The wicked girl

Chapter 5
In deep winter, dripping water turns into ice.

Outside the house, all the flowers and trees with branches and leaves have fallen, leaving only a bunch of bare branches, big and small, like ferocious beasts baring their teeth and claws in the night.The snow was still falling, but it was falling less and scattered.

White snow is scattered on the old black tiles, making it look more and more lonely.A row of crooked old tile-roofed houses stood in the dark night, with the doors and windows tightly shut.In such a cold day, almost no one went out at night, but the people in the tile-roofed houses still carefully blocked the gaps in the doors and windows to prevent even a single candlelight from leaking out.So even if you walk by, you will not find anyone in this old house that has been empty for a long time.

A small piece of white candle was burning on the low table still covered with ashes, and the wick occasionally made a "crackling" sound, and a few sparks burst out.In the flickering flames, a drunk man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks staggered to his feet, pushed open a small door and walked in.

The door was actually crowded with children, there were as many as seven or eight people here and there!

Ye Kui was in the middle of it, just woke up, and heard footsteps approaching, hurriedly closed her eyes again and pretended to be dizzy.

"Skinny Monkey, see if those two children are awake..." Someone hiccupped and said loudly.As soon as Ye Kui heard it, he remembered that this was the burly man with the beard.

Then it seemed that someone opened the door and came in and kicked her with his toes. The kick was so hard that her waist hurt, but she could only grit her teeth and endure it.

"Slept soundly!"

"Slow down! With your voice, no matter how deep you are, you will wake me up! Come out and have another drink."

"Come on..." After the answer, the footsteps gradually faded away.Ye Kui quietly opened her eyes, only to see a tall and thin figure walking out staggeringly, and when passing by the door, she staggered and stepped on the hand of a little girl beside her.The thin little girl burst into sobs immediately.The man nicknamed Skinny Monkey kicked her, cursed "unlucky" and went out to lock the door.

After the lock was locked, Ye Kui finally loosened her tense heartstrings slightly, and groped towards Ye Shu who was beside her. After touching up, down, left, and right, everything seemed to be fine, and then she felt a little relieved.

"Old Hei, we are lucky this time," Shouhou's voice came from outside the door, "Hey, I thought that the business of that company was big enough, but who knew that another one was picked up on the way. It's nothing if you take the money." Sending our third baby, it’s luck. I’ve seen them all, and he’s a perfect boy, especially that boy, tsk tsk..."

The man called Old Hei was a little impatient, "I will sell it as soon as it arrives in Hongdu. We are human traffickers, and we don't specialize in cleaning people's buttocks! The job of licking blood, if it weren't for the generous money they gave, I would have done it." I don't want to accept it!"

Ye Kui listened and couldn't help being puzzled.

They count as one business, so who is the other one talking about?
While thinking about it, Old Hei, who had been drinking for a while outside, ate the wine jar in his hand, feeling his whole body was getting hot, he couldn't help fidgeting, and the old stool under his butt creaked.Lifting his chin towards the closed wooden door, he hesitated and said, "Skinny Monkey, is there a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl inside?"

The thin monkey choked, and cast a glance at him, "Hold it, you'll ruin it for nothing later! You can sell it for seven or eight taels of silver in a kiln for that little appearance."

"Bullshit! It's going to be sold in a kiln after all, why don't I try it out first!" Hei couldn't help being annoyed by being choked up, and stood up immediately to open the door.

Ye Kui heard the footsteps approaching, and hurriedly closed her eyes again.

"Don't... please let me go... don't—"

"Snapped--"

"Arguing again, I cut off your tongue!"

The girl's cries became farther and farther away along with Lao Hei's cursing words, but there was only a thin wooden door, which couldn't stop the voice from the other room at all.

The sound of cloth being torn, the wretched laughter of Old Hei and the thin monkey, the muffled cries that seemed to be muffled...everything was so clear...

Ye Kui only felt a chill coming over her, making her shiver uncontrollably.

Suddenly, a frivolous woman's voice came out out of nowhere, "Oh, I said, you are so impatient, old black, I still expect these good things to be exchanged for money, so you should play first, dare you!" Are you ready to buy it?"

"Hua Niangzi, you see how petty you are, why don't I touch you?"

"Hmph. I think you are a dog who can't change eating shit, and you will die here sooner or later!" As he spoke, the wooden door was opened again, and a woman of about thirty with heavy make-up came in.

Ye Kui didn't have time to pretend to be dizzy, and was stared at squarely.

"Look at this little face." Hua Niang squatted down, put carrot-like fingers on her face, and winked, "You're not slippery, Hua Niang will definitely sell you for a good price tomorrow. "

After speaking, she threw a bundle at Ye Kui's feet, left a pot of water and went out.

Afterwards, the voices outside the house became quieter and could no longer be heard clearly.After careful identification, Ye Kui pushed Ye Shu to wake him up with a cold face, and quickly took the bag and the kettle on the ground into his arms.

There are a few cold and hard rough pancakes nestled in the burden.

There was the sound of swallowing saliva in his ears, and Ye Kui couldn't help but glance around coldly. At this moment, there are seven people in the room including their siblings—except for the boy with his head down in the distance, the rest of them have fixed their eyes firmly on in her hands.

Just looking at the degree of dirtiness of the clothes, Ye Kui knew that these people must have been locked up longer than them, and they must have been hungry for longer.But Ye Kui didn't intend to distribute the pancakes in his hand to them.

For seven people, there are only four rough pancakes, no matter how they are divided, it is not enough.

The rest of them all looked older than her, and the oldest one seemed to be eleven or twelve years old, and was staring at her intently.Ye Kui frowned, quickly stuffed a pancake into Ye Shu's mouth, and stuffed another pancake into his own.Immediately, she wrapped the remaining two rough pancakes in furoshiki and threw them out.

The pancakes were cold and hard to swallow, so she swallowed them hard with water.

Ye Shu held the pancake in a daze and called her, "Sister..."

A few people not far away had already started to fight for it, and Ye Kui urged Ye Shu to eat the pancake quickly with inarticulate words, maybe those people would come back to grab this one after they finished grabbing it.

After eating half of it, Ye Shu grinned, "Sister, I can't swallow, my throat hurts."

Although Xiao Yunniang didn't have much money, but when she was in good spirits, she never treated the two children harshly. Whenever she had money to buy fine flour and polished rice, she would never let them eat coarse grains.Ye Shu's mouth was already in his mouth.But now at this time, how can I be picky and picky!Ye Kui's heart was hardened, and she said in a deep voice, "You have to eat if you can't swallow it, and you can eat if you don't want to starve to death!"

Ye Shu was taken aback by her stern tone, and frantically gnawed on the pancake again.After chewing for a while, he suddenly shouted: "Sister, look!"

Ye Kui looked in the direction of his fingers, and found that the boy who had lowered his head and hid in the corner came out at some point, and snatched the only two remaining rough pancakes.

With one against four, they still won?

In doubt, the boy who lowered his head to eat the cake suddenly raised his head and looked straight into Ye Kui's eyes.

But he was only about ten years old, but he was very handsome.

The complexion was dazzlingly white in this dim environment, and it also made the eyes in the eye sockets as black as ink, which seemed to radiate with light at the slightest movement.And the tear mole under the corner of his right eye was as red as cinnabar, and it was inexplicably a little strange.

This child is so handsome that it is hard to tell the difference between male and female...

(End of this chapter)