The house is deeply difficult to lock the heart (2)
From sunrise to sunset, and then from sunset to sunrise, infinite loop, over and over again, Ling Xiao spent more than ten days in this mansion without itching, she already knew about this mansion, but she did not find a good place to escape, the main gate was definitely not able to get out, and there were many guards in other places, which made her more anxious, and she was in a room with Zhang Yan every night, and she slept lightly for more than ten nights.
In the evening, Zhang Yan was called by his eldest brother, leaving Ling Xiao alone in the courtyard, anxious, except for thinking about escaping, she couldn't put anything in her head. Ling Xiao walked out of the yard, walked aimlessly all the way, and came to the lotus pond, the lotus flowers bloomed luxuriantly, the lotus leaves were green, a leaf was crowded one after another, from time to time there was a light breath, and the high wall was in the distance. Ling Xiao lowered her head, but inadvertently saw water flowing under the lotus leaves, and she realized that it was a living water. She found a wooden stick and tested the depth of the water, and to her surprise, the water was more than half a meter deep. She thought that as long as it was living water, it would definitely flow out of the house, and as long as she followed the flow of water, she would be able to get out of the house. She was suddenly a little excited, thinking that she had finally found a way out of the house, and that she would just swim out with the current.
Ling Xiao thought that the location had been found now, but he was short of a moment, he was under Zhang Xun's nose all day, and it was really difficult to avoid him.
"I didn't see you when I went back to the room, I came here, what did I think, I was so fascinated." Ling Xiao glanced back when he heard the sound, Zhang Yu was walking this way, looking sickly, Wenwen was weak, Zhang Yu told Ling Xiao that he was born less than nine months old, and this disease was brought by his mother's womb.
"Nothing." Ling Xiao replied.
"Tell me if you have something on your mind, don't be so taciturn all the time, okay? I want to care about you, but I don't know how. Zhang Yan said helplessly.
"Don't you know what's on my mind? Why do you want to ask me again? Zhang Yan always knew that Ling Xiao wanted to leave, but when he asked like this, Ling Xiao felt that it was really ridiculous.
"I can promise you anything else except to leave here. I don't know how many years I'll live, I just hope you can stay with me until the last minute, and then you can do whatever you want. Zhang Yan said very sadly.
"Don't worry, you will live a hundred years old, it's getting dark, let's go back." Ling Xiao felt that Zhang Yan was selfish, but Ling Xiao didn't want to argue with him more. Even if he is not sick, Ling Xiao will not stay here, what she wants is equality, not male superiority and inferiority, and live in the shadow of men.
Ling Xiao remembered that the night she met Lu Jingxing was a full moon, but tonight was a moon, the moonlight was as pure as frost, she sat at the stone table under the tree, quietly looking at the endless sky, dreaming of a girl, thinking that if only she had a pair of wings, then she would not be trapped here.
Zhang Yan walked out and sat down next to Ling Xiao, "Can you tell me about your past?" I want to be part of your world. Zhang Yu said softly.
Ling Xiao retracted his gaze, looked at the shadows cast by the leaves on the ground, and said, "I don't know my past myself, I only have a few months of memory in this world, and I don't know anything until I am fifteen years old. "It's impossible for Ling Xiao to tell Zhang Yan that she's from another world.
"And how did you get to the slave market?" Zhang Yan's eyes showed a hint of pity, and then asked.
"I was plotted by someone, I escaped and was arrested, and I was caught and wanted to escape. How ridiculous. "This is Ling Xiao's experience for more than a month, full of drama.
"Then what about your family except for your brother?" Zhang Yan's voice was softer.
"In Jundu." This was the first time in more than ten days that Ling Xiao had answered his questions one by one.
"You are from Beiyue, but your family is in Jundu, it seems that you have been wandering since you were a child." Zhang Yan said.
"Let's go inside, it's windy outside." After Ling Xiao finished speaking, he entered the house by himself, and Zhang Yan followed closely behind.
Another day passed, and a maid came to the courtyard, saluted Zhang Xun, and said, "The eldest lady asked the maid to come and invite the girl to go to Qianyan." Ling Xiao didn't know what the purpose of the eldest lady was, but she still followed all the way.
Ling Xiao felt that this lady had the appearance of a housewife, dignified and gentle, but also majestic.
The woman smiled when she saw Ling Xiao come in, this smile made Ling Xiao unable to understand it, she only beat her more than ten days ago, and today she smiled at her again, which seemed to be a little fast.
Before Ling Xiao could walk over, she greeted her, took Ling Xiao's hand and said, "Is the injury better?" I really had to beat you that day, and I hope you don't hold a grudge. ”
It is said that she doesn't stretch out her hand and don't hit the smiling person, and Ling Xiao did it, but she was really not used to others pulling her hand, Ling Xiao pulled her hand out of the woman's hand, which made the woman stunned, but quickly returned to normal.
"Sit down. Are you used to living in the house?" The woman said again.
