Donghua was hit so hard that she fell to the ground.
Just as she was about to yell, she saw the little girl who knocked her down rolling away.
Before she could say anything, four or five burly men suddenly ran in front of her and surrounded her.
"Stinky girl, you still want to run away."
"Look where you run to, catch her!"
The burly man in front grabbed Donghua's collar and lifted her up.
Donghua was completely stunned.
However, her brain was quick and she was quite smart, and she figured out what was going on in just a moment.
She yelled: "The person you want to arrest is her——"
She pointed in the direction where the little girl had escaped, but she had already disappeared.
"You arrested the wrong person!" Donghua exclaimed, "The person you arrested was wearing a pink dress, and I am wearing a yellow dress. You really made a mistake!"
Several burly men stared at her for a while, and then looked at each other.
It was obvious that the stinky girl who escaped before could not be chased back. If they returned empty-handed, the boss would definitely scold them to death.
It's better to just forget about this girl, she looks pretty cool anyway...
"Stop talking nonsense!" The leading man directly carried Donghua on his shoulders, "Be honest!"
Donghua turned pale with fright.
This is robbing a girl on the street.
She shouted: "Uncles, aunts and uncles, help me, help me..."
There were many pedestrians around. They stopped when they saw the movement here, but they didn't come forward because they didn't know what was going on.
The leading man said with sideways eyes: "This is a servant who escaped. A girl who signed a contract to sell herself is running away. No one dares to care about her even if she is beaten to death. What, you want to meddle in other people's affairs?"
Some enthusiastic uncles and aunts immediately dispersed when they heard this.
Donghua quickly took out the money from her sleeves: "Whoever saves me, I will give money to - ah!"
There was a sudden huge pain on the back of her head, and she only had time to scream before she knew anything else.
When I woke up again, the surroundings were pitch black and I didn't know where I was.
She stood up suddenly and touched the cold ground beneath her. She only moved, but her head hurt terribly.
"Damn it, you actually knocked me out." Donghua cursed angrily, "Do you know who I am? How dare you do this to me? I'm going to go back and tell my aunt to send all of you bastards to the hospital. Go to the prison...Oh, mother, I have a headache, it hurts me to death!"
She stood up cursing, and after her eyes adapted to the darkness, she realized that it was a small attic with a small window pane high up. Because it was night, there was no light coming through the pane, and the whole room was shrouded in darkness. The fear was invisibly amplified many times.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" She huddled in the corner and cried, "I was wrong. I shouldn't have let Brother Cheng Yi and Sister Qiuhua go back first. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, Auntie, please help me..."
"Can you please stop crying?"
A boy's voice suddenly came from the other side of the corner.
Donghua was so frightened that she opened her eyes wide and tried to look in that direction. Finally, she saw a darker figure in the darkness, and there seemed to be someone there.
She asked in horror: "Who are you..."
Her voice was still crying, and she was trying hard to hold back her tears and prevent herself from crying.
"I was arrested just like you." The boy said coldly, "When you cry again later, save some energy now."
Donghua breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that he was also captured.
She crawled over gropingly, stopped a little far away from the boy, and said slowly: "What do you mean when I cry later?"
"This is my fifth day here." The boy's voice was cold. "In the past five days, a total of eleven girls about your age have been arrested. They stayed here for at most one night before being taken away. , where to take it specifically..."
At this point, he paused. He didn't know exactly where he was taking it, it was all just a guess.
He was captured by accident, and because he was a man, he managed to escape being taken away, but the five days he spent here were very uncomfortable.
I don’t know how worried his family is. Did he report to the official? After reporting to the official, he couldn’t be found. Are his parents going crazy...
"Will they be sold to a brothel?" Donghua opened her eyes wide, "Why is such a thing happening under the emperor's feet in the capital? So many girls were caught and sold, and no one checked... Hey, what's the sound?"
As she spoke, she heard a strange sound.
She moved her ears to the sound and got closer and closer to the boy. She said in surprise: "It turns out you are hungry."
"In the past five days, I only have one bowl of porridge every day. Of course I will be hungry." The boy covered his stomach and moved away from her. "You have a good rest to conserve your strength. When they take you out tomorrow, try to escape. You only have this a chance."
"I'm hungry too." Donghua dug into her sleeves and took out a pack of snacks, "Fortunately, I like to bring food with me, so I can share half with you."
The boy didn't want it at first, but he was so hungry that he didn't even have the strength to get up. He took the three or four snacks very spinelessly and ate them slowly.
Donghua didn't have dinner and was really hungry. She stuffed snacks into her mouth in big gulps and accidentally choked.
"Cough cough cough..." She almost choked to death, "Water, give me water..."
The boy hurriedly patted her back: "There is no water here."
"I, I have it!" She coughed violently, "I have a bamboo tube hanging on my waist, take it, bring it here... cough cough cough!"
The boy hurriedly took off the bamboo tube, but he smelled a sweet smell. It seemed that it was not water at all.
Donghua took the bamboo tube and drank it in big gulps. This was sweet tea bought on the street during the day. It was specially put in the bamboo tube. Take a sip when you want to drink. I don't know how delicious it is.
"It's so delicious. I have a bamboo tube here for you." Donghua took out a bamboo tube from her waist and handed it over, "Thank you just now. My name is Zhao Donghua, what's your name?"
"My name is Li Haoyang." The boy paused, "You are a woman, you shouldn't tell your maiden name to your outsider."
"It's just that you people in the capital like to be fickle and make some inexplicable rules." Donghua snorted, "Isn't the name just for people to call? If you hide it, then don't give it a name. No one will know it for the rest of your life. In our village, we call each other by our first names, and no one will think anything of it..."
As she talked, she felt tired and sleepy, so she slowly fell asleep against the wall.
It was still peaceful here, but there was a turmoil over there in Cheng Wanwan's house.
Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Sun both thought that Donghua would come back later, but who knew that the sky was getting darker and darker, and they saw that it was getting late, and there was no sign of this girl.
Cheng Wanwan didn't wait any longer and quickly arranged for all the boys at home to go out to look for him.
After asking around for a while, I found out that Donghua had been kidnapped in the street by four or five burly men.
Because those big men said that Donghua was a runaway domestic slave, no one reported her to the official.
At this time, two hours had passed since Donghua was arrested.
