But said that when Yan Ning was secretly sighing here, the big man in the big suit ordered good wine and food downstairs in the inn, and enjoyed it alone there, escorting Yan Ning these days, he has always been on guard in his heart, although Yan Ning has no abdominal muscles, but since he has Wei Chenfeng's experience, he has not dared to relax, because he has never dared to drink alcohol on the way, and when he was in Maling Mountain, he had to endure the itching in his heart, and only drank a bowl of tea.

In the middle of the night, when Yan Ning was drowsy, he saw the big man in the big clothes drunken open the door and walked in, he walked staggeringly, came to the bedside, snapped his head and fell asleep, and the whole room was only his thunderous snoring.

Yan Ning secretly hurt himself at night, his head fell asleep in a daze, and when he saw that the big man in uniform was now drunk and fell on the bed, he secretly said in his heart: "This person slept like a pig and died, isn't it a good time for me to escape?" ”

Although he thought so in his heart, his body did not move, and he thought: "Even if I escape, what can I do, I will definitely be wanted as a fugitive, and now that I have this iron shackle on my body, even if I want to leave, I can't go far." ”

After thinking about it for a long time, the night outside was thick, but Yan Ning felt bored in his heart, how could he not sleep, he lay in front of the window, saw that there were fewer pedestrians outside the window, and the stalls were also closed, although today is Chinese New Year's Eve, but the New Year has passed, and the people will not stay too long after celebrating the New Year, and they will all go home.

He stared out the window blankly until no one appeared in his sight, and he suddenly thought: "I am being escorted here now, all because of the collusion of that group of dog officials, so that I can replace Brother Wei's crimes, if I escape today, it will be Brother Wei who will be wanted and pursued in the future, not me Yan Ning." As soon as he thought of this, he had a reason to escape, and his heart was smooth, but he thought about it: "If I escape and Brother Wei is wanted again, wouldn't this harm Brother Wei?" Xuan even shook his head and smiled, and said in his heart: "Brother Wei is unpredictable, he can escape in the Fengcheng cell, and now that he is like a dragon in the water, how can these officials catch him, I have thought too much." ”

Yan Ning turned his head again and saw the big man in the big suit snoring like thunder, he already had an idea in his heart, tonight was the perfect time to escape.

He walked cautiously with his steps, and in order not to make the anklets make a sound, he could only move his feet slowly and walk against the wall. After walking for a short time, he came to the door, groped for the latch, and was about to open the door, when he suddenly heard a sneeze from the big man in the big clothes, the sound was like thunder, and Yan Ning was so frightened that Yan Ning trembled, and secretly said in his heart that it was not good, he turned his head to look, only to see that the big man in the big clothes sighed twice, and then turned his head and snored and fell asleep.

Seeing that he was still asleep, Yan Ning took a few deep breaths, gently opened the latch, and then escaped from the door.

After escaping from the door, Yan Ning saw that there was no one in the hall of the inn, so he slowly walked forward according to the law and escaped from the inn.

After escaping from the inn, Yan Ning saw that the street was empty, but tonight the moonlight was particularly dazzling, shining on him, shining on his fatigue and the shackles very clearly, he was afraid of this feeling of being illuminated, groped his way to a dark alley, squatted down, and said in his heart: "Now that I have escaped, the big man in the big suit will definitely look for me after discovering it, but now I am wearing this iron rope, and I am unable to move, even if I want to go out of the city, I will definitely be caught by the officers and soldiers guarding the city, I look like this, I am afraid that the beggars will not want to be with me." ”

Thinking that he had nowhere to go, he raised his head and saw the moonlight outside the alleyway, and thought that he could only hide in this dark place like a rat now, and his heart was full of sorrow, and he buried his head and wept.

At this moment, suddenly a person patted him on the shoulder, this pat, frightened Yan Ning's shoulder, he hurriedly opened his eyes, and saw a person standing behind him, that person was tall, but his appearance was not clear, he was together, only to see that the person was dignified, green and handsome, dressed as a noble son, it was the noble son Shen Fu who met in Malingshan a few days ago.

I saw Shen Fu looking at Yan Ning with a smile and saying, "Brother Tai, why is he here alone, didn't he escape by himself?" ”

Yan Ning hesitated, frightened and didn't know how to answer. Shen Fu patted him on the shoulder again, signaling that he didn't have to worry, and said, "Brother Tai, don't panic, I'm just upset in my heart, passing by here, I just happened to run into here."

