"My name is Qian Xixi."
"This is the name my mother gave me..."
"Besides Xixi, I have another name, it's called Yiyi."
"Although they are all compound names."
"But I didn't like the second one."
"Because it was given by the aunt who loved to beat me in the village..."
…
rainy season.
As the sky darkened, drizzle began to fall in the sky.
Gradually.
With the delay of time.
The raindrops are getting more and more...
In the end, it was like God dropped a pot of silver needles.
It pierced into the mud and wet the entire ground...
In front of the old mud house in the village.
A group of little girls in simple clothes were walking back and forth pretending to be bags.
Because there is not enough strength.
They usually choose several people to form a partnership.
Go and lift the bag.
But even so.
They also moved their little feet with red faces before blocking the bag at the door.
It temporarily serves as a threshold.
Blocking the water that is about to flood into the house...
Among them were two little girls with their trousers rolled up and their bare feet standing in front of the gate.
They frowned slightly, looking worried at the rainwater seeping in due to the gaps left in the cloth bags.
"Sister, it's raining too much. Why don't we go back first and wait until Auntie comes back?"
One of the little girls looked at another child who was older than her.
He couldn't help but persuaded.
"It's too big, we can't stop it at all..." The little girl called the eldest sister looked very ugly.
She looked at the rainwater that was constantly overflowing, and seemed to be hesitant in her heart. After a pause, she continued in her childish voice:
"But if we see the rain coming in when Auntie comes back, we will be beaten again."
Hear the words.
The girl next to me spoke.
He also shut his mouth obediently and didn't say anything more.
She knew what the eldest sister said was right...
Since this period is a period when rainy days occur frequently, the aunt will specifically warn them before going out every time.
If it rains.
Then move the mud bag at the door and block it.
They still vaguely remembered that after forgetting to do this last time, all the children were picked up, beaten, and punished with no food for a day.
Maybe the girl remembered the discomfort of being hungry.
She finally imitated the adults and sighed, and continued to run out in the rain to move the bags.
Legs as smooth but as thin as bamboo poles.
Splash on some mud…
"Hey, if Yiyi can also come and help, we will be much closer."
The eldest sister looked at the rain scene and shook her little head.
After thinking about it for a while.
I also ran out in the rain...
Inside the great room in the mud room.
A little girl lay quietly on the carpet, her face looking very painful.
It seems to be due to some itching on the back.
Makes her want to reach out and scratch her...
But when her hand touched her back, she retracted her hand as fast as lightning, letting out an undetectable groan of pain.
Take a closer look.
You can see shocking scars on her small back...
The scar appears to have been left only recently.
Some blood scabs have not completely solidified.
This was the result of her daring to go to the kitchen to steal the leftovers because her friends were too hungry after being punished with no food.
"Auntie is back!"
"Hurry up, let's go in and clean up quickly, don't let her know that we just blocked the door..."
"hurry up!"
"..."
Accompanied by the noise of children outside the house, not long after, a clearly audible sound of footsteps sounded in Yiyi's ears.
She raised her little head and looked up.
I found that it was the aunt who had just come back holding an umbrella.
"Auntie, I feel pain..."
Yiyi tries to find comfort in her aunt.
But all she received was an unfriendly look from her aunt. She felt it was a waste of time to even look at her, so she stepped over her little body and walked inside.
A piece of mud stuck to the sole of the shoe from the movement of lifting the foot.
It fell directly on Yiyi's back.
This made her moan in pain uncontrollably...
"You still know pain? A bad boy who can steal things, actually know pain? Shut your mouth, don't let me hear your voice again!"
Auntie turned around and yelled a few words.
Yiyi, who had tears in her eyes, gritted her teeth and buried her head.
See Yiyi's appearance.
The aunt turned around expressionlessly and continued walking forward.
Although these children look very pitiful.
But she didn't feel anything...
certainly.
In fact, this is not entirely my fault.
After all, poor people must be hateful.
Who said that in this era, few people would choose to spend money to buy a girl?
A boy who can inherit the family business.
It should be a treasure that should be pampered at home!
"I don't know if these guys will rot in my hands. If they grow older, it will be even harder to sell..."
