Look at those Buddha statues again, they are all fierce and vicious, hideous and terrifying. And the ancestral tablets of the bottles neatly arranged on the offering table also seem to be bubbling out with the arrogance of not knowing whether it is fairy or demonic, which makes people shudder when they look at it.

This place is comparable to a ghost, Xiang Wanqing thought to herself.

But what was even more unbearable than the environment was her stomach, which she had only drunk in the morning on the day of her wedding, and had only eaten it under the persuasion of Xiaoque, and had not eaten since then.

And today all day there was no rice, no food or drink, at this time, she was already hungry with her chest against her back.

She looked around and saw that only some tribute cakes were placed in front of the Buddha shrine, and she couldn't help but smack her lips and swallow her saliva.

After a while, she was really hungry, and she couldn't care so much about being alone here anyway, so she straightened up and went to get the pastry.

But just when the hand was about to reach, suddenly the door of the ancestral hall "squeaked"!

She was startled, her hand retracted in an instant, she turned around, and her eyes looked at the door in horror, only to see a tall black shadow flash in front of the window!

"Ahh Xiang Wanqing whispered.

At this time, the wind was blowing, and the candlelight of the oil lamp was almost extinguished, and the window lattice also made a "pop" sound.

Xiang Wanqing was terrified in her heart, she only felt that she had never been so scared when she was so big, her body retreated again and again, and she had already reached the offering table.

Just as she was about to scream, she heard a gentle voice: "Don't be afraid, it's me." But it was Huo Yujue who pushed the door in.

Xiang Wanqing exhaled a big breath, and in an instant, it was as if her bones had been pulled away, and she sat on the ground, and the soul that almost flew out of her body returned to its original position, she closed her eyes and whispered, "I'm scared to death." ”

Taking a breath, her eyes slowly opened, but the fear in her eyes had been replaced by sarcasm and self-deprecation, because in the face of Huo Yujue, she could only feel this way.

This person seems to have been deliberately sent by God to torture and humiliate her, and she doesn't want to have anything to do with him anymore.

Xiang Wanqing twisted her body forward, readjusted her kneeling position, folded her hands, closed her eyes, and didn't want to pay attention to him.

It's just that what Xiang Wanqing didn't know was that Huo Yujue's heart at this time was as painful and tormented as her.

Facing Xiang Wanqing, in addition to guilt, he was still guilty, endless guilt.

He inadvertently harmed her again and again, and "successfully" "led" her into the Huo family to be his stupid second brother as a daughter-in-law. And if it weren't for his repeated appearances and "actions", maybe she could have another way out, maybe she was not suffering here at this moment, but had escaped from the cage of this unfair marriage, and had another world.

Now, looking at Xiang Wanqing's thin, thin and helpless back, Huo Yujue added another level of sin to his heart, he sighed for a long time before finally speaking: "I'm sorry...... Second sister-in-law. ”

"Hehe......" Xiang Wanqing sneered, without words.

"Today in the hall, I ...... Didn't help you. ”

Xiang Wanqing sneered again, compared with the previous "sabotage" and marriage escape and fake groom, what is today's matter?

"I probably shouldn't have been by the river in the first place...... Also, I shouldn't have ...... with you in place of my brother."

Xiang Wanqing continued to sneer, the matter is a foregone conclusion, what's the use of you apologizing!

Huo Yujue lowered his head uneasily, biting his lower lip fiercely, and after a while, he raised his head and walked towards Xiang Wanqing as if he had made up his mind.

He held out his hand to her, then spread his palm, only to see a neat and tidy cage cloth bag in front of him.

When he was suspicious of Wanqing, Huo Yujue opened the cage cloth bag layer by layer, but two round snow-white rice balls were exposed!

The smell of rice wafted over instantly, and Xiang Wanqing, who hadn't eaten for two days and two nights, couldn't help but have her eyes shining, even if she restrained herself.

"Miss Xiang, you must be hungry, eat quickly." Huo Yujue said.

That's right, he always felt that "Miss Xiang" was the title she should have, and "second sister-in-law" was indeed too inappropriate for her, and it should not be imposed on her at all.

Xiang Wanqing didn't want to pay attention to it, but her gurgling stomach no longer depended on her, she couldn't care about anything anymore, even if she wanted to sigh about the ruthlessness of life and sigh about the ill-fated fate, she had to fill her stomach first and then continue!

She took the basketcloth bag and devoured it.

It wasn't until he had eaten all the two rice balls that he regained his energy, stretched out his hand to wipe his mouth from Wanqing, and inadvertently burped.

Seeing her like this, Huo Yujue couldn't help but smile, and her expression was like looking at a cute child who was full of food and drink.

Yes, she was already younger than him, she was indeed a child, and she was such a smart, beautiful, and aura child, how could she stay here and live with his stupid second brother? That really ruined her life!

Thinking of this, Huo Yujue knew that he couldn't hesitate any longer, he looked up at the tall ancestral hall, and then at the dark night outside, and exhaled cautiously, as if he had strengthened his determination again.

