Yinzhen, prince Yinreng and fourth elder brother Yinzhen stared blankly at this scene.After a long silence, they made the palace servants help the girl, who had completely forgotten her image, to go back to the courtyard to rest.

The three looked at each other.

Prince Yinreng called Guerjia's guards to ask, "Is the custom of binding feet all over the south of the Yangtze River so serious?"

Guard of Guarja: ...

He replied with some embarrassment: "I have heard a saying among the Han people in the south of the Yangtze River."

"...?"

"The so-called men's descent and women's non-surrender mean that the imperial court implemented an order to shave the heads of the Han people, but the imperial court's order to bind women's feet was not achieved, so there is a saying that men will not be surrendered while women are not surrendered."

Prince Yinreng just laughed angrily.

He sneered: "A group of big men rely entirely on women to support their strength? It's ridiculous."

Guerjia guards dare not continue to say this.

When the crown prince stopped complaining, he said respectfully: "His Royal Highness, how many servants and palace servants in the palace did you ask?"

Prince Yinfeng nodded.

Guerjia's guards moved very quickly, and within a quarter of an hour, they brought four nuns, four maids and two stewards from the palace.

The nuns in the palace were all summoned by the local Manchu and Han army banner families. As for the maids, most of them came from official families, and a few were assigned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to stay in the palace.The few people sent by Guerjia's guards were obviously the ladies of the official family. They all blushed when they heard that the prince mentioned the little feet, but they didn't dare to say a word.

Yinzhen frowned, and subconsciously looked at their feet.I saw that the older nuns all have natural feet... As for the four young maids, all of them have small feet.

Prince Yinfeng frowned.

His eyes shifted to the nanny and the stewards, and the leading nanny squatted and saluted: "His Royal Highness, it is a custom in various places in the south of the Yangtze River..."

"Aren't you bothered?"

"In the early years, it was true that she didn't bother, but now..." Mammy said quickly.

"Han people have so many good customs, you are born to learn these nasty things." Prince Yinfeng looked ugly, and couldn't help but cast a disgusted glance at the four court ladies.

If it hadn't been for the fact that Zuodu Censor Ma Qi was lurking among the officials, he would definitely find out the collusion between the Shouma Pavilion and the human traffickers, Prince Yinreng would definitely speak at this moment, telling all the maids with bound feet in the palace to get out.

The faces of the four maids were pale.

Small feet are prevalent in the south of the Yangtze River, and when the family members hold banquets, women will inevitably compete with each other.Naturally, the requirements of the official family will not be as harsh and strict as that of a thin horse, but if you have a pair of three-inch golden lotus, your reputation will be greatly increased, so how can you not make the ladies flock to it.

It's just that they never thought of it.

In the eyes of His Royal Highness, the little feet that made him proud and proud turned into a disgusting and disgusting existence. The four court ladies who couldn't accept this reality were tearful and couldn't help sobbing softly.

Before Prince Yinreng could speak, Li Yuanliang immediately had the four court ladies taken down.Seeing the disgust of the Crown Prince, the nuns broke out in cold sweat, and honestly talked about the situation of bound feet.

The situation was much more serious than Yinzhen and the others thought.

Since the ban on small feet was lifted in the seventh year of Kangxi, small feet have become popular all over the south of the Yangtze River, not to mention skinny horses and dancers and singers on the banks of the Qinhuai River, even girls in ordinary Han families have begun to bind their feet...even Han Banners and Manjun Banners also have this kind of foot binding. general trend.

"There are also people from the Manjun Banner?" Prince Yinfeng was astonished.

The mother was sweating profusely: "Although it is said that girls in their teens are useless, as far as I know, there are quite a few people who are five or six years old, seven or eight years old, who are binding their feet...No, nine out of ten, ten There are always four or five."

Four out of ten is not a small amount.

This means that after another seven or eight years, many of the girls who enter the palace for draft may choose to tie their feet.

Yinzhen's complexion changed drastically.

Wait another seven or eight years... Isn't that just after his turn?Thinking of Miss Qiqi's small feet that were only the size of his own palm, Yinzhen's eyes turned red with anxiety: "Ben elder brother's Fujin shouldn't look like this!"

