Gu Zhaoxi is very good at observing words and emotions at a young age, knows how to distinguish the mood of adults, and knows that he must be quiet when he should be quiet, and he can't block the elders. On the carriage home, until her parents' emotions were calm, she couldn't hold back her curiosity and asked the question that had been backlogged in her heart for a long time:

"Mother, what is foot binding?"

Xu Shuhua was stunned, and then explained: "It is when the woman is relatively young, just like you are now, that the foot is tightly wrapped with strips of cloth to inhibit its development and prevent it from growing, so as to achieve the purpose of 'small feet'."

Gu Zhaoxi tilted his head: "Why don't you let your feet grow?" Is there any benefit to small feet?"

Xu Shuhua thought for a moment and said seriously, "To be honest, I don't think it's any good. My mother once had a good friend with small feet, who was about the same size as me, but her feet were much smaller than mine, and she was very inconvenient to move and couldn't walk much."

"I can only stay in my room every day to embroider and write, and sometimes my feet are still in pain when it rains. But many men like small feet, and some women can only be forced to bind their feet in order to marry a good family in order to say that it is convenient for them to marry."

Gu Zhaoxi was puzzled: "Since it is inconvenient to walk with small feet, and they often hurt, why do some men like small feet?"

My daughter is still young and can't understand many things, and if she can't explain it properly, it will deepen the doubts in her heart. Xu Shuhua didn't know how to answer her, and Gu Yunji said lightly on the side, "Because they are perverts."

Gu Zhaoxi was at the age of seeking knowledge, and he wanted to get to the bottom of everything, and said curiously when he heard this, "Perverted? What is a pervert?"

Xu Shuhua was annoyed that he had instilled bad words in his daughter, so he slapped him lightly. Gu Yunji glared at his wife, coughed a few times uncomfortably, and simply broke Gu Zhaoxi and said, "Perverts are people with distorted aesthetics and abnormal psychology...... Anyway, it's a derogatory term, and it's also a curse, so Xi'er doesn't need to remember it."

Gu Zhaoxi blinked his big eyes: "Why did Daddy scold them?"

"Because they impose their preferences on others, and regard their suffering as fun, psychopaths, and cruel methods, they want to scold them."

Gu Yunji patiently explained, "What your mother described is all good, because she has only seen long legs. There is also a kind of bone twisting, in which when a girl is still young, the other four toes are bent inward so that they are close under the rest of the feet, so as to achieve the goal of slimming the toes."

"In order to correct the shape of the feet, bamboo boards are added when wrapping, pressed with stone slabs, and even broken porcelain pieces are placed. Wrapping the broken pieces of porcelain tightly around the soles of her feet with strips of cloth, and then forcing the girl to walk on the ground, cutting the soles of her feet into a bloody blur, the process is quite cruel, and the pain is very bearable."

In order to make Gu Zhaoxi understand more clearly, Gu Yunji said as she took her little feet and gestured on them.

Gu Yunji said it penetratingly, Gu Zhaoxi watched him demonstrate with both hands, as if the broken porcelain piece was also cut on the soles of his feet. She turned pale with fright, and finally couldn't listen to it anymore, so she threw herself into his arms and cried out loud: "Woo woo daddy, I don't want to bind my feet!"

Xu Shuhua hurriedly hugged his daughter over and coaxed her, glaring at him with a slight reproach: "What are you doing to scare children? Don't say it's Xi'er, I'm scared when I hear it."

Gu Yunji said helplessly: "Foot binding is really not a good thing, Xi'er is young, her mind is not strong, and she is easily affected by the ideas of others. If I don't tell her more seriously, she may be bewitched by others one day, and think that foot binding is a good thing."

"I'd rather leave her a psychological shadow now than let her think it's normal and suffer the sin of foot binding in the future."

Saying that, Gu Yunji softened her tone again, and said to her daughter gently, "Okay, Xi'er, don't cry. Daddy promises you that he won't bind your feet."

Although Xu Shuhua did not approve of foot binding, he couldn't help but worry when he heard this: "If what Aunt Tang said is true, everyone wants to marry a woman with small feet as a daughter-in-law, and let this trend prevail, I am afraid that after more than ten years, our daughter will become a minority of outliers."

