Chapter 25 Torture
This person should be Grandma Li Si in Zhou's mouth. Is she scary? Otherwise, why would Lian Zhier look like a ghost?
"Grandma Li Si." Lian Man'er said hello as she thought so, and then pulled Lian Zhi'er to make way.
Grandma Li Si nodded, as if satisfied with Lian Man'er's politeness.
"This is the second and third girls. I haven't seen each other for many days, and I've made a lot of success." Grandma Li Si said, looking at the feet of the two again, and some disagreement appeared on her face.
"Grandma Four, come into the house quickly, my mother is waiting. My Yaer is all dependent on Granny Four." He urged Grandma Li Si to walk into the house.
Lian Zhier hurriedly pulled Lian Man'er back to the west wing.
"Sister, why are you so scared?" Lian Man'er asked.
"You said that I wasn't that, you used to see her that's no more afraid than me." Lian Zhi'er patted her chest, "Oh, you must have forgotten."
"Grandma Li Si is terrible?" Lian Man'er asked again.
"It seems you really forgot that Sister Hongxia from the east end of the village two years ago was the foot wrapped by Grandma Li Si, but she lost half of her life." Lian Zhier seemed to think of something terrible and shivered.
“Isn’t foot binding very ordinary?”
"Grandma Li Si is not doing it normally, especially when she is at Yaer's age." Lian Zhier said.
"Sister, you don't want to bind your feet either." Lian Man'er smiled.
"When I was a child... I didn't have any wraps. Now I'm used to it. I don't want to suffer that. This is great. If you work harder in the future, just work harder." Lian Zhier said. She remembered Lian Man'er's performance just now and asked again, "Man'er, do you want to wrap your feet?"
Seeing that there were no outsiders, Lian Man'er would not hide it from Lian Zhier.
"I don't want to wrap it. I just thought that my milk doesn't like me. If I show that I don't want to wrap it, what should I do if my milk insists on wrapping it?" Lian Man'er said.
"Man'er, why did you learn to be sophisticated?" Lian Zhi'er smiled.
The two of them sat on the kang and talked.
"...Sister Huaer and Duoer both started wrapping when they were five years old. Yaer now wrapping and called Grandma Li Si to suffer." Lian Zhier said.
Lian Man'er thought about it and she hadn't seen how her feet were wrapped. She had a little bit of a desire to go and see it.
"Man'er, do you want to go see it? Sister advises you not to go." Lian Zhier saw Lian Man'er's thoughts and said.
"Just take a look." Lian Zhier said it, Lian Man'er simply said.
"Zhier, man, come and burn the fire." He's cry came from outside.
"We won't go." Lian Man'er grabbed Lian Zhi'er. He was lazy and always wanted to push the work she deserved. The two young and half-aged men in the second room almost didn't have home or work, except when they came back during meals. He also said that Lian Ya'er was young and refused to let her work. He loved to help her and Lian Zhi'er, as well as Zhang and Lian Ye'er from the third room.
"...Bind your girl's feet, and you'll let you burn the fire." He walked towards the west wing without hearing the echo.
"I'll come now." Lian Zhi'er agreed to the outside, turned around and smiled at Lian Man'er, "Let her be lazy, just have a little work. I'll go, Man'er, you are in the house."
Lian Man'er also smiled. Lian Zhier is very similar to Zhang. They are both diligent and have a good temperament. Speaking of which, she always feels that adults and children in the fourth room are all so popular that she is so angry that she is so angry that she is so angry that she is so angry that she wants to choose. But if she wants her to choose, she would rather choose this room.
"I'll go too," Lian Man'er got off the kang, "just go and take a look."
The two sisters talked and laughed, and then came to the room.
"Burn a pot of water and use it to bind your feet."
As He spoke, he glanced at Lian Man'er and Lian Zhi'er's big feet, and then looked at Lian Yao'er who was preparing to bind his feet, which gave birth to a lot of superiority out of thin air.
