"Mother Hu, open the door." The quiet night was torn apart by a small voice, "Mother Hu open the door." ”

After shouting twice, a broken wooden door that was almost falling apart was opened from the inside by a rickety figure, and as soon as it was opened, before he could speak, the figure outside the door quietly flashed into the room with the moonlight.

"Is that you?" The rickety figure lit the oil lamp on the table, and the bean-sized light illuminated the vicissitudes of Hu's mother's face and Chu Yun's slightly sweaty forehead.

"Mother Hu is disturbed." Chu Yun said to Hu's mother with an apologetic face, and then he pulled out Xia He, who was following him, and said to Xia He, "This is Hu's mother, let's stay at her house temporarily." ”

Xia He nodded, and then bowed deeply to Mother Hu and said, "Hello Mother Hu, I'm going to disturb you these days."

"You might as well do it," Hu's mother pulled Xia He up with both hands, looked left and right through the light, and her eyebrows were crooked with joy, "This child is so handsome." Look, the skin is thin and tender, and you like people when you look at it. As she spoke, Mother Hu glanced up at Chu Yun, "You kid is blessed!" ”

"Mama Hu!" Chu Yun hurriedly interrupted Hu's mother's chatter with a smile, and then looked at Xia He, who was already flushed with shame, and bowed his head silently.

"Okay, okay, I don't want to talk about my wife's chatter." Mother Hu was interrupted, her face was still smiling, there was no displeasure, and her words were full of loving doting, "The girl is tired all the way, right?" If you don't dislike it, just live here, although the bedding is a little shabby, but you can rest assured, it's all clean. With that, he took Xia He's hand and walked towards the inner room.

The bed is so simple that it is even a little simple and has a slightly whitish bedding, although the environment is not comparable to when he was in Qiao's Mansion, but Xia He, who has been out for so long, is already very content. Being able to sleep peacefully and soundly is something that I have been asking for for many days.

Xia He turned his head, his eyes full of gratitude: "Mother Hu, this is already very good."

"Then you lie down and rest for a while, and I'll go get you some food." Mother Hu saw that Xia He was not picky, and she loved her even more in her heart.

Hu's mother turned around and went out, and by the way, the door was closed, Xia He was suddenly surrounded by darkness, and an inexplicable sense of fear hit her heart, Xia He recalled everything that happened in the cellar again, and the heart-rending screams startled Hu's mother and Chu Yun.

Hu's mother hurriedly pushed open the door of the house, and Chuyun walked into the house with an oil lamp. With the light and the first clouds, Xia He's heart, which was beating wildly, gradually calmed down.

"Kid, what's wrong with you?" Hu's mother sat on the edge of the bed and held Xia He's hand, which was trembling with fear.

"Alas," Chu Yun sighed, "she's afraid of the dark, so I'll leave this oil lamp to her." ”

Chu Yun's words made Xia He's heart warm, the dim light made the room have a little bit of vitality, as soon as the spirit relaxed, sleepiness immediately swept the whole body, Xia He rubbed his eyes, and said strongly: "I'm fine, I want to sleep for a while."

"Good. Mom, let's go out and talk. Chu Yun put the oil lamp on the table next to him and pulled Hu's mother out of the house.

"You're here?"

"Childe is here too, but it may take two days to get there......"

The conversation between the two of them in a low voice stimulated Xia He's sleepy nerves, and the heavy eyelids struggled twice, and then he lost his strength and fell into a deep sleep.

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"Help!" Not long after the three watch drums were played, a terrible scream broke out in a remote alley in the north of Huizhou City.

"Help! Kill! The terrible screams made the entire Huizhou City fall into a panic.

"Hurry up, go out and have a look!" There was chaos in the backyard of the prefect's yamen, and the prefect Wu Minchu's gown was worn backwards, and he ran out while tying the silk silk around his waist.

"What's going on?" Wu Minchu grabbed a hurried official and inquired about the situation.

"Adult, the little one is about to report to you." The officials arched their hands and said, "Someone from the south of the city came to report, saying that someone was crazy and bit when he saw someone, and the little ones thought at first that it was Diao Min who drank too much wine and made trouble, so they called the brothers who patrolled the night to check and prepare to teach a lesson, but they didn't expect that as soon as we arrived, we were knocked down by a person who rushed out of the dark alley, and before we could react, the brother who was knocked down was bitten off his throat and died at that time......" There was a strong fear in the eyes of the officer.

"Let's take a look." Hearing that a servant had died, Wu Minchu panicked, and urged the servant to rush to the south of the city.

When Wu Minchu arrived in the south of the city, the two troublemakers had been surrounded by officials with waist knives, and the burning torches illuminated the intersection in the south of the city as bright as day. The two people who caused the trouble had already been cut with countless wounds, but even if the blood flowed, the two of them were not afraid, on the contrary, the faces of the officials holding the waist knives were full of fear, and some even held the hands of the knives were trembling slightly.

The official on the side saw Wu Minchu and hurriedly pulled him aside: "My lord, you still don't want to go any further."

"Didn't you already surround him both? Why don't you take it yet? Wu Minchu was a little dissatisfied.

"My lord," the official's voice trembled uncontrollably, "these two little ones can't take him...... Do you see their wounds? Adult, think about it, what normal person can stand as steady as Mount Tai with such an injury? Your Excellency, you better go back, and after a while, when their injuries are healed, I don't know how many brothers will be injured. ”

"Wait." Wu Minchu interrupted the officer's words, "What did you say?" Wait until they're healed? ”

"Hurry, hurry, all set! They don't shed blood anymore! Before the official could explain to Wu Minchu, the official who was besieging the two over there came from the sound of reminding each other.

Wu Minchu hurriedly took two quick steps, and by the light of the torches, Wu Minchu watched the wounds on the trapped two people visibly heal, and as the wounds healed, the sinister smiles on the faces of the two became more and more hideous.

"Grown, go!" The official pulled Wu Minchu out of the crowd, and the screams and fighting behind him made Wu Minchu tremble.

"Go, go to Ah Niu in the blacksmith shop, and ask him and his father to find a way to get two cages. Go fetch some firewood and fence them up! Surround them with fire! Wu Minchu's voice fell, and the idle officials on the side took action one after another. There is no one to shirk, because they know that if they dodge now, the next person to die may be themselves.

"My lord! Firewood. In a few moments, the firewood like a hill was transported to the intersection.

"Fence up, fence off." Taking advantage of the fact that the frenzied two stopped attacking because of the pain of the wound, the officials hurriedly surrounded the firewood in a circle, Wu Minchu took a torch and lit the fire ring, the firewood burned crackled, through the firelight, Wu Minchu saw that the eyes of the two people in the fire circle were covered with a layer of gray-white film.