Gu Yunji didn't care: "Being different is being different, it's better than being sinned at a young age."

, I can't control others, it's no problem to protect my daughter. There are too many disadvantages of foot binding, not only physical pain, but also psychological torture. Movement is restricted, and I can only stay in a small attic, and my vision is narrowed."

Xu Shuhua sighed, "This is true. My best friend and I were playmates from childhood to adulthood, but then she wrapped her feet, but I didn't, and I couldn't see anything at first, but gradually the difference came to show."

"I said that she didn't understand the current affairs; I spoke Western language, but she hadn't heard it; I said holiday celebrations, she couldn't go out, unimaginable. What she can get in touch with is what her family wants her to come into contact with after screening, what kind of female red embroidery, female commandments and female virtues, don't show any extra ones."

"Obviously, she and I got along well at first, but because of foot binding, we didn't have a common topic, and we slowly became estranged."

Gu Yunji said: "Fortunately, you don't have foot binding, beauty or not is secondary, you must know that foot binding restricts movement, which affects the development of a woman's body and pelvis, which will greatly increase the probability of dystocia. It was already difficult for you to give birth to Xi'er at the beginning, and if you wrapped your feet, you were afraid that you would ......."

Gu Yunji was afraid in his heart and didn't dare to say any more.

Xu Shuhua knew that his dystocia had been a pimple in Gu Yunji's heart so far, and he felt uncomfortable when he mentioned it, so he held his hand and comforted: "Where are so many ifs, isn't it good for me, don't you always force yourself into a dead end."

"Let's talk about it now, never bind Xi'er's feet, you and I are such a daughter, we always have to ensure that she has a happy life, if you don't bind your feet, you won't bind your feet, what's the matter."

Gu Zhaoxi recalled Feng's words and furrowed his brows slightly: "But...... My uncle and grandmother said that if you don't bind your feet, you can't get married, so is that okay?"

"Xi'er, come here." Gu Yunji hugged her to his lap and said, "Daddy told you, first of all, foot binding is not a good thing, if someone in the future will not marry because you don't bind your feet, it means that his family can't recognize the essence of foot binding, and it is not worth marrying, and there is no pity to lose it."

"Secondly, a woman's life is not for the purpose of marrying, and I can't control others, but when you grow up, your father and mother will not force you to get married. It doesn't matter if you want to get married, stay at home and recruit a son-in-law, or simply don't marry for the rest of your life, it's okay, anyway, the most important thing is that you're happy, understand?"

Gu Zhaoxi looked at his father with a serious face, nodded as if he didn't understand, and suddenly said, "Uncle and grandmother said that men like women with small feet, and Daddy is also a man, does Daddy like small feet?"

"Of course Daddy doesn't like it, that's an abnormal aesthetic, and the person who likes it is a pervert." Gu Yunji smiled and scratched her daughter's nose, "Look, your mother's natural feet are the most beautiful, this is called healthy natural beauty."

Gu Zhaoxi shook his little feet, compared Xu Shuhua's feet, and said with great interest: "Then in the future, I will also grow into a cumin beauty like my mother!"

Gu Yunji and Xu Shuhua were both amused by their daughter's childish words: "It's natural beauty, not cumin beauty!" If it grows into cumin, how can it be returned?"

Gu Zhaoxi was young and didn't understand what they were laughing at, and was eager to ask for an understanding, but his ignorant and innocent appearance made his parents laugh more and more: "What is cumin?"

Gu Yunji teased her: "Cumin is something to eat, and if it is sprinkled on Xi'er's little feet, it will become fragrant roast pig's trotters!"

Gu Zhaoxi's eyes lit up when he heard it: "That must be delicious?" Has Daddy ever eaten it?"

Gu Yunji held back a smile: "I haven't eaten it, you ask your mother, she may have eaten it, hahahaha......

Gu Zhaoxi blinked a pair of big eyes and asked Xu Shuhua, "Mother, mother, have you eaten?" Is it delicious?"

Xu Shuhua's stomach was about to hurt with laughter: "I haven't eaten it either, you can ask your father......

"Who the hell should I ask?"