Chapter 211 Fortunately Taken In
All this was seen by a Burmese man hiding in the distance. He sighed and said, "If I don't help these orphans and their widows, I'm afraid the Buddha will punish me when he finds out. Then no matter how many good deeds I do, it will be of no use."
He walked over quietly and placed 500 Myanmar Kyats in front of them.
Mingli was very happy to see the money. He quickly put his hands together and said "thank you" several times in Burmese.
Uncle: "Why are you begging here, little ones? Have you offended Master Duanmu and his men?"
Mingli: "No, we did this because we were really hungry and had no other choice."
Uncle: “Where are yours?”
Mingli: "Our family was destroyed by drug traffickers a long time ago. My father was forced by them to help them grow opium. They also forced my mother to remarry them. My mother didn't want to, so she took me and my younger siblings and escaped." The thing Mingli has learned best over the years is to tell lies without thinking. In order to gain more sympathy from others, he cried and snotted, which is really touching.
Uncle: "It's those damn drug dealers again. How long will they continue to torture us?"
He was so angry that his voice trembled when he said this.
But then he thought, this is the Golden Triangle, doesn't this kind of thing happen all the time? He's used to it, so why should he get excited?
He pointed at Junlan and said, "What's wrong with your mother? Why isn't she talking?"
Mingli: "She is the wife my father bought from the countryside. She is deaf and dumb."
Uncle: "I see. You are not untouchables, and it is not a good idea for you to continue begging with your baby. I am the head of the nearby village of Duolong. We happen to have a few abandoned houses in our village. Would you like to become a part of our village?"
Mingli was a little bit incredulous after hearing this: "You really dare to take us in? Let us become one of you?"
Uncle: "I mean what I say."
Mingli: "Thank you, uncle. What should we call you?"
Uncle: "Everyone in the village calls me Uncle Mo."
Mingli quickly knelt down and kowtowed to him several times: "Thank you, uncle."
After Uncle Mo brought them to the village, he arranged for them to live in a dilapidated little hut.
When the news that the village chief had brought outsiders back spread throughout Duolong Village, the village was in an uproar.
The villagers were discussing the origins of the four outsiders. Although Uncle Mo and Mingli repeatedly explained their identities and origins to them, it was obvious that this was not enough to convince them, and they still insisted on their own ideas.
Villager A: "Is the village chief so kind? I guess he's attracted to that young widow?"
Villager B: "Exactly. I think he must have liked that young widow who could buy the big ones and give the small ones away. I guess they've been hooking up for a long time. Maybe these children are his. Now he's just taking them home."
The gossip in the village was nothing to Junlan, who had a language barrier in communication. While people were talking about her, she would smile at them foolishly, thinking she was greeting them.
However, this problem seriously troubled Mingli and Uncle Mo. Uncle Mo never dared to stay in front of their house, and even if he met them, he pretended not to know them to avoid suspicion.
No matter what, Junlan and her friends have temporarily settled down in Duolong Village.
The mother and son only dared to speak when it was late at night and everyone was asleep.
That night, after taking a shower in the house, Junlan planned to check the injuries on Mingli's back.
The area under his clothes was covered in red and purple marks from being beaten. She knew that those were the glorious marks left by Mingli in order to protect her.
When begging, there is always a group of hooligans who come to tease Jun Lan. At first, they just tease her with words. Although Jun Lan can't understand what they are saying, she can tell from their eyes that they have bad intentions. In order to avoid them, Jun Lan has been begging in many places for a long time, but she was always found by these vagrants.
Every time they lost a few dollars, they would start to make advances towards Jun Lan, often taking the opportunity to touch her and take advantage of her.
When Mingli finally couldn't stand it any longer, he single-handedly started a fight with three or four of them. He was only just over 160cm tall, but he managed to beat them all down. He took the money they had just thrown at them and threw it in front of them, shouting, "Pick up your filthy money and get out of here. We don't want your money, and we don't need your charity. Don't bother my mother again, or I'll fight you to the death."
When the other party saw that Mingli was not a pushover, he took the money and ran away.
Although she didn't dare to speak casually, Junlan still hugged Mingli for fear that he would get hurt. Mingli comforted her with his eyes and told her not to worry.
Although the hut is simple, I finally have a small house of my own. It cannot be called a comfortable home, but it can shelter me from the wind and rain.
Looking at the scars on his body, her heart was torn into pieces.
She used a hot boiled egg to gently rub the bruises on Mingli's body. Mingli didn't say anything, but the pain was so severe that he cursed the alpaca more than a hundred times in his heart.
Although having a beautiful mother to help you rub your bruises sounds like a wonderful thing, in reality it is not a happy thing.
He put on his clothes and said to Junlan, "Mom, I'm fine now. Where did you get these eggs?"
"The chicken from that fat auntie across the street came to our house and laid an egg today. I realized no one was looking, so I quickly and secretly took it home and boiled it for you to soothe the bruise."
After saying that, she handed the peeled egg to Mingli and said, "Child, eat the egg."
Mingli: "I'm not hungry, you eat it, Mom!"
Jun Lan: "Mingli, you are in the stage of growing up, so it's still you!"
Mingli's mouth was watering as he looked at the white egg. He quickly stuffed the egg into his mouth and gobbled it up, but he ate too fast and almost choked to death.
Jun Lan couldn't help laughing when she saw his red face from choking. She quickly poured a glass of water for Ming Li and said, "Eat slowly and drink some water. Be careful not to swallow something."
Mingli thought: "Why don't you wait until I die of swallowing?"
He looked at Jun Lan's smiling face that was as beautiful as a flower, and all his anger disappeared from his heart.
"Mom, you look so beautiful when you smile. You should smile more often in the future." Mingli said while hugging her.
"Well, then from now on, mom will smile more for my Xiao Mingli." Jun Lan looked at Mingli with her eyes smiling into a crescent moon.
Mingli: "Mom, I want to go to school tomorrow."
Jun Lan: "That's great, go quickly, Mom supports you going to school. Who runs that school? Is it trustworthy?"
Mingli: "I heard it's a school run by foreigners. Many children from the neighborhood go there."
Jun Lan: "But be sensible, will the tuition fees of a school run by foreigners be very expensive? You know our family's situation, we don't have that much money."
Mingli: "Don't worry, mom, they don't charge money."
Jun Lan: "How can there be such a good thing in the world? Is there any trickery involved?"
Mingli: "I don't know either, but I still want to give it a try."
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