Xiao Jiuniang of the Shen family was born in Kexi Town, Shanyin County.
The town spreads out along the Ke River, with thirty stone bridges and every household resting on the water. The Shen family is crowded into a row of old houses on the West Bank, where three generations have fun.
It's the little clay doll that every family asks for during the Chinese Valentine's Day: a boy holding a lotus leaf, a red vest and a green gauze skirt, placed on the Qiqiao Tower. The woman burned incense and prayed for a man.
In this way, the Shen family had pinched, provided for, and sold for three generations, and helped the town's daughter-in-law find a son for three generations.
Unexpectedly, in today's generation, there are three girls in each of the three houses, making a total of nine girls.
The elder of the clan knelt on the teacup and sneered: "This skill of yours is for others to beg for children. As for you... The nine losers are not as good as the white dolphin in the pen. At least you can exchange for two stones of brown rice, and you can also drink two jars of glutinous rice in the twelfth lunar month."
After hearing this, the eldest brother and the second brother only dared to keep their money in their stomachs.
Only Sanfang and his wife dared to stand up and scold the clan members.
This couple can not only curse, but also do it. Shen San was having fun while his daughter-in-law Zhou Qiao was the crying mother-in-law.
The woman cries a song "Farewell" before getting on the sedan chair, and a song "Incense of a Broken Head" is cried when the Xiao family lays in mourning. She covers her face with a cattail leaf fan, and her tears follow the rhyme of her own accord.
Shen San's dolls sell well around Chinese Valentine's Day, and Zhou Qiao's crying orders follow in the rest of the month. The stove in the third house is not cold all year round, and the copper coins are constantly flowing.
The couple reached a consensus that if they couldn't get a son, they wouldn't ask for it. The dowries of the three girls were so large that when they got married, they were no shorter than other girls.
The little Jiu Niang, who came from the womb, grew up listening to the sound of her parents counting coins.
She knew she had to make money at the age of three, and her eyes seemed to be able to control tears as if she had practiced it. She could shed tears at the drop of a hat, stop them at the drop of a hat, and she could adjust the number of drops or the amount of tears according to the scene.
So the mother-daughter partnership closed the loop.
When my mother was crying, she got on the sedan chair. She continued to cry and cried until she got married to her daughter-in-law.
When I was four years old, I had some strength in my hands, so I squatted on the river steps in front of my house, dipping bunches of bamboo sticks into the stream and shaking them.
The water is cold and the old juice is swollen, but what comes to mind is her 21st century skill: the whole set of unique skills of the silk figure as an intangible cultural heritage.
The lead wire is the bones, the cotton is the flesh and blood, the gauze is the skin, the pure silk is the hair, the embroidery is the clothes, and the twisted silk flowers are the hairpin rings.
There was no lead wire at the moment, so she tried to find a replacement.
A mud tire will break when dropped, but she can't break it.
The clay doll's clothes are painted to death, and she makes them removable and exchangeable. The doll is sold once, and the clothes are sold for four seasons.
The business is getting better and better, and the work is divided in the old house: the eldest sister takes care of the accounts, the second sister runs the awning boat, the third sister mixes the paint, the fourth sister splits the bamboo bones, the fifth sister twists the silk and weaves the flowers, the sixth sister, the seventh sister and the eighth sister take turns pouting, the father kneads the mud, and I take care of the stove.
Save every penny. But no matter how much copper money is saved, the family is still not looked down upon by the world. In the final analysis, the Shen family's business is still two lowly businesses in Dayin.
The turning point came when Xiao Jiuniang was six years old.
The Empress Dowager died, and her last words were something she had worked hard for all her life: Xu women and men went to school together and took part in state and county examinations, provincial examinations, and palace examinations. The exam papers have the same questions, the rankings are the same, and the officers are the same rank!
The young emperor was a very filial man. After fighting with the courtiers for three months, the matter was settled.
Xiao Jiuniang had hope, and while making money, she studied hard day and night, morning and night, and worked hard on the classics, meanings, and strategies. It was also because he had been studying for twenty-five years before he had a miscarriage. When he was ten years old, he was accepted as a disciple by the county school professor.
On the day the county school accepted the submissions, the water in Kexi rose. Eight sisters drove three awning boats to send her to school. Xiao Jiuniang sat on the bow and watched the thirty stone bridges recede one by one.
The donors engraved on the bridge monument do not have the surname Shen.
She turned back to her sisters and said, "In the future, our family will donate one!"
The eldest sister laughed: "You are so crazy!"
Not crazy.
When a woman enters the world, she doesn't have to just be the doll on the desk waiting to be begged for.
Food Guide
1. Non-female disguised as men, non-traditional imperial examination, focusing on the heroine bringing up the whole family + imperial examination to build a career.
2. Online IQ, unparalleled skills, relying on talent and financial ability (in the later stage) to beat the world in the face.
3. All members are evil (cross out), all members are competent.
(The copy was uploaded on May 12, 2026 and saved as a screenshot)
Purpose: Specialize in treating all kinds of dissatisfaction