Shen Lan woke up from her dream in pain, and her body was even more painful, as if she had been beaten severely, and by the starlight outside the window, Shen Lan found herself nesting on a firewood stack behind a stove.

Struggling to get up from the ground, Shen Lan was even more frightened, her towering abdomen showed her identity as a pregnant woman, but where is this? Isn't she sleeping at home? How could it be in such a strange place?

Shen Lan, who was overly frightened, sat on the ground as soon as her feet were weak, and behind her was the firewood stack she had nested before, otherwise it would definitely end in tragedy if she sat on the ground.

"Don't be afraid, it must be a dream, and I'll wake up when I dream......" Shen Lan comforted herself with a chattering expression, she originally pinched her hand to see if it hurt, but she gave up before she started, she was woken up by pain, and now her whole body hurts hotly, it doesn't look like a dream at all, but who will tell her what the hell is going on?

"Giggles!" The high rooster crow sounded from a distance, and then it was like contagion, one after another the rooster crow rose and fell, each rooster crow was like a hammer on her heart, causing a wave of goosebumps of fear for no reason, and Shen Lan didn't understand why there was such a reaction at all.

"Squeak!" The door was pushed open, and Shen Lan jumped up completely unresponsive.

"Lazy X, don't get up to boil the water yet, the chickens have crowed a few times, and I don't know how your Shen family taught the girl, you get up later than your in-laws, do you want me to bring the meal to your hands?" As the door opened, a thin woman walked out of the house, and just crossed the threshold and scolded Shen Lan.

Shen Lan was stunned for a moment, and then replied unto be outdone: "Who are you scolding?" ”

"Yo, you dare to talk back, I think you will go to the house to uncover the tiles without fighting for three days, right, Shen Lanniang." The woman sneered, walked over and stretched out her hand and slapped Shen Lan in the face, making Shen Lan stunned.

Before Shen Lan could react, the woman slapped her again, Shen Lan hurriedly stretched out her hand to block it, the woman saw that the fire was getting bigger, grabbed Shen Lan's hair, dragged it hard, and Shen Lan was dragged up in pain, and then was dragged away by the woman, not that Shen Lan didn't resist, but that she didn't have the strength to resist at all.

After walking a few steps, she stopped, and then she was pressed into a swill bucket by the woman, and suddenly her mouth and nose were choked to death by the unpleasant smell of swill, Shen Lan struggled in a hurry, but she couldn't break free, so she could only let those disgusting things pour into her mouth and nose.

When she really didn't have the strength, she only lifted her out of the water by pressing her hand, and Shen Lan was almost less in than out at the moment, her face was as pale as a dead person, and Shen Lan, who had never suffered anything, was completely frightened by this vicious method.

"Smack!" With a bang, Shen Lan was thrown to the ground like a rag, and her head slammed on the ground with a loud sound, and the ground was soil, if it was cement, she was afraid that her head would be broken and her blood would flow.

"What are you pretending to be dead, and you don't get up to boil water, do you want your father to get up and boil water for you and serve you? Didn't your mother teach you how to serve your in-laws? The woman's scathing tone came from above Shen Lan's head, Shen Lan had no strength at all, she couldn't understand it, stay at home well, and she ran here to be abused like this inexplicably, but this is not the time for her to pursue it, if she doesn't do what this dead old woman asks, I'm afraid that she will suffer more later.

In order not to endure hardship, Shen Lan could only get up dizzily and struggled, but she didn't get up several times, and finally could only kneel on the ground and crawl towards the stove.

Stuffing the firewood into the stove, Shen Lan stretched out her hand towards the door of the match, and didn't touch a match or a lighter for a long time, but touched two stones, and didn't know what it was for.

"Dead man, you haven't burned the fire for a long time." The woman had already filled the pot with water, but she didn't see any movement from Shen Lan, so she couldn't help but curse again.

Shen Lan was suddenly anxious, just afraid that she would not light the fire again and would inevitably scold, thinking of what happened just now, she couldn't help crying, and her heart was even more anxious, a hurry made her think about what the stone was for, that should be a stone that could make sparks, when she was a child, she used to stay at a relative's house in the countryside, at that time, she was naughty, the neighbor built a house and dragged a cart of white stones in front of the house, because there was a child who smashed the stone and sparked, she also took the stone and smashed it, and sure enough, there were sparks, Thinking about it, she hurriedly grabbed the stone, then took one in one hand and put it into the stove, and struck it on the handle inside, and sure enough, the two stones sparked, and finally lit the fire after hitting it several times.

