On a carved wooden bed covered with velvet sheets, a pink curtain hangs on the bed, and on the wall is an image of a cherub and the Virgin.

The furnishings in the room are a combination of Chinese and Western, preferring cold colors, which looks a little lonely and depressed.

Nowadays, everyone likes Western things, as if they wear foreigners' clothes and use foreigners' furniture, and the whole person can be reborn and stained with the majesty of foreigners.

But the old customs buried in the bones always have to pop up from time to time, and people can't help but use some old-fashioned furniture, just like sitting on a foreigner's flush toilet, but it is not as comfortable as a commode.

Luo Wan's lips were pale, her eyes were dull and she was lying on the bed, her left and right hands hanging down on her sides, like a lifeless delicate porcelain doll, as if the person who smashed the medicine bowl before was not her.

With a bandage around her left wrist, she lay in her palatial bedroom, dejected.

Sister-in-law Wang babbled and cleaned up the pieces, wiped her sweat on her waist, and went downstairs against the railing, planning to go to the small kitchen to fill another bowl of medicine. She has lived most of her life, and I don't know how many fierce women she has seen.

It's not that there are no women who bite their tongues with their own eyes, and when they die, they are covered with a roll, and no matter how beautiful they are, they will fall into the mass graves, and be a lonely ghost. If you don't die and taste the bitterness, there are only a few people who can really insist on seeking death.

Sister-in-law Wang saw that this new aunt was a ******, and her family background might not be bad, but so what. Anyone can see that she is a foreigner, trapped in a small western-style building, not that she should not be allowed every day, but that the earth is not spiritual.

Their master is still kind, she has heard of it. Someone came back with a young play, and it was beating and scolding people to toss to death, and only treating those beautiful men and women as a thing.

Wait for someone to go. Luo Wan's eyes rolled, tears slipped from the corners of her eyes unconsciously, and she used all her strength to restrain herself before she didn't cry. She didn't expect Song Qiusheng to do such a shameless thing and sell her to a wealthy merchant as a concubine at a price of two hundred silver dollars.

It's only two hundred silver dollars, and it turns out that she Luo Wan is only worth 200 silver dollars. Remembering that when she was at home, her annual expenses were more than 200 silver dollars, and Luo Wan regretted not doing it at the beginning.

It turns out Romeo and Juliet. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai are both deceitful, and the sweetness of the two of them was like a sharp sword, stabbing straight into Xiaowan's heart. She hated herself for following Song Qiusheng to the banquet. Why didn't I expect to bite the tip of my tongue and ask Sister Gu for help with all my might.

Sister Gu is such a good person. will definitely help her, the more Xiao Wan thought about it, the more sad and annoyed she became, and she only hated that she still had a little trust in Song Qiusheng at that time, so she only stuffed the pearl pendant into Sister Gu's palm.

But how could Sister Gu have thought that Song Qiusheng's so-called work, the so-called taking her to meet her friends, was just to let the owner take a look at her appearance and raise the price.

This is a great humiliation for Luo Wan. When Song Qiusheng sent her to this small bungalow in a drowsy, the remaining consciousness of her heard the two negotiating the price of her sale. When Song Qiusheng brazenly bargained, she immediately had a dead heart.

If it were to do it all over again, Luo Wan would definitely study in the school in peace, listen to her parents' teachings, and marry someone who is the right person, instead of eloping with him under Song Qiusheng's vows.

She was sold to Xianyang City, and her father and mother returned her brothers and sisters, I don't know yet. Will they forgive her, thinking of the pot-bellied rich businessman, Luo Wan felt sick to her stomach for a while.

On the day she bought her, the rich businessman pulled her and wanted to ask for Huan, Luo Wan fought for her life, grabbed the fruit knife and cut it on her wrist, and the other party was frightened, so she temporarily let her go and let her sister-in-law persuade her.

She will never give in, Luo Wan has made up her mind, she has not made amends to her family, she has not yet sought revenge on Song Qiusheng, she is still young, she must find a way to live.

Luo Wan is not a pedantic person, as long as she does not touch her bottom line, it is a very important thing for her to live, and only by living can she take revenge.

If that rich man forced her violently, she would fight with him to the death, thinking that she begged him to spare herself, she could ask her family to give him five hundred silver dollars, the ugly face of that rich businessman, Luo Wan's eyes burst into flames.

He actually let her get rid of him, and said with a lewd smile that he didn't care about those silver dollars, no matter how prominent her posture was, in this building, she was his sixth aunt, and he wouldn't give her a chance to escape.

