In 2013, at a night market in the south, a woman with a sweaty face and slightly hunched shoulders pulled a fried skewers cart and parked it somewhere.

She has been selling fried skewers here for many years. Because of the unique taste, rich ingredients and reasonable price, the fried skewers stall has a good reputation and has countless repeat customers in the night market, and has received rave reviews.

After setting up the pot, pour oil into it with a clang. The oil is bought from the supermarket and is not a product without any quality assurance.

The guests have become accustomed to all of this. They know that Aunt Su’s fried skewers are made with fresh ingredients, have a great taste, and even the oil is good quality.

"Aunt Su, I want two strings of oyster mushrooms, two sausages, one chicken wing, and two strings of meatballs."

"Okay." The stall owner had a smile on her face. She deftly picked out the ingredients from the pile and threw them into the oil pan. Having been frying skewers for so many years, she has a very good control over the frying time: 25 seconds for mushrooms, 1 minute for sausages, and 2 to 4 minutes for meat depending on the size of the ingredients.

"Here, your fried skewers."

The customer took the fried skewers and complained with a smile, "Aunt Su, your fried skewers are delicious, but inconvenient. Look, everyone has put up QR codes, why don't you make one? How many people carry cash now? Mobile payment is so convenient."

Aunt Su laughed and whispered, "Hey, I don't know how to do that."

After the customer left, Liu Ming, who was selling sauce cakes nearby, said to her, "Sister Su, that thing is not difficult. If you don't know how to make it, can I teach you?"

His eyes turned to Aunt Su's collar, which was wet with sweat as she bent over with her head down. What he saw was a plump body, with beautiful curves that had never given birth, wrapped in cheap fabric.

Someone at the night market once asked about Aunt Su. She said her family lived in the north, her husband was gone, she had no children, and she was alone now.

In this kind of night market at the bottom of society, people would also tell some harmless dirty jokes. Aunt Su would always just smile and say nothing, neither embarrassed nor angry.

However, Liu Ming, who was selling sauce cakes nearby, would often help her out with a laugh and even save a seat for her.

She knew in her heart that Liu Ming liked her. Her position for the fried skewers was very good. There had been people who tried to snatch it before, but Liu Ming had always driven them away fiercely. He even once pulled out a knife and drew blood.

From that time on, everyone in the night market knew that Aunt Su was protected by Liu Ming. Although others were jealous of her position, Liu Ming was too fierce and no one dared to take action.

I heard that his wife ran away with someone else and his son was left in the countryside to be raised by his grandparents. He also went to work in a factory this year.

Facing Liu Ming's kindness, she raised her head and smiled, "Forget it, I don't understand that thing, it's better to accept cash."

I heard that to make payments, one needs to use real name, but she can't use her real name.

Everyone subconsciously thinks that people who don’t charge for QR codes are honest people. Plus, she does business honestly and never cuts corners.

At 2:30 in the morning, the night market gradually became quiet. Aunt Su packed up her stall and pushed the fried skewers cart towards the rented house.

The skewers cart was pulled into a dilapidated yard, and all the muscles in her body relaxed.

"Whoo~"

Another safe day.

She took out a kettle that was almost hot enough to boil water, and sat on a small stool, staring out the window in a daze.

She was a fugitive on the run, and she had been living in this kind of oppressive, painful, and unbearable life for who knows how many years.

She also understood that the reason she had been safe and sound all these years was because she subconsciously disconnected herself from society. The more she disconnected, the safer she was.

She was so terrified that she forgot about herself, and dared not use any electronic device that required identification, and she even refused to talk about her past.

For many years before, she lived a miserable life. At her worst, she had to live in a garbage dump or even under a bridge.

Until she found a place to breathe in the chaotic environment of the night market.

That year, she stole money from her home and boarded a train heading south.

As soon as she got on the bus, her luggage bag disappeared. Before she got off the bus, she was pickpocketed clean from head to toe, leaving nothing behind.

After getting off the train, she stood in the crowd, panic-stricken and helpless, not knowing what to do. A kind aunt said she would introduce her to a job. She felt like she had grabbed a life-saving straw and followed her reluctantly.

Then she was assigned to a shabby little workshop in the wilderness, where her job was to take things out of a very hot pot with her bare hands and process them.

After only working for half a month, her hands were covered with blisters and bleeding, but she couldn't leave. Fortunately, she was young and beautiful.

She hooked up with a security captain who was guarding them in the workshop and became his lover. She finally got out of that dark and hot workshop.

The security captain has a wife and children at home. Apart from his absolute authority in that small workshop, he is nothing outside of it.

She was definitely unwilling to follow him like this. She wanted to leave, but she had no money, no one she knew, and nowhere to go, so she had to depend on him.

Fortunately, the security captain doted on her during those two years and was generous to her. Finally, when she had a few hundred dollars in her hands, she acted coquettishly and asked him to take her to buy gold earrings, and rode his motorcycle from the wilderness into the city.

Then she pretended to go to the restroom and secretly ran out of the back door of the mall. She ran for her life, running into the crowd.

In the following years, she worked many jobs, including shampooer, dishwasher, and waitress, but soon they started checking temporary residence permits. Those were too expensive, and she couldn't bear to work for a month for nothing, so she had to hide from place to place.

Her life finally got better when she met the gangster A Fei Ge. He was the second man she fell in love with besides Lu Jinan.

He took her out to eat, drink and have fun, made her happy, and drove her on a motorcycle on the road.

But that man made her sad just like Lu Jinan. After the novelty wore off, he started beating her, fooling around with other women in her rented house, and even forced her to work in a hotel.

Yes, it’s the kind of hotel in the red light district.

