After dawn, Shi Dou proudly held a mattress and dried it on the wall of his house. Almost all the men in the village came to see that there was a pile of fresh blood stains on the mattress.

How could there be blood stains? Is Xiao Qiao injured? But when I look at Xiao Qiao, I see that Xiao Qiao is full of happiness, so where does the blood stains come from? Shi Dou is full of happiness, and it seems that he is not injured either.

I suddenly remembered the joke Cui'er told me: "He made me bleeding, and I got him pus." I seemed to understand a little, but I didn't.

Xiao Qiao was very diligent at home, just like a competent housewife. He cleaned their room and directed two senior workers and me to level the yard, dug a few newly blooming peony flowers from the mountain and planted them under the yard wall. She taught the servants how to cook several dishes, which made the table add a few delicious dishes that I had never seen before. Shidou looked at his wife so diligent and capable, and opened his mouth and smiled happily all day long.

This kind of life lasted for five days.

On the afternoon of the fifth day, Shidou brought two long-time workers to build a stove. Two more people at home for dinner. The original stove was a little small. Shidou decided to build a new stove again. He held bricks, mud, bricks, rolled mud... The three of them were all sweating profusely. The servant was preparing to cook in the kitchen. Xiao Qiao called me quietly to the front. He asked me to stand at the door to monitor whether Shidou was approaching. If Shidou approached, he quickly slapped his chin.

Xiao Qiao took out the key from under the mat, opened the cabinet, then reached in, then locked the cabinet and placed the key under the mat.

Xiao Qiao called me into the house and asked me whisperedly: "Do you still remember the way you came?"

I said, "I remember."

Xiao Qiao asked again: "When I came, there was a big acacia tree on the side of the road. Do you still remember?"

I thought about it and said I remember.

Xiao Qiao said: "You go under the soapberry tree, and someone is waiting for you under the soapberry tree. You tell him that we will leave late tonight."

I asked, "Sleep under the acacia tree and wait? Where are we going?"

Xiao Qiao said: "The person waiting for you is either my man or your master. If you don't leave tonight, do you have to want to spend your whole life here?"

I said, "Okay, I'll go find the acacia tree right away."

Xiao Qiao reminded him: "Don't let someone follow me when you go."

The soapberry tree is about four or five miles away from the cave. I walked along the mountain road, and sometimes I stopped the pheasant on the side of the road with stones, and sometimes I chased the rabbit that suddenly ran on the road. The pheasant could not take off on the flat road. If it encountered danger, it would hurry to the edge of the cliff and be able to fly with the help of the cliff terrain. Its body is very heavy, so it will fall down first and then fly up every time it flies. I fantasized about whether I could catch a pheasant, but I never could. The rabbit had short legs and ran fast in the flat ground, and it ran much faster on the hard road than in the fields. However, the rabbit was most afraid of running uphill because it was short and short legs, so it was very difficult to run uphill. I always thought about being able to catch a rabbit when I went uphill, but I still couldn't do it.

When I came to the soapberry tree, I looked around and there was no one. Xiao Qiao said that there would be someone waiting for me here, but where is the person? When I was feeling something strange, Ling Guangzu and Ling Yaozu flashed out of the bushes.

I said, "My sister said we will leave late tonight."

Before Ling Guangzu and Ling Yaozu could speak, the thin old man walked out from behind the tree. He had a dry cigarette pot in his mouth. He clenched the cigarette mouth with his teeth. The sound squeezed out from the gap between his teeth. He said, "Wait for us to pick it up."

I turned around and walked away, walked dozens of meters away, and turned around and saw the three of them disappear.

When they returned to Shidou's home, it was almost dark. Shidou and two long-time workers were having dinner in the yard. There were pickled lumps and pickled radishes on the square table. The three of them held a large porcelain bowl and drank the sound of tearing cloth one after another. I knew they were drinking Baogujin. When they were at home, Wang Xigui often asked us to drink Baogujin, and after drinking, he had to lick the bottom of the bowl with his tongue.

Xiao Qiao was putting on the soles of her shoes at the gate of the yard. When she saw me, she said angrily: "I'm playing outside all day, and my feet don't touch my home, just like a pheasant."

I said, "I'm much better than pheasant. Will pheasant call you sister?"

My words made Shidou and two senior workers laugh. Shidou said, "Come here quickly and have a bowl of rice." People in the Dabie Mountains called porridge, rice, and noodles. In short, everything that can be served in a bowl is called rice.

