Cinderella Innocent and Boss Charming - Chapter 512

Chapter 512 Things are not what they used to be

Lu Xiaoxian was startled when she woke up, the low wooden hut was dark and damp, and the air emitted an unpleasant odor.

She sat up at once and looked around with wide eyes. The room was small, with a simple table and cupboard, and the floor was covered with bricks, and small, vigorous grasses burrowed in the cracks between the bricks.

She got out of bed and put on her shoes to open the door, but the door was unlocked from the outside, she opened the curtains and the light wasn’t very bright, and through the blurred glass she saw that the outside was full of tall trees.

She tried to open the window, which was also locked, and shook it, only to hear the muffled sound of boron as the outside lock touched the wooden frame.

Lu Xiaoxian felt that this was like a dream, last night she was still sleeping in the man’s big, soft and comfortable bed, in the morning she woke up here, it was really a dream, it was too strange, besides, she didn’t sleep to death, how could she not feel it?

Lu Xiaoxian sat on the bed and pinched her thighs so hard that it hurt, and she broke out in a cold sweat.

It’s not a dream, it’s real, it’s actually real! She hurriedly searched for her cell phone, but she couldn’t find it anywhere. Only saw a small duffel bag on the table, containing a few changes of her clothes, other than that, she had nothing. No idea where she was? No idea what time it was? Much less what was going to happen to her next?

The only thing she knew was that she had fallen on hard times, she suddenly jumped out of bed with a start, where was Kaiser Blue? Had something happened to him too?

On second thought, no, they wouldn’t do anything to him, having gone through all the trouble to get him to replace Kaiser Blue, they wouldn’t let anything happen to him. As long as the man was fine, he would definitely come to her rescue.

Lu Xiaoxian slowly calmed down and began to recall last night’s events.

She sneaked into Lin Peizhi’s room was seen by Lan Qin’er and took pictures. Although she didn’t admit to stealing, sneaking into Lin Peizhi’s room was a fact.

So, it was Lin Peizhi who got suspicious and that’s why she got her here.

But how could she be unaware of such a big commotion? She’s never been a deep sleeper, there’s no way she wouldn’t have known, right?

Lu Xiaoxian frowned and thought back carefully, finally remembering the glass of milk she drank before going to bed. Lan Kai Ze’s worry was not wrong, Lin Pei Zhi had put something in the milk, only it was not poison, but ecstasy, they would not die if they drank it, they would only fall asleep and not wake up.

At that moment the door opened and an old local woman walked in, she was wearing a traditional robe, which could be seen to be so old that the pattern on the fabric was no longer visible. On her feet was a pair of straw shoes, a local specialty. In Ao Lai, there is a great disparity between the rich and the poor, which can be seen from the feet alone, with many children from poor families going barefoot, most young and middle-aged people wearing cloth or rubber shoes, and women and the elderly generally wearing grass shoes. Only the rich can afford to wear real leather shoes.

The old woman had two large round earrings dangling from her ears, pulling the piercings loose and making her earlobes large, she was very dark skinned, her eyes were more white than black, her nostrils were large, and the corners of her mouth were hiked downwards, making her look a little intimidating.

The old woman spoke in a difficult Australasian language, and Lu Xiaoxian was completely bewildered and couldn’t understand a single word.

The old woman then changed to English, she spoke poor English, Chinese is even worse, stuttering, Lu Xiaoxian also heard a general.

It means that she will work here from now on, her job is to weed the rubber trees every day, inspect them to see if there are any insect bites or lesions, and if there are, she should notify the top in time and take appropriate measures. In her spare time, she has to learn how to cut rubber, and when there are fewer people, she has to help cut and collect rubber.

Here she lived alone, having to fire up her own cooking every day, and every half-month she would be given a supplement of the necessities of life.

The old woman’s name was Manda, and she was responsible for teaching her to recognize insect-infested or diseased leaves from tomorrow, and in three days’ time she would have to work independently on her own.

Lu Xiaoxian asked her in English, where is this place? What time is it? How do I keep track of the time? How do I notify the top if something happens, and where is the nearest person to here …

Manda avoided answering these questions and just looked at her with an expressionless face, and Lu Xiaoxian wondered if she had understood, so she repeated it again, but she turned and walked out.

Lu Xiaoxian hurriedly followed her out, it turned out that there was a simple kitchen attached to the outside, a big stove built, the fire below, the wall is arranged neatly yards of firewood, there are fresh vegetables on the counter, there is a bucket of rice under the counter, and there is also a big jar for water. Manda took her around to the side of the house, where there was a well from which water could be drawn, and at the back of the house there was an outhouse. Though it was all very simple, life was not a problem for Lu Xiaoxian.

The only inconvenience is that she does not have a cell phone, can not contact with the outside world, other than not worry about, is that every week she has to call home to report safety, if Lu Ding Shen did not receive her call, will certainly be worried, and may even find over.

She just hoped that Kaiser Blue would find her soon and get her out.

