Meng Xi felt his head dizzy, and felt that his soul had entered a body, which was a mysterious feeling.

After getting used to his body, Meng Xi opened his eyes and moved his stiff neck.

The original body was sitting in front of the stove boiling Chinese medicine, and the cramped room was filled with a strong smell of Chinese medicine, adding some uncomfortable yin to the already dark room.

The original body was born in a family of scholars.

Her family is well-off, her ancestors have been officials, and they have cultivated Meng Xi according to the old-fashioned traditional woman: gentle temper, knowing how to advance and retreat, illiterate, and bound feet.

Because of the order of his parents, the original body was promised to Cui Yansheng, who was born in a feudal bureaucratic family.

Cui Yansheng's mother likes Meng Xi's suppleness very much, and Cui Yansheng, who is studying in a new school, is actually not willing to marry a woman with small feet.

This is the time when old and new ideas collide.

The woman walked into the school, dressed in a modified cheongsam, revealing her slender and delicate arms. The students wore foreigners' small suits and small leather shoes, accepting the ideas of the foreign school.

These progressives look down on small-footed women very much, and they feel that small-footed women are poisons left over from feudalism and are low-level and outdated.

But at this time, the Cui family was in the middle of the road, when he was young, his family still had forty or fifty acres of paddy fields, and he did not worry about his livelihood, but when he was a teenager, the whole country suffered a great change, and his family had almost nothing, and a poor family could not afford to support a progressive.

In the end, he did not protest too much about this arrangement.

I heard that my future husband didn't like small feet, so in order to please him, the original body deliberately put on a pair of big shoes, which were stuffed with cotton.

It's a pity that when I got out of the sedan chair at the gate of Cui's house, the big shoes fell off, and the small feet wrapped inside were exposed.

The newlywed's shoes fell off, and it was a big culprit.

After she brought the dowry into the door, her status was similar to that of a maid. Because the family said she was ominous.

The biggest pain in her life is that she was criticized by her husband as an "old-fashioned woman" and a "foolish woman with small feet".

It was not her fault that she bound her little feet, but it became the "original sin" of her life.

Originally, she didn't want to bind her feet, but was forced by her grandmother and mother at home.

In ancient times, there was a saying of "three-inch golden lotus", and the daughter asked in the scriptures: "Why are you wrapped in feet?"

It's just that because they have to cater to the needs of men, how many girls have suffered in order to have a pair of beautiful feet.

When Meng Xi was 4 years old, her mother ruthlessly bound her feet and said: "Meng Xi, whether you have a good life in this life depends on these feet." Endure hardship for a while, and you will have a good life in the future, don't be willful. ”

Petite people, sobbing and choking, want to untie the footcloth.

The mother comforted: "Meng Xi, how can a decent family like us produce a woman with big feet!" Your grandmother, your mother. If you don't bind your feet, how will you talk about people in the future? When you grow up, you'll know that your mother is for your good. Don't cry. ”

In feudal times, "big-footed women" were unpopular and were synonymous with poverty and vulgarity.

Because extremely poor families want their daughters to work, they can't afford to support delicate women with small feet.

But the world is changing too fast.

However, for more than a decade, women with small feet have become synonymous with dross and ignorance.

The hardships that small-footed women once endured became under the pen of students, and they were willing to be cheap.

Cui Yansheng was dissatisfied, lifted the bride's hijab, and saw a weak and obedient woman covered in fat powder, no matter how uncomfortable she looked.

“Miss Lin，can you speak English？”

"If you don't understand, I don't think we have a common language."

“Miss Lin，I hate you.”

The original body cried all night.

The original body was annoyed by his own shallowness.

She has never been exposed to English, so she doesn't know that Cui Yansheng's level is about the same as that of a ten-year-old child, and he speaks very badly.

Cui Yansheng went to sleep in the study on the wedding night, and three days later, he took the dowry of the original body and went to school.

The original body burst into tears, but there was nothing to be done.

Later, her parents and brothers died of infectious diseases, and she became helpless.

The spread of new ideas has also prompted the further awakening of Chinese women. At that time, it was believed that higher education was necessary for women to achieve true emancipation.

Co-educational, under the banner of freedom and liberation, love between students often happens.

Cui Yansheng was studying outside, and soon had a girlfriend, it was Liu Yingying, a girl from the same school, Liu Yingying because of her good family education, she looked dignified and delicate and had an artistic temperament, and she quickly attracted Cui Yansheng's attention.

The students in the school receive the new ideas and advocate free love, and it is easy for like-minded men and women in the school to come together.

Intellectuals always have romantic tricks, so they launched a love letter offensive against Liu Yingying, one letter a day, the thunder couldn't move, and finally moved her, and the two finally entered the palace of marriage.

The original body and Cui Yansheng got married, but they didn't get a license. Legally, he is single.

Cui Yansheng married Liu Yingying.

The two had a fashionable new-style wedding.

Liu Yingying wore a white floor-sweeping wedding dress, a wreath of white buds and green leaves on her head, and roses in her hands.

Cui Yansheng was wearing a suit, looking tall and personable.

The two became husband and wife in the witness of the priest.

Liu Yingying became Cui Yansheng's wife who was marrying Ming Media, and her original identity changed very embarrassingly.

The blood on the original face slowly faded, and it was already pale by the end.

She felt as if she had been dragged out on the streets, embarrassed and ashamed, and these emotions filled her heart, and she had to purse her lips tightly and pinch her hands to keep the tears from falling.

She is obviously the wife of the Cui family's three media, six hires, and eight sedan chairs to marry back, but she turned out to be an unidentified person.

As for why the original body didn't leave the Cui family? The reason is simple. Mrs. Cui is sick, Liu Yingying is not a person who can take care of people, the Cui family has only been in and out all these years, and there is not much money left, so they can't afford to hire too many maids.

So, a lady who is beautiful has become a girl who takes care of her wife.

It sounds a little ridiculous, but in times like these, it's not uncommon.

Divorce is a very fashionable thing in this era, and it is a shame for an intellectual to have a wife with small feet.

So it became a common thing to abandon his wife, who was wrapped in her little feet.

What's more, when he married a new wife, he left his little feet in his hometown to take care of the man's parents, and did his filial piety for the man, while he was free in the big city.

Marrying a daughter-in-law and coming back to serve her parents is the most common way for men to be filial to their parents from ancient times to the present.

Mrs. Cui was sick, and the original body worked tirelessly to take care of her, not to mention that she had no salary, and she didn't get half a word of praise, as if this was a very natural thing.

When this family is enjoying power, they declare themselves to be the trendsetters of the new era, yearning for freedom, democracy and equality, and when they assume obligations, they say Meng Xi, you are born as a member of the Cui family and die as a ghost of the Cui family, you should honor Mrs. Cui to Mrs. Cui, everyone in your family is dead, if Mrs. Cui doesn't take you in, where else can you go.

Bah.

Other people's girls have a salary every month.

Without a salary, who would want to serve a half-crippled old woman.

Other people's girls don't have to pay money to customers.

Unless they are stupid, who will sell their gold and silver jewelry, give it to the old woman to buy medicine and cure the disease, and give the family money to go out to socialize.