Xiao Ju stayed in the small space until almost late in the evening before coming out, because the time in the small space was the same as the time outside, and it was almost winter at this time, so it was dark early when she came out.

The weather was cold, and there were only a few fallen leaves in the alley that were swept by the winter wind, just as Xiao Ju thought, empty. Xiao Ju quietly and quickly came to the gate of her small courtyard, took out the key, opened the courtyard door and flashed in.

After entering the door, Xiao Ju locked the courtyard door with a lock from the inside, and the pounding heart calmed down a little. She stood in the small courtyard, looking at the dark courtyard, thinking that at this time, Niang and Zhuang should follow Hu Dang back to Huzhuang, and then think about the so-called grandparents of Huzhuang, Xiaoju's heart couldn't help but worry about Niang and Zhuangzhuang.

She slowly walked to the door of the hall, took out the key to the hall, opened the door, found the place where the tung oil lamp and flint were placed, felt for the flint, and lit the tung oil lamp.

After locking the door of the hall from the inside, Xiao Ju carefully inspected the two normal rooms where her mother and herself lived, and it seemed that in order to prevent Hu Daring from being suspicious, the broken quilts at home and some things moved from the broken kiln in Huzhuang were removed.

I don't know when Niang and Zhuang Zhuang will come over, from the current point of view, she is going to live alone for a while. Xiao Ju sat in the dim light and thought for a while. As a little girl like her, who was not yet seven years old, she couldn't go out into the streets to buy something for this empty home, it was too chaotic outside.

She doesn't know martial arts, and once she is forcibly abducted and trafficked, she has no ability to resist at all. Or just hide in the space during this time, anyway, there are places to eat and sleep in the space, not to mention that it is still like spring inside all year round, and it is not as cold as outside.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ju hurriedly blew out the tung oil lamp, and entered the small space in a flash. After getting some dinner in the kitchen of the small space, I simply went into the bed in the master bedroom in the space and lay down, closed my eyes and meditated.

Xiao Ju found that every time after meditation, she could clearly see that the qi circulating along the meridians in her body would become thicker and thicker, she didn't know what was going on, but because after each meditation, she felt not only that her body was very comfortable, but her mind also became very flexible, not only responsive, but also very good memory, and strong eyesight, so she also practiced more and more.

Unconsciously, Xiao Ju has been staying in this small courtyard for nearly a month, but Niang and Zhuang Zhuang still haven't returned to the small courtyard. She didn't dare to go out to look for it, so she could only stay in the small courtyard every day and wait.

Every morning, she would come out, water the two vegetable patches in the courtyard, and sit on the kang in the hall to meditate. Waiting for her mother to come to the courtyard with Zhuangzhuang to find her, so that their mothers and daughters can spend this disaster year together.

The cabbage and potatoes in the vegetable patch in the courtyard were already ripe, and Xiao Ju had already put them away and put them into the space, it was already deep winter outside, and it was so cold that it could immediately freeze into ice particles if you spit at will.

Xiao Ju only has a torn cotton jacket on her body, as long as she goes out of the hall and stands in the courtyard, she is blown by the cold wind, and she only feels that the torn cotton jacket is as if she is not wearing it at all, and her whole body is cold. She had no choice but to open the door of the hall every day, sit on the burned kang in the house, and meditate while waiting for the little hope in her heart.

Unconsciously, another month passed, the outside of the house was already snowing, and the courtyard was white outside, on this day, Xiao Ju sat on the kang in the hall as usual and meditated, the qi in her body because of this period of diligent practice, in her body to circulate more and more smoothly.

But what she never expected was that the air current, which was usually meek and obedient along the meridian lines, suddenly accelerated in speed, and quickly poured into the lower abdomen three inches before disappearing, and her lower abdomen felt like it was about to burst.

Xiao Ju didn't dare to be distracted at all, she still followed the air flow and meditated, and finally when the air reached a certain speed, Xiao Ju's ears seemed to have a loud 'bang', she felt a sudden burning heat in the three inches of her lower abdomen, and then slowly became warm and comfortable.

She closed her eyes and meditated three inches into her lower abdomen, but she didn't expect that what appeared in her mind was a foggy space, with a small bead-like big bright ball in it, and the qi she practiced, after entering this foggy space, actually went straight to this bead. And this bead also unceremoniously absorbs those qi, looking like a big supplement.

Xiao Ju turned the meditation country to the meridians again, which surprised her even more, she actually saw that the narrow meridians before had more than doubled. Although the qi circulating in the meridians has become thinner, it seems to have a bright light, as if it has become pure.

Xiao Ju couldn't understand what was going on, she opened her eyes, moved her limbs, and didn't find anything wrong, but she smelled a smell on her body, and after a closer look, there was a black oil-like thing oozing out of her body, and she didn't care about studying the abnormalities on her body, so she quickly flashed into a small space and went to take a bath.

A winter has almost passed, and Xiaoju still didn't expect her mother to come to the courtyard with Zhuangzhuang to find her. Although her heart is bitter, the only thing that makes her a little relieved is that she has been meditating and practicing tirelessly every day, and now her hands can knead an egg-sized pebble into powder with a very light hand.

I remember that day she was sitting in the hall eating a cold lunch, when she heard a terrible cry for help from outside the courtyard, she unconsciously held the bowl containing wheat porridge in her hand tightly, and when she reacted, she found that the bowl had been crushed by her.

Later, she went to the courtyard to find some small stones and tried them, only to confirm that she actually had the ability to crush anything hard at will, and now, her heart, which had always been insecure, was finally much more stable.

She also found that good hearing was not ordinarily good now, and sitting in the hall, she could hear any movement within a few hundred meters of the small courtyard. In this way, although she didn't go out during this time, from the crying from time to time outside, sometimes the crying and chaotic shouting came from a distance late at night, and Xiao Ju could also guess what was going on. Nine times out of ten, the victims of the disaster could not bear the hunger and cold, and gathered to rob or eat the big households.

Sometimes there are people who knock on the door of this small courtyard while shouting for help, but Xiaoju ignores them and doesn't dare to ignore them, she is a seven-year-old child, in these chaotic years, it is good to be able to protect herself, how can she have the ability to save people and help others?

The only thing she worries about is her mother and Zhuangzhuang, I don't know what happened, it's been three or four months, and she hasn't come to her yet. I wondered if my mother had forgotten her daughter, right? But when I think of crying like that grief before leaving, and gritting my teeth and saying "I will definitely come back to her", that kind of anticipation can't be faded.

It's just that Mother and Zhuangzhuang, what happened to you? These are the two relatives who were good to her unconditionally when she came to this place, Xiao Ju thought, waiting for the spring, if her mother hadn't come to her with Zhuangzhuang, then she would go back to Huzhuang to see.