Li Han’s Little Farmer’s Wife from the Mountains

Chapter 17 Hu Meijiao

After breakfast, Shen Ruolan inserted the door, closed the window, and started washing the pot, adding water, lighting, and brushing the bathtub, preparing to take a shower.

This small body has not been washed for several months. It has become scum. The black scum sticks to the body like armor. Bara is disgusting and scratching, and her hair is not washed for too long or not. The hair quality was not good, and it was actually tangled together and tied into a knot, and it was like a bird’s nest on the head. It seems that this is bound to be “washed”.

The fire in the stove ignited, and after a crackling sound, the light came on, and Shen Ruolan added a few more firewood to it. The fire became more and more prosperous. After a while, curls of white water appeared around the cauldron. fog.

After the water boiled, she lifted the lid, scooped the boiling water in the pot into the basin, and then poured the water in the basin into the tub, pouring it from basin to basin. It was almost the same. He added some cold water, adjusted the temperature, took off the ragged jacket with cotton wool on his body, and couldn’t wait to sit in the tub.

“Oh–”

As soon as she sat in, she took a deep breath and let out a long sigh.

It’s warm and soft, it feels so good, it feels like it’s floating out of thin air, and it’s so comfortable that it makes people forget about it.

After floating for a while, she straightened up and began to take a shower.

In this era, there is no bath towel commonly used in modern bathing. When bathing is made of loofah, the dry stuff is scratched on the body, piercing and piercing, making people can’t help but think of killing pigs and scraping pork in the countryside during the Chinese New Year. Pi’s voice.

Rubbing left, right, top, and bottom. After a violent wash, the skin on her body became red, and she almost rubbed off a layer of skin, but she still felt that the washing was not full of pleasure.

However, she can’t wash it anymore, because there is a thick pile of mud in the water in the bucket, and it can be buried in two acres of land. The water has become like this, and naturally she can’t wash it again. She still has no idea. He crawled out to dry his body and put on his clothes one by one.

As soon as this place was cleaned up, a shrill cry suddenly sounded outside: “Lanya, Lanya, I’m here.”

The voice was familiar, but she had forgotten who it was.

I put away the tub and opened the door, and I saw a beautiful girl standing at the door. She was eleven or twelve years old, with thin eyebrows and thin eyes, and her face was white and tender, unlike a girl in the village with blood on her face and combed on her head. Wearing a pair of small maid buns, wearing a red-bottomed orchid cotton floral jacket, underneath is a pair of pink cotton trousers with a small patch, this outfit is enough for the patchwork in the village. The girls stand out from the crowd.

Shen Ruolan thought about that nice smiling face for a moment.

Oh, come to think of it, this girl is called Hu Meijiao, she seems to be her own best friend.

“Mei Jiao, you are here!” She said in a calm manner.

Hu Meijiao didn’t see her alienation, she was very happy to see her: “Lanya, I know you are cured when I see the smoke from your chimney, thank goodness, you are finally well, no matter how bad you are, the pile of my house saved My mother has to tell me to wash the clothes.”

Shen Ruolan raised her eyebrows, what does this mean? She still has to wash the clothes for this Hu Meijiao’s family?

Why?

She lowered her eyes and searched through her memories with Hu Meijiao’s various pasts. When she raised her eyes, there was a flash of sarcasm in her eyes.

What kind of physique is this Shen Ruolan who passed through? Don’t let my father hurt his mother, even if he makes friends, he uses her to despise her femme fatale.

In memory, this Hu Meijiao and her mother moved to Kaoshantun from the town five years ago. It is said that her mother You family used to be a small family in a big family in the town. Later, the big family died and the wife did not tolerate them, so she married her mother. She drove out.

The two of them didn’t settle down, they moved to Kaoshantun, and finally took root in Kaoshantun. Her mother, You’s, is a lazy and delicious cook. She relies on her good looks and is used to coaxing men, so she never goes to work. Live by sleeping with men.

The daughters of such abusive people are naturally not much better. The people in Tunli will not allow their children to play with the little vixen. Hu Meijiao has no choice but to find Shen Ruolan, who has no father or mother and no one to take care of. On the surface, it looks like she is making friends with Shen Ruolan, but in fact she has never looked down upon her.

She is good with Shen Ruolan. First, she uses Shen Ruolan, a silly girl, to work for the mother and daughter for nothing, and second, to show off her delicious and fun things in front of her, and to satisfy her with the envious eyes of the silly girl. One’s own vanity and pride.

The clothes and quilts of their wives were all washed by Shen Ruolan. The almost work in the house was also cleaned by the silly girl of Shen Ruolan. Sometimes she dragged her weak body to help their home with firewood and pigweed. She did everything that the nanny asked her to do.

The two girls are both wicked and awkward, and they are also very good at using the silly girl Shen Ruolan. They occasionally give her some small favors, such as giving her something to eat and wear. (They both don’t hesitate to give her something to eat and wear.) (Required), I would say a few thoughtful words from time to time to express my concern for her, and then moved the silly girl who is loved and loved by no one to tears and exchanges. I felt my heart and lungs. I thought I found warmth and support. Naturally, she did what she asked her to do.

Actually, it’s not to blame Shen Ruolan for being stupid. She was a person since she was a child. No one taught her what kind of person is good or bad. Because of her parents, the girls in the village are not willing to play with her, she is alone. Having lived alone for so many years, when someone suddenly talked to her and someone played with her, she was naturally flattered, grateful, and kind to others.

Therefore, even if she knew that Hu Meijiao and her daughter had a bad reputation, she always asked her to work for them, but in order to repay the pitiful warmth that others gave her, she still willingly worked for them, and dealt with it sincerely. Good damn.

Knowing all this, Shen Ruolan’s face suddenly turned bad, and her tone became more indifferent, “Washing clothes, I am just right. I am afraid that I am powerless and can’t help you temporarily.”

She wanted to tell this Hu Meijiao that she would not be able to wash the clothes for their wives in the future, but tore her face with her former best friend all of a sudden, it might arouse others’ suspicion. After all, her core was changed, even if If you change your personality, you can’t change it right away, you have to do it step by step!

Hu Meijiao didn’t expect that Shen Ruolan would reject her, because she had 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 let you do whatever you want, even if you’re exhausted, you won’t refuse it?

“Meijiao is not afraid of your jokes, because my body is not good these days, and I haven’t washed my father’s clothes. If you don’t believe me, look at them, my father’s clothes are smelly.”

Shen Ruolan made up her mind to be disgusting and disgusting Hu Meijiao, turned her back to Kang and took his father’s sweaty and foot-smelling clothes and pants and stuffed them into Hu Meijiao’s arms, “This is my father’s clothes, you say me If you let your dad go out like this for a girl, will you be laughed at by others? Or, Meijiao, you can wash it for me. Anyway, you have to wash your own clothes, so just wash my father’s clothes. Got it.”