Chapter 20: What is Female Virtue?
As soon as Ruan Si stepped into the threshold, he saw Zhu Dongyan struggling, and was desperately stopped by several maids.
"Let go of me! I can't even keep this name, you let me die! ”
"Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"
Ruan Si was startled and stepped forward to help her.
Zhu Dongyan's eyes were red and swollen like peaches, and his hair was messy, and when he saw that Ruan Si was coming, he cried bitterly: "I don't have the face to see you again." ”
Ruan Si frowned and said, "What's the matter?" ”
Her personal maid replied: "Yesterday, the Jia family came to make trouble, and the young grandmother was lightly slighted, and she was going to commit suicide by hitting the wall when she came back." ”
"What?" Ruan Si was shocked, "Then why didn't you report it earlier?" ”
The maid cried and complained: "The eldest young grandmother didn't let the maids say, the maids really couldn't stop it, so they dared to go to the second young grandmother." ”
Zhu Dongyan's forehead really had a bruise.
Ruan Si took her hand and persuaded her with good words: "My good sister-in-law, what are you wrong? Don't hurt yourself, teach the wicked to see jokes. ”
Zhu Dongyan cried bitterly and said: "I was despised by Jia Shan in public, and I have lost the face of my husband's family, so what face do I have to live?" ”
Ruan Si wanted to persuade again, but Mrs. Yan had already helped her grandmother to rush in.
As soon as Mrs. Yan saw her crying so embarrassed, she immediately pushed her away, pulled her into her arms, and screamed "heart, liver and flesh" one by one.
The grandfather and grandson cried together, and Ruan Si had a headache.
"Old lady!" The concierge's subordinate also came, "I wish the old master is here, I don't want to take the young grandmother away." ”
When the old master heard that Jia Shan made a big fuss about Yan's house yesterday, he humiliated Zhu Dongyan in public, and he trembled with anger, and came to Yan's house with a cane.
He didn't drink the tea he served, and said angrily that he had to see Mrs. Yan.
Ruan Si came out with the old lady Yan, and the old lady smiled reluctantly, "Old in-laws, I don't know how to move around today." ”
Zhu Old Master held back his anger and said: "My unscrupulous female name is damaged, how can I stay in the Yan family and make people chew my tongue?" I'll just take her back. ”
"Why did the old master say this?" Ruan Sidao, "Sister-in-law is respectful and gentle, virtuous and courteous, where is the right and wrong for outsiders to chew away?" ”
"Come on, I've heard it all."
Zhu Old Master sighed and said, "I also blame my daughter's bad life, first she was widowed, and then she made people go lightly for no reason." ”
Old Madam Yan's face was not very good, "It's my eldest grandson who can't make it to Dongyan, I'm sorry for Dongyan, I asked Xiaozhou to write a letter to urge him to come back today." ”
"It's okay, let him sign the letter of release of his wife." Zhu Old Master said coldly, "So that my daughter can shave her hair innocently and become a sister-in-law." ”
Ruan Si asked: "Wait, sister-in-law didn't do anything wrong, why did you, the father, force her to become a monk?" ”
"The old man will teach you well for your father and mother today, "Female Commandment" and "Female Virtue" are clearly written, if I don't send Yan'er away, ......"
Zhu Old Master's expression became distorted, "Do you want to force her to death?" ”
"You turn out your Confucian and Mencian ways, "Four Books", and "Five Classics" all to see, which line says that you want to put your bones into a desperate situation?"
Ruan Si was furious and said: "If I am bullied, my father has to personally take this breath for me, where can I go back and harm my own daughter?" ”
"Ignorance!" Zhu Old Master scolded, "My Yan'er has been familiar with the allusions of chaste martyrs since childhood, which is different from the woman raised by your husband. ”
Ruan Si sneered: "Fortunately, my father didn't teach me to be wronged in vain and have to pay for my life." ”
Zhu Lao Fuzi said angrily: "The daughter I taught will not show up like you and gossip in vain." ”
Old Mrs. Yan hurriedly persuaded: "Old in-law, Dongyan is the daughter-in-law of my Yan family, my Yan family can't stand her, so I will naturally compensate her well." ”
As she spoke, she pulled Ruan Si over again and said, "The second daughter-in-law and Dongyan have always been good, and they have a straightforward temper, so you don't have to blame her." ”
Zhu Lao Fu twisted his beard and sneered: "In the old man's humble opinion, Yan Er was killed by her, and she also provoked many rights and wrongs. ”
Old Madam Yan grabbed Ruan Si's hand, squeezed out a smile and said, "That's not interesting, right?" ”
Ruan Si replied: "I won't argue with you about these today, I just ask you to believe what the sages said, women have three virtues and four virtues, and marry and obey their husbands?" ”
Zhu Old Master snorted and did not speak.
