Jiang Zhen woke up with a sense of shaking. When he opened his eyes, he found that the surroundings were dark, and his legs and feet were bound, and a cotton ball was stuffed in his mouth.
This is where
Where's mom
Where is my sister
Despite his young age, Jiang Zhen also realized that something was wrong.
The unknown environment made Jiang Zhen feel scared. He began to weep silently, whimpering softly, but no one answered him.
I don't know how long it took, Jiang Zhen was so tired that he lost his strength, cried until he had no more tears, and lay limply on the ground and fell asleep.
bang-
The door is opened, and some light seeps into the darkness.
Jiang Zhen felt the glare of the light, and he gradually opened a pair of round black eyes, only to find himself lying in a delivery truck, surrounded by neatly packed goods.
Jiang Zhen tried to sit up, but his calves were tightly bound by the rope, and he couldn't sit up at all.
The door of the truck was opened, and a thin, dark-skinned man stood in the middle of the door and looked at Jiang Zhen.
Seeing that Jiang Zhen woke up, the man shouted: "Old Chen, this little boy is awake!"
A burly middle-aged man walked over. This man was wearing a very loose and inferior suit, and his appearance was a bit sloppy.
With a cigarette in his mouth, the sloppy man lifted Jiang Zhen out of the car like a lamb.
Jiang Zhen was thrown on the ground by that man. He looked at the man in front of him in horror, and then at the strange environment he was in, only to realize that he was led into a forest by these people. muddy road.
The burly man squatted down and roughly pulled out the cotton ball from Jiang Zhen's mouth. Panting heavily, Jiang Zhen asked the man fearfully and angrily: "Who are you! Where is my mother!"
Jiang Zhen opened his mouth, and his voice was hoarse. He was thirsty and wanted water, but he wanted to go home more.
"kid."
The man spit out the cigarette from his mouth, squatted down and stamped the cigarette into a wrinkled ball with his toes. He reached out and touched Jiang Zhen's face, and said, "Forget about your comfortable days before. From now on, there will be no beautiful and gentle mother."
Jiang Zhen is already four years old, and he can already understand what adults say.
Hearing this, Jiang Zhen opened his mouth and began to cry, but when he cried hoarsely, his voice sounded like a dying kitten.
"You send me back! Send me home!"
The man ignored Jiang Zhen's crying, stood up with his hands on his knees, and said to his companion, "Bring that little girl down!"
The black and thin man walked into the truck, and after a while, a little girl who was unconscious was carried out. That was Jiang Bi, she was still wearing the princess dress from the birthday party, the pure white tutu was stained with a lot of black and dirty things.
The man jumped out of the truck with Jiang Bi in his arms, and threw Jiang Bi in front of Jiang Zhen. Then, he tugged on the sleeve of his suit, revealing a fake gold watch on his wrist. The man glanced at the time, and said to his companion with a strong Sichuan accent: "Old Chen, the time is almost up."
"Well, okay."
Lao Chen glanced at Jiang Zhen, pointed to a ridge not far behind him, and asked Jiang Zhen, "Do you know where that is?"
Jiang Zhen raised his head and glanced at Pokan in the distance, his eyes showed confusion and ignorance.
Old Chen said: "That's the border. The other side of the ridge is the country of Yue. My little friend, you are going to go abroad soon." After finishing speaking, Old Chen carried Jiang Zhen on his shoulders, and hugged the sleepy Jiang Zhen again. Bi, took the siblings and walked towards the border.
Jiang Zhen didn't know what the border was, but he knew he couldn't be sent there.
He began to struggle desperately, beating the man under him with his fist.
He didn't eat a grain of rice for three consecutive days, and he had no strength at all, and the fists fell on the man's body without pain or itching.
The man left their brother and sister on the grass at the bottom of the slope. He stood on the ridge and looked at Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi. Staring at Jiang Zhen's fierce eyes, Lao Chen frowned, and said, "Kid, don't blame me, if you want to blame it, blame someone for giving too much money."
