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Ling Suyuan pretended to stand up, stomped his feet twice, and several boys ran away in a hurry. She leaned back under the willow tree and watched the setting sun in silence.

It has been eleven years since she was carried back to the village by the village woman...... In the past eleven years, she tried to speak many times, but she couldn't make a sound, since she couldn't speak, she didn't want to speak anymore, she thought that maybe in this life, she was destined to be mute.

Eleven years ago, the husband of a village woman surnamed Wang accidentally fell off a cliff and was no longer able to save her. The old doctor in the village said that if he could find ginseng, then he could still be saved. The village woman surnamed Wang married for five years without giving birth to a child, which attracted a lot of dissatisfaction from her mother-in-law, so she was asked to dig ginseng in the mountains. There was not even a single herb on the periphery of the mountain forest, so she had to go into the interior of the mountain and try her luck.

The big trees that fell around Ling Suyuan, and the ginseng beside Ling Suyuan, made the village woman think that Ling Suyuan had made the child of the mountain god, and after taking her home, even if she gave birth to three sons one after another, she was also good to Ling Suyuan.

The only bad thing is that the husband of the village woman is addicted to gambling in the town, and always takes the things at home as money to gamble, which makes the originally well-off farm family gradually shallow. And as time passed, he became more and more displeased with Ling Suyuan, and always threatened to sell her to a big family in the town. And Ling Suyuan also hated him.

When the last rays of afterglow fell, Ling Suyuan got up and walked back.

This year, the weather has warmed up very quickly, and at first the farmers said that the weather was hot and the grain would grow well, but the temperature remained high, and there was no rain for several months, and the water in the small river at the head of the village was only shallow. But most people are still optimistic that it won't be long before it rains.

Ling Suyuan sighed lightly, her instinct telling her that this drought would last for a long time, and that it would inevitably be followed by a severe famine. Ling Suyuan thought that he should make some preparations in advance, and he could no longer let his fate drift with the tide.

For the famine, Ling Suyuan was mentally prepared, but what she didn't expect was that all this came so suddenly and so quickly.

The first to arrive was a plague of locusts, and a large number of locusts drifted over the village chief like a large dark cloud and fell into the fields. Wherever the locusts passed, not a single grass grows, and the farmland in the village has no harvest.

Before everyone could recover from the locust plague, a plague followed, and most of the old people and children in the village did not escape their fate, and a shadow of death hung over the village.

Although Ling Suyuan was thin, he survived the plague, but the village woman's mother-in-law and youngest son did not survive the plague.

With a large number of people fleeing, the famine was finally long overdue.

The water in the river has dried up, but the drought is not over. The days are getting more and more sad, people's faces are becoming more and more yellow and thin, and there is not even a little bark left in the wild vegetables in the mountains.

Finally, some people couldn't stand it anymore, and took their daughters to the town to exchange for more than a dozen catties of meat, and the people in the village understood that it was human flesh exchanged for their girls, and those who ate human flesh had faintly red eyes and irritable personalities, which made people daunting.

For a time, the people in the village were panicked.

Recently, Ling Suyuan's heart has also been alarmed. He knew that someone in the village was exchanging girls for human flesh, and it was even more dangerous for a sojourner like her, even if she was already doing what she could, the village woman's husband was already staring at her well, and it was only a matter of time before she was taken to the town.

It's not that Ling Suyuan doesn't want to escape, but he can't escape. Ling Suyuan's figure has always been very thin, some people have long said that she will not live long, but she still lives to the present. She was not completely unaffected in the previous plague, in fact, she also had a low-grade fever, and in the situation at that time, letting others know that she had a fever would only burn her to death in the house, so she has been fighting through the plague period.

Although the low-grade fever has been cured, Ling Suyuan's body is very weak, no matter which direction she runs, the end is a dead end. So she chose to recuperate first and wait for danger to approach before escaping.

That night, Ling Suyuan didn't sleep very well, so he woke up immediately after being gently pushed twice.

"Here are some wild vegetable dumplings that you take with you to eat on the road, he is going to take you to the town early tomorrow morning and sell them, you go overnight" The black shadow in front of him whispered, it was the village woman who took in Ling Suyuan. She had no way to stop her husband, so she could only secretly let Ling Su run away.

Ling Suyuan was moved in her heart, and she still chose to help her at this time, but at this time, she had no way to repay the favor, so she could only run for her life first, but fortunately, she had recently saved some wild vegetable dumplings by herself, and her physical strength had recovered a lot, so she should be able to escape smoothly.

She quickly took out a small bag from under the bed and carried it on her back, there were not all the things in it, just a few small pieces of wild vegetable dumplings, the wild vegetables were all dried wild vegetables from a long time ago, mixed with rice bran and boiled, and now they are all dry, although they are hard, but they are very light. There is also a small wooden bowl, ready to drink water on the way.

The village woman sent Ling Suyuan to the back door, and before leaving, Ling Suyuan turned around, because she couldn't speak, she gestured and asked her, she was gone, what should she do herself?

Before the gesture was finished, the village woman held her hand, and another rough hand stroked the top of her head, saying, "Girl, you don't have to worry about me, she won't do anything to me, you be careful all the way, go in this direction, don't go to the town, don't go wrong"

The village woman's eyes were gentle and worried. Ling Suyuan's heart is very grateful to her, it is she who has resisted the pressure of her mother-in-law and husband for so many years to let her live here, and indulges her not to do laundry, cook or work in the fields like other children. But there is nothing she can do to help her get out of her current predicament.

She hated her powerlessness a little.

Suddenly there was a sound of Suo Suo colliding with tables and chairs in the main house, and it must be that the husband of the village woman had woken up.

The village woman nudged Ling Suyuan and whispered, "Hurry up." ”

Ling Su nodded a little away, took a deep breath, turned around and ran into the night, and disappeared.

Not long after Ling Suyuan ran out, the village woman's husband arrived at the courtyard, he didn't pay attention to his wife, but rushed into the side room where Ling Suyuan slept first, and when he saw that there was no one, he rushed to the village woman angrily and asked, "Say, did you let that dead girl go?"

"No, I just got up at night, and I didn't see the girl, and I don't know where she went," the village woman looked down in ignorance.

The husband of the village woman was willing to listen to her, and the duck flew to his beak, and he said angrily: "You must have let go of the money-losing goods, see that I don't kill you."

"Dad, the person really didn't let my mother go, I just didn't sleep, and I saw that my mother didn't go to the house at all, and I think the person ran away a long time ago, and it was in vain to chase after it, so forget it" The second son of the village woman who spoke out was five years younger than Ling Suyuan.

Although the husband of the village woman has become more and more angry in recent years, he is indeed very fond of his son, and he has lost his younger son, and he is even more obedient to the eldest son and the second son.

At this time, after listening to the words of the second son, he glared at the village woman and returned to the house in a huff. The village woman sighed, stepped forward and touched her second son's head, and whispered, "You did the right thing tonight, now you can go back to sleep."