This kind of thing is very common among A Fei Ge's gang. Many of the gangsters' girlfriends go out to take jobs at night. Their men use the women's money and not only do they not mind their women doing this kind of thing, they will even help to attract customers.

They change boyfriends and girlfriends like they change clothes, and they even sleep with each other.

She refused to go, but Brother A Fei was much more difficult to deal with than the previous security captain. She tried to run away several times but failed. She was sent to a small hotel at night, and they stayed there to guard her. They would take them back after get off work.

Sometimes they would go out to make money, doing all kinds of things like stealing, cheating, and robbing. She knew in her heart that if she continued like this, she would never get ahead.

Finally, after Brother Fei forced her to receive two friends, she pretended to accept her fate and took advantage of the other party's off guard to stab him in the heart with a fruit knife. She hated him and she watched him die with her own eyes.

.......

Liu Ming began to attack. He bought her small gifts and helped her to get a seat again and again with his ferocity. She knew in her heart that she had to give him some sweet treats, otherwise there would be many people eyeing Liu Ming in the night market, and some of them were even younger and more beautiful than her.

She made an appointment with Liu Ming to come to her house, and everything happened naturally. After the layer of paper was broken, the two became more intimate.

She knew very well that Liu Ming might have real feelings for her, because there were also young women who were courting him, but Liu Ming ignored them.

But she has no real feelings. She must have some feelings for this kind of man who protects and praises her, but it's just a good feeling.

She has fallen into the trap twice in her life. She will not be attracted to any man again. She just wants to live now.

She went to take a shower, and when she came out, she saw Liu Ming holding a newspaper in his hand. There was a young version of herself on the newspaper. She had placed it at the bottom of the cabinet, and her face instantly lost all color.

Liu Ming looked at her absentmindedly for a few seconds, then explained in a low voice, "I just want to find a lighter to light a cigarette, you..."

"Hey~"

Without waiting for Liu Ming to say anything, she got close to him, and the two of them had another exhilarating orgy. Afterwards, Liu Ming hugged her and said, "Come home with me? I'll protect you from now on."

She thought about it and nodded, "Okay."

After entering the bathroom, her face suddenly turned cold. She listened attentively to the noise outside. The reason why she was still alive after all these years was not because she was lucky, but because she was more vigilant than anyone else.

Outside the door, Liu Ming seemed to be talking to someone.

"Yes, in his forties...really, the address is 101 Beiditian Sanfang...hurry up."

She wasn't that sad. Aren't all men the same?

Coming out of the bathroom and passing the kitchen, she grabbed her boning knife.

One knife, two knives, three knives, four knives...

The smell of blood filled the entire room, just like when Brother Fei was killed all those years ago.

She slumped in the darkness, and Liu Ming's cell phone was ringing.

She reached out and took it. The dialog box showed a person who was applying for a certificate. The other party replied, "If it's real, there are some. They are the kind that were lost or robbed. We can find you someone of similar age, but the price will be a bit higher."

Above that was a voice message from Liu Ming, and she clicked on it.

"Yes, I'm over 3 years old. I want the real thing, the kind that can buy tickets. Please send it to 101, rd Square, Beditian. Please hurry up, I need it urgently."

The vibration of her cell phone brought her back to her senses. She exited the dialog box with the person who had processed the certificate. The message came from another person with the note "Third Brother".

Liu Ming: "Third brother, I'm going to take your sister-in-law home. She won't be coming out anymore. Tell my parents to clean up the house and wash and dry the quilts. Your sister-in-law likes cleanliness."

Third brother: "Brother, is this true? Don't kid me, this is great, hahahaha, uncle and aunt will probably be so happy."

Her hands began to tremble a little. After suppressing the complicated feelings in her heart and exiting the dialog box, she saw several red dots in her circle of friends.

I clicked on it and saw that it was a message from Liu Ming’s friend, “No matter what kind of person you were before, you will be my wife from now on.”

Three replies below.

Lao Ma: Hey, Brother Liu, is there something going on?

Driving license instructor Zeng: Brother, I introduced several people to you before but you refused, what kind of beauty did you meet?

Niece: Uncle, is there an aunt?

"Bang!"

The cell phone and her tears fell to the ground. She covered her face and shivered, not even daring to cry out loud. She was no longer a human being.

She quickly wiped away her tears and began to deal with the following matters. She knew that she might have misjudged, and this misjudgment might have caused her to lose her only chance to get ashore in more than a decade, but she didn't dare to trust anyone.

After working all night, she put Liu Ming in the refrigerator. When dawn came, she closed the curtains and went to sleep.

In the evening, she set up her stall as usual. She posted a piece of paper on the stall that read "Special price meat skewers 10 yuan for 20 skewers, buy 20 yuan and get 10 skewers free."

The skewers were coated with a thick sauce, which had a unique flavor and was very popular.

Occasionally, customers would come and ask Liu Ming why he wasn’t setting up his stall, and she would say he had gone back to his hometown.

She closed the stall at around two in the morning. The skewers of meat she brought today had been sold out, so she pushed the cart home.

The next day, she brought more skewers of meat, and a customer came over and asked, "Such a good deal?"

She smiled and nodded, "Yes, small profits but quick turnover, promotion, and building reputation."

The guest ordered more than a hundred skewers and said he would take them back to treat everyone.

She fried the skewers and spread the sauce on them skillfully.

Twelve o'clock.

Just when the downtown was at its busiest, sirens were heard in the distance.

Listening to this voice that often appeared in her dreams and made her tremble with fear, the tension and fatigue in her body disappeared. She breathed a sigh of relief and felt relaxed.

This day has finally come.

(End of the article)


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