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Chapter 132 Run

Chapter 132 Run
Lu Yao obviously underestimated the appeal of Feng Xiaogang's film.

The movie theater closest to Fuhua was packed with people, perhaps because Christmas was approaching. The only show left was the midnight show.

Shen Wan, who had been holding his arm in the car just now, now kept a distance from Lu Yao on purpose. After hearing the news he brought back from buying the ticket, she tentatively said:

"Brother Lu, let's change the cinema?"

"Row."

"I know a cinema in a shopping mall. It shouldn't be crowded."

Seeing that he agreed, Shen Wan's tone became lighter.

So, the two of them quickly took another taxi, and after getting in the car, when she told him the address, Lu Yao was speechless:

"Isn't that next to your house?"

"Ok!"

The girl, whose little secret was exposed, showed no sign of shyness and nodded vigorously:

"That shopping mall over there gives me the feeling that it's about to close down, so the cinema must be very busy. Also, there's a delicious hot pot restaurant over there, and I want to take Brother Lu to try it."

"Ok."

Lu Yao didn't refuse either.

The girl hugged his arms again naturally.

Her outstanding appearance attracted the drivers to take a sneak peek through the rearview mirror from time to time.

It was almost 11 o'clock when the two arrived near the girl's rented apartment.

I have to admit that she was right. Just looking at the old decoration and several empty stalls for rent in this mall, you can tell that the business situation is indeed not very good. But fortunately, there is a cinema, and the two of them caught the 11: show.

He has seen the movie If You Are the One and thought it was really not that good.

It's more like a promotional video for Yalong Bay than a movie.

Especially the old-young pairing of Ge You and Shu Qi...it made him so annoyed watching it.

But Shen Wan watched with great interest and never let go of Lu Yao's hand.

But she was indeed a good audience member, the kind of person who followed the movie theater's rules. When the movie started, she muted her phone and didn't even talk to Lu Yao the whole time. She watched the movie so seriously...

Soon, the movie, which lasted more than an hour, ended. It was a little after 1 a.m. When she left the theater and walked into the aisle, her first words were:

"Brother Lu, have you ever been to Sanya?"

"...Been there."

"Really? ...Is it beautiful over there?"

"You want to go?"

"Yeah. But... not to the places in the movies."

She shook her head:

"Those places look too expensive. A villa in the mountains... wouldn't it cost several thousand a night?"

This Lu Yao is really not clear.

After all, the place he visited most often was Wenchang, and he only passed by Sanya occasionally.

However, there are rows of five-star hotels in Yalong Bay, and none of them are cheap.

"If I were to go to Sanya, I might... rent a small apartment. It shouldn't be expensive, and it would be best if it were close to the beach, with the sea and flowers blooming in the spring facing me every day... Hehe, it would definitely feel great."

When she said these words, her eyes were full of longing.

Hearing her words, Lu Yao asked curiously:
"Do you like the beach?"

“I grew up in the mountains.”

The girl shrugged:

"Brother Lu, I told you that I first ate crab when I was twelve years old. Do you believe me?"

"..."

Lu Yao's mouth twitched.

"You may not be near the sea, but there must be crabs there. There are crabs in the river, if not in the sea."

"No, before I ate it, I had only seen crabs in books. The first time I ate it was on my 12th birthday, when my second sister bought it for me. We are short of water and there are no rivers. We get water from wells. Where are the rivers? ... Brother Lu, don't you know where I am from?"

"Well……"

He really didn't know this.

"I'm from Shanxi Province. The news said that our province is the most water-scarce province in the country. Especially our county, which is one of the poorest and most backward counties in Shanxi Province."

“…I thought the average coal boss in Shanxi Province was 1.3 million.”

He made a joke.

Shen Wan couldn't help but laugh out loud:

"Hehe, no way... But it's true that my dad almost sold me to a coal boss."

"..."

Lu Yao's mouth twitched.

