Chapter 57: Escape at Night
She had never fought for herself, even this time, it was with the help of her parents and brother that she had the courage and decision, she would never be timid because of this snow, if so, without others, she would look down on herself, she thought.
"Girl, the slave maid will always follow you, the slave maid has strong legs and feet, if the girl can't walk, the slave maid can carry the girl."
Coral also said with a firm face.
A cold wind blew in through the crack in the open window, and the clothes of the master and servant were hunting, as if mocking their decision and determination.
Song Anming came over at the end of the year, and he only brought a small guy with a curved bow, and the curved bow was guarding outside, and Song Anming entered the house wearing a body of snow.
Seeing that Song Xiaochi's master and servant were both wearing dark old jackets, wearing Song Xiaochi's dark old cloak in the past, and leather boots on their feet, these boots were bought by Song Xiaochi with a bow before, in order to only facilitate walking at night, but now that it is snowing heavily, these leather boots are worth buying.
Coral rejoiced in her heart, before the girl spent six taels of silver to buy these two pairs of leather boots, she was still very distressed, now it seems that the girl is really more prescient than her.
"Are you ready?" Song Anming asked as soon as he entered the room.
Song Xiaochi nodded.
Song Anming glanced at the package on the back of the coral, and felt that the package contained the winter clothes of the two people was a little small, but he didn't ask much, if his sister didn't have warm winter clothes in Huaihua Hutong, he could buy it and send it secretly.
He knew that his sister didn't have any good clothes in this house.
"Then let's go, go out through the West Corner Gate."
The West Corner Gate is in the outer courtyard of the Bofu, and it is bound to pass through the second gate, although the Bofu was defeated, but there are still two mothers-in-law at the second gate who take turns guarding it all the year round, one of these two mothers-in-law is the person of Mrs. Song, and the other is the person of the Du family.
Song Xiaochi didn't ask Song Anming how to get out of the second gate, since Song Anming had already prepared for this day, he must have arranged it in advance.
The four of them walked along the slightly dilapidated verandah in the dark night, and in the faint night light, they could see the large snowflakes falling slowly or rapidly on the edge of the verandah.
It was very quiet along the way, none of the four of them spoke, they didn't even light the lamp, Song Anming took the lead, and in the middle was Song Xiaochi and Coral, bending the bow at the bottom.
When he was waiting in the house before, Song Xiaochi thought to himself that he could calmly deal with tonight's night escape.
But now walking at night like this, Song Xiaochi felt that the heart in her chest was beating wildly, and she couldn't stop it even if she wanted to.
"Don't worry." Song Anming glanced back at Song Xiaochi as if he heard Song Xiaochi's rapid heartbeat.
Song Xiaochi nodded and did not speak.
When he arrived at the second gate, Song Xiaochi glanced at the gatehouse, it was dark, I don't know if he had fallen asleep a long time ago, or if there was no one at all.
Looking at the locked wooden door, Song Anming took out the key, and with a click, the iron lock was opened, and the heavy wooden door that had fallen into disrepair couldn't help but make a "squeak" and "squeak" sound when it was opened.
Song Xiaochi's heart beat faster and faster with the intermittent "squeak" sound, and her eyes were even more scanned in the dark, but fortunately, except for the snowflakes that fell on her face from time to time, there was nothing else abnormal.
"Alright, let's get out first." Song Anming only opened the gap between the wooden door and only allowed one person to pass through, and supported it with his hands, allowing the three people to pass through one after another, and when the door was closed, there was naturally a "squeak" sound.
Out of the inner courtyard, Song Xiaochi breathed a sigh of relief, the inner courtyard is much tighter than the outer courtyard, of course, if it was placed in the past, like the four of them walked out of the corridor of the inner courtyard, even if they didn't carry a lantern, they would still be discovered by the in-laws who were patrolling.
But now, even if the house is still barely holding up the scene and arranging a few mothers-in-law to patrol the night, not only is there no reward, but even the monthly money is insufficient, and those mothers-in-law will naturally not work as conscientiously as before.
As for the outer courtyard, when night came, it was as silent as death.
Because of his martial arts practice, Song Anming's eyesight was very good even at night when there was no light, and in less than a quarter of an hour, he took them to the west corner gate of Bofu by taking a shortcut through the snow.
If the inner courtyard of Bofu seems to be decadent, then many places in the outer courtyard can be described as desolate.
No one has been here for a long time at the West Corner Gate, and the grass has withered in winter, and it has been crushed by heavy snow one after another, and it has fallen down, and as soon as people step on it, and the snow, the sound of "creaking" and "creaking" sounded under the feet of the four people.
The iron door of the West Corner Gate has been rusted, the lock has been deformed, and the keyhole is blocked by rust, even if there is a key, it is useless, not to mention, this West Corner Gate has now been considered a sealed place by the Song family, and no one will pass through here on weekdays.
Song Anming should have quietly come to investigate, he took out a pair of iron tongs from his arms in a hurry, only to hear a slight muffled sound, and the lock was broken.
The iron gate is more difficult to open than the wooden door of the second gate, and the sound is more high-pitched, but fortunately, the houses on the west corner gate are empty and uninhabited.
Song Anming opened the door and let the bow go out first, Song Xiaochi and Coral followed, Song Anming came out last, and took out an embroidered lock from his arms that was similar to the one that was cut by him before, and locked it with a "click".
Song Xiaochi took a closer look at the lock, thinking that the most obvious difference between the two locks was that one was barely usable, and the other was completely scrapped.
"Big girl, get in the car." The first to go out of the bow came out of nowhere to catch a mule cart, Song Xiaochi looked at the mule cart, but did not see the coachman or anything like that, she didn't ask much, and she didn't use Coral to help, she picked up the hem of her skirt and jumped up, and Coral then came up.
With a small whip, the mule cart began to move forward.
"Sister Chi, the house in Huaihua Hutong was purchased by me and your sister-in-law two years ago, in the name of your sister-in-law's sister-in-law, and those people in Bofu don't know.
The house is just a small two-in, there was no one to guard before, only I occasionally took the bow to take care of it, but because of this incident, two days ago I went to the tooth people to buy three people back, a family of three, a couple in their thirties, with a teenager, I inquired clearly before buying, they are not locals, but from Maoyuan Mansion to sell, it seems that they are loyal and honest, but I didn't tell them about your situation, you don't say much yourself, Even if they guessed, they wouldn't have asked. ”
Song Xiaochi let out a soft "um".
"I have prepared Li Xing for everything in the house, Li Xing is the man in that family, his mother-in-law's surname is Zhu, and the boy's name is Li Wang."
Song Anming continued to introduce the situation in the house in Huaihua Hutong to Song Xiaochi, Song Xiaochi listened to the name of the father and son, but slightly hooked the corners of his mouth, and said in his heart From the name of the father and son, they are not like father and son, but like brothers, prosperous!