Jia Yu picked up the clothes pounding stick and pointed at Zhen Man: "You ask her, she can't answer even if she knows." Believe it or not, I told Mama Shen that you bullied the dumb. ”

Zhen Lian was holding up the hanger at this time, and Zhen Man shook off a short coat and hung it up: "Shen Mama said that the latter sentence is often miscommunicated by the world, saying that women don't need to be talented, and no talent is virtue, which is deliberately said by those poor literati to mislead us women." ”

Seeing Zhen Ying tilting her head, her eyes widened, and she looked curious and seeking knowledge, Zhen Lian's heart swelled with great satisfaction: "In fact, this sentence is only half said, the original words are 'A husband is virtuous, and a woman is virtuous', which really means that it is important to show the importance of virtue, a man's virtue is the most valuable talent, and if a woman is not talented, she must be virtuous." ”

Jia Yu said indignantly: "Fortunately, with Mama Shen, she taught us to read and write and read clearly, otherwise, we would really have to be deceived by those stinky men for a lifetime and waste a lifetime, what a pity." ”

"It is rare for a woman to read and write and understand righteousness." A male voice came, it was Zhen Rong, the eldest son of the second room of the Zhen family: "Since women's talents are rare, they are not demanding, so they can only be required to be virtuous." ”

He is five years older than Zhen Lian, the oldest female dependent of his generation, two or three years old, and has already been admitted to Tongsheng.

Kefu tried twice, but Xiucai still failed repeatedly.

He studied in the county on weekdays, and he was a scholar himself, and he had little contact with the merchants' families.

It's just that he couldn't take the house test twice, and his face was dull in front of his classmates, so he went to the big house when he had nothing to do, hoping that the big house could give him some money and let him "go to prison", that is, spend money to buy a showman's fame.

Zhen Zhiwen himself didn't have any money to buy a foreign official, in addition to the filial piety of the New Year's holidays, but also because of the current trend of marrying.

The money in the public middle school, with a surplus, has long been divided into three by the Hu family as a dowry for several girls.

Now, in order to try her luck to earn a female official, she squeezed it from between her teeth, gritted her teeth and took out a sum of silver, which became Mama Shen's bondage.

This money, giving it to the second room is love, not giving it is duty, besides, it is from the public school, and Zhen Man in the second room is also stained, which is not partial.

But Zhen Rong got the news, and hurried home, just to question his sister why he wanted to block his future.

When Zhen Ying heard the man's voice, her hands were hot, and she hurriedly put her skirt down.

The skirt fell into the water and became sticky.

"Hey, a child, what kind of sour chewing." Zhen Man hurriedly got up and held a hanger in front of Zhen Ying: "There are all women here, you are a big man, do you know how to avoid suspicion?" ”

When Zhen Man was four or five years old, Zhen Rong passed the county exam in one fell swoop, and when he was officially proud, he personally opened his sister, and at that time the brother and sister were still called sibling harmony.

But as Zhen Rong entered the county school to study, after falling off the list several times, he felt that his sister had delayed his studies, and Zhen Man's talent and intelligence dwarfed him, so he slowly became estranged.

Zhen Ying was still on a hanger and couldn't let go of her hands, Zhen Lian hurriedly rushed behind her and supported Zhen Ying, who was unstable in her center of gravity and almost fell.

"Men and women are seven years old at different tables, so they don't know the etiquette, and when the adults of the government test see it, they must ask, which family are you?" Zhen Man spoke coldly, poking at this person's face.

Zhen Rong was embarrassed when he saw his sister so mocking: "Speaking of etiquette, do you know etiquette very well when you contradict your fellow brother?" ”

Zhen Manling was sharp and not afraid: "Righteous killing of relatives is a righteous act, and the great defense of men and women is the norm." This is my grandmother's backyard, you came, it was unfilial piety not to greet your grandmother first, and it was unrighteous to trespass into the backyard regardless of the difference between men and women. ”

"What a daughter of the Zhen family, but after reading a page or two of a book, she became like this? If you really let you enter the girls' academy and become a female official, wouldn't it be even more difficult to reverse black and white? ”

Zhen Lian couldn't bear to play tricks with this brother and sister, and her eyes swept coldly: "The back house is heavy, and it is inconvenient for my cousin to stay for a long time, if it is spread out, I am afraid that my cousin's reputation will be damaged." ”

Jia Yu chopped the clothes stick heavily: "It's that my cousin doesn't pay attention to my reputation, and our daughter's family also likes the famous festival, I count three times, if my cousin doesn't go out again..."

Zhen Rong took two steps back, leaned on the wall with one hand, didn't look at other people, and stared at Zhen Man with a pair of hot eyes: "What a man girl, but relying on someone to support her, she doesn't even pay attention to her brother, and when you go out in the future, don't blame your brother for not giving you a head." ”

Zhen Lian was still in front of Zhen Ying, and glanced at Jia Yu, Jia Yu's clothes stick was dipped in the water, and it was heavily horizontal in front of her, and the sewage stained with soaphorn powder fell on Zhen Rong's face and body.

Several girls in the family are not easy to mess with, Zhen Rong spat heavily on the ground, lifted his robe and ran out to wash his face.

Zhen Rong left, and the four sisters were relieved. Zhen Lian removed the hanger, Zhen Man helped Zhen Ying to carefully step out of the laundry basin, Jia Yu waved the laundry stick and smashed it in the basin angrily.

Zhen Ying was puzzled, she hadn't seen a few sisters for a long time, and her feelings were weak on weekdays, she never expected them to come out so much to protect herself.

But the sisters seemed to be fine, shook off their clothes, and continued to work.

"Where did you just go?" A woman's lack of talent is virtue', right? ”

"It's the first half of the sentence, a man is virtuous and talented."

Zhen Man helped Zhen Ying wring out the hem of her skirt: "I'll go to the room to get a piece of clothing for you to change into later, wet clothes are worn on your body, it's easy to catch a cold." ”

"You, pack up your clothes, and it's important to chase you to the old lady's room today." Zhen Lian took out the iron and began to fill it with charcoal: "Your brother is by no means a fuel-efficient lamp, if you go back tonight, be careful that he complains to the second aunt and punishes you for copying books." ”

Although there was movable type printing at the time, some books that were less circulated were still passed down by copying, Zhen Man's father ran a bookstore and raised four or five copyists, and Zhen Man was half.

When the relationship between brother and sister was harmonious, she not only copied books, but also enthusiastically made clothes and shoes for her brother who was going to school.

But after the relationship between brother and sister became bad, copying books and female workers became punishments.

"Copy the book, copy the book, I'm still afraid of him? He didn't say hello, and he didn't bring his mother-in-law to the children and relatives of the inner courtyard, no matter who said this, he didn't take advantage of it. ”

Jia Yu's anger did not subside: "Man'er is right, let's just do it, Ying'er is a mute, she was taken advantage of, is it possible to let her suffer?" ”