While the two were talking, they walked to the elevator.

After entering the elevator, the topic came to an end.

Go all the way downstairs and out.

She spoke again:
"Brother Lu, are you hungry?"

"…Are you hungry?"

"Well, I want to take you to eat at that hot pot restaurant... It's not really a hot pot, it's actually skewers. They just put some bean curd sticks, gluten, meatballs and the like in the pot and cook them..."

"Chuanchuanxiang, right?"

"Yes. But it has mutton rolls. The boss can help you order them. They look delicious. It's not far over there. It's a small stall. Brother Lu, shall we go eat?"

"Row."

Lu Yao agreed readily.

In fact, his purpose today was to talk to her. After all, there was no need for the two of them to be like this.

Some things need to be discussed clearly.

After agreeing, Shen Wan held his arm again and led him to the back of the mall.

After walking about two intersections, the two entered an old alley area.

Come to think of it...small stalls can only be set up in old residential areas like alleys, and they have to be done secretly. Shanghai is an international metropolis after all, and it is impossible to set up stalls randomly.

Soon, she pointed to a stall:
"That's his place, Brother Lu. The food is delicious."

"it is good."

Lu Yao followed her and walked straight over.

The environment of a roadside stall was naturally not good, but Shen Wan seemed to be an old customer. The stall owner and his wife knew her. They quickly cleared out a small low table.

He also brought a small oil stove, took a small pot and scooped a spoonful of the soup from the skewers, and placed it on the table.

While Lu Yao was getting the skewers, when he came back, Shen Wan already had two bottles of flat-bottle Erguotou in her hands.

"...Still drinking?"

"Brother Lu doesn't want to drink, so I'll drink it myself. I can't sleep without drinking something."

Lu Yao frowned.

After thinking about it, he didn't stop him, and the girl had already poured a plate of sesame paste for him.

In the cold wind, the pot was bubbling and steam was boiling.

She unscrewed a bottle of Erguotou and took a sip.

"what……"

Seeing her cheerful look, Lu Yao asked:

“Do you drink it every day?”

"...Almost. Otherwise I would stay up late. Sometimes I wouldn't fall asleep until the next morning. But then my skin would be in bad condition. Sister Xue was very strict with us before, so this is the only way."

Hearing her words, Lu Yao was speechless:

"How old are you that you suffer from insomnia?"

"Well……"

Shen Wan tilted her head and said:
"I've actually been suffering from insomnia for many years. Brother Lu, do you believe it?"

"Many years?"

"Yeah. Probably... it started when I was in technical secondary school."

As she spoke, she seemed to open up her chatterbox, pinching a bunch of greens into the bowl and saying:
“Brother Lu, didn’t I just tell you that I was almost sold to the coal boss?”

"……Um."

"There were originally five children in my family. I am the fourth child."

The girl started talking.

"My mother... was abducted."

"..."

Lu Yao's mouth twitched.

Subconsciously, I remembered what Mr. Xu said, "You don't have to take what they say seriously."

But at this moment, his intuition told him that the other party was not lying.

Maybe it was intuition, or maybe it was her expression that was so calm that it seemed like a matter of course.

"After my mother was abducted, she always wanted to run away at first, so my father beat her every day. Later, she became pregnant... and gave birth to a daughter. When my father saw that it was a girl, he... sold her. Then..."

Having said that, she shook her head, tilted her head back and took a sip of wine.

This flat bottle of Erguotou weighed 2.5 liang per bottle. After two sips, only half of the wine was left.

Then she took out a cigarette from her bag.

The thin Nanjing cigarettes that cost 13 yuan.

This was the first time Lu Yao saw her smoking.

But he didn't answer, nor did he tell her not to smoke, he just shook his head and said:

"Stop doing."

"...Brother Lu has quit?"

The girl's eyes were full of surprise:
"But clearly last time..."

"Well, I've quit for more than ten days."

"..."

The surprise in her eyes turned into shock.

