Chapter 209: A Way Out

The martial law in Jinzhou City for three days in a row made people panic, and they didn't know what was going on.

In other words, after Wu Mian was trapped in the hole for two days, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he came out.

If this continues, the woman he stole will probably not survive.

It is impossible to go from the city gate in a bright light, so I have to find another way.

It's best to get out of town as soon as possible, or they may be spotted at any time.

Wu Mian, after thinking about it, came up with a way to give it a try.

The city of Jinzhou is a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the rivers are vertical and horizontal. The way to do this is not only from the cost, but also from the rivers and into the moat, but along the way there will be patrols waiting at the ferry.

Wu Mian felt that as long as he didn't get off the ferry and jumped off the river beach, he was very likely to escape.

With Li Jicai, it is somewhat of a burden. Wu Mian raised the intention of leaving Li Jicai behind. But he definitely couldn't throw Li Jicai on the avenue openly, but in this family, the old couple of this family are blind, and if they drag on for three or four days or something to be discovered, the woman will be gone long ago.

It's a human life, maybe the employer just wanted to kidnap this woman and use it for some trade, but the other party was not, and he wanted him to kill this woman directly, so Wu Mian felt that he still had a conscience.

This cannot be lost, and it cannot be taken away.

But time did not allow him to delay too much.

After weighing it repeatedly, Wu Mian still planned to take Jiang Li Jicai away, perhaps because he was used to taking the stolen things, so he was reluctant to let go.

If it's a big deal, take it back to Chagouzi Village, and then sell it to any family to be a daughter-in-law. You can make some money more or less.

During this period, the officers and soldiers searched the house several times, perhaps because they thought that the overgrown water tank could not hide people, and almost stood on the edge without touching it.

Wu Mian really couldn't stand this feeling of repeatedly tempering his mind, so he slipped out on the night of the second day of his escape, found a sack to put the loin in again, and then carried it and left.

He was very familiar with the area. He also knows how to avoid those officers and soldiers, after all, he is an old fritter.

Wrapped in Li Jicai, Wuguan took her by water.

There is a waterway that Wu Mian used to take before, used to sell stolen goods. Every time something is stolen, a small cargo puff is the best means of transport.

In the night, Wu Mian, who was thin but strong and powerful, carried Li Jicai all the way, took her to the boat, knocked open a wooden box for loading goods, freed up some of the goods and threw them into the water, and then stuffed Li Jicai into the wooden box and pressed her to the bottom.

Li Jicai's breath was a lot weaker, and his body couldn't feel much heat. This made Wu Mian slightly panicked, if Li Jicai died on the way, if he was discovered, he would have no way to live.

This is a man of gold.

The old man who supported the boat was over the age of old, and he had stayed on this waterway all his life, eating and living on the boat, and he had no children or daughters, and he was very comfortable alone.

He was also quite poor, and no one looked down on him. In addition to using his own small broken boat to load goods to and fro, he can occasionally catch some fish and sell it for some money.

It's no wonder that Wu Mian is shrewd and picks out some old, weak, sick and disabled, if he picks those who have long eyes, there is a chance that one of them will be betrayed if he is not careful.

Only when he has a clear base can he become a stronghold, an object that can be used. Sometimes Wu Mian feels that he is a mouse in the night, doing something that is not visible.

This old man's surname is Xia, and the people around him don't know what his name is, but they only know that Xia Laohan is alone, he likes to drink on weekdays, and he can eat a pot for a day, and he falls asleep on the bow of the boat after eating, drifting with the water, regardless of it.

I never worry about my things being stolen, and I never care about those things outside my body, which is a little unreliable in the eyes of others.

Therefore, the merchant who loads the goods generally does not choose him to transport some valuable goods, they are all idle, worthless things, and they will let him load them for moving and household use.

After Wu Mian settled Li Jicai, he hid under the boat.

On an October day, it was already very cold, and the water was also very cold, and when the river water penetrated his clothes and touched his skin, Wu Mian only felt a piercing pain, shivering from the cold, and his teeth were chattering.

The cold air came up one after another, hitting his head, and his head began to hurt. Wu Mian's eyes almost went dark.

Especially at night, when the wind picked up between the moorings of the ships, setting off waves after waves. The clear night sky is dotted with stars, reflected in the water, sparkling and sparkling.

The night is extremely beautiful, if you look at it from the shore, but at this moment, Wu Mian is still pressing the upper body on the bow of the boat, and the lower body is in the water, and the sky will soon be bright, if you don't go into the water early, it will be easy to be seen. In the face of the biting cold, Wu Mian gritted his teeth and endured it, his face turned red and purple, and his lips turned white, but compared to these momentary pains, after all, his life was still important.

