The ox cart came to the maple forest south of the valley mouth and met up with Luo Shiyin, Shi Tianji and Xie Yuan, who were waiting here.

"Brother Zhuzi, where is this? I'm not dreaming, am I? At this time, Zhuqing, who had woken up, was helped down by Ye Ruliu and walked off the ox cart, and when he saw that he was in a strange forest, he asked Li Ruzhu in front of him.

"We've escaped from the cave, and you're free now." Li Ruzhu said to Zhu Qing.

"I ...... It's better to let me die! After listening to Li Ruzhu's words, Zhu Qing did not show any happy expression.

"Zhu Qingmei, why are you so stupid! If you have three longs and two shorts, how can I live! Li Ruzhu had tears in her eyes, looked at Zhu Qing with concerned eyes and said.

"But I'm ...... The way I am now, I don't deserve you at all! After Zhu Qing finished speaking, she lowered her head and didn't dare to meet Li Ruzhu's hot eyes.

"I don't care...... Well, let's not talk about it, it's not convenient to stay here for a long time. In a word, you must live well for me! Li Ruzhu forcibly pulled Zhu Qing's shoulders and looked at the other party's eyes and said undoubtedly.

Zhu Qing nodded reluctantly, as if in agreement.

"General Li, which direction do you think we should go in next?" Luo Shiyin asked.

"You can't take the big road. After we got out of the forest, we walked east along a small river on the left, and after crossing two more peaks, we could get out of the southern plains. Li Ruzhu looked at the surrounding mountains and said.

"Okay, let's hit the road at once. It is estimated that the Japanese will soon catch up. Luo Shiyin ordered, and the team members and Zhu Qing immediately walked towards the south of the maple forest.

"Ladies and gentlemen, have a good trip!" Seeing that the team had no intention of disposing of themselves, the Void nodded gratefully in gratitude.

The team members ignored the void's thanks and walked straight out of the woods.

After seeing the team members walking away, the void secretly touched the silver bag in his arms, and a smug smile appeared on his face. He didn't dare to go back to the Bamboo Forest True House, so he had to leave the ox cart and run for his life alone.

On the way eastward along the river, Zhu Qing told Li Ruzhu what happened to him since they separated more than ten years ago.

That year, since Li Ruzhu left the town to enter Beijing to take the exam, Zhu Qing was alone at home and patiently waited for Li Ruzhu's return. But after she waited hard for a few years, Li Ruzhu was never heard from.

Zhu Qing's parents didn't agree with Zhu Qing and Li Ruzhu's relationship, so they secretly hid from Zhu Qing and set a family affair for her. It wasn't until the day of the wedding that Zhu Qing knew that her parents had promised her to someone else, and she resisted desperately, but in the end she was forcibly tied by the man's hands and her parents and stuffed into a sedan chair.

When the greeting procession reached a mountain path, it rained heavily and the mudslide poured down the entire greeting procession. Zhuqing took the opportunity to escape from the sedan chair and stumbled towards the mountain. When the person who greeted the relatives found out, they chased after him.

Zhu Qing ran and ran, and suddenly felt a slip under his feet, and the whole person instantly fell down the steep cliff. When she woke up, she found herself lying in a primeval forest, covered in tearcia, but thankfully, she didn't hurt her bones.

Zhu Qing endured the pain and got up from the ground, running forward aimlessly, lest the people behind him catch up with him. It wasn't until she ran out of strength that she sat down under a dead tree and gasped for breath.

After sitting in place for a while, and making sure that no one was chasing him, Zhuqing stood up and slowly broke the rope that bound him using the hard edges and corners of a broken branch on a dead tree.

It was getting dark, and from time to time the terrifying cries of various nocturnal animals could be heard from the woods. Zhu Qing was a little scared, she picked up a wooden stick from the ground and continued to walk forward.

Alone in the forest, I don't know how far I walked, Zhu Qing gradually lost her strength, she leaned weakly against a big tree, and let out a bitter and helpless cry from her mouth. Crying and crying, Zhuqing actually fell asleep against the tree.

After sleeping for a while, Zhuqing was awakened by a terrifying scream, and she opened her eyes suddenly, and the sight in front of her made her creepy. Around Zhuqing, there were three sturdy wild wolves, and the three wild wolves looked at the prey in front of them and their mouths, and their eyes showed a murderous green light.