Jiang Zhen watched Lao Chen and the skinny black man drive away. He struggled on the ground for a while, but still couldn't break free from the rope on his body. After about a few minutes, another short, dark man came out of the woods behind them.
The short man took Jiang Zhen brothers and sisters away and put them in an abandoned pigsty. The pigsty was smelly, dirty, and very dark. Jiang Bi woke up and found that they were locked in the pigsty, and she was so frightened that she burst into tears.
Jiang Zhen sat on the ground, looking at his crying sister, his eyes turned red.
"Come here." Jiang Zhen stretched out his hand towards Jiang Bi.
Jiang Bi climbed towards Jiang Zhen. The brothers and sisters who had a fight just a few days ago now regard each other as their only salvation and embrace each other tightly.
Leaning in Jiang Zhen's arms, Jiang Bi cried, "Brother, I'm so hungry."
Jiang Zhen's stomach was also growling. He hugged Jiang Bi's arm, choked up and said, "Sleep, and when you wake up, you will have something to eat." They hadn't eaten or drank water for three days, and the mouths of the two children were peeling up.
Jiang Bi closed her eyes, tears still streaming down her face. After a while, Jiang Bi said again: "Brother, I want to drink water."
Jiang Zhen covered Jiang Bi's mouth, "Talk less, and you won't be thirsty."
Jiang Bi was hungry and thirsty, cried for a while, and then fell asleep.
Woke up, it was already dawn.
The pigsty was built on the lower floor of a hanging building, surrounded by walls, leaving only two openings for ventilation.
Jiang Zhen stared at the sunlight outside the vent, and touched his hungry stomach, which was very unpleasant. Leaning on Jiang Zhen's shoulder, Jiang Bi stuck out her dry tongue, licked her dry lips, and said yearningly, "Brother, I want to eat cake."
Jiang Zhen thought of the birthday cake destroyed by his brother and sister, his nose suddenly became sour, and he couldn't help wiping away his tears.
"Brother, I will never spoil the cake my mother made for us again." Jiang Bi now misses that cake and the person who made it for them.
Jiang Zhen finally cried. He said with tears: "We will never eat cakes made by our mother again. Jiang Bi, we can't go home, we can't go back." I can't see my parents either.
Jiang Bi was stunned when he heard what his brother said, and then burst into tears.
Jiang Bi's crying alarmed the people outside.
The door of the pigsty was pushed open, and a fat woman came in carrying an iron basin. There were two bowls of water, two corns, and steamed buns in the basin.
The woman stood outside the pigsty, looked at Jiang Zhen brother and sister sarcastically, and asked, "Are you hungry? As long as you are obedient and do what I say, I will give you something to eat."
Jiang Zhen frowned and looked at the woman without saying a word.
Jiang Bi burst into tears and said, "I want my mother!"
The woman slammed the basin on the fence of the pigsty, making a bang, which scared Jiang Bi to stop crying. "Don't talk about your mother anymore! You are orphans now, your parents are dead long ago! You don't have a mother!"
Jiang Zhen clenched his fists tightly and stared at the woman with hatred, wishing to devour her alive!
"Are you hungry?" the woman asked gruffly.
Jiang Bi looked at the corn in the pot, and her stomach growled in disbelief, and she subconsciously swallowed her saliva while looking at it.
Seeing Jiang Bi's small movements, the woman was very satisfied, "Little girl, if you call me auntie, follow me obediently, auntie will feed you, drink water, take you to take a bath, and dress you in beautiful clothes." "
Hearing this, Jiang Bi subconsciously took a step towards the woman, but Jiang Zhen hugged her waist just in time.
"Don't go!" Jiang Zhen dragged Jiang Bi back and gave her a vicious look, "Jiang Bi, you are not allowed to eat her food!"
Jiang Bi was scolded by her brother, feeling aggrieved and frightened, she pursed her mouth and turned her head stubbornly, not daring to look at the food bowl in her aunt's hand.