Yan Ning saw that Shen Fu had no malicious intentions, his mood calmed down, remembering that day Shen Fu did not take his identity as a cheap, and invited himself to a bowl of tea, and saw Shen Fu staring at him with a smile in his eyes, knowing that this matter would definitely not be hidden from him, he sighed and said: "Hey, Shen Gongzi is like a god, I have escaped alone now, if Shen Gongzi wants to report to the official to arrest me back, please do it." ”

How do you know that Shen Fu laughed twice and said: "Brother Tai misunderstood me, how can I be the kind of person who falls into the stone?" ”

Yan Ning sighed and said: "I am now in iron shackles, and I am a criminal of the government, even if Shen Gongzi does not report to the official to arrest me back, I~ I will not be able to move an inch." ”

Shen Fu saw that his hands and feet were locked, and said: "That day, I saw that although Brother Tai was wearing a prison uniform, Brother Tai was willing to speak up for the shopkeeper, and I admired it in my heart, but I don't know how Brother Tai ended up in such a field?" ”

Yan Ning had no choice but to tell Shen Fu what happened to him, Shen Fu listened, slammed the wall, and said angrily: "These dog officials are really bold, not only bent into tricks, but also steal the sky to change the day, it is really lawless." ”

Yan Ning sighed and said, "It's just my fate, I used to think that the officials were all Qingtian masters, how do I know that they are all corrupt officials who do not distinguish between right and wrong." ”

The two scolded the corrupt officials before they relieved their resentment, only to hear Shen Fu ask: "Brother Tai has escaped now, I don't know what to do?" ”

Yan Ning shook off the iron shackles in his hand, and said helplessly: "I look like this now, I can't see the light, and I can't get out of the city, alas, I can't go anywhere." Even if I don't have this restraint, I won't be able to go back to Fengcheng, this world is so big, there is no place for me to go."

Shen Fu smiled when he heard this, and said: "I saw Brother Tai with a sad face just now, so that's the case, although I, Shen Fu, don't have much ability, but if Brother Tai doesn't dislike it, I can wronged Brother Tai to my house, I will take off this iron shackle for Brother Tai, and then be a miscellaneous scholar, how about hiding people's eyes and ears?" ”

When Yan Ning heard this, she was greatly surprised, but after thinking about it, she and Shen Fu were only one-sided, and if she was implicated in the Shen family because of her identity in the future, she would really be a sinner.

Shen Fu saw that he looked embarrassed, knew the difficulty in his heart, and said: "Brother Tai, don't think about it, you just told me that your crime is just to replace others, you just need to use your original name in the future, this Shen Ji is so big, you have no relatives and no reason here, who can recognize you?" ”

Having said that, Yan Ning was still unwilling, he was afraid that something would happen in the future, so he had to refuse politely: "Shen Gongzi's love, I, Yan Ning, understand it, but I can't affect you for my own selfishness, I hope Shen Gongzi will forgive me." ”

Seeing that he still refused, Shen Fu said, "You are staying here now, is there any other place to go?" Just after dawn, someone sees you wearing a prison uniform, and they will definitely report to the official to arrest you back, do you know that my Great Xia law, and the escape of prisoners is a capital crime? You are innocent, if you live, you can still overturn the case, if you die because of this, you will not be innocent until you die. ”

Yan Ning was startled by these words, he was originally dead, thinking that he would be arrested again, it would be nothing, just exile, but now Shen Fu's words were like a hammer hitting his heart, if he was sentenced to death for escaping, he would be a sinner to death, he valued innocence the most, and when he thought of not being able to clear his name, he suddenly knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

Shen Fu saw him crying sadly, and comforted: "Brother Tai, don't worry, with me Shen Fu here, I will not let those dog officials kill you unjustly." ”

Yan Ning hid her face and wiped away her tears, bowed down and thanked: "You and I met in Pingshui, Shen Gongzi is so gracious, I Yan Ning will repay it in the future." ”

Shen Fu smiled disapprovingly: "Brother Yan doesn't have to be like this, I, Shen Fu, am not here to help you, although I don't read much, I can't get used to what those dog officials do, as you said that day, I have to take care of the injustices in this world." ”

Hearing Shen Fu say this, Yan Ning looked at him and smiled, and there was no more mustard in his heart.

Taking advantage of the night, Shen Fu took Yan Ning to avoid the road, walked through the streets and alleys to the Shen Mansion, Shen Fu asked Yan Ning to wait outside, and after the subordinates were separated, Shen Fu took Yan Ning to the firewood room, borrowed the firewood knife and stove in the firewood room, burned the iron flail and the iron rope and cut it off, burned the prison clothes, changed into a servant costume in the house, and found an uninhabited miscellaneous room in the miscellaneous servant's residence, settled Yan Ning to live, and Shen Fu left with confidence.

