Chapter 33: The Girl Who Eloped
By chance, Lang Xiaobai got acquainted with Kang Jinsen, the owner of Kangjiazhuang who came to Dongzhou to play, and helped him recover the huge amount of money he lost.
In the autumn of this year, Lang Xiaobai was invited by the owner of the farm, Kang Jinsen, to go to Kangjiazhuang to participate in the annual hunting activities of the estate.
In the middle of the night, a beautiful and charming girl rode a horse and galloped over the bleak wilderness. Her hair was shiny black, meekly draped behind her back, moving like a black waterfall in the wind, and shining in the moonlight, and her beautiful face was like a wild rose, dull with panic, anxiety and excitement, but her black eyes twinkled like stars.
She noticed as if she was being followed. The beautiful maiden kept waving the whip in her hand, and at the same time turned her head to look back, and at the same time frequently kicked the horse's belly and galloped the horse.
She was dressed in a well-tailored horse suit, with a pair of long red leather boots under her feet, and rode gracefully on her horse.
The moon in the sky cast a brilliant light, the wind swirled on the ground, and the bleak fields were like a rolling silver sea. The horses galloped like crazy, and the sound of horses' hooves "deservedly" in the moonlit night. In a short time the horse galloped into a dense and vast forest, and at the bend of the boulevard a small car was parked.
The beautiful girl jumped off her horse with dexterity and tied her horse to a tree by the side of the road, when a young man jumped out of the car and held the girl's hand tightly.
"Alright, alright, fortunately no one recognizes it!"
"But the danger is still there, hurry up and get in the car...... As for the horse, whatever it is. ”
Subsequently, the car also drove away at a breakneck speed.
At the same time, in a corner of the jungle, a man is quietly hiding. A ray of moonlight shone through the gaps in the dense and almost airtight foliage, and the man's form looked like a shadow at this time.
This large forest and abandoned fields are the domain of Kang Jinsen, the owner of Kang Jiazhuang, and it is also a frequent haunt of foxes and wild boars. Today, September 5th, a great hunt that began early in the morning, presided over by the owner Conkinson, has come to an end, and now all is calm.
At this moment, beside a large tree, stood a suspicious man, wearing a black tweed hat with a low brim that almost covered his eyes, and a black coat. The collar was raised high, covering his face. With a gun in his right hand, he stood close to the trunk of a tree, not moving. About 10 meters in front of him, there was a mountain road in the woods, which looked like a white river in the moonlight.
The sound of a car came from a distance, breaking the silence in the woods, and the man immediately took a ready position. A short time later, around the corner, the car drove up, and the headlights shone directly into his face.
He looked calm, and when the car drove down the mountain road to his side, he pulled the trigger, "Bang, bang, bang!" Three shots were fired in succession. With the gunshots, three tire explosions were heard. The car stopped, and from the car jumped out of the panicked young man and beautiful girl. After they checked the tires, the two of them raised their hands helplessly, showing a look of despair.
At this time, the suspicious man disappeared silently in the depths of the dense forest.
"How's that okay? Brother He Song, what should we do?"
"Oops! Yingzi! All three tires were shot!"
"Someone must have been doing something to get in the way, and he knew we were going to escape, so he laid an ambush here beforehand...... Ah! Brother He Song, hurry up and fix the tires!"
"Can't do it! It's so broken that it will take at least three hours to fix it!"
"Ahh So what should I do?"
The beautiful girl raised her white hands to cover her face, and gently shook her black hair. He Song's hand touched her hair, gently soothed, and said, "It's okay, I'll fix it soon, you have to be a little patient!"
The girl shook her head frantically: "No! Someone already knows I've escaped! Wait a little longer, and someone will surely catch me back. I'll have to get back as fast as I can, and I'll talk about it later when I get a chance to escape!"
"That's fine! I'll send you back!"
"No, you don't! At this time, you should fix the tires first, and then come back as soon as possible. ”
Yingzi ran out of the forest, only to see the horse still standing obediently at the exit of the forest. She untied the reins and reached out and gently patted the horse on the neck. The horse rubbed his nose and face against her, and flicked his tail vigorously, as if he were coquettish.
