The girl hid in the ancestral hall for several days.

The back hall is the fourth entrance to the courtyard, and few people come here.

But in order to avoid being discovered, she never left the room for half a step, and she didn't even dare to open the door or window to breathe, for fear of being discovered.

Tie Zhu would secretly bring her food every night, and take out the filth in the house to clean it up, both of them were very careful.

But someday.

There was a bored child who secretly followed Tie Zhu back to the ancestral hall, and then found out that he had delicious food, but hid and ate it alone.

So when he rushed over to make trouble, he accidentally found the girl hiding in the house.

"Huh? I thought you had already left the village. Those people have all left. Why haven't you left yet?"

That child was naive, he didn't think about the girl's situation at all, he just thought that the girl was still staying in Osmanthus Village.

When the girl heard this, she didn't know what to think of, but she covered her mouth and started to cry suppressedly, the tears were so pitiful.

The child was suddenly panicked and dazed.

Tie Zhu quickly said: "You must not tell anything about my sister's presence here. It seems that someone outside is going to arrest her. I heard Master Wang say this when I was walking on the road two days ago."

The child scratched his head inexplicably: "Oh, why did you grab her?"

Tie Zhu put his hands on his hips, and threatened in a dignified way: "Don't worry about the reason, you can't tell this matter anyway, otherwise I won't let you out of this room!"

"Oh fine."

Although the child responded, he actually didn't take Tie Zhu's threat seriously, he just thought it was a joke between his friends.

After the girl heard what Tie Zhu said, she actually wanted to keep the child.

But she also knew that this was impossible!

Because this child is a child of the village head of Osmanthus Flower Village, if he is lost, Osmanthus Flower Village will definitely look for it vigorously, and it is guaranteed that this place will be found!
So they can't do anything to this child at all.

All he could do was brainwash him.

The two lobbied, begged, threatened, and repeated for an hour and a half...

It was not until the night was dark, seeing that the time could not be delayed any longer, that they reluctantly put the impatient child back.

After the child left, the girl's eyes were blank.

She felt that she should quickly hide in another place, but when she thought about it carefully, those people must be guarding the entrance of the village, and there were barren hills all around, and there were probably people looking for her on the hills.

Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Tie Zhu came over to comfort her.

"His personality is actually quite good. Since he promised not to speak out, he will definitely not speak out. You don't have to worry."

"Tie Zhu, how is your painting going?"

the girl suddenly asked.

Tie Zhu took out a piece of paper from his clothes pocket, on which lines and boxes were crookedly drawn, and lines overlapped in some places, making the overall picture very messy.

Tie Zhu said embarrassingly: "I didn't dare to draw outside, so I wrote it down when I got back to the house, but after I got back to the house, I couldn't remember some things clearly."

The girl stared blankly at the painting, and despair surged up in her heart.

She struggled to squeeze out a smile, and said, "It's okay, you can draw like this very well, as long as you draw the route from the ancestral hall to the entrance of the village."

Although the houses in Osmanthus Village look like houses, there are a lot of narrow alleys extending in all directions, and the alleys are reserved for roof drainage.

If she wants to leave, she must not take the road even at night.

You can only escape through these small alleys.

……

The girl was in fear for two days.

And because she was worried that the child would tell the truth, she had been carefully sleeping under the bed for the past two days, and her spirit was tortured a little because of this.

She didn't feel relieved until she was sure that after the child left, she really didn't tell anyone about it.

And tonight was also the time when she was about to leave the village.

She planned to act again in the middle of the night. At that time, even if there were guards at the village gate, they would be careless because they felt sleepy.

For this reason, the girl got enough sleep during the day.

at night.

When she woke up, she saw a small basket by the window, which should be the dinner that Tie Zhu had prepared for her.

But the accident also happened at this time.

The noise came from outside.

The door was smashed open by a burst of force, the fragile latch had no resistance at all, and the person who broke through the door was like a steel wall full of thorns!

"what--!"

……

In the alley not far away.

The boy was imitating the way he would take that sister to escape later, when he heard a scream coming from the direction of the ancestral hall.

He subconsciously ran two steps over there.

But immediately after, he saw several strong and strong adults rushing into the ancestral hall holding torches, and everyone had gloomy and terrifying expressions on their faces.

These sights abruptly stopped him in his tracks.

Tie Zhu's heart was pounding, suddenly, he heard someone calling his name.

As if it was a signal, the boy turned around and ran away, disappearing into the alley like a loach!
The villagers looked for the iron pillar in the ancestral hall, but ignored it if they couldn't find it.

After all, it was just a brat, and it was probably hidden by the woman who bewitched him, and now that he has been caught, it doesn't matter where the child with no parents is.

Nobody cares.

night.

Heart-piercing cries came from the streets of Osmanthus Village, from the east house to the west house. In the end, maybe something blocked the mouth, and the voice quieted down.

But in fact, no one cares about the outside world.

Unrelated people closed their doors tightly, either went to bed early, or were idly sewing and making utensils.

There was no movement outside.

The joys and sorrows of people are indeed different.

