The winter is short and the night is long. When Yi Huan woke up, it was still dark. She was still in the pit, her whole body was cold, and she felt that the blood was about to solidify. "Yes, is there anyone? Save me." She thought she was shouting loudly, but in fact, the voice was turning in her throat.

"Come on, help me! Help me!" Yi Huan shouted a few more times, and no one responded to her except for the howling wind.

Yi Huan listened carefully for a while and confirmed that there was no one outside. He knew that he could not expect others to come to save him, so he could only save himself. After moving his frozen hands and feet for a while, he made sure that his limbs were still complete and there was no major problem, but the headache was severe. Yi Huan discovered that this was a naturally formed soil pit, with many protruding stones on the wall of the pit and began to climb up.

Yi Huan exhausted all her strength and crawled out of the pit, sat on the ground, her white and tender hands were cut by the stone, and her wounds were numb because of the cold, and she could not feel the pain. She kept trembling. Looking around, she could still see that it was the place she rolled down, but there seemed to be no one on the slope.

"Just leave like this? Don't look for me, the one who is being held hostage? It's too unprofessional." Yi Huan murmured to himself.

"Aoaoao" The screams of wild beasts came from the distance. Yi Huan was so scared that she stood up from the ground and climbed up the slope. While climbing, she joked with herself, "It turns out that the tiger is coming, and there is no cripple anymore."

But the strength of being frightened by the wild beasts is not lasting. His feet and hands are weak. Yi Huan missed his feet several times and rolled down in a mess, making his body covered in mud and snow, and his clothes were also ragged by the bushes. The process was very difficult, but fortunately the ending was pretty good. Yi Huan climbed up the slope and saw the corpses on the slope in the faint light. Yi Huan couldn't tell whether the dead person was a spy or a man from the side. He frowned and looked around in a daze, "Where should I go now?"

"Aoao" the beast's cry seemed closer, and Yi Huan hugged himself in fear, "The smell of blood here is so strong, I can't stay here." Walking forward doesn't know where it leads, it's full of unknown dangers; walking back, finding the railway tracks, and following the railway tracks to that small station, it seems safer.

This road was previously held hostage and was terrified, but now he is walking alone, terrified. Yi Huan didn't know how long he had walked, but when he walked to the place where Li Zhicheng had taken action, he accidentally found Yan Zhuzhi's small bag that fell there. There were a few pieces of peanut candy, three pieces of Yangwu, Wu Zhang, a small bottle of perfume and a box of duck egg fragrance powder issued by the National Union Bank.

"I don't know where my bag has gone?" Yi Huan sighed. There was a gun in her bag that could be used for self-defense. She stuffed a piece of peanut candy into her mouth. She walked for half the night and her physical strength was already at its limit, but unfortunately she couldn't rest.

Yi Huan hid the money close to her body, identified the direction, and continued to stagger forward; the road was long and made people desperate, and God seemed to feel that it was not enough, and the snow fell from the sky again, fluttering one after another, increasing the difficulty of Yi Huan's escape. Just when Yi Huan thought she would die of exhaustion on this road, she saw a light ahead. Although it was possible that she could die of death from the mountain, she finally had some hope.

Afraid of falling down due to lack of physical strength, Yi Huan stuffed a piece of peanut candy into her mouth, and grabbed a handful of floating snow that fell on the stone to eat. With willpower, he walked forward step by step. After about half an hour, the Qiming Star in the sky appeared, and Yi Huan also saw clearly that the lamp was the guiding light on the platform.

Yi Huan, who was sleepy and tired, weakened her legs and knelt down, "I finally got here." Her voice cords cried. She had lived for so many years and had never been as tired as last night.

However, although Yi Huan really wanted to ask someone for help immediately, reason told her that she must be cautious. She was alone and a woman. If someone had evil intentions, all her hard work for the night would be wasted.

Yi Huan took a break and got up and walked inside. The small station was very small, just one and a half rooms. There was a lock hanging on the door of that room. Looking inside through the gap in the window, there was no one inside. The half room should be a kitchen. I wonder if there was anything to eat inside? I was hungry.

"There's nothing to do, I can only be a thief." Yi Huan took off the hairpin that was blocked on his hair and poked the lockhole.

Although it was the first time I did this, because the lock was easy to open, Yi Huan poked the lock open in two or three times. He squeaked and opened the door. There was a heat in it. Yi Huan shivered. There was no fire in the stove, but there was still heat on the stove. This indicated that there was someone in the small station, but I just didn't know where I went?

