Mercury rested all night and finally felt much better, but she was a little dizzy. She got up and went out of the room and found that the genius was lit and He Xiaoyan had already burned fire in the kitchen to make porridge.

Originally, Mu Xiang was not bad to this child, but compared to He Chengzu and He Xiaolian's big temper and their unmoving and demonic temperament, the youngest He Xiaoyan is particularly obedient and sensible. The more obedient and sensible the child is, the more suffering he suffers in the family.

Muxiang was very difficult to support this family by herself. She opened a small shop in this small place, selling snacks and daily necessities. Her income was not very good. Occasionally, some second-rate people came to cause trouble. Their two children went to school at home, and they spent a lot of money. The woman who lost her second husband a year ago had to do her best to work hard for her livelihood, and she was inevitably neglected many things.

This young daughter, who was picked up for a while, reminded Mu Xiang of her childhood. She lost her family at the age of six and went to her uncle and aunt's house to live. She had to get up to work before dawn every day, eat the least and make the most. Others say that she is a star of the Sangmen and specializes in resolute relatives. She believes that she has said too much.

Not long after He Xiaoyan came to this house, He Dongpeng disappeared and died unexpectedly. Mu Xiang could not say that she had no knot in her heart. She vaguely felt that He Xiaoyan was also a person like her, which would bring disaster to this family.

She even regretted that it would be great if she hadn't picked up the person with He Dongpeng. But after all, she still had a conscience and didn't want to take her anger on such a little girl, so her attitude towards He Xiaoyan was particularly complicated.

After tidying up all night, Mercury was very clear about Muxiang's mentality, but she was indifferent to this person. Is this woman so good to her stepson and stepdaughter really because she has any maternal love for them? It is not necessarily that she can have maternal love for two little beasts unless the Virgin Mary reborn.

After all, Muxiang wants affirmation from others. In her miserable childhood, she heard the most denied and scolded, so she was depressed and panicked, even when she was thirty years old. For this reason, she has been working hard to get the recognition and praise of the voices around her, and wants to please everyone who can hurt her.

Like Shen Qiuwan, she was broken by the surrounding environment and people. After all, iron-forcing never requires women, they just need to be gentle.

"Mom, are you getting better?" He Xiaoyan walked out of the kitchen with a rag wrapped in a porridge bowl.

Mercury walked forward, took the porridge from her hand, and brought it back to the kitchen. The house was old and broken, with only a small shop selling things in front that was well decorated. The kitchen was even more dirty than the bedroom. He Xiaoyan didn't turn on the lights, and the kitchen was dark and dark. I don't know how she cooked the meal.

Turn on the light, put the porridge on the table, take out the pickles from the jar in the corner, and cut them, and put them on the table together.

"Eat it, go back to sleep after you're full."

He Xiaoyan looked at this mother with a cold expression in a daze, and couldn't understand what she was saying, but Mercury didn't mean to say the second time. She went to fetch water and brush her teeth and wash her face. She soon came back and sat at the table to drink porridge. He Xiaoyan didn't dare to talk to her anymore. She drank a small bowl of porridge and said she was full and wanted to pick up the bowl to wash.

Mercury directly scooped her another bowl of porridge. He Xiaoyan twisted her fingers and finished drinking the bowl of porridge.

Mercury had no discomfort with such a messy house. Except for the fact that she had a little awkward movement at the beginning, she quickly got up naturally. She put away the bowl, burned the fire in the stove, and started to heat water in two pots.

He Xiaoyan stood by the stove and looked at her, not daring to go back to sleep like she said before.

Mercury didn't care about her, put two bowls into the basin, scooped the water from the pot, "I didn't want to go back to sleep, so I washed the bowl."

He Xiaoyan then breathed a sigh of relief and squatted down to wash the dishes.

Mercury boiled water and took a shower. Muxiang was a thirty-year-old woman, but she looked in the mirror and looked in forties. Her eyebrows were full of vicissitudes and roughness. Her hair was dry, her eyebrows were sparse, her hands were calloused, her skin was yellow and loose, and she had heavy pipes and dark circles.

