The sound of the merchant outside the courtyard gradually faded away, his face was painted with turmeric, the willow eyebrows were turned into eight figures with gray charcoal, and most of his head was wrapped in a green cloth.

She carried a small bag in her hand, wore coarse cloth shoes made by the nurse, and quietly threw herself into freedom in the twilight daylight.

Her mother clan was south of the city, so she had no choice but to go all the way north.

Fortunately, the road guide has been bought a long time ago, and the place to settle down is steady, and the heart is steady, just go down step by step, and one day it will be there.

For safety reasons, Ye Sleeve did not dress as a woman or a man - how could he possibly act like him without the Adam's apple? When everyone else is blind?

Therefore, she chose to dress up as an old woman.

The color of the hair, cheeks, and fingers are all dyed with herbs, and you only need to pay attention to not rubbing them with alcohol, and you can keep them for more than half a month.

This disguise technique, called [makeup], was also taught to her by the nurse, and it was really much more convenient when she went out, and it was not noticeable at all.

At dusk, the people who went out of the city were all farmers who came to the city to do business, and there were also some small merchants and vendors in the suburbs, and an ox cart pulled a bamboo basket that had been sold short, and there were some vegetable leaves scattered on the side of the bamboo basket, which seemed to be farmers selling vegetables nearby.

It was about Ye Sleeve who had been watching for too long, and the man who was driving the car looked over, and after a while, he shouted and asked, "Hey, what are you looking at?" ”

Ye Sleeve blinked slowly, then shook his head, and pointed to his ear again, indicating that he was deaf and could not hear clearly.

The owner of the ox cart spared the old woman and drove the ox cart forward.

In fact, just a moment, Ye Sleeve really wanted to take out the money to let this car give him a ride, but when he went out, "wealth is not exposed" is the last word, although Ye Sleeve does not go out much, but the nurse has told her all kinds of stories and "accidents" since she was a child, she understands, far more than girls of the same age, therefore, the vigilance is also several times stronger than them.

If people see that they are "inconvenient" to walk "old" village women with money, or alone, I am afraid that someone will see the wealth and be unfavorable to her, right?

Fortunately, this is the main road, and it is also very close to the official road, and there are many people on the road, and they are all people dressed as civilians, she is mixed in the crowd, and it is not noticeable at all, even if there are occasional families riding out of the city, they don't see her at all.

Yes, at this moment, the Ye family and the Yue family are in an uproar.

The Yue family carried the spiritual seat of their son-in-law Yue Song and went to the Ye family to marry Ye Sleeve, but Ye Sleeve was not in the embroidery building at all, and the Yue family could not find a bride and a surviving person, so how could they be willing to give up with the Ye family?

The Ye family received the great benefits of the Yue family, and the only condition was to let Ye Sleeve, the concubine, marry Yue Song, the son of the Yue family, who had died for three years...... 's spiritual position, the Ye family repented on the verge of battle, which was ignored in front of the emperor.

The current mother of the Ye family, An Shi, has already led people to rummage through Ye Sleeve's embroidery building and the connected small garden, but she didn't even find a figure, and no one saw Ye Sleeve out of the embroidery building, and a big living person disappeared from the boudoir like this.

Even if An angrily killed the family guarding the embroidery building, crippled the big maid with Ye Sleeve, and smashed all the porcelain in Ye Sleeve's room...... The truth is irreparable.

Seeing this, Yue Bo, who came to greet his relatives with the spiritual seat, turned around and left without saying a word, and did not forget to drop the words when leaving: "Although Brother Song went, Ye Sleeve was already a member of our Yue family, and she was a widow!" If your Ye family doesn't hand over people, let's see you in the palace about this! ”

Where did An's go to change a leaf sleeve for the Yue family? Besides, she refused to let her own daughter marry into the Yue family for Ye Sleeve to suffer, so there was no choice but to find someone everywhere overnight.

- All the members of the Ye family were sent out, not only to the mother of Ye Sleeve's deceased mother, but also to her brother and nurse, the Wenhui she loved to go to in the past, and even the nunnery sent people to find it.

Naturally, no one was able to find anyone back.

Ye Sleeve walked and stopped on the road, did not dare to wash, as long as he had the strength to continue walking, even if he had no strength, he would only find a nest under the tree with low branches and leaves for a short while, and then continue to walk.

I rarely stay in a hotel at night, and unless I have to, I will find a place where no one is there to take out the money to buy things, and I can save money by going to the toilet and sleeping...... Therefore, within a few days, she was so thin that she couldn't look like it, if it wasn't for the support of a spirit and spirit, I am afraid that she would have been sick a long time ago.

Ye Sleeve swore that he would live well, even if it was difficult and difficult, he would never beg for mercy from this sky, didn't An Shi want to torture her to death? Could it be that life alone outside will be more difficult than under Ann's hands?

The new life is just around the corner, and Ye Sleeve will never give up.

She went all the way north, from the warm Shuncheng all the way through Hehe, Ningcheng, and the Grand Canal, and finally a month later, she came to the bitter cold land of the frontier, where Yue Song, the eldest son of the Yue family, disappeared and was sentenced to death.

