108. Untie the foot-binding cloth
Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the village king, and everyone was very happy, but there was one person who was not very happy, and this person was Zhang Yingxian.
When Zhang Yingxian saw the brave army appear, she was actually quite happy. She didn't want to enter Huanglong Mountain, nor did she want to be the wife of the thief's suppression. So when Xu Renjie showed up with the brave army in front of her, she almost wanted to help Xu Renjie shout for cheering up.
In the whole battle, she was looking forward to Zhu Yuanzhang's defeat and then the brave army in the village could save her from the riots. In fact, she knew that even if she was rescued, she would be likely to be forced to death by the second young master of the Ma family, her nominal husband, on the grounds of losing his virility. But the woman was a strange creature. Even though she knew that the road was a dead end, she still didn't want to be the wife of the village to defeat the defeat.
She prayed silently that the brave army in the village must win!
Qiuye beside her was the opposite. She kept praying silently that Brother Zhu must win!
As a result, one person was happy and the other was sad. Zhu Yuanzhang killed the brave army like a magic trick. Zhang Yingxian's heart seemed to fall into a deep abyss. She really didn't expect that Zhu Ba, the manager of her family, would have such a good and easy shattered her little wish.
"Qiuye... are you happy now? But I'm so miserable..." Looking at Qiuye's happy face, Zhang Yinghua couldn't help but want to say a few words: "Oh, your heart is towards the man you like, and even your own lady is ignored. I've been so careless about you for so many years."
To be fair, Zhang Yingxian is pretty good to the maids and servants.
Qiuye was stunned by her words and said quickly: "Miss, no...I...I won't ignore Miss..."
"You care about me, how do you plan to care about the law?" Zhang Yinghua smiled bitterly and said, "The man you like doesn't marry you, but insists on robbing me... What's the matter? You don't even dare to say a word to me..."
Qiuye smiled bitterly: "The maid has no right to speak in this matter..."
"Then I'll ask you!" Zhang Yinghua said seriously: "If he wants to force me to sleep with him in the same bed after entering the mountain, what are you going to do?"
"This...maid...maid...wow..." Qiuye suddenly burst into tears.
The two women were saying helpless words, and Zhu Yuanzhang had already brought the soldiers over: "Let's go, go into the mountain!"
"I can't walk!" Zhang Yinghua said in a dissatisfied tone: "Once I enter the mountain, the mule cart, horse cart, and ox cart are useless. I don't have a cart to sit and I can't walk!"
"You have to go if you can't walk!" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned. He looked at Zhang Yingxian's little feet and felt uncomfortable. Why do women in the world like to wrap their feet? They should be like my big-footed Queen Ma, who can maintain a pair of natural feet, so that they look good.
Zhu Wuzhang's fierce tone scared Zhang Yingxian. She didn't dare to provoke further, so she had to pout. Two crystal tears hung on the corners of her eyes, but they didn't roll down... In fact, her personality was stubborn, so she quarreled with the second young master of the Ma family for a year. She was really rude to the man she didn't like, and she never became a real couple.
If she had been in an ordinary occasion and facing an ordinary outsider, she would have had a quarrel with Zhu Yuanzhang, but... she dared not argue now. The other party held the army in his hand and was decisive and ruthless in the killing. In the cellar, Zhu Ba waved his knife to cut off the constable's head. The scene of blood was still deeply imprinted in her mind, making her very afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang.
"But I really can't walk..." Zhang Yingxian couldn't help crying: "It's not pretending..."
Although people in the new society have heard of the bad habit of tying small feet, they have learned in depth or seen it with their own eyes. Wrapting small feet is a very tormenting behavior. A woman's feet are tightly wrapped with white cloth from a few years old, which makes it unhealthy. When she grows up, her feet become deformed and small, and she cannot walk normally. Therefore, in ancient times, the ladies would have a personal maid who actually used it as a crutch for the ladies... Just like the crutch of a ladder, the difference is that the crutch of the ladies is alive and can also be used to serve tea and water.
You said, is it reliable to let a cripple climb a mountain? Zhang Yingxian was afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang and did not dare to argue with him. She cried in grievance.
"Why are you crying? Unlock your foot-binding cloth and throw it away!" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and said, "You are only sixteen years old this year. Now you have time to recover if you untie your foot-binding cloth. If you are older, you won't be able to do it."
"Unlock?" Zhang Yingxian was shocked: "No...I don't want to unlock!"
In ancient times, women regarded foot binding as beauty. If you want her to untie the foot binding cloth, it would be like forcing modern women not to put on makeup on their faces. Depriving women of their right to pursue beauty is even more cruel than killing women.
"Excuse me!" Zhu Yuanzhang spoke in a heavy tone. Even the soldiers who didn't know much about him could hear that he was impatient.
"No... I don't understand!" Zhang Yingxian was still insisting.
