Zhao Xihou was bored and ruthless, and after coming to the old mansion, his studies increased a few points. Every day before dawn, I have to get up to read, and then recite in front of my grandfather, listen to my grandfather explain an article after breakfast, and then go back and start to complete the homework assigned to him by my grandfather...... Write it in block letters.

He's going crazy. More than a dozen enlightenment books asked him to finish them within three days, which really cost him his life.

"Young master, the dim sum just delivered, you can rest and write!" The big girl Rongyue came in with a plate of snacks. Looking at Zhao Xihou with a sad face, she pursed her lips and couldn't help laughing.

"Why is it so late today?" Zhao Xihou threw away the pen and immediately got up and walked to the round table and sat down.

Rongyue put the snacks on the table and said, "How do I know, the little girls will naturally send them over when they take it." ”

Zhao Xi said thickly: "What dim sum?" ”

"It's crab roe soup dumplings. It smells good! And a plate of candy for nowhere. ”

Zhao Xihou first sniffed the smell, and a faint umami smell hit his nose.

"It smells so good!"

Zhao Xihou ignored Rongyue's exclamation, but stared at the soup dumplings.

There is only one soup bag in a cage, which is the size of a small bowl. The naked eye can see the depression inside, and a little bit of crab meat is wrapped in the skin, which makes the skin more and more crystal clear.

The incomparably delicate folds are densely arranged together, like a knife carving, like a silk petal chrysanthemum. The mouth of the bag is pinched into the shape of a carp's mouth.

It's a wonderful move.

I gently took the chopsticks and clicked it, and I could see the soup shaking inside.

The soup is wrapped in skin, and the soup is not skinny.

Wonderful!

Stretching out three fingers, he only used his fingertips to pick up the wrinkles on the soup packet, carefully and gently picked it up, slowly put it into a small plate, and then lowered his head and approached, biting the mouth of the bag with the tip of his teeth, and slowly sucking the soup.

Fresh!

Well, this smell is a rare thing.

He closed his eyes and thought about what words to use to describe the taste, difficult! He couldn't think of anything else that could match the taste.

It's just that...... It's not so hot, it looks very fatty, and it tastes in your mouth......

Zhao Xihou was a little displeased, dropped his chopsticks, drank tea and rinsed his mouth, and picked hawthorn candy and put it in his mouth.

"Young master, why don't you eat two bites, or I'll let someone do it again?"

Zhao Xi said thickly: "If you do it again, isn't it the same if it's late?" ”

Rong Yue smiled bitterly: "Little Ancestor, do you think it will not be at home?" Caiyun and the others were called by the steward and scolded for a while. ”

"What's wrong?"

Rongyue put the chopsticks back into Zhao Xihou's hand and said, "You also know that we can't eat spicy, and I don't eat garlic, but I sent a plate of spicy and spicy garlic." So I sent for a change. I don't know if there's something wrong, they got into trouble with the kitchen people. ”

Zhao Xihou fiddled with the soup bag and said with a smile: "You will tell me, why don't you care about them?" ”

Rongyue hurriedly agreed and persuaded him to eat two bites of snacks. But Zhao Xihou only said that it was not delicious when it was cold.

Rong Yue said with a smile: "I'm afraid that those little girls are angry with the kitchen people, but next time it will get better!" ”

Zhao Xihou reluctantly ate two bites, but it was really difficult to swallow, and he only felt that after it was cold, his mouth was full of fishy smell.

He threw the chopsticks out fiercely: "Don't eat it!" Bad! He got up and walked out, and when he came to the door, he came back and untied his purse, "Put this candy in for me." ”

After speaking, he looked at the soup bag with some disgust. Tyrannical Things! It's disgusting that something good should be made like this!

Zhao Xihou was in a bad mood, walking around, intending to dissipate the unhappiness in his heart. Unconsciously he had already walked to Zhao Xiyun's yard, and wanted to bypass it, but he heard a girl's cry from inside, crying strangely.

"Grandpa, grandpa, I don't want to bind my feet, I don't want to bind my feet!"

The words "don't wrap your feet" came into Zhao Xihou's ears. He was thirteen years old, and the desperate cries of the two sisters above when they bound their feet, he remembered, listening to his ears, seeing the second sister walking with difficulty with the support of the maid; He remembered that the gentle and silent second sister actually said: "Women are bitter, how can their feet be wrapped in white silk!" The woman is sad, and her blood and tears soak the red embroidered shoes! ”； And she frantically pulled the white cloth off her feet.

