Thank you for being such a kind person!
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The children were about to go out to dig wild vegetables, but they were called into the house by Madam Yang first.
"Everyone, bring your straw hats. The sun has been up for half a day now.”
Madam Yang took out straw hats for the children and looked at Fang Xiner." Xiner, don't go. Stay at home with Mother."”
"Mother, I want to go with brother and sister." Xin 'er took the initiative to request.
She wanted to play with them and help her brother and sister with some work.
Afraid that Madam Yang would not agree, Fang Xin 'er said coquettishly,""Mother, I want to go."
Yang shi thought about it. Digging wild vegetables was not a tiring job. Moreover, Fang Ru and Fang Yun were looking after them, so she agreed.
"Xin 'er, sit on the brick bed. Mother will wrap your feet.”Madam Yang greeted Fang Xiner.
What? Madam Yang wanted to bind Xiner's feet? Fang Yun was shocked.
However, when he saw Fang Xin 'er sitting obediently on the edge of the Kang without any fear, he was a little confused.
"Come, mother will wrap it around you." Madam Yang squatted down, picked up the gauze, and wrapped it around Xiner's feet. As she wrapped it, she asked Fang Xiner if it was tight.
"You can't wrap it too tightly or too loosely. It's useless if it's too loose.”
It turned out that Madam Yang was afraid that Fang Xiner's feet would look bad if she did rough work, so she wrapped them with gauze.
Although it couldn't wrap around their feet like Fang Yan 'er and the others, it could still protect them and make them less ugly.
Fang Yun was relieved when he saw this.
He remembered that in his previous life, he had heard that during the Song Dynasty, women used this method to wrap their feet in order to make their feet look good.
However, for some reason, the foot-binding became a form of self-harming torture.
Madam Yang carefully wrapped her daughter's feet. She actually felt guilty in her heart.
"Mother has let you down." Madam Yang said in a low voice.
"Mother, don't say that. Big Feet is quite good.”Fang Ru said.
She had been working for the Yang Consortium since she was young and knew that the Yang Consortium felt sorry for her because they could not wrap her feet.
In this era, the girls from the rich families all bound their feet, and so did the better families.
However, in poor families, girls had to do all kinds of hard work, so they could not bind their feet.
Therefore, in the eyes of most people in this era, a pair of three-inch golden lotuses represented status.
A girl with a pair of small feet was more likely to marry into a better family.
Although there were some wealthy families who didn't care about this, they were still a minority.
It was really as Fang Yun had said. Her virtuous and tolerant attitude had implicated the children in not being valued at home and had also affected their future lives.
Madam Yang sighed. She felt that she had let down everyone in the Fang family, but she felt that she owed her children.
" Ru 'er and Xin' er both have big feet. I'm afraid they won't be able to be young mistresses like Yan 'er in the future. They can only marry into ordinary families..."
Madam Yang couldn't help but speak her mind." Mother usually teaches you to be more diligent. She hopes that you can be proficient in all kinds of work. In the future, when you go to your in-laws 'house, you can also have a stronger waist.”
Fang Ru nodded silently. Of course, she could understand the Yang Consortium's painstaking efforts.
"Could it be that a woman can only live a good life by binding her feet?”Fang Yun felt a little strange." I think that if you want to live a good life, you shouldn't rely on bound feet. Instead, you should rely on your brain and a pair of hardworking hands.”
Madam Yang and Fang Ru looked at Fang Yun.
"You don't believe me?" Fang Yun boasted shamelessly," Just you wait and see. I will definitely let you live a better life than those ladies and young ladies from rich families."”
"Good, good, our Little Seven is the most promising.”Madam Yang smiled perfunctorily.
As he spoke, he personally put on the straw hat for Fang Yun and instructed Fang Ru and Fang Ping to take good care of Fang Yun and Xin 'er before letting the children go out.
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Not far away from the village, a large area of farmland was in sight.
It was now August, and the crops in the fields were about to mature and wait to be harvested.
The idyllic scenery in front of her eyes made her feel relaxed and happy.
Fang Yun teased Xiner as he walked.
"Let's continue walking. The wild vegetables in this area should have been dug up.”Fang Ru walked in front.
As they walked along the path in the fields, they could see many children around their age. They were carrying baskets in their hands and were also out to dig wild vegetables.
"Let's start from here. I saw several pieces of bitter hemp vegetables here yesterday.”Fang Ru said as they walked to a field of broomcorn.
"Xin 'er, wait on the ridge. We'll go dig for vegetables.”Fang Ping said.
Fang Xin 'er did not want to give in. She was not that delicate.
"Xin 'er, just follow me and help me carry the basket.”Fang Yun said.
Xin 'er nodded and ran over to take the wicker basket from Fang Yun.
Fang Yun held a small rake and hoe in one hand as he followed Fang Ru into the field. Xin 'er followed behind him.
The children in the countryside were agile and knew not to hurt the crops.
After drilling forward for a while, he indeed saw large patches of bitter hemp growing in several ridges, as well as many other wild vegetables.
"Let's dig here." Fang Ru squatted down and said.
Fang Yun crouched down and copied Fang Ru's actions, digging the bitter hemp vegetables into the basket one by one.
There were a lot of wild vegetables here, so Fang Ru only picked up bitter hemp vegetables, Che Lu vegetables, and amaranth.
"Our pigs and chickens love to eat these.”
Fang Ru said to Fang Yun as she dug the vegetables," If you don't have enough, then Hui Hui Cai will do."”
Bitter hemp vegetables and amaranth were edible wild vegetables with good medicinal value.
Fang Ru was very fast. She was afraid that Fang Yun would be tired, so she would put the wild vegetables into Fang Yun's basket from time to time.
In a short while, the two of them dug up two baskets full of wild vegetables.
Fang Ping had also dug up a basket full of them. The children crawled out of the field and sat under the shade of a big tree.
Fang Ping handed the basket to Fang Ru, then went back into the ground.
"Brother, where are you going?" Fang Yun asked.
"Don't worry about him. He's wild." Fang Ru said.
Fang Yun only looked in the direction Fang Ping had disappeared in and did not say anything.
The children in the village were all born and raised in this land. They were more comfortable in this field than at home.
They came out to dig wild vegetables and play.
"Sister, Xiner, I'll knit a flower crown for you.”As Fang Yun spoke, he ran to the grass nearby to pick wildflowers.
Fang Yun picked a bunch of yellow, red, blue, and white wildflowers. Holding them in her hand, she twisted them left and right. After a while, she really made two beautiful flower crowns. One was worn on Fang Ru's head, and the other on Xiner's head.
The sisters played happily for a while.
"Aunt Xiu-Er's velvet flowers are so beautiful, don't you think so, Little Seven?”Fang Ru said.
Fang Yun looked at Fang Ru and nodded.
"Sis, you'll have even more beautiful flowers to wear in the future.”
Fang Ru smiled." I'm not asking for anything. I just want…"
"What do you think this is?" Fang Ping crawled out of the field of sorghums, his head drenched in sweat.
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