Qiao Jingjing's method can be summed up in one word:
Tolerate!
Qiao Manman thought that as long as they got married, they could escape their mother's clutches.
The elderly mother then had no reason to torment her sisters for the time being.
She married into another family and lived in their home, thus avoiding seeing her elderly mother.
Then, in someone else's home, she serves her in-laws, serves her husband, and gives birth to and raises her son.
This is the tragedy of women in this era.
Unable to be herself, she can only be an appendage to men, relying on them to change her fate.
After comforting Qiao Manman and watching over her until she fell asleep, Qiao Jingjing rested her chin on her hand and sat by the window, looking at the moon and counting the stars.
She doesn't want to live that kind of life.
Despite the current difficulties, she firmly believes that she has a value in this era.
She did not merely live as a woman; she possessed agricultural skills and theories.
It's just a temporary anxiety.
Tolerate!
Why endure it? Because Qiao Jingjing knew that the Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety.
From the time of Yao, Shun, and Yu to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, people were instilled with the ideas of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness.
Even if parents are not kind, there is no such thing as rebellion or adolescence.
If she could become emperor like Liu Bang, she could accept the kneeling and worship of her elders with a clear conscience.
But she's playing the role of a widow.
Qiao Jingjing endured this for so long that it was now 197 years old. She was already nineteen, and her elderly mother had completely gone mad.
That year, Yuan Shu held the Imperial Seal of the State, believing it was time for him to declare himself emperor. At that time, Emperor Xian of Han was still alive, having grown into his teens with the assistance of Cao Cao.
Yuan Shu couldn't wait any longer.
Although he only controlled one of the nine provinces, with the rest in the hands of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Lü Bu, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, Sun Ce, and others, he believed that he could command the world simply because he possessed the Imperial Seal.
Yuan Shu declared himself emperor.
Sun Ce had already keenly noticed this erroneous trend, and he wrote a letter to Yuan Shu, advising him against declaring himself emperor.
It's not the right time, at least not now.
But Yuan Shu wouldn't listen!
When Sun Ce was seventeen, he began following Yuan Shu, serving as Yuan Shu's henchman and helping him conquer cities and territories. Over the years, through hard-won lessons and bloody experiences, Sun Ce gradually matured and was no longer the impetuous young man who blindly followed Yuan Shu's lead.
He was no longer helpless; he had his own power.
After careful consideration, Sun Ce finally decided to distance himself from Yuan Shu.
They ceased all contact from that point on.
When this news reached Cao Cao's ears, Cao Cao seized the opportunity and had Emperor Xian of Han write an edict appointing Sun Ce as Cavalry Commandant, and granting him the title of Marquis of Wucheng, inherited from his father Sun Jian, and concurrently serving as Governor of Kuaiji.
Cao Cao also issued an order for Sun Ce and Lü Bu to jointly attack Yuan Shu.
At that time, Sun Ce was in Kuaiji, and Yuan Shu was in Shouchun.
Separated by mountains and rivers, there is also the city of Lujiang.
Sun Ce was on his way to attack Yuan Shu, and he would inevitably pass through Lujiang City. In Lujiang City, he had met a woman.
When he left Lujiang City, he vowed to return and marry her.
As a result, his elderly mother had taken it upon herself to arrange for him to marry a woman from the Gu family of Fuling. The Gu woman was gentle and virtuous, and was the daughter-in-law his mother favored.
When Sun Ce passed through Lujiang City again, dressed in black and masked, he really wanted to take a stroll in Peach Blossom Lane in the south of the city.
Many years have passed, and I don't know what happened to that woman.
To be honest, he had never been to her home.
His second brother had represented him two or three times.
He had never been there before, so why shouldn't he go there himself now?
Perhaps that woman has already married, and that family has already moved away?
If they were to meet suddenly, it would make the two of them feel awkward, or perhaps they would have already drifted apart and he would only see that empty courtyard.
Even so, it can be considered as fulfilling one of his unfulfilled wishes.
Brother Sun was accompanied by Lü Meng, Jiang Qin, and Zhou Tai.
The three boys knew what their leader was up to the moment they saw the direction of his horse's head. Having followed him for years, they all knew there was a girl named Qiao in Peach Blossom Lane in the south of the city.
At the entrance of Peach Blossom Lane, three boys kept watch for their eldest brother.
This time, the eldest brother really went by himself.
This family is still here, and they even have a mulberry orchard.
Sun Ce tethered his dappled horse in the mulberry grove. The mulberry trees were thick and the leaves covered the horse, so it was impossible to see it.
Sun Ce wandered around the chicken and duck pens in the mulberry garden for a long time, but he didn't see the girl.
Sun Ce felt a pang of disappointment. Had she already gotten married in the past few years?
Once Sun Ce mastered his skill of scaling walls and rooftops, he leaped onto someone's rooftop, wanting to hear their stories.
But all that was heard was a loud slap.
Sun Ce lay prone on the roof, looking in the direction of the sound, his heart suddenly pounding. Who else could it be but her?
She was the one he longed for day and night.
Countless times she appeared in his dreams, telling him that she would do his laundry, cook for him, mend his clothes, draw maps for him, devise the Longzhong Plan, divide the world into three, seize Jingzhou, and bear his children.
In her dream, she asked him when he would come to Lujiang to pick her up.
Sun Ce's eyes welled up with tears without him even realizing it.
Before her eyes, she staggered as she was struck.
The younger girl next to her has grown up now, and her beautiful face also bears five red finger marks.
Sun Ce slammed down from the rooftop and grabbed the old woman who had been hitting him.
Sun Ce flicked his wrist lightly, and this time the old woman staggered and couldn't stand steadily for a long time.
As a result, the two girls who had been beaten rushed forward, held the old woman tightly, and carefully helped her sit down.
The old woman glared angrily and cursed:
"Who are you? You thief, sneaking onto my roof in broad daylight! Help! Help!"
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