Chapter 16

Jiang Xiaoxiao returned to the room and closed the door, removed the pig grass covering the back basket, and revealed the fruits below, including apples, kumquats, lychees, pears, cherries...

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at them twice, and silently picked up an apple. It was red, big, and round, as if it had just been picked.

This is a Red Fuji apple, right.

However, she guessed that this era didn't have it yet.

Her mother is really something; she didn't consider whether this era had it before taking things out. What if someone discovered the clues...

Jiang Xiaoxiao sighed in her heart, fortunately, she didn't take out much, and it was fine to eat secretly at home.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoxiao took the apple to the courtyard to wash it. After washing it clean, she took a bite; it was crispy, the juice flowed, and the refreshing smell seeped into her heart and lungs.

It was really delicious!

She was eating sweetly when suddenly a movement came from outside the courtyard:

"Er Ya, you're at home! Open the door quickly!"

Turning her head, Eldest Aunt Sun Shi and the Li Family Old Woman were outside the fence courtyard, slapping the courtyard gate with a bang!

Jiang Xiaoxiao's heart skipped a beat, and she had a bad premonition. She couldn't even care about eating the apple, turned and ran into the room, and closed the door tightly.

These two people came aggressively, they must have had bad intentions!

What to do?

Now her mother was not at home, how could she deal with these two people alone?

In a hurry, Jiang Xiaoxiao was afraid that several people would break in, so she hurriedly moved a small stool to block the door.

She was small and weak, and there were few pieces of furniture she could move, and there wasn't much furniture in this room, so she could only move some stools to block it.

"This dead girl, she dares not to open the door for us!"

With a burst of cursing, the two kicked open the courtyard gate, crossed the newly repaired fence into the courtyard, and went straight to the house.

Jiang Xiaoxiao's heart rose to her throat, and turning her head to see the fruits in the back basket, her forehead broke out in sweat.

She couldn't let them see the things in the back basket either!

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoxiao swept a circle around the slightly empty room, then poured out all the fruits in the back basket, wrapped them in cloth, and hid them in the hole under the earthen bed.

"Dead girl! Open the door quickly, I am your Eldest Aunt!"

The two kicked the door hard, and the sound was so loud that it seemed like they were going to kick the door to pieces.

But it was an old house that hadn't been lived in for many years, and the door bolt had long been rotten. After a few kicks, the door was kicked open, and the small stools that blocked the door were scattered everywhere.

"Alright, you dead girl, it's fine if you don't open the door for us, but you actually dare to block the door and not let us in!" The old woman's old face was terribly gloomy, and she raised her hand to hit Jiang Xiaoxiao.

"Hey, Mother, don't hit!" Sun Shi hurriedly stopped her mother-in-law. "If you hit her, the Huang family won't buy it!"

After speaking, she turned to look at Jiang Xiaoxiao in front of her, a five-year-old girl, who hadn't seen her for a few days, but her little face had actually gained some meat and was white and clean.

Sun Shi looked at it, and there was a trace of jealousy in her heart. She had been working in the fields in the Lao Li family for the past few days, and her skin was sunburned dark and cracked. This little girl looked clean, and her life was actually better than she imagined...

But in an instant, she squeezed a smile on her face and took out half a boiled egg from her pocket and handed it over: "Er Ya, don't be afraid, I am your Eldest Aunt, I know you have never tasted what an egg is at home, this egg is for you to eat, will you go home with us?"

"I won't go!" Jiang Xiaoxiao pursed her lips tightly. "This is my home!"

These people actually wanted to use half an egg to coax her away; did they really take her for a five-year-old kid!

"You dare not to go! I'll beat you to death!" The Li Family Old Woman didn't have the patience to coax her, and directly reached out to grab her.

Jiang Xiaoxiao hurriedly backed away to avoid: "I am not Er Ya! I am not a person of the Lao Li family! I take the surname Jiang, I am Jiang Xiaoxiao, you taking me away is human trafficking!!"

Then, just as she finished shouting with her neck stiff, she was slapped by the old woman, "You little money-losing goods, you dare to talk to me like this! Who gave you the courage! Ah! I tell you, even if you divide the family, you are a person of the Lao Li family when you are alive, and a ghost of the Lao Li family when you die!"

The old woman's hand was very strong, Jiang Xiaoxiao's head was tilted, her cheeks were burning with pain, and the broken lips were overflowing with the smell of blood.

This time, Sun Shi didn't stop her mother-in-law, but looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao coldly: "Heh, I give you a little color and you really dare to open a dyeing workshop, asking for trouble!"

She put away the egg and took out the prepared hemp rope from her pocket: "Mother, stop talking nonsense, take the person away while Jiang Shi is not back!"

Several people shouted at the door for a long time and didn't see Jiang Shi appear, so they concluded that Jiang Shi was not at home, and only then dared to break in directly.

"Alright! Hurry up and tie the person away!" The old woman thought of being pressed to the ground and beaten by Jiang Wei a few days ago, and was scared, so she didn't care about anything and went straight up to grab Jiang Xiaoxiao.

"Get out!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't struggle, so she simply bit the old woman's hand hard.

"Ah—it hurts!"

The old woman immediately let out a miserable scream like a pig being slaughtered, and desperately shook off her hand.

This bite was Jiang Xiaoxiao's death-defying effort, as if she wanted to tear a piece of meat off the old woman's hand, and the back of the hand was bitten bloody!

"You stinky girl! Let go quickly!"

Sun Shi hurriedly grabbed the frantically struggling Jiang Xiaoxiao and used the hemp rope in her hand to tie her hands and feet.

After all, she was just a five-year-old child, no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't beat two adults.

"Help! Help! Someone is kidnapping!!" Jiang Xiaoxiao was pressed by the two and tied her hands and feet, so she simply opened her throat and howled.

Jiang Xiaoxiao used to be glad that her family lived at the tail of the village, far from the people in the village, but now she regretted it so much that her intestines were green!

"Quick! Quick, block her mouth!!" The old woman's hand was just rescued, and seeing her open her throat and howl, she hurriedly reached out to block her mouth.

Sun Shi hurriedly took out the cotton cloth, pried open Jiang Xiaoxiao's mouth, and blocked it hard.

"Mm... mm!!"

"Call again! Call again and I'll beat you to death!"

The old woman saw that the person was finally subdued, kicked her twice fiercely, still angry, and directly pinched Jiang Xiaoxiao's chin and slapped her a few times, "I let you bite me! I let you call! Do you believe I'll pull out your teeth!!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao was beaten until she saw stars, her cheeks were painful and swollen, and her mouth, which was tightly blocked, made a humming sound.

"Mother, don't hit, take the person away quickly!" Sun Shi saw that the cotton cloth blocking Jiang Xiaoxiao's mouth was stained with blood, and hurriedly stopped her mother-in-law's violence, but her eyes scanned Jiang Xiaoxiao viciously: "Hit her when we get home! Don't hit her face, otherwise she won't sell for a good price!"

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was almost beaten to death, closed her eyes helplessly and shed tears of regret.

Could it be that even if the family was divided, ties were severed, and even the name was changed, she still couldn't escape the fate of the original host?

(End of chapter)