As soon as the two of them stepped out of the gate of the General's Mansion, two white lights flashed through the "brush", and two steel knives were placed in front of them. The two guards guarding the door were armed with knives and glared at them fiercely.

Murong Zhining and Cai Sang were escorted back to the small courtyard by the guards, and Cai Sang sat at the stone table with his cheeks held in frustration, looking at Murong Zhining opposite. Murong Zhining also looked at Cai Sang with her hand on her cheeks: "I actually forgot that there will naturally be someone guarding the gate of the General's Mansion, let's think of other ways." By the way, next time we'll go over the wall. Cai Sang nodded vigorously: "Hmm."

The courtyard door was kicked open from the outside, and there was a loud "bang". Cai Sang screamed in fright and shrank behind Murong Zhining.

Like a hellish Shura, he walked into the courtyard with a leather whip in his hand. There was no trace of emotion in his long, narrow and charming phoenix eyes, only a terrifying light, and several guards followed closely behind.

Qi Yun Yuexuan didn't say a word, only picked up the leather whip in his hand, and whipped at Murong Zhining. Cai Sang screamed in surprise, and hurriedly rushed to the front to protect Murong Zhining with his body. Qi Yun Yuexuan kicked Cai Sang down with a fierce kick, and the whip rained down on Murong Zhining. Cai Sang cried and got up again, protecting Murong Zhining.

Qi Yun Yuexuan put away the whip in his hand, and his voice was cold to the bone: "This time is just a small lesson, if there is a next time, ......the end will be like this" He swung out the leather whip in his hand, wrapped around a tree with a thick arm next to him, and his hand went back, the tree was uprooted, and he fell to the ground in response.

Cai Sang trembled with fright, and hugged Murong Zhining tightly. After Qi Yun Yuexuan left, Cai Sang rubbed the ointment for Murong Zhi in distress, but fortunately, Qi Yun Yuexuan was just to deter them, and he didn't put a very heavy hand. Cai Sang scolded while rubbing the medicine: "Beasts." The emperor was reluctant to lift a finger. There was a raised leather whip mark on Murong Zhining's face, and Cai Sang gently stroked her face, tears falling like beads.

Murong Zhining was not frightened, which strengthened her determination to escape. She told herself that next time she couldn't be so reckless, and that she had to make a well-thought-out plan.

In the next few days, Murong Zhining was thinking of a way. Cai Sang looked at her gloomily: "Why don't we run away, let's stay here obediently, didn't General Qiyun embarrass us?" Murong Zhining's eyes were firm: "The most important thing in life is freedom, and there is one thing more important than freedom." Murong Zhining deliberately sold a pass to Caisang, wanting to make her happy. Cai Sang was anxious to know the answer, but he didn't want to use his brain, so he asked, "What is that?" Murong Zhining poked her forehead: "I won't tell you." Cai Sang said angrily: "You will bully me for not studying, and I will treat you as a teacher." Murong Zhining put away her smile, her eyes were red, and she looked at Cai Sang's eyes with a serious expression: "It's dignity." If a person does not have dignity, he will live like an animal. A dignified person, even if he is trampled underfoot, has his head held high. Cai Sang nodded knowingly.

Murong Zhi persevered in planning her escape, and her persistence made Caisang admire and move. A few days later, on a starry night, Murong Zhining took Caisang to start an escape plan.

Since the last escape, the gate has been locked every day. Murong Zhining and Cai Sang have been cutting the sheets and curtains into strips and weaving them into rope ladders for the past few days. Murong Zhining threw the rope ladder that she had secretly woven in the past few days onto the wall, and the rope ladder was easily and securely hung on the wall. Cai Sang first helped Murong Zhining up to the wall, the inner wall was not too high, and the two of them didn't have much effort to get to the compound.

The outermost wall is not so easy to cross. The wall was too high, and the rope ladder was thrown several times, but it didn't hang. At this time, another guard came to patrol, and they quickly crouched down and hid in the bushes.

Caisang was so nervous that she almost forgot to breathe, and if she was caught again, she couldn't think about the consequences.

After the guards left, Caisang patted his chest and gasped for air. Murong Zhining smiled and shook her head, then stood up and threw a rope ladder against the wall, Cai Sang secretly admired Murong Zhining's courage and perseverance. Soon, the rope ladder hooked the cornices that had raised outside the wall.

Murong Zhining helped Caisang to go up first, she was afraid that if she put Caisang behind, Caisang would be afraid. Cai Sang climbed halfway, and sure enough, because he was too nervous, his hand was loosened, and he fell down with a "bang". She just wanted to snort, but Murong Zhining covered her mouth.

