EBE Chapter 250: The Cubs Being Treated as Two-legged Sheep on the Road to Exile (2)
Chapter 250: The Cubs Being Treated as Two-legged Sheep on the Road to Exile (2)
On the way to exile, in order to prevent prisoners from rioting and escaping, all adult men were shackled.
Women are better off, there are no restrictions.
However, after years of living a life of luxury and wearing beautifully embroidered shoes, these women began to feel exhausted after walking for less than half an hour.
The Wei family was better off. Although the Wei family's wife looked tired, there was no sign of tears.
The little girls below couldn't hold it any longer. Tears were already welling up in their eyes, but they still gritted their teeth and didn't cry out loud.
The other members of the Fang and Hu families were not in such a good situation, especially since their concubines were exiled with them. Therefore, the number of female family members accounted for almost two-thirds of the team, and they were all whimpering and crying at this moment.
The bailiffs guarding the prisoners were not good guys. They whipped the prisoners and made the delicate young ladies wail.
Song Yuxian looked at the pale-faced little girls from the Wei family who were frightened, and felt a little sad. If it were in modern times, these children would still be in elementary and junior high school.
Looking down, she accidentally saw that the tip of Wei Xiangyu's shoe was broken. Song Yuxian raised her head and looked around, then her expression relaxed. She got it. She had made straw sandals when she was on a mission before. Although now there were only ordinary weeds on the roadside, they could still serve a purpose.
Song Yuxian held her daughter in her arms and came to her mother-in-law Wei Liu.
"Mother, can you help me look after Linglong for a while? I see that my little sister and the others' shoes are all worn out. I learned to weave straw sandals from our nanny before, and I want to use the wild grass on the roadside to weave a few pairs of straw sandals for us women to wear. Otherwise, our little embroidered shoes will definitely not work!"
When Wei Liu heard Song Yuxian's words, she was surprised and happy, and quickly took Xiao Linglong, "Yuxian, I didn't expect you have this skill, it's great, with straw sandals, we can suffer less."
Song Yuxian smiled coyly and said, "I never thought that the things I learned to play with out of curiosity from my nanny could save my life now."
Grandmother Wei and Aunt Wei were also nearby. When they heard what the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said, they all smiled.
Grandmother Wei looked at Song Yuxian with appreciation, and then said to her two daughters-in-law, "Yuxian is thoughtful, but there are many of us, and we can't rely on Yuxian alone. I can still walk on my own for a while. You take good care of the children, and let others follow Yuxian's example, and try to wear straw sandals today."
After hearing what the grandmother said, Song Yuxian felt warm in her heart. No wonder the Wei family had such a clean and upright family tradition and was so united. It was because of the grandmother's good teaching.
Thinking of this, Song Yuxian hated those bandits even more. If they hadn't encountered those man-eating demons, the Wei family would have lived a good life in Lingnan!
Aunt Wei and Mrs. Wei Liu summoned their daughters-in-law, daughters, granddaughters and grandsons.
The old ancestor went on stage and told everyone about Song Yuxian's ability to weave straw sandals, and then asked everyone else to take turns learning from Song Yuxian.
The younger generations of the Wei family also knew that now was not the time for them to be pretentious, and they all nodded in agreement.
As for the yamen runners standing by, they naturally saw the situation of the Wei family's women.
It is also the luck of the Wei family.
This yamen runner was of good character, and he admired the fact that the Wei family was able to save themselves so quickly.
They turned a blind eye to the behavior of Song Yuxian and several other women from the Wei family who went out of the team to pull weeds.
The men, such as Uncle Wei and Old Man Wei, naturally also saw the actions of the women, and several cousins clasped their fists towards Song Yuxian to express their gratitude.
Wei Keyuan looked at his wife and raised his chin unconsciously. This was his wife!
There is not much skill required to weave straw sandals. They usually know how to make loops and flower ropes, so they can learn it quickly. The difficulty lies in the fact that the hands of the women in the Wei family are too tender, and they are often strangled by wild vegetables.
But the women knew that now was not the time to be pretentious, so they all held back their tears and continued to work hard on weaving straw sandals. After all, only with straw sandals could they continue on their journey!
The results of persistence were very gratifying. After an hour, Song Yuxian had woven two pairs of straw sandals, and other beginners also managed to weave their first pair of straw sandals in their lives.
Before weaving, Song Yuxian told them to make it a little bigger so that they could wear it over the embroidered shoes, which would protect their feet to some extent.
At night, when the yamen runners gave the order for rest and distributed steamed corn bread, the women of the Wei family were already wearing a pair of straw sandals.
Even though they had straw sandals, these ladies and young ladies still had blisters on their feet.
Song Yuxian had no choice but to leave her daughter to the man's care and help the female family members pick up the blisters one by one, otherwise they would not be able to travel this road tomorrow.