Farming and Embroidery

I'm speechless at the group of people who are speaking out for Zhang. The entire family's annual income is less than the income from one of her sister-in-law's embroidery pieces. She used all of it to buy land, support her nephew's education, and redeem her second brother from servitude. Isn't that good enough? Why does she also have to support her brother and sister-in-law's entire family?

Regarding the Zhang family This book review doesn't discuss whether the female lead is a Mary Sue, but focuses solely on the portrayal of Zhang in the book. Zhang's transformation isn't abrupt; it's traceable. When Zhang first tested the waters and was met with indifference, she was still a wife who cared deeply for her son and husband, and was willing to listen to the advice of her elders (both…

People are getting greedier and greedier. It's a favor if someone helps you, and it's their right not to. You can't always demand help from others. Qiaolan wasn't wrong not to help Sanniang, because Sanniang overstepped her bounds. Sanniang thought she was clever and others were foolish, but little did she know that others had seen through her greed and kept Qiaolan away from her.

People who do embroidery usually don't do rough work easily, but the female lead often cuts pig feed and such. How can someone with rough hands still do embroidery?

The prices seem strange.

There are five courtyards, so you need to know some common sense. In ancient times, courtyards were not built casually. Their value was determined by one's status and official rank. Although this is a novel, it should still be based on common sense. In ancient times, the gentry and wealthy families used their homes to guide and educate the local people.

A question suddenly popped into my head: all the girls in the book make and sell purses to supplement their income. Who buys all those purses? They're not disposable paper purses, so why is there such a huge demand? 🤔

After reading a few chapters, the prices seem completely haphazard; the author can write whatever they want. Some might say, "Isn't this just for fun?" That's true, but even for fun, you can't go astray. In *Dream of the Red Chamber*, Granny Liu's first visit to the Jia family yielded twenty taels of silver, saying that was enough for a peasant family to eat for a year.

[Important Note] Huiwen is a character in *Dream of the Red Chamber* whose name contains the character "Hui." She dies under the name Huiwen. The author wasn't writing a sequel to *Dream of the Red Chamber*, and the female lead's name doesn't contain "Hui" and she didn't die. Why use "Huiwen" in such a random way?! Prices are a mess.

The prices in the book are ridiculous. One tael of gold is worth eight taels of silver, so five hundred taels of gold would be four thousand taels of silver! Where did the female protagonist's family get so much silver? Even if her grandmother had that much silver, she couldn't have hidden it like that. Her embroidery didn't sell for that much either.