I'm a humble concubine. My acting skills are off the charts. You can check my performance.

After receiving all the gifts, Zhao Fangyu also had a rough understanding of the wealth of the Li family. No wonder the eldest lady had so many gemstones and jewelry. It turned out that her family could really use gemstones to make beads and play marbles for her...

Horror!

The eldest lady's room was arranged near the two elders, and it was also a small courtyard.

The eldest lady and Zhao Fangmo lived in the central room, and Zhao Fangjin was on the left and right. There were also a few back rooms near the door for the maids and old women to live in, and there were also special servants' rooms if they couldn't live there.

Zhao Fangyu thought of the neatly dressed girls here, so he asked Xiangyao to push the two large sleeves he brought under the box and took out a few thick jackets with rough edges. People here also seemed to like wearing bright colors in daily life. Several girls I saw yesterday were wearing clothes with more or less silver, red, cinnabar, pine green and lake blue.

It’s a pity that she has always dressed in light colors, and she couldn’t find any brightly colored clothes at this time.

Early the next morning, Zhao Fangyu changed into the Hai Tianxia fur-edged jacket that she had picked out the night before, combed her hair into a heart-shaped bun, and chose a hairpin and a pair of earrings from the jewelry given to her by her elders the night before and put them on, and also put a white jade jasmine hairpin in her hair. She dressed herself neatly without losing a single strand of hair as she went to pay her respects to her elders.

She was not a blood relative of the Li family. She was able to come to the old house of the Li family in Longxi because of the blessing of the eldest lady. Judging from the situation yesterday, the Li family treated her better than the cats and dogs on the street. They felt sorry for her, so they gave her some charity. For the sake of the eldest lady, they also prepared three points of gifts, so as not to let the eldest lady down. But if she really liked her, she might not be as good as a beautiful cat slave.

In such a situation, Zhao Fangyu did not intend to take the lead, and everything was based on safety.

The eldest lady couldn't help laughing when she saw Zhao Fangyu's dress. She called Zhao Fangyu to her in the middle of the courtyard and said, "Don't be afraid. They don't know your temper yet. Go and play with your uncle's sisters today. Everything will be fine as usual. If you want to learn how to ride a horse, you can learn it."

"We in Longxi ride horses, which are different from those fancy moves in the capital. They are as swift as the wind and as fast as lightning. If a girl from a military family were a general, she could bend the bow and shoot arrows, or ride a horse to kill the enemy."

Zhao Fangyu originally thought that all places were the same in the feudal era, but she didn't expect that Longxi was quite different from Shangjing and her impression of the feudal era.

A woman shooting an arrow with a bow? Riding a horse to kill an enemy?

The eldest lady saw with her own eyes that the caution in Zhao Fangyu's eyes disappeared, and gradually a radiance appeared as she described. She couldn't help but laugh and said, "The people in Longxi are open-minded. Although they are poorer and the wind and sand are stronger, they can't compare to the prosperity of the capital and the south of the Yangtze River, but we in Longxi also have the carefree and unrestrained nature that the capital and the south of the Yangtze River can't learn."

Zhao Fangyu pursed her lips, her eyes sparkling. The eldest lady had never seen her desire something so much.

"Mom, can I do that, too?"

The eldest lady laughed immediately. She was also wearing a narrow-sleeved jacket. She looked like a completely different person from when she was in Beijing. Although there was not much difference between them, she seemed to have come alive, like a gradually withered bamboo that had regained its vitality.

The eldest lady is still the eldest lady, and her every move is still as dignified, but there is something different somewhere.

It seemed like something broke out of the ground.

"Go, why not? In a woman's life, she can only relax when she is unmarried. I have told you all before that you should enjoy yourself more and do whatever you want when you are at home. This is the most enjoyable time for a girl. If you miss this opportunity, I am afraid you will regret it for the rest of your life."

Zhao Fangjin also came over, and the two stood side by side. The eldest lady's smile was gentle and full of nostalgia: "There are many restrictions on women in this world. Some people live their whole lives in a city, grow old, get sick and die, and have never left the city gates many times in their entire lives, and have never seen the outside world."

"In this lifetime, you should see as much as you can. There are more than tens of thousands of mountains and rivers in the world. Men can travel thousands of miles, but how can women be content to only read thousands of books to see their charm and beauty?"

"Some people study to persuade women to obey men. They put layers of shackles on women, saying you should do this, you should do that. You can do it, but you cannot agree with it. You cannot compromise with such nonsense. Because some people study to make the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment. Women are also people."

"Women also have women's spines, which should not be bent at will."

Zhao Fangyu looked at the eldest lady in front of him and suddenly understood what the eldest lady meant.

She is a woman living in ancient feudal society who awakens a trace of free soul.

That familiar, modern smell made her cry uncontrollably. It turned out that, so many years ago, someone understood this truth...

The eldest lady wiped Zhao Fangyu's tears with amusement, and Zhao Fangjin next to her also had a look of sudden enlightenment in his eyes.

"Once upon a time... once upon a time..." Zhao Fangyu anxiously grabbed the eldest lady's sleeve, and tear marks appeared on his face one after another.

She wanted to say that many people had said the same thing to her before...

She wanted to go home... She wanted to go back to the place where the five-star red flag was flying... She really wanted to... really wanted to go back and take a look...

I really want to see freedom and peace, see the republic, I really want to be able to wear my favorite clothes openly and bask in the sun.

The eldest lady gently wiped away her tears again, her tone as gentle as the wind: "No one has ever told you this before, right?"

"Don't think too much about it. For most people, such an idea is heretical. I tell you all this because I hope you will take care of yourself first in the future."

"This is Jiayuguan. We have experienced countless wars throughout history. Compared with death, everything is nothing."

"We in Longxi only care about two things: one is eating, and the other is living well."

"Whether it's you or Jin'er, you are not my child, but I raised you, and I hope you can live a good life like Jin'er."

Zhao Fangjin walked over slowly, holding her hand with a warm smile: "You are my sister, so it doesn't matter what other people think. Even if they say it tens of millions of times, you are still my sister."

Zhao Fangyu looked at everything in front of him and couldn't help but burst into tears again. Perhaps it was because people would feel inexplicably emotional as they lived longer.

It has been five years since she came here, so her trip has not been in vain.

After going back in to wash his face, Zhao Fangyu followed the eldest lady to pay his respects.

Without saying a few words, the girls from their uncle's family took them out to play.

A dozen brightly dressed little girls surrounded the three little girls and left. In the courtyard, the eldest lady sat next to the old lady, with regret in her eyes.