The road from Africa to Europe

Chapter 580 see
Just when she was thinking about how to lose weight quickly and well, a very ordinary-looking but well-dressed maid came out, opened the curtain to invite her in, and followed her to say, "Miss Six is ​​here."

After hearing her voice, Ling Xiao couldn't help but glanced at her. This maid was only delicate and not a beauty at all, but her voice was extremely sweet, like the first cry of a yellow oriole. It felt really nice, and I wish she could say more. In other words, the little maid also treated Ling Xiao very respectfully.

From this point, it can be seen that the servants in this family still dare not treat the original owner in a public face. There must be some reason for this, because it can be seen that there is something wrong with the original owner's room no matter how you look at it.

From the memory of the original owner, it seems that her worth suddenly dropped, so that the servants around her ran away one by one. So it is with slaves.

The masters of the family want to separate from her one by one, so the original owner who follows the master and has no one to protect should have a harder life, and will receive some slights in the open and dark, but judging from the behavior of the whole little girl, The servant still didn't dare to make small moves to the original owner on the surface, but he was still a little negligent in private.

Why only dare to be cold and violent, but dare not blatantly bully?This shows what?One may show that the housewife in this house is quite cunning, and none of the servants dare to find trouble.

There is also a possibility that there is a backer behind the original owner. This backer not only makes the original owner live in a humble way, but also makes other people dare not to do anything openly.So what is the possibility?Feeling that the latter possibility is higher, Ling Xiao thought about it and prepared to enter the room with his short legs.

Look at the threshold in front of you, wipe!What do you want such a high threshold for?If you are not careful, you will stumble and stumble, and it is too unfriendly to short children. The small courtyard was shorter before, and the threshold of the main room is even higher, so you must raise your legs.

Ling Xiao had to raise her legs to enter the room, her heavy body, she was really unhappy, and cursed in her heart, the threshold made her feel like she was participating in hurdles.

After waiting to enter, I found that the living room of the upper room is full of good things. There are many antiques in the furnishings, as well as furniture made of rosewood. Wow!Rich people, sure enough, the probability of this family being so-called upright officials is too low, but it can be concluded from this that the original owner's life is actually very shabby, and he is still somewhat scornful of the original owner in private.

However, she didn't care too much about these extraneous things, and her attention was more on the women in the room. Among them, sitting in seat C was a very noble old lady who looked only about 40 years old. The scene looks very good.

According to the memory of the original owner, this is the grandmother of the original owner. In the hateful ancient times, a woman who was about 30 years old was going to be a grandmother, so this woman who looks only about 40 years old is really an old woman. Even though she herself still looks good, she definitely belongs to the elderly.

When she saw Ling Xiao, the gentle smile on her grandmother's face disappeared suddenly. She glanced at her granddaughter, and looked at Ling Xiao with a bit of repulsion and annoyance in her eyes, as if this was not her granddaughter, but a stinky dog Shi!

Ling Xiao felt itchy hands after he noticed it, and felt like wanting to hit someone. What does this mean?No wonder the original owner's room was like a snow cave, why did the original owner bear this kind of insult?This is the original owner's grandmother?Or someone who wants to hurt the original owner?
After being a monk who is used to being vigorous and resolute, it is annoying to see this kind of house fighting atmosphere. Is there any need to fight?People are not fighting JI!I like fighting every day, isn't it good to study science?She didn't bother to talk to these people at all, and she couldn't figure out how much she weighed.No matter what causes the original owner's status in the family to decline, it is definitely not the original owner's fault.

In order to prevent herself from falling off, she still greeted the bosses in the room according to the memory of the original owner. She is only a four-year-old child, and she can't understand the adults' intentions at all, so she just needs to do her own thing well.

In addition to the grandmother, there were also the original owner's mother and aunts, all of whom wore masks and didn't even give a smile. Ling Xiao was ignored by everyone like this, as if she was a mass of colorless and odorless air.

And the sisters who met in twos and threes just now also pretended not to see, Ling Xiao couldn't help but feel sorry for the original owner, the experience of being ignored again and again was really hurtful, and I really want to know what's going on?

After Ling Xiao finished saluting, the grandmother didn't want to praise her granddaughter, and said very flatly: "Xiao Liu is not young anymore, and when she turns five years old, someone will teach her to read the commandments for women, Xiao Liu one You must obey Master's words and go down." When speaking, he raised his hands, as if eager to let Ling Xiao go.

Ling Xiao was led away in a daze just like the original owner. At this moment, her mind was swiping the screen, shit!Ladies!Which female compatriots who have accepted modern thinking would like to read what female commandments?Of course, Ling Xiao didn't show his dislike. After all, this is the standard reading material for the women of ancient officials and eunuchs.If you dare to say it is not good, you will definitely drop Majia and kneel in the ancestral hall.

She once studied the so-called commandments for women in a world where she had free time. After reading it, she just wanted to throw this thing into the brazier. It was a naked propaganda of male superiority and inferiority.

