After Shen Mo pulled Qiao Yi out of the trap, he gently helped her to sit down against a big tree that had grown for a long time by the trap, and reached out to brush the hair on her forehead and looked at the abrasions on her cheeks. Maybe it was because I ran too fast, and I don't know what plant branches stretched out and rubbed it, so I left two abrasions on my face. His hands were also stabbed by the occasional sharp and protruding rocks, and his feet were also gray and stained with some blood, and the shoes on his feet were lost somewhere, and they seemed to be injured.

Shen Mo opened the kettle he was carrying, rinsed the handkerchief with water, and gently wiped her face clean for Qiao Yi, then pulled up her little hand full of dust and bloodstains, took it in her hand and carefully wiped off the blood and dust on it, and finally lifted her feet and put them on her lap to clean them one by one.

Only then did he take out a white jade porcelain bottle from his waist, pick open the red soft stopper tightly stuffed at the mouth of the bottle with his fingers, and pour some white powdered wound medicine on the wound. Stretch out your slender fingers and apply the white powder evenly over the wound. Only then did he tear off a piece of the hem of his coat, tear this piece of fabric into two small pieces of cloth and two strips of cloth, and carefully bandaged Qiao Yi's injured foot.

Shen Mo finished all this, and before he was about to stand up, Qiao Yi stretched out a hand and grabbed the cuffs tightly, Shen Mo looked down at the little hand that was grabbing his sleeve, with a gentle smile on his face, and his big hand stroked Qiao Yan's small hand and said softly: "I'll pick up some dry wood next to me and make some fire, I won't leave your sight, and I won't let you leave my sight." Qiao Yi listened to Shen Mo's words, and then slowly let go of the hand that grabbed the sleeve. Shen Mo picked up some firewood nearby and lit a fire nearby.

Then he leaned side by side with Qiao Yi on the big tree behind him, the moon didn't know when it rose, faintly hanging on the treetops, bursts of insect chirps, and the summer night was quiet. Shen Mo suddenly reached out and grabbed a firefly in front of him that was about to take off from the grass, took Qiao Yan's hand and put the glowing little thing in Qiao Yan's palm. Qiao Yi looked at the firefly in his hand, this small glowing thing, it actually burned Qiao Yan's hand slightly, and also burned Qiao Yan's heart.

Xu was shocked by Qiao Yi's tears, and the fireflies slowly flew from the palm of his hand towards the starry sky, and finally disappeared into the night. Qiao Yan choked up as if he had just woken up, "I'm scared." Shen Mo held Qiao Yan's little hand and said in a deep voice: "I know, don't be afraid, I'm here!" ”

Qiao Yan grabbed the slightly larger hand that held him, whimpered and cried, Shen Mo gently patted Qiao Yan's back with his hand, and kept saying: "Cry, just cry, everything is with me, don't be afraid." ”

After a long time, Qiao Yi gradually stopped crying, Shen Mo touched the round fingers in his hand, turned his face sideways and looked at Qiao Yan seriously: "No matter what happens, you don't have to be afraid, because I won't let you be hurt." ”

Qiao Yi turned his head to look at Shen Mo's not-so-real face next to the firelight in the night, stretched out his little hand and gently touched Shen Mo's black hair as if he wanted to be sure, like a sword's long eyebrows, long eyelashes that were raised at his fingertips like a small fan, Rumo's eyes vaguely reflected himself, straight nose, faint red soft and warm thin lips, and a clean and resolute chin.

This little hand that lingered on his face finally fell into Shen Mo's hand, Shen Mo approached Qiao Yi and looked into her eyes: "Can you tell me, what happened?" Qiao Yi looked at Shen Mo's eyes, feeling that the ink in those eyes was almost about to suck himself in, and finally, he nodded.

Qiao Yan looked at the lit fire, the arms next to him were so warm, Shen Mo didn't urge her, just looked at the jumping fire with her, Qiao Yan paused for a while and talked about what happened today.

After eating at noon, Wang and Qiao Cheng were going to work in the field, but they were entangled by Qiao Li, who wanted to go with them, for a while, Wang and Qiao Cheng were entangled by Qiao Li, and finally agreed to take Qiao Li to the ground together, and Qiao Liu was going to cut some pigweed, because Xiao Si was at home today, so Qiao Yi went with Qiao Liu with confidence.

After mowing the pigweed, the two walked back, and suddenly a strange man came to ask for directions, this person was dressed cleanly and looked like a passerby, saying that he was going to Guzhuang along the north side of Nanshan, Qiao Yan really didn't think about it, just thinking that this person was going to ask for directions, because at this time, there are indeed many people who work in the county town who will go to the relatives in the village to help. I couldn't carry the two baskets, so I could only put down the baskets and let Qiao Liu, who was strong, go back first, and show the person a way forward.