There was a string of purple wind chimes hanging in the room, whining when the wind blew, and Luo Wan's heart also shattered into pieces.

It was dark, Gu Xiaoxiao was wearing jeans, tied up her hair and carried a canvas bag, and walked around Christine with a hat, holding a map in her hand, with a missing person charm in the map.

There are all kinds of Western-style buildings here, most of them are small red buildings, and some are imitations of foreign castles, which are only two or three floors.

These buildings are undoubtedly beautiful, or small and fresh beauty, but thinking of the hidden sins in the building, Gu Xiaoxiao can only sigh.

She relied entirely on foot, wandering around the area since the afternoon, walking past one building after another, and the rune paper in her hand did not respond.

In other words, she hasn't come within a mile of Luo Wan's location, could it be that she guessed wrongly, Xiao Wanren is not here? It shouldn't be like this, it made her a little disappointed.

Gu Xiaoxiao lowered her hat a little, it was getting dark, although Christine's security here was slightly better than elsewhere, but every night, there would be many rickshaws and foreign cars driving here, and the powerful and fun-loving people in the city would gather here to gamble and have fun.

There are many people in the three religions and nine streams, she is a woman walking here alone, in case she meets a **** hearted person, it is also difficult to properly dispose of people, although killing people in the Republic of China is not as serious as in modern times, the police station can only sigh when you leave.

But Gu Xiaoxiao still has children, for the sake of flowers, for Yang Dawang, she can't walk away irresponsibly.

There are people outside the world, and it is precisely because of being strong that Gu Xiaoxiao knows the difference between her and the strong. The pistol in the backpack and the dagger in the boots were all Gu Xiaoxiao's reliance, and if it weren't for these two things to defend herself, she wouldn't dare to go on a rampage alone.

Christine is a general place name, and this generation is actually very wide. The further you go, the farther away and more secluded the distance between the Little Red Mansions.

Gu Xiaoxiao held the map in her hand, wondering if she had found the wrong direction as she walked, at this moment. A bright light flashed, and the search talisman she was sandwiched in the map spontaneously ignited and turned into ashes.

The rune paper burned very quickly, and the cold flame released made Gu Xiaoxiao's palm slightly numb, she shook the map, and the ashes fell to the ground flutteringly.

The missing talisman is finally on, and Luo Wan is likely to be in the small red mansion about five hundred meters away from her. Gu Xiaoxiao raised her head and looked around, the sky had completely darkened, by the moonlight. You can vaguely see that there are six or seven small western-style buildings scattered within a radius of several hundred meters.

If the instructions of the Finder Talisman were correct, then Luo Wan was likely to be in this area, and Gu Xiaoxiao was measuring the distance. But the search charm is not a sophisticated procedure. It can only determine the approximate range. Xiao Wan may be five hundred meters away from her, or it may only be three or four hundred meters.

It was dark, and in the era when street lamps were not yet popular, almost all of the small red buildings in this area were electrified, which was already very good compared to other places in Xianyang City.

The grass and trees were sparse, Gu Xiaoxiao was walking alone in the night, and the flashlight was not taken out. Just to observe the nearby terrain.

Each little red building has a courtyard wall, which becomes an obstacle for her to observe the environment inside. At this moment, a rickshaw pulled a middle-aged man with Erlang's legs crossed, passed in front of Gu Xiaoxiao and stopped in front of a bungalow.

Gu Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up, and she thought of a good way, she had inquired about the rickshaw driver who took Xiaowan away, and people nearby told her that the rickshaw driver was likely to be a monthly coachman, specializing in serving customers.

Doesn't this mean that as long as she finds the coachman, she can ask for Xiaowan's whereabouts. If he didn't want to say it, Gu Xiaoxiao naturally had a way to make him confide in the truth.

In addition to the monthly rickshaws, there are also odd jobs, and the rich don't care about the small money, and usually let the driver wait outside the small western-style building.

This also gave Gu Xiaoxiao the opportunity to observe, she walked from building to building, pretending to come to the driver who pulled her just now to find the luggage that had been left behind, and she could also ask by the way, if anyone had seen the driver who picked up Xiaowan before.

Gu Xiaoxiao has an excellent memory and affinity, although she didn't find the person she was looking for along the way, she also had a certain understanding of several small red buildings nearby. Don't underestimate rickshaw drivers, although they live at the bottom of society and don't have a high income, when it comes to gossip, no one knows more than them.

Maybe for the rickshaw driver who pulls the rickshaw, there is really not much difference between the companions, after Gu Xiaoxiao described the appearance of the person, almost everyone could name two or three, and they thought that it might be the person she was looking for.