"Second uncle, go with Ya'er in the house, and leave the water to me." Lian Zhi'er said.
He nodded in satisfaction and went into the house.
Lian Zhier lives under the stove, Lian Man'er scoops of water from the water tank and pours it into the pot. He brushes the large iron pot with a brush. He makes sure the pot is completely clean, then pours out the dirty water. He scooped a full pot of water into the pot, and then covered the lid.
"Sister, I'll get you a bench." Seeing Lian Zhier squatting while burning the fire, Lian Man'er walked into the east room and brought a bench for Lian Zhier. Of course, she was also using an excuse to see how Lian Yaer bound her feet.
There was a kang table in the east room, and a needle and thread basket was placed on it, with needle and thread, a large ball of cotton, a box of alum, and six blue cloth strips were placed beside the basket, each with a length of 100 feet and a slurry-washed boards.
Grandma Li Si, Zhou, Grandma Li Si, Gu, Lian Huaer and Lian Duoer sat in half a circle on the kang. He was carrying Lian Ya'er to the kang, took off his shoes and socks, and placed it in front of Grandma Li Si.
Lian Yaer looks like He's feet, and her feet are the same. They are very wide and fat. Grandma Li Si grabbed Lian Yaer's feet, looked at them repeatedly several times, and then measured them with her hands.
"How old is Ya'er?" asked Grandma Li Si.
"In April this year, I turned nine years old." Zhou replied.
"It's too late to wrap it up." Grandma Li Si said.
"Otherwise, I won't invite you, Grandma 4." He smiled, "The girl Hongxia was eleven years old two years ago. She was not wrapped by Grandma 4. Everyone praised her. Her little feet were like she was wrapped in at the age of her age."
Grandma Li Si's face was thrusting, and Lian Man'er thought it should be a smile.
"That's been a bit hard." Grandma Li Si's tone showed a little pride.
"The fourth grandma needs to worry about Yaer's feet." Zhou was also very polite to Grandma Li Si.
"To be honest, although Ya'er is nine years old, her feet are too fat and wide, and they are bigger than Hongxia's feet when she was eleven years old, so it's not easy to wrap." Grandma Li Si said.
Zhou glanced at He with some dissatisfaction. Lian Ya'er's feet were the same length as He's.
"Do you want to wrap yourself in a normal way or a handsome guy?" Grandma Li Si asked.
"Of course, he is handsome." Zhou and He said in unison.
Grandma Li Si took out two pairs of bow shoes from her arms and placed them on the kang table. Two pairs of shoes, one pair larger and the other smaller, the smaller one was only a little bigger than Lian Man'er's hands.
"These are shoes I prepared for Yaer. Do you think you are satisfied or not?"
Zhou and his friends passed the small shoes and praised them, obviously very satisfied.
"This is comparable to Huaer's little feet." He was even more happy.
Lian Man'er looked at Lian Ya'er's feet and then at the pair of bow shoes. She couldn't see any possibility that Lian Ya'er's feet could be worn into such shoes. Even if the two shoes were added together, it would be very difficult.
"There are general ways to wrap, and the handsome ones have their own ways to wrap." Seeing that everyone was satisfied, Grandma Li Si said again, "I didn't expect that your Ya'er's feet are so big. I'm afraid that his handsome ones will be a little embarrassed."
"As long as you can wrap your feet like this, Ya'er will be grateful to Grandma Four for the rest of her life. I believe in Grandma Four. Grandma Four, how about adding another pound of eggs?" Zhou said cruelly.
Grandma Li Si's dough was pulled again.
"I have this method. As long as you can be cruel, you must be able to eat this kind of suffering." Grandma Li Si said, glanced at Lian Ya'er.
Lian Ya'er sat there, ignorantly, and shivered intuition.
"It depends on the management of the fourth grandmother." Zhou said.
He also nodded, "I, Ya'er, aren't afraid of suffering. Isn't it right? Ya'er?"
