[Red Mansion] Queen's Road

No one can say clearly when the foot binding thing started.But, in the words of the housewife, "this is a custom passed down from the ancestors."

Pooh! ! !

On this day, Linlin put a few chess pieces on the chessboard and taught her younger brother how to play backgammon, and Jia Min's competent steward came.

These internal stewards were the dowry maids that Jia Min brought with him when he married back then, and they were all sent out to marry the servants around Lin Ruhai. Min manages the backyard.The whole family of these servants is decent, so Jia Min can be the housekeeper without any resistance.

The husband who came here today is surnamed Liu, and everyone calls her Sister-in-law Liu.

After entering the door, greet the siblings first, Linlin asked her to get up nonchalantly, and asked, "What can I do here?"

"It's like this, our master has a visitor in front, let our brother go to the front to meet the visitor."

When Lin Hao heard this, he quickly stood up and asked the maids to tidy up his clothes. He didn't forget to tell his sister, "Sister, you play here first, and I'll go to the front to meet you and come back to play chess with you."

After Lin Hao left, this sister-in-law Liu was still standing here.Linlin saw that the other party clearly wanted to speak.

"What's the matter? You just talk."

"The girl is a big girl now. Some things should have been said a few years ago, but because the old lady is raising the girl, it is inconvenient for our wife to intervene. Now that the old lady is gone, the wife has been thinking, let us hurry up not long ago I'll take care of it." After speaking, he clapped his hands twice, and two little girls walked in with two bundles.

Linlin wondered what was going on, and saw the two little maids coming to shake off the bundle, and a piece of cloth four fingers wide fell out of it.

Then a servant girl came in with a basin, which contained a basin of water.

The sister-in-law Liu smiled and said, "Miss, wash your feet."

Even Linlin is an idiot and knows what she is about to face. The four-finger-wide cloth is clearly a foot wrap.

Linlin's eyes flicked around the feet of the people around her, "Are you going to bind my feet? I looked at the people in our house and they didn't have their feet bound. Why did you bind my feet?"

"Look at what the girl said, what kind of people are we on the name tag, who is the girl. We are all slaves, and the girl is a lady from the official family." After speaking, she squatted down and was about to remove Linlin's shoes.

"Wait, don't do anything yet." Linlin sat cross-legged on the couch. "I'm so old, it's too late to bind my feet, so don't bind them."

"If the girl is a few years later, you will suffer even more. Just listen to me. Let's start binding your feet now." After finishing speaking, I stood up with a smile, "Besides, our girl is only 7 years old now, how can I say yes? It's quite old."

Linlin slapped the small table with her palm, causing the pieces on the chessboard to bounce a few times. "Dare to smile in front of this girl, don't you remember your identity? Get out now, get out immediately."

The originally peaceful atmosphere in the room suddenly became icy, and a few girls even dared to look up at her secretly.

Sister-in-law Liu said in a very embarrassed way, "Miss, don't make it difficult for us, this is what my wife ordered."

"At that time, I will tell my wife, you can leave if you have nothing to do. By the way, take everything with you when you leave. I am upset when I see it."

"Girl, don't make it difficult for us," Sister-in-law Liu said as she walked a few steps forward and winked at Nanny Chen who was standing aside. "Every girl, at this age, has to go through this kind of experience. If her feet are not bound, it will be hard to talk about her husband's family."

"I won't get married in this life, get out of here." After Linlin finished speaking, she smashed the teacup in front of her on the ground in order to increase her momentum, "Get out of here, be careful for a while, this girl can't control her anger and kill your whole family!" All sold."

After Liu's sister-in-law finished listening, she quickly asked the little girls to take out their things, then carefully exited the room and quickly left the yard.

"Why bother girl, Mrs. Liu is a celebrity in front of my wife." After all, Mama Chen felt sorry for her eldest daughter, "Besides, what Mrs. Liu said is right, every young lady has this experience, that's what happened to her." Girls from small households also began to bind their feet early."

"If my wife likes the celebrity in front of her and ignores me... At worst, I will go back to the capital alone. There will always be a place where I can have a tile to cover my body, and if I want to bind my feet, there is no door."

After finishing speaking, Linlin sat cross-legged on the wooden couch angrily, "I don't think my wife will let it go."

After hearing this, Nanny Chen felt dizzy and dizzy, and almost fell to the ground.He knelt down all of a sudden, "Girl, for the sake of Mammy, don't fight against your wife. It's because Mammy didn't tell the girl about this. If Madam gets angry, my whole family will be taken away." They're all sold."

This wicked society!

Linlin thought, when the time comes, her mother will definitely kill the chicken to make her subdued, so the chicken that was killed is most likely the mother Chen's family.

Instead of waiting here and exerting strength over there, it is better to take the initiative to attack. Linlin stood up and waved to the people around her, "Okay, don't follow, I'm going to see my wife now. Tell my wife clearly, Also, if my wife and I can't get together, you may have to pack up your things and leave. Go back and pack up now if you have nothing to do. Don't those people drive you away like wolves and tigers, and they won't even be able to keep the money you saved. "

As soon as she left the gate of the courtyard, she left behind a courtyard of servants and maids crying like a mourner.

Linlin thought to herself that when the old lady passed away, she never saw you cry so sincerely.

