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I don't know where my sister-in-law learned this idea from, but she wanted to bind her niece's feet. She said that women with bound feet were ladies from wealthy families, while women with big feet would have a life of hard work all their lives. If they wanted to marry into a wealthy family and become a rich wife, they had to bind their feet.

The Qing Dynasty has fallen, so why is foot binding still practiced today?

The original owner knew what foot binding was like. It was not beauty, it was a disability.

She didn't want her brother's only bloodline to be destroyed by her sister-in-law, so she tried her best to stop it.

In order to prevent her niece from having her feet bound, the original owner kept her niece by her side and took great care of her no matter how she lived or studied.

But when the niece grew up, she couldn't find a partner and couldn't get married, so the sister-in-law blamed the original owner for this.

"If your aunt hadn't stopped you from binding your feet, you would have married into a wealthy family and become a rich lady. It was your aunt who ruined your path to success!"

The sister-in-law is always the mother of the niece. Under the instigation of the sister-in-law, the niece hated the original owner so much that she pushed the original owner down the mountain and smashed her feet with stones.

"It's all your fault. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be a leftover woman now!"

The original owner lost too much blood and died.

Later, the original owner's mother and sister-in-law filled the pit at the foot of the mountain to cover up their niece's actions. The family spent the original owner's money and lived in the original owner's house.

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Zhang Shan had just put down her niece who had just fallen asleep when she saw her sister-in-law coming back with a bag containing a long roll of white cloth.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"

Last year, my eldest brother died in a car accident, leaving behind my niece as his only blood relative.

My sister-in-law hasn't worked for many years and has been playing cards all day long. After my eldest brother died, it was the original owner who earned money to support the whole family. Later, in order to protect her niece, she did not get married.

"It's none of your business, don't ask."

The sister-in-law hid in the room mysteriously. Zhang Shan approached the door and heard the sound of cloth tearing inside.

She ignored it and went to the kitchen to cook. Just as the meal was ready, the original owner's mother came back.

"Why are they all vegetables? Can your body handle not eating some meat every day?"

Zhang's mother was a little dissatisfied, but she still picked up the bowl to eat. Her niece also sat obediently at the dining table and ate egg custard. The three-year-old child held the spoon very steadily, but dropped two or three bites after taking one. The egg custard was all over the floor and clothes.

"Zhang Shan, you're just thinking about yourself. Didn't you see your niece eating all over the place?"

"How do you become an aunt?"

Although Zhang's mother was stern in her words, she had no intention of helping her niece clean up.

Zhang Shan raised her eyes, just took a glance, and then buried her head in eating as if nothing had happened.

"Didn't you hear what I said?"

Zhang Shan then looked at her mother straight in the eye, "Lingling is already three years old. She was spoiled at home. Does she still need the teacher to chase her and feed her at school? She also needs to learn to be independent. Look, doesn't she eat well by herself?"

"What's good about that? You can eat it everywhere, but you just don't care. Your brother was so good to you when he was alive, but now he's gone, and you treat his only daughter like this..."

Snapped--

Zhang Shan slammed her chopsticks on the table.

"Does Big Brother belong to me alone? Isn't he your son? Isn't he sister-in-law's husband? Isn't Lingling your granddaughter, isn't she sister-in-law's daughter? I earn money to support you, but you didn't even help me when I fell. You think I can't take good care of the child, but you care about it yourself. You always use Big Brother's death to pressure me. Did I kill Big Brother?"

"You, you, you...you are outrageous. How dare you talk to me like that!"

"If you don't like it, just go to eldest brother's grave and let him say something you like to hear!" Zhang Shan threw down her chopsticks and left.

Zhang's mother was so angry that she covered her chest and breathed heavily, looking like she was about to faint, but no one bought her trick.

After the sister-in-law finished her meal, she went back to her room to sleep, leaving her niece to be taken care of by Zhang's mother. Zhang's mother simply picked up her niece from the small dining table, without changing her clothes, washing the dishes, or sweeping the floor.

