In March, the grass grew and the warbler flew, and Su finally changed the battlefield with a few young ladies. It turned out that the weather was getting warmer at this time, and the hot kang could no longer sit still, and besides, if you live on the kang all year round, there will be a smoky smell that lingers on your body all day long.

Su's main house is in the middle of the reception, between the two sides of the side is a kang for his winter living, and on the other side of the room is a bed, where the four girls Zhenyi live. Now that the weather is warm, in order to ensure that the mother and daughter do not have the disgusting smell of kang burning when they go to Beijing, they moved to Zhenyi's house together.

Because Zhenyuan, Zhenxiu and Zhenyi are all wrapped in thin feet and don't dare to walk more, so the tiring work of moving things is all done by Zhenshu with big feet, and Su is only in command next to him.

Zhen Shu saw Su Shi sitting on a chair to comb Zhen Yi's hair, pointed to the good spring light outside, and said: "It's warm and lively outside, you have been covering the house for a whole winter, how good should it be to go outside at this time to get lice on your head?" ”

Su Shi glanced at Zhenshu, and said softly: "We have a bad climate here, the wind blows with evil spirits, and as soon as it touches the face, it will turn a white face into a red face, and I will take a few of them to the capital, and I can't let the wind blow into a red-faced person to return to the capital in order to be greedy for some flowers and plants." ”

Zhen Yi asked Su Shi to pull her hair, tilted her head to Lao Gao, and said with a smile: "I want my mother's new batch of tassels to be used as shawls, and I will definitely compare with all the girls in the capital." ”

Su Shi smiled and said, "That's right, it's all for you." ”

Zhenshu finished moving things, and seeing that Zhenyuan still didn't come to do embroidery, he went to the room where she lived. There are two rooms in the west of this backyard, and Zhenyuan lives next door to Zhenshu. She lifted the curtain and entered the house, and when she saw Zhenyuan sitting by the window looking out, she asked, "Why doesn't my sister go to the main house to do embroidery?" ”

Zhenyuan didn't answer, smiled and pulled Zhenshu to sit down and said, "I've wronged you, not like the girl in this family, but like a rough girl." ”

Zhenshu straightened his braids and said, "What's this, I don't want to bind my feet, so I can only do rough work." Besides, I'm willing to go in and out and do some rough work, and let me sit on the bed and catch needles, or kill me. ”

Zhen Yuan lowered her eyes for a long time, sighed, and wrung a newly embroidered small sachet in her hand.

Zhenshu asked, "My sister is worried about her own relatives?" ”

Zhenyuan has been in double nine years, because the Su family is unwilling to find a family affair for their sisters in Hui County, and they are dedicated to the capital, and they are all asked about the family affairs in Hui County, and the Su family refuses them all.

"Sister should be lenient, Song Zhenyu is also sixteen this year, she is about to get married, although you are not born to the grandfather, but you are the eldest daughter in the Song Mansion, she can't marry you first." Zhenshu comforted: "Hasn't my mother been communicating with the capital these days? Grandmother in Beijing must have planned for you a long time ago, you will marry in the capital in the future, and I can also go to the capital by visiting relatives, how good? ”

Zhen Yuan's mind is shallow and there is no city government, and a few kind words can make her sweep away her sorrows. She stuffed the purse into Zhenshu's arms and said, "You and that Tong Qisheng have been in contact all day, and you should also send him a token to show your affection." This is not looking at the Dragon Boat Festival, I made a small sachet for you, you should make it yourself, and give it to him during the Dragon Boat Festival. ”

Zhenshu sighed, threw the sachet back to Zhenyuan, pursed his lips and smiled: "He knows me, where can I embroider such a good thing?" ”

Zhen Yuan stuffed the sachet back into Zhen Shu's hand again, and said word by word: "Although you are in a hot face, you are also a person who has no city. Although Tong Qisheng's family is poor, he is also a prisoner now, and the county magistrate has to salute when he sees him. There are also other people in these villages around us who want to marry the woman to him, what if you don't work hard to entrap him and let others take the lead? ”

Zhenshu wanted to laugh and stopped, and only said after a while: "Okay! I listen to my sister. Do you want to eat locust flowers, now the locust skewers are clustering outside. If you want to eat, I'll take a basket and go out to pick it for you. ”

Seeing Zhenyuan smiling and nodding, she found a basket from the kitchen, threw her braid behind her, and jumped out of the door in three or two steps.