Although Manda didn’t say where this was? But she guessed that this must be the Blue family’s rubber plantation. Lan Kaiser said that the Lan family owns the largest rubber plantation in all of Australasia, even if he is looking for it now, he won’t be able to find her so quickly, so she can’t be in a hurry, she has to be patient and wait.

She asked Manda how she was going to keep track of meal times without a clock.

Manda replied to her that she would cook when she was hungry, but she could only turn on the fire once a day, make more and save half for the evening. Breakfast was not available, and she could find food in the forest herself. But she had to sort out for herself what she could eat, such as what she couldn’t, and if she ate the wrong things, death was possible.

After delivering these, Manda left without locking her up again, and Lu Xiaoxian stood in front of the house and watched Manda dart along a winding path, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

She thought about it and sneaked after her, since she wasn’t off she could run!

But she was obviously too happy too soon. At the end of the winding path, there were ten more similar paths, so which one was the way out?

She squinted at the sky for a moment, roughly judging the time, then folded a few branches off the side of the road and chose the uppermost path to walk on, tossing a branch at intervals, she was marking it in case she couldn’t make it, she could still walk back again.

But not long afterward, we encountered another fork in the road, and as usual, there were ten or so winding paths, like a group of snakes slithering and crawling, stretching away into the unknown.

Lu Xiaoxian was dumbfounded, no wonder she wasn’t shut off, no wonder Lan Kaize said that he would get lost even in here, they simply had a hold on her and weren’t afraid of her running.

Lu Xiaoxian changed her mind, she didn’t run, first look around to see if there were any other people? In the same old way, she broke a few branches, picked another path and moved forward again.

But this time, her hopes remained dashed; there was no one to be seen anywhere, and still the road, with its many paths, wound its way toward the forest.

Lu Xiaoxian knew that Lin Peizhi must have locked her up in the most secret place in the rubber garden, she couldn’t walk out and couldn’t find anyone else. Continuing to walk like this would only be a waste of time, so she simply turned around and went back.

She was hungry, she had to make lunch, it wasn’t as if she didn’t have contact with people, tomorrow Manda would come to teach her how to work, and in half a month someone would bring her supplies. All she had to do was bide her time.

She learned to cook the local meal by simmering the rice in a pot, then chopping up the vegetables and mixing them into the rice, then stirring them with oil and seasonings, and finally simmering them once more, which didn’t taste like much, but it was palatable, and mostly simple to make and easy to store.

After dinner, she went for a walk around the house, there were tall, straight trees everywhere, and even though she had never seen a rubber tree, she knew this was it, because each one had knife cut marks slanting down the trunk in a spiral, and she had never seen one before, so she was curious, and looked at them one by one as she walked further and further away.

Lu Xiaoxian felt puzzled, so many rubber trees, why no one came to cut the rubber?

As she circled around to the back of the house she saw a banana tree and jumped for joy, it meant she had her breakfast, she picked a handful off and cradled it in her arms, saving it for breakfast or a late night snack. She was a starving person and knew the importance of food, as long as she had something to eat, she would not lose her fighting spirit.

Walking further, she found another tree with small red fruits, small clusters of colorful, beautiful, she did not recognize, and did not dare to pick.

Back at the hut, she found a wicker basket in the kitchen and went out to pull weeds, she would have to start this job from tomorrow, she would have to do it sooner or later anyway, she was idle, so she might as well start it now.

There were weeds under each of the rubber trees, and she gleaned and threw them into the basket with deft hands and feet, and soon filled it up.

She looked for a sunny place, the grass on the ground to spread out in the sun, the sunshine here is strong, half a day can be dry, sun-dried grass is the best to start a fire, to the stove, the top of a few small firewood, scratch a match to the head of a throw, the fire on the flames of the Teng up, and wait until the small firewood is also burning, and then add firewood, you can burn the fire, when she was at home, she often do this.

In the evening to mix the leftover rice, the taste is rather better than just made, and then eat a banana after the meal, the stomach filled up, I do not know whether it is too much sleep in the morning, or because of the unfamiliar place, lying in bed how can not sleep.

So she got up again, and opened the door and went out; the night in the woods wasn’t exactly silent, and from time to time there was the sound of insects chirping, and she expected the wind to pick up, but after standing there for a while there wasn’t half a breeze.

She looked up at the sky, the sky was inky blue, the stars were big and bright, it reminded her at once of the night in the orchard, she and Lan Kai Ze were lying in the solarium looking at the stars, the same beautiful night sky, the same twinkling stars, she was lying in her man’s embrace, how happy she was, but it was only a few days ago, and things were already different.

It’s been a whole day, surely Lan Kaiser must have realized she was missing? Did he ask Lin Peizhi and Lan Xiuhe for someone? What will that pair of old foxes do to him? What are they trying to accomplish by making Gu Nianbin become Lan Kaize? Where is the real Lan Kaize? And the young man in the photo, does he have anything to do with this? Why did Lan Xiuhe hide his photo?

This one mystery puzzled Lu Xiaoxian. But she would definitely solve them, let the truth come out, and bring back Gu Nianbin’s lost memories!