"Huh, huh," Xiaohua also ran with a pale face, shrunk in the grass and looked nervously at the side of the trail, and said with some doubts: "Sister, why is no one chasing after me, and besides, there are still people shouting that the water is gone......"

"I put it." Shu Ying replied.

Apparently, the coals he threw on the roof thatch before he left had made a difference.

"Hiss......"

Xiaohua's eyes widened suddenly, and even the little boy next to her gasped.

Who's a serious girl who set fire!

Xiaohua looked at this sister who was not a few years older than herself and had always been weak and weak on weekdays as if she was meeting Shu Ying for the first time.

"Sister Shu Ying, I, I can't believe that you are still Sister Shu Ying." Xiaohua's voice trembled a little and said: "Usually you don't dare to speak loudly, but today, you beat the two brothers of Zhang Butcher again, and set fire to it again." ”

Shu Ying said helplessly: "I don't want to either...... What, scared? ”

"No, it's not." Xiaohua shook her head again and again, and said with a serious face: "Today's Sister Shu Ying is very powerful!" ”

The immature eyes were full of envy and adoration.

In Xiaohua's life, everyone taught her that a girl should be honest and behaved, and wait to serve a man when she grows up.

Those women did the same, and Xiaohua thought that when she grew up, she would marry a man she had never seen before, just like other women, and then marry a chicken.

Only today, a girl who is not a few years older than her is holding a stick against the world, telling her that girls don't need rules, don't need the fate of others, and don't necessarily have to serve men!

Xiaohua came back to her senses and hurriedly asked, "Sister Shu Ying, you, what are you going to do next?" ”

Shu Ying sighed: "I definitely can't go back, as long as I go back, I will definitely be killed." ”

"But what if you don't go back?" Xiaohua said worriedly: "Sister Shu Ying, you are a girl, in this world...... If you can't get it right, you have to ......"

Running out is not necessarily a good thing.

A girl who has no power to restrain the chicken, in this world where men are inferior to women, is unfamiliar with life and turns outside.

It's good to starve to death on the side of the road, but if you meet a bandit, you really have to be tossed to death.

"You can't go back then!" Shu Ying broke a piece of chaff cake from her arms, chewed it, and stuffed it into Xiaohua's hands, frowning: "Next, I plan to run along this official road." ”

"You definitely can't go in the direction of the county seat. It is prosperous over there, and from time to time people from Shizhu Village enter the city, which is easy to expose. ”

"We have to go the other way, go to a more remote place, and then find a village."

"There's always a way to survive."

Shu Ying exhaled, but she was also a little uncertain.

After experiencing these things, she has already felt how difficult it is for a woman to survive in the Great Liang Country.

But when you get to this point, you can only go hard!

"Thanks to you this time." Shu Ying swallowed the last bite of the cake and touched Xiaohua's head, "If it weren't for you, I would have been beaten to death by now." ”

Xiaohua lowered her head and said, "You can't watch Sister Shu Ying being beaten to death...... If it weren't for Sister Shu Ying helping me before, secretly giving me wild vegetables and spinning thread, Xiaohua doesn't know how many times she would have been beaten by Abba. ”

"Your parents should look for you again, Xiaohua, go back, don't tell others that you've seen me." Shu Ying also gasped at this time, and seeing that no one was chasing after her, she finally touched Xiaohua's head and said with a smile: "I'm leaving." ”

But.

"Huh!"

Xiaohua grabbed Shu Ying's skirt.

"Sister Shu Ying," Xiaohua had tears in her eyes, "can I go with you?" ”

Shu Ying was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Don't make trouble, Xiaohua, Sister Shu Ying is running away, and if you don't get it, you will be killed by the gangsters the next day......"

"Little flower is not afraid! Xiaohua wanted to go with Sister Shu Ying. Xiaohua suddenly cried and rolled up her sleeves, "Xiaohua has to be beaten every day." ”

"Without Sister Shu Ying to help me in the future, how can Xiaohua find a basket of wild vegetables to go home, how can she spin so many threads!"

"Abba is going to beat me to death!"

