Shen Mansion.
Shen Chengzhi held Shen Jinjin and walked to the inner room.
When Mrs. Shen saw Shen Chengzhi, she hurried over tremblingly. When she saw Shen Jinjin, her eyes couldn't help but turn cold.
Shen Jinjin shrank into Shen Chengzhi's arms with some fear.
"Brother, I want to come down."
Seeing that she was determined to come down, Shen Chengzhi simply let her go.
Shen Jinjin still looked timid, hiding behind Shen Chengzhi and not daring to face her grandmother.
"Girl, why can't you change your timid appearance? How can you be worthy of the eldest young master of the Xu family?"
In the mind of Shen’s grandmother, the Xu family was the eldest son of a wealthy family, and some of their ancestors had served as high-ranking officials.
Such a family is naturally more than qualified for Shen Jinjin, but the appearance of his granddaughter is simply unbearable to the eyes and is completely unacceptable to him.
In the world of five-year-old Shen Jinjin, everyone told her that she had an excellent fiancé, who was a marriage arranged for her by her deceased mother.
When Shen's mother was young, she and Xu's mother were close friends, so this was also an agreement between the two women.
Everyone mentioned Xu Nanchen to Shen Jinjin, and Shen Jinjin was already accustomed to it.
Her muffled baby voice sounded somewhat numb at this moment: "Grandma, I understand. I will study women's virtues and skills and become someone worthy of Master Xu."
The little baby had long been accustomed to being accused and belittled by her relatives. She was so numb that she could answer the challenges with a blank expression and even give a standard smile in return.
"It's good that you know. A woman obeys her father at home, obeys her husband after marriage, and obeys her son after her husband dies. If a woman can't even keep her husband, then there is no point for her to live."
Obviously, this was not the first time that Grandma Shen brainwashed Shen Jinjin. In Shen Jinjin's little head, she didn't understand what the Three Obediences and Four Virtues were, nor did she understand what women's virtues and achievements were.
But Shen Jinjin knew in her heart that she had to listen to her family or she would have nothing to eat. If she didn't have anything to eat, her stomach would ache and she would feel uncomfortable.
Unlike the little yellow dog at the door who has a mother dog to love her, she has nothing.
So she could only be more sensible and hope that everyone would like it more.
Shen Jinjin sometimes still looks forward to growing up. Her grandmother said that when she grows up, she can marry Xu Nanchen. After marrying Xu Nanchen, Xu Nanchen will treat her well and she will have enough food and warm clothes.
So Shen Jinjin was looking forward to marrying Xu Nanchen, as that was the only light in her life.
"Jinjin is going to eat." How could Shen Chengzhi not see that his grandmother was making things difficult for Jinjin, but his grandmother was an elder and he didn't dare to contradict her casually, so he had to change the subject.
Perhaps in Shen Chengzhi's heart, he still felt that what his grandmother said made sense.
Shen Jinjin was signed to the table, and she noticed her grandmother glaring at her from the moment she sat down.
Only when Shen Chengzhi is at home can Shen Jinjin eat at the table, and even when she eats at the table, she will be criticized by her grandmother.
And when Shen Chengzhi was not at home, she was not even qualified to sit at the table to eat, and could only stand aside and serve food to her grandmother.
The little kid, not even as tall as the table, stood on a chair to pick up food for his grandmother. He made one or two mistakes, but after being punished, he got better.
What Old Shen meant was to torture her and make her be disciplined to become a gentle and docile woman from a young age.
Shen Jinjin was probably young and didn’t eat much at noon, so she ate eagerly at night.
"Jinjin!" Old Mrs. Shen had a smile on her face, but her tone sounded like a threat.
When Shen Jinjin heard this, her hand that was picking up the food slowed down a bit.
The child was over five years old and was not very skilled in using chopsticks. He dropped his chopsticks to the ground after being frightened.
Seeing the food and chopsticks dropped on the ground, the smile on Old Shen's face disappeared immediately, but because of Shen Chengzhi's presence, she did not get angry directly.
"Jinjin, are you full?" Old Mrs. Shen's tone sounded gentle, but her words always made people feel a chill.
Sensing the look in Old Shen's eyes, Shen Jinjin could only nod woodenly: "Grandma, Jinjin is full."
Shen Chengzhi didn't think much about it, he just lowered his head to eat. After Shen Jinjin finished eating, he was punished to stand aside and watch.
“Chengzhi! How about grandma discuss something with you?” The tone of the old Shen family’s speech to Shen Chengzhi was completely different from Shen Jinjin’s attitude.
"Grandma, you say." Shen Chengzhi treated his grandmother with great respect.
After all, after Shen's mother died, the only one who could take care of the family was grandmother.
"I want to have Jinjin's feet bound after she turns six," Old Mrs. Shen suggested cautiously.
Shen Chengzhi frowned slightly. Aren't women's feet liberated now? Why would grandma take the initiative to bind Jinjin's feet?
Shen Jinjin didn't know what foot binding was, but when she saw the smile on Old Shen's face when she talked about foot binding, Shen Jinjin thought it was something good!
"Grandma, don't women outside bind their feet anymore? Isn't it a bit too much for us to take the lead in binding feet..."
Shen Chengzhi hesitated.
With the decline of feudal imperial power, new ideas and some activities against imperial power emerged in many places.
Cutting braids and loosening feet were among them.
Except for some girls in brothels, girls from respectable families had given up on foot binding.
Of course, this does not include girls from poor families who hope to marry into a wealthy family as concubines by showing off their three-inch golden lotus feet.
But the Shen family is not poor.
"Our family is already married to the Xu family, so if we bind our feet, we can better win our husband's heart."
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