Liu Ying left, Liu Xue followed the dumb aunt back to the house, but she seemed to be overly frightened, and kept sobbing and crying, and the dumb aunt held her small body in her arms and coaxed her, and slowly fell asleep.

Seeing that she had just fallen asleep, the dumb aunt tried to pull out her numb arm, and as soon as she pulled it out, Liu Xue suddenly woke up, hugged the dumb aunt, cried, and shouted her mother and sister in her mouth.

The dumb aunt could only hug her again, patting her head and comforting her softly. Liu Xue slowly fell asleep quietly.

In the middle of the night, Liu Xue suddenly woke up again, hugged the pillow and cried, crying sweaty.

The dumb aunt really couldn't do it, so she could only lend her an arm and let her hold it to sleep.

No one slept well that night.

Finally, it was dawn, and Liu Wan woke up first and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze.

Liu Xue secretly opened her eyes to see, covered her head with the quilt again, didn't want to get up, and continued to pretend to be asleep.

The dumb aunt freshened up underground, looked back at Liu Xue, and sighed quietly.

After combing his hair, he told Qian'er to go to the front yard and call Steward Liu to see him.

Qian'er was a little hesitant, "See you so early?"

The dumb aunt seemed tired and exhaled, "Go ahead, don't ask more." ”

Qian'er could only run to shout.

After a while, Qian'er came, followed by Steward Liu.

"Let's go to the courtyard and talk about it. The dumb aunt glanced at Liu Xue in the bed from a distance, lowered her voice, and looked a little mysterious, "Don't make noise, tell her to sleep." ”

As he spoke, a few people went out and came to the plum tree.

The air was cold, but many fine buds appeared on the branches of the plum tree, and it looked like they were about to bloom.

"It's so strong!" the dumb girl reached out and touched a few buds on a low branch, her expression was a little sad, "Another year has passed, time is so fast-"

Steward Liu bowed slightly.

"Thank you. The dumb aunt was slightly blessed, "How is it, everything is clear?"

Steward Liu's brows furrowed quietly: "It's clear." When Master Yanli saw that it was a famous post in our house, he naturally accepted it unconditionally. I think that when the eldest wife was alive, I gave them a lot of money for sesame oil every year, so naturally we were a big fortune. It's just that the conditions in the house are not comparable to our family, the food and shelter are all hard, and we have to recite the scriptures and practice every day, and we have to serve the master. The fifth girl is pampered in the family—"

"This is what a monk should bear. The dumb aunt interrupted Steward Liu, "Only by living a light meal with tea and light food in the green lantern ancient Buddha every day, can we exercise a person's single-minded mind and eliminate the dirt left in secular life, our five girls are filial daughters, she will withstand these tests." Steward Liu has also worked hard, go and rest. ”

Steward Liu didn't want to say more when he heard the tone of the dumb aunt, so he didn't dare to say more, so he said goodbye and went out.

The dumb aunt watched Steward Liu's figure walk away, and turned to look at Qian'er, "When Uncle Zhong wakes up in a while, you tell him, tell him to go to the old man's house, bring more money, and quietly send it to the master in charge, and tell her to take more care of Miss Five, in addition to the necessary practice of the monks such as eating fasting Buddha, don't be too difficult, after all, it is a girl from a big family, who has been pampered since childhood, and now the gap is too big, I'm afraid she can't stand it." Also, ask him to tell Master Lili to set up a tablet for our eldest wife to make incense offerings every day, which is also a little filial piety for us as juniors. ”

Qian'er pouted, "Little grandma, since you sent it, you told her to suffer more, why do you still remember her, and even worry about such trivial things as eating, drinking, sleeping, and dressing? You said how many bad things she has done, she should be punished more!"

"Asa'er!" shouted the dumb girl.

Qian'er didn't dare to say anything more, and really went to find Uncle Zhong.

In the quilt in the house, Liu Xue ran out of bed barefoot, eavesdropped on the conversation outside the door at the window, and after listening, she ran back to the bed, covered her head with the quilt and continued to pretend to be asleep.

The dumb aunt entered the door, inserted a freshly broken plum branch into a porcelain vase, and looked at the budding bud.

Behind her, Liu Xue slowly lifted the quilt, got out of bed, and hugged the dumb aunt's body from behind.

The dumb aunt turned around, tears rippled on Liu Xue's little face, but there was a smile in her eyes, "Little sister-in-law, thank you." ”

The dumb aunt knew that the little girl had eavesdropped on the conversation outside, but she pretended not to know, and touched the little girl's face, "Thank you for what, sister-in-law thought about it last night, you are not young, it is not a way to be naughty everywhere every day, starting today, sister-in-law will teach you to read and write, and also ask Qian'er to teach you female workers needlework." ”

Liu Xue nodded, her voice choked, "I know sister-in-law, you're not a bad person, but they, the words they say are too ugly...... They said that you killed my mother, forced away the fifth sister, and told me not to follow you, you will harm me - this is not true, right?"

