Embroidery Girl
chapter 3: the old well

Where are you from!?” snapped Fang Liang.

“K-k-kak I just toyed around for a while. Brother don't get mad first.” Xin mei was still lowered.

Fang Liang sighed. He could not bear to punish the tiny girl in front of him who was extremely fragile. But, as a host, he would never stay silent.

“as your compensation, you must be legal today. Bring water from the well there. Before sunset, you can't go home.”

“home? Brother Fang, can I stay here?”

“no.”

“then why did you say go home?”

“as punishment. After coming home you will eat first, then go look for tang li. Remember, don't run away, you won't be able to get away from it.” By pressing ‘don't blur’ fang Liang confirms to xin Mei not to do it. Xin mei knew, and nodded, but in her heart she would not return.

What I'm back for, I'm going to get my revenge. I have to kill the man and the meat has to be fed to the crocodile.

“What do you understand!”

Xin mei was surprised and replied understandingly.

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That afternoon a middle-aged lung woman pulled the well rope and poured a bucket of water into another bucket. The buckets were made of wood, and everything was as well. He sighed, then took the handle of the bucket. His hands felt heavy when he lifted the bucket.

He walked. When not far from the well, he turned to the well and said, “ibu will always take care of you.” He then turned back and walked.

The well is located under an old, very old Peach tree. The falling flowers decorated the black soil around the well. Sunlight enters from between branches, creating a beautiful atmosphere, comfortable and warm.

Not long after, xin Mei came with a bucket in her hand. When he saw the well, his face was very cheerful and full of excitement. “ini is not a loss his name.”

He ran and threw a bucket carelessly. “ i-this.” he looked back towards the clear water and decorated some peach petals there. At that time the well was still full.

The middle-aged lung woman returned and shook her head when she saw the xin mei bucket lying just like that on the ground. He picked it up and walked over to the mirrored xin mei.

“what are you doing wrong?” Asked the middle-aged pulmonary lady while handing the bucket to xin mei.

“Iya. My name is xin may, you?”

“aku tao, just call aunt tao.” The woman then lowered the bucket that wanted to fill with water. “you should not leave anything, even if it is not yours.

“m-sorry.” Looking at aunt tao's slightly angry face, xin mei had no other choice but to apologize.

Auntie Tao pulls the rope up. “Why are you dressed like that?”

“i-it... Length of the story.” Xin Mei could not reveal what she had been through all this time.

Aunt tao nodded. The tracing gaze was still directed towards xin mei's body. It was possible that he felt strange with the xin mei clothes wrapped in soft white cloth and tied up with nothing else.

Auntie Tao poured water into another bucket. A slightly disturbing voice sounded while pouring it.

“you are like my son,” Say aunt tao. “ she is naughty. He was also a coward, exactly the same as your current face. It's just that her beauty is losing to you. You are beautiful and my son is mediocre. It is bad to steal the fruit of the neighbors. Fruit assortment, to countless.”

Xin Mei said nothing. He doesn't know what to say for now.

“You're beautiful. Sorry sassy, I've seen your body in the lotus lake near the store. I wanted to get to you right away, but seeing that you were so happy, I didn't do it and stopped going. Then back to doing the work. And in the morning like that there are no customers. The ones who stayed were also quiet.” Said aunt tao who had filled the water for the half of xin mei.

Xin mei took it, and aunt tao too.

“If you are exhausted, you can rest here, let me just do it. Anyway I am already a senior, so a trivial worker like this is nothing to me.”

“it's okay aunt. Think of it as a sport for my body. I want to practice martial arts to guard myself,” replied xin mei and in her heart she also added to kill the person who had killed her family.

“If so, I become more relieved to hear it.”

Auntie Tao then walked and followed xin mei.

When xin mei turned her head, looking at what was on the side of the road, aunt tao suddenly said, “you are so beautiful. Ah, this is the second time I've said that, but your lady is very pretty. If compared to the host with jewelry and makeup on her face, you are more beautiful, even without jewelry or anything like that.”

Xin Mei could only smile a little. He doesn't know what he's got to say. However, his heart could not lie, he was happy not to play. Aunt tao's praises made her more eager and passionate to complete the law she had been given. But after a while he remembered his mother.

It was snow season. The snow grains were like falling rain, very heavy and thick. The roar of the wind was also not outnumbered and the storm. In a wooden house with a thatched roof that has been filled with snow that accumulates. In a window, it opens up like someone is excited to open it.

A pair of glittering eyes looked at the snowflakes, his heart moved to laugh. Not long after, the wind started to go inside.

“don't mei’er outside the storm is still thick and hard.” A middle-aged lung woman closed the window quickly. When he began to pull both sides of the window, he briefly saw the expanse of the night filled with snow that was not in number. This snowstorm, I don't know when it's gonna be over. Then he closed the window.

“mother, mother, Why did mom close it? mei’ er just opened it. Look at the snow, they're decorating tonight! They are like the stars in the summer or in the spring. Oh, how wonderful they would be if the wind didn't blow them.”

A girl doesn't like it. He stood beside the window. She's a pretty girl. His two large eyes slightly looked up, imagining the snow not being pushed aside by the wind. She wore a beautiful white Fu han with a thick warm dress made of silk.

Her hair was jet black. In her ears was a beautiful pair of pendants.

“you can see it tomorrow. You're certainly not going anywhere tomorrow, are you?” The middle-aged lung woman beside him replied and pulled the girl's body into his arms. Rubbed the girl's hair gently. She was wearing a beautiful red dress. His gaze was very gentle, anyone would be comfortable being by his side.

The mother grabbed a comb on the bedside table. Then comb Xin mei's hair gently.

“ibu...”

“iya.”

“Mother... Am I pretty?” xin Mei turned her head towards her smiling mother.

“Of course. Mother's daughter is very pretty. He was no match for the others in this world. With your soft skin and oval face, I'm afraid there are a lot of guys who would propose to you. Ah, if that time happens, mother can not imagine how happy mother, see the mother's daughter in beautiful ornaments and become a bride.”

“Mother! I think too far, the mother's child can not read, make up too yet, how can the mother say so?”

“You're right too.” his mother Tidied up xin May's hair. Split it in half and tie it.

“ibu.... Am I beautiful?”

“Yes, you are so beautiful.”