Seeing Old Mrs. Gong limping home, Gong Zhengyao and his wife hurried forward to support her.
"Mom, did you fall? What's wrong with your foot? Do you want to go to the clinic?" Gong Zhengyao asked with a worried look on his face.
Old Mrs. Gong gritted her teeth, endured the pain, and shook her head.
He helped Old Lady Gong sit on a chair, went to the side to get a small stool, squatted down and carefully lifted Old Lady Gong's injured foot. "Mom, let me take a look at your foot." If the injury was serious, he would take her to the clinic.
"Ouch...be gentle." Old Mrs. Gong groaned in pain. She felt that the pain was even worse than before.
"How can it hurt so much? I'd better take you to the clinic." Gong Zhengyao turned up Mrs. Gong's trouser legs and immediately saw her ankle, which was swollen like a steamed bun. "Why is it so swollen? Is there a bone injury?"
"Don't pretend to know. If I hurt my bones, could I walk back?" Yang Daya rolled her eyes at Gong Zhengyao. It's just a sprained ankle, right? Who hasn't had that?
"Then what do you think we should do?" Gong Zhengyao looked at Yang Daya and asked.
"I'm not a doctor, so how would I know? But I know these are minor issues and will be gone in a few days," Yang Daya said. She didn't want them to waste money on seeing a doctor.
"Boss, help me back to my room. I'll be fine after two days of lying in bed." Old Mrs. Gong said. It was Chinese New Year, and she didn't want to go to the hospital again and again.
"But..." Gong Zhengyao was still worried.
"Mom said everything is fine, so why do you worry?" Yang Daya interrupted Gong Zhengyao.
Gong Zhengyao looked at Old Lady Gong's feet, hesitated for a moment and said, "Mom, how about this, if you are still in severe pain tomorrow, I will take you to the clinic in Shangxin Village." He wanted the doctor in the clinic to help his mother take a look at her face.
"Let's talk about it tomorrow, eldest daughter-in-law, please help me spread out the yellow paper and tin foil in the basket and blow them dry." Old Mrs. Gong said, enduring the pain. She had bought them with money, and she couldn't bear to throw them away.
After helping Old Lady Gong onto the bed, Gong Zhengyao still spoke with concern: "Mom, if you can't bear the pain, call me and I'll take you to the clinic in the next village."
Old Lady Gong nodded and lay down. Her foot was just twisted, nothing serious. Now all she cared about was whether her eldest and second sisters could contact the traffickers. Only by selling the girl could she feel at ease, and her daughter could live safely as her eldest daughter.
After breakfast, Gong Damei and Gong Ermei walked to the county. They had already found out the way to the train station yesterday.
Walking into the train station's waiting hall, I saw few people inside. Tomorrow was Chinese New Year, and those working away from home who could have returned had already done so. Only those who couldn't buy tickets, or were too busy to return early, would take this last train back.
"Sister, how are we going to find him? Are we going to ask one by one?" Gong Ermei looked around. Everyone looked like him, but at the same time, no one looked like him.
"I don't know either. Why don't we sit there and wait for a while?" Gong Damei suggested. She had only heard that there were human traffickers at the train station, but she had never seen what they looked like.
Gong Ermei nodded and followed Gong Damei to find a seat and sit down. They would wait and see. If they found someone who looked like them, they would ask.
The two of them took out the bread they brought from home and started to eat it, looking around while eating.
"Sister, do you think that looks like him?" Gong Ermei pointed to a middle-aged man with dark skin and a bad-looking face not far away.
Gong Damei looked over, took a look, and nodded. "It looks a bit like it. Why don't we go over and ask."
"Okay." Gong Ermei put away the remaining half of the pancake and walked towards the middle-aged man with Gong Damei.
The middle-aged man had already noticed Gong Damei and Gong Ermei, and was a little confused when he saw them walking towards him.
"Hey, big brother, let me ask you something. Are you in business?" Gong Damei asked fearfully. When she had just seen the middle-aged man from a distance, she had thought he had a bad face. Now that she had gotten closer, she realized he looked even more menacing, and there was something about him that frightened her.
Gong Ermei lowered her head, not daring to look at the middle-aged man. Why did this man feel even scarier than Zhang the butcher who butchered pigs in their village?
"I'm a businessman. What kind of business do you want to do with me?" the middle-aged man said with a sinister smile.
"Brother...we got the wrong person...go ahead and do your thing..." Second Sister Gong pulled First Sister Gong away. She regretted coming along. Money was important, but were human traffickers just ordinary people? What if they sold her and her sisters off too?
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they reached a place with a little more people.
"Sister, why don't we go back and not look for human traffickers?" Gong Ermei said. The man just now was too scary. She felt like she couldn't breathe when she stood in front of him.
"But mother is still waiting for news from us." Gong Damei was a little tempted to back out, but she also thought her mother's idea was really good. Besides getting some benefits by selling Xiaoyun, she would also have an explanation to her younger sister. Maybe her younger sister would be so happy that she would give her some nice things. After all, her family was now well-off, and without Xiaoyun as a worry, she could be her eldest daughter in peace.
"Then let's wait a little longer." Gong Ermei said hesitantly.
The two sisters walked to the chairs and sat down. They waited until two or three o'clock in the afternoon, but they still didn't see anyone who looked more like a human trafficker than the middle-aged man before.
Seeing that if they didn't go back, they would have to walk at night, the two sisters sighed in disappointment and stood up and walked out of the train station. It seemed that they could only wait until after the New Year to look for him.
I got on the bus and swayed all the way to the county.
Gong Damei and Gong Ermei got off the bus and walked towards home.
There are a lot of people on the road from the city to the county, but there are not many people on the road from the county to the village.
"Sister, let's go quickly. It's getting dark soon." Gong Ermei quickened her pace.
Gong Damei also quickened her pace. Her entire family was waiting for her to return home to cook. If she didn't get home before dark, her mother-in-law would definitely scold her. She had thought finding a human trafficker would be easy, but now she realized she was too naive.
A person suddenly appeared in front of Gong Damei and Gong Ermei, blocking their way.
When they saw who was coming, Gong Damei and Gong Ermei were shocked, "Why is it you?" The person blocking their way was the middle-aged man they had met at the train station before.
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