Cub Nursery

"Some things are beyond our control. Just bear with it, and it will pass." The mother-in-law said.

The little cub kept it firmly in his heart.

There are a lot of people coming and going in the big kitchen every day, but few people care about this sudden extra child with ugly scars on his face. Don't ask any more.

In fact, there are many people in the house, and the place is also big. Almost every day, new faces appear and some old faces disappear.

The new ones don't care about an ugly kid who lives with his mother-in-law in the big kitchen. There are all kinds of people who have disappeared, and the little cub doesn't know all of them. He only knows some of them with the big kitchen. It was related, or it was said in the mouth of the servants.

"The aunt who was brought in earlier was pregnant. It was a great joy. But she had a miscarriage for some reason, and the root cause of the disease fell. She passed away in a few days."

"It's really pathetic."

"It's a pity, it's a pity."

Several daughters-in-law, young and old, gathered together to gossip. Anyway, in a place like a big kitchen, there are usually no masters, but servants.

And the servants in this house have circles.

Different small circles are formed between servants and servants, and all servants form a big circle.

There are some things they said between them, each of them knows it well, and they will not let the master know easily.

But in fact, the little cub on the side of the big kitchen is not considered a servant. He has not signed a contract of sale, and he has no errands here. Just take a look at it, that's all.

The little cub sat next to her mother-in-law, listening to them with pricked ears.

In fact, he knew why the aunt disappeared.

The few people talking over there also knew it well, because they were the ones who came to the big kitchen and put other things in the medicine, one after another, and then the aunt disappeared.

The person who made the attack is now saying regrettable words, with regret on his face.

The little cub didn't understand, but that didn't stop him from remembering it in his heart.

He never spoke, and even his mother-in-law thought he could not speak and was a mute.

"It's good to be dumb, it's good to be dumb, life is cheap, so it's easy to support." The mother-in-law often said this.

Over time, the little cub sometimes felt that he was really dumb.

The disappearance of the aunt actually did not cause any splashes in the mansion, it was just that some servants occasionally said something, in the eyes of the masters of the mansion, this is just a dispensable servant.Maybe the master who brought her in would think of it occasionally, but what he thought of was when my aunt was the most beautiful, not when she had a miscarriage, shed a lot of blood, lay motionless on the bed, and even had an unpleasant smell on her body. The ugly look of the taste.

Sometimes the master thinks of his aunt's ugly appearance, and feels disgust from the bottom of his heart.

It's like a beautiful vase, it's okay to buy it well and spend a little more money, but when the vase is broken, who wants to face the fragments all over the place every day?

After a few days, the subject of the servants changed again, saying that when the old man went out to parade, he met a good-looking brother, and at that time he decided to give the silver and carried it into the mansion.

Listening to what the servants said, the little cub couldn't help looking at the medicine jars in the cabinet, feeling that those medicine jars might be used again.

Sure enough, within a few days, news spread that my brother was pregnant, and the medicine jars in the big kitchen were also used, and the bitter smell of medicine wafted all day long.

Every time the medicine was brewed, a special servant would come over. At this time, the mother-in-law would take the cub to hide away.

But this does not prevent the cub from listening to them. He has very good ears and can hear small sounds farther and farther than ordinary people.

It's just that the voice they heard this time was a bit dull, because what they had to do was actually similar to last time, and the process was the same.

That brother had a miscarriage and fell ill.

Just when the little cub thought that this brother's ending would be the same as the last one, something happened suddenly in the house.

That brother died with the master.

The little cub heard his brother's hysterical cry, and he said: "My sister is just like that, and you are still trying to harm me! I pretended to be pregnant, but my sister is real. She has nothing wrong with her. No, it's..."

He couldn't go on.

But the little cub knew that it was the doctor who was invited by the master's wife to check the pulse, and the doctor also prescribed the medicine. The medicine was boiled from the big kitchen, and it was different from the original prescription. Several servants came to add more. After planting the medicine, he finally took it, pinched her mouth, and poured it down for her.

Then there was a miscarriage, and then the root cause of the disease fell.

"Man-eating, this mansion is a man-eating monster!"

"I curse you all to die."

"You all have to die!"

"Why didn't the monster come and kill you!"

"This is the capital, the safest place in the whole of Daqin. The monsters in the monster country can't even break through the border towns, so how could they come to the capital!"

The last sentence was the master's rebuttal. He was very confident in this, but he obviously underestimated the seriously ill brother, so he let the little brother drag him and die together.

The little cub knew all these things. Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, he had good ears and he heard it all.

But my mother-in-law said that it's best not to know about this kind of thing, and it can't be said.

A master died in the mansion, this is the master, regardless of his own status in the mansion, he is still the master after all, it is a great shock to the servants in the mansion.

