Chapter 144 No Peeking
After walking through about four or five rooms and turning a corner, I arrived at the toilet.
Wu Ya pointed inside with her finger.
Before going in, Xiao Taozhi asked concernedly, "Sister, is your throat uncomfortable?"
Wu Ya shook her head, a trace of panic flashed across her dirty face. She said nothing and motioned Xiao Taozhi to go in quickly.
There was no light in the toilet, and the setting sun outside shone through the rusty window.
The sun was about to set, so she had been tied here for a whole day.
After going to the toilet, Xiao Taozhi looked around at the surrounding environment.
The space is about a few square meters, with two pits and baffles, and a corroded wooden chair next to them.
Suddenly.
An adventurous idea popped into Tao Zhi's little head.
After thinking for a few seconds.
The little fellow moved the chair to the wall and then stood on it using his hands and feet.
The little hands grabbed the windowsill and stood on tiptoe.
She finally saw the scenery outside, a wasteland covered with weeds and no smell of human habitation.
In order to disperse the smell, the windows were never closed and there were no iron railings surrounding them.
If only the stool were a little higher, she could get out of the window!
Thinking of this, a small spark of hope ignited in the little guy's heart.
She turned her little head around, trying to find another stool that could raise her up a little.
But suddenly.
The chair under my feet couldn't bear the weight and fell apart with a bang!
Little Taozhi fell to the ground with a thud!
Fortunately, the ground was mud, so apart from a little pain in the butt and mud on his arms and calves, the little guy was not hurt at all.
Wu Ya came in upon hearing the noise, her eyes wide open in shock: "What are you doing?!"
“I…I…”
Little Taozhi rubbed her butt with tears in her eyes, stammering and unable to say anything for a long time.
suddenly.
The scarred man's voice came from outside: "What's going on in there? Are you so bold as to try to escape?!"
The sound was getting closer and closer, and the scar-faced man was about to rush in!
If he saw Tao Zhi's failed escape attempt, the little guy would definitely be beaten!
Wu Ya quickly made a gesture to Xiao Taozhi to keep quiet.
She rushed out and stopped the scarred man outside the door: "Uncle, my sister is in the bathroom inside, it's not good for you to go in."
The scarred man was still suspicious. He leaned inside and looked: "Really? Why did I just hear the sound of a chair falling to the ground? You're not trying to escape, are you?"
"How is that possible? How dare we run?"
Wu Ya pushed the scarred man out: "I was too anxious just now and knocked the chair over when I went in."
"Yeah?"
The scarred man looked Wu Ya up and down, as if trying to find some clues of lying from her.
Wu Ya swallowed nervously.
Suddenly.
Xiao Taozhi's urgent voice called out from inside: "Sister, I'm fine! Come and wipe my butt!"
Wu Ya immediately responded: "Hey, coming! Wait a moment."
The scarred man finally dispelled his doubts. He casually told Wu Ya to keep an eye on Xiao Taozhi, then left with the iron rod.
Only after seeing the scarred man's back completely disappear around the corner did Wu Ya breathe a sigh of relief.
That was so thrilling just now!
"elder sister?"
Wu Ya lowered her head. Xiao Taozhi had walked to her side without her knowing when, and was calling her with her head raised.
Wu Ya squatted down and whispered in Xiao Taozhi's ear, "Did you want to escape just now?"
Xiao Taozhi clenched her fingers and hesitated for two seconds, then finally nodded honestly.
"Don't waste your time. You can't escape from this place! This house is full of their people. They even have wolfhounds outside. The kennel is right outside. If you go out, you might become a meal for the hungry dogs!"
Little Taozhi's face turned pale: "Really?!"
Wouldn't that mean that even the only hope of escape is gone...
Wu Ya nodded: "There were children who escaped before, but they were all caught by them. Some had their legs broken, some were poisoned and made mute..."
Wu Ya didn't say that she was one of them.
But she was lucky, she was not completely mute by the poison and could still speak.
"So you'd better stay here and don't run around anymore."
Back in the small dark room, Xiao Taozhi told Fu Zhiyi everything that happened in the toilet.
Fu Zhiyi analyzed seriously, "So it seems that as long as we stay in this room, our hope of escaping is very slim."
Little Taozhi wrinkled his little face and looked extremely worried.
Fu Zhiyi consoled him, "But it doesn't matter. They abducted us here to make money for them. We can't be locked up here forever. There will always be a chance to get out."
Xiao Taozhi looked up: "So what should we do now?"
"For now, we'll pretend to obey them and wear down their patience. Once they let us out, we'll seize the opportunity to escape."
"good."
As Fu Zhiyi expected, the scarred man only detained them for two days before he began to relax his vigilance and wanted to take them out.
Erdan threw in two tattered clothes: "Hurry up and change your clothes and go out to make money! Don't dawdle!"
Xiao Taozhi picked up the two pieces of clothing, looked at them, gave the larger one to Fu Zhiyi, and gave the smaller one to herself.
The little guy didn't understand the difference between men and women, and didn't care about anything. He just took off his clothes on his own.
Fu Zhiyi was stunned for a moment.
His face flushed crimson, and he hurriedly turned his eyes away: "You...what are you doing?"
"Change clothes! Brother, don't you want to change?" Xiao Taozhi answered as a matter of course.
"Turn around and change with your back to me!"
Xiao Taozhi didn't understand: "Why?"
Fu Zhiyi explained in an unnatural tone: "I am a boy, you are a girl, there are differences between men and women, don't look at me if it's inappropriate!"
Little Taozhi said "Oh" as if she understood, then turned around obediently to change her clothes.
It was replaced quickly.
Xiao Taozhi turned around and saw Fu Zhiyi still putting on his clothes.
He moved gracefully and slowly, and even though he was wearing beggar's clothes, there was a sense of nobility in his every move.
"Brother Zhiyi, is your back injured?"
Fu Zhiyi turned his head.
But he found that the little guy's big black eyes were staring at his back which was not covered by clothes without blinking.
Her gaze was so intense that Fu Zhiyi felt as if he was being stabbed in the back.
"Turn your head away and don't peek!"
Fu Zhiyi's face suddenly turned as red as pig liver.
Xiao Taozhi did as he was told: "Well, lie down."
After taking a moment to calm down and quickly put on his clothes, Fu Zhiyi replied, "The scars from my previous injuries are all gone now."
"Why are you injured?" Xiao Taozhi was very curious.
Fu Zhiyi's face was blank for a moment.
Then his eyes paused slightly, and he said truthfully: "To protect a very important person."
This person is his father.
He exchanged the nearly 20-centimeter scar on his back for his son's identity.
(End of this chapter)
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