Xiao Qiao put down the soles of her shoes in her hand and said, "Wash your hands first." She pulled me to the flower bed, scooping water from the water tank, and whispered to me: "Have you seen someone?"

I whispered, "I saw it, they said they would come back to pick us up."

Xiao Qiao said: "I can't sleep tonight, my ears are erect. As soon as I call you, you will leave quickly."

That night, the whole family went to bed early. In order to save the oil, people in the mountain village basically did not light the lights at night. They worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. This has been like this for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years.

I remember Xiao Qiao's words, I couldn't sleep tonight, but no matter how I told myself that I couldn't sleep, my eyelids were still fighting. Later, I told myself that I could just sleep for a while and just take a nap. However, I fell asleep in a deep sleep.

I don’t know how long it took, but who twisted my ears and my mouth was covered by someone. I woke up in pain and heard Xiao Qiao say, “Little bastard, if you don’t let you sleep, how dare you sleep.”

I hurriedly held her arm with my hands and told her not to use such great strength. She let me go and said to me, "Go and open the yard door."

I walked out of the room and saw that the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and everything was silent. The moonlight was shining on the poplar trees in the yard, and the shadows of the leaves were printed on the ground, just like paintings. The screams of frogs came from outside the door. Every once in a while, they would scream a few times. The sound sounded extremely loud on the quiet night. I tiptoed to the yard gate, took the top door bar, then pulled out the iron nail, pulled out the door bolt, and lifted the door leaf, which opened silently.

A person walked into the door. With the help of the moonlight, I saw that it was Ling Yaozu.

Ling Yaozu whispered to me: "Are all done?"

I said, "Miss Xiao Qiao is still inside."

Ling Yaozu tiptoed to the yard, and Xiao Qiao also walked out of the room. Xiao Qiao was carrying a cloth bag in his hand, and he didn't know what it contained, but it could be seen from his curved figure that it was very heavy.

Ling Yaozu took the cloth bag from Xiao Qiao's hand and walked out of the yard one by one. The yard was silent. After a hand-to-hand battle, Shidou fell into a sweet dream. He didn't know that just tonight, his family was emptied.

We walked to the entrance of the village and saw the thin old man and Ling Guangzu flashing out of the darkness. The thin old man raised his arms, made gestures, and walked forward first, and we followed behind him.

As soon as he walked out of the village entrance, the moon hid in the clouds, and the stars in the sky appeared one by one, just like they were floating on the water. After the thin old man brought everyone to a cliff, he said with confidence: "It's okay now, take a breath first, let me smoke the pot before leaving."

The thin old man took out the flint scythe, lit the turtle velvet, and the subtle flames slowly ignited. The thin old man was about to put the cigarette pot on his mouth when he suddenly heard someone shouting in the distance: "Who? Who is there?" Then, he heard the angry roar of several dogs.

Shangshan Cave is a big village, and there are people patrolling the night.

We were frightened and hurriedly ran forward. The moon exposed clouds. The mountain path under the moonlight winded like a dead snake, reaching down the mountain. Behind us, the screams of two people and the roar of dogs came.

There were two people and one dog, but the two people were holding a bright long sword in their hands, and the blade of the long sword flashed cold light in the moonlight. These two people and a dog disturbed the tranquility of the village. The dogs locked in the yard began to bark wildly. Maybe someone would soon open the yard gate and chase after him.

The two men let go of the dog's reins, and the ferocious dog rushed over from behind, and even its heavy breathing seemed to be heard, and it seemed to be ringing in his ears. The thin old man who was good at walking on the mountain road ran in the front, and he shouted, "Run up the mountain, run up the mountain." Then he left the mountain road and rushed towards the hillside in the thorn. We followed closely behind. Ling Yaozu ran at the end because he was carrying the bag of silver dollars in his hand.

We ran up the hillside, and there was no road on the hillside. Our feet were on weeds, mugwort, thorns, bushes, the trousers were torn and the ankles were scratched, but none of this matter was important. What was important was to get rid of the pursuit of the dog behind us.

The lean old man has a lot of experience in mountainous areas. As expected, we distanced ourselves from the mastiff. We wore shoes and were able to run upwards while the mastiff was short and exposed, and the mastiff was unable to rush through the mastiff bush.

We and the mastiff gradually got away from the village, and we could no longer hear the barking of the dogs in the village.

However, before we could take a breath, the mastiff suddenly circled around the thorn bush and approached us secretly, and the two men with long swords caught up.
Chapter completed!