The old lady reported Xu Yu's pushing of Xu Xin to Boss Xu. Although Boss Xu loved his eldest daughter, he had never shown any favoritism, so he imprisoned Xu Yu in a small, dilapidated courtyard in the north.
No one had lived in the small courtyard for a long time, and a thick layer of ash fell on the cabinets. Xu Yu had only been in for half a day, and he had already inhaled the ash.
There was only one candle lit on the round table in the room. She sat on a small chair and watched a maid wiping the items in the room with a wet rag.
She followed the maid's movements with her eyes and looked around the room carefully.
The furnishings of the room are old, and only the small bed on the west side is relatively refined. It is covered with a refurbished quilt, which is enough for a few nights.
The sound of footsteps approaching from far away was heard outside the courtyard. The maid put down the rag and opened the door. The dim candlelight shone from the room, paving the gravel road in the small courtyard with a layer of golden color.
Several women walked over slowly carrying food boxes.
"Let's deliver food to the eldest girl."
This maid is quite tall, with a simple bun and a wooden hairpin with blue tassels on her head, which makes her look very elegant.
Because of her unfamiliar appearance, the mother-in-law couldn't help but look at the maid a few more times and handed her the food box in her hand.
The maid only bowed slightly to thank her, while the women stood on tiptoes and stretched their necks with curious eyes to see what the eldest daughter who lived in the dilapidated little courtyard looked like now.
But the maid only took one step forward and blocked them all from the door. Her cold eyes made people shiver down the back. The women had no choice but to give up and slowly left with their buttocks twisted.
Some women were curious about this maid and couldn't help but ask the people around them, "Which maid is this from? How come I haven't seen her before?"
The maid watched the mother-in-law leave the courtyard and closed the door with a cold face.
When Xu Yu saw her coming back with a food box, her stomach couldn't help but growl. She had been hungry all day and could finally eat a hot meal.
But the maid opened the food box unhurriedly, brought the dishes one by one to her nose and smelled them carefully.
In the end, she only put a piece of green rapeseed with only a hint of meat on the table, and put everything else back into the food box.
Xu Yu raised her eyebrows slightly, no way, no way...
She wanted to ask, but when she saw the maid's cold eyes, she swallowed everything she said.
Forget it, asking is in vain. Ever since they met, this person has only said two words, "Winter Kite."
This was her name. When she followed Li San to the female doctor's house to seek help, the female doctor said that for her safety, she would "lend" Dongyuan to her for a few days.
Dongyuan doesn't like to talk or make noise, and she always has a cold face. She will check the meals delivered every day like just now. She didn't expect that the first meal she just moved into the small yard would be out of stock.
question.
She couldn't help but sneer, and felt a chill in her heart. Her sister really couldn't hold her breath.
But she knew that now was not the time to make the matter a big deal. She followed what the female doctor said, which was to be patient, give in, and let Xu Xin keep making mistakes, so that the mistakes would continue to get bigger and bigger, until they were out of control.
The two of them had a brief meal. Xu Yu spent the night with an empty stomach. Just when the two of them were about to wash up and go to sleep, Xu Yu opened the quilt and saw a strip of black things twisting.
My body is on the bed.
But Xu Yu could no longer control her movements and directly untied the quilt, revealing a pile of black strips inside.
No matter how tough Xu Yu is, she is just a rich girl. She has never seen such a scary long snake. Her whole body is numb, her strength seems to have been drained, she can't move, and she subconsciously wants to shout out.
But the next second her mouth was tightly covered by Dong Yuan, and Xu Yu could only open her big eyes and move back and forth to express her uneasiness and panic.
Dongyuan dragged her away from the bed, and the next second a snake twisted and fell off the bed and tried to burrow under the bed.
With quick hands and eyes, Dongyuan took the chopsticks and stuck it into the snake's body, pinning it to the ground. The snake twisted painfully for a few seconds and then stopped moving. It was obviously dead.
"died?"
Xu Yu covered her mouth with both hands, looking in disbelief at how the tall and thin woman in front of her could be so courageous, not even afraid of snakes.
Dong Yuan's eyes were still cold. She glanced at Xu Yu and frowned slightly.
This rich lady is in trouble...
Although she was complaining in her heart, she did not change her expression and strode forward. Not worried about whether the snake was poisonous or not, she picked up the four corners of the sheet and wrapped it up. In Xu Yu's shocked eyes,
I pinched the dead snake with my bare hands, turned around and walked outside the house, dug a small hole and buried all the snakes.
When she came back, there was nothing wrong with her face. Instead, she was calmly washing her hands in the basin carefully.
Xu Yu was still frightened now. She looked at the messy bed, and she didn't dare to sleep on it again. What if there were still missing snakes?
But Dongyuan only glanced at her, spread the quilt again, and finally turned her eyes to Xu Yu.
That look seemed to say, I've laid everything, why don't you come and sleep?
Xu Yu was a little embarrassed, but she didn't dare to bother Dongyuan anymore. After all, she only lent her to her to protect herself, but she washed the dishes, cleaned and removed snakes for herself. After doing this job, there was really no reason to do it anymore.
Get rid of those little tempers.
Xu Yu barely closed her eyes that night, not because she was afraid of a snake in the bed, but because of the winter kite sleeping under her bed.
Dongyuan only spread a thin blanket on the ground, with a small quilt covering it, not even covering her feet.
It's just that Dong Yuan didn't take off her clothes and shoes, so she was lying in front of her window. If someone really came in, they would have to pass over Dong Yuan to hurt her, not to mention that Dong Yuan might not be able to hurt her at all.
Xu Yu had never seen such a woman before, and her little heart couldn't help but beat violently. It was already late at night, but she was in high spirits, and no one could get past her.
So the next day, when Xu Xin came to see her joke on the pretext of visiting her, she saw Xu Yu with two panda eyes and secretly laughed in her heart, thinking it was yesterday's meal and the "gift"
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Tomorrow is the spring banquet prepared by Li San. Xu Xin is still thinking about causing some small problems for Xu Yu in the past two days. Anyway, who knows what happened to her in this dilapidated little courtyard? Who would suspect it?
What about her, a concubine who works cautiously?
But she took a look at Xu Yu's fair face and saw that there was no problem. Did she not eat yesterday's meal?
Xu Xin was confused in her heart, but she didn't show anything wrong on her face, and she still looked at people with a smile.