When Ye Huiran appeared in the woodshed again, her hair was disheveled, there were slap marks on her face, there were even marks on her neck where she had been pinched by her hands, and there were scars on the corners of her mouth.
But she seemed not to notice the pain in her body, her face expressionless.
Only when I see Pei Bingwen, will a soft color flash past me.
Next door, Pei Dahe was snoring so loudly that he had obviously fallen asleep.
"Bingwen, you go out first. Mom has something to say to sister."
"Mom..." Pei Bingwen saw Ye Huiran, and a flash of pain flashed in his eyes.
He wanted to say something, but gave up in the end.
He didn't want his mother to think of painful things.
After Pei Bingwen left the woodshed obediently, Ye Huiran looked at Zuo Li and smiled: "My eldest daughter, I haven't asked your name yet."
Zuo Li looked at Ye Huiran and felt sad in her heart. She could imagine the pain in her heart without asking.
How did she survive these twenty years?
"Sister Ye, my name is Zuo Li, from left to right, from lychee to lychee."
"Zuo Li." Ye Huiran murmured, then held Zuo Li's hand, with a firm light shining in his eyes.
"I won't hesitate any more this time. Let's escape tonight!"
Zuo Li was shocked, but worried: "Even at night, the villagers may not let down their guard."
As the saying goes, if you don’t do bad things, you won’t be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door.
This village is a large crime den. No matter what, it is impossible to be unprepared.
Ye Huiran chuckled, and then a hint of exhaustion flashed across his face. He simply sat down next to Zuo Li, leaning against the wall, closing his eyes as if he was extremely tired:
"That's true, but this is the easternmost part of the village. After climbing over the mountain behind, you can reach a main road. Because it's troublesome to climb over the mountain, most people go from the west side of the village.
That family next door is a problem, but they're not home tonight."
Zuo Li's heart moved, and she remembered the escape opportunity mentioned by Ye Huiran yesterday.
If you don’t understand anything, just ask: “Sister Ye, what’s going on tonight?”
"Tonight, some people from the city came to the village to show a movie. The venue is the courtyard of the village chief's house in the west of the village. I'm afraid a tent has already been set up."
There was a sneer in Ye Huiran's eyes: "For the people in Wangyue Village, both adults and children will go there to watch movies. But Pei Dahe will not go. As long as we solve Pei Dahe, we will have a chance."
Zuo Li never thought there would be such a good opportunity!
As Ye Huiran said, this is definitely a good opportunity!
Zuo Li thought of another thing at this time, and a look of sadness appeared on his face.
"Sister Ye, do you know where we are going over the mountain? It's such a winter, if we lose our way, we might die outside."
In this era, roads everywhere had not yet been built, and villages were far apart, especially since it was still in the mountains.
If they deviate from the route, in the middle of winter, they will freeze to death without the villagers finding them.
If possible, Zuo Li still wants to live a good life.
"I know the way." Ye Huiran suddenly stood up holding the wall and staggered out. Zuo Li was a little curious, but did not follow.
After a while, when Ye Huiran came back, he handed the piece of cloth in his hand to Zuo Li.
Zuo Li took it and was immediately surprised: "This is... a map?"
I saw that the cloth in her hand was embroidered with graphics using rough black thread.
"Yes, these triangles are mountains, these curves are rivers, these circles are villages, and the roads are thick curves. I have only gone out three times in these years, and I wrote them down."
Zuo Li was really surprised. She even saw Xiaoyang Town on it.
It turns out that Wangyue Village is not far from Xiaoyang Town.
It's just that because Ye Huiran went to few places, there weren't many landmarks on this map.
"Some of them, I'm not sure of the specific location because they were all heard from others. But the accuracy shouldn't be too low because they have been verified repeatedly."
Ye Huiran stroked the rough cloth with her fingers, as if stroking the hope in her eyes.
There were tears in her eyes, and her tone was more choked: "Zuo Li, I think I will embroider this map, just because I hope that one day Bingwen will be able to escape from here. Escape from this Wangyue Village that eats people without spitting out their bones.
, run away from these morally apostate beasts!”
Zuo Li took a deep breath and handed the map to Ye Huiran. He looked at her for a while, then suddenly reached out and hugged her, with bright eyes and a determined tone,
"Yes, we will succeed!"
On the fourth day after Zuo Li disappeared, the sky was dark.
The entire Wangyue Village was silent except for the courtyard of the village chief's house in the west of the village.
Apart from the occasional barking of dogs and crowing of chickens, there was only the sound of the winter wind.
In the evening, Zuo Li tried his best to cook several delicious dishes, which made Pei Dahe so happy that he drank a lot of wine and fell asleep directly.
Zuo Li's quiet and well-behaved behavior in the past two days made him subconsciously feel that the other party would never run away.
Not to mention that it was late at night and it was winter, so even he wouldn't go out.
Therefore, Zuo Li and the others left here almost easily and prepared to walk towards the mountain peak behind.
However, after just a few minutes of walking, Ye Huiran stopped.
Seeing this, Zuo Li quickly lowered his voice and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ye Huiran took a deep look at Pei Bingwen, her eyes sparkling with love, but at the same time, she seemed to be suppressing something.
At night, the wind became stronger and stronger.
Although several people were wearing thick clothes, they still felt the biting cold under the cold wind.
Ye Huiran looked at Zuo Li and said with a wry smile: "I haven't got something very important. I'll go back and get it. You and Bingwen go first."
