Chapter 310: One day, I will abolish foot binding!
This was the first time that Concubine Mao saw a noble concubine showing such undisguised disgust, and she gave Concubine Mi a quick look: "You are so good, what are you talking about these pickled things?"
Concubine Mi chatted.
Shu Jin thought to himself: It’s those dog men who are being punished!
Shu Jin rubbed the center of his eyebrows. She also knew that she couldn't control this now, so she turned to say: "The emperor has exempted this year's draft from the draft. I'm afraid Hongxin's marriage will have to wait three years."
Hongxin was born in the first month of the fourth year of Yongzheng's reign, and was only fourteen and a half years old. In Shu Jin's eyes, he was just like the Great Shota. Marrying a wife was like playing housewife.
Seeing that the imperial concubine was not angry with her, Concubine Mi breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Although I look forward to him getting married and establishing a career as soon as possible, after getting married, no one will mention the matter of dividing the house. Alas, it will be later." "
Shu Jin smiled and said, "It's never too late to do anything good. Don't rush to give him any concubines, lest he change his temperament and refuse to concentrate on his studies."
Concubine Mi nodded and said, "I understand, this concubine. The fifth elder brother only had a trial marriage pattern before he got married. It's time for Hongxin to learn from him."
After chatting some more about household matters, the second concubine stood up and left.
Grandma Lanruo personally sent the two concubines out of the ceremonial gate of Danning Palace. When she returned to the palace, she saw that her concubines were already handling palace affairs in the study. She couldn't help but feel relieved and took the pear soup from the hands of the eldest palace maid Shuxiang. , took it in personally.
Shu Jin took the soup and took a sip.
Aunt Lan Ruo said in a low voice: "When did the empress become disgusted with Chinese women?"
Shu Jin shook his head: "I just think that some men's hobbies are a little too disgusting."
Lan Ruo was startled for a moment, and then sighed: "How many of these Han girls are willing to bind their feet?" - Who doesn't know the pain if it hurts yourself? But there is no way, she is surrounded by her parents, relatives, and even her neighbors. He was so talkative that he had to endure such torture.
Shu Jin saw the compassion in Lan Ruo's eyes and couldn't help but ask: "Can a girl with bound feet really marry into a wealthy family when she grows up, with clothes to wear, food to eat, and mouth to open?" - For example, Si Beile is now a concubine. Su, although in her opinion, being a concubine is not a good way out, but for ordinary Han girls, it is already a very rare destination.
Aunt Lan Ruo smiled bitterly and shook her head: "When I was young, I grew up in my maternal grandfather's house in the countryside. I was used to seeing women with small feet doing laundry and cooking. They still had to do hard work in the mountains and in the fields."
Shu Jin frowned tightly: "How can you do heavy work if you can't even walk with a three-inch golden lotus?"
Aunt Lan Ruo said: "Why not? If you can't walk steadily, just use crutches. If you can't, then kneel or lie down!"
Shu Jin only felt harsh and heart-piercing when he heard this! If he married high and lived a good life, at least he would not have suffered in vain! But how could there be so many wealthy families in this world, and how could they digest so many three-inch golden lotuses?!
The vast majority of women with bound feet end up marrying poor farm men, and they themselves still have to face the loess and turn their backs to the sky!
It is obviously more convenient to have a pair of healthy feet, and you can do more physical work!!
But even if they understand this, there are still so many women who are forced to bind their feet.
There was an anger in Shu Jin's heart that had nowhere to vent. Previously, she had never thought that it was a glorious thing to travel through time and become a concubine who was born in Baoyi Banner. But now it seems that at least she has a sound body and does not have to be disabled since she was a child!!
Shu Jin bit out and said: "One day, I will completely abolish foot binding!!"
Lan Ruo hurriedly made a gesture of silence, "Mom, please keep your voice down!"
Although footbinding is a women's matter, it is also a matter for the court! How can the empress control this now? Unless the fifth master...
Aunt Lan Ruo added hurriedly: "Actually, many parents and elders are not really willing to bind their daughters' feet, but they are afraid that their daughters will not be able to get married, and they are afraid that others will say that their girls are 'irregular' and 'dishonest'."
Shu Jin was furious and said: "Binding your feet means you behave and behave honestly? What kind of fallacy is this?!"
"Oh my dear, please keep your voice down!" Lan Ruo tried to comfort her, "Women have bound their feet for hundreds of years. This has been the case since ancient times. It is not unique to this dynasty."
Shu Jin snorted coldly: "Is this right since ancient times?"
Lan Ruo sighed and said: "I naturally hope that one day all women in the world will no longer have to bind their feet." - As she said that, Aunt Lan Ruo smiled bitterly, "But this kind of thing has been banned many times in this court, but it still keeps happening."
Shu Jin was silent for a while, advocating De and Shunzhi. During the Kangxi period, there was a ban on foot-binding. Especially in the early years of Kangxi, anyone who bound a girl's feet would have her father punish her with forty boards and move thousands of miles away.
This can be considered harsh, but eventually it gradually relaxed.
Looking into the reason, Shu Jin felt that it was still not strict enough! Otherwise, why would men's heads be shaved and their knees weak? There is no reason to abandon foot binding.
Furthermore, the upper ruling class of the Qing Dynasty gradually accepted this "hobby". In the late Kangxi Dynasty, even Kang Mazi had several female concubines with small feet in his harem! Since then, the ban on foot binding has become a dead letter!
Therefore, Sibeile’s hobby was perfectly inherited from his grandfather!
Fortunately, Yongzheng did not have such a habit!
Although this guy's aesthetic taste in women isn't much better.
"Well, it's useless to say anything now." If you have any spare time, you should hurry up and deal with the palace affairs. If you don't hurry up, it will get dark.
Looking at the mountain of foldables, Shu Jin looked like a bitter gourd: "Lan Ruo~"
Aunt Lan Ruo couldn't help but cover her heart, "Slave, I shouldn't be nagging you about all this!"
With another click, Shu Jin put the brush into the hand of Aunt Lan Ruo, and then picked up the imperial concubine's seal, "You come and review it, and I will stamp it!"
Lan Ruo:......
An hour later, dusk had fallen.
Shu Jin finished his day's work and was lying on the beauty's couch, "Oh, I'm so exhausted."
Nanny Lan Ruo, who was rubbing her wrist, stiffened her hands. Is it possible to tire you out even by stamping the seal? Why don’t I believe this, my slave?
"Ouch, I'm old~" Shu Jin rubbed his waist and let out a meaningless sigh.
Aunt Lan Ruo couldn't help but look straight at her mother-in-law's ink-black temples, and then looked at herself reflected in the mirror - the temples had been dotted with silver threads.
The eldest maid, Mo Xiang, was already sitting on the footrest obediently, rubbing the lower back of her tired wife, and said sweetly: "My wife's skin is like gelatin, and her hair is like ink dye. It's no more than 20 years old."
Shu Jin chuckled and said, "Girl, your little mouth looks like honey!"
Aunt Lanruo: Look how happy I am!
"You are already going to be a grandmother, how can you stay young?" Shu Jin was really a little sad.
"Okay, my noble concubine!" Aunt Lan Ruo couldn't help but said, "Look at your appearance, how do you look like someone who wants to be a mammy?"
Shu Jin:??It always feels like you are scolding me?