Xiaohua didn't want to marry a man she didn't know when she grew up, be beaten and scolded, and serve him. Abba had been looking for people to negotiate with him everywhere last year, and when he heard that Old Man Wang in Hedong Village didn't want a dowry, he was going to marry me to Old Man Wang! ”

Her immature eyes were filled with fear, as if going home was like going to hell for her.

Looking at the little girl's thin body that obviously did not match her age, as well as the tears of fear on her face, Shu Ying also knew the situation of this little flower in her heart.

I'm afraid it's not much better than myself, or even worse.

The life of the farmer is not easy, but the life of the girl in the farmer's house is even more difficult.

"Xiaohua, Sister Shu Ying knows." Shu Ying touched Xiaohua's head, but still said, "But you can't go with Sister Shu Ying." ”

Xiaohua suddenly trembled, as if the last straw had been broken, and she knelt directly on the ground, grabbed Shu Ying's skirt and said, "Sister Shu Ying, please take me away...... Xiaohua eats very little, Xiaohua can find wild vegetables by herself, Xiaohua is very obedient! ”

"I'm fleeing." Shu Ying sighed, "It's hard to say how long I can live, how can I still take you with me to escape?" What if something happens? ”

"If nothing else, what if we were walking on the road and met three or five men who had bad intentions?"

Shu Ying knew that the next step would definitely be a danger all the way!

Bringing a little flower hurt her.

Seeing Xiaohua crying, Shu Ying's heart softened, squatted down and touched Xiaohua's head, and comforted: "Xiaohua is good, you saved my sister today, Sister Shu Ying promised you." ”

"As long as Sister Shu Ying has a place to settle down and find a way to live."

"Sister will definitely take you over!"

Xiaohua's eyes had a glimmer of light, she raised her head to look at Shu Ying, and sobbed: "Shu, Sister Shu Ying, are you serious?" ”

"Sister Shu Ying promises!" Shu Ying nodded: "Didn't your father just ask for money?" Before you get married next year, Sister Shu Ying will definitely pick you up. ”

"A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase!"

Xiaohua looked at Shu Ying, and her eyes finally had a glimmer of light again, as if she had grasped the last straw again.

But then Xiaohua said quietly: "But you are not a gentleman, you are a girl like me......"

"It's the same with girls." Shu Ying stretched out her hand: "Hang yourself on the hook, you can't change it for a hundred years!" ”

Xiaohua learned from Shu Ying, and pulled the hook with the smaller hand and the larger hand.

"Then, I'll go back first." Xiaohua reluctantly stood up and walked out of the grass, looking at the path leading to Shizhu Village, her eyes were afraid and hopeful, and said, "Sister Shu Ying, remember to come and pick me up." ”

"It's a matter of course." Shu Ying waved her hand in the grass: "Let's go, hold on, my sister will definitely pick you up." ”

"Hmm."

Xiaohua nodded heavily, clenched her small fists, and walked back to the village step by step.

Halfway down, I saw a cluster of wild vegetables, and hurriedly squatted down to dig the soil with my little hands.

Digging and digging, Xiaohua couldn't help but cry again, but then wiped her face with her little dirt-stained hands.

Xiaohua, who was like a little flower cat, squatted on the ground, holding wild vegetables and sobbing: "Xiaohua doesn't cry, Sister Shu Ying promised to pick me up." ”

In the grass, Shu Ying watched Xiaohua disappear into the path, and then turned her head to look at the little boy: "Xiaohua is gone, why don't you go?" ”

The predecessor was weaving at home on weekdays, or he was digging wild vegetables with a basket on his back, and he knew a few girls in the village who were digging wild vegetables together, and he was only familiar with the boys in the village, and he didn't know who was who.

After all, there are differences between men and women, and the rules here are extremely strict, and it is wrong for an unmarried girl like Shu Ying to say a word to a boy.

The eleven or twelve-year-old boy in front of him was tiger-headed, but he was sturdy, and he didn't seem to be a farmer's child.

But just a sentence from the little boy startled Shu Ying and almost jumped up.

"Mother," the boy looked at Shu Ying seriously, "I'm not going home, I'll go with you." ”