Chapter 513 A Dream of Youth 45
After the woman packed her things and ran over, the officers glanced at the man hiding behind her and said, "You two also need to be quarantined for the next few days, or you will bear the consequences."
Of course they don't need supervision, because the people around them help supervise. This family was reported before they came to arrest them.
If the neighbors don't report it, they will be held jointly liable if something happens.
"Zhang Laosan, are you just going to let them take your wife away? This woman went to that place... where men and women mingle, and all the doctors are male. Who knows what might happen..."
Old Zhang's face was flushed. Behind him came a somewhat hunched old woman with a dark face. She picked up a broom and started hitting Old Zhang.
"You didn't stop your wife from going. That worthless girl is gone, that's all. If your wife hadn't stopped her, I would have thrown her out long ago. Even if your wife brings that worthless girl back now, we wouldn't dare take her back!"
“Mother, can I stop them? You know Qian’s temperament... We don’t even know if they can come back. If they can’t, then we’ll just divorce them.”
Xie Wangzhi frowned, picked up Xie Ning and went home, not caring about buying any snacks, since things weren't peaceful outside either.
He wouldn't have brought the child out if he hadn't come out to buy books and writing materials, and if he hadn't seen Xie Ning staying at home for so long.
It seems best to go out less in the future.
Sitting in the carriage, Xie Ning took out the book she had put inside and pretended to look at it with curiosity. Then, she asked Xie Wangzhi with feigned doubt, "Father, can't male doctors treat women? My aunt went to see a doctor too."
Looking into the child's clear, bright eyes, Xie Wangzhi paused, unsure how to talk to the child about this.
After a long silence, Xie Wangzhi rubbed Xie Ning's head and said, "That's how the world is. Women need to keep their purity and follow the precepts for women. Women need to abide by the three obediences and four virtues and keep their distance from men outside the marriage. Otherwise, they will be considered unchaste and gossip will follow."
Remember, just as sharp weapons can injure, words can also kill.
When his parents went out to do small business, there were always people gossiping about his mother. Even his grandmother was always making veiled criticisms.
Xie Wangzhi didn't understand at first either, but what he didn't understand was why those people would curse his mother, even his own grandmother, and teach him to hate his mother, saying that his mother was unfaithful. If it weren't for his father's insistence, his grandmother would have already instigated his father to divorce his mother.
But he will look at it and think about it himself.
His mother went out to set up a stall to earn money, all for their little family. His writing brushes, ink, paper, inkstones, and books were all earned by his parents selling steamed buns and other food items, rain or shine.
What right did he have to complain that his mother was not as virtuous at home as other women, but instead showed her face in public?
It was precisely because he knew his mother's hardships that he could better understand the difficulties faced by other women and the constraints imposed on them by their environment.
However, he was powerless to change the world, and could only ensure that his own family was not so bound by such constraints, so that even the women could be as free as the men.
There must be many people who think like him, so not everyone is Zhang Laosan, but there are even more people whose thoughts are contrary to his, which is why some unwritten rules are like this.
"In the eyes of doctors, patients are not divided into men and women. Some women dare not see doctors because they are afraid of the criticism from outsiders and their families. Often, some women cannot bear it and choose to hang themselves."
But there are differences between people, so that's not the case in our family.
Life is the most important thing. No matter how harsh the rumors outside are, if the family is open-minded, the woman will not be forced into a dead end.
Like your eldest aunt, even as a woman returning to her parents' home after marriage, she lived a comfortable life.
Xie Ning was surprised that Xie Wangzhi would say such a thing. It was truly rare for someone living in such a feudal society to be able to understand the hardships women faced.
"Father, they think it's problematic for male doctors to treat women, but what about female doctors treating women?" Xie Ning's eyes lit up.
Xie Wangzhi chuckled, “When a female doctor treats another woman, the world naturally can’t find fault with it. But how easy is it for a woman to learn medicine? Not to mention the hardships of learning medicine.”
Ordinary families wouldn't let their daughters study medicine, and even if the family agreed, no doctor outside would be willing to teach them...
"I want to study medicine. I want to treat women like my aunt and become a very, very good doctor so that when the plague comes into contact with me, it will disappear in an instant."
Xie Ning's voice was young, but very firm.
She had been thinking for a long time, trying to figure out where to start making changes, and now she has an idea.
She will not be the first female doctor. From her onward, countless women will be able to practice medicine. This is not a compromise with the world, but the beginning of her attempt to change it.
Women can be doctors, but they are not only doctors.
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