For more than three years, Gu Qiancheng has been teaching the village children in Huocheng with great trepidation. He has been on tenterhooks every day, not daring to teach too slowly, but also daring not to teach too fast.
If she is slow to teach, she is afraid that the people in Huo City will deem her useless; if she is teaching quickly, she is afraid that there will be nothing left to teach her and she will be dragged away by the people of Huo City for breeding.
Ahem... Although the word "breeding" is a little rude, it is very appropriate. At least in Gu Qiancheng's view, the value of women's existence in Huo City is to have children. The women here are in slightly better health, and they are all three years old.
When I was holding two children, I was either giving birth to a baby or carrying a baby, so I had almost no free time.
In the past three and a half years, Gu Qiancheng has lived like a war every day in order to preserve his innocence. He is always on guard against the men around him, for fear that if he is not careful, he will be forcibly taken away for breeding.
In addition to worrying about being forced to match someone, Gu Qiancheng also has to pay attention to the people around her who are watching her. In the past two years, people in Huo City didn't trust her and looked at her as if they were looking at a thief. There were people watching her day and night, but she didn't care.
I dare not make any small moves.
After two years, the people in Huo City saw that she was safe and sound, so they relaxed their vigilance and allowed her to take her students to the mountains to collect herbs.
Only when there were fewer people watching around did Gu Qiancheng dare to plan to leave. Even if no one had ever left Huo City, and no matter how closely the people in Huo City watched, she never thought of staying here.
On the first day she landed here, she was planning how to escape from here.
It took two years to get the people in Huo City to relax their guard, and another year and a half to plan the route and prepare dry food. Gu Qiancheng decided to take the risk.
There is nothing wrong with taking risks. Although Gu Qiancheng has been able to go out for more than a year, she cannot go far, and there are never less than two people with her. She can only move under the eyes of the people in Huo City. [Read this book
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Gu Qiancheng's understanding of Huo City was limited to the places she had walked and the daily activities of people in Huo City. She didn't know how far away it was.
However, this did not shake Gu Qiancheng's determination to leave.
She stayed in the Fire City for more than three years before she was allowed to move around in the inner circle. If she wanted to be like the people in the Fire City and move around without restrictions, unless she could integrate into the life in the Fire City, and women must integrate into the life in the Fire City.
, there is only one way, and that is to give them children!
Gu Qiancheng would not agree to this even if he died.
If she cannot integrate into the life of Huo City, the people of Huo City will not allow her to move freely or give her a chance to escape.
Since waiting is useless, Gu Qiancheng doesn't plan to endure it any longer. If she continues to endure it, she's afraid that she won't be able to escape.
After getting ready, Gu Qiancheng decided to take action tonight.
Thinking of tonight's action, Gu Qiancheng's heart was pounding, and she was extremely nervous. However, she didn't show it at all on her face. As usual, she said to the child underneath her with a gentle face: "Okay, kid. Hey guys, get out of class is over, don’t play outside, go home early and finish copying the books.”
"Yes, sir." There are not many children in the village who come to school. There are only twenty-one children in total. The oldest is thirteen years old and the youngest is five years old.
Perhaps it is because they have read books, become literate, and understand the truth. These children are very different from other people in Huo City. Their words and deeds are not like children in the countryside.
There is no way, Gu Qiancheng has been considered a noble girl in both her past and present lives. She received an elite education. No matter in terms of knowledge, behavior and cultivation, she is not comparable to ordinary people.
Taught by words and deeds, these children follow Gu Qiancheng every day and learn from Gu Qiancheng's actions. Naturally, they are different from other wild and wild children in Huocheng.
Twenty-one children gathered together in twos and threes and walked home hand in hand. Villagers passing by occasionally saw them and were filled with envy.
"When we have children in our family, we also send them to school. Look at Datou's eggs. Before, their clothes and face were all covered with runny nose. Now they look so clean."
"I heard Da Tou say the other day that his Dan'er knows how to endorse and knows how to tell the time, which is amazing."
"Mr. Gu is so awesome. Didn't the old Tao family at the head of the village have a daughter? The name Mr. Gu gave her is Shiyun. It's better than my big flower's name."
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Gu Qiancheng worked as a teacher in Huocheng for three and a half years. He changed the appearance of the children in the village and saved many young men, women and children. Although the people in Huocheng didn't say it, they all remembered it and treated Gu Qiancheng in their hearts.
The city was much better than before, and almost no one regarded her as a slave girl.
Although there are few women in Huo City, they have always been so few, and Gu Qiancheng is not the least of them. The people in Huo City have decided that they will not force Gu Qiancheng to marry unless Gu Qiancheng is willing.
Of course, this does not mean that the people in Huocheng will let Gu Qiancheng go, and are willing to listen to Gu Qiancheng's call and follow her to leave the place where their ancestors have lived for generations. The respect that the people in Huocheng have for Gu Qiancheng is based on her lifelong stay.
Here, on the premise of teaching their children, treating illnesses and saving lives.
Gu Qiancheng knew this very well. Therefore, even if the people in Huo City treated her better than before, she did not give up the idea of leaving.
Not to mention that there are Qin Jiyan and Long Bao waiting for her outside, even if she has no relatives outside, she will not stay in Fire City. In Fire City, she is just a dependency, she has no autonomy, her destiny
It is entirely up to others to decide.
The people in Huo City think she is useless, and they want her to marry as many men as she wants; the people in Huo City think she is useful, and if they want to give her respect, they will give her respect. She has no right to make her own decisions.
No.
And this kind of life is definitely not what she wants.
After the students left, Gu Qiancheng tidied up the table slightly, arranged the books neatly, wiped the table clean, and then returned to the backyard.
She lived in the house behind the school. There was only a small room. After setting up a bed, there was no place to turn around. Naturally, there was no kitchen or anything.
Gu Qiancheng had three meals a day specially delivered to her, and they would take them away after watching her finish them. She would not be allowed to leave food behind. If she did not finish the food that day, the portion would be less the next day.
Gu Qiancheng had been here like this for more than a thousand days. Even though the people in Huo City slowly accepted her, they still did not let down their guard and did not let her have the slightest chance of leaving.
After eating and washing himself with the water brought by the villagers, Gu Qiancheng went to bed early as usual, and soon he heard the sound of steady breathing.
"Mr. Gu, Mr. Gu." The woman standing guard outside the door called a few times, but when Gu Qiancheng didn't respond, she left.
Gu Qiancheng had learned the skill of pretending to sleep long ago in Huo City, and it was impossible for her to fall asleep. In Huo City, a place with many monks and few people, a weak woman living alone is a lamb to be slaughtered. If she is not alert, she will be killed.
Eighty-nine will be innocent in their sleep.
Gu Qiancheng encountered this kind of thing a lot in the first year she came here. If she hadn't been so alert and hid under the bed when she noticed someone approaching, her innocence would have been lost.
Counting down the more than a thousand days in the Fire City, it was really full of tears.
Fortunately, these days are finally coming to an end...