"Ahh Shen Lan screamed.

"What's the matter, Wenxiang's daughter-in-law?" The woman next to her asked hurriedly.

"No, it's nothing, I was scared when a loach swam over just now." Shen Lan hurriedly replied.

"Hehe, what's so scary about loaches, you kid is really timid." The woman couldn't help but laugh.

Shen Lan also smiled embarrassedly at her, and then took a piece of clothing and soaked it in the water.

"Daughter-in-law Wenxiang, have you been here for more than five months?" The woman rubbed her clothes and said in a homely manner, "This Wenxiang is not at home, what can you do when you give birth?" ”

The absent-minded Shen Lan hummed vaguely, and then her heart was messy, in fact, she was not frightened by any loach at all just now, but by her own reflection, the face in the water was not her face at all, she was a round face, white and clean like a shelled egg, but the face in the water was pointy, and yellow and thin full of vicissitudes, a pair of eyes looked extraordinarily big, but unfortunately there was no god.

Speaking of which, she herself is short-sighted, and she can see blurry things without glasses, but now her vision seems to have returned to when she was not myopic a long time ago.

This is obviously not her own face, but now it has become her face, what the hell is going on, she is sure that the person in the water is definitely not her, so what happened to her?

She remembered that she was just lying in bed playing with her phone, and her palm went numb, and then she bit her palm and fingers as if the phone would bite, and then she lost consciousness, and when she woke up, it was what happened before.

Could it be that she was electrocuted? If the thing is electrocuted, then there is only one result, that is, she has hung up, but if she hangs, then what is going on with her now?

"Alas, Wenxiang daughter-in-law, what are you thinking, your clothes are about to be torn by you, be careful to be scolded by your mother-in-law when you go back." The sudden shaking woke up Shen Lan, who was in deep thought, and Shen Lan looked at each other blankly, rubbing her clothes unconsciously with her hands.

"Which, where did our family Wenxiang go?" Shen Lan asked suddenly.

Suddenly, the woman looked at Shen Lan sympathetically, then sighed with red eyes and said, "You don't know when you will be able to get through, Wen Xiang went to serve in the military, have you forgotten it?" ”

Shen Lan nodded blankly, and muttered, "It turns out that I went to be a soldier." ”

I don't know why, after saying this, tears suddenly fell from her eyes, but she didn't want to cry at all, but she couldn't stop the tears at all.

The woman looked at Shen Lan's appearance, and her heart was astringent, but she couldn't, after all, it was someone else's business, even if she sympathized with Shen Lan, she couldn't help her.

"Wenxiang's daughter-in-law, don't be sad, you still give birth to the child well, in a few years, when the child is older, Wenxiang will also return, and you will get through." In the end, the woman could only comfort Shen Lan like this, in fact, she knew in her heart that Song Wenxiang's family continued to torture Shen Lan like this, but she was afraid that even if Song Wenxiang could come back, what she saw would be a handful of white bones.

"Thank you." Shen Lan tried to smile at the woman with tears in her eyes, she didn't know if she could give birth to a child, and then wait for the so-called Wenxiang.

"Okay, don't cry, if your mother-in-law sees it, she will scold you again, and you will come to your sister-in-law's house when you are done." The woman patted Shen Lan on the shoulder.

Shen Lan raised her hand and wiped her tears with her broken sleeve, then nodded, and thought that she didn't know who the other party was or where she lived, so she asked, "Sister-in-law, where do you live?" ”

The woman was stunned for a moment, and then with a cautious look on her face, she hesitated to speak: "Daughter-in-law Wenxiang, have you forgotten who I am?" ”

Suddenly, Shen Lan's face was a little embarrassed, in fact, she didn't even know who this person was, and the reason why she called her sister-in-law was also based on the other party's words.

"What a wreck." The woman sighed, and then said with a sympathetic face: "In the past, I just heard people talk about the ancients, saying that the daughter-in-law was tortured too much by her mother-in-law, and then everyone was confused, but I didn't expect to see it once now." ”

"I am your third sister-in-law, and I live in the household behind the east side of your house, my father-in-law and your father-in-law are uncles and brothers, and we share a grandfather, remember?"

Shen Lan nodded hurriedly, and then said with some embarrassment: "Third sister-in-law, I remember." ”

At this time, Song's third sister-in-law's clothes were also washed, and she didn't want to say anything more, she had married into Songjia Village for many years, and she also knew that her third aunt was not a good character to get along with, she chatted with her sixth brother and sister for a long time here, if she let the third aunt see it, maybe she would have to run to her own house to scold it.

"Wenxiang daughter-in-law, I'll go back first, remember to take the time to find me after you're done, you know?" Song San's sister-in-law admonished, until she saw Shen Lan nodding, and then she left with the washed clothes.

Seeing Song San's sister-in-law walking away, Shen Lan turned around to wash her clothes, and couldn't help but think about what this Song San's sister-in-law was looking for herself, and at the same time considered whether to ask her about something later, otherwise she wouldn't know anything with her eyes, that would not be good, no matter what, she still wanted to know why Song Wenxiang's parents and family treated her like this pregnant woman.

