"Being able to marry into the city already makes you the envy of many girls in the village. My daughter, you mustn't fail to recognize your own good fortune while you're in it."
Yu Qing wept and said, "Mom, that's not good fortune; it's a den of wolves and tigers. I... if I hadn't gotten pregnant, my mother-in-law would have tormented me to death."
"What can be done? You don't have a job, but your two sisters-in-law do. In that family, your lower status was sealed from the start. If you want to raise your standing at home, unless you also get a good job—though good jobs aren't easy to come by."
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