The Bright Pearl of the Zheng Dynasty, Part One: The People's Livelihood
[Imaginary ancient setting + slow burn + no transmigration + no pocket dimension + family and village life]
[Everyone has their own choices, and everyone has their own reasons for doing what they must.]
Song Chunya lived a life that inspired both praise and condemnation. Some called her cold-hearted and hard-fated; others pitied her, saying she had spent her life in hardship and loneliness.
Whatever people might say, the Records of Qingshan preserve just two lines about her: Song Chunya was skilled at farming. Under her care, the rice yielded two harvests a year. During the Tianzheng era, she widely introduced improved seeds, and cotton and beans flourished around Qingshan. She was bestowed the title of Lady of the Township.
Before she turned sixteen, Song Chunya was the most envied girl in Kaoshan Village. After sixteen, she became its most pitiful woman.
Her life took a sudden turn. Gritting her teeth, she shouldered everything, raised her younger siblings, then decisively cut all ties that bound her.
She paid no mind to the pity or envy of others and focused on getting on with her life. But as the days went by, she realized she had taken a much sharper turn than she intended, onto a road no one had ever traveled before.
Song Chunya walked a path no woman from Kaoshan Village had ever taken, quietly rewriting the fate of women, tossed about like reeds in the wind.
Independent and resilient like the camphor tree she had planted with her own hands, she inspired the women she had sheltered to plant camphor trees of their own at the foot of the mountain. Year after year, they grew into a lush forest.
In later life, Song Chunya became the most well-informed woman in Kaoshan Village. She had visited the county seat and the prefectural city. Yet when she grew old, her one regret was that she had never seen the sea with her own eyes.
In her dreams, there was always a body of water, eternally clear and so vast that its far shore was nowhere to be seen. She thought it must be the sea.
This story is dedicated to everyone who lives life earnestly.
The growth of Chun Ya is related to the status of women in the background of the times. This paragraph is very well written, especially for human nature. There are many people like Zhu Zhu in reality. They are poisonous honest people and have no responsibility. PS: In fact, I am disgusted. Female characters such as Song Sisao often have no names, and there are often female characters with Chengzu's name. However, the author's writing is very realistic, and these settings are in line with reality. Through this article, I think there are such women in ancient times, and there are such stories. I hope that there will be a woman in the story who does not need to marry outside. It is a woman who takes care of Chunya in her old age. There will be more women behind the story. Why am I disgusted with some of the settings in this article? I still read it and recommend it, because compared to other farming articles, this story is set around Chunya who does not need to marry and a group of women who help each other, Aunt Song's changes, Sister-in-law Song's behavior, especially the appearance of a female prime minister in the background, and the latest genealogy. In it, it is like a group portrait story in which the heroine passes the imperial examination and becomes the prime minister in the context of the times, and Chun Ya is a small character story in this context, and Chun Ya changes many women. This is much better than other sweet pet stories (named domestic entertainment TV series) in which the heroine gets married and ends up helping men get rich.
The details of life are very real. Is farm work really that hard? The author seemed to want to teach me when cooking! The characters have their own characteristics, and it is obvious that the heroine is influenced and controlled by different elders. The most important thing is not to catch the horse, it is very comfortable to watch, and I like this kind of local life, and there is no time travel to replace other people's lives.
There is more than one path to farming, food, and life. The author writes very well and down-to-earth about partiality, selfishness, bad, good guys and bad guys. He does not make noises and curses, but responds step by step as things change, grows up little by little, and lives the way he wants.
I'm very emotional. It's very well written. I cried several times. It's not easy for Chun Ya. I raised my younger siblings, but in the end I have a younger brother who is still a slave to my wife. It's so realistic. Some people feel that no matter how nice you are to them, they won't think you're good enough.
It looks good and will definitely be seen by more people.
It's really beautiful! It took two days to equalize.