After being picked up by the prince, Xiaojiaohua is wild and sassy

Chapter 6
Ruhuahua returned to that dark and desolate room again, she turned around, and closed the wooden door carefully.

The old wooden door belonged to the kind that creaked when pushed. She handled it lightly and very carefully, but the wooden door still made a slight creaking sound, and her heart tightened suddenly.

She held her breath for a moment, and when she didn't hear any movement, she secretly exhaled.

After the wooden door was closed, the inside of the hut suddenly became dark.

The small room was not very transparent, it was dark and cold, and the air was a bit stuffy. Ruhuahua was afraid of the cold, shivering and squatting down on the spot, hugging herself with her arms, almost shrinking into a ball, but Still feel very cold.

She stared blankly at the paper window, it was too dark in the hut, only there was some light shining through there, although it was neither bright enough nor warm, but it was enough to support her, so that she would not be so afraid .

But it was too cold, the more time passed, the colder it became, and that kind of coldness pierced through his bones with despair.

Ruhuahua breathed into the palm of her hand tremblingly, the heat generated by her breath gave her a little comfort, she took out the bag of sugar that Zhong Liting gave her from her arms with a little clumsy fingers, and carefully took out a pine nut candy from it In her mouth, the sweet and greasy taste of sugar permeated her mouth, and she felt that the uneasiness in her heart had dissipated a little.

……

I don't know how long it has passed, it seems that at sunset, the wooden door of the hut was pushed open from the outside, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone into the dark hut without a trace of warmth.

someone is coming.

Ru Huahua stood up in a panic.

The woman took a bowl of cooked bran and put it on the only old wooden table with sloping legs in the room, "Hurry up and eat, come out and clean the dishes after eating!"

Ruhuahua thanked in a low voice, and moved over carefully, her hand holding the bowl was shivering with cold, and she couldn't even hold the chopsticks firmly a few times.

"Why can't you even serve a bowl? Don't drop my bowl again, clumsy!"

Ru Huahua put her hands on the small table to support herself, she said in a low voice, "...I'm sorry..."

"Hey, let me tell you, don't you have some illness, girl?" The woman took a big step back when she saw how trembling she was, and looked at her suspiciously from a little distance away.

Ruhuahua's teeth were fighting a bit, she took a deep breath, her voice was already thin, but it was even more fragmented by the trembling teeth, "Aunt...Auntie, I, I am cold."

"It's fine if you're not sick." The woman was relieved after hearing the words, and urged impatiently, "Eat quickly, you won't be cold after eating."

Ruhuahua obediently responded, and buried her head in a bite. The thing was already cold, and she couldn't tell what it tasted like. It irritated her throat. She held it in her mouth, staring at the porcelain bowl with a small opening in front of her, with a slight expression on her face. pain.

It seems that I have never eaten such unpalatable food in my memory.

I can't help but want to vomit.

She rolled her eyeballs, very strangely, her brother's words that day suddenly echoed in her mind.

——Swallow it, it's shameful to waste it, food is the blood and sweat of the people.

Food cannot be wasted.

Ruhuahua closed her eyes, swallowed with difficulty, and worked harder to finish the bowl.

Although it is not delicious, it is good enough to fill the belly.

As soon as she finished eating, the woman standing by the door urged her to go out to wash the dishes.

"Come with me to the stove. Don't wait for the clothes to reach out and the food to open your mouth. No one wants girls these days. It's not easy for us to raise you. Clean up the dishes first."

no one wants to...

Ru Huahua slowly lowered her head, holding a chipped porcelain bowl to the stove, in a small room, one side was full of dry firewood, and the other side was a pot stove, and there was a pot on the inside of the main entrance of the house. There was a wooden basin with some mildew spots, and there were three or four bowls and plates stacked in the wooden basin, and there was a small half basin of turbid water in it.

The woman pointed to the coarse cloth on the side of the tub, "No, where is the rag, and the pot on the stove, scrub them clean before going back to sleep!"

"it is good."

Ru Hua carefully wrote down these words, picked up her skirt and shirt, and then squatted down to reach for a rag.

She didn't look carefully, and after picking it up, she noticed a huge black spider lying on the rag at some point. The touch of her fingertips startled her, and she screamed uncontrollably. The rag and the porcelain bowl in the other hand were thrown out in an instant.

The crisp sound of the porcelain bowl falling to the ground instantly attracted the woman to turn her head. When she saw the fragments on the ground, she immediately lowered her face and asked loudly, "What are you doing?"

Ruhuahua was about to cry, she took a step back and carefully apologized, "Yes, I'm sorry, Auntie, I didn't mean it."

"It's so big that you can't even hold a bowl. I think you didn't want to do it on purpose!" The woman looked at the broken bowl and became anxious. She raised her hand and wanted to hit someone, so she met the pair of hands full of water. With big scared eyes, "Auntie, there are spiders..."

The woman suddenly felt a little bit hesitant to let go, she withdrew her hand, and impatiently kicked the wooden basin, "Isn't it a spider? What's so scary? It's really hypocritical, it's okay, it's okay, wash it all up, and it will last a while." Clean up the broken things on the ground, break another bowl, and you won't have to eat tomorrow!"

Ru Huahua was squatting in front of the wooden basin, the water in the basin was slightly rippling, and it splashed all over her body.

The coolness of the water dripped down the skirt of the skirt and seeped into her body, Ru Huahua pulled the skirt of the skirt anxiously, and looked at the woman in bewilderment.

The clothes were a little wet, sticking to the body, wet and cool, making people very uncomfortable.

The cloth shoes on the woman's feet were also splashed with a little water. She patted the upper of the shoes, walked a little farther, and said impatiently: "When it is wet, it will be wet, and it will dry after a while when it is warm. It's getting dark, so why don't you hurry up and wash it, it's just these broken bowls, and I want to give you another wax to wash it at night?!"

Ruhuahua shook her head, picked up a rag and pressed it into the wooden basin, her fingers were instantly chilled by the bone-piercing ice water, she froze for a moment, subconsciously retracted her hands, rubbed them carefully, and finally Gritting his teeth again, he stretched his hand in.

"No wonder no one wants it, I can't do a little thing well..." The woman didn't look much, she muttered, turned around and walked out muttering.

It's really the body of a young lady, the life of a maidservant.

……

Three months passed in a flash.

The cold winter has passed, and the weather in February is still terribly cold.

It was so cold that she began to hate winter.

Ruhuahua stomped her little feet that were about to freeze due to sitting for a long time, then lowered her head and let out a breath into her red and stiff palms, then turned her head laboriously to fetch water from the well.

The full bucket of water is very heavy, even adults can struggle to fetch it.

"Ruhuahua!" A voice came to my ears from afar, somehow familiar, Ruhuahua was slightly taken aback, loosened the strength in her hand, and the wheel that had turned halfway with great difficulty lost its grip, and immediately turned back with a clatter , the bucket splashed back to the surface of the water.

Ruhuahua looked at the rippling surface of the well with some disappointment.

The bucket fell, and she had to fetch water again.

But my hand really hurts...

It would have been nice if I had just held on tighter.

Ru Hua rubbed her chilblained fingers angrily, the water stains on her hands seeped into her flesh along the slightly cracked wounds, it was a prickly pain, and she didn't know until she recovered from the pain Later, she remembered that someone had called her just now, but when she looked up, she saw a familiar person standing in front of the small courtyard.

Ruhuahua couldn't help but froze in place.

(End of this chapter)