My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 848 Um, that's right
The young wife won a temporary victory in this war without gunpowder, but she lost her husband's heart forever.

Originally, Zhang Cang was willing to talk to her, and sometimes the two of them would sit at the same table and drink tea, but after this incident, Zhang Cang was no longer willing to pay attention to her.

People have one mouth and one tongue, which have two functions: one is to eat, the other is to talk.

Eating is important, and talking is also important.

Eating is a matter of life and death, and so is talking.

If you eat the wrong meal, you may be buried in the ground; if you say the wrong thing, you may lose your head.

If there are spots on white jade, they can be polished off.

But once a person says something wrong or inappropriate, it can never be undone.

The flaws in a white jade can still be polished away; but the flaws in these words cannot be corrected.

Disaster comes from the mouth, and too many words will lead to misfortune.

Zhang Cang stopped talking. Mrs. Zhang was very proud. She straightened her clothes and went to the backyard proudly and happily.

Before leaving, she saw Zhang Cang in a daze.

She vaguely felt that Zhang Cang seemed to be experiencing some great pain, and she felt that something was wrong.

At that moment, she also asked herself if what she had just said was too harsh.

"Don't be angry, I'll ask the servants to make you something delicious."

Zhang Cang looked at Mrs. Zhang and said with a dark face, "No need."

Zhang Cang walked out the door without looking back.

Mrs. Zhang's face turned pale at this moment. Zhang Cang had just had an argument with her and he would not miss dinner at home.

Especially after they had a son together, Zhang Cang obviously treated him differently than before.

But after today, everything changed.

This person, who usually complains about everything, was speechless when faced with this problem, and was so ashamed that he didn't know where to hide.

To make a man lose his dignity and face is equivalent to killing him.

It was from this moment that Zhang Cang felt that although he was eight feet tall, in the eyes of that woman, he would always be just a five-foot-tall dwarf who needed the help of her mother's clan to gain a foothold in Xianyang City and not be easily impeached.

Some painful memories emerged in Zhang Cang's mind. He felt his lips were a little numb, and his legs and feet began to become out of control.

He walked along the low wall, through the hedged garden, and down to the lake.

Zhang Cang wanted to ask his mother for an answer, but his mother had already turned into a pile of mud.

How heavy can an adult carry? They are young and strong, so they should stand tall and proud, right?
It’s just that you have to bear your own pain and digest it yourself; you also have to work hard to make money to support the next generation, educate the next generation, support your wife, and support the elderly.

You have to take care of the family and the outside world. If you don’t go out to work for a day, you may be replaced.

What kind of pressure can a man in his thirties or forties have?
Do they deserve to bear the greatest pressure in the world?

It's a bit ridiculous.

As a court official, Zhang Cang might have been very glorious.

He was such a brilliant man, a student of Xunzi, handsome, eight feet tall, deeply loved by the emperor, good at mental arithmetic, and highly capable. Almost nothing could stump him.

The people all like him.

But when he returns to his family, he has to face the most ordinary identities that everyone has - husband, father, and son.

When a person achieves a high enough position in society, he will naturally be surrounded and worshipped by everyone at home.

When a person is ordered around in society, when he returns home, all that awaits him is contempt.

this is the truth.

As long as you are a human being, you cannot escape the law of true fragrance.

The social status of Zhang Cang and his wife was so different that everyone said he was marrying above his station.

At least at home, seeing the yard full of servants bought by her wife, she beat and scolded them at will, as if they were just a group of animals.

This made Zhang Cang always feel unhappy.

Because in his memory, his father was treated like this in the past. And it was because his father was treated like this that he was able to get money to survive and to have what he has today.

Respect for your wife comes from your conscience, and you respect her simply because she is a person.

However, his rejection of his wife and the spiritual disharmony made it impossible for him to accept such a strong and willful wife throughout his life.

Do I really need a wife like this?
Almost every night, Zhang Cang asked himself why he was so cowardly in the first place. Why didn't he just firmly reject the marriage proposal? Why did he have to marry him under pressure?

He could have clearly asked the prince to resolve the matter.

But it's too late to regret now.

The child is five years old.

Zhang Cang did not go home, but strolled alone on the streets of Xianyang City.

What he always thought about was the inheritance from father to son.

"How can a five-foot-tall person give birth to an eight-foot-tall person?"

Zhang Cang murmured to himself, and all he got in response was the ancient people's weird looks.

When they arrived at a wine shop, Zhang Cang picked up the wine cup and drank it down quickly.

He had acquaintances and friends in Xianyang City, but today he just wanted to drink quietly by himself, find a place where no one knew him, and drink all day long.

"Since it was our ancestors who did something wrong, why should our descendants bear the consequences?" Zhang Cang still asked this question.

Zhang Cang's confusion was only answered by the clinking sound of wine utensils in the wine shop.

In history, Zhang Cang's father was less than five feet tall, but when he was born, he was eight feet tall, and was granted the title of marquis and became prime minister. Zhang Cang's son was also very tall, but his grandson Zhang Lei was a little over six feet tall, and lost his title of marquis because he broke the law.

Even if you say that retribution is not here, in fact, retribution is always here.

If retribution does exist, it never comes when people desire it the most or when it is most necessary, which makes people feel tortured.

Zhang Cang was sitting at the bar drinking, when soon a man came up to him. He had just had an argument with his woman.

The reason was that he bought a dog. After his family finished their meal, he gave the remaining dog meat to his parents, but did not give the dog meat to his wife's parents' family.

So his woman fought with him, saying that he was irresponsible and not good to his parents.

Men feel wronged. Why do women always take things out of context and make a fuss about a little thing? It's just a bite of dog meat, what's the big deal? Every time they blame him for the little thing he didn't do well, and never praise him.

