Chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the unpredictable power of heaven (5)
The ten-year-old girl stood in front of her with a little shyness. Shen Rui felt soft in her heart, but she still felt a little embarrassed.
The country of Tianfu is rich in people and land. Even five hundred years later, Sichuan girls have only a handful of appearances. There were once foreign beauty pageants, which commented on the qualifications of beautiful women in various provinces, and Sichuan ranks first.
Although Shen Rui had met Yang Tian before his engagement, he was respectful at the time. But after a glance, he only knew that he was a pretty and smiling little girl.
The two times we met after getting engaged, we just treated us politely.
Shen Rui has a good impression of his young fiancée.
There is always a smile on my face, which looks quite pleasing. Although it has not yet been opened, there is beauty between my eyebrows and eyes.
It is not easy for Yang Tian to maintain a happy and cheerful personality. He is also able to stand beside Yu and receive the teachings of Yu. Although this is because she became Xu's future wife, it also means that this little girl is smart. Otherwise, if she is the original eldest daughter of the wife and "respect each other" to her stepmother, she will suffer the only one who suffers.
Thinking of the backyard of the Yang family, Shen Rui felt a little more distressed about the little fiancée in front of him. Although he was not so beastly and had desire for a ten-year-old child, he regarded Yang Tian as his own because of the marriage, and of course he was willing to protect him.
"Sister, it's clear. Is this bitter summer? Is it bad for your appetite?" After seeing Shen Rui and Yang Tian, they looked at her shrinking apple face and asked with some concern.
Yang Tian's white and tender face immediately stained with peach pollen and whispered: "It's not bitter summer, it's just growing taller, one inch longer than spring..."
It’s just that she is young and has a petite figure. Even if she grows one inch, she is half shorter than Shen Rui, so it’s not obvious.
Shen Rui looked at Yang Shen next to him, and was really worried about Yang Tian's height.
Yang Tinghe and Yang Shen and his son are not tall, so they can only say that they are not short, but are of medium height. It can be seen that even when Yang Tian grows up, his body is not much taller.
However, she is only ten years old now, and she is still several years away from getting married. It is the time to grow up. If she can grow taller, it will be a good thing for the next generation.
When it comes to this little girl's thoughts on eugenics and childbirth, Shen Rui cursed herself in her heart, a little embarrassed.
In the eyes of Yu and Yang Shen, it was the unmarried couple who were relatively shy and speechless.
Thinking of Shen Rui's efforts for more than half a year, Yang Shen was determined to make it happen, but when he took care of Yu's family, he didn't know how to speak for a while.
Yu smiled and said, "The apricots in the backyard are ripe. After all, they belong to their own. My elder brother took Sister Tian and Brother Rui to pick apricots, but they don't have much to eat..."
Yang Shen responded with a smile and looked at Shen Rui with a little joke.
Shen Rui is a shameless person, but he still shows a little "shy" in front of his future mother-in-law and brother-in-law.
Yu just thought he was embarrassed, but instead felt embarrassed to joke.
Yang Tian stood beside Yang Shen, secretly stretched out his arms, and gently pulled Yang Shen's back clothes.
Yang Shen rolled his eyes and muttered in his heart, "Girls are outgoing", and took Yang Tian and Shen Rui out of the main room.
All the ladies of a family are "jumping out with one foot and walking eight feet".
Behind Yang Tian, a foster mother, a slightly older maid, and two little maids came out.
Although Yang Shen felt that there were many people, he had such rules and etiquette, so he didn't say anything.
If it were someone else, there were so many annoying people who followed him, how could he have the nerve to speak?
However, because of his openness, Shen Rui did not feel anything to avoid.
"You will have a drink at home in two days, so you can come with your mother-in-law, too." Shen Rui said.
Yang Tian was happy when he heard this, then hesitated and said, "I'm afraid it's not cheap..."
According to the current rules, women should embroider dowry at home after getting engaged, and they will not leave until they are honest and will no longer participate in social interactions.
But Yang Tian was only ten years old. Because of her early engagement, she stopped all social interactions. She was locked up at home and looked pitiful. Shen Rui also wanted her to have more contact with Sister Yu, so she proposed this.
"I will tell my mother-in-law when I leave..." Shen Rui said.
Yang Tian's eyes were bright and she said "um" softly.
This soft and glutinous look is so cute no matter how you look at it, you also want someone to pinch the bun with an apple-faced face. Shen Rui thought this way, and he did the same thing by some devils.
Yang Tian was obviously frightened and was stunned.
Yang Shen was beside him, and he burst into anger and slapped Shen Rui's arm.
Yang Tian also woke up and his face flushed. He didn't dare to look up at Shen Rui and his brother, and held the foster mother's hand and ran away in panic.
"Shen Rui, what are you doing?" Yang Shen glared at Shen Rui, looking as if he was asking for guilt.
It is not just a joke for men and women to teach or not to marry each other. Even if they are engaged in marriage, they will restrain their respects even if they can meet before the wedding night. Otherwise, the man would be fine, just a word "young and romantic"; when it comes to a woman, it would be frivolous and unrespectful.
Shen Rui was obviously rude just now.
Shen Rui said with shame: "I don't know either, I just think Sister Tian was cute and pinched her. This is really rude..."
If he was quibbling, Yang Shen would feel that he was frivolous; but if he confessed in shame and sympathy, Yang Shen's anger was mostly dissipated.
In his heart, his sister is naturally very good, and Shen Rui's "love is hard to control himself" is reasonable.
But he didn't know that Shen Rui was ashamed, but not to pinch Yang Tian, but to calculate Yang Tian's birthday in his heart and count the countdown for her and the hairpin.
