Lin Qianqian turned her head, held onto the boat with both hands, and looked at the slowly flowing green river.

The cold wind blew over, and strands of hair flew up beside her pale face, and tears rolled down one by one.

Life is so hard. It is so hard for the people at the bottom to survive. She sympathized with the woman's experience and prayed for her sincerely. At this moment, she suddenly hoped that there would be Buddha and Guanyin to let her reincarnate into a peaceful and beautiful modern society in the next life.

Compared to her, her experience in the mansion was only mental pain. The women at the bottom of society outside the mansion lived in dire straits, facing hunger, powerlessness, and being bullied to death. This was not only the painful pressure of survival, but also a hundred times the mental torture. Survival might have crushed them.

Isn’t that luxurious mansion of the Marquis’s Mansion the kind of big villa that ordinary people in modern times yearn for, where rich ladies live with a group of servants serving them?

Readers in the comments section of the original article always say that a large mansion is cannibalistic, and sympathize with the heroine who is bound by feudal ethics and has to endure three wives and four concubines. But if you were a commoner in ancient times and you were given a mansion like this, where you could live comfortably and have people serve you food and drink, would you still say it is cannibalistic?

Freedom has a price.

This sentence suddenly popped up in Lin Qianqian's mind.

What she saw and heard in the two days made her compare everything with modern society. How desperately she wanted to go back to the modern times. That was the life of "luxury and food" where everyone had food to eat, a house to live in, takeaways to eat when hungry, and a housekeeper to help them if they didn't want to do housework, and no one had to worry about their own safety.

Shen Jian held the knife and sat next to Lin Qianqian, with no expression on his face.

With this plague god around, many men restrained their presumptuous gazes.

There were many men on this big ship, including Lin Qianqian and an old lady in her seventies. Some men would still secretly glance over from time to time during the conversation to look at the pretty young lady next to Shen Jian.

Although her face was dusty and a little dirty, you could tell she was a beauty just by looking at her beautiful eyes.

Her slender figure and melancholy temperament as she sat there looked like someone in a painting.

Nowadays, young and beautiful women don't go out easily. So when such an iconic person suddenly appears, many men can't control their fiery gazes.

From her face, to the small part of her slender wrist that was exposed, to her white and tender fingers that were well-maintained like green onions.

Staring at the triangle area between the two legs together, someone licked his tongue secretly.

Staring at a pair of dusty embroidered shoes that she had placed casually on the ground.

"Look, that's what a woman is, so pretty, with hands as beautiful as orchids."

Suddenly someone spoke while swallowing.

"That young lady looks good even in a sack."

When Lin Qianqian heard the voice, she looked down at her hands, then retracted her arms and hid them in her sleeves with some disgust.

Another person said, "I think her feet are really beautiful. They are definitely not the big feet of the women in our village. These delicate little feet are obviously a beauty."

The man's eyes glowed green as he looked at Lin Qianqian, and his neck straightened with excitement as he spoke.

Lin Qianqian closed her eyes angrily and rolled her eyes behind the group of men.

"Look, this girl is angry. Hahaha, she looks pretty even when she's angry."

Two people were laughing.

"You're so cute when you're angry."

Lin Qianqian rolled her eyes speechlessly again, and someone else laughed, "She's a girl with a strong personality, hey."

"I didn't expect to meet such a beautiful lady when I went out on the boat today. I am so happy."

Lin Qianqian reached out and smoothed the messy strand of hair by her ear and no longer tried to hide it.

You can't hide your feet when people are staring at them, how can you walk? If you hide your face when people are staring at you, wouldn't that be exactly like that woman in the Middle East or somewhere else who is covered in a black robe?

If she keeps shrinking herself, what's the difference between her and the oppressed woman here?

Lin Qianqian suddenly turned around and asked casually, "Brother, are you married?"

The dozen or so men on the boat fell back as if they were hit by the waves, and expressions of shock appeared on their faces.

Shen Jian next to him also turned his head and looked at Lin Qianqian who was sitting upright. She really was not afraid at all.

If other young ladies were surrounded and talked about by so many men, they would have lowered their heads in shame and wanted to crawl into the ground.

And this young lady was so bold as to come over and talk to him, that the men on the boat couldn't help but start whispering to each other.

"Look at her, she has no shame at all and is still talking to a man." A timid man looked at Shen Jian fearfully and whispered to his companion next to him.

The companion nodded timidly, "How shameless! You're still going out."

Lin Qianqian smiled at him, her voice was sharp and not timid at all, "Not only do I talk to men, I also breathe like a man. What? You are allowed to talk about me to my face, but I can't say a word?"

"It's boring to sit here on this journey anyway. Instead of guessing at each other, why not have a chat to relieve the boredom? Don't put some nonsense on me just because I'm brave enough to speak. I have the same right to express myself and the freedom to speak as you men. Besides, isn't the purpose of a human being to speak?"

"Girl, you are a straightforward person, a heroine!"

A middle-aged man in a robe stood up from the crowd and bowed to Lin Qianqian, "I admire you."

He said to himself, "Miss, my name is Wang Sheng. I am thirty years old this year, and I have not married yet. I wonder if you are married? If not, what do you think of me?"

Lin Qianqian immediately covered her mouth and laughed, her body shaking with laughter. He was too confident when he spoke, "Brother, you are so funny. You asked me if I was married right away, and you want to marry me?"

After Lin Qianqian finished speaking, she held her stomach and laughed for a long time. She thought of some popular memes on the modern Internet.

This smile made the other men on the boat stare in amazement.

"This beauty looks so pretty when she smiles!"

"Your smile sounds so nice, like a bell."

Wang Sheng lowered his head in shame, "I, I can't help myself. My mother is really worried about my marriage, so, young lady, what I said just now may be a little abrupt, please don't be offended."

Lin Qianqian curled her lips and deliberately asked, "Brother, do you think I look like a man without a husband?"

She said, "I already have a man."

Wang Sheng's face immediately turned red. He apologized several times and returned to his seat.

There was a burst of laughter on the boat, as if mocking him.

"Such a beautiful woman, how could it be our turn!"

Suddenly, a skinny old man stood up and pointed at Wang Sheng and said to Lin Qianqian, "It doesn't matter if he's not married at 30. I'm 56 and I've never even touched a woman's hand in my life, let alone got married."

"Those high-ranking officials have three wives and four concubines. Some have been married more than a dozen times. How can we afford to marry? My family has been extinct since my generation!"

"I don't have a wife. My lifelong dream is to get married. I'm 40 years old now."

"I don't have a wife either. My family has no money and even food is a problem, so how can I dare to hope to have a wife? Sixty men in our village are bachelors, and only two have wives."

This topic immediately resonated with the men on the boat. They all turned around and asked each other how old they were, whether they were married, and lamented that they were pitiful for not having a wife.

Seeing that no one was talking about her anymore, Lin Qianqian was relieved to have changed the subject. But she was still surprised to hear that among the 18 men on the boat, only one had a wife. This man attracted the envy of everyone because he had a wife.

In the corner of the cabin opposite Lin Qianqian, someone was talking in a low voice.

"I know a place where wives are cheap. If you work hard and earn more money, you can still buy some, but some of them are mentally ill, ugly, and some are very young. But it's better to have some than not. If you don't have any, you'll be single for the rest of your life."

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