Lian Yaer looked up at He and didn't say anything.
"Ya'er, what's your mother telling you?" He pinched Lian Ya'er.
Lian Yaer nodded, "I, I'm not afraid of suffering."
Grandma Li Si picked up Lian Yaer's feet and looked at it again. Lian Man'er suddenly felt that Lian Yaer was sitting there, like a fish on a chopping board. Grandma Li Si was holding a knife, looking for a place to cut it. Lian Man'er felt a little chilled and hurriedly took the bench and walked out.
"Man'er, has the water boiled?" Zhou asked.
"It'll be fine soon." Lian Man'er said.
Lian Zhier and Lian Man'er brought a basin of hot water into the house and placed it on the kang. Grandma Li Si reached out to test the water temperature and nodded. He put Lian Ya'er's feet into the basin.
Lian Yaer felt that the water was a little hot and wanted to retract, but was stopped by Grandma Li Si at a glance.
"At this temperature of the water, heat up the next basin. Wash it well, soak it, and change it to three basins of water." Grandma Li Si said.
Grandma Li Si took out two bamboo pieces from her arms and said to Zhou, "Ya'er's foot is going to be wrapped in, and she needs something."
"Grandma Four, tell me."
"Do you have any broken pieces in your house? You can smash them a little, and bring half a bowl?" Grandma Li Si said.
"Want to break the porcelain pieces?" Gu was surprised and looked at Grandma Li Si with more admiration.
"It seems that the scholar's wife understands it." Grandma Li Si said.
"I have heard of it, but I have never seen anyone do it. The fourth grandma is such a good method." Gu said.
When binding your feet, you also need to use broken porcelain pieces. What to do? Lian Man'er can't figure it out.
"There is a broken bowl buried under the peach tree in the backyard. Man'er, go and smash half a bowl of broken porcelain pieces." Zhou said to Lian Man'er.
"My mother, I'll go, Man'er doesn't have enough strength." Lian Zhi'er said.
"Their little girl's family is weak after all, so she's better off finding someone who has a lot of strength and wants to smash it, just..." Grandma Li Si stretched out her little finger and compared it on the tip of her nails, "It's just such a small piece."
"Did you go and smash the second wife, let Zhier and Man'er wash Ya'er's feet." Zhou said.
"Oh." He agreed and went out. For the sake of her daughter's little feet, she was rarely more diligent.
After a while, He took half a bowl of broken porcelain pieces and let Grandma Li Si look at them. Grandma Li Si nodded and said that it was OK.
When she changed to the third basin of water, Grandma Li Si rolled up her sleeves and washed Lian Ya'er's feet personally. It was not accurate to wash her feet, but she should have rubbed her feet, and she put in effort.
Lian Ya'er screamed in pain.
"I can't bear the pain at this point, what can I do after a while?" Grandma Li Si scolded.
Lian Yaer looked around pitifully, and no one was protecting her, so she had to grit her teeth and endure it.
Finally, Grandma Li Si touched Lian Yaer's feet and felt that they were all softened, so she asked Lian Yaer to dry her feet. She put the blue cloth strip into the basin and wet it, and then sprinkled the broken porcelain pieces in the bowl on one side of the cloth strip. The cloth strips were washed with rice soup and were sticky when wet, so the broken porcelain pieces were all stuck to the cloth strips.
"I'll start wrapping up now. Come and help, hold her down, and don't let her move around." Grandma Li Si ordered.
Could it be that I had to use such a cloth strip to bind Lian Ya'er's feet? Lian Man'er was stunned.
Lian Zhier hurriedly brought the basin of water and gave Lian Man'er a wink. The two sisters hurriedly walked out. As soon as they left the house, Lian Ya'er screamed. Lian Man'er thought about it, but she couldn't help but lift the curtain and looked inside.
Inside the house, there was a scene of torture...
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Chapter completed!