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and shouted to Qiuye beside him: "Go and untie her foot-binding cloth."
If it was Qiuye yesterday, he might have listened to his orders, but Qiuye was just now lost by Zhang Yingxian, saying that she cared about men and ignored herself, how could she bear to come out to deal with her own lady at this time? She shook her head and said, "Brother Zhu, spare the lady... Please... You can do anything you want me to do, stop bullying the lady anymore. She is really pitiful."
Qiuye is disobedient, and Zhu Yuanzhang really doesn't want to force her, because Qiuye really loves him and treats him well, but he doesn't have the bad habit of bullying women who truly love him.
He turned his head: "Ma Xiaotian, go!"
"This..." Ma Xiaotian knelt: "Brother Zhu, it's not appropriate for me to do this. You snatched her to be the wife of the village, that is, my sister-in-law. How could I touch my sister-in-law's feet?"
In ancient times, women's feet were not something that anyone could touch, let alone touch them, and they couldn't even see them. Because at that time, women's feet were a very private thing, just like modern women's breasts and butts, and it was impossible to show them to outsiders. If Ma Xiaotian touched his sister-in-law's feet, his brothers could point fingers and let him jump into the river and commit suicide.
Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to ask Ma Xiaotian to fold the cloth because he did not regard Zhang Ying as his woman. In his heart, he forgot that she was snatched to be the wife of the village. After Ma Xiaotian said this, he suddenly woke up. Only I can do this?
He is a person who is decisive in his work. Since he is the only one who can do this, he will not refuse or hesitate and walk straight towards Zhang Yingxian.
"Don't... don't come over..." Zhang Yingxian felt what he was going to do, and she suddenly became anxious.
In the later generations, a man poses to touch his chest and walks towards a woman, which will make the woman feel equally panic. This is a very normal reaction.
"Don't let me lose my patience!" Zhu Yuanzhang threw out a fierce sentence, grabbed Zhang Yingxian's hand, and dragged her to the back of the tree.
"Save me... Qiuye... save me... you said you want to help me... Woo..." Zhang Yingxian was very anxious. She was really sick and wanted to seek medical treatment. Even Qiuye wanted to pull her out as a rescuer, but Qiuye had no ability to save her? In front of Zhu Yuanzhang, Qiuye was as obedient as a little sheep. Her resistance just now was doing her best. Now she couldn't move a finger.
Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates and Zhang Yingxian's maids all stared at each other without moving. Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang dragging her into the back of the big tree, Zhang Yingxian's low crying sound came from behind the tree, but there was not much struggle. She was really afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang, so she dared to cry and did not dare to resist. He obediently pressed him to the ground and pulled off the foot-binding cloth...
A little later, Zhu Yuanzhang dragged Zhang Yingxian out from behind the tree. She had put on her shoes and her long skirt hung down to cover her insteps. Everyone couldn't see it, but they could guess that her foot-binding cloth had been pulled off. Her walking posture was lighter than before, and it seemed a little more difficult.
This is also a very normal reaction. After a woman wraps her feet for a long time, she can barely walk with her feet, but once she removes the foot-binding cloth, she cannot walk at all. Because after untiing the cloth, the tightened bones are loosened, the force point changes, and the walking posture and movements need to be familiar with again. Therefore, women usually need to adapt to the untied foot-binding cloth for a long time before they can walk again.
Zhang Yingxian cried and couldn't walk anymore. Her focus was on Zhu Yuanzhang's hand that was dragging her, otherwise she would fall to the ground. It would be really miserable.
But Zhu Yuanzhang had no sympathy at all. He was a full macho man. He snorted at Zhang Yingxian and said, "I have untied this cloth for you. I will not be allowed to entangle again in the future. If I find out you will entangle again...hum..."
He didn't say anything like "beat you and kill you", but he just snorted, but this kind of thing is the most scary, because if you don't know what method he will use to deal with you, the more you think about it, the more terrifying it will be.
Zhang Yingxian couldn't help but remember the two heads flying in the cellar: "Woo... I won't bother you anymore... I won't bother you..."
Poor Zhang Yingxian, she didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang pulled off her foot-binding cloth for her good. After a long time, women would be liberated from the bad habit of foot-binding and gain a free body and mind. Moreover, when Zhu Yuanzhang threatened her, he hummed, just because he didn't think of any way to threaten this woman. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't like it, and there was no need to kill her. Zhu Yuanzhang could not think of a way to threaten her, so he had to "hum" helplessly, but he didn't expect that Zhang Yingxian's ears would scare her...
It can be seen that the most important thing between people is to understand each other. If you don’t understand a person’s words and deeds, you may consider his words and deeds in a bad direction. In fact, people don’t think so at all! If it were Qiuye, they wouldn’t be afraid of this “hum”, because Qiuye knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was a good person!
Chapter completed!