It was cold in the house.

Lancao put down the dumb aunt from her back little by little, for fear of hurting her, her movements were very light and light, but as soon as her back hit the futon, she couldn't help but let out a moan, obviously in great pain.

Lan Cao looked at it and was so distressed that her tears fell away.

The hateful orchid has been watching from the side with cold eyes, and has never come over to help, and Lancao can't help but complain that she can't see that the little grandmother is injured like this.

Orchid's eyes rolled, and a faint sneer swirled on a pretty little face, and he sneered back: "You have done something wrong to cause such a misfortune, you don't repent, but you came to find my bad luck, okay, Mama Li has already returned to the housekeeper and agreed to transfer me out, the reason why I didn't rush to leave was because I thought of serving this little mute with you, so I waited for you to come back and say goodbye." Now that you are here, I have to go, Sister Lancao, you listen to my advice, if you are a smart person, you have to see the situation as soon as possible, choose a high branch to fly early, and stay up half-dead here, and there is no future. ”

Her mouth was originally sharp, and it seemed that these words had been repeated in her stomach many times, and when she said it, she saw the horn of her small mouth, where could she still allow others to insert it into her mouth.

After Orchid finished speaking, she didn't look at the faces of the two people in the house, gently pulled her skirt, hung her face and blessed the air, and ran out of the door, probably going back to her house to get something and leaving.

Angry, the blue grass's body trembled, her lips were blue, and tears fell one after another.

She hated Orchid for bullying the master, so ruthless, and hated that she didn't have anyone to talk well, at least she couldn't let her pick up the cheap and sell it, and she greatly humiliated their master and servant before leaving.

Lancao hurriedly helped the dumb aunt onto the kang, took off her shoes, tried to check the whiplash, and when she uncovered the corners of her skirt, Lancao sobbed loudly, the whole skirt was wet, wipe it and raise her hand to see, it was red and glamorous and full of blood.

You can only use scissors to gently cut the skirt, and when you cut the underwear, you will be exposed with two bruised and swollen legs.

Lancao's eyes were like wet rags that had just been wiped from a bowl, and tears kept dripping and dripping.

As soon as the dumb aunt lay on the kang like a puddle of mud, she fell apart, and she could no longer move her body, so Lancao knelt down and hugged her and moved her to the pillow little by little. As soon as I lowered my head, the tears hit my dumb aunt's face.

The dumb aunt stretched out her tongue and licked a teardrop, tasted it, raised her hand to wipe the tears for the blue grass, shook her head, her voice was very low, but word by word, clear, unhurried: "Don't cry, I don't like the way girls cry." ”

This is the first time that Lancao has heard the little grandmother speak face-to-face.

The voice is very good, not the kind of delicate and slender, slightly hoarse, but soft, deep, giving people a very down-to-earth feeling.

Lancao's tears were even more, and they were pouring out, she hurriedly jumped off the kang and rubbed her sleeves fiercely, while trying to make a smile, "Little grandma, you can speak, I'm not dreaming, right?"

The woman on the pillow smiled shallowly, her faint smile was so calm, so peaceful, giving people the feeling that she was not a ten-year-old girl, but an adult who had already gone through the vicissitudes of time.

"Your name is Lancao?" she asked softly.

Lancao nodded hurriedly, and at the same time a little confused, why did she suddenly ask such a simple question?

Oh, it must have been the little grandmother who suddenly changed from a mute to a person who could talk, she was so excited that she didn't know what to say.

"Lancao, can I call you sister, thank you, I will repay you. ”

Lancao looked at her stupidly. What, she calls me sister? Grandma calls me sister?

Although he had just been beaten and his breath was weak, his little face looked so pale and innocent, his small facial features were angular, his thin lips were bloodless, but his eyes were so firm, so clear, and full of unyielding will. Words came out of the thin lips, and it sounded very good to the blue grass, the little grandmother was finally able to speak, it was not fake, it was not a dream, it was what she saw and heard with her own eyes, she really didn't know how to express this great joy in her heart. Her little body trembled with joy.

Lancao hurriedly covered the dumb aunt with a quilt, and wanted to go to the kitchen to find food, and began to work early in the morning, delivering babies, folding plums, and being taken into the bench room to be punished, and after this continuous tossing, they had not eaten for five or six hours.

