Chapter 34: Get ready!

Chapter 34: Get ready!

"Liping, watch over your brothers and sisters and practice calligraphy well. I will come to check on them soon. If you do well, I will reward you with White Rabbit food!"

"Got it, aunt!"

Under the mulberry tree in the Shen family's yard, a group of little kids were squatting on the ground, gesturing on the sand with tree branches.

Shen Yulin gestured for a while before losing patience and casually drew circles with the branch, saying in an irritable tone, "Sister, I don't want to learn how to write. I want to go to the river with Hu Wa and the others to catch fish."

"I haven't been out for several days. Please talk to my aunt and let me go out and play for a while!" Shen Yulin looked at Shen Liping pleadingly.

"No! If you dare to disobey, I will tell grandma!" Shen Liping waved the small wooden stick in her hand for practicing calligraphy.

"Didn't my aunt tell me? There are bad guys outside recently, and they won't let us go out. If you dare to sneak out, I'll break your legs when I get back!"

As soon as Shen Anan came out of the room, she heard her niece's threat and said with a smile: "Hey, who wants to sneak away? Those who sneak away will never be able to eat White Rabbit again!"

Shen Yulin was startled, turned around and said flatteringly, "Aunt, you heard it wrong, how could someone sneak away! It's absolutely impossible!"

The person in their family cannot afford to offend the most is the aunt. If the aunt complains to him in the evening, he is afraid that he won't have to eat dinner tonight and can eat as much fried bamboo shoots with pork as he wants.

Shen Anan distributed the White Rabbits to the little ones and rubbed their heads. "Don't be naughty, go practice calligraphy! The one who writes the best will get a reward from my aunt."

"Really, auntie, what's the reward?"

"Stop talking nonsense and go practice! Be careful or I'll tell your dad!"

Ever since that day when Shen Anan told everyone the news about the human trafficker gang, the Shen family has taken it very seriously and felt that they should still be careful and on guard, after all, human traffickers have a strong desire for revenge.

These days, except for the men who go to work every day, everyone else basically stays at home and does not go out. Only the kids at home can't stay idle. Shen Anan happened to be bored, so she took the initiative to teach them to read.

It just so happened that the gift pack of books that was drawn before also contained a lot of teaching materials, so Shen Anan didn’t even have to prepare lessons, which saved her a lot of trouble.

Although there were some paper and pens in Shen An'an's room, they were not enough for the kids to share. So Shen Yuancheng went to the river and picked up two loads of river sand and spread it in the yard, and asked Liping and the others to practice with branches first.

The five children of the Shen family have never been to school. Even though the eldest, Shen Liping, is already ten years old, she still can't even write her own name.

Previously, the nearest primary school to Wanyang Village was in the next village. Although it was not large, it could accommodate thirty or forty students.

Until the famine, no family had the spare money to send their children to school, and the children basically followed the adults to dig wild vegetables and peel tree bark, so the schools were naturally abandoned.

Shen Anan thought that she still had to find a way to get her nephews and nieces to go to school. After all, they couldn't just run around the village and then dig for food in the fields.

However, it takes half a day to walk to the nearest commune primary school. My nephews and nieces are young, and the current school does not allow accommodation. At this stage, they can only study at home first and find a solution later.

Even though Shen Anan had been planning to go to the post office recently to see if there was any reply from the newspaper, she didn't dare to go these days. Alas, she didn't know whether Brother Liu and the others had caught the accomplices of the human traffickers. It was not a solution to stay at home for a long time.

Moreover, these days, she also discovered that Wang Pan'er often appeared near the Shen family, acting a little sneaky, and no one knew what she was planning.

Oh, it would be great if the sign-in system could refresh some more self-defense items!

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Anqi Town, Shuize Lane.

"Boss, it's bad! The brothers who stayed behind in Qing Province sent a message saying that our lair was taken down by the police!"

"Damn it, it must be Tiezhu and his gang of cowards who betrayed us. We shouldn't have been thinking about revenge for these bastards!" The big guy's chest was heaving with anger, and he looked like he wanted to eat someone.

"Boss, what should we do? I...I don't want to be shot."

"Yeah, this...what should we do!"

"Shut up, everyone!" Jing Ying shouted with a dark face, and slapped the table hard. The surroundings instantly became quiet.

"Ergou, go prepare some dry food. We'll set out when it gets dark. After we take care of the Shen family, we'll leave overnight!"

"Yes, boss, but... where can we go? We can't go back to Southern Province. Can we still do business..." Ergou looked uneasy. He looked at Jing Ying's face and spoke carefully.

Jing Ying frowned, and seeing that everyone around her looked as if the sky had fallen, she could not help but suppress her anger, "I am not going to let you starve to death if you follow me! After we take care of the Shen family, we will go around the mountain road to the next province, and then take a train to the south from there."

"There's an old acquaintance of mine there who can protect us and not delay our business."

"Really? That's great! The boss still has a solution!"

"I heard that the south is more profitable, so we are going to get rich!"

"Alright! Old Wolf, stay for a while, everyone else go downstairs and rest and prepare. When it's completely dark, we'll leave the town in batches." Jing Ying waved his hands irritably, and the people in the room immediately retreated like a tide, and soon only a strong black man with a scar on his face was left.

The old wolf looked around the door and after making sure that there was no one there, he carefully closed the door and walked to the couch, massaging Jing Ying's head gently.

The expression on Jing Ying's face quickly relaxed and she leaned back. Lao Lang tightened his arms around the woman's waist, narrowing the distance between them even more.

Jing Ying lowered his voice, "You must take that thing with you. The journey to the south may be very dangerous, and that thing can save your life."

"If we encounter any trouble on the road, we will just leave. Whether Er Gouzi and the others can survive... depends on their own fate."

"Don't worry, even if I lose it, it won't be lost." The old wolf said as he patted his waist. One could vaguely see something hanging on his waist, which gave off a hint of danger.

"Yingzi... don't be afraid. Even if I risk my life, I will definitely send you to the south safely." The old wolf hugged the woman in his arms and patted her back soothingly.

"Old Wolf, do you blame me? Maybe... you shouldn't have gone with me in the first place." Jing Ying buried herself in the man's arms, as if drawing some kind of strength.

She never regretted her choices, whether it was escaping from a home that didn't treat her as a human being or doing anything to get money, but she did feel a little guilty towards the man who had always been silently by her side.

"Don't think too much. You know, I'm always here as long as you need me."

"If you hadn't secretly brought me food when I was a child, I would have starved to death. My life has always belonged to you." The old wolf hugged the woman in his arms tighter, and the two of them absorbed each other's body warmth.

\"You have to promise me that we will be fine...\"

"I promise, I'll be fine."

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