Chapter 12: My sister wants to bind her feet after her rebirth (Republic of China)
The Zhang family has two young ladies. One of them adapts to the new era, invests money to study abroad, wears Western clothes, eats Western food, and learns new ideas. She is a woman of the new era.
The other is a lady from the old times, who is bound with three-inch golden lotus, never leaves the house, and is illiterate. She is the dregs left over from society, destined to become impurities swept away in the torrent of history.
In her previous life, the original owner felt sorry for her sister Zhang Weiran and was reluctant to see her wings broken and trapped in this square box. She thought she should go see the outside world and live a normal life.
Therefore, the original owner chose to be a lady of the old era and let Zhang Weiran go out to fly.
Zhang Weiran has been able to read and write since childhood, has a student haircut, wears a white and blue student skirt, and makes new friends every day. The original owner, on the other hand, was locked up in a bed, learning needlework and embroidery every day, enduring the itchiness of new bones growing and the pain of broken leg bones.
When Zhang Weiran grows up, she can study abroad, learn new ideas, become a new woman of the era, and go to work in a bank with the support of her parents.
The original owner was just a commodity waiting to be sold at a price. She married Wei Xuecun, who had also studied abroad. Wei Xuecun did not like women of the old times, but he also respected the original owner. They agreed that they would divorce when the time was right and let the original owner go free.
The original owner was very studious, and Wei Xuecun also tried his best to help. To outsiders, the two of them got along very well and were very loving, at least that was the case in the eyes of his sister.
Zhang Weiran fell in love with Wei Xuecun at first sight when she was abroad, but Wei Xuecun didn't like her. After being rejected once, Zhang Weiran was too embarrassed to confess her feelings and kept them hidden in her heart.
Therefore, when Zhang Weiran learned that the original owner had married Wei Xuecun, she was very jealous. She thought that Wei Xuecun would not like the dregs of the old society like the original owner. However, she saw Wei Xuecun taking the original owner to various occasions and taking her to learn all kinds of new things.
Zhang Weiran went crazy and bribed thugs to kidnap the original owner, thinking that Wei Xuecun would abandon his wife who had lost her "innocence", but Wei Xuecun did not. After rescuing the original owner, he treated her as well as ever.
Zhang Weiran couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked the original owner to go to the lake and pushed him over.
The original owner struggled desperately for help, but only saw Zhang Weiran's disgusted and complacent smile.
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When Zhang Shan took over Zhang Yanran, her fate was at a turning point. Zhang Yanran and Zhang Weiran were both five years old. Zhang Weiran's biological mother died during childbirth, and she had been raised by her stepmother since birth, to keep Zhang Yanran company.
The two sisters have a good relationship.
"Daddy, my daughter chose needlework. She likes needlework..."
As soon as Zhang Weiran's childish voice came out, Zhang Yanran knew that Zhang Weiran was reborn. This had never happened in her previous life. The Zhang family had strict rules and regulations, and it was not Zhang Weiran's turn to make the first choice no matter what.
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Zhang Boren: "Weiran, what are your rules?"
"I..." Zhang Weiran had just been reborn. He accepted new ideas in his previous life, so he naturally did not follow these bad ideas. It took him a while to adjust.
"I'm sorry, Daddy. I know I was wrong."
She imitated her original owner in her previous life and apologized respectfully, and only then did Zhang Boren let her go.
"Yanran, what do you want to choose?"
Zhang Shan looked at Zhang Weiran's eyes that kept hinting at her, and thought, since she wanted to be a lady from the old times so much, then she should fulfill her wish.
"Dad, I want to study and become an educated person like my brother."
"Okay, okay, then Yanran will go to study."
As for Zhang Weiran, Zhang Boren didn't care about her. He cared about her and valued her in his previous life because he wanted to train Zhang Weiran to go abroad, so that the Zhang family could have a woman of the new era, which would also save face.
However, Zhang Weiran didn't know that she thought she was a new-age woman, superior to others, and looked down on them, the dregs left over from the old era, and looked down on everyone.
Now, Zhang Weiran still feels this sense of gap, and can't help but feel a little resentful that Zhang Boren is partial to him, and that Zhang Yanran has taken away his father's love.
However, she didn't care, because compared to the Wei family, the Zhang family was nothing.
She just had to wait here until Wei Xuecun came back from studying abroad and married her, and their love would be the envy of others.
