Chapter 37
The old man grabbed the pregnant woman's hand, pulled her behind him, and yelled at the staff of the program.
"It hurts~" the pregnant woman struggled.
The old man slapped the pregnant woman in the face and said, "Shut up! Go home and see how I deal with you."
The pregnant woman was trembling with fear and sobbing like a cat.
The old man pulled the man away quickly.
Everyone looked at this scene in surprise and was unable to react for a moment.
Are they a couple? One looks like he's on his deathbed, the other looks middle-aged. The age difference is too big.
Seeing that the pregnant woman followed the old man away without any resistance, others didn't say anything. After all, it was the couple's job.
Nan Tao looked at the old man dragging the pregnant woman away and couldn't help but complain in her heart.
[So it was this damn old man who abducted and sold her. Damn it! This kind of human trafficker should be arrested and put in jail.]
[Something seems off about the pregnant woman. A bit like...]
"That shouldn't be the case, right? But if it's not, it doesn't explain why you didn't run away."
What a pity! For those female college students who graduated from rural areas in the 1990s, fate is so fickle.
The netizens who were watching the live broadcast were still angrily scolding the old man for bullying women and pregnant women for being cowardly, when they suddenly saw the message "Have you eaten melon today" floating on the screen and were stunned.
What? Female college students from the 1990s? Trafficking?
[Oh my god, this time what Agua said is not true, if so it would be too scary.]
This old man has a terrifying face. I shudder all over when I see him. He might really be a human trafficker.
[Does anyone know this pregnant woman? Please contact her family immediately.]
[How many years has it been? Is her family still looking for her?]
[More reposts bring more support. You can @ your local public security bureau.]
The content of the barrage "Have you eaten melon today?" attracted great attention from many netizens, who forwarded it enthusiastically. Soon, the entry #Female college students in the 1990s were suspected of being abducted# became a hot search on major platforms and attracted the attention of the public security bureau.
After the old man and the pregnant woman disappeared from everyone's sight, everyone gossiped curiously.
Wen Manqing: "Does she have any unspeakable secrets? Why didn't she resist when the old man treated her like this?"
Jiang Hui: "It's hard to say. When I was a child in the village, this was common. Husbands would beat and scold their wives, and the wives would remain silent. I still remember a neighbor who was very beautiful, but her husband was a long-term alcoholic and gambler. He would beat and scold her at every turn. In the end, she developed breast cancer and died. Even after her death, her family scolded her for what she deserved."
Zhou Mei: "It can be used as film material and has educational significance."
Nan Tao: "Is it possible that she was trafficked?"
Wen Manqing: "That's unlikely. We just saw her on the beach, which means she's free. If she was trafficked, why didn't she run away?"
Jiang Hui: "Maybe she couldn't find her family for so many years, and now she's pregnant and has no money?"
Nan Tao: "Yes, there is such a possibility, but I always feel that this pregnant woman..." As she spoke, she pointed at her temples.
Wen Manqing was surprised: "Isn't it possible?"
Jiang Hui: "We are just guessing, we might be wrong. They are having a normal marriage and having children, it's just that the age difference is a bit big."
Zhou Mei: "Here we are. This one should be it."
Everyone came closer to the photo, took a look, then looked at the house in front of them, and confirmed, "This is it."
Zhou Mei: "Come in and rest for a while?"
Everyone: "No, let's continue looking for a house."
After walking for a while, Wen Manqing and her daughter found the house.
Soon after, Jiang Hui and her son also found their own house.
Jiang Hui: "Come in and have a rest. Drink some water. Your villa on the sea is too hot. Stay here with me this afternoon."
Nan Tao's face flushed with heat, "Okay, it's too hot."
"Drink some water." Jiang Hui handed over the mineral water.
In the small room, the only sound was the four people gulping down water.
After drinking the water, everyone was so tired that they lay side by side on the bed to rest. After a while, Yu Ze and Zhan Li fell asleep one after another.
Nan Tao picked up a fan and fanned the two children, "The children are all very hot."
Jiang Hui: "I'm worried the children won't be able to handle the heat for the next two days. They could easily get sunburned and sick in this hot weather."
I don’t know if it’s because the weather is too hot, but Nan Tao is very dry. Recording this program is so tiring. As an adult, I can still bear it, but how can such a young child bear it?
Thinking of this, Nan Tao was very angry. If it weren't for the charming heroine who was hiding behind the scenes, she wouldn't have taken such pains to bring her son to the entertainment industry to find gossip. Although she liked to eat gossip, she was really the only one who worked so hard to eat gossip.
While comforting myself that I am a cannon fodder who will have a miserable end if I don’t work hard to eat melons, I can’t help but feel irritated. What kind of charming heroine is this? She has the nerve to be a charmer by sucking other people’s luck?
Thinking left and right, I fell into a deep sleep in a daze.
When the four of them woke up, it was already pitch dark outside.
It is very hot in the summer at the seaside, and there are a lot of mosquitoes at night.
Nan Tao looked at the red envelopes all over her body and complained, "Did the mosquito only want to take advantage of me?"
The other three people also had red spots from mosquito bites on their bodies, but compared with the dense red spots on Nan Tao's arms, they were nothing.
Yu Ze felt so distressed that he quickly took the floral water on the table and sprayed it on Nan Tao, "Mommy, does it itch?"