"Just say quit... and quit?"

"Ah."

“…Brother Lu, you are really a very scary person.”

She felt inexplicably more emotional.

Then he threw the cigarette he had just lit to the ground and extinguished it.

But he didn't say anything, and continued:

“Then my mother went crazy.”

"..."

"Then... my second sister, my third sister, and... me."

Lu Yao keenly grasped the logical loophole.

If her father is so patriarchal, then how did her second and third sisters and she stay?

But he didn't ask, but began to doubt the authenticity of the other party's words.

Until the girl said:

"Maybe it's because my mother went crazy and tried to commit suicide every day. After my second sister was born, my father didn't sell her. Because my crazy mother only seemed to regain consciousness when she was taking care of my second sister. And... as long as the child is around, my mother will listen to my father, and she will be quiet when a man comes to find her..."

"...????"

Looking at the girl who drank the first bottle of wine in one gulp, Lu Yao's face showed a big look of doubt.

"You...you mean..."

"My looks are inherited from my mother."

"..."

Lu Yao seemed to understand something.

But my heart gradually grew colder.

After thinking for a while, he asked:
"Then later..."

"My mother gave birth to a boy. My brother was born, but she had a severe hemorrhage... and died. And my brother... did not live past the age of 2 and died."

"..."

The girl had already unscrewed the second bottle of wine.

Lu Yao suddenly picked up the cigarette box on the table and took out two cigarettes from it.

One was handed to her and the other was held in her mouth.

As soon as he lit it, the girl took it away:

"Brother Lu has quit smoking, so don't smoke anymore."

"...I'll have one with you. I won't smoke."

He didn't take back his own cigarette, but took the one from her hand, lit it quietly, but didn't smoke it.

Although he was restless inside, he held it back and just held it in his hand:
"and then."

"Then? The county campaigned against illiteracy, and people came to our village to help alleviate poverty. They promised to give my dad more seeds every year, so my second sister, third sister, and I could go to school. But I didn't live up to expectations... I was a poor student. Also, before junior high school, because we were a poor household, we didn't have to pay for tuition, books, and food, and the county also provided for us. But after graduating from junior high school, my dad didn't let me go to school. It was my second sister who worked to support my third sister and me. But because my brother died young, my dad started gambling, and after he lost all the family land... he first tricked my second sister back and let her get married. He took the betrothal gift to gamble... and after he lost it all, he asked my third sister to come back, but she ran away. He... then set his sights on me."

The girl narrated her past in the calmest words.

Although there was no ripple, Lu Yao felt a chill rising from the bottom of his heart.

"And then...you ran away too?"

"Ah."

She nodded:

"My second sister secretly gave me 500 yuan, and I climbed over the wall of the school overnight... I got on a train directly, and my final destination is here."

"..."

"My insomnia started from that time. For some reason, after I learned from my second sister that my father was going to sell me, I was afraid to sleep. I didn't dare to close my eyes on the train, as if he would suddenly appear in front of me in the next second... Then... after I got here, I always felt like someone was staring at me. I even woke up in the middle of the night from nightmares, and slowly... I started to have trouble sleeping."

"…How many years have you been here?"

"Hmm... let me think about it. I came here at 16, and I'm 21 this year, so it's been five years."

"Have you been following Sister Xue for the past five years?"

"How can it be……"

The girl smiled and shook her head:
"Brother Lu, do you know how difficult it is to follow Sister Xue? You have to be pretty, you have to pass the training, and you have to be smart and know how to please others... Not everyone is like Yueyue, who can come here directly when something happened at home."

"…Then how did you get here these past few years?"

"Well, at first I worked as a waiter in a snack bar, and I also helped him look after the store, so I could live in the store. At that time, my monthly salary was 900 yuan..."

"..."

Lu Yao's mouth twitched.

