Chapter 5 Act I Scene IV

Ten minutes before and after the time. The location is in Qi's mother's house. figure Qi Mu Qi Lingyun Miss Zhao Wei Mo Xiangwei's sister-in-law [curtain opening: in the room.Mother Qi talked with Qi Lingyun. Qi Mu Lingyun, I don't think you look right!Did you just tell the truth? Qi Lingyun, why did I lie to you?You are smarter than anyone else, dare I lie? Mother Qi is right!Can you hide it from me for a day and a half, and can you hide it forever?Let's study about Sister Zhao!If she walks away and you go to a film training class, what should I do? Looking at Qi Lingyun from all directions, we probably won't be able to keep her!You see, even our cities mobilize women to participate in childbirth, let alone the countryside?She's from the country and should go back.

Qi's mother has been in the city for more than ten years and is used to eating rice and white noodles. Do you think she is really willing to go back? Sister Zhao (on) Old lady, I really want to go back! Mother Qi why? Sister Zhao mobilized everyone on the street to go back, and my family urged me to go back one after another. I can't rest easy here! Mother Qi, you know for yourself: I don’t have much work here, the food is not hard, and the wages are not less than other places. Why do you have to go back and ask for trouble? Mrs. Zhao, you must also know that I came to Beijing out of necessity.And then there is a bowl of porridge to drink, who would be willing to part with his hometown?Before liberation, I was at home, messing around like a human being!Now, the family asks me to go back because they treat me as a person!There is a shortage of labor in the countryside, so I was told to go back and work with my head held high.Didn’t I go back a few days ago? I saw it clearly with my own eyes. The girls and daughters-in-law in the country are all like men. Standing together, no one is taller and no one is lower. Why don’t I go back? Woolen cloth?Miss Yun, you said that was the case, didn't you?

Qi Lingyun is not bad at all!Mom, this is a big deal!I often think: In the past, China had only one wing and listened to men's opinions in everything; today, women are the same as men, don't they have two wings?Flying with two wings, doesn't it fly higher and farther, straight up to the blue sky? Miss Zhao is!Last time I went back, my sister-in-law was originally a little girl who knew nothing; now, drink, she has become a model worker and a representative of the township people! Whatever mother Qi says, I beg you, don't go!You are gone, I can't help it!Yesterday, Ling Yun's elder brother wrote in a letter saying: Ling Yun's sister-in-law also has a job, and she can give me an extra ten yuan a month.Well, if they give me ten more yuan, I will give you five more. Do you think I am generous enough?

Mrs. Zhao, I have been with you for several years, and you can probably see that I am definitely not someone who fights for a few extra dollars!You don't object to Ling Yun's sister-in-law going out to work, so don't stop me from returning home.Old lady, you should go to the countryside to have a look, our strength has grown!The women are all out!If you can't let go of your child, start a nursery!If you don't have time to cook, set up a canteen!Leaders have ideas, women are motivated, and things will be done! [Wei Moxiang calls out in the courtyard: "Aunt Qi! Aunt Qi!"

Mother Qi, the guards are here!Sister Zhao, go get some food first, let's talk after dinner. (to the outside) Come in!come in! Qi Lingyun go, sister Zhao, I'll cook for you! (same below) Wei Moxiang (enters) Aunt Qi, haven't you eaten yet? Mother Qi is not there yet, sit down!Have you got a meal yet? Wei Moxiang wasn't there either.Come to discuss something with you, please help! What's the matter, Mother Qi?Speak! Wei Moxiang begs you to persuade my lover. What happened to Mrs. Qi's mother Wei? Wei Moxiang, she is going to be a salesperson! Mother Qi, too... What's going on?I see, the problem is quite serious!If every family's girls and daughters-in-law all go to work as salesmen like a gust of wind, who will take care of the housework?

Wei Moxiang Yes!Auntie, I have to make it clear: before liberation, I was just a clerk as a college student who graduated from law and politics; Some progress.I think our new things are all right, especially women's liberation! Mother Qi is right!Mo Xiang, I am also willing to explain this way!You see, my late father was a juren, and I have been able to read and write since I was a child.Thirty years ago, I was a reformer and knew that women should fight for freedom and equality.However, to this day, everyone is knocking and teasing me to imply that I am a backward person!I am not convinced!Women's Liberation, I absolutely support it!But how to liberate?I'm afraid I have to think more about it!I am in favor of women participating in the revolution, so make a heroine!Women should be ministers, directors, and section chiefs. I agree. Men and women are equal!I rushed to say that women also go to make tofu and cabbage. According to my opinion, it is not to improve the status of women, but to lower it. What is equality?I can't figure it out!

