"With me here, I will make you rich and prosperous for the rest of your life."
"I just saw the list at the counter. The cheapest piece of cake costs one tael of silver."
"How can ordinary people afford such a price? I'm not trying to displease you, but one ounce of silver is enough for a family to live on for a long time. You've never suffered hardship, so you don't understand the hardships of ordinary people."
"This world is not suitable for women to do business. Apart from embroidery, they have no talent for business. They can't even do the accounting, so how can they run such a big shop?"
Xie Yuchuan said good things for Chen Wei and promised to make Chen Wei rich and prosperous for the rest of his life.
pity,
Chen Wei knows better than anyone that promises are the most sincere lies in the world. He is sincere when he makes a promise now, and he will also be sincere when he hates you and makes you live a life worse than death in the future.
She pushed Xie Yuchuan's hand away and said calmly, "Didn't we agree on this?"
"If I can't do it, then I'll go home in peace."
"But if you do, you can no longer restrict me from doing any business, and you can't promise me one more thing."
"The shop hasn't even opened yet, how do you know I'm not capable? You're not looking down on me, are you? Outsiders mock me and call me a high-class climber, but do you think so too?"
When Xie Yuchuan heard this, he immediately calmed down.
He suppressed the uncomfortable feeling in his heart and persuaded her tolerantly: "Weiwei, I just feel sorry for you."
"But you've already married me, so you still have to..."
“Knock knock knock!”
The knock on the door interrupted Xie Yuchuan's next words.
Chen Wei turned his head and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
She is a woman in her thirties.
She was wearing a cotton and linen dress covered with pudding and water stains all over her body, as if she had just been fished out of the river.
She looked timid, her hair was matted into a clump, her body was thin and sallow, with bruises of varying degrees on her body, and her rough hands were twisted together, which were small movements caused by excessive tension and fear.
"Do you want to be a female worker?" Seeing this, Chen Wei walked over and asked.
The woman looked up and quickly glanced at the curtain.
The other person was wearing the most expensive brocade material in the capital. She had a calm and generous temperament and skin as white as cream. The pair of fine white jade earrings she wore alone was a piece of jewelry that she was not even worthy of touching in her life.
The woman nodded in a panic, then shook her head, her voice trembling a little: "I, I heard that they are recruiting female workers, only female workers, I don't know how to read outside..."
"I don't know how to do anything. I don't know if I can do it, but..."
Chen Wei moved a stool and asked the woman to sit down.
He said gently, "Don't be anxious. Just speak slowly."
"If it's appropriate, you can stay."
The woman did not dare to sit down. She still stood there timidly. Perhaps it was because Chen Wei's clothes, which only rich people could wear, were too oppressive, or perhaps it was because she had been too timid in her life.
The woman stood three steps away from Chen Wei and told him all the information that Chen Wei wanted to hear.
Her name is Pan Nan.
She got married ten years ago and has been abused by her husband and mother-in-law over the years. She works like a slave at home, taking care of her husband and children, doing embroidery and needlework, and all the money she earns is squandered by her husband outside.
There are three girls and two boys.
Two of the girls were sold as child brides as soon as they were born, and the other was strangled to death by her mother-in-law right after she was born.
I don’t know if it was retribution, but she later gave birth to two boys, but unfortunately they died of an epidemic.
And what about her?
She was despised and abused by her husband, who either beat or scolded her, and was humiliated and tortured by her mother-in-law all day long. In desperation, she wanted to jump into the river to end her life, but she accidentally heard a passerby say that the shop was recruiting female workers.
She thought that instead of committing suicide, it would be better to find a job as a female worker.
Being alive is more important than fame.
"That's all, girl."
"Aside from handicrafts and housework, I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know if I can do this... My mother-in-law kicked me out of the house. She said I was a bad luck star and would kill my own child."
"If it doesn't work, it's okay. I know I'm not good enough, so I won't bother you."
Chen Wei looked at the woman with a complicated expression: "You want to die because you can't live anymore, right?"
When the woman heard this, she bit her lips tightly.
My eyes suddenly turned red.
She couldn't stop her tears from flowing.
"Xie Yuchuan, can ordinary people get divorced?" Chen Wei pursed his lips and looked at Xie Yuchuan who was standing beside him without saying a word.
This was probably the first time that Xie Yuchuan heard of such a tragic life. As a beneficiary, he had never doubted whether the rules were right or wrong. Men and women were inherently unequal and were born that way.
Even now...
He still felt that it must be the woman's fault that she was kicked out of the house.
How could the husband and the mother-in-law be wrong?
Xie Yuchuan looked at Chen Wei deeply and touched her black hair: "Wei Wei, don't think about this."
"How can a woman get divorced in this world?"
"Divorce does exist, but the women who are divorced are all of bad reputation and tainted. Not only will their lives bring trouble to their families, but they will also be despised and cursed by those around them, and there will be no possibility of remarrying."
It's not possible to remarry.
It's completely impossible to survive.
Hated and abandoned by their natal families, looked down upon by their neighbors, with no income, no food, no one to help them and no one to care about them, they have no way out and can only live on the streets, a life worse than death.
From the moment a woman is kicked out of her home by her mother-in-law, she no longer has a home.
The only option left for her was to commit suicide.
"This woman is so despised by her in-laws. She must have done something wrong. She couldn't even keep a child. Even if she didn't kill him, it's still extremely unfilial."
"You are of a simple nature. You must not be soft-hearted and deceived by a few tears."
Xie Yuchuan raised his chin towards the servant and said, "Let her go. This is not a place for an abandoned woman like her to come!"
The woman looked at the servant in panic, the only glimmer of light in her eyes went out. She lowered her head, bowed to Chen Wei in despair and weakness, and then was about to get up and leave.
Her life,
This should have been the end.
It's a heavy curtain.
It was Chen Wei's words that struck the woman's heart deeply: "You can stay."
"But I have three requests."
"First, I'll write a letter for you and send it to your ex-husband to completely sever all ties with him."
"Second, from now on you're not called Pan Nan. It sounds unlucky. Can you call yourself Pan Xi? Life is endless, and you're looking forward to hope coming."
"Third, I can teach you anything you don't know, but since you've decided to stay, you can't go back on your word or just leave. If you're okay with these requirements, you can become a shop girl."
Swish!
The woman raised her head suddenly.
Tears welled up in her eyes, and she looked at Chen Wei, who was sitting in front of her, in disbelief.
Chen Wei sat there casually, gazing at her with a calm gaze. There was tolerance, compassion, kindness and radiance in his eyes. This was the girl who had given him a new life.
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