Walking halfway, she suddenly thought that she was alone in the wife's yard. If the wife came hard, people would force her to bind her feet, and she would have no way to resist at that time.

Linlin walked around the yard a few times, first thinking that Second Master Guan had brought a knife when he went to the meeting alone, how could he ensure that his feet would not be forcibly bound if he didn't bring something there?

She looked left and right, but there was nothing to explore. She touched her head, and there was a short gold-clad copper hairpin on her head.

Speaking of which, the Lin family is not poor, and there is no gold-clad copper jewelry at all.When I came to Jiangnan not long ago, the old lady carried forward the usual hobby of old women, that is, she took her granddaughter to find out which temple's incense is effective, and go there to worship, regardless of whether it is a Buddhist temple or a Taoist temple.

On the way of a "pilgrimage", I met the old lady of a country rich man. In the words of the old lady, the meeting was due to fate. A gold hairpin is a gift for meeting people.

The old lady of the rich man's house saw it and gave Linlin the gold-clad copper hairpin on her head as a gift in return.He also said that it was her son's special filial piety to her. The first owner of this hairpin lived over 80 years old, and the second owner also lived for more than 90 years.It was originally a copper hairpin, but later her son wrapped it in a layer of gold to make it more dignified to take it out.

When Mrs. Lin heard this, it turned out that this hairpin had such an allusion, and she wanted to exchange it for her granddaughter. It doesn’t look bulky, but it symbolizes longevity... First she pretended to push it a few times, and then sent out a few pieces of gold She put the hairpin on her granddaughter's head contentedly, and said that she would wear it all the time, even if there were weddings and funerals. A broken copper hairpin, the old rich woman on the opposite side is very happy. The old lady thinks that this hairpin can bring longevity...).

I took the thing off the head and rubbed it on the base of the flower bed at the door a few times. I only felt that the ground was much sharper than before, so I stuffed the thing into the sleeve and walked in generously.

As soon as Jia Min saw Linlin coming over in a big way, he was so angry that he could hardly breathe, "I didn't know that my girl has such a temper that she sent all the people I sent here. Don't you know that my parents are so angry?" Do you have to respect everyone around you? This is the rule of our girls, you say who did you learn your bad temper from, and you don't have a bit of tolerance, you are no different from a shrew on the street. "

"If you go back to your mother, my daughter has read some books, but I never know which book says that in addition to being filial to your parents, you should also be filial to the servants around your parents. Could it be that the people around your parents later stole the slaves from the family?" Should the property be considered invisible? Could it be that the people around the parents will not see the younger siblings who bully the family in the future?"

"Stop talking nonsense with me here. We'll talk about this matter later. Since you're here today, you're just starting to bind your feet tightly. You'd be honoring me if you don't make a few moths.

"My daughter would like to say a few more words. No serious book says that girls must bind their feet. Counting from the time of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the mother gave her daughter an example. Who bound their feet at that time?"

"I still can't tell you? Well, since you say that, let me tell you, don't tell me what is in the book. My feet are bound, and your grandmother's feet were also bound, and your grandmother was also bound. Those who have had their feet bound, counting up to three generations, who in our family has not bound their feet?"

"Why do I have to follow what my ancestors did? Could it be that my ancestors murdered and set fire to me, and I want to do the same?"

"I'm pissed off, I'm pissed off, you're really daring, who did you learn these words from, the old lady has been a virtuous and virtuous woman all her life, and she never taught you these things... I shouldn't have told you these things. Yes, what are you doing standing there? Are you looking at the jokes of our mother and daughter? Catch him for me, and I will wrap him up today, or if he doesn’t.”

In an instant, several old women with big arms and round waists surrounded him from all directions. With his small body, it was really impossible to escape.

Fortunately, I kept a hand.

Linlin took the copper hairpin out of her sleeve and pressed it against her throat, "Whoever dares to come over, I'll splatter blood on the spot as soon as I try."

Jia Min fainted on the spot.

Linlin didn't dare to go back to her yard in despair. She stayed at home by the bed and waited for Lin Ruhai to come back. On the way back, Lin Ruhai understood the development and results of the matter. He looked at his honest daughter sitting on the bed.

"I used to see you lively and cute, and I thought you were a good boy, but I didn't expect to make your mother faint from anger today."

"Father, if you send me back to the capital, or to the old house in Gusu, I don't think I can survive if my feet are bound."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Whose girls are not like this. Why do you want to live and die when you come to your side?"

"Either die or have your feet unbound."

Lin Ruhai was so angry that he almost couldn't stand still, his fingers trembled like Parkinson's, "You are not filial, your parents let you bind your feet for your own good, but it's okay if you don't appreciate it now. Pour her anger on the bed, if your reputation spreads, no one will dare to marry you in the future."

"They don't want to marry, and I still don't want to marry. Some people say that there is a farmer who bought three or five buckets of grain and wanted to buy a concubine. It can be seen that men in the world are not good things..."

Before Linlin finished speaking, she saw Lin Ruhai rolling her eyes and covering her chest, and she was about to fall down, thinking that she wouldn't make her father angry on the bed.

The author has something to say: a fat chapter (not...)

These days, I started a day trip around. , thinking that there is no long-distance travel and no need to see the head, but I didn’t expect that there are so many people climbing these small hills nearby... Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated the nutrient solution~

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