"Since my sister-in-law has entered the door of the Yan family, she is a member of the Yan family, even if you are her biological father, you can't control her life or death."
Ruan Si patted Old Madam Yan's hand and said coldly, "Today, you don't want to take your sister-in-law away." ”
"Good! Good! Your Yan family has married a good daughter-in-law. ”
Zhu Lao Fu was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and slammed the cane in his hand to the ground.
"Thank you for the compliment, the little nephew thinks so." Yan Yingzhou walked into the main hall, "My wife is smart and kind, and she is the best. ”
Zhu Lao Fu almost didn't get angry, and said angrily: "Old lady, your granddaughter-in-law is no longer good at discipline, so you have to turn this day away." ”
Yan Yingzhou said coldly: "The master also said that when a woman marries and follows her husband, with me, who is the husband, she will not bother." ”
"Besides," Yan Yingzhou's eyes softened when he looked at Ruan Si, "She is going to lift this day, so I will hold her the ladder." ”
"Crazy! You Yan family are crazy! Zhu Lao Fu reprimanded, "Tell me that I am not a good woman, and I have forgotten the female virtue and female commandment!" ”
Ruan Si said coldly: "What is female virtue? It's just that the man put a rope around the woman's neck and forced the woman to tighten herself? ”
Zhu Old Master's face turned pale, and he shouted "insulting sages" in his mouth, and turned around and left tremblingly.
Ruan Si was still puzzled, and said loudly: "Don't worry, old master, if there is a rope sleeve, I, Ruan Si, will be the first to cut the rope loop." ”
Zhu Old Master's back trembled, and he stumbled a few steps one after another.
He waved away the Yan family who had gone to help him, and went out in a hurry with his back on his back.
Old Madam Yan let go of her, rubbed her eyebrows, and said worriedly: "Second daughter-in-law, master, he is your sister-in-law's father." ”
"That's why I'm so angry. Tiger poison does not eat children, why does this person who is full of poetry and books want to push his flesh and blood into a desperate situation? ”
Yan Yingzhou gently squeezed her hand from behind.
Mrs. Yan sighed: "It is not wrong to respect the old and love the young after all, although you feel sorry for your sister-in-law, but it is not right to collide with the master after all." ”
Ruan Si opened his mouth and said: "I respect the virtuous and not the old, and I am not used to ......."
Yan Yingzhou held her hand completely, she immediately closed her mouth, and quietly struggled a few times but was held more firmly.
"Grandma, don't worry, I'll go back to the room and write to my eldest brother later, so that he can come back as soon as possible."
Old Madam Yan closed her eyes tiredly, nodded and said, "Go ahead." Second daughter-in-law, you go and accompany your sister-in-law more. ”
Ruan Si took the opportunity to break free of Yan Yingzhou's hand, answered with a sound, and ran away.
Now, Zhu Dongyan was powerless to struggle, and only sat on the edge of the bed and wept.
A few maids held porridge and vegetables and tried to persuade her to eat, but she turned a deaf ear and seemed to be about to go on a hunger strike.
Ruan Si came in and sent the maid away, stepped forward to take her hand, and said softly: "If the sister-in-law is hungry, the eldest brother will definitely feel distressed." ”
"Xianggong?" Zhu Dongyan raised his head suddenly.
Ruan Si replied sincerely: "Sister-in-law, my husband has written to him, and my eldest brother will be back soon." ”
Hearing her words, Zhu Dongyan's face turned pale, and he immediately cried and fell on the bed.