Auntie washed the vegetables she bought casually.
I started chopping on the chopping board with the kitchen knife that hadn't been cleaned for several months.
She wore an apron.
It was as if he was afraid that the splash of vegetable liquid would fly on his few expensive clothes.
"I eat too much and have little strength..."
"I really don't know why Wu Laosan brought these girls back!"
"If we continue to lose money every day, when will we get our money back!"
Auntie is cutting vegetables.
The more I thought about it, the more angry I became.
At this time, I wanted to rush out and kill the little girls who couldn't be sold, and then sell them in the town as pork.
At least it's still worth a few bucks...
After she finished cutting the vegetables, she put them together with the rice in the large iron pot next to her and started cooking them.
It seems that it can be thinner.
After thinking for a while, she added two more tablespoons of water and put the lid on the pot.
I don’t know when Wu Laosan came back.
He stood at the door and watched his wife's actions. He was so frightened that he quickly took off the pipe in his mouth and rushed forward to stop her.
"Hey, wife, it can't be cooked like this."
"Those girls just want to look good. If they lose weight, they won't be able to sell for much money."
The woman turned her head and glanced at him...
"Why can't it be cooked?"
"Eating like this will kill you?"
"You really have the nerve to say that! If you hadn't heard that damn cripple say that rich families like girls these days and have gone to get so many of them, how could we be living like this now?"
"I'm still thinking about fattening up and selling it..."
"Do you know that when I went to buy rice a few days ago, I only dared to buy the cheap one! The lady selling rice chose another one and said that one was delicious. I was embarrassed to say that I didn't have enough money! "
Auntie is very angry.
She seemed to have vented all her anger towards Wu Laosan at this moment!
In fact, their life was not bad.
Relying on Wu Laosan, he would occasionally find boys in villages and towns that no one wanted, bring them back and raise them for a period of time, then go to the city and sell them at a high price.
It can be regarded as a short period of time without worrying about food and clothing.
But just a few years ago...
The woman didn't know what evil possessed Wu Laosan. He was selling boys well, but he insisted on getting some girls back.
I have a lot of them at home.
I went to sell it but no one bought it. They said that the old lady at home wanted a boy, so I just smashed it into my hand and couldn't get it out.
I finally saved up some savings.
They were all eaten clean by these little guys.
"well."
Wu Laosan sighed, walked a few steps and sat on the threshold, smashing his pipe in his mouth again.
How could he not know that it was because of his decision.
The house is already in a boiling pot.
"Let's keep it for a while. If it doesn't work, we can sell it at a low price at a loss. Then we can recover a little bit."
"Will it take a while longer?"
Auntie heard this.
He wished he could slap Wu Laosan directly in the face twice to see if he could wake him up.
"What shall we use to feed it?"
"Take your life?"
"I say, you can clean them up tomorrow and take them to the city together. Just follow our previous approach and try again."
"If it doesn't work, just bring them back and we'll kill them and sell them as pork!"
Wu Laosan was stunned.
He didn't know whether the wife in front of him was talking angry words to him or telling the truth.
Sold as pork...
When he thought of this, Wu Laosan felt a little inexplicably cold in his heart.
Although he was involved in kidnapping and trafficking children, his temperament would not allow him to be so bold as to kill those little girls so frantically.
"Daughter-in-law, let's... stop joking."
"There's something going on at the coal mine tomorrow. Can I take them out after the weather gets better in two days?"
"Let's take our time."
Hearing what Wu Laosan said.
The woman couldn't bear it anymore...
She directly took the big iron spoon in her hand and swung Wu Laosan's head. The sudden movement gave Wu Laosan no time to react.
There was a bang and a small opening was opened on the back of the head!
"ah!"
Wu Laosan covered his head and shouted.
However, the woman didn't have the slightest intention to see Wu Laosan's injuries. She just stood there and yelled at Wu Laosan like a shrew.
"You idiot!"
“I’m really going to have bad luck for eight lifetimes by marrying you!”
"I tell you, this matter is settled. If you don't get the money back, I will do it!"
The crazy woman who is driven to a dead end by money is very scary.
She glared angrily.
He slammed down the iron spoon in his hand and planned to return to his room...
