I have only known Brother Lin for a few days, and I am not familiar with each other, and there are only a few words at the dinner.

I don't know why I trust Brother Lin so much, maybe, it is easier for people to open their hearts when they are most difficult and helpless.

I carefully buried my mother's incident in my heart, and I never dared to tell anyone about it, lest I would be killed if my edge was exposed.

Originally, I wanted to ask my father for tea and tell the truth about it, thinking about a way to find the truth. But his hesitation to me tonight and the whipping of my eldest brother made my heart cold, and I didn't know if I could still rely on him.

Facing Brother Lin, who was not very familiar with me, I did not hide it at all, and told everything that happened after returning home, along with my own conjectures and suspicions.

Inexplicably, I decided that he was someone I could trust, and I felt a sense of "security" in him.

After listening to this, he was silent for a long time: "Can I tell your father about your mother's poisoning?" ”

"If my mother resents me and stops taking the prescription I prescribed to her, she can only hold on for seven or eight days at most. She is my nominal mother after all, I can't see death without saving, so let my father know, believe it or not, how to decide, it's all up to him. But it's better not to startle the snake, the man has been silent for more than ten years and has not done it again, if she is alert, stop again, and find her again, it will be difficult to climb to the sky, and the grievances I have suffered for this will be useless. ”

Brother Lin patted me on the shoulder comfortingly, with warmth in his eyes: "You take care of your injuries yourself, everything is with me, don't worry." ”

When Brother Lin left, the sky was already white, and I turned my back and wiped the rest of the medicine on my shoulder wound. Because I was afraid that someone would suddenly break in, I didn't dare to take off my clothes and apply medicine to my back.

But my worries were obviously unnecessary, I seemed to have been forgotten by everyone, I could hear the whispered snickering and disdainful chatter of someone passing by outside the door, but the door of the firewood room was silent, and no one knocked on it.

After I gave myself acupuncture, the fever subsided a little, but my throat was dry and painful. I didn't eat the grain of rice in the morning, and my body began to shiver with cold again.

When the warm sunlight shone in obliquely through the window, I moved into the strange light and shadow, and absorbed a little pitiful warmth, and there was a fine dust jumping and floating in front of me, and counting and counting, I actually fell asleep slowly.

When the sun was shining through, I woke up, my legs numb and stiff, barely listening.

I heard Hui'er whispering outside the door: "Even if she made a mistake, she is also the young lady of Sufu Zheng'er, how can any parents always hold a grudge and blame their children?" When the old lady is angry, she is still a young lady. Big brother, if you are so unsympathetic, or even fall into the ground, if Miss Hui is small-minded, can't she find a reason to give you a trumped-up charge? As the saying goes, it's easy to put the icing on the cake, but it's hard to send charcoal in the snow, if you help our young lady when she is in trouble, don't say me, the young lady will definitely remember your good. ”

I just found out that Hui'er's mouth is really powerful, and in a few words, the guard said a little excited: "It's not that I don't talk about feelings, it's really that there are many people in the house, and if it reaches the ears of my wife, I won't be able to keep this messenger." Then he lowered his voice and said, "Just now, the girl in front of Aunt Seventh also took some firewood to take some firewood and went around here." ”

"Big brother, if I don't go in, I'll just take a look at the window and hand the food to our young lady to eat, which is not against Madame's intentions." Hui'er begged in a low voice, and then I heard the sound of shallow silver colliding: "Please, just for a moment." ”

"Then you have to hurry, I'll go to the entrance of the courtyard to show you, it's always inappropriate to be seen."

The footsteps faded away.

Hui'er thanked me repeatedly, approached, and whispered to me on the windowsill, my legs finally regained a little sense, my throat still felt as dry and uncomfortable as smoke, and my mouth was hoarse and ugly. I thumped my legs and struggled to my feet, moving closer to the window.

Hui'er had already handed in a bowl of hot soup from the window: "Miss, warm up your body first, it must be frozen." ”

I took it, didn't care about burning my mouth, drank it all, and a stream of heat flowed into my stomach, and my throat moistened a lot. handed the soup bowl out, and was about to ask for another bowl, but he froze, Hui'er's white face on the left side was red and swollen, and there were five clear fingerprints!