Jiang Zhen stared at the woman indifferently, and said, "Take your stuff away, we won't eat your stuff, and you don't want us to call you auntie."
"I don't know what's good!" The woman turned around and left.
The door of the pigsty was closed again, and it was not opened until dark.
At night, Jiang Bi was really hungry and kept moaning.
Jiang Zhen was also uncomfortable, because he was so hungry that his stomach was running a fever. Hearing Jiang Bi's moaning and chirping voice, Jiang Zhen hugged her worriedly.
As soon as he got close to Jiang Bi, Jiang Zhen was more frightened than Jiang Bi's hot body. "Jiang Bi!" Jiang Bi's eyes were glazed over, and her mouth was slurred. When Jiang Zhen called her name, she didn't respond.
Jiang Zhen quickly touched Jiang Bi's forehead, neck and palms, and they felt hot to the touch.
She is going to die!
Realizing that his sister had to eat, Jiang Zhen hurried out of the pigsty, stood behind the door and slammed on the wooden door of the pigsty, shouting, "Come on! Come on, my sister is sick, come on!"
"Is there anyone! My sister has a fever!"
Jiang Zhen patted on the door for a long time before the fat woman came to open the door cursing.
When Jiang Zhen saw the woman coming in, he knelt down, grabbed the woman's wrist with both hands, and begged her hoarsely: "Please, give my sister some water and something to eat, she is about to starve to death."
Jiang Zhen herself was so hungry that she was dehydrated a long time ago, her spirits were listless, and she was almost unable to hold on anymore. "Don't want your sister to die?" the woman asked maliciously.
"No, please, save her!"
"Yes." The woman looked at Jiang Bi, who was blushing, and deliberately made things difficult for Jiang Zhen, saying, "If you do what I say, I will save her."
"I listen to you, I listen to you!"
"It's so good early!"
The woman carried Jiang Bi back to the house, fed her a lot of water and some porridge. Jiang Zhen also got water and porridge, and he sat in a small corner and gorged himself.
At dawn, Jiang Bi's high fever subsided a lot, but his spirit was still not good. The woman ate breakfast, took two sets of clean clothes for Jiang Bi to change into, and asked Jiang Zhen to take a bath and change into clean clothes.
After changing their clothes, the brother and sister were taken out of the remote village by the woman, and took a minibus into the city. When he got in the car, Jiang Zhen wanted to ask someone for help, but he found that the passenger was speaking a completely different language!
Jiang Zhen is desperate!
With a language barrier, he couldn't ask for help at all!
The woman drove the brothers and sisters for a day, and brought them to a relatively luxurious small one-story house when it was getting dark. Jiang Bi and Jiang Zhen were locked in the same room. Jiang Zhen saw the woman counting money through the crack of the door.
Jiang Zhen knew that they were sold by women to other couples as sons.
Jiang Zhen realized that he really could never go back to Jiang's house, and they would never see his parents again, so he wanted to cry. But when he saw Jiang Bi who was drowsy on the bed, he could only hold back his tears secretly.
He is the elder brother, he cannot cry.
After the woman left, a middle-aged couple walked in and talked to them. Jiang Zhen listened to their language half-understood, without any reaction.
After that day, Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi were locked up by that couple for half a year. Gradually, Jiang Zhen could understand their language and knew that the family name was Trn, which was Chen.
Mr. Chen is a fruit vendor. He and his wife do fruit business in the county, and their family conditions are pretty good. But both of them were infertile, so they took the wrong path and bought two children from traffickers.
After imprisoning Jiang Zhen and the others for half a year, and confirming that Jiang Zhen and the others were obedient and would not run away, the adoptive father allowed Jiang Zhen to study. Worried that Jiang Zhen would go to the police, the adoptive father detained Jiang Bi at home.
The younger sister is Jiang Zhen's weakness, he will definitely not leave her and run away alone.
Both Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi have new names, Jiang Zhen's name is Ao Han, and Jiang Bi's name is Fang Qing.