However, Zhang Weiran's joy did not last long. She was taken into a dark yard, where there was a large step-out bed with all kinds of things. This was something Zhang Weiran had never seen in her previous life.
Zhang Weiran was trapped on a bed with his mouth blocked by a towel and his feet hung up. A woman with a fierce look on her face came in with a bundle of white cloth strips.
"Is this Miss Zhang Er?"
"Yes, please, Madam Chen, please be gentle and don't hurt the Second Miss."
"Don't you trust my hands, Chen Guihua? Don't worry, they will be fast and accurate."
Zhang Weiran's eyes were filled with fear. What were they going to do? Let her go. Sister, where are you? Come and save me...
At this time, Zhang Weiran thought of her elder sister Zhang Yanran who loved her the most.
The woman did just as she said, she acted quickly and ruthlessly, breaking Zhang Weiran's foot and wrapping it up in circles with a white cloth.
Zhang Weiran had fainted from the pain. In order to ensure that her feet could not recover or grow, this torture continued until she was twelve years old.
During these seven years, Zhang Weiran had thought about escaping, but her feet were too painful for her to get out of bed, let alone walk. She also couldn't get angry, otherwise she would not have any food to eat. The maids tamed her like they trained dogs. She resented Zhang Boren and Zhang Yanran, but didn't dare to show it openly.
If she had not been reborn, she might have been tamed long ago, but how could an educated person be tamed so easily?
She has been waiting for an opportunity, and that opportunity is when she marries Wei Xuecun. Once she leaves here, she will make the entire Zhang family pay the price.
Zhang Shan attended a private school, elementary school, and middle school, and then went abroad to study successfully. Foreign schools were still separated by gender. During a campus social event, she met the person who had obsessed Zhang Weiran and whom Zhang Yanran admired and respected.
"Hello, my name is Wei Xuecun, are you also from Jiangcheng?"
"Yes, my name is Zhang Yanran, are you the eldest young master of the Wei family? I have heard of your name for a long time."
The two smiled at each other, with admiration in their eyes for each other. Both of them were good-looking and were excellent students in the boys' school and the girls' school respectively.
After that, the two of them corresponded from time to time, either discussing the ideas of a book or the customs of a place, and sometimes discussing how to save our country. There are already many people in the country who are engaged in the cause of saving the country and the people, either through industry or ideology...
The two people with the same ideals gradually came together and returned to China to get married three years later. Wei's mother was a traditional woman and did not like her daughter-in-law to show up in public, but her son already had someone he liked, so she would not break them up.
Zhang Weiran waited and waited until Wei Xuecun came back, but the person he married was still not her. She went crazy.
But she couldn't come out of the room, and her feet that had never touched the ground didn't obey her commands. Although Zhang Weiran had bound feet, she was paranoid and irritable. The nanny who came to train her had given up on her, and Zhang Boren had also given up on her.
Because of the social situation, Zhang Yanran was abandoned by the nanny in her previous life. Zhang Boren wanted to make use of her remaining warmth, so he asked Zhang's mother to hold a banquet and invited several ladies. Everyone knew that the Zhang family had a girl who was brought up according to the old times, and they were very interested. Zhang Yanran worked hard to win the favor of Wei's mother, so she was able to marry into the Wei family.
Now Zhang Weiran has followed the original owner's path, but cannot completely replicate the original owner's path. The ending is just as she said in her previous life. Zhang Yanran and the customs of the old society should be abandoned by the new era because they are both dregs.
So, in this life, Zhang Weiran was the one who was abandoned.
Zhang Weiran was locked in the room with the windows and door closed. No one spoke to her and she became more and more irritable.
Finally one day, Zhang Weiran escaped, but she had no idea where to go?
She felt that she was out of tune with this world. Without anyone to guide her, she could not integrate into this society. In the end, she had no choice but to return to the Zhang family and live back in her small courtyard.
Zhang Shan and Wei Xuecun initially started to develop industries to save the country, providing jobs for the people and more favorable products, but this capital price war still failed.
Later, he joined the Red Party, spent all his family property to develop pharmaceutical manufacturing, purchase weapons, and fully support the War of Resistance Against Japan.
When the two were 38 years old, they were killed by traitors in order to protect the formula of a new anti-inflammatory drug.
Fortunately, the formula has been transferred to the pharmaceutical factory in the rear.