Chapter 9: Night Change
The eighth day of September is Zhang Wenyi's birthday in this life, and on this day, Zhang Wenyi sent a hand-sewn forehead wipe to his eldest wife when he asked for good morning, in order to thank his mother for her nurturing grace. Originally, she thought that she would be amazed on the spot, but unexpectedly, everyone just praised it slightly. After a few days, Zhang Wenyi inadvertently learned that the ancients were teenagers and did not have birthdays.
The emperor said a few years ago: Mother used to have a very hard day on this day, and the children should show something.
Well, ancient and modern times are not the same. In the previous life, people felt very good about themselves when they said that this day was their mother's Good Friday, but they didn't expect the ancients to have such a saying a long time ago, and it seems that many excellent traditions of the Chinese nation are lost. Zhang Wenyi thought calmly.
After a period of self-training, her body is much better, and she is not as fat as before. Although she still feels fat, she is still satisfied with the results of the exercise.
Since Yuan Niang left, Brother Lian often brought Zhang Wenyi some dolls or food outside when he was in the province in the morning and dusk. This made Zhang Wenyi very happy every time she got a small gift.
Yuan Niang finally wrote a letter, she wrote in the letter: She is married, and the prince of Yiguo treats her very well, please rest assured and wait.
Seeing that Yuan Niang had a letter coming, the whole family was relieved. Since then, Yuan Niang will write back every month, and sometimes send some special products of the capital or popular pollen rouge powder to the sisters. Yuan Niang's letter can make the whole family happy for a few days every time.
The days passed, and in a blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival again. Yuan Niang wrote a letter saying that the prince would accompany her back to save her relatives after the New Year, and everyone was happy for a while.
But after the New Year, Yuanniang did not come back, because the same continent where the second master was located was invaded by the Turks, and the whereabouts of the second master are unknown. This turn of events caused the family to panic. The Wen Zheng brothers are in business and the other are in business, and the two work together to revitalize the family. The second master suffered a sudden accident, which is equivalent to a broken pillar of the Wen family, which is a very big blow to the Wen family, and they didn't even go to the Lantern Festival this year.
On this day, Zhang Wenyi sneaked out to finish running, came back to wash up, and just fell asleep, he heard a faint shouting and the sound of iron hitting outside the window.
Zhang Wenyi stood up on the bed and asked, "Chunhua, Chunhua, go see what's going on outside." ”
It's Chunhua who is on duty tonight, maybe I'm tired during the day, and Chunhua didn't move after saying "um" twice on the couch at the door. Zhang Wenyi had to get up and walk out of the door by herself, and she found that the female dart master on night duty not far away was fighting with people. There are still people jumping down on the nearby courtyard wall, and there are also dart masters outside the second gate who run inside, and the scene is very chaotic.
At this time, the second sister closest to her hugged her younger brother who was still in swaddling clothes, and ran over and shouted to Zhang Wenyi: "Come to where the eldest lady is!" ”
"Attacked!" This thought instantly crossed her brain, and she immediately turned around and pulled up Chunhua, shouting, "Hurry up!" ”
After speaking, he hurriedly ran to the room where Liu's mother and Ah Xiu lived. Pulling up the dazed Ah Xiu watched Liu's mother grab her clothes and run out, Zhang Wenyi shouted, "Hurry up!" ”
When she turned around, she saw that Chunhua was still there hurriedly dressing, Zhang Wenyi hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the clothes from her hand, and shouted, "When is it, don't go quickly!" ”
The four of them hurried out of their small courtyard, and when they went out, Chunhuawei fell on their feet, limping and slowing down everyone. At this time, the figure outside was longing, the female dart master in the distance had been knocked down, and there were seven or eight big men surrounding the two female dart masters who were dragging the two female dart masters into a nearby room, and the strength of a female dart master was torn to reveal her snow-white shoulders, and she kept struggling. But in front of a few powerful men, her struggle seemed so small and powerless.
As soon as the four of them ran to the small courtyard where Brother Twelve lived, they saw the figures in front of them shaking and scurrying around. Zhang Wenyi's heart sank: the way was cut off.
