In the ripple small house, in the fragrant flower hall, Lin Daojing frowned and looked at a letter, sighing slightly from time to time.

There was no one else in the house, Lin Daojing was not used to being served, so he politely refused the Xu family's arrangement, lived alone in the guest room, and cleaned the room himself in his spare time and washed his own clothes.

Ye Qin got close to her, because Xiao Yezi also did it herself, and came to look for her today and asked, "What's wrong?" Could it be a letter from home? ”

"It's not." Lin Daojing stood up, "My family didn't know that I was in Jinling, this was a letter from my neighbor's sister when I was a child, and later her family moved to Hangzhou and lived on the edge of the West Lake." Speaking of this sister, she is smart by nature, dignified and elegant, and likes to read the most. ”

"Hangzhou is an outstanding person, and so is Beiping, I really want to meet her." Ye Qin said, glanced at the letter on the table, and asked, "I saw you sighing again and again, is it possible that your sister's family is in trouble?" You might as well speak up, there must be a way to help her. ”

"Not really." Lin Daojing invited the other party to sit down and poured a cup of tea, "My sister is a bookworm, and there is no female red needle who can't do it, but she doesn't like it. Over the years, she has been particularly fond of the new books, and she agrees with the bold ideas in them, especially the arguments about us women. Because her parents only have one daughter, they love abnormality, so although her father doesn't like Xinxue, but for the sake of loving her daughter, he can't bear to interfere with her, and he doesn't go to school in Hengzhi, which is fine. ”

Ye Qin said: "That must be a problem in the new school." Godfather said that it is not an overnight achievement to change the traditional thinking concept, and the new school will definitely give birth to a lot of family contradictions and even social contradictions, because the deep-rooted concepts are different. There will be contradictions between people due to different concepts, and even fathers and sons will turn against each other, and husbands and wives will become enemies. ”

Lin Daojing smiled bitterly: "That's it, after my sister settled in Hangzhou, she moved to Suzhou with her business-doing father. Idle old Suzhou people can't tell that she is not a local.

But you also know the customs of Suzhou, on the one hand, the new school atmosphere is the best, and on the other hand, the conservative customs are the most. It is also the place where there is the greatest resistance to the imperial court's advocacy of not binding feet, and there are very few scholars who do not bind their feet. Every time my sister came out to meet a guest, the locals were all surprised to see it, alas. This brings us back to the men and women who are arguing about it nowadays. ”

Ye Qin said: "Yesterday, the newspaper also published an article by Aunt Zhang Hai. Why is it that men are allowed to go out to do things, but women are not allowed to go out to do things? Are men talented and knowledgeable, and women stupid?

Why should women treat men as gods, but men treat women like cows and horses? not only became a man's cow and horse, but also smeared grease and pretended to be a ghost to make all kinds of ugliness to please men. Aunt Zhang Hai does not blame the men's arrogance, but feels sorry why women are so stupid, they have relied on sex for thousands of years, and they naturally have to be taken by men. So under the Confucian tradition of taking the husband as the heaven, men have rights. Women have no power, and they can't even compare to overseas countries, such as Princess Blanche in the United Kingdom. ”

Lin Daojing said: "I asked Mr. about this, but Mr. just smiled and said don't think about these useless things, it will be a matter of course." Instead of fighting for women's rights in the newspaper all day long, it is useless, it is better to do your own thing in a down-to-earth manner, the times have progressed, and many concepts will naturally change, instead of blindly claiming and agitating, in the final analysis, in today's world respects men, and let men respect women in vain? It's a joke, I thought about it and it made sense. ”

Ye Qin said dissatisfiedly: "I really don't know what my godfather thinks, didn't he promote Xinxue?" always encouraged us to do this and that, and poured cold water on it at the end. Really. ”

"Sir is a man of great wisdom, he seems to be able to see through the future, and his words, even if they are simple, always seem to hit the nail on the head." Lin Daojing's face was in awe, and then she told her what happened to her sister.

This sister is married to the son of a well-known Suzhou businessman, her husband has been studying since he was a child, he is a pedantic talent, and he often speaks indecently, and seems to be incomprehensible, which makes the erudite sister a little dizzy, and sometimes almost laughs.

Because the newlywed Yan'er is not good at debating, she has to vaguely entertain a few words, who knows that she feels that her husband is bored, and how can her husband get used to her?

One night, after drinking a few glasses of wine, the husband went into the bedroom and saw his wife sitting on the edge of the bed, bending down to change her shoes. The husband looked at the pair of heavenly feet, suddenly sighed, and said hatefully: "My family's good style has been defeated by you." ”

The husband grew up in Suzhou, where the atmosphere of foot binding is strong, and he is a scholar who respects the three-inch golden lotus, since the day he saw his wife in the cave room, he was uncomfortable with the boss, and he did not have a seizure in the past few days, and he drank a few glasses of wine tonight, and he couldn't help but say it with drunkenness.