There are few villagers living near Nanshan on weekdays, and there is no big intersection between this and Guzhuang, Qiao Yan felt very wrong after walking for a while, because the man always asked some irrelevant words along the way, asked his age, and asked how many people in the family asked Qiao Liu if he was his sister, Qiao Yan felt weird and didn't want to answer, but when he saw Nanshan, he refused to lead the way, and pointed to the north and said: "You can go to Guzhuang with this north." ”

After finishing speaking, he turned around and was about to leave, but the man immediately stopped in front of Qiao Yi at this time, and opened his mouth angrily: "Don't, little sister, it's all sent here, then send it inside for a while, isn't it just the one in front?" I will definitely thank you, my brother can buy you clothes and hairpins! ”

Qiao Yi now knew that the visitor was not good, and immediately told himself in his heart not to panic, this place is sparsely populated, and he is afraid that a ten-year-old girl will not be pleased, but he opened his mouth with a cold face: "I'm going back, I don't want to play with you, there are many people who have to dig a pond to water the ground near here recently!" You'd better play with them! ”

Qiao Yan turned around and walked back quickly, hoping that this lie could hide him for a while, but who knew that the man just hesitated and paused, and immediately stepped forward to cover his mouth and carry Qiao Yi, who was running back, on his shoulder, regardless of Qiao Yi's kicking and resistance, he ran towards Nanshan, where there were many trees and dense branches, and said while running: "Originally, when the mother-in-law of the Ding family came here, she said that she was teaching her savage and cruel niece, I thought it was an ugly girl, but I didn't expect it to be such a beautiful little girl as you, the surname Qiao said that it was a lesson for you, Of course I did it according to our rules, don't worry, as long as you are obedient, my brother will make you feel good later. ”

Qiao Yan was taken aback by the other party's actions, and saw that the person had been speaking foul language, and he was extremely disgusted, but suddenly heard that it was the person Qiao Shi found, Qiao Yan couldn't help but be taken aback, he didn't expect Qiao to be so vicious.

The man laughed and threw Qiao Yi on the grass under the South Mountain, and then he was about to cover it, Qiao Yi gritted his teeth, raised his knee with all his strength, and hit the man's crotch, the man only thought that Qiao Yi was an ordinary little girl, and when he encountered such a thing, he would only cry pitifully, where was there any other way, and he was just waiting for misfortune. But he didn't expect Qiao Yi to kick him at this time, the man couldn't help screaming, covering his crotch and falling to the side, rolling on the ground in pain, Qiao Yan got up and ran to Nanshan.

And the man yelled loudly to catch Qiao Yi, Qiao Yi knew that if he was caught again, he would definitely not be able to escape this fate. So desperately ran up the mountain, the man didn't know when he got up, shouting loudly and chasing after him from a distance, Qiao Yi could only run deeper, to the mountain, and she didn't know where to run. But all she knew was that she couldn't stop, she could only run forward.

Once stopped, it must be a hell waiting for him behind, such a clear knowledge can only prompt this Qiao Yu to run quickly, the man's roar seems to be in his ears and follows him tightly, in all around, Qiao Yi, who is almost persecuted, has no way to escape, and the surroundings are like a huge nightmare, these bright and beautiful flowers and plants on weekdays seem to be thorny nets, and they will eventually net themselves, forcing themselves to have nowhere to escape, and they will be stabbed to death in the thorn bushes.

And those tall trees are like a cage that locks itself here, and this cage is too big and too hard. His thin body can't escape at all, and the people chasing him behind him will block him on the edge of the cage, and he will die here. These conjectures in his mind were almost driving himself crazy, Qiao Yi felt that the sweat on his forehead was falling drop by drop, dripping into his eyes, blurring all his vision, and he couldn't see the road in front of him like a blind man.

The hands and feet became stiff and cold under the extreme panic, it became difficult to open his legs and wave his arms, the road under his feet became more and more bumpy, and his pace became slower and slower, but the man who was chasing him still seemed to be running non-stop, he would soon catch up with me, and soon, everything like this almost made Qiao Yan fall into an abyss of despair.

She didn't know why she had such an idea, she was going to drive herself crazy, perhaps, it was getting darker and darker, Qiao Yan actually felt that she was in a chaos, only the weak movements of her limbs, but the thoughts in her mind were far away.

Such a desperate run, in a trance, I feel as if I have experienced it, where is it? It seems that in the twenty-first century, when I was in the humble orphanage where I had lived for a long time, I didn't know where to go, but I just kept running, and I didn't dare to stop and rest at all. I went back to that time.