In fact, even Yang Tian was just a big child five years later. Shen Rui was caused by the secretion of androgens. He fantasized about Yang Tian's appearance when he was fifteen years old and was hoping to get married soon.
Since she was an excuse to pick apricots, Yang Shen still took Shen Rui to the garden. However, because of what happened just now, neither of them was interested in picking apricots, so she called an old lady to beat the apricots with a pole.
Nowadays, the apricots are only ripe, and only the branches on the sun are golden, with a mature temperament, while the branches on the shade are still green.
Shen Rui looked up and thought of a poem for no reason about it, "The flowers faded and the red and the green apricots were small."
Then, he spitted himself in his heart again. He was so crazy that he was thinking about something messy. It seemed that the tonic every day had to be completely stopped, otherwise there would be an "accident".
Yang Shen saw his obscure face and wanted to let him go, but when he thought of his younger sister, he said cruelly: "Your family treats you in two days. Our master and the wife will naturally go over, but Sister Tian is not suitable. Hengyun, don't make things difficult for your wife..."
Shen Rui turned his head and said, "Brother, I have no other intentions, I just want Sister Tian to go out and relax...
Yang Shen said with disagreement: "Although you have good intentions, you are not good at breaking the rules..."
Seeing that Shen Rui looked like he was guarding against the thief, he couldn't say anything.
However, thinking about Yang Tian's departure just now, Shen Rui's face froze because he quickly walked up the corner of his skirt.
Thinking about Xu, third wife, and sister Yu at home, Shen Rui felt confused.
The wives and ladies of this wealthy family always follow each other. Is it because they are "bad"?
When he was in Shen's house, except for the second wife who showed a delicate appearance and was willing to support his maid, neither Xu nor the third wife had the habit. As a junior, Shen Rui did not have the reason to stare at the elder's feet, and he could not see it because the corner of the skirt was covered.
Just now when Yang Tian left the stage, his body trembled, as if he was unable to walk steadily, and his shoes were extremely small.
Thinking of this, Shen Rui was upset.
Yang Shen just thought he was unhappy and talked about a lot of etiquette and laws on the boudoir.
Although he was willing to let his future sister-in-law get close to his sister, he was not willing to let his sister take the reputation of frivolity and was looked down upon.
Shen Ruiqiang listened with a smile and brought a basket of new apricots out of Yang's house.
On the way back from the Yang family, Shen Rui rode on the horse, but his eyes couldn't help but fall on the woman who showed up on the street, with her main goal being under her feet.
There are also women walking swayingly, but most of them are still in the sky.
However, he still looked gloomy. The daughters of the people's families can not bind their feet, but the young ladies of the scholars do not bind their feet, and the same is true for this.
When Shen Rui arrived at Shen's house, before the master came back from the yamen, Shen Rui went to the main room to meet Xu and told Yang Tinghe about the words he had given him.
"Hengyun, excellent" Xu was very happy about the word "Two".
Shen Rui said in confusion: "Why don't the child understand 'heng, where does the word "火" come from?"
Xu smiled and said, "There is always the solid virtue, and it is also the auspicious hexagram in the "Book of Changes". It is used to pick up characters, which is very good and auspicious."
Shen Rui still felt that the word "is not grand enough" and sounded more like a name and was not elegant. However, Xu was satisfied, and Master Shen would probably be satisfied.
Shen Rui hesitated for a moment and asked, "I saw Sister Tian today. She is growing tall and she doesn't seem to walk steadily... Mother, does a woman have to bind her feet? If she puts her feet on, can she do it?"
Xu had a serious face and said with a deep look: "But Sister Tian complained?"
Shen Rui shook his head and said, "Where would she say this? I don't understand why my body, hair, skin, and my parents do well in my feet?"
Xu sighed, "When I was tortured by the pain of foot binding when I was young, I also asked the wet nurse the same thing, but the world says this... The children are all flesh on the mother's body. If you feel sorry for your daughter's feet, you may have to complain in the future... Not to mention the ladies of the official family, even the common people will be more wealthy. Empress Xiaoci was said to the people for decades after the founding of the country... Brother Rui, I know you have good intentions and don't want Sister Tian to suffer the pain of foot binding, but you are you and can't replace her... She is now ten years old and has six or seven years of foot binding. She has suffered all her sins over the years. It's better to stick to it, otherwise she may be looked down upon in the future..."
Shen Rui frowned and said, "But in order to cater to the world, I have become disabled by my good feet. From now on, Is it really a good thing to be bad at doing this?"
When Xu heard this, he was stunned and said, "Why are you disabled?"
Shen Rui had no chance to see the real foot binding at all. All his understanding was information that later generations had seen. Thinking of the "three-inch golden lotus" with four toes folded in the heart of his feet and leaving only one big toe, Shen Rui felt disgusted.
"Don't Aunt Second Support a Person when Walking? Sister Tian also supports her today?" Shen Rui said.
Xu smiled and said, "Sister Tian suffered from her feet when she grew up, and she couldn't walk steadily for a while... When she got older, her bones would grow. Sister Yu also had her feet bound and she didn't see anyone helping her..."
As for Qiao's style of beauty like a willow-like beauty, Xu's comments in front of his younger generation, so he skips and ignores it.
Although Xu was open-minded, he was unwilling to continue discussing the topic of foot binding with Shen Rui, so he went to the point of disagreement...
Forbidden City, Ganqing Palace.
Hearing that Shou Ge came out of the queen's harem again today, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but touch his forehead.
Are you wrong?
Chapter completed!