Chapter 425 Disaster
Xing Lun came to the village on the pretext of being lost and rested for a night. Naturally, he had to do things that were consistent with his fabricated identity. He asked the male owner of the house he was staying in about the nearest town to the village, which state and county it belonged to, how to get out of the mountain, etc.
Stay in the village for two days.
No problems were found in the village.
Xing Lun asked Song Jin to find out the news.
The small villages deep in the mountains are stable, free from the disturbances of the outside world, but they are also isolated from the news.
"Is it okay for you and the children to stay in the village?" This was Xing Lun's only worry.
Song Jin smiled and said, "After three days of rest, I feel much better. On the contrary, when you go out, getting news is secondary, and your own safety is the most important."
Xing Lun nodded with a smile.
Turned and left the house.
In the yard, Niuniu was playing with the host's child. When Xing Lun went out, Niuniu called him "Daddy" sweetly, which made him happily pick her up and lift her high, making the little girl laugh happily. Only children are carefree.
Two or three days passed peacefully.
Just forget about the previous escape!
They even forgot about their real father and called Xing Lun "the fake father" without any pressure. It was also because of this that no one in the farmer's family suspected that they were not a family of four.
Song Jin put the dirty clothes he had taken off into a bamboo basket.
"Niuniu, your brother is asleep, remember to take care of him. Mother is going to wash the clothes and will be back when she is done." Song Jin reminded the little girl.
Niuniu nodded obediently, "Okay, mother."
"Don't worry, sister-in-law. I will help Niu Niu look after her brother." The speaker was the eldest girl in the family. She was twelve or thirteen years old and very sensible.
Song Jin smiled at her gratefully, "Thank you for your help, young lady."
Song Jin still couldn't quite understand the little girl's local accent, but he could guess the general meaning from her expression and her words.
When you go out, use an old cloth as a face cloth.
Covering most of the face.
Not far from the village, you can see a stone stream. The stream water flows down from the mountain, the water quality is clear, and the water used by the villagers comes from this stone stream.
Come to the stream.
I saw a woman washing clothes.
Song Jin found a suitable place.
"Young lady, where are you from?" a woman next to her asked Song Jin.
Song Jin looked at the other person and smiled.
It wasn't that she didn't answer, but she didn't know how to speak the local dialect. She started washing clothes.
Seeing that she didn't answer.
The woman didn't ask any more questions and started chatting with the person next to her.
Even without looking over, Song Jin knew that the topic was probably about her.
The clothes were half washed.
Song Jin accidentally saw a figure appearing in the woods in the distance. The other person's clothing and appearance were no different from the killer who was chasing them, and his heart was shocked.
When the other party looked over here.
Song Jin subconsciously lowered her head and continued washing clothes, but she washed the clothes faster and just rubbed them a few times, not caring whether they were clean or not.
Wring out the clothes and put them back into the basket.
He carried it and walked towards the farmhouse where he was staying temporarily.
After she left, the woman washing clothes by the stream had no more worries.
A woman said, "She was walking in the direction of Zhou Shu's house. His is the only distant relative in the village who has come to visit me."
"Don't talk to people."
"Tsk, you look down on us."
"You think too much. She smiled at me. I think the new bride is shy."
Things are not going well for Song Jin.
As we approached the courtyard where we were staying temporarily, we saw from afar the old village chief and two big men walking towards us.
Song Jin's heart skipped a beat.
With her two children still around, she couldn't avoid them, so she hurriedly carried the bamboo basket of clothes into the yard. Seeing Niuniu playing with her children in the yard, she hurriedly stuffed the children into the house, asked them to lock the door from the inside, and whispered, "Don't open the door no matter who calls you, Niuniu, do you understand?"
Niu Niu responded from inside.
Then Song Jin went to remind the old woman again.
Through the fence, one could see the village chief and his men approaching the place. Song Jin calmly picked up the clothes from the bamboo basket and walked to the bamboo clothesline in the yard, intending to hang the clothes out to dry as if nothing had happened.
These clothes are what ordinary people would wear. Song Jin is not afraid of being discovered. It would be more suspicious if he hides them.
Xing Lun told the family that he had been robbed and lost his way, so he came here to stay for a few days. However, in order not to attract the attention of the villagers, he gave them two taels of silver and asked them to tell others that they were relatives, and that they were his nephew from his mother's side who had come to visit with his wife and children. As the journey was long and they hadn't seen each other for more than ten years, they would stay here for some time.
"Village Chief? Why are you here?"
The old woman came to the gate to greet him.
The village chief asked, "I heard that your relatives came to your house?"
"Yes, my nephew from my mother's side brought his wife and children to see me. I haven't seen them for almost twenty years. I miss them so much." The old woman said happily.
While speaking, the old woman was also looking at the two men behind the village chief.
The village chief asked again: "Is it her?"
When saying this, the village chief pointed at Song Jin who was hanging clothes to dry.
When someone asked about him, Song Jin pretended not to hear and hung the clothes skillfully and worked efficiently.
Like a farm woman who is used to doing housework.
The two men dispelled some of their doubts.
