After a brief tidying up, the two of them were called to work in the kitchen.

"You, go and make the fire stronger!" the cook lady Rui pointed at Mei Ji proudly, and her domineering appearance could easily make people feel the urge to swoop her.

Mei Ji hurriedly ran over to light the fire, not wanting to attract people's eyes on the first day.

"Why are you stunned? Why don't you go and fetch water? Idiot who doesn't have any eyesight!" As soon as she finished instructing Mei Ji, she came to trouble Pin Yue again.

Thinking that she had finally come to this point, she gritted her teeth and endured the indignation in her heart.

"You damn girl, you're deliberately lazy, aren't you?" Sister-in-law Rui scolded angrily, in front of her was Mei Ji, who was already sweating but still struggling to boil water.

Pin Yue was sent outside to chop wood, only to hear the old woman inside howling like a pig.

At this time, another cook, Xing Gu, came out:

"I said, you chopped this bit of firewood in such a long time?" she also had the temper of Aunt Tiger.

Pin Yue didn't care about her, hurriedly wiped her sweat and continued to chop hard.

I saw her pick up a wooden stick as thick as a child's arm in her left hand and put it on the ground vertically, and with her right hand she lifted the machete and slashed it lightly, so that the blade was embedded in the wood, and then smashed it the ground.

"I'm here for you to chop wood, not for you to embroider! How long will you have to be so clumsy? If you can't finish it before dinner, you won't want to eat!" Aunt Xing said viciously and walked back to the kitchen.

Pin Yue looked at the stacks of firewood piled up like a hill around her, and estimated that she didn't need to eat dinner at night!

It was getting dark, and the others had already eaten and gone to rest, and Pinyue was still chopping less and less firewood one by one, and Mei Ji came out of the kitchen while beating her shoulder.

"Yue'er, haven't you eaten anything until now?" she walked over to Pin Yue in surprise.

"Heh~ Sister, you're done, go and rest!" she smiled happily.

"Have you eaten?" she stared at her chapped lips tightly, knowing without asking, let alone eating, for fear that she had never even drunk saliva.

"Sister, I'm going to finish splitting soon, you go to rest first, and help me sort things out by the way, okay?" Pin Yue gave full play to her strengths of ignoring other people's questions, and tried her best to divert the topic.

"You answer me!!" she angrily waved off the machete in her hand, her apricot eyes wide.

Pin Yue was slightly stunned:

"I haven't eaten, but I'm so hungry now that I don't feel hungry. I'm fine!" She laughed bitterly, and the base of her right hand hurt so badly that it seemed to have blistered.

"What kind of sin have you done, God is going to punish you like this?!" Mei Ji squatted beside her in distress.

"I don't know, maybe it's fate!" she said, her eyes reddening.

Mei Ji didn't say a word, grabbed the machete on the ground, and chopped wood for her.

"Sister......" She was about to speak to dissuade her, when she heard Mei Ji explain while splitting:

"You don't have to persuade me, I said that I would share blessings and hardships, but now in this situation, if we change it, will you leave me alone to rest?" she said as she chopped the wood vigorously, and the faces of the two hateful old witches came to mind, and they split even harder.

Pinyue found another axe out of nowhere and continued to chop......

It took a whole afternoon for Pinyue to split the firewood, and it was almost time to finish chopping.

Mei Ji brought some steamed buns and leftovers from the kitchen for her to eat.

After eating, Pin Yue and Mei Ji sat back to back at the laundry table in the courtyard and looked at the stars in the sky.

The waning moon was setting in the west, and it was not early, but none of them were sleepy.

"Yue'er, I'm afraid we won't have a good time in the future!"

"It's okay! I can endure no matter how hard and tired I am. Someday, I'm going to take my mom home and reunite her with my dad!"

"But do you think we can still get out? As soon as I enter the Houmen, it is as deep as the sea, and I am only afraid of ......" Mei Ji was a little sad.

"Sister, do you regret it, I can find a way to send you out!" Pin Yue sat up straight and faced her, her eyes as bright as stars.

"No, I don't regret it, I'm just worried, what if you can't go out again?" What should you do if you promised your mother?" She also looked at Pin Yue, and couldn't help but redden, "I can stay here, knowing that I am only separated by a wall from him, I am satisfied, what about you?"

Pin Yue was silent, very dazed, looking at the moon with a lonely and confused gaze.

Suddenly, Mei Ji's body moved, and with a soft groan, she ran out quickly.

Pin Yue was confused, and hurriedly followed, only to see her running all the way into the latrine.

Pin Yue chased outside and asked:

"Sister, what's wrong with you?

"Hmm...... It's just that my stomach is a little uncomfortable, you go back and rest, I'll go back later. Mei Ji replied inside.

She didn't care, so she went back to her room in a huff.

The furnishings in the room were simple, with only two beds, a table and a large wooden box for clothes.

She casually packed up her things and lay down on the bed to wait for Mei Ji to come back.

After about ten minutes, Mei Ji dragged her weak body back.

"Sister, how's it going?"

"It's okay, go to sleep!" she replied, and went to her bed and lay down.

As soon as Pin Yue turned on the lamp and blew it, she heard a movement on her bed again, and through the faint moonlight, she saw Mei Ji get up again.

"Sister......

"I'm going to go again......" Mei Ji said hello and hurried out.

Pin Yue re-lit the lamp, sat down on the chair suspiciously, and after a while, she saw Mei Ji staggering into the house, and even her face began to turn pale.

Pin Yue hurriedly helped her sit down, poured a glass of boiled water that was not too lukewarm for her, but she just took a sip and ran out quickly. This time, instead of going to the toilet, he squatted at the door and vomited heavily......

The pungent smell rushed to Pinyue's olfactory nerves, and she ran to Mei Ji worriedly.

"Sister, have you eaten something bad?"

"I don't know......" she replied weakly, it should have been caused by diarrhea.

In this way, Mei Ji vomited and diarrhea all night, and the two of them almost stayed awake all night.