Chapter 54: Escape and Get Caught
After everything was ready, Yan Ning sat on a small stool in front of the window and began to daydream.
As expected, Xie Jingyu did not disappoint his expectations. The crisp sound of wind chimes rang out, and the dimples on Yan Ning's face slightly dimmed. He happily pushed