"Hey, mom, what are you doing?"

Hai Lan came back from pouring water. When she saw her stepmother pulling at her door, she didn't care about anything else. She shouted and ran over, grabbing Zhao Yumei's hand as she asked.

"What? "Shufang is sick. Can't I, as your mother, go take a look?"

Zhao Yumei glared at her in annoyance and slapped her hand away. She could tell right after entering the door that this new daughter-in-law of hers was someone easy to hold.

Harland didn't know what to say. It was just an instinctive reaction, but her heart skipped a beat when she held Zhao Yumei back. She was at a loss of what to do.

"Mom, my father calls you."

As it happened, Liu Guodong was in the east room calling Zhao Yumei. She heard him and looked timidly at her stepgrandma. She pointed to the east room and said to her.

"Alright, I heard it. You don't need to learn."

Zhao Yumei glanced at the door of the west room, feeling a little reluctant to leave. Her intuition told her that Liu Shufang must have contracted some sort of shameful illness, or that the two siblings were hiding something from her.

He wanted to rush in and see what was in his mind, but his husband had just finished coaxing him, so he didn't want to arouse his displeasure by going over later. He glared at Harland angrily before turning back.

"Whew."

She covered her chest with her hands. She was so scared that she didn't dare to breathe.

"Is Shufang well?"

Liu Guodong also felt that something was wrong with his wife. She had already poured out a basin of water, so she should look a bit different now, right? Why should he be afraid of his stepmother?

"I'll tell you later, I'll go wash her quickly."

Hai Lan wanted to say something but hesitated. She turned her head to look at the east room, afraid that the stepmother would come back. She hurriedly scooped up a basin of water and carried it to the west room.

Liu Shufang had also heard their conversation outside the room. Just as she heard the sound, she struggled to sit up and saw that her entire body was covered with black scales.

If she went out like this, she would be beaten to death like a monster.

Seeing how nervous her sister-in-law was when she entered the room and opened the door, she felt sad. Her family was still the best. Her sister-in-law was timid. She actually dared to stop Zhao Yumei, just to protect her.

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

Liu Shufang felt as weak as a newborn, struggling to speak. Without her protection, Zhao Yumei would definitely call for the whole village to watch.

She was afraid of being burned like a monster.

"It's fine, I can wipe this off. I know how to wipe it off now."

Hai Lan was so nervous that her face turned pale. However, after hearing Shufang's words and seeing her helpless look in her eyes, her heart softened. She encouraged Shufang on the one hand and soaked a towel on the other hand to wipe it clean.

Liu Shufang furrowed her brows as she endured the pain. It was as if a fish had been scratched on its scales. It was heart-wrenching.

About ten minutes later, her upper body, including the scales on her face, had been wiped clean. At the same time, someone knocked on the door.

"Why are you trying to open the door in broad daylight? "Open the door."

Zhao Yumei's voice sounded from outside the door, accompanied by a rapid knock on the door. From the looks of it, she would not stop until the door was opened.

"What should we do?"

Harland panicked and tried to wipe half of it, but the other half wasn't clean. Didn't she already find out when she came in?

"I'm fine."

Liu Shufang felt much more relaxed now. She could move freely even where there were no scales. She put on her vest and shirt and covered her legs with the blanket, gesturing for her sister-in-law to open the door.

"Seriously, what's there to be ashamed of?"

The door opened and Zhao Yumei pushed open the door and squeezed into the room.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was amiss. Why was Harland so flustered? What was Liu Shufang doing in that room?

She wanted to go over immediately, but the old geezer kept pestering her to bring the medicine and change it. This torture lasted for more than ten minutes. After she was done, she found an excuse to run over.

The moment she entered the room, she covered her nose and mouth with her hands in disgust.

Her sharp almond-shaped eyes swept the surroundings, and when she saw Liu Shufang's cold gaze, she suddenly trembled.

"Zhao Yumei, what are you trying to do?"

Liu Shufang called her by her name without a trace of politeness, completely disregarding her position as his stepmother.

Zhao Yumei looked around the room and even the bridal room. When she looked at the new bedding on the brick bed, her heart ached. It was all her money.

Hearing Liu Shufang call her by her first name and not leaving her any face at all, her face turned red as she put on the airs of a stepmother.

"I say, Shufang, no matter how weak I am, I am still officially married to your father. Even if you don't call me mother, you can't call me by my name, right? "Too uncultured."

On the other hand, if you bite and feed your master, you won't be any better off. I'm telling you, I'm your aunt here, so when you come back, you just have to eat and drink.

Her voice was so low that only Zhao Yumei, who was standing beside her, could hear her. Her father in the east room could not even hear her, and even when she was standing at the door, Hai Lan could not hear what she was saying clearly, but she could see that she was smiling.

"Whose mistress are you? This house belongs to me. What I say counts. If you dare to step on this door in the future, I will break your legs." "Now scram."

Zhao Yumei, who had been angered, forgot to act pitiful. She pointed at the door and shouted at Liu Shufang to get lost.

"Zhao Yumei, I'm not dead yet! When is it your turn to be in charge of this family? "

Her shout disturbed Liu Guodong who was in the east room. Originally, he had been pretended to be pitiful by Zhao Yumei the night before, but now he was full of concern for her and wanted to offer her a chance.

Unexpectedly, in just one night, her face had changed. She dared to not let her daughter return to her home? The sky was turning upside down.

"You .. "You framed me?"

Zhao Yumei glared at Liu Shufang with gritted teeth. The latter smiled contemptuously at her with her bottomless black pupils. She did not answer and only pursed her lips into a smile.

This sight was even more infuriating. She felt her heart clogging up. She couldn't get out, nor could she swallow. Her heart ached.

Not only that, she saw Liu Shufang use her mouth to say to her, "You guessed right."

Zhao Yumei was stunned. Only now did she realize that Liu Shufang had used her curiosity to lure her over, then purposely angered her, causing her to say something wrong to get rid of her.

Just as she was about to expose her scheme, Liu Shufang suddenly stopped smiling, patted the brick bed mat and started crying loudly, accompanied by sad cries and complaints.

"Wuu wuu, Dad, is this family surnamed Liu or Zhao? Mother! "Why did you die so early? If you were still alive, I wouldn't have had a family member. I don't even have a family member anymore, and my family name is Zhao."