Gu Qingxia looked away and looked at the ceiling.

"How did you get here?" After a long time, she finally spoke.

Finally asked a question about him.

Nan Siwen's hand paused. He knew that Gu Qingxia was not asking why he came to her house, she was asking why he came to the imperial capital?

"I worked in Yangcheng for two years, and it was not easy to do it there, but my boss heard that the north was better, so he moved here. I came with him. ”

Gu Qingxia let out an "um" and didn't speak for a long time.

After a long time, he spoke again: "Later, did you go to Hongxiang?" ”

Nan Siwen's men lost their weight. Hearing the sound of Gu Qingxia gasping, he quickly let go of his fingers and gently rubbed her.

"Go." He lowered his head, "I got a crane operation license, and I also got a driver's license later." ”

Because of Hongxiang, his life has changed since then.

Or should it be said that because of Gu Qingxia, his life has changed since then.

Outside the mountains, there are so many huge cities. The traffic is busy, and the lights are bright. As soon as he stepped into this bustling world, he realized how closed his past life was.

He finally understood why the girl just refused to live with him.

He thought he was so good to her.

But now that I think about it, his so-called kindness to her is to let her not have to do heavy work, let her have meat to eat, and let her not be frozen in winter.

But the girls in the city don't have to work, they all eat meat every day, and no one will be frozen in winter.

Those girls in the city are glamorous, and their lives are beyond his reach. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have known that there are people in the world who live like this.

lived a completely different life than him.

Gu Qingxia's gaze moved from the ceiling back to Nan Siwen. She looked at him and knew that he was not the same as before. He already understood the things she couldn't explain before.

She suddenly felt a sense of relief......

She had always hated those who had pushed her into the mud and trampled her. Those people...... Including abduction, transportation, selling, and buying. And all those people together had more contact with her than Nan Siwen alone.

She had always thought she was going to hate him.

But when she saw her again eight years later, she suddenly found that among those who trampled on her, she hated the ...... the least It's Nan Siwen.

After she returned home from escaping the mountains, she looked up a lot of information. She wanted to bring those people to justice and give them the punishment they deserved. I was disappointed to find that the country's law imposed such a light sentence on traffickers. Shouldn't those people be slashed with a thousand cuts?

Shouldn't it?

And even, the buyer will not be punished by any law.

How so?

She went to the police station for advice. She was told that her case did not belong to the local area, because she was not abducted or sold locally. If she wants to report the crime, she must either go to the place where the crime occurred or go to the place where it was sold.

And the old policeman who accepted her consultation, after hesitation, still lowered his voice and told her not to have any expectations.

This kind of human trafficking, in which several villages commit a crime together, is closely linked and has a clear division of labor. And the local police force, because the police officers are all born in the local area, and there are inextricable links with the locals in one way or another. If there is a major case of abduction, the local police force will not be used at all, and even once the local police know the news, it is equivalent to letting the trafficking group know the news.

If you want to smash such a gang and commit crimes, you can only achieve results unless the top of the hierarchy attaches importance to it, really files it as a serious case, conceals the local police force, mobilizes a large number of police forces from other places, and carefully plans to quickly close the net. If you leak a little bit of information, you will find that you can't catch any evidence.

Traffickers die cunning! Eyes and ears! The locals also formed groups to help cover up, and even several villages united to resist the French on a large scale is also possible.

In that case, if they can't get evidence, the police can only return home.

The young girl sat there, quietly listening to the old policeman's rambling story. Her face was as white as snow, and she was supposed to be beautiful, but because of the lack of blood, she looked extremely fragile.

But her eyes were not fragile, and there was anger but cold fire in her eyes.

She said "thank you" calmly, nodded, and left.

The old policeman looked at her thin back, knew that this was a child who had been abducted and then escaped, and his heart was full of pity and happiness for her.

With so many girls missing every year, how many can come back? The rate at which abducted adult females are recovered is much lower than that of abducted children. Abducted children can still live well somewhere in the world. The abducted woman often doesn't know where Xiang Xiaoyu died......

Can this girl escape back...... Be lucky.

Regarding this, Gu Qingxia himself also knew.

She looked up a lot of information on the Internet, and the more she read, the more chills in her back became......

She remembered the numb and lifeless eyes of the old woman who had lived in the mountain village for more than 20 years...... She remembered the nameless grave in the underworld behind the village......

She's just a little bit close to falling into that fate!

Fortunately, a sturdy young man carried her on his back and ran like a fly, leading her away from the clutches of that terrible fate.

Gu Qingxia looked at Nan Siwen. She knows that she can live in this world with dignity today because of the boy back then, the man in front of her.

"Okay...... Nan Siwen let go of his hand and pulled out a tissue to wipe the medicated oil off his hand. I'll be able to walk almost tomorrow. ”

He turned his head and found Gu Qingxia's dark eyes looking at him. He froze.

