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."

and quickly got dressed.

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

the house, the knocking

on, the woman opened the door to a room and whispered to her, "This is where we keep our grain," she said, unlocking a large urn with a bit of

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

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

from the pressure, but she had to bear it.

you don't open it

on the light, and shouted outside, "Who are

someone, open the door."

the house and said loudly, "You come back tomorrow in the daytime to find the person. It's the middle of the night, and I don't know whether

the door, I'm

to the courtyard, "Who are you looking for? There are only my son and I in the

He said to his men, "You two

the door, she hurried out and stood in the yard. "Wait a minute, please don't break down my

said in an angry

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

Heng stared at her with a grim stare, "Have you ever seen

they sure are looking for her."

want to come here." The woman lied. She pretends

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

in and search."

"What right do you have to search

a room full of men with fierce faces, he woke

woman was about to rush over to comfort her son, when Heng suddenly asked the boy, "Did a woman come to your house just now holding

was confused and shook his head straight, "No, I didn't see a woman."

the three rooms searched

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

where my family keeps food." said the woman, a slight

Heng gave an order, and someone went

nervously, "Please don't break anything in my house."

rummaged around inside for a long time, and finally only three large urns were left unchecked. "What's