Zhang Shan didn't plan to go back to serve this family. She was not a slave.

After dinner, she went shopping outside and did not return home until midnight. During that time, she received calls from Zhang's mother and sister-in-law. She did not tolerate them and directly scolded them back.

My niece was crying because of hunger and asked her aunt to come back on the phone. Her crying would make anyone feel soft-hearted.

Zhang Shan was tough, leaving home early and coming back late, engaging in a unilateral cold war, but in the end Zhang's mother gave in.

They had no choice but to give in. If Zhang Shan didn't give them living expenses, they would have no money to survive.

"Shanshan, this month's living expenses..."

"I'm not at home to eat, you guys can do whatever you want!"

Zhang's mother's face darkened. "What do you mean I can take care of it? Your eldest brother is gone, don't you support the family? If you don't give us money, what will our family eat and drink? There are also water, electricity, and property fees..."

"You are not even sixty, and your sister-in-law is not even thirty. They say that an elder sister-in-law is like a mother. Isn't my sister-in-law a human being? Can't she be raised at home? Also, my eldest brother's car accident insurance paid more than 100,000 yuan, and he didn't give me a penny. Why should I have to support his wife and children? At most, I will pay for some of the water and electricity bills. If you don't agree, I will move out."

When the sister-in-law heard this, she was unhappy. "The hundreds of thousands of dollars your eldest brother left for your niece to go to school. You want to take all the money for your niece's schooling. Are you still a human being?"

"Study money? I remember that I paid for Lingling's tuition this semester, right?"

My sister-in-law stammered and couldn't speak.

“Legally, I have no obligation to raise my niece. I took care of you this past year just to lighten your burden and allow you to transition smoothly. I didn’t expect to be taken advantage of by you.

Sister-in-law, you seem to have recovered from your daily trip to the mahjong parlor. Mom, you dance with the old man in the square every day, and you don't seem to be sad anymore. You should take care of yourselves from now on, and don't count on me for everything."

"How can that be? You are my daughter, you have to take care of me in my old age!" Zhang's mother was the first one who was unhappy.

Zhang Shan avoided her touch and said, "I will treat you the same way you treated me when you were a child. If you want more, just ask my eldest brother. After all, you are the most partial and you give him the most and the best!"

"You, you, you...you are so unfilial!"

"The more unfilial ones are already dead. By comparison, I am still considered a filial daughter."

Zhang Shan never lost in quarrels and she made her mother faint with anger.

Zhang's mother fainted on the ground. Zhang Shan did not intend to help her up. Instead, she looked at her sister-in-law and said, "Sister-in-law, my eldest brother emptied his family's savings and spent 180,000 yuan to marry you. Don't have any other thoughts. The right thing to do is to take good care of mom."

The sister-in-law turned her face away guiltily, but still moved Zhang's mother to the sofa.

When my brother and sister-in-law got married, the Zhang family borrowed money everywhere. But after they got married, for the sake of their own family, they paid all the debts to the original owner's father. In the end, the original owner's father died at work due to overwork.

The original owner had no money to send him to school, so she started working after graduating from high school. Fortunately, she met a noble person who allowed her to attend night school while working.

The original owner was also very hardworking and could learn things quickly. He was now helping a noble man run the factory.

So, after the eldest brother died, the sister-in-law wanted to marry another man. Both Zhang's mother and the original owner were unwilling. When she came to marry, she turned the family upside down. Now that the eldest brother is dead, she just wants to leave?

From that day on, Zhang Shan had to pay 20 yuan a month for living expenses, and had to face the ugly faces of Zhang's mother and sister-in-law every day.

That day, Zhang Shan saw her niece's feet wrapped in white cloth. She only took a glance and quickly looked away.

At night, there were sobbing sounds coming from her niece's room, but Zhang Shan ignored it, put on earplugs and fell asleep.

The smell of blood and medicine in the house became stronger and stronger. When Zhang Shan went to the factory, her colleagues were concerned about her health.

