Chapter 1: Cause and Effect

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The night was dark, and there was still some time before dawn, and the courtyard was dark.

Ah Umbrella carried two large buckets of water-diluted lard, and quietly sneaked into the courtyard from the dog hole, which could only accommodate six or seven-year-old children, but she had dug a big hole two days ago, just enough for her and the bucket to pass through.

Carefully sprinkle lard around the house, and carefully smear the walls with lard. After a while, the two barrels of lard bottomed out, and he didn't care about wasting the lard, but Ah Umbrella was a little disappointed, and he could only get so much lard in two months, which was not enough to wipe all the houses.

He took out the fire fold from his bosom and blew it, and Ah Umbrella lit the lard without hesitation.

Seeing that the fire was getting bigger, Ah Umbrella turned around and prepared to leave, but slowed down and took out an umbrella-shaped jade pendant from his arms, which was stained with mud, but did not hide its brilliance and agility. Ah Umbrella stared at the jade pendant, and soon stopped hesitating, and strode towards the gate.

Until the gate, Ah Umbrella saw that the fire had grown, and it was about to burn to the main house, and he kicked the big dog who was sleeping next to the gate under his feet, and the dog who had been poured some wine by her during the day immediately barked in pain, and when he saw Ah Umbrella, he suddenly wanted to pounce viciously, and Ah Umbrella kicked out again-

"You're still worried about whether your master will be burned to death."

Walking out of the yard, closing the gate, and hearing the rapid barking of dogs and the movement of people in the yard, Ah Umbrella no longer lingered, turned around and ran out of town.

As soon as I arrived at the town gate, a carriage was also heading towards the town gate, and Ah Umbrella hid in the night, and when the carriage approached, he grabbed the carriage board and turned it up.

"Bang-"

The big man driving the car shook his eyebrows, lowered his eyes and flicked the whip, and the carriage was a little faster.

The road was full of potholes, and Ah Umbrella was lying on the car board, which was uncomfortable. This is the wagon of the old man in the town, and every few days he will always go to the city dozens of miles away to buy some fresh things, and in order to be able to eat the breakfast sold in the city in the morning, he also specially equipped the truck with two fast horses.

I don't know how long it was grinding, Ah Umbrella heard the sound of the horsewhip flicking on the door, quickly lifted his spirits, and jumped out of the carriage after the carriage slowed down.

Ah Umbrella stood at the intersection of the two roads, and Master Yuan's truck was already moving away on the main road, and Ah Umbrella turned around and walked along the path.

Before dawn, Ah Umbrella was in a faint white moonlight, and he was in a hurry. Her purpose is simple, to get away from the town, away from everything that is connected to the town.

Because, she is an outsider, a traveler.

She was lucky enough to receive the memories of her original body, which was a teenage girl, and she didn't know how old she was.

She lived in the house of a couple surnamed Zhang, and at first the couple treated her very well, saying strange things to her from time to time, to the effect that she remembered their goodness, and often took things from her little box.

After two or three years, the couple gradually became cold to her, and later took away her little box, and she was afraid that they would eventually take away even the jade pendant she had been carrying, so she buried it in a field outside the town.

Sure enough, the couple later asked her for the jade pendant, but she lied that she had lost it, and the couple could not find the jade pendant, and after a few days, they kicked her out of the house.

Within a few days, the original body starved to death.

The name of Ah Umbrella before the crossing was not good, but after the crossing, I was very satisfied with the name Ah Umbrella, so I decided to use it.

Bearing the cause and effect, Ah Umbrella decides to do something for the original body.

After learning that the couple had taken most of the money to buy a new yard, Ah Umbrella had an idea: to burn the house.

If the new courtyard were to be destroyed, the couple's life would be even more difficult than before.

It is said that it is difficult to go from luxury to simplicity, and the lack of virtue done by the couple in the town knows that living a poor life in an environment where people poke their backbones and scold them in the future can be regarded as the biggest punishment.

I don't know how long I walked, the sky was getting white, Ah Umbrella stopped to rest, and took out the jade pendant from her arms again, just now she wanted to throw the jade pendant in the fire, but thinking that this jade pendant was also worth some money, and the couple didn't want to be cheap, so she dispelled the idea.

Now that it was far away from the town, Ah Umbrella threw the jade pendant into the dense woods beside the road, thinking that it was thrown far away, and there was no sound of landing.

Ah Umbrella was very satisfied, and after wearing it for a few days, she found that the strength of this body was terrifying.

After throwing off the jade pendant, Ah Umbrella put her mind at ease, and she will be the new Ah Umbrella in the future. Rubbing the red and swollen soles of his feet, Ah Umbrella resigned himself to putting on the tattered straw sandals and continuing to hurry.

And deep in the woods, a milky white light loomed.

When the red sun in the east has hung high, Ah Umbrella still did not see a place with people, there are still a few pieces of bread in his arms, not to be hungry, but after walking for too long, and can not find a water source, she is already tired and thirsty, only relying on a will to walk, the uncle who drove the car said, along the road all the way, see the road turn east, you can reach a big city.

In the middle of the sunrise, I finally saw the main road, there was a stall selling tea on the side of the road, Ah Umbrella's eyes lit up, and he stumbled to the stall and walked away.

The hostess of the stall saw a thin and yellow child, who came over in embarrassment, and hurriedly poured a cup of warm tea.

Ah Umbrella took the tea, first thanked him in a dumb voice, and then began to drink tea in small sips. The woman who sold tea was also distressed when she saw this, how well-behaved and sensible the child was, how could she end up with such a bad appearance. I talked to my husband on the side and took the umbrella to the back of the stall.

"Come, wash your hands and wipe your face first." The woman fetched a small basin of water for Ah Umbrella, who shyly refused the woman's help, took the towel and washed it himself.

The woman looked down and saw that Ah Umbrella was barefoot, and there were faint blood stains and redness in the black, and she scolded in a low voice, and then said, "It just so happened that my daughter left a pair of shoes here, and I will go and bring them to you." ”

Ah Umbrella realized that the straw sandals on his feet had fallen off at some point, and it turned out that he was walking barefoot, and he was so sad that he was in pain. Carefully wash the stains on his feet with water, Ah Umbrella gasped in pain, and heard another noise outside, which disappeared after a while, Ah Umbrella listened again, and there was a sound again, it should be a guest.

Just cleaned, the woman took a pair of pink embroidered shoes in her hand, and when she got it in her hand, she found that it was ten percent new, looking at the woman's docile face, her nose was sour, and she unconsciously shed tears.

The woman was a little panicked, and kept comforting her, wiping her tears, and Ah Umbrella hurriedly bowed her head, suppressed her crying, and then let the woman clean her wounds and put on new shoes. When the woman asked her about her situation, Ah Umbrella told a little lie, saying that she had gone to the city to look for relatives, and she knew that if the woman knew that she was homeless and did not say that she was taken in, she would at least worry a lot about her.

Ah Umbrella hid behind the stall, ate the bread with tea, and planned to go out to thank the stall owner later, and then immediately hit the road.

While the umbrella was eating, the woman came in with a happy face, told her that the guests outside were a convoy to the city, and promised to give her a ride. Ah Umbrella naturally knew that it was the woman who begged for a guest, and his heart was even more moved, and he thanked him again and again, and at the end, he wrote down the woman's address, thinking about repaying her in the future.

The leader of the team saw Ah Umbrella, and his face softened, after all, it was a thin girl who looked less than ten years old, and she was innocent and harmless. nodded, it was a complete response to the piggybacking matter.

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