Spring is coming

Xueli heard vague curses, and those people walked away again, probably because they disliked the smell.

Immediately, the smell of food wafted in, and Chun Xin woke up, leaning on her shoulder, and whispered, "It smells so good."

Xueli raised her hand to touch her face, and pinched her fingers.

The car door was open to let the air out, the sun was shining outside, the concrete floor was white, and the cages against the wall were full of dogs.

They lie on the ground, stick out their tongues, and make a "woo-woo" sound in their throats.

Chun Xin said: "It smells so good, do they eat hot pot?"

Xueli didn't know how to answer, "Maybe."

After the lunch break, someone finally came to deal with them. The dialect was obscure, and the speech was extremely fast, and the barking of dogs was mixed in, so Xueli couldn't hear them clearly.

A woman was poking her head in front of the car door, talking to a man next to her. The man in suit who arrested them had disappeared, and this was the second group.

The man put on rain boots and a long waterproof apron, jumped into the car and moved the cage down. Two people picked it up below. The woman said something. The man in the car opened the cage first, and grabbed the two children by their collars like puppies. put forward the same.

They stood under the sun with their shoulders hunched, their eyes squinted, they were so hungry that they couldn't stand still, and they were still holding hands tightly.

Faintly, Xueli heard them say "it's too big" and "can't take it".

Such a big child has already remembered, and no one will buy it to raise him.

Xueli is tall, Chunxin looks younger, the woman pulls Chunxin over and asks, "How old are you?"

Chun Xin answered honestly: "Nine years old." She will be nine years old in March.

"It's too big, no."

This time they didn't hide their words from anyone.

"Looks good." The woman liked her very much.

"Curly hair doesn't work."

Both parents have straight hair, and the child has curly hair. No matter how you look at it, they are not biological. This is too obvious, of course it is not allowed.

The woman had a look of disappointment on her face.

Xueli put her heart back into her stomach, and tightly held her little hands.Will not be separated for a while.

They were locked in a small room, and the woman brought food, half a pot of stewed meat, vegetables, and two bowls of rice.

When the door was locked again, the sound of the woman's footsteps disappeared, and Xueli brought the food over, "Let's eat."

There was a small wooden bed in the room. Chun Xin sat on the edge of the bed, his shoulders drooped, and he looked up with teary eyes, "Is it dog meat?"

Shirley said, "No."

But there are dogs everywhere here, not dog meat, what else can it be.She wanted it even if she didn't recognize it.

They hadn't eaten for a long time, and they were very hungry. Xueli said, "Only when they are full will they have the strength to escape. Eat, Chunchun."

Xueli handed over the chopsticks, but Chunxin reluctantly took it.

He didn't cry when he was sold by Yin Yuanchang, he didn't cry when he was in the truck, he didn't cry when he was starving, he didn't cry when he was hungry, he cried when he was eating, and Chun Xin cried into the meat basin, saying "I'm sorry" while crying.

In the end, Chun Xin still didn't eat any meat, but ate a bowl of rice soaked in the water used to boil the vegetables.

Xueli ate all the rest, nothing wasted, she had to stay awake and gather strength.

After eating, Chun Xin felt sick all the time, and she felt uncomfortable when she smelled it.

Xueli was fine, thinking about it, if her mother couldn't find her, she would definitely call the police, but she couldn't sit still and save herself.

The room was small, the corners were covered with moss, the windows were nailed from the outside with wooden battens, and there was a basin in the corner for them to go to the toilet.

After drinking the remaining vegetable soup and suppressing the nausea in his stomach, Chun Xin jumped out of bed, went to check the window, scratched it a few times with his fingers, and turned to look at Xueli, "This one can't be opened."

Xueli said, "I can only find a way on the road."

Chun Xin nodded, walked around the room, looked at the pots on the ground, and at the snow.

Xueli said, "I don't look at it." Then she turned her back.

She was very shy, and she made a very low noise when she went to the toilet. She knew she was holding back when she heard it. Xueli coughed deliberately and kept coughing, and Chun Xin finally let go.

