"If you sneak out, your father and mother will be worried." Faced with the little girl's request, Xing Feng decisively shook his head and refused to allow it.

The little girl flattened her mouth, and then didn't care if it hurt the place where others had just fallen, so she grabbed Xingfeng's hand and shook it and said, "It's because they're not at home today that I can take the opportunity to sneak out." I'll go out for a while, and if they do, I'll be out for a while. ”

Xing Feng felt that although the little girl's little hands were soft, they were very cold, and couldn't help but be a little worried, and said in disagreement again: "No, your hands are so cold, what if you go out again and get frozen?" ”

The little girl rolled her eyes, put her two palms together to make a holding shape, then put them close to her mouth and sighed a few hard, and then put her hand back in Xing Feng's hand, and said with a smile: "Look, it's not cold now, right?" That's because I grabbed the snow with my hands, and it's going to get cold! ”

Xing Feng scratched the back of her head with one hand, her hand would be cold, but why did he still feel that something was wrong in his heart?

"Oops" The little girl bit the pronunciation of those two words very hard, deliberately prolonged, and continued without waiting for the punishment to think more: "You can just help me, move the latch, and after I go out, you will act as if nothing happened, and no one will blame you?" ”

"Oh."

The torture wind finally couldn't withstand the little girl's stubborn beating, and although her footsteps moved hesitantly, she still walked to the courtyard gate and prepared to open the latch. It was only halfway through his hand that he heard the little girl say loudly, "No, if you pull the latch, who will bolt the door when we go out?" What if a thief enters the house? Uh, go over the wall! ”

Xing Feng couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, but he felt that the little girl had to make sense. At the same time, he also felt worried, and took a little girl who was about five years old to climb over the wall? When he fell just now, the pain in his body hasn't gone away yet! Seeing that she is so weak, it would be miserable if she was allowed to fall.

Then I heard the little girl: "You let me out first, and when I go out, you bolt the door, and then climb over the wall to come out." ”

Xing Feng glanced at her in a daze, his brain was a little stuck, but he saw the girl look at him strangely, and then said, "You don't want to take me over the wall, right?" ”

Xing Feng's idea was broken by the little girl's words, and he suddenly realized that his thoughts just now were really idiotic compared to the little girl's thoughts. So of course he wouldn't admit it, his mouth tilted to the side, and he scared her: "Aren't you afraid to wait for you to go out, I'll bolt the door and steal your house?" ”

The little girl was naturally stunned when she heard him say this. However, she quickly regained her cute smile, cocked her mouth and exhaled upwards towards her bangs, looking at her flying bangs, she bent her arms and crossed her waist and said: "With your ingenuity, even if you are lucky enough to find my family's money box, you can't open it, so I'm not worried at all." ”

Xing Feng choked for a while, but not only did he not get angry, but when he saw the girl playing with her bangs crossed, he felt very dexterous and interesting.

However, the word 'ingenuity' made Xing Feng think of another question, so he asked the little girl, "Strange, if all the people in your family are gone, how did they bolt the door when they left?" ”

"Originally, I didn't want to sue you, but for the sake of you thinking of this problem, I'll explain it to you!" The little girl parted her bangs with her fingers, and then said slowly: "In fact, this door latch can be activated from the outside with a key, but if the key is damaged for some reason, just in case, this door gate can be manually opened from the back when it is designed." ”

Listening to the little girl's explanation, she had never heard of such a torture style with a latch. He couldn't help but hurriedly approached the courtyard door to take a closer look, but from the outside, the door latch was still the door latch, but the two ends of the horizontal bar seemed to be a little mysterious, but he couldn't see it.

The little girl had already approached her at some point, and suddenly spoke, and jumped into the wind.

I heard the little girl say unhurriedly: "Don't think about sneaking in over the wall in the future, because usually there are people watching me at home." As for the secret of this latch, I asked my family a long time ago, and if they dismantle this thing, it will be impossible to restore it, so don't think about it, open the door! ”

Xing Feng felt a little speechless, and in surprise, he had already followed the little girl's guidance, opened the courtyard door and let her out, and then stacked two flower pots at the foot of the wall, looking at the stoneware fragments at his feet, he shook his head in his heart and climbed up the wall.

Although there was snow on the wall, some slippery, but with the first time he jumped off the wall due to snowflakes fell off the wall, this time Xingfeng had picked up a piece of broken pottery in advance and prepared it in his hand, with his own height and the height of two flower pots, before climbing up to sweep away part of the snow on the wall, and then climb up.