Jiang Bi was afraid that she would forget her real identity. Jiang Zhen, who had been in kindergarten for half a year and could only write her own name, secretly wrote Jiang Zhen's name under the bed with a burnt wood stick.
In this way, they lived in the new family for two years. When Jiang Zhen was six years old, her adoptive mother took them to the wholesale market in the city to buy clothes.
In the wholesale market, imitations of Nike and Adidas are everywhere. The adoptive mother bought Jiang Zhen a set of spiritual sportswear and a pair of sneakers with hooks. I bought Jiang Bi a suit of loose and ill-fitting casual clothes, hoping she can wear them for a few more years.
After shopping for clothes, the adoptive mother asked Jiang Zhen again: "Ao Han, what do you like to eat? Mom will buy it for you?" She only asked Jiang Zhen, completely ignoring Jiang Bi.
Jiang Bi lowered her head, she was introverted and didn't respond.
Jiang Zhen glanced at his sister before saying, "I want to eat white-cut chicken."
"Okay, mom will buy it for you. You and Fang Qing will wait for me here." The adoptive mother left Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi at the door of the store, while she trotted across the road to buy white-cut chicken.
After buying the poached chicken, the adoptive mother went back with the delicious food, but when she turned around, she found that the child was gone.
"Hey, Ao Han, Fang Qing!"
The adoptive mother stomped her feet in a hurry, and chased after her along the alley next to the street with her things.
Jiang Zhen pulled his sister and ran at the fastest pace. Jiang Bi ran with her brother for a while, but she couldn't run anymore. She called Jiang Zhen and said, "Brother, I can't run anymore!"
Jiang Zhen didn't look back, and pulled her to continue running, "Sister, we have to leave here. Believe in brother, brother will take you home!" Even though he can't remember where his home is, Jiang Zhen still hasn't given up thinking about it. The thought of going home.
He led Jiang Bi and ran for two streets, but was still caught up by his adoptive mother.
"Ao Han! Fang Qing, why are you running away! Mom is here!" The adoptive mother guessed that the pair of children wanted to escape, and she cursed in her heart that they were a pair of white-eyed wolves who were not familiar with her, but she did not dare to make a noise. big.
Hearing their adoptive mother's voice, Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi ran even faster.
The adoptive mother yelled a few more times, to the effect that she asked those people on the side of the road to help her catch Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi. Seeing someone's mother talking, some enthusiastic people helped catch Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi.
Jiang Zhen held her sister in her arms, and shouted at those nosy people with red eyes: "Go away! That's not our mother! We were trafficked and sold here!"
Jiang Zhen has learned to transcend language, and when he yelled out these words, the adults who grabbed him all looked suspicious.
Is what the boy is telling the truth, or is he lying
boom-
At this moment, the adoptive mother who was anxious to cross the road to catch Jiang Zhen's siblings was hit by a pickup truck. The adoptive mother fell to the ground and was breathless on the spot, and the white-cut chicken was scattered all over the ground.
"ah!"
Someone in the crowd cried out.
When Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi heard the movement, they turned their heads and stared blankly at the adoptive mother who was hit by the pickup truck and flew out and lay on the ground, their eyes widened.
But Jiang Zhen soon came back to his senses, and he covered Jiang Bi's eyes, "Don't look, brother is here." Jiang Bi trembled against Jiang Zhen's arms.
At this time, the adults beside them grabbed them without any explanation, and brought them to the body of their adoptive mother. "Look, it's all your fault for running around mischievously and killing your mother!"
"Do evil!"
Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi were taken back by their adoptive father. After taking them back, the adoptive father locked their siblings in the room. Two days later, the adoptive mother was buried, and the adoptive father returned home alone.
He closed the door of the house, took a bamboo whip from the tool shed, and went upstairs with the whip.
On the second floor, Jiang Zhen and Jiang Bi held their breath when they heard footsteps approaching. Jiang Bi grabbed his brother's clothes and asked softly, "Brother, will he kill us?"
