Empress of Longsha

Chapter 19 Starving
"Ah! I'm not going—" Fu Yu yelled, kicking and kicking the man who grabbed her with both hands and feet.

The man became impatient with Fu Yu, stared at Fu Yu with eyes full of hostility, grabbed Fu Yu by the hair, and dragged her into the courtyard.

The old woman was afraid that the little girl would run away again, and also to prevent Fu Yu from going on a hunger strike and committing suicide, so she locked them in the woodshed.

The little girl sat down leaning on a pile of dry firewood, looked at Fu Yu who had been tossing and tossing since entering the house, and said, "Don't bother, they won't talk to us!"

Fu Yu was so tired that she was sweating profusely and no one came. She looked back at the little girl in frustration and asked, "How do you know? Are you often locked up like this?"

The little girl nodded and said nothing.

Fu Yu looked at the red and swollen palm prints on the little girl's face, and said distressedly: "Your mother is too cruel, how could she be willing to hit you with such a heavy hand? If it were my mother, she would not."

The little girl smiled and said, "She's not my own mother! She's just the mother of Caichunyuan!"

Fu Yu tilted her head to look at the little girl, and asked puzzledly, "What is a mother?"

The little girl beckoned to Fu Jin, put it next to her ear, and told Fu Jin the history of her mother and Caichunyuan.

Fu Yu looked at the little girl's calm expression in shock, and asked, "Then why did your mother sell you here?"

The little girl said helplessly: "It wasn't my mother who wanted to sell me, it was my father who sold me into Caichun Garden to heal my brother's illness."

Fu Yu sat down next to the little girl, held her cold hand, and said, "Then what will you do in the future?"

The little girl shook her head, rolled up her sleeves and trouser legs, and said to Fu Yu, "I don't know, I have run many times, and I have been beaten many times. Look, these injuries on my arms, legs and feet These are the scars left by them beating them after they escaped and captured them.”

Fu Yu carefully touched the criss-crossing scars on the little girl's arms, legs and feet, and said with pity: "It must be very painful! Otherwise, let's run away together!"

The little girl tidied Fu Yu's temples and said, "Little sister, I'm afraid I can only live in this garden for the rest of my life. But you, you must escape!"

Fu Yu nodded and said, "I will. I still have important things to accomplish! It's okay, I'll take you with me."

The little girl held Fu Yu's hand and said with a smile, "My name is Youxuan, what's your name?"

Fu Yu told Youxuan her name, and asked her, "Sister Youxuan, will they bring food?"

Youxuan shook his head and said, "Probably not."

Fu Yu sighed, "Fortunately, I ate a steamed stuffed bun, otherwise, I would really starve to death now!"

Youxuan smiled, with beautifully curved eyes, and said, "I haven't even eaten lunch, and now I have no energy."

Fu Yu hugged Youxuan into her arms and said, "Sister Youxuan, let me hug you!"

You Xuan nodded, curled up into Fu Yu's arms, and the two little girls cuddled up to each other and stayed in the woodshed all night.

The next morning, just after dawn, I heard someone unlocking the woodshed.Fu Yu and You Xuan hurriedly got up from the ground.

"Hey, you're still in good spirits!" The old woman walked into the firewood room first, looked at the angry Fu Yu and the pale-faced You Xuan, and said in a high voice.

"Mom." You Xuan watched the old woman come in, and called out timidly.

"Hmph." Fu Yu glared at the old woman and turned her head to one side.

(End of this chapter)