Chapter 750: Whatever was Cut would Eventually be Long

Shen Wei walked over and coughed lethargically. She pulled the blanket over from Xia Ruoxin, lay down, and fell asleep in no time.

After some time, Xia Ruoxin woke up from the pain in her stomach. She felt stickiness in her pants, and it was weird why her stomach was so painful.

Carefully, she stood up, hugged the toilet paper, and went to the toilet not far away. Just like her on the ship, she could smell the smell of the toilet from faraway. However, this was much better than the ship as it was not a big container filled with poop, but a real toilet instead. Also, they were all girls so there was no difference between the men’s and the ladies’. When she walked in, she hugged the toilet paper in her hands and squatted down slowly, pressing on her stomach tightly and endured the pain about to exit.

It was her first time experiencing this pain.

It was excruciating.

She tolerated it to the best that she could and tried not to let herself cry. In the end, she still cried in pain; and the tears fell from the corner of her eyes, drop by drop.

After a long time, the pain subsided a bit before she dragged her lethargic body back and climbed back to her spot.

“You cried?” Shen Wei’s voice sounded.

“Yes.” Xia Ruoxin did not think that it was embarrassing. She turned around and faced the wall to sleep.

“Shen Wei, do you think we can still leave this place alive?”

“Who knows?” Shen Wei closed her eyes and breathed gently. They could hear people snoring from time to time; they were all tired and perhaps numb, too. Their lives had become finding gold every day; other than finding gold, there was nothing else. They had become finding gold machines thoroughly, but Xia Ruoxin did not want to and was not willing.

She still wanted to go home.

In a daze, she slept again but still tossed and turned from time to time. The pain in her stomach subsided sometime but hurt on others, which tortured her until she broke out in cold sweat. The clothes on her body got wet, became dry… wet then dry again. She turned around the whole night and did not sleep at all.

In the morning, someone came over to hit the door. They got up when the sun just got up, and without tidying up, they just went out the way they came in. However, Xia Ruoxin still had to tidy her hair.

“You still care?” Shen Wei laughed at her. “You still care about these things now? What are you thinking?”

“Not particularly.” Xia Ruoxin straightened her shirt, even though this shirt had not been washed or changed out of. “I just want to live like a person and not forget who I am. It’s that simple.”

Yes, it was really that simple.

She wanted to remember that she was a person, not a machine.

In the morning, the weather was cold—about ten degrees; but in the afternoon, it was almost forty degrees. Xia Ruoxin walked into the water barefoot, and the cold water had almost crept into her bones.

There were water noises beside her, and the rest had followed her in. Now, it was time to see whose luck was better and could find more gold. She took the net and started looking, but her useless hand was extremely hard to move up and down.

Nothing again. She was disappointed as she poured the sand back into the water before scooping others up and started finding gold in the water. When the afternoon sun landed above her eyes, she saw a bright light.

Hurriedly, she turned around; and when she looked back, she found something in her net that was sparkling. She moved the net again and reached in for the dazzling thing that was especially painful to her eyes under the sun. She closed her eyes and heaved a sigh of relief; even her tensed up lips could finally break into a smile.

That was good. Great even. She finally found gold.

She took her basket to the head which was where the fat woman was and handed her gold up. After checking it, the fat woman was clearly pleased as the gold was pretty big and was substantial.

Xia Ruoxin exchanged two rolls of toilet paper, toothpaste, and two toothbrushes. Perhaps others would think that she was crazy to be caring about these at a time like that. The other people who found gold would exchange it for food and not daily necessities, but Xia Ruoxin was different.

Finally, today, she did not need to get beaten up.

When she went back, she passed on a toothbrush to Shen Wei.

Shen Wei took it and turned over to sleep. Xia Ruoxin touched her head and decided to cut off her hair. Even though she could not bear to part with it… as from young, she was like Rainy who loved and cherished their hair the most or perhaps because she was once bald.

Hence, she rarely cut her hair and let it grow naturally and reach her shoulders with much difficulty.

The next morning, she woke up earlier than others and went to brush her teeth before using the water on her fingers to comb her hair. As she had no comb, she could only use her fingers to brush through it; but it was already all tangled up.

The second day, she got nothing; and it was so on the third. Until the fourth day, she found another piece of gold and still exchanged it for toilet paper, two bowls of rice, and something that was like a knife. A knife was considered a sharp object so the people here were afraid that they would use it to do something else so they would not give them sharp things like scissors or fruit knife.

Even when Xia Ruoxin took the scissors, quite a few people were watching. Xia Ruoxin grabbed a bunch of her hair and held the scissors in her hand tightly before breathing heavily. One lump of her hair had fallen.

She did not cry and continued cutting her hair like a machine until her hair was very short, and she was almost bald.

That time, Shen Wei walked over and sat in front of Xia Ruoxin. “Help me cut mine, too.”

Xia Ruoxin took Shen Wei’s hair. Last time, her hair used to be very beautiful and was the envy of her; that lush wine red curled hair was soft and smooth. Right now, it was like wilted grass and had lost the lushness from the beginning.

“Your hair will grow out.”

She sighed lightly, and the smile on her face had long gone away.