(xxviii)

Three days later. The family let her play at home for three days, and on the fourth day, the old couple carried farm tools and took Feng Chunhua to work in the field.

Feng Chunhua watched those lands grow up, but they were all machine farming, and what they did was to tidy up the old ones. But when it comes to tidying up, such a large land, here and there, is still time-consuming.

The old woman taught her how to do it, and told her to remember it, and she said, "I was the same when I was young, and you should get used to it here." As long as you have children in the future, you will be the head of our family, and at that time, you will be able to decide many things. The old woman really liked her.

Three days later, in the evening, I don't know if her so-called "husband" was not at home for something, or if he deliberately avoided her. After dinner that night, she slept alone on the one-third of the kang. Late that night, she shouted that the earth should not be spiritual, and was ravaged by the two hungry ghosts. She only wanted to cry and look in the direction of her hometown without tears, and she was overwhelmed with grief and missed the hometown she once resented.

At breakfast, the old woman looked at her two sons and said meaningfully, "Your sister-in-law is the treasure of our family, you all have to protect it." Her two sons snickered contentedly.

Feng Chunhua never forgot to escape from this clutche, but it was always rare to find an opportunity. She has been followed by the old woman when she goes out to work these days, although she is so anxious that she can't think of a way for a while, but she is also optimistic about the escape route these days. She remembered the road she had traveled on the day she came, and she also wrote down how to go to the main highway, and how to take a shortcut to get closer. She thought: "Anyway, if I find an opportunity, I can slash through these fields much closer, just stop the car on the road and go in the direction of the train station."

She memorized day by day, and stayed until the sixteenth day, although these sixteen days were as difficult as when she was at home for more than a month, but this day finally had a chance.

At breakfast that day, the old woman said, "Hua'er, the Mid-Autumn Festival is in two days, and the old man and I are going to the market to buy some things today." You see, if you want to go out to work, you can go, if you don't want to go, you can stay at home, anyway, it's not a farm now, and the unfinished work outside can be put off again. Feng Chunhua's heart moved, she knew that she didn't finish it yesterday was the farthest away from home, this was the best opportunity, and this opportunity must not be let go. She said like this: "Mom, I'd better go and do that, make it more comfortable, and finish the work, then it will be comfortable." The old woman said, "Okay, I said that we are sensible." It's just that you don't think that it's easy to do that, we still have a lot of land on that side, and we'll have to work for a few days. Then do whatever you want today, do what you want. After saying that, she packed up and went to the market with the old man.

The other two sons lost their bowls and didn't know where they had gone. Her "husband" is in the kitchen at home, cleaning up the dishes and washing the pots.

Feng Chunhua deliberately slowly prepared to go out to work, she saw the "husband" enter the kitchen, she quickly put the best clothes inside, she deliberately pinched the mezzanine of the corset, she put the working clothes on the outside, and then she carried the hoe and walked out.

She forced Dongdong's heartbeat as she walked, but her heart still beat Dongdong. A voice: "Hua'er," startled her into a cold sweat, she stood and turned back slowly, but it was the "husband" who came out of the kitchen, and he said innocently, "You come back early, I'll cook meat at noon." She breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, I know." Then she went farther and farther away into the cloudy wilderness.

When she went to the ground and saw that there was no one around, she dropped her farm tools and flew as if she had seen the slope of the place, and when she was extremely tired, she crouched down in the low lying area to observe the movement in all directions.

When she was finally not far from the main road, when she felt that hope was in front of her, suddenly it rained heavily from the sky, and the raindrops the size of beans poured mercilessly on her body with the wind and sand, and her clothes were immediately soaked. She grabbed her chest with one hand, protected her face with the other, and desperately rushed towards the road, when she was only twenty or thirty steps away from the road, a passenger car whizzed by, and her shouting voice and her figure had long been drowned in this bad world.

She stood on the side of the road without a little shelter, and let the storm bullied her. In this wilderness where there are not even a single tree, all she has is this only beating heart.

She looked at the road ahead expectantly, and what she was most afraid of was that the car did not come, and people would catch up. She thought of this hard-won opportunity, and if she missed it, how they would punish me was another matter, and the main thing was that she would never find another chance to escape in the future.

