After being sent to Dingjiawan, Zhang Xiu was not in the mood to accompany the craftsmen to build the river embankment. He hoped to run away and find Cao Cao to be disgraced.

After some investigation, he was surprised to find that the prisoners were not strictly guarded on the construction site. More than 500 soldiers were scattered along the bank of the river more than a mile long, and there was not a single sign of soldiers, and only more than 20 foremen were responsible for guarding them.

In fact, it is said that it is a caretaker, and the foremen don't care much about them, but just arrange work for them to do, and if they can't do it, the foremen will teach them by hand. There was no intention of guarding against their escape.

Zhang Xiu was overjoyed when she saw this, and secretly agreed with more than a dozen henchmen to escape from this place while the sky was dark on the night of the new moon.

On the appointed date, after a busy day by the river, he went back to the dormitory early to lie down and rest, waiting to recuperate.

At three o'clock, after the night meal, the craftsmen who participated in the activities of the Church of Plumbers (referred to as the union) rushed back one after another, chatting happily about the interesting content of the church activities tonight, and taking out the newly published "Holy Mother Sutra" to read with relish, and discussing with each other from time to time for a while. The quiet dormitory suddenly became noisy. The noise was so noisy that Zhang Xiu couldn't sleep, and she couldn't sleep on the couch for a long time, and finally couldn't hold back her anger and shouted: "What's the noise, don't let people sleep!" ”

Who knew that when a sentence came out, not only were the soldiers who originally served under his account not shocked by him, but one of them even directly retorted, "What is the wolf howling?" Exploring the Word of God after work was the homework that Mr. Jane gave us. We can discuss as long as we like, can you control it? Look at the way you shout three and drink six, and you think you are a general under the account of Cao Thief! What is it! ”

"You!" People are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden. Zhang Xiu was furious, jumped up from the bed suddenly, and rushed to the soldier and raised his hand to fight.

The other people in the room saw this scene and knew that Zhang Xiu's martial arts were strong, and they were afraid that their companions would suffer, so they hurriedly stepped forward to pull the rack. Separated the two with seven hands and eight feet.

The subordinate kept scolding and said, "You don't participate in church activities, you don't read the Bible, and now you want to beat people." You wait, tomorrow I will find Mr. Jane to sue you, and make sure you can't eat and walk around. ”

"You ......" Zhang Xiu still wanted to have a seizure, but after thinking about it, he must not miss the escape event tonight. forcibly suppressed his anger, and said coldly: "If you have the ability, you can sue, I'll see what the Mr. Jian in your mouth can do to me!" Then he went back to bed, covered his head and pretended to sleep.

Zhang Xiu, who was busy by the river all day, was tired, and was drowsy at night. He waited left and right for a while, and finally stayed up until midnight, and the laborers who had been in a state of excitement took off their clothes and put on the kang one after another.

Hearing the snoring sound one after another, Zhang Xiu relieved himself, carefully climbed out of bed, and slipped out of the room quietly like a civet cat. came to the place agreed with a group of cronies in advance, and after the agreed time, they waited for a long time before cronies arrived one after another.

He tapped the number carefully, and asked Zhao Ye, the adjutant under him, "Why are there five missing?" ”

"Maybe something is delaying!" Zhao Ye looked helpless, "General, the hour is not early, if you wait any longer, it will be difficult to run again at dawn." Let's go first. ”

"It's good! Follow me. Zhang Xiu took the lead, and more than a dozen cronies followed this year. The people followed the predetermined route along the river all the way south, preparing to go around the river and then turn west.

The group ate and slept in the open air, hid in the forest to rest during the day, and hurried away at night. It traveled nearly 200 miles in three days. At this time, the food rations they had secretly saved on weekdays had been exhausted, and they decided to go to a nearby mountain village to beg for some food.

Chen Ye said pitifully: "This fellow, we came from Yuzhou to flee. No, I haven't eaten in days. Give us something to eat! ”

What they never expected was that when the villagers who were still smiling all over their faces heard that they were outsiders, their hearts suddenly became alarmed. She ran to the church, and the bell rang across the sky. Hundreds of people from all over the village rushed out of the house with farm tools and surrounded Zhang Xiu and them.

Seeing this posture, Zhang Xiu still wanted to resist. But they fled for days, they didn't eat for a day and were defenseless at this time, where was the opponent of so many villagers, and they were thrown to the ground by the villagers by dividing five by two.

Zhang Xiu supported for the longest time, but in the end, his fists were invincible to four hands, and during the brawl, he was smashed to the ground by a stuffy stick, and his eyes were black and he fainted.

When he woke up, he was in the familiar prisoner car again, and was escorted back to Dingjiawan along the rugged country road, and it was none other than the steward surnamed Jane in Dingjiawan who had come to take them over.

He thought that he would be severely punished for his escape, but Mr. Jane did not punish him with a rod or a whip, but had him and a dozen of his cronies brought before a row of small houses.

These houses are strangely constructed, not to mention that they are built next to each other to save space, but to leave a distance between them. The shape of the room is also very peculiar, only the door has no bed, and the roof is very low, and adults can't stand up straight when they go in.

