An hour passed in a flash. Guo yuaner, who cried and fainted because of excessive sadness, just regained consciousness. At the same time, a fierce spirit sat up. At the same time, they were standing by the bed, staring at her figure with greedy eyes, woke up, and touched their nose.
"Cousin... Cousin? What do you do?"
Guo yuaner's pretty face also changed after she recognized her shadow. This is her second cousin Zhang Xiaoer. Although the other party is her cousin, Guo yuaner's vigilance is even greater.
Although she is only 11 years old and less than 12 years old, the girls in the feudal era are still relatively precocious and sensitive. In Xuecheng, there are many girls who get married at the age of 13 or 14. Every time Guo yuaner lodges at her cousin Zhang Lin's house, she can often detect her second cousin and look at her very wrong.
That kind of look is not the normal sight of cousins looking at cousins and relatives, but the sight of strange men looking at her outside, eager to swallow her alive.
In the past, because of Guo Yihang's face, the cousin converged by secretly looking at her in private. Now, she found that the greed in the other party's sight was almost ready to come out.
"No, nothing. I just heard that you were too sad and fainted. Come back and see you, yuan'er. This is the sugar gourd I specially bought for you. Eat it."
Under the questioning of his cousin, Zhang Xiaoer smiled and took out a sugar gourd and put it by the bed, so he withdrew from the side room.
Guo yuaner looked at the candied haws and the door. Her thin body shrank by the bed and fell into silence.
She's not stupid because she's young.
In the past, no matter how many men outside coveted her beauty, her brother Guo Yihang helped her keep out the wind and rain. Now her brother died at sea. She was not only too sad, but also gradually flooded with the sense of loneliness that she had no support.
Thinking about it, the little girl couldn't help sobbing in a low voice.
After crying for a moment, Guo yuaner was startled by some gradually growing conversations in the courtyard. When she got out of bed and went to the door to listen carefully, she turned pale and lost almost all her blood color after listening to a few words.
"Mom, how can you do that? I don't agree, absolutely not. My cousin is so beautiful. It's too bad to sell her to Mr. Xu."
"Dad, don't you forget brother Yihang's help to our family? He can't just die. Why don't you sell your cousin?"
This voice is Zhang Xiaoer's increasingly fierce retort. What is the retort? Sell Guo yuaner to Mr. Xu?
Although Guo yuaner is young, she also remembers who is childe Xu. That is, a year ago, after seeing her for the first time, she often came to Zhangjia to wait for her to go out, and then harassed her teenagers.
Thanks to her brother Guo Yihang, she can stop such a young master.
The little childe of the Xu family married one wife and five concubines at the age of 17. It's also said that he often wandered around the brothel and harassed the servant girls of the Xu family. Several people were tortured to death by him.
Suddenly, I overheard that my brother had just died, and aunt Biao and uncle Biao had plans to sell her? The little girl was almost scared to death.
She couldn't imagine what would happen if she fell into the hands of young master Xu.
At this moment, because of the clear opposition of her cousin Zhang Xiaoer, she couldn't help feeling a little grateful to her cousin.
But then Guo yuaner changed her face again.
Zhang Xiaoer was in the courtyard again and said excitedly, "it's better to bargain me than sell my cousin. What do you think of my marrying my cousin?"
Zhang he's voice also sounded, anxious and angry, "you beast, I knew you didn't have a good heart. I'm not opposed to you marrying that little girl. The key is that you can keep it when you marry. Since young master Xu cares about her, I'm afraid you've robbed someone there before you put out the wine."
"Without Guo Yihang's little boy, where can we beat the rich and powerful family of the Xu family? You want to break your family and die, don't you?"
"In my opinion, we'd better sell the little girl early. Let's take Guo Yihang's burning and burying silver, plus the money from selling the little girl, and get you a daughter-in-law and buy an industry, so that we can live slowly in the future."
"Don't you like the girl of blacksmith Liu's family? We'll propose marriage to you as soon as we have the silver."
Zhang he said, and Zhang Xiaoer was worried again. "No, I can't sell it. Anyway, I'll order my cousin. As for the blacksmith Liu's family, I'll marry as a concubine."
Then, fearing that his mother would oppose again, Zhang Xiaoer said impatiently, "I'll ask for my cousin now and see how you sell..."
"Pa ~"
This time, Zhang Lin was so angry that he slapped Zhang Xiaoer, "beast, your cousin died. Do you want to spoil your sister? I won't kill you!"
With this slap, the yard was in complete chaos. There were Zhang Xiaoer running around to avoid the beating, and there were also the voices of Zhang he's protecting the calf and trying to fight with Zhang Lin.
The more chaotic the yard was, the more frightened Guo yuaner, who was hiding at the door and eavesdropping, collapsed on the ground again in panic and sobbed, his face at a loss.
She really doesn't know what to do. She's just a little girl under the age of 12. Whether it's in the yard, aunt Biao says she's going to sell her, or that 19-year-old tall cousin wants to force her... These things have a great impact on her.
Crying, Guo yuaner gradually became calm again, and even a pair of watery big eyes showed a trace of perseverance.
In fact, her family background is not good at all. Since her parents died when she was a child, she gradually raised her by taking care of her brother. When Guo Yihang was just an ordinary sailor, she was hungry and full and didn't even have a decent home. Before finding her cousin's relatives, once her brother went to sea, she was like a little mud monkey, Stay at my brother's friend's house all day.
Now that her brother is gone, she must learn to be strong and live on her own.
A few hours passed, and the night shrouded the whole Xue City. When Uncle Biao's family slept, Guo yuaner, who was only one meter and two tall, blacked her pretty face with pot bottom ash, dressed up casually, and sneaked out of the door with a small package.
Her brother is gone. If she continues to stay at her cousin's house, she will either be sold by her cousin or ruined by that cousin. She has to make up her mind to run away.
As for what kind of life she was waiting for, she didn't know. She could only look at it step by step. At least in her young heart, after a person sneaked away, even if it was worse in the future, it would be no worse than being sold by her cousin's uncle.
Once sold into the Xu family, I don't know when I will be ruined. There is nothing worse in this life than those.