"Don't be afraid." The man looked at her and tried his best to smile, and said in a very poor and self-righteous Mandarin, "I will not hurt you."
"What did you say?" Xiao Honglian's eyes widened in panic. She couldn't quite hear what the man said, but she understood that he didn't mean to use force on her for the time being.
"Treat me as your brother, okay?" The man pointed at her and himself, and said slowly. Xiao Honglian looked at him blankly, not knowing what he meant.
"I love you like a sister. I won't be reckless." The man said as he stretched out his hand. When Xiao Honglian saw his hand touching her, she couldn't help but scream again.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." The man hugged her into his arms. "Don't be afraid. I'm just holding you. I won't move around."
At this point, Xiao Honglian basically understood what he meant. Seeing that he was really just hugging her and not making any further moves, she calmed down.
"Sleep, sleep." The man patted her back, "You must have been worried for several days."
"You won't wait until I fall asleep before you do anything?" Xiao Honglian asked suspiciously.
"No, no." The man patted her again, "Don't worry, you are still young, I will wait for you to grow up."
Xiao Honglian was hesitant. At first she was wary - after all, she was not used to having a man hug her. But she soon became extremely sleepy and fell into a deep sleep without realizing it.
In the early morning, she was awakened by the crisp calls of birds in the forest. She didn't know where she was for a moment. Suddenly, she was shocked: How could her tied legs be loosened freely? When she looked again, she saw that her clothes were still intact.
She was moving. And the man who held her last night was gone.
It seemed that he really just hugged himself and didn't move any more.
That day, she was locked in her room. She only ate two meals: one meal of boiled potato porridge and one meal of boiled sweet potatoes. There was no electricity in the mountains, so she went to bed early at night. The man said a few more words to her,
Then he fell asleep quietly while still holding her.
Seeing that it had been like this for several days in a row, Xiao Honglian couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that he would really treat me like his sister and wait for me to grow up?
Although he untied her hands and feet every night, and often let her go and turned to sleep on his back when she fell asleep, Xiao Honglian never thought of taking the opportunity to escape.
She is afraid of the dark and this strange and unknown mountain forest. Besides, even if she escapes, she still has to run for a living. It is better to stay here for two or three years and wait until she grows up. At that time, working in a factory will be hard and tiring.
Come on?
That morning, the one-eyed mother-in-law came into the room to take her out, saying she was going to see her sister-in-law. Xiao Honglian was surprised: She had been here for a few days, but she had never seen her sister-in-law? Could it be that she was also imprisoned like herself?
In the room?
Just as she was thinking about it, the one-eyed mother-in-law led her into the room across the hall. As soon as she entered the door, she felt that the smell in the room was not very good. But she couldn't explain why it was bad. It seemed a little fishy, smelly and smelly.
Wait for the odor.
When I looked up, I saw a very haggard, almost skinny woman half sitting and half leaning on the bed. Beside the bed was an old-fashioned wooden barrel for babies. In the barrel, a baby of about two or three months was sleeping peacefully. This was probably
These days I often hear the crying baby day and night.
The mother-in-law spoke first, as if she was introducing them to each other. Xiao Honglian looked at this thin and haggard woman, and felt pity and sadness in her heart.
"Excuse me, is your surname Guo?" When Xiao Honglian looked at the woman, the thin and haggard woman was also looking at her.
Xiao Honglian was shocked when she heard this, because the skinny woman was speaking her hometown dialect. She couldn't help but get excited: "Yes. Do you know me?"
"Hmm." The emaciated woman had a strange expression on her face, "Is your father Guo Qinghua?"
"Yes." Xiao Honglian nodded quickly and walked to her bed in a few steps, "Do you know my dad? Are you from Qingshui too?"
The thin woman shook her head: "I'm not from Qingshui, but my mother is. And my mother and your father are old classmates."
"Oh." Xiao Honglian couldn't help but sit next to the woman and hold her pale hand. This is the legendary encounter with an old friend in a foreign land! "Were you also abducted and sold here by human traffickers?"
"Yes." The thin woman burst into tears suddenly, "It's my fault. Because my mother beat me, I ran away from home, so... I brought it upon myself, and I deserve it!"
Xiao Honglian felt a pain in her heart, and she hugged her and cried. The one-eyed mother-in-law saw them chattering in their hometown dialect without understanding even a single word, so she closed the door and went to work in the courtyard.
After half the payment, the thin woman asked Xiao Honglian how she was abducted. Xiao Honglian told the truth.
"You mean, your father passed away last year?" The thin woman was stunned.
"Yes." Xiao Honglian nodded sadly. The thin woman was lost for a long time: "He is also my father, but I can't be sad."
"What? You-" Xiao Honglian was stunned.
The thin woman nodded: "My name is Wu Bingbing. My mother and your father were not only classmates, but also first lovers. My mother was forced to marry my father, and I guess she only had your father in her heart. And your father got married late.
So they kept in touch with each other later on, and that's why I was born. You don't have to blame your dad, I'm two and a half years older than you, and I was the product of your dad and your mom before they got married."
Xiao Honglian didn't complain, she just felt it was too unexpected. Besides, she also knew that her father had a poor family background, and when the "Cultural Revolution" was about to end in his early thirties, he married a woman with a two or three-year-old daughter - that is, she
Mom. Moreover, she also knows her father’s female classmate because she has sent money and gifts to their family several times.
"So, I am your half-sister." Wu Bingbing didn't know how she got to this point, but she understood the relationship between her mother and her first love. "From now on, you will call me sister."
"Okay, sister." Xiao Honglian couldn't help but burst into tears.
She carefully examined this sister who fell from the sky, and her vaguely familiar features suddenly reminded her of the scene when she saw her standing outside the gate of her courtyard last summer. How young and beautiful she was then.
"But, why are you so emaciated and emaciated?"
"Hey!" Wu Bingbing sighed, "I have been pampered since I was a child, how can I get used to the poor life in this deep mountain wilderness? What's more, this man is too bastard and barbaric. He doesn't know how to pity me at all. I guess I won't live long.
, my child will have to rely on you from now on."
As she spoke, Wu Bingbing looked tenderly at the sleeping baby in the barrel next to her. "I hope you can treat him well for the sake of his close relatives. Take him out of the mountains if you have the chance..."
"No, no, you will definitely get better." Xiao Honglian said in a low voice, "When the time comes, the two of us will take this child and escape together."