It is said that during the Sheng Dynasty, there was a rural orphan girl Zhao Duanniang in Chenliu County, Bianzhou. Her parents died when she was sixteen, and she was living with her ten-year-old sister Shun'er.
Unexpectedly, the sinister uncle Zhang Wang took the opportunity to occupy the Zhao family's property and pretended to be raising his two nieces, but in fact he was using the two sisters as slaves every day. Duan Niang was just waiting to save enough money to take her sister away, but she didn't expect that one day Zhang Wang took fifty silver taels from the matchmaker and wanted to force her to marry a rich man named Li who was over fifty and had three wives.
Duan Niang has a fiery temperament, and she wanted to fight to the death, but Zhang Wang threatened her by selling her a smooth girl. In order to protect her sister, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and agree to the marriage.
On the wedding night, Duan Niang was heartbroken. However, Shun'er suddenly appeared outside the bridal chamber, crying and saying that her uncle had already sold her to a troupe heading north to Luoyang, and would take her away after Duan Niang had paid her respects. The previous promises were all a scam.
Duan Niang felt like she was struck by lightning, and then she realized that taking a step back would not lead to a bright future, or her family might be destroyed.
When she was desperate, her sister told her a ground-breaking news - the Queen decreed that the Luanwei Women's College be opened for the first time, and women from all over the country were allowed to take the imperial examination and become official officials.
The news spread, the world was shocked, and the government and the public were in an uproar. Some people ridiculed this as a child's play, some people saw it as a shortcut to cling to the powerful, and even worse, they said, "This is the disaster of Si Chen, and the world will be in chaos!"
But Duan Niang, who had been reading poetry and books with her father since she was a child, had a light in her eyes that she had never seen before——
This is the only way for her and her sister to survive.
She picked up her grandma's hatchet, wrapped her grandpa's Analects, wiped away her tears, and made up her mind:
"Go to Luoyang!"
"Take the women's exam!"
Exactly: the hatchet chops the thorny road, and the female branch opens up the daughter's heaven.
Reading Guide
1. Plot line: Imagining ancient times and imitating the Tang, Wu and Zhou periods. Try to set up a special variable that is different from history to discuss the possibility of inheriting and developing the heroine's politics.
2. Emotional line: 1V1 HE female official VS actor female A male O two-way redemption
Mission: Unity is strength