Jiang Zhen said, "Come with me." Jiang Zhen led Jiang Bi to the closet, opened the closet door, and said to Jiang Bi, "Go in!"
Jiang Bi shook her head, refusing to hide in. "Daddy will kill you!"
"Be obedient, you go in!" Jiang Zhen pushed Jiang Bi into the closet, closed the closet door, and said to Jiang Bi, "Sister, if, if I was beaten to death by him, he should calm down. You "
"Remember, when you grow up, you must leave this ghostly place!"
Jiang Bi whimpered and cried in the closet.
boom-
The door was kicked open by the man. The adoptive father came in with a bamboo whip in his hand, and when he saw Jiang Zhen, he twitched the flesh on his face and yelled at him, "Bastard, get out of here!"
Jiang Zhen was so afraid that his legs were weak, but he still gritted his teeth when he heard his sister crying in the cabinet, and walked slowly towards his adoptive father step by step.
Before he got close to his adoptive father, he was grabbed by the collar of his adoptive father.
The adoptive father lifted him up and threw him hard against the wall. Jiang Zhen slammed into the wall, and his internal organs shook. He fell to the ground again, dizzy for a while, at that moment, Jiang Zhen thought he was going to die.
"Dog!" The adoptive father came over, kicked Jiang Zhen in the stomach, and cursed angrily: "How dare you run away! You killed your mother! White-eyed wolf! It really is a white-eyed wolf! You are going to die for me! "
The man beat and kicked Jiang Zhen, and when he was tired from kicking, he whipped him with the bamboo whip in his hand. Jiang Zhen still yelled at first, but then she had no strength to yell anymore, so she just lay on the ground and let the man vent and beat her.
The beating lasted more than twenty minutes.
When the man stopped, Jiang Zhen was already dying. "Damn it!" The man smeared Jiang Zhen's face with saliva, and then turned around to the cabinet and forgot.
Jiang Bi hid between the gaps in the closet door, watching this horrific scene with tears in her eyes. When she found her adoptive father looking at her, Jiang Bi was so frightened that she rolled out of the cabinet.
She fell to the ground, got up quickly, knelt and kowtowed to apologize, "Dad, I was wrong, I will never run again, I dare not!"
The man was already thundering, and he didn't have the energy to deal with Jiang Bi right now. He pointed at Jiang Zhen and threatened him: "If you dare to run again, I'll cramp and skin your sister!"
Jiang Zhen stared at the man unwillingly and gritted his teeth.
The man left quickly.
After he left, Jiang Bi crawled to his brother's side. Seeing Jiang Zhen's wounds all over her body and the blood on the corner of her mouth, Jiang Bi was so frightened that she didn't know where to start to hug her brother.
"Brother." Jiang Bi's tears fell on Jiang Zhen's face, "Brother, don't die, don't die!"
Jiang Zhen gave her a weak smile and passed out.
The severe beating broke Jiang Zhen's left arm, a broken rib, and spleen pain for more than a month. But Jiang Zhen didn't go to the doctor, and the man didn't even allow him to go out.
Jiang Zhen was locked up again, this time for another two months.
One day after a month, Jiang Zhen was released. On the day he was released, Jiang Bi was handcuffed and locked in a room.
The adoptive father sat on the chair in the living room, smoked a cigarette, and told Jiang Zhen: "Ao Han, take care, your sister is locked at home by me. If you dare to run, I will kill your sister's arm. Killed her!"
In order to buy this pair of brothers and sisters, he spent all his savings, and he still has to count on these two brothers and sisters to support him until the end of his life.
If Jiang Zhen is not tamed, he will not be reconciled!
Jiang Zhen glanced at her sister, picked up her schoolbag silently, walked out of the house silently, and went to school. In this way, the siblings and their adoptive father continued to live together in peace.
Later, in order to free his sister, Jiang Zhen began to act like a good son. In school, he worked hard to study hard to get the first place in the exam. When he got home and went to bed at night, he would pretend to call his mother in a dream, so as to deceive his adoptive father's trust.
