Because they were a little far apart, the uncle simply put down the unwashed bowl in his hand, quietly pressed it to the side of the wall, and began to listen to his parents' conversation.

"Hey, the house next door started beating my daughter again yesterday. She cried so hard in the middle of the night." The uncle's mother said slowly to the uncle's father while eating pickles.

"I heard it too. My daughter's life is miserable, with such a father." After hearing this, the uncle's father could only shake his head with regret.

"By the way, I didn't see that girl going out this morning. Could it be that something happened? Normally when I get up, she would always be squatting in front of the mud stove at home cooking, but there was no sign of her this morning.

." Uncle's mother continued to add.

The uncle's father's face changed obviously: "You are a woman, so stop chewing on other people's words. What could happen to them? Maybe they got up late. Don't make blind guesses."

The uncle's mother had no choice but to keep her mouth shut, but she still muttered: "Even if you say that, who knows what happened to the girl? With the virtue of the man next door, it's no wonder that his wife divorced him."

"That's enough for you!" My uncle's father pointed to my uncle's mother's rice bowl: "Eat quickly, there is still grass to clean up after eating."

This time, it was completely quiet.

But the uncle's heart was boiling. That Xiaomei didn't come out today. He had not seen Liu Jiamei since morning.

Originally, the uncle only thought that Liu Jiamei had overslept at home, but it was already noon and Liu Jiamei had not been seen yet.

This made the uncle feel a little empty in his heart.

The uncle quickly washed his bowl, shouted to his parents to go for a walk, and ran out of the house.

He did not go far, but hid at the corner of a small street on the other side, secretly monitoring the situation at Liu Jiamei's house.

The uncle thought there would be nothing to gain, but he didn't expect it. As soon as he turned sideways to look, he saw Liu Jiamei's father coming out of the house.

Her father's face looked a little nervous, as if he had done something bad.

Although he didn't know where Liu Jiamei's father was going, as soon as he saw him walking away, the uncle took the risk and ran over and went straight into the yard.

Liu Jiamei's house is very small, with only two rooms. The uncle tried to go to the left room by chance, but there was a lock on the right room, so it should be unoccupied.

That’s what the uncle thought at the time.

But when he opened the room on the left, he found that there was no one inside.

"What's going on? Why is there no one?" The uncle said as he walked out of the room.

As if hearing the uncle's voice, there was a clear and crisp sound from the locked room on the right.

The uncle was attracted by the sound and ran to the door quickly: "Xiaomei? Are you in there?"

"Woo," Liu Jiamei's choking voice came from inside the door. The uncle panicked and didn't know what he was thinking. When he saw the bricks on the ground, he picked them up and smashed them against the lock.

Click——

The lock clicked and fell to the ground.

The uncle pushed the door open and walked in, only to see Liu Jiamei tied up with a rope lying next to the bed. Liu Jiamei was wearing brand new clothes and had a piece of tape on her mouth, which prevented her from making a sound.

"How could you be treated like this!" The uncle was anxious and ran over, untied the rope from Liu Jiamei's body and helped her up.

"Take" Liu Jiamei tried to stand still, and once the tape was torn off her mouth, she tried to speak.

But because the tape had been stuck on for too long, her mouth hurt so much that she stopped as soon as she said a word.

"It hurts to take me away first." But Liu Jiamei didn't dare to stop and continued talking. "My father is going to sell me to save you, so take me away."

The uncle didn't dare to slack off after hearing this. He picked up the unsteady Liu Jiamei and ran out of the house.

The uncle didn't know what he was thinking, so he ran directly to the bus station in Sanmen City. He opened a room in the accommodation building next to the bus station and placed Liu Jiamei in it.

The uncle ran back home and secretly took away half of the family's cash deposits behind his parents' backs.

Nearly three hundred yuan, at that time, was already a huge sum of money.

The uncle returned to the place where he stayed, and Liu Jiamei's legs and feet also recovered. The two of them boarded the nearest bus without stopping. They didn't know where the destination was, but they still got on it.

Along the way, the two of them were very nervous. They kept looking outside through the window, for fear that someone would notice that they were missing and come after them.

"Don't worry, don't be nervous." The uncle sat in his seat and kept comforting the trembling Liu Jiamei next to him.

Liu Jiamei's whole body was trembling, her face was anxious and panicked, and her palms were tightly grasping the uncle's hand, holding it so hard that the uncle's hand was bruised.

Finally, after riding the bus for nearly five hours, the two of them arrived at the bus terminal.

Forced to get off the bus at the station, the two of them began to run towards the depths of this unfamiliar county. Both of them were scared. After all, they were both so young, but they disobeyed their parents and ran away from home together.

This is the first time in both of their lives.

With the remaining two hundred and ninety-two yuan in their pockets, the two of them found a small hotel to stay in. After nearly three months, the uncle felt that they did not have enough funds for their expenses.

Then I went out and found a job as a cook in a small restaurant. Although the monthly salary was only 100 yuan, it was barely enough to support the two of them.

The days went by like this, and just when the two thought they had successfully evaded the search of their parents, the paper finally couldn't contain the fire.

Several police officers from the public security agency found the two people at their door. At that time, the two people were eating lunch peacefully, but they were suddenly frightened by the sudden intrusion of the police officers.

The two parents and even relatives came with the police. When the uncle's father saw his useless son, he felt angry and went straight up to punch and kick the uncle.

While fighting back, he angrily scolded his son for his stupid behavior.

Liu Jiamei was taken aside by her father who came over. Although there was no big movement, her father's violent temper could not be concealed.

He secretly punched Liu Jiamei a few times, but Liu Jiamei gritted her teeth and endured it, not daring to say anything.

She seemed to have already guessed the life she would live in the future. When the police finally finished taking notes and asked the parents to take the children home, Liu Jiamei took one last look at her uncle.

Those eyes were full of nostalgia and despair.
Chapter completed!