"I ...... I have never been so frightened, so desperate. Tian He's shoulders trembled more and more, she pulled up her shoulders and carefully hugged herself, as if she wanted to stuff herself: "Not even when my father and mother gave me to my father-in-law." ”

Xing Ruyi looked at Tian He, quietly, and did not speak. She knew that the girl who was telling her story needed an emotional outlet.

"My family is a very ordinary family, and my father and my mother are also very ordinary parents. They, like the people you see on the street in coarse clothes, Madame, are no different. If anything, they had seven daughters.

When I was born, my eldest sister, second sister, and third sister were all married, the fourth sister was raised, the fifth sister was sold to a large family to be a girl, and I was the sixth. When my stepfather took me away, my little sister had just reached the full moon. Although my stepfather was also a stranger, I knew that it was better to follow my stepfather than to stay at home. At least, following my father-in-law, I know that the only people I need to take care of are my father-in-law and Tian Rui, and if I stay at home, I don't know what will happen to me in the future.

I am grateful to my stepfather. Except for being a little strict when I was learning to cook, my stepfather was no different from me and Tian Rui in private. Therefore, I never thought of disobeying my father-in-law, abandoning Tian Rui, and never thinking that I would one day be able to stand on my own.

My father-in-law asked me to take care of Tian Rui, and I did. My father-in-law asked me to be stiff, and I had no complaints. But I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out, Tian Rui she knows it...... She knew it, but she still wanted me to die.

On the mass grave, I was covered in scars and struggled to crawl out of the torn mat. I could hear the sound of wild dogs gouging not far away, and I could touch the cold bones with the night dew. I don't know if I'll be food in the mouths of those wild dogs in the next second, and I don't know if I can still feel pain when my skin and flesh are bitten by wild dogs.

I endured the bone-biting, intense pain and rolled over. In the sky, the moonlight was still as bright as it was when my stepfather took me out of my hometown. Just as I closed my eyes and resigned myself to the moment when death came, Luo San appeared.

He was carrying a white lantern that only the dead would use, dressed in black clothes that almost blended with the night, and with the smell peculiar to mass graves, and suddenly appeared in my sight.

Then...... At the time, I thought he was here to take me away. ”

Tian He said, smiling astringently.

"He wasn't impermanent, but he took me out of the mass grave. It was the first time I had been so close to a strange man, and I could smell the unusual smell of his body, and I could smell the smell of blood on my own body. ”

"You should be together for a while, right?"

Xing Ruyi asked, but Tian He shook his head.

"He took me home, but he didn't do anything to me." Tian He said, shaking his hand: "I mean, Luo San put me in the side room after confirming that I wouldn't die immediately. The next day, when I was dazed, I felt someone undressing me. I thought it was Luo San, but when I opened my eyes, I saw an old grandmother. Grandma told me that she was Luo San's neighbor, and it was Luo San who asked her to take care of me. Grandma thought that all the scars on my body were beaten in prison. She told me a lot of things about Luo San, as well as Luo San's parents, and finally told me in a very special tone that Luo San was actually a husband who could be relied on. ”

"That grandma thinks she misunderstood your relationship."

"Yes!" Tian He nodded: "When Grandma gave me medicine, I originally wanted to explain, but then I thought about it, what does this explanation have to do with not explaining." At that time, my heart was like ashes, and I didn't care much about the innocence and reputation of women. I only knew that the man who carried me out of the mass grave was called Luo San, and I only saw half of his face through his blood-stained eyes, and I knew from the bottom of my heart that he was not a bad person. ”

"What happened after that?"

"I'm leaving."

"Leave? Why? ”

"In those days, it was my grandmother who took care of me all the time, and I never saw Luo San again. Grandma told me that Luo San worked for the county master in the yamen, and so did Luo San's father. The Luo family has been helping the county lord guard the prison for several generations, but no one with a little background is willing to marry his own girl to him. Luo San brought me back to keep me alive, and he chose not to go home for the sake of my reputation. Grandma said that Luo San is different from those men outside, who seems to be unkind, but in fact he is cold and kind-hearted. I don't know if what Grandma said is right, I only know that if I continue to stay in the Luo family, Luo San will never be able to go home.

He brought me back from the mass grave and asked my grandmother to take care of me, he is my benefactor, how can I make it difficult for my benefactor. So, after the wound barely healed, I avoided Grandma and quietly left Luo's house. ”

"What's going on with "Food"?"

"After leaving the Luo family, I went to a big family to work as a cook. Overheard, I heard something. ”

"It's something related to Tian Rui, right?"

"Hmm."

"That boy really failed Tian Rui as I guessed. Not only did he not officially marry Tian Rui into the door as promised, but he didn't even give her the identity of a concubine. Tian Rui has also been pampered by her father-in-law since she was a child, where is she willing to suffer such grievances. ”

"She killed the son?"

Xing Ruyi asked, Tian He shook his head.

"She didn't want to kill that son, she wanted to die with that son. Tian Rui is sincere to that son. It's just that everything in this world, how can everything be as she wants, and it can go as smoothly as she imagined. That son is not a father-in-law, nor is he me, he will not be defenseless against Tian Rui.

Tian Rui was brought to court on charges of attempted murder. When I heard the news, she was already in a big prison, the one that Luo San was in charge of guarding. ”

"And then? What happened again? ”

"I went to see Tian Rui in prison."

"Tian Rui, she must not want to see you."

She was surprised, thinking she had seen a ghost. When she knew that I was still alive, she cried and cried and confessed to me, saying that she should not have listened to me. She called me sister and asked me to save her. ”

"Attempted murder, you little woman, where did you get the ability to save her?"

"Madame is right, I can't save her. That son is a person with a lot of status, even if he doesn't deliberately pressure him in secret, the old man in the official mansion will give Tian Rui a heavy sentence. Tian Rui also knows it. When I went to see her for the second time, she no longer asked me to save her, but asked me to keep the "Controlling Food" left by my stepfather. ”

"Food?"

"Hmmm! Tian Rui told me that the reason why the son wanted to kill me and coax her was because of the book "Controlling Food" left by his father-in-law. Tian Rui also told me that she hid the "Controlling Food", but that son would not give up easily, and she would definitely use means to get the "Controlling Food" in her hand. If...... Tian Rui said that if she died in prison without staying through to the government's sentence, it must have been the hand of the son. ”

"Tian Rui, she must not have survived."

"She's dead, right in front of me." Tian He closed his eyes: "That day, I brought her favorite peach cake to see her, and as soon as I arrived at the door, I saw Luo San." Across the cell, he stood face to face with Tian Rui, not knowing what he was talking about. Just as I was hesitating whether to walk over, Tian Rui glanced up at me, and then ...... And she fell.

Tian Rui was poisoned, and the people in the government said that she committed suicide in fear of sin, but I was the only one...... Only I could see the scars on her neck. The pinch mark is exactly the same as Luo San's hand. His right index finger is different from the others. ”

"Do you suspect that Luo San killed Tian Rui?"

Tian He opened his eyes and smiled bitterly: "If it's not him, who else can it be?" Tian Rui died in front of me, and Luo San was standing opposite Tian Rui at that time. ”