"If you had a chance to get 300,000, what would you choose?"
Ask yourself a question that I think will be the same as most people's: "Take it, and then buy a big house, buy a luxury car, travel the world, and so on."
Because we are all laymen, there are many thoughts and desires in our hearts, believing in the saying "money is not omnipotent, but without money it is impossible."
But there was a 17-year-old girl in the early days of the Republic of China who refused this gift in the chaotic world, determined to go her own way, and thus rewrote her life destiny.
The closed country of the Qing Dynasty, the control of empress dowager Cixi, the humiliation of the world coalition forces, and the constant sucking of blood by the Control of the West by the Qing Government are the humiliations of our history.
When the country is sick, we have to change, we have to cure the disease. The launch of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 ended the old rule, the country was renewed, and the collision of liberal civilization and barbaric conservatism began, and the reform of tradition and new wave began. Then China entered a long era of warlord division and chaos.
In a chaotic world, warlords are divided, everything is based on armament, the fist is hard to eat, and the poor live hard.
Today's protagonist Wang Yizhen is such a poor girl, I don't know if it is fortunate or unfortunate to be favored by the warlord, to marry as a concubine, the poor family is surprised, think this is God's blessing, the ancestors smoke, eager to offer a daughter with both hands to get a full meal.
In this context, the 15-year-old Wang Yizhen, who was full of girlish atmosphere, married Wang Deqing, a small warlord in Hunan who was in his prime at the time, and became one of the many aunts and wives of the warlord.
In the chaotic era of the Republic of China war, the warlords with strong fists lived slightly comfortably by their own armed forces, backed by the Republic of China government, but also had the independence and autonomy of "general outside, military orders are not subject".
Since the ancient tyrants were surrounded by beautiful people, these warlords were even more blessed with countless wives and concubines.
Yuan Shikai, who had 10 wives, Fan Shaozeng, a sichuan army general with 40 wives and concubines, and Zhang Zongchang, a general who could not count the number of aunts and wives.
In the short life of men, there are always careers, brothers, and so on, and too many pursuits, and women are just the embellishments of their success, boring pastimes, and tools for inheritance.
The status of concubines has been very low since ancient times, and it can be seen from "marrying wives" and "concubines" that there is no respect at all.
The Biography of Gu Liang says that "no concubine is a wife". Those who are concubines will never be raised as wives again; later evolved into the Tang And Song Dynasty's "Tang Law Neglect Discussion": "Concubines are bought and sold", "Concubines are untouchables", "Concubines and guest women as wives, one and a half years." ”
From these words, it can be seen that concubines have no dignity, are not treated as equals in the slightest, but are just an item for people to entertain, trade, and give away at will, and it may become a sin to be slightly obsessed with concubines.
The power in the hands of warlords is even more their disregard for law and morality. They can go crazy and prey on the women they like and throw them away at will.
Typically represents the Sichuan warlord Yang Sen, who married 12 wives in his lifetime, and none of his wives and concubines had a good ending, he fell ill and died violently, was abandoned, beaten to the point of insanity, was killed in derailment, and died alone...
Wang Yizhen's entry into Wang Deqing's mansion as a concubine was such an embarrassing position, relying only on Wang Deqing's freshness to her, this kind of freshness that was twenty years apart.
As the saying goes, "three women play a play", not to mention the boring life of the mansion, these women also have a husband in common, with common interests fighting.
But 15-year-old Wang Yizhen used her cunning and cuteness and intelligence to win the original match in the mansion and the love of many other concubines, and got along well with everyone.
Wang Yizhen, who was an old man and a young wife, and Wang Deqing got along for a long time, although Wang Yizhen did not love him with an unforgettable heart, she has been doing her best to care for him and please him, and Wang Deqing also loved his concubine very much, and during this time Wang Yizhen's wisdom was praised by Wang Deqing.
Two years later, when Wang Yizhen was 17 years old, Wang Deqing responded to the call of warlords elsewhere and brought his soldiers to support, but in this war, Wang Deqing unfortunately died.
The change came so suddenly, just like the accident and the fact that tomorrow did not know who would come first, in the posthumous affairs explained by Wang Deqing, he gave a part of the subsidy to the family members, of which Wang Deqing gave the young concubine he loved a 300,000 silver yuan inheritance.
300,000 yuan is still a small and huge amount of money in the 21st century, not to mention that in the early days of the Republic of China, it is absolutely possible to ensure the prosperity of Wang Yizhen's life in the second half of her life.
Here as a girl, in the era of war and chaos in the Republic of China, I think most people may accept it, and then live until the end of their lives in the name of Wang Deqing's concubine, trapped in a small courtyard, rich and lonely, safe and lonely, life at a glance to see the end of life, no expectations.
But Wang Yizhen was different, she gave the money to her original son and said: "I am only 17 years old, I want to go to school." Later, under her efforts, she was admitted to Hengyang Girls' School and entered the road of intellectual women in the new era.
In the process of studying, the original son also asked his friends to take care of her, and later met the person she was destined to do, He Jian, the two have always known each other, have 5 children, and have a happy and complete life.
Nothing can be obtained at no cost. There is no price to poverty and death in this world, and even dreams require imagination.
If Wang Yizhen takes 300,000 yuan, how will the world view her, and can she start a new life? There is no answer to this. But I think maybe I can't do it, I can only die alone, and I can never escape the life of the warlord's miserable aunt.
Her life is actually this sentence, but she has the courage, the courage to give up, the courage to change. I guess this is one of the reasons why she is loved by Wang Deqing, sober, intelligent, brave, indispensable.
Life is like this, many people may be aware that their work is meaningless, but they do not have the courage to make changes, many girls may realize that they are in love with a scumbag again, but they are addicted to it, and they cannot be sober and responsible for themselves.
After being injured, they push all the faults to external forces, push them to others, and all the bad things that others are bad are the world hurts themselves.
I just want to say don't be stupid, sober up and don't lie to yourself.
There is only one reason for all the bad things, that is, we are not good enough, knowledge changes fate, when we feel that we are not good enough to study like Wang Yizhen.
Life is to make people suffer from birth, as long as we have less resentment and more action, one day we will complete the transformation and meet happiness like Wang Yizhen.