"Brother Ben is too!"

The fourth elder brother Yinzhen's face turned blue and black, and he felt a chill in his stomach, and bursts of coolness came up.

Miss Gege from the Manchu family is extremely precious, and it is common for young men to ride horses and practice martial arts... Think about it. The attitude of the Han people.

Having said this, Yinzhen's face tightened: "Second brother of the prince, we must talk to Han Ama about this matter."

"Ben is going to write a letter to Mama Ukuma."

Yinzhen clenched her small fists: "If you want me to say, maybe Khan Ama...huh!"

The fourth elder brother Yinzhen: ...

His eyelids twitched, and he couldn't help scolding: "Don't talk nonsense."

"It's not my brother, I'm talking nonsense."

Yinzhen folded her hands on her chest, gnashing her teeth angrily: "Otherwise, why would Ama Khan cancel this prohibition order?"

Yin Zhen really had nowhere to refute this.

Prince Yinreng cast a sideways glance at the nonsense Yinzhen: "Just write all of them."

What this means is that he also feels... ahem.

Kangxi, who was half dead with anger in the Ningshou Palace, didn't know that a big black pot fell from the sky, but it hit him directly on the top of his head ruthlessly and accurately.

Kangxi was worried about Prince Yinreng.

He first issued two orders, one was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Rites to order to speed up the marriage of the prince, and the other was sent to the Southern Tour Team to reprimand Zhang Ying, the head of the Imperial Academy, and others, severely reprimanding them for letting the idlers wait. Close to the prince's slack attitude.

Then Kangxi wrote a letter to Prince Yinreng.

In the letter, he described it with the attitude of an old father: Ever since the crown prince Yinreng, the fourth elder brother Yinzhen and the ninth elder brother Yinzhen left Beijing, he, as an ama, had trouble sleeping and eating, and worried that the three children would suffer due to water and soil. Unconvinced but uncomfortable, and carefully told the three to speed up the southern tour, and strive to return to the capital by the end of March.

Liang Jiugong: ...

It is already the beginning of March, and the prince and his party have arrived at the Hangzhou mansion, and they want to rush back to the capital in less than a month... The emperor is clearly in a difficult position!

You can think about this in your own stomach.

Liang Jiugong didn't dare to say it out—God knows if the emperor, who was so anxious and circling in circles, would get angry.

Kangxi's subordinates kept on writing the letter in a hurry.He told the guards who came to pick up the letter: "Eight hundred li to hurry up, and it must be delivered to the prince as quickly as possible."

The guard hurriedly retreated in response.

Prince Yinfeng didn't know that because of the thin horse, Kangxi had plans to let them return to Beijing in advance.

Skinny horse, small feet.

These two things resounded in the hearts of the three of them, and they felt their hearts beating and suffocating. After letting the nuns and stewards retire, the three of them managed to say a few words and then went back to the dormitory to rest.

In the West Wing.

Yinzhen sat on the edge of the bed with her knees crossed and thought for a long time.

He stood up abruptly, and made Xu Sheng go to the imperial physician to get a roll of bandages.Regardless of the dissuasion of the palace people, he got tangled up on his own feet—several nuns and maids were frightened out of their wits, not to mention the fourth elder brother Yinzhen who rushed over after hearing the noise. Angry and funny.

"Yinyu, what are you doing?"

"...I just want to give it a try." Yinzhen lowered her head stubbornly, the bandages were in a mess in his hands, not to mention tightly wrapped around them, red strangle marks appeared on her delicate skin with just a little effort.

Yinzhen looked sour in his heart.

Before he could speak to persuade Yinzhen to stop, Yinzhen stopped first.He stared at the bandages wrapped around his feet, and there was a bit of crying in his voice: "...fourth brother, you said that it hurts if we tie it up casually like this, then... how much pain will they have?"

One year, two years, three or four years.

It will take more than ten years to be entangled, and it will not even be untied for a lifetime.

The fourth elder brother Yinzhen also lost his voice.