It turned out that some of the girls who used to play with her got married one after another, and now Caijiasi can still play with her, and there is only Ah Xiang left, and Ah Xiang is only thirteen years old this year. Zhenshu stood outside Ah Xiang's house and shouted, "Ah Xiang! Come out, let's go pick locust flowers. ”

After shouting for a long time, there was no trace of Ah Xiang, but what came out was Ah Xiang's mother Aunt Cheng, she saw that it was Zhenshu, and said with a smile: "Second Miss Song, my Ah Xiang can't play with you in the future, if you want to pick acacia flowers, you can go by yourself." ”

Zhenshu said: "Why? ”

Aunt Cheng said: "After the New Year, she should also say that her mother-in-law's family, now a woman must have a pair of slender feet when she gets married, if the feet are wrapped well, some people don't even want a dowry, and they are competing to marry." Therefore, she will bind her feet at home from now on. ”

When Zhenshu heard this, he was stunned for a long time like a thunderbolt, and then nodded and said, "Oh, I know." ”

Aunt Cheng said: "Now that a man marries a wife and does not pay attention to his appearance, you should also pay attention to wrapping your feet at home, don't wander around all day long." ”

Zhenshu frowned and said: "Don't say that your feet hurt and you can't even walk well in the future, you have to be supported when you go out, what's so good." ”

Aunt Cheng shook her head and said, "Although your child is big, his heart is still stupid." In addition to us hard-working farmers, the ladies and ladies in the city are embroidering by the window all day long, where they need to walk, and besides, they have maids and rings to wait, clothes to reach out for food to open their mouths, and they are idle and enjoy Qingfu in this life, what is there to worry about? ”

It turns out that although there have been women who have bound their feet since ancient times, it is just to modify the shape of the feet more beautifully and more pretty. In the past few years, it has risen out of nowhere, and women's foot binding should bend the entire toe to the bottom of the foot, and wrap the feet into two small ones that are thin and narrow, sharp and pointy, and the size of a pretty palm. Foot binding to break the toe, that kind of pain is naturally not experienced by others, Zhen Yuan in order to bind the foot, have been painful and faint many times, and Zhen Shu is to avoid foot binding, so he volunteered to take on the chores at home.

Ah Xiang's sister Ah Fang wrapped her feet, Ah Xiang was stubborn because of her temper, Aunt Cheng didn't ambush her several times, and this time I don't know what means she used, but she obediently tied Ah Xiang to her feet at home.

Zhenshu walked out of the village with a basket and went to a locust forest along the Wei River to pick locust flowers. Now the acacia flower has not yet opened, but it is just a flower spike that forms a bud, such a flower spike is the size of a silkworm figurine, dark green flower bones, picked and taken home with boiling water to blanch, and then mixed with sesame oil and garlic paste, for the northerners who have never seen green vegetables in winter, it is a rare delicacy.

Zhenshu was sullenly climbing on the tree to pick locust ears, suddenly heard footsteps under the tree, and looked down to see Tong Qisheng standing under the tree with his hands and looking at himself.

She couldn't hide the smile on the corner of her mouth, turned her head and asked in a coquettish voice: "Tong Jian Sheng is not at home to study his homework, what are you doing in the locust woods?" ”

Tong Qisheng is also twenty-four or five years old this year, and he is also considered to be a talent of Zhou Zhou Zhengzheng, his parents are dead, and only an old grandfather is still alive. His grandfather, Tong Xiucai, failed many times in the past, and now teaches Tong Sheng in Caijiasi Village, earning some money for his tuition. He swore in front of his grandfather that he would not marry if he failed the palace test, so now he is also a big bachelor.

