Jiaohua

Chapter 49
But after a while, the girl disappeared on the cliff.

Xia Zhaoyi crossed the hanging wall and the waterfall, jumped off the mountain wall, and fell into the dry mud. She was wet and rolled on the ground with a thick layer of mud.

Holding the wall of the cave next to her to get up, she patted her body helplessly, sticky and uncomfortable.

The sky was dim, and the sound of the waterfall was next door. She rubbed her ears to get rid of the water that fell into it.

There was no light in front, and nothing could be seen clearly. There was a thick musty smell in the air, like a dusty old house.

Xia Zhaoyi habitually touched her waist, and only then did she realize that she was no longer her original self.

In the past, she liked to attach a small oil ball lamp to her waist. It was a very small one with a wick in the middle. When the light was thrown into it, it would ignite. It would be lit with a small thread wrapped around the fingertips, and the light could be illuminated by raising her hand.

There is no choice but to touch the dark.

She picked up a long dead wood on the ground and continued to use it as a tree stick.

The dark cave, without the slightest light, opened his eyes like blindness.

She perked up her ears and listened intently to the movement in the dark. She used the branches to explore the road ahead, walking very slowly.

Not long after, another sound of water was heard, not from the waterfall outside, but from the front.

Xia Zhaoyi frowned and continued to move forward. A dim light fell from above, and the sound of ding dong ding dong became real in the noisy water.

A stream of water appeared in front of it, and below it was a rushing river, the sound of the water was rushing.

Connecting to the other side are two iron cables. From the appearance, they were probably covered with wooden boards before.

The dripping rain fell on her shoulders from above, icy cold.

There seemed to be rows of boulders on the high place, and the shimmering light penetrated from the gaps on both sides of the boulders.

Xia Zhaoyi looked at it, this is the deep canal on both sides of the source.

Looking back, she squatted down and pulled the iron cable, which was still firm, at least it was not a problem to bear the weight of a girl.

She got up and held the long wood in her hand to maintain balance, stepped on one of the chains and walked over.

Not long after, another deep creek appeared on the opposite side. After walking through three or four iron cables, she heard a shout coming from the front and stopped.

The basement room was dark and damp, the heavy rain outside had seeped in, and the walls were covered with water droplets. In addition, there was no sunlight all the year round, and the air was filled with a rotten smell that made you feel chesty and dizzy.

Liu Sanniang, with her hair disheveled, grabbed the railing and looked at the people who came in outside, crying loudly, "Let me out! Let me out!"

The jailer who passed by stretched out his finger impatiently: "If you shout again, I will chop you up!"

"I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy!!" Liu Sanniang roared, patting the wood in her hand, "I can cook for you when I go out, and I'll secretly give you anything you want in the future! Let me go!"

The pawn glared at her in disgust and walked to the depths of the prison.

Turning around a mountain wall, the innermost is a relatively spacious prison cell. Although the air is equally unpleasant, the ostentation is already relatively polite.

The pawn glanced at the woman in Tsing Yi inside, and then looked around.

"Strange." The pawn muttered.

I heard something moving here just now.

The pawn looked at the woman in Tsing Yi: "Did someone talk here just now?"

The woman in Tsing Yi turned her back to him and did not respond.

She was breaking a branch and leaf in her hand, and there were a lot of them beside her, all of which were broken from wild branches that had spread in.

"I ask you, was there someone talking just now!" The pawn asked again.

The woman in Tsing Yi paused, then turned her head to look at the pawn coldly.

The pawn hurriedly turned his face away, not wanting to see her face.

But after a pause, the pawn still couldn't hold back, looked at her, and felt another disgust in his heart.

Her hair had not been washed for a long time, and it was long and disheveled and dirty on the ground.

The skin is a little old, there are scars on the cheeks, the lower lip is missing, and the yellow teeth inside are directly exposed, and there is no way to hide it.

"Okay, okay," the pawn waved his hand in disgust, "you stay here!"

Hurry up and walk away.

The woman in Tsing Yi watched him leave with a blank expression, and withdrew her gaze.

She looked at the leaves in her hands indifferently, not knowing what she was folding.

The pawn left in a hurry and heard Liu Sanniang's voice again.

"Let me go! I'm not crazy, let me go!!!"

By the time she said the last sentence, her entire voice was roaring.

The pawn glared at her: "Don't you know you're not going to live long? You're still yelling, I'll kill you now!"

"I don't care! Let me go!" Liu Sanniang yelled.

The pawn spat, walked out of the iron prison, and locked it.

"what!!!"

Liu Sanniang frantically grabbed the railing, trying to break it, screaming.

Xia Zhaoyi frowned slightly, leaning on the tree trunk with both hands and listening to the movement inside.

After a while, there was a faint sound of the stone gate moving from the wall in front of the cave.

She froze slightly and stepped forward.

Su Juren hid in a secret passage and carefully pushed Shimen open.

He glanced outside and said softly, "Are you gone?"

The woman in Tsing Yi didn't respond, if she didn't hear it, she turned her back to him.

"I have some cakes here," Su Juren said with trembling hands, and took out two small paper packets from his bosom, "You eat first, and when you go out later, I'll buy you more delicious food."

The woman in Tsing Yi stopped her fingers, and finally said softly: "Why bother, Mu Wen, why bother."

She hadn't spoken for a long time, her voice was cracked and hoarse, and as she got older, it was extremely harsh.

Su Juren gently placed the small paper bag inside the fence.

"Mistress, I'll let this go first."

The woman in Tsing Yi didn't respond, she didn't turn her head back, and hot tears rolled out from her dark and cloudy eyes.

Su Juren looked at her sadly and moved his lower lip, but as before, he didn't know what to say.

"Then, I'm leaving," Su Juren said. "Next time I have a chance, I'll come and see you again. There is chaos on the mountain now, so it should be soon."

The woman in Tsing Yi continued to fold the leaves, staring blankly at the leaves inside her fingers.

Su Juren retreated into the dark passage, the small hole, he had to hunker down to get out.

The stone gate was closed again, and everything was quiet.

Across the mountain wall that was neither thick nor thin, Xia Zhaoyi was still standing there, not moving.

After a while, Xia Zhaoyi frowned slightly, leaning on the tree stick and walking forward again.

Keep heading east until the end of the road.

(End of this chapter)