From noon until evening, Ru Xian had not eaten any rice or water. Her stomach was growling with hunger, and the mosquitoes were buzzing and racing on her body. It was even more stuffy in the room.
Hunger, fear, fear, disappointment…These words that her teacher had taught her instantly filled her mind, and they spread from slow to fast to every inch of her body.
She had no choice but to cry. It was all because she trusted her brother too much. She wiped away her tears and tried to figure out why her brother did this. However, no matter how he thought about it, he could not figure it out.
The annoying mosquitoes were still unwilling to let go of the poor girl and swarmed around her. Yuxian opened the canvas bag that was still on her shoulder and took out a book. A piece of paper fell out. It read:
"I'm sorry, Immortal. We siblings have been very close since we were young. I really didn't want to do this. I was really forced by your sister-in-law. We lost a lot of money in our business and couldn't repay the money we borrowed from her classmates and her family. Her father said that if she didn't return the money within a month, he would let her move back to her mother's house. Your second sister-in-law is pregnant again. In order to pay off the debt and let your second sister-in-law give birth to the child safely, I can only listen to your second sister-in-law's suggestion. I've let you down, but I swear that I'll find a way to bring you home as soon as possible. So don't tell Mom. I'll make it up to you in the future. Second Brother, Xia Yuan."
"For the sake of your wife and child, you let your twin sister become a commodity? You bastard!" The innocent Ru Xian was filled with grief and indignation as she cursed.
At this moment, the door was opened again. It was the man from earlier.
His face was full of stubble and he was wearing a dark blue khaki suit. A pair of black pants that looked crumpled and covered in yellow mud. Even though he had rubbed it hard when he came.
The man stepped into the room and bolted the door shut. He shouted,""Lock the outside too." Then, he heard a familiar set of footsteps that gradually disappeared.
Ru Xian stared at his slowly approaching figure and slowly moved to the cabinet by the wall. Her legs were trembling so much that she was about to lose the energy to support her body. Even so, she had to be very clear that if she fell down first, she would not be able to change this dirty, dirty, and tragic fate.
"You, you, don't…don't…come over. I…have…have…something to say.”Ru Xian tried her best to squeeze out a few words.
The man was shocked, but his eyes never left her beautiful face. She had a high nose bridge, big eyes that seemed to be slightly sunken, small lips and naturally curly long hair, and an oval face. She really was a beauty.
"It's a pity to have such a pair of brothers and sister-in-law.”The man thought to himself as he sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes fixed on Ru Xian. This stalemate lasted for a few minutes.”There are so many mosquitoes here.”
"Yes…Ah, I've been bitten since this afternoon.”Ru Xian tried her best not to be so nervous, because the more nervous she was, the more likely she would lose the chance to escape. She had to be vigilant in her heart and relax outside. "By the way, what's the name of your place? Are you familiar with my sister-in-law and the others?”
"Since you asked, I'm not afraid to tell you. Your sister-in-law and I were introduced by someone else. It was decided about two months ago that if they brought the person over, they would pay 3500 yuan if they liked him. If they didn't, they would still have to keep him. Before you came, I already gave them 2000 yuan because they showed me your photo! Now you want me to add another 2500 to take her away!”After saying that, he subconsciously looked away. "It's not easy for poor people like us to earn some money. We have to work our whole lives to get a wife, and we have to scrape together. There were also people who worked hard for their entire lives but couldn't even get a wife…Sigh!”
"But don't you know that human trafficking is illegal?”She finally mustered up her courage and began to chat with this man word by word.
"I've heard about it from the team, but how can we care about a remote place like ours? In order to leave some incense for his ancestors, this was also something that he had no choice but to do.”He turned to look at her." You look like a scholar. If you're willing to stay, I won't treat you badly."”
"Big brother!" Ru Xian did not let him continue and interrupted him,""I won't stay because I don't belong here. I still have a seriously ill mother. I'm just a student. I still have many dreams that haven't been realized.”
She shook her head." If I can't go home and stay here, not only will I be irresponsible to myself, but I'll also be unfilial to my mother. It's also very unfair to you. Now, our country has laws. Selling women and children will be sentenced and imprisoned. Do you know that?! If you insist on making me stay, then I'd rather die!”
The man looked at her in a daze. He had also studied for a few years. However, his parents had already paid a large sum of money to buy this woman to be his wife…
His heart was in a constant struggle. Ru Xian's determination and tenacity shocked him. Before he came, he had clearly made preparations not to listen to anything she said and had cooked the rice in the fastest and most ruthless way. But now, he wanted to let her go.
However, was his family's decades of hard work defeated by him just like that? His hesitant expression naturally did not escape the sharp eyes of Ru Xian.
"Big brother, take me out for a walk. I've been in this house for an entire day. I'm suffocating!" She tried her best to ease the atmosphere.
That man was supposed to lock her up, but he agreed to her request and took her out for a walk. As the man had expected, Ru Xian found an opportunity to escape.
Ru Xian did not expect that her second sister-in-law would catch up with her when she was running away. Second Sister-in-law forced Ruxian to take the train to Baoding, Hebei Province. Because she had been taught a lesson by her escape, Second Sister-in-law tied Ruxian up and sent her to the buyer! In the end, Ru Xian could not escape the fate of being sold.
A year later, Ru Xian gave birth to a daughter at the buyer's house. Because of the child, the family was much more relaxed with her and even allowed her to go to the town market. Ru Xian took the opportunity to find the local police station and reported the case.
Second Brother and Second Sister-in-law had committed suicide after selling their own sister, so Ru Xian had also become a sinner in the family. Seeing her tormented daughter return home safely, the mother was naturally overjoyed. Then, seeing her son go to jail for greed, the old mother burst into tears.
In the spring of 1978, Ruxian's daughter was given to a distant relative by her mother.
After Ru Xian returned to her hometown, she had been staying at her third aunt's house in Shapingba, Chongqing. One day, a good friend came to her house to express her condolences. She talked about how her former classmates had been sent to the countryside to build and help with production. Many of them had become educated youths who cut the queue. A few of them had good family backgrounds and had already arrived at the place they had been longing for.
Ru Xian had read from books that China's Yunnan Province was a place with many ethnic groups and customs. She was fascinated and finally applied to be demoted from Muqing to a small mountain village in Dali City, Yunnan Province.
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