Lin Hongwen didn't insist anymore, as if he had expected something, and looked at her quietly. Ru Ting said, "I have something I want to ask you, and if I ask clearly, I'll leave." ”

Lin Hongwen tightened the cotton clothes he was wearing and said, "You ask." ”

"Is He Gui's arrest related to you?" Ru Ting asked.

"Why do you ask?"

"Some people say that He Gui was arrested for colluding with the Japanese, but I only told you about his dealings with the Japanese." Ru Ting looked at Lin Hongwen intently, "Did you say that this matter has anything to do with you?" ”

"You came to me because of a chasing after the wind, in fact, you have already decided in your heart that it has something to do with me", Lin Hongwen smiled and said, "Does it matter what I say?" ”

"I just want to tell the truth", Ru Ting looked at the corners of his curved mouth and said, "I just want to know if the person I treat sincerely is a righteous gentleman or a human-faced beast?" ”

"I did it", Lin Hongwen admitted calmly, "There are some things I can't tell you, but either he dies or I die, so I can only do it first." ”

"Then you have been looking for me for the past two years, is it because you like me, or do you just want to take advantage of me?" Ru Ting asked coldly.

"I have never asked you to do anything for me", Lin Hongwen said, "I have never specifically asked you about anything, you have taken the initiative to tell me about everything." ”

Ru Ting raised her hand and slapped him hard, Lin Hongwen staggered, and the corners of his mouth were broken. He stood up again and looked at Ru Ting, "I have never treated you badly, and when this matter is over, I will redeem you." Whether you want to stay with me or go somewhere else, I can help you. ”

"Exploitation is utilization, and if you are a gentleman, admit it, don't make excuses for yourself. If you're really above board, why don't you just tell me? You said you didn't treat me badly? Ru Ting said with a wry smile, "I'm sincere to you, what do you do to me?" You took advantage of me, and you think I'm going to let you redeem me, and you're willing to stay with you? ”

"You can hate me, but don't get along with yourself", Lin Hongwen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said, "You should know very well that it is difficult to meet someone who is willing to redeem you again." ”

Ru Ting clenched her right hand, she wanted to slap Lin Hongwen again, but in the end she held back. She looked at Lin Hongwen with wide eyes, wanting to see this person clearly, she wanted to ask him where the young man who had no intention of laughing with her and stood out for her had gone. But in the end, I can only ask weakly, "How did you become like this?" ”

Lin Hongwen lowered his eyes and was silent for a while and said, "I told you before that the person who has not changed has died a long time ago. ”

Ru Ting looked at him, tears silently slid down her cheeks, she thought that it was the young man who reunited with her, but in fact, she recognized the wrong person from the beginning.

"Thank you for your kindness, but don't need it", Ru Ting smiled desperately, "Although Drunken Rouge is a fire pit, it is not as bad as you pit me." I thought I met someone who could continue the relationship, but in fact, I was blind, and the person I liked had long since died, and he was a debt collector. I lied to you once, you lied to me once, and we were even. ”

Ru Ting straightened her back, pushed open the door and stepped out. The snow outside was getting heavier and heavier, the ground was white, tears were stinging the skin like it was about to freeze, and the wind was like a knife cutting through her ears, but even if it hurt, Ru Ting didn't look back.

Lin Hongwen stood at the door and watched her until she walked out of the alley. He remembered that every time he left Drunken Rouge before, Ru Ting would stand at the door like this and watch him until he left Peach Blossom Lane and could no longer see him. He remembered that Xu Qingzhi had told him, "Do you think that if you redeem her and marry her, she should be grateful to you, and you shouldn't care about using her?" No matter how good you are to her, it can't change the fact that you have taken advantage of her. He remembered when he first met Zhou Shiying a few years ago, he told him, "Business should be clear to me, she understands, the two are happy, do not hide from each other, and do not owe each other." If she has affection for me, and I know that she is still pretending to be confused, then it is not business. ”

In fact, he always understood that they were right, but when it was time to make a choice, he chose to give up Ru Ting and his relationship without hesitation. Perhaps the blind man was right, he said, "You have thin lips, and you are not an affectionate person." ”

Ru Ting's tears have not stopped since she got out of the alley, she walked towards Peach Blossom Lane while crying, her whole body seemed to be exhausted, she walked more and more hard, and suddenly her eyes were dark, and she knelt on the ground.

In a daze, a pair of dry and warm hands helped her up. Ru Ting slowed down for a while, and the darkness in front of her passed. Only then did she see that there was a woman of about fifty years old standing in front of her, looking at her with concern.

"Girl, are you alright?" Sister-in-law Tian asked with concern. She had already closed the stall, but just as she was about to go home, she saw Ru Ting kneeling on the street, so she hurriedly went over to mix people up. But when she saw Ru Ting's appearance clearly, she was stunned again.