After washing the clothes, Shen Lan washed her face and hair by the way, and didn't wait for her hair to dry, so she used the wooden hairpin she had taken off before to pull her hair into a bun, and let the wet hair put on the back of her head, and then went back with her clothes, walked to the door and hung her clothes on the penny under the eaves before returning to the house with an empty bucket.

After doing a morning's work, smelling the fragrance of food at this time, Shen Lan's stomach screamed uncontrollably, despite the hunger in her stomach, Shen Lan didn't dare to speak, and her instinct told her that it was better not to ask about breakfast.

"After the clothes are washed, why don't you go to the mountains to collect firewood, like a wooden man, you have to be pushed down to something, you have every brain?" While eating the vegetable paste, Mrs. Song scolded angrily.

Shen Lan, who had suffered a lot, naturally didn't dare to refute, turned around and went to the room to get a firewood knife for cutting firewood, and carried a few straw ropes and went out hungry, in fact, she didn't know where to go to cut firewood, but it was unrealistic to do anything if she didn't go out, thinking that Song San's sister-in-law had asked her to go over before, she simply walked towards Song San's house.

The village is not wealthy, almost all of them are adobe houses, and there is no habit of surrounding the yard, but there are different sizes of drying fields in front of each house, and rows of miscellaneous trees are planted on the edge of the drying fields.

According to Song San's words, Shen Lan quickly found Song San's house, only to see that the door of their house was open, but there was no one in the hall, but the smoke on the stove room behind was smoking, and it seemed that they were cooking breakfast again.

Shen Lan stood outside the gate and shouted into the house, "Third sister-in-law." ”

Maybe her voice was too soft, maybe it was some distance between the stove and the hall outside, so that the people inside didn't hear it, anyway, no one came out, which made Shen Lan blush, and she didn't dare to make too much noise, so she had to stand outside the door in a hurry.

After waiting for a while, Shen Lan couldn't help but think that maybe people were just kind words, maybe they didn't have anything to look for her, so they wanted to leave, but just when she turned around and was about to leave, a voice sounded from behind her.

"Aunt Six, why don't you come in?" It was a girl's voice, and it sounded light and pleasant.

Shen Lan hurriedly turned around and smiled at the girl with some embarrassment, it was a girl who was about seven or eight years old, and the clothes on her body were clean, although they were not new, they were very neat.

Intersecting with the girl's cleanliness and tidiness, the clothes on Shen Lan's body are much worse, so dirty that they can hardly see the color, and they are even more patches and patches, and they are cold when they look at it.

"Are you here to find my mother?" The girl asked with a smile.

Shen Lan nodded a little stiffly, and then said in a whisper: "It was the third sister-in-law who asked me to come to her, if it's inconvenient, I'll go back first......"

"Mother, Aunt Six is coming to you." Before Shen Lan could finish speaking, the girl shouted loudly into the house, and after a while, Song San's sister-in-law walked out of the stove.

"Daughter-in-law Wenxiang, you're here, come in." As he spoke, he beckoned Shen Lan into the house.

Shen Lan didn't know what Song San's sister-in-law was looking for her, but she thought that the other party was not bad, so she walked in, and then followed her into the stove.

Sure enough, Song San's sister-in-law's house was cooking, the pot was steaming, and there was a raging fire burning in the stove.

"That, third sister-in-law, I've delayed your cooking, what's the matter with you calling me over?" Shen Lan smelled the fragrance of food, and felt even more hungry, so she hurriedly spoke.

"You wait a while, the meal will be ready soon, Lianniang, go and call your father and your brother to come back for dinner." After talking to Shen Lan, Song San's sister-in-law spoke to her daughter again.

At this time, Shen Lan knew that the little girl's name was Song Lian.

"Third sister-in-law, if you have anything, just say it, and I won't delay your meal." Shen Lan was hungry at this time, she didn't want to watch people eat, she was afraid that she would lose face.

"Silly girl, the third sister-in-law just asked you to come over for dinner, seeing that you are so old, your mother-in-law still has a meal for you, and she is not afraid of starving her grandson." Song San's sister-in-law said a little choked, since Wen Xiang left, this Wen Xiang's daughter-in-law often can't get a bite to eat, I have never seen such a ruthless in-law.

Suddenly, Shen Lan's face turned red, if she had known that Song San's sister-in-law had asked her to come to dinner, she would never have come, as if she had come to Song San's sister-in-law's house to eat, or the kind of shameless insistence on going to others to eat, which made her full of shame, after all, the era she had lived in was an era of self-esteem.

Because of the first meeting, I felt that people were ruthless and kind, and I wanted to ask for directions, so I came to Song San's sister-in-law's house, she definitely didn't come to eat, although she was so hungry that she was almost numb, but she didn't think about coming here to eat.