Chapter 40: A New Life (20)
Walking to the river, Ru Yi sat on a big rock, her slender and white feet soaked in the clear river water, before she finished washing her feet, she felt a sudden cold on her burning back, and then saw two reflections projected in the clear river water, and suddenly turned around, only to see two strange women behind her quietly turning over the back baskets they put on the bank.
Ru Yi stood up and shouted, "Who are you?" Why turn over our back baskets. Don't look at her petite figure, but her voice is still quite loud, even the villagers working nearby heard it, and looked straight over here to see the excitement.
The weather was hot, Yuan Shu wiped her face with the clear river water, and suddenly Ru Yi's sharp voice came to her ears, and she immediately turned around and saw two people standing on the side of the back basket, she knew both of them, one was her eldest uncle Fang Hua, and the other was her cousin-in-law Li Meihua.
"Eh, the new daughter-in-law of the original family, who am I? I'm your aunt, I just want to see what you put in the basket, what's wrong? Oh~~ This is not allowed? Fang Hua's tone became yin and yang in the end.
"That's it, I'm still your cousin-in-law, do you talk to your elders like this? No big, no small! Li Meihua echoed.
What auntie? What cousin-in-law? She didn't even listen to Yuan Shu talk about it?
Ru Yixiu frowned, squinted at the two people in front of her, and saw the woman in front of her who claimed to be the eldest uncle, with Zhou Zheng's facial features, but she had a sharp-beaked monkey cheek face, wearing a washed yellowed satin cotton coat, her long hair was coiled up, and a silver hairpin without flowers was inserted on the right side of the bun, and a pair of sharp eyes were staring at herself, she was not afraid, but she just felt that the woman in front of her was very vulgar.
Another woman who claimed to be her sister-in-law didn't look much older than her, with delicate facial features, tanned skin, dressed in a red-red satin cotton dress, with black hair coiled up, and a silver tassel hairpin inserted in her bun, which looked quite delicate and dignified at a glance.
"Ashu, what they said ......" Ru Yi wanted to ask if what the two people in front of her said was true or false, turned her head, but saw Yuan Shu standing straight by the river, her palms clenched tightly, her face was extremely pale, and a pair of copper bell-like eyes stared straight at Fang Hua, as if the person in front of her had a lot of hatred for her. I can't help but wonder, obviously she was fine just now, what's wrong with her?
Ru Yi's face was full of sadness and she was very worried about Yuan Shu, "Ashu, what's wrong with you?" ”
When Yuan Shu turned around and saw Fang Hua for the first time, that painful past came to mind, when her father died, her mother couldn't afford to collapse, but her so-called aunt drove their family of three to the foot of Dayao Mountain, and there was no food or clothing in the dilapidated thatched house, and even the land given was only four acres of land.
Although she was only seven years old at the time, the scene of that day was deeply imprinted in her mind, lingering, so that at the age of seven, she had nightmares every night, and finally half a month later, she had a serious illness, and her body became worse and worse, but fortunately, as she grew older, her body slowly got better.
Therefore, the hatred of that year has long been buried deep in her heart and lingers.
Yuan Shu came back to her senses, her originally heavy breathing gradually stabilized, and after a while, she shook her head and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm fine, she is indeed my father's sister-in-law, but ......"