Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Screams of the Three Girls
When they were about to enter Beijing, the horse team suddenly rushed to the road day and night. The snow is still drifting all the time, compared with Khalkha, it is all a vain head, and the movement is not small, but the point accumulated on the ground is like sprinkling salt flowers on the baked cake on the stove, without looking.
The cold-faced guards who drove the carriage arrived, and they didn't give them a good face, the carriage just ran fast, and he couldn't care if the people in the carriage were comfortable. Su Ge and Yimo vomited all the way, and they were used to spitting, and in the end, they were surprised that they didn't vomit. Two blue and white faces leaned on the bib, staring at the blackened indigo cloth on the roof of the car in a daze. I was thinking that I was going to Beijing, and I didn't care if my wife was angry, so I would go into the house with a cheeky face first.
arrived at night in a hurry, and blasted open the city gate with Prince Yi's warrant. When they arrived at Persimmon Hutong, Suge's car stopped. The two gasped, pulled the curtain of the car door and looked out, Prince Yi's motorcade did not stop, entered the city, and still rushed away. Were they dumped?
Su Ge was worried, five or six black-armored guards had come up, and even at night, the armor was delicately shiningβa faint glow in the light of the foggy horse lamp on the roof of the car.
There were two green silk carts and a bunch of people parked on the side of the road, and when they saw that a car had stopped, a small servant came up to inquire, "But the girl from the Jiayong family has arrived?" β
"But the Jiayong Mansion came up to welcome the second girl?" The guard asked loudly in the darkness of the night, with his voice open.
At this voice, a man wrapped in a robe came up from behind, and stepped forward and said hard, "Jiayong Gong is my eldest brother, and I am here to pick up my niece." β
The guard took the codex he handed over, looked at it, and said, "The prince has ordered to send the second girl to the mansion." Lead the way. β
Su Ge took advantage of them to greet him, and recognized that it was the second uncle Xiliang, and he was a little confused, it was actually the second uncle who came to pick him up in person, could it be that Ama specially wrote the trust payment? At this time, I heard that I was going to the house, so I hurriedly called "Second Uncle", and got down in the car, "Second Uncle Lao, it's hard to be so late," he turned his head and smiled at the guard, "When I saw my family, I took the family car back, and I didn't bother this military master to work hard." β
The guards were indispensable, Su Ge got down and changed the car, and the people brought by Xiliang just took off the luggage package they brought, and the cold-faced guards drove away, the wheels were full of strength, and the snow foam on the ground was thrown up a foot high.
Yimo smacked his lips on the cart, "This military master's temperament is about to catch up with our master." Horizontal enough! β
Su Ge didn't care about the cold-faced man, and muttered, "Why do you say that the second uncle is waiting here in the middle of the night?" The second uncle is a particular person, and when it's time for the evening, the second aunt has to wait for the hot feet to go to bed, it's so late tonight, and it's still frozen at the mouth of this alley. . . You have to be excited when you go back, don't make him angry. Yimo hurriedly agreed.
Seeing that the guards had to personally escort Suge to his home, Xiliang was not good at riding by himself, so he rode a horse and followed, laughing all the way, only saying that it was hard. Speaking of which, several guards are all fourth-grade or above clothing, much higher than their own sixth-grade official ranks, and they are glad that they have changed into regular clothes, otherwise, the guards will not be so polite to themselves.
In the middle of winter, the cold at night is very different from the day, and the cold hurts my brain. In the middle of the night, the doors of every household in the capital are closed, and the familiar market alleys are not visible, and the strangeness is terrible. The horse's hooves are obtained at night, but people still feel that on the road, the capital seems to be far away, this is not the forty-nine city that I grew up familiar with.
Persimmon Hutong went to Rongfu not far away, and soon, Prince Yi's guard saw the gate of Rongfu, and said goodbye to Su Ge outside the car, and the fly disappeared. Over there, Xiliang politely said goodbye, but the guards didn't pay attention, leaving Xiliang with an embarrassed face. When he turned around, he saw Su Geza standing by the door with his hands and eyes down.
Xiliang has made up his mind, and he will be choked with cold tonight.
Holding back the fire, he said to Su Ge with a pleasant face, "It's late tonight, so I won't bother my wife." The second niece will go down to settle down first, and I'll see my wife tomorrow in the morning. After saying this, he hurried into the gate and went back to his courtyard.
A few housekeepers took Suge's luggage and led them to the back house.
Rongfu is not big, the courtyard house of the three entrances, leaving the guests with an upside-down seat, the house is not big. Entering the house, fortunately, everything is ready, there is a ground dragon in the house, and the stiff body is suddenly soft. After leaving a little girl to serve the hot water, the mother-in-law dispersed.
After cleaning up, it was almost time, and the two of them didn't care about talking, so they hurriedly got into the quilt, stretched their bodies, and immediately fell asleep.
Early the next morning, the two men were woken up by a terrible scream.
I listened carefully, and it was in the next courtyard. Yimo was frightened, and hurriedly put on his clothes and opened the door to inquire. Su Ge followed suit, and when he saw that Yimo had already gone out by pushing the door, he followed.
A bunch of people in the yard, mothers-in-law, mothers-in-law, mothers-in-law, and girls, gathered together and gathered around a bunch.
The screaming sound came from the center of the pile. Su Ge listened for a while and recognized it as the second daughter of the third uncle Hengchang, Yizhu who was the third in the family. Yi Zhu was just thirteen, and he hadn't changed his voice yet, and the voice was agitated and longitudinal, and no one in the Rong Mansion would be able to hear it.
One of the grandmothers who picked them up yesterday saw them, and came over with a casual look on her face and blessed her, "The cousin girl is up?" β
Su Ge froze and asked, "Yizhu, this is?" β
The grandmother tugged at the corners of her mouth, as if she was smiling, "So the cousin didn't bind her feet, or she would have understood if she hadn't listened to this cry." Wrap the feet of the three girls... Don't worry about it, cousin, this early in the morning, I woke you up. But there is no way, the yellow calendar that I was optimistic about early on, today is a good day, but I can't change it. β
Only then did Suge know that he was binding Yizhu's feet. It stands to reason that Han women are five or six years old, and they are young and easy to wrap up golden lotus. But even if it's small, the suffering you suffer will have to be in a jar of tears.
"Now that they are all older, they are willing to let your girls suffer this sin?" Su Ge whispered, after entering the customs, the grandfather abolished the custom of Han women binding their feet, and the girls of the banner people, playing small big feet, getting on horses and walking, the wind is general, and it is sassy.
can be banned again and again, people like three-inch golden lotus, walking looks good, and it is still entangled. Su Ge has seen the Han girl in the south of the Yangtze River, swaying, and the posture of the willows in the wind, she was amazed once, but when she heard about the method of wrapping her feet with porcelain tiles, she was frightened again.
Besides, Izhu is twelve.
"The cousin girl doesn't know, in the past two years, the big families in Beijing have paid attention to this, and the third girl is too late. If you hadn't seen the scenery ... Mama choked on the cold wind and coughed, "You don't know, Jingli is now wrapped in a kind of 'knife', our banner people are different from the Han people, we have to be beautiful and neat." Nowadays, everyone in Beijing is entangled, but they are particular, and they must be wrapped both thin and straight, thin and thin like a knife with a blade... β
Someone shouted over there, and Mama hurriedly responded, hurriedly turned around to help, and left Yimo and Suge behind.
Knives? The two couldn't help but lift the corners of their skirts to look at their feet and look at each other.
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Sorry, I had a headache yesterday, and I will try to make up for it tomorrow.