Chapter 131 Desperation
I let out an "ah", astonished. Although just listening to her account, I vaguely guessed some, but from her mouth, I felt that this scene is particularly cruel.
Lu Yao didn't understand what was going on, her father simply packed up the clothes she normally wore, threw them into her arms, and without saying a word, let the man take her away.
Lu Yao said, she did not understand why her father did this, but later she gradually understood, the reason is very simple, just because she was born a girl, and his parents, from the heart to her scorn.
She said and sighed. I more or less understand her idea, not to mention before, even now this era, in some remote and backward areas, and even some family conditions are good people, patriarchal this kind of thinking, but also has always existed . In the same example, Lu Yao's situation is already considered a good one, at least she was abused, but her parents are still supporting her. Some people just gave birth to a child, and when they saw that it was a girl, they just abandoned it in the wilderness and left it to fend for itself.
So I think that Lu Yao's parents had very complicated feelings towards her, both hatred and resentment. It's not because of Lu Yao as a person, but simply because of her gender. Plus, Lu Yao's father is such a gangster character, this kind of person even if you talk sense to him is a waste of words, a tendon of ideas, do things than also called easy extreme.
After Lu Yao was bought, she followed the man to the road for three days, and in the middle of the day, she didn't complain, and didn't shed a single tear. The man even some strange, tentative asked her a lot of words, she just faintly answered, indifferent, showing a kind of accident beyond the people of the same age demeanor to. It was more or less unpleasant.
They had been to a big mountain, there was also a village there, only compared to where Lu Yao originally lived, this village seemed smaller and more backward.
The houses in the village were built on the mountain, and the only thing that connected them to each other was a narrow stone road in the center. Lu Yao was brought to the man's house, still not saying a word, just silently observing the family. Their house was a bit bigger than his previous home, with two or three rooms, and in Lu Yao's eyes at the time, it was considered to be a very wealthy family.
The family was only a family of three, the man who brought him here was a little younger than Lu Yao's father, but his daughter-in-law, who was ten years older than him, had a pair of slanting eyes that couldn't help but look at herself, and her mouth spoke in a mean way, never looking good.
Two people have a son, but more than two years old, just learned to walk soon, can say a few short words. The man's wife loved her son very much, and as long as he cried, he was anxious and took it out on Lu Yao.
Lu Yao originally thought that even though she had been sold, she had jumped out of a fire pit. She only needed to help out with some housework in this family, focusing on helping to take care of their young son. Just don't want to this woman's temper is not necessary to their own father how much better, weekdays on often difficult Lu Yao, as long as their son has a good or bad, but also no less than a burst of scolding her.
Days just so day by day, I do not understand Lu Yao is with a kind of mood to live through those years. I only know that she became more and more indifferent, and sometimes she couldn't even say a word a day. The more the man's wife looked at her, the more angry she became, and every now and then she would give her a good fight. The man is also afraid of things, even if his wife is not reasonable, but also to help deal with Lu Yao, hands on things are also quite common.
But Lu Yao gradually grew up, also counted to understand how this is the case.
I originally listened to her story, it felt as if the family bought a slave back, but Lu Yao shook her head and told me that for a long time at that time, the family had locked her up in the house, forbidding her to step out of the door, and the world she saw changed from the original village to this small house where she could only see the sky in all directions, and this situation lasted for two years. When this family determined that she did not have the intention of escaping, then she was allowed to walk around the village, Lu Yao then realized that in this village, people in a similar situation like her, she was not the only one, in many families, there was almost always a girl like her, older or younger, also living this kind of dark and sunless life.
She tried to talk to the people around her to explore, before finally realizing that she had been bought to this place as a child bride.
I froze for a moment when I heard this, I have heard of such things as child brides, and I've seen a lot of them on TV. Usually because a place is remote and backward, the local people can not marry a daughter-in-law, will be other places of the girl adopted or bought to raise in the family, in order to their son after marriage to have children have a preparation.
The village is not full of people, most of the families have this kind of idea, Lu Yao even found out that even his own family, husband and wife are also in the same situation, the feelings between them can not really talk about love or not love, but only to have a dependence on this half of the life. They were just waiting for their son to grow up and become a man, so they would let Lu Yao live with him.
Because of this, she was anxious in her heart, usually always gloomy face, and received more reproaches. She often look at the man's son, see him grow up, look unattractive not to mention, but also inherited his mother that the most bitchy and troublesome nature, in the family live off a bully, with the age of the gradual growth, more some of the unselfconscious attitude, when it is Lu Yao slipped and smashed a bowl, his mother had not sent word to scold, this little ancestor lifted his foot towards her heart kicked over. The pain was so great that she couldn't get out of bed for a few days.
