The cold wind was whining, and the treetops beside the road were long since bare branches left. The night was vast, and the palm beads were a little difficult to discern the direction. She ran for a while, and because there was snow on the road, she didn't notice her feet and fell at that time.

Zhangzhu rubbed her sore knee, she heard someone talking in the distance, did Jochi's people find it so quickly? Zhangzhu didn't dare to rest, so he had to get up again.

But she hasn't come out at all since she came to Le Chun for so long, and she can still distinguish the direction according to the sun during the day, but when it is dark at night, how should she act? At this time, Zhangzhu remembered that Chu Yuanzhen had taught her how to look at the stars, she looked up, and just saw a starry sky, those stars were twinkling, and she tried hard to recall what Yuanzhen had said to her, she had to rely on the stars to discern the direction.

South, South. Gotta turn and walk to the right-hand side! Zhangzhu got up and patted the snow on his body, and after only a while, his hands and feet felt like they were going to stiffen.

She walked forward, not resting for a moment, going as far as she could in the night, and not being caught by Jochi's men again.

She didn't know how far she had gone or how long she had walked, but she felt that she was still in the small city of Lechun, and her feet had no strength to move forward, but the biting cold after stopping forced her to move forward.

She wants to go back to Yanzhou and return to Yuanzhen. She still has to avenge the Xie family, she wants to live! This powerful obsession sustains her and keeps her going.

It was already the middle of the night after Jochi found out that Zhangzhu had escaped.

"My lord, that Doctor Fu is gone."

Jochi drank a lot of wine, and some of them were drunk, and said, "Don't you see?" Where can she run to a girl's house, go and get it back for me! ”

Jochi gave the order, and his guards went into action. Bixia, who was accompanying her beside her, was not at ease for a moment in her heart, and she prayed for the palm beads in her heart, hoping that the palm beads would not be found.

Jochi glanced at Bixia drunkenly, then pinched the face of his concubine, and said, "You let that Doctor Fu go, didn't you?" ”

Bixia's face was afraid, but how could she admit it, her head shook like a rattle: "The concubine doesn't know, the concubine doesn't know." ”

"I don't know? If you don't know, you don't know. She is a girl's family and wants to escape back to Yanzhou by herself? That's absolutely impossible, she can't get through the big mountain that leads to Yanzhou, although it's winter, the bear blind or something is already hibernating, and the tiger or something may be sleeping, but it is said that there will be wolves coming out to move, and if she encounters a wolf pack, she is afraid that only bones will remain. Yes, who told her to stay with me if she was not obedient, and wanted to run away from her own cleverness? It's okay to die outside! ”

Jochi's words made Bixia on the side tremble when she heard it.

Zhangzhu had been walking all night, and then she was so tired that she found a leeward corner and sat down cross-legged. She rested against the low wall, she was so tired that she didn't have the energy to go any further, and she had to keep up her spirit before she could go on.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw that the sun had risen in the east, reflecting the snow in a warm glow. She looked around, I don't know when she had already left the city, Le Chun City was really not too big, she looked south, there was a towering mountain in the distance, she wanted to return to Yanzhou, she had to cross that mountain. At present, she has no means of transportation, all she can rely on is her own feet, and she doesn't even have a penny on her.

Thinking of this, Zhangzhu took apart the burden given to her by the maid next to Bixia and looked at it, there were a few dried buns in the baggage, and a small handkerchief bag. She opened the handkerchief bag, which contained a few pieces of broken silver. Although the broken silver has turned a little black, it is indeed silver.

Bixia is really righteous, and it is difficult for her to prepare these for herself. Zhangzhu was very grateful, she quickly took a bun and nibbled on it, but there was no water, so she had to swallow it dry.

After a short rest, Zhangzhu heard the sound of the house behind her, and she didn't dare to stay outside the walls of other people's houses anymore, she tightened her cloak, put on her hat and continued to walk towards the mountain.

The journey back to Yanzhou was destined to be the most difficult part of Zhangzhu's journey, she had to overcome the cold weather, and she had to always be on guard against the people of Jochi to find her. When passing by a restaurant, Zhangzhu added some new dry food, asked for a pot of water, and continued to move forward after reluctantly filling his hunger.

She also encountered some obstacles along the way, but those obstacles were not really obstacles, and Zhangzhu always thought of ways to overcome them. The sun has not yet set, and the palm beads have come to the foot of the mountain, and she has to use her last strength to climb over this mountain, and after this mountain, it will be closer to Yanzhou.

Zhangzhu picked up a thick wooden stick and held it in his hand, hoping that it would come in handy when it was critical.

The trail was not easy to walk, slippery and steep, and at the moment the wooden stick served as her crutch, supporting her all the way up the rugged and winding mountain road. Just as Zhangzhu was trying to climb upwards and finally reached the top of the mountain, the last ray of light in the sky was swallowed up by the ink clouds next to him.

The night shrouded the land in the north again, the cold wind on the mountain was much more biting than in the city, the palm bead was halfway up the mountain, she couldn't advance or retreat, she couldn't go any further, she couldn't see clearly that if she fell off the cliff with one foot in the air, her life was likely to be lost.

Find a place to wait for dawn, Zhangzhu thought so, so she found a big tree and sat down, she rested against the big tree, touched the contents of the bag and ate it slowly. Just as she was about to eat the second bun, she heard a rustling sound from somewhere, especially in such a dark night, the slightest sound would be particularly harsh. She vigilantly held the wooden stick beside her in her hand, and slowly stood up, and at this time, she saw several pairs of shining eyes slowly approaching her!

It's a pack of wolves! Zhangzhu held the wooden stick in her hand tightly, and she didn't know how many wolves there were, but seeing those shining eyes made her creepy!

There was no way back, so she could only meet it. Later, she remembered that she had heard someone say that wolves were afraid of fire, and that there was a fire sickle in her baggage, and the palm beads hurriedly lit the fire, and set fire to the branches on the side, and she threw the burning branches at the wolves, and the wolves were so frightened that they retreated a long way.

The firelight didn't really deter the wolves, and Zhangzhu later had to fight the animals with the sticks in her hand, and she couldn't fall here, she couldn't die in the mountains without even a corpse. She's going to live!

Strong faith sustained her, so that the palm bead did not fall, and after she really repelled the wolves, she was completely exhausted, and later fell next to the tree.

Did you just die? She's so unwilling! None of the things she wants to do have been completed yet, she has lived in vain for several years! She finally closed her eyes with a sigh of regret and unwillingness.