After finishing speaking, Zuo Li turned around and walked back to Pei's house before he could speak again.
Zuo Li felt something was wrong, but she couldn't think of anything wrong, so she had to slow down, turn around and go back up the mountain.
But after a while, she paused, glanced at Pei Bingwen next to her, and then remembered the last look Ye Huiran looked at Pei Bingwen, and her heart suddenly shook, as if she had thought of something.
She immediately ignored him, grabbed Pei Bingwen's hand, and pulled him to run to Pei's house.
Pei Bingwen asked: "Sister, what happened? Why do we go back? Are we going back to find our mother?"
Zuo Li didn't say anything. He was very anxious and could only speed up his pace as much as possible.
But at this time, snow began to fall in the sky, and with the darkness, it was really difficult to see the direction clearly.
What's worse is that after looking at the white snow for so long, her eyes stung, and she could vaguely notice that her vision was starting to blur.
Fortunately, she hadn't gone very far before. She pushed open the wooden door outside with a bang and rushed into the master bedroom next to the woodshed.
As soon as he entered, he saw Ye Huiran holding a kitchen knife in his hand, standing next to the bed, looking at Pei Dahe sadly.
When she heard the noise, she turned around suddenly. When she saw Zuo Li and Pei Bingwen, she didn't say a word and raised the knife in her hand towards Pei Dahe!
Zuo Li was startled, stepped forward and quickly grabbed her right arm, exclaiming in shock: "Sister Ye! Don't do this! Don't!"
She had thought that the way Ye Huiran looked at Pei Bingwen was sad and loving, but then she always felt uneasy and wanted to come back for a visit.
If she was wrong, it wouldn't take too long.
Unexpectedly, she guessed it right!
Ye Huiran wants to kill Pei Dahe!
She wants to kill the person who has kneeled her all her life!
"Let me go!" Ye Huiran roared in a low voice. His voice was indescribably shrill. Hearing it in human ears, he did not feel scary. Instead, he felt an indescribable sadness in his heart.
"I want to kill him, kill him! He has ruined my life, and even beat my son. He is a beast, a beast! If you let him live, someone will definitely be harmed."
Ye Huiran struggled fiercely, Zuo Li had been beaten by Pei Dahe during the day, and now his hands had no strength.
She quickly said to Pei Bingwen, who was standing there blankly, "Bingwen, please persuade your mother."
I don't know if it was because of hearing the word "Bingwen" that Zuo Li felt that Ye Huiran's struggling movements slowed down.
Pei Bingwen also stepped forward at this time, with a cry in his voice: "Mom, don't be like this, we can just leave here. Mom, I can't lose you."
Ye Huiran heard Pei Bingwen's words, but still did not put down the knife. She screamed in pain: "Bingwen, you can't have such a father. If he lives for one day, he will be like a maggot attached to the bone. He will appear out of nowhere and destroy him."
It’s yours!”
Zuo Li held her arm tightly and admonished: "Sister Ye, what you do is illegal. By then, Bingwen will not only lose his father, but also his mother! Can you bear it?"
Ye Huiran held the knife tightly, but remained motionless as if a restraining spell had been cast on her.
But there was a look of struggle on her face, and it was obvious that there was some kind of struggle going on in her heart.
"What are you doing? Okay, Ye Huiran, you bitch, do you want to kill me?" At this moment, Pei Dahe was woken up in bed.
Even though he was still drunk, he still sat up.
When he saw the kitchen knife, he still reacted, his face full of ferocity, but not fear.
"Oh, you bitch, you think I can't understand your hidden thoughts! If you try to kill me, if you can't kill me, I will sell this bastard! To those old men with perverted tendencies!"
Over there, Ye Huiran saw that he was awake and heard that Pei Dahe wanted to sell Pei Bingwen. He immediately seemed to be stimulated and tried hard to break free from Zuo Li's hand and rush over.
"I'm going to kill you! Pei Dahe, you are worse than a beast! You should die!"
Fortunately, at this time, Pei Bingwen hugged Ye Huiran tightly, otherwise, she would have rushed over and stabbed Pei Dahe who didn't know whether to live or die.
Zuo Li looked at this situation and thought it would be even worse if the noise became louder.
She took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and came up with an idea. Regardless of the danger, she snatched the knife from Ye Huiran's hand.
Then his voice was calm but slightly trembling:
"Sister Ye, you must not kill anyone. I can't just watch you do stupid things. The first half of your life has been ruined by Pei Dahe, and the second half of your life cannot be ruined because of him. But..."
Zuo Li pursed her lips, suddenly rushed forward, picked up the kitchen knife, and slashed the leg of Pei Dahe, who was still drunk.
Blood immediately sprayed onto Zuo Li's face, immediately adding a bit of bloodthirsty beauty to her delicate face.
"But just because you can't chop him doesn't mean I can't do it. I'm the victim. Even if I kill him, it's in self-defense!
But I can't kill, I can't become like such a scumbag. But I can chop him with a knife and avenge you and Bingwen, Sister Ye."
She threw away the knife and slapped Pei Dahe on the face several times.
At this moment, Zuo Li didn't care that her hand would hurt even more. She just slapped or punched Pei Dahe hard.
At this moment, her eyebrows were like daggers, and there was a fire in her eyes that had been suppressed for the past few days.
This fire has been hidden deep in my heart since I learned about what happened to Ye Huiran and Pei Bingwen's mother and son.
It's sad and angry, but also hateful.
At this moment, this fire represents the justice in Zuo Li's heart.