"Then what did you say?"
"I just told you what you told me. Anyway, Cinderella already believed it. I told her to find a way to sneak out and join us here later. Then I came back first and got ready quickly. Cinderella will be there soon." coming soon!"
"Why are you so anxious? She is a little girl, how can she sneak out of home and get here as quickly as you? Hurry up and pack your outfit, and you will act according to my eyes."
Paine asked Old Tom to tidy up a bit. As the foreign aid of "Hazel Mother", the two of them couldn't look too down on their status.
After waiting for about 10 minutes, there were light footsteps outside the house. The man hesitated and walked around outside the house, then knocked on the door and asked.
"Excuse me, are they the reinforcements invited by the pigeons?" - This is the joint command that Paine thought of. It seems that the intensive training that was given to Old Tom in the past has made him remember those words.
"Yes, please come in, the door is unlocked." Paine said.
Cinderella pushed open the door and was surprised the moment she saw Pan.
"Ah, it's you!"
"Yes, it's me. We meet again, Miss Cinderella."
Paine said with a smile.
"Well - I want to apologize to you. I treated you very badly outside the village earlier."
Cinderella looked a little uneasy.
"It's okay, you don't need to apologize." Paine immediately said with relief, "The pigeon has told us the cause and effect. You are such a poor child. Don't worry, Old Tom and I will help you."
Old Tom also nodded repeatedly, but Cinderella still looked very uneasy.
Paine knew he couldn't go on like this. He didn't expect Cinderella's psychological problem to be so serious, so he had to use some of the psychological listening skills he learned in his previous life at Blue Star to make Cinderella believe them first.
"Sit down first, Cinderella, let's talk first. I can see that you are having a bad time."
Paine gave Cinderella a stool to sit on, preparing to have a good chat with her. Anyway, the night had just begun.
After some verbal inducement and chatting, Cinderella was finally able to express some of her feelings. She told Paine and Old Tom her story.
When Cinderella was very young, her mother, Mrs. Green, became seriously ill. Before she died, she called Cinderella to her side and said, "My good daughter, after Mom passes away, she will protect you and bless you under the Nine Springs."
After saying this she closed her eyes and died.
Mrs. Green was buried on a hillside not far from the village, and Cinderella went to her mother's grave every day to cry. Winter is coming, and heavy snow covers her mother's grave with a white blanket. The spring breeze blows, and the sun removes the silver coating from the tomb. Winter turned to spring, people moved around, and Cinderella's father, who was unwilling to be lonely, found a lover.
Maria's background was not good, so she was naturally not qualified to officially marry Mr. Green, but this did not prevent her from moving into this home that lacked a hostess. She even brought her two previous daughters with her to settle down. They are beautiful on the outside, but very ugly and evil on the inside. When they arrived, it was the beginning of Cinderella's suffering.
Maria even said in front of Mr. Green: "What's the use of such a useless rice bucket in the hall? Whoever wants to eat bread has to earn it himself. Go and work as a kitchen maid in the kitchen!" "
From then on, Cinderella had no beautiful clothes, only an old gray coat, and she was forced to do hard work. She had to get up before dawn every day to carry water, light fires, cook, and do laundry. She also had to endure the indifference and torture from Maria, her mother, and her daughter. At night, when she was so exhausted that she didn't even have a bed to sleep on, she had to sleep in the ashes next to the stove. As a result, she was covered with ashes, dirty and ugly, and for this reason they called her Cinderella.
Once, when Mr. Green was going to the capital of the kingdom, he asked Maria's two daughters what they wanted him to bring back to them.
One of the sisters, Anatasha, said: "I want beautiful clothes."
"I want pearls and diamonds," cried her sister Drusula.
At this time, Cinderella happened to be working in the yard. Mr. Green saw her and said, "My child, what do you want?"
Cinderella didn't dare to ask for anything, so she said: "Dear father, just break off to me the first branch that touches your hat on your way home."
Then when Mr. Green came back, he gave Cinderella a hazel branch. Cinderella took the branch to her mother's grave and planted it next to the grave. She would go to the graveside and cry three times every day. Every time she cried sadly, her tears would continue to drip on the branch, watering it, so that the branch soon grew into a beautiful big tree. Soon a dove came to build a nest in the tree.
