Chapter 12: Careful Planning
Qiqi knows that this is not a good thing, this is fattening them! She looked at the wooden cage next to her, it was a handsome little girl, after nearly half a year of additional meals, her little face had become round and plump, and showed a little red.
She hurriedly stretched the broken wooden bowl out of the feeding opening, her eyes full of hunger for food. Qiqi thought that this might be the most primitive nature of animals.
The old women are getting older and older, and most of them are hunched on their backs, and their heads are shining with silver threads.
Mrs. Zhou approached the little girl, and the little girl sizzled excitedly from her throat, like a snake spitting out letters in the night.
The old woman scooped a spoonful of paste from the wooden barrel and poured it into her wooden bowl, she happily picked it up, reached out and grabbed it, maybe the paste was still a little hot, I saw her retract her hand violently, shook it again, glanced at the food on her fingertips, and reluctantly put her finger into her mouth, sucking dumbly.
The old woman looked at her, with a complicated expression flashing in her heart, and couldn't help but let out a low sigh.
The old woman carried the bucket and slowly walked towards Qiqi, Qiqi looked at her, but shook her head.
"You Nizi, why don't you always eat? If it goes on like this, alas, ......" The old woman looked at the wooden bowl in the Qiqi cage, where the last meal was still untouched.
Qiqi winked at her, and the old woman leaned closer.
"Mother-in-law, I'm leaving, thank you for taking care of me all these years." Qiqi whispered, and the two black eyes were like stars in the night sky.
The old woman raised her eyes and looked around, the other mothers-in-law were busy with their own work, and no one noticed here, and the soldiers patrolling outside the door had just walked over with a long sword.
The old woman reached out and pinched it in the seam of her trousers, secretly took out a few copper coins, and quickly stuffed them into Qiqi's wooden bowl. Qiqi held the wooden bowl and wanted to kowtow to the old woman to thank her. But the current environment and state made Qiqi really dare not show more emotions, so he had to fold his hands in front of his chest and bow his head slightly to the old woman. She thanked Mrs. Zhou for taking care of her in the past ten years.
This copper coin must have been secretly saved by Granny Zhou, but I don't know if it has been saved for a long time? Qiqi now only needs to wait until it gets dark, and only needs to wait until the soldiers on guard are drunk again, and then he can take the opportunity to escape.
Qiqi has been mentally practicing the escape path thousands of times: open the cage door (the cage is not locked, only buckled from the outside) while it is dark, sneak to the west side of the house, where there is a small door, and go out from there, straight to the firewood room, the firewood room is the most avoided, so in the middle of the night, almost no one can follow the wooden pillars in the firewood room deep into the lake and quietly slide into the lake. If you remember swimming and diving in your previous life, you can swim two kilometers west from the lake to the west and you will be able to touch the swamp covered with reeds on the west side. At this time, it is the height of summer, the reeds are luxuriant, to hide a few people, there will be absolutely no problem, Qiqi has seen a flock of white cranes skimming over the reeds. If you enter the reeds, and further west, you will be able to enter the vast mountains, and you should be free.
Qiqi thought, took the wooden bowl, and began to eat, she had to force herself to conserve her strength.
The wait was always long, so much so that Qiqi felt that the past nine years and six months combined were not as long as tonight. She leaned against the cage, closed her eyes, and forced herself to rest, but suddenly a scene from two years ago suddenly appeared in her mind.
That was also the second time I saw the man named "Hei Che" - the emperor of Zhenyuan Kingdom. When he came that day, he brought his four sons with him, in addition to being accompanied by the ministers of the DPRK and China.