Chapter 128: Three-inch Golden Lotus
Qi Ling had only seen such feet in photos and TV before, but in real life, he had never met anyone with such feet.
Once she traveled to this era, it was the first time she saw Gu Wei, Wan'er, and all the ladies she met had no little feet, and they had never seen them on the street.
That's even more strange, Qi Ling knows that in history, it was the noble ladies who bound their feet, so if this overhead dynasty had this custom, why didn't they wrap it, but an old woman wrapped it.
What's the secret here?
Seeing Qi Ling motionless looking at Granny Hua's feet, Gu Jinfeng was a little strange, and hurriedly called her.
"What are you looking at? Hurry up and eat, after eating, we will send food to Meng Huan and them! ”
Qi Ling nodded and took out a pair of chopsticks, but he was absent-minded, and what he was thinking about was Granny Hua's pair of three-inch golden lotuses.
She used to watch on TV, and the old people who had bound their feet since childhood had their feet wrapped around and looked particularly scary.
Behind this very deformed custom, which ancient men called "beautiful", is scarred and accompanied by a lifetime of pain.
It is said that when the feet are bound, some people have softer bones, and they start to wrap them from a very young age, and the pain is not very great.
As for some people who are a little older and have naturally large feet, they have to suffer a lot.
First, you have to put your feet in the boiling hot water until you don't feel it, and then rub it vigorously with your hands, and even break the foot bones on purpose, so that you can save some effort for a while.
It is also necessary to take a long strip of cloth, brush the broken porcelain pieces obtained by breaking the porcelain bowl with rice milk or paste, and wrap them layer by layer on the feet.
The broken porcelain pieces were fiercely pierced into the flesh, and the feet were also deformed by the tenacity of the cloth strips, and finally the strips of cloth that were tightly wrapped around the already unnatural feet were sewn up, leaving no gaps.
If that's all there is to it, at this time you have to be supported by people, walking around the ground in circles, and letting the broken pieces of porcelain on the cloth prick the feet with blood, so that people can get used to this pain.
Like a mermaid in a fairy tale who has to endure the pain of a knife separating its tail with every step, these footbound women seem to dance on the tip of a knife with every step.
Such a painful process is not once, but several times, and finally in this way can you get a pair of small feet that can be called "Jun".
This so-called three-inch golden lotus is simply a product of blurred flesh and blood and painful entanglement.
Therefore, after Qi Ling crossed over, he lamented countless times that he had not crossed into a dynasty where women had to bind their feet.
Otherwise, she would be very miserable now, with a pair of small feet, she would really be imprisoned in the house, and there would be no possibility of traveling far.
At this time, she was really a little curious in her heart, so she couldn't help but put down her chopsticks and asked in a voice that only Gu Jinfeng could hear.
"Gu Jinfeng, why did you say that Granny Hua is still wrapped in her feet, Aunt Zhao and Gu Wei, who I have seen, have not been wrapped."
Seeing Qi Ling's face full of curiosity, Gu Jinfeng understood why she had been staring at other people's feet just now.
It's just that he muttered a little in his heart at this time, because it has been like this many times, obviously it is something that a three-year-old child on the street will know, but Qi Ling doesn't know.
On the contrary, what she said herself was something that no one knew about, which was really a little incomprehensible.
makes people more and more curious about Qi Ling's life experience, what kind of family would raise her such a character.
But Gu Jinfeng had already made a decision, and he couldn't force Qi Ling, so he could only wait for her to take the initiative to say it.
So in the face of Qi Ling's doubts, Gu Jinfeng still patiently explained to her, but because this matter was a little special, his voice was also lowered.
"When the last emperor was there, there were a lot of fireworks in the south that suddenly rose, but they were ordered to be abolished by the emperor at that time before they spread to us."
The land of fireworks?
Qi Ling was a little frightened for a while, could it be that this flower mother-in-law spent her days in the land of fireworks when she was young.
But looking at her kindness now, I can't imagine it at all.
However, even if the emperor has the heart and ordered the abolition of this custom, otherwise when the miscarriage comes, I don't know how many more women will suffer because of this.
I really don't know what people who think of this kind of small foot beauty, whether the eyes are different from their own.
"Gu Jinfeng, you say, do you think this three-inch golden lotus is really good-looking?"
Qi Ling asked, wondering what the man's thoughts were.
Gu Jinfeng shook his head, and unconsciously furrowed his eyebrows, showing a look of disgust.
"Not only is it not good-looking, but it's really vulgar, you don't know that the reason why I know Granny Hua is because of her feet, she can't even walk in winter."
"And because the doctor in the city is expensive, I went to the hospital where Meng Huan and I went to see a doctor, which made me know her, wrapped in this kind of little foot, the woman can only stay at home, and even the daily movement is hard."
Seeing that he also looked disapproving, Qi Ling couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately, Gu Jinfeng also had this attitude.
Otherwise, when the custom of binding feet spreads again, he will be angry if he lets himself do the same.
Fortunately, the three views of the two people are quite the same.
"Then do you mean that Granny Hua used to come out of that place too? ……”
Qi Ling asked in a sneer, because she really didn't believe it,
Gu Jinfeng nodded.
"Granny Hua is also a hard-working person, she told me that she was sold to that kind of place by her family when she was a child, and she was already seventeen or eighteen, but the grandmother in it had to wrap her feet in order to please the rich people, and this wrap went to half her life."
Speaking of this, Gu Jinfeng couldn't help sighing, and seemed to be very sympathetic to Granny Hua.
"Later, the grandmother there had to sell her to a rich businessman who was used to grinding people, she was angry for a while, and she was unwilling, so she took the opportunity to throw herself into the river, and went downstream along the river, and was just rescued by Uncle Hua, so she married him."
Qi Ling's eyes lit up when he listened, he didn't expect that this mother-in-law Hua was still a woman who dared to fight, which was really rare.
You must know that in this era, there are many women who are accustomed to being submissive, and they never dare to speak up, they will only swallow their anger, and then suffer for a lifetime.
But this flower mother-in-law would rather die than be at the mercy of others, and she can be regarded as a strange woman.
And Uncle Hua, who has not met, is also a powerful person, who can risk being pointed at by others and marry Granny Hua, and he is also a broad-minded person.