C2 (1/2)

I was sent flying. Intense pain spread throughout my body. I lay on the dirt road filled with water. I was resentful that the heavens didn't take me away but instead continued to torture me even more.

A big man jumped out of the car, and when he saw that I wasn't dead, he pointed his finger at my nose and swore, Tell me to die and get the hell out of here.

I saw him about to leave, struggling to get up from the ground. My left leg was bleeding along the outside of my thigh, and blood mixed with rain was flowing down my pants. Every step I took brought with it bone-piercing pain.

When the man saw me coming towards him, he raised his big fist and threatened to tell me to get the hell out of my way.

I begged him to pull me out of the village, and I did not want him to treat me, as long as he would take me out and let me do whatever I wanted.

The man looked me up and down, asked me who else was in the house, and when I lied and told him that all my family was dead, he pointed to the back of the car and told me to sit there so the dirt wouldn't dirty his car.

I limped to the back of the car and saw that he had a dozen pigs in his half-finished van. He opened the cage and let me in, saying there was no room for me except here.

At that time, I was just a lowly person who didn't have any shame left in me. I climbed into the pig cage and leaned against the corner as I sat down, emitting the smell of feces from my surroundings. At that moment, I felt that I wasn't living as well as these beasts.

The bumpy road made my body which was far heavier and heavier. I didn't know if I slept in the pig cage or if I fainted in the pig cage. I only remembered that it was already daytime when the man dragged me out by my collar.

He threw me to a short, fat man with a large mole on the side of his nose, ”This girl is unpopular. All you need to do is to give her food, and she'll just hang herself.”

That person looked at me with disdain and snorted. ”You've saved me the trouble of putting on makeup.”

As the man said this, he gave the man who bumped into me five hundred yuan. The driver curled his lips in dissatisfaction and asked, ”What's so small about this?”

The person with a mole on the side of his nose only used a finger to poke my shoulder lightly before I stumbled and fell to the ground, ”Did you see that? With this kind of person, I'll consider you lucky.”

The driver didn't say anything and just got into the car and drove away.

Later on, I found out that I was sold by that person to Lu Wei, who ate people without spitting out their bones.

He fed me a cold steamed bun like a dog and told me to eat it quickly and eat it well before I started working.

I didn't know what he was talking about. I only knew that he and the two people behind him looked really fierce. I didn't dare to disobey their orders, so I just took big mouthfuls of steamed bread and stuffed it into my mouth.

I wasn't full yet, but I didn't get any more food. Chen Si, who was behind Lu Wei, grabbed me and threw me into the streets, along with a broken metal basin beside me.

When I heard the tinkling in the basin, I knew that I had become the most despised of all — the beggar.

I saw Chen Si not far away from me, but in a corner, smoking and staring at me. I had long ago lost the strength to stand, half-sitting, half-lying on the cold pavement, letting those unfamiliar faces pass by me, feeling pity or disgust.

I lowered my head, not daring to look at the crowd. I was afraid of those eyes, because they could easily shatter my desire to live.

Chen Si, pretending to be a benefactor, took out a paper shell from his clothes. The words written on it were unknown to me. He ordered me in a low and cold voice to kneel down and kowtow to the people who came by, begging them to give me money.

Chen Si had a fierce look in his eyes. In that instant of glaring at him, I thought of He Liming. I didn't dare to disobey him as I knelt on the cold and hard ground, kowtowing to everyone who passed by.