Chapter 05: The Strange Girl Who Ran Away
I only heard a loud 'boom', and then the rain fell like thousands of arrows!
In the dark of night, the lightning from the sky seemed to tear the earth apart, and it was terrifying. The whole land was washed by the rain, and no one walked on the streets except for the lanterns that flickered at the doorway.
However, at this time, a group of officials came from a distance, and there were about a dozen officials, who seemed to be chasing something.
"Quick, chase, she's running over there!"
"Be sure to find her tonight, if she escapes, she will have her head cut off."
As he spoke, the group searched forward, because the night was too dark and it was raining heavily, it was inevitable that walking would be somewhat affected.
When the official ran to a fork in the road, the ten men were divided into two teams, one to the left and the other to the right.
The sight fell on the spot, here is a green forest, the green forest makes a 'rustling' sound in the rainy night, a cool breeze blows, and the green forest makes a 'woo-woo' sound, which looks extremely terrifying.
At this moment, a shadow emerged from the dense jungle, and the small shadow was in the backlight of the green forest, and it was impossible to see her face, only that she was a child of about four or five years old, with iron chains tied to her hands, and with every step she took, the chains would make a 'jingle clang' sound.
The child is terrified!
However, she is also unusually calm!
She held the chain in her hand to her heart, and ran out into the village, and now the chain would no longer make that noticeable 'clanging' sound......
The little meat bun that was woken up by the thunderstorm opened the window, and a cool breeze blew, and Ziming was blown by this powerful coolness and trembled.
Ziming said in a milky voice: "Grandma Tang, it's raining so hard." ”
"Don't open the window when it's raining, it's going to catch a cold, come back to sleep."
"Oh!"
Ziming was about to light the window, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw a figure in the distance gradually walking in......
"There's a ghost!"
Ziming yelled, closed the window and ran to the bed, next to Tang.
Tang was old, and he was so tossed by him, he smiled helplessly: "You little guy, you are noisy all day long." ”
Tang covered the quilt for him, got up and opened the window to look at the so-called 'ghost'.
"Grandma Tang......" Ziming covered the quilt, revealing half of his fleshy face and said, "Have you seen a ghost?" ”
Tang's probe looked east and west: "What the hell is there." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, one person suddenly broke into Tang's sight, and Tang almost fell in fright.
"Grandma, what's wrong with you!"
Xiao Ziming uncovered the quilt and jumped out of bed to help her, but fortunately, Tang's eyes were quick and he grabbed the window and doorknob in time.
"Where did the hairy girl come from?"
The eyes fell on the window, a little girl about five years old, dressed in tatters, her hair seemed to have not been washed for several years, dirty and smelly, most of the child's face was covered by hair, and she couldn't see her face clearly, only saw the round eyes, obviously she was such a young child, but she had the kind of anger that a child of the same age should have.
The little girl swallowed her saliva and said, "Grandma, I'm hungry, can you give me some food?" ”
Ziming moved a stool, climbed on the stool and looked at it, it turned out that it was not a ghost, it was a child about the same age as him.
"Are you a boy or a girl?"
"I'm a girl, can you do it and give me a stutter?"
Tang Shi looked at her, and saw that she was very pitiful, and she was already soft-hearted, but as a result, Yu Guang skimmed the iron chain on her wrist, and suddenly frightened an elf.
Tang said, "You wait. ”
Tang closed the window, put Ziming on the bed, told him not to let him come down and walk around, went to get some food, opened the window, handed it to the little girl, and said, "Grandma wrote you food, it is already benevolent and righteous, don't harm grandma." ”
She has the iron chain of the government in her hand, then she must be a criminal.
At such a young age, how can she be a criminal, most of the crimes are committed by her parents, she is just an innocent person......
Ay!
The little girl thanked her again and again, hid in the far corner with the food, and began to eat it in a big gulp.
in the room
The boy asked innocently: "Grandma Tang, it's raining outside, isn't it cold outside for my little sister?" ”
"Did you see her with a chain in her hand?"
The boy shook his head.
"That's from the government, this little girl is not easy, don't be reckless, and bring disaster to your family when the time comes."
The kid nodded as if he didn't understand.
Tang fell asleep with Xiao Ziming in his arms, it was still stormy outside, and Xiao Ziming slept quite warmly in Tang's arms, covered with a futon.
The difference is that what happened to the little girl outside.
The little girl hid in a corner of the house, although she could temporarily shelter from the rain, but the rain was too strong, she was wet, and she shivered in the wind.
She curled up and shuddered.
Something seems to be going on in my head!
Her eyes are different from the innocence of her peers, more hateful, calm, and evil......
I don't know how long later, when she was drowsy, she heard a 'crunch', she was very vigilant, just a subtle sound, and she woke her up!
She sat down in a daze, her eyes looking warily at the place where the sound had come from.
After a while, Xiao Ziming hugged a futon and a clean shirt, came to the little girl's side, and said, "Little sister, I see that your clothes are wet, very uncomfortable, this is my clothes, boy's, if you don't mind, I'll give it to you." ”
The boy looked at her with a smile.
The little girl looked at the futon and clothes in Ziming's hand, there was vigilance in her eyes, and there was incredible, and finally she said, "What are you going to do to me?" ”
The boy tilted his head and thought for a long time: "What to do?" ”
The little girl knocked him for a while, and then her vigilant gaze gradually relaxed: "Uncle Li said, I am a girl, I must always protect myself, if someone is good to me and gives me something, ask others what they want to do, if they ......"