It happened to be summer vacation when my niece had her feet bound. She didn't have to go to school for more than a month, but we didn't have to worry about her not being able to walk.

But her niece’s crying was too miserable. Zhang Shan was afraid that she would be too soft-hearted, so she used the excuse that something happened at the factory and moved directly to the factory.

After the summer vacation, her niece had to go to kindergarten, and her sister-in-law did not ask Zhang Shan for money to pay the tuition. Zhang Shan also did not see her niece, and did not know that her feet could no longer walk.

My sister-in-law took my niece to the kindergarten. She didn't tell her about her niece's foot binding. She just said that her niece's foot was injured and she couldn't move, and asked the teacher to take good care of her.

My sister-in-law and Zhang's mother watched others bind their children's feet on the Internet, and they didn't know what to pay attention to when binding feet in ancient times. So my niece couldn't sleep because of the pain, and got up in the middle of the night to remove the foot binding cloth. The next day, my sister-in-law and Zhang's mother held her down and bound her feet again.

"Aunt, I don't want to bind my feet anymore. Can you please help me?"

The niece cried pitifully, and Zhang Shan was helpless, "Lingling, auntie doesn't want you to bind your feet, but one is your mother and the other is your grandmother. What right do you have to question it?"

"If it's really like your mother said, that you can marry into a wealthy family if you bind your feet, then if I don't let you bind your feet, you won't be able to marry into a wealthy family, and your mother will blame me."

The niece hugged Zhang Shan's feet and said, "I don't want to marry into a wealthy family. Aunt, please help me. I won't blame you."

"Then I'll go talk to your mother. If she doesn't agree, there's nothing I can do."

The niece looked at Zhang Shan with hope.

"Sister-in-law, foot binding is a feudal custom. Let's not bind her feet..."

The sister-in-law pushed Zhang Shan hard and pulled her niece up. "What does it have to do with you? You just can't stand seeing our Lingling doing well. Our Lingling is destined to marry into a wealthy family and become a rich wife. Unlike you, you are just a poor worker!"

Zhang Shan was criticized, but she was not angry. She turned around and gave her niece a helpless look. Her niece's eyes were red, "Mom, I don't want to bind my feet, and I don't want to marry into a rich family."

"What do you know? Did someone tell you something? They just can't stand seeing you doing well? Don't listen to them!"

Then, the sister-in-law glared at Zhang Shan fiercely, with a threatening look in her eyes.

At night, the niece secretly untied her foot binding, but before she could relax for long, she was discovered by her sister-in-law, who forcibly bound her feet again.

Because my niece's feet grew fast and had grown a lot, my sister-in-law adjusted the position and folded it hard...

Zhang Shan vaguely heard her niece's screams in her dream. When she went out the next day, she did not see her sister-in-law. She heard that her niece had a high fever last night and was sent to the hospital for an injection early in the morning.

At night, the sister-in-law came back carrying her niece, and Zhang Shan discovered that the soul in her niece's body had changed.

In the evening, the niece knocked on Zhang Shan's door in a wheelchair.

"Aunt, you're back too, right?"

Zhang Shan didn't say anything, neither admitting nor denying, but her niece's eyes were already red.

"I will never be an older leftover woman in this life. Don't try to stop my path to success, or else..."

If I can kill you once, I can kill you a second time!

"You think too much. How could I stop you? I'm here hoping that you'll be successful and help me."

"Huh, that's best!"

After my niece was reborn, she never complained about the pain from foot binding again.

Although it still hurts, but when I think about marrying into a wealthy family in the future, what does this pain matter?

As time went by, Zhang Shan got married, had a daughter, and left the Zhang family. Although she gave 500 yuan in alimony to Zhang's mother every month, she rarely returned to her parents' home, and never saw her niece again.

The next time I saw my niece was when she was in kindergarten. In order to let her meet rich kids, my sister-in-law transferred her to a private aristocratic school. The tuition was more than 100,000 yuan a year, and I don’t know where she got the money from.