The two strong men pushed Cao Ran into the firewood room, then closed the door and locked it, and said coldly: "Mother Xu told me to starve you for two days first, so as not to toss blindly with too much strength." ”

The simple firewood room was littered with straw and a few bundles of dry firewood, the broken windows had been boarded from the outside, and a few faint rays of light came through, the room was full of dust and there was no place to stay, and the sound of rats was heard in the corner.

"Hey, don't lock me up here, where is this firewood room, it's clearly a prison cell, let me out, let me out!" Cao Ran slapped the wooden door hard.

"Girl, stop shouting, they're gone." A woman's voice came from around the corner.

Through the dim light, a thin figure sat on the grass by the window, dressed as a Fengfu maid, and entered Cao Ran's line of sight, and moved to the window to signal her to sit down.

"Are you a maid in the house?" Cao Ran lowered her vigilance and sat next to her, looking closely, it was not a handsome face, but also a little delicate.

"Yes, I'm the maid Yuxiu next to Madame. I don't look like you're a person from the house, how can you be locked up in a firewood room? ”

Yuxiu listened to Cao Ran's experience and was deeply sympathetic, "It's Mother Xu again, she is the nurse of the eldest lady, and she has always been domineering in the house." I was also framed and imprisoned here by her. ”

"You've been hungry for so long, and I still have some dry food here." Yuxiu took out a cloth bag from her arms, and inside was a yellowed half of a steamed bun.

Cao Ran took the steamed bun and broke it in half, and the entrance was dry and hard. "I have to find a way to get out, I don't know what happened to my mother."

"The doors and windows are locked, and you can't get out." Yuxiu choked and carefully put away the remaining half of the steamed buns.

"By the way, didn't you say that you are the maid next to Madame, since you were wronged, why didn't Madame save you out?"

"Today is the death day of the second lady, Mrs. will go to Puhua Temple at this time of year to pray for incense, and she will probably return to the house the day after tomorrow, as soon as Mrs. left yesterday, Mother Xu took someone to my room and framed me for stealing the eldest lady's jade bracelet, I don't know why the jade bracelet is in my room, I am really wronged whine......" said Yuxiu covered her obviously red and swollen cheeks with her hands and cried in a low voice.

Cao Ran gently stroked Yuxiu's shoulder to express comfort, "Yuxiu, don't cry, Mother Xu has obviously calculated that Madame is not in the house recently, so she has tried so hard to frame you, it won't be as simple as just locking you up for a few days." ”

Yuxiu heard Cao Ran's analysis and held her tightly, and looked flustered: "I remember, a few days ago, I suddenly had an upset stomach, and on the way back from the thatched house, I saw two sneaky figures by the pool, one of which was Mother Xu, and they seemed to be saying that Mother Cao was not dead fourteen years ago." ”

"Maybe it's because you've heard something you shouldn't have heard, and if that's the case, we have to get out as soon as possible, otherwise we'll die!" Cao Ran's clear eyes looked at Yuxiu firmly, and the scene of the bad guys being exposed and killing people in the TV series came to mind.

Yuxiu shuddered as if she was frightened by her eyes, but she didn't expect that the overheard words actually brought her death, "But how can we escape." ”

Cao Ran thought for a moment, pulled the two of them closer, leaned over Yu Xiu and whispered in her ear, "Listen to my ,......"

"How can this be done, what if they hurt the girl, I can't hurt you!" Yuxiu shook her head again and again as she spoke.

"Don't worry, they won't do anything to me if they find out that I'm not you, just now those two people said that they would lock me up for two days, and Mrs. will come back in just two days, and they will definitely save you out." Cao Ran saw Yuxiu's worried expression, and comforted: "I am also doing this for myself, so that I can have a chance to escape even if I save you, you believe me." ”

At night, the two of them could no longer be seen clearly in the dark firewood room.

A man's footsteps came from outside the door, and the "click" firewood room was opened, and a middle-aged man in coarse clothes with a fierce face walked in.