Qian'er happened to enter the door, and when she heard this, she immediately jumped to her feet, "All this nonsense you heard there? Is it good to be a person to talk about conscience, why did the little grandmother become a bad person? Miss Xue'er, you are also beginning to be sensible, and you should have your own opinions on some things." The eldest lady committed suicide purely by reaping the consequences, even if we hadn't exposed and questioned her face-to-face, she would have been able to hide all the bad things she had done from others for a lifetime? Also, she had harmed so many people, and she didn't stop, if we didn't expose it in time, we would also suffer one by one! And your sister Liu Ying, do you know what she did? She killed Miss Liu Yan alive——"

"Asa'er!" shouted the dumb girl.

Qian'er retreated, and shouted unrelentingly: "Miss Liu Xue, you are still young, there are some things you don't understand, but you can't rely on right and wrong! Bad people are bad people, and if you do bad things, you have to bear the consequences, Mrs. and Miss Liu Ying, they have human lives in their hands, and the result they have come to today really has nothing to do with others, you don't listen to the instigation of others to doubt this and that, our little grandmother has no bad intentions for you!" The scene where you bumped into the eldest wife's suicide at that time was not deliberately made by our little grandmother, just because you saw the scene of the eldest lady's suicide, she was so remorseful that she didn't think about tea and dinner for the past two days, and she couldn't sleep well, but how could she be blamed for being alone? Such a big Liu family, so many things, she is tired enough, and she has to bother thinking about you, afraid that you will not eat and sleep well, and you will fall into a heart disease, and you will not sleep all night, and watch you sleep by your pillow.

As for Miss Liu Ying, she could have found a random sister-in-law and stuffed it in, and asked the vicious old sister-in-law to teach her a hard lesson and bully, but the little grandmother didn't do it, and after several inquiries, she found a kind and kind master to send people over, and gave a lot of sesame oil money, and said all the good things to the master, for what? It's not that Miss Liu Ying's life is more comfortable!

You say, as a sister-in-law, she can do her best to you, and your sister Liu Ying, if she can do her part?

Liu Xue looked at the front of her stupidly.

She was stupid by this sudden questioning.

But my heart is a little clearer, in fact, what Qian'er said is unreasonable, she witnessed the scene of her mother being blocked in the house and confronting her, and her mother did admit that she had done those bad things, as well as the resentful eyes of those aunts outside the door, the facts show that the mother is indeed self-reaping.

But that was her biological mother, how could she get through this hurdle in her heart!

She was still a child, so why should she face these harsh truths?

She burst into tears.

The dumb aunt hugged this small body into her arms and hugged her very tightly, "If you want to cry, cry, it's better to cry than to hold it in your heart." In this life, people always have to face unsatisfactory things of one kind or another, and the cruel thing is that you are still so young-"

Liu Wan walked over and hugged Liu Xue by the arm, "Sister Xue'er, we are all poor children, my mother killed your mother, and your mother raised me as her own son, but you also heard it, how she raised me, drug me every day, call me chronic poisoning, cause me to have madness, you often see when the disease attacks, how painful and uncomfortable, only I know-" said choked up.

Liu Xue stretched out her hand and hugged her brother tightly, tears streaming into her eyes, "Brother, I know, I know everything." Don't say it, don't say it again-"

The dumb aunt hurriedly grabbed the little hands of the brother and sister: "Yes, yes, yes, don't say it, we won't talk about it, the painful past, just let them all pass." We have to look forward and believe that the days will be better and better in the future. ”

Liu Xue wiped her tears and nodded, "I must be a good boy, learn all kinds of skills from my sister-in-law, and marry out to be a capable and sensible daughter-in-law like my sister-in-law in the future." ”

The dumb aunt and Qian'er sneered, and the dumb aunt reached out to flick the little girl's little nose, "It's okay to learn my skills, but don't learn to be a child daughter-in-law, this is the most unproductive - when you grow up to be in your twenties and become a slim girl, I will marry you off and be a real good daughter-in-law in someone else's family." ”

Liu Wan scratched his nose with his fingers, "Shame, Sister Xue'er learned badly from the stinky woman, and she wants to marry at such a young age?"

Liu Xue blushed, broke free and chased Liu Wan, and the brother and sister chased a string of laughter on the ground.

The dumb aunt looked at Qian'er and smiled with relief, feeling that a heart that she was carrying could be put down a little, and the guilt in her heart for Liu Xue, the little girl, was also a little lighter.