It was also from that time that Lu Yao realized that there was not much hope for her future.
She thought about running away, and had even been silently calculating in her mind for months, but was too horrified by what happened to another woman in the village to act.
She was also a woman bought from the outside, two years older than Lu Yao, and had suffered no less than Lu Yao in her day-to-day life. There was finally a day when she couldn't stand this life any longer, and she brought her luggage to escape from the village, but after less than a day, she was captured and brought back. She was hanged from a crooked tree at the entrance of the village, and was beaten by her father-in-law with a whip. At that time, the village had a child bride's family basically went, Lu Yao was no exception, she also understood that doing so, is considered to be a warning to them people.
Her eyes did not blink, looking straight at the woman hanging from the tree, seeing that she had been beaten to the point that she was covered in blood, with not a single piece of her body in good condition, and the screams from her mouth were even more frightening than the howls of wolves that she heard in the middle of the night. Her father-in-law originally did not intend to take her life, just the heart of the real gas, plus the hand did not have a measure, and finally the woman did not slow up a breath, died on the spot.
This can be scared a lot of people, Lu Yao how can not forget the woman's death, as if hanging in the tree, is the same as her own. That family cursed a few bad luck, put away the whip, and went home without caring about the corpse. After all, these people for them, but just money in exchange for the birth of children's tools.
The corpse had been hanging at the entrance to the village, and Lu Yao was able to see her swaying in the wind under a tree whenever she went out. But one day, she probed out to see it as she was accustomed to doing, only to find that the body was gone, and she didn't know whether it had been collected by someone, or whether it had been taken by the wolves. Anyway this matter, became a shadow in her heart, making her lose the courage to want to escape.
After a short while, Lu Yao grew up to seventeen or eighteen years old, and her appearance was not bad. But because of her face and skin, the end that came to her was death.
At that time, she was the son of the family, also more than thirteen fourteen years old, usually follow the village those idle men who have not yet become a family to mix, although young, but almost everything knows. That day is a few people joke, say some revealing with colorful jokes. The topic somehow turned to Lu Yao. They said how beautiful she was, and how the son would be so dashing if he took her in the future. Slowly, some people suggested that it would be worth it to spend a night with her, even if it meant losing one's life.
The son, who had been flattered by others, had lost his head, plus he was young and had no sense of propriety, and had never regarded Lu Yao as his future daughter-in-law, so when he was fooled by these people, a sense of exuberance came over him. When they talked, they had a feeling of "brothers as brothers and women as clothes". All just as fun. That night, he brought the gangsters into his house.
Lu Yao just slept, suddenly saw a few black shadows came in, was about to open his mouth to scream, mouth was a plug, the voice can not shout out a little, suddenly was tied by these people took out of the house.
They climbed all the way up the mountain, came to a cold forest, Lu Yao all the way in the struggle, but wait to see the appearance of these people, and even the son is also in it, the heart suddenly despair. She is no longer an ignorant girl, naturally understand what these people play attention.
They stuffed the rag in Lu Yao's mouth, Lu Yao immediately let out a cry and curse, the son saw her cursing hard to hear, immediately came to the fire, flinging his hand want to give her a slap. But I didn't expect Lu Yao to react fast, her hands were tied, but the hand fell on her face, and she turned her head to give her a hard bite. The son of where to eat this kind of loss, immediately on fire, Lu Yao punching and kicking up.
Lu Yao collapsed on the ground, so painful that she could not breathe, and finally the curses in her mouth gradually decreased, turning into sobs and pleas. A few men beside her came up and pulled a hand, which separated the two, and then with a lewd smile on their faces, they began to tear the clothes from Lu Yao's body.
The last bit of desire in Lu Yao's heart to still want to live in this world ruptured from that moment. She closed her eyes, only wishing that she could run headlong into the ground and die, but she was being pulled by these men, and she didn't even have the ability to beg for death.
A line of tears fell from her eyes, the resentment that had been pressed in her heart all these years surged up at once, and just as she wanted to bite her tongue to kill herself, she heard a few men beside her screaming in terror, their tone extraordinarily frightening.
She violently opened her eyes, suddenly saw in front of her stood a bloody woman, her body skin and flesh, one hand is grasping his own family's son. A pair of eyes that were filled with the color of resentment.