The road from Africa to Europe

Chapter 990 A New Beginning

Not to mention that the Lin family is a very sober person, and it is because of sobriety that they did not think about giving up their motherland. A refugee without a country's asylum is the easiest to be bullied.

Refugees in exile will find one thing: their academic qualifications, work experience, and language have become blank or useless skills, and they have to start all over again.

Soon you will find that you can’t find a suitable job at all. As a foreigner, when you go to another country, it’s like living in someone else’s home. You don’t have enough food or clothing, and you don’t dare to speak up, for fear that you will be driven away and have nowhere to go. live.

After going through the wall again and again, I had to let go of the burden and work on the least technical work.Just to make a living, even if this kind of work may not be found, who makes them belong to refugees?

Under such circumstances, people will naturally take risks in order to survive, and some people have even begun to break the law. In this case, the entire refugee class is labeled, and it is even more difficult to find jobs.

A nation without the support of the country is equivalent to a child without parents. Once the children fight, the most disadvantaged are the children without parents.There will be more problems in the follow-up, such as the housing, work, and education of children for refugees.

In fact, citizens of countries hosting refugees will be full of grievances. The influx of refugees will cause many problems such as safety, health, transportation, and education. Educational opportunities, it is strange to see each other pleasing to the eye, sometimes it is completely the opposite position.

There is nothing wrong with both of them. Different positions have different ideas. In Dad Lin’s mind, the hardest thing is refugees. Maybe even people will become commodities at some point, especially young women and children. It is easy to become a victim, and no one cares if something goes wrong.

Father Lin is very aware of the problem, that is, why he lives so clearly that he has to endure it. Nowadays, those people are indeed not doing business, but they still have a certain deterrent force. It is better than becoming a refugee .

He also thought about it: what should he do if he is facing this domestic situation?I soon realized that I didn't have the ability to turn the tide. After thinking about it for a while, I could only do my own thing well and help others when I could.

He actively encourages his children to acquire good knowledge and strive to study abroad, but he does not want to send them away from this unsafe place. You must know that the planes in a certain country are bombed from time to time, and people are used to flying planes.

Instead, I hope that they will go home one day to build their own hometown. Before the son left, he specially said to his son and daughter-in-law: "Only Cathay Pacific can ensure the safety of the people. A person and a family are completely powerless in the face of the torrent. You must study hard, strive to learn the real thing, and reimburse your motherland in the future."

The two brothers and sisters who grew up in this kind of education love their country and have their own ideas in the face of the country's tribulations. They are both cultural people and have no other skills.

They don't have any talent in politics at all, and they don't have the possibility of being soldiers on the front line. Both brothers and sisters are talented in science, and they want to learn advanced science in foreign countries and make their motherland stronger in the future.

This is the thinking of many people who have studied abroad when they travel across the oceans. Although some people have changed their minds after arriving in foreign countries, there are still some people who travel across mountains and rivers when the motherland needs them and return to the motherland to serve the people.

He will even give up everything for the motherland, including but not limited to fame and money, just to make this ancient civilization take off again. This is the person who really needs to be remembered.

Ling Xiao knows very clearly that it is the efforts of thousands of unyielding souls that make this civilization start again and start its own road to revival. The white-eyed wolf who took revenge too far made calculations, but still found a way out.

It's just that the current situation is really bad. In the midst of internal and external troubles, there are many foreign powers who want to colonize, want to carve up this oldest civilization, and want to plunder all the treasures of this civilization, and bring them back to their own country.

There is a decline in national strength, the overall stagnation of science and technology, and even a large-scale retrogression. Only cold weapons can be used, but when they encounter hot weapons, they are completely defeated.

After the decaying and declining dynasty was over, the newcomers who came to power also spent money to introduce technology and start making thermal weapons, but the quantity was too small, and most of them were light weapons, the most powerful being mortars.

As for more sophisticated weapons, such as aircraft, artillery and tanks, there is no such technology at all, and foreigners will not provide related technologies at all, so they can only rely on imports if they want it.

