The fifteen-year-old girl looked pale.
She was panting, gasping for air and unable to utter a word.
Shen Zheng and Zhao Ergou stood by and waited for her to rest before talking, but after waiting and waiting, the girl did not utter a single word.
Zhao Ergou asked patiently: "If you don't remember where your home is, we can take you to the county government office, and the government will send someone to take you back."
The girl still didn't speak, her head lowered and her hands clutching her sleeves.
"He can't be mute." Shen Zheng had a headache, "Send him to the government."
Zhao Ergou nodded, thinking that this girl's family members were probably going crazy.
However, his sleeve was grabbed, and the girl bit her lower lip and shook her head gently.
This means that I don’t want to go to the government.
"Er Gou, this is the person you want to save. Please solve this matter for me quickly." Shen Zheng crossed his arms over his chest, "I have always kept myself clean, so don't come to me about this matter of committing yourself to me."
The girl's hand holding Zhao Ergou's sleeve suddenly let go.
She took a step back, farther away from the two of them.
Zhao Ergou said gently: "Then you can go home by yourself after you have rested here. We have something else to do, so let's go first."
He was about to leave, but after taking a few steps, he heard footsteps behind him.
He turned around and saw the girl following the two of them from a distance. They stopped and the girl stopped too.
They took a step, and the girl took a step too.
Shen Zheng immediately rushed forward: "I don't care anyway, I'll take the first step."
He quickly rushed to the city gate and jumped onto the bullock cart.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Ergou got in the car.
The girl also came up.
Zhao Da asked curiously: "Ergou, whose family does this girl belong to?"
Shen Zheng raised his head and looked at the sky, looking like it had nothing to do with him.
It's hard for Zhao Ergou to tell the truth. He can't say that he was rescued by a brothel. If this word spreads in Dahe Village, how will this girl behave in the future?
He paused and said, "My cousin."
Dahe Village.
Cheng Wanwan was watching the carpenter at work in the yard of his new house.
Originally, the tables, chairs, cabinets and other furniture in her home were all planned to be contracted to Old Man Zhao, but the old man said that his skills were not good, and it was okay to make a makeshift table when he usually needed it, but he couldn't make do with it in the new house, so he helped find the one next door. The most skilled carpenter in the village comes to make furniture.
These woods are all high-quality materials cut from the mountains. They smell like wood and there is no need to worry about formaldehyde pollution.
Cheng Wanwan puts forward some opinions of his own from time to time.
For example, people in the village are accustomed to using boxes to store clothes, which is a very large box. When you open it, all the clothes are put inside without even a single distinction.
She asked a carpenter to make a standing cabinet, similar to a modern wardrobe. The doors were opened and divided into small compartments. Clothes of spring, summer, autumn and winter were placed separately. When needed, they could just grab it without having to rummage through the entire box.
Carpenter Zhou is from the next village. He heard that a village woman in Dahe Village was awarded a hundred taels of silver by the county magistrate. At that time, he scorned it, thinking that the reward was obtained through some other dirty tricks, but he and Cheng Wanwan had been chatting for so long. After an hour, he was immediately convinced. Some people are just smart and have such brains, but they can come up with such a cabinet, which is much more convenient than boxes and cages for storing clothes.
Old man Zhao has been working as a small laborer to help out. He does small labor, but he has actually been secretly learning skills.
Especially when Cheng Wanwan expressed his opinions, his ears perked up and he wrote down every word without missing a word. Then he observed how Carpenter Zhou made it, remembering every detail in his mind.
"mother!"
Zhao Sidan's voice sounded from far away to near.
He ran into the yard of his new house and said excitedly, "Second brother is back!"
Cheng Wanwan laughed: "Look at how excited you are. Did your second brother buy you something delicious again? Your second brother is the only one who spoils you like this every day."
"No, no." Zhao Sidan took Cheng Wanwan's arm and walked out, "Second brother brought back a beautiful girl, a very beautiful girl, even prettier than Sister Shuiqin..."
The smile on Cheng Wanwan's face disappeared.
In her previous life, she really liked good-looking people. The attraction came from her heart, and good-looking people would naturally make her fall in love with them.
But when she came to Dahe Village, the two most beautiful girls she had ever seen, one was Sun Shuiqin and the other was Li Xiuhong, were not economical. She was really afraid.
And she knew very well that the second child was a pretty girl and had no resistance to good-looking girls.
But don't bring big trouble back to your family.
Cheng Wanwan quickened her pace and walked quickly towards her home. Before she reached the door, she saw a girl wearing a light yellow dress standing at the door.
The girl's hair was messy and her clothes were messy. She lowered her head and wrung her fingers uneasily.
Zhao Ergou breathed a sigh of relief: "You can only stay if my mother agrees to stay."
Shen Zheng rushed to Cheng Wanwan and told the story in a low voice: "This matter has nothing to do with me. It was all decided by Zhao Ergou alone. Auntie, you must not go to me." Report to dad."
Cheng Wanwan was helpless. This kid was always fearless, so why was he always worried that she would file a complaint.
She said: "Don't worry, as long as you don't tell me about this, your father won't know about it."
She walked up to the little girl and saw the clothes on the little girl. Although they were a little dirty, she could still tell that they were made of fine satin. The collar and cuffs of the clothes were intricately embroidered. This set of clothes was probably too expensive. It only took three or four taels of silver to do it. The girl in front of her should be the child of a wealthy family, but she lived in a brothel. After being rescued, she did not want to go to the government or go home. She vaguely guessed a certain possibility.
She took the little girl's dirty hand, walked to the yard, poured a basin of water, took out a clean handkerchief and handed it over.
The little girl took the veil and washed away the dirt on her face, her face looked even better.
Cheng Wanwan glanced at Zhao Ergou quietly. The boy went to work as soon as he came back. He didn't stare here, which meant that he wasn't interested in this girl yet.
Before she understood this girl's character and background, she couldn't let Ergou fall into this trap again.
She said gently: "Can you tell Auntie why you don't want to go home?"
Shen Zheng's voice came from the side: "Stop asking, she is just a little mute and can't ask anything."
"I'm not mute."
The little girl suddenly spoke.
Shen Zheng spat out the hay in his mouth: "Then I just asked you so many questions, why didn't you say a word?"
"Thank you for saving me..." The little girl lowered her head, "Half a month ago, my father went out to do business, and my stepmother arranged for me to get married. The other party was a fifty-year-old man. I didn't want to get married. I ran away from home and was kidnapped to a brothel... If I went home, I would be forced to get married. I might as well just die... It wouldn't be possible to go to the government. My stepmother would definitely report to the government after I ran away... My father will be back in a month. Let me hide here for a month. I will leave after one month. Auntie, please..."