"Hui'er, who hit it?"

Hui'er hurriedly lowered her head, took out a bowl of food from the food basket on the ground and handed it to me: "Miss, I'm fine, I've just wronged you, the food is not too good, you can take it first." ”

That bowl of food is obviously the food of the people in the house, I have ended up in such a situation, there must be no part of me in the kitchen, it should be Hui'er who sent me her own food.

"Hui'er, tell me, who hit it?" I felt more aggravated in my tone, and my heart ached and annoyed.

Hui'er still lowered her head: "It's Miss Qingyin, I got up early this morning, I brought a few people to the courtyard, threw out all our things, and moved in by myself." The people in the courtyard were afraid and hid out, and only a few of us were left. We couldn't get angry enough to argue, and we were all beaten by the maids under Miss Qingyin's instructions. Later, I was busy cleaning things, so I couldn't come to see Miss in the morning. ”

I was sad for a while, and my chest hurt, and two days ago I swore proudly, "You followed me, I can't let you be angry." "I was bullied like this today. And it's because of me, how can I not feel guilty?

I stretched out my hand from the window, and instead of taking the bowl in her hand, I gently touched her face, but the tears could no longer hold back: "I'm sorry, Hui'er, does it still hurt?" I'm really useless, I can't protect you, but I let you be affected by me. ”

Hui'er shook her head sadly, held back the tears in her eyes, and stubbornly handed the bowl to me: "Miss, I know that you feel bad about being wronged, but you still have to eat, Xuan'er said that she has begged Mrs., and Mrs. She will definitely find out the truth." ”

"Hehe, Xuan'er went to beg her mother? Originally, they set up a game together, they knew it in their own hearts, do they still need to be so coy? I sneered.

Hui'er cried out with a "wow", she covered her mouth tightly and suppressed her crying, afraid of being heard.

I was a little flustered: "Hui'er, what's wrong with you, why did you suddenly cry?" Is it that Madame is embarrassing you? ”

Hui'er bit her lower lip tightly and held back her tears back into her eyes: "Miss, that purple clay pot is really not made by Xuan'er, we misunderstood her." Xiao Xiang'er said that Xuan'er had been in and out of the house twice that morning, because she had a lot of things in her hands, and Xiao Xiang was diligent, so she went in to help and went out of the house together. And, moreover...... Xuan'er went to plead with Mrs. to explain what happened that day, but was blamed by Mrs. for hiding and not reporting it, and slapped twenty boards. She was still in a coma, and kept muttering that she had never done anything to be sorry for Miss. When the words fell, I couldn't help crying again.

My heart was like a river overturning the sea, surging in an instant, and the fierce rolling tide squeezed my tears out of my eyes in just one moment.

I wronged Xuan'er, took it for granted that the blame was put on her head, and in front of my mother, or the whole family, loudly accusing her of her sins, what she felt in her heart, I am afraid that no one can empathize more with her than me at this time.

I can disobey my mother's accusations, argue loudly with others, and shout my indignation, but in the face of the skeptical and inquiring eyes of others, how can she wash away her grievances?

I think I have been wronged by the destruction of the world, scolding the world for being cold, sighing for the coldness of people's hearts, passively trying to escape, not explaining, not working hard. But Xuan'er, after being wronged by me, silently kept running for me and suffering.

It's only been a few days.

"Is Xuan'er's injury important, has the doctor seen it?"

Hui'er wiped her eyes and said: "Thanks to Xuan'er, she is the son of the house, and the mother-in-law who plays the board has watched Xuan'er grow up, and she still has some affection, and she has mercy under her hands." Although it did not open the flesh, it also suffered a lot. She was delicate and tender, and without her lady nodding her head in agreement, the doctor in the house did not give her a consultation, so she could only grit her teeth and endure it. ”

"What about Lan'er and Xiao'er, are they hurt?"

Hui'er nodded and shook her head: "Compared to Miss's injury, we are nothing." ”

I swallowed the sour taste in my throat with difficulty, looked at Hui'er's red and swollen eyes and face, and said firmly: "Hui'er, don't worry, I will definitely help you get your grievances back, so that you can raise your eyebrows in the entire Su Mansion!" ”