Mr. Jane, who was in charge, put them in such a low, dark room, one room per person, and three meals a day.

At first, Zhang Xiu thought that Mr. Jian was only temporarily taking them down, and he would punish them again in the future. Later, I learned from the workers who delivered the food that the "closed black house" itself was Mr. Jane's punishment for them, and it was called "confinement". According to Mr. Jane's instructions, they were to be locked up in their own dark rooms for half a month.

Zhang Xiu was stunned, what kind of punishment is closing the black house! But only three days later, he saw the power of the black house.

For many years, he has developed a habit of being busy, but now he is suddenly idle, and he is unspeakably uncomfortable.

Darkness, boundless darkness, I don't know when the sun rises and when the sun sets, and I can only estimate the current time by the time when the food delivery worker comes.

Solitude, endless solitude. Two days ago, the food delivery worker would occasionally say a few words to him, but now he doesn't even pay attention to the food delivery worker. His cronies were very far away from him, and the door of the dark room was surprisingly well insulated, so he couldn't get through the sound and couldn't talk.

No one chatted, and he couldn't straighten his waist when he practiced martial arts, he was idle and panicked, and his idle body was like thousands of worms climbing. He began to feel frightened, and felt that there really were thousands of dense insects in the dark room, and he wanted to stare at it, but it was so dark that he couldn't see anything. He was scared, scared to death, he still felt that someone was watching him, and he couldn't see the other party, he was scared to death, and his spine was cold.

Frightened, he began to vent his emotions with a terrible roar, "Let me out, let me out!" I'm going out and I'm going to kill you all. ”

No one responded to his threats, as if his words had been swallowed up by worms in the darkness that were invisible to the naked eye, and as if it were a dream at all, a nightmare walking in a world where the heavens should not be called the earth, and the earth was not spiritual, and there was no sunlight.

After shouting for a long time, Zhang Xiu finally ended this useless scolding, nested in the corner, and trembled with his hands on his knees. "Oh my God! Help me! I want to get out. ”

At this time, the small opening of the door of the black house to deliver food was opened, and a magnetic voice came from outside the door, "At first, the great god of Pangu opened the heavens and the earth, the earth was empty and chaotic, and the abyss was dark. Our Lady Nuwa floats in the chaotic landscape. She said, "Let there be light." And there was light. Our Lady saw that the light was good, and separated it from the darkness......" and recited the Book of Our Lady.

When following Dong Zhuo's side, under the influence of his colleagues, Zhang Xiu has always been very resistant to the Church of Our Lady. At this time, as soon as he heard that there was a magic stick to induce him, he immediately covered his ears and shouted, "Shut up, I don't listen!" ”

Sure enough, the words worked, "Click! The food delivery window then closed, and the sound of chanting came to an abrupt end.

However, from then on, every time the person who delivered the food would come and read a passage of the scriptures before bringing the food.

As with the first time, Zhang Xiu responds with "shut up" every time, and after each refusal, the reciter respects his choice. Once, twice, three times, four times...... When it was time for the tenth delivery, surprisingly, the person who delivered the food no longer recited the scriptures, but only handed in the food for the day.

For several days, listening to a few verses and resolutely refusing to recite the reader was his only entertainment, and suddenly he did not have the sound of singing.

"Hey!" He hurriedly rushed to the door, held the window with his hand to prevent it from closing, and then looked out along the window to see the sun emitting a soft light in the blue sky. Illuminated by the warm milky white light, a young man dressed in a brown linen robe with a smooth wooden cross pinned to his right chest. Looking at the face of the young man, he has just reached the age of a weak crown. He asked the young man, "Why didn't you chant today?" ”

The young man's eyes narrowed into a line, and a warm smile bloomed, "The scriptures are only read to people who are destined, are you destined?" ”

"How do you know I'm not destined?" Zhang Xiu's face was not good, but the young pastor immediately heard the sound of Zhang Xiu's words.

He took out a copy of the "Sutra of Our Lady" from the burlap back pocket on his side, and recited it from the first page, "At first, the great god Pangu opened the heavens and the earth, the earth was empty and chaotic, and the abyss was dark and ......."

After only reading one sentence, he was stopped by Zhang Xiu, "Stop, stop!" ”

"What, you don't want to hear it again?" The young pastor had the same smile on his face as ever.

"It's not!" Zhang Xiu corrected and said: "You have read these several times a few days ago, and I am almost memorizing them, can you change them to something fresh!" ”

The young pastor asked, "Where was the last time you read it?" ”

"When I read it, Our Lady made two great lights, the greater one for day and the younger one for night. and made the stars. And he set them in the heavens, and shone them on the earth. Manage day and night, light and dark. The mistress looks good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. It's the fifth day. ”

The young pastor didn't expect Zhang Xiu to remember it so clearly, and he secretly rejoiced in his heart, "That will start on the fifth day of the creation of the Virgin." And the mistress said, Let the water multiply and multiply living things, and let the birds fly above the earth, and the sky .......'"