It can be said that the most elite troops are equipped with the weapons of the United States as a standard. If a team can have such equipment, it will be the elite of the elite, and it will have the upper hand before the fight begins.

Looking at those weapons, they all thought that they could get some by themselves, and various warlords began to find ways to obtain weapons. It can be said that in order to achieve this goal, they were even more short-lived when facing foreigners.

A group of officials naturally dare not do small things when they see foreigners, and they can even bow their knees in order to achieve their own goals. When encountering disputes between Chinese and foreigners, they don't care about right and wrong at all, often like the dog officials in "The Fish Boy" Also stand on the side of the foreigner.

It's okay to be weak to the outside world, but to exploit the people of the country in every possible way, thinking about how to get rich.However, local warlords, large and small, like to fight and kill, and most of them only think about their own interests, thinking about how to let themselves grasp more benefits.

Ling Xiao clenched his fists when he thought of this. Fortunately, not all Chinese people are like this, and some people think about how to defend their country. Although they are too weak compared to those with power and power, a single spark can start a prairie fire. In the end great things were accomplished.

At this moment, Mama Lin's voice came, asking her daughter to have breakfast, which interrupted Ling Xiao's divergent thoughts. She wanted to play the role of the original owner so that the Lin family's parents would not worry and be afraid, and she had to accompany them well, because This is going to study abroad.

After dinner, the Lin family's parents had their own affairs. Ling Xiao stood in front of the window and looked outside. Now that the day was bright, more people naturally began to appear on the street. Ling Xiao wanted to see the daily life outside.

Although she has the memory of the original owner, she still needs to see it with her own eyes. She will leave in a few days, and she doesn't know how long it will take to come back again. If she comes back again, there will be many changes in this place, maybe the original owner has returned.

Lin's family lives on the third floor of an apartment building, neither high nor low. It is very clear from the outside. People who go out wear a variety of clothes. Some men wear suits, some wear long gowns, and naturally some wear shorts. Yes, of course there are those who wear very little, who makes the weather very hot.

The women's clothing is also varied. Some wear more conservative clothes, which is a variant of the jacket skirt, and some wear cheongsams. Most of the cheongsams are slits to the knees, and young women in the upper class are surprised. Take pride in wearing a dress.

After looking at it for a while, Ling Xiao felt that as long as he looked at the clothes, he could roughly see the social status of the other party. The difference in status made everyone completely different in clothing.

Rich people can change several sets of clothes a day, and powerful people don’t care how many sets of clothes they change. Anyway, they don’t wash them by themselves.

The people at the bottom are mostly patched and patched tattered clothes, and when they can no longer wear them, they reluctantly turn them into rags to realize the final value. This metropolis is really prosperous and poor.

Of course, the above criteria are only applicable to Chinese people, and cannot be placed between Chinese people and foreigners. Real nationals often feel inferior when they meet foreigners. The not-so-good foreigners live in this foreign country with arrogance.

Once upon a time, this country was the most powerful country in the world, even if it faced other countries, it would not be afraid. Chen Tang, a famous Chinese general, said in the emperor's memorial: "It is better to hang in the mansion of the barbarians on the first street to show thousands of miles away."Anyone who commits a strong man will be punished even if he is far away!

But now in this land worshiping foreigners is the mainstream. Certain elites who hold power only think about their own interests, that is, those who want to resist the foreigners riding on the heads of the people of the country, and want the country to be prosperous and strong. scattered.

What a pity!But after Ling Xiao thought about it for a while, he didn't dare to act rashly, for fear that because of his meddling, it would lead to even greater changes, which would affect the future development. Ling Xiao decided to stay still, and she could only be a spectator for some things , meddle in things as little as possible.

After making this decision, Ling Xiao began to prepare things for the boat, and packed some shoes. She planned to find a chance to get some walking shoes. This is a rare opportunity. Most of the Lin family prepared leather shoes for the original owner.

In this era, leather shoes are more modern than cloth shoes, but Ling Xiao knows that wearing cloth shoes is also good, and they are relatively healthier. Looking at normal-sized shoes, one of the things Ling Xiao is most satisfied with after wearing them is that the original owner is the original Feet, not bound feet.

