Chapter 1393
I nodded my head, my mind was a bit muddled.
When the children had eaten, as it was already late, the hostess had bunked down in another house of almost 20 square metres. Wang Baogen said that the conditions here were such that it would be fine for one night and that we would return tomorrow.
Lin Shen was worried that I would be cold at night, so he found all the quilts he could from the hostess’s house, but they were still quite uncomfortable, and we were huddled together with some children.
By midnight, my feet were too cold to sleep and I couldn’t help but curl up when I heard a little girl’s voice in my ear, “Auntie!”
I thought I was hallucinating at first and froze for a moment before I heard the little girl’s voice again, “Auntie, are you asleep?”
This time I was sure that the child was calling me, I couldn’t help but freeze for a moment and answered, “No, why?”
Rolling over and doing up, I saw that the little girl had somehow squatted beside me and looked at me and whispered, “Mum said she wants me to go with you tomorrow and go to the city for good food, can you bring big sister with you, she wants to go to the city too.” The fastest updating s..sm.
I froze for a moment, pulled her to sit beside me, covered her somewhat cold body with the quilt and spoke, “What’s wrong? Why do you want to take big sister with you?”
The little child didn’t seem to move at all, leaning against me although scared, but still couldn’t help but speak, “Auntie, you seem to, smell a lot better on you than mummy’s.”
I couldn’t help but smile and wait for her to answer my question.
But the little girl seemed completely distracted by the scent on me and I couldn’t help but speak again, “Little one, why did your big sister go into town for something? How old is she.”
She withdrew her attention and thought for a moment, “Big sister is seventeen, mum said she could get married, but she didn’t want to, big sister has read a lot of books and now dad won’t let her read anymore and told her to come back and get married, but she won’t, so she’s locked up in a cattle pen by mum, big sister is so poor, she hasn’t eaten for days, mum said if she doesn’t get married she will never be allowed to eat and to starve her to death.”
The child’s words startled me, and for a moment I didn’t know what to say, but calmly asked, “Can you take me to see Big Sister?”
She nodded and stood up, barefoot and about to leave, I pulled her back and whispered, “It’s cold outside, you have to pass on your shoes and clothes first.”
She said with a carefree face, “It’s okay, it’s not cold, my brothers and sisters and I used to go barefoot in winters colder than this one, mum said it wouldn’t be cold if I got used to it, I’m used to it now so it’s not cold.”
I pursed my lips and didn’t continue to speak anymore, following her out of the house, then, pulling me to a door, she took the lock off the house and whispered, “Are you asleep, big sister?”
Inside came the sound of Xu Xu crumbling, followed by a girl’s voice whispering in response, “Not yet.”
The little girl gently pushed open the door, it was so dark inside that nothing could be seen, seeing her step inside, I followed with some concern and before I could step inside, the little girl looked back at me and whispered, “Auntie, don’t come in, it’s dirty inside, there’s a lot of cow Sh*t.”
Then speaking to the person inside the door, she said, “Big sister, I’ve brought my aunt here, please beg her to let you come to the city with me so you don’t have to get married.”
Chapter 1394
I fished out my phone in my pocket, turned on the torch, shone it inside and froze. It was just as the little girl had said, the ten square meters of the house was full of cow Sh*t and hay, some parts of it were wet from cow urine or leaking rain from the eaves.
The girl who was locked inside was dressed very thinly, with only a short sleeve that showed her arms and a pair of black sweatpants, I don’t know how many years she had been wearing them, they had been mended several times on her knees, the trousers were so short that they reached the top of her legs and neck, fortunately there was a big yellow cow in the cattle pen, the girl was leaning on the side of the neck of the big yellow cow, when she saw us, the girl curled up, because of the torch, she raised her hand blocked the light and said with some fear, “Mom, don’t push me, I’ll die!” The fastest updating s..sm.
The little girl beside her hurriedly said, “Big sister, she’s not mum, she’s the aunt from home, the one who’s going to take me to the city, she’s beautiful, not mum!”
Hearing the girl’s voice, the girl squinted her eyes and looked over, a clear face was a little white, her lips were dry, she looked like she hadn’t eaten for a few days, she opened her mouth and looked at me, not as scared as I thought she would be, she spoke calmly, “You’re the one who’s taking my sister to the city? Make her contribute organs to your daughter?”
Her words were too much for me to take in, but when I thought about it, there was nothing wrong with that, I pursed my lips and nodded, “Yes, but don’t worry, I’ll take good care of her.”
She suddenly sneered, “Isn’t that the way it should be? If they don’t understand, do you think I don’t understand either? Little Miss is only five years old, she’s going to have her organs removed from her body, and she might even die, you’re paying tens of thousands of dollars to trade her life for your daughter’s, shouldn’t you take care of her?”
The girl’s words were sharp, I pursed my lips and didn’t respond, it wasn’t that I didn’t dare to answer, I just didn’t think it was necessary, if I didn’t understand why Wang Baogen brought me over here at first, I do know some of it now.
After a pause, she girl looked at me and spoke, “I know my sister can save your daughter’s life, so let’s trade off, I want you to promise me one thing.”
I frowned slightly and spoke, “If it’s reasonable, I’ll consider it, but if you’re unreasonable in your demands, then I’m sorry.”
“Take me and my sister with you, I can’t stay here and wait to die, my mother is marrying me off to a fool, I don’t want that in my life, I don’t need you to do anything, just take me to the city, don’t worry, I won’t pester you or bother you when you get there, I just want to get out of this place, I don’t want my whole life to be accounted for here I just want to leave this place, I don’t want my whole life to be accounted for here.”
The girl’s eyes were full of longing and anticipation for the future, and she looked at me with a gaze so genuine and eager that if I had been younger, I might have nodded my head in pain immediately.
But I hesitated. After all, I was unfamiliar with everything here, including this girl, and I didn’t know what her parents were going to do to her. Why was she being held? I was an outsider, and if I intervened at random when I didn’t know the situation, I would instead draw conflict to myself.