Chapter 277
After the woman left, Wang Jiazhi felt lost.
She had heard of a topic, The Crime of Beauty.
It seems that there has been a survey and research that shows that most beautiful women are not as happy as ugly women.
When God gives you a gift, he will always take something back from you. As the ancients said, "A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind."
If the girl had not been so beautiful, she probably would not have been sold to her current husband. Even if she had been sold to him, she would not feel too disadvantaged knowing that she was not so beautiful, and would have felt better.
The same goes for me. If I weren't pretty and didn't do things so well, I wouldn't be schemed against by them and suffer a lifetime of pain.
The same thing happened to him. If he hadn't been efficient, careful, and refined from a young age, that person wouldn't have appreciated and valued him, and he wouldn't have fallen to this point with that person. If he were like Old Wu, still working in the field at his old age, never getting promoted, and enduring a bad reputation, it would be a disaster.
Wang Jiazhi was disgusted by this line: "I am responsible for the well-being of the country, so I don't know where the general is needed." It seemed as if the rise and fall of the world had nothing to do with women. In times of national crisis, only men can defend the country. Women are not only useless to the country, but also need men's protection, which is troublesome.
She remembered a saying abroad that disparaged women's incompetence. She couldn't recall the exact words, but it went something like, "A woman never needs a man to help her across a puddle." Then a very capable woman angrily retorted, "No man has ever helped her across a puddle, and she never needs a man to help her across a puddle. She works just as much as men and eats just as much as men. As a woman, she's never been inferior to men."
Throughout history, women's contributions have been no less than those of men. Yet, their contributions are even more tragic. While men's contributions are often recorded in history, the contributions of most women are lost in the vast sea of history, never to be recognized. Even more disgustingly, they may be replaced by men.
I remember reading in "Zizhi Tongjian" that during the An-Shi Rebellion, the country was in ruins, and the emperor was forced to marry his own daughter to a barbarian tribe. Before that, no real princess had ever been sent to marry. When the emperor said goodbye, he burst into tears, but the princess calmly said that in the face of national crisis, she would not mind being torn to pieces, and asked her father not to be sad, but to focus on national affairs and pacify the country as soon as possible.
When I read it, I was filled with admiration.
From ancient times to the present, there are countless examples of beauty traps like Xi Shi and Diao Chan, but because sacrificing women to achieve success was considered shameful, only a few have been passed down, and most have been lost without a trace. For example, marriage alliances and marriage alliances are essentially about sacrificing women's bodies.
Wang Jiazhi didn't consider this kind of sacrifice shameless. Men serve their country in a manly way, and women serve their country in a womanly way. If sacrificing one person could prevent the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers, she would certainly do her duty.
Speaking of absurdity, Chen Ping accomplished so many great things for Emperor Gaozu of Han throughout his life, yet few of them have been passed down. He himself found it difficult to speak of them, which shows that nothing could be more absurd and disgusting. Historical events are filled with absurdities and shamelessness, but they are kept secret for the sake of the respected. Her story is probably a small one compared to the great one, not worth mentioning.
She didn't hate the fact that she had to sacrifice herself, but rather why those people deliberately humiliated her under the pretext of asking her to sacrifice herself, and then despised and humiliated her afterwards.
There was a tacit understanding between both sides that if one person died on this side, an equal person would also die on the other side. She thought, even if Lao Yi died, what would change? If he was replaced by someone like Secretary Zhang who was even worse and more cruel than him, then the only ones who would benefit would be Lao Wu and Kuang Yumin, who would get promoted and make money.
The people above them got something for nothing, and who would remember the two who died earlier? Old Wu would only hold a grudge, so why would they give out a list of names?
Of course, Wang Jiazhi no longer considered herself a human being. She felt that she was deeply sinful because this was an idea she had deceived herself with later. Even if this was not true, she still could not bring herself to do it.
In fact, even after going through that horrific torture, her will was still very firm at the beginning, too firm. If he was what she had imagined, the possibility of success would still be very high. However, he was not Dong Zhuo or Fu Chai, not what she had imagined. As the saying goes, things will turn out the other way.
What he gave her was always different from what she imagined.
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