When the original owner was born, a certain dynasty died for many years, and new ideas began to be transmitted in. As a metropolis, it was the first to receive new ideas, and the custom of binding women's feet began to weaken.

It's just that this new idea was not immediately spread to various places. Due to the lag of the news, in many places, some people still bound their girls' feet.

I don't know that binding feet in big cities is not progressive, and even after a period of time, women who are forced to bind feet are obviously victims of feudal ethics, but instead become the spokesperson of decadent feudalism and become a crime .

Ling Xiao hated the bound feet. This so-called beauty did not care about the pain and suffering of the victims. People who were forced to bind their feet were often people who could not decide their own lives.

Even later, the bad habit of binding feet became more and more serious, and even peasant women had to bind their feet, and it was really too hard to work with this kind of feet (1).

Of course, in addition to women’s feet binding, there are also a very small number of men’s feet bound. Some were coerced by women to bind their feet, and some were weak when they were young, so they raised boys as girls and dressed up as women all the time, including bound feet.

In addition, there are some men who do special business also bind their feet. The last type is male roles. Some male roles bind their feet themselves in order to better play women. If you show it, you are practicing stepping on stilts, and you can also show the three-inch golden lotus.

Although men have bound feet, but the number is relatively rare, and it is the trend of the times for women to bind their feet. I wish every Han woman had their feet bound.

The reason for this is because of abnormal aesthetics: if a woman is not wrapped into a three-inch golden lotus, even if she has a beautiful face, she is not a real beauty, and she cannot marry a good family at all.

This kind of aesthetics began to appear in the Song Dynasty, and it became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Later, people with some conditions had to cover it, and if they didn't cover it, they would be sorry for girls.
Ling Xiao still remembers that he crossed a world once, because he ran all night because he was about to bind his feet, so after wearing it on the original owner, he was very thankful that Father Lin was enlightened, otherwise he would become that kind of feet, ah!If she becomes a three-inch golden lotus, she will be killed.

Thinking of Ling Xiao moving his normal toes here, the original owner's family is really good, especially Lin's father who is the head of the family. Ling Xiao found that Lin's father may not be the most powerful person, but he has a very enlightened heart. heart of.

You must know that although new ideas have begun to appear in the metropolis, many people are unwilling to step out of their comfort zone at all. Not only must they abide by the so-called traditions, but they also require others to follow them.

Father Lin was able to insist that his daughter not abide by the so-called female moral education, go out to study, and raise money for his daughter to go out to learn more knowledge after the child graduated from high school. He is really a visionary person.

Standing here, she could see a lot of people, and she saw that among them were women walking with bound feet. They walked differently from ordinary people. It really hurts!
Ling Xiao felt his scalp tingle when he thought about how to bind his feet. It was precisely because he knew how to bind his feet. He even heard the cry of the victim.Isn't this just increasing the difficulty of escaping?
What she especially doesn't understand is: why more than 100 years after the so-called three-inch golden lotus was completely banned, there are still people who like the so-called three-inch golden lotus. Don't they know that it will smell bad?
I like to bind my feet and say that this is a fine traditional culture, ha ha!Excellent traditional culture?This word is really a brick. Where does it need to be moved? When will dross become treasure?

In Ling Xiao's view, binding feet is the feudal dross that needs to be overthrown most. There is no need to publicize it, let alone preaching about it. What is needed is to completely abandon the custom of binding feet.

Is it true that traditional things must be good and must be preserved?According to this kind of logic, people who say that they want to abide by the tradition should not live in any urban or rural areas, and they don’t need to live in houses.

You should just find a barren mountain to stay in, because human beings came out of the most primitive state, and at the beginning they took the heaven and the earth as their home. This is the earliest traditional way of life for human beings.

There is no need to wear any clothes. Humans in the early years didn't have any linen or silk to wear, and they often wrapped a beast's fur or a grass skirt.

Also, in the primitive society, although men have to go out to hunt, women also cannot squat at home comfortably. They have to go out with their companions of the same sex to collect all kinds of edible food, mainly plant food.