Today, is this sister going through this step too?

He hurriedly rushed into Zhao Xiyun's yard. was stunned to see the fifth sister Zhao Xiyun surrounded by several maids.

The four of them pressed Zhao Xiyun's hands and legs firmly, an old woman wrapped her feet fiercely there, and a daughter-in-law sewed tightly.

They didn't pay attention to Zhao Xiyun's pain at all. Doing his own thing with a blank expression.

"What are you doing here? Don't stop it yet! "The indignation of the little body with righteousness and anger was enough to shake these ignorant servants.

When Aunt Cui, who was bound to her feet, saw that it was Zhao Xihou, she hurriedly let go of her hand and stood up: "Young master, are you here like this?" The fifth girl is going to bind her feet today, and she can't play with you. How about coming back in a few days? ”

Zhao Xihou didn't care about these at all, he rushed up and pulled the white silk that was wrapped around Zhao Xiyun's feet, he tore it hard, and said in his mouth: "Fifth sister, I'm here to save you!" ”

As soon as Zhao Xiyun saw Zhao Xihou, he immediately pounced on him: "Third brother, my feet hurt." "Choked sobs are always out of reach.

Looking at his sister who was crying breathlessly, Zhao Xihou said softly: "Don't be afraid. I'll untie it for you. ”

Zhao Xiyun nodded straight, she felt warm in her heart, it was good to have a brother.

Aunt Cui saw Zhao Xihou pulling the footcloth like crazy, and was immediately shocked, and hurriedly ordered the maid to take Zhao Xihou out. In the middle of the mouth begged: "My ancestors! What are you going to do! Get out! ”

A few maids and wives will struggle, and Zhao Xihou, who is like a brute bull, will push and shove out.

Aunt Cui followed the five daughters-in-law of your family and still bound their feet for Zhao Xiyun, and with their movements, Zhao Xiyun cried again.

Zhao Xihou punched the maid on the left, kicked the servant woman on the right, and shouted: "You let go, let go of me!" ”

The two daughters-in-law tightly hugged Zhao Xihou's arm one by one and dragged him out, refusing to let go no matter how much he made trouble.

"Open the door! Open the door! I'll let you open the door! ”

Angrily, Zhao Xihou kicked the pressing Zhumen, except for the sound of the knocker ringing, there was only the sound of Zhao Xiyun pleading.

A daughter-in-law said, "Good young master, don't make trouble!" This is what the old lady confessed, don't embarrass us. ”

Another daughter-in-law said, "All women must bind their feet!" Otherwise, you won't be able to marry a good family. Don't spoil the happy event of the five girls, don't say that the five girls are not good in the future, but people will complain about you. ”

"Yes." A daughter-in-law is not afraid of people's jokes, and stretches out her big feet, "Look, I am a big foot, and I am the life of a man!" ”

Zhao Xihou skimmed the daughter-in-law's big feet and said, "Don't you see that the fifth sister hurts so much?" ”

None of them answered, they hadn't been bound up, and they didn't know what it was.

Rong Yue moved her little feet in a panic, and as soon as she heard someone send someone to say that the young master was making trouble with the fifth girl, she said something bad. He looked at Zhao Xihou standing under the sun and said busily: "Young master, what's wrong?" Turning around and reprimanding the maids and daughters-in-law, "How can you tell the young master to stand under the poisonous sun, what if it's in the sun?" ”

The maid's daughter-in-law just smiled and didn't dare to respond.

Zhao Xihou saw that Rong Yue's heart was a little calmer, this is his grandfather's house, he can make Rong Yue alone. He said in a deep voice, "You let them open the door!" They hurt the fifth sister! ”

Rongyue already knew that the fifth girl was bound today, so she hurriedly smiled and pulled Zhao Xihou to stand in the shade, and took out a scarf to sweat for him: "The fifth girl is binding her feet, it's not in the way!" ”

"The fifth sister hurts like that! Listen! ”

Even a dozen steps away from the courtyard gate, he could still hear Zhao Xiyun crying in pain, and the voice "Grandpa, save me." It hurts, I don't want to wrap my feet. "Deeply rooted in his heart; When he heard Zhao Xiyun calling this "brother", he completely broke out, rushed over like a little leopard, and kicked the courtyard gate fiercely.

