Thinking of this, Shen Ling couldn't help but cry. "I... I got married, and my salary is controlled by my mother-in-law. If I don't bring my salary home, she won't let me in the house. I... I have no choice."
Du Juan was furious at her lack of self-respect, saying, "You deserve it! Don't you have a brain? Isn't it perfectly normal not to give your own salary to your mother-in-law?! You still need to save your salary to support your own children."
Your husband has two brothers and a sister-in-law. They haven't separated their households yet. Only he and his parents have jobs. You give your salary to your mother-in-law, so she must be using all of your salary to support the family!
You two are really being taken advantage of. Not only are you supporting your parents, but also your brothers and sisters. In the future, you'll also have to help them get married and find husbands. All of this will cost you and your husband your salaries.
Your husband is such a brainless idiot. Don't you know how to whisper sweet nothings in his ear and let him know that you and he are the family, and everyone else is just taking advantage of you two?!
Song Ziqing quickly tried to comfort Du Juan, "Xiao Juan, don't flatter yourself. Xiao Ling is a woman who puts her husband first. How could she listen to your honest but unpleasant advice? Maybe she'll realize what's good for her when she gets herself killed, and her husband marries another woman, sleeps with her husband, and beats her children!"
Shen Ling didn't really listen to Du Juan's words, but she understood Song Ziqing's sarcasm, and her face turned pale instantly. She really couldn't believe what would happen to her children if she really died because she didn't take good care of her health.
Her husband will definitely remarry, and her children will definitely become thorns in the side of the new wife, just like her former neighbors.
If you have a stepmother, you'll have a stepfather!
Thinking of this, Shen Ling felt as if her heart was being pricked by needles, and subconsciously retorted, "I, I know what's good for me! Starting this month, I won't hand over my salary. You're right, the job I found, the salary I earn, I have to use it for myself. I have to save it to support my future children!"
Song Ziqing continued to mock her, "You're only acting on a whim right now. If your in-laws start crying and making a scene, you might not be able to handle them!"
If you have a daughter in the future, your in-laws will definitely be sexist and you might be influenced by them and look down on your own daughter. When we meet again in a few years, you will become like your mother-in-law!
"When that time comes, please don't say you're my or Dujuan's friend. We can't afford to lose face! As a modern woman, if you become like your mother-in-law, I won't consider you a friend anymore."
Du Juan, following Song Ziqing's words, let her imagination run wild and agreed, "Yes, yes, Xiao Qing is absolutely right. Xiao Ling, I've seen your sister-in-law before. She works like a slave in your house all day long. She didn't go to school after graduating from elementary school, and she looks so old even though she's so young."
If you really do give birth to a daughter in the future, you can't be like your mother-in-law, so biased towards boys. You're a modern woman who graduated from high school!
Shen Ling listened to her two friends teasing her one after the other, but found herself speechless. Recently, her mother-in-law had been saying that her pregnancy was not good and that she might be carrying a girl. Because of this, she had started to resent the baby in her belly, so she didn't pay much attention to her health.
Thinking about this, she realized that she had been unknowingly influenced by her mother-in-law.
Suddenly, she realized that she had wasted all those years of schooling; her mother-in-law was brainwashing her, and she hadn't even noticed.
Song Ziqing went even further, saying, "If you really give birth to a daughter in the future, your in-laws won't blame you. After all, whether a child is a boy or a girl is not determined by the woman, but by the man who conceives the seed!"
Du Juan was stunned by Song Ziqing's words, looking at her with admiration: "My dear Miss Song, you really do have a way of saying things that are sure to shock you!"
Song Ziqing continued, "I'm just telling the truth! The three of us aren't young girls still in school. We should know about these things between men and women."
After all, my parents found me a fiancé, and he'll be accompanying me to the countryside tomorrow. What will become of us in the future is anyone's guess, so I need to plan ahead.
Shen Ling asked with a curious look, "Xiao Qing, how did you learn that the man determines the sex of the child in a woman's womb?"
"It's mentioned in medical books! You can ask professional doctors at the hospital; they know it too. Whether you have a boy or a girl is similar to farming; what kind of seeds you sow will determine what kind of crops you grow—it's a similar principle."
However, most men in our country are chauvinistic. Even if doctors say such things, they will only believe the version of events that favors them. They won't accept it if the doctor says that the sex of the baby is determined by the man.
Song Ziqing wasn't really sure of the reason. In her previous life, she wasn't a medical professional. She studied economics, a jack-of-all-trades subject, and minored in English. Later, she was able to travel all over the world thanks to her fluent English.
Du Juan agreed with Song Ziqing's words, saying, "Xiao Qing is absolutely right. These men are so selfish. They readily agree when things are in their favor, but they completely disagree when things are in the women's favor. When will this society truly achieve gender equality?!"
Knowing about future developments, Song Ziqing said with longing, "It might be a few years, or it might be decades. However, women's social status is not determined by men, but often by women themselves."
Take Xiaoling, for example. Your status in your family is determined by yourself. If you firmly control your salary and receipts, and your family members beg you for favors, then you'll become the true mistress of your husband's family. Otherwise, you'll remain at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
Shen Ling was suddenly enlightened after a brainstorming session with Song Ziqing and Du Juan.
She also evolved from an innocent white lotus into a pure white lotus flower.
For the next few years, she kept having daughters, a total of four. When her husband wanted to have a son, she directly dragged him to get a tubal ligation. She didn't want to have any more children, nor did she want her husband to have any more.
She and her husband can afford to support four daughters with their salaries, but she feels that any more would affect their family's quality of life.
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