Diao Chan didn't dare to go out, let alone make a sound, for fear of alarming the people outside.

After walking around the house, Diao Chan looked at the small window in the back.

Fortunately, Dong Chun never appeared.

This guy originally planned to come after Diao Chan was brought here, but because Princess Changning temporarily dragged him to the palace to visit Concubine Liu, Dong Chun had to follow.

Diao Chan did his best to curl up and emerge through the back window.

The village is very small, with only about a dozen households, and most of the houses are dilapidated, and at this time, there is not a single person in sight.

Diao Chan patrolled around for a long time, but he couldn't discern the direction of the capital, and he was worried that he would be discovered by the people in the courtyard, so he had to carry a long skirt and walk on a deserted path.

After walking for half an hour, seeing that no one was following behind him, Diao Chan breathed a sigh of relief and planned to rest for a while.

This is probably the farthest journey Diao Chan has ever traveled in his life.

By this time, it was already evening.

The whole wilderness was as silent as a great tomb.

Diao Chan was tired and hungry, and he didn't care about the dirt on the ground, and sat under a lonely tree.

A venomous snake the size of a baby's arm was crawling down from among the branches and leaves of a large tree.

By the time Diao Chan heard the sound of leaves shaking and raised his head, one of the triangular heads of the viper was already less than half a foot away from Diao Chan's face.

Diao Chan had never seen such a monster, desperately covered his cheeks with his hands, and jumped up from the ground screaming.

Thinking that Diao Chan was trying to attack him, the serpent's huge head catapulted out, spewing venom like lightning, and biting the skin of her palm before Diao Chan fell.

The severe pain and fear instantly made Diao Chan faint.

Fortunately, after Diao Chan fell unconscious, the poisonous snake did not continue to attack, but circled around her body a few times and left slowly.

The two small black holes in the palm of the hand kept sticky liquid flowing out.

Diao Chan was in a coma for a long time this time.

A woodcutter carrying a bundle of firewood passes by.

This man lives in this small village and makes a living by cutting wood. Every once in a while, he would use a cart to pull bundles of firewood to sell in the capital.

Today, due to the late arrival, it was already dark when I came back.

His foot kicked Diao's soft body.

Leaning down, the woodcutter saw the sable cicada clearly.

"Where did the woman come from?" The woodcutter muttered as he reached out to the nostrils of Diao Chan to test his snort, only to find that there were two small black holes in the palm of Diao Chan's raised hand.

Since poisonous snakes are often infested in the village, almost all the people in the village know how to save themselves, especially those like him who go out into the wilderness every day.

The woodcutter quickly squeezed out the venom around the sable cicada's wound, and found some antidote herbs under the big tree, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and applied it to the sable cicada's wound.

By the time Diao Chan came to his senses, it was already the morning of the next day.

Diao Chan felt that he had been caught by the two men and returned to the original house, because both the furnishings in the house and the wooden bed under him were almost exactly the same as there.

Diao Chan couldn't move yet, and his whole body was as weak as a ball of cotton.

Diao Chan thought of death, but now she doesn't even have the strength to die.

I don't know how long it took, but the sound of footsteps came into the house.

A woman with a floral scarf wrapped around her head walked in.

The woman was probably not more than thirty years old, not tall, and her waist was very thick, and it was clear at a glance that she was pregnant.

"This sister, you're awake." The woman saw Diao Chan staring at her with big blank eyes, so she came over and said, "My brother said that he rescued you in the wilderness, saying that you are a lady from the capital, I didn't believe it at first, but seeing your clothes, such a handsome appearance, my little sister believed it." ”

Diao Chan still looked ignorant.

The woman was very enthusiastic.

After about a stick of incense, Diao Chan finally figured out the environment he was in now and how he was rescued.

Diao Chan didn't dare to tell the truth, only said that he had lost his way and was injured by a poisonous snake.

"My brother just went to the capital to sell firewood, and when he comes back, I want him to go to the city to find your family." The woman said.

Diao Chan didn't know that Bao Zheng and the others had returned, and he didn't dare to mention Kaifeng Mansion, for fear that Dong Chun and others would find him.

The injuries on Diao Chan's body were not serious, but due to excessive fright, coupled with the presence of some venom of poisonous snakes in his body, he was weak.

After a long day's rest, in the evening, Diao Chan can get out of bed and walk slowly.

At this time, the woodcutter also returned.

Diao Chan hears the conversation between the brother and sister outside.

"Have you ever heard about my sister?"

"After I sold the firewood, I had a little wine with an old friend, and I heard him say that a woman had run away from a brothel in the city, and it seemed that she had stabbed a customer."

"This, this sister can't be that woman, right?"

"When I came back, I saw a few strangers walking around the village, presumably looking for her."

"If that's the case, aren't you and my brother and sister going to get into trouble?"

The woodcutter sighed and stopped talking.

Diao Chan didn't expect that the strangers in the woodcutter's mouth were actually the officials sent by Master Bao to find her, and she instinctively thought that they must be the people sent by Dong Chun.

Diao Chan thought of running away.

However, looking at the already dark sky outside, Diao Chan hesitated again.

After a while, the woman's voice came: "I have long said that I want to go to live in the city with my brother, but my brother insists on refusing, if you are in the city, how can such a thing happen?" ”

"The little brother is worried that there is nothing to do in that city, and you and my brother and sister will not be able to live."

The woman was silent for a moment, and her voice suddenly lowered very low: "Brother doesn't have to worry, my little sister has never told you the truth. As long as my brother agrees, my little sister can guarantee that our life in the city is worry-free. ”

"Why is my little sister so confident?"

The woman did not reply, but cautiously approached the door and poked her head inside.

Diao Chan hurriedly lay down on the bed and made it look like he was sleeping deeply.

The woman stepped outside and continued her conversation with the woodcutter.

"Xiaomei was not an ordinary woman, the reason why she didn't dare to tell the truth to her brother was because she was worried that her brother would dislike Xiaomei because of this, and now I see that my brother has no second thoughts about Xiaomei, and treats the baby in Xiaomei's womb as his own, so I don't want to hide it anymore."

"Little sister dares to say such things when she is sick?" The woodcutter apparently refused to believe the woman's words.

The woman ignored the woodcutter's suspicions and went on with herself.

"The little sister was originally called Ling Ju, and she used to be a bandit on a mountain, but later the cottage was cleared by officers and soldiers, and the little sister escaped by luck. Later, he married a man surnamed Qian, but later, the original bandit leader went back and had friction with the man surnamed Qian, and the little sister was forced to be helpless, injured the two, and fled down the mountain with the gold and silver of the bandit leader, and was fortunate to be taken in by his brother. ”

The woodcutter did not speak for a long time.

Diao Chan was also surprised, it turned out that these two were not brothers and sisters, and their relationship was very delicate.