Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 220 Progress is going well

"Hey, help me fill out a questionnaire." Aunt Yu took out a notebook and asked the neighbors who were chatting together to help fill it out.

"Hey, what's wrong with you? How can we read? What do you want us to fill in?" A sturdy aunt laughed.

"Yeah, if you can't read a single word, what's the point of filling out a questionnaire? What's the point of a questionnaire?" A tall and thin aunt also laughed.

"Don't say anything nonsense. I'll give you a penny if you fill it out. Do you want to fill it out? I'm telling you, this is a good thing. Don't you want your daughters to stay at home for a year or two longer in the future?

When we were girls, our lives were miserable enough. We worked like slaves at home, but at least we had enough food and clothes, and we didn’t have to serve men.

When you marry a man, you not only have to work like a cow or a horse, bear children, but also serve the man.

Having a child is a hurdle. If you are not careful, you will be in danger.

You don't know how dangerous it is to have a child too early, and that children born from marriages between cousins ​​are prone to disease."

Aunt Yu spoke passionately, hoping that her words would have some effect.

"Are you saying that the problems of my three children are not my fault? Is it because of our cousins' marriage?"

A haggard woman with dry yellow hair, pale face and skinny body, who had been quietly picking vegetables in her hands and silently listening to everyone's idle chatter, stood up suddenly after hearing the words.

She excitedly grabbed Aunt Yu's hand and asked,

Everyone looked at the aunt with sympathy. Her name was He. She married her cousin and gave birth to three children with disabilities.

Because of this, she was despised by her in-laws every day, and they thought she was sick, that’s why she had three children and they were all like this.

She works like an ox every day, taking care of the whole family, and is scolded by her mother-in-law and beaten by her husband. Her family can't say anything because it is a fact that the three children have problems.

Aunt Yu nodded seriously. She herself had given birth to a child at a young age. The child had problems at birth and it took her half her life to give birth to the child.

After waking up, she found out that the child was drowned by her mother-in-law. She burst into tears. Giving birth was already a physical injury, and this made her even more ill. She also suffered from a serious gynecological disease.

After the divorce, she found her current husband, who was a retired soldier with a disfigured face. However, he did not complain about his fate and took up a job as a blacksmith.

After marrying her, he treated her well and did not mind that she could not have children. An ordinary person might not go to a restaurant like Tian Mi Mi once a month, but he was willing to pay for her to eat there.

It was there that she learned that the suffering she had endured before was caused by marrying and having children too early, so she took on the job of investigating and publicizing in Dongmen Alley.

She gets paid for completing tasks, and she can also help others, so she is very active.

She then told He everything she knew, and He's eyes, which had been stagnant, suddenly lit up with a bright light.

"I'm not a jinx, I'm not a freak, my children are not monsters, I want a divorce!" She said with tears streaming down her face, but her eyes were shining.

When Aunt Yu heard that she wanted to divorce, she whispered to her, "Are you really determined to divorce? What about your children?"

He wiped her tears and gritted her teeth and said, "That family is so heartless that they want to kick the four of us out of the house so that they can marry another one.

I know he hooked up with a widow outside, and she's probably pregnant. I'm going to take the three children with me and raise them even if I have to beg."

Aunt Yu nodded, "Okay, if you think this way, I will show you a way. It's sweet, okay?

If you follow me there, Miss Song and the others will probably accept you as a worker.

You can sleep on the floor in the store tonight, and meals are provided. Find a chance to come with me first, and then wait until we are sure that you and your mother are accepted before you ask for a divorce. Don't be silly and ask for a divorce now."

He nodded vigorously when she heard this, feeling that life had hope.

eldest princess mansion

The princess, who was only in her fifties but had a head full of white hair, stared at the note in her hand for a long time.

She looked at the female official who had been with her for decades and whispered, "It turned out that I married Ying'er off too early, and she died because of giving birth too early. It turned out that I killed her."

Lady Gao hurried forward to comfort her, "Princess, this is not your fault. Everyone gets married when they reach a certain age. This has been a custom since ancient times. It is not something you can change alone."

"No, if I had known this earlier, I would not have let Ying'er get married so early.

You see, Yin'er is fine. She always said she didn't want to get married, so I let her do what she wanted. She gave birth to Dandan when she was 20 years old, and she's been fine since then."

It took Lady Gao much persuasion to persuade the Princess to stop blaming herself.

"Princess, it's useless to pursue the matter now. The person who made this note had ulterior motives.

For Dandan and the others, you have to cheer up. Aren’t they spreading this just to let others know? Let’s help them, and also help our girls.”

Hearing this, the princess said excitedly, "You are right. Helping them means helping Dandan and the others. Go check and see who did it. I want to ask them what they are going to do and what I can do for them."

In some corners that men don’t know about, what Tianmimi does for women is slowly fermenting, and things are developing in the direction everyone expected.

Although Song Sanniang had to visit the prefectures and counties surrounding the capital from time to time to follow up on branch affairs, she still paid close attention to the progress of matters and would promptly resolve any problems she encountered.

A month later, a store called Pink House opened in Beijing. It sold all kinds of women's products, rouge, powder, headwear, jewelry, clothing accessories, and even menstrual belts.

The store's promotional gimmick is that every time a customer buys something in the store, the store will take out a penny from the purchase to help the city's widows and orphans.

At the beginning, end and middle of each month, the store will arrange for female doctors to provide free medical consultations to customers. Customers can go to the store with their consumption vouchers.

In addition to a few normal employees, the rest of the Pink House recruited some disabled female workers.

However, they were responsible for cleaning and logistics in the store, and did not directly entertain customers. Among them was Ms. He, who had given birth to three disabled children.

She was in charge of odd jobs in the store, and her three children also helped out. The store provided them with food and lodging, and paid them 800 wen per month. Having escaped from the sea of ​​suffering, she and her children all had light in their eyes.