Mercury soaked herself in hot water and washed away the depression of the disease. Although the woman in the mirror still looked haggard and tired, her eyes were calm and bright, and had a special attraction, as if she was rejuvenating.

He changed into the best clothes, tied his hair, cut off the black nails between his fingers, and when Mercury walked out again, He Xiaoyan looked at her blankly, but for a long time he didn't come back to her senses. Under her eyes, she rubbed her nose with her sleeves.

Seeing the black stains on her sleeves and the snot condensed together, Mercury was silent for a moment. This is the case with the child who no one cares about, because no one loves her and will not take care of her so carefully. What makes Mercury different from them is that she knew how to treat herself since she was a child.

"There is water, you go and take a shower." Mercury found that he could only speak in an orderly tone, otherwise she would stand in place like a little duck who couldn't understand human words, stupid.

He Xiaoyan has become accustomed to her appearance and doesn't know why her mother wants to take a shower by herself, but she also wants to make herself cleaner when she looks at her clean mother.

Children from poor families do not take baths frequently in this era, and no one cares so much.

Seeing He Xiaoyan taking clean clothes to take a shower, Mercury's eyebrows frowned slightly. He Xiaoyan's clothes were torn, but Mu Xiang's own clothes were the same. She turned around for a long time before she turned out a neat out of the box.

But looking at the clothes He Xiaolian was wearing yesterday, they looked fashionable and the materials were also good.

Mercury found the room belonging to He Xiaolian and pushed the door open. She found that the door was locked and could not be pushed open. She took two steps back and kicked it hard, kicking the wooden door open directly, and the lock fell to the side.

The door bounced back when it hit the wall. Mercury reached out and walked in and found that He Xiaolian's room was well-decorated. The wall was covered with paper, which looked flat and beautiful. The bedding on the bed was soft and fluffy, and the sheets were small flowers, which were completely different from Muxiang's old red flower quilt.

There are goose yellow curtains hanging in front of the window, there is a small vase with flowers on the table, and there is even a radio on the table. The radio is not cheap at this time.

Mercury glanced a few times, opened the wardrobe, found a few best sets of clothes, and then she went out with these sets of clothes and knocked on the door of her neighbor's house. The eldest sister of the neighbor's house would help people cut clothes and sew clothes. Mercury took these clothes and asked her to cut them into children's clothes. After hearing her words, the eldest sister was so surprised that she couldn't even close her mouth.

"Isn't this your Xiaolian's clothes? Are you going to change it to Xiaoyan's clothes?"

"Yes, this is what Xiaolian doesn't want. She wants to buy new clothes." Mercury showed a tired and helpless smile.

The eldest sister immediately looked at her with pitiful eyes, "Okay, I'll make a quick hand, I'll make a correction for you soon."

He Xiaoyan quickly put on new clothes. She felt like she was dreaming. She had seen her sister wearing those beautiful clothes, but she never thought she could wear them.

She hesitated and said to Mercury: "Mom, I don't want these clothes anymore, my sister will be angry."

Mercury was sorting out the valuable things in the house, and he didn't raise his head when he heard this, "If you want to wear it, you will wear it if you don't have a sister or a brother in the future."

"If you want that pair of brothers and sisters, you won't have a mother."

Although Mercury's tone was plain, He Xiaoyan was still frightened by her and immediately changed into new clothes. As soon as she got on her new clothes, she found that she was still a cute little girl with round eyes and a little drooping corners. She looked like a puppy when she looked at her.

"Mom, I'll help you." She saw Mercury moving things and hurried over to help.

Mercury didn't care about her. She had found all the money in the house. She even searched He Xiaolian and He Chengzu's room, and then packed all the valuable things.

"I'll go out and you close the door. No one can be put in. He Xiaolian and He Chengzu are not good either. Did you hear that?"

He Xiaoyan nodded repeatedly.

Mercury pushed all the things out, found a recycling store and sold them, and got a considerable amount of money. A sewing machine was sold by someone on the way, and she got a little more money than she expected.

After she went back, she washed her face, brought her tidy things, changed into Muxiang's only pair of leather shoes, and took He Xiaoyan out.

"Mom, where are we going? Are we buying things?" He Xiaoyan asked.