Yan Ning was lying on the bed in the hut, feeling emotional, not long ago he was still in prison, escorted to exile as a sinner, but now he can sleep on the bed, it is really ill-fated, sighed in his heart: "I was escorted here from that Fengcheng Prison, and I was only escaped by the great grace of Shen Gongzi, and now I am free, it is really 30,000 miles of quiet sea waves at night, and the moon is bright and the sky is windy." After sighing for a long time, he suddenly heard the rooster crowing in the house, Yan Ning realized that the sky was about to dawn, he experienced tonight's incident, he was physically and mentally exhausted, and fell asleep.

When Yan Ning woke up and found that he had risen three strokes a day, he looked around and found that there were no more shackles on his body, and he was already free, so he couldn't help laughing heartily.

Shen Fu heard the laughter outside the door, pushed the door in, and said with a smile: "Brother Yan is so happy, he must have slept well yesterday." ”

It turned out that Shen Fu had been waiting outside the door for a long time, and he woke up early in the morning, worried about Yan Ning, so he came to the door early to wait.

When Yan Ning saw Shen Fu coming, she hurriedly bowed down and thanked her, and said, "Thanks to Brother Shen's great kindness, I was able to sleep peacefully yesterday." ”

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Shen Fu summoned the housekeeper and explained it, saying that Yan Ning was his new scholar, and after working in his study in the future, he would take Yan Ning to wander around the house.

The two came to a study, there are countless books in this room, and the walls are full of all kinds of calligraphy and paintings, Yan Ning is happy in his heart, he has not read a book for a long time, he is really itchy, and after reading all kinds of books in front of him one by one, he gently put them down, and treats these books as if they are treasures.

Seeing that he was so happy, Shen Fu couldn't help but speak: "I didn't expect Brother Yan to love books so much, and bringing you to the study can be regarded as coming to the right place." ”

Yan Ning put down her love for books in her hand and said: "My family has been poor since I was a child, and reading is my favorite thing. Brother Shen said that he didn't read much before, but when I saw it in the study today, I was very embarrassed. ”

Shen Fu smiled: "Haha, let Brother Yan laugh, I said before that I read very little, but I am not modest, there are many books and calligraphy and paintings in this study, but they are all my sister's." ”

Yan Ning was humble to him, thinking about how a daughter's family could read so many books, and he smiled and said no more.

At this time, the butler walked in and said, "Son, the master called you." ”

Shen Fu responded and said, "Got it, I'll go right away."

Shen Fu saw that Yan Ning was obsessed with the book, and asked: "Brother Yan, my father summoned me, I will go to see his old man first, you stay here first, if I don't come later, you will follow the housekeeper to eat, and you will take the key to this residence first." Then he gave a few words to the butler, and then departed.

Yan Ning took the key, and found a Confucian classic, and read it hungrily, and this reading, in the evening, he indulged in it, and did not realize that if it were not for the hunger in his belly, he might be able to stay here all night.

He stayed in the study for a while, and when he saw that Shen Fu did not come, he was hungry, and remembered the instructions of the day, so he followed the way he came in the morning, returned to the outside of the handyman's house, looked for a few rooms, found the housekeeper, and asked, "Dare to ask the housekeeper, but there is still food?" ”

The housekeeper saw that he had just arrived, but the eldest prince treated him politely, and he was secretly dissatisfied in his heart, and said impatiently: "When is this time, you don't want to take a look, you want to eat?" Find out for yourself. ”

Yan Ning saw that the housekeeper was not good at speaking, so he didn't dare to say more, and after thanking him immediately, he went back to his room and went to sleep.

Early in the morning of the second day, Yan Ning got up early, he thought he had gotten up early, but when he went out to see that the miscellaneous servants had already gotten up, the housekeeper saw him from a distance and said, "That boy, hurry up, come over for dinner." ”

Yan Ning answered, followed the housekeeper to the kitchen to get a bowl of food, and saw everyone eating with a bowl, and asked the person next to him, "Why don't you find a place to sit down and eat?" ”

The handyman sighed and said, "You still want to sit at the table and eat, only the old lady and the young master and young lady have a table to sit and eat in our house, you kid just came, I don't know the rules of our house." ”

Yan Ning said: "So that's the case, I only came yesterday, I didn't know that there were such rules in the house." ”

The handyman said: "I guessed that your kid just came, there are still many rules in this house, you kid will have to pay attention in the future." ”

Yan Ning asked: "There are so many rules in this mansion, why are there so many people staying in the mansion to work?" ”

The handyman ate up the meal in three or two, put down the chopsticks and said: "Although there are many rules in the house, but the wages are also more, when your boy came, didn't the housekeeper tell you how much silver a month?" ”

Yan Ning was stunned for a moment, he had originally escaped from the pursuit, he had only seen the housekeeper twice yesterday, and he had never heard the housekeeper talk about his salary, but he didn't care, he was already content if he could stay in the Shen Mansion safely and worry-free.

