The three of them came to the canal together, first grabbing a handful of soil to wipe off the greasy hands, and then wash their hands with the clean water in the canal. Le Yao was still young, so naturally his mother did it on his behalf. Xue Shuiwu grabbed her little hand and helped her wash her hands while talking in a low voice.

"Just let's talk about drinking tea. There are many rules. Different occasions and places have different requirements. For example, after having dinner with guests, tea often comes. The tea cannot be filled with water. Only 70% of the water is poured. Do not fill it up all the way."

Xue Shuiwu is really a good mother. She never forgets to educate her daughter when she gets the opportunity. She probably wants to educate her daughter into a real lady. When she mentioned tea just now, she educated her daughter at the tea ceremony. Fortunately, this little girl is still young and has a naive nature, otherwise it would be boring to behave like a little adult.

However, Ye Xiaotian didn't know much about these tea ceremony, so he listened aside and benefited a lot: "If there is tea leaves floating on the water when drinking tea, just use a bowl to press it down, don't skim it with a few or blow it, it's very rude.

Also, you have to sip tea in small sips, and don’t drink it all in one go. If you want to refill a cup of tea after drinking it, just pick up the bowl and lean it on the plate. The owner will know that you are going to refill the water, but don’t ask for it. When someone refills the water, you must thank you.

If you are the owner, you must turn sideways when refilling water to the guest, hold the lid of the pot with your hands and do not face the guest's mouth. That's a swearing. If you are offering tea to someone, don't turn around immediately after giving tea. You have to take three steps back and turn around, otherwise it will be disrespectful."

Ye Xiaotian was hang out with a group of court officials every day in the Tianlao of the Ministry of Justice. He knew a lot and complicated matters, but those court officials were all criminals and absolutely had no interest in telling him tea ceremony. At this time, I couldn't help but remember them all in my heart.

Xue Shuiwu rubbed her daughter's hands with fine soil and said, "Okay, wash it yourself."

Leyao squatted beside the canal water with his little butt sticking out, washing his hands. Xue Shuiwu continued to remind him while washing his hands: "If you visit someone with a status that is more noble than you, don't drink the tea brought by others, it's like it. Unless the owner raises his hand to 'consolate' you, the servant will shout 'send a guest', which is called 'send a guest'."

Ye Xiaotian couldn't help but smile and said, "I didn't expect you to know so many things. Did you learn this after entering the Yang Mansion?"

Xue Shuiwu was silent for a moment and said quietly: "My father was originally the head of the Qing official department of the Ministry of Rites."

Ye Xiaotian was shocked and said in a lost voice: "You are the descendant of an official? How could it be..."

Xue Shuiwu looked bleak and said quietly: "How could he be a petty person? Is his father responsible for the rituals, military rituals, academic affairs, and imperial examinations in the Qingguan Department. Once, a fraud in the imperial examination occurred. In order to calm the anger of the scholars, the relevant people were punished regardless of whether they were involved. The lightest one also confiscated the property, and my family lost the family..."

Ye Xiaotian was stunned and thought to himself: "This time I really took a big advantage! Not only did I get a beautiful woman like a flower, but her background is so noble. She is the daughter of the head of the Ministry of Rites. But... Even if the family is in decline, it will not be so miserable that she is a concubine, among which..."

Ye Xiaotian asked tentatively: "Now you are free, why don't you go home?"

Xue Shuiwu said lightly: "Because in my father and brother's heart, I am dead."

Ye Xiaotian looked at her in shock. Xue Shuiwu looked up at the bright stars in the sky and said sadly: "My family is also a scholarly family, and poetry and etiquette are passed down from family. The family has already fallen. If the news of my daughter being a concubine is spread, wouldn't it be a waste of politeness? So, when I was determined to sell myself to bury my mother, my family...had already thought I was dead."

Ye Xiaotian said in surprise: "Selling oneself to bury his mother?"

Xue Shuiwu lowered her head and washed her hands, and said softly: "At that time, the court was pursuing my father's case. My mother was seriously ill and the family didn't care about going to treat her, so she died of illness. After the family property was confiscated, my father was afraid that he would have an accident in the capital. So he was eager to return to his hometown, but he didn't even want to handle the mother's back, so he wanted to bury her with a bundle of straw mats. What can I do if I am a weak woman? So..., but my father and brother thought that my selling my body to bury my mother had ruined the Xue family's style and drove me out of the house from now on..."

A few crystal tears fell into the gurgling water, silent and without any trace.

Ye Xiaotian was shocked and angry when he heard this: "What a cool family, what a filial daughter! Hearing this, Shui Wu's mother seemed to be the concubine of the head of the Ministry of Rites, so she received this treatment. She was said to be a noble daughter from a famous family, but she was very pitiful.

Ye Xiaotian was worried that since Shui Wu had such a family background, it would be difficult for her to match her. Not to mention that she was as beautiful as a flower, even if she was as ugly as salt, it would be hard to match her with her background. Now she finally felt relieved, but she also felt angry in her heart for the unfair treatment she had encountered.

Ye Xiaotian said furiously: "It's outrageous! What a bullshit family of scholars and poetry and etiquette! You are very filial to the Lingtang. Such a good daughter is the glory of your Xue family. They will actually be regarded as a shame by them. Such a ruthless and ruthless bastard family member, it's better if you ignore them."