The man bowed down with a night light in his hand to shine a picture of the two girls, and the girl who had been locked in in the morning was falling asleep on the haystack beside her. Under the dim light, a weird smile appeared on the corner of the man's mouth, and he walked towards the girl dressed as a maid in the house, "Are you Yuxiu?" Aunt Sun told me to take you for questioning, let's go! ”

The woman lowered her head, didn't look at the appearance of the visitor, and was urged by the man to get up and leave.

Cao Ran was not taken to Aunt Sun for questioning, but was taken by the man to a deserted and dilapidated house where few people came.

The man didn't seem to be from the house, because he wasn't familiar with Yuxiu's appearance, and until the two looked at each other, they didn't realize that she wasn't Yuxiu herself.

"What are you going to do? Don't mess around, or I'll shout and bring people in. Cao Ran's face was pale, her eyebrows were tightly locked, and she stepped back step by step.

The man pulled out a wisp of white silk from his cuffs, and his vicious eyes made people shudder, "Miss Yuxiu, don't blame me, I am also employed." ”

The man pressed forward step by step, his face was hideous, and Cao Ran's eyes were staring at the man's every move.

"Meow ......" Suddenly a black cat swept over the man's instep, the man was taken aback, and subconsciously took two steps back. Cao Ran took advantage of the man's vigilance to relax his vigilance, quickly snatched the night light from the man's hand, knocked over the veil that was full of dust and cobwebs in the room, and the weak flame touched the green silk veil and immediately became strong and arrogant, "It's on fire, come and put out the fire" Cao Ran used all her strength to shout loudly.

How could the man give up so easily, where could he care about the flames burning on the side, and rushed straight to Cao Ran, who was against the wall and had no way to retreat.

Although Cao Ran's strength is not small, he can't withstand a middle-aged strong man. Cao Ran clasped her wrists to her neck with both hands, and spit out a few words with difficulty: "You see clearly, I'm not Yuxiu, I'm not from the house." ”

The flames behind him were already burning, the fire lit up the whole room, the man heard Cao Ran's words, his movements hesitated slightly, Cao Ran suddenly opened his mouth and bit the man's wrist, the man waved hard in pain, Cao Ran was thrown into the beams in the room, blood stained his forehead, Cao Ran was dizzy and sluggish for a while.

The man's eyes under the red flame were full of anger, "Stinky woman, dare to bite me!" A few arrows lifted Cao Ran and tightened the white silk around her neck.

In an instant, the fire with a "crackling" sound had climbed up the beams of the room, Cao Ran's hands tore hard and dragged Bai Aya, who was about to squeeze her throat, struggled, the high temperature of the flames and the smoke in the air made her even more suffocated, and her eyes were full of bloodshots.

The strength of his body has reached the limit, but there is always a voice in his head shouting, "I can't die!" I want to live! Heaven has reborn me, and I must not die like this! Even the man was surprised that such a weak girl could have such a strong strength, and she couldn't breathe after wasting her strength for a long time.

"It's on fire, someone is here to put out the fire!" "Hurry up and put out the fire!"

Outside the house, there was a call for everyone to put out the fire, the man was afraid that it would be difficult to get out after a delay for everyone to come to fight the fire, seeing that Cao Ran was dying, and the stinky girl was burned to death by the fire, she was considered to have completed the task, got up and kicked open the back window, and jumped out.

"Ahem" Chad's breathing regain caused her to cough violently.

"I can't die here, I can't die." Cao Ran stood up with the support of the pillar behind him, and at this time the room was already in a sea of fire, and he staggered out of the back window that the man kicked open.

Feng Mansion was running up and down to fight the fire, the courtyard was in chaos, Cao Ran hid behind the rockery, and after a short rest, he had recovered some strength.

Looking up, I happened to see a waterwheel parked in front of the door, and several family members were busy moving the utensils for holding water, Cao Ran took the opportunity to hide in the big water tank and escaped from Feng's mansion all the way.

The carriage for water stopped at the nearest river outside the city.

Cao Ran groped along the riverbank in the dark night to find a place to stay, and soon saw a ruined temple on the dirt slope not far away, and the fire flickered.

It is better to walk towards the ruined temple with courage, no matter whether there are good or bad people inside, than to wander alone in the dark night.

