On a street in a southern city.
In a medium-sized barber shop.
Chen Jiao, who Chen Hai said had disappeared, was working here and taking care of the children.
She was wearing a pair of shiny low-heeled leather shoes, a corseted red dress, and had fashionable long wavy chestnut hair. She was cutting a customer's hair with a pair of scissors while patiently talking to her son who was circling around her feet.
The little boy looked about five or six years old, with some baby fat still on his body. He pouted and muttered unhappily, "Mom, why hasn't Dad come back yet?
He said he was only going to be out for two days, but now it’s been three days and he still hasn’t been seen.”
——"If you haven't come back yet, it means that the work is not yet done. Once it is done, you will definitely come back!"
"Can we finish it today?
I miss him a little bit!"
As he finished speaking, a tall man came into the store, his hands full of bags.
He stepped into the store with his long legs, threw his things away, strode forward, picked up the child, and rubbed his head and face against the child affectionately.
With a sticky and happy look on his face, he said, "Xiao Yu'er, do you really miss your daddy?
Dad misses our little fish too."
He was so affectionate that you couldn't tell at all that the child was not his biological child.
Little Yuer hid from his father's prickly stubble and giggled in his arms.
Chen Jiao couldn't help but smile as she looked at him. She quickened her hands' movements, trying to finish the work quickly, close the shop early, and go back to make something delicious for her man.
As for Feng Yixiang, whom she once loved deeply, she had long forgotten him.
When I left the village pregnant, it was hard to find a job and the little money I had was spent before I gave birth to the child.
Having nothing to eat and nothing to wear, and still having to face the challenge of giving birth and raising a baby, she almost reached despair and finally understood that love is bullshit!
She wants money, to have enough food to eat, to be warmly clothed, and to live a good life.
When she was at her wit's end, she met her current husband Qi Yang.
At that time, he was disabled due to a work-related injury and could not have children, so his wife of two years divorced him.
Seeing herself living under an overpass with a big belly, relying on picking up garbage to exchange for food, she took pity on me and was helped several times.
Later, when she was about to give birth, he paid for her to go to the hospital, saving both of their lives.
After going through some things in between, the two gradually became closer and closer, and finally got married and came to this place where no one knew them to settle down and live together.
Unexpectedly, luck was good. The city construction was changing with each passing day. Qi Yang's hardware business, which he used the compensation money to start, gradually became prosperous, and Chen Jiao also opened this barber shop in her spare time.
She didn't care about how much money she could make, she just wanted to have a skill as a way out. No matter what time it was, she didn't want to fall into the situation where she had to go hungry for nine meals out of three days.
The numbers in the bank passbook are increasing rapidly. Although the man is not in good health, he is gentle and considerate, hardworking and motivated, and treats the children as his own.
It was rare for the two of them to quarrel.
I don’t want to open a shop when I’m free, and close it when I feel tired.
Without the hassles of parents-in-law and sisters-in-law, she lives a more comfortable and carefree life than most women.
Chen Jiao, who has suffered a lot, is very satisfied with her current life and cherishes it very much.
As for the parents and brothers in Mengjia Village, she had actually always asked her husband to secretly find someone to inquire and keep an eye on them.
I am also very happy to know that they are raising chickens, ducks and growing medicinal herbs and their lives are getting better and better.
It's just that things were so awkward at the time that she never thought about going back.
Another person, Feng Youwei, who also cut off contact with the village, was living a much worse life than Chen Jiao.
At this time, Boss Feng was still digging coal in an unnamed black coal mine in the north, half-dead.
It was bad luck that when he arrived in the county town, he met a man who was also planning to go out to make a living.
The two had the same goal, and the man showed some connections.
So Feng Youwei, who didn't know anyone, shamelessly got involved with the person.
Then he was taken by that man to this black coal mine.
His dream of getting rich was shattered. The kind-hearted brother became a human trafficker, and he became an illegal coal miner who worked hard but received no salary, could not even get enough food, and was often beaten.
Generally speaking, if people want to kidnap people to dig coal, they will kidnap young and strong people. But Feng Youwei is ignorant and fearless and is just asking for it. After all, he is an active man. He will work as long as he is fed. He will definitely not lose money.
So they just took him along for the ride.
The illegal coal mine where Feng Youwei works is quite large, with hundreds of people inside and outside. Almost all of the people doing hard labor at the bottom are those who were captured and sold here.
The treatment is the same for everyone, with little food and drink and working tirelessly.
It is said that where there is oppression, there is resistance.
Feng Youwei had just been there for a few days when he saw someone trying to escape being caught and beaten to death. He was a cruel person but not very courageous, otherwise he would not have hidden the gold and silver and dared not spend any of it.
After being forced to watch an execution, he lost the desire to escape and accepted his fate as a workhorse.
I just hope that the country will rescue him and give him freedom.
It’s just that the environment in the coal mine is harsh, and he is already quite old.
After working hard for several years, I have fallen ill. I have no medical treatment or medicine to take and cannot rest properly. I don’t know if I can wait until the day I am rescued.
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