"Mom, is it Big Foot?" asked a young man in a Western dress.
"It's big feet, it's big feet." The man was so happy to hear the exact answer that he ignored the slight discomfort on her mother's face.
"Okay, I agree to this marriage." The man Wen Haoze replied.
"Hey, hey, Mom is going to tell your dad the good news." The woman said she was going to tell the good news, but she had bound feet and could not walk fast, but her whole thin figure exuded joy from the inside out.
The wedding date arrived as scheduled.
"Get off the sedan~" The matchmaker's face was full of smiles. Today was the day when a wealthy family in the town was getting married. She could get a red envelope of two dollars, so she worked even harder.
The matchmaker called out the words several times, but the bride did not come out of the sedan chair on her own initiative. The matchmaker once suspected that the bride had fallen asleep in the sedan chair due to the shaking.
Logically speaking, she is a young lady from a poor family, so this shouldn't happen.
In the sedan chair.
Changsheng has been in this body for a while. She is just struggling with the question of whether to get out of the sedan chair and how to get out of the sedan chair.
The world is a little chaotic, but also a little different.
It's hard to say.
Now, batches of young people who have studied abroad are returning and have learned a lot of new ideas from abroad. When the old and the new are replaced by the new, there are pains, bloodshed, and earth-shaking changes.
The original body of Changsheng was a typical girl who was brought up completely according to the feudal society's boudoir education. Her whole family was very resistant to new things.
When she was little, Shangguan Changsheng wanted to convince her parents to send her abroad to study, or at least to a private school. But her father was a conservative person, and her mother followed his advice, living a cautious life for half her life.
In the end, she was beaten by her father, who never beat his daughters. From then on, her family education became stricter, for fear that her heart would become wild because of the world.
Even when our family fell on hard times and struggled to make ends meet, my father still upheld his rules. My eldest brother, unable to tolerate his pedantry, ran away. But he still sent money home on time every month, otherwise the family would have thought he had died away from home.
The marriage with the Wen family was due to the friendship between the ancestors, otherwise Old Man Shangguan would not have agreed to this marriage. He did not like those who worshipped foreigners. Anyone who was determined to go abroad was not a good person in his eyes.
But there are only a few young people in this town who are capable of doing this. He is harsh on his daughter, but that does not mean he does not love her. It's just that the way people like him love their children is not easy for the children to understand.
Although I haven't seen the boy from the Wen family for many years, based on my understanding of the Wen family's ancestors, I don't think they will raise any extraordinary playboys.
Changsheng knew that the matchmaker had already lifted the curtain of the sedan chair. She stretched out her left foot and saw that it was about to touch the ground, but she didn't expect that the embroidered shoe was too big and fell off.
The men in the crowd who were watching the fun quickly turned around, revealing the bride's three-inch golden lotus. Although she was wearing white silk socks, her delicate and exquisite feet were still clearly visible.
Following suit was the groom Wen Haoze, who seemed to be under a spell of soul-fixing.
Where's his big-footed bride?
His mother lied to her.
The matchmaker had seen all kinds of scenes. She quickly picked up the embroidered shoes on the ground, dusted them off, carefully put them on the bride, and carefully helped the bride get out of the sedan chair.
The incident at the door had already reached the ears of Wen's parents inside.
Mother Wen wanted to get up and go out to take a look, as she was afraid that her son would abandon his bride and run away.
Father Wen held his wife's hand hard and asked her to wait patiently, but he was actually a little panicked.
This son is well-educated, and the traditional wisdom of a loving father and a filial son sometimes doesn't quite work. It's not that the child isn't filial, but you can't convince him with those grand principles. As a father, you're left with the recourse to filial piety. It might not be a big deal once or twice, but if it keeps happening over and over again, you start to feel like you're being unreasonable.
Wen Haoze was a gentleman. He led the bride into the house and worshipped heaven and earth. He did not bring shame to the Wen family, nor did he let the Shangguan family be laughed at.
But he himself was like a walking corpse. After the guests left, Wen Haoze was sent to the bridal chamber by the farmhand. As soon as he pushed open the door of the bridal chamber, he fell down without saying a word.
Changsheng pulled off the red veil, took small steps to Wen Haoze's side, and pressed his thumb into his philtrum.
Wen Haoze woke up, and the little girl who was guarding Changsheng had already rushed to the front to inform Wen's father and mother.
Taking advantage of this gap, Changsheng helped Wen Haoze sit down on the chair next to him.
"I know you don't want to marry me. Let's be a couple in name only, just to appease both sets of parents. After two years, when the world becomes more open-minded, we can divorce. During this time, if you meet a girl you like, don't worry about me and pursue her with peace of mind. I won't be a stumbling block on your road to love."
This is what the original owner wanted to say to Wen Haoze, and now through Changsheng's mouth, he finally has the opportunity to say it.
In his previous life, Wen Haoze discovered that his wife had bound feet during their wedding night, and he couldn't accept it. But the two of them were sleeping in the same bed again. He couldn't live with his nominal wife, and he felt that everything in his family was full of deception.
But he was not brought up to divorce this humble and submissive woman. If he divorced her, would she still be able to survive?
Wen Haoze left home. It was a very chaotic place outside, so he went to many places, met many like-minded people, and also met a girl who made his heart beat.
Faced with the girl's fierce offensive, he almost fell. The love he had always dreamed of was so close to him, so close that it was within his reach.
But he already had a wife at home, and even though he didn't want to be responsible, she had been his responsibility from the moment he welcomed her into the family.
He had been drifting away for three years, and it was time to return home and take a look. Simply escaping was not a solution, and covering up the truth would never solve the problem, just like this broken country.
When he returned to the town, he found that the woman he didn't want to be responsible for had died a year ago. His family wanted to send him a letter, but they didn't know where he was.
The wife, whom he had only met once, blamed herself for forcing Wen Haoze to stay home and unable to fulfill her filial duties to his elderly parents-in-law and children. She suddenly caught a cold and died.
Wen Haoze read the letters his wife had left behind, and for the first time, he penetrated her heart through the layers of dogma. She was a thoughtful girl, not the thoughtless and unconscious wooden person he had always thought.
Although she had not been exposed to modern culture, she was well-versed in ancient books and was an extremely wise person.
Wen Haoze bid farewell to his parents and decided to join the army to explore the light of this world.
As she said, "There are thousands and thousands of women in this country who are like her, trapped in their own ways, bound by countless constraints and unable to break free. And as a pioneer at the forefront of thought, can he turn back and give them a hand when he has the energy to do so? They may be foolish and ignorant, but they shouldn't be deprived of even the chance of redemption and abandoned."
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