The elder sister hurriedly raised her head, and saw her husband crooked on Concubine Yang's collapse, staring directly at her feet, understanding that she had come over, but she was not nervous, but felt a little ridiculous, and changed her shoes in a hurry, and deliberately asked: "Why are you unhappy when you suddenly have such troubles today?" How can you show me your temperament? ”

The husband said angrily, "Which one will annoy me?" Who else but you? Let me ask you, it has been almost a month since you entered the door of my house, and which of those aunts, aunts, sisters and sisters of relatives, regardless of age, is not a pair of small feet with upright, pointy and thin feet? Have you ever seen a big-footed one? Which of them is not slender and good-looking, and walks like willows? How can anyone walk like you like a crab?

Hum! But I, a lucky man, married you with a pair of big yellow croaker, wasn't I laughed at behind the backs of my relatives? My Li family is a good Shili family, the door style is considered to have been humiliated by you, if you are interested, I advise you to wrap it up tomorrow. ”

My sister listened to him gritting her teeth and complaining, and she thought it was ridiculous at first, didn't she know that the whole world had regarded foot binding as a bad habit? From the late Queen Ma to the princess and lady, there was no habit of binding feet after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, aren't they noble?

After thinking about it, I felt sorry for my husband again, thinking that she couldn't experience the outside world as a woman, and read a few books and newspapers in the boudoir, and still knew the many disadvantages of foot binding, why was he, a man who was studying, not as knowledgeable as a woman? To regard these vulgar and despicable worldly ideas as the golden rules of the saints?

Feeling that her husband was stubborn and had dark thoughts, her poor sister didn't want to have a dispute, so she said well: "You want me to break my good feet and break bones and wrap them small, how can I bear it?" Don't say anything to make me angry. ”

Who knew that the husband became more and more annoyed, and said angrily: "Look at your appearance, you regard my words as farts, don't you?" I want you to bind your feet, you dare to object, I have never seen a woman like you who does not abide by women's morals and does not want to be decent, good! Good! ”

My sister heard her scold her for not keeping women's morals, and she couldn't stand it anymore, so she sneered: "What you say is too rude, how can I not abide by women's morals?" Besides, I haven't been entangled since I was a child, and I don't have such bad habits in my hometown as Suzhou, and I don't mean to oppose you. Since you like small feet, why didn't you inquire clearly when you first asked for marriage? It's too late to think about it now. ”

My sister is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she speaks sharply and coldly, and she is ruthless, and her mother's family is richer than her husband's family, and she is full of confidence.

The husband was so angry that he stood upright, pointed at her with his finger, and said, "Don't be so presumptuous, you are also a person who has read books, why don't you even know the three virtues and the four virtues?" What does it mean to marry from the father to the husband at home? Hmph, hum! In the past, you could be satisfied with whatever you wanted in your parents' house, but now when you come to my Li family, you can't help but abide by the rules of my Li family and obey my orders. Since I ordered you to bind your feet, I am not afraid that you will cut your feet, let's wait and see, Ming'er will let you try my methods. ”

Hearing this, Ye Qin said angrily: "What a ruthless person, it's a pity that he is far away in Suzhou, otherwise he would have to force him to bind his feet first, so that he can taste the taste of broken bones." ”

Lin Daojing looked strange and said softly: "It's in Jinling, otherwise how could I receive my sister's letter." Heck, you can't do nonsense. ”

Ye Qin smiled: "I don't come nonsense, naturally someone will come." But Sister Lin, you are bad enough, you deliberately said it to me. ”

"Hey!" Lin Daojing smiled, and then said coldly: "Who made him pedantic, I want to breathe a sigh for my sister." ”

It turned out that a large family surnamed Li entered Beijing to develop, and the sister admired the women's teacher, and came in the name of burning incense, and happened to meet Lin Daojing, who was returning to school, and corresponded every day after that.

In the study, Xu Hao listened to Xiao Yezi tell about this matter and said: "This is your young man's business, you can do whatever you want, even if you wrap that guy's feet, I will bear it for you if something happens." Xu Ye, do you have the guts? ”

"Yes!" Xu Ye said softly.

"Good!" Xu Hao showed a sneer, "Debate is useless to some stubborn people, it is not as effective as our fists, in the end, whoever has the big fist in this world is the axiom and likes small feet?" Then try the wonderful taste of foot wrapping for yourself. ”

Xiao Yezi said worriedly: "I'm also angry, after all, he is my sister's husband." ”

"So what?" Xu Hao didn't raise his head, "I'm not angry for her, I can only say that she was unlucky and hit us." ”

Xiao Yezi was dumbfounded for a while. (To be continued......)