Yipin Farmer

The front yard of Meng's house is very large, with lush flowers and trees, and the main hall is tall and gorgeous. When you enter the house from the back, you can see the hall. Ting Shuang didn't go in immediately, but first took a look in through the carved window.

I saw a beautifully dressed woman standing in the hall, with silk and satin all over her body, black cloud-like hair piled on top of her head, and a golden emerald hairpin inserted, her temperament was elegant, and she looked very dignified.

Ting Shuang entered the main room with a smile on her face, and first said hello, "Mrs. Chen, please sit down." Then she ordered the maid: "Hurry up and serve tea."

"Hello, Eldest Young Master." Mrs. Chen seemed a little afraid of him, and greeted him timidly, and then greeted Ting Hui, "Hello, Second Young Master."

Ting Hui didn't even look at her, but rolled his eyelids and stared at the carved window lattice.

Ting Shuang said to her kindly: "Mrs. Chen came to my house, but what's the matter?"

Mrs. Chen blushed, and said in embarrassment: "I'm here because of Xiaolan's affairs. I know you don't like to hear this, but please be considerate of a mother's heart. Xiaolan is a piece of my body, and the child cannot I left my mother."

Seeing her wiping her eyes pitifully, Ting Shuang felt a little sympathetic, but no matter how sympathetic she was, she couldn't be emotional about this matter.On the way, he had already thought up his rhetoric, and persuaded her with good words: "Every child is born in October when the mother is pregnant. I understand that you miss your daughter. But please think about it, love for children cannot Only looking at the present, but thinking about the child's long-term, is the real love. Xiaolan went to Chen's house with you, although you love her, but what about the others? Can you guarantee that she will not be angry or wronged? You got it Lord? Are you expecting the brothers of the Meng family to speak up for her? What will you do at that time? Are you wronging your daughter to accommodate the members of the Chen family, or are you making trouble with others because of her?"

Mrs. Chen was a little surprised to hear what he said. Perhaps Ting Shuang hadn't been nice to her in the past, but she couldn't react to such kind words now, and she was always thinking of Xiaolan and her, so she didn't know what to say for a while.

Ting Shuang saw that she was a little active, and continued: "Also, Xiaolan is not a boy, and she will not be able to make great achievements in the future. In the future, she can only find a good family to marry, so that she can be relied on for life. How much dowry will the Chen family give her? There is no generous dowry." Girl, is there any good family willing to ask for it?"

"Xiaolan has been a beauty since she was a child." Mrs. Chen was a little dissatisfied.

"You really have long hair and great knowledge." Ting Hui on the side snorted coldly, "What's the use of being good-looking? A good rich family pays attention to marrying wives, virtues, concubines and sex. Xiaolan is attached to the Chen family, and there is no The dowry is not backed by her natal family, who can guarantee that she will have a good home in the future, or she will be tricked into being a concubine by the Chen family."

Ting Shuang gave him a wink to indicate that he should not be too rude, and then said kindly to Mrs. Chen's analysis: "Xiao Lan is under the fence of the Chen family, and it will be different if she stays in the Meng family. She is a serious daughter here. , although there is no real father and no mother to take care of her, her uncle and aunt treat her no worse than her own. She is the only girl in the family, and her brothers treat her as a treasure. You don’t have to worry about anything if you donate a large amount of property to her as a dowry.”

Mrs. Chen saw that what he said was logical, but she didn't have a single word to refute.

"You just come to the house every other day to make trouble, and it won't be good if you annoy my father." Ting Shuang gave her a warning and then promised her a favor: "If you want Xiaolan, you can take time to see her."

Seeing that he was reasonable in his analysis, Mrs. Chen was always thinking about Xiaolan's future. She also guaranteed that Xiaolan would not suffer in the future, warned her not to offend the master, and promised that she could visit Xiaolan every few days. She said that she had to take out the package she brought, which contained beautiful clothes specially made for Xiaolan, hair flowers, bracelets, and delicate snacks.

Ting Shuang knew that the poor mother made these things with her own hands, and felt very sympathetic, but in modern times, the child's ownership does not necessarily have to follow the biological parents, but also depends on who can give the child a better environment for healthy growth Whoever is the guardian, let alone in this ancient patriarchal society, can only help.

Seeing his sympathy, Mrs. Chen asked to see the child.

Ting Hui looked disgusted: "What else do you see her doing? Now she doesn't understand when she is young, but when she grows up, she knows that her mother is an unfaithful woman, and she can't hold her head up in front of others..."

