Yang Ruoning, Chapter 43
Yang Ruoning drew another horizontal bar on the stone slab.
This tablet is what she uses to keep track of the days. It's been 185 days since she was sold here. For 185 nightmarish days, she didn't know how she had survived.
185 days ago, she was knocked unconscious by the river and woke up to find herself lying in a dark carriage. The carriage was bumpy, and the carriage smelled of feces and urine. She tried to sit up in horror, only to find that her hands and feet were tied and she couldn't move.
The back of her head hurt as if it had cracked, and the world in front of her was swirling with countless stars, and she thought she must have been hit with a concussion.
She lay down for a long time before she could barely turn her head and observe her surroundings.
She wasn't the only one in the car. Beside her, sat several people in ragged clothes. Their heads swayed as the carriage jolted, and they were all women. "Hey," she cried, touching the person next to her with her foot, but the man didn't respond.
She struggled to sit up. Through the cracks in the broken wood on the carriage, Yang Ruoning saw that they were driving in a dense wood. I don't know how long I've been in a coma. She thought she must have been caught by human traffickers.
The first reaction, of course, was to run away.
She searched in the carriage for a while, but did not see anything sharp to cut the rope that bound her. She tried to wake the others, but they all seemed to be too faint to wake up.
In desperation, she began to pound her body against the tattered and unstable car, shouting, "Hey, let me out!" β
No one paid attention to her. She didn't give up, and continued to bang the car with her body, and the car began to shake as she hit it.
The person in front of him scolded impatiently, "Damn, which stinky girl woke up?" β
The carriage stopped, and Yang Ruoning heard the man scolding as he jumped down from the carriage and went around to the back of the carriage to open the chain locked outside.
The carriage opened, and Yang Ruoning saw a fat man with a scar on his face. Impatience was written on his fat face, "Damn, looking for death?" β
"Water!" Yang Ruoning said, "I want to drink water." β
"TMD, why are there so many problems?! No water! He cursed and was about to close the door again.
Yang Ruoning was a little anxious, "I'm about to die of thirst, if you don't give me water, I'll keep banging!" β
"It's fucking annoying! Did Wang Mazi, that charlatan, sell me fake medicine again? Doesn't it mean that you can't wake up within 10 days? Why did TM wake up in just two days! Don't let me meet him again, or I'll have the good fruit of the liar to eat!" β
The man muttered, then walked around to the car, and in a moment brought a dirty white porcelain jar. He threw the white porcelain jar in front of Yang Ruoning, "Here!" Then he turned around and locked the door and continued to drive.
Waiting for the moment when the carriage pressed over the stone and made a loud creaking sound, Yang Ruoning bit the white porcelain jar with her teeth and smashed it against the wall of the carriage. The white porcelain jar immediately shattered into several pieces. Yang Ruoning struggled to grab a piece and began to cut the rope that was tied to his wrist. The porcelain was not sharp enough, and she didn't know how long she had been working on it, until the shadow of the sun outside had slanted to the edge, and then she cut the rope, freeing her hands, and then she cut the rope on her feet.
Yang Ruoning took a deep breath, kicked the thin wooden plank on the side of the carriage, and jumped off the moving carriage without hesitation. With no direction, she ran forward in the woods with her instincts.
After running for a long time, when she was sure that no one was catching up behind her, she dared to lean on a tree trunk to catch her breath.
"Hah, you're finally tired of running?" A short and stocky man jumped down from a tree in front of him, and he seemed to have been waiting in the tree for a long time. He has a striking scar on his face. "You people are real trouble! Otherwise, I wouldn't have spent money on medicine and been deceived by that charlatan. β
What the F***k?!
How did the dead fat man catch up with him? Yang Ruoning hasn't figured it out until now. But when she saw the fat man at that time, Yang Ruoning seemed to have accepted her fate. She knew she couldn't escape no matter what. She didn't struggle anymore, she didn't have the strength to struggle anymore.
"Still, of all the people I've ever seen, you're pretty good at running so far." The man stretched his legs and feet, "It's okay, it's been a long time to drive the car, just enough to move your muscles and bones." β
"You...... Caught the wrong person, I ...... If you need money, I have a lot of money, as long as you send me back to the capital, I will give you as much as you want. β
"I can give as much as I want?" The man narrowed his eyes and looked Yang Ruoning up and down, "Hmph, you have to have a degree of lying." β
"Really, I really have a lot of money, you can go to the Jiangxian Pavilion in the capital and ask, I am the proprietress there!"
"Huh, hostess? Do you really think I'm a fool? I've been following you in the capital for a few days, and you're just a delivery worker. β
"How many days have you been with me?!" Yang Ruoning was surprised, "Why are you following me?!" β
"Stop, get me back!" The man was a little impatient when Yang Ruoning asked. He reached out and grabbed Yang Ruoning's collar and pulled her up.
"Wait! If you've been with me for a few days, then who should you be! I'm missing, Luo Yuan won't let you go! β
"Humph! General Lowe? Why are these maids in Luofu all the same? The scarred man smiled contemptuously, "At this point, I'll tell you all the time, so that you can die of this heart." You're the fifth maidservant I've gotten from Luofu. At the beginning, every girl cried and shouted how important she was, and Luo Yuan would definitely find the ends of the earth if she disappeared. But with Luo Yuan's appearance and identity, it's no wonder that you are all fascinated by him. β
The man said while re-tying Yang Ruoning's hands with a rope, "You ladies are really naΓ―ve, do you really think that an official like Luo Yuan would care about you lowly slaves?" Those old men are just playing, and after saying a few sweet words, they really think that they can really fly on the branches and be a phoenix? Hmph, I really forgot who I am. β
The man grabbed the rope and prepared to go back. But when he pulled, he didn't see anyone behind him move. He turned around and said, "Don't you understand what I said?" The person who sold you to me is General Luo! β