I don't know when it started, Shang Zhen found that he was accustomed to having someone around him to fall asleep. It turned out that within a year, he could really get used to it.
Anyway, she stayed up until three or four in the morning before going to bed, and as soon as she fell asleep, she started having nightmares.
She dreamed that the weather was very cold, and the servant refused to help her wash her clothes again, which made her very embarrassed when she was less than twelve years old, because before that, it was her grandma who helped her do the laundry. Helping grandma tidy things up, sweeping the floor, and didn't do any housework.
At that time, she first arrived. Although she was afraid of her stepmother's mean face, she still went to her stepmother to complain. Lin Xuehan called the servant in front of her and asked her, "Why don't you help the eldest lady do the laundry?"
The maid said exaggeratedly, "Oh, ma'am, the heater in the bathroom is broken, I'm getting old, isn't it killing my life to do laundry at this time? And there's no hot water, it's minus five degrees now. Woolen cloth!"
After the performance, she said disdainfully, "Didn't you say that our eldest lady came from the mountains? The environment in the mountains is harsh, and the eldest lady should be very adaptable to doing housework in this weather. Why do some clothes have to be washed by others? Or are you squeamish when you come home and want to take Joe? Madam, this is not a good habit, you can't encourage it."
The corners of Lin Xuehan's mouth were upturned, and when she smiled, she looked mean. She looked down at Shang Zhen, who was holding dirty clothes, and smiled maliciously, "Mother Xu, you are also saying that you are an old man in our family, so I can't let you be burdened. Besides, 12-year-old children should be self-reliant. Our family doesn't like to spoil children, so Mommy Xu, you should supervise the eldest lady's laundry, so as not to let her get used to the habit of indulging in leisure at a young age. Remember, the heating in the bathroom is broken, there is no hot water, and there is probably a power outage, and the washing machine can't be used now."
"Hey, I know." Xu Ma's chubby face smiled so much that she could not see her eyes, but when she faced Shang Zhen, her little eyes flashed fiercely!
"Miss, please, you must know that Mr. doesn't come home often. As the eldest daughter in the family, you'd better be obedient and self-reliant!"
At that time, grandma had just died, where did Shang Zhen see Lin Xuehan's face like this? Her malice was so obvious that Shang Zhen shivered a little while hugging his clothes tightly.
She was dragged to the bathroom in a confused manner. Facing a basin of cold water, she shrank and refused to move, because her hand had already suffered from frostbite and was very swollen, so she took the medicine, and then dipped it in the cold water, and her fingers still lingered. Do you want it
But she was finally pushed into the water by the servant!
"Wash! If you don't wash your dirty clothes, stay here today and don't come out!"
After she finished speaking fiercely, she turned off the heating, the window was wide open, and the temperature in the room soared to minus five degrees, while she stood behind the door and supervised her through the window. One is the bitter cold winter.
"I really think I'm here to enjoy myself, and I don't even think about what I am, and I want my old lady to help you do the laundry, bah!"
Xu Ma's dissatisfied voice could be heard vaguely behind the door, "It's just a bastard that no one wants, and it's a big miss? Here, if you want to live, you can live, if you want to die, you'd better die! You better be honest!"
Shang Zhen squatted in front of the huge water basin, her hand had already retracted, but it was still red from the cold, she felt scared, frightened, and unwilling to be angry!
His hands were trembling all the time, as if pressing into the water, it was like giving in to fate...
During the stalemate, her tears fell one by one into the water full of foam. She finally understood where she was in this family. There were no two kind old people here, so she could only rely on herself.
Thinking like this, Shang Zhen took a deep breath, dipped his hands into the water suddenly, and started washing clothes.
After she figured it out, she also knew very well in her heart that if she didn't obey, the most direct consequence would be that she would catch a cold and starve. If her father didn't come home tonight, she might be killed and there would be no redress, so she had to wait. Dad comes back, be sure to report!
So full of humiliation, she scrubbed and washed the clothes fiercely. The servants saw her behind her and washed them without resisting.
So she washed her teeth hard and held back from crying. As a result, she accidentally cut the frostbite on her left thumb with her right fingernail, and the viscous blood flowed out. It was soaked in the water of washing powder, which should obviously be very painful. , but she didn't feel at all, her fingers were numb from freezing...
She finally couldn't help it and cried loudly, but even so, she still had to do the laundry, she wanted to finish it quickly and go back quickly, she never knew that doing laundry was such a hateful thing!
Finally, her clothes were washed casually, and her fingers were about to crumble.
She went back to the room without saying a word to give herself medicine, shivering with gloves on, and then she was cold all over, hugging the quilt and crying, and gradually fell asleep.
In the evening, Dad came back, looking at his scarred hand, Shang Zhen got up, she was going to complain, she wanted Dad to see what happened to her hand by her stepmother! But when she was still on the stairs, she heard her stepmother say.
"What to do with Baiqi... I think Zhenzhen hates me and rejects this family. She doesn't even want the servants to touch her clothes, so she insists on washing her own clothes. Now that her hand is hurt, I give her medicine and she throws it all away. She came out, her hand must be terribly hurt now, and she doesn't know what she wants to do..."
Shang Baiqi was startled, "What? Her hand is injured? ... You don't feel guilty either, parents are dead, Zhenzhen's character is a lot quieter, you take care of her more, she will know your painstaking efforts after a long time. "
Shang Zhen was on the stairs, looking at his fingers that were bleeding through the gloves, and suddenly realized that even if she went down to complain, her stepmother could say that she did not like her and deliberately made her fingers like this to frame her.
She has been with her father for more than ten years day and night, and she has only been here for a few days. It is obvious at a glance who her father will believe.
But she did not resent Shang Baiqi because of her grandmother's education, Shang Baiqi was a man with limited talent but worked hard for the family. She could only endure it silently, because the result of speaking out was only to let her father Disappointed because she lied.
Later, when I went back to the room and tore off the gloves, a piece of skin was torn off. Does it hurt? It really didn't hurt, the fingers seemed to be unconscious, just bloody and scary looking.
So later, when she saw that her right hand also began to fester, and the knuckles of her thumb and index finger were even deep enough to see the bones, she started crying again. Her medical skills are very important, and her hands must not be abandoned.