In fact, the cause of death is easy to investigate, but the masters of the house still come to the big kitchen one after another, calling everyone, and sending the capable servants around them to question over and over again, without saying what they want to investigate, anyway. check.

The mother-in-law always pulls the cub to stand in the corner, lowering her head. She says she doesn't know why those capable servants around the master are, and she really doesn't know.

The little cub also saw the servants who had administered the medicine come over to ask questions, all of them with their hips on their hips, their nostrils upturned and their chins raised, speaking proudly and viciously.

On this day, the master came to investigate again. After the master left with the people, the big kitchen started to get busy again.

There are many people in the house and the place is big. It is impossible for the big kitchen to stop working. It has to make enough food. Otherwise, everyone will be hungry, so no one wants to.

After the food was ready, everyone ate and packed up the big kitchen and left, the mother-in-law took the cub to a corner to eat corn bread.

After dinner, the mother-in-law went to clean up the dishes, and the little cub went to help.

It's just that the mother-in-law didn't sleep after finishing her work. She took the cub's paw and walked along the most remote road where no one could meet. She walked forward slowly and firmly with her back bent.

After walking for a long time, the mother-in-law finally stopped, pointed to a hole in the wall in front of her and said, "Xiao Hua, you can go outside from here. I am afraid that mother-in-law will not be able to take care of you anymore..."

The little cub stood still.

"This is the silver money my mother-in-law has saved over the years." The mother-in-law took out a cloth bag and handed it to the little cub, which contained a little silver and some big money, and a very small silver coin inlaid on the wood that was only the size of a fingernail. Hairpin, this is my mother-in-law's jewelry.

She gave all her savings to the little cub.

"Go ahead," she said.

The little cub grabbed something and looked up at its mother-in-law.

The moonlight shone down, illuminating the little cub's eyes, as clear as a calm lake, he opened his mouth, wanting to speak.

But the mother-in-law immediately covered the cub's mouth with her rough hand, "Don't talk. The mother-in-law knows it all. The mother-in-law is getting old and can't live for a few years. It is the best thing to raise a grandson like you. You have also seen what happened in the past few days, the masters must give an explanation, those servants are all capable, the masters can use them, and they are not willing to throw them away, after much deliberation, I am afraid that only the mother-in-law will be left."

The little cubs stretched out their paws to grab their mother-in-law's clothes.

He wanted his mother-in-law to leave here together.

"No." The mother-in-law shook her head lightly, "The mother-in-law's deed of prostitution is still in the house, she is not free, and she can't live a decent life even if she goes out. You are different. You have a lot of opportunities when you go out, and you can do whatever you want. Well, just don't enter the mansion to be a servant, it's... a place to eat people."

The little cub looked at her mother-in-law suspiciously.

There are rumors outside that monsters are the ones who eat people.

"Go." The mother-in-law broke off the cub's paws and pushed him towards the hole at the base of the wall.

The strength of the mother-in-law was not strong, but she was very firm. The little cub didn't resist because he knew that if he moved, the mother-in-law might fall, and the fall would be very painful. He didn't want to let the mother-in-law hurt.

Her mother-in-law is very good to him, and he doesn't want to refute anything about her mother-in-law.

He was pushed out of the hole, and the hole behind it was quickly filled.

The outside looked very strange, but he knew where it was outside, what this place was, and even who was around here, all this was heard from the servants chatting in the big kitchen.

The little cub didn't leave immediately. He squatted down with his back against the wall, wanting to hear the sound from the other side of the wall, and whether his mother-in-law had left.

"Well, you old woman, our master saw you as pitiful, so he called you to come to the mansion and gave you a bite to eat, but you turned out to be so bold that you even killed several people! Arresting you to the government will not relieve your hatred, you must be hacked into pieces." !"

Suddenly there was a high and low voice, like singing an opera.

The little cub bounced up violently, desperately pawing at the soil that filled the hole.

He thought, now that there is no place for her mother-in-law in the house, they can leave together.

It's just that there was too much soil to fill the hole, and the little cub pawed for a long time, but just when he thought he would be able to get out soon, he found that there was still a stone blocking the hole.

It was when he was eating with his mother-in-law. The stone used to place the bowls and chopsticks was very large, with a smooth surface, and an inexplicable smell that made the cub feel very comfortable.

He didn't notice that this stone was nearby before, and he didn't know how his mother-in-law moved it here. She was so old and how could she have so much strength.

The little cub was stunned, he didn't notice this at all, and he was reluctant to destroy this rock he liked very much, so he dug to the side, digging a gap, just in time to see the outside.

What came into view was a hand with a very familiar posture. The little cub knew that this was a gesture to let him leave, and the mother-in-law who made the gesture was silent.

"He committed suicide in fear of crime, hmph!"

"Search for me, there must be evidence."

"Find out the evidence, keep the body first, and feed it to the dogs later."