In addition, Jiang Zhen will prepare a meal in the evening and wait for the adoptive father to come back to eat, and even wash the clothes for the adoptive father.
Seeing that Jiang Zhen was so obedient, the adoptive father felt that the child was really sensible and knew what was good and bad, so he gradually put his mind at ease. It took Jiang Zhen a year to completely gain the trust of her adoptive father, and only then did her adoptive father remove the chains from Jiang Bi.
In this way, they lived together for another three years.
In a blink of an eye, Jiang Zhen's brother and sister were both ten years old, and six years had passed since they were sold to Yue.
The longer Jiang Bi grows, the more beautiful she is. Many people in the neighborhood are fond of her, and they are waiting for her to grow up and marry her as their wife.
Seeing his daughter being so popular, his adoptive father was very happy from the bottom of his heart. He now hopes that Jiang Bi will grow up quickly, and when she grows up, he will find her a rich husband's family and ask for more bride price.
Jiang Zhen knew his adoptive father's plan, so he didn't express dissatisfaction with it, and he didn't dare to express his dissatisfaction. He often stayed up late to teach Jiang Bi how to read and write. Therefore, even though Jiang Bi had never been to school, he could still read.
Jiang Bi's pencil was broken, and Jiang Zhen handed Jiang Bi his pen. He picked up a knife to sharpen the pencil, but became unsteady, and the pencil sharpener fell under the bed and could not be found.
Jiang Zhen turned on the flashlight and got under the bed, only to find that the blade fell behind the bedpost. Jiang Bi got under the bed, got the pencil sharpener, and when she was about to climb out, she found two words written with black sticks on the board of the wooden bed.
—Jiang Zhen.
Jiang Zhen stared blankly at the two unfamiliar words, his eyes suddenly blurred.
Seeing Jiang Zhen lying under the bed and not coming out for a long time, Jiang Bi thought the pencil sharpener was missing. "Brother, did you find the pencil sharpener?"
Jiang Zhen quickly wiped his eyes dry, slipped out from under the bed, and said, "I found it."
Seeing Jiang Zhen's eyes were red, Jiang Bi was startled, "Brother, are you crying?"
Jiang Zhen sat on a small stool, pinning a pencil silently, without answering.
Jiang Bi asked again: "Brother, why are you crying?"
Jiang Zhen suddenly raised his head to stare at Jiang Bi, and asked her, "Do you still remember our original name?"
Jiang Bi froze for a moment, then shook her head. "I do not remember."
"Then do you remember, where is our home?"
Jiang Bi still shook her head.
Jiang Zhen was suddenly very depressed. With his hand, the pencil sharpener cut off the lead of the pencil, and his fingers were also cut, leaving blood.
Jiang Zhen stared at the blood on his fingertips, lowered his head and said, "Bi'er, I will definitely take you home from now on."
Jiang Bi was silent, probably because he had given up hope on this matter.
Jiang Zhen put down the knife and pen, and went to the vegetable garden with a flashlight. He found a kind of grass in the vegetable garden, crushed the grass and applied it directly to the wound on his finger.
Jiang Zhen held down the herb and waited for the bleeding to stop before going back to the house. He walked through the downstairs hall with a flashlight and walked towards the stairwell, but he heard conversations coming from the dining room.
Jiang Zhen stopped immediately after hearing the contents of 'buy it and keep it', 'soon to grow up' and so on. He turned around calmly, turned off the flashlight, and quietly walked outside the restaurant.
Jiang Zhen eavesdropped against the wall.
inside the house.
The adoptive father was smoking a dry cigarette, silently staring at the woman in front of him.
The woman is a matchmaker, and she danced and said, "Your family Fang Qing is a beauty. It is your blessing that the young master of the Ruan family can match Fang Qing."
"The young master's family is rich, and your daughter is married, so she will not have to worry about food and clothing. The Ruan family is also generous. When they married the daughter of the Zheng family, they gave so much money!" The matchmaker raised five sticks. Fingers, the expression is very exaggerated.