After about twenty minutes, the rain in the sky gradually subsided, but there was not a single car on the road. She was afraid that the family would soon chase after the rain when the rain was light, because she should have run home when it rained, and the people in the family must have been suspicious when they saw that she did not go back. So she strode along the road, and after a few minutes, the sound of a car could be heard in the distance behind her. She stood in the middle of the road in the light rain that had not yet lived, and she was afraid that this rare car would whizz by.

The car finally stopped, and the driver and passengers in the car looked at her with strange eyes, and she didn't care about anything. She only felt relieved when she got into the car, she was looking to see where there were vacant seats in the car, and then she chose a seat where no one was there to sit down, she faced the window, bent over, and then took off the hairpin on her head, she picked the seam of the corset, and took out the few private money she had saved over the years.

When she arrived at the edge of the city, the car stopped, and the driver asked her to get off, and she asked, "Excuse me, master, where is the train station?" We're on a long bus, and I'm just passing through here. The driver closed the door and left.

It took her a long time on the edge of the unfamiliar city to inquire about the bus to the train station. At this time, her wet clothes and pants were about to be worn dry, and she hurriedly found the toilet, and she went to put on the new clothes and pants outside. She got on the bus, and that's when it really felt like a big rock had fallen in her heart. She thought: It's so hard and dangerous outside, how can I, a person with fine skin and tender flesh, survive there. When I go back, I must be a good person.

When she arrived at the train station, she first went to the ticket office to buy a ticket back. After buying a ticket, she found that there were only five cents and three cents left on her body, and she was hungry, so she remembered the difficulty of going out without money.

She took the ticket and thought that she had been hungry for most of the day, and that she had to go to the commissary for a bite to eat. As soon as she walked through the door of the ticket office, she bumped into a person who snatched the ticket she was holding in her hand.

Fortunately, that person was not her "husband". That person was the first day she was there, the family invited her to dinner, and he and the three hungry ghosts were brothers, so it must have been the cousins of the three hungry ghosts, that is, the cousins of her "husband".

She froze in shock, "You, you, you?" "Come back with me, my brother asked me to come to you. He looked into her puzzled eyes and said, "It was my cousin who asked me to come to you." Don't you know me? I came to your house to eat that day. She came back to her senses, and she grabbed him firmly on the shoulders with both hands, and she took him as a life-saving straw. "Please let me go......" She suddenly lost consciousness and fell on top of him, but her ten fingers, which were clasped around his shoulders.

About half an hour later, she woke up from her coma, she found herself lying on a table in a small restaurant, she saw him sitting across from her, she was about to get excited, but he motioned for her to calm down. He called for some food, and he beckoned her to eat slowly. He said: "Let's eat enough first, I know you fainted in the rain, hunger and urgency, and I am hungry too." After he finished speaking, he also ate to himself. She looked at him, she looked at him carefully, he had no malice at all, and then she was silent for a while, then she took the big bowl of Sanxian soup and drank it in a rhythmic gulp.

Then they started talking, and she told him how she was sold by human traffickers, and how she couldn't make a living, and she couldn't stand the devastation of the three brothers. She begged him to just let her go, and before she left at one o'clock in the morning tonight, you could do whatever you wanted with me, and I didn't have anything to repay you anyway, and all I had was this body.

He listened to her quietly, tears of sympathy in his eyes, he knew that it was hard to marry a woman from a foreign place, and he also knew that it was not easy for them to marry a foreigner here. They often have poor conditions for marrying outsiders here, and there is no way to do so, because the cost of marrying locals was very expensive at that time, which ordinary families could not do and could not afford.

He finally said: "Because of the sudden heavy rain today, my brother saw that you did not go back for a long time, and then he became suspicious. He was in a hurry, and called his two younger brothers, but they were not there, and the fucking old man rushed to the market and didn't come back, and then he found me, and I came by walking one road with him, so good that I took this road, and if he took this road, you would have to go back with him. After he finished speaking, he returned the train ticket to Feng Chunhua. Feng Chunhua knelt in front of him at once, she was grateful, thank you for your big brother, my good big brother kept screaming. In the end, she looked at him and said seriously: "Big brother, tonight, I will do whatever you want, I will depend on you, because I will never see each other when I go." The man smiled sympathetically, and then he helped her up, and he said, "Don't think too badly about the world, let's go, you can find a quiet place in the waiting room and wait for the bus, in case my cousin comes, I will say that I haven't seen you here." ”