(Gently, thank you very much, and please collect it!)
"Qiao'er is right. When I want to find a wife, I want to find someone like Qiao'er."
A Niu smiled silly, picked up Liu Zhenming's luggage with an honest look, and then gently placed it in the car.
"Qiao'er?" Liu Zhenming looked up and down, looking back and forth at Little Carrot, and finally found a clue.
With a slightly bulging chest, a pair of watery eyes, and those two delicate eyebrows, she turned out to be a little girl. Liu Zhenming burst out laughing. No wonder she looked so pretty.
I smelled the fingertips that had just rubbed Little Carrot's hair, and sure enough, there was a faint girlish fragrance.
The little girl blushed, lightly stamped her feet, and said angrily: "Aniu, why don't you leave quickly? What nonsense are you talking about!"
"hehe!"
A Niu giggled twice, raised the armrest, and looked at Liu Zhenming, who was still standing on the ground.
"Little girl, you go up! I'll just walk on the ground." Liu Zhenming is a grown man, and he can't compete with a little girl for a seat.
If Xiaoluobo were a man, Liu Zhenming would certainly not let him and Ji Li squeeze together, but she is a little girl.
"Whoever wants to sit there will sit with me! I won't sit with a foreign woman."
Qiao'er turned her head ungratefully and started to trot forward.
"Honey, why don't you come up?"
Ji Li probably guessed that A Niu and Xiaoluobo couldn't understand English, so they spoke more casually.
Liu Zhenming smiled helplessly, pushed hard with his feet, jumped up, and sat down next to Ji Li.
Seeing this, A Niu shouted and set off after Little Carrot.
Ji Li hugged Liu Zhenming's arm tightly, looked at A Niu who was running fast in front of her with a curious expression, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect this rickshaw to be smoother than a horse-drawn carriage. This is my first time riding one."
Liu Zhenming pinched Ji Li's nose, looked at her haggard face, and said softly: "Thank you for your hard work. As long as we get to Vancouver, everything will be fine."
"As long as I'm with you, no matter where I am, I'm happy." Ji Li rested her head on Liu Zhenming's shoulder and said with a happy face.
"Bah! Shameless!"
In the eyes of the little girl, this scene turned into something immoral.
There were not many pedestrians on the streets late at night. Liu Zhenming and Ji Li, who had been fleeing for many days, were both a little sleepy. At this time, they relaxed physically and mentally. They leaned together and sat in the car for a short time before closing their eyes and falling asleep.
"Brother, we're here!" After an unknown amount of time, A Niu had stopped the car and softly woke up Liu Zhenming.
"You are a pig for sleeping so hard!" Xiaoluobo lifted the luggage under Liu Zhenming's feet and bumped the luggage against his feet.
After Liu Zhenming glared at her, she grinned and raised her little fist.
Ji Li also woke up, opened her eyes, and asked drowsily: "My dear, are you here yet?"
"Um!"
Liu Zhenming jumped out of the car first, then hugged her down, and then looked around at the parking place.
Surrounded by some dilapidated and low-rise old houses with only scattered lights, it was much more deserted than the train station in Toronto, and they were standing in front of a grocery store.
"Where is your hotel?" Liu Zhenming looked at the angry little carrot with his mouth pouted.
The little girl pursed her lips impatiently, pointed to the grocery store in front of a few people and said, "Isn't this it?"
Under the dim light, Liu Zhenming could only see a few crooked characters: Happy Grocery Store.
Wait, there are two small words below: hotel!
It’s really one store with multiple uses!
The little girl ignored Liu Zhenming's surprise and knocked on the door for a while. Two middle-aged couples opened the door and came out with their clothes on and yawning...
"Dad, a guest is here. I'm going to bed." The little girl covered her mouth and immediately got into the room.
After a while, Liu Zhenming entered this small space of only a few square meters under the warm greetings of the couple.
Overnight, he returned to before liberation. Liu Zhenming looked at this room, which was about the same size as the house he rented before, and felt a sense of emotion in his heart. It was a familiar small space, but it was missing a computer.
Through conversations along the way, Liu Zhenming also found out that the boss's surname was Han Shisan, and that the little carrot just now was their daughter, named Han Qiaoer, fourteen years old, nicknamed Little Carrot.
Qiao'er helps in the store on weekdays. When a train comes into the station, she goes to the train station with A Niu to see if there are any customers. It's not that the couple is abusing children, but that the couple has been delivering goods during the day.
I'm so busy that I don't have the energy to make extra money at night.
Besides, a fourteen-year-old girl in this era is still a little girl in the eyes of Liu Zhenming, but in the eyes of others, she is an adult. Most domestic women get married at the age of sixteen.
Lao Han came to Canada ten years ago to work hard, and brought his wife and daughter over six years ago. Needless to say, it was a bitter experience. The family finally settled down in Toronto and was able to live a stable life.
A Niu is not a clerk in this store. He works in a laundry during the day and pulls carts at night to earn some extra money.
There are only a thousand Chinese in Toronto, and almost all of them are concentrated on these two or three streets. Everyone is familiar with them without looking up.
"Mr. Liu, do you live with this foreign woman?"
Han Shisan asked while putting down Liu Zhenming's luggage.
Liu Zhenming smiled slightly, shook Ji Li's hand, and said nonchalantly: "Brother Han, just call me Liu Zhenming. This is my wife Ji Li. She can't understand Chinese. We are husband and wife, of course.
living together."
"Brother Liu is great. If you need anything, just say hello and I won't disturb you." Han Shisan stood up and replied somewhat restrainedly.
"Thank you, Brother Han. This is the rent money." Liu Zhenming took out a few banknotes, thought about it, took out a few more, and said with a smile: "If Brother Han is free tomorrow morning, help me buy an ordinary suit."
Here are the clothes."
"OK!"
After Han Shisan left, Liu Zhenming hugged Ji Li and fell on the bed. The two of them were so tired these days that they really fell asleep as soon as they touched the bed.
…
At the same time, on the railway line, more than a dozen American agents gathered around two horses, discussing in a low voice. These two horses were exactly what Liu Zhenming and Ji Li had ridden.
"Mr. Benjamin, one of the horses is our army horse." One of the agents checked for a moment and then reported to Benjamin.
"They can't go to Detroit, otherwise they'll be trapped in a trap."
"So, you went to Toronto?"
"possible!"
…
Benjamin held a cigar in his mouth and listened to the whispers of everyone. In the darkness, the fire light appeared flickering, revealing his ferocious face from time to time.
"Is there anyone from our government in Toronto?" Benjamin blew out a smoke ring and asked softly.
"have!"
"That's good, let them check first to see if a Chinese and a white woman have just arrived there!" Benjamin calmly raised his foot and stamped out the cigarette butts he had just thrown on the ground.