Coughing until her throat was dry, she reckoned that she should be fine, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement, Xueli couldn't help but want to look back, and just as she moved, she heard Chunxin's voice whispering: "I'm pooping. "

I have been hungry for a long time, and my papa is not easy to poop. Xueli heard Chunxin exerting strength and making a "hmmmm" sound, and couldn't help laughing, until his shoulders were shaking.

After facing the wall for a while, Xueli heard her say again: "There is no paper."

There was a broken cabinet next to the bed. I jumped to the ground in the snow, opened the cabinet, and the musty smell hit my face.

Xueli said: "We should not be far away, maybe in the province, or in the neighboring province, those are not locals."

Chun Xin still pouted there, "Did you find the paper?"

"Find a schoolbag." Xueli took out the schoolbag, dug out an exercise book, and handed it to Chunxin with her back facing.

The paper was damp and half soft, Chun Xin tore off two pages and used them cleanly.

In the schoolbag were junior high school textbooks, the first volume of the ninth grade, and Xueli even found a lighter and half a pack of cigarettes!Tried it, the lighter still works.

Chun Xin held up his trousers and leaned his head to watch. Xueli handed over the lighter to her for safekeeping. Grandma sewed a pocket for the vest she was wearing next to her. It was used to hold New Year's money, although it was usually dimes.

When they were in the car, they counted their belongings. The two of them added up to 31 yuan. They divided them into two parts.

"Keep this well, this is very useful." Xueli reminded.

Chun Xin hurriedly put the lighter into her pocket. Fortunately, there was still a pocket, and her schoolbag was nowhere to be found.

I also found a musty school uniform in the cabinet, stuffed it into my schoolbag, zipped it up on my back, and sat against the wall.

It was getting dark, Chun Xin lay down beside her, saw the schoolbag, and asked, "Where did this person go?"

In the ninth grade, it must be [-], [-], Xueli said: "I don't know, maybe I was taken to dig coal, or burn bricks, or I might beg for food, or I might have died."

Chun Xin didn't quite understand, put his arms around her arm, stared at a certain place, and said after a long time, "I hope he's not dead."

They lived in the brick house behind the dog meat restaurant for three days. The woman they saw when they got off the bus had already left. After that, men came to deliver food, and they were reluctant to deliver dog meat.

People will die if they don’t eat, let alone such a small child, if they die, they can’t be sold for money, so even though they don’t have meat, they can still eat enough.

Chunxin was quite satisfied with the food, she couldn't smell dog meat.

Dogs were killed every day in the courtyard dam outside the brick house. The dogs that were killed did not bark.

Chun Xin pressed her face against the crack of the window, and the fishy smell overflowed, and even though she was holding her breath, it still seeped into her lungs, making her stomach sick, feeling dizzy, and having a headache.

"Don't look, come back." Xueli called her softly.

Chun Xin staggered back to her side, lay down with her arms in his arms, and began to cry.

Since coming here, she has been crying every day, often standing in front of the window, gritting her teeth and saying, "I want to remember the faces of these people."

There is no law prohibiting freedom. Dogs are not an endangered species. It is not against the law to open a dog meat restaurant and eat dogs, but selling children is against the law. Xueli said: "They will be punished."

Chun Xin asked, "What retribution?"

Xueli said: "In this life, you kill a dog, and in the next life you become a dog."

"No." Chun Xin said, "Dogs are so cute, I want them to turn into flies and maggots."

"Well, they are."

On the morning of the fourth day, the food deliverers came early, and Xueli guessed that they must have found a buyer.

Sure enough, when the sun was overhead, they were escorted into a red van, which was still the same dog cage.

Xueli had been carrying that big schoolbag all along, but it wasn't snatched away, the car door was slammed shut with a bang, and Chunxin's head was pressed against the top of the cage, facing the direction of the dog cage in the yard.

The car drove away, she sat beside Xueli and wept softly, muttering: "Dog, dog..."

Xueli touched her head, "We can't save all the puppies."