Ling Xiaoxiao fled from the sign in a hurry, covered her face with a scarf, looked at the passers-by, her heart was a little flustered, and her steps became hurried, she only wanted to get out of the city quickly, return home, and eat a dinner cooked by A-Niang.

It's just that before she reached the city gate, she saw a lot of people and lined up for a long time.

"Uncle, what's going on up ahead? Why do you have to queue up? Ling Xiaoxiao walked to the end of the line and asked about the person in front of him.

"Little girl, you've just arrived from out of town."

"Hehe, it's not long since I arrived." She had indeed just entered the city not long ago.

"The government seems to be investigating some case, and they are arresting people one by one with portraits."

At that moment, Ling Xiaoxiao was thinking of her own case, the matter was not done by her, she didn't want to be a substitute for the dead, she was thinking about what to do, and her eyes fell on an old man pushing a cart next to her.

At the gate of the city, the officers and soldiers were strictly guarded, holding a few portraits in their hands, and the people who wanted to leave the city looked at the portraits one by one, and as long as there was a trace of the portrait, they were all arrested as suspects, which caused panic among the people, and some people who were not in a hurry to go out of the city saw this battle, and they all retreated from the ranks.

"You stop—" The officer and soldier holding a portrait called out to the old man with the cart.

"Official, you are doing well, my granddaughter is sick, the doctor in the city can't cure it, I am in a hurry to go out of the city to Feng County to find Xu Shenxian, only he can have a way, I am such a granddaughter, please let me go out of the city as soon as possible." The old man burst into tears and said with tears in his eyes, and the passers-by standing behind him cast sympathetic glances.

"Ahem, ahem—" There was a coughing sound from the haystack in the car.

The officers and soldiers stepped forward and were about to remove the white cloth covering their faces, but the old man hurriedly stepped forward to stop them, "Official, my granddaughter has an infectious disease, so she can't touch it." ”

Hearing this, the officers and soldiers did not stop moving, but pushed the old man to the ground, uncovered the white cloth with his hands, and for a moment, as if he had seen something terrible, he immediately threw away the white cloth, but the face covered by the cloth was still half exposed, the pale skin, the face was covered with red pimples, and more than half of the acne had begun to fester, emitting a foul smell.

Soon, the people next to the car automatically took a few steps back, for fear of being infected, the officers and soldiers waved their hands in disgust, and they were not in the mood to carefully compare the portraits, "Hurry up, hurry up, go-"

"Thank you, sir." The old man stood up from the ground and thanked him, covered himself with a white cloth, lifted the handlebars with both hands, and pushed the cart out of the city.......

When he was a mile away from the city gate, the old man stopped the car and said to the people in the car, "Girl, you can come down when you are out of the city." ”

After speaking, the person who was lying on the grass lifted the white cloth covering his body and slid down the car.

"Thank you, Grandpa." Ling Xiaoxiao took out a tael of silver from his arms and handed it to the old man, and said a little embarrassedly: "Don't be too little, I only have so much." ”

"Look at what you said, does Grandpa seem to be such a greedy man? Grandpa did you a favor because he saw that you were kind, not like a bad person. The old man smiled, and then said a few words to Ling Xiaoxiao, "Girl, be careful by yourself, and hide when you encounter something, as far as we are the low-level people, no one can help us." ”

Ling Xiaoxiao nodded, "Grandpa, I listen to you." The old man smiled with satisfaction.

Saying goodbye to the old man, Ling Xiaoxiao set off in the direction of home, this road that he had memorized by heart, raised his eyes and looked at the sky, the crescent moon had quietly climbed into the air at some point, and he was eager to return home, and his pace accelerated a lot involuntarily, and in less than an hour, a familiar village entrance appeared in front of him, and he tried the baked cake in his arms with his hand, and there was some residual heat, and the corners of his mouth were open, and A-Niang would be happy to see it.

When she was happy, she suddenly saw a faint fire in front of her, and a trace of uneasiness passed through her heart, and she began to speed up her pace, and finally trotted up, and when she finally stopped, there was already a fire in front of her, and the villages located in this area had been swallowed up by the fire, one after the other, and no one was spared.

"No, Ah Niang-" muttered, Ling Xiaoxiao couldn't believe what was happening in front of her, how she wished she had gone to the wrong place, but the familiar vegetable fields and dilapidated wells all reminded her that this was the place where she had lived for many years.

"A-Niang, A-Niang......" Ling Xiaoxiao rushed forward, but was blocked by a huge fire, inspected the outside of the house, saw an axe at the well, ran forward, fetched water, poured herself from head to toe, picked up the axe, gritted her teeth, smashed open the wooden door, jumped into the house, the smoke in the house was billowing out, the flames were running around, and the blazing temperature was unbearable on the skin, but she couldn't retreat.

"Auntie, are you here? Ah Niang—" Moving forward with difficulty, Ling Xiaoxiao called loudly, but there was no response.

She couldn't open her eyes with the smoke of the axe that was blocking the obstacle in front of her, and at that moment, a small voice came from the front.

"Tiny—"

Ling Xiaoxiao was suddenly excited, and finally saw the figure on the ground in front of her, and her eyes became clear, "A-Niang-"

Soon she came to Ah Niang's side, squatted down, and wanted to help Ah Niang up, but Ah Niang screamed in pain at this time, and then saw Ah Niang's chest was bright red, Ling Xiaoxiao panicked and wiped a trace of blood from the corner of Ah Niang's mouth, but she couldn't wipe it clean.

"A-Niang, what's wrong with you-" Ling Xiaoxiao cried out in pain, and the emotions she had just suppressed suddenly exploded, tears continued to overflow in her eyes and flow down her cheeks.

A-Niang opened her mouth, but coughed up more blood, raised her right hand laboriously, touched her crying daughter in front of her, and showed a look of pity on her face, Xiaoxiao, her Xiaoxiao has grown so big.......

"A-Niang, don't be in a hurry to speak, I'll take you to the city to find a doctor, and the doctor will definitely cure you." wiped his face with his hand, put A-Niang's hand on his shoulder, and helped A-Niang up, and walked out of the door step by step.

"Tiny... Put down A-Niang'......"

"Don't let go, I won't let go!" Ling Xiaoxiao shook her head vigorously, she didn't let go of anything now, gritted her teeth, endured the pain in her body, and moved her feet forward little by little.

looked at the stubborn daughter, and at the same time felt the life flowing out of the body little by little, and it was pitch black in front of him that he couldn't see anything, struggling to take his last breath, and said a few words from his throat: "Hospital... Middle... Tree... ......The last tears flowed from the corners of her closed eyes, leaving crooked marks on her dry face......