"Horses! Do you know how I feel!"
Eiko's tone was mournful, and she spoke to herself, putting her face against the horse's head. At this moment, her heart was full of sorrow.
The girl's fate was unfortunate, and her parents died at an early age. She was expected to be raised well by her uncle and his wife, but Conkinson was unsentimental and insatiable, and they not only usurped a large amount of her inheritance from her parents, but also denied her freedom and forbade her to go out. She lived with this pain until she couldn't take it anymore. Today, it is the day of the great hunt on the fifth of September, and the hunt is followed by a grand feast. So, when everyone was busy, she took the opportunity to escape from the manor.
The young man, He Song, was deeply sympathetic to her plight, and he drove to the forest to wait for her. But secretly, I don't know who blew the tire with a gun.
She had wanted to sneak out of the manor, but there was no doubt that her uncle, Conkinson, had learned of her escape and had ordered the suspicious man to break the tire.
"You can't go back to the manor. If I go back, my uncle will definitely scold me, and maybe it will be worse than that. What should I do?"
Tears rolled down her pink cheeks, and her heart was filled with sadness, pain, and fear. The horse he had ridden had also run away, and he didn't know where he had gone.
When she had calmed down a little, she looked around, and the horse was slowly walking towards the path opposite to Conkinson's manor.
The horse, who was intelligent and spiritual, and who was usually very loved, seemed to understand the girl's thoughts, and walked up the rocky mountain road with his head down.
"Yes, just follow this horse! See where I'm going to go with it!" As soon as she made a decision, her emotions calmed down immediately. She chased after the horse, straightened her riding clothes, and jumped on. She straightened up and kicked the horse in the stomach with the spurs buckled in the heels of her red boots. The horse regained his spirits and ran at full speed towards the rocky mountain road.
Although Yingzi is only a young girl, thin and delicate, in this situation, she is like a majestic manly husband, full of adventurous spirit to conquer all difficulties and dangers.
"I want to get rid of that greedy, shameless, and unsympathetic villain, and live strong and independent."
She no longer has nostalgia for the property that Conkinson has usurped, and she wants to continue to live tenaciously. Once she had made up her mind, the feelings of fear and loneliness vanished. So, she kicked the horse in the belly with the spurs on the heels of her boots, while shouting, "Forward!"
This is both an order to the horses and a secret encouragement to oneself: "Go!"
Take courage to face the world and move forward!"
The sound of horses' hooves echoed throughout the silent woods of the night.
This place is in the northwest direction of Dongzhou, the scenery is beautiful and pleasant, there are many mountains in this area, the mountain road is rugged and precipitous, both sides of the Dongjiang River, the valley is deep, but with the elevation of the terrain, the field of vision is getting wider and wider. The silver moonlight poured down like flowing water towards the wide forests and bleak fields. Over the mountain, the road gradually flattened, and after a while, we came to a plain.
The weeds grew so luxuriantly that they were as tall as a horse's belly, and the horses rattled as they ran over them, as if they were wading across a river. The place was deserted and overgrown with weeds, like a forbidden place for the living. The girl walked for a while, and came to a row of crumbling earthen walls, and there was no need to ask, it was an old village.
The horses walked along the earthen wall. In the moonlight, the dense forests and the ancient villages that are about to collapse look more and more gloomy and bleak.
"By the way, I've heard people talk about this place before, isn't this Dafu Ancient Village?" The ancient village stands tall in the field. Next to it, there is also a peculiar attic towering not far from the ancient city. Perhaps because of the age, hundreds of years of wind and rain, the roof and walls of the attic have peeled off and collapsed, and there are dills growing everywhere, and the whole building is filled with an eerie and terrifying atmosphere. I heard that this is a "ghost village" and "haunted house", so the general superstitious farmers and hunters do not dare to come to this place, this place has long been deserted and uninhabited.
Bravely, Yingzi approached the gate of an old house, then pulled the reins and stopped the horse.
Suddenly, a man wearing a black fedora and dressed in black appeared at the gate.