For generations, the Ling family had balanced farming with scholarship. After years of hard study, Ling Shouyi finally passed the imperial examinations and traveled far away to take up a post as county magistrate in Liangzhou.
The once ordinary farming family, who had spent their days working the fields, moved together as one.
His grandparents, his wife, and the four very different young women in the household followed in his footsteps to take up their new lives.
The four sisters, who once trampled through mud and spread grain out to dry, were transformed into daughters of an official's family.
The eldest, vain and devoted to finding a good match;
The second, widely read, bold, and independent;
The third, naturally gentle and lovable, always following her eldest sister;
And the fourth, sharp-witted and fond of food.
From a remote border county, they made their way step by step into the splendor of the capital.
Their journey was full of uproarious mishaps and endless amusing tales, while the warmth of everyday life endured through all the cooking and chores.
The sisters often disagreed, and sometimes bickered and argued, but when trouble came, they always stood up for one another.
Through all the twists and turns, good matches gradually came their way.
When everything had finally settled, all four young women found their own happy endings. The whole Ling family was reunited and content, enjoying peace, health, and lasting happiness year after year.
After reading Chapter 37, please express your opinion. From the introduction, I felt uncomfortable when I saw the description of the eldest child being vain. The more I read, the more I felt that the author's writing skills were limited. Only the second among the four sisters loves to read, so the other three gave up? After five years of working as an official lady, no one told them to study wisely and go to the temple to bake rabbits raised by a young monk. Is this what a government girl can do? Let's talk about their grandmothers. I think the ones who should go to school the most are their grandmothers. This is also a novel. Otherwise, the trouble would have been revealed and the whole family would have gone back to farming [laughing]. The most unbearable thing was when the father of the four sisters taught the younger brother a lesson (I don't know if the younger brother wanted to create a growth character who grew up to be sensible when he was naughty or something, but it may be that the author's writing is not good enough, but it looks annoying anyway). The dog came to protect the little master and was sent to Zhuangzi??? After raising him for so many years, he just let it go. When the fourth child ate the little monk's rabbit, the second child even used his own dog as an example to the fourth child. When the dog was thrown on the bank, in order to highlight the young and literary character of the second child, he said that it was his nature, so he dismissed the previous words as farts. Why are the left and right brains interacting with each other? The author always wants readers to see a different side of the characters, but the lack of portrayal and writing is annoying.
The fourth sister was greedy, so she secretly killed the rabbit raised by the young monk and ate it with the third sister. When her father found out, he didn't scold her. The second sister also said that she should think of her when eating meat in the future. This family did not take killing other people's pets and eating them seriously at all. I was dumbfounded when I saw this [awkward laugh]
Is this a group portrait novel, or is the heroine Ling Qiao here for the group portrait, but I still feel that it is biased toward Ling Qiao. It doesn't work for the eldest sister here or there, but it doesn't work for the second sister. I have already guessed the ending of the second sister, which is boring. . .