Before the scholar's husband died, he only left three words for her: "Read the words."
Shen Sui, an illiterate peasant woman, can't even write her own name. Before her husband's body was even cold, the family came to "take charge" of the property: they deprived her of her family, forced her to remarry, forced her to give birth to a son, and poured dirty water on her. They were sure that an illiterate widow could not keep a piece of land or protect a child.
They are wrong.
She can't read, but she knows where each field comes from; she can't read, but she knows who is a human and who is a ghost. She forced herself to write from the word "" all the way to her own name, until she could understand the plot of the land deed that contained the plot.
She wants to provide for her son to study and finish the journey that her husband has not finished.
Many years later, the child who was called a "bastard" was named on the gold medal list and gradually rose to power; and the "Gu Shen family" who did not even have a name finally waited for an imperial edict:
Mrs. Yipingaoming, Shen Sui.
