After breakfast, Shen Ruolan inserted the door, closed the window, and began to clean the pot, add water, light the fire, clean the tub, and prepare to take a vigorous bath.
This little body has not been washed for several months, and it has already grown chapped. The black chapped sticks to the body like armor, and the disgusting ones are still scratching. And her hair, I don’t know if it’s been too long since I haven’t washed it or The quality of the hair is not good, and it is actually tangled together and tied into a knot. It looks like a bird's nest on the top of the head. It seems that this one is bound to have a "big wash".
The fire in the stove was lit, and after a crackling sound, the fire lighted up, and Shen Ruolan added a few more firewood inside, and the fire became hotter and hotter, and after a while, curls of white water appeared around the cauldron fog.
After the water boiled, she lifted the lid of the pot, scooped the boiling water in the pot into the basin, and then poured the water in the basin into the bathtub, one basin after another, and it was almost the same. I added some cold water, adjusted the temperature, took off the ragged jacket with the cotton wool exposed, and sat in the bathtub impatiently.
"oh-"
As soon as she sat in, she took a deep breath comfortably and let out a long sigh.
This warm, soft feeling is so good, as if floating out of thin air, it is so comfortable that people forget about it.
After floating for a while, she sat up straight and began to take a bath.
In this era, there are no bath towels commonly used in modern bathing. When bathing, loofahs are used. The dry thing scratches on the body and makes a stinging sound. It reminds people of the countryside killing pigs and scraping pork during the Chinese New Year. leather sound.
Rubbing left, right, up, down, after a frenzied wash, the skin on her body turned red, almost peeling off a layer of skin, but she still felt that washing was not enjoyable.
However, she couldn't wash it anymore, because a thick pile of mud was deposited in the water in the bucket, and it was so buried that it could cover two acres of land. The water was like this, so naturally it couldn't be washed anymore. She couldn't get enough of it. He crawled out to dry himself, and put on his clothes one by one.
As soon as things were tidied up here, a shrill cry suddenly sounded outside: "Lan Ya, Lan Ya, I'm here."
The voice was familiar, but she had forgotten who it was.
Put away the bathtub and open the door, only to see a beautiful girl standing at the door, she is eleven or twelve years old, with slender eyebrows and thin eyes, fair and tender face, unlike the girls in the village with red bloodshot face, combed hair Wearing a pair of small maid buns, a cotton floral jacket with red orchids on a red background, and a pair of pink cotton trousers with a small patch underneath, this outfit is enough for those patched up in the village. The girl stands out from the crowd.
Shen Ruolan thought about that pretty smiling face for a while.
Oh, I remembered, this girl's name is Hu Meijiao, she seems to be my best friend.
"Meijiao, you're here!" She said indifferently.
Hu Meijiao didn't see her alienation, but she was very happy to see her: "Lan Ya, I knew you were cured when I saw the smoke coming from your chimney. Thank God, you are finally cured. My mother has to tell me to wash the clothes."
Shen Ruolan raised her eyebrows, what does this mean? She also wants to do the laundry for Hu Meijiao's family
why
She lowered her eyes and searched through her memories of the past with Hu Meijiao. When she raised her eyes, there was a flash of sarcasm in her eyes.
What kind of physique is this Shen Ruolan that I have traveled through? Don't tell me that if her father doesn't love her mother, she is a femme fatale who uses her to make friends and looks down on her.
In my memory, this Hu Meijiao and her mother moved from the town to Shantun five years ago. It is said that her mother, You Shi, used to work as a child in a big family in the town. She rushes out.
The two of their mothers did not settle down, wandered to and fro in Kaoshan Village, and finally took root in Kaoshan Village. Her mother, You Shi, was a lazy person, relying on her good looks and being used to coaxing men, so she never went to work in the fields. Just sleep with men for a living.
Naturally, the daughter of such a lowly family is not much better. People in the village do not let their children play with the little vixen. Hu Meijiao has no choice but to find Shen Ruolan who has no parents and no one to talk to. On the surface, he seems to be friends with Shen Ruolan, but actually he never thinks highly of her.
She is friendly with Shen Ruolan, one is to use Shen Ruolan, a silly girl, to work for their mother and daughter for nothing, and the other is to show off her delicious and fun things in front of her, and to satisfy her through the silly girl's envious eyes own vanity and pride.
The clothes and quilts of the two of them were washed by Shen Ruolan, and that silly girl Shen Ruolan did most of the housework. Sometimes she dragged her frail body to help their family gather firewood and hunt pigweed. Whatever the girls told her to do, she did everything.
Those two women are full of evil spirits, and they are very good at taking advantage of Shen Ruolan, a silly girl. They occasionally give her small favors, such as giving her some food and clothing, (they both don't hesitate. What I want), and from time to time, I said a few words of heartfelt words and expressed my concern for her, and that silly girl who was loved by no one was moved to the point of tears, and she felt that she had found warmth and support. , of course, she will do what others tell her to do.
In fact, it is not to blame Shen Ruolan for being stupid, she has been alone since she was a child, no one taught her what kind of person is good and what kind of person is bad, because of her parents, the girls in the village are not willing to play with her, she is alone After living alone for so many years, suddenly someone spoke sweet words to her, someone played with her, she was naturally flattered, grateful, and sincerely treated him well.
Therefore, even though she knew that Hu Meijiao's mother and daughter had a bad reputation, she always asked her to work for them, but in order to repay the poor warmth they gave her, she was still willing to work for them, and treated them sincerely. Hello girls.
Knowing all of this, Shen Ruolan's complexion turned bad all of a sudden, and her tone became even more indifferent, "Washing clothes, my body is just right, I'm afraid I'm powerless now, so I can't help you for the time being."
She really wanted to tell this Hu Meijiao that she would not be able to wash clothes for their mothers in the future, but if she broke up with her original best friend all of a sudden, it would probably arouse suspicion from others. Personality changes, and you can't change immediately after chasing them, you have to do it step by step!
Hu Meijiao didn't expect Shen Ruolan to reject her, because she never rejected her, so when she heard Shen Ruolan's words, she immediately showed an unbelievable look: "Lanya, you... you..." Why did you refuse? Don't you always do whatever you're asked to do, and you won't refuse even if you're exhausted
"Meijiao is not afraid of your jokes, it's because I've been in bad shape for the past few days, and I haven't washed my father's clothes. If you don't believe me, take a look, my father's clothes smell bad."
Shen Ruolan made up her mind to disgust Hu Meijiao, so she went back to the kang and took his father's clothes that smelled like sweat and feet, and stuffed them into Hu Meijiao's arms, "These are my own father's clothes. If a girl let her father go out dressed like this, will she be ridiculed by others? Or, Meijiao, you can wash it for me. Anyway, you have to wash your own clothes, so you can wash my father's clothes too. Alright."