My Mysterious Husband

"I know what will happens to these girls who are trafficked to the mountains. Some of them will never escape the mountains. If they are caught, they’ll be punished badly. You are lucky to have escaped." The woman said. Then she saw the little child on her back, she asked, "Is this child yours?"

"Yes, I can't let him stay here." Venus said.

The woman nodded. “It's too hard for children to stay in the mountains. My child has to walk a long way to school every day, and it's always dark when he comes back."

Venus observed the woman’s home quietly for a while. There were no men's shoes or clothes in the room, so she asked, "Isn't your husband home?"

"He went out to work. He can't make much money a year in the mountains and the kid will have to go to college, so we have to save money."

Venus had run a long way, and now she could take a rest. She now realized that her pants were soaked through with mud all over them. Her legs were hurt.

Pulling up her pant, she noticed that her leg had a bloody gash on it that looked horrible.

"You've been scratched by the vines. I'll get some water for you." The woman said enthusiastically.

"Thank you," Venus suddenly remembered something important and called out to her, "Do you have a cell phone? I want to call home."

"There's a cell phone, but the signal here is bad. I always have to go halfway up the mountain to make a call.” the woman brought her an old cell phone from her bedside table, “There’s no signal at all. I'm just using it as a watch."

Venus looked at the phone and saw that there was indeed no signal at all.

The woman knew her feeling, patted her on the shoulder, and went out to fetch water.

By the time Venus finished washing her wounds and changed her clothes, it was already after eleven o'clock at night. Since there was no extra bed in the woman's house, she shared a bed with the woman and her son. Although the conditions were very not good, she was happy and fell asleep quickly.

Then she did not sleep well. Her dreams were filled with scenes of her being chased by Gavin's men. In her dream, she was running, but she couldn't get away from him.

Suddenly there was a loud rapping on the door, and Venus woke up almost immediately. She looked nervously at the door. She knew the people who could come knocking at this hour were probably Gavin's men.

The woman also woke up and listened carefully to the door.

"Open the door!" A man was shouting.

Venus held the baby tightly with worry in her eyes, "They're coming after me."

was calm and quickly got dressed. "Don't worry. I'll hide

up from the bed. She shouldered her shoulder bag, picked up the baby,

Outside the house, the knocking continued.

whispered to her, "This is where we keep our grain," she said, unlocking

to get her foot up and in, but she was unsteady. The child's head almost hit the rim of the urn, but the woman held her up, "Be careful. I'll put something on

in her arms, and soon the woman brought a round board and placed it on her head, putting two bags of rice on it.

hurt a little from the pressure, but

it we'll crash

lady closed the storage room door, turned on the light, and shouted outside, "Who are you?"

looking for someone, open the door."

find the person. It's the middle of the

I'm going

looking for? There are

He said to his men, "You two break

were going to break down the door, she hurried out and stood in the yard. "Wait a minute, please

"Hurry up!" The man said in an angry voice.

darkened storage room again and then opened the door to the outside, "Who are you?"

with a grim stare, "Have you ever seen a woman with a child?"

they sure are looking for her."

People won't want to come here." The woman lied. She pretends to be

Heng stared at her for a few seconds. She was a very plain peasant

"You guys go in and search." He instructed.

search my house?" The

of men with fierce faces, he woke up and cried out in fear.

The woman was about to rush over to comfort her son, when Heng suddenly asked the boy, "Did a

was confused and shook his head straight, "No,

three rooms searched but no one else was found.

Suddenly Heng saw a small door in the corner and asked in a cold voice,

"That's where my family keeps food." said the woman, a slight quiver in her voice.

search it." Heng gave an order, and

The woman stood at the door and said nervously, "Please don't break anything in my house."

and finally only three large urns were left unchecked. "What's in here?" Heng asked.