Chapter 750 - Whatever was Cut would Eventually be Long (2/2)

There were water noises beside her, and the rest had followed her in. Now, it was time to see whose luck was better and could find more gold. She took the net and started looking, but her useless hand was extremely hard to move up and down.

Nothing again. She was disappointed as she poured the sand back into the water before scooping others up and started finding gold in the water. When the afternoon sun landed above her eyes, she saw a bright light.

Hurriedly, she turned around; and when she looked back, she found something in her net that was sparkling. She moved the net again and reached in for the dazzling thing that was especially painful to her eyes under the sun. She closed her eyes and heaved a sigh of relief; even her tensed up lips could finally break into a smile.

That was good. Great even. She finally found gold.

She took her basket to the head which was where the fat woman was and handed her gold up. After checking it, the fat woman was clearly pleased as the gold was pretty big and was substantial.

Xia Ruoxin exchanged two rolls of toilet paper, toothpaste, and two toothbrushes. Perhaps others would think that she was crazy to be caring about these at a time like that. The other people who found gold would exchange it for food and not daily necessities, but Xia Ruoxin was different.

Finally, today, she did not need to get beaten up.

When she went back, she passed on a toothbrush to Shen Wei.

Shen Wei took it and turned over to sleep. Xia Ruoxin touched her head and decided to cut off her hair. Even though she could not bear to part with it… as from young, she was like Rainy who loved and cherished their hair the most or perhaps because she was once bald.

Hence, she rarely cut her hair and let it grow naturally and reach her shoulders with much difficulty.

The next morning, she woke up earlier than others and went to brush her teeth before using the water on her fingers to comb her hair. As she had no comb, she could only use her fingers to brush through it; but it was already all tangled up.

The second day, she got nothing; and it was so on the third. Until the fourth day, she found another piece of gold and still exchanged it for toilet paper, two bowls of rice, and something that was like a knife. A knife was considered a sharp object so the people here were afraid that they would use it to do something else so they would not give them sharp things like scissors or fruit knife.

Even when Xia Ruoxin took the scissors, quite a few people were watching. Xia Ruoxin grabbed a bunch of her hair and held the scissors in her hand tightly before breathing heavily. One lump of her hair had fallen.

She did not cry and continued cutting her hair like a machine until her hair was very short, and she was almost bald.

That time, Shen Wei walked over and sat in front of Xia Ruoxin. “Help me cut mine, too.”

Xia Ruoxin took Shen Wei’s hair. Last time, her hair used to be very beautiful and was the envy of her; that lush wine red curled hair was soft and smooth. Right now, it was like wilted grass and had lost the lushness from the beginning.

“Your hair will grow out.”

She sighed lightly, and the smile on her face had long gone away.