novelhk Chapter 214: Lu Qiuyan's Past
Chapter 214: Lu Qiuyan's Past
It was fine during the day, as there were many people around, but when she returned to the dormitory to rest, the fear deep in Lu Qiuyan's heart would be magnified exponentially, grabbing her heart in the dead of night and preventing her from falling asleep.
It was on an ordinary night that Ning Xingluo ran into Lu Qiuyan, who was sitting alone in the corner of the dormitory corridor.
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That day, Ning Xingluo had a scene where he explored the sanatorium's archive room alone. The shooting started very late, and the other actors who had no scenes to film had already gone back to rest.
During the filming, Wu Congcong kept yawning and was so sleepy that tears came out. Ning Xingluo asked her to go back first, so after the filming was over, she returned to the dormitory alone.
The dormitory was also built temporarily, with only one floor. On the left and right sides were everyone's rooms, and in the middle there was a corridor that was not very spacious but you could see the end of it at a glance. Even at night, the lights were on in the corridor.
Ning Xingluo walked to the door and saw a man squatting in the corner of the corridor. He looked absent-minded, his body swaying as if he would fall down at any time.
She was a little worried and wanted to go forward to take a look, but the squatting person suddenly looked up.
It turned out to be Lu Qiuyan. Ning Xingluo hesitated for a moment, then quietly moved back to his room, pretending that he saw nothing.
But after a while, she opened the door cursing, and there was no way I could pretend not to see it!
Ning Xingluo walked up awkwardly and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you not sleeping here so late at night?"
Her tone was not really good, but Lu Qiuyan grabbed Ning Xingluo's hand as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw and asked her: "Can you stay with me for a while? Just a little while."
When she spoke, her eyes were filled with something that was difficult to understand.
Ning Xingluo didn't know what was wrong with his brain that day, and he actually stayed to accompany her.
Because Lu Qiuyan's hands were as cold as ice, she even went back to her room to get two pillows and a blanket.
After taking the blanket from Ning Xingluo, Lu Qiuyan's expression changed several times, and suddenly he said, "Xingluo, let me tell you a story."
This sounds familiar, as if someone has said this before?
Before Ning Xingluo could remember, Lu Qiuyan had already started talking to himself, not caring whether Ning Xingluo was really listening or not.
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Lu Qiuyan was once a left-behind child.
Of course, in that era, people like her were not left-behind children, but burdens.
Lu Qiuyan's parents had an arranged marriage and had no emotional basis, but they had a child soon after marriage.
The first child is a girl.
In the countryside at that time, having more children in the family was the most important thing, so Lu Qiuyan's mother soon became pregnant with her second, third, and fourth child, which was a boy.
Lu Qiuyan is the third child.
Lv Qiuyan's mother, a young and strong labor force, was constantly pregnant, giving birth, and recuperating, and could hardly go out to give birth. With more and more children, life became increasingly difficult.
The family naturally thought about whether to give away a few children. After all, girls are worthless and unimportant.
When the fourth baby boy was finally born, Lu Qiuyan was just over one year old and could only walk unsteadily.
But the eldest daughter and the second daughter are already able to do some housework.
As an extra child, she was of no use other than wasting food rations, and no one in her family wanted her.
So naturally, without much consideration, Lu Qiuyan was sent away.
Fortunately, she was also unfortunate because she was sent to a butcher's house who was unable to have children.
The butcher was wealthier than anyone else in the village, and when little Lu Qiuyan first arrived at his house, she indeed had a good time.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Only a few months after she came, the butcher's wife became pregnant.
Because the butcher was infertile, everyone suspected that the child was not his. When the child was six months old, the butcher even beat his wife.
Finally, under the persuasion of his mother, he decided to wait until the child was born. If it was a boy, he would raise it as his own even if it was not his. If it was a girl...
Soon, the butcher's family also had a boy who looked exactly like the butcher, with a fat head, big ears, and sharp eyes. It was obvious that he was his biological child.
The butcher no longer had any doubts, so he naturally wanted to get rid of Lu Qiuyan, a girl who he thought was useless.
But he could no longer send his adopted daughter back to her own home or to someone else's.
Because there is a saying in the local area that a couple who were originally unable to have children can suddenly have children after adopting a child, which means that the couple is destined to have no children, but the adopted child is destined to have siblings.
The adopted children brought their real children with them, and if the adopted children were abandoned then their real children would not have a good ending either.
The butcher didn't believe it, but he was afraid of gossip from the villagers, so one day he lied that he was taking his adopted daughter out to play and took her to the seaside far away from the village, a barren saline-alkali land with nothing on it.
It is normal for a three-year-old child to be accidentally drowned by the waves while playing alone at the beach.
"They say that children can't remember memories before the age of five, but I remember that night on the beach when I was over three years old clearly."
The butcher told Lu Qiuyan not to run around and to stand there and wait for him, and she really stood there obediently.
It was dark, and she was sleepy, thirsty and tired, so she just lay down where she was.
In the middle of the night, it was the wet waves that woke her up. She was really about to be swept away by the waves, and her instinct for survival made her crawl away from the beach.
The roaring of the waves was like some monster. From then on, Lu Qiuyan became particularly afraid of the night sea breeze and the dark space where he was alone.
Later, extremely fortunately, people from the neighboring village brought experts to inspect the saline-alkali land, and at sunrise they happened to see this child who was alone on the beach and could not speak clearly.
The villages here are not big, and they soon found the butcher's house.
The butcher didn't expect that she could come back like this, and he was a little scared.
The butcher's wife had always believed in the legend about adopted children and biological children. Now that she saw him being sent back, she thought it was God's will.
She tried her best to persuade the butcher to keep the man.
From then on, Lu Qiuyan lived a life of being beaten and scolded at every turn. He had to endure hunger every day and do a lot of work, which was in starvation with the butcher's own son.
She was born with a stubborn character, and after experiencing such a family and childhood, she became more and more extreme.
She relied on her own efforts to get out of the countryside and out of the family that had no love for her, and became the bright and dazzling person she is now.
But no matter how stunning and dazzling she looks in front of others, the emptiness and loneliness in her heart always exist.
Later, due to lack of love, she met the wrong person at the wrong time and had the wrong marriage, and gave birth to the child Lu Qiutong.
She often sees her own shadow in Tongtong, so she is always very strict with Tongtong. She hopes that her daughter can be stronger than herself.
Later, Lu Qiuyan pursued Lu Ming not only because Lu Ming helped her when she was at her lowest point, but also because she did not love Lu Ming. She just wanted to grab everything she could get.