He wanted to say that it was about women and had nothing to do with them, but he couldn't say anything when he watched Yinzhen wipe away his tears and wrap the bandage around his little feet.

The nuns and maids standing aside couldn't help but secretly wiped away their tears.Looking at the stubborn and domineering little master, they felt inexplicably warm in their hearts—there are so many literati and poets in the world, in their eyes, they can't compare to the little master in front of them!

The fourth elder brother Yinzhen sighed heavily: "Okay, this elder brother will risk his life to accompany the gentleman..."

"……Um?"

"Ben elder brother said, Ben elder brother will also come." Yinzhen sat down on Yinzhen's bed, and casually took the remaining bandages.

"Fourth brother, you don't need it, do you?"

"What's the matter? You can do it if you can, but you can't? Yinzhen, do you think this elder brother can bear without you?"

"...I didn't say it." Yinzhen hummed.He watched the fourth elder brother Yinzhen's movements and grinned, "Fourth elder brother, your feet are like zongzi!"

"...Hmph, it's better than you messing around!"

"Brother, where is mine messed up? Look, there is a big bow tie!"

The two had a quarrel.

I don't know when the noisy sound gradually subsided, and when Xu Sheng and Su Peisheng approached, they found that the two elder brothers nestled together and fell asleep at some point.

"Do you want to take off this bandage?"

"It's better not to move, if the two masters get up, I'm afraid they will be unhappy!"

Xu Sheng and Su Peisheng covered the two young elder brothers with quilts, closed the gauze curtain, and tiptoed out of the bedroom one by one.

System Shushu stretched out its small claws to open the bamboo cage.

It slowly climbed to the edge of the bed and jumped up, looked at the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, and then squeezed to Yinzhen's cheeks to form a ball.

System Shushu's dark eyes stared at the void.

Yinzhen's favorability panel suddenly appeared in front of it, and it clearly stated that the fourth elder brother Yinzhen's favorability jumped from fifty, which had been maintained for a long time, to over eighty.

[...Fighting can increase the favorability, and tying bandages together can also increase the favorability...? ] The system Shushu looked at the fourth elder brother Yinzhen in bewilderment, and really didn't understand what was going on with this one.

It wasn't until his sharp gaze made the fourth elder brother Yinzhen groan uncomfortably, moving his body as if he was about to wake up, that the system Shushu moved his gaze away.

Yinzhen and the fourth elder brother Yinzhen didn't sleep well at night.

They woke up a quarter of an hour earlier than usual, and the two who woke up raised their feet almost at the same time to scratch and scratch - barely entangled for only one night, Yinzhen felt that her little feet were swollen for a while.

The fourth elder brother Yinzhen was also uncomfortable.

His face was wrinkled, and it felt like a hundred ants were wriggling on his feet. He felt a lot lighter when he took off the bandage.

The fourth elder brother Yinzhen breathed a sigh of relief.

As for Yinzhen—he originally wanted to persist for a few days, but he obediently removed it under Yinzhen's cold gaze.

"What if I hurt my foot?"

"...They have been tied up for such a long time!" Yinzhen muttered with a stern face.

The fourth elder brother Yinzhen glared at him.

Before he could reprimand Yinzhen, Yinzhen saw Yinzhen suddenly resting his chin in thought, and then he clenched his fist and punched it in the palm of his hand: "Fourth brother, since you have something to say, you should treat him in the same way as you, sir. There is even more punishment for false accusation in the Qing law... You said, if we don’t appeal to Khan Ama, whoever dares to let his wife and concubine’s feet be bound will be punished with the same punishment?”

The fourth elder brother Yinzhen: ...

The more Yinzhen thought about it, the better the idea became, his eyes lit up: "If anyone dares to let his wife, concubine and daughter have their feet tied up, we should tie his feet up first, what do you think?"

Not to mention the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, he really started to think about the feasibility of this.This method sounds simple, and it feels quite reasonable... The more Yinzhen thought about it, the more feasible it became, he jumped up with great interest, and called the palace people to come in to change their clothes and wash them, and rushed towards Prince Yinzhen Reng's dormitory ran.

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