Chapter 9 Chapter 9 I still feel frightened when I think of the situation at that time... I still

feel frightened when I think of the situation at that time. Behind the town is a mountain that is neither high nor low, which is lush and green in summer.

Xiaozhen is of course no match for them, but she is familiar with the terrain and has come here several times to step on wild vegetables.

But a little girl is no match for them and was quickly caught.

She kept saying, "Your father asked us to find you, and I gave him 3,000 yuan.

" Xiaozhen only understood what he meant at this moment.

Girls of this age here can only get married, get engaged, and have children.

She has been in poverty for more than ten years, and she has wanted to escape every moment. She didn't expect her biological father to go to such lengths for a few thousand yuan.

She didn't know whether she was abducted or forced to marry, but she was afraid of either outcome.

Because she was young, her legs kicked wildly, and the two men held her back but she still slipped away.

Xiaozhen's hair was tangled up and she ran to the mountain.

This time she was caught and tied up with a rope made of twisted branches.

They didn't dare to walk on the street so openly, so they walked to the train station in the dark from the small road.

This memory became Xiaozhen's nightmare for the rest of her life, and she woke up in shock many years later.

The green train was packed with

people. Xiaozhen was untied, but her arm was pinched by a man and she couldn't move. They bought standing tickets without seats. Several men had experience and pushed Xiaozhen to the middle of the seats. The middle was much looser, but it was still crowded.

All the windows of the train were open, and the various smells inside were just circulating a little.

In the summer temperature, the small fan on the train kept spinning but couldn't make everyone cool.

The train started gradually and stopped frequently, stopping every hour because there were too many people getting on, and the originally loose middle was crowded again.

The man next to her shouted, "Push your mother, push, don't you see there is no room!"

Xiaozhen was thinner and shorter than a group of men. The crowd was moving, and the man couldn't hold her arm back and forth. He said directly, "You sit on it."

Let Xiaozhen sit on the table in the middle.

I don't know if it was because there were too many people. As soon as she sat on it, the crowd moving back and forth directly knocked Xiaozhen into the open window.

The man tried to catch her, but Xiaozhen still fell out of the window.

Several men looked out and saw that Xiaozhen's back was bleeding.

They all reached out their hands, including the passerby sitting at the window, "Little girl, come up quickly."

In the blink of an eye, the people on the ground disappeared and the train moved slowly.

The people on the train shouted, "Someone got under the train." "Someone was run over."

Several men were shocked and sweating.

The parents agreed to the trafficking of people, but if they died, they would be shot.

This was their thinking at that time.

Xiaozhen took the opportunity to jump down from the table on the train, then crawled under the train, got to the truck on the side, and climbed up.

She didn't know where she got the strength to do everything in three minutes.

This train was bound for Guangzhou.

There were a lot of sundries on the train in Guangzhou. After she climbed up, she hid in the corner and shivered. She didn't dare to breathe until the two trains went in different directions.

Tears flowed down instantly.

People who evaded the ticket kept getting on the train, all of them were men.

Xiaozhen casually smeared the remaining coal slag on her face and body, and then cut her hair with a sickle on the ground.

This train will take at least three days, and she didn't eat a single bite of food.

When she arrived in the bustling city, the feeling of loneliness was completely different from that in her grandmother's attic. The world was isolating her, and there were tall buildings everywhere with bright lights.

She didn't know anything, didn't understand anything, how to make money, how to survive, it was completely different from the world outside she imagined in the classroom.

Sometimes kind people on the road gave her some bread, and sometimes she was so hungry that she just picked up the garbage she saw thrown away and ate it.

It was after wandering in Guangzhou for a week that she met Qiao Yihua.

At this moment, Xiaozhen was cold and hungry in Shanghai, and her feelings were completely different from those at that time.

When they met at that time, Xiaozhen was rummaging through the trash can and had already seen the man in the car parked on the side of the road, looking at everyone with scrutiny.

She also knew that his eyes were always staring at her, but she was really too hungry and had no energy to be wary of anyone.

But it only takes a moment to trust someone. Qiao Yihua went to collect debts and smoked tiredly. She had little left, but she still gave all the change to Xiaozhen, who said she was a beggar.

She rarely observed men or met strange men. Her eyes were full of kindness and she was gentle and kind.

It was just such a moment of trust that changed her life.

Qiao Yihua's life may be much simpler than her parents'. Her life was hard when she was a child, but this hardship did not last long. It had improved a lot before she entered junior high school.

But people always lose something.

Every time I go home, it is cold and deserted. My parents' relationship is polite and strange.

They don't say a word of love, and they have been living separately and sleeping in separate beds since they can remember. They each do their own things in the room.

They don't quarrel, they don't argue, they don't whisper, and it's even more impossible for them to be intimate with each other.

Qiao Yihua was accustomed to this kind of couple life and thought that couples all over the world were the same.

Gradually, when I lived in the school in the third year of junior high school and talked about family with my classmates, I saw other families and realized that family relationships didn't need to be like this, and there was no need for cold violence.

When he longed for this kind of parental relationship, his mother returned to Beijing without looking back and never came back.

It was this kind of relationship that led to his view of love when he was in college, including his relationship with Zhou Yun after marriage, becoming like this.

He felt that talking about boring life trivia with people intimately was very deliberate, but he was not indifferent. This habit and hobby inherited from his parents went from being the most annoying to being exactly the same.

He didn't have many brothers and sisters. In that era, it was very rare for every family to have several brothers and sisters. Sometimes he would fantasize about the scene of having brothers and sisters.

This kind of emotion was only given to Xiaozhen many years later.