Yi Huan searched for a while and actually asked her to find three buckwheat buns. She had not eaten this kind of coarse grain for two lifetimes, but now she had to use it to satisfy her hunger. She felt a little sad to think about it. She took a big bite, but she couldn't swallow it and choked her throat. But she couldn't eat it, so she had to eat it.

"You stole, you are so brave. You dare to come here to steal things in broad daylight. Let's see if I won't beat you to death." A furious voice came in from the door.

Yi Huan looked up and saw that it was a thin old man with an oil lamp in his hand. He immediately said, "I am not a thief, I am a disaster victim who escaped from famine. I am separated from my family." The words he thought about temporarily came in handy.

"It's the girl's house." Another person appeared at the door, a short and fat old woman with big pie.

"Hello, auntie, you guys, I know I shouldn't have unlocked the lock and come in to get something to eat, but I'm so hungry." Yi Huan said as she retreated. There was a fire stick near the wall, which she could use for self-defense.

"It's just a few buckwheat buns, you'll eat them after you eat them. It's just a girl, where are you and your family going? How could you get separated?" the old woman asked.

Yi Huan continued to make up lies, "I went to Jizhou City to seek marriage. Yesterday afternoon, a group of soldiers came from somewhere, fierce and vicious. In order to avoid them, I fell off the carriage and scattered with my family."

"Hey, so that's the case. What are you going to do now?" the old woman asked.

"Uncle, aunt, do you know how to go to Jizhou?" Yi Huan reached behind his right hand, held the fire stick, and felt relieved.

"You are planning to go on the road alone? This is so dangerous." The old woman said disagreeingly.

"If I don't go to Jizhou, I will have no place to go." Yi Huan lowered his head, looking helpless.

The old man was guarding this small station, with a meager income. Although the old woman sympathized with Yi Huan's experience, she could not take her in. She sighed, "Old man, what do you think you should do?"

The old man thought for a while and said, "When a train passes by in the morning, you can get on it. If you can take a while, you can take a while."

"I saw those soldiers and puppets dig up the railway tracks. Can the train still come?" Yi Huan asked with his head raised.

The old man slapped his hands, "I said, I didn't hear the whistle sound last night. It turned out that the soldiers dug up the rails. I had to send a telegram to the town and ask someone to get the rails done."

"Uncle, is this far away from the town?" Yi Huan asked.

"It's not far, it's only thirty miles away." The old man smiled.

Yi Huan's mouth twitched, OK, compared to the road she took last night, thirty miles was not far away, "Uncle, can I follow you to the town and then find a car to Jizhou?"

The old man was still hesitating, and the old woman agreed, "Old man, it's the 21st of the twelfth lunar month today. I also want to go to the town to buy New Year's goods. Let's take this girl to the town with us. I remember that the Yu family in the town would go to Jizhou at this time of year to deliver New Year's goods to his in-laws, and maybe I can take this girl for a ride."

"Thank you, thank you, aunt." Yi Huan immediately climbed up the pole.

The two old men cleaned up, packed up a small bag for Yi Huan, and then led Yi Huan to the town. The old man walked in front, and Yi Huan followed with a stick with the old woman. Yi Huan's vigilance towards the two had not been completely eliminated. He used the excuse of foot pain and took a stick as a crutch to defend himself.

At this time, Shaoxia, who was not looking for Yi Huan, was almost crazy, "Miss Four, Miss Four."

"If you don't see the corpse, it means that the seventh brother and sister are still alive and cannot be found here. If we search all the way, we will definitely find the seventh brother and sister." Wang Hong was lucky.

The group searched around again, but still found nothing, so they had to return the same way and walked along the railway tracks. When they reached the station, it was almost noon. Yi Huan followed the two old men to the town, "Uncle Gao, Aunt Yang, let's find a shop to eat." After chatting on the way, she asked the two old men's surnames. She made up a pseudonym and said that her name was Gaole.

When she heard Yi Huan's name, Aunt Yang smiled and said, "What a coincidence. Maybe you and my old man were together five hundred years ago."

Old man Gao was in a hurry to send a telegram. The town was not big, and the only telegram machine was personally managed by the mayor. Aunt Yang said, "It's not too late to eat. If you eat first, you can send a telegram."

The three of them went to the shop on the street. They had just turned around and three cars and two soldiers' tow trucks drove by quickly. Yan Zikang and Yan Zi returned and sat in the first car.