"Later... maybe because I grew up and became pretty, he liked to touch me behind the boss's wife's back. He even came to me in the middle of the night once... I had to lock the door from the inside before he left... Then I ran away. But at that time I had more than 6 yuan in my hand, so I rented a bed in Songjiang for yuan a month. There were six of us in one room... I found that they all slept until the afternoon, put on beautiful makeup, and went out at night."

"Well, then what?"

"Then? They knew I was looking for a job, so they dragged me along. We went to a nightclub. I sat at the counter all day, and when a customer asked me to come, I thought he just wanted to drink, but he suddenly...he touched me, and I got scared...I ran away again."

"…You are quite capable of running."

"hey-hey."

The girl smiled innocently and continued:

"Then... the customer got really angry that day, and I guess... I implicated them. After they got off work... a few of them grabbed me. They... slapped me in the face one after another."

"..."

Lu Yao subconsciously clenched his fist.

But the girl just shook her head and said:

"My face was swollen, and they locked me in the bathroom and wouldn't let me out. I didn't have a cell phone at the time... I couldn't afford one. I could only scream for help, and then other tenants called the police. When the police came, they checked my ID... but I didn't have one, and then... I ran away when they weren't paying attention."

"..."

"All my clothes were gone. Although I still had some money left, I didn't dare go back to get it because I was afraid the police would block me at the house. I... I slept under the flyover on the Songjiang side. I slept there for two nights, but on the third day I felt someone pulling my pants off... This time I was more cautious. When I slept, I used a brick wrapped in cloth as a pillow. I... gave the man a brick, and then I..."

"He ran away again."

"Hehe, yeah!"

Hearing Lu Yao's words, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Then... I was actually really scared. I could only squat on the side of the road and cry in the middle of the night. It was already late at night, and then... a guy, my ex-boyfriend, was riding his bike home from get off work and saw me crying. He was kind-hearted... so he asked me what was wrong. I told him about my situation... He was actually working here as well, and seeing how pitiful I was, he asked me to stay with him for the night."

"you go?"

"...Yeah. He was actually pretty good to me. I was just... I gave it to him in a daze the first time. I was so hurt at the time that I cried. But he said he would treat me well forever. I believed him, and he also worked in a nightclub over there, so he took me to the nightclub. But this time I wasn't a hostess, I was a waitress. At that time, I could earn more than 3,000 yuan a month."

"……Then what?"

"Then? I worked for nearly a year. I learned my lesson. I used his laptop to learn how to put on makeup from videos on the Internet. But I made myself look uglier... darker, and I shaved my eyebrows. Brother Lu, girls look ugly after shaving their eyebrows. Anyway... I worked for nearly a year, but... maybe it was because I was too ugly. He fell in love with a hostess in the nightclub and threw my luggage out."

"..."

"But I'm not afraid this time, because I have money. Because we can have a meal at the company every day, and then go home after get off work... He also wants to eat, so I eat with him. He also knows my family's situation, and told me that the money he saved was for buying a house in the future... Now that I think about it, I'm quite grateful to him, because he is not like those scumbags who cheat money and sex. When we were together, he paid for our food, drink and accommodation. So I had nearly 30,000 in savings at the time. I have money... I'm not afraid of going anywhere. But... my father is dead."

"..."

She shrugged at Lu Yao, whose face was already filled with silence:

"Because I owed money from gambling, I was hit on the head by a debt collector and died. My second sister called the police, and the debt collector was arrested and paid 100,000 yuan in compensation. I went back home and left all the money to my second and third sisters, and then... I finally got my own household registration book, and I changed my name... Hehe, Brother Lu, my name used to be Shen Silian, and I chose Shen Wan myself. I finally have my own ID card."

There was no trace of sadness on the girl's face.

Instead, there is a sense of joy of relief.

Although a relative had passed away, she was happy that she had obtained an ID card.

There is no sadness.

Like a newborn.

Lu Yao nodded slightly.

Ok.

indeed.

There is no need to be sad.

Isn't that good?

"and then?"

he asked.