With the arm strength he has practiced for many years chopping wood, climbing the wall is much easier for him than that little girl.

With his hand on the wall, Xing Feng suddenly remembered that this girl might be the daughter of the gentleman, and was about to ask her what her name was, Xing Feng hurriedly climbed to the top of the wall, but found that there was no one under the wall, and the girl had already slipped away.

Xing Feng's heart was empty, but looking at the small footprints left in the snow under the wall, the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up again, and he laughed-

Xing Feng thought that he would be fine all day anyway, so he followed the footprints to find the little girl.

He was worried, after all, this girl was released out of the yard by herself, what if something happened? Second, I was curious, who was the girl who ran out of that gentleman's house?

He is no longer a five- or six-year-old urchin, but the age of a big boy. Half of an adult's mind inevitably has to think about everything.

Soon after the completion of this house, it was rumored that the owner of the house was a gentleman in the 'Lizheng Hall' where the young master of the county went to school. Therefore, although the owner of the house was quick and generous when he bought the land before, and then lived in a simple house, he gradually tended to be different in Xingjia Village after all. The owner of the house is not a person in the genealogy of Xingjia Village, and he also has that kind of identity, and the villagers of Xingjia Village generally avoid suspicion and do not walk in the corner of his house, and it has slowly become the habit of the big guys.

So it was snowing today, and there weren't many footprints under the courtyard wall of the house, which made the girl's footprints very clear.

Although the small footprints finally mixed in with a large mess of footprints after Xingfeng chased the two village houses, fortunately, the general direction was correct. Standing in the muddy place where the snow had been trampled, Xingfeng looked around and saw from a distance a girl with two pigtails on the threshing floor, surrounded by several children.

"Fortunately, I finally found it!" Xing Feng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Feeling a little more relaxed, he couldn't help but think of the identity of this little girl again, and secretly wondered as he walked towards the threshing floor: Is she really the child of the gentleman? Why haven't you seen her in all these years? But she can be so familiar with the door lock of her husband's house, and the worst should be someone close to that gentleman! So I'd better try to pay attention to it, and don't make any mistakes, otherwise I'll be a little sorry for Mr. that afternoon's teaching.

When he thought of this, Xing Feng had already walked very close to the little girl, and the content of the conversation between the children surrounding her and her became clear and audible.

One of the children, about eight years old, dressed in a blue patchwork cotton jacket, looked at the girl suspiciously and said, "Which village are you from?" How come we've never seen you? ”

The little girl with pigtails replied seriously: "I am from Xingjia Village, and because the family is strictly controlled, I rarely come out to play." ”

When the blue-jacketed child heard this, he whispered a few words to the two children beside him, and then said to the little girl: "You are so young, and your family is so noble to you, play with us, what if you are injured?" We don't want to get into trouble or we go shopping in the town, I heard that the adults are about to celebrate the New Year, and there are a lot of new delicious and fun things in the town, so that we can play easily and safely. ”

The little girl scratched the back of her head, thought for a while, and said, "It costs money to buy things, but my family doesn't allow me to go out to play, so they never give me broken silver." ”

After hearing this, the blue-jacketed child suddenly looked much more indifferent, waved his hand and said: "Then there is no way, you see that your face is so white, you must be very afraid of the cold, let's go back quickly, what if you get sick and your father blames us?" ”

The little girl hurriedly said, "How can it be, just let me watch you play from the sidelines!"

This time, the blue-jacketed child didn't speak, but a six or seven-year-old boy beside him spoke. He said impatiently, "You go quickly!" Look at your face, you don't look like a healthy child, most of the people with my mother's face are sick, tell me to be careful not to get too close to them, what if the strange disease is transmitted to us? ”

As soon as he said this, a trace of fear and disdain suddenly appeared in the eyes of the other two children, and they subconsciously took a few steps back, and there was a slight 'tsk' sound in their mouths.

The little girl didn't say a word when she heard the words, her eyes lost focus a little, she didn't know whether she was sad or in a daze, and her body was a little stiff and silent.

And these words, Xing Feng listened to not a single word. Since he was a child, he has been looked down upon by many people because of his parents. Because his father is not good at socializing, he has also been snubbed by many adults and children, so he is sensitive to this kind of hidden selfishness and contempt, so at this moment he can't help but feel a little indignant for that little girl.

I saw him stride up to the little girl and say loudly to the three children in front of him who were about to leave: "Don't you just take her to play, don't you feel guilty for being so hurtful in order to drive her away?" How old is she, don't you know how old a child should be to take care of his younger siblings? ”