……

Tie Zhu hid in the alley, his small body trembling constantly, and even shed tears in fear.

When he heard the sister's cry, he quickly covered his ears, but when the sound disappeared completely, he hurriedly looked in that direction again.

I don't know how long has passed.

The young boy seemed to have prepared himself psychologically. He tiptoed out of the alley and entered the ancestral hall through the back door.

People go to the empty building, and there is silence in the ancestral hall.

He walked cautiously to the room where the girl was hiding before, and saw that the inside was a mess, with sawdust scattered, tables and chairs overturned, a few pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes fell on the ground, and some were trampled into mud.

Tie Zhu looked complicated, he stepped forward and picked up two intact pastries.

Looking at the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his hand, he looked at the room in front of him again. After hesitating for a long time, he finally seemed to have made up his mind.

Tie Zhu put the cakes into his pocket, and then trotted into the hall in the front yard.

The Xiangtang is very large, and there are no barriers such as doors.

Green smoke curled up above the enshrined tablet.

Tie Zhu first bowed to a pile of memorial tablets with a face full of embarrassment, muttering "offended" and "please let go" in his mouth, and the next moment, he put a dozen cigarettes in the incense burner. Pulled out.

Before leaving, maybe I have already reached this point in thinking, why not...

So Tie Zhu couldn't help but picked up the apples on the offering table again - even if the food as a tribute was spoiled here, no one was allowed to steal it.

And if there is less food on the offering table, the villagers will first suspect that he is the one to blame.

There is no reason or need for reason.

Tie Zhu put the shrunken apple into his mouth, took a bite hard to try it out, and quickly ran back to the messy room in the back hall.

He gathered the cigarettes into a bunch and approached the bed curtain with trembling hands.

The slender bed curtain was quickly ignited by the sparks, and the weak flames slowly burned upward along the cloth grain.

The iron pillar blew lightly a few more times, and the fire became bigger and bigger.

Immediately afterwards, he set fire to the pillows, quilts and other fabrics that were easier to burn.

Seeing the flames jumping up in the room, Tie Zhu's heartbeat seemed to be beating violently with the fireworks, but he turned his head and thought.

I feel that the fire in this small room is too easy to extinguish.

So he ran out and set fire to his own room, until the whole back hall was filled with thick black smoke, Tie Zhu threw away the incense in a panic, turned around and ran out of the ancestral hall.

soon.

Villagers living nearby found that the ancestral hall was on fire.

Everyone's scalps were numb from the shock of this scene!

The ancestral hall of Osmanthus Village is an ancestral hall that everyone believes in and supports. It has carried the feelings of generations for hundreds of years. Its existence can already be called a belief!
The villagers who discovered it first panicked!

"Go away!"

"Go away!"

"The ancestral hall is flooded! Hurry up and call someone!"

"Get up and help! The ancestral hall is on fire!"

"Come on people!"

The village houses in the east immediately panicked, and even the villagers who lived at the foot of the other mountains were awakened. After seeing the ancestral hall billowing in smoke, they hurried over to help.

For a while, the whole Osmanthus Village was a little noisy.

Tie Zhu wandered through the alleys in the dark, and soon reached the door of the Wang family.

White tents can be seen everywhere in the houses of the Wang family village. Everyone in Guihua Village knows that the Wang family is doing funeral affairs for half a month, and they also know that they plan to marry their son who died young.

The panic caused by the flooding of the ancestral hall also affected this side.

Tie Zhu was like a loach, he slipped into the courtyard through the dog hole slippery with a small stature, and after walking a few steps cautiously, he heard a few people talking in this room.

"Why did the ancestral hall suddenly burn down?"

"Could it be because of our matter..."

"Nonsense! It's obvious that someone is playing tricks. Let me tell you, I've settled my son's marriage!"

"What are you in a hurry for? We didn't say we disagreed. We'll do it when the time comes!"

"But over there at the ancestral hall..."

"It can't really burn out, otherwise those people will probably blame us, and find a few people to help quickly."

"Old Wang, go and see for yourself."

"..."

After several people finished talking, there was another rustling, and then the door was pushed open, and the two hurried out.

Tie Zhu hid in the corner, watching the two leave.

At this moment, he suddenly noticed something, and looked back with a jerk.

Under the moonlight, I saw a black wolf dog squatting in the yard, watching him flicking its tail.

Tie Zhu quickly raised his fingers and made a "hush" sound, then took out the bitten apple from his bosom, shook it at the big dog, and then threw it into the distance.

The black wolf dog looked at the apple that rolled to the ground, and then looked at him again, indifferent.

One person and one dog froze.

No one said anything.

After a while, Tie Zhu gritted his teeth and took out another piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake from his pocket, waved it towards it and threw it over.

As soon as the black wolf dog raised its head and opened its mouth, it bit the piece of pastry that was thrown over, then the dog shook its head twice, and swallowed the piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake whole.

At this time, Tie Zhu gestured towards it.

The black wolf dog stood up and walked over slowly, sticking out its tongue from time to time to lick around, as if reminiscing.

