Ten Days End

"Hey, Lai Di..." He slowly squatted down and approached me with a foul smell. "I've seen you as a beauty since you were a child. Who would have thought that no one would want you at the age of 35?"

"What...?"

"Your mother told me that you have a problem with your brain." He smiled and opened his big mouth full of yellow teeth, spewing out an extremely unpleasant odor. "If you are obedient, I won't beat you. Otherwise, I will come here every day until I beat you into submission."

"Beat...beat you into submission...?"

I can't imagine that I can still encounter such a thing in today's society. In the ten years since I became a lawyer, I have also been threatened and placed under house arrest, but no one dared to attack me blatantly.

"You, you listen to me first..." I said, holding my belly, "I'm fine... No matter how much money you gave my family, if you let me go, I will pay you back double. I won't let you lose money. I can even write you an IOU first..."

"Pay it back to me?" Ma the butcher stretched out a hand and lifted my chin in a very obscene way, "You are my wife now, we are a couple, your money is my money, what is there to pay back?"

"Isn't that right...?" I tried to keep my tone from trembling, "Two, two people need to get a marriage certificate... If you really want me to be your wife, we should go to the town to get a certificate... Otherwise, no one will know that we are married, right?"

Ma the butcher was silent for a long time after hearing this, and showed an ugly smile.

"You are indeed mentally ill." He sneered, "I found a matchmaker and gave your husband a gift. The matchmaker and your husband both agreed. Why don't you agree? Didn't you go to college and have an education? Books say "parents' orders, matchmaker's words", don't you know?"

"What do you mean by "parents' orders, matchmaker's words"..."

I feel it's really ridiculous. What year is it now?

Have I traveled back to ancient times?

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. The times are developing too fast.

This has led to a contradictory sense of separation among people of the same generation. Those who can keep up with the times are getting better and better, while those who can't get on the train are forever left in the past.

I remember that when I was young, I had to go to the only commune in the village to make a phone call, but when I grew up, I could "sweep" away all obstacles with a palm-sized mobile phone.

Now, in the same province, people can hear the capital marketing advertisement of "If you love her, give her the first cup of milk tea in autumn", and the weird ancient thought of "parents' orders and matchmaker's words".

I can only say that the times are developing too fast, and some people are unwilling to keep up with the pace of the times and are abandoned in the dark corners.

"Anyway, you took my money...you will be my wife in this life." He pinched my face and said, "A 16 or 17-year-old, well-behaved girl in the village is only worth 100,000 yuan, don't be shameless."

To be honest, I was really scared.

From his point of view, he would never give in on this matter.

As a famous villain in the village, if someone is really willing to send his daughter into the tiger's mouth, it is impossible for him to be a bachelor in his 50s.

Now he has spent money to "buy" me and does not want to return it.

So how can I escape?

This person's power is far above mine. The only good news now is that he did not rape me——

But this is a matter of time.

"Well, let's do this..." I gritted my teeth and said, "I have a lot of friends in Chengdu. If anyone finds out that I haven't returned, they will call the police. You asked me to tell them that I'm safe... I have to let people know that I'm married, right?"

"Why is your illness so serious..." Ma the butcher slowly showed a look of contempt in his eyes, "I'll say it again, we are already a couple, you are my wife, don't you know? Why would they call the police when you get married? Who would call the police when they get married?"

"What couple..." I really couldn't help it. He was impeccable in his logic and I couldn't listen to him at all. Any reason, "Don't you understand what I'm saying? I'm not sick, I just don't want to get married in this village, is not wanting to get married also a disease?!"

After hearing this, Ma the butcher sighed, and the taste in his mouth was really bad: "You don't want to get married in the village, do you want to go to the city? What's good in the city? Are the men there reliable? Everyone knows that you are a complainer in the city, which sounds very miserable. You don't have to complain in the future. The pork at home is free for you to eat. If you give birth to a baby for my Ma family, I promise not to find another wife."

Ridiculous, it's ridiculous!

What was that just now?

Confession? Courtship?

I give you pork to eat, you give me a baby.

How ridiculous can a person say this?

He seemedIt's crazy.

If I continue to resist, the situation may not be good. I have already expressed my refusal at the beginning. Now it's better to agree first and ensure my safety.

"But... Who would lock up a woman when marrying her?" I said in a trembling voice, "Let's talk about it outside. As long as you don't lock me up here, I will agree to anything you want, okay?"

I thought I had made the most humble request, but I didn't expect that after I said this, a slap hit my face again.

"Pah"!

His hands seemed to be covered with lard, smelly and sticky.

"Do you think I'm stupid? All the people bought from the city are your rhetoric, do you think I will believe it?!" Ma the butcher cursed, "Just wait, I will starve you for five days, and then you will beg me to be my wife."

What...?

He stood up and was about to leave, but I stopped him.

"Hey! If you don't give me food and water, I will die in three days, not to mention five days, in this weather." I tried to persuade him from his perspective, "You want me to be your wife, so you can't let me die, right? If I die, your 100,000 yuan will be wasted."

He snorted coldly: "Five days, even pigs can't starve to death, can you starve to death?"

"I am a human, not an animal." I covered my face with trembling all over, and said to him, "At least give me some water to drink, I haven't had water for a long time."

He thought for a while, pushed me to the ground with great force, and then walked out of the door and locked it again.

I felt the situation was very dangerous. This man thought I was a pig.

He might really let me starve to death here.

What I didn't expect was that a few minutes later, a bottle of mineral water was thrown in from the window on the wall, plus a bag of bread that was one day away from expiration.

I looked carefully at the bottle cap of the mineral water and the packaging of the bread. They were not opened, so there should be no problem.

If Ma the butcher was so careful that he chose to put drugs in water and food, I could only accept it.

I swallowed all the bottled water and bread, and felt a little better, but how could I get out of this small room of only five or six square meters?

How long would I be trapped here?

Oh, right... Xiao Sun?

I suddenly thought of Xiao Sun. It was already evening. Logically, he had lost contact with me in the morning. Would he realize that I was in danger?

No... it was hard to say.

To him, this was my hometown.

He could never infer that I would be sold to a butcher by my parents.

He could never have imagined that Zhang Chenze, who had to pay a starting fee of 20,000 yuan for a lawsuit in Chengdu, was sold for a high price of 100,000 yuan.