Chapter One Hundred and Four: The Road Ahead
Chen Lihua almost lost her breath. Why is your marriage the same tone as a funeral?
After asking again and again, Chen Lihua figured out what was going on.
"You're saying that Weak Willow and her husband don't get along? Now depressed all day long? Could it be that she married someone she didn't like? Chen Lihua asked with a frown.
"No, no, Weak Willow and Qi Shizi have no guesses since childhood, and from a very young age, Weak Willow decided not to marry King Qi."
"Is that the prince of Qi or the princess of Qi dissatisfied with her?" Chen Lihua asked again.
"No, King Qi admires the weak Liu Mei very much, otherwise he would not agree to this marriage. The princess is also a gentle person. ”
Again, Chen Lihua nodded in agreement. Yang Qiaoliu's family is far inferior to the Qi Wang's family, and marrying into the Qi Wangfu can be said to be high.
"That is Qi Shizi, this person has abandoned my weak willow family in chaos?" Seeing that Zhao Rusu's face was different, Chen Lihua knew it in her heart, and she started to shoot the case.
"Then I'll emasculate this wing." Eliminate all the wrong answers, and there will only be one answer left. Chen Lihua drew her sword and wanted to act, but was hugged by Zhao Rushu.
"Sister, I'm just hearsay, every time I ask in person, she just frowns and lowers her head, saying that the concubine is wrong, don't be impulsive, everything has to be considered in the long run." Zhao Rushu thought to herself in a hurry to stop Chen Lihua's actions. I haven't seen each other for two months, can people change so much? Thinking of Chen Lihua, who was submissive to everyone and could be bullied by everyone before, and then saw the woman who was angry and thunderous now. She had a hard time connecting the two. Thinking of the joke Chen Lihua said before, it won't be true, right? She shuddered.
"In that case, I'm being abrupt?"
Glancing at Zhao Rushu, who was clutching the corner of her clothes, Chen Lihua quietly withdrew the red cherry blossom into the scabbard.
Zhao Rushu breathed a sigh of relief.
"You said there was something else going on, so why don't I ask for it myself?" Chen Lihua took advantage of Zhao Rushu's slackness, shook her sleeves, and strode forward. Zhao Rushu could only chase after him with a sullen face.
"Isn't that inappropriate? If it is rumored that the weak Liu Mei is depressed after marrying, and she still needs the guidance of her good sisters, how will others look at the palace? Wouldn't it be more difficult for the weak willow to gain a foothold there? Zhao Rushu was worried and worried.
"I only know that the weak willow is sullen there now, and he can't be happy all day long." Chen Lihua glanced coldly, making Zhao Rushu fall into an ice cave. "No matter how bad it is, can it be worse than now? We're just sisters, just to meet, what do you want to do so much? ”
The problem is that you don't look like you're visiting relatives, you're raiding your home! Zhao Rushu was still a little hesitant. But seeing Chen Lihua striding forward, she was almost invisible, stomped her right foot, gritted her teeth and followed.
Smoothly entered the Qi Palace, came to the women's boudoir, and saw the emaciated Yang weak willow.
"Yikes! Weak Willow, why are you thinner than before? Zhao Rushu was shocked, and no longer worried about any gossip, and directly pounced on Yang Qiaoliu's wrist.
"Excessive worry, exhaustion, damage to the kidneys and liver. In the huge Qi Palace, no one gave you a prescription to calm your nerves? Chen Lihua read the symptoms and lesions given by the system, and asked angrily.
"It's the little sister who refused, the heart is incurable, what can the temporary decoction do?" Yang Qiaoliu said sadly.
"So what's wrong with you, every time I ask you, you don't say it, now that Your Highness is down, you can't hold it back to yourself."
"Everything is the fault of the concubine." Wang Qiaoliu covered his face with thin sleeves, and his face was sad.
Chen Lihua is very unaccustomed to this brainless practice of piling responsibility on herself. In the words of the system, this is called giving oneself the identity of a victim, and then taking pity on the shadow, and obtaining satisfaction through self-sorrow.
"So what is the reason exactly? Even if ninety-nine points of fault is yours, isn't Qi Shizi not at fault? Chen Lihua couldn't help but ask.