"Shut up." Ting Shuang glared at him, what happened to the remarried woman?Why can men marry one by one, and a woman who remarries is infidelity, and should be cast aside, how can this world treat women like this.

Ting Hui didn't dare to go against his brother's wishes, and still didn't speak well to the woman, so he only allowed her to look at Xiaolan from a distance, and then drove her away.

"Oh, it's so pitiful." Ting Shuang sighed as she looked at the lonely leaving figure.

Ting Hui didn't care: "What's so pitiful about such an unchaste woman?"

"Don't say that. After all, she is Xiaolan's biological mother. If you are so rude to her, Xiaolan will be sad when she grows up." Ting Shuang taught him a few words. Seeing him being silent, she felt very happy. Doing things for this family at one time is thoughtful and very cool.

"Yes, big brother." Ting Hui agreed in a drawn tone.

"That's how you behave." Ting Shuang nodded in satisfaction, "Walk with me for a while."

Ting Shuang followed Ting Hui around the house, asking three or four questions as he went. Ting Hui was talkative and kept talking, allowing him to get a lot of useful information.

Ting Shuang knew that he was in an era that was on the rise, with a stable country and a developed economy. Although he didn't know what kind of rich family a family like the Meng family was in this era, he was sure that in this era, such a family would Will not suffer, will not suffer from war and chaos.

Slowly turned around the house, Meng's house is a four-way house, the scale is not small, the foundation is much higher than the street, several layers of stone steps protrude from the door, and there are horses and stone benches on the left and right.The door opened in the southeast direction, with a black painted red heart, and two couplets pasted on it: "Loyalty is passed down to the family for a long time, farming and reading will last forever."

After entering the gate, there is a powder screen wall facing you, and passing through four screen doors to the left is the front yard. The gatekeeper lives in the reverse room. There is a hanging flower gate on the north side. After entering the gate, there is the second entrance courtyard. There are three rooms in the middle facing north and south. It is the living room, and the hatchback is the outer study and account room.Turning around the hall is the main courtyard. There are several lilac trees planted in the courtyard, and the fragrance is all over the courtyard, implying that the purple air is coming from the east, which is very auspicious.The master and wife live in the main room, and there are east and west rooms on both sides.

Behind the main house is a row of back rooms, which form the fourth courtyard, where the maids live, and the kitchen, firewood, and warehouse are also there.Elm trees are planted in the courtyard, which is also auspicious, and it also means that everything is left inexhaustible.There are also persimmons, jujube trees and so on.To the east is the three-entry courtyard, where the brothers, husbands, and servants live. The front entrance is the courtyard for carriages, horses, and sedan chairs.To the west is a garden of several acres, with rockery ponds and pavilions, willows and peaches planted beside the ponds, and there are several moving scenery.

Such a house with a garden, if you change it to a modern city where the land is frighteningly expensive, only the top rich can afford it. I don’t know what it is in this era.

Ting Shuang thought while watching, feeling very ashamed, others are ambitious to play with the world and turn the world around, but he only thinks about how to survive better, don't worry about food and clothing, as long as someone cares for him, he is really useless.This is not good, something has to be done for this family.

In the garden, Ting Ke, Xiao Hui, and a few maids were playing hide-and-seek with Xiao Lan, and everyone laughed carefree.Ting Shuang watched from the side, remembering the scene of playing with classmates and friends in the previous life, he laughed.

Meng Tinglan turned her head to see Ting Shuang, and rushed towards her with her little hand outstretched.

"Brother, let's play riddles."

"Okay." Ting Shuang agreed.

"There are seven birds in the tree, knock one out with the slingshot, how many are there?"

"Six."

"Wrong, there is none left." Ting Lan smiled slyly, "If one is knocked out, the other birds will of course be scared away. Are they still waiting on the tree for you to kill? Big brother is so stupid."

Ting Shuang scratched her head and knelt down: "Okay, I lost."

"Okay, drive..." Xiaolan climbed onto his back, laughing happily, not bothering to cover her mouth.

Yang Shi watched from a distance in the pavilion with a loving smile in his eyes.

Ting Shuang walked around the pond with Xiaolan on her back, and the maid and younger brothers followed behind, laughing and making noise.

Turning to the pavilion, Mrs. Yang hugged Xiaolan down and said with a smile, "Go to the front for dinner, the master is coming back."

An old man in his fifties got out of the cart in front of the door, and the coachman and servants drove the cart to the carriage yard.

