When she was thirteen years old, ruthless poverty, fatigue, lack of food and clothing, accompanied by brutal illness, took away her father's tough but fragile life late one night.
With the help of a few kind-hearted people, she barely finished junior high school. She had no choice but to drop out of school at the age of fourteen and went to Guangdong to work with her sister, who was not yet eighteen but had been wandering for nearly a year.
Although her academic performance is very good, it is no longer easy for her mother to support her younger brother by working as a nanny, and there is no way to support her anymore. Moreover, high school requires living on campus, which requires more tuition and fees.
My sister said that she couldn't make more money, and working outside was very tiring. The money she earned was not much except for her own food. There was no way for her to live and go to school unless she was forced to go.
Earn those dirty money.
She is also a daughter, how can her mother bear it? Xiao Honglian, who is only fourteen years old, also went to work to support herself.
The shampoo girl, wine girl, and Xiao Honglian refused to work in the hair salon, so they had to lie about being sixteen and join an electronics factory.
But in the factory, fellow villagers from one province to another were dominating the bathroom. There was no helper, so she was alone in taking a shower and doing laundry. It was a problem. She could only do it after they all finished washing and went to bed.
In addition, she had to work overtime every night and only had one day off a month. Xiao Honglian, who was just fourteen and growing, couldn't bear it. So she and a coworker Xiao Cui who also wanted to change factories wanted to go to Dongguan where Xiao Cui's cousin was.
Go to the factory.
Xiaocui said that it was a newly expanded shoe factory run by a Taiwanese boss, with good conditions and higher wages. But the annoying CMB driver said he was going to Dongguan even though he was not going to Dongguan, so he transferred her to another CMB along the way.
The car didn't go to Dongguan either. It went a little further and "sold" the two of them to a broken minibus.
Eighteen-year-old Xiaocui was a bit older after all. When she saw the minibus turning into a small road, she felt something was wrong and shouted to get off the bus. She was willing not to pay for the bus.
The dilapidated minibus finally stopped, but when they got off the bus with their things, the young man selling the tickets knocked them unconscious one by one. Then they packed them in sacks and threw them on a small four-wheeler with a tarpaulin next to them.
At some point, Xiao Honglian woke up from the shaking and found that her hands and feet were tied and loaded into a car, and her mouth was gagged.
There seemed to be several women of different ages in the dim car, and someone was crying. Only then did she realize something, and she couldn't help but feel shocked and scared.
She also thought about running away or asking for help, but there was no chance. The caravan was refueled several times, but the traffickers would not let them get out of the car. When someone really wanted to go to the toilet, they would stop in the woods in the wilderness and ask for help.
Let the female trafficker in her thirties watch over them.
Later, at a rural gas station, they accidentally saw a policeman. She wanted to ask the policeman for help, but she was too hungry and weak.
Finally, the older Xiao Cuiqiang jumped out of the car and rushed to the policeman and said quickly: "Uncle policeman, the girls in the caravan and I were abducted by human traffickers. Please save us!"
But the policeman looked at her in shock, but there was no angry reaction as expected, and he showed no intention to step forward to rescue them or help them in any way. He just watched a human trafficker lift Xiaocui back in a savage and menacing way.
Caravan.
"Pah, pah." The trafficker opened his arms from left to right, slapped Xiaocui twice, and muttered in Mandarin that was half foreign and half native. I mean, the police here are on the same side as them and will not care about these things at all. Next
If you talk nonsense again, I won’t break her legs!
At this time, both Xiao Cui and Xiao Honglian were in despair.
The car traveled bumpyly for three days, and in the evening they arrived at a mountain village and town, where they were let down to eat and use the toilet in a small courtyard. Then a buyer came to the house and took an older girl or a younger woman.
They bought it. Xiaocui was also taken away by a vulgar man and his mother.
Xiao Honglian and another girl who didn't know the situation on the mountain road wanted to hitchhike, so they came to her door. The female trafficker watched them spend the night in a small courtyard room, and continued to go to the mountains the next day.
She also learned that the girl had been abducted once. This time she found an opportunity to escape, but she didn't expect that she couldn't tell the north, south, east, and west. She thought the temporary road down the mountain was the road down the mountain. She was really tired of running.
I wanted to hitch a ride down the mountain, but unexpectedly I ended up in a trap.
This black-hearted human trafficker didn't have the kindness to send her back to her previous home. He probably had to go deep into the mountains to buy her again.
The girl also said that she could basically understand the words here. Those buyers did not want Xiao Honglian because they thought she was too young. They were afraid that she would not be able to do things if she was too young; and they were afraid that if the local government interfered with her, it would not be good.
It would be much better if there were no cadres in the deep mountains and old forests. However, life in the deep mountains and old forests is harder, and it is harder to escape.
Xiao Honglian was even more worried and scared after hearing this.
Finally, there was no way out. Xiao Honglian was carried by a man in a sack and walked through the winding trails in the mountain forest. When it was getting dark, he entered a small mountain village in the mountains and sold it to a family with three brothers.
The old man was in his fifties and quite strong; the old woman was not only pockmarked but also blind in one eye. Although the old couple looked kind, Xiao Honglian was still so scared that she shrank into the corner - especially when she saw the yellow-skinned woman.
Some sickly boys shrank into a ball when they entered the room.
Because she didn’t understand their mountain village slang, Xiao Honglian had no idea what they were trying to express. Later, when she saw the boy bringing sweet potatoes to her, she could understand some of his words from his jerky Mandarin with a strong local accent.
talk.
The boy told her not to be afraid, saying that they were all good people and would not treat her badly. It was just that the people in the mountains were poor and could not find a wife, so they paid thousands of dollars to buy it from traffickers. She was the daughter-in-law of his second brother.
My brother is still working in the mountains and hasn’t come back yet.
Xiao Honglian saw that the boy looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, with yellowish skin and a thin body. She thought that his second brother was probably about twenty years old, much better than Xiao Cui and a vulgar man in his thirties.
When things got to this point, no matter how hard the heavens or the earth were, we had no choice but to accept our fate. But she was only fourteen years old, and still a little girl!
In the evening, the boy's eldest brother and second brother came back. Xiao Honglian saw that the eldest brother was a man in his late thirties, with bronze skin and a medium build; the second brother was in his mid-twenties, average-looking, and quite strong.
She thought to herself: Why are there so many differences between this boy and his second brother? Later, she found out that the boy and his second brother had two sisters, but one was married and the other died in infancy.
Could it be that this man who was eleven or twelve years older than her would be her husband from now on? Even though Xiao Honglian was unhappy a thousand times, in the end she and that man were the only ones left in the room.
After the man closed the door, he walked towards her on the bed. Xiao Honglian, whose legs were still tied, subconsciously moved to the corner. But she was already very close to the corner, so she was pressed against the wall without moving twice.
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The man walked to the bed, took off his shoes, got on the bed, and blew out the oil lamp. Seeing the man leaning towards her, Xiao Honglian was so frightened that she couldn't help but scream.