In the McChi family, the one who distinguishes the master from the subordinate is called "bone". When the Second Young Master and the children of the next person play together, Mrs. Toast would teach him: "What you have on your body is not a lowly bone." ”
Dolma is a maid with "lower bones". In her lifetime, she has experienced 3 men. She had pursued lust, love, and power, but she eventually understood that without a free identity, everything was in vain.
01 Leave the Second Young Master
The Second Young Master spoiled her very much. But she has always been pessimistic about her future.
She was a domestic slave, and when she was older, she would have to be rationed to a subordinate. She knew early on that it was her destiny. For her, the so-called good future is just to find a suitable next person. Poverty and lowliness are established, and the only thing she desires is to get a little love.
The Second Young Master did not want her, but she had to marry, because if she dragged on any longer and was older, no one would marry her.
She was 5 years older than the Second Young Master. In her eyes, in addition to being the master, the Second Young Master was just a doll who had not grown up. Her feelings for him were more of a pity. She never had the luxury of relying on a stupid doll to change her origins.
For the masters, "a woman is nothing more than a thing at your fingertips." When the Second Young Master went on a tour of the territory, each leader would send a young woman to serve him. Usually, no master cares about the joys and sorrows of these women.
Before Dolma left the Second Young Master, he told him that when he had other women in the future, he would not think about her again. She knew that she was just a temporary plaything of her master.
She pinned all her hopes on love. Her lover, the silversmith Quza, was a free man. The Second Young Master was very sad, and he asked her, "Don't like me being a nobleman, like he's a silversmith?" Dolma said affirmatively, "Yes." ”
At that time, she regarded love as more important than anything else. After a simple ceremony, she became the silversmith's wife.
Quza stills
02 Leave the silversmith
In the past, when she was with the Second Young Master, Dolma wore silk clothes. Once, the Second Young Master saw her standing in the middle of the next person, and her eyes were full of sorrow, so the young master quickly called her to his side.
Once feeling aggrieved to stay with her subordinates, now Dolma has to accept the transformation of her identity.
She moved to the lowest level of the official village, a small house with a bad smell. She works in the kitchen and goes to the orchard at night to fetch water. She used to have a scent on her body, and now she smells of smoke and fire. Even her voice grew old.
When the Second Young Master met her in the orchard, she smelled of swill on her body. He wanted to hold her, but she said she didn't deserve it, and she would stain the young master's clothes.
Her spirit had collapsed.
The Second Young Master took her to the northern border. He asked her if she regretted marrying the silversmith. She nodded and shook her head again. I think she nodded because she really didn't want to live that kind of poor life. She shook her head, and it was she who thought again that the silversmith actually loved her very much.
At the side of the Second Young Master, she slowly tasted the taste of power. She betrayed the silversmith and became the butler's concubine.
What's so good about butlers? He was old and a cripple. I think that the reason why Dolma looks up to him is only because of his power. At the border, the power of the butler was second only to that of the Second Young Master. Soon, the butler brought Dolma as his assistant.
Butler stills
She still loved the silversmith, but she didn't know who to stay with.
After returning to the Maiqi official village, the people were very envious of Dolma and the Second Young Master's retinue. Dolma also had a very proud look on their faces, as if they were not inferior.
Dolma found something more "good" than love, and that was power.
03 Leave the housekeeper
The silversmith was originally a free man who became a domestic slave in order to be with Dolma. There is always a kind of pride in him. When he went to the border to find Dolma, the housekeeper reminded him that Dolma was no longer a subordinate, and that the silversmith was no longer worthy of her.
The silversmith listened and did not plead with the Second Young Master. He proudly said that he would go back to The Macchi Toast to restore him to his free manhood. At that time, he would be worthy of Dolma, and at that time, the Second Young Master would have to pay him for silverware again.
For a woman to become a slave, and for her sake, I hope to regain my freedom. Everyone could see his pity.
The Second Young Master knew that Mai Qi Toast would not agree to him. So he sent his subordinate Xiao Eryi to call the silversmith back. Eryi took the silversmith to the brothel.
When Dolma knew, she cried and said to the Second Young Master, "Thank you Young Master for making the silversmith happy." ”
Betraying such a proud person must be very guilty. At that time, Dolma was already the foreman of all the maids and cooks, and she would no longer want to go back to the silversmith to live that hopeless life. When she learned that the silversmith remained in the brothel and that the delicate silverware in the brothel was increasing, she shed several tears.
Since then, she has left the housekeeper. However, she did not go to see the silversmith.
A slave with love is still a slave, and a slave with power is still a slave. Dolma finally realized that neither love nor power was what she wanted, and what she wanted most was to gain a free body.
04 Hurry up and become a toastmaster, Second Young Master
Locally, only Toast had the power to restore free status to slaves.
For the Second Young Master, Dolma was actually not his lover. He was still young when he was with Dolma, and it was Dolma who let him know about men and women. He saw with his own eyes that Dolma suffered from the lowliness of the "bones".
Because of Dolma, he understood for the first time that toast is not only for himself, but also for others.
He knew that there would soon be no toast in the world, but he was still determined to seek freedom for his subordinates.
Looking back on Dolma's life, she experienced 3 men who looked for different answers in them: desire, love, power, freedom... In the process, she became more and more aware of her own heart.
The second young master and Mrs. Mai Qi's love for her made her realize the self-esteem and happiness of being a "person".
She didn't have much of a high heart, she just wanted to live decently. But if you want to be decent, you can only achieve it if you are no longer a slave.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Qingwen is pampered by Baoyu and is arrogant and willful, but once she is thrown home, it is as if she has been "beaten back to her original form". Bao Yu went to see her, she had been thirsty for a long time. Bao Yu went to get the tea, only to see that the bowl had a smell of oil, and the tea did not smell much like tea. Qingwen said, "Give me a sip, this is tea." There's better than our tea! Bao Yu watched, and the pain was so painful that he burst into tears.
The Second Young Master was more capable than Baoyu, but like Baoyu, he could only shed a few tears for these women who were decaying like flowers.
When Dolma meets the Second Young Master with other girls, according to the law, she will be gouged out of her eyes. The Second Young Master asked her to bathe in the spring water and then die cleanly and decently. The old Dolma is back, singing selflessly in the spring water. The Second Young Master could not bear it, so he pardoned her. She said she hated him, and it was worse than letting her die.
"A person like her, only when she realizes that she is going to die and the man she married is not around, can she go back to the past days and briefly resurrect the romance that once was."
Once she was allowed to continue to be a slave, the heavy reality killed her romantically and boldly at once.
Only freedom can make Dolma herself back.
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