This made Gu Xiaoxiao cry and laugh, too much news equals no news, and the enthusiasm of these masters gave her a big problem.

After filtering all kinds of news, Gu Xiaoxiao locked up three small western-style buildings, because these three buildings have held banquets in the recent past, and before that, there were rumors that they wanted to accept their aunts.

Just because Aunt Na is really not a big deal, finding a few friends to set a table is even a celebration of Xiao Dengke's joy, men like the new and hate the old, Xiao Hongwu went to the old people for the new people, and even the coachmen who are good things can't figure out how many aunts there are here.

The scope is limited to the three small red buildings, which is much stronger than the previous vague direction, and the missing person charm burns normally, which also means that Xiao Wan is still living well.

It was completely dark, the dew was overflowing, and it was cold, Gu Xiaoxiao took out a flashlight, and decided to go home first, and then come back tomorrow during the day to find out, and find a way to find the coachman who pulled Xiaowan away, or find out Song Qiusheng's pickled goods.

Compared with the rickshaw driver, Song Qiusheng's whereabouts are more difficult to find, he coaxed Xiaowan's money, and sold her for a sum of money, and now his hands and feet are wide, and he can nest for a long time in any place.

There are so many gambling houses in Xianyang City, he won't pick up a gambling house, most of the gamblers are also smoking guns, if Song Qiusheng has the habit of smoking big cigarettes, how much money is not enough for him to squander.

This hateful guy, when he saw him, the first thing Gu Xiaoxiao did was to smash his little white face, so that his mother couldn't recognize him.

After walking for a while, Gu Xiaoxiao had great luck and came across a rickshaw that was originally waiting for guests, but the guests kept going back temporarily, and they lost a distance.

But from Christine sitting in the courtyard of the mansion, it also costs a lot of copper yuan, and Gu Xiaoxiao is closing her eyes all the way. Sometimes I think about how to find Xiaowan and how to rescue her.

Back in the rented house, Hua'er's sleepy little head grew little by little, but people sat there stubbornly, just unwilling to sleep, and Yang Dawang couldn't coax her with various toys.

"Sister, you're finally back, Hua'er and I are worried about you, I want to send Hua'er to Aunt Li'er's house and go out to find you."

The worry in Yang Dawang's eyes couldn't be faked, the flowers were red, and he didn't know if he was smoked by a kerosene lamp, or if he was too tired to stay up all night.

Gu Xiaoxiao hurt the two children, rubbed her hands, and after it was hot, she picked up Hua'er's face, and scolded in a slightly heavy tone: "Hua'er, my mother said that I would let my brother take care of you to sleep first, why do you want to play here." ”

She also had a bit of majesty in her face, and Ai Ai rubbed her eyes during the flower period, lowered her head silently, and said in a voice like a gnat: "Hua'er is worried about her mother, worried that her mother will be lost, it's dark, and her mother hasn't come back yet." ”

Hua'er can now speak clear and logically correct sentences, which is a very big progress, Gu Xiaoxiao put two warm big hands on both sides of Hua'er's cheeks: "Little guy, grow up quickly, when you grow up, you will protect your mother, and your mother will not be lost." ”

"Okay, I'll take care of and protect my mother in the future."

Gu Xiaoxiao made a joke, and Hua'er hooked her finger with her finger seriously and signed an agreement with her.

Hua'er was so sleepy, Gu Xiaoxiao coaxed a little, she closed her eyes, and the whole person was lying in Gu Xiaoxiao's arm half-asleep.

She carried the flower to the bed and covered her with a quilt.

The warm scene fell in Yang Dawang's eyes, and he began to miss his mother in his hometown again. I don't know if my mother is staying at home, my aunt and flowers are gone, and my grandparents will scold my mother for this.

The situation at home has been worse every year, and the number of long-term and short-term workers hired has also decreased.

He knew that the outside world was so big, he should have brought his mother out with him, although the road was a little harder, but Xianyang City could make money everywhere.

With the help of the little aunt, the two of them will definitely be able to gain a foothold here.

Thinking of his mother, Yang Dawang thought of Xiaowan again, she is also a poor person, how could she be sold by her boyfriend, Song Qiusheng is really a bastard with a beast's heart.

"Sister Gu, when you go out this time, is there any news about Xiaowan's whereabouts, I don't know if she is safe now."

Yang Dawang was afraid of waking up the flowers, so he specially lowered his voice and asked, his eyes full of worry.

(Lingzi is going on a trip, but he didn't save the manuscript, and he feels that the full attendance is dangerous) (to be continued.) )