Mercury led her forward and "go to the Shanghai Stock Exchange."

He Xiaoyan didn't know where the Shanghai market was. She nodded in a vague way, looked back at the yard where she had lived for more than a year. The gate was closed but not locked, as if the owner would go back at any time. She turned around and grabbed Mercury's hand.

On the way, someone saw them and asked them where they were going with a smile. Mercury all smiled bitterly and said, "Go and see Chengzu. The school teacher said that he and some people ran out of the school and didn't know where they went."

She took a ignorant little girl all the way to the city. On the way, she took a fellow villager's car, got in the city and took a bus. It was midnight before she arrived in the city. The nearest train station here was in the city.

He Xiaoyan had never been to the city. She was a little afraid of this strange place, so she could only hold Mercury's hand tightly, for fear that she would be left behind.

When she arrived here, no one knew them anymore. The polite smile on Mercury's face had long disappeared, and she seemed a little cold and indifferent. When she was buying tickets at the train station window, the system in her mind began to warn again.

[The current task is to persuade He Chengzu to go back to school and not go on a fork in the road, and the host cannot continue to deviate from the task]

[The host cannot leave the plot development place! It cannot leave the current main character's plot location!]

Mercury handed the money into the window and got the ticket.

She ignored the system's warning, just like when she was still Shen Qiuwan, she was determined to leave by boat. But she couldn't escape that time, but this time it was not necessarily the case.

The train was in the middle of the night, and there were not many people in the simple waiting room. Mercury found a seat to sit down and took out canned biscuits and milk. They were all taken in the small shop. Apart from the food she ate on the road, she didn't touch the other things in the small shop. She was too lazy to care about the mess.

He divided the canned food and biscuits for He Xiaoyan, and the mercury started to eat it himself. She didn't eat at noon, so she felt very hungry. He Xiaoyan held the can and watched her eat it for a while, and was ready to eat it. However, she couldn't open the lid of the can and didn't know how to ask someone to help, so she looked at Mercury without saying a word, as if she had done something wrong.

Mercury noticed this and took the can and opened it with a click.

He Xiaoyan took the can with shame on her face.

Mercury knew exactly what she was thinking. Children who were overly "sensible" often felt ashamed of not doing something or failing to meet their parents' requirements. This was like a conditioned reflex that was trained, often formed in childhood, accompanied by a person's life and it was difficult to break free.

He Xiaoyan and He Chengzu and He Xiaolian are like two extremes.

She didn't say anything to He Xiaoyan, but just opened another can for her, "Eat all."

He Xiaoyan looked at her and saw that she stared at the corridor next to her without looking at her, and she couldn't help but look at her relaxed expression. Eating the sweet canned food in her mouth, He Xiaoyan felt very happy. Her brothers and sisters often went to the shop to pick up whatever they wanted, but she didn't dare. Her mother herself didn't know how to eat before, and she didn't dare to eat it, and she swallowed her saliva every time.

Today she could eat two canned foods, and He Xiaoyan suddenly was not afraid of this itinerary that she didn't know the destination.

In the middle of the night, He Xiaoyan was woken up. She saw her mother next to her packing her things and "ready to get into the car."

She also hurriedly got up, helped to get a small bag for food, and followed her mother to the corridor. Some passengers were also walking in the same direction like them. He Xiaoyan suddenly felt her mother stop by her. She held the wall, trembling all over and pale in her face.

He Xiaoyan was startled by her appearance and shouted timidly: "Mom? Does it hurt somewhere?"

Mercury pressed her head, stood up straight in the curious eyes of other passengers, and took He Xiaoyan with gritted teeth and walked forward.

[Since the host is willing to take care of He Xiaoyan, why is he unwilling to take care of the other two children? As long as they are educated, they will be filial to your children. As a mother, isn’t this your responsibility? It’s too selfish to care about your own women]

[They are more suitable for social education]

[Also, don't talk to me about this anymore. No matter what nonsense you say, I will only do what I want to do. Whether you agree or not, scold or praise it, it has nothing to do with me. I hope you recognize your identity. You have no right to restrict me from punishing me. It's just a garbage sticking to the soles of my shoes and want me to fall]
Chapter completed!