"Yeah, what should we do? Xiaobo must not go to jail, otherwise his life will be ruined." Huang Ma also cried.

"Brother, go wash up and change your clothes first. Little sister, go and help me pack my luggage. Dad, Mom, quickly find out how much cash we have at home. Give it all to me and let him escape." Huang Yu calmly instructed everyone.

"Is this okay?" Huang's father asked nervously.

"Brother, sister, why don't you hurry up." Huang Yu shouted at Huang Bo and Huang Qing, then turned around and said to his parents.

"Dad, Mom, this is the only way we can do now. Let brother escape and hide from the limelight first. We will see what happens at home. If we can handle it, we will let brother come back after it is handled. If we can't handle it, brother will have to live in hiding for the rest of his life."

"Then, I, I'll go find the money." Huang's mother reacted first, stopped crying and rushed into the room.

"Dad, go ask our neighbors and borrow all the cash they have, no matter how much. I will go to town tomorrow morning to get the money and pay them back." Huang Yu said to Huang's father again.

"Okay, okay!" Dad Huang agreed as he walked out nervously. His feet were a little out of control, but for the sake of his son, he took a deep breath, calmed himself, and walked towards the neighbor's house.

When Huang Bo finished packing and came out, the family scraped together more than 2000 yuan in cash and handed it to him.

Huang Bo bid farewell to his parents and two sisters with tears in his eyes. His father rode a motorcycle and took him to the city train station overnight.

It only took more than an hour to ride a motorcycle from home to the city. At that time, you didn’t need to use your real name to take the train. You could just pay for the ticket and get on the train.

If you don't have a ticket, just buy a 2-yuan platform ticket, squeeze in through the door or climb up through the window, and then ask the conductor to buy a new ticket on the way.

Mr. Huang watched him enter the station with tears in his eyes. He slowly composed himself, wiped his tears, and rode his bike back.

After Huang Bo entered the station, he bought a platform ticket. He saw a train stopped and didn't know where it was going, so he climbed up through the window.

After Huang's father returned home, Huang Yu had already dealt with the bloody clothes that her brother had taken off. She burned the clothes, poured them all into the manure pit in the backyard, and stirred them.

Huang Yu also told his family to keep their mouth shut and if anyone asked, they should say that Huang Bo went out that night and never came back and they didn't know where he had gone.

Things were not as simple as the Huang family thought. They thought Qiao Xiaofeng was just injured, but at around 9 o'clock the next morning, the police station came to arrest him. Qiao Xiaofeng was injured in a vital part and died when he was sent to the hospital that evening.

The Qiao family collapsed, and the Huang family was also in despair. They were originally in-laws, but now they had become enemies.

Huang Bo took the train all the way forward. He was afraid of being caught, so he changed trains several times and finally arrived at a small town in a remote mountainous area.

He didn't dare to stay in a hotel, so he stayed under a bridge for two days. He didn't have much money on him, so he had to find a way to work and support himself.

He was unfamiliar with the place and was looking for a job speaking stiff Mandarin. He thought it would be best to work on a construction site far away from the town so that he would not be easily found.

After searching for several days without any results, one day a man in his 30s with a non-local accent spoke to him.

"Where are you from, young man? Are you in any trouble?"

The man saw that he looked tired and disheveled, so he asked with concern.

At this time, Huang Bo, who was exhausted, felt comforted to see someone caring about him, but he told the person that he was an orphan and came here to work with his friends.

But after arriving here, his friend stole his money and ran away, so he had no choice but to stay here and try to find a job, a place to live, and be able to support himself.

"That's great. My friend's construction site is short of people. I can introduce you there. The salary is 100 yuan a day, and food and accommodation are provided." The man said happily.

"What construction site?" Huang Bo asked, still cautious.

"Coal miner," the man replied.

"Then I'll think about it!"

Huang Bo had heard before that some illegal coal mines would trick people into joining and then cut off their contact with the outside world. They had to do heavy work every day and eat bland food that was worse than that of pigs and dogs.

During the chat, he learned that the man's surname was Gao, so he respectfully called him Brother Gao. After parting ways with Brother Gao, he walked around a few more times and returned to the bridge tunnel.

At night he wrapped himself in the quilt he had bought and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up on the first morning, he found that his bag had been rummaged through and the remaining 1000 yuan in cash was missing.

He completely broke down and sat there in frustration for several hours, thinking about what he had experienced during this period of time, feeling sad from the bottom of his heart.

He didn't know why it turned out like this. He loved Qiao Xiaoling. He fell in love with her at first sight when he saw her when he went to his house with Qiao Xiaofeng during junior high school.

For her, he learned a craft after graduating from junior high school, worked hard to make money, and finally married her as he wished. But she left him exhausted and penniless.

After a period of depression, he slowly got up from the ground. He was now away from home and penniless, and he really wanted to jump off the bridge to end this tragic life.

But he was unwilling to give up. He wanted to live on. He wanted to go back and ask Qiao Xiaoling why she treated him like that.

So he walked down from the bridge again and walked aimlessly on the road. Unexpectedly, he met Brother Gao from yesterday again.

After a round of greetings, he made a decision that made him regret the most in his life. He followed the man surnamed Gao to the so-called construction site.

Mr. Gao treated him to a meal at noon, bought him a new set of clothes, and took him to the bathhouse for a bath. He was very grateful.

But it was this kind-hearted brother named Gao who caused him to lose his life in a foreign land.

In the afternoon, Gao took him into a van, which took them around the winding mountain road. They drove for most of the day and finally arrived at the construction site at around 10 o'clock in the evening.

When he arrived at the construction site, he was arranged to live in a temporary shed.

The accommodation conditions here are quite poor. More than a dozen people live in one room, with bunk beds, and the beds are extremely dirty. It was not until 12 o'clock in the evening that the workers began to return one after another.

When they saw the new workers, they had no expression on their faces. They didn't even take a shower and just fell asleep.

Huang Bo observed that these workers ranged from teenagers to those in their 60s, and several were obviously mentally retarded.

They were all skinny and emaciated. Huang Bo felt that something was wrong, but since he was already there, he decided to stay for one night and see how things would go tomorrow. So he fell asleep in a daze.

The next morning, at just 6 o'clock, the foreman opened the door of the shed and shouted.

"Get up, get up."

Everyone quickly got up, slowly scooped up a handful of water from the bucket at the door, took a sip and rinsed their mouths, then poured the water on their faces as a wash.

Huang Bo also stood up.

"Uncle, why don't you even use toothpaste and toothbrush?" he asked an elderly man in his 60s next to him.

The old man looked at him tiredly, turned around and left without answering.

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