EBE Chapter 427 Accusation
Chapter 427 Accusation
"Could it be that tonight..." Yuan Qi only asked about tonight and not King Rong.
Feng Ming nodded, but he didn't plan to think about what happened tonight: "It's hard to explain."
Yuan Qi didn't ask, but he didn't know what to think.
There was silence in the inner room for a moment.
It was almost dawn, but Feng Ming was still not sleepy and was about to go to bed.
Yuan Qi suddenly asked softly: "Do you want to hear my story?"
"Okay..." Feng Ming withdrew his foot without thinking.
Yuan Qi changed her posture, and then a clear and gentle voice came: "Everyone only knows that I, Yuan Qi, was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Although my mother died young, I was always loved by my father. They all think that I am learning to do business just to kill time when I have nothing to do."
Yuan Qi had vaguely mentioned this when he was drunk during the "Three Days Returning Home" ceremony.
Feng Ming pretended not to know and even listened more attentively.
"At first, I may have had other purposes in learning business, but later I found that I could gain a great sense of accomplishment in the process. Sometimes I can't help but think that if I were a man, I might be able to feel more happiness and pride." Although Yuan Qi said this, there was not much regret in his tone.
Feng Ming couldn't help but continue: "You once said that you learned business for your mother?"
"Did I say that?" Yuan Qi didn't remember it for a moment, and smiled softly again, "It seems that the truth is still spoken after drinking. I'm sorry to make you laugh, Your Highness. In fact, I rarely get drunk."
"It's true that you rarely get drunk. You can drink better than me." Feng Ming gave him a thumbs up, but unfortunately Yuan Qi couldn't see it.
Yuan Qi continued, "My mother's last name is Zhu, from the Pingjiang Zhu family. Her marriage to my father was well-matched. Their marriage was an example that everyone envied. But even so, ever since I was three or four years old, I remember that my mother always felt deeply guilty for not being able to give birth to a son for my father. And there were always people around my father who wanted to force him to have a woman or even a son."
"This..." Zhou Chang and Prince Yi Fengming had never thought about this before, but they didn't know what to say.
"Although my father and mother loved each other very much at that time, and he repeatedly refused to take a concubine or adopt a child, and often assured my mother that he would not marry again, and that he would have no regrets even if I was the only daughter in his life, my mother was too weak to recover from the difficult labor when I was born, and she was unable to have another child. She was also worried about this matter all day long, and her health never got better." Yuan Qi said sadly.
Feng Ming wanted to get down to persuade him, but he couldn't do it. He could only sigh helplessly: "Perhaps this is inevitable."
"It's inevitable, it's really inevitable..." Yuan Qi smiled bitterly, "My father is the eldest son in the family, and he has two younger brothers. Not only my uncle's family, but also the complicated branches of the Yuan family. All the branches and courtyards are eyeing us covetously. Even though my father never mentioned it in front of my mother and me, I can still feel the pressure on him, not to mention my mother?"
"Alas..." Feng Ming could only sigh and could not say anything else.
Yuan Qi continued to talk to himself: "I don't want my mother to be upset, because it's not just the Yuan family, but also my grandfather Zhu's family. When I was young, every time I went back, the people of the Zhu family would persuade my mother, as if they were all doing it for her own good, as long as my mother could give birth to a son no matter what..."
"What? For something like this, if the person doesn't want to do it, no one can force him." Zhou Chang felt annoyed and couldn't help but interject.
"It's not that simple. Of course, I gradually realized that it's not that simple in the past ten years..." Yuan Qi sighed, feeling helpless. "Men fight for fame and fortune outside, while women scheme against each other at home. Especially women, they rely on their fathers when they are young, obey their husbands after marriage, and have to listen to their sons when they are old. They don't have many choices..."
Zhou Chang knew that this was the "three obediences" in the so-called "three obediences and four virtues."
"Girls who can only listen to their fathers when they are young will have to get married when they grow up. After they get married, they will only listen to their husbands. If they have sons, they will continue to listen to their sons." Yuan Qi's voice began to be filled with uncontrollable excitement. "Women without freedom may not be able to make their own decisions when they are old, even if they have money. They may still be controlled by their sons. If they have no money, their old age will be even more miserable. They will even have to endure the anger of their daughters-in-law. In this way, what other ways are there for women in life?"
"No." Zhou Chang admitted helplessly, but this has been the reality for thousands of years and it cannot be changed overnight.
Yuan Qi seemed not to hear and only said his own words: "Ordinary women cannot escape such a fate, even a wealthy woman like my mother. She always felt guilty for not having a child, and finally gave her maid Li to my father when I was ten years old. That's how Yuan Jie was born."
"There's nothing I can do..." What else could Feng Ming say.
"I don't blame." Yuan Qi said these three words in a sonorous voice.
"Alas..." Feng Ming sighed again.
"For me, I am lucky to be born in the Yuan family and have such parents. Even when Li gave birth to Yuan Jie, there was no such dirty thing as the internal house of the Zhu family and the various branches of the Yuan family, where there were open and secret struggles. For this, I can only be grateful." Yuan Qi sighed again, and then changed the subject, "However, it is precisely because I have seen too many women in the mansion who are insincere, hypocritical, and submissive while secretly calculating..."
Having said this, Yuan Qi became emotional and suddenly stopped.
Feng Ming didn't know how to respond, so Zhou Chang comforted him: "These things happen wherever there are people, not just women, but also men outside and even in the clan."
"But I am a woman, and my mother is a woman," Yuan Qi failed to control himself and said in an excited voice, "Those women don't even have freedom, what are they fighting for? They can't even be themselves, so what right do they have to persuade others?"
"This..." Zhou Chang was speechless, mainly because there was nothing wrong with what he said.
Yuan Qi pulled back the bed curtains, or he would feel suffocated: "Poor mother, she was still worried about me before she died. She was always worried about whether I would be alone in the future, whether my future husband would be good to me, and what would I do if I couldn't give birth to a son, haha..."
Zhou Chang knew that Yuan Qi was crying, so he silently got off the bed and wanted to go over, but his feet were heavier than lead.
"But ever since I started to understand things, I didn't want to live like those women, so I begged my father to take me out as soon as I had the chance." Yuan Qi tried his best to suppress his sobs, "I started to learn how to do business, not for anything else, just to earn a way out for myself."
"So this is why you do business." Zhou Chang couldn't help but sigh. So did she. They had the same ambition in this respect.
Yuan Qi was still immersed in her memories, and smiled suddenly: "As I was doing business, I found that I could actually understand the world through the process of doing business, and I gained a sense of accomplishment that most women don't have, which can be considered a special gain. Therefore, not for money, not for others, I gradually fell in love with doing business. What do you think, is this another blessing?"