Chapter 31 Fake Man, Real Eunuch

Wu Xin fell off his horse five years ago.

He still remembers that day.

The usually docile horse suddenly got frightened and threw him off its back.

A hoof crushed his bones.

Another hoof crushed his dream of becoming a father.

It was common knowledge that he was lame.

He is a fake man and a real eunuch, but only Song Hua knows it.

Starting from the second year after he fell off the horse, his mother urged him to find a wife and have children.

He didn't dare to find a partner locally, for fear that after getting married, his shortcomings would be publicized.

Wu Xin said that he was lame and no one liked him, so he asked a distant relative to marry him to a stranger at a huge price.

She had no contact with her family, and he didn't allow her to make friends with anyone. He threatened to kill her and bury her if she dared to tell anyone. Wu Xin's secret was thus covered up.

The inability to have children became Song Hua's responsibility and had nothing to do with him.

All he had to do was stop his mother when she said she wanted to change her daughter-in-law, and he should be able to live a decent life.

But today Song Hua went out with another stranger.

Wu Xin was stacking hay.

The more piles there are, the more uneasy I feel.

The sound of the guillotine was like something hitting his chest again and again.

Wu Xin reacted for a moment, then went back to the house and called Old Lady Wu, "Mom, let me see those two bracelets."

Old Mrs. Wu's eyes sparkled. "Son, this gold bracelet is really heavy. That silly woman really dared to give it to me. In my opinion, when your wife comes back, we should pack up and drive the sheep to live somewhere else. This grassland is huge. If we move far away, where can she find it?"

"This bracelet is enough to build eight or ten houses, not to mention a house. You can even spend money to buy you a new wife! Think about it if you don't believe me."

Wu Xin took it in his hand, weighed it, and found it was indeed quite heavy.

He walked into the sunlight and looked, but he always felt something was wrong.

Wu Xin struck a match and held the fire under the gold bracelet to warm it.

A pungent smell came out first, like a punch to the noses of the mother and son.

"What's going on?"

"It's fake, this gold bracelet is fake!"

Wu Xin reacted, threw down the bracelet and ran out.

Riding on a horse, he whipped the whip and chased after him like a gust of wind.

Old Mrs. Wu was left slapping her thigh and cursing behind them, wishing she could catch both of them and beat them to death.

She had dreamed of wealth and glory in vain, but it turned out to be all a lie!

Wu Xin doesn't care much about money.

He cares more about his secrets than gold.

When Song Hua left, he took his secret with him to all corners of the world.

The fact that he is a real eunuch will also reach the ears of others along with Song Hua's footsteps.

What's more, without Song Hua's protection, he would have to marry another one.

Who knows what will happen then.

Wu Xin really wished the horse he was riding could grow a few more legs.

I rode my horse as fast as I could, and when I got to the road, I just saw the back of the bus.

Wu Xin was excited and chased after him quickly.

The bus noticed someone was chasing it and stopped as well.

Wu Xin seemed to have seen the desperate face of Song Hua when she was caught, but when he got in the car, there was no trace of the three of them at all.

How come he wasn't on the bus?

If they are not on the bus, where else can they go?

Wu Xin asked around, and someone who was in the same car with Song Rui yesterday heard his description and said, "I saw the woman holding the child yesterday. She asked me if there was a young married woman from Fengcheng nearby. Wasn't she here to stay with her relatives? Could she have gotten lost?"

Wu Xin's body froze, as if he had stepped into an ice hole.

At the same time, Song Rui and the other two had already arrived at the train station.

They ran fast and didn't wait for the bus when they reached the roadside, but stopped any car they saw.

The two women, with their child, soon met kind people who were willing to help.

After entering the station, Song Rui saw that the nearest train to Fengcheng would arrive in half an hour.

She bought a ticket for a train that was leaving immediately without any hesitation, even though it was located in the south of Fengcheng and in the north of Fengcheng.

Song Rui couldn't care less about so many things now, the most important thing was to leave quickly.

After checking her ticket and getting on the train, she still felt a little nervous.

Until the train slowly left the station, the scene outside the window began to recede.

Song Hua seemed to finally be unable to hold on any longer and burst into tears on her shoulder.

She cried, Nan Nan cried too, and Song Rui's eyes were also very sore.

But compared to the short grave in her dream, Song Rui was already very content.

It took the whole day for the train to get out of the grassland.

When Song Rui came, she was preoccupied with something and didn't even look around.

Now that she had left with her people, she was in the mood to look around.

It turns out that the grassland in winter is so vast and boundless.

Occasionally you can see unmelted snow.

People become extremely insignificant in it.

But the evil thoughts in people’s hearts can be infinite.

Song Hua told her everything that had happened in the past few years.

The reason why Song Hua suddenly went out to work at a young age was because she heard her parents discussing marrying her off in exchange for a dowry.

Song Hua didn't want to get married so early, so she offered to work and gave all her wages to her family.

And that year, she was only sixteen years old.

After working for three years, she didn't receive a letter from home. It was not until she heard from a fellow villager by chance that Song Rui was married that she decided to go home to visit.

After arriving home, they lied to her and said they were taking a bus to her sister's house, but who would have thought that the bus would actually drive to Meng Province.

For the first time in her life, four thousand dollars pushed her into a deep pit.

On the wedding night, Wu Xin told her that he had been crippled a long time ago and threatened her not to tell anyone.

In that place, no one would hear you even if you shouted for help, and no one would find you even if you dug a hole and buried you.

She didn't dare say anything and could only agree.

At first, life was pretty good.

Old Mrs. Wu hoped that she would have many children, so she was quite polite to her.

In the past two years, seeing that she had not been able to get pregnant, she began to encourage Wu Xin to take action.

Wu Xin listened to his mother, and just to completely deny the fact that she couldn't have children, she beat him up when he asked her to.

Song Hua could only write home for help.

The letter was sent by mail with the permission of Old Mrs. Wu. She hoped that the Song family would come and take the person back and return the four thousand yuan to her.

But the Song family never replied.

The disappointed old lady Wu looked down on her even more and wanted to beat her to death.

For the second time, Song Hua's life was pushed into a more difficult situation because of the four thousand yuan.

Song Rui felt extremely disgusted when she thought about the 4,000 yuan she gave to Song Baohe for his marriage in her previous life.

A day later, the train left Meng Province.

Song Rui took them out of the car and went to the hospital to give Song Hua a physical examination.

Fortunately, they are just some superficial injuries, but the malnutrition is severe and needs to be well taken care of.

After leaving the hospital, I bought a ticket to Fengcheng the next day.

I wasted a few days on the road and returned home a few days late.

The closer they got to home, the more relaxed Song Rui felt, and the better Song Hua's condition became.

Before she caught the train, she left a note in the milk box, asking the milkman to deliver all the milk to Aunt Jiang in the next few days to thank her for her help that day.

When she returns, she will first ask Aunt Jiang to find a place for her sister to live, the closer to her the better.

Aunt Jiang runs the store and has the best information.

She also wanted to order milk and beef stew for her sister.

She is at the prime of her life, but she has become so thin that she looks unrecognizable. I guess she needs to take care of herself for a while.

We’ll talk about what happens after that later.

Song Rui leaned against the window, thinking about this and that.

She also thought of Ling Ye.

She had been staying outside for a few days and didn't know whether he had returned from the Soviet Union.

She didn't know whether he read the newspaper she left on the kang or not.