"What if?"
Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, Ziming didn't know how to ask.
“…… Nothing, thank you. ”
The little girl took the futon in Ziming's hand and thanked her clothes.
Ziming said: "Grandma doesn't allow me to wait for you to enter the house, and this is not my house, so I can only help you so much." ”
The little girl nodded and said, "I'm already very grateful to you." ”
Ziming waved at her and turned back to the house.
It's still raining outside.
The little girl saw the warm bedding in her hands and the clean clothes, and her eyes were not only wet.
After a while, the little girl changed into clean clothes on the spot, wrapped in a futon in the corner, and spent the warmest night in recent years......
also because of Ziming's loving act, he became the most beautiful white moonlight in the little girl's heart.
Following
After a night of wind and rain last night, the next day ushered in a sunny day.
A colorful rainbow appeared in the sky, and Ziming followed Tang out of his relative's house, looking at the rainbow in the sky, jumping excitedly along the way.
"Grandma Tang, you said that I haven't seen my mother all night, will my mother not sleep well all night."
"Then do you want your mother?"
"Think, let's write quickly, I'm anxious to see my mother!"
"Hey, slow down, I'm too old to run......"
An old man and a young man walked on the road, talking and laughing.
When passing through the entrance of the village, I met a group of officials who were investigating, and the officials were blocked at the entrance of the village, and every time they went out, they would hold a portrait and ask: "Have you seen this girl?" ”
"Nope."
"Have you seen this girl?"
"No ......"
"Grandma Tang, are the officials catching bad guys again?"
Tang Shi rang out the little girl he met outside the window last night, and he estimated that it had something to do with it, so he said: "Grandma is holding you, you are sleeping in grandma's arms, and you don't know what you hear, but you don't hear it." ”
Ziming nodded as if he didn't understand,
When the team out of the village to investigate arrived at Tang's, Tang's portrait in the hands of the official saw a portrait of a little girl, the girl looked quite cute, and the word 'slave' was wrapped around her right face, but compared with the girl she met last night, it seemed to be a little different.
The official asked, "Do you see this girl?" ”
"Nope."
"Alright, let's go."
Tang hugged Ziming and walked away for a while, then put him down.
She is old, Ziming is fat, and she can't hold it at all.
After hugging for a while, I was already tired and out of breath.
"Grandma Tang, there is a place to drink tea in front, let's go where to rest for a while.
"Okay."
The two walked for a while, then sat down in the tea drinking place not far away, and one of them ordered a cup of herbal tea, ordered a plate of dim sum, and ate it.
Someone next to him said.
"Who is the official in front of you checking?"
"I heard that it was exiled to a slave on the border, and this slave status is not trivial."
"I see that the portrait in the hand of the official is just a child, and this child can become a slave, most likely because the father and mother have done something unseemly, so that they will harm the child."
"Hey......"
While the group was talking, a team came in the distance.
The group consisted of about twenty people, led by a dark-skinned but good-looking general, and those behind him were also dressed in soldiers' clothes.
"Don't talk nonsense, the soldiers are here."
As he spoke, the gossiping people dispersed, and in the distance, the dark-skinned general sat not far from Ziming's table, ordered tea and snacks, and ate with the other soldiers.
The boy ate the pastry in his hand, but his eyes couldn't help but look at the big man.
The big man ate the pastry, slurped and drank a bowl of herbal tea, and the little soldier next to him immediately licked a bowl for him.
Seeing this, the boy smiled at the big man.
The big man didn't intend to glance at it, and happened to see the boy smiling at him, and he immediately felt that the child looked very familiar.
As soon as he was interested, he teased the child: "Child, how old is this year?" ”
"I'm almost five years old!"
Speaking milkily, the appearance looks well-behaved and cute, so that the big man inadvertently recalled that he entered the master's house when he was a child, and when he saw the little master for the first time, the little master and the child in front of him looked very similar, the difference is that the little master likes to hide his love in his heart since he was a child, but this little guy loves to laugh.
The general looked at this child, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that he was in love, so he teased: "Listen to your tone, you haven't been weaned yet, do you want to come to Uncle Bai's barracks as a boy soldier and train him to be a straight man of steel like us!" ”
"Hahaha......"
The surrounding onlookers, as well as the soldiers around the general, all laughed.
Originally, Ziming liked this general a lot, but who knew that when he teased him like this, Ziming's impression of him was much worse!
"My mother said, let me not talk to strangers, especially weird uncles who like to hook up with children!"
When the soldiers beside him heard this, they suddenly burst out laughing.
"Hahaha-"
The general couldn't hold his face and shouted: "What a laugh! ”
After that, the laughter around him did not stop, but a small soldier said: "General Bai, why don't you soldiers train in the barracks, nor do you go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and travel all day long to find a girl, it's enough to choke, it's hard to find fun, it's not too much to laugh!" ”
"That's it!"
It turns out that these officials are out looking for someone!
Also to catch that escaped slave?
"What!" General Bai shouted, "That's ......" He looked around, but did not say anything, but made the soldiers who understood stop laughing.
"Hurry up and drink tea, drink it and go to the next stop."
"Yes!"
The group began to bury their heads in eating, and at this time, a soldier came running from not far away, whispering something in General Bai's ear, and after General Bai heard it, he was surprised: "What you said is true?" ”
"It's true! The brothers of the beggars saw it with their own eyes. ”
"Let's go, pack up our things, and go to Peace Village!"
Ziming listened, Peace Village?!
Isn't that where they live!