An An only has one thought now, she wants to escape back to the capital, she wants to find her mother, but she is too young, and her weak body cannot run away from the adults chasing her.
After a while, the woman held her in her arms. An An struggled to break free, shouting,
"Let me go, let me go, you are bad people."
The woman hugged An An tightly. When An An saw this, she bit her arm hard. The woman said "Ah" and was about to take action when she saw Leng Xi looking at her with a pair of sharp eyes, so she endured it. It hurt, so he smiled and comforted An An:
"An'an, we are not bad people, we are your father and your mother..."
When An An broke free, she saw Leng Xi standing not far away. She stretched out her hand to him and shouted with longing eyes,
"Uncle, help me, I don't want to go with them, they are not my parents..."
"Uncle, take me away, I don't want to stay here."
"Please, don't leave me here, I'm scared."
"uncle……"
"uncle……"
An An's shouts echoed in this mountain, but Leng Xi still stood there without moving, although he wanted to rush over and hold An An in his arms to comfort her.
But reason prevailed at this time. He knew that he could not do that. This child must not return to the capital.
So, he slowed down his voice and said softly:
"An'an, they are your father and mother. You should follow them home. Uncle...uncle has something else to do and can't take you with him."
"No, I don't want to go home with them. I want to be with my uncle. Uncle, don't leave, don't leave..."
Leng Xi turned back amidst her cries. He moved forward step by step. He suddenly felt that his legs seemed to be weighing ten thousand pounds, as if they were holding him up and preventing him from moving forward.
"Uncle... don't leave."
An An's voice had become a little hoarse. Leng Xi clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth and stopped, then quickly took long steps and walked away.
He knew that he could no longer hesitate, otherwise, he would really not be able to be cruel.
For the sake of his own grand cause, to add trouble to Leng Yu, and to avoid being exposed by this little girl, he must not be kind to a woman. Besides, he just gave this child to someone else and did not hurt her.
He tried hard to comfort himself in his heart, and he was looking for a reason that could make him feel at ease...
An An looked at Leng Xi's back and stopped crying in despair.
The middle-aged woman holding her hurriedly comforted her softly:
"An'an, that uncle will come back to see you in the future. Let's go home with dad and mom."
Although An An knew that these two people were not her father and mother, she was a little scared looking at this deserted place.
For some reason, although she was also scared when she was with Leng Xi, she knew that Leng Xi would not harm her.
But facing these two strangers, she felt unsure. She was not sure what they would do to her.
While she was thinking about this, the woman had already hugged her into the carriage, and An An stopped trying to escape. She knew that she couldn't escape.
"Hurry up and catch the bus home"
She climbed into the carriage while urging the man to drive.
There was always a smile of success on her face. She had been poor for half her life, but unexpectedly she encountered such a good thing on her way back to the capital to visit relatives.
At first, when the man in black told her, she didn't believe it. She thought there was no such good thing in the world. A girl could get a hundred taels of silver for free.
Now she believed it. Not only that, they also got a carriage for free. This was really an eye-opener for God, hahaha.
Thinking of this, she hugged the money and laughed secretly.
An An looked at the unkind-looking woman in front of her and asked timidly:
"where are we going?"
The woman rolled her eyes and smiled with her browned teeth.
"Let's go home. You are our daughter, have you forgotten?"
At this point, she hit her head as if she remembered something,
"Oh, yes, you have lost your memory. Let me tell you, you are our daughter. Your name is Ni Xiaohong. From now on, I will be your mother, and the driver is your father."
Ni Xiaohong?
An An hated Leng Xi for a while in her heart. He was so hateful that he sold his niece with the same surname to such a disgusting looking woman.
"Then...where is our home?"
"In Fanjiatun, we'll be there in a minute."
Listening to this strange name and this strange place, An An's heart kept beating wildly.
She was very conscious at this time. She had to ensure her own safety first before she could have a chance to find a way to escape. Therefore, she listened to everything this woman said and seemed to have no doubt at all.
After asking these questions clearly, she stopped talking and squinted her eyes and took a nap. She had to be energetic before she could find a way to escape.
"Xiao Hong, I'm home."
The woman's shouting woke An An up from her nap.
She rubbed her eyes, looked at the woman in front of her, and timidly climbed out of the carriage.
The scene in front of her immediately stunned her.
What appeared in front of her was a dilapidated thatched house. From the disparate wooden door, it could be seen that the family was very poor.
At this time, two children about the same age as An An ran out of the house, shouting as they ran,
"Mom, you said you would buy meat for us, did you buy it?"
Another child with a dirty face saw An An, pointed at her, and asked doubtfully:
"Mom, who is she?"
The middle-aged woman glared at the child, frowned and scolded:
"You damn kid, why did you lose your memory? This is your sister Xiaohong. She was lost for a few days, and finally her father and mother found her."
The little girl shook her head vigorously,
"Mom, where did our sister come from? Besides, she is dressed so well, and look at what we are wearing. She must be a young lady from a wealthy family. Why is she in our house?"
"Shut up."
The middle-aged woman roared again, and the two children shut their mouths instantly. The man came over, raised the two pieces of meat in his hand, and said with a smile:
"When did the words Dad told you become false? What is this?"
When the two children saw this, they clapped their hands and jumped up together.
"Great, great, there is meat to eat."
"I'm going to tell grandma that there is meat to eat."
As she spoke, the little girl ran towards a wing that was about to collapse, shouting as she walked,
"Milk, milk, we have meat for lunch."
As soon as she finished speaking, an old woman with tattered clothes, messy hair, and a wooden stick came out of the side room.
Seeing this, the middle-aged woman hurriedly walked over and muttered something to the old woman. The old woman suddenly asked with an unhappy face:
"Dajuanzi, how can you do such a thing? Send this child back quickly."
"Mom, please don't let me know about this. I took someone's money. That person said that if he loses this kid, he wants us to look good. Look at his murderous face. It looks like it might kill us."
"But...but you can't do such a shameful thing. Look at that little girl's pretty face. She must be the child of a wealthy family in the capital. If someone comes to find her someday, you're not afraid of losing your head."
"What are you afraid of? That child's brain is broken and she doesn't know who she is. We just saved her life and got a servant girl for free. One day someone really finds us, we have to get another one. Here’s the pen.”
"you……"
The old woman was so angry that she hit the ground several times with her cane and cursed:
"Why did I give birth to a daughter like you who doesn't do good things but only does this kind of defrauding people and money..."
"Mom, please go into the house quickly. If someone hears you later, I can tell you, don't talk nonsense to those people in the village, don't ruin my good deeds."
The old woman looked at An An again, glared at her daughter Da Ya in front of her, turned around, and returned to the house angrily.
An An was pushed into the yard by the man. For some reason, she always felt that this would be the beginning of her hard life, and she was very scared...