When he arrived at the small noodle shop, Yi Huan ordered three bowls of Yangchun noodles, six cents a bowl, and three bowls were only one cent or eight cents a bowl. Yi Huan took out one dollar and handed it to the shop owner. Aunt Yang looked at the money and her eyes flashed, "Le girl, I've made you spend money."

"It's my luck to meet Mr. Gao and Mrs. Yang." Yi Huan was quite grateful to the two. If it weren't for them, how could she know there was a small town here?

After eating the noodles, Mr. Gao went to the town government to send a telegram, and Aunt Yang led her to the Yu family. Yu family is a big family in the town and lives in the best large mansion in the town. They couldn't get in the main entrance, but they went to the back door. Seeing that the door knew Aunt Yang, Yi Huan nervously held the stick tightly. She didn't dare to go in. She was afraid that there was a wolf's nest inside.

Aunt Yang smiled and asked, "Is the car that your mansion has sent the New Year gift to Jizhou?"

The manzi asked, "I'm packing up and I'm about to leave. Why? Is the aunt going to take a ride?"

"I won't go, I'll send my niece over there. My daughter asked someone to come back not long ago and said that there was a clothing factory to recruit people. My niece wanted to work and make money." Aunt Yang smiled. Yi Huan was surprised. She didn't expect Aunt Yang would say this to others.

"It's almost the Chinese New Year, but you're still recruiting people?" Menzi said in surprise.

"I heard that I had to work hard, but there was not enough manpower." Aunt Yang made up lies one by one.

While speaking, a strong man walked out of it and shouted at Aunt Yang: "Auntie, what's wrong with you here?"

"Qiu Sheng, you should take the car to Jizhou this year?" asked Aunt Yang.

Yang Qiusheng asked with a smile: "Yes, does my aunt have something to bring to her cousin?"

"It's not about bringing things, but about asking you to take someone. This is your uncle's niece. I want to go to Jizhou to find your cousin. She is also your cousin. You have to take good care of her along the way." Aunt Yang smiled.

"Auntie, don't worry." Yang Qiusheng looked at Yi Huan, whose face was dirty. Why didn't this cousin wash his face when he went out?

"Hello, cousin." Yi Huan said with great help.

"You wait here, the car will come out later." Yang Qiusheng reminded him, said a few more words to Aunt Yang, and then went in first.

Yi Huan pulled Aunt Yang to the side and stuffed Aunt Yang the 82 cents that the noodle shop owner had just asked her, "Auntie, thank you."

"You keep this money by your side. Girl, it is right to be careful when you go out. It is also a fate for us to meet you." Aunt Yang patted her hands and said.

Yi Huan's face turned slightly red. Knowing that Aunt Yang had seen through her defense, he said, "Auntie, please take the money. I still have it. Although it doesn't have much, it's enough to last until I return to Jizhou."

Aunt Yang thought about it and took the money, "Okay, girl, then I'm not polite to accept it."

At this time, three carriages came out of the side door, and Yang Qiusheng was in the second carriage, "Auntie, cousin."

"Qiu Sheng, you must take good care of your cousin." Aunt Yang reminded him and helped Yi Huan get onto the carriage.

"Auntie, don't worry." Yang Qiusheng and Yi Huan sat in the carriage, shook the reins, and urged the horse to move forward.

When the carriage left the town, Yang Qiusheng heard the sound of sneezing in the car and said, "Cousin, there is a quilt in the box on the left. Take it out and cover it, don't catch a cold."

"Oh." Yi Huan agreed, opened the wooden box, and took out the thick quilt from it.

Although the Yu family has a great family and is considerate of their servants, it is impossible to give new quilts to these servants. The cotton in the quilt is hard and it is not warm at all when it is covered. Of course, it is better than not covering it.

"Hajiuha." Yi Huan's sneezes were blowing one after another.

In the evening, the carriage was parked outside a resting pavilion. Yang Qiusheng jumped out of the carriage and said, "Cousin, it's cold outside, so don't get down. I'll bring ginger soup to you later."

"Thank you cousin." Yi Huan's nose was stuffy and her voice was buzzing.

After Yi Huan finished drinking ginger soup and eating some dry food, she began to cough. She knew that the condition had worsened, but she had no medicine with her, so she could only withstand it with her own resistance. Yang Qiusheng really believed his aunt's words and took care of Yi Huan, a cheap cousin.

At this time, Yang Yihua and his group met Song Han and his group. When they learned that Yi Huan was missing, Yang Yihua was as big as a fight. "How come the Seventh Young Master Lady is not sure?"
Chapter completed!