The house where Wu Xin and Qiao Wenlian lived was locked, and they couldn't escape unless someone unlocked it from the outside.

The window was nailed shut, but there was a crack through which the moonlight peeked in the darkness of the night, as if pointing out a path to freedom.

The two men were relatively silent.

No sound could be heard outside, but soon there was footsteps, and there were shadows on the window paper, and it was someone walking this way.

Someone was picking the lock, Wu Xin and Qiao Wenlian were hiding by the door, although they were locked up here, their luggage was still around.

At this time, they each took an inkstone in their hands.

It was an object they were used to, and they thought that they would take it into the examination room, and they would never expect that one day, the inkstone used by scholars would become their only weapon to protect themselves.

The door opened, and it was Daddy Xu and Xu Dalang who came in.

It was dark in the house, and Father Xu and Xu Dalang came in from a place with a lamp, and they didn't get used to the darkness for a while.

Father Xu was about to ask Xu Dalang to get a lamp, and he was slapped on the head, Xu Dalang had one foot in the door and one foot outside the door, and before he could react, he also received a slap on the head.

The two men collapsed without even shouting.

Qiao Wenlian and Wu Xin dragged the two of them under the bed, they had no experience, and they didn't even care to see if these two people were dead or alive, they just wanted to run for their lives.

Wu Xin even wanted to take his two beloved lake pens, but was dragged out of the house by Qiao Wenlian.

The two closed the door and went to climb the wall.

There was dew in the night, the wall was slippery, the two were originally scholars who were powerless, although the wall was not high, but the two people still slid down, at this moment, the door that had been closed was pushed open, Xu Dalang stumbled out: "Come on, come on!" ”

Qiao Wenlian and Wu Xin were scared half to death, and they didn't know where the strength came from, so they finally climbed the wall in one go, and when they jumped down, they heard someone shouting: "There, they are on the wall, go out and intercept them!" ”

Qiao Wenlian and Wu Xin almost rolled off the wall, the two of them ran in one direction like headless flies, the gate of the yard was opened, and the few godsons chased them out.

Under the moonlight, Qiao Wenlian and Wu Xin ran wildly all the way, and finally ran out of Bangzi Hutong.

There is a well house around the corner, and the people in Bangzi Hutong and Tieguo Hutong are all drawing water from this well.

Wu Xin pointed in the direction of the well, panting and said to Qiao Wenlian: "Let's run separately, I'll go there to hide, I'm good at water, you go somewhere else." ”

Qiao Wenlian also realized that the two of them had to be separated at this time, so as to distract those people.

He patted Wu Xin's shoulder: "There will be no time in the future!" ”

What he said was that there would be no time in the future, and at this time, the young Wu Xin finally realized that the danger had come.

They can't go back!

Whether they're caught by these splashes in the back, or caught by the Flying Fish Guard, they can't go back.

"There will be no time in the future!"

Wu Xin ran towards the well house, and Qiao Wenlian also ran in the other direction.

Qiao Wenlian was lucky, and turned two more corners, and it was almost dawn at this time, and he smelled the stench from a distance.

A donkey cart loaded with night incense was parked next to it, but the person who drove the car was not there, thinking that no one would steal his stinky donkey cart, so he hid to the side and went to take a nap, after all, at this time, every household had not taken out the night incense.

Qiao Wenlian couldn't run anymore, and those people were about to catch up soon, so he gritted his teeth, lifted the lid of a dung bucket, and jumped in!

The bucket was still empty, but the stench was something he would never forget.

I don't know how long it took, when Qiao Wenlian felt that he was going to faint the next moment, the donkey cart moved slowly, he breathed a sigh of relief, and vaguely, he heard the driver scolding: "You lazy donkey, the empty car is still walking so slowly." ”

It was the donkey who pulled the cart, and the donkey knew that there was an extra person in the cart.

After walking a few more streets, one after another people opened the door and took out the night incense.

Taking advantage of the fact that the driver went to collect the night incense, Qiao Wenlian came out of the dung bucket, fortunately, there was no one on the street, Qiao Wenlian walked for a while, simply tore the clothes on his body, grabbed a handful of black ash on the ground and smeared it on his face, his body was stinky, and now he looked more like a beggar.

In this way, he walked all the way to the city gate, but when he arrived at the city gate, he realized that the portraits of the three of them had been pasted in front of the city gate!

They went to sea to catch official documents!

The people of the Flying Fish Guard and the Flag Bearer Guard checked one by one, and Qiao Wenlian saw four or five people called Hanako walking over, and he was also ordered to pick up his hair like grass, and check with the people on the portrait one by one, and confirmed that it was not, so he released those people called Hanako out of the city.

Qiao Wenlian left quietly, he thought about it, and finally thought of a place.

He went to Guangji Temple.

Guangji Temple is not a royal temple, so the management is not so strict, and because the incense is flourishing there, whether it is in the temple or outside the temple, you can see the pilgrims begging for flowers. The monks were merciful and did not drive away these people, sometimes giving them some dry food.

Qiao Wenlian stayed in Guangji Temple for more than a month, went in during the day, slept in the forest outside Guangji Temple at night, at noon, the monks of Guangji Temple would take some vegetarian cakes and distribute them to beggars, real beggars are not rare to eat, they ask for money, therefore, when Qiao Wenlian went to get vegetarian cakes, the beggars did not compete with him, he was also lucky, beggars in other places often fought because of grabbing land, but when Qiao Wenlian was in Guangji Temple, he never encountered this kind of thing.

Once, Qiao Wenlian saw two young people carrying their father to the temple, the father was full of scars, it turned out that the father accidentally fell on the stove at home, when a big pot of water was burning on the stove, his face was burned, it was very hot at that time, the two sons came to Guangji Temple to incense, begging the Bodhisattva to bless the father to recover as soon as possible, now although the appearance is ruined, but it has turned the corner, so the father and son came to Guangji Temple together to make a vow.

The father also said to a pilgrim: "I am a man, this face will be ruined if it is ruined, as long as my wife and children still know me, it doesn't matter." ”

When Qiao Wenlian heard this, his heart moved.

Yes, he is not a woman who will cherish his appearance, as long as his wife and daughter do not dislike him, it is enough.

What's more, if he can return to his hometown, maybe he can be reunited with his wife and daughter.

So Qiao Wenlian quietly walked into the stove where the monks were boiling water, and poured the whole pot of boiling water on his face......

Although the monks also treated him, Qiao Wenlian was worried about arousing suspicion, so he quietly left Guangji Temple without waiting for the burns on his face to heal.

As a result, the scars on his face are particularly severe, and even after five years, they have not diminished in the slightest.