This kind old woman gave Renee help and hope timely, making her so grateful for the fate.
"Thank you, granny."
"You're welcome. I'm distressed to see you have suffered a lot. You just stay here, and I am going out for a while."
"Okay." Renee's heart, which had been hurt by Rocco and her life, finally regained warmth.
There were indeed devils wandering around the world, but still many kind people. For example, Luke and this old lady.
In a shabby room, Renee took a shower. She changed into the clothes of the old lady' s daughter- in- law, and her forehead was also cleaned with medicine.
Although the traffickers had left, for fearing that they hid somewhere else, Renee didn't dare to go outside.
Except for worrying about the trafficker's return, Renee’s life was relaxing.
Even if this village was poor, it offered Renee so much peace.
No TV in the old lady's home, nor any advanced equipment and Wifi. The cell phone she used was a feature phone, which could only play Tetris.
Renee was curious that what did she do every day? She saw that there were many plants in the courtyard; she took care of those plants every day.
She would also go into the mountain to pick vegetables, when she was free, she would put on her glasses, embroidering shoe pads.
Renee used to think it must be boring to live in a village like this one, but the truth was different. She had a better life than she imagined, and she felt never ever peaceful.
And she was no need to worry that if she had enough money to spend or if the house was big or small. Anyway, not those worldly annoys.
The old lady taught Renee how to do embroidering. "Who do you want to embroider for?"
"I..." At that moment, the person who came to her mind was not Rocco, but Luke, the man with a thick beard.
"Don’t be shy, you must want to embroider for your lover, don't you? I understand. To embroider for your sweetheart, you need to embroider some meaningful patterns, like a pair of birds, or a pair of swans..." "He's just my friend, granny. I'm just embroidering for my friend." "Okay, okay. What pattern do you want?"
"Any pattern is good. I like the flower you are embroidering."
"I embroider it for my son. I am old, and I don’t have too many days to live. He works in the city, and he is so busy every day.
He had his own life, and I can’t ask him to accompany me like when he was a child. So, I am embroidering shoe pads for him.
Just like I am with him. Even if I died, I think he would never be short of shoe pads. When he sees these shoe pads, he would also miss me.
But I found myself more and more malfunctioning these days. Alas... Sometime, it takes me quite long to thread a needle. Well, I am indeed old.
Maybe due to being lonely for too long, the old lady talked in spirits with Renee. She was even very talkative, she seemed to have talked about everything to Renee that she would never tell her children.
Renee was a little sad, but it was inevitable to happen. Children had grown up, and they would leave home sooner or later without accepting more of parent's supports.
They built their own homes and had their babies. Life was a circle, which kept rolling on within generations, but sadly, the young sometimes forgot the old.
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