her lips together and tried to ask: "Master, if I was domestically abused, how would you feel?"

As soon as the voice fell, Fourth Master looked at her faintly.