Chapter 198
After stopping in Huizhou for two days, the team planned to start again, but there was an accident when everyone just left the inn.
A ragged and skinny little girl rushed away from the crowd and threw herself down in front of Cai and Lin Wan: "Help, please save me!" ”
Soon a fat woman rushed out of the alley next to the inn with a whip and cursed in her mouth, and when she saw the little girl who fell in front of Cai, she waved her whip and rushed straight over, obviously her target was the little girl.
When the little girl heard the voice of the woman behind her, she crawled and hid behind Cai and Lin Wan, still shouting for help.
Just now, because of the incident, a little girl suddenly rushed to Cai and Lin Wan, which had already made Lin Xiuwu's face change, where would that woman succeed at this time, and the guards all drew their swords in front of Cai and Lin Wan.
The fat woman was so startled by the guards' knife drawing movements that she retreated again and again, but she soon pointed at the little girl hiding behind Cai and Lin Wan and shouted: "You money, don't you hurry up and get out of the old lady!" ”
The vulgarity of the woman and the unbearable words not only made Cai's frown, but also made Lin Wan feel compassion for the little girl behind her.
Lin Wan turned sideways and looked down at the girl who was shivering behind her, guessing what the relationship between the little girl and the fat woman was, no matter how you look at it, it shouldn't be mother and daughter.
The woman saw that the little girl refused to go out, and she didn't dare to rush in to arrest people, a pair of dead fish eyes grunted as if she had an idea, and bent over to Cai's as a salute, and then pointed to the little girl and said: "This is the daughter of the little woman's family, because she didn't take her younger siblings well, she said a few words, so she pushed her two-year-old brother to the ground and ran out." The little girl bumped into the nobleman, she couldn't help it, and asked the nobleman to take a step and let the little woman take the little girl home. ”
Is it really a mother and daughter?
But even if the little girl pushes her brother down and runs out, she shouldn't chase after her with a whip.
Looking at the woman with a fat head and big ears, it looks like she is overnourished, but the little girl has a yellow face and thin muscles, and she is obviously undernourished.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a mother and daughter!
Maybe it was because the guards of Zhennanhou's Mansion hadn't let the woman rush in to arrest her, and the little girl's burden seemed to be a little bigger.
Perhaps desperate to escape from the woman's clutches, the little girl cried out with all her might, "I am not her daughter!" ”
Then he cried loudly: "Daddy, mother, where are you, I can't find you!" ”
Whoa? Lin Wan was thrilled when she heard these two words.
I still remember that when Mao Yanqiu and his wife went to Qingzhou to recognize their relatives, Wei's hugged himself and cried out the word "Nannan".
Later, Lin Wan learned that Wei's was a native of Wuzhou, Jiangnan, and "Nannan" was the affectionate name of Wuzhou people for their daughter, similar to the meaning of "baby".
This is Huizhou City, but the little girl calls herself "Nannan".
Lin Wan heard Mama Bai talk about the northern part of Huizhou City, and the elders in the family often use the word "girl" to call their daughters, and very few people call their daughters "Nannan".
Lin Wan suddenly had doubts in her heart, and became more and more suspicious that the relationship between the little girl and the woman was not the mother and daughter that the woman said.
Will this little girl have a similar experience to herself, Lin Wan felt a little strange in her heart.
Or is this little girl Mao Yanqiu's daughter Mao Yanxia? This thought flashed through my mind and it seemed to take root.
Lin Wan squatted down in front of the little girl, looked at the little girl who was crying heartbreakingly and asked, "Your name is Nannan?" Isn't that woman your mother? So how did you get to the woman's house? ”
Three questions in a row struck the little girl's heart.
The crying stopped, and the little girl raised her teary eyes and met Lin Wan's gentle eyes, suddenly feeling that she might really be saved.
The little girl stretched out her hand to Lin Wan, maybe she just wanted to pull Lin Wan's hand and beg Lin Wan to save herself, but she was ruthlessly blocked back by Dongxue: "Don't dirty my girl!" ”
Lin Wan frowned, and glanced at Dongxue with some displeasure.