In the bedroom of Wen Zheng and the eldest wife, the children of the Wen family and some of the servant women were walking along the tunnel under the bed under the guidance of the couple. Brother Lian broke in with the eleventh brother and the twelfth brother, he escorted the younger brother into the tunnel, and saw the second and third sisters not far away, so he asked, "Is Jiu'er here?" ”
The second sister shook her head and replied, "I called her and ran straight to this side when I saw her out of the room, but she didn't follow." ”
Looking at the baby in the arms of the second sister, the third aunt moved the package in her hand behind her in embarrassment. Brother Lian said "hey" and turned around and walked out of the tunnel.
Wen Zheng and the eldest lady saw Brother Lian going and returning, and hurriedly stopped him.
"What are you going to do?" Wen Zheng asked in a deep voice.
"Jiu'er hasn't come yet, I'll pick her up!" Brother Lian shouted.
Wen Zheng frowned, grabbed Brother Lian'er's arm, and said, "Go back!" ”
Brother Lian struggled: "Jiu'er hasn't come yet, you can't leave her!"
Wen Zheng was furious and was about to speak. The eldest lady stepped forward and slapped Brother Lian'er in the face, and shouted, "Hurry up, you are more than a sister of Jiu'er!" ”
Brother Lian clenched his fists and glared angrily, and after a while, he slammed his fist on the pillar beside him, turned around and walked into the tunnel. Looking at her son who left angrily, the eldest lady couldn't help but grab Wen Zheng's shirt. Wen Zheng took his wife's hand and walked to the door, opened a crack and looked out calmly.
After a glance, Wen Zheng turned back to his wife and said, "You go first, I'll wait." ”
The eldest lady nodded, and resolutely turned around and went down the tunnel. Wen Zheng didn't turn around and enter the bedroom until a figure appeared at the gate of the courtyard, calmly restored the bed, and then went into the tunnel and turned around and gently closed the hole. The moment Wen Zheng closed the entrance to the cave, the door was kicked open from the outside.
The door was brightly lit, and a big man with a beard looked cautiously into the house, and then ordered: "Everyone runs to this courtyard, there must be a famous hall inside, search for me!" ”
At the same time that Wen Zheng turned around and went down the tunnel, Zhang Wenyi took Liu's mother, Chunhua and Ah Xiu to hide and hurriedly entered the courtyard where the twelfth brother lived.
As soon as they entered the house, they saw a figure in the distance searching for them. Chunhua suddenly broke free of Ah Xiu's hand, ran towards the figure frantically, and shouted: "I'm Chunhua, I'm Chunhua!" ”
The three of them were taken aback, and then they heard someone say: "What spring flowers and autumn flowers are just for Lao Tzu!" ”
Hearing Chunhua's exclamation, someone then said, "Fourth, don't worry. There must be someone over here! ”
Mother Liu's eyes darkened, and she turned her head and shouted firmly: "Ah Xiu!" ”
Ah Xiu nodded timidly and closed his eyes. Liu's mother reached out and grabbed Ah Xiu's throat, but Ah Xiu only struggled but did not resist in Liu's mother's hands. Zhang Wenyi, who was stunned by the scene in front of her, quickly smelled a stench of incontinence. After strangling Ah Xiu, Liu's mother turned around and picked up the two scissors from the maid's embroidery basket in the room, then turned her head and pushed Zhang Wenyi behind a piece of curtain.
The sound of footsteps from outside indicated that someone had walked into the yard, and Liu's mother stuffed a pair of scissors into Zhang Wenyi's hand and said, "Nine girls, you can find a way to escape, if you can't escape, don't embarrass the Wen family." ”
After saying that, she turned around and jumped out of the back window of the room, and before her back disappeared from the window, several big men appeared in front of the door. Someone shouted: "That woman ran away from the back window!" ”
Then the footsteps followed the chase, but there was a pair of footsteps that did not chase down, and the sound went to the bedroom. Then Zhang Wenyi heard the sound of her clothes being torn, the sound of Chunhua's struggles, screams, and whimpering, mixed with the heavy wheezing of men, and the squeak of the wooden bed shaking.
Zhang Wenyi knew that Chunhua had been raped, and she understood that this girl was actually an undercover agent the moment Chunhua ran out, but she didn't expect the report to come so quickly. didn't have time to think about it, Zhang Wenyi hurriedly took advantage of the chaos and tiptoed out of the house, she raised her eyes and saw that the direction where she lived was quiet, she let out a sigh of relief, turned around and returned to her room.
