Chapter 1338 [Updated on July 31] Lord, if I Am Domestically Abused...

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

The woman hugged her daughter in her arms and kowtowed to Ruoyin and the fourth master in the boat, "Thank you benefactor for your help."

"It's just a matter of raising your hands. I can only save you for a while, but I can't save you forever. In the future, you still have to rely on yourself." Ruoyin said lightly.

Hearing this, the woman cried very sadly.

I just heard her say: "It's not that I haven't thought about getting rid of him. Every time he beats me, I go to the yamen to sue and want to make peace with him. But he doesn't agree to make peace, and the yamen can't do anything about him. Every time it ends without a problem.”

"Only one time, he broke my hand, and the government beat him dozens of times, but they still didn't agree to divorce."

"Later, there was another time when he beat me and his daughters. I was in a hurry, so I slapped him. That time it made me miserable. I just slapped him back, and the yamen was closed I was sentenced to 100 boards, almost beat me to death, after returning, I had to lie down for more than half a year."

"Since then, I can only let him beat our mother and daughter. Otherwise, if the yamen punishes me again, the children will starve to death."

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

Those were the helpless tears of being suppressed by her husband and the rules of social imbalance for a long time.

Ruoyin sighed, and whispered to Banmei, "Give her twenty taels of silver."

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

If all these silvers can't be cured, it is basically difficult to cure.

And this woman seemed honest and self-reliant.

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

Also as a mother, Ruoyin could understand how a woman wanted to treat her child.

Just like when the elder brother fell seriously ill that time, she felt that the sky was about to fall, and secretly vowed that she would do her best to cure him.

Usually, when the elder brothers have a minor illness, her heart is also raised in her throat.

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

"No, no, no, you saved my life, so I can do nothing in return, how can I ask for your money." The woman refused to accept anything.

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

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

"I'm not giving you money, I'm giving money to treat your child's illness." Anyway, the property under her name is all over the Qing Dynasty, and she has earned a lot of money over the years.

But she was imprisoned by the fourth master in the Forbidden City, and she was spent on his money for food and clothing.

As a result, she earned so much money that she had nowhere to spend it.

Together with the estate in her name, a small charity was established.

Every year, some people in need are helped.

So, at this moment, she should help this woman.

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

"Thank you for your help."

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

Since Ruoyin and fourth master were going to continue their southern tour, they didn't stay here much.

She ordered the woman, mother and daughter to be sent to the pier, and continued on the boat with fourth master.

After the boat sailed on the lake, Ruoyin and fourth master had already sat down in the room inside the boat.

The two of them sat by the window facing each other, with a small table between them.

Ruoyin rested his chin on his hands, looked at the lake with his eyes, but was deep in thought.

After a long time, she glanced at the fourth master who had remained silent all this time, and said, "Master, based on what we've experienced recently, do you have any thoughts?"

"..." If you don't speak, it's gone.

"Okay, since you haven't, but I have a lot of thoughts, don't you think the status of women in the court is too low, it's as low as dust?"

Fourth Master: "..."

"From our shopkeeper in the boat house to this woman who sells candied haws, one of them is forced to marry someone she doesn't want to marry. She can't make her own decisions about the marriage. If she is bullied and becomes a defendant with weak resistance, she can only seek death and have no reason to justify her. .”

"One worked hard to bring up three children, but because she gave birth to a daughter, she was rejected and beaten by her husband. Even the three daughters were abused by her husband. She tried to make peace with the yamen several times to no avail, and occasionally fought back. Self-defense, but was punished half to death by the Yamen."

I have never seen soft rice hard to eat to this extent!

On the opposite side, the man looked out of the window, twirling the ghost face Buddha beads in his hand, and said indifferently: "Poor people must have something to hate, I think they are all to blame."

"If it is said that the shopkeeper of the boat house took the blame, I agree, but she became like that, which is more or less related to the laws of the Qing Dynasty. She has been living in an oppressive life. It's like grabbing a life-saving straw."

The shopkeeper was really unpleasant, but aside from the previous unhappiness, she was just talking about the facts.

If the law can protect oneself, who would humbly ask capable people to take him in.

"But the woman just now, what did she do wrong? She worked hard to bring up three children and supported herself under the scorching sun, but her husband robbed her hard-earned money. Live together as a partner, even if she is beaten, the yamen will favor her husband."

If these two people were placed in modern times, they could support themselves with their own hands and live a clean life freely.

But in this Qing Dynasty, he became a person who could not protect himself.

In this way, regardless of whether they live by men or are self-reliant strong women, their status is lower than that of men, and they are not regarded as human beings.

For as long as there are unequal laws, this will always be the case.

Fourth Master: "..."

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

"Presumptuous!" Seeing the woman talking more and more outrageous, Fourth Master frowned and reprimanded him coldly.

Ruoyin pursed her lips: "..."

"The situation you mentioned has existed since ancient times. This kind of 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 a common thing, isn't it? What a big deal." Fourth master said lightly.

Ruoyin twitched the corner of his mouth.

She once again believed that there was an insurmountable generation gap between herself and fourth master.

As a woman in the new century, not to mention that men and women are completely equal, women must have status to some extent, and if something happens, there must be laws to protect it.

But fourth master was from the Qing Dynasty, and this feudal situation had long been deeply rooted.

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

Maybe even those women feel that there is nothing wrong with it, because they have already gotten used to it.

Ruoyin held his lips, 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 quietly.