In later generations, many people emphasized that there is still a good aspect in this article, which is worthy of praise. The commandments for women teach women how to maintain high moral character, and they list many models.

In fact, Ling Xiao felt something was wrong after reading the relevant articles, because everyone would relax their vigilance because of the good aspects of the female commandment, and the brainwashing effect is more concealed, and some people will even force the female commandment to imprison women's thoughts. Whitewashed.In fact, this kind of article with a positive side is more likely to abuse women. Human moral standards already have good standards, so why dig for gold from the garbage dump?
To put it bluntly, instilling this kind of thing every day to women who are starting to read and write is most likely to completely distort the three views of women. After accepting the good side, you will also accept the bad side.

Don't say that the audience should have the ability to discern. Many women will only increase their slavishness after reading it.Although the female commandments were written by women, they have always been sought after by men.Many women simply don't have that discerning ability.

Ling Xiao naturally doesn't want to follow the female precepts, she does everything according to the female precepts, she really doesn't like it, remember that the female precepts are divided into seven chapters: inferiority, couples, respect, women's behavior, concentration, obedience And uncles and sisters, women will only make their bones weak after learning.

The reason why I say this is because there are many words in the female precepts that elevate the status of men and demean women: For example, there is a saying in the "Couple" article: "If a husband does not control his wife, his dignity will be ruined; if a woman does not serve her husband, righteousness will be lost. .”

If this sentence is put into plain language, it means: between husband and wife, if a husband cannot subdue his wife, then he has no ability of his own, and if a wife does not cater to and obey her husband everywhere, then it is treason. (1)

Look, a man is incapable of making his wife completely obedient when his wife is obedient in every possible way, and if a woman is unwilling to obey her husband and sell everything she has, it is against the law of heaven and completely treated differently.

There is also a sentence in the article that concentrates on making Ling Xiao snort even more. That sentence is: "A husband has the right to remarry, but a woman has no right to be second." The translation is: If a man dies, his wife must remarry Marry one, but if the woman dies, the husband must never remarry. He must be a widow and guard his body as jade for the dead husband.

When Ling Xiao saw this sentence, he felt that there was something wrong with the person who wrote the commandments for women. It was a double standard. Why did men and women have completely different results when the other half died?One must remarry?One must keep the festival?
Women and men are human beings!Why are people treated differently because of their gender?In fact, whether a man intends to remarry or a woman intends to remarry, it should be their own business, rather than some women's commandment to make regulations, it is simply troublesome.

Even if the female commandments teach female compatriots to be gentlemen among women and give them many codes of conduct, it does not prevent Ling Xiao from feeling that there are two words revealed between the lines in the female commandment book: double standards!

She doesn't care about women's precepts at all, she is not stupid anyway, why put a shackle of virtue on herself?This is entirely for her to be an honest person, and honest people are the easiest to suffer in life. Good people don't live long, and disasters can live for thousands of years. Although she won't be a disaster, she is determined not to be an honest person.

When she was being led away by the servant girl, she deliberately stared at their feet, because she noticed a terrible thing, and at the moment her mind was swiping: I'm going!It's a living three-inch golden lotus!Three-inch golden lotus, three-inch golden lotus!
She discovered the problem when she was saluting. All the women sitting there were three-inch golden lotuses.Depend on!The pointy toe exposed under the skirt reminded Ling Xiao that when she was a child, she had seen a kind of shoes worn by female compatriots. There was a time when a kind of pointed leather shoe was very popular, so pointy that it could be used as a weapon.

Of course, that kind of shoes still has a disadvantage, that is, the feet are particularly big, because the pointed toes are too long, it looks like the feet wearing the shoes are relatively big, and later women's shoes are no longer pointed to that exaggerated level. become small spikes.

And now these women wearing bow shoes look carefully, there are small pointed toes exposed under the skirts, only three inches, how big is this ankle?I don't know why Ling Xiao inexplicably thought of the second sister-in-law Yang, and suddenly thought of the two pointed feet of the compasses. This association made her want to laugh.

Holding back her laughter, she raised her foot and left here again, with the corners of her mouth slightly upturned. I heard that the three-inch golden lotus is not very easy to wash your feet. It's time-consuming, so you don't wash your feet frequently. Can you not sweat if you just cover it in a cloth strip?Naturally, it stinks. I remember a man who loved small feet in the Republic of China liked to smell the smell of small feet.

Ha ha!Recalling this, Ling Xiao smiled secretly, but she was very calm on the surface. After all, she can control her expression, and it is good if her face is original, and she will not lose control of her expression.

It's just that she once again felt that the life of a woman living in this era is really sad, and she can't even laugh out loud, because she has to smile without showing her teeth.Otherwise, that kind of grinning woman will be regarded as a frivolous woman, really sick!
Of course, the scariest question is coming. This body is probably about to be bound, right?God!Just imagining it made me feel a little pain in my bones. I forcibly bent all the toes except the thumb and tied them with cloth strips. In the end, the whole foot could not grow, and it could only be three inches long.