From yesterday to now, she has not looked at her squarely.

His body tensed up inexplicably.

"Nan Siwen ......" Gu Qingxia slowly pulled his leg back from his arms.

Because the legs are bent at the knees, the nightdress slides from the knees to the base of the legs. Straight and white legs are slightly spring.

Nan Siwen didn't dare to look at it at all. He had a hunch that Gu Qingxia was about to say something he wouldn't want to hear. Because she had never called him by name and surname......

Gu Qingxia really looked at Nan Siwen with his eyes right this time, and there was no escape. She had to admit that this was a person in her life who she didn't want to face and had to face.

Only in this way can she truly abandon those past cowardices.

She looked him in the eye and said to him word by word, "Between me and you...... Two cleared. ”

Yes, between them, it has long been clear.

When she returned home, it took half a year before she was willing to tell her parents the truth about how she could escape.

Mom hugged her and cried silently, and Dad smoked a lot.

Later, Dad avoided Mom and talked to her alone. After asking for her consent, he remitted 20,000 yuan to the teenager who released his daughter.

It was she who reported Hongxiang to him.

He freed her from the clutches of fate, and she returned him with his chance to change her life.

He let her go, and she repaid it.

She and him, from now on, should return to the bridge and the road to the road. Like two straight lines, they once intersected and then went in their own direction, and nothing longer mattered.

What she wanted to say...... Nan Siwen understands. What she said, as he had a hunch, was something he didn't want to hear. But if you don't want to hear it, you have to listen to it......

"Let's go...... I don't want to see you again. Her eyes were as dark as he remembered, but they didn't have that wet look anymore.

The weakness and tears she once had had long since condensed into the ice that would not melt in her eyes for thousands of years. She is no longer the powerless girl who is bullied and cannot control her own destiny.

The current Gu Qingxia is noble, awe-inspiring, strong, and cold. What she said to him was her command.

Nan Siwen pursed her lips.

This action made Gu Qingxia notice that his lips were very good-looking.

She used to be reluctant to face up to any bit of good in him, but now, she has the strength to face it. She looked at him, and she admitted that he was not ugly in his birth, and even ...... It's good-looking. She was glad that he was good-looking, and when some memories of the past inevitably came flooding back to her heart, she was not so nauseous that she vomited.

"Okay." He said.

He talks and does things, and never drags his feet. He replied that she would not appear before her again, and without hesitation, he stood up and walked towards the door.

"Bring it to the door, thank you." Gu Qingxia lowered his eyes and said.

The door was closed very lightly, as if it were afraid of startling her. Hearing the sound of the door lock clicking and locking, Gu Qingxia raised his eyes and looked at the door faintly.

After a long moment, she turned her head to look at the floor-to-ceiling glass window.

The summer sun is dazzling.

Many years ago, she said "goodbye" to the boy across the road.

Although, he didn't hear it at all......

……

Nan Siwen stood outside the door and felt some heat in his eye sockets.

He had already understood last night that she and he were not of the same world. He knew he shouldn't have any illusions. But he still came today......

He didn't think about anything, he was just worried that she had been frightened yesterday. In his memory, the frightened Gu Qingxia would tremble, have nightmares, and shrink into his arms and cry.

But that was just Gu Qingxia in his memory.

He didn't really know the girl, let alone the woman in the door. But now he knew, she wasn't the same as before. She was strong enough to not need his protection and comfort, or ...... It's just that he doesn't need his ......

He understood why she didn't want to see him again. When he learned about this bustling metropolis, he also understood what happened that year, and what a huge ordeal it was for the life of a girl like Gu Qingxia.

If it were him, he wouldn't want to see him again. Every time I see it, it is a reminder with pain, so that those old things that should have been forgotten for a long time are turned over again, tasted again, and painful again.

He rubbed his face vigorously and left her apartment.

On the bus, he pulled out his phone and stared at the screen...... When he went to her bedroom to fetch her warmer, he saw her phone resting on the bedside. He quietly dialed his own from her cell phone, leaving her number.

He also saved his number to her phone. He didn't dare to mark his full name, he only marked the word "south".

Will she find out? Will she realize that "Nan" is him? Would she be willing to call him?

No, she won't......

The phone suddenly vibrate, Nan Siwen was defenseless, frightened and almost threw the phone out of the car window. His foreman called him, asked him where he had gone, and told him to hurry back. They received an assignment today, and asked him to hurry back to the exit shift.

He answered, hung up the phone, and put it in his pocket.

Looking out at the wide road, towering office buildings and intricately winding overpasses, his thoughts were in turmoil.

This bustling city belongs to people like Gu Qingxia.

And he is just a migrant worker who lives at the bottom of the city, not recognized by the people in the city.