In Wotta's heart, Serenne has always been a kind, gentle woman, because she admires his tall and handsome and cares for his broken heart due to the loss of his wife in middle age. He was always pleasant and stress-free with her, for not only did she bring a dowry that they could squander for a while and a grocery store with regular clients, but she always put the comfort and pleasure of the couple first in their lives, even after the birth of their son, Tran.

But in Sha Ting's heart, the woman was selfish and cold.

She summoned Sha Ting like a servant. During the day, when she and Satene are home alone, she asks for a variety of foods. On more than one occasion, Sha Ting braved the pouring rain to run down the muddy roads to buy all sorts of food for her to go to the shops in the town and even the port. She asked Satyne to peel strawberries, peel grapes, and seed cherries. calmly took all kinds of fried food, didn't even look at Sha Ting's blistered hands, and continued to instruct her to defeather the bird that will be fried tomorrow in the boiling water.

She always asked Sha Ting and her brother to have dinner early, noodle soup, noodles or pastries, and then asked the siblings to go back to their attic and close the wooden door at the entrance. Then the bacon, cheese, candied fruit, and crispy pancakes that Satene had prepared during the day were brought to the table, and the candles were lit as they waited for her father, who had returned from the port grocery store.

They would have dinner together by candlelight, and Wota told Serun about the ridiculous things he had encountered at the grocery store during the day. It's usually about how he blew up a very cheap ordinary item and sold it to some stupid customer at a very high price. Seren was always exclamating and screaming, kissing Wota with giggles. Wota gets great satisfaction from her admiration and flattery, so she listens to her.

Once, when she was asleep in the attic, she was suddenly woken up by a wooden door on the attic floor that opened with a "bang".

The father showed a head on the floor, and he roared, "Sha Ting! You come down for me! Then he grabbed something from the ground next to the wooden door and disappeared.

Sha Ting climbed down the ladder and saw her small rattan basket thrown on the table, and a small pile of leaves she had picked on Cedar Hill during the day was scattered on the table.

Under the flickering candlelight, she was dazzled by the different shapes of the leaves in the aperture - the pale gray leaves of hibiscus resembled soft hands, the slightly rolled pink petals of begonias resembled the lips of a maiden, and the lilac face revealed in the heart-shaped leaves of the treasure cover grass with deep purple edges...... Suddenly, she thought that her mother had spread out the leaves on the table, and she was going to look at them with Sha Ting, one by one, as they did every day. She couldn't suppress the surprise in her heart, and took two quick steps towards the table, but was suddenly knocked to the ground by a giant palm that appeared out of thin air in the shadows!

She lay on the ground, covered her hot cheeks, and heard her father scold: "You damn girl, let you go to the back mountain to pick up some firewood, you can pick up all afternoon, it turns out that you are still making these useless shitty things, do you want to piss me off?!" Like your hapless mom, picking up some broken flowers and grass all day long to make yourself look special, but it's not bullshit! ”

"Wotta, be quiet!" Lying in the soft chair, Serenin said to her father in disgust, "How do you do it?!" You know, you're going to hit her, I'm not going to talk to you about that. ”

She pinched her throat because she wanted to appear frightened and worried about Sha Ting, and her voice was a little strange: "Children, playing with mud and picking up some flowers and plants is understandable. It's just this treasure cover grass...... I've heard that it has the effect of inducing labor and giving birth to the fetus! And Sha Ting, I have to tell you, it's not good for a child to smell it...... Hey, Wotta, can you do it lightly! ”

Her father grabbed her by the collar and lifted her off the ground.

Sha Ting felt herself off the ground, and she swung her feet frantically in search of a fulcrum, because she felt like she was going to run out of breath! But in vain. She couldn't see anything, she just felt that her face and head were getting bigger and bigger, and they were about to explode!

Father finally let go of his hand, and she fell back to the floor.

"Remember the feeling! Accept this lesson! If you really miss your mom that much, try those stupid things again, and I'll let you go to her! ”

Seizing the moment, Seren rose from the soft chair with a frightened face, stepped forward to grab her father, softly persuaded him, and then waved at Sha Ting, signaling her to leave quickly.

She has always been in front of her father like "Sha Ting, I'm here for your good" or "Sha Ting, it wasn't my intention to turn things like this". But it's not always a punishment by the hand of a father. When it's just her and Sha Ting, she occasionally shows her hideous true colors.

Serenin brought a lot of luggage. One day, under her direction, Satine opened the boxes one by one, arranged the shoes according to the season, and lightly laid out the silk or silk clothes.

When Sharon asks Sharten to throw away a small bundle of her mother's clothes in the corner of the closet, Sharine stands with her head down, not moving.

Seren didn't say anything, just smiled contemptuously and left. After a while, she called Sharten to her bedroom and gave her a small brush with an amber handle to sweep the ashes off her cashmere clothes and hat. When Sha Ting obeyed, she reminded Sha Ting to pay attention to the material of the bristles, and Sha Ting touched it with her hand, which was a fine and soft bristle that was jet black and flexible.

"The brush was made from the hair of a young maid on my father's ship." "She always felt that she was different, so she was not very obedient," said nonchalantly. She made a few mistakes, and my father and I forgave her leniently, but she took that forgiveness as she deserved. Father was angry, and we sold her when we sailed to a mercury mine east of Poseidon Island. Her hair was so beautiful that I cut a handful as a keepsake. Because I know that all the beauty in her body will fade away in a short time. The toxic air in the mercury mine would cause her hair to fall out and her joints to swell. Ten years there, her breasts would turn into shriveled bags and her eyes would be suppurated. I don't know if she's dead now, or if she's waiting to die. ”

"Do you think her fate is tragic, daughter?" Serenin looked at Sha Ting and asked.

Sha Ting didn't dare to speak, but carefully swept the folds of a yellow wool skirt with a small brush.

Serenin sighed leisurely and continued, "She is much luckier than her sister. Back then, my father picked out a dark-haired older sister from two seven-year-old sisters and got on our family's boat. It is said that her gray-haired sister was soon sent to a brothel. Oh, what do you mean by staring at me like that? Hehe, do you doubt the brothel will accept a seven-year-old girl? Absolutely. They would mix her meals with a large amount of veterinary medicine, and she would be ripened in no time. By the time her sister was sent to the mercury mines, she had probably been dead for a long time. ”

Seren Yin pressed her tongue to her teeth and made a "tsk" sound, "It was their biological parents who sold them, and my kind father was her benefactor. As a result, her incomprehension ruined herself. Now, daughter, go and clean that cupboard and get rid of the clutter. Put my clothes away in the order of the seasons. ”

Satine burned her mother's clothes in the yard, and Sérene watched behind the window for a while and left satisfied.