freenovelworld Chapter 539 Rescue
Chapter 539 Rescue
Upon learning this news, they immediately suspended the charity project.
Lu Mingxing received a message from his assistant, Mao Dan, about the preparation materials for attending the supercar club event. He frowned slightly and typed a few words.
Lu Mingxing: [Something came up unexpectedly. If I can't make it, I'll have to pay compensation.]
Several hours later, the group headed to Xiangshi via different routes.
......
Bai Yisha had been resting and recuperating for the past few hours. After her aunt returned, she went up to her and coaxed her, and she actually succeeded in getting her aunt to take her up the mountain to plant rice seedlings.
However, there was one condition: she had to be tied up. The aunt, feeling sorry for her, didn't tie her up completely, but only tied her ankles.
In case she runs away.
Bai Yisha's intention was not in this matter, so she naturally agreed.
So she followed behind the aunt, looking around several times, and took a deep breath of the rural air.
Even though she had grown up here, she was still a little disoriented for a moment. After checking the directions, she realized that Yang Cuiping's place was at the foot of another mountain, which was quite far away.
They're separated by a village.
It's normal that the older woman had never seen her before.
However, she was notorious for her immoral behavior from a young age...
"Judging from your appearance, you must be from the city. Do you know what this is?"
Seeing that Bai Yisha had no intention of running away, the aunt was even happier.
She had just gone out to talk to the village chief about matchmaking. Bai Yisha was beautiful, and the whole village had donated money to buy her. Naturally, the aunt wanted to keep the good seedling for her own relative.
Bai Yisha had just been acting cute with her, and her heart had melted.
She had two sons but no daughters, and everyone in the village called her a wicked woman. No one had ever acted like that with her before.
Hearing the aunt's words, Bai Yisha turned to look in the direction the woman was pointing—a wooden stick stuck in the ground. She raised an eyebrow and said, "This is cassava. I've eaten it. It's all buried underneath. And this is called mugwort, this is peanut, and this is called centella asiatica, and this..."
She rattled off a whole bunch of things, leaving the older woman speechless. Suddenly, a look of surprise flashed across her face, revealing her yellowed teeth: "Not bad, young lady! I didn't expect you to know all this. You'll definitely be a good helper in the future!"
Bai Yisha paused, gave an awkward smile, and touched her nose somewhat guiltily.
The reason she knew so much was because when she was a child, she would chase after Gao Yaozu, and when she got tired, she would dig up his vegetables to eat. In the end, she was beaten by Yang Cuiping and made to kneel in his vegetable field to watch over the vegetables.
Then she stole some food.
Yang Cuiping was so angry that she fainted on the spot.
It was an elderly neighbor who couldn't bear to see her like this, so he gave her some money and asked her to take Yang Cuiping to the clinic.
The older woman lowered her guard a bit, and Bai Yisha followed her around, occasionally exchanging a few casual words, inadvertently shifting the topic to human trafficking.
"Auntie, you said you'd find me a husband, but you won't find me an ugly one, will you? I like handsome men."
"No way, my nephew is very handsome, and he looks most like me."
"Oh, I see. You bought me, but did you buy someone else? I don't want my husband to have two wives."
The auntie twisted her waist a few times, plopped down in the hay, and waved her hand: "Hey, it's just you today, but there will be three tomorrow. Don't worry, Auntie won't cheat you."
She seemed to have opened a floodgate of words, and began to ramble on to Bai Yisha: "That girl we bought a while ago was so disobedient. I beat her several times, and she even tried to run away on our wedding night. The whole village donated money to buy her, but we didn't let her get away. Now she's dead inside. You see, you're obedient and well-behaved, and you get to eat, drink, and even come out to play?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Yisha's expression changed slightly, and her smile froze a bit.
She sat down next to the older woman without making a sound, and asked with feigned curiosity, "Is the village so rich? It's so united. When one person gets married, the whole village donates money."
"You think this is so kind of you? This is to find wives for the whole village."
"The whole village? What do you mean?"
The auntie put on a sarcastic expression, looked around, leaned closer to Bai Yisha, and whispered, "It means all the men in the village share it. The village chief is a scoundrel. That old pervert likes to whip people with a rattan cane. He whipped one to death last week. But don't worry, I paid a high price. You belong to my nephew. Nobody can touch you. I'm good to you, aren't I?"
Bai Yisha felt a chill run down her spine and could no longer laugh, but she couldn't.
So I forced myself to smile and took the aunt's arm, resting my head on her shoulder, and said, "Auntie, you're so kind. You're the best aunt I've ever met. Why don't you take me in as your daughter?"
“That works! Auntie is missing a daughter. So, after you and my nephew have your wedding night, you can have your wedding night with my two sons too. Don’t worry, we’re family. I’ll treat you well. Give me a big, fat grandson. No, six will be enough.”
Bai Yisha suppressed her nausea and strong emotions, looked up at the sky, and asked, "Then when will your nephew and I consummate our marriage?"
"So soon? It'll be soon, in three days!"
Bai Yisha remained silent, her lips pressed tightly together, lost in thought, seemingly pondering something.
night.
The broken glass embedded in the wall gleamed coldly in the moonlight.
Bai Yisha secretly put a sleeping potion in the aunt's bowl. After the aunt fell into a deep sleep, she fumbled for the key and came out of the shed, her smile long gone.
During the day, she managed to extract a lot of information from people and learned that each household had a cage specifically for keeping people in, and she also knew the approximate locations of these cages.
She first went to the little girl whose sobbing and crying she had heard during the day. According to the system's time announcement, it was now 11 p.m.
The villagers go to bed early because they have farm work to do the next day, so it's very quiet now.
There weren't many people.
There are exceptions.
But... it was a female voice.
As Bai Yisha approached, she heard the girl from earlier that day screaming and crying at the top of her lungs, her cries heart-wrenching.
Her body stiffened.
The girl's broken voice came through: "Let me go!!!! Ah... No, no!!! Don't touch me!!!! Ah!!!!"
The screams were horrific and desperate, which made Bai Yisha furious and want to rush over to save the person.
In fact, that's exactly what she did.
She exchanged some tools and sleeping pills with the system and sneaked up there.
When the men in the village do bad things, their defenses are actually the weakest.
As a child, Bai Yisha often ran and jumped around the village, climbing over walls and houses was a common occurrence for her. Her daytime reconnaissance gave her a thorough understanding of the terrain of this courtyard, so under the cover of night, her movements were as light as a cat's, and with a few quick movements, she silently scaled the high wall.
The moment she landed, a sharp pain shot through the outside of her calf.
"hiss--"
She gasped and looked down to see a thin gash on her fair skin, from which blood was rapidly seeping out, starkly visible in the night.