Chapter 208

Some people left.

Obviously, there is nothing to criticize.

Self-preservation is a valuable quality. Helping others was contingent on not hurting yourself.

Most of the schoolgirls decided not to participate in the real rescue, instead they were all willing to aid more money.

Yang Yuyan and Yang Yucan both stayed behind, but surprisingly there was another female student who also stayed behind.

Her name was Huang Mingxi.

She was a chubby, cute girl whose family was large landowners and whose father owned several factories producing cotton products.

She was not usually a very courageous girl, and it seemed a little strange to stay at this time.

Huang Mingxi sat in front of them, clasping her hands, and somewhat nervously told them a piece of her past, something she had never told anyone before.

“My hometown is in Shanxi, where there is a lot of land. I grew up in my hometown when I was a child.”

Because of the New Culture Movement at that time, Huang Mingxi was born as a girl, and the old lady who lived in her hometown did not want her family to raise a young woman of the New Age, so she asked her parents to send her back to her hometown. Huang Mingxi followed her wet nurse back to Shanxi, where she grew up until the age of twelve, when the old lady passed away and was brought back.

Unlike Ms. Jin, Huang Mingxi’s father used to come back to visit her when she was young, staying with her for two months every year and returning only after the New Year. Huang Mingxi’s mother’s health was not good and she could not travel for a long time, so she wrote Huang Mingxi a letter a month, and as a child, she and her mother often completed her education by writing letters in this way.

The old lady of the Huang family didn’t restrict Huang Mingxi from reading books and newspapers, she just didn’t allow her to go out with her friends to stroll on the street, and she didn’t allow her to wear clothes that showed her arms and legs.

The old family mansion is very lonely, she is the master’s young lady, that area of the countryside are her family’s land, the Huang family is like the emperor of the land, she is the princess of the Huang family. No one dared to bring her down, and no one dared to play with her. Those pictorials sent from her home, the American dolls, were too new for her to take out.

Huang Mingxi had an aunt with her when she was a child.

The aunt was very pretty, but she was always gray, never dared to look up at people, and was hunchbacked.

When Huang Mingxi was a child, she read the pictorials and couldn’t imagine the rouge and glass stockings used by the women on them. She also wanted to learn how to draw her own eyebrows like the women in the pictorials, so she locked herself up in the house and tossed her eyebrows for half a day, and ended up shaving her eyebrows bald, but she didn’t know how to draw them, and she could not see that it would soon be time to eat dinner, and the old lady, if she knew about it, would surely punish her heavily.

Huang Mingxi was alone in the house and cried in fear.

She cried for a long time, so that aunt came in and asked her what was wrong, hearing that she was fretting about her eyebrows, this aunt helped her wipe her face clean with oil, and then drew a pair of eyebrows for her just like before.

“Miss’s eyebrows are long and beautiful, they are natural willow eyebrows. There’s no need to draw them.”

Feeling that she lived in the countryside and wasn’t fashionable and pretty enough, Huang Mingxi heard for the first time from someone else that she was pretty, or naturally pretty.

She then had a favorable impression of this aunt.

“Then she hanged herself. Two years had passed by the time I heard about it. She was sweeping the floor outside and couldn’t go inside the house, she was also very afraid of what people would say about her and asked me not to say anything about her going inside the house.” Huang Mingxi said softly.

It had been many years since the incident, and she had no tears to shed, but the shock and sadness she felt at the time when she heard the news that her aunt had hanged herself was like a scar engraved on her heart, which could not be healed until now.

“She had been a prostitute.” Huang Mingxi said.

That aunt had been a red girl, and by the time she was in her twenties, the building didn’t want her, and the bawd wasn’t a bad person, and didn’t sell her again, but released her. She then took the money she saved, quietly came to the countryside, changed her name, said she was married from shandong, her husband and in-laws are dead, she has no way to live, to sell themselves, into the yellow family work.

Peace and quiet for more than ten years, a carriage team of people to come here, on the road to see out of the business of her, recognized, tailed to the Huang family, and then pretended to be her mother’s brother, please come out to meet.

When she came out, the man threatened her to tell her what she had done before. She gave the man money, thinking it would shut him up, but human greed is infinite, and the man wanted more money, asking her to steal it from the Huang family, and she was forced to hang herself.

After she died, the man from the wagon train ran away.

But this person’s mouth is not strict, but even bragged about how he got this large sum of foreign money.

The Huang family had wondered why their subordinate would suddenly hang himself, thinking that there was something sinister going on, and investigated for a long time. It was only after hearing about this that they realized the cause and effect, and in order to avoid people continuing to talk about the Huang family’s private affairs outside, they found a way to find this carriage team’s man to make him shut his mouth.

