"In fact, we don't have much choice. ”

By the glow of the torches still burning in the snow, Luisa slapped away the snow at the base of the camphor tree, and the dense moss wrapped around the bark, unlike when they met, the moss in this place was directly wrapped around the bark, and there was no sparse difference at all.

"We're in a special location, and the moss in the vicinity is similar to this, so there's no way to tell where we're going. ”

There is no sun, no compass, and now even this method of distinguishing the direction at the end has lost its effect, and the camphor trees in the dense forest have grown for many years, and it takes six or seven people to hug a tree, and it is impossible to cut off the trunk to see the annual rings.

"That means we're completely lost now. ”

Hodge said: "Then what else can I do, let's take one step at a time, if you are really unlucky enough to bump into the monster that urges the beast to mutate, as long as you put some oil on the soles of your feet, you should still be able to walk away." ”

............

Three days.

Around this time, they wandered in the dense forest for three whole days.

I don't know if it's because of the cold wind or the tiredness of walking for a long time, Hodge began to become numb, even if the level of Luisa's barbecue is still excellent, the piece of meat he swallowed in his mouth has no taste, and he always feels that something is missing, maybe it's hope, after all, after walking for three days, the moss is still the same moss, they still can't find the direction, and the despair will be maddening if it lasts for a long time.

"So to speak. Louisa chewed for a while and swallowed, and it seemed that her face was not much better than Hodge's, "You were a slave when you were a child?"

It was their rest time, the campfire was crackling and sparkling, and Hodge felt that if he didn't say anything, he might be suffocated if he didn't starve to death before he could find a way out, not to mention that the sound of charcoal burning was too pervasive, which was called picking on his childhood experience and chatting with Luisa.

"Well, it's the worst of all. Ordinary slaves can still see the sun, and I stayed in the dark basement until I was ten years old, not to mention the sun, the bright light of the fire is a luxury for me, and can only be seen when I am working, and the sleeping place has no light at all, and it is extremely dirty, can you imagine what it would be like for a dozen children to sleep in the same narrow room, and even a convenient barrel is placed in that room?"

"Forget the smell, the key is because there is no light, there are always people who and pee will spill out, and it is inconvenient to clean up, so the smell will not dissipate, it will only ferment into a more smelly smell, I just endured it until I was ten years old to get rid of it. ”

Luisa shuddered as she tried to substitute herself into Hodge's description: "It's scary, let alone all these years, maybe I'll go crazy if I stay for a week." ”

"What's the solution? Just a little slave, when you meet a noble lord, you can only die if you don't bear it, and if you die, you have nothing, and you can still feel some illusory hope after enduring it. ”

"And then. Luisa asked, "How did you get out of it after you were ten years old?"

"Simple, run away. Taking advantage of the opportunity to go out of the city with the noble lord, wouldn't it really be a fool not to run. ”

"Running away was a death sentence for a slave. "It's a good thing that you're lucky enough not to be caught," said Luisa, for an ordinary slave would rather be an obedient fool." ”

Hodge shrugged: "I endured in the basement to wait for hope to appear, and now hope is waving his arms at you in front of you, if you don't try to act, you might as well die." ”

"What about you?"

"I ......" Luisa thought for a moment, bent her legs, wrapped her hands around her calves, propped her chin on her knees, and said, "I have two older brothers, and they don't like me for a simple reason. Only my father's blood was the same and my mother was just a milking peasant woman, so I was technically an illegitimate child. ”

"Bastard, huh?"

"Bastard. Luisa stubbornly repeated, "My father was a small and powerful local gentry, and perhaps my mother was very fond of my father at that time, and he did not treat me as prescribed in the law of illegitimate children, but declared that I had the same rights of inheritance as the legitimate heirs, but only if I was a man, in order to meet the inheritance laws of the empire, so that from birth I always lived as a son." ”

"So even your two brothers don't know you're a woman?"

Luisa shook her head slightly: "The only one who knows the truth is myself, my mother and father, and the midwife who delivered the baby for me, and now there is one more you, and by the way, the midwife died mysteriously shortly after I was born." ”

"I think it makes more sense to trade the bizarre for the unexpected. Hodge smiled wryly, "How do you feel like I'm in danger right now." ”

"You can feel a little more crisis. Luisa teased, and continued: "I also said before that my brothers don't like me, maybe because I have always been an illegitimate breed in their eyes, maybe because I have grown thin since I was a child, and at the age of seven or eight I am about the same height as a child of four or five years old, in short, they especially like to bully me, sometimes just them, sometimes they will carry their companions. ”

"It's nasty. ”

"Fists and kicks are the lightest, and the one I remember the most was when I was tricked by my brother into the nearby woods, and at that time I naively thought that my brothers were finally willing to play with me, and I happily followed them into the woods, walking and walking, guess what happened?"

Hodge combined her description of her brother and said, "They're gone?"

"Well, they're gone. Luisa's smile was cold, "In just one time back, I couldn't find their figure again." ”

"I was only seven years old at the time, what can a seven-year-old child understand? I couldn't even figure out what the direction was, so I was thrown into the dense forest in a daze, surrounded by unfamiliar scenes, what could I do? Observe the growth of the moss under the trees like this? I could only cry, cry loudly, howl and pray for the family to find out. ”

"The cry did not attract the rest of the family, but it attracted the beasts of the forest, and I don't remember whether it was a wolf or a dog, for a seven-year-old child the difference between the two was the same? ”

"Hungry and thirsty, and trembling, can you imagine how tormented I was, and it was not until almost sunset that the family rode into the woods on horseback to find me, and carried me home. ”

"Guess how my brothers reacted? They laughed at my father and said that it was thanks to their pets that they had found me running into the woods. ”

"I later learned that the thing, which I don't know if it was a wolf or a dog, was a pet of their companion and was deliberately used to scare me, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to run away from it. ”

"You didn't tell your father the truth?" Hodge asked.

Luisa shook her head: "Children, they are all scared silly, how can they think about it, and there is no point in talking about it later." ”

Hodge smacked his lips: "You brothers are really hateful, if you meet, I can help you beat them up." ”

"No need. ”

Luisa smiled smugly: "I have taught them a profound lesson, and now they don't even dare to stand in front of us and look me in the eye." ”