Lancao went, and soon came back, pushing the door in with a gray face, the dumb aunt on the pillow was already hungry, plus she had lost too much blood and was thirsty, she instinctively hoped that Lancao would bring hot meals and boiling water this time.

But she saw that Lancao was empty-handed, and there were tears faintly flashing in her eyes.

She understood that this body with a stored mind was so pitiful in this family that she couldn't bake it and couldn't even eat her stomach.

People are good at being bullied, and it seems that anyone in this corner courtyard can step on it fiercely.

The dumb aunt lay quietly.

Lancao circled on the ground, angry and sad in her heart, hated those who were flattering and bullying in this house, hated that she had no ability to get food for her master, and the kitchen refused so much that she missed the morning and noon meals, and the evening meal was not yet there. Well, even if it was barely a reason, but when she offered to boil a pot of boiling water for the little grandmother to wipe her tortured body, the cooks unceremoniously kicked her out of the door.

Everyone in the house knows that the little grandmother went to the bench room to be beaten, so those things who are most accustomed to seeing the wind and steering the rudder don't take the corner courtyard seriously.

Lancao hurriedly washed her bloody face in half a basin of cold water, combed her hair briefly, and saw that the little grandmother fell asleep silently, so she lay on the pillow and told her not to worry, there will always be a way, I will go to the master, I believe that as long as the matter is explained clearly, the master will not really abandon the little grandmother because of the broken plum and let her die of illness and hunger.

Lan Cao's face was whipped on his head, the blood marks were washed away, but the scars below were exposed, and the three whip marks were three deep bloody wounds, and the tender flesh turned out from the cracked opening, red thorns, which made people unbearable to look at directly.

For the first time, the dumb aunt's eyes were not calm, and in an instant, there was a fire, and she coughed, "Lancao, you come here-you can't go to the master, you go to find another person." ”

Lancao was a little surprised, the most powerful person in this house is the master, if you don't look for the master at this time, who else can save the little grandmother?

Lan Cao's eyes suddenly lit up: "I know, you asked me to find Aunt Jiu, her mother and son's two lives were pulled back from the death line by you, and she has no reason not to help you." ”

The dumb aunt coughed loudly suddenly, so frightened that Lancao hurriedly patted her on the chest, the dumb aunt raised her hand to block her, raised her hand from the quilt and made a gesture, like a pistol in mid-air, making it look like she was about to shoot with a trigger.

Lancao shook her head, what does that mean?

The dumb aunt took a breath, "Aunt Nine can't find it, I'm talking about Aunt Eight, I want you to find Aunt Eight." ”

Lancao didn't understand it very much, and quickly objected, the eighth aunt was not an important person in Liufu, and the lord still spoiled her for two years when she first married, and when the ninth aunt entered the door, she had nothing to do, but she was the most inconspicuous of the many women in the lord.

The dumb aunt's eyelashes trembled, and her tone was firm, "Go quietly, don't let anyone see it." Sue her for the truth. I guess she'll help you. ”

After saying that, he closed his eyes, looking very tired and tired.

Lancao is helpless, what else can you do, go and try your luck, if you can't try it, you can risk dying to find the master.

When she was about to go out, the dumb aunt suddenly whispered behind her, everything else, she must find a way to find a few pears, and in addition, she can speak to keep it a secret.

Lancao nodded, she didn't know why the little grandmother asked for secrecy, why she didn't want to let people know about the great changes that had happened to her, but since the little grandmother herself was unwilling to tell her again and again, let's keep it secret for her for the time being.

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Mu Feng Juli, on the green brick floor, the stove was stuffed with the best green carbon in Lingzhou Mansion, burning the entire iron stove into a hot heat

source, in a steady stream of heat. The kang also burned very hot. The corner of the kang is still holding the foot basin, and the hand stove is simmering on the table.

The delivery room, which not so long ago was filled with blood, has become the warmest and most comfortable place.

A servant woman had already removed all the blood-stained things that had been delivered underground and replaced them with new ones. Orchid incense burned a stick of incense in the copper furnace, and the elegant aroma slowly overshadowed the smell of filth.