The battle had ended three years earlier, and Hu Lu had been driven back to the gates, and three years was enough time to drown out all traces, as well as the smell of blood.

The road guide in Ye Sleeve's hand has finally arrived where it can be used.

-- Liucun.

More than half a year ago, she inexplicably received this road guide, at that time, Ye Sleeve, who had not been far away, did not know what it was, and the well-informed nurse had already expressed her worry.

The nurse has been paving the way for her for most of the year, and Ye Sleeve is not stupid, when the Yue family insisted on marrying her for Yue Song after the news of filial piety arrived, she knew what to do.

After so many years of following the capable nurse, Ye Sleeve is a beautiful lady on the surface, but in fact, she has learned survival skills, and even the nurse said that she can be on her own - so as soon as this bad news came, Ye Sleeve, who didn't want to be widowed in the mansion for the rest of her life and suffer for decades in a hopeless life, ran away the next day with her burden and under the arrangement of the nurse.

Presumably, now that her nurse has also left Shuncheng, according to the nurse's ability, the Ye family and the Yue family will not find anyone, which Ye Sleeve is very relieved of.

After more than a month of eating and sleeping in the open air, as soon as he saw the big stone tablet with the name of the village written at the entrance of the village, and then looked at a short letterhead together with Lu Yin, Ye Sleeve could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The village looks quite dilapidated, it has been invaded by the war, and there are many traces of rest in the cottages, but unfortunately, this does not include the house on Ye Sleeve Road.

When she came, it was past ten o'clock in the afternoon, and she asked the village boy where Li Zheng lived, and after she took out the road guide, Li Zheng led her to such a place with a strange face.

Li Zheng didn't tell her, this is a ghost house, at night it is green and craggy, snakes and rats are running around in the yard, and she didn't tell her that the only one in this village who dares to live next to the ghost house is a pig killer.

The name she introduced on the road is "Ye Family", and the house under her name is basically outside the village, and the butcher between her house and the village will go out to collect pigs before dawn every day, and he is rarely at home during the day.

-- The reason why Ye Sleeve knew was because before dawn, there would be a squeaky pig chirping next door, but it would not be long before it would turn into a pig's scream, and the cry would last for more than an hour, until the sky was white and the peasants began to go down to the fields on the road.

After that time, the butcher's house was silent for the whole day, and there was no movement at all.

That proves he's not at home, right?

In the first few days, Ye Sleeve was often too frightened to close his eyes, and the ghost fire was still secondary, mainly because the screams made when the pig was killed next door were really infiltrating, and it was often not made by a pig, and it always started from ten minutes of dawn, and the howls of one after another did not stop until the light of day, which made people tremble and couldn't sleep.

However, after ten years, Ye Sleeve figured out that if she wanted to live, she had to endure this life of a lower riba person and learn to turn a blind eye.

Otherwise, you will only survive yourself.

She has survived even a hundred and eight difficulties under her stepmother's hands, can't she bear such noise? It's no more harmless than the voice of the housekeeper under the stepmother, right?

After another month, Ye Sleeve found that the villagers were not very happy to approach her and the butcher's house next door, or rather, they were afraid to approach. This gave her a lot of peace.

The butcher's family is bloody, and the village says that there is evil spirit, and Ye Sleeve's family is ...... People say it has a "ghostly spirit".

Because of the unfamiliar life, Ye Sleeve didn't go out at all in the first few days, she would nibble on the hard dry food she brought when she was hungry, and fetch water from the well in the yard when she was thirsty.

There is a lot of dry food, and there will be a day when it will be eaten up, and drinking cold water also makes Ye Sleeve's squeamish stomach very uncomfortable, if it is after three days, she can't bear it.

At dusk that day, the tightly closed door of Ye Sleeve's house quietly opened, and she made a full set of disguises, and stepped out gently, planning to follow the dirt road of the village to find out if there were any woodcutters or vegetable farmers and other people, and change some daily necessities.

As soon as she went out, she looked up to see the small cart used by the butcher next door to pull the pigs being pushed out of the door, and on the cart was a bright pig-killing knife, and the straw rope wrapped around the handle of the knife was a dark brown...... I heard that it was a color that had been dyed by blood for a long time.

Ye Sleeve's heart jumped a little, but she quickly came to her senses, she had never met with the butcher next door, and she had never disturbed the other party, so she asked herself that it was absolutely impossible to offend others, so she shouldn't be nervous and afraid.

She took two steps back, thinking that it would be not too late for her to go to the village after the butcher had left.

When all the carts were pushed outside the door, a young man came out of the door, wearing a dark red deerskin apron of suspicious color around his waist, and his long thick black hair tied to the top of his head with a straw rope...... Without waiting for Ye Sleeve to take a closer look, his eyes swept over, and Ye Sleeve had to lower his head.

"Grandma," a clear and pleasant man's voice suddenly came into her ears, and the young man said, "You please first." ”

The meaning of respecting the elders to give way is obvious.

Ye Sleeve didn't dare to look up, for fear of being seen by the other party—because the distance was too close—she nodded quickly, tried to imitate the example of the older woman, and took small steps past the cart full of gloomy knives, and went to the village.

The young butcher who pushed the cart didn't look at her again, packed up his things, locked the door, and pushed the cart in the opposite direction.