"Five sisters, five sisters! I'm here to save you! Open the door! Open the door! ”

Rongyue hurriedly moved over, pulled Zhao Xihou, and begged repeatedly: "Young master, good young master." Don't make trouble, this is called the old lady, the old man knows, but it's not good. ”

Where did she pull Zhao Xihou angrily, so she had to hug Zhao Xihou's waist tightly: "Young masters are like this, women are all like this!" Wasn't the eldest girl and the second girl the same back then? Don't you remember how your wife punished you back then? ”

Zhao Xihou thought that he helped his second sister loosen her feet and was severely taught by his father, and even his mother did not tolerate him. He slowly relaxed, staring at the closed courtyard door in a daze.

Feeling that Zhao Xihou had calmed down, Rongyue slowly let go, lifted her skirt, revealing her four-inch feet wearing red embroidered peony embroidered shoes, and said with some bitterness and relief, "That's how I came." ”

Zhao Xihou looked at the feet that were different from himself and those mothers-in-law, and felt a pity in his heart, how could he walk if his feet were wrapped like this!

"I was eight or nine years old at the time, and I couldn't sleep because of the pain when I tied my feet, and I cried all day long, and my feet were like fire, and at night I had to stick my feet against the wall, thinking that it would be cooler, and it wouldn't hurt so much. Sometimes I think, it hurts, it hurts! It's good to faint me. Then I can sleep soundly. ”

Zhao Xihou grabbed Rongyue's hand tightly, what kind of pain was it, she would think about fainting.

Rong Yue smiled faintly, the experience of foot binding was the last thing she wanted to experience, but it had also become her greatest wealth now. She smiled and said, "At that time, I didn't understand, I only thought about my wife's cruelty." But now that I think about it, my wife is good to us girls. A few years before our wife, our horizons were also opened, and our vision was also higher. We don't look down on ordinary flat-headed people, and those who have a little family business pick us as maids and don't have their feet entangled. Look at Sister Jin Xuan, now she is married to a silk shopkeeper, which is also the life of the grandmother. Whether a woman is married or not is on this foot! ”

Zhao Xihou suddenly threw Rongyue's hand, stood up quickly, locked the gate of Zhao Xiyun's courtyard tightly, and asked, "Why do you have to wrap your feet!" Who let it! ”

"Nobody let me. Rules passed down from our ancestors. The smaller your feet are, the better, and you will be looked down upon by your in-laws. The year before last, someone came to say goodbye to the eldest girl, didn't they look at the girl's feet first? ”

Rong Yue said with a smile. The young master is still a child, he has a good heart and knows how to pity others, but in this matter, if he pities others, he is harmful.

"The Four Books does not say that women must bind their feet; "Four Books" does not say how to write articles to be brilliant! What do I do when I read the Four Books? I can't save my fifth sister; I can't write about the taste of crab roe soup dumplings. So what else do I study! I don't read anymore! ”

Zhao Xihou, who was extremely disappointed in his heart, vented his frustration. Mr. Zeng said, "There is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book." "If he is familiar with the four books and has a wonderful pen, he can wait for Corby, and he can make decisions for the people. But now it seems that he can't even control these subordinates, and he can't even save his fifth sister. Then will he still be able to be the ruler of the government and manage the people of Li? Can it still save the people from fire and water? What a wonderful pen, he doesn't even have the ability to describe the same deliciousness, and what kind of wonderful pen is a flower, the title of the gold list.

He screamed "ahhh

Rongyue looked at Zhao Xihou who ran away and sighed slightly, this is life, a woman's life. Listening to Zhao Xiyun's hoarse cry, she frowned lightly and said to the daughters-in-law with a smile: "Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the old lady wants the girl to celebrate the festival together!" Let's go in and talk about it, sisters-in-law. ”

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Crab roe soup dumplings: Jingjiang crab roe soup dumplings are the first. The filling is crab roe and crab meat, and the soup is plain chicken soup. Thirty-three wrinkles make the bun like a budding ju-flower, with a kind of crystal clear, blowing and cracking, and its taste is indescribable. Some people say that you have to eat it with vinegar, but I think that vinegar will destroy the original taste, so you can really taste the original flavor of crab roe soup dumplings.