The Quagmire of Desire: From Gambling Addict and Village Flower to Movie Queen

The door was banged on loudly.

The man outside shouted again, "Xiaoya! Open the door! If you don't open it, I'll kick it down!"

Sun Xiaoyan's legs went weak and she almost sat down on the ground.

Liu Meiling gripped her arm tightly, her nails almost digging into her flesh.

"What should we do..." Sun Xiaoyan's voice trembled uncontrollably.

Liu Meiling didn't say anything, her eyes quickly scanning the room.

The backpack was under the bed, Xiaoya was behind the pile of clutter, and the two of them were standing behind the door.

There's no way to escape now.

"I'll go open the door," Liu Meiling suddenly said, her voice extremely low. "You...you go get a glass of water."

"Huh?" Sun Xiaoyan didn't understand.

"Go quickly!" Liu Meiling pushed her, took a deep breath, forced a smile, and swayed her hips as she walked towards the door.

Sun Xiaoyan's mind went blank, but she still staggered to the broken table in the room and picked up the dirty enamel mug with trembling hands.

There was still a little water at the bottom of the jar.

She heard Liu Meiling pull the latch.

"Oh dear, who is this so early in the morning..." Liu Meiling's voice was soft and coquettish, completely different from before.

The door opened.

A man in his forties stood at the door, his face flushed and his neck thick, reeking of alcohol.

He squinted at Liu Meiling, chuckled, and said, "You're the new 'goods' Old Ma just brought in? Not bad."

As they spoke, they squeezed in.

Liu Meiling stepped aside to let him in, and casually closed the door slightly, not completely shut.

"Big brother, are you looking for Xiaoya? She...she went out on something."

Liu Meiling smiled and walked to the man's side, "Where did you come from? You've had so much to drink."

"Great!" The man waved his hand, almost hitting Liu Meiling in the chest. "I won money yesterday! I heard Old Ma has some new tricks up his sleeve, so I came to try them out!"

He glanced into the room again and saw Sun Xiaoyan standing by the table, trembling.

"Hey, two of them!" The man's eyes lit up even more. "Old Ma's a real shill!"

Sun Xiaoyan shrank back in fright.

Liu Meiling quickly stepped between the man and Sun Xiaoyan, her body almost pressed against the man's: "Brother, don't rush. Have some water first, sober up."

She winked at Sun Xiaoyan.

Sun Xiaoyan then realized what was happening. She held the jar, her hands still trembling.

The pills...the pills were in her underwear!

She had been hiding the two pieces that she had spat out earlier.

She turned her back, pretending to drink water from the jar, but actually she shakily pried the two sticky pills out of her collar and threw them into the little water at the bottom of the jar.

The pill slowly dissolved.

"Big brother, here you go." Sun Xiaoyan handed over the jar, not daring to look the man in the eye.

The man took it, didn't even look at it, and gulped it all down.

"Alright!" He tossed the empty jar on the ground, wiped his mouth, and said, "You've drunk the water, time to get down to business!"

He shoved Liu Meiling aside and lunged at Sun Xiaoyan.

Sun Xiaoyan screamed as the man slammed her hard against the table, causing her lower back to ache.

"What are you hiding for!" The man reeked of alcohol as he reached his hand inside her clothes.

Liu Meiling rushed up from behind and grabbed the man's arm: "Big brother! Big brother, wait! Slow down! Slow down!"

"Get out of my way!" The man swung his arm, and Liu Meiling was thrown aside and fell to the ground.

Sun Xiaoyan struggled desperately, but the man was incredibly strong. He grabbed both of her wrists with one hand and started pulling down her pants with the other.

"Meiling! Meiling!" Sun Xiaoyan cried out.

Liu Meiling got up, her eyes bloodshot.

She saw a rusty shovel leaning against the wall.

She rushed over, grabbed a shovel, and started smashing it into the man's back without thinking!

"Bang!"

The man winced in pain, paused, and whirled around, yelling, "Fuck your mother!"

He released Sun Xiaoyan and turned to grab Liu Meiling.

When Sun Xiaoyan had a moment to spare, she noticed a broken thermos on the table.

She grabbed the thermos, not caring whether it was full or not, and smashed it on the man's head with all her might!

"Bang!"

The thermos flask shattered, and the man's head was ripped open, blood mixed with an unknown liquid flowing down.

The man swayed but didn't fall. Instead, he was completely enraged and roared like a wild beast.

