Hou Kun

Chapter 29 The Three Girls' Screams

When they were about to enter Beijing, the horse team suddenly rushed on the road day and night.God is still snowing, compared with Khalkha, they are all vain, and the movement is not small, but the dots accumulated on the ground are like salt flowers sprinkled on the biscuits. After reading.

When the cold-faced guards driving the carriage arrived, they didn't give them any good face. The carriage only wanted to run fast, but he didn't care if the people in the carriage were comfortable or not.Suge and Yimo vomited all the way, and they got used to it, but at the end they were surprised and stopped vomiting.Two blue and white faces leaned against the fence, staring at the blackened indigo cloth on the roof in a daze.I plan in my stomach that I will go to Beijing soon, regardless of whether my wife and the others are in a good mood, I will go into the mansion with the cheek first.

The one who arrived at night took Prince Yi's warrant and blasted open the city gate.When we arrived at Persimmon Alley, Suge's car stopped.Panting for breath, the two pulled the curtain of the car door and looked out. Prince Yi's motorcade didn't stop. It entered the city and rushed away.Were they thrown off?
Su Ge was worried, and five or six black-armored guards had already surrounded him. Even at night, his armor shone exquisitely——under the light of the foggy lantern on the roof, the light flickered.

There were two large carts with blue silk wraps and a group of people parked by the roadside. Seeing a car stop, a young man came up to ask, "But the lady from Jiayong's family is here?"

"But Duke Jiayong's mansion came up to welcome the second girl?" the guard asked loudly in the dark with his voice raised.

With this voice, a man wrapped in fur came up from behind, and clapped his hands and said hard, "Mr. Jiayong is my elder brother, I am here specially to pick up my niece."

The guard took the letter he handed over, looked at it and said, "The prince ordered that the second girl be sent to the mansion. Please lead the way."

Taking advantage of their greetings, Suge recognized Second Uncle Rongbao, a little confused, unexpectedly Second Uncle came to pick her up in person, could it be that Ama specially wrote a letter of trust?Now that I heard that I was going to the mansion, I hurriedly called "Second Uncle" and got off in the car, "Your labor, Second Uncle, it's still hard work at such a late hour," turning his head and smiling at the guards, "I'll see you soon My family will go back in the family car, so don't bother this military master to work hard."

The guards have nothing to do, Suge got down and changed the car, and the person with Rong Bao just took off the luggage, the cold-faced guards drove away, the wheels were full of strength, and the snow foam on the ground was thrown up by a foot .

Yimo smacked his lips on the cart, "This military master's temperament is almost catching up with our master's. It's quite arrogant!"

Su Ge didn't care about the cold-faced man, and murmured, "Why do you think the second uncle is waiting here in the middle of the night? The second uncle is a fastidious person, and when it's time at night, the second aunt has to take care of the hot feet and go to bed." , it's so late at night, and it's still freezing at the entrance of this alley... You have to be smart when you go back, and don't make him angry." Yimo agreed quickly.

Seeing that the guard insisted on personally escorting Suge home, Rong Bao couldn't help himself in a car, so he rode a horse and followed, laughing with him all the way, just saying it was hard work.Speaking of which, the guards were all dressed in rank four or above, which was much higher than his official rank from rank six. I was glad that I had changed into regular clothes, otherwise, the guards would not be so polite to me.

After all, it is the middle of winter, the coldness at night is quite different from that in the daytime, and the cold makes my brain ache.In the middle of the night, the doors of every household in the capital are closed, and the familiar streets and alleys are completely unfamiliar.At night, the horseshoes scramble, but people still feel that they are on the road, and the capital seems to be far away. This is not the Forty-Nine City that they grew up familiar with.

Persimmon alley is not far from Rong's mansion, soon, Prince Yi's guards saw the gate of Rong's mansion, said goodbye to Suge outside the car, and disappeared like flying.Over there, Rong Bao sent him off politely, but the guards ignored him, leaving Rong Bao with an embarrassed expression on his face.Looking back, I saw Suge standing by the door with her hands clasped and her eyes downcast.

Rong Bao made up his mind, he was really cold tonight.

Suppressing the fire, he said to Suge with a pleasant face, "It's getting late today, so don't bother the wives and the others. The second niece should go down and settle down first, and see the wife again in the morning." After finishing speaking, Guan Zi hurried into the gate, I went back to my yard.

Several women in charge took Suge's luggage and led them to the back house.

Rong's mansion is not big, the courtyard with three entrances, there are upside-down seats for the guests, the house is not big.After entering the house, fortunately everything was in place, there was an earth dragon in the house, and my stiff body suddenly softened.After leaving a little girl to serve the hot water, the women all dispersed.

After tidying up, it was almost midnight, the two of them didn't care about talking, they got into the bed, stretched their bodies and lay down, and immediately fell asleep.

Early the next morning, he was woken up by a shrill cry.

After listening carefully, it's in the next courtyard.Yimo was frightened, hurriedly put on her clothes and opened the door to inquire.Suge got up right after him, seeing that Yimo had pushed the door and gone out, she also followed.

A bunch of people in the yard, mothers-in-law, mothers-in-law and girls, gathered together and surrounded them.

The scream came from the center of the crowd.After listening for a while, Suge recognized her third uncle Ronghe's daughter, Yizhu who was the third in the family.Yizhu was just twelve years old and her voice hadn't changed yet. The voice was so intense and subtle that no one in Zirong Mansion would be able to hear it now.

A nanny who picked them up yesterday saw it, and came over as if nothing had happened, and said, "Miss, are you up?"

Suge collected herself and asked, "Is this Yizhu?"

The nanny twitched the corners of her mouth, with a half-smile, "So the girl didn't order her feet bound, if you didn't hear the cry, you should understand. She bound the feet of the third girl... Don't worry, girl, it's early in the morning. , called you up. But there is no way, the almanac that I was optimistic about earlier, today is a good day, I can't change it."

It was only then that Suge realized that she was binding Yizhu's feet.It stands to reason that women of the Han nationality have their feet bound at the age of five or six. They are young and their bones are soft, so it is easy to wrap golden lotus.But even if you are young, you have to shed tears for the suffering you have suffered.

"Now that you're all grown up, why would you girls suffer this?" Suge whispered, after entering the customs, the Taizu abolished the custom of binding the feet of Han women, and the girls of the Bannermen wore small big feet and walked on horses , the wind is general, more sally.

But if it is banned again and again, people can't help but like the three-inch golden lotus, which looks good when walking, and is still entangled.Suge has seen Han women in the south of the Yangtze River, swaying and swaying, and the posture of willows swinging in the wind. She was surprised for a while, but then she was shocked when she heard about the method of binding feet with porcelain pieces, breaking bones and tendons.

Besides, Yizhu is twelve.

"Miss, I don't know. In the past two years, the big families in Beijing have been paying attention to this. Third Miss, it's too late. If it wasn't for seeing the scenery..." Mammy choked on the cold wind and coughed for a while, "You don't know, Jingli What is wrapped now is a kind of "knife strip". We banner people are different from Han people. Our wraps should be beautiful and neat. Now everyone in Beijing wraps them, but they are particular about wrapping them thin and narrow. Straight and thin like a knife with a blade..."

Someone yelled over there, and Mammy responded quickly, and hurriedly turned to help, leaving Yimo and Suge to stand there blankly.

Knife?The two couldn't help but lifted the corners of their skirts to look at each other's feet, and looked at each other.

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Sorry, I had a headache yesterday, and I will try to make up for it tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)