Her room had obviously been turned over, but not very carefully. Zhang Wenyi took out a lot of iron tools from all corners, and then calmly sat on the ground and assembled the iron tools one by one. The iron tools were quickly assembled into a folding crossbow, a revolver, and a set of multi-purpose daggers, all of which Liu's mother's man helped her build. At this time, a thought flashed through Zhang Wenyi's mind: I don't know what happened to Mother Liu.
Zhang Wenyi carefully used a mold to press out the stored lead pieces one by one, and then installed them on the prefabricated projectile body. She had only ten rounds of ammunition ready when footsteps rang out outside the door. Zhang Wenyi packed up her tools and belongings, and skillfully climbed into the dust in the house.
A lot of people broke in from outside the door, and they were tumbling around the house. Then someone said, "Check the next one." ”
After those people walked out, Zhang Wenyi was still motionless lying on the dust. After a while, the door was kicked open again, and then someone said: "You are suspicious, don't you have it!" Hurry up and look elsewhere. ”
Someone said "um", and then the footsteps sounded to indicate that the people in the room had walked out. Zhang Wenyi slipped down and floated out of the window along the curtain. Going out of the window and coming in through the window is something that Zhang Wenyi often did during this time. As soon as his feet touched the windowsill, he heard someone behind him laughing: "Third child, still not at ease?" ”
Zhang Wenyi was in a tight mood, and hurriedly hid in the shadow by the window. Only then did he hide in the shadows, only to see a figure floating out of the window in a hurry. The little consciousness left over from his years of spy career made Zhang Wenyi not want to put the multi-functional dagger across the window. Feeling the weight of the blade cutting through the flesh in his hand, a big man landed on his feet, turned around and stared at Zhang Wenyi in the shadows with an incredulous gaze.
A terrible cut in his throat in the moonlight, blood pouring out of the wound. The man clutched his throat and tried to shout, but his voice was muffled by blood. He stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhang Wenyi, shook his head in disbelief, and then fell to the ground with a bang. The moment he fell, Zhang Wenyi kicked him in the arm pointing at him.
Zhang Wenyi was secretly glad that if this person hadn't chased him out too quickly, she wouldn't have been able to give him a fatal blow with her current strength. Zhang Wenyi slipped off the windowsill and hid in the shadow in the corner. As soon as he hid his figure, a figure appeared by the window, the man looked at the dead man on the ground, and shouted: "The third, the third!" ”
Feeling bad, he shouted twice and walked out of the window, when he saw blood on the ground. The man who followed the direction of the third finger shouted frantically: "Come on, come on!" ”
As he shouted, seven or eight men appeared beside him, and the man shouted, "Follow me!" As he spoke, he took the lead and pursued in that direction.
When those people chased far away, Zhang Wenyi walked out of the shadows lightly. After looking around, she saw that it was still quiet for Brother Twelve, and she ran in that direction again.
Not long after hiding in Brother Twelve's room, I faintly heard someone outside shouting frantically: "Burn, burn it for me." Everyone retreat outside to guard it, come out one and kill one for me, and don't let one go! ”
Zhang Wenyi glanced out, and when she turned around, she saw Ah Xiu, who had been dead for a long time. The room was still stinking, so Zhang Wenyi had no choice but to walk towards the bedroom.
The bedroom was messy, and Chunhua was lying naked on the bed, staring blankly at the roof. It can be seen that she was humiliated to death. I don't know why, Zhang Wenyi has no anger in her heart at the moment, only sadness. She didn't even dare to pull the sheets and quilts to cover Haruka's corpse, because that might reveal that she had been here.
The window suddenly lit up, and Zhang Wenyi knew that this was a gangster setting fire to the house. Now she can only wait, waiting for the moment when this group of gangsters disperses to find a chance to escape.
Someone set the house on fire outside. Probably because it stinks so much inside, the people just set the house on fire outside and then leave in a hurry. At this time, Zhang Wenyi found a quilt and sheets to cover the bodies of Chunhua and Ah Xiu.
After thinking about it, Zhang Wenyi found several sets of his clothes in the twelfth brother's room by the light of the fire, put one on, packed the rest, and carried the rest on his back. He found a few needles in the sewing basket, found a flint and sickle on the table, and threw him into his arms, then smashed open the window with a stool and jumped out of the room where it had just begun to burn.