The dilapidated temple was really dilapidated, and Cao Ran walked to the door and just landed on the ground, and one side of the door panel turned upside down. Cao Ran couldn't help but scream in fright, "Ah! ”

"Oh, who are you? It's scary to die at night! "There was a man in green clothes standing upright next to the bonfire in the temple, and the man was holding a short sword in his hand.

The man picked up a fire stick, stepped forward to take a picture of Cao Ran, and asked, "It's a girl, disgraced, what are you doing?" ”

As soon as Cao Ran entered the temple, he smelled the long-lost smell of barbecue, and looked around, there was a fragrant and yellow fat chicken roasted on the bonfire.

Only then did I realize that I hadn't even drunk saliva all day except for half a yellowed hard steamed bun. At this time, his eyes were full of desire, staring directly at the delicious food on the flame, and his stomach made a "cooing" sound in protest.

Cao Ran collected his attention and said in an embarrassed tone: "Eh, I'...... I got lost and didn't eat for a day. The last sentence was so low that only he could hear it.

The man walked back to the campfire, tossing and turning around with the fat chickens on the fire. Cao Ran thought to himself, this ruined temple should be regarded as a public place, and he would not kick me out for a night, so he sat silently between the bonfire and the temple gate.

Under the firelight, the man's facial features are distinct, with thick eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and he picks up the roasted chicken with one hand and puts it on the tip of his nose to sniff. "Gollum" Cao Ran lowered her head shyly, and her uncompetitive stomach began to scream again.

"Wandering in troubled times, meeting is fate, sit down." The man swung a knife and cut off a chicken leg and handed it to Cao Ran.

Cao Ran took the sweetness of the chicken leg and lowered her head to eat, remembering that she had eaten a lot of delicious food when she was so big, she had never thought that the chicken leg could be so delicious, her heart was full of sourness, tears slid down her cheeks, and the corners of her mouth were a little bitter and salty.

"What are you crying about? I didn't treat you badly. The man made an innocent expression.

Cao Ran choked up and said, "Your roasted chicken thighs are so delicious!" ”

"Cut, sycophant, this is my first time roasting chicken, and I smell burnt." The man used the tip of his knife to gently pick the paste on the chicken wings in his hand.

The man couldn't help but smile and said, "However, since you like it so much, I'll give you a piece." With a knife in his hand, he handed over a chicken wing.

"Which house are you a maid, why are you dirty, running to this desolate ruined temple late at night, not afraid of encountering wild beasts and eating you?" As he spoke, he pretended to be a beast eating people.

Cao Ran was a little nervous and said, "I'm not a maid, I'm just lost." "Although the man is not like a bad person, Cao Ran still has a grudge against strangers, who knows if this person will have anything to do with the Feng Mansion.

The man continued to ask with more interest, "Then why are you wearing the maid's clothes?" Grizzled, it scared me just now, it can't be a fugitive slave from any family, right? ”。

Cao Ran stammered a little: "I, I'm ......, so aren't you also in this temple late at night, what are you doing?" Look at you dressed like the son of a rich family, and ran to this barren mountain in the middle of the night to eat roast chicken? ”

The man was stunned for a moment by the rhetorical question, threw away the residue in his hand, took out the cyan handkerchief in his arms and handed it to Cao Ran, and said with a light smile: "Good tongue, I didn't eat my chicken in vain, take it to wipe your dirty face, don't scare me again." With that, he tilted his body and rested against the pillar with his eyes closed.

Cao Ran wiped his cheeks lightly, it was really black stains, he apologized to the strange man, and the dirty handkerchief was not easy to return, so he wanted to take it first and go to the river to wash it tomorrow morning before returning it.

After this night of life-and-death struggle, Cao Ran didn't have the energy to think about the dangers of being alone and widowed, and the satisfaction in her belly made her fall asleep quickly.

The next day, as the sky turned white, the man got up and added a few more twigs to the campfire. The line of sight is slightly brighter, and I look carefully at the girl on the side, with delicate facial features, beautiful eyebrows and thin lips, but I have a pure appearance. Looking at the black handkerchief in her hand again, I couldn't help but smile.