Depend on!Ling Xiao had no choice but to curse, what the hell is going on?In the previous ancient society, although women were bound by the rules and regulations of feudal ethics, they didn't have any small feet. What should we do?
Let her wrap her little feet obediently?Dream it!Ling Xiao felt that he had no love in his life. This task was a bit deceitful, and people had to bind their feet. Who wants this kind of bad habit?Anyway, Ling Xiao didn't want it.

Also, she knows that her aesthetics are completely different from the aesthetics of this era. In her opinion, a pair of natural feet is very beautiful. With the natural feet, she can run and do many things.

But in this era, there is a pair of natural feet, but the ugly representative in the city, that kind of golden lotus is very popular.Beauty looks at the feet, not the face.Ah!Is it really a morbid aesthetic concept that regards the destruction of women as beauty?

Ling Xiao remembered that in the Song Dynasty, female compatriots bound their feet to small feet, not after three-inch golden lotuses, that is, holding cloth strips to prevent them from growing too big, but they definitely did not bend their toes to the soles of their feet, nor would they It is required that women's feet are only three inches long. Although it is painful to wrap it on, it is not painful enough to die.

Of course, there were some trends at that time: small feet look good, and this aesthetic concept has gradually become recognized by the public, so that the entire class of women from top to bottom began to think about how to call themselves smaller.

It is rumored that a woman who specializes in the skin and flesh business wanted to be popular, so she started to be unconventional. In order to stand out from those pink heads, she began to study how to wrap her feet smaller, which is the prototype of the three-inch golden lotus.

Later, this kind of prostitute's dress was imitated by some women from good families, so more people began to agree with this practice of destroying their own feet, which can be said to be gradually recognized by people.

In fact, for a long period of time, some of the makeup and dress of prostitutes will be imitated by women from good families. After all, some men are not willing to give money to their wives who are married, but they are willing to give rewards to those prostitutes.

This caused girls from good families to imitate some things of girls from good families, trying to bring back their husbands' minds, so this kind of very slender feet gradually began to spread to girls from good families.

Ling Xiao looked at the three-inch golden lotus and thought about it. If it reached this point, it would only be so popular in the Ming Dynasty. As for why it wasn't Manchu and Yuanmeng, it was completely different in terms of clothing and hair.

Generally speaking, the three-inch-sized feet start to be wrapped around the age of five or six, so that the three-inch golden lotus that has been praised by scholars and doctors can be wrapped. Now the original owner is four years old, and I feel too small, but maybe when was arranged.

Counting my body, I didn't have many good days. From the beginning of binding my feet, I was forced to wrap them in cloth, because my feet would be very painful after living, and I basically didn't get out of bed.

Even in order to prevent the little girl from getting rid of it secretly, the foot wrap will be sewn on, and it will not be taken apart until the feet are washed.Thinking of this scene, Ling Xiao couldn't help shivering. How can a woman who is too sad walk with her little feet wrapped up?
Ling Xiao remembered that some books said that women with bound feet would be called Miss Bao, because they couldn't walk at all after binding their feet, and the little girls from official families were even weaker, so it was strange that they could walk.It’s no wonder that many women die during pregnancy and childbirth. On the one hand, they marry too early, the mother’s body is not fully developed, and on the other hand, they basically don’t walk. How can they have the strength to give birth?Terrible prospect.

She remembered reading a martial arts novel written by an author in the early years, and the author didn't know what to think. The Jianghu women in the book were all three-inch golden lotuses, which was basically impossible to exist.

The feet wrapped in three-inch golden lotus are basically disabled, and you still want to jump up and down and become a martial arts master?Ling Xiao didn't believe it at all, it was considered good if the three-inch golden lotus could walk normally.

You must know that the smaller the force-bearing area, the greater the pressure it bears, and the three-inch golden lotus can't bear the fight at all.Thinking of this, Ling Xiao felt that he had no intention of turning himself into a cripple.

It's just that she still has to think about the original owner?This thought made her feel a little bit troubled, because the owner of this body would come back sooner or later, wouldn't it make her feel ugly.

After all, the current aesthetics are distorted. It doesn't matter if the face is not beautiful in everyone's eyes. As long as the feet are wrapped well, she is a great beauty. A woman with natural feet, no matter how good her face is, it is useless, so she has to think about how to face her face. To the original owner.Is it the idea of ​​sacrificing oneself for the original owner?After all, the original owner still lives in this world.

After thinking about it for a while, Ling Xiao had to admit that she couldn't go against her own heart and bind her feet for the sake of the original owner. She couldn't do such a great job, and she didn't want the original owner to continue the previous way of life. Let's wait and see.

Thinking clearly, she returned to the original small courtyard, and she seemed to be sitting there in a daze. In fact, she was looking at those jade slips, wanting to know more about cultivation knowledge, and to study technology and culture. She tried her best to behave like the original owner. .

　(1) Generally speaking.

　　PS: I also checked that the daughter-in-law of an official's family in the Ming Dynasty was called a young lady.

　　
　
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