"Habit, what are you looking for me?" Ling Xiao didn't like to come to this preface, so he asked straight to the point.
"Do you know that the second master came to find the uncle yesterday, and he wants to marry you as his wife." The woman looked at Ling Xiao and said seriously.
"I don't know." Ling Xiao replied.
The woman spoke again: "Uncle didn't agree for the time being, and said that he would wait until you have an heir." But as far as I know, you have not yet performed the courtesy of Zhou Gong. ”
"So what?" Ling Xiao asked.
"Do you know what the second master means to the uncle, no one can say for sure that the second master is sick, what he can do now is to let him leave his own heirs. If you don't think about the second master, then you can also think about it from yourself, the Zhang family has a big business, if you have a man and a woman with the second master, then you are the second lady of the Zhang family, and the future life will naturally be glorious and rich to enjoy. Ling Xiao thought that what was the matter, it turned out to persuade her about this, Ling Xiao was very speechless, feeling that this woman was really a good housewife who was dutiful, and she had to take care of such a thing.
"Thank you for your kindness, but I just want it to be." Ling Xiao didn't even want to do it, so how could he care about this.
"I've said everything I need to say, you go back and think about it." The woman said bitterly, but Ling Xiao didn't listen to a few words, and then went back.
As soon as Ling Xiao entered the house, Zhang Yan asked, "Sister-in-law didn't embarrass you, right?" ”
"Nope." Ling Xiao replied with two words.
"What is she looking for you?" Zhang Yan asked again.
"Casual chat, it's fine." Ling Xiao didn't tell him the content of the conversation, and now Ling Xiao had no hostility towards Zhang Yan, but it was limited to what to ask and what to answer.
Soon after twilight, the maid walked in with a jar of ginseng soup and served a bowl for Ling Xiao and Zhang Yan.
"Let's drink it while it's hot, it's not good if it's cold." Zhang Yan drank it, and the maid saw that Ling Xiao was indifferent, so she said.
"I don't have the habit of eating at night, so let's go!" Ling Xiao was worried that there was ** in this bowl, so he didn't dare to drink it easily.
"The eldest lady said that this is for you and the second master to replenish the body, and it will be sent every night in the future, the light smoke girl should drink it quickly, otherwise I will be punished." The maid said.
At this moment, Zhang Yan had already finished drinking, and Ling Xiao still didn't touch it. The maid was afraid that she would be punished, so she kept persuading her. In the end, Ling Xiao had no choice, so he said to the maid: "If you want me to drink, you can drink two sips first." ”
"It's not good." The maid waved her hand and said. And Zhang Yan watched from the sidelines and did not speak.
"Drink." Ling Xiao put the bowl in front of the maid, which made the maid very helpless, so she had to drink two spoonfuls.
"Now the light smoke girl can drink it!" The maid handed the bowl to Ling Xiao again.
After a while, Ling Xiao saw that she was fine, and knew that she couldn't find any more excuses, so she had to drink it.
When the maid saw that Ling Xiao had finished drinking, she went out quite fast, walking faster than running, and left the courtyard in the blink of an eye.
Ling Xiao didn't feel uncomfortable when she drank it, but when the tea passed, she began to feel her body hot, and it was that kind of heat, which became more and more serious later, her body became weak, and her mind began to become blurred. When she saw Zhang Xun on the side, she had an urge to pounce, but at this time she had not completely lost her will, she ran into the back room with all her strength, latched the hollow carved door, and sat down with her back against the door. Now she understands why the maid walked so fast, she guarded against **, but it turned out that the bowl was an aphrodisiac.
Sweat continued to seep out of Ling Xiao's forehead, and Zhang Yan patted the door outside: "Light smoke, can you open the door?" You're going to die. ”
"You already knew that, didn't you? If you dare to come in, I'll really die here. Ling Xiao said with difficulty, and took off the dagger on his wrist to signal to Zhang Yan.
The discomfort of her body could no longer be described in words, the longing was getting stronger and stronger, and she was afraid that she would really not be able to control herself, lose her mind, and then everything would be over.
She knew that only pain could make her head clear at this moment, Ling Xiao began to use the dagger to slash deeply into her arm, each stroke was accompanied by a strong pain, but this also made her sober a little.
The sweat on Ling Xiao's head changed from fine at the beginning to the size of a bean, his body was like countless insects gnawing, and Zhang Yan kept shouting outside: "I won't come in, you don't have to row anymore." ”
Ling Xiao completely ignored his words, and as soon as her consciousness was blurred, it was a knife, and she silently recited it countless times in her heart: "You must not lose your body, once you lose your body, everything is over, and I will never be able to get out." She felt like she was running out of energy.
In the end, Ling Xiao struggled on the ground all night, and the effect of the medicine finally slowly dissipated, she couldn't remember how many knives she had cut on her arm, and when the effect of the medicine dissipated, it was already a blur of flesh and blood, although she didn't follow the blood, but the entire sleeve of her shirt was soaked with blood.