"I'm here to find a sister, she's so tall and fat, do you know where she is?" Tie Zhu lowered his voice, talking and gesticulating.

"..." The black wolf dog remained indifferent.

"that is……"

Tie Zhu was in a hurry, feeling that the dog didn't understand what he was gesticulating. After thinking about it, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration!
He quickly said: "Even the sister who has eaten the sweet-scented osmanthus cake I made, you know, the taste of that sweet-scented osmanthus cake!"

"...!"

So Gouzi seemed to have a flash of inspiration.

The black wolf dog flicked its tail, ran ahead to lead him the way, and even warned him to avoid people passing by in the yard.

Tie Zhu drilled two more dog holes, and finally stopped in front of a house.

But there are still two people guarding the door of this room.

Tie Zhu gestured with Gouzi, then walked around to the back of the house, gently pushed down the window with one finger, and found that it was not locked.

So, he opened the window lightly, at an extremely slow speed, for fear of making any noise.

After both windows were pushed open.

Tie Zhu looked into the house with his probe.

There are no candles in here.

But through the moonlight coming in from the window, one can vaguely see a girl in a red wedding dress tied up with five flowers and covered with a red hijab on the Babu bed covered with a white silk curtain.

Without making a sound, he stepped on the back of the black wolf dog and climbed in through the window.

After quietly approaching the bride in the wedding dress, Tie Zhu lifted her red hijab abruptly, and met a pair of frightened eyes.

In the girl's eyes were fear, despair, panic, and the astonishment after seeing the boy.

Obviously, she didn't expect the other party to find him.

While untying her, Tie Zhu whispered, "Sister, don't make a sound, I'll take you out."

After the cloth ball in her mouth was taken out, the girl took a few short breaths.

She whispered: "There are many people outside."

"The ancestral hall is on fire, and everyone is busy trying to put out the fire, so we can run out while it's in chaos," Tie Zhu said.

Hearing this, the girl's eyes finally rekindled a glimmer of hope.

Afterwards, the two left through the window again. When they saw the ferocious and mighty black wolfhound by the wall, the girl was almost frightened, but luckily she covered her mouth in time.

Tie Zhu comforted: "Xiao Hei is very good, he doesn't bite."

The girl looked strange: "You have a good relationship with this family's dog?"

Tie Zhu looked around and said: "Xiao Hei actually likes to go outside to play, but the adults want him to stay here and watch the yard. I saw him run to the mountains to catch pheasants several times before."

Girl: "..."

The black wolf dog led the way sensibly, and the two avoided people who often passed by the yard, and ran out through the dog's hole in a thrilling manner.

However, after they got out, Tie Zhu turned around and saw that the black wolf dog was also planning to get out together.

This frightened Tie Zhu, and quickly pushed the dog's head back.

"You can't! If you disappear, they will definitely look everywhere! Go back! Go back!"

"Woo..." the black wolf dog whispered.

"I'll take you to the mountains to play tomorrow, so hurry back now!"

The black wolf dog seemed to be trying hard to get out, Tie Zhu held down its dog's head firmly, the girl who saw the situation became anxious, and just wanted to say to take it away directly.

Are you worried about a dog with everyone?

But at this moment, shouts came from the yard.

"what happened?"

The Wang family saw the dog humming and chirping in the corner, flicking its head and tail very strangely, and came over while asking.

Hearing the sound, Tie Zhu was so frightened that he stopped caring about the dog, pulled up the girl next to him, turned around and ran away.

He looked back while running, and he was relieved to see that the black wolf dog did not follow out like a show of joy.

……

The two ran quickly in the alley.

The girl was still wearing a bloated red wedding dress, and she didn't have time to change it now, so she could only catch up with her skirt panting.

There are still people guarding the village entrance.

Tie Zhu skillfully pulled her around the foot of Nanshan Mountain, slapped the bushes and squeezed past, and walked the mountain road to the entrance of the village on the other side.

But there is a meandering river at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, which cannot be bypassed no matter what, like a natural moat separating Osmanthus fragrans Village.

There is a wooden bridge at the entrance of the village, but not here.

"Sister, can you swim?" Tie Zhu turned around and asked her.

"Yes... a little bit."

The girl panted and said hurriedly: "Hurry up, they will definitely find out after so long!"

However, just when she finished speaking, there was a noisy sound from a distance. Standing on the hillside, she could faintly see the lit torches and the rushing crowd on the village road.

It was discovered!

They have been found!

The girl was frightened and her feet slipped, and she rolled directly down the hillside, and fell headlong into the river, coughing from choking.

Tie Zhu was also frightened by her, and hurriedly followed her and slid down the hillside, pulling her up from the water.

"I, I'm fine, let's go!"

The girl didn't dare to stop, her whole body was trembling uncontrollably, her voice was trembling, but her arms were still struggling to paddle to the other side of the river.

Fortunately, she does know a little water.

But when they swam to the center of the river, the light of torches appeared on the opposite bank not far away, cluster after cluster, like sparks in the night sky.

Then, suddenly, someone yelled again.

"over there!"

……

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