Seeing that Su Miaomiao didn't speak for a long time, Su's father spoke again.
"A woman's job is to stay at home and take care of her husband and children. While you have a good relationship with your uncle, you should hurry up and give birth to a son or daughter for him. This is the real thing to do. Only if you give birth to a son for your uncle can you secure your position as the queen. Otherwise, once your uncle takes a concubine and someone else gives birth to a boy for him first, your situation will be passive."
After hearing this, Su's mother quickly responded, took Su Miaomiao's hand and gave her instructions.
"You really need to pay more attention to what your father said. Since ancient times, every royal family has had many wives and concubines. If the emperor doesn't pay attention to expanding his family, he would be irresponsible to the people of the world. Let alone the emperor, even small landlords have multiple wives. So we must make plans early and can't be so foolish as to gamble the rest of our lives on a man's heart."
"For us women, especially those in the harem, having children is the only way to ensure your safety. Even if you fall out of favor, you won't have a miserable old age. If your child succeeds to the throne, you will be the Empress Dowager. What a privilege and honor that is!"
"My dear, I've been through this before, and what I'm saying to you is from the bottom of my heart. Don't be silly. When you go back, you'll pester him to have a baby. Do you hear me?"
"As for the throne, you should let your son-in-law take it. We women can't bear such a heavy burden. What you need to do now is to find a way to keep this man's heart and let him give you a few children. This is what we women should do, do you understand?"
Her parents really did it for her own good.
But every word and sentence is full of prejudice.
It seems that women should live under the charity of men and rely on men for their lives.
A woman's fate is completely determined by the man she marries. If the man gives more, the woman will have a better life. If the man gives nothing, the woman can only spend the rest of her life in misery.
She knew that this was the result of the prevalence of patriarchal thinking and the way women were disciplined.
This cannot be changed in a day or two, or with just a few words.
Su Miaomiao took a deep breath to calm herself down and tried to speak in a calm tone.
"Dad, Mom, I know you're doing this for my own good, but in my opinion, women don't have to revolve around children and men. Women can also have their own careers and ideals and ambitions. When women put their heart into something, they're not necessarily worse than men. There are no women in the court today, not because women are incapable, but because this society doesn't give women opportunities. If men and women can be treated equally, and women are supported and helped as much as men are nurtured and helped, then women will definitely be no worse than men. Women can hold up half the sky!"
She spoke passionately, becoming more and more excited as she spoke.
Because she firmly believes that what she says is right, the energy she exudes comes from her bones and cannot be ignored.
Su's father and mother had never seen her like this before. They were stunned for a moment and didn't say anything.
Is this something their daughter could say?
Why do I feel that after not seeing her for a few years, my daughter is no longer empty-headed, but has become a person with ideas.
Regardless of whether these ideas are correct or not, fortunately she has learned to think. She no longer believes whatever others say like before. She was deceived by Ji Baiqing and wished she could be sold and help him count the money.
It was because of this sentence that they realized that their daughter was really different from before.
Then Su's mother spoke first.
"Miaomiao, a woman is a woman. How can a woman be the same as a man? We women obey our fathers before we get married, our husbands after we get married, and our sons after our husbands die. Without relying on men, we women cannot survive. Miaomiao, everyone has been through this. How can you treat women the same way you treat men? Don't be naive anymore. Just listen to your parents and go back to have a baby. Will your parents harm you?"
After listening to her mother's words, Su Miaomiao realized that some ideas are deeply rooted and it is impossible to change a person's ideas in a short period of time.
Women’s awakening cannot be achieved overnight.
This is a long process.
It will take the efforts of several generations, or even dozens of generations, to achieve it.
Since she, a person from the future, has come to this era, she feels that she has an obligation to contribute to promoting gender equality.
As a woman, if she herself is unwilling to speak up for her own group, it is even less likely that others will speak up for them.
So she must seize the opportunity, climb to a high position to speak for women, let the world see and recognize that women are no worse than men, and women can do what men can do.
She was thinking about this when her father suddenly asked in surprise.
"You've been together for several years, why haven't you gotten pregnant? Did your brother-in-law force you to drink contraceptive soup on purpose to prevent you from getting pregnant?"
After he finished speaking, he didn't even wait for Su Miaomiao to answer. He slapped his thigh and continued talking to himself.
"That must be the case. I knew he couldn't forgive you so easily. He couldn't possibly not care about what you did before. Sigh!"
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