Yu Xinyuan returned to the room, but fortunately, the furnishings in the room were not much different from the past. At this time, the two maids looked panicked and hurriedly walked in. I saw a maid holding a meal in her hand, which looked quite hearty. The other maid was holding an embroidered pillow in her hand, which looked quite chic. They said with a smile: "Little sister, this is a lunch specially prepared for you by Mrs., please use it slowly."

"You didn't poison it, did you?" asked Yu Xinyuan bluntly. You must know that her stepmother did everything for the sake of money, and she looked at their terrible smiles, and she always felt hairy and unsteady.

"Little sister, please rest assured to eat, there is no poison in it. As he spoke, he tasted it, in order to prove that there was indeed no medicine in the meal.

"This pillow?" Yu Xinyuan looked at this pillow of unknown origin, and always felt that something was wrong, so he gave me a pillow in a good way.

"Back to the little sister, this is what Mrs. carefully selected for you. ”

"Oh! Yu Xinyuan came to see what medicine was sold in her stepmother's throat, she took the pillow, except that it was heavier in her hand, she looked at it for a long time, and she didn't see anything wrong, to be honest, the workmanship is really exquisite. Could it be that her stepmother's conscience found out and sent me a jade pillow to sleep on. "What is this made of, and why is it so much heavier than the pillow I slept on before?" ”

"Back to my sister, this is made of iron and stone. The maid couldn't help but want to laugh.

"What?" Yu Xinyuan thought to herself: It's the first time I've heard that iron can be used as a pillow. My stepmother sent me an iron pillow for no reason, with ill intentions.

"The doctor said that the iron pillow can treat insomnia and dreams, and secondly, it can help you look old and stay young forever. ”

"It's just so hard, how can I sleep?" asked Yu Xinyuan.

"Little sister, I don't know, the slave maid heard that it is not easy to hunch over when sleeping on a harder pillow. ”

"With so many pillows, your wife must need them more than I do! You better take them back! Yu Xinyuan excused herself again and again, thinking: This can be used as a reason, this pillow can't be wanted.

"However, this is a piece of Madame's heart, and the little sister does not have to refuse, she must accept it, and the slaves and maids can go back to pay for it. ”

"All right!

"Yes, little sister. ”

It was getting dark, and a small figure appeared outside the door, walking inside, only to see his skin white, red face, round as ripe apples, those huge glass-like eyes, still so pure, the smile on his face was clear and flawless, like a little angel. He is Yu Xinyuan's half-brother, Yu Zixi, who is five years old, looking at his white and chubby, childish brother, I can't believe that he was born to the vicious woman of his stepmother. Yu Xinyuan thought to herself: My brother is getting more and more cute, no wonder my father loved him so much when he was alive.

"Sister, sister, I'm afraid of the dark, can I sleep with you at night?" Yu Zixi came to her, tugged at her clothes, and asked innocently.

"Brother, what's the mother!" Yu Xinyuan looked at the young and ignorant brother and asked with some puzzlement.

Unexpectedly, Yu Zixi just had a smiling face, and he said that change would change, he cried loudly, a handful of snot, and a handful of tears said: Sister, mother, she doesn't want me anymore, she stays with her uncle all day, she also asked me to call my bad uncle father, and she also said that she would send me to the school in a few days. I said no, they beat my ass, and it still hurts!"

Yes, she is now only interested in having fun with each other, and her son doesn't want it. said: "Brother, don't cry! Brother, be good." Yu Xinyuan comforted him while wiping his tears.

"Sister, what kind of good thing is this, where did it come from? My brother wants it too!" Yu Zixi fell in love with the iron pillow at a glance, stopped crying, and held it in his hand like a toy, refusing to let go.

"My mother gave it to me, what's wrong?" Yu Xinyuan didn't expect her brother to be curious about pillows. He added, "Brother, you can't eat this! ”

"Sister, I want to sleep on it!" Yu Zixi said coquettishly.

"Okay!" Yu Xinyuan didn't know why her stepmother gave her an iron pillow, maybe she really changed her ways.

It was late at night, the moon was cloudy, and there were bursts of intense colic in her abdomen, which woke Yu Xinyuan from her sleep, she kept rubbing her stomach, and the sweat of beans rolled down her forehead, as if she was about to give birth. I thought: My stepmother won't really drug my food, no, I want to go to the toilet. In order not to wake up her sleeping brother on the other end of the bed, she did not light a candle, but went out quietly alone.

At this time, the housekeeper was not idle for a moment, and he wanted to take Yu Xinkite's head according to his wife's instructions. He first wiped the grease off the kitchen knife, then placed the whetstone steadily, and then went to the yard well to fetch a basin of clean water. When he was ready, he kept sprinkling water on the whetstone, stabbing and sharpening the knife, he used to be a butcher who killed pigs, so he was quite skillful. After a while, I saw that he was sweating profusely, and the knife was quickly sharpened, and finally washed with water and wiped dry. He turned the blade upward, and when he looked at it, there was no trace of white light on the blade, and the sharpened kitchen knife became extremely sharp, even if he wanted to cut off a person's head, it would be effortless.

As soon as Yu Xinyuan left on her front foot, the housekeeper then quietly sneaked into her room. He looked at Yu Xinyuan, who was sleeping, the first time he killed someone, the housekeeper's hands were shaking, and he couldn't do it. At this moment he recalled what his wife had said: Whoever sleeps on an iron pillow will be killed tonight, and if the matter is done, he will be rewarded with two hundred taels of silver. With so much money, even if you don't work in the next life, it is enough to save money and save money, and those who want to achieve great things must be ruthless. Thinking of this, without saying a word, he waved the kitchen knife in his hand and chopped it down. "Click" went down, and suddenly, blood flowed in all directions. Before poor Yu Zixi could cry, he died with a whimper. After killing the man, the housekeeper's hands were covered with blood, and he panicked for a moment, and said: "Little ancestor, don't look for me if you are a ghost! I was also forced by my wife." He ran out of the door, not forgetting to throw the kitchen knife into the well, destroying the murder weapon.

Yu Xinyuan came back from the toilet, her stomach felt a lot, she felt the darkness back to the room, and locked the door. Lying on the bed again, she didn't notice anything abnormal, and at this time a sticky liquid dripped on her face, Yu Xinyuan couldn't help muttering: What is this sticky? I dipped my finger in it, put it on my nose, and smelled it, it was a pungent smell of blood, and I couldn't help retching in my stomach.

"Blood!" she got up and lit the candle, she wanted to see what was famous, where the blood came from. The moment the candle was lit, I saw blood staining her white tent red, the scene of blurred flesh and blood was shocking, her brother was covered in blood, without breath, lying motionless on the bed, miserable. "Brother, who killed you so ruthlessly, even a child refused to let go. Yu Xinyuan cried bitterly, and then thought: It must be a stepmother, she wants to kill me for a day or two, she definitely didn't expect her son to come to me, mistook her son for me, and killed her, she will definitely come to my room tomorrow morning, if she sees that it is not me who is killed, what will happen?"

Yu Xinyuan looked at the iron pillow here, the more she looked at it, the more it looked like a knife board, and she couldn't say how uncomfortable it was. Only then did she understand why her stepmother was so kind to give her an iron pillow.