Wu Laosan had no intention of resisting.
Maybe he is used to being disciplined by this woman.
He just said to his wife in disbelief: "If you kill someone, you will go to jail. We really can't do this!"
"hehe……"
"Do you think you, Wu Laosan, won't go to jail for selling your child?"
The woman sneered.
No longer caring about what Wu Laosan would do, his back disappeared around the corner of the door...
"You're crazy!"
Wu Laosan shouted loudly.
Just silence with no answer.
It shows that his rebuttal has little impact on the woman's emotions...
…
"It was a weird day."
"My aunt who has always ignored us, but that day she and my uncle dressed us in beautiful new clothes."
"He even made an exception and allowed us to boil hot water for bathing."
"I originally thought that the injury on my back would have to wait for it to heal a little bit."
"Uncle was very willing to let me use the wound medicine..."
"It hurts though."
"But I know it will heal faster if I apply the medicine."
"We went to the big city."
"There are a lot of cars there, a lot of big houses that I've never seen before, and a lot of... beautiful things like castles with some fruits on them that I can't name."
"The eldest sister who has been here once explained to me that the thing is called a birthday cake, and the fruit on top is called strawberry. It is delicious, sour and sweet."
"Children in the city will record the date when they are born, and then eat cakes like that every year on that day."
"I heard from my eldest sister that I can still make wishes on my birthday."
"I really want to taste the birthday cake."
"I would rather make a wish."
"I hope I can eat birthday cake every time I celebrate my birthday in the future!"
"only……"
"It's just that neither uncle nor aunt told me when my birthday is..."
"I don't know if there's such an opportunity."
…
Round and round.
Wu Laosan finally led the group of little girls behind him and skillfully walked into a small alley in the city.
The alley is very remote.
It's a place where you wouldn't notice anyone living inside even if you pass by it.
The pungent smell of sewers filled the air.
Along with the piles of stinky garbage piled up in the alley because no one cleans the trash cans.
Make the taste even more unbearable...
If someone passes by here.
That person can't help but cover his nose and curse a few words to calm his polluted sense of smell.
But the little girls following Wu Laosan didn't pay much attention.
These tastes seem to be special to them.
It doesn’t seem like it’s a big deal…
They just turned their heads curiously, looking at this place that was different from the mud houses in the mountain villages.
"Look, what is that?"
A little girl pointed to the faucet in front of someone's house and asked her friend next to her with confusion.
"I don't know, I've never seen this thing before. It looks so strange!"
Another little girl replied.
Yiyi listened to them talking, and at the same time turned her head away, looking at the strange-looking metal object.
Because when they use water.
On rainy days, I would move the big basin outside to pick up the water, or walk several miles with a bucket to fetch water from the well on the other side of the village.
So I have never seen such a strange thing...
Wu Laosan ignored the children's noise.
He just silently led them through alleys one after another.
Finally we reached the door of a house.
He reached out and knocked on the door.
"Who?"
"It's me, Wu Laosan."
After he finished speaking in a hoarse voice, there was a rustling sound from the other side of the door. It took a while before a disheveled young man opened the door.
"What's wrong?" He asked Wu Laosan impatiently.
It seems that Wu Laosan ruined the good deeds of young people.
So the latter's face was not very good...
"Nothing, I just brought you some people today. I want you to help me see if anyone wants to buy a child recently. I will transfer them to you, and you can take two portions of the money."
Wu Laosan rubbed his hands.
He said carefully in front of the young man while hunching his waist, putting on a flattering face.
"No, no, come back in two days!"
As soon as I heard it was just business.
The young man waved his hand impatiently, signaling Wu Laosan to take him away.
"Hey, even though she's a girl, please help me take a look. They all look pretty good. They'll look smart if they're well dressed!"
Wu Laosan blocked the door as if he was about to cry.
But what he didn't know was.
Because the young man only opened the door halfway, he didn't notice the children following him.
But now what I heard Wu Laosan talking about was a girl.
The young man's eyes suddenly lit up.
He seemed to be interested.
"Girl? Bring her in quickly and take a look!"
Chapter 93 The Legend of Qianxixi (4000 words)