Wei Moxiang, I went further than you thought, Auntie!It's also good for women to sell tofu and cabbage!Little girls like Yu Zhifang and Song Yu'e, just go, they are idle at home anyway.My lover is not Yu Zhifang and Song Yu'e, my income is enough for the whole family, why should she sell cabbage tofu?This is the first point.The second point is that I am actively working in the ministry, and I feel so tired. When I come back from get off work, I have the right to ask for hot food and meals to be brought immediately. My lover has the responsibility to take care of me like this.If I eat well and rest well, I can serve the people better; she also serves the people indirectly, doesn't she?

Mother Qi is completely logical, Mo Xiang! Wei Moxiang's third point: she went to work in the street, although when she got busy, she made me scream with hunger and made me lose my temper, but afterward I checked myself and admitted that something was wrong!It is a good thing for her to serve on the street, and it is something that can be said.People once asked me: Sanitation officer, where does your wife do street work?Hurrah!Can I nod without a friendly smile?On the other hand, if someone asks me: health officer, yesterday I saw my sister-in-law selling tofu and cabbage, what did you do?What can I say?

Mother Qi is not bad at all, I have nothing to say!Women should serve, but should not lower their status! Wei Moxiang also has a fourth point: there is an old lady in the family, and there are as many as four children in the family. This is the most practical problem.If you don't look at the reality and only focus on the ideal, you will definitely go wrong!I go to work every day, if she also goes to work every day, who will take care of the old lady and the children? Mother Qi is!right!We should have ideals, but we can't let our ideals get in the way! [Sister Wei called out in the courtyard: "Old Wei! Old Wei!" Qi Lingyun hurried out, said a few words to Sister Wei in the courtyard, and then came in together.

Sister-in-law Qi Lingyunwei, I'm busy, you wait to see my movie! (Down) Sister-in-law Wei, Aunt Qi, why haven't you eaten yet? Mother Qi is having dinner tonight!sit down! Mrs. Wei is not sitting down!I'm here to tell Lao Wei to go back for dinner.Old Wei, let's go! Mother Qi (Seeing Wei Moxiang's reluctance to leave) Sister Wei, are you really going to be a salesperson? Sister Wei, really, Aunt Qi!I figured it out when I took the test.The leader said: With female salespersons, men can be allocated to engage in industry and so on, which is conducive to the construction of socialism. After hearing such meaningful words, I made up my mind!

Mother Qi But, what about the family affairs?old lady, children... Sister-in-law Wei, Aunt Qi, that doesn't stop me from going out to work! Wei Moxiang Then, why don't you just leave the old lady behind and ignore the children? Sister Wei, I didn't say that!You see, the big girl and the second girl can take care of themselves. I asked them: Is it okay for mom to go out to serve?They said yes!The third child and the fourth child take a little trouble, but gradually there will always be nurseries in the streets.Besides, the old lady loves her grandson, so it's fine if she stretches out her hand more!I have thought about it, this is it, how meaningful it is to break the old habits of thousands of years and rearrange the arrangements! Wei Moxiang is probably not that simple! Sister Wei is certainly not simple!It's simple to drive pigs in the small alleys, go straight, but it doesn't show the overwhelming spirit of the new era!Let's go, old Wei!You have to help me explain it to the old lady, and call her a new old lady! Qi Lingyun (top) Yes, yes, yes!Mrs. Wei!I heard everything you said!You are so good!Mom, you are new, and I am new, and every woman in the country has become new!The women's liberation struggle is led by us, and we will be victorious in all battles and reorganize the world!Long live the complete emancipation of women!Long live! Qi Mu Lingyun, I think you are going crazy, right?Sister-in-law Wei, Aunt Qi, looking at new things with old eyes, is a bit crazy!Let me give you an idea, I have such a regular job, isn't there another leader in the street?You go and help!How much you are so busy, the busier you are, the happier you are, the happier you are, the brighter your eyes, don't say we are crazy!After dinner, I'll come with you to meet everyone and have a talk, okay? Mother Qi, I haven't solved my own problems yet, so you still want me to take care of those things?Mo Xiang, you come to ask me for help, but I have to ask you to take my sister-in-law away! Mrs. Wei, old Wei, what do you think? Wei Moxiang, I see, I see, let's go home and have dinner! Qi Lingyun hahaha! - the curtain falls