After they regret their whole lives, I will never die in the training ground

"......I didn't cry." Shang Hongxiu wiped away the traces on her face completely with sobs.

"Pfft, I know."

"What, are you laughing, senior?" Shang Hongxiu asked in confusion.

"I didn't do it on purpose. It's your own fault that you made yourself look like a cat."

Shang Hongxiu then looked at her hands belatedly, because of the burnt shell and wood ash on the outer layer of the sweet potato, her hands were as black as if they were stained with ink.

Even without a mirror, she could probably imagine the beauty of her face.

Shang Hongxiu originally wanted to endure it, but when she heard Bai Qingge's laughter, she seemed to be infected.

"puff........."

"Hahahahaha!"

"Aren't you laughing yourself? It's really overbearing that the officials are allowed to set fires but the common people are not allowed to light lamps." Bai Qingge condemned this behavior of only allowing one person to be happy.

"I'm not domineering." Shang Hongxiu wiped the tears from laughing at the corners of her eyes.

After taking a bite of the soft sweet potato in her hand, memories flashed through her smiling eyes, "My father hated it the most when I cried."

Then Shang Hongxiu thought of something and shook her head in denial, "To be precise, he hates all women's tears.

“My father wasn’t really strict with me, but no matter what I did, he would never be satisfied.

“He was also very strict with his brothers, but he would give them encouragement or small rewards from time to time.

“Although it’s not something particularly valuable, I also hope that my father can give me a small reward because he recognizes me.

"So I also started to learn sword skills from my brothers. As long as I practiced well, I would be rewarded. That's what I thought."

Shang Hongxiu pinched her fingers. Even if it was just a memory from the past, it could stir her emotions at the moment.

"Finally one day, my mother thought I had practiced well, so I went to perform a sword dance for my father."

She didn't even need to guess what was going to happen next. She knew that Shang Hongxiu must have been said something bad about.

Considering that they want to marry their daughter to a man in his 70s, it would probably be something that can increase the value of the marriage.

"I was punished to kneel outside the ancestral temple. I didn't quite understand at the time. Even if my brothers had made mistakes, they would kneel inside. But why was I kneeling outside? And I probably didn't make any mistakes.

"But my father said that a woman should not wield swords and knives, but should learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and learn the three obediences and four virtues. Only in this way can she be a qualified woman and a good daughter..."

Bai Qingge interjected, "Really? He didn't say you were bad at sword dancing."

Shang Hongxiu sniffed. Is the main point about her sword dance?

Then she laughed again. Yes, she didn't say that she was not good at sword dancing. So it should be, good...

Shang Hongxiu took a big bite of the sweet potato. She didn't know why, but she felt a little angry. She should be sad because she didn't get any praise from her father.

When she was little, she didn't understand this. No matter how hard she tried, she could never compare to her brothers in her father's eyes. Even the way she addressed the two old people had to conform to the 'rules' of a lady from a noble family.

Later, through my mother's teaching, I gradually understood that since my mother depended on my father to live, I would also need to depend on my husband to live in the future, so everything about a woman should revolve around her man and her family.

She still remembers asking her mother why women were weaker than men, since her mother obviously had a lot to do at home and didn't have any rest time every day.

On the contrary, my father practices sword, drinks tea, plays chess, and practices calligraphy every day... When he is busy, he probably drinks with guests.

Can’t mother drink with the guests?

What did your mother say at that time?

By the way, the mother didn’t say anything, she just smiled and rubbed her head. Although she was smiling, she looked very sad.

After that, she began to listen to her father and followed her mother to learn needlework, the skills that women should learn, and the knowledge of managing housework and raising children.

The mother often praised herself for being smart and a quick learner, but she just felt bored. She wanted to practice swordplay and she also wanted to use the sword in her hand to protect her family.

But if her father wants her to do this, then she should learn it herself. One day she will be rewarded for her hard work.

Until one day, her eldest brother brought her a book of stories about martial arts world, and she was deeply fascinated by the chivalry in it.

It turns out that women can also wield swords.

It turns out that women can also uphold justice, save the weak, and punish evil.

It turns out that women can also travel the world with a sword and a horse.

It turns out that women can be as generous as men, drinking and eating meat with big gulps.

It turns out that women can also just yell when the road is uneven, without having to hold their voices.

It turns out that women can be masters of their own homes, free from the constraints of men...

Having always been educated at home, she even had doubts: Is what is written in this book really about women?

Didn’t the author make a mistake due to confusion?

She didn't know whether the contents of the book were true or false, but she also didn't know that from that moment on, she had actually believed the contents of the book.

"senior?"

"Yeah." Bai Qingge replied indifferently.

"Do you hate women who cry?"

"That depends on how you cry."

“Is there any particularity to this?”

"Of course, people don't cry for no reason."

"What if they are crying because of pain?"

"You should comfort her." Bai Qingge answered calmly.

"What if she's crying because she's wronged?"

“You should apologize.”

"What if he was crying because of hunger?"

"You should slap yourself twice."

Shang Hongxiu: “?”

Shang Hongxiu was so shocked by Bai Qingge's words that she suddenly stopped talking. After a while, she asked in confusion, "Why did you slap yourself?"

"You can't even raise your own daughter. Shouldn't you slap yourself? This is already the lightest punishment."

“He who does not treat his father well is not a father, but a beast.”

Shang Hongxiu opened her mouth and wanted to refute. Although her father was very strict with her, she still respected him very much.

She was slow to utter the rebuttal because she realized that if she followed what her senior said, she would not be able to refute it at all.

She should have resisted the senior who insulted her father, but now she was eager to know what the senior's answer would be to the question that had been buried in her heart for a long time.

"So it's not my fault for practicing sword?"

"No."

"So kneeling at the ancestral temple isn't my fault?"

"No."