"What? He ran away! Hurry up and chase him!"

Just like that, Tieniu Dad, Tieniu Mom and Tieniu, the whole family drove a tractor and started searching the village!

This village is deep in the mountains, with a backward economy and little information. Many women and children there were trafficked, so everyone protected each other. If a woman ran away, everyone would work together to search for her.

As a result, the search team continued to expand, and the whole village was helping Tie Niu's family find Song Baoer!

Song Baoer was exhausted after running all the way to the village.

But I didn't expect that after I ran there, I would find a vast expanse of deep water outside. It was so deep that I couldn't see the bottom, and the road was so long that it seemed like there was no end.

Song Baoer had no direction at all, she didn't know where to run.

With his young legs and weak body, he couldn't run this deep even if he kept running without sleep!

You need transportation!

But in this depth, only the villagers' tractors are the only means of transportation to leave here.

Song Baoer fell into deep despair.

Soon, the noise behind me became louder and louder.

Song Baoer heard the angry scolding of Tieniu's mother, "That bitch is right in front! Hurry up and rush over!"

Song Baoer turned her head, but saw a tractor coming quickly towards her not far away.

She was panicking and stumbling as she ran, coughing as she ran.

She desperately wanted to escape, to escape from this place.

But soon, Song Baoer was tripped by the stones on the ground and fell heavily to the ground. Soon a tractor hurriedly came and stopped beside her. A group of people got off the tractor and formed a circle, surrounding her inside and outside.

"You little bastard! We provide you with good food and drink, and you still want to run away?!" Tieniu's mother Yangshou slapped him hard in the face.

Song Baoer was slapped and the corner of her mouth was bleeding, her ears were buzzing, and there were golden stars in front of her eyes.

"You little bitch, we spent a lot of money to buy you back. Not only do you not stay in our house, but you also want to run away?! Get back here now!" As she said that, Mother Tieniu grabbed Song Baoer's arm and forcibly pulled her up from the ground. She dragged her along the road and forced her into the tractor, which then rushed forward with a rumble.

Song Baoer knew that she was finished, her life was completely over.

After Song Baoer was brought back to the village, Tieniu's family was worried that Song Baoer would run away, so Tieniu's mother found a dog chain, put a noose around Song Baoer's neck, and tied Song Baoer up with the dog chain and tied her in the pigpen.

From now on, Song Baoer ate and slept with the pigs. Every time she slept in the pigpen full of pig feces, she was stinking and dirty.

In the morning, Tieniu's parents wanted Song Baoer to go out to herd cattle and work, so they let Song Baoer out of the pigsty, handed one of the iron chains to Tieniu, and asked Tieniu to monitor Song Baoer. At night, they let Song Baoer go back to the pigsty to live.

In this way, Song Baoer lived under their surveillance all night long, still leading a life of hunger and cold, and she became so thin that she looked unrecognizable.

I was in a daze every day. Let alone running away, it would be difficult to survive if this continued.

All the other children in the family were supposed to go to kindergarten, but Song Baoer had no chance to go to kindergarten and was locked at home all day.

Song Baoer lay in the pigsty, watching the pigs rolling around in the shit. She looked up at the sky outside the pigsty. It was all gray outside, just like her world, without a single ray of light.

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Songjia Village.

Song Shitou is already 8 years old this year. Other kids are already in the second grade when they are his age.

But Song Shitou had a hard time surviving. He lived a life of hunger and cold every day. His grandmother felt sorry for him and would steal some dry food from home from time to time and put it in Song Shitou's hands, so that Song Shitou could barely fill his stomach.

Despite this, her grandmother was often found to have been poisoned. Every time her grandmother was beaten, she would not dare to secretly visit him anymore. This would last at least a week without her seeing him.

The situation with Song Shitou's aunt Song Yun was not good either. Ever since she married the cripple, she had been locked up at home and forced to bear children for the cripple.

Song Shitou remembered that Song Yun was pregnant with twins last winter. Her belly suddenly became very big and she gained weight from 80cm to 120cm. They gave birth to two boys. During that time, Song Yun stayed at home day and night to take care of the children. The last time Song Shitou saw Song Yun, she was sitting on a stool in the street, holding the two children in her arms and lifting her clothes to feed the two children in the street.

She totally ignored the many elderly people passing by on the street, and some old men stared at her chest.

Her hair was messy, her face was dull and dull, without a luster, her eyelids were dark and black, and she looked like she had aged more than ten years. Her clothes were stained with milk.

Her condition looked very bad. When she saw Song Shitou, she looked at him with hatred and disgust, as if she wanted to eat his flesh and blood.

Song Shitou knew that his aunt hated him because of the affair between Song Qingxiao and Shen Mengyue.

Therefore, Song Shitou didn't dare to get close to Song Yun, but just watched her from a distance. However, Song Yun's belly got bigger again this summer.

The two boys at home couldn't walk yet, and Song Yun was going to give birth again soon.

I heard from the villagers that Song Yun gave birth to piglets just like a sow, one after another.

Her overall condition looked worse, her eyes became more dull, her body was flabby, and she no longer had the slim and graceful figure she had when she was young. At only twenty years old, she looked no different from the women in the village.

Since she became pregnant and gave birth to children one after another, grandma's time has been occupied by her. Song Shitou's grandmother has been extremely busy. She has to take care of the children at home all day, and also look after the old blind man and the lame man. She is now more than ten years old and has no energy to take care of Song Shitou.

Song Shitou knew that he could only rely on himself. He had to survive and study hard to have a chance to leave this village and change his destiny.

Song Shitou limped on one leg, and he would limp around every hour to the town to collect some torn paper shells, rotten boxes, and plastic bottles. He would then sell them at a waste collection place in the town, and then walk another hour back home, so that he could save some money for his studies.

Every time Song Shitou walked, his heels would be rubbed by his shoes and blisters would form. Then the blisters would burst and bleed, and his heels would become a bloody mess.

Finally this summer, Song Shitou saved enough money for his studies, and he was going to start studying from the first grade of junior high school.