Jiang Zhen woke up with a shaking sensation. When he opened his eyes, he found that it was dark around him, his legs and feet were tied, and a cotton ball was stuffed in his mouth.

Where is this?

Where is mom?

Where is your sister?

Despite his young age, Jiang Zhen realized that something was wrong.

The unknown environment frightened Jiang Zhen. He began to cry silently, making soft sobbing sounds, but no one paid any attention to him.

I don’t know how long it took, but Jiang Zhen was so tired that he had no strength left, and he cried until he had no tears left. He lay limply on the ground and fell asleep.

Clang——

The door opened and some light came into the darkness.

Jiang Zhen felt the dazzling light. He gradually opened his round black eyes and found himself lying in a truck with neatly packed goods around him.

Jiang Zhen tried to sit up, but his calves were tied tightly with ropes, so he couldn't sit up at all.

The door of the truck was opened, and a thin, dark-skinned man stood in the middle of the truck door and looked at Jiang Zhen.

Seeing Jiang Zhen wake up, the man shouted: "Old Chen, the little boy is awake!"

A burly middle-aged man walked over. He was wearing a very loose, low-quality suit and looked unkempt and a bit sloppy.

The sloppy man, holding a cigarette in his mouth, carried Jiang Zhen out of the car like a little lamb.

Jiang Zhen was thrown to the ground by the man. He looked at the man in front of him in horror, and then looked at the unfamiliar environment he was in. He realized that he had been taken into a forest by these people, and he was now lying on a rugged muddy road.

The burly man squatted down and roughly pulled the cotton ball out of Jiang Zhen's mouth. Jiang Zhen gasped for breath, questioning the man in fear and anger: "Who are you! Where is my mother?"

Jiang Zhen opened his mouth, and the sound that came out was hoarse. He was thirsty and wanted to drink water, but he wanted to go home even more.

"kid."

The man spit out the cigarette from his mouth, squatted down, and crumpled it into a crumpled ball with his toes. He reached out and touched Jiang Zhen's face, saying, "Forget your comfortable days. From now on, you won't have a beautiful and gentle mother anymore."

Jiang Zhen is already four years old and he can understand what adults say.

Hearing this, Jiang Zhen opened his mouth and started crying, but his voice was hoarse and he sounded like a dying kitten.

"Send me back! Send me home!"

The man ignored Jiang Zhen's crying. He stood up with his hands on his knees and said to his companion, "Bring that little girl down here!"

The thin, dark man walked into the truck and soon carried out a little girl who was unconscious. It was Jiang Bi. She was still wearing the princess dress she had worn at the birthday party. The pure white tutu was covered in a lot of black dirt.

The man jumped out of the truck, carrying Jiang Bi, and dropped her in front of Jiang Zhen. He then tugged at the sleeve of his suit, revealing a cheap, fake gold watch on his wrist. He glanced at the time and said to his companion in a thick Sichuan accent, "Old Chen, it's almost time."

"Yeah, okay."

Old Chen glanced at Jiang Zhen and pointed to a slope not far behind him. He asked Jiang Zhen, "Do you know where that is?"

Jiang Zhen looked up and glanced at the slope in the distance, his eyes filled with confusion and ignorance.

Old Chen said, "That's the border. On the other side of the slope is the Kingdom of Yue. Little friend, you are about to go abroad." After that, Old Chen carried Jiang Zhen on his shoulders, picked up the sleeping Jiang Bi, and took the brother and sister towards the border.

Jiang Zhen didn't understand what the border line was, but he knew he couldn't be sent there.

He began to struggle desperately, punching the man beneath him.

He hadn't eaten for three days and had no strength at all. His punches landed on the man's body without any pain.

The man dropped the siblings on the grass at the bottom of the slope. He stood on the edge of the embankment, looking at Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi. Staring at Jiang Zhen's fierce eyes, Old Chen frowned and said, "Don't blame me, kid. If you want to blame someone, blame them for giving you too much money."

Jiang Zhen watched as Lao Chen and the thin, dark-skinned man drove away. He struggled on the ground for a moment, but still couldn't break free from the ropes. A few minutes later, another short, dark-skinned man emerged from the woods behind them.

The short man took Jiang Zhen and his sister away and locked them up in an abandoned pigsty. The pigsty was smelly, foul-smelling, and extremely dark. Jiang Bi woke up and found them locked up in the pigsty. She burst into tears out of fear.

Jiang Zhen sat on the ground, looking at his sister who was crying loudly, and his eyes turned red.

"Come here." Jiang Zhen stretched out his hand towards Jiang Bi.

Jiang Bi crawled towards Jiang Zhen. The brother and sister, who had just fought a few days ago, now regarded each other as their only salvation and hugged each other tightly.

Jiang Bi leaned in Jiang Zhen's arms and cried, "Brother, I'm so hungry."

Jiang Zhen's stomach was rumbling. He hugged Jiang Bi's arm and said with a sob, "Get some sleep. When you wake up, there'll be food." They hadn't eaten or drunk anything in three days, and the two children's mouths were chapped.

Jiang Bi closed her eyes, tears still streaming down her face. After a while, Jiang Bi said again, "Brother, I want some water."

Jiang Zhen covered Jiang Bi's mouth with his hand and said, "Talk less and you won't be thirsty."

Jiang Bi was hungry and thirsty. She cried for a while and then fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already daybreak.

The pigpen was built on the ground floor of a suspended building, with walls on all sides and only two ventilation holes.

Jiang Zhen stared at the sunlight outside the vent and touched his hungry stomach, feeling particularly uncomfortable. Jiang Bi leaned on Jiang Zhen's shoulder, stretched out her dry tongue, licked her equally dry lips, and said with a longing look: "Brother, I want to eat cake."

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