Zhu Qing mechanically raised the wooden stick in his hand, trying to scare the wolf away. But her move aroused the aggression of the wild wolf, and the male wolf with a long tail and the largest body was the first to attack Zhuqing, only to see its two powerful hind legs exert force at the same time, and take off to pounce on Zhuqing.

Zhu Qing screamed in fright and closed her eyes.

Just when Zhu Qing thought that he would definitely be thrown to the ground by the male wolf, a scream came from his ears. When she opened her eyes, she saw that the male wolf who had pounced on her had been shot through the throat by a sharp arrow, and was struggling in pain on the woodland not far from her feet.

The other two wolves were frightened and fled in panic into the surrounding woods.

Zhu Qing steadied himself and found a middle-aged man with an arrow bag and a Pu knife walking from behind a big tree.

As if he had seen a savior, Zhu Qing staggered to the man.

At that time, Zhuqing was so frightened that he shrank under the big tree, and the people who came didn't see Zhuqing's existence at all. When the bamboo green with his hair scattered suddenly rushed towards him from behind the tree, the visitor was so frightened that he took a step back. When he stabilized his senses and made sure that it was a young woman who rushed in front of him, he put away the Pu knife in his hand and talked to Zhuqing.

This is a tall, sturdy middle-aged man. Although the light in the forest was dim, the other party's copper bell-like eyes still left a deep impression on Zhuqing.

Zhu Qing hurriedly thanked the visitor.

According to the self-introduction made by the visitor to Zhuqing, he was originally a hunter in the vicinity, named Gao Yu Town. Recently, the goats raised in captivity by Gao Yu's family have been taken away by wild wolves who visit at night one after another. In the middle of the night, he suddenly heard the cry of wild wolves around the yard, and thought that it was another wild wolf coming to attack his goats, so he dressed up neatly and chased after the wild wolf's voice.

After listening to Zhu Qing's brief introduction to his misfortune, Gao Yu Zhen brought Zhu Qing, who was alone, home.

Gao Yu's home is on a hillside not far behind the forest. Back home, Gao Yuzhen woke up his wife, briefly introduced to his wife how he met Zhuqing, and then asked his wife to get some food for Zhuqing.

Zhu Qing was already dizzy with hunger at that time, and when he saw the food served, he immediately devoured it, completely ignoring his own image. After eating, with the help of Gao Yuzhen's wife, Zhuqing simply washed up, changed into a costume worn by Gao Yuzhen's wife, and stayed.

Zhu Qing knew that she had not escaped far, so after breakfast the next day, Zhu Qing thanked Gao Yuzhen and his wife gratefully, took the dry food and coils prepared by the other party for herself, and embarked on her escape road again. Zhu Qing was afraid that his family and in-laws would find this place and get him back.

Zhuqing went all the way south, and one afternoon, half a month later, he came to a mountain town.

Zhuqing walked down the town's potholed main street, hungry. A fresh breeze blew, and Zhu Qing smelled an enticing aroma of meat. She looked up and saw a tall cage drawer in front of a steamed bun shop on the side of the street not far in front of her. While the heat was steaming, cages of hot buns were being carried down.

Zhu Qing couldn't help but step forward.

The hot buns that showed oil shine were lying quietly in the cage drawer, and the gluttonous fragrance rushed into Zhuqing's nose for a while, and she couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva and stretched her hand to her waist bag. In an instant, Zhu Qing's heart was half cold, his waist bag was empty, and the coil given by Gao Yuzhen and his wife had been spent by himself.

Zhu Qing looked at the meat bun in the cage drawer in front of him, and was reluctant to leave for a long time. At this moment, Zhu Qing felt someone behind her tap on her shoulder, she hurriedly turned around, and found that behind her stood a young man dressed strangely and with a strange hairstyle, the man had a very immature baby face, and behind him, there were more than a dozen men and women of his age.

The man asked Zhuqing if she was hungry. Zhu Qing couldn't figure out the origin of the other party, so he had to nod vigorously. The man immediately took out a few pennies from his body, held it up to the shopkeeper of the bun shop, and asked him to wrap Zhuqing with a bag of meat buns.