It was not because Xiaozhen was beautiful, good at talking, or quiet.

It was because Xiaozhen had just started junior high school at that time, and several people ate at the night market on the street during the National Day.

The motorcycle gangs in Shanghai were not as vicious as those in Guangzhou and Dongguan. When Qiao Yihua paid the bill, his wallet was taken away by the motorcycle rider.

Qiao Yihua reacted quickly and grabbed the person in the back seat.

The man took out a knife and prepared to stab him. Xiaozhen directly blocked Qiao Yihua.

At this time, the others hadn't reacted yet, and Qiao Yihua pulled Xiaozhen aside.

Xiaochun jumped up and kicked the man to the ground.

After the wallet fell, the robbers reacted quickly. The one sitting in the car quickly dragged the fallen man into the car, opened fire and ran away quickly.

Several people seemed to be used to the world. They went through a series of actions as if nothing had happened. They were not disturbed at all. They sat down and ordered a few more bottles of beer.

Qiao Yihua sat down and glanced at Xiaozhen. She had a calm face. She didn't explain or say anything. She ate very stiffly.

He got up and went to the freezer to get a bottle of Sprite and a disposable cup. He filled a cup with drink and placed it in front of her. He smiled meaningfully.

Xiaozhen was biting her chopsticks. She looked back at Qiao Yihua, then took a sip of the drink. It was cold and stimulating. She narrowed her eyes and said, "It's so cold."

Then she continued to eat.

This incident was probably their turning point, and it was also the reason why Qiao Yihua's friends accepted this newcomer.

After his father passed away, they lived under the same roof and became nominal siblings.

Xiaozhen was a soft-spoken person with a strong heart. She didn't talk much but had her own ideas and thoughts.

The first book Qiao Yihua gave her was also his first novel in his life, "How the Steel Was Tempered." He could still recite many famous quotes.

The most clear quote that Xiaozhen remembers in her life is "The most precious thing in life is life, and life only comes once. Therefore, a person's life should be spent like this: when a person looks back on the past, he will not regret wasting his years, nor will he be ashamed of doing nothing; in this way, when he is dying, he can say that I have dedicated my entire life and all my energy to the most precious cause in life, fighting for the liberation of mankind."

Sometimes people are very strange. They are not only affected by the people they love the most, but also by the people they hate.

When Xiaozhen is sad and grief-stricken, she will be affected by this passage, because Qiao Yihua said it very seriously, and said it twice.

And the shortcomings of her body will still be affected by many people in her childhood.

These shortcomings of the whole body have actually been changed a lot by Qiao Yihua, because she has not developed the habit of reading and going to school, and she is always distracted and unable to concentrate.

The handwriting is crooked. At the beginning, Qiao Yihua bought several copybooks for her to write little by little, and she was forbidden to turn on the TV except for the two days of the weekend.

She cherishes the time of study now, but she can't calm down.

When you are young and love to play, if there is no one to restrain you and you don’t have the habit of studying, you may not be able to pass the high school entrance examination.

So when Qiao Yihua works overtime on weekends, she will do homework with the company.

Sometimes she lets Ren Qiu watch her, and sometimes she watches her by herself. Xiaochun said, Brother Hua, why do you care about him? I am not a good student, and I don’t need to study.

Qiao Yihua didn’t answer, probably just to protect him. In addition, her father said at the time that she should not go out to mix in society when she is young. She has no choice but to go to school because she doesn’t know anything and looks at others innocently.

Qiao Yihua and Xiaozhen have completely different personalities. He must watch everything he is worried about from beginning to end. If t can get used to it consciously, it’s fine. If it has all kinds of bad habits, he must correct it.

But Teacher Yan met a good student.

Generally, children of this age are rebellious and rebellious. The more they are disciplined, the more they will rebound. They are nagging and will talk back. But no one cared about her since she was a child. Who cares about her food, clothing, and study? Just don’t get involved.

Therefore, the more Qiao Yihua cared and the more strict he was, the more Xiaozhen felt that he was sincere. She was afraid that if she didn't study hard, she would let him down and let down such a good condition.

Before the Spring Festival, the habit was almost formed in a few months.

Every time Qiao Yihua got off work, no matter how late it was, the light in the study was on. Xiaozhen was writing the test paper correction book seriously, and she didn't look like she was pretending.

She was very satisfied, at least the child was teachable.

He went from checking every day to two or three times a week, and later to once a week.

The two of them could hardly eat a bite of food at night. Qiao Yihua was still in the stage of poverty, and when he was alone, he just had instant noodles. After Xiaozhen came, he occasionally ate some noodles, a little rice, and bought some vegetables from the street.

When the two sat together to eat, Qiao Yihua was uncomfortable at first. He had been eating and drinking alone since he was a child. Whatever the family wanted to eat, he would make it himself. Everyone had different habits and hobbies, and after eating, they were busy with their own things.

Xiaozhen was completely different. She liked to eat together and liked this atmosphere. She dreamed of this and spoke very naively.

For example, "My deskmate's pencil case pops open with a press, so cool!" "What's the big-faced cat on the sticker?" "Who are Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung?"

Qiao Yihua said, "Don't embarrass me."

Later, they hired a nanny, Wu Ma. She can't do anything, but is willing to learn everything. Most importantly, she is cheap, and the brother and sister are not picky. The three of them gradually became more harmonious.

During the Spring Festival, Wu Ma bought the vegetables, cut them, and prepared everything that the two of them liked to eat, whether it was pulled intestines or fried meatballs and rice cakes. She even chopped the ribs and peeled the onions, ginger and garlic before returning home. She

really worried a lot.