Therefore, it was only two years later that Huang Mingxi realized that the aunt who supposedly went back to her hometown did not go back to her hometown, but died.

“It was useless for her to hide for more than ten years.” Huang Mingxi clenched her hands tightly, “It’s too tragic.”

Yang Yuyan said, “You have to realize that not all prostitutes are good people. Sympathizing with them too much may make one blind.”

Huang Mingxi nodded, “I know.”

Together with Shi Wuwei, there were four of them.

The four of them discussed and set down a few rules.

“Set a small goal first.” Yang Yuyan said, “We can quietly rescue one or a few people, but don’t say from the start that the target of our rescue is a prostitute, I think it will attract bad prying eyes.”

Yang Yuchan was in favor of it, and Shi Wuwei was in favor of it.

Huang Mingxi said playfully, “Oh, I should have known that you all listen to Yan Yan.” She said, “I don’t have a problem with that either.”

Where exactly were the prostitutes, it was really a case of those who knew knew and those who didn’t really couldn’t find the place.

The four of them didn’t have a clue, so they decided to first set up a congee and medicine giving stand in a nearby place, pull a banner, and go stand there for a while every day.

Huang Mingxi said, “Why go there?”

Yang Yuyan said, “There are a lot of poor people there. I don’t think the prostitutes are even considered rich. And it’s not necessarily just one kind of person that we save and no one else. We can definitely help people by giving congee and medicine.”

But in order to avoid increasing the number of people who got something for nothing, they also set a rule that those who came to get congee and medicine had to take something in exchange.

They prepared a lot of tattered clothes that they had collected, and whenever someone wanted porridge for medicine, then they would mend these tattered clothes or wash them, in short, exchange their labor for food and medicine.

This strange rule was considered a quirk of the students.

But Yang Yuyan was very proud of it, she felt that this killed two birds with one stone.

“See, this way there will be less people cheating on porridge and medicine, and the mended old clothes can be given out.”

The other three also felt that this was good, they were already understaffed.

While the four were sitting in the table, everyone was holding rags in their hands to make bandages. The people who came to beg for porridge and medicine didn’t feel that they were being insulted, but instead felt that they really needed this kind of thing.

So some people came to them to “talk business”, asking them if they wanted old clothes, he could deliver them to their doorsteps and sell them all by the pound.

“It’s all unwashed, if you guys want it, I’ll deliver it.”

Shi Wuwei and the other three felt that they could talk about it, after all, they needed a lot of bandages and medical supplies.

But Yang Yuyan thought of foreign garbage, and asked alertly, “What you’re talking about wouldn’t be stripped from a corpse, right?”

Shi Wuwei: “……”

Yang Yuchan: “……”

Huang Mingxi: “……”

The three young students all revealed looks of being sickened to death.

However, the one who came to talk business was surprisingly unimpressed, and took Yang Yuyan to be a know-it-all as well, and laughed, “You’re a connoisseur. I see that you are also collected old clothes, I still have satin there, all the same price. You take back to wash and steam, the same can be used, to cut to cut can, many people go to my place to buy clothes, cheap.”

These dead people’s old clothes back just to disinfect is a big trouble.

Yang Yuyan saw that this person is also very honest, said broken he also admitted, also did not say harsh words, said: “We do not want. You can turn around somewhere else.”

The man also did not dwell on it, said you get rich and left.

Leaving aside how much the three were shocked, they had been giving congee and medicine for about ten days when they found a woman who came every day, who would take away the clothes to mend them, and if she needed bandages, she could do it quickly and well; a roll of bandages was two meters long, and she could bring five rolls every day, so it was clear that there were many stitchers in the house.

Sometimes she came by herself, sometimes she brought her sister. But her sister was not the same person every time; in ten days they had seen at least half a dozen of this woman’s sisters, all of whom were about the same age, all fifteen or sixteen.

There might be many children in a family, but the age gap between these children would be obvious, at least a year apart.

Yang Yu Cicada struck up a conversation with her and asked her how many sisters she had in her family.

The woman smiled and said, “Nine.”

In a couple of days, she came again, but wanted to beg them to give her a little rice so she could cook rice paste soup.

The porridge Yang Yuyan gave her was corn porridge, mainly corn, with sweet potatoes and potatoes, and only a little rice. There is no way, cooking rice porridge alone will not be able to afford to eat ah, this kind of mixed grain porridge can also be given for a while.

Yang Yuchan asked, “There are children at home?”

The woman smiled and said, “Yes, my sister just had a baby.”

Yang Yuchan then took half a bag of rice for her.

After two more days, they had just set up the porridge stand when they found a basket next to it.

Inside was a baby.

The woman who came every day never came again.