Le Yao washed his hands, and when his mother was talking, she felt the faint sadness between her words, and leaned against her very sensible. At this time, when she saw Ye Xiaotian furious, she couldn't help but tighten her mother's clothes with some fear.

Xue Shuiwu looked at Ye Xiaotian gratefully and whispered: "Let's go back." After that, she took her daughter's hand and staggered away.

Ye Xiaotian looked at her gait and frowned and said, "What's wrong with your feet?"

Xue Shuiwu said: "It's nothing, I'm just rushing through the day and a few blood blisters came out of my feet."

Ye Xiaotian hurriedly stood up and said, "Why didn't you say it earlier? If you don't deal with it today, how can you still walk tomorrow?"

Xue Shuiwu said: "It's nothing, I'll just hold on."

Ye Xiaotian rushed over quickly and said arrogantly: "What are you going to support? Can you support me?" After saying that, he bent down and hugged Xue Shuiwu's legs and hugged her horizontally.

Xue Shuiwu screamed and was already being picked up by Ye Xiaotian. She was shocked and embarrassed, but she couldn't struggle. She was hugged by Ye Xiaotian and closed her eyes in shame.

"So light, so soft body..." Ye Xiaotian thought to himself, but there was no abnormal look on his face. Le Yao ran after Ye Xiaotian and shouted: "Brother is partial, and he is so tired, why don't he hug him?"

Ye Xiaotian carried Xue Shuiwu to the temple and put it on the kang. Without saying a word, he went to take off her shoes. Xue Shuiwu hurriedly shrank her feet and shouted: "What are you doing?"

Ye Xiaotian said: "The blood bubble must be picked up, otherwise you will not be able to walk tomorrow."

Xue Shuiwu said: "I will do it myself."

Ye Xiaotian said: "How can you take care of yourself? If you are in a hurry, don't be reserved."

Xue Shuiwu looked embarrassed and stuttered: "I have been driving for a day, I...I haven't washed my feet yet."

Ye Xiaotian smiled and said, "If the feet are fragrant, they will not smell bad in one day."

Xue Shuiwu heard the meaning of his teasing, so she blushed and stopped talking.

Ye Xiaotian removed her shoes, took off her patched white socks, revealing her slender and beautiful feet. Xue Shuiwu's toes were nervously curled up with her petals that seemed shy, and her soft ankles were as gentle as jade. Ye Xiaotian couldn't help but feel the urge to caress her.

"cough!"

Ye Xiaotian's throat was tight, and he... but for the first time he touched a woman's feet, he was still such a beautiful woman's charming pair of jade feet. He coughed unnaturally and quickly covered up his nervousness with questions: "Strange, you are actually Tianzu, I thought you must have wrapped your feet."

Xue Shuiwu's small and delicate feet were held in his hand, and she felt her whole body hot. She was ashamed, her thighs tense, and she replied: "Well, because... because my father wanted to send me to the palace when I was very young, so..."

Ye Xiaotian then suddenly realized and thought to himself: "Shui Wu's father is not only cold-hearted and ruthless by nature, but also a fool of himself."

At this time of the Ming Dynasty, foot binding had become a common thing. Generally speaking, there were four types of people who did not bind their feet. One was the royal family, the other was the women of noble families, the other was the ethnic minorities in the border areas, and the other was some families with poor families who needed women to do heavy physical work like men.

Women from the royal family and noble family not only did not bind their feet, but also recruited palace maids and concubines in the palace, and were also women who did not bind their feet. When recruiting palace maids in the palace, they did not have age requirements, so some palace maids had to let go even if they had already bound their feet into the palace, because they were still young and had time to raise them.

Master Xue wanted to send his daughter to the palace, so he naturally would not be for the palace maids, so his purpose would be very obvious.

Ye Xiaotian secretly scolded Master Xue for being shameless, so he found a harder grass tip, gently cracked the blood bubbles for Xue Shuiwu, and gently put on socks for her. From beginning to end, Xue Shuiwu was at his mercy and did not dare to move, but letting a man fiddling with his feet like this, a strange feeling came to his heart.

When Shui Wu put on her socks, she felt relieved. Ye Xiaotian seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and smiled and said, "Okay, this way, there will be no scars left, otherwise it will be not beautiful."

When Ye Xiaotian was picking blood blisters for Xue Shuiwu, Le Yao kept staring at the side. When he heard Ye Xiaotian's words, Le Yao said, "Brother, is Yaoyao beautiful?"

“Um…”

Ye Xiaotian pretended to think about it and said, "Generally speaking, girls who were very beautiful when they were young will be very ugly when they grew up, because their outlines were already very beautiful when they were young, and there was no room for them to stretch. The little girls who looked ugly when they were young will be as beautiful as fairy when they were young. Then do you think you are beautiful now?"

Le Yao tilted his head and carefully analyzed what Ye Xiaotian said. These words were obviously a bit difficult to understand for a child of her age.

After a long time, she turned to Xue Shuiwu and asked seriously: "Is what my brother said true?"

Xue Shuiwu held back the laughter and nodded, teasing her, "Yes, people are all like this. They were beautiful when they were young, but they were not beautiful when they grew up. Do Yaoyao thinks he is beautiful now?"

The little man immediately frowned and looked like he was deeply thinking and laughing. She weighed the gains and losses between being beautiful when she was a child and being beautiful when she grew up, and then decisively concluded: "Yaoyao is not beautiful, Yaoyao is ugly!"
Chapter completed!