When Lin Wan returned her gaze to the little girl, the little girl had already withdrawn her hand, crying like a cat's little face showing a hint of shyness.
The little girl found that her little hands like chicken feet were really black and dirty, so she shrunk her hands into her sleeves, and said while sobbing: "That woman is not my mother, my mother is gentle and gentle, she will hold me and gently shout 'Nannan', and she will hum a little song to coax me to sleep." But she always made me work, and she always beat me, scolded me, and whipped me! I don't know how I got to that woman's house, but when I woke up, my father was gone, and my mother was gone. ”
The conversation between Lin Wan and the little girl, Cai naturally heard it clearly.
Since the little girl appeared, Cai has been observing the little girl's words and deeds, and the little girl is definitely not the daughter of that woman.
In other words, Cai decided that the little girl was not lying.
Seeing that Lin Wan obviously had compassion for the little girl, Cai Shi groaned a little and then glanced at Mama Qiao.
Mama Qiao retreated from Cai's side with a slight bow, came to the big housekeeper and muttered a few words to the big housekeeper, and soon the big housekeeper sent someone out, needless to say that this person went to investigate the little girl and the woman.
Whether the little girl said it was true or not, it was true that the little girl was abused in the woman's house.
Seeing that she was skinny and skinny, and then looking at the faint scars on her wrists, even if this little girl was really the woman's daughter, Lin Wan also planned to help this little girl get out, but how to get the little girl out of the clutches, Lin Wan was still a little undecided for a while.
Cai lowered his eyes, glanced at the little girl's yellow-muscled, skinny, skinny, skinny little body, and then looked at Lin Wan's little face with red lips and white teeth and some baby fat, there was no more fortunate that Lin Wan met Master Huineng and the Ye family than now!
If Lin Wan didn't meet the compassionate Master Huineng or the benevolent and friendly Ye family, would she also be abused and beaten like this little girl?
As long as he thought about this possibility, Cai's hatred for the woman who was still bouncing was extremely hateful.
Since people are asked to investigate, they will naturally not be able to leave for a while, so everyone simply returns to the inn, anyway, their itinerary is not in a hurry, and it doesn't hurt to stay in Huizhou for one more day.
The woman jumped outside the inn for a long time, and when she saw that they were completely ignorant, she knew that she had encountered a hard stubble, and her heart began to retreat. It's a pity that she wanted to quit at this time, but people didn't let her quit.
The person who went out to investigate came back quickly, the woman's house was in the alley behind the inn, the man was a businessman, he was away from home for almost half of the year, and there were two sons at home, one four-year-old and one two-year-old.
The little girl appeared at the woman's house three years ago, and it is said that the man came back from outside after running a businessman.
According to the memories of the neighbors, when the man first brought the little girl back, the woman thought that the little girl was the child born by the man with another woman outside, so the two in-laws had a big quarrel.
The man swore that the little girl was not his child, and that he used the goods to exchange them from the traffickers to help the woman take the child with housework, and the woman stopped.
It's just that from then on, the woman either beat or scolded the little girl, anyway, she was happy to pinch the little girl, and when she was unhappy, she picked up the whip and said that she would smoke it.
The little girl gets up earlier than the chicken and goes to bed later than the dog in the woman's house every day, and is busy doing housework and taking care of the children all day at a young age.
was brought to Huizhou three years ago, and when she arrived in Huizhou, she was five or six years old, calling herself nicknamed "Nannan", Lin Wan felt more and more that the little girl was most likely Mao Yanqiu and Wei's daughter Mao Yanxia.
So Lin Wan found Lin Xiuwu and Cai for the first time, begging them to come forward to rescue the little girl and allow her to take the little girl with her.
Since the little girl was an abducted child, and the little girl asked them for help, Lin Wan came over to ask them for help and was willing to take the little girl with her, Lin Xiuwu and Cai's family wanted to meet Lin Wan's request.
So when the convoy left Huizhou, Lin Wan had a little girl named "Nannan" beside her.