He didn't speak, but stood under the tree and waited. In the end, Zhenshu couldn't help it, slipped down the tree, pouted, and said: "Tong Jiansheng must have many girls chasing after her to get married, and what are you doing in this wood?" ”

She had just heard that Ah Xiang was also bound to her feet, and she was unhappy. Seeing that Tong Qisheng was wearing a blue shirt without patches today, and his appearance was very thoughtful, he secretly wondered in his heart that there would be no one who was as blind as himself, and he also fell in love with this unqualified prisoner.

Tong Qisheng stretched out his hand and took the basket in her hand, threw a few acacia ears that he had just picked into the basket, clapped his hands and said, "I have never seen other girls one more time, you are too careful." ”

Zhenshu smiled and said, "But I haven't even wrapped my feet, I heard that men now love women who bind their feet." ”

She said as she lifted her naturally grown feet to show Tong Qisheng and asked, "Isn't this beautiful?" ”

Tong Qisheng looked down at the shiny eyes on her raised face, and her plump and elastic lips, his gaze couldn't help but slide down to her bulging chest, he felt that his mouth was a little dry, and he scratched his scalp and said: "I haven't seen what it looks like for a woman to bind her feet, and what do you like or dislike there?" ”

Zhenshu gestured with his hands in front of his chest and said, "That's it, break all the knuckles and press them under the soles of your feet, and then tie them tightly and straight." ”

Tong Qisheng listened to her ferocity, shook his head and said: "What's so good about that, don't say it soon, I listened to it creepy." ”

Zhenshu raised his head and ran a few steps and asked Tong Qisheng: "Creepy is an idiom, where does it come from?" ”

Tong Qisheng shook his head and said: "The earliest from the seventy-ninth chapter of "Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty" ......"

Zhenshu hurriedly shook his hand and said, "Can you not shake your head every time you endorse the book, it's the same as that old master, it's really ugly." ”

Tong Qisheng said: "Okay! Good! ”

Zhenshu saw a green grass, jumped over and sat down in a few steps, beckoned Tong Qisheng to sit too, and said with his hands on his cheeks: "These days I read a book, called "Qingping Shantang Words", one of which is called Jian Tie Monk, saying that a monk, Lu met the natural beauty of the wife of the man Huang Fusong, so he pretended to give it to her, and Huang Fusong did not believe his wife, and divorced his wife in anger, and his wife Yang had no way out, and fell into the trap arranged by the monk. Although the truth of the story was revealed in the end, the monk was also punished, and Huang Fusong was reunited with the Yang couple. However, Huangfu Song also had a wife who had been in love for ten years, so he divorced his wife with a nameless and nameless note, which caused the Yang family to be in danger. And none of the Huangfu clan and the Yang clan refuted or spoke for the Yang clan. For Young, this is also too unfair. If it were me, even if I remarried or returned to my mother's family, I would never be married again with this Huangfu Song. ”

Tong Qisheng said: "What you see are idle books, and they are not as good as the best talents to cheat money." But the Yang family is extremely beautiful, so she should pay attention to her behavior, and she shouldn't let the treacherous monks and Taoists see her true face, since she has misbehaved herself, how can she blame her husband for divorce her? ”

Zhenshu heard Tong Qisheng's words, his eyes widened angrily, and he said loudly: "Then listen to what you mean, we women should really stay at home with our feet tied and not go out, as long as we go out, who can control the eyes of pedestrians on the road?" If you want to complain, you will complain about the monk's treachery, and complain that Emperor Fusong does not have enough love and trust in his wife. ”

Tong Qisheng easily ran out of the house, and didn't want to quarrel with Zhenshu more, so he grabbed her shoulders and said, "Okay, it's their fault." But as a girl, the name is greater than a qiē, for the sake of self-cherishment, you should also correct your words and deeds, and you can't make mistakes. ”

Zhenshu listened to his arguments, just like his talented grandfather, who was really stubborn and pedantic, no longer theorizing with him, got up and hugged the basket and said: "That is the case, the little woman is showing up in the wild today and is not honorable, I better go home." ”