Chapter 192 Ma Lian
Xia Ting'an lived a chaste life. Apart from his wife Ma Lian, there were no other women around him. Because of this, Ma Lian was envied and jealous by countless women at that time. Ma Lian was also proud and felt that she was lucky. The couple gave birth to three sons and one daughter in total.
Ma Lian can be considered a winner in life, but the good times did not last long. Xia Ting'an died of illness in middle age. Although it was unfortunate, her children have grown up and are able to support Ma Lian.
After that, Ma Lian remained a widow. Her two sons both became successful, but Ma Lian spent decades of loneliness and besieged by servants. When her eldest grandson got married, she smiled and drank the tea from her grandson's wife, then closed her eyes and died peacefully one night.
Then when Ma Lian regained consciousness and opened her eyes, she had traveled to hundreds of years later and became a little girl in an unfamiliar era.
Hundreds of years later, the world is changing with each passing day. Slavery has long been abolished. Equality is the norm and women hold up half the sky. Ma Lian feels both fear and delight in facing this new era.
After all, not everyone can be reborn and live again, right? This means that her life is extremely good. However, although she is secretly happy, in order not to become an outcast, Ma Lian can only adapt to this era, and her adaptation is very difficult.
After all, she is no longer the old lady who has everything handed to her. She not only has to learn how to take care of herself, but also has to take on housework like most girls.
At this time, Ma Lian especially missed her previous life. She could buy a bunch of maids to serve her, but she couldn't even mention it here, because it was feudal and dregs that had to be abolished.
It took Ma Lianhua nearly a year to adapt to the new environment, and then she started thinking about how to make her life better. She was a smart person and quickly found her own advantages.
That was the needlework that she once took pride in. Although she had not touched needlework for many years, it was not too late to pick it up now. The main thing was that as long as she could make money for the family, her parents in this life would not make things too difficult for her.
After Ma Lian showed her talent in needlework, her life at home became better. Later, she made money by embroidery, and her status became more and more stable.
And because of Ma Lian's excellent needlework, she gradually became famous, but she was not happy because all the money she earned with great difficulty was taken away by her parents.
Because she earned money, her parents even forced Ma Lian to work more than ten hours a day. In her previous life, Ma Lian was almost blind in her later years because she overexerted her eyes while doing needlework when she was young.
Ma Lian did not want to hurt her eyes any further. Moreover, she had her own thoughts and did not want to give all the money she earned to her parents, so she had a conflict with her family.
The parents wanted to suppress their daughter and make her devote herself to the family, but Ma Lian didn't want the whole family to rely on her for blood. After several fights, her parents finally gave in.
However, such good days did not last long. When Ma Lian reached a certain age, her parents began to urge her to get married. After all, men should get married when they are old enough and women should get married when they are old enough. No matter how much money Ma Lian could make, they could not let her earn money at home for the rest of her life!
But Ma Lian was really not interested in getting married. Although she had adapted well to this era, her education of the three obediences and four virtues and of being faithful to one's husband made her feel that getting married would be a betrayal of Xia Ting'an.
In addition, whenever Ma Lian thought about having to take care of her husband's family, give birth to children, take care of them and raise them after marriage, she would get a headache.
In her previous life, Ma Lian was married to Xia Ting'an. When things were at their worst, they could still hire a nanny to do the laundry and cooking, and the child had a wet nurse to take care of him. How come hundreds of years later, women have to give even more?
Moreover, if the man she marries is unable to support his family, as a woman she will have to help make money to support the family. Under all these pressures, Ma Lian is discouraged and feels that she is not marrying a man but helping to alleviate poverty.
Ma Lian's idea is incompatible with this era, and Ma Lian's parents in this life also disagree with their daughter's idea of not getting married.
It seems that the Chinese people of this era have firmly believed that girls must get married and boys must find wives. If they do not get married, it must be because they are sick or for other reasons, which will affect the marriage of other girls in the family.
So Ma Lian was forced to get married, and she often quarreled with her family. However, despite the quarrels, it did not prevent her from continuing to make money by embroidery. Anyway, she would not be easily manipulated by her parents.
Ma Lian thought she might live alone for the rest of her life, but she encountered a turning point in her life. One day, Ma Lian received a new order from someone who wanted to order a fully embroidered cheongsam.
When Ma Lian went to the customer's home to get the clothing size, she accidentally bumped into a person at the customer's door. When she was helped up by the person, Ma Lian thanked him repeatedly.
But when she saw the man's face clearly, she was stunned for a moment, because this man looked exactly like her husband Xia Tingan from her previous life.
Moreover, the two people have the same name, and even their personalities are very similar, both are so gentle and calm.
At that moment, Ma Lian firmly believed that this was Xia Ting'an's reincarnation. The reason they were able to meet again after hundreds of years was because their fate had not been broken. Fate brings people together through a thread, isn't that what happened here?
What made Ma Lian happy was that Xia Ting'an was still the original customer of this order. What was this? This was fate!
Ma Lian's mind was full of thoughts about renewing her past relationship with Xia Ting'an, but when she followed Xia Ting'an into the house, she discovered that Xia Ting'an was already married to a person who had never appeared in her previous life.
Ma Lian's head was full of beautiful thoughts and was devastated by this news. She was stunned. She felt that this was impossible. She and Xia Ting'an were so destined to be together, how could he marry another woman? How could Xia Ting'an forget her!
Ma Lian vaguely recalled her past life, when Xia Ting'an had just started his career, there was a shameless bed-climbing girl who tried to seduce her master, but she was beaten up and then sold out.
Xia Tingan just let Ma Lian rage against her servants and let it go, so it wasn't Xia Tingan's fault. It was the shameless bitch Lu Xiaojing who took the opportunity to seduce Xia Tingan!
Ma Lian really wanted to sell Lu Xiaojing, the bed-climbing slut, to a brothel like she did back then, but she couldn't. The current era didn't allow her to do that. Ma Lian could only swallow her anger and make other plans.
Ma Lian imagined that Lu Xiaojing was her love rival, but she didn't think about it. Even if Xia Ting'an was really Ma Lian's husband in the previous life, so what? Xia Ting'an in this life had long forgotten the past. Ma Lian was just wishful thinking, but had she ever asked Xia Ting'an whether he was willing to renew their relationship?
Lu Xiaojing is not a bed-climbing girl, she is Xia Ting'an's legal wife. It makes no sense for Ma Lian to hate Lu Xiaojing, but if Ma Lian could think it through, nothing would have happened later.
Ma Lian left with the clothing sizes in her hand, full of thoughts. The nerve of house fighting in her mind started to move. How should she get rid of Lu Xiaojing?
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