"It's not foot binding, it's not foot binding. '*head* hair'" Zhang and Lian Zhi'er both laughed.

Goro smiled and pulled Xiaoqi out, Lian Zhier took off her shoes and showed Lian Man'er her feet.

Lianzhi'er's feet are Tianzu, she is wearing thin cloth socks, and circles of gauze are wrapped around her outside.

"Mom is afraid that we will always do rough work and make our feet look ugly. If we wrap it with gauze, we can't have such small feet like Sister Huaer and the others, and it won't be too ugly." Lian Zhier said, "It won't delay the work."

"Oh, so that's it."

Lian Man'er breathed a sigh of relief. She remembered that she seemed to have heard of it in her previous life that in the Song Dynasty, women used this method to bind their feet to look good. I don't know why, later, foot binding evolved into the kind of disabled foot binding method.

"Come on, I'll wrap you up." Zhang asked Lian Man'er to sit on the kang, picked up gauze, and wrapped it around Lian Man'er's feet in circles. While wrapping, he asked Lian Man'er if it was tight. "I won't wrap you too tightly, nor can I be too loose. It's useless if it's too loose."

Zhang lowered his head and carefully wrapped his daughter's feet, feeling full of guilt.

"Mom, I'm sorry for you." Zhang whispered.

"Mom, don't say that, big feet are good." Lian Zhier said. She started to help Zhang's work since she was a child, and knew that Zhang felt sorry for her in order not to wrap her little feet.

In this era, most girls from wealthy families were bound feet, and the same was true for better farm families. However, if the poor farm families also had to work to help the family plan, they needed to keep a pair of sky-foot. Therefore, in the eyes of many people, a pair of three-inch golden lotus represents identity. Girls with small feet are more likely to marry into wealthier families.

Although some families with better families don’t care about this, they are a minority after all. As Man'er said, her virtuousness and tolerance have implicated the children and were not valued at home, and also affected the children’s future lives. Zhang sighed heavily. She was worthy of anyone in the Lian family, except for her own children.

"You are all big feet, and you can only marry an ordinary farmer family in the future. You can't be a young grandmother like Huaer, and live a happy life... My mother doesn't stop you from working. You are diligent and good at work inside and outside the house. In the future, you can handle housework when you go to your in-laws' house and live a hard life." Zhang couldn't help but say what he said in his heart.

Lian Zhier's face turned red suddenly.

When Zhang saw that his eldest daughter was embarrassed, he stopped talking.

Lian Man'er tilted her head and started thinking. It turned out that small feet meant that she could marry into a wealthy family and live a good life. In other words, if a woman is not born rich, she had to win a man with small feet and live a good life by relying on marriage. Then can't she live a good life with big feet? If she doesn't rely on marriage or men, can't she make money by herself?

"...Make money by yourself, buy land, be a landlord, and have a good life even if you have big feet." Lian Man'er said solemnly. Yes, she must work hard and be a landlord by herself.

Zhang and Lian Zhier both looked at Lian Man'er.

"Don't you believe it?" Lian Man'er raised her head, "Let's wait and see, I will definitely be a landlord."

"Okay, okay, we Man'er will definitely be landlords in the future." Zhang smiled perfunctorily, and personally put on a straw hat on Lian Man'er, instructed Lian Zhier and Goro to take good care of Lian Man'er and Xiaoqi before letting a few children go out.

Not far from the village, there are large areas of fields. It is already August, and the crops in the fields are about to ripen and waiting for harvest. The pastoral scenery is full of refreshing. Lian Man'er is walking while teasing Xiaoqi to learn about the situation in the Lian family and the village. Lian Zhier and Lian Wulang also explained to Lian Man'er.

Soon, Lian Man'er knew that the village she lived in was called Sanshiliyingzi. It was close to the northern border of Ming Dynasty. Since the opening of the country, it has been the place where soldiers farmed. In order to strengthen border defense, the court sent some exiled prisoners here. Later, many refugees moved from all over the south. This place, which was originally deserted, gradually became vital.

After a hundred years of founding, Ming Dynasty pushed the border northward. The surrounding wars subsided, and many soldiers were dismissed and returned to the fields. Many of them simply stayed. The original military camps gradually became ordinary villages. However, occasionally, they could see the original combat readiness characteristics of the defenders from the place names.

Thirty-li Yingzi is named after it is thirty miles away from Jinyang County, the original border defense center.

"Let's walk far away, and the vegetables nearby are probably dug up." Lian Zhi'er walked in front with her head.

Walking along the path in the fields, there were also children of three or three big and small holding baskets in their hands, and they also came out to dig wild vegetables.

"Just dig here. When I came yesterday, there were a few large pieces of rosé here." Walking to a sorghum field, Lianzhier said.

"Man'er, you're waiting in the field, let's dig vegetables." Wulang said.

Lian Man'er shook her head, she was not that delicate.

"Okay, then Man'er, follow me. If you feel tired and uncomfortable, just tell me." Lian Zhi'er said.

Lian Man'er nodded, holding a willow-woven basket in one hand and a small rake hoe in the other, and followed Lian'er into the sorghum field. The children in the countryside were smart and knew that they could not hurt the crops. They drank three or two, and they saw large chunks of rugua and many other wild vegetables growing in several consecutive ditches.

"Let's dig here." Lian Zhier squatted down and said.

Lian Man'er squatted down and learned Lianzhi'er's movements to dig the rugua into the basket. There were a lot of wild vegetables here, and Lianzhi'er only picked up rugua, car wheel vegetables and amaranth to dig.

"Our pigs and chickens love to eat these the most." Lian Zhier was digging vegetables while talking to Lian Man'er, "If you can't dig enough, the gray vegetables are fine."

Rucai, also called jujube, chew wheels, also called cheqianzi, and amaranth, are all wild vegetables that are eaten and have good medicinal value.

Lian Zhier was very quick, afraid that Lian Man'er would work hard, so he put the wild vegetables he dug into Lian Man'er's basket from time to time. After a while, the two dug two baskets of wild vegetables. Goro and Xiaoqi also dug two baskets, and several children came out of the sorghum field and sat in the shade of a big tree on the ground.

Goro handed the basket to Lian Zhier and took Xiaoqi into the ground again.

"Why do you do?" Lian Man'er greeted.

"Don't worry about them, they're wild." Lian Zhi'er told Lian Man'er.

Lian Man'er stopped talking. The children in the village were all born and raised on this land. They were as comfortable as at home in this field. They came out to dig wild vegetables and also let the wind and play.

"Man'er, I'll wear a flower crown for you." Lian Zhi'er said, and ran to the grass beside her to pick wild flowers.

Lianzhier picked a handful of yellow, red, blue, and white wild flowers back, held them in his hand, twisted them left and turned right, and after a while, he really made a beautiful flower crown and he had to wear it on Lian Man'er.

The two sisters laughed and made a fuss because Lian Man'er had injuries on her head, and finally Lian Zhier put the flower crown on her head.

"Aunt Xiu'er's velvet flowers are so beautiful, do you think it's?" Lian Zhi'er said.

Lian Man'er glanced at Lian Zhi'er and nodded.

"Sister, you will have a more beautiful velvet flower to wear in the future."

Lian Zhier smiled, "I don't want to wear any velvet flowers, just..."

"Second sister, let me show you what this is?" Lian Wulang and Xiaoqi's sweat came out of the sorghum field.

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Chapter completed!