A neatly folded set of clothes was handed to Huo Xi.
"For me?" Huo Xi pointed at herself.
The girl nodded to her with a smile. Huo Xi looked at the old woman again. The old woman spread her hands and stretched them in front of her.
It’s really for her! This is for her to change out of her wet clothes.
She met a good family.
Huo Xi bowed gratefully to them, followed the girl behind a curtain, and changed out of her clothes.
The girl's clothes didn't look too small on Huo Xi's body. The top was originally a bit wide, so the girl tied it around her waist with a red and black belt, and it fit her.
The lower body is wearing black and red striped trousers, which Huo Xi wears into cropped trousers. A thin white calf is exposed.
The girl looked at her thin white legs in ecstasy. When she saw Huo Xi looking at her with a smile, a little embarrassed on her face, she turned around and got a pair of straw sandals for Huo Xi.
The shoes on Huo Xi's feet were wet. They were covered with grass and mud after walking all the way. They had lost their color, were wet and heavy, and their feet were probably wrinkled.
Huo Xi took off her shoes and saw that the soles were almost worn out. She was afraid that she could no longer wear them. She wiped the toes of her shoes with the wet clothes she had changed into, and then picked off the two inlays on the toes.
The beads and gold and silver pieces were handed to the girl.
The girl watched her movements blankly until Huo Xi handed the thing in his hand to her.
When he realized it, he shook his head and waved his hands. Seeing that it was impossible, he didn't dare to ask for it, so he turned around and opened the straw curtain and shouted to the outside.
"This is what I give to you. It's the only thing I have. Just accept it. I can't repay you with anything, only these common things."
These common things are also a bit shabby, but unfortunately, these are all that Huo has in his body.
When she was kidnapped, the gang took away all the accessories on her body.
Maybe the skirt covered the uppers of the shoes, preventing anyone from checking them, but leaving the contents of the shoes to her.
The old woman declined, determined not to.
Yilan felt sorry for her plight after saving this good-looking Han woman, and had not thought about wanting anything in return. Moreover, she had to leave to find her relatives, and she was afraid that this was all she had left, so she refused to ask for it.
In the end, Huo Xi kept half of it and gave the girl the gold and silver pieces and beads from a shoe.
Ye Bulan handed it to his grandma, who shook her head, and Ye Bulan took it away.
Smiling at Huo Xi, she looked at Huo Xi's discarded cloth shoes with a look of longing on her face. Huo Xi understood the look in her eyes, but she couldn't give her worn-out shoes to the other party, so she couldn't open her mouth.
Just as she was thinking about what to say, she saw Ye Bulan picking up the clothes and shoes she had changed and carrying them outside. Then he saw her coming in with a wooden basin and squatting in the corner of the hut to wash her clothes.
Huo Xi was moved and wanted to stop her, but Yilan pulled her to the fire pit to warm her hair.
She was really tired, and after meeting a nice family, Huo Xi relaxed half of her body and mind. As soon as she relaxed, she felt sleepy, and she nodded her head while drying her hair.
Yilan pulled her to a bamboo couch, pressed her onto the bamboo couch, and gestured.
Huo Xi nodded and saluted her gratefully. He curled up on the bamboo couch and fell asleep quickly next to the bamboo pillow.
Yilan looked at her grandfather and grandson and sighed in unison.
The tribe also often brings women back from outside, including women from other tribes and Han women. They may be exchanged for marriage, bought, or from other families.
The moment Yilan saw Huo Xi, she was in a mess. Looking at her gestures, she understood that she must have been trafficked, so she felt pity for her and took her in.
Huo Xi slept uneasily on the bamboo couch, her brows furrowed, her whole body shrunk, and she did not relax at all. Yilan looked at him and sighed, this Han woman has a delicate appearance, and it can be seen from her behavior that she is not poor.
People can raise it.
What a sin.
"Grandma?"
"Shh!"
The three of them arrived in front of the fire pit and sat down. "Grandma, was she abducted?" Alike asked quietly.
"Were they abducted by the tribe?" Ye Bran looked at Huo Xi like this. As a woman, he felt the same and was a little sad.
"I haven't heard that any family in the clan wants to buy people from outside," Yilan frowned and thought, "They must have escaped into our mountains from outside and bumped into our house by mistake."
"She is so pitiful."
Alike was a little sad, even more pitiful than the deer he hunted, whose fawn couldn't bear to leave and howled at him next to its mother.
Although he and his sister have lost their parents, they still have their grandma, their home is still there, and their clansmen take good care of them. But she may not even be able to return home.
"Grandma, shall we keep her?"
Yilan shook her head, "She doesn't belong here."
"Then shall we send her out?" Ye Bran asked.
Yilan thought about it for a moment, "Tomorrow morning, before the sky turns white, you and your brother will send her out."
"Yes." Ye Bulan and Alike nodded seriously. They had been outside, but Ah Nai didn't want to go out of the mountains. They hunted wild animals, collected wild fruits and mushrooms, and occasionally took them outside the mountains to exchange for salt.
If they know the way, they can definitely send her out of the mountain!
Yilan glanced in the direction of Huo Xi worriedly. Even if she was sent out of the mountains, would she still be able to find her relatives and return to her home?
Many of the women who were bought by the tribe often ran away from the mountains secretly. Some tribesmen took pity on them and sent them back, but what happened in the end? They couldn't go back home. Their families no longer wanted them, so they had no choice but to come back here.
Come from the mountains.
I gave birth to children here, grew old in this mountain, and finally buried my bones in this mountain.
Yilan let out a long sigh. Seeing her grandson looking at her, she just said: "Go to bed, go to bed early, and get up early at night."
Huo Xi didn't sleep well. In her dreams, she was being chased. She ran and ran until her legs were broken. However, she was caught and brought back. The gang whipped her so hard that she was beaten hard.
Her skin was torn and she felt pain even in her dreams.
She was shaken so violently that Huo Xi felt like she didn't want to live anymore, so she felt someone pushing and pulling her up... When she opened her eyes, she saw that her grandparents and grandson had a look of fear on their faces, and they were gesturing in front of her.
Paddling her feet, mumbling something, and then pulling her...
Mu Yan and others were searching the village.
Following Huo Xi's walking path, Mu Yan and others have found this village. In the middle of the night, the chiefs of the Wa Yi (Wa ethnic group) were alarmed and came out wearing their clothes.
Mu Yan showed his seal, and when the general next to him introduced him, the Wa Yi clan leader immediately knelt down.
Even though their clan has lived in the mountains for generations and is incommunicado with the outside world, as the clan leader and others don't know him, he still knows about the Mu Mansion in charge of the entire Yunnan.
After giving a big gift, he hurriedly got up again and led Mu Yan's family to search one by one.
In the stockade, chickens and dogs were dancing, children were crying, and torches were lit up one by one... At this time, Huo Xi was pushed by Ye Bulan and his brother from the mountain behind the stockade into the forest.