Murong Zhining silently touched the top of Caisang's head to show encouragement, and she helped Caisang to climb up again. Cai Sang was very competitive this time, she climbed up steadily, rode on the wall, and beckoned to Murong Zhining. Murong Zhining did not hesitate at all, she sat on the wall like picking mulberry, and threw the rope ladder towards the outer wall. When the two of them stood outside the wall, they realized that they had really escaped from the General's Mansion. The two hugged each other in surprise and quickly disappeared into the night holding hands.

Early the next morning, two fair-skinned young offspring appeared at the gate of the city. They successfully passed the interrogation, calmly walked towards the official road outside the city, and disappeared at the end of the road.

Murong Zhining and Caisang were dressed in men's clothes, running and laughing in the fields. They hadn't seen the outside world in years, and they were as happy as two birds that had just escaped from their cages. The two wandered in the alleys of the city last night, stole two men's clothes that others were drying outside the house, and successfully escaped from Shangjing in disguise.

Murong Zhining and Cai Sang inquired about the direction all the way, and walked forward playfully. In the afternoon of the next day, they really found the lotus pond pass. The Lotus Pond Pass has not changed much in recent years, and they saw Yin's home from a distance on the hillside.

Yin Shi was sitting in the yard spinning threads, and saw two strange young juniors walking into her yard, she was a country woman, and she looked a little restrained: "Is there anything wrong with the two little brothers?" Murong Zhining shouted excitedly: "Adoptive mother, I am Xiao Ling'er." Cai Sang also ran over and squatted in front of her: "Auntie, I'm Erya." ”

Yin didn't react for a while, and was stunned. She slowly wiped her eyes with her hands, as if trying to see better. Murong Zhining knelt down in front of her: "Have you forgotten me?" I am Xiao Ling'er, you picked it up outside the village six years ago, think about it again. ”

Yin Shi was very emotional, and she grabbed Murong Zhi's condensed hand: "It's really Xiao Ling'er, it's really you." Yin also recognized Cai Sang, she hugged Cai Sang, and cried silently: "Good boy, when I think of your uncompetitive father selling your mother and daughter, my heart hurts." It's okay now, it's good to come back. ”

Yin Shi looked at the two girls in surprise, rubbed his hands at a loss, and said happily after a while: "I'll find a change of clothes for the two of you first, and then cook a meal for you, and when your adoptive father is coming back, the family will have a happy meal." ”

Murong Zhining and Cai Sang changed into two sets of coarse cloth clothes handed over by the Yin family, which were worn by the Yin family's daughter at home before she got married. Although the clothes are coarse, they are cleanly washed and very comfortable to wear. Yin's face was full of joy: "This is what your sister Xiaohua used to wear at home, she married into the next village, and her man is a teacher." Murong Zhining also remembered that when the Yin family adopted her, she had a son, a daughter and two children.

Yin went to the kitchen to cook happily, and she killed the old hen she raised at home and stewed a pot of soup.

Murong Zhining and Cai Sang changed their clothes, sat in the courtyard and helped wipe the corn, laughing at each other that the other party was a little village girl.

In the evening, when the butcher came home after selling the meat, Yin happily welcomed him into the door, muttering, "Xiao Ling'er and Erya are back." The butcher was stunned for a while before he reacted. He walked into the courtyard with a smile, only to look at the two girls, and smile innocently.

The four of them sat around a small table, eating and chatting about what had happened in the past few years. Yin Shi looked at Murong Zhining: "I went out to deliver meat back that year, and you were gone, I thought I was playful, so I didn't care." After a while, I was told that a young woman with a raw face had taken you away. I wanted to chase after him, but the man said that he had taken the carriage and had already run away. ”

Murong Zhining didn't feel the need to tell her about her experience, she was just a peasant woman and would be scared. Murong Zhining touched Yin's hand and lied with white intentions: "I was taken to the city by human traffickers and sold to an official family to make a maid ring, and it just so happened that the second girl was also there, so we met." The big official went to work elsewhere, so he sent us out of the ring. Yin nodded frequently: "This is very good, it's good that you don't have to suffer." The adoptive mother will find a husband for you so that you can live in peace. ”

Cai Sang secretly grimaced at Murong Zhining, and the two girls smiled at each other.