Seeing that Shen Lan burned the fire, the woman waited for the water to boil and saw that Shen Lan didn't move, so she immediately started scolding again, scolding Shen Lan so much that both ears were almost deafening, and finally heard from those words, it was for her to sweep the floor and clean up the house, poor Shen Lan, who had just arrived, didn't know how many things were waiting for her to do, and she wanted to open her mouth to ask, but she was afraid of a beating, so she had to silently take a broom to sweep the floor, thinking that she would ask after the sweep was finished.

While sweeping the ground, Shen Lan couldn't help but think, listening to the old woman's tone, she seemed to be their daughter-in-law, since she was a daughter-in-law and a pregnant daughter-in-law, why was she so abusive? And after being abused like this, my husband didn't come out to speak, did I do something sorry for my husband, and the child in my belly was not my husband's?

Shen Lan has also grown up pampered since she was a child, and she really hasn't suffered so much anger and so many beatings, in just a few hours, she seems to have endured more than 30 years of anger and beatings, what is going on?

Looking at her rough and chicken-like hands, Shen Lan was really a little confused, there was no trace of meat on her thin hands, they were really skin and bones, how could she still hold her stomach like this?

After sweeping the stove and the lobby, the sky gradually brightened, and the people in the family also got up, in addition to the thin woman, there was a shriveled old man, although the old man did not scold her, but from the old man's eyes to her, she felt cold, not that the old man's eyes were obscene, but the indifference of the old man's eyes made her desperate.

In addition to the old man, there were two boys and girls, the half-grown girl was the sister, the half-grown boy was the younger brother, then a little turnip-headed girl, and finally the youngest boy, but there was no young man in sight who looked like her husband.

"Sister-in-law, wait in my room and take the clothes I changed to wash." Just when Shen Lan wondered if the half-grown boy would be her husband, the eldest girl commanded her.

Shen Lan, who had been taught a lesson, naturally did not dare to object at the moment, and from the girl's unceremonious tone, Shen Lan knew that she had the least status in this family, so she nodded indiscriminately.

Because everyone got up, Shen Lan still had to clean other people's bedrooms, so she took a broom and walked towards the house, in fact, she didn't know who was in whose room, so she simply started sweeping from the innermost.

The Song family is a house of three people, the westernmost house is divided into two rooms, Shen Lan started to sweep from the south house, that room looks quite tidy, there are two brand new cages and a big red wardrobe inside, the bed is also very new, it seems that the purchase time is not more than two years, the red word happy on the wardrobe is particularly dazzling, just looking at Shen Lan has a familiar and sad feeling.

Shen Lan picked up the woman's clothes thrown on the ground and put them on the threshold, and then silently swept the ground, at the back of this room was also a room, this room had nothing but a bed.

Connected to the back room is a large through-room, in which idle farm tools and mats, bamboo beds, baskets, dustpans and other objects are placed, and on the south side are two doors, by the west door into the obvious man's bedroom, in addition to a bed and a semi-new cabinet, and the east side of the room is obviously the old couple and the young son's room, there are more things in it, in addition to the cabinet, cage and a table, there is also a dressing box on the table, and on both sides of the dressing box is placed a blue and white porcelain plum vase, However, although there are more things, they are all relatively old, and they seem to be things accumulated over many years.

Roughly the structure of the house of this family is like this, mainly divided into two rows, the front row is the bedroom and the hall, the back row is the small bedroom, the room and the stove room, the main structure of the house is adobe bricks, the roof is tiles, the front is a drying field, the back of the stove is half a meter away by stones, is the back of the family's drying field slope, on which a row of paulownia trees and cypress trees are planted.

Anyway, Shen Lan swept the floor, so she brought up the water left over from everyone's washing to sprinkle the room, because it was a dirty floor, if you didn't sprinkle water, it would be easy to raise dust, so after sweeping the floor, it would be sprinkled with water, as for why Shen Lan would know, she didn't know what was going on, but after sweeping the floor, she consciously carried the bucket of dirty water to sprinkle water.

After sprinkling the water, Shen Lan put the dirty clothes collected from each room into the bucket, and then carried the wooden bucket and walked out towards the pond in front of the house, these are all things she is doing with her feelings, as if these things have been carved into her bones.

When I arrived at the pond, there was already a woman washing clothes, and when I saw her coming unkempt with a bucket of clothes, she smiled at her kindly and said, "Daughter-in-law Wenxiang, do the laundry." ”

I don't know why, when she heard the other party's friendly voice, she felt that her nose was a little sour, but for strangers, she didn't want people to see her crying, so she reluctantly laughed and replied: "Hmm." ”

When she came to the water's edge, Shen Lan poured her clothes behind the stone slab, and the person also squatted down.

I feel like I'm a stepmother, and I cried in the process of writing, which made the heroine feel so heartbroken