He held Wanqing's thin arm with both hands, looked her in the eyes, and said to her solemnly:

"Listen, Miss Xiang, I'll take you away now, it's just you and me here, and no one else will know, so you don't have to be afraid. This is my home, I have the back door key and I can take you out safely. ”

"What?" Xiang Wanqing was shocked, thinking that she had misheard.

Huo Yujue didn't wait for her to react, he picked her up and walked straight towards a corner of the ancestral hall.

His steps are big and his strength is great, and he has to trot towards Wanqing to keep up with his pace.

When he came to a bottle of Buddha statue in the corner, Huo Yujue pressed one of the bare toes of the Buddha statue, only to see the Buddha statue slowly turning, revealing a small door.

"I ......" Xiang Wanqing wanted to say something.

"Shh......h Don't talk. Huo Yujue reminded softly, and then quickly pulled her into the small door and came to a dark passage.

He struck a match, lit the kerosene lamp in the recess of the wall, and took out a key from another recess, and pulled it to Wanqing about three or four meters away, and there was another small door.

This time, Huo Yujue used the key to open the golden lock on the small door, and entered the door with Xiang Wanqing, and immediately a breath of fresh air rushed towards her, and Xiang Wanqing found that this was already the street outside Huo's house.

It turned out that this door was one of the back doors of the Huo family.

But at this time, it was the middle of the night, there was no one on the street, only a bright moon stayed alone in the sky, selflessly sprinkling silver light on the earth, and under the moonlight, Xiang Wanqing saw two rickshaws parked there.

She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Huo Yujue again: "Don't speak, listen to my arrangement." ”

As he spoke, he pushed her forward, and Xiang Wanqing had already gotten into one of the rickshaws.

Huo Yujue quickly got into another car and ordered: "Hurry up." ”

The two coachmen picked up the cart and ran as fast as they could.

Everything was so fast that Xiang Wanqing was overwhelmed, and there was no time to explain anything.

In the middle of the night, the wind was cold and blowing, Xiang Wanqing and Huo Yujue were pulled by two rickshaws and hurriedly drove on the street and in the countryside.

Xiang Wanqing was dressed thinly, and she was already shivering from the cold when she was in the ancestral hall just now, but now outside, the night wind was blowing, but she didn't feel cold anymore, but inexplicably felt a strange feeling from the bottom of her heart.

Is it warm? She couldn't tell.

In short, she felt like a drum was beating in her heart, which was a bit chaotic.

Occasionally, there would be a little light in the distance, perhaps a nearby business that had not yet closed, or an early vendor, and a few steamship whistles and coast guard whistles could be heard from time to time.

The car walked for a long time, and finally stopped, Huo Yujue paid the driver a tip, and said a few words, and walked towards her.

He lifted her out of the car, looked her in the eye again, and said solemnly:

"Miss Xiang, listen to me, there will be a ship to Shanghai in a while, you will get on the boat and leave, and when you arrive in Shanghai, you will go to one of my classmates, and he will answer and help you."

He said as he shoved a money bag into her hand, "It's a little money, and there's a note in it with the name and address of my classmate...... I hope that when you arrive in Shanghai, you can completely forget the unhappiness here and start a new life. ”

Xiang Wanqing knew that they had come to the dock in the town, and she couldn't help but open her mouth again and said, "But, I ......"

Huo Yujue interrupted her again:

"I know what you want to say, you're worried that I'll let you go without permission, and it's not easy to get along when you get home, aren't you? You can rest assured that no one knows that I did it, not even my mother, who knows that I will know the secret of the back door of the ancestral hall. ”

"No, I ......"

"Don't worry, Miss Xiang, take 10,000 steps back, even if someone finds out, no matter how I am the third young master of the Huo family, what else can they do with me? My mother wouldn't be so ruthless as to take her own son under the knife, would she? Hehe. ”

Under the moonlight and lights shining together, Xiang Wanqing saw a kind of light flashing on Huo Yujue's face, a light of kindness, integrity, bravery, and righteousness.

"Thank you, thank you...... Third Young Master. Xiang Wanqing could finally say a complete sentence, and this was the first time she had called him that way, and thanked him.

At this moment, only a long whistle was heard, which was a prompt sound urging passengers to board the ship.

"Let's go," Huo Yujue took Xiang Wanqing's hand again, and was about to go on a boat.

And this time, Xiang Wanqing finally shook off his hand, exhaled a long breath, and said, "Third Young Master, I understand your kindness, but I can't go." ”

Huo Yujue hurriedly stopped, turned around, looked at Xiang Wanqing puzzled, and asked, "What?" What other concerns do you have? You might as well say it and I'll help you out, but time is running out, and you have to hurry. ”

Facing Huo Yujue, Xiang Wanqing's eyes showed a grateful look for the first time, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she replied with a question: "Third Young Master, you really don't know why I married into your Huo family, why did I marry your second brother?" ”