While he was thinking, all the servants had already finished eating, and the housekeeper arranged for them to go to work, and they all left, Yan Ning swallowed the meal in two bites, and the housekeeper stepped forward and said coldly: "That boy, what is your name, where are you from?" ”

Yan Ning told her origin and origin, and the housekeeper said strangely: "You are a person from Fengcheng, how did you come to my Shen Ji, it's really strange." ”

Yan Ning snorted and said: "My family was poor, and my parents died early, so I made my home all over the world, working and studying at the same time, and I came to Shenji." ”

The housekeeper nodded and said, "I see, you have read the book, no wonder the eldest prince was so close to you yesterday, but you must not forget your identity, you are now a miscellaneous servant in the house, and you will have to listen to my arrangements honestly in the future, understand?" ”

Yan Ning responded, and then heard the housekeeper say: "The eldest prince arranges for you to take care of the study, you will go to the study to work first, you take this key first, the study must be cleaned every day, and you are not allowed to be lazy." After the housekeeper gave Yan Ning the key to the study, he left.

In the next few days, Yan Ning came to the study every day to read the classics, which he loved so much that he often indulged in them, forgot the time, and had to go back hungry.

After not seeing Shen Fu for a few days, Yan Ning felt uneasy, and on this day Yan Ning found the housekeeper and asked, "Housekeeper, do you know where the eldest prince has been in the past few days?" ”

The housekeeper said coldly: "Boy, don't ask if you shouldn't know, where the eldest prince has gone, it's not for you to know." ”

Yan Ning saw that the housekeeper was indifferent, so he didn't ask anymore, he went to the study in the morning and stayed all morning, and when it was time to eat at noon, he looked for the handyman last time and asked, "This big brother, thank you for mentioning it last time, I don't know the name of the big brother." ”

The handyman said: "What is not a name, you can call me Lao Xu in the house, by the way, what do you call a boy?" ”

Yan Ning said: "Brother Xu just calls me Yan Ning." ”

The old Xu nodded, didn't say much, ate the food in the bowl in one go, and was about to turn his head to leave, but heard Yan Ning say: "Brother Xu, do you know where the eldest prince has gone these days?" ”

The old man replied: "You kid is asking a strange question, we can't be busy these days, you kid is good, but you care about where the eldest son goes, how can we know this kind of thing." ”

Yan Ning saw that these servants couldn't ask anything, so they didn't ask more, after thanking him, he went to the study, and read the book until the evening, unconsciously, it was late, Yan Ning put down the book in his hand, locked the study, on the way back, bumped into two maids, he heard the two maids talking about the eldest son from a distance, he stopped, and listened to the words of the two maids,

"Oh, eldest prince...... Offended ......"

“…… He was not allowed to ...... Out. ”

When the two maids walked away, he only heard this word, he returned to the miscellaneous house, thought of the conversation between the two maids just now, thought about it, and thought about it, thinking that Shen Fu must have offended someone, and then the master of the Shen family did not allow him to go out, so he didn't see him for a while.

Thinking that Shen Fu should still be in the mansion and there is no danger, he no longer worries, and is about to rest in bed, as soon as he lay down, there was a sudden labor pain behind him, he took off his clothes and turned his head to look, it turned out to be a pain attack on his back.

A few months ago, he was beaten with a lot of sticks in the Fengcheng County Yanei, and these sticks were beaten on his back, but then he followed the big man in Biaofu, although he was also beaten, but most of them were beaten on the chest and face, and the injuries on his back were almost healed.

He remembered that day in prison, Wei Chenfeng taught him the mantra, these days, he was escorted by that big man in uniform, whether it was day or night, he didn't dare to exercise, if he was discovered, he would definitely not end well. And that day in prison, the official interrupted the exercise, causing Yan Ning to collapse to the ground, since then, Yan Ning faintly knew that when practicing, he could not be interfered with by foreign objects, otherwise the consequences would be unknown.

After locking the doors and windows, Yan Ning used the pillow to cushion her back and meditate against the wall.

As soon as the mantra came out, the familiar breath in the dantian came again, and then it was divided into two breaths, one cold and one hot, passing through several meridians of the hand Shaoyin Heart Sutra, and after the two breaths of cold and hot stayed on both sides of the body for a while, the hot current in the dantian was born, and slowly flowed through the whole body, making him intoxicated.