What kind of three-inch golden lotus can be wrapped at that time?If it looked like that, it would have been eliminated long ago, and it would definitely not be beautiful with the three-inch golden lotus.Early humans only thought about how to gain a firm foothold and how to survive. They had no idea of ​​binding their feet at all, so what about traditional culture?
It's fine if a man likes it, and even pulls like-minded people into a group, ah!This is their freedom, but they never thought that there are women who start binding their feet when they become adults. Ling Xiao didn't know what to say for a while after knowing it.

She really hated the so-called bound feet from the bottom of her heart, so she couldn't understand why someone would want to bind her feet.Of course, even if she knew about it, she wouldn't try to persuade her. This is someone else's freedom.But I really hate the kind of people who like the three-inch golden lotus, and still promote the so-called three-inch golden lotus under the banner of continuing the tradition.

What's outrageous is that the woman posted a video of herself binding her feet to the group, and was praised by the group friends, heh!Since it is said that binding feet is a tradition that must be adhered to, then this behavior of exposing one's feet to outsiders is completely inconsistent with traditional moral values.

In the era when bound feet were popular and three-inch golden lotuses were regarded as the beauty, women had to observe the three obediences and four virtues, and had to wrap their bodies except for the face and hands. Traditional ideas.

It can be said that a real lady wants to hide all her body parts, how can she reveal her feet?It was also posted in the group for others to comment on, which is too anti-traditional.

what!Wait a minute, something suddenly occurred to Ling Xiao's mind, the little feet are not all hidden, this is not a so-called 'race foot club' custom (2).

In Ling Xiao's view, the Saizu Club is also a strange event. To a certain extent, the Saizu Club has promoted the Three-Inch Golden Lotus. The qualified template also has a direction for more women to work hard when binding their feet.

The reason why Ling Xiao felt that the game feet would be weird was because the words and deeds of the women with bound feet from decent people in that era had "Biography of Martyrs" as the standard.

As the saying goes, men and women do not give or receive kisses. According to customs, men other than their husbands should never be allowed to touch their little feet, and even their husbands are not allowed to watch them wash their feet.

It can be seen that the small feet are a very private part, and it is impossible to easily show them to others, but a certain place allows others to touch the small feet of women who compete in football competitions.

Those girls are showing off their little feet at the football match, letting others enjoy them at will, but they have to cover their faces to prevent others from seeing, eh!This kind of behavior is really weird, Ling Xiao really doesn't know what to say.

After sighing for a while, Ling Xiao rejoiced that the original owner was born in a good age. Thinking that he might become a woman with small feet after crossing, Ling Xiao was a little scared.

The original owner's parents are very good, and she should let the original owner live a better life, what should she do?Ling Xiao was thinking about this question, she looked outside unconsciously, and quickly realized that she didn't know what happened to the original owner, so she waited to see what happened later.

　(1) Fleeting Nian's grandma has a rural household registration and also has a three-inch golden lotus, and she also feeds pigs.

　　(2) This is a popular science copied from the Internet, written by an author called Genealogy Compilation Research: When footbinding was prevalent, Taiyuan, Datong, Shanxi, Lanzhou, Gansu, Yongping, Xuanhua, HD, Hebei, Longdong, In Shaanxi, Yiyang, Hunan, and Chengdu, Sichuan, there are often some football competitions of this nature, or the feet drying meeting, small feet meeting, feet washing meeting, bright feet meeting, and feet drying meeting. .

　　Every year on the auspicious days of Spring and Autumn, such as New Year's Day, Shangyuan, Lunar [-]nd, Dragon Boat Festival, May [-]th, June [-]th, and Mid-Autumn Festival, women dress up in new clothes or sit in the open space outside the door, or sit indoors or in the car, and cherish the ordinary things. The inch golden lotus in the secret collection is placed in a conspicuous place, allowing visitors to taste their shoes and judge their feet, and strive to win the praise of the audience. : These feet are either full of lotus boats, or ugly, so they are ashamed to see others.

　　
　
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