270: Abandoned Workshop
The man in black was indeed sent by someone to take her life, but the person who wanted her to die wanted to deal with this matter cleanly, how could he leave a witness to pass it on, so Li Ruo had to die!
Nan Zhao naturally could think of this, and when he was worried about how to solve this impasse, Li Ruo suddenly bit on the wrist of the killer who grabbed her, and the man let go of her painfully, Nan Zhao saw the opportunity, held the hairpin that was about to commit suicide, and inserted it into the opponent's neck very accurately, the killer's blood spurted out, and he convulsed twice and fell to the ground!
She then pulled her hairpin again, and the other two killers swung their knives at her, and as she turned to dodge, she grabbed the girl's hand, instinctively protecting her behind her.
The knife slashed down, but fortunately did not hurt her, only a strand of her clothes and hair were shaved off, and she raised her foot to kick one of them away, not paying attention to the fatal blow of the other.
"Sister, be careful!" The girl shouted to warn her of the danger, and at the last moment, she instinctively waved her right hand, and the hairpin went directly into the murderous forehead, instantly avoiding death.
And the killer who was kicked to the ground by her saw this, and he didn't harden up, and flew into the night.
"You're hurt?" She just saw that the killer's knife had already been used on Li Ruo's neck, she was so small, how could she stand it.
Li Ruo shook his head, "No! ”
Nan Zhao frowned, lowered his head and checked the other party's neck, making sure that there was no bleeding before he was relieved.
She knew that the person who wanted her to die would never stop there, and such a killer would definitely catch up like a hornet, more and more, so the top priority was to leave this place first, she picked up the sword of a killer on the ground, "Go!" ”
She pulled Li Ruo out of the broken temple and ran towards the streets and alleys of Yunzhou in the middle of the night, and after running for a long time, the girl said to her in fear: "Sister, you are injured and bleeding!" ”
Only then did Nan Zhao stop and look at his right hand, the place where the spirit flower was taken away was bleeding again, and when he looked back, there was also a lot of blood flowing from the place where they had just run.
She immediately tore off a long strip of cloth and tied her right hand tightly.
"No, we have to keep running!"
Li Ruo was very worried about her injury, and proposed: "Sister, you can't run anymore, I know there is a place where we can hide for a while!" ”
She actually didn't know where to flee to be safe, thinking that Li Ruodu was walking around the streets, and knew that there must be more than one broken temple hiding place, so she asked her to lead the way.
Soon after, they arrived at an abandoned workshop, where cloth had been dyed, the cloth racks were still neatly arranged, the water in several large dye vats had dried up, and the rooms where the cloth had been stored were still intact.
"Is there anyone else in there?" Before he entered the house, Nan Zhao felt a voice inside.
Li Ruo nodded and said, "They are all homeless people in the city, homeless people, begging or doing chores outside during the day, and they come here at night!" ”
She is not here at night, because although these people seem to be pitiful, they can't tolerate weakness, she is a girl's family, and it is mostly inconvenient, but the situation is complicated tonight, and they should be relatively safe here.
Nan Zhao couldn't help but be a little impressed by Li Ruo, he didn't expect her to be so smart at such a young age.
It's not surprising that an orphan girl, if she is not smart enough, can live alone for this period of time?
She leaned down and grabbed a little ash on the ground and wiped it on her face, which was enough to make others unable to see her face clearly, before following Li Ruo into the big house of the workshop.
At this time, there were a lot of people sleeping in a mess, about fifteen or sixteen, some old and young, most of the men, and some women and children, but their appearance was not good, there were no little girls like Li Ruo, and some of them were probably sold to the flower building a long time ago!
In the middle of the night, two women suddenly came in from outside, and a few homeless people who were not asleep stared at them, and Nan Zhao saw that there were still two empty places in the corner, so he led Li Ruo over.
Li Ruo picked up some hay and spread it on the ground, asked her to sit down, and asked in a low voice, "Sister, are your injuries okay?" ”
She shook it, indicating that it was fine.
Even if there is something, she can't do anything at this time, let it be fate, but she has seen through life and death, but at this moment she has a new concern, for a little girl who has a plain life.
If Li Ruo has no relatives and no reason, how can such a little girl survive in this difficult world?
"Sister, you wait for me!" Li Ruo got up and said to her.
"What do you do?"
"Just wait for me!" After saying that, the little sound and shadow went out of the house, Nan Zhao was a little worried, feeling that the surrounding environment was mixed, and he was afraid that she would have an accident as soon as she left her sight.
Fortunately, Li Ruo came back not long after, holding a broken bowl in her hand, which was filled with water, which she had scooped out of the ancient well in the courtyard just now, and everyone here drank the water in it.
However, it was so cold that the surface of the well was frozen, and it took her all her strength to smash the ice open to get water.
Nan Zhao was indeed a little thirsty, took the bowl and was about to drink, when two people came over next to him, both of them were men in their thirties, dressed in tattered clothes, and there was hostility in their eyes when they looked at her.
"Little girl, didn't you tell you that you want to settle down here and honor Lao Tzu every day?" The person who spoke was missing half of his front teeth, so the people here called him missing teeth, he didn't do anything on weekdays, relying on his youth and strength, and he was called the boss in this workshop, and if he wanted to stay here, he had to give him some benefits every day, a steamed bun, half a penny, Li Ruo couldn't afford to give him benefits before, and he was driven away!
Li Ruo whispered: "Brother Toothless, my sister and I will stay for one night, and we will leave as soon as it is dawn!" ”
When the toothless heard it, it was no good, his face turned dark, and he said fiercely: "Isn't it counted as one night, if you don't give it to two people, go out and stay outside." ”
Nan Zhao was already bleeding a lot, and she was injured, so she didn't want to deal with them, so she handed over the hairpin that had killed two people just now.
Missing Tooth took it and bit it with his teeth, grinning, "Yo, it's still a real thing, Deler!" ”
After saying that, he didn't bother her anymore, and happily went back to the place where he just stayed and told a few people to wait for the morning, and exchanged money to buy wine and drink.
Li Ruo sat beside Nan Zhao and said unwillingly: "That toothless thing is not a good thing, why did my sister give him such a valuable thing!" ”
She replied, "It's just something outside of the body, buy him something pure." ”
After saying that, she was so weak that she lay down and closed her eyes, and soon fell asleep.
When she woke up, it was already dawn, and most of the sleepers around her had gone out to move, and some of them were sitting lazily on the hay.
When she was looking for Li Ruo, Li Ruo happened to come in from outside, carrying something in her arms, and only after getting close did she feel it out and hand it to her.
"Sister, eat it, it's still hot!"
Nan Zhao saw that it was actually a chicken leg, wrapped in oiled paper.
"Where did you come from?" She asked, puzzled.
"Eat it, it's not stealing!"
She swallowed her saliva, but shook her head and said, "I'm not hungry, you can eat!" ”
"I've eaten it, I've eaten the other one, and you see I still have chicken fat on my mouth!" The other party pointed to the corner of her mouth to show her, and then she believed it, took it and took a big bite.
She hadn't eaten for a day before she escaped, and she was really hungry!
Li Ruo sat next to her during this process, smiling and watching her eat, looking very satisfied.
Suddenly, a man's voice came from the side, "Ahhh
She immediately looked up to see that it was another man who had come with Missing Tooth at night to ask her for something, and at this time, the man was sitting on the ground, and his eyes pointed to Missing Tooth sleeping on the hay in horror and said, "Brother Ya...... Ya Ge ...... He's dead! ”