Chapter 8: The Village Steals Clothes
Hearing the dog barking, he hurriedly pulled Tang Ji to squat down on the spot, stretched out his head to look ahead.
In the darkness, he faintly saw a house, and there was a village not far ahead.
Glancing at the set of eunuch clothes on Tang Ji's body, he raised his sleeves and sniffed the heavy fecal smell of clothes on his body, Liu Wei whispered to Tang Ji: "You wait here, I'll get two sets of clothes and come over and change them." ”
Tang Ji opened his round eyes and looked at Liu Wei, and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, isn't it going to steal ......?" ”
"That's a terrible thing to say!" Liu Wei reached out and stroked her head twice, lowered his voice and said, "This is called borrowing!" A person who does not have the right clothes to wear takes clothes, and he cannot be called stealing, but borrowing. Also, don't call me Your Majesty again. ”
Blinked twice, his big eyes full of confusion were sat in the field by Liu Bian's shoulders, and Tang Ji watched Liu Bian's cat's waist run towards the village.
The village is located in a wilderness, and most of the houses in the village are adobe walls and thatched roofs, and the village should not be very wealthy from the perspective of the structure of the dwellings.
Touching the entrance of the village, Liu Wei did not rush into the village. He crouched in a dark corner, quietly listening to the barking of dogs coming from the village.
Twisting his brows and listening for a while, he was sure that there were only three dogs in the village, two of which were quite far away, and the other one was not approaching him for the time being.
As soon as he touched the door of the house, a local dog with earthy yellow hair ran towards him, standing not far away and looking at him, with a low "whining" sound from his mouth.
The dog that can bite people does not bark, and the dog does not bark at him, but puts on an attack posture, Liu Wei naturally will not take it lightly. Staring at the dog, he squatted down violently, pretending to pick up a stone, and then stood up with a "rub".
When the earth dog saw him squatting, he thought he was going to pick up a stone and throw it, so he quickly turned around and ran. It didn't run far, it turned back again, looking at the place where Liu Wei was standing just now, but it had long since disappeared from Liu Bian's trace.
Taking advantage of the fact that the earth dog turned around and ran into the distance, Liu Wei gently pushed open a crack in the door of the house in front of him, and dodged into the house.
Most of the doors of people's houses are just decorations. Thieves usually do not enter the village, and many families only symbolically close the door when they sleep at night, so Liu Wei is given the opportunity to sneak in smoothly.
After entering the house, Liu Wei heard a man's snoring sound coming from the inner room.
Leaning against the corner, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes tightly, and waited until his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room, and then tiptoed towards the room inside.
Standing at the door, Liu Wei roughly observed the furnishings in the room, and made sure that there were only two sleeping people lying on the bunk head to head on the bed, so he quietly leaned towards the two people lying on the ground.
When he arrived at the two people, he stared at their faces, held his breath and slowly bent down, carefully picked up the clothes from the ground, crumpled them into balls and hugged them in his arms, and slowly exited the room.
Back in the outside room, Liu Wei looked around the house, and saw a firewood knife standing in the corner of the wall behind the door, and he picked up the firewood knife again, and then retreated from the house.
As soon as he exited the door, another dog barked behind him. Liu Wei turned his head violently, quickly squatted down, and the earth dog that was messing with him turned around and jumped out again.
At this moment, he heard a woman's lazy voice from inside the house: "This dog is really annoying, and it barks blindly in the middle of the night." ”
"Sleep, sleep! The dog barks not as much as you make a fuss! As soon as the woman's words fell, a man's voice came from inside the room, and after a while, the man's snoring floated out again.
Hearing the woman speak, Liu Wei's heart almost rose to his throat, he was not very afraid of being discovered by the people in the house, but he didn't want to kill more innocent civilians.
But if someone finds out and his whereabouts spread, Dong Zhuo will definitely be able to guess that he is the one who stole the clothes in the village, and once Dong Zhuo orders a search of the neighborhood, the possibility of him and Tang Ji being arrested will be extremely great.
With his back against the wall, he waited quietly for a moment, until he heard the man snoring again, and then he quietly retreated in the direction of the entrance of the village.
After a few steps back, he felt as if his neck had hit a somewhat elastic rope.
The rope runs between two trees near the entrance of the village, and it appears that the villagers used it to dry their clothes. Originally, he planned to drill through the rope and go to Tang Ji quickly, but Liu Wei thought about it for a while, and finally decided to cut the rope with a firewood knife and take it with him.
Just as Liu Wei retreated to the entrance of the village with these stolen things from the village, the earth dog followed up again, barking at him from afar.
The earth dog did not chase out of the village, and Liu Wei didn't bother to delay with it for more, so he first walked backwards for a while, and when he couldn't see the earth dog at the entrance of the village, he turned around and ran towards the place where Tang Ji was hiding.
