Love lasts a lifetime

He Yu asked the old man who was herding cattle:"Old man! Why did you flee here?"

The old man said to him:"I am not from here. I used to be from Lunan County. When I was young, there was a boss who went to our village. He was recruiting people here, saying that he would come here to mine with him, with food and accommodation included, and two and a half silver coins a month."

He Yu just heard the old man said that he came here to mine, and his nerves became tense, and he hurriedly asked:"Old man! What kind of mine are you here to open? Is it an iron ore?"

"Don't be anxious, listen to me, I will tell you slowly"

"My heart was on fire, I really couldn’t wait any longer, and all I could think about was the iron ore."He Yu said

"Young man, listen to me patiently"

"Okay! Let’s listen patiently to the old man’s words."

The old man was not in a hurry and continued:

"A few young men from our village and I followed him here, cut down some trees and built tree sheds to live in.

Just a few days after starting digging, Little Japan had already entered Yunnan, and planes were flying back and forth frequently.

The boss couldn't let us continue working, so he disbanded us without giving us any money.

The other people dispersed in the west. My foot was sprained and I had no choice but to huddle in the tree shed alone."

"So you are so pathetic, you are the only one in the tree shed? Are you afraid?"He Yu asked with concern

"There was nothing I could do about it, so I stayed alone in the tree shed for two days and two nights without eating or drinking.

The next day I struggled and used tree sticks to find food.

As a result, I saw someone living in a cave. When I went in and took a look, it turned out to be a mother and daughter.

When they saw me, they were frightened and panicked.

I told them my situation and they stabilized. The girl gave me two cooked potatoes to eat.

When I saw it, the girl was very young and beautiful. Her mother was over fifty years old.

Their faces were a little pale, and their clothes were torn and old.

I asked them, 'How did you get here? '

The girl replied; 'We have lived here for almost half a year. ’

I asked them again; ‘Why are you hiding here?"

When the girl heard my question, she said a little sadly,"It's a long story. My family lives in a village on the edge of Lunan City.

The son of the security chief of the village next door to us is already twenty-seven or eighty years old. Because he likes to find women, he begged for several wives. Some of them were tortured to the point of hanging, and some of them threw themselves into wells.

No matter how rich his family is, no girl is willing to marry him.

Once, he went to a village in the middle of the night to flirt with a married woman. When he walked out of the village, some inexplicable people broke his legs and threw him on the beach by the river.

Although he tried to be cured later, he became lame.

Later, he took a fancy to me and asked me to be his wife. Ask the matchmaker to bring you gifts directly. If you don't say"three" or"four", you will be beaten and pinched to get me to be your wife.

My father angrily threw the bride price outside the door and drove the matchmaker away.

As a result, he was beaten to death by the security chief's thugs.

The next day they prepared to carry a sedan chair to ask for me.

My mother and I escaped overnight. '

After listening to the girl's story, I felt very sympathetic and pitiful for them. I asked them; 'How did you survive these six months? '

The girl told me, 'When I first came here, I would hide and dare not go out during the day. At night, I would sneak into the fields to steal other people's corn bags, burn them and eat them.

When the corn was harvested, they would steal some dried corn bags, hide them, and burn the dried corn kernels to eat.

Later, I went to steal potatoes to burn and eat. This is how I got through the entire half year. '

After I heard what she said, I felt that it was not easy for them to survive until today."

"The old man's potatoes were burning, so we ate and talked."Xiao Song handed the shaved potato to the old man.

"good! We ate and talked."The old man said

"This mother and daughter are so pitiful. So what happened next?"He Yu was anxiously waiting to hear what was going on.

It was true: the old man was injured while mining, and he was alone in a shack.

He happened to meet a mother and daughter in a cave, and it turned out that they were both refugees.