She sat slumped on the ground, leaning her back against the wall not far from the door, looking at the bright sky outside the window, closing her eyes, and saying weakly: "Third brother, you saved me again, thank you." ”
Ling Xiao restored the dagger and put it on the unscratched wrist, this dagger had repeatedly saved her, and Ling Xiao had regarded it as a part of her life.
"Light smoke, the effect of the medicine has passed, can you open the door? Let me see the wound on your hand. Zhang Yan spent the night in the outhouse, and now he saw Ling Xiao collect the dagger, and said again.
Ling Xiao ignored him, not sleepy, but she felt that the strength to open her eyes was gone.
After another hour or two, the door was kicked open from the outside, and a loud bang made Ling Xiao's eyes widen in shock.
Zhang Yan walked in, and his face was even paler than usual at this moment. Ling Xiaoyou closed his eyes, not wanting to look at him. Ling Xiao's bloody hand was picked up by him, but Ling Xiao shook it hard and broke away from his hand, but at the same time, the sharp pain hit her whole body.
"Don't you like me like that? I'd rather hurt myself like this. I just want to keep you, my sister-in-law said that as long as a woman has a child, then her heart will be firmly locked, so that you won't think about running away again, I know that my sister-in-law's method is despicable, but that's also for your good! Zhang Yan said bitterly, and the answer to him was only silence.
Zhang Yu knew that Ling Xiao didn't want him to touch her, so he left with a sense of humor and ordered a maid to come and bandage Ling Xiao with medicine. At this moment, Ling Xiao was completely demented, and automatically blocked everything around him.
Ling Xiao lay on the couch for two days without eating or drinking, until in the middle of the night, she got up, Ling Xiao decided to run away again tonight no matter what, if she was caught, she would also end her life without them whipping her.
Zhang Yan had fallen asleep in the inner room at this time, and taking advantage of the dark sky, Ling Xiao cautiously walked out of the yard and came to the pond in secret. She wanted to jump right away, but she thought it would stop her.
Awakening in the dark is often accompanied by the desire to survive in a desperate place, sometimes in order to be able to live, anything can be abandoned, not to mention that now Ling Xiao has to give up only a green silk. So she took off the dagger and cut off the green silk from the middle, one by one. Eventually, her floor-length hair became a little different from the length of other women, with uneven ends.
There was a sound of frogs in the pond, she slowly entered the water, swimming downstream, and her injured arm, at this moment, was touched by water, and the pain made her unable to exert herself, and she could only rely on one hand. Through a dense lotus leaf, she finally reached the wall, she held her breath into the water, and there was another violent swim, and when she surfaced again, she found that she was out of Zhang's mansion.
She got up from the water and stood on the stone slab, only to step on the air and fall to the ground much lower than it, her hand without a knife wound instantly came from a sharp pain, she struggled to get up, only to find that the hand was no longer able to move, she had also experienced this when she was practicing martial arts before, it was obviously dislocated.
What she didn't expect was that it was actually a dam, and she just stepped on the edge of it, and one step missed.
Ling Xiao knew that she couldn't stay here for too long, and she didn't care about the pain in her arms at the moment, so she walked forward, and while it was still early in the night, she wanted to leave here quickly.
Ling Xiao walked non-stop for half the night, she had already left Zhang's mansion, her clothes had been dried by the night wind, she tore the gauze wrapped around her arm with her teeth, she knew that the gauze that had been wet would only accelerate the growth of bacteria, and the wound would be more susceptible to infection.
The dawn had passed, and she walked aimlessly down the street, her clothes slightly dirty and her hair messy, and now she was like a beggar, not knowing where to go. She thinks it's really ridiculous, she used to always use to play with other people's fate in her own hands, but now her own fate is controlled by others, living like ants, God is really good at playing tricks on people.
"Ling Xiao!" Ling Xiao overheard someone calling her name, and when she looked up, she saw that it was Lu Jingxing standing not far in front of her, looking at her.
When Ling Xiao saw Lu Jingxing at this moment, his heart was uncontrollably excited, as if he had met a relative.
Lu Jingxing walked over quickly, and when he saw her embarrassment now, his face was moved: "Why did you make yourself like this, what's wrong with your hands?" ”
"Dislocated." Ling Xiao said nonchalantly.
"Come back to the inn with me first, and I'll treat you."
"Didn't you go back to Huizhou?" Ling Xiao asked as he walked.
"I went back to the wooden house to pick you up, but when I saw the corpse on the ground, I knew that you would definitely not go back there, and I looked for you for more than half a month." Lu Jingxing replied.
"What about the corpses?" Ling Xiao asked.
"Thrown into the wilderness, where my mother was insulted." Lu Jingxing said bluntly.
"Is that your mother's house?" Ling Xiao thought that she had killed someone in his mother's house, and felt a little guilty in his heart.
"She lived there when she was younger." Lu Jingxing's tone seemed to be saying something far away.
Ling Xiao followed Lu Jingxing in the direction of the inn, and it didn't take long for him to arrive.