Nan Tao sneezed at the smell of the toilet water. "It's okay. Huihui, you and Xiaoli should spray it too. There are so many mosquitoes here."
The four of them left the room and headed towards the gathering place.
The children greeted the village chief happily. The village chief smiled and picked up the youngest, Yang Xuan, and said, "Xuanxuan, are you hot? Let me fan you."
Little Yang Xuan said in a milky voice, "Thank you, Village Chief."
When the village chief saw everyone gathered, he put little Yang Xuan down and said to everyone, "Let's have a seafood dinner here tonight."
Everyone looked at each other and collectively said, "I don't want to eat anymore."
The village chief wondered, "Aren't you hungry?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Nan Tao heard a rumbling sound in her stomach.
Nan Tao blushed with embarrassment and gave up. "It's so hot, even if I'm hungry, I won't play games. I'm so tired."
The village chief smiled and said, "No games or tasks today. Everyone can enjoy the seafood feast."
Wen Manqing: "Are you so kind?"
The village chief said mysteriously, "The mission will only begin tomorrow. You will know then."
We’ll worry about tomorrow’s tasks tomorrow, and everyone happily urged, “It’s dinner time, hurry up, we’re starving.”
A large table was soon brought up in the huge open space, and many dishes were placed on it one after another. There were various kinds of shrimps, fish, crabs, oysters, abalone, etc., as well as some vegetarian dishes.
Seeing such a sumptuous dinner, everyone started to get suspicious again: "Such a sumptuous dinner tonight, I feel like there's something fishy going on."
The village chief smiled and said, "Come, let me introduce the dishes on the table to everyone. This dish is made of oysters, this one is abalone, this one is black tiger prawns, and this one is flower crab..."
The village chief listed all the ingredients on the table in one breath.
Everyone wondered, "What's going on? We're so hungry. When can we eat?"
Village Chief: "Does everyone remember the ingredients I just mentioned?"
Everyone was so hungry that they didn't have time to remember these things. They just said perfunctorily, "Now that I've remembered them, can we start eating?"
Village chief: "Eat!"
"Yeah!" the children cheered.
"Mommy, this shrimp is delicious." Yu Ze said.
Nan Tao: "This one seems to be called... Village Chief, what's his name?"
The village chief took a look and said, "It's a black tiger shrimp."
Nan Tao: "Baby, you love it. I'll ask the kitchen to make it for you every day."
After the children finished their meal obediently, they got off their chairs and went to play house nearby. The two little boys, Yu Ze and Zhan Li, were forced to play roles according to the girls' requirements and worked hard without complaint.
The adults watched the children play while eating and chatting.
Then, not long after the harmonious scene, a burst of angry curses was heard.
"Qian Erniu, you money-losing bastard, I think you're deliberately trying to piss off your father to death?"
"How many times have I told you not to let your mother leave the house? Why do you insist on going against me?"
"If I don't beat you to death today, I'm not your father!"
"You dare to run? Stop! Stop right there!"
"If I don't beat you to a pulp today, I'm not your father!"
"Run, where are you going?"
The old man cursed as he limped and ran after someone, holding a wooden stick as thick as his arm in his hand. He was about to hit the girl in front of him on the back, and everyone's hearts were so nervous that they almost jumped into their throats.
Then the girl ran forward faster and the stick missed.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The old man was furious. "Get back here! You can't run over there! Come back here quickly."
Qian Da saw Qian Erniu running to the place where people were recording a variety show, and he suddenly became very nervous. First, he was afraid that Qian Erniu, the rebellious girl, would reveal something by talking nonsense. Second, the village cadres had a special talk with him this afternoon, saying that he appeared in the live broadcast of the third season of "Mom Takes Her Baby to Travel" today and performed very poorly, which seriously affected the local image of the county. They ordered him to stay away from the program crew during the recording of the program and not to get close to them.
Qian Da was in a dilemma. If he didn't go up, he was afraid that Qian Erniu would say something nonsense. If he went up, the village cadres' warnings were still echoing in his ears.
Seeing that Qian Da had stopped chasing her, Qian Erniu stopped, turned around and looked back at him, challenging him: "Come on, come on, didn't you say you were going to beat me to death? Why didn't you chase me anymore?"
Qian was so angry that he wanted to beat this unfilial son to death, but he was worried that he would be punished and have a hard time if he didn't listen to the village cadres.
Everyone looked at the girl who was aggressively challenging her father and gave her a thumbs up in their hearts.
The girl's clothes were very torn and covered with patches. She had very fair skin and big, bright eyes. She looked exactly like the pregnant woman he had seen in the morning. Anyone could tell at a glance that they were mother and child.
Unlike her mother's personality, the girl in front of her, Qian Erniu, is aggressive, bold and brave.
When netizens watching the live broadcast saw this scene, they all gave Qian Erniu thumbs up.
【Well done, that's how it should be.】
I'm envious. I'm already an adult in my thirties, and my dad can beat me whenever he wants, and I don't even dare to resist.
[This damn old man's face is so blue with anger, so cool, so relieved.]
[I like this Qian Erniu, her temper suits my taste.]
Growing up in this kind of family, I feel very pitiful.
Did you hear that old man say his mother wasn't allowed to leave the house? Under what circumstances would he be forbidden to leave the house?
[Thinking about it, it's terrifying. I suddenly remembered the bruises I saw on the pregnant woman's ankles this afternoon. Could it be...?]
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