The government paid more attention to the woman he had kidnapped than he had ever imagined. Imagine that if you were caught, you would have to die more than 10,000 times.

But this woman looks like that, there are still scars on her body, and there is nothing special about it, but this status is very different from him.

Wu Mian thought to himself that it was all out of the mother's womb, and when it was in the stomach, everyone was a ball of flesh and blood, how could it come out that when it came out, it was divided into three, six, nine and so on?

This world is inevitably too unfair.

The grievances encountered, no one can say that the princes of the government and county in these years are all uncles, who cares about you, a poor people.

Wu Mian often thinks that if he was born in some luxurious aristocratic family, he would definitely be more sympathetic to the poor people and help the suffering people, and he would never be drunk and lying on the knees of beautiful women, spending all day drinking, spending money like dirt, prodigal and wanton.

Whenever he thought of this, Wu Mian was always extremely indignant, and a resentment was accumulated in his heart. It is precisely this resentment that prompts him to keep doing things like stealing chickens and dogs, and he feels that he is extremely righteous and complacent.

It was soon dawning.

Wu Mian didn't know where to find the straw, he added a handle to the bow of Xia Laohan's boat, and prepared something for himself to breathe, so he didn't have to worry about suffocating under the water.

The only bad thing is that Xia Laohan often doesn't wake up until noon after getting drunk, and then rows out of the city slowly.

There was no rush for him, and no one would tell him to get up. No one will rush.

Wu Mian and the others have been hungry for more than two days, and Li Jicai can't feel it when he is in a coma, but he is a living person, and it takes strength to carry the boat.

In the past, he would still think that Xia Laohan was an advantage, and he was not in a hurry or slow, but now he was really anxious, and he was looking forward to him waking up quickly, and then leaving Jinzhou City with them.

Because the longer the delay, the easier it is to be discovered, and the greater the risk encountered.

The cold water flowed through his body, and his feeling was numb, if it weren't for the fact that his head was still awake and his chest was still warm, I am afraid that he would not have been cold.

If he quietly drowns in this river, it is estimated that in a few days, he will find his body swollen and floating on the surface of the river somewhere in the city.

Or maybe it sank to the bottom and was eaten clean by the fish at the bottom of the water.

Of course, now all he thinks about is food, people are iron, rice is steel, and if he doesn't eat a meal, he is hungry and panicked.

At this moment, Wu Mian was hungry and just wanted to eat a full meal.

If Xia Laohan wakes up earlier and takes him out of the city earlier, as long as he gets out of the city, he will be able to say anything.

After leaving the city, there are mountains and forests, as long as he can enter the mountains and forests, then even if it is an army of 100,000, with his ability, he can avoid pursuit. He grew up in the mountains and forests since he was a child, and he is a mountain baby.

Chagouzi Village is a small poor mountain village surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it will take a long time to walk the distance between two mountains to reach Jinzhou, but this is not a problem.

The belief that supported Wu Mian was to go out of the city, and then escape into the mountains and forests with Li Jicai, and then sell Li Jicai to others as a daughter-in-law to make some coolie money.

Xia Laohan was woken up by the scorching sunlight in the afternoon, but he woke up at this time all year round, and slowly and leisurely carried the goods that were not in a hurry to the ferry outside the city to pick up, often when it was close to sunset, he returned to the city after the handover, and drifted all the way back to the city.

Free and uninhibited. Because his asking price is relatively low, some merchants simply hand over the goods that are not in a hurry to Xia Laohan.

Fortunately, he was always able to deliver things honestly every time, never went wrong, never lost, no one disappeared, although it was slower.

In the end, there is still some credibility.

Cycle after cycle, year after year, little changed.

Xia Laohan is indifferent to what happened in the city, he is already a pickled old man with his hair and beard and loess buried to his neck, how can he still have a few years? Worrying won't allow him to live a few more years.

On the way, I bought two cakes on the shore, cheap, three cents.

The owner of the cake shop is an acquaintance with Xia Laohan, and he often walks this waterway, coming and going, thinking that he lives alone and is pitiful, but also takes care of him, Xia Laohan sometimes fishes and catches so many stupid tarpon, and he also gives it to the cake shop.

Wu Mian knew that there was a while, he calculated carefully in his heart, and before the time came, it must have been Xia Laohan who stopped to buy cakes.

By this time, he was already halfway there.

The entrance of the cake shop is considered a downtown area, there are many people, Wu Mian does not dare to probe too obviously, fortunately, there is a hull to cover it, and it is still okay to show half of his head a little.

The cake shop is far away from the river, and Xia Laohan's voice is very penetrating, and even Wu Mian under the boat can hear most of it.

"Old man, what's on your ship?" It was a small team of people from the Jinzhou Government who spoke, and his tone was quite unpolite, and even a little arrogant.