Liu Meiling swung the shovel again, this time aiming a vicious blow at the man's calf!

Sun Xiaoyan also grabbed the enamel mug from the ground and smashed it at the man's face.

Once, twice.

The man finally couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed to the ground with a thud, motionless.

Only Sun Xiaoyan and Liu Meiling's heavy breathing remained in the room.

The two men were stunned when they saw the man on the ground, his face covered in blood.

"He...he's dead?" Sun Xiaoyan asked in a trembling voice.

Liu Meiling squatted down and checked his breathing.

"He's still breathing." After she finished speaking, she immediately began to search the man's pockets.

The man pulled a roll of banknotes from his pocket; it probably amounted to five or six hundred.

There was also an old-fashioned black cell phone.

"Take it! Quick!" Liu Meiling stuffed the money and phone into her pants pocket, then dragged her backpack out from under the bed and put it on.

Sun Xiaoyan was still stunned.

"Come on!" Liu Meiling pulled her.

"Wait!" Sun Xiaoyan suddenly said.

She ran to the pile of broken planks outside, dragged Xiaoya, who was still naked and unconscious, out of the house, and pulled her inside.

"What are you doing?" Liu Meiling asked anxiously.

Sun Xiaoyan did not speak.

She saw a bit of wet mud mixed with medicine powder next to the shards of the water jug ​​the man had just drunk from.

That was the kind of "medicine" they were forced to take before, and Xiaoya would sometimes accidentally spill a little.

Sun Xiaoyan scraped off the wet mud with her fingers, pried open Xiaoya's mouth, and smeared it in hard.

Still feeling it wasn't enough, she picked up a few pieces of broken porcelain covered in medicine powder from the ground and stuffed them into Xiaoya's mouth.

"Let her taste it too," Sun Xiaoyan said coldly.

Liu Meiling glanced at her but didn't say anything.

"Walk!"

The two dared not go through the main gate again and ran to the back wall of the farm.

The wall wasn't high, and the two of them scrambled over it, landing in the weeds outside.

Ignoring the pain, he got up and ran.

I ran along a bumpy dirt road until the sun began to set, until my legs felt like they were made of lead.

They dared not stop the car, fearing they might encounter bad people again.

As it was getting dark, they saw a large truck parked on the side of the road ahead.

The carriages were very tall and surrounded by railings, from which came the mooing of cows.

A man who looked like a driver was standing next to the car urinating.

Sun Xiaoyan and Liu Meiling hid behind a tree and waited for the driver to finish urinating. Then, humming a song, they walked around to the front of the car, opened the door, and got in.

The engine started.

"Quickly!" Liu Meiling whispered.

The two of them crouched down and rushed over. Before the car started moving, they grabbed the railing at the back of the carriage and struggled to climb up.

The carriage was crammed with seven or eight cows, and the smell was pungent.

The truck slowly started moving, bumping and jolting as it drove towards the dark road ahead.

Sun Xiaoyan and Liu Meiling huddled together in the middle of the herd of cattle, their hearts pounding so hard they could hear each other’s.

They didn't know which way the car was going.

All I know is that the farm has been left behind.

Meanwhile, at the farm, the stranger they had knocked unconscious and Xiaoya, who had been given drugs, woke up almost simultaneously in a daze.

The man had a splitting headache and felt extremely hot all over.

Xiaoya's eyes were unfocused, and she felt as if her body was on fire.

Moonlight streamed in through the broken window, illuminating two bodies that had involuntarily intertwined.

Just then, the farm gate was pushed open with a bang.

Old Ma's excited voice came in: "Guys, let's have some fun tonight! My two new finds are amazing..."

He led two or three familiar men into the courtyard and headed straight for the room with the lights on.

Push open the door.

Old Ma's smile froze.

The men following behind him were taken aback at first, then burst into laughter.

"Old Ma! You're something else! You're even offering your own daughter to your brothers?"

"That's quite a fancy move!"

Old Ma's face instantly turned a deep purplish-red. He roared and rushed over, yanking the strange man who was still rubbing against Xiao Ya off him and punching him repeatedly.

"Fuck your ancestors! How dare you touch my daughter!"

The stranger was not fully awake and was being beaten, howling in pain.

Xiaoya lay naked on the ground, her eyes glazed over, uttering meaningless moans.

The scene was in complete chaos.

The truck carrying the cow and two women had already driven into the darkness of night, moving further and further away from this chaos.