Chapter Fifty-Six: The Golden Ring and the Secret Door
In a daze, I seemed to hear Ouyang Deyuan's voice, he was telling me to get up for breakfast, and Cheng Yu's voice, he said that he had made a new dish. I also heard Yinrui's voice, he came to see me again, and the eldest young master, he said that he wanted to take me out shopping.
I feel so happy...... They are all there for me......
I dimly opened my eyes, and there was nothing but me and an ice sculpture. I was embarrassed, covered in blood. Once again, I shed tears, not for myself, but for the flesh that had disappeared a lot. Goodbye, it's hard to follow my flesh and soul for so many years...... I'm sorry...... Let you disappear.
I took a deep breath and said to myself, cheer up, if you don't want to die here, you can find a way to get out.
If we die here, I don't know what year or month this ice sculpture uncle and I will be discovered. At that time, he was still an ice sculpture, and I was a dried corpse.
I touched the warm jade and was reluctant to climb down. I went to the hot springs to freshen up and eat a few small berries. The whole person finally returned to a little normal appearance.
The light in the cave was not good, and I couldn't tell what time it was, so I had to look patiently until I was exhausted and returned to the small cave with warm jade.
I'm unlucky today, I haven't found an exit after looking for so long. But I made an unexpected discovery. When I returned to the small hole, I found that there was a small groove in the middle part of the warm jade, as if something was placed on it.
I searched around the small hole and couldn't find anything, so I had to lie on the ice sculpture to find it. Sure enough, I saw a gold ring of about the same size around the iceman's waist. This gold ring looks exquisite, and it is engraved with strange patterns, but how do I get it?
I've got a way, I'm so stupid, wouldn't I just drag this ice sculpture into the hot spring? I happily untied my long belt and tied it to the ice sculpture, then grabbed the ends of the belt and slowly dragged him towards the hot springs.
The ice sculpture was so heavy that it took me a lot of effort to finally drag him into the hot springs. The warm spring water soaked in the ice sculptures, and I waited patiently on the side.
I wonder if this person will wake up after the ice sculpture melts? He's not going to be a bad guy, is he? Then my luck is too bad......
I waited expectantly and uneasily.
Time passed slowly, and when I was almost asleep, the ice sculpture cracked with a clatter.
I excitedly jumped out of the hot spring and pulled the man up. Luckily, his eyes were still closed, and there was no sign of waking up, which made me feel a little relieved.
Otherwise, I really don't know how to explain to him what is happening now.
I untied the gold ring from his waist and ran back to the hole, which I wanted to pull back again, but a thin layer of ice formed on his body again, getting thicker and thicker.
I'll just let him stay by the hot springs, because maybe he'll be melted away by the evaporating heat of the hot springs one day.
Returning to the warm jade, I carefully placed the gold ring into the groove in the middle of it, and sure enough, it fit perfectly. I pressed it lightly with my hand, and the stone wall on one side of the small hole opened with a bang.
It turns out that this is the export ...... No wonder I couldn't find it before.
I took out the gold ring again and put it in my sleeve. There was no way to take such a large piece of warm jade with me, I sighed regretfully, and then walked towards the open stone wall.
I don't know where this exit will lead...... I thought uneasily.
There are a lot of oil lamps in the passage of the stone wall, and it seems that people still come in and out from time to time, and I am really worried that I will run into the gang that arrested me before.
Finally coming out, I saw myself walking into a small firewood room. There's a secret door here.
I can't take it lightly yet, I'm not really out of danger yet. I told myself not to rejoice too soon.
I grabbed a handful of dirt from the small firewood room and wiped it on my face, but luckily I washed the blood off my body at the hot spring, otherwise I would have been found as soon as I went out.
I'm dressed in tatters, my face is black and dirty, and I look like a maid burning a fire in the kitchen.
At this time, I am so grateful to my parents for not giving me a beautiful and unforgettable face, otherwise I would not have been able to escape the eyes of the bad guys.
In this way, I made my way to the back kitchen under the disdainful gaze of a group of villains. An old lady struck me directly on the head with a spoon.
"Lazy girl, don't go to the fire yet!" She and everyone thought I was the new fire girl. That's a great thing.
I nodded and ran to the fire, I used to be a kitchen maid, and these are familiar to me. In less than half a day, I was in the kitchen, and even many people thought I had been working here for a long time.
There's no way, who told me to have a public face. Then call a self-cooked cheeky skin, of course, it is easy to mingle with others.
I took out a tael of silver and said to the lady, "Old mother, I'll buy you some snacks to eat, I'm always lost, and the last time I looked for a latrine, I almost ran into the inner room." Tell me...... I wanted to go home this time, but I couldn't even find a back door. ”
The old lady smiled happily: "You girl is real, why don't you say it earlier, I'll take you there." She took my money and happily led me to the back door.
I followed her all the way with my head down. It turned out that the back door was not far from the kitchen. When I arrived, I thanked her again and again, and gave her three taels of silver to tell her not to tell others, and I secretly ran home to see my mother's affairs.
She comforted me and said that she would never say anything.
I nodded, opened the back door, and walked away.
This time I could finally tell myself that I had escaped.
I ran for a long time and found that there were no pursuers behind me, so I slowed down this time. I gasped for breath, because I wasn't familiar with Yangzhou, so I didn't know where I was.
Luckily, I have a habit of always carrying silver with me when I go out or at home. I walked a few steps and saw a big inn in front of me. Named Yue Xianglai, after thinking about it, I decided to stay first and then find a way to find Ouyang Deyuan and them.
After I moved into the seventh room of Tianzi, I asked Xiao Er to help me buy a coarse cloth dress worn by a peasant woman.
I changed out of my tattered clothes and put on a coarse cloth coat. Then he took off all the jewelry on his body, wrapped it in a small strip of cloth, hid it on his body, and finally found a small red rope to tie the gold ring and put it around his neck.
Because I wore it close to my body and hid it in my clothes, others couldn't see what I was wearing, only a small red string.