The adoptive father stared at the matchmaker's raised finger, and his eyes finally changed slightly. He said with some concern: "But the young master of the Ruan family has already married three wives, and each of them died inexplicably. If we Fang Qing married in the past, it would be fine."
The adoptive father's words were to the point, but the matchmaker already knew what he wanted to express.
The matchmaker was a little embarrassed, she said: "It's because those wives don't have the life to enjoy the glory and wealth, and it has nothing to do with the young master."
"Fang Qing is still young, so she will be sent there to be raised first, to develop a relationship with the young master, and she will get married when she grows up. Oh, Boss Chen, don't hesitate. Fang Qing didn't study, and your family's conditions are just like this , to be favored by the Ruan family is because you, Fang Qing, have this blessed destiny."
The adoptive father hesitated for a while before saying, "I'll think about it."
When Jiang Zhen returned to the room, seeing his gloomy expression, Jiang Bi dared not speak to his brother.
Jiang Zhen went to the bed and sat down. He stared at his young sister, thinking that her sister might be sold to the Ruan family as a child bride, and his heart ached.
Jiang Bi saw her brother looking straight at her with a serious expression, she squeezed the pencil tightly, and asked in a low voice, "Brother, what happened?"
Jiang Zhen didn't say anything, just fell on the bed and pretended to be asleep. Seeing that her brother was going to sleep, Jiang Bi put away all the books and prepared to go back to the house with her things in her arms.
"Girl." Jiang Zhen suddenly called a girl.
Jiang Bi hadn't heard her brother calling her like that for a long time, so she turned around and stared at the little boy on the bed.
"Girl, brother will protect you for the rest of your life." Jiang Zhen said.
Jiang Bi smiled lightly, "I know, brother."
Within a few days, Jiang Zhen found a group of strangers at home, including a man in a suit. The man in his thirties, with a huge gold chain around his neck, was squatting beside Jiang Bi, talking to her.
Jiang Bi was washing the vegetables, she lowered her head, her face was red, she was too embarrassed to talk to others.
Jiang Zhen was carrying her schoolbag, hiding behind a tree, watching this scene from a distance, and clenched her fists secretly. He left suddenly and went to the city.
Jiang Zhen walked into a clinic and said to the doctor, "My father's throat is so painful that he can't even eat. Let me buy him some anti-inflammatory medicine."
The doctor asked, "Do you have a history of allergies?"
"No."
The doctor prescribed some medicine for Jiang Zhen, and when he gave the medicine to Jiang Zhen, he told him: "Remember to tell your father, you can't drink alcohol after taking this medicine!"
Jiang Zhen nodded, took the medicine and went back. The adoptive father gave him a guilty look and asked him, "Why did you come back so late?"
Jiang Zhen gave the medicine to his adoptive father, "Don't you have a sore throat, I bought you medicine." Throwing down his schoolbag again, Jiang Zhen asked his adoptive father, "Have you cooked?"
"Not yet, the vegetables are ready."
"Then I'll go cook." Jiang Zhen rolled up his sleeves and went to the kitchen to set up a stool to cook.
The adoptive father stared at the medicine in his hand, somewhat moved. "Thanks, boy." The medicine was prescribed by the doctor, folded with a cut newspaper, and drank a pack at a time. The adoptive father opened the newspaper and drank the six or seven pills.
He stared at the boy cooking in the kitchen, hesitant to speak. How to tell this child that his sister is about to be sold to someone else's house as a child bride
The man hesitated for a long time, but he was still too embarrassed to speak.
Jiang Zhen quickly cooked the dishes and poured a glass of wine for his adoptive father as usual. When giving the wine to his adoptive father, Jiang Zhen said, "Drink less."
"I don't do anything at night, so it's okay to drink two more glasses." The adoptive father picked up the glass and took a sip.
Jiang Zhen stared at his movements, his eyes were cold on his small face.
(end of this chapter)