"I only heard a 'bang', and the tiles fell into pieces at Yuhua's feet. My heart immediately rose to my throat.

Sure enough, the light in the north transept of the east room was on.

I quickly lay straight on the roof.

Half a minute later, Aunt Zhen came out of the east room with a lantern in her coat.

"She walked to Yuhua's door and asked, 'Yuhua, why don't you light the lamp at night?

Yuhua was silent.

"Aunt Zhen knocked on the door and shouted, 'Yuhua!'

"My heart was beating faster.

"Suddenly, I grabbed a clod of dirt and threw it in the direction of the gate.

"There was a 'bang' and the clod hit the tiled roof on the outside of the gate.

At this time, Yuhua pretended to be sleepy and said, "Mother, just now I saw a figure flashing in front of the window, is it a thief?" ’

When Aunt Zhen heard this, she said to the house: 'Yuhua, you can sleep in peace, it's okay, our family has nothing to steal.' ’

After saying that, he walked to the gate, looked at the wall, and looked back at the roofs of the two houses. Fortunately, the house on the south side was against the gate, and from the angle from which she stood, she could not see me lying on the tile.

Aunt Zhen looked around and thought that the thief had escaped over the wall.

"She said in the direction of the gate: 'Listen, gentleman outside the wall, there are orphans and widows living in my courtyard, and they have only a few days' rations in their house, and there is nothing to gather. If you have fallen into this way because you have no food or clothing, please come to your aid under the bright sun, and if you are a habitual thief, I warn you that this time I will let you go, and if you invade your house again, you will not be spared. ’

After speaking, he turned around and walked into the house, and when he walked to the door of Yuhua, he said: 'Yuhua, it's okay, you can sleep well.' And he went into the east room.

"I lay on the roof and waited quietly for the lights to go out.

"But after waiting for a long time, the lights were still on.

Soon after, the light of the ear room on the north side of the east room slowly moved to the hall house, and then moved out of the hall door, and Aunt Zhen came out again.

She quietly walked towards Yuhua's door, and my heart began to strain again.

"Near the entrance of Yuhua, I can't see it from the room. But through the hole in the roof, I saw that the light outside Yuhua's window moved for a moment and then stopped.

"Lying on the roof, I didn't dare to make a sound. Looking down at Yuhua, she was also standing in place, motionless, like a sculpture.

"Suddenly, there was a terrible scene.

"By the light outside, I saw a figure outside Yuhua's window.

"The figure looked like he was wearing a cloak on his head, and it was definitely not Aunt Zhen.

"When I was terrified, I heard Aunt Zhen say: 'Guarding Yuhua outside the door, if a thief comes in, let him go and stir, leave him alone, but never let anyone hurt Yuhua. ’

Then, he said to Yuhua: 'Yuhua, I will let a bean soldier guard you here, and you can sleep in peace.' If there are any more thieves, you don't have to worry. ’

"I didn't know at that time that Aunt Zhen had the ability to sprinkle beans into soldiers, and at that critical juncture, I didn't have the heart to think about what the word bean soldiers meant, but suddenly there was another person outside Yuhua's door, and my heart was cold. I thought, this is all over, and this operation will definitely be in vain, because any noise in the room and on the roof will be heard clearly outside the door.

"But I still hold on to a glimmer of hope, hoping that Yuhua will find a way to refuse her mother to send someone to guard the door.

But Yuhua happily accepted: 'Thank you, mother, I will sleep more peacefully if someone guards me.' Go back to sleep. ’

Soon after Aunt Zhen entered the house, the lights in the room went out.

"I was lying on the roof and still didn't dare to move, I didn't know what to do.

"I saw Yuhua walk to the door, not knowing what he was saying.

Suddenly, the door opened, and a man in black walked in. I quickly tilted my head to avoid the man's gaze.

But the man in black didn't look around when he came in, he kept hanging his head and looking at the ground.

"This is Yuhua lowering his voice below and calling me: 'Buddha Dai, you brought the rope, right? ’

"I still had a little scruple in my heart, and I didn't move.

"Yuhua said again: 'Don't be afraid, this is just a bean, there is no consciousness, she will do whatever I ask her to do. ’

Hearing this, I slowly got up and knelt on my knees again in the trough. I peeked at the man in black, but she was still looking at the ground, motionless.

"I took off the rope that was slung across my shoulder, slowly unwrapped it, and put one end down.

When the rope was about to reach the ground, Yuhua said something to the man in black, and the man in black immediately stepped forward and tied the rope around Yuhua's waist.

"I have dispelled my concerns about the man in black.

"After tying the rope, Yuhua said: 'Buddha Dai, you stand up, it's not easy to pull when you kneel. ’

I stood up gently, stepped on the tile grooves on both sides of the hole, and was about to pull the rope, when the man in black quickly stacked the three square stools together, and then picked up Yuhua, and jumped to the top of the three square stools with two rubs.

"Before I could react, Yuhua was already only a foot or two away from me.

"Yuhua said, 'Put away the rope that fell underneath first. ’

I hurriedly began to retract the ropes, and when all the ropes were retracted, only two or three feet remained between me and Yuhua.

"That's when I knew what to do.

I tightened the rope between me and Yuhua, put it on my shoulder, pulled it tightly with my left hand, bowed down, stretched out my right hand, grabbed one of Yuhua's hands, and then the rope and my right hand pulled hard at the same time, and the man in black also helped push it below.

Yuhua flew out of the hole with a thud and stood on the roof.

Yuhua and I stumbled under our feet, and a few pieces of dry mud and tiles fell into the holes.

"Before I could get nervous, the man in black caught the falling thing with great speed.

After standing firmly, Yuhua silently recited a few words in his mouth, and then said to the man in black: "Go and guard the door." ’

The man in black jumped off the stool, took down the stool on it, set it up, and quietly opened the door and went out.

Yuhua and I tiptoed slowly to the edge of the roof, I first gently jumped on the brick edge of the side wall of the house, took Yuhua's hand, and let her get off the roof and step on the brick edge. The two of them slowly moved sideways to the courtyard wall, and walked from the top of the courtyard wall to the gate, and climbed down the angle between the gate pier and the courtyard wall.

As soon as I entered my room, Yuhua hugged me and cried.

"I stroked her back and said, 'Okay, Yuhua, let's stop crying, we should be happy now.' ’

When Yuhua heard this, she looked up at me, smiled with tears on her face, and lowered her head shyly after laughing, and at the same time, her two hands were quickly removed from my waist to wipe her tears.

"I casually picked up the gift baggage that I had prepared a long time ago, took Yuhua's hand and said, 'Let's go quickly. ’

After speaking, he was going to pull Yuhua out the door.

Yuhua stood still.

"I was stunned too.

"Yuhua looked at me, pulled his hand out of my hand, and said, 'Have you figured out where we're going?'

"I said, 'Well, let's go north, and when we hear that the north is all prairie, we will make a home in the prairie, raise some cattle, raise some sheep, and raise some horses, and we will ride horses on the prairie for two days. Then ......'

"'Buddha, there's something I want to tell you. Yuhua interrupted me. ”