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."

however, was calm and quickly got dressed. "Don't worry.

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

Outside the house, the knocking continued.

her, "This is where we keep our grain,"

head almost hit the rim of the urn, but the woman held her up, "Be

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

head hurt a little from the pressure, but she had

you don't open it we'll crash in." The people outside shouted.

The lady closed the storage room door, turned on the

"We're looking for someone, open

in the daytime to find the

the door, I'm going to

looking for? There are only my son and I in the house."

to his men, "You two break down the door."

hurried out and stood in the yard. "Wait a minute, please don't break down my door, I'll open it." She

"Hurry up!" The man said in

The woman looked at the darkened storage room again and then opened the door to the

with a grim stare, "Have you ever

God, they sure are

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

was a very plain peasant woman, dark skinned, tall and thin, with fear

in and search."

have to search my house?"

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

asked the boy, "Did a woman come to your house

his head straight, "No, I didn't see

searched but no one

small door in the corner and asked in a cold voice, "What room is

where my family keeps food." said the

gave an order, and someone went up and kicked open

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

only three large urns were left unchecked.