Which Cheng thought, when the shopkeeper of the bun shop saw the man, he didn't dare to collect the money tremblingly, and at the fastest speed, he wrapped a large bag of meat and stuffed it into Zhuqing's hand, and then he was courteous to the young man.

Zhu Qing couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, and didn't dare to eat the bun in his hand. At this time, several young women behind the young man came over and affectionately pulled Zhuqing to the small table next to the cage drawer, reassuring Zhuqing not to have any worries, saying that they were residents of this town, and they played together here, and saw that Zhuqing was pitifully hungry, so they took the initiative to buy steamed buns for her to eat.

Zhu Qing was suspicious, and under the urging and persuasion of several girls, he reluctantly ate a few steamed buns.

Just as Zhu Qing got up to thank her and wanted to leave, several girls sitting next to her forcibly held her down, and then took her to a courtyard facing the street.

The young men and women turned out to be a gang of hooligans in the town, who roamed the streets on weekdays, collecting protection money from shops for a living.

After Zhu Qing was taken to the courtyard, the baby-faced young man in the lead forcibly demanded that Zhu Qing join their organization, otherwise he would have his feet cut off as the price of eating a few of their buns.

Zhu Qing was forced to be helpless, so he reluctantly agreed to the other party's request and became a member of the organization.

Most of the members of this gangster group are men and women who are lazy and lazy in the town, and in addition to collecting protection money, they sometimes fight with other gangster organizations in the town to fight for territory. The rest of the time, he squandered the money he had collected. There is generally nothing out of the ordinary between the members of the organization, especially between men and women, and at most it is a joke, which is inseparable from the strict management of the baby-faced leader.

Zhu Qing definitely didn't want to live this kind of muddy life, and there were a few times when she wanted to escape, but thinking of the baby-faced leader's brutal handling of the two incidents of the organization members escaping before, Zhu Qing still had to temporarily dispel the idea of escaping.

In this way, Zhuqing has been in this town for more than ten years, and his good youth has been squandered in his reluctant lifestyle. It wasn't until last year, when a clash between his own organization and another organization occurred, that Zhu Qing completely decided to leave.

It was a snowy afternoon, and the whole town was shrouded in a blanket of white snow. In the southernmost square of the town's main street, the town's two largest gangs of hooligans confronted each other in the snow.

The baby-faced leader held a long-handled machete in his hand, and stared at him face to face with a bald head and a short dun dun with a seven-section whip. The other members of the team on both sides also held their own equipment and prepared for battle. A life-and-death fight is about to break out.

At this moment, the baby-faced leader's old father, who didn't know how to get the news, stumbled all the way from home, knelt in front of his son, hugged his son's legs, and begged his son to put down the butcher's knife and change his ways.

When the two sides were tense, Babyface couldn't listen to the old father's advice at all, and under the stimulation of the bald man's words in front of him, Babyface kicked his old father a few meters away, and then, with a knife in his hand, cut off the left arm of the bald man in front of him. The bald man clutched his broken arm in pain, and with the support of his subordinates, he was defeated and admitted defeat.

The victorious babyface completely ignored the life or death of his old father who fell on the snow, and led his men to leave.

That night, the baby-faced brother who learned the news carried his father's frozen body home in the snow. During his father's funeral, Babyface refused to go back to his father's funeral.

After experiencing this incident, Zhuqing completely dispelled the idea of continuing to mingle, she was afraid that if she continued to mingle, she would one day become a beast like a babyface. So, on a baby-faced drunken night, Zhuqing escapes from the town.

“…… After escaping from the town, I first went around with a circus to make a living, and then I heard that the south was occupied by the Japanese. I thought at the time, my brother Zhu Zi is a general, maybe he is at war with the Japanese people in the south. So, I headed all the way south, hoping to meet you in the south. Later, I came to Nanyuan City and lived in the Chunxiangju Inn that I regretted for the rest of my life. Later......" Zhuqing talked about his tragic experience all the way, and finally choked up and couldn't continue.

"Well, that's all in the past. Don't think about it anymore. Li Ruzhu comforted Zhuqing.

"It's all fate, God deliberately made me suffer this evil crime to punish me for the sin I committed when I followed Babyface in that town." Zhu Qing kept choking, repenting of his crimes in his heart.