He always helps his wife's family with work, but why does his wife always think that this is natural? His wife just curses and lives in resentment. She always thinks that after she follows her husband's family, her family has helped her husband's family a lot, and her husband should repay her family. He should repay her forever.

The wife always felt that her parents-in-law were unfair to her family. They were the best to her parents-in-law, so they should be the best to them and stop taking care of their useless brother-in-law. Perhaps they should kick the brother-in-law out of the house because he did nothing but waste food all day.

The man lay on the table and complained.

When the men heard this, they all expressed sympathy for him.

Zhang Cang was also stunned. He felt that he was much luckier than this farmer, but he also felt very miserable.

Zhang Cang doesn't need to worry about the daily necessities of life. He can give his father-in-law a hundred dogs.

But this is also where his pain comes from.

Even if he gave his father-in-law a hundred dogs, his father-in-law would not think highly of him. He would only think, if I hadn't helped you in the past, you wouldn't have the chance to give me a hundred dogs today.

You are where you are today because of our help.

The world is at peace now, and men have returned to their daily mundane lives, where trivial matters can cause such a commotion.

People who live in happiness will get bored and want to see what misery is like.

People who live in misery try to find happiness every day.

Zhang Cang humbled himself and told these men his story.

For Zhang Cang, such an afternoon was more meaningful than any other.

Because he found that solving his own problems made him happier than solving other people's problems.

Maybe, as his wife said, they were just showing off and doing what they thought was right. In fact, no one could really help anyone.

The only person who can become the light to illuminate yourself is yourself.

Zhang Cang claimed that he was a poor scholar who went to work as a farmhand in a landlord's house. He was then favored by the landlord's daughter and they later married.

Although life has improved, the landlord's family still can't stand me. They think everything I do is wrong.

They didn't distinguish between right and wrong, and just kept criticizing him.

As soon as these words were spoken, half of the men in the bar stood up at once.

"Um, too."

"Yeah, that's the same."

"What annoys me most is that my father-in-law and his family look down on me. No matter what I do, they look down on me. But in fact, my father-in-law himself is not a good person."

"At least if I ask myself honestly, I think I treat my wife much better than my father-in-law treats my mother-in-law."

"That's it."

At that moment, Zhang Cang inexplicably felt that his pain had disappeared a lot.

"It seems we are all in the same boat."

Zhang Cang was so happy that he invited his brothers to drink.

Zhang Cang found recognition, but the noble lady did not.

Because she was the one who wanted to pursue love in the first place.

But most people were unwilling to believe that she was pursuing love. Most people were very harsh on her, thinking that she was just attracted to Zhang Cang's face, and some even thought that this was an investment from her father.

You know, it was not uncommon for nobles to marry their daughters to promising scholars at that time.

Zhang Cang rarely went home afterwards.

The woman thought she had destroyed the relationship with her husband.

She always blamed herself, and then felt inferior, and began to try to please her husband constantly.

The more she tried to please her husband, the more her family felt that Zhang Cang was abusing their daughter.

The conflict between husband and wife began to escalate into a conflict between two families.

The child can only be left trembling in fear in the middle...

The child trembling in the wind can't help but think about the true meaning of marriage.

The reason why the younger generation does not get married may not necessarily be because of poverty, but because they see that the older generation has gone through the same thing.

If there is no happiness or benefit in marriage, then naturally people will choose not to get married.

If there is one most fragile thing in this world, it is called relationship.

As for the relationship between husband and wife, many people think too highly of it.

In fact, the relationship between husband and wife is probably the most dangerous relationship on earth. In Chinese history, fathers and sons could kill each other, let alone husband and wife.

A couple is originally a union of a man and a woman from two different families. Before that, they were strangers to each other for most of the time. Suddenly getting married and living together, sleeping in the same bed, is something that makes people feel terrified when they think about it.

How terrible is this?

Imagine that in a remote mountain forest, a robber sees a wealthy businessman. He will definitely want to kill him and rob him of his wealth.

Then I would like to ask, why do robbery and murder never occur in a husband-wife relationship?
Of course, people are smart and will not rob openly, but will only exploit secretly, create so-called love, and make up lies. Men cheat women to achieve their goals; women also cheat to achieve their goals.

The origin of the word "marriage" is explained in the dictionary as follows: ancient people usually held weddings at dusk.

The real reason for marriage is that marriage leads to disaster.

At that time, the level of human civilization was still in the clan tribal era. Each tribe lived together like a group of wild beasts. When men grew up, they had to continue their bloodline. To do this, the men needed to cover the woman's head with bright red cloth at dusk when it was dark and the people from other tribes were driving the cattle and sheep home, and then rob her into their own accounting office.

This is the original meaning of marriage, full of brutality, plunder and unrest.

The marriage relationship is inherently unstable and is a naked relationship of interests.

When interests are coordinated and the couple is in a position to distribute resources or does not need to compete with others for resources, they can satisfy each other and of course they will live in harmony and love each other more.

When their interests are not in harmony and they are in a position to be allocated resources but the resources allocated to them are insufficient, naturally there will be huge conflicts between the couple.

The so-called root of all interpersonal conflicts is fundamentally due to the emergence of classes, and the contradiction between the ruling class and the ruled class.

But why does everyone feel that family is stable? Since reality is so cruel, let's create some impulses that make men and women want to get married and have children. So they fabricate love, exaggerate love, and use human nature - the nature of seeking profit and avoiding harm, and selfishness, to make each other live in the longing for love.

Scholars often fall into traps easily because they have no experience and are easily confused by the superficial phenomena of things.

Those who work hard, however, are not superstitious about those messy things and will not be deceived. They do not understand romance and pain.

(End of this chapter)