Murong Zhining asked Yin: "Why don't you see my brother?" Yin said with a smile: "Ah Niu, he went to the city to serve as a soldier the year before last, and he came back with a letter, saying that he was not bad. ”

Yin Shi turned his head to look at Cai Sang again: "Your uncompetitive father, who was injured by a debt collector last year, injured his leg, and now he is lame and has a very hard life." I often send him some food, and you can visit him when you have time, after all, he is my own father. Cai Sang with tears in his eyes: "Just listen to my aunt." ”

Cai Sang took out a gold ingot from his arms and handed it to Yin: "This is my salary and reward money when I left the official house with Ning Er, and I will give it to my aunt for food and clothing for the two of us." Yin pushed back the gold ingot: "You are all my children, how much can you eat? Cai Sang forced the ingots into her hand: "If my aunt refuses to accept it, we will leave." Yin Shi hurriedly took the gold ingot, she had never seen so much money. Yin rubbed his hands helplessly: "I'll keep it for you for the time being." ”

At night, Murong Zhining and Cai Sang lay on the bed, covering in the same quilt and talking, the room was very simple, but it made them feel warm and relieved that they had never felt before.

Murong Zhining lay on her side opposite Caisang, she looked into Caisang's eyes and asked, "Where did you get so much money?" Caisang blinked slyly: "Stole." Murong Zhining stretched out her hand and scratched her nose: "You are so stupid, you will starve to death if you are a thief." Cai Sang laughed: "Actually, it's your blessing, the emperor rewarded me." Once the emperor came to me privately and asked me what you liked, and I said that you like to eat oranges. I didn't expect the emperor to happily reward me with a gold ingot, I was afraid that you would scold me for being greedy for money, so I didn't dare to tell you. Murong Zhining remembered one thing, once Yan Feng asked someone to send a basket of oranges, and in that season, there were no oranges at all. She guessed now that it must have been Yan Feng who had made people run a long way away and buy it somewhere else.

Cai Sang saw Murong Zhi's eyes red, and asked, "Do you miss the emperor? If you become the emperor's concubine, the emperor must love you very much." Murong Zhining shook her head: "I don't have that blessing, and I don't want to be restrained in the palace." By the way, your brother Niu turned out to be my brother. Caisang's face flushed, revealing a shy look.

The two girls ran wildly on the mountains outside the village, and the ten days they escaped from the general's mansion were their happiest days in the past few years. They picked a flower for a while, picked a wild fruit for a while, and walked to the back of the mountain in a playful manner. The men and women who were doing farm work nearby stopped what they were doing and looked at them with envy. The two girls were going over the hill to another village to visit Caisang's father.

Yin Hua was lying on the bamboo recliner in his yard, his feet together and crossed into Erlang's legs, swaying, humming an out-of-tune tune in his mouth. On the broken stone table next to it, there was a broken bowl with a pair of chopsticks on it, which looked like it had just finished eating.

Cai Sang stood outside the door, looking at Yin Hua's lazy appearance with disgust, pouting and reluctant to enter the door, Murong Zhining pushed her from behind. Yin Hua was startled, and when he looked at it, it turned out to be two beautiful little village girls standing outside his door.

Yin Hua turned over, took a closer look, recognized it as his daughter, and immediately changed his face, with a bitter face and a crying voice: "Alas, it's my child who has come back, and my child hasn't forgotten my father." ”

Yin Hua walked over and tried to pull Caisang's hand, but Caisang hid to the side in disgust. Yin Hua pretended to wipe his tears: "Do you still hate Daddy for selling you to your mother back then? Daddy couldn't help it at that time." Daddy, don't you regret it every day? ”

Cai Sang ignored him, she took a broom, cleaned up in the courtyard, and picked up the dirty clothes that had been thrown on the ground, and washed a basin. Yin Hua stood by and watched flatteringly, and the little abacus in his heart sounded "crackling": "Erya, have you got married?Who is this beautiful little girl?" He glanced at Murong Zhining.

Cai Sang didn't give him a good look: "It doesn't matter who she is, I have a father like you, who would be willing to marry me?" Yin Hua smiled all over his face: "Alas, look at what you said, Daddy will definitely help you find a good family." He thought that when his daughter grew up and ran back, he could let him receive a large dowry. Thinking of this, Yin Hua's heart was as happy as a flower. Cai Sang looked indifferent: "Don't worry about you, my aunt will do it for me." Yin Hua rolled his mouse eyes: "It turns out that you live in your aunt's house." My aunt is not my own mother, how can I be the winner? Daddy will do it for you. Cai Sang's eyes glared at him sharply: "You will only show up the dowry." ”

At this time, a woman walked into the courtyard carrying a bamboo basket of cabbage. Yin Hua said to Cai Sang flatteringly: "Erya, this is your stepmother." ”