In the original work, the author used Jiang Changyi's mouth to avenge Zhang Guilan.
He said: An Jie is a thief who stole everything that should have belonged to Zhang Guilan. This is the case with urban women, who look down on rural men, but when they get ahead, they swarm them and snatch them away.
In his eyes, even if Zhang Guilan did not betray, Jiang Defu would not bring a woman who was illiterate and wrapped in small feet to live in the city.
Therefore, Jiang Defu, a rural man who has made a name for himself, is Chen Shimei in the mouth of his grandmother, and he forgot about his wife who suffered hardships in the countryside after he had a chance.
So, if Zhang Guilan hadn't betrayed Jiang Defu, would she really have been taken to live in the city and have children with Jiang Defu?
The screenwriter actually gave the answer a long time ago, but we didn't find out.
If Zhang Guilan hadn't betrayed Jiang Defu, she should have been Wang Xiu'e.
Like Wang Xiu'e, she is many years older than Jiang Defu, and Jiang Defu married his daughter-in-law in his rural hometown.
As soon as she got married, her husband went out, and there was no news for many years, she took care of her in-laws at home, went to the field to farm, and did housework, so that her husband who worked outside had no worries.
However, her husband never really liked this woman, she was Jiang Defu's parents' matchmaker, and she was also the object of Lao Ding's fear of being disliked.
has no culture, does not pay attention to hygiene, is looked down upon by urban women like An Jie, and is also looked down upon by her husband. The reason why two people can still live together is because women take good care of them.
Such a woman is humble and insecure.
Wang Xiu'e suffers from gains and losses, and strictly guards An Jie. She knew that Lao Ding liked cultured women, but she couldn't pierce this layer of window paper, because once she did, she would have no way to continue living.
So I can only pretend to be deaf and dumb, but in fact I am staring at my husband's every move. But even so, they have no way to make a man a couple for a lifetime.
She gave birth to a child for Lao Ding and died in childbirth, just because Lao Ding still wanted a daughter, so she didn't care about her body, even if she was an elderly woman, she had no scruples.
But what did Lao Ding do to her?
After her death, she was upright and justified in finding a cultured woman, which can only show that she was fed up with Wang Xiu'e's lack of culture, so she insisted on finding a wife who was different from her.
What a sad thing, a man who goes out of the countryside always wants to find a woman who matches his identity and status, but this person is definitely not a wife.
If Zhang Guilan hadn't betrayed Jiang Defu, she might have been Zhang Guiying.
She has always been by Wang Zhenbiao's side, and in order to take care of the family, she did all the work that a man in the family should do.
Wang Zhenbiao's machismo will never help his wife carry water, but the conditions on the island are so poor, if she doesn't carry water, how can the family live?
But in Wang Zhenbiao's eyes, he ridiculed that they were more powerful than men, and that she was not feminine. The relationship between two people has long existed in name only.
Zhang Guiying is a very kind woman, even if An Jie hates her, she doesn't care. Instead, he will silently help An Jie fill up the water, and when An Jie gave birth to twins, he went to her house to help kill chickens.
Knowing that Jiang Dehua liked Lao Ding, she took the initiative to find An Jie and asked her to help propose marriage, regardless of others thinking she was nosy. even proposed to Wang Zhenbiao that the two of them would match this marriage.
But such a kind woman was not treated well, which once made people feel distressed.
When she saw An Jie's clothes all over the yard, although she was envious, she never thought that she could have it, she was also a woman, where was she lower than An Jie?
broke An Jie's teacup for tea, and when she drank coffee for the second time, An Jie deliberately found a bad cup for her. But she took a sip, spit it out immediately, and when she got home, she proudly showed off to her family.
This is the cuteness of this woman, neither humble nor arrogant, and she is also Wang Zhenbiao's virtuous helper. But not long after her death, Wang Zhenbiao immediately married Ge Meixia.
Like Lao Ding, Wang Zhenbiao is also a ruthless and unrighteous rural man, but because of his affection, he has always taken his wife with him.
If Zhang Guilan hadn't betrayed Wang Zhenbiao, she might have been Jiang Dehua.
Dehua and Zhang Guilan have the same life experience, but they have different choices and different results in the end.
It was also her husband who went out to join the army, Zhang Guilan chose to betray, and Jiang Defu kept the bottom line, and he kept it for decades, and finally married Lao Ding, which can be regarded as a good home.
But if Jiang Defu didn't take her to the city, how long could Jiang Dehua's bottom line be kept?
The elderly Jiang Dehua was disliked by Lao Ding's descendants, and even took the initiative to bully her, and Jiang Defu, as an elder brother, had no way to help her confidently.
Because in the countryside, Wang Xiu'e married Lao Ding first, and gave birth to a son for the Ding family, passing on the lineage, so that the Ding family has a successor. Therefore, Wang Xiu'e is the wife of the main house that Ming Media is marrying, and Jiang Dehua can only be disliked.
Even when she was young, she married Lao Ding, and she did not enjoy happiness. She wants to help Lao Ding's son take care of the children, but if it is not enough to bring one, she will continue to bring it, which truly continues Wang Xiu'e's life.
And Jiang Dehua, who gave birth to a daughter, did not receive support from Lao Ding's son after his old age, so he could only continue to live with his brother and sister-in-law and continue to live under the fence.
Is this a result really happy?
Unlike Jiang Dehua, Zhang Guilan did not have a capable brother like Jiang Defu, so she took the initiative to be unable to keep the bottom line, and she was also abandoned by Jiang Defu.
This was the reality of that era, the sorrow of such women.
Whether they keep the bottom line or can't keep it, they won't die well.
The rural man who got ahead was like a native pig in the countryside, taking the cabbage in the big city as his life goal. And they can only be abandoned.
And this group of women, who also contributed to the development of history, should be remembered.