You have to know that the person they are hunting is a noble lady in Beijing, a wife of an official who has never had to do housework. Before Song Jin got married, she was raised in a wealthy family, but when she fell into trouble, she married to the countryside, and she also had servants to serve her in Qinjiagou.
One of the men pointed at Song Jin and said, "Let her come over and take off her face mask."
The old woman frowned and said, "That's not good. How can a woman let a strange man look at her so easily?"
The man pulled out half of the blade and said, "Let her come over!"
Song Jin seemed startled and the clothes in his hands fell down.
Without waiting for Song Jin to go over, a man walked over and pulled the veil off.
When the man saw Song Jin's face, he was stunned. For a moment, he seemed to have seen a fairy.
Song Jin stepped back in fear.
Unexpectedly, the man handed the face towel back to Song Jin, and spoke in a much softer voice, saying in a strange manner: "I'm sorry to disturb you, young lady."
Song Jin grabbed the face towel and trotted into the kitchen.
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In unknown circumstances, going to the kitchen is to avoid being seen and also because there will be knives in the kitchen.
Another big man also saw Song Jin's face.
He pulled the portrait out of his pocket.
The portrait is distorted and does not depict the real person at all. It describes Song Jin's appearance: he has an ordinary face, slightly yellow skin, slightly thick eyebrows, and freckles on his cheeks.
Rumor has it that Song Jin's appearance was average. Even at a later banquet, some people said that she looked a little prettier after putting on makeup, but that was just makeup, and it wouldn't make people think she was really beautiful.
And this daughter-in-law looks like a fairy.
The most important thing is that a woman like this should not be unknown. Especially when in the capital, many people have seen Qin Chi’s wife, but no one has ever said that she is extremely beautiful.
Song Jin's current appearance is different from the rumored Qin Chi's wife.
There were rumors in Huizhou a few years ago that Qin Chi’s wife was extremely beautiful, but later many people saw Song Jin with their own eyes and found that she was just average in appearance. The rumors of her extreme beauty gradually disappeared. Therefore, when Yan Jiangnan sent people to investigate, they all said that Song Jin’s appearance was very ordinary.
These two men are not from Huizhou.
The information obtained is also given above.
A man asked, "Auntie, where is your nephew?"
"Hey, I went to town with my son this morning." The old woman spoke with a strong accent.
It was only after the old village chief repeated it in Nanjing Mandarin that the two men understood.
The two men looked at each other.
Put the portrait away.
When he left, he kept looking back towards the kitchen with a frivolous and lustful look.
After sending the village chief away.
The two left the village and were going to reunite with their companions.
One of the men chuckled and said, "What a beauty! You don't see many of her out there. I've lived for thirty years and never seen one."
The other man stopped pretending and replied maliciously: "We will say that there are no suspicious outsiders in the village, but we are afraid that we may miss someone, so we volunteer to stay nearby to search again, and let the brothers go back to rest first."
"Yes, yes! You are the one with the most ideas, hehe."
The two of them understood each other tacitly.
That night, at nightfall.
Song Jin didn't dare to go to bed early.
After coaxing the two children to sleep, he blew out the oil lamp.
I am dressed neatly, with a sleeve arrow tied to my left arm and a blowgun in my right hand.
The Chui Shi is a hidden weapon that looks like a bamboo flute and contains a poison needle. When used, the Chui Shi shoots the poison needle by blowing air. The poison needle is coated with highly toxic drugs and will be fatal within a short time after being shot.
He was being hunted before and almost used up all the things he needed to save his life.
There are only these two left.
There was only one poison needle left. There was only one hidden arrow left. If there were no mistakes, only two people could be killed.
Since she didn't recognize Song Jin on the spot today, she should have no trouble for the time being. However, the look in the eyes of the two people as they left made her very uncomfortable.
This is the downside of revealing your true identity.
There are so many people who are so bold and lustful.
Just as my father had warned me since I was young, having an overly outstanding appearance is not a good thing, and it is true that beautiful women have always been short-lived.
Sit in meditation until the end of the Xu hour.
There was a noise in the yard.
Song Jin stood up quickly and looked out through the crack in the door. In the moonlight, he could clearly see two sneaky figures appearing outside the fence, with weapons in their hands.
The fence gate can't stop the opponent.
The two of them opened the door easily and entered the yard quietly.
They were the two men who had come during the day.
Since the two men were determined to steal the fragrance, they found out the room where Song Jin lived during the day and approached it one after the other.
The man walking behind said dissatisfiedly: "Is it necessary to be so careful? It doesn't matter if we are discovered, the worst that can happen is that we will all be killed."
"If the higher-ups find out that we're not doing our job and are instead looking for excuses to go out hunting for food, you don't want to live anymore, but I don't want to die yet."
The man in front warned in a low voice, then he tiptoed to the door of the room where Song Jin was, took out a dagger, inserted it into the crack of the door, and then pried open the bolt little by little.
Song Jin stood in front of the door and watched.
When the bolt was about to be opened, she moved aside to a shadowy place and waited for it to be pushed open slowly.
A tall figure bent over and slipped into the room.