Everyone knows that Aunt Jiu has made a great contribution to the master, and those people can't squeeze their heads to tie the red man on the tip of the master's heart, ginseng and bird's nest, are open to supply to the mother, and there is a special person in the kitchen who bought Lingzhou's special small grain rice to boil porridge, with the most famous red dates and red fruits in Lingzhou, which are rare meals for blood circulation and blood stasis.

Master Liu Dingmao rushed into the house in the cold outside, hurriedly took off his fur coat outside, and ran impatiently to Aunt Jiu's pillow, "Wan Jiao, are you okay? I told the good news to my ancestors and ancestors, and I also told them, you are the great hero of my Liu family, and you have made great contributions to us, I have to reward you well!"

As he spoke, he leaned over to kiss the baby in his swaddling clothes.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and his originally gray face is now full of red.

Li Wanjiao twisted her body delicately and said coquettishly: "Go, your thick beard carefully pricked my son's tender face." ”

The old husband and young wife were flirting and scolding, and the eldest girl Huan Lanxiang came in gently, looked at the hole, and approached Li's pillow and whispered something in her ear.

Li Shi was stunned, and the smile on his face froze.

Master Liu smiled and cleaned his hands in the basin, while looking back at her not very good, "What, is your body uncomfortable?"

Li Shi hurriedly gathered his mind and smiled coquettishly, "I heard that Mr. Xie is sick, and the housekeeper has changed to Dr. Jin from Jirentang to take a look, as long as the slave family's body is well maintained, it will get better soon, sir, don't worry." ”

Now that she has the credit of giving birth, the mother is expensive by virtue of the child, and she finally has completely stood in the limelight, but she can't be careless, she has to play some tricks and hold the old man's heart firmly in the palm of her hand.

Master Liu suddenly remembered that he had to give his son a good name, naming is a big deal, don't be sloppy, he was going to go to the study to flip through the book to check it, and came over to kiss Li's forehead, turned around and walked away in high spirits.

Seeing the old man leave, Li's face, which had been holding a smiling face, quickly cooled down, and his eyes fell on Lan Xiang, "Just because you broke a plum blossom? ”

Lan Xiang hurriedly leaned over to the pillow, "It's because I broke a plum branch, and everyone in the mansion knows about it." ”

After a pause, he hesitated, "Mrs. Auntie, then you see, do we come forward to pull them along, or pretend not to know?"

She may still feel the need to add, "After all, it was she who helped you deliver the birth that kept the mother and child safe." ”

Li had been lying quietly listening to her, but when he heard this, his eyes suddenly flashed, and he snorted extremely dissatisfied.

Shocked, Lan Xiang hurriedly knelt down, kowtowed again and again, and stammered in defense: "No, that's not what it means, Aunt Nine is too Mingjian, Lan Xiang doesn't mean that, Lan Xiang means that Aunt Nine is too blessed and blessed, and you will give birth safely, but the little dumb man was in a hurry, so he helped a little bit." It's Lan Xiang who is confused, and Lan Xiang calls herself a long memory. ”

After speaking, he really picked up his soft wrist and slapped it on his white cheeks.

She only hit four times, and her hand was grabbed by Aunt Jiu, Aunt Jiu's hand was thin and white, soft and boneless, and her voice was even weaker, "It's not that we don't help, it's that we can't help, this matter is definitely not as simple as breaking a plum blossom." The eldest lady can be so ruthless, which is very inconsistent with her usual bodhisattva heart, don't you think there is something strange behind it?"

As soon as he spoke, fine beads of sweat appeared on the wings of Lan Xiang's nose, and she bowed her head again and again, "You are still thoughtful and comprehensive, I understand, it's not that we can't save it, it's that we can't save it, and we don't dare to save it." Now, if you want to save it, I will dare to stop you from reaching out that hand. lest we take trouble for nothing. ”

As he spoke, a smile appeared on his white face.

Aunt Jiu's wife, Li Wanjiao, was weak after giving birth, smiled tiredly, and gently stroked her heart, "Yes, it's not that we don't have a conscience, it's that we really have unspeakable hardships--now that our Mufeng House has become a first-class favored place in the house, I'm afraid how many people grit their teeth behind their backs and hate it-" said and turned his face to look at the soft and white baby in swaddling clothes, and his coquettish face instantly turned into a loving mother's love," Now I just hope that our little brother will grow up healthy and healthy, and fight for his mother in the future, so that I will give birth to him and raise him in vain. ”