Chapter 17: Sister-in-law

一来就指使秦九娘搬行李的,是那三位中年妇人中的其中一位。

三十出头的妇人,略微有些横向延伸的瓜子脸上,五官尚算秀丽,就是肤色不太好,哪怕脸上涂抹了厚厚一层脂粉,也难掩长年风吹日晒留下的沧桑。

The woman's stature is also much stronger than that of ordinary women, although it is not described as a big waist and a round waist, but her legs and feet look very powerful, even if she is now wearing a brocade dress and satin, you can see at a glance that this person must have been a coolie in the past.

As the eldest in the family, there are two younger sisters under the woman, a younger brother with the same life, and a lazy mother, a father who is addicted to alcohol, who sells coolies if she doesn't sell coolies?

If it weren't for the fact that her precious brother had been born and married a capable daughter-in-law, she would still be working in the fields.

没错,眼前这位一身锦衣华服的妇人,正是沈崇德的大姐,沈招娣。

The two women next to her who had seven or eight points of facial features similar to her were Shen Chongde's second sister and third sister, clearly called Shen Niandi and Shen Pandi.

原本还有个四姐叫沈来娣的,但是命苦,沈崇德才刚发达起来,对方就因为长年操劳成疾,身体亏损的太严重,因病走了。

The four sisters in the family all have the word "Di" in their names, which shows how strong the family's obsession with giving birth to a boy is.

Qin Jiuniang looked at the three women opposite, her eyes swept over the brocade clothes they were wearing, and she sneered coldly in her heart.

In the last life, Aiwu and Wu, after she and Shen Chongde got married, she respected and thanked these three sisters-in-law from the bottom of her heart.

After all, Shen Chongde's family has been farmers in the soil for generations.

Under normal circumstances, Shen Chongde should also inherit the ancestral business, guard the Shen family's ten acres of land, and continue to live the days of digging in the soil.

But Shen Chongde didn't do this, he wanted to sell the land and sell the land, and then use the money from the sale of the land to do business.

A farmer is not good at farming, but he wants to sell his land to do business, which is definitely not a proper business in the countryside, and it is a ruined behavior, even if Shen Chongde is the only incense seedling of the Shen family, his behavior has also been strongly opposed by Shen's father and Shen's mother.

Shen's father was angry to death at that time.

Mrs. Shen was also so angry that she was sick in bed, but it was Shen Chongde's four sisters who strongly supported him, persuaded Mrs. Shen to sell half of the family's ancestral property, and each took out her savings for many years and made up a sum of money, which led to Shen Chongde's later business in Kyoto.

That's why I had the opportunity to meet her.

And this opportunity, Qin Jiuniang felt, was given by Shen Chongde's sisters.

所以,上一世,她和沈崇德成亲后,对于这几位大小姑子,她当真是打心里面的感激和敬重她们。

Buy them land and houses, give them the money they want to spend, take them in and out of the nobles' circle, they are ridiculed and vulgar by the nobles, she desperately tears her face with the nobles, and she wants to ask for an explanation for them......

Things like that, too much, too much, too much.

But what did they do to her?

Qin Jiuniang's hand under her sleeve was clenched tightly, and her fingertips almost pierced the palm of her hand.

In the previous life, she was framed for murdering the heirs of the Shen family, without giving her any chance and room to defend herself, Shen Chongde directly sent her back to the Shen family's old mansion to reflect on it.

How do you reflect on it?

Every day, in addition to fasting, reciting Buddha and copying scriptures, she also has to bathe without moving.

The name is beautiful: wash away the sins of her.

The bath is divided into three steps, first bring a plate of red chili noodles that have been ground into powder, apply these chili noodles to every part of her body, and rub them vigorously.

After the spiciness penetrated into her skin, a bucket of cold water was poured from head to toe to wash off the chili noodles on the surface of her skin, and before she could recover from the biting cold, she was immediately set up again and pressed into the steaming tub.

After eating the skin of chili noodles and then soaking it in hot water, the kind of hot pain can make people's internal organs cry and scream with pride, but it will not leave any external injuries.

Especially after taking a bath, she was covered by a layer of emollient balm, and even she, who came from a medical family, could not see what kind of torture this body had suffered.

Only those who have experienced it know what kind of pain it is.

And the people who inflicted these tortures on her were the four sisters of the Shen family in front of whom she was extremely grateful and respected.

She still remembers that time.

Shen Zhaodi, the eldest sister of the Shen family, kicked her down, stepped on her ribs with her foot, gritted her teeth and said: "Dare to harm the heir of my Shen family, she is really a cheap poisonous woman, strip her of her clothes!" ”

沈家二姐和沈家三姐就当真扒光了她的衣服,沈家四姐端来一盆辣椒面往她身上涂抹,又拎来一桶冷水将她冲洗干净,再把她摁进装满热水的浴桶里面。

At that time, she couldn't even wail and explain, because she was gagged.

In the end, Shen Zhaodi brought a delicate balsam box and smeared the valuable balsam on her body as if she didn't need money, and said that fortunately she had bought a lot of these balsam for them before, otherwise they would have tried to cover up the traces on her body.

没错,这些有钱都难买到的香脂,都是她托各种关系,一掷千金为沈家四姐妹置办下的,因为她们长年做农活,风吹日晒,坏了容颜,为了不让她们被贵人们嘲笑,她就想方设法地帮她们把容颜养回来。

Unexpectedly, in the end, the balsam she had worked so hard to get for them became a tool to cover up their atrocities.

How ridiculous!

And how sad!

…… The memory knife of the previous life was carved and chiseled, even if it was a lifetime later, looking back, that kind of pain still made Qin Jiuniang tremble like a maggot on the tarsal bone.

她的脸色不可控制地变得雪白,额头上也冒出层层细密的汗珠,搭在杏儿胳膊上的手指更是骤然缩紧。

Xing'er's arm was scratched painfully, "oops" screamed, and when she looked up and saw the painful look in Qin Jiuniang's eyes, she was startled and screamed: "Miss! What's wrong with you, Miss?! ”

It has nothing to do with the Shen family, and Xing'er no longer calls Qin Jiuniang Mrs., but still calls her Miss as before she got married.

At that time, Chu Jingyun watched a big drama in the back house, and only came down from the roof of the Shen family, and was about to turn around and leave, when he suddenly heard Xing'er's scream, he subconsciously turned his head to look behind him.

Then I saw Qin Jiuniang, whose little face was pale and her eyes were full of pain.

Chu Jingyun: "? ”

Wasn't it still very lively just now, why did it suddenly become like this? Sick again??