Ru Ting shook her head, and Sister-in-law Tian said, "You sit down for a while, I still have some things left to sell, I'll get you something to eat." ”

As he spoke, he took out a bun and stuffed it to Ru Ting, "It's a cold day, it's not okay if you don't eat enough." ”

Ru Ting took the bun mumbly, and a bite of tears flowed down. Sister-in-law Tian was startled, and hurriedly reached out to help her wipe it, "You can't cry outside this day, otherwise it won't look good if your face is frozen." ”

The more Sister-in-law Tian looked at her, the more she felt like it, so she asked tentatively, "Girl, do you have a mole on your right wrist?" ”

"How do you know", Ru Ting stretched out her hand to show her in confusion, Sister-in-law Tian was so excited that she almost didn't cry, and asked in a trembling voice, "Are you nineteen this year?" ”

Ru Ting nodded, "Auntie, do you know me?" ”

"You've been separated from your parents since you were a child, haven't you?" Sister-in-law Tian asked excitedly.

Ru Ting looked at Sister-in-law Tian in a daze, "Who are you?" ”

Sister-in-law Tian took Ru Ting's hand and cried, "I'm your mother!" ”

Mother? Ru Ting couldn't believe that she had been fatherless and motherless since she was a child, and the traffickers sold him to a gang of crooks, who eventually sold her to a brothel. She almost forgot that she should also have parents. She was sluggish and let Sister-in-law Tian take her into her arms, crying so much that she almost lost her breath.

Sister-in-law Tian cried for a while before she spoke, "You were born on the eighth day of the fifth month of Ding Hai, and your surname is Tian." When the drought in my hometown was unbearable, your father and I took you to the eastern part of the country, but who knew that when we arrived at the mouth of the Yellow River, there were too many people on the boat, and you disappeared if you didn't pay attention. We looked for you at the mouth of the Yellow River for more than a month, and finally we had no choice but to take a boat. ”

Over the years, Ru Ting has occasionally pondered her life experience, and she sometimes wonders if she will sell it to traffickers because she is a girl and her family doesn't want it. I will also wonder if it was because my family was poor and couldn't afford to raise children, so I sold her. It turned out that it wasn't, even if she was a girl, no matter how poor the family was, her father and mother never thought of selling her.

Ru Ting choked up and said, "I thought I would never see my biological father and mother in my life, but I didn't expect to see you." ”

"Actually, I saw you in Fujiadian before", Sister-in-law Tian said, "I think you look very similar, but I didn't dare to catch up and ask, and finally saw you enter Peach Blossom Lane, and it was inconvenient for me to follow up, so I had to ask Hongwen to inquire." I told him, you have big eyes, narrow eyelids, a dimple on the left side of your smile, and a mole the size of a grain of millet on the inside of your right wrist. I let him find it and sue me, and I will find a way to redeem you. ”

"Hongwen?" Ru Ting only felt that the blood in her whole body was about to coagulate, "Are you talking about Lin Hongwen?" ”

"yes, you know him?" Sister-in-law Tian asked.

"When did you ask him to inquire?" Ru Ting asked.

"It's going to be more than a year," Tian's sister-in-law replied.

Ru Ting wanted to laugh, she wanted to laugh at herself, why didn't she slap Lin Hongwen a few more times just now. She clearly remembered that Lin Hongwen went to see her in Drunken Rouge a few years ago, and when he saw the mole on her wrist, he looked blank. At that time, he already knew that he was the daughter of this aunt, but in order to continue to use himself, he didn't even mention a word.

Sister-in-law Tian saw that Ru Ting's expression was a little wrong, and asked again, "Do you know Hongwen?" ”

"Acquaintance", Ru Ting laughed self-deprecatingly, "I just met." ”

Sister-in-law Tian remembered the appearance of Ru Ting kneeling on the ground just now, and said in her heart that it could be that this had something to do with Hongwen, so she hesitated and asked, "...... you and him?"

Ru Ting shook her head, "The matter between us is a long story, I have to go back in a while, I can't finish it." I'll just tell you one thing, before the Chinese New Year, he went to see me in Peach Blossom Lane, and I was injured in the arm. So he took a closer look, and at that time he already knew that I had a mole on the inside of my wrist, but he didn't say a word about you. ”

Sister-in-law Tian was stunned, and suddenly reacted again, "I said, why did I ask him if he had any news of you before the New Year, he had to pay for me to go to a store." What looks at me in the wind and rain and wants to honor me, and after a long time, I feel sorry for me. ”

Sister-in-law Tian slapped the table vigorously, "In vain, I have treated him like my own son all these years, and in the end he has calculated on my head?" ”

"He's such a person," Ru Ting said with a dead heart, "for his own sake, anything can be calculated." ”

"Daughter, you don't have to worry, I haven't touched the money he gave me yet, you can go back with me and redeem yourself with the money", Sister-in-law Tian said, taking Ru Ting's hand and leaving.

Ru Ting shook her head, "I won't use his money, and I won't have anything to do with him anymore." Mother, I have to go back, the bustard only let me come out for two hours, and it will be too late if I don't go. ”