Li Yue was puzzled and looked at Bai Zhi, biting her lips tightly to prevent her tears from falling. After confirming the determination in Bai Zhi's eyes again and again, she couldn't help but ask, tears rushing with her words.

"Why! Why do you want to give birth to a girl! Do you want her to come to this world to suffer?" Li Yue asked Bai Zhi.

"What parent would want their children to suffer?" Bai Zhi responded immediately, smiling gently, "My daughter, I hope she will be happy every day and have a safe and smooth life."

"But I know that's impossible." Before Li Yue could answer, Bai Zhi denied her own words, "If she lived in the world, she would have encountered all kinds of difficulties. She had to learn to eat, learn to stand, and learn to walk since she was a child. When she grows up, she needs to read and write, and she needs to learn how to deal with people."

"In Yue'er's opinion, are these things difficult or easy?" Bai Zhi asked her.

Li Yue didn't know why, so she just said, "Everyone knows how to..."

"But this is not the case for babies and children. They can't even tame their legs and feet at first, and they have to fall countless times before they can stand up. No one can use chopsticks as soon as they arrive, and reading is also extremely difficult, Yue'er You should be able to understand how difficult it is..."

Li Yue lowered her head. It was really difficult. She had to write each word dozens of times, read it hundreds of times, find someone to take dictation, and ask someone for the meaning of each word. At the beginning, she couldn't even hold a pen, and the ink grinding was not smooth. A piece of rice paper used for calligraphy was full of ink stains.

After practicing calligraphy all day, my hands would cramp, and the hands holding the chopsticks couldn't stop shaking when eating.

Li Yue recalled, being diverted by Bai Zhi's guidance, she hummed softly, "Now...it doesn't seem that difficult."

Bai Zhi gently wiped away the tears from her eyes, as gently as a feather caressing her, "Do you know why?"

Li Yue can always find some brief peace in her gentle words. Around her, the world seems to become gentler.

Li Yue shook her head gently, "I don't know."

"There is no special reason, because you have become stronger!" Bai Zhi's words were gentle but powerful.

"Become... stronger?" Li Yue was stunned.

"Well, the pain you felt when you couldn't walk or read is the same as when you can't face those men now. It's the same as the turmoil our small workshop encountered. It's the same as when you can't stand up to Nan Chen and Beichen. the same."

"Yue'er, nothing is indestructible. You will know it the day you cross it!"

Although Bai Zhi spoke beautifully, Li Yue was still anxious. She was dejected, "But I can't cross. I feel sick when I see those men. I think they are so ugly and dirty..."

"Yue'er, let me cross over with you, okay?"

Bai Zhi's voice had irresistible magic power. Li Yue's mouth and nose were still covered by the quilt, but her eyes widened slightly, and she expressed her agreement to Bai Zhi hesitantly, "Then... what should we do?"

Bai Zhi thought for a while before speaking slowly, "This is the first step. I have to ask you, do you still want to stay here and develop muskets?"

Li Yue hesitated, and Bai Zhi hurriedly said, "Ignore the man for now, no matter who is under your command, just tell me whether you want to develop a musket?"

"think."

"That's fine if you still want to! Let's talk about the difficulties you face. First of all, you have to face their criticism of your status as a prostitute. All kinds of rumors will hurt you completely, right?"

Li Yue hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "If they were just talking, I would just listen, but they decided to do such a thing!"

"Then shut them up! Although it is impossible to completely solve it, I have a method that can greatly curb this phenomenon."

Bai Zhi gave Li Yue her specific methods, one by one, very clear, and then she went on to analyze the second one, "Then, what you have to face is their resentment towards you, a woman, as the person in charge. "

"Well... they don't accept my control and think I'm not worthy..." Li Yue said with frustration.

"This is something you want to learn. Are you willing to learn it?"

Li Yue nodded quickly, "Of course I do!"

"Then listen up! If you want to lead them, you can't treat yourself as a woman, and you can't treat them as men. You are all human. Can you do this?"

Li Yue frowned, "I can understand what you say, but I don't know what to do?"

"No matter whether men or women in the world have different situations, their essence is the same. They want to gain and don't lose. What do blacksmiths come to work to gain?"

"money."

"Yes! Then you can't touch their money. If you withhold without reason, that's deprivation. They will definitely resist! So the decision you make must ensure the interests of the majority of people! But they want more than just money!"

Li Yue thought thoughtfully, "What else can there be?"

"Think about why you followed me in the first place?"

Li Yue looked at Bai Zhi and thought for a long time before summing up one word, "Hope?"

"Exactly! If you want to win people's hearts, you can't stand against them. At least on the surface, you have to stand with them, fight for them, get for them, and make them feel that there is hope in following you. Gain money, gain fame, and hopefully give them a better life!”

Li Yue suddenly realized that she was following Bai Zhi just like this. It seemed that by following her, she could live the life she wanted.

Seeing Li Yue's face becoming clearer little by little, Bai Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, "This third point is called order. Maintaining order is a difficult thing, but in the early days of the establishment of our workshop, we don't need to go into too much detail. It's simple. Just use violence to protect them! You must make good use of the soldiers I give you!"

Bai Zhi explained many details to her in detail, and Li Yue's heart became clearer and clearer.

"One more thing, Yue'er, I know you have been greatly insulted, but I am ruthless. I hope you will not be possessed by hatred. If you only want to hate, you will never move forward."

Li Yue's throat was slightly choked, "But I can't help but hate men..."

"Yue'er, did you torture and kill those five men?" Bai Zhi asked her.

Li Yue's face turned pale and she said with difficulty, "I'm sorry..."

"There's nothing to be sorry for. They deserved their death. But after you killed them, were you satisfied? Are you happy now?"

Li Yue shook her head, unable to explain why, she was not happy.

Bai Zhi sighed slightly, "Not only are you not satisfied, you also transfer all your hatred to those men. You feel that you can't be happy without killing all the men. You also hate that you are a girl and wish that there were no more women in the world, right? ?”

Li Yue nodded slowly, she was right, she just wanted to kill the man or herself.

"Such feelings may not be called hatred, but powerlessness and resentment."

Li Yue was startled and raised her head suddenly, "Weak? Angry?"

"Well, when you are weak, you will be powerless in anything you do. Even venting will not yield results."

"So Yue'er, you can't spend a lot of time hating them. You have to become stronger and fill yourself with achievements!"

"Fill yourself with achievements?" Li Yue chewed on this sentence, which inexplicably quenched his thirst.

There followed a long silence, both of them deep in thought.

"After talking so much, is Yue'er in a better mood?" Bai Zhi's mouth was a little dry.

Li Yue was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that her anxiety and anger were disappearing bit by bit in the plans that could be implemented.

She shook her head and laughed, and said to Bai Zhi, "So you've been talking all afternoon just to make me happy?"

"Well, it's just to make you happy!" Bai Zhi slapped her sore waist, "So I hope that my child will be a girl. Only by allowing more women from all walks of life to achieve something can we Give women more opportunities!"

"Yue'er, just go ahead and do it. With me behind you, you don't have to be afraid of anything!"

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