Chapter 140 She Wants to Escape
When Yang Dan saw the contents of the letter and the 30 yuan that fell out of the envelope, her eyes became red again, but this time she held back her tears.
"Yanhong, we are saved." Yang Dan touched Yanhong's thin and withered face, and then began to pack his luggage.
When Wang Xiumei came to give Yang Dan some wild vegetable dumplings, she happened to see Yang Dan packing up his luggage.
"Why are you packing your luggage? Are you leaving?" Wang Xiumei asked in surprise.
When Yang Dan saw Wang Xiumei, he felt very aggrieved and told her what happened last night.
"I absolutely cannot stay here any longer. If I stay any longer, I will die. Ruolan wrote me a letter, telling me to go find her if I can't stay here any longer."
Wang Xiumei's expression suddenly became dazed. She looked at the light in Yang Dan's eyes, her lips trembled several times, but she didn't say anything.
Yang Dan finally realized that something was wrong with Wang Xiumei. She put down the things in her hands, sat down next to Wang Xiumei, and reached out to pull open Wang Xiumei's sleeve.
Under her sleeves, Wang Xiumei's arms had many new wounds, some of which were bleeding.
"Did they beat you again?" Yang Dan stroked Wang Xiumei's arm carefully with trembling hands.
Yang Dan and Wang Xiumei used to be classmates. Later, Yang Dan married someone from the same village and lived close to each other, so their relationship became better and better.
Wang Xiumei's life was pretty good when she first got married, but the first time she gave birth to a girl, her husband and mother-in-law were a little unhappy and blamed her for not giving birth to a son.
Later, Wang Xiumei became pregnant with her second child, and it was another girl. After she gave birth, she clearly heard the baby crying, but when she woke up, her husband and mother-in-law said that the baby did not survive and was dead.
Wang Xiumei naturally didn't believe it, but she was very weak after giving birth and could not do anything.
By the time I got out of the confinement period, the baby had already been dead for a month.
So Wang Xiumei started to trick her husband into telling her story. A year later, after her husband got drunk, Wang Xiumei finally learned the truth.
Her second daughter was born healthy, but her mother-in-law didn't want to raise another girl, so she secretly took the child to the back mountain and buried her alive.
After Wang Xiumei found out, she went crazy. She wanted to fight her mother-in-law and report to the police.
From that day on, Wang Xiumei's life fell into darkness. Her husband and mother-in-law threatened her with the life of their eldest daughter Chuncao and asked her not to tell anyone about the incident.
Otherwise Chuncao won’t be able to survive.
With Wang Xiumei's weakness under control, Wang Xiumei, her husband and her mother-in-law became more and more inhumane, and Wang Xiumei's life became more and more difficult.
Wang Xiumei had to do all the work at home until she was as tired as a dog, and she was also beaten. She thought about escaping, but what would happen to Chuncao if she escaped?
If she took Chuncao with her and ran away, where could the mother and daughter escape to?
Wang Xiumei let go of Yang Dan's hand and pulled her sleeves down: "I'm fine, I'm used to it anyway.
It's a good thing that Ruolan is willing to let you go find her. It's good to be able to leave this place. You should pack up quickly, and then take Yanhong away from here, and never come back."
Wang Xiumei was really happy for Yang Dan. Yang Dan still had a chance to leave here and see the outside world, but she could not see the end and would never be able to leave.
Yang Dan looked at Wang Xiumei's desperate eyes, and didn't know where he got the courage from, he grabbed Wang Xiumei's hand that was shrinking back and said, "You and Chuncao, come with me.
Here is 30 yuan. It is enough for each of us to buy a train ticket and hold the child.
You can stay here forever, but what about Chuncao? She is already seven or eight years old, and neither your husband nor your mother-in-law likes her.
In a few years, do you think they will sell Chuncao for money? What can you do then?
Xiumei, let's give it a try. Bring Chuncao here secretly tonight. Let's go to the town at night and look for Ruolan.
This is the only chance for you and Chuncao to get rid of these two demons. I will wait for you, but don't make me wait too long.
If you don’t come before one o’clock, I will take Yanhong away.”
Wang Xiumei returned home in a daze, her mind full of Yang Dan's proposal, and her heart in her chest began to beat wildly uncontrollably.
Do you want to go? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Because she was thinking about this matter, Wang Xiumei did not work as fast as before. While she was thinking, she suddenly felt a pain in her back.
"You are a hen that doesn't lay eggs, and yet you dare to be lazy. If I see you being lazy again, I will beat you to death." Wang Xiumei's mother-in-law picked up a broom and hit Wang Xiumei several times.
Wang Xiumei lowered her head without saying anything, turned around and continued to work, her hands and feet becoming much more nimble.
Her back felt numb and hot, but Wang Xiumei didn't feel any pain. Instead, this numb and hot feeling made her feel full of energy.
She doesn't want to live this kind of life worse than a dog anymore, she wants to escape!
After finishing her work, Wang Xiumei returned to her room, took out two dollars from a hidden corner, and went to see a barefoot doctor.
He said he couldn't sleep at night and asked if he could buy a packet of medicine that would help him sleep well.
The barefoot doctor took Wang Xiumei's money and gave her a packet of white medicine powder wrapped in paper.
"You need to take this back and drink it with water. Just use one spoonful at a time. Don't use more than that, otherwise you will sleep all day and all night without waking up."
Wang Xiumei suppressed her excitement, nodded, then took a large bag of medicine powder and left.
When cooking in the evening, Wang Xiumei put half of a large bag of medicine powder into the noodles, then added cabbage, a lot of lard, and some sugar, and kneaded it into cabbage pancakes.
Only three cabbage pancakes were made, one for her parents-in-law, one for her husband, and she and Chuncao were definitely not qualified to have one.
The remaining part was put into the wild vegetable soup, and some lard was also added.
The wild vegetable soup is a bit bitter to begin with, and after adding some medicinal powder, it is hardly noticeable.
At dinner time, Wang Xiumei and her daughter Chuncao could only drink half a bowl of porridge each. They could not even touch the cabbage pancakes and wild vegetable soup on the table.
Wang Xiumei touched her daughter Chuncao's head and looked at the three people sitting on the kang eating and drinking, her eyes full of coldness.
"Let's go to the kitchen and boil some water." Wang Xiumei took Chuncao's hand and went to the kitchen. After boiling a pot of water, she put all the dozen or so eggs in the kitchen into the pot and cooked them.
"Chuncao, are you hungry? Mommy will boil some eggs for you."
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