After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 339, Episode 0367: This melon is a bit bitter.

Their plan was to replace Liu Min with Liu's aunt's wife.

As for Liu Qin herself, they were afraid that Liu Qin would find out about Liu Min's affairs, and they were also afraid that Liu Qin's existence would expose the truth about the real and fake Liu Qin. So they planned to marry Liu Qin off to an old man with violent tendencies in the next village for one hundred yuan.

This old man has already beaten three of his wives to death.

Just in case, the couple had already tied Liu Qin up and locked her in the storeroom before even meeting the old man, planning to send her away once they had agreed on a price with him.

As Qi Qiao spoke, he was both angry and heartbroken. His wife had suffered far too much.

Fortunately, my wife is not alone in the village.

“The youngest son of the landlord in the village used to have a high fever when he was a child and didn’t get timely treatment, so his IQ is a bit immature. You know what happened a few years ago. Even the normal children of landlords suffered. His life must have been tough.”

“My wife is in the same boat as him, so she often helps him out in private.”

Qi Qiao took a deep drag of his cigarette and exhaled a smoke ring. His eyes, already red, looked at Huo Han with a smile that was both relieved and fearful.

"Good people will eventually be rewarded. Before my wife was locked up, she made an appointment with Aman to go up the mountain to find food together. Aman didn't wait for my wife, and without thinking, he went to my wife's house to look for her."

Uncle Liu's family thought that they could rest easy after locking Liu Qin up, tying her up and gagging her. So, those who were supposed to go to work went to work, and those who were supposed to go to see the old man went to see the old man. There was no one else in the house except for Liu Qin, who was locked up.

Aman was very strong and managed to pull open the lock, rescuing Liu Qin.

The two men, neither of whom were particularly bright, were in a daze and only thought about escaping. They hadn't taken anything with them, only wearing tattered clothes, and didn't dare go into the village. They only dared to hide in the back mountain first.

Fortunately, both of them had been cooking for themselves in the mountains since childhood because they didn't get enough to eat. They had a simple set of cooking utensils hidden in the mountains: a small pot, a chipped cleaver, and homemade wooden spatulas and bowls.

Finding food that could be eaten in the mountains was something the two of them were quite good at.

However, hiding forever isn't a solution. There are wild animals in the deep mountains, and they dare not go there. In places where there aren't many wild animals, the villagers could come up at any time. Hiding isn't a solution, and sooner or later they will be discovered.

They couldn't stay there any longer, and there was nothing worth lingering for anyway. After hiding in the mountains for two days, Liu Qin and Aman noticed that some villagers were coming up the mountain to look for them, so they packed their utensils and fled.

With sheer determination, the two of them actually managed to cross the mountains and leave the province.

Then, everyone was completely at a loss.

To be precise, Liu Qin was completely at a loss.

Aman isn't very intelligent; he doesn't consider where to go or not to go. His happiest moment each day is following Liu Qin, and it would be even better if he could get enough to eat.

Liu Qin only attended primary school for two years. After the old man passed away, Liu's family couldn't even afford to feed her properly, so how could they possibly be willing to send her to school?
Therefore, Liu Qin only knew some simple characters. Fortunately, because of the presence of the educated youth, she learned Mandarin. Although she didn't know many characters, she could speak and understand it.

Liu Qin, a poor, illiterate girl from the countryside, stood on the streets of a big city, penniless and dressed in rags, unsure of where to go.

She wanted to find a job, but all the jobs required a diploma, which she didn't have; and the jobs that didn't require a diploma were not for her, a "homeless child".

The two were so hungry that they had no choice but to beg, rummaging through the restaurant's trash cans.

Then, while rummaging through the trash cans, he was caught by the restaurant staff.

The restaurant manager had been noticing the unusual brother and sister for several days. He noticed that the brother seemed to have intellectual disabilities, and the sister looked to be only about ten years old. He guessed that something had happened to their parents, and the brother, with his intellectual disability, was unable to take care of his young sister, while the young sister was unable to support her brother. So, the two siblings were left alone... The manager was a good person. He hadn't brought people to arrest them because he wanted to do anything to them, but rather because he had taken some old clothes from his own children to give to them.

After a "friendly" exchange, the manager learned about their situation. One reason was that their constant loitering outside his restaurant was having a negative impact on it, and the other was that he genuinely felt some sympathy for Liu Qin's plight.

So the manager suggested to Liu Qin that he would help with the travel expenses so that the brother and sister could go to the southern islands to find Qi Qiao, or go to Beijing to find Old Master Qi.

At the same time, she was reminded that finding Grandpa Qi would be much more difficult. Judging from what she said, Grandpa Qi's identity must be extraordinary, and the place where he lived must not be a place that ordinary people could find.

So, with the manager's help in buying train tickets, Liu Qin and her companion headed south to find Qi Qiao.

Neither of them had ever traveled far before, and this was their first time taking a train. They also had almost no experience in the world, so the journey that followed was visibly difficult.

First, they encountered kidnappers on the train. Because they were inexperienced, the brother and sister were tricked into getting off the train halfway through the journey. They narrowly escaped with Aman's help.

Then I was faced with a city where I knew no one.

This time, however, they had a destination: they headed south.

At the same time, there is a huge problem: Liu Qin does not know the specific address. Her uncle and the others have kept this information from her.

At this point, they had only one belief left: to head south and find the deputy regimental commander named Qi Qiao, who was serving as a soldier on the island.

Heading south, the two walked along railway tracks, climbed mountains, rode in oxcarts driven by kind villagers, and hitched a ride in a military truck driven by a good soldier.

They have begged, scavenged for garbage, mined coal, moved stones, been driven away by others, and also been taken in and lodged by villagers.

It can be said that they have experienced all the hardships that life has to offer.

Even if you go to the south, with so many provinces and such a big place, how can you find someone with just a name and no address?
Moreover, Qi Qiao is a soldier, and military personnel's information cannot be leaked casually. Doing so could easily backfire. Without some solid connections, who would be willing to take that risk?
Liu Qin and her brother are practically refugees. Where can they find someone to help them ask around?

Opportunities that come easily are found in novels.

The reality is that Liu Qin and her brother can only search slowly, place by place.

And the brother and sister were really unlucky, as they ended up on an unnamed island where everyone was dressed up as islanders in notebooks.

Unaware that the islanders were all from the Little Pigs, the two inquired about the nearest military garrison.

This topic is very sensitive to the Japanese, and they want to arrest the two of them immediately.

Fortunately, although the two had been "wandering" for almost two years and life was very hard, Liu Qin's knowledge and courage had increased. She quickly realized that there was something wrong with the island and escaped with Aman before Xiaobenzi could take action.

What followed was a three-day, two-night chase.

That nameless island is a secret maritime outpost of the Japanese in our waters. Even if they didn't think the brother and sister were related to the Chinese military, they wouldn't allow them to leave alive.

So they pursued them relentlessly until the brother and sister had nowhere to escape and could only jump into the sea to fight for that one in ten thousand chance of survival.

At this point, Qi Qiao felt both distressed and secretly pleased. "We discovered that there was something wrong with that island a long time ago. That day, I led a team to investigate there and happened to see two people jump into the sea from the cliff."