"Shizi treats me very well, but, it's just, I really didn't think that after getting married, I would still be in the same bed and dream, like a stranger." Yang Qiaoliu, who said the psychological words, had a sad face and was about to cry.
"Since we got married, the prince has never been to the land of fireworks and willows to stay overnight, and he has treated me with respect, but I can perceive that this is just a responsibility, and between the beds, there is a lot to deal with. I also thought about enhancing my relationship with Gao Lang, but I didn't know where to start, so I could only take care of myself and feel sorry for myself, so it was indeed a weak willow fault to make everyone sad. ”
Chen Lihua and Zhao Rushu, the two yellow flower girls, looked at each other, it was over, it was involved in an unknown field, and it was beyond the norm.
"Isn't this the strange embarrassment caused by feudal arranged marriages?" Liu Muyang rubbed his chin when he listened, looking experienced.
"Do you have a way?" Chen Lihua asked the system silently in her heart.
Seeing that the system signaled that he had a way, Chen Lihua calmly responded.
"It's not that hard."
Zhao Rushu, who heard Chen Lihua's confident reply, dropped her jaw in shock. Everyone is obviously a blank slate in this regard, why are you so good? "You, you......" she thought of something strange, and stammered as she spoke. Do you want to emulate Emperor Shun's old story? ”
"What's on your mind?" Chen Lihua directly had a brain melon popping up in her head, she was ashamed and angry, and her face was no less than Yang Qiaoliu.
"I'm ...... Heavenly secrets must not be revealed. Although she got an answer from the system, she definitely didn't have time to listen to the whole content for a while, so she had to excuse herself. Yang Qiaoliu just shook his head and sighed, not believing that Chen Lihua had any method.
In the evening, as soon as she went to bed, Chen Lihua couldn't wait to enter the Retirement Pavilion and ask what the system had planned.
"The solution is very simple, just one word: learn!" The system took out a large number of books out of nowhere, and the mysterious secret path of the gods. Chen Lihua hastily rolled her eyes, only to feel that her face was red and her ears were red, and she was amazed. Keeping it in mind and thinking about it, the more I feel unsightly, and smash it back into the face of the system:
"I'll just say one word, crawl."
Chen Lihua first said coldly, then thought of something and asked:
"You said that you have a way to solve the predicament of the Drunken Spring Pavilion, wouldn't it be a good thing?"
“…… What I want to say is role-playing, as long as I'm sassy enough, others won't be able to catch up with me. ”
A dirty word condensed on Chen Lihua's lips and was swallowed again. Her momentum weakened, and she squatted weakly with her hands on her knees. She had always been in high spirits, but suddenly she looked a little tired.
Liu Muyang consciously lost his words, and floated over to rub her arm flatteringly: "I'm sorry, if you don't like me to think about it again, don't be silent like this." ”
"It's not your fault, I'm just thinking, do you really want to learn these things that entertain people with sound and color?" Chen Lihua, who was huddled in a ball, was a little helpless and a little dazed.
"Whoever likes it first takes the initiative, otherwise what should I do?"
"I just think, even though they're married, why is this happening?"
"Actually, it's going to start with the Drunken Spring Pavilion." The system floated away and pulled back a blackboard, and found a pair of glasses to put on from nowhere, and said with a serious face.
"Huh?" Chen Lihua didn't react.
"What do you think, what is the education of a lady like? Dignified and virtuous, diligent and thrifty, respectful as guests, and eyebrows. These things are essentially to maintain stability and make do with life, not to attract each other. The system explained in a serious way.
"What is taught in the Qinglou? Isn't it just to please men? It is precisely because of this that in fact, many of your men at that time did not visit the Qinglou not only to release their desires, but also because the women in the Qinglou were more intimate and more pleasing than those at home. In other words, it's really looking for the feeling of being in love there. ”
"So most people fall in love in Qinglou?" Chen Lihua felt that she had heard a joke and sneered.