The brothers greeted his father outside the hanging flower gate and helped him get off the car.

The owner of this house is Meng Kejian, who is quite handsome, with a stern face, glanced at Ting Shuang, and said nothing, but Ting Shuang could feel that he seemed to be relieved.

Seeing the grim look on the master's face, Mrs. Yang quickly said, "Shuang'er is fine now, and he also knows what he did wrong. He said that he won't make you angry in the future, and he will help with housework and business. Just now, Xiaolan's mother came to ask for it." Child, it was the boss who sent her away."

"How did you get rid of it?" Meng Kejian turned his head and asked Ting Shuang, his expression still stern.

"Naturally, I should persuade her well." Ting Shuang replied, "Analyze her very well. What Xiaolan didn't get angry with at Meng's house was the life of a daughter with a rich dowry. If she followed her to the Chen family's family, she would inevitably feel wronged. And getting married in the future may not be smooth. I promised her that she could visit her daughter in the future, so she left without saying anything about having a child. "

Meng Kejian raised his face and taught him a lesson: "Who promised you that she could come and see the child?"

"But she is the biological mother of the child after all, so it's not good to not allow people to visit her?"

"What qualifications does this kind of unfaithful woman have to look after children, she will defile Xiaolan."

Ting Shuang was very disgusted with this kind of discrimination against remarried women, and said: "If she is not allowed to benefit, I am afraid she will not give up the idea of ​​having children obediently. Besides, after all, mother and daughter are connected, so it is completely inhumane not to allow her to visit. "

Meng Kejian was speechless for a while, and reprimanded with widened eyes: "You have learned to talk back."

Ting Shuang was taken aback. This old man is really authoritarian and domineering. He uses his parental authority to suppress others when he can't say anything. It's disgusting. Look at his staring eyes, white and black, so ugly, and a cold light shines on his shiny forehead The real murderer.Just as she was about to open her mouth to say more, Yang gave him a wink: "Shuang'er, don't contradict Daddy like this."

Yang changed the subject again: "Aunt Yu from the next door is here today."

Meng Kejian didn't bother to teach his son a lesson, and asked, "What is she doing here?"

"Come to visit and ask about Xiaolan. She told me to bind the girl's feet quickly. If it's too late, it won't be good if the bones grow hard, and the child will suffer."

Although Ting Shuang is a modern person, he also knows how to bind feet. It means that girls' toes are nestled towards the heels, and it will be difficult for them to walk in the future. He doesn't understand why the Chinese people regard small feet as beautiful and destroy women's body and mind. Health is regarded as enjoyment. This vice, like eunuchs and concubines, was called the three most ugly social phenomena in late Qing China. Since the entire social atmosphere is like this, anti-footbinding may not have such power.

However, knowing that it was impossible, he had to do something to protect the children, so he objected: "What kind of foot binding, breaking the whole foot into two parts, how cruel."

The second eldest, Tinghui, also chimed in: "Yes, when we were bothered last year, Xiaolan passed out from the pain, it's so pitiful."

Yang sighed: "I can't bear to let the child suffer, but if the feet are not bound, the girl will not be able to marry in the future, and even if she does, she will not be able to get a good relationship."

Ting Shuang was dumbfounded. The power of social habits is very strong, and it is difficult to fight against individuals, so Ting Hui didn't say a word.Meng Tinglan listened at the side, knowing that she was going to suffer again, she curled her mouth and began to cry: "No, no, it hurts."

Ting Shuang had no resistance at all to the little Lolita who was crying like pear blossoms and rain. She felt distressed, and quickly coaxed her: "Hey, my brothers will protect you and won't bind you. Whoever said that you can't get a good relationship without footbinding? A woman will be blessed if she does not bind her feet."

Speaking of this, he thought of a story. Li Hongzhang, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, became the governor, and his brother Li Hanzhang also became the governor. He took his mother to take care of him. The brothers greeted him at the pier and helped the bridge in person. The people onlookers envied the old lady for her blessing It was unique in the Qing Dynasty that both sons were governors. The old lady was overjoyed and stretched her feet out from under the car curtain. The onlookers saw that they had big feet and whispered to each other. Li Hongzhang felt embarrassed and whispered to the old lady. The wife said: "Mother, you put your feet back."

The old lady was furious: "Your father doesn't dislike me, how dare you dislike me?"

This incident was spread as an interesting story, and it was also recorded in the notes of the Qing people.