Chapter 1: A Basin of Cold Water

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The verdant ridges are covered with a light veil-like morning mist, and three or two wild peach blossoms that no one cares about are competing to bloom.

The woman wrapped in a blue cloth turban held a large wooden basin in her hand, pushed away the reed chicken in the way, and angrily lifted the fabric of the thatched house.

With a hula, a large basin of cold water poured towards the slender figure on the wooden bed.

"A lazy and lazy girl, what time does she dare to fall asleep! Hurry up and make a fire to cook! Yao Shi put one hand on his waist, and the other hand carried a wooden basin, and his loud and sharp voice could be heard clearly through several ridges.

The villagers in the fields just glanced at the dilapidated grass houses, and they could hear such shouts and scolding almost every day, and they were no longer surprised!

"I dare to have so many mouths without money and no land! Fortunately, those two old things died early, otherwise this family would have been eaten by them! These babies might as well be sold for money as soon as possible......" Yao Muping, as the eldest sister-in-law, kept scolding in her mouth, and when she saw that the figure on the bed had not moved, she suddenly opened the straw curtain to find firewood sticks.

As soon as Yao left, the skinny girl on the wooden plank bed, who was no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, opened her eyes.

A pair of black and white eyes on the pale face staring at the thatched roof full of holes, where is this?

Lin Xiaomiao remembered that she was frying poached eggs in the restaurant, and suddenly a half-person-high fire burst out under the frying pan, followed by a violent explosion, and she lost consciousness......

There was nothing in the dirty, broken thatched hut, and there was this hardwood plank underneath, and the wind blew through the straw curtains, bringing with it the smell of dirt mixed with.

Without waiting for Lin Xiaomiao to figure out his situation, Yao Shi held the burning stick and killed it again.

"The cheap girl is willing to wake up?" Yao raised his thick eyebrows and looked hideous, "You usually eat and drink for nothing with those useless wild cubs, but now you are more and more lazy and refuse to do anything!" See how I cure you! ”

Lin Xiaomiao subconsciously curled up in fear, her eyes wandering around looking for a place to escape.

How could the Yao family give her such an opportunity, and the thick black stick in her hand hit Lin Xiaomiao's body.

A blood mark immediately appeared when the stick went down, Lin Xiaomiao, as a modern little chef, had suffered such a crime, and reflexively screamed and reached out to block the stick in Yao's hand, "How can you hit people casually!" Who are you? ”

"It's the other way around!" Yao's face was hideous, and he pinched Lin Xiaomiao's wrist hard, "Dare to resist, dare to pretend to be crazy and stupid!" See if I don't kill you! ”

Lin Xiaomiao had learned a little self-defense and couldn't use it at all, and she found that this body was like a stunted chick and couldn't use her strength at all.

The burning stick hit his back, and the burning pain came, as if all the flesh was scorched and cracked......

Under the severe pain, Lin Xiaomiao's forehead was dripping with a big drop of cold sweat, and a picture flashed in front of her eyes.

In this time and space, she is not called Lin Xiaomiao but Yun Tao, there is an elder brother in his twenties above, and a pair of younger brothers who are in the age of the horn below.

Soon after her brother Yuntian took his wife, their parents fell ill and died.

It is said that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, but Yao Muping, who is their sister-in-law, is a demon with a heart like a snake and scorpion. After his brother was overworked and contracted tuberculosis, the entire Yun family was decided by Yao Muping.

The woman treated her and her two younger brothers harshly, forcing them to do farm work at a young age, giving them only two meals a day and often a rancid overnight meal. In winter, there are no clothes to wear or a quilt...... If it weren't for the hard bones of the peasant children, they wouldn't have survived today.

I don't know how many hits, Yao's finally stopped, she threw the dying Lin Xiaomiao back on the bed, and snorted coldly: "If it weren't for the Zhang family's fancy to you, they gave five taels of silver as a dowry." You think I'm going to spare you? ”

"The marriage of the Zhang family has been decided, if you dare to mess around and seek death, your two younger brothers will not live long!" After Yao Shi crackled for a while, he picked up the curtain and left, leaving only Lin Xiaomiao on the bed.

Too many memory images swirled in his mind, and with the piercing pain in his back, Lin Xiaomiao held on for a while and still fainted.

A groggy dream fused Yun Tao's memory and her Lin Xiaomiao's past like a movie.

"Sister, sister, wake up, ......"

"Sister, I'm so hungry!" Two pairs of small black hands tugged at the corners of the clothes of the person on the bed, and the two malnourished little faces were also black and covered with mud, only the eyes were bright like gluttonous cats.

Lin Xiaomiao moved her eyelids, and the cry of "Sister" was extremely rapid and loud.

"Dog, ......" After Lin Xiaomiao saw the two small figures beside the bed, she naturally called out their names.

The eldest of the two younger brothers is nearly ten years old, and he is called "Dog Egg" by the Yao family, saying that he is a cheap name and easy to raise. The youngest brother doesn't even have a name! At the age of five or six, his thin body is only about as tall as a plank bed.

"Sister, we haven't eaten in a day!" After seeing that Lin Xiaomiao was awake, the dog swallowed his saliva and said urgently.

Mi'er was timid, and he followed his brother timidly and nodded timidly without speaking.

Lin Xiaomiao looked at their yellow-skinned little faces, and her heart was sour, how could such a young child be hungry all the time and have no food to eat when he was growing his body?

Yao ...... What about sister-in-law? She didn't cook for you? Lin Xiaomiao moved, and her back hurt so much that she almost shed tears.

The two children shook their heads with their mouths shut.

Yao's family thinks that there are many idlers in the family, and they wish they all starved to death to save money. Today, because Yun Tao got up late, he was angry, and there was even more reason to punish them for starvation.

Lin Xiaomiao tried to squeeze out a smile on them, "Bear with me for a while, Sister will let you eat enough!" Go and see what's in the kitchen. ”

In the Yun family, every piece of firewood and every grain of rice is managed by Yao Muping, how easy is it to let the younger brothers be fed?

Lin Xiaomiao endured the sharp pain like skin and flesh and picked up the burning stick on the ground and supported her body. In the short distance from the grass house to the well, the coarse linen clothes that clung to her back were already drenched with sweat.

She squatted by the well and poured a handful of cold well water on her face covered with cold sweat, and according to the swaying well water, Lin Xiaomiao saw her appearance clearly.

The standard melon seed face is pointed and small, the eyes are surprisingly large, and the facial features have not yet grown but look very delicate. It's just that the complexion is very yellow, and the mouth is covered with a layer of white skin, and the slightest pull will bleed. This picture is also obviously malnourished, skinny like a stray cat.

Lin Xiaomiao sat by the well and gasped, her body was only a teenager, and she was still at school age in the place where she used to live, but she was actually sold to the Zhang family by the Yao family for money, forcing her to get married!

In addition, she also heard that the person she was going to marry was the adopted son brought back by the Zhang family, and he was blind with impaired mobility due to eye disease!

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