"No, no, no, it's looking for feelings, love is responsible, you don't need to visit the Qinglou, the purpose is just to express your ambitions, and by the way to get the feeling of being admired, touted, and admired by beautiful girls. How many people have you seen who still recognize people with their pants up? Finally, the system concludes:
In fact, this is not wrong, love is not sustainable, everyone respects each other like guests, and after a long time, there will naturally be family affection, which is a more lasting feeling. I still want to emphasize that there is no love in the world. There's nothing wrong with Qi Shizi Gundam, at least they haven't done anything to be sorry for Yang Qiaoliu, aren't they? ”
"Don't continue to talk about your view of love." Chen Lihua couldn't help but complain: "Co-authoring is a weak willow, she is not right, she asks too much?" Is it right to honestly accept this kind of day? ”
"I didn't say that, feudal marriage only guarantees life, never love. But there are no positive teaching materials. Let me give you an example, we have a talented woman named Li Qingzhao there, who has similar interests with her husband and lives a happy life. Learn some tips for cultivating feelings, create heart-warming moments first, and then give certain hints, so that the other party can think about it, want to refuse and welcome, and give a certain response from time to time, isn't this it? The system kneading his still sore nose and said.
"I still feel weird. What do you give this dog training? ”
"If you summarize the methods of cultivating feelings, there are really few things to sum up, and back and forth is a sunk cost, a refusal to welcome, and a daily surprise."
Chen Lihua let out a breath and continued.
"I just don't like this kind of way of kneeling and begging the other person to change their mind, it's a little ...... It's humbling. ”
"What is this called humble? Isn't this Yang Qiaoliu holding the initiative? Poor Qi Shizi was toyed with between applause, what else are you going to do? ”
"That's right, it's just that I still think there's something wrong, will a woman be attached to her husband like a weak willow girl after she marries?" Chen Lihua finally thought of what made her feel awkward.
"Do you remember the big trees and vines I was talking about at the beginning?" The system asked rhetorically.
"Of course I do." Chen Lihua recalled, with nostalgia on her face.
"Think about it, what should you women who have been educated from childhood do?"
"Husband and child?"
"Correct, actually, your time, attention, is there for you." Liu Muyang repeatedly emphasized that Chen Lihua quietly punched him.
"Got it, why did you say it so many times?"
Liu Muyang laughed twice, did not explain, and continued:
"What do poor children think? In fact, both men and women are still the same, it is enough to support a family and have a new dress for the holidays. But what are the boys of the big landlords, the scholars, the boys being taught? ”
"Gain fame, make meritorious contributions, enter the phase, and support the prosperous world. This kind of thing is called ambition. The system concluded.
"If you have ambition, you will have the motivation for life, but what is the ambition of a woman's family?"
"Find a good man...... married, and then ...... Husband and child? Chen Lihua said the answer according to this line of thought, and felt that she was cold all over her body.
"Correct solution, one more point." The system no longer grinned, but also said seriously: "A woman's ambition is actually artificially deprived." ”
"Husbands and children, how can it be a hobby for all women? I do not deny that family harmony and child development are a very fun thing, and in fact, there are indeed many women who enjoy this kind of fun. But what about other than that? Other women should have the right to do what they really want to do, rather than making it their duty to maintain a family after years of indoctrination. This should be a shared responsibility of both husband and wife, not the woman alone. ”
"Then again, when it comes to big trees and vines, you have been cultivated as vines since you were a child, and then hung on the big trees, you have no other way but to rely on the big trees to absorb energy."
"I still want to emphasize that the vines are not unhappy, they are just not free enough. How much is freedom worth? Liu Muyang made a final summary.
Chen Lihua thought for a moment and was silent, this is indeed the case. Watching your children grow up day by day is a great sense of accomplishment, but isn't there a sense of accomplishment when you become an official in the court? Isn't there a sense of accomplishment when you start from scratch? Generations of women have been taught to put their families first, and they don't have a choice, and they don't seem to need to choose, because raising their children and running the family is actually not bad, isn't it? Since such a day is a small and fortunate thing, what is the problem with not having the right to choose?
Happiness is the most important, what equality, what choice, can live your own little life, these don't matter.
Chen Lihua said self-deprecatingly: "It's really stupid that I have never felt that there is a problem with such an obvious thing." ”
After "The Matrix" came out, it has caused a wide range of discussions, is it better to soak in the nutrient solution and enjoy it in the virtual world? Or is it better to come out and die and fight for true freedom?
After "Truman's World" came out, it also caused people to think, is Truman more cruel after living a messy life? Or is it more cruel to discover that your life is false?
The scariest thing is that there are never real answers to these questions.