Early the next morning, the person on the big bunk in our room was called up.
I was new here, so I didn’t know the specific time to wake up, and I didn’t think about how serious it would be, so I went a little slower.
Then I got a whip on my shoulder. I just fell off the bench yesterday, and I didn’t have a good rest. I took a cold shower yesterday, and my head was a little dizzy. The whip came off, and it hit me right in front of my eyes.
Hei, he just got up and fell down on the bed again.
The woman holding the whip was the woman who brought me here yesterday. She stared at me with a pair of eyes: "What are you looking at? Why don't you hurry up?!"
Seeing that the whip was about to fall again, Xiaocao grabbed her and said, "Aunt Pei, don't be angry, I will take care of her."
Then he turned to me and said, "Xiaojuan, hurry up, or you won't have breakfast."
Xiaojuan, are you calling me? I can't remember my name. This name that Xiaocao blurted out has temporarily become my code name.
In order to avoid being beaten and starved, I climbed out of bed as quickly as possible, wearing grass clothes. The clothes that originally reached my thighs reached my knees. It was not convenient for me to walk, so I had to lift up the hem of my clothes with my hands.
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Xiaocao took me through the rooms I saw yesterday, and then through the courtyard to the first one near the door.
Several children were already having breakfast. The so-called breakfast was just a large pot of porridge so thin that no grains of rice could be seen and a basket of steamed buns. Fortunately, only the people in our room and the few we saw yesterday were eating.
I haven't seen any girls who are fifteen or sixteen years old.
"Why are you so stunned? Eat it quickly!" Xiaocao stuffed a steamed bun for me and said, "Hide this for lunch!"
Why should I hide it for lunch? Is there no food for lunch? Although I didn’t understand, I still did it.
We were not given much time to have breakfast. Soon, the man's car started, and the woman came over waving her whip and said: "You guys, go out to work!"
Xiaocao pulled me towards the car. When I looked back, I saw a five-year-old boy who had been whipped for moving too slowly.
Our mission is to beg on the streets!
The man kicked us out of the car at a corner of a busy street. When I was about to get off, I was stopped.
"Take off your coat! Your hair is messed up! What about you? What are you looking at?" the man yelled at me.
Xiaocao acted immediately and scratched my hair like a chicken coop, and took off my coat. Only then did I realize that the sleeping clothes she lent me yesterday had several holes in them.
As Xiaocao and I walked, we said, "You are on this section of the road. Try to be as pitiful as possible and ask people to give me alms. Remember, don't even think about running away. There are people on these sections. If you are caught and caught after running away, you will be beaten."
No one will know if his leg is broken or he is beaten to death. Remember?"
I nodded blankly. It was so early and no shop on the street was open. I found a sheltered place to sit, thinking about how I could escape? Write a letter for help?
I don’t have a pen. Besides, who can I write to?
But anyway, maybe I should try it.
I searched for one or two stones that could make marks in the gaps between the shops. After changing several places, I finally found a small piece of lime that could make marks.
After looking around to make sure no one noticed me, I wrote two words on my feet: "Save me!" and then pressed them down with my legs.
The first money I got from begging was a ten-yuan note, which came from a ten-year-old boy. At that time, his mother led him and walked in front of me.
I happened to look up at him, and I think there must be hope in my eyes, otherwise he wouldn't have walked back a few steps and put the money in the bowl in front of me.
But he didn't see the two words under my feet that I deliberately raised my legs to expose. I was a little frustrated and disappointed.