Running to Tang Ji's hiding place, Liu Wei threw all the things he was holding in his arms on the ground. He first simply classified the clothes into the lower categories, picked out the woman's clothes and handed them to Tang Ji, and said to her: "Quickly change into them, and wear the clothes of eunuchs when you leave the palace, if you are discovered, the two of us will be in big trouble." ”
Tang Ji obediently took the clothes handed to her by Liu Wei and changed them in the field. It was very cold, and when she changed clothes, she was shivering with cold.
In the past, in the palace, Tang Ji wore palace clothes. In winter, the palace clothes are covered with thick silk cotton to keep out the cold, and the clothing is also cut from silk, which is very warm to wear. The set of clothes that Liu Wei threw to her was the dark clothes worn by civilian women.
This set of clothes is made of linen, with a thin layer of linen cotton inside, worn on civilians who are used to suffering, but it can resist some cold, but when worn on Tang Ji, who is used to pampering, it is a little thinner.
After putting on the deep clothes, Tang Ji took two trousers from the side and put them on her legs, and after putting them on, she tightened the trousers, and then stood aside and watched Liu Wei change his clothes.
The pants of the Han Dynasty people did not have a waist, and in order to keep the legs warm in winter, they made two separate trousers and tied them on the legs.
Liu Wei also quickly took off the coachman's clothes and changed into the man's clothes he had just stolen from the village.
After the two changed their clothes, Liu Wei straightened up, looked at a black mountain forest in the north, stretched out a hand, put his thumb and index finger in a "eight" shape, took the finger as the origin, roughly compared, turned his head and said to Tang Ji behind him: "If I remember correctly, the mountain in front should be Bishan." From here to the mountain, it is only fifteen to twenty miles at most, and after entering the mountain, the two of us will be safe. ”
"Your Majesty...... How did the husband know that the mountain was only fifteen to twenty miles away? Seeing that Liu Biao just gestured with his finger and visually measured the distance to Bishan, Tang Ji asked with some doubts, but before the words spoke, she suddenly remembered that Liu Bian had said not to call His Majesty again, and quickly changed the title.
Seeing that Tang Ji had been able to consciously change the title, Liu Wei nodded with satisfaction, reached out to wrap his arm around her shoulder, raised his other arm, spread his index finger and thumb, and said to her: "Look at Bishan from my fingers, imagine it as a point, and then use two fingers as a ruler, and the point of Bishan is connected with the point of two fingers at an angle, and the distance can be roughly calculated." ”
"How can my husband do this?" Looking at the mountain in the distance from between Liu Wei's two fingers, Tang Ji turned his head in astonishment, and said with reverence: "In the past, the husband was obscure, and he had never shown such talent, if he hadn't escaped from the palace today, even the concubines wouldn't have known that the husband was so powerful!" ”
"Talk to me in the future, your self-proclaimed name is going to be called 'concubine', understand?" Liu Wei smiled, did not explain to Tang Ji why he understood this, and after explaining another sentence about the title, he took her little hand and raised his feet and walked towards the mountain to the north.
The distance of nearly twenty miles is not far away, but it is not close to say that it is not close.
Pulling Tang Ji, Liu Wei couldn't go too fast. The moon was setting, the sun was not yet above the horizon, and the darkest hour before dawn came.
The road in the field was potholed, and after the sky was completely dark, Liu Wei pulled Tang Ji and groped forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
After walking for more than ten miles, there was another dog barking in front of me.
Hearing the barking of the dog this time, Liu Wei did not stop, but pulled Tang Ji and groped in the direction farther away from the village.
The two groped their way forward, but they didn't know how far they went, and finally a ray of light finally came out of the horizon. The dawn pierces through the thick darkness and brings the light of a new day to the earth.
Looking up at the mountain in the distance, Liu Wei turned his head and said to Tang Ji, who was holding hands with him and walking behind: "It's not far, it's almost at the foot of the mountain." ”
The sky was getting brighter, the sun jumped out of the horizon, and the two of them finally reached the foot of the mountain.
Standing at the foot of the mountain, Liu Wei raised his head and looked at the endless, as if there were no boundless mountains, turned his head and bowed slightly behind him, and Tang Ji, who was a little out of breath, said: "We have arrived, as long as we enter the mountain, it will not be so easy for Dong Zhuo's old thief to catch us again." ”
Although it is only early spring, and most of the plants and trees have not recovered, the gap between the trees on the mountain is very small, and the mountains are full of thorny thorns, and there is no way up the mountain.
After looking at the nearby mountain, Liu Wei chose a relatively gentle hillside as the path to the mountain. He turned around and tied one end of the rope he had stolen from the village around Tang Ji's waist and the other end around his own waist.
"The mountain road is difficult to walk, and it is difficult to say whether there will be a steep slope covered by grass and trees on the way up the mountain, and the two of us are tied together, if you accidentally step on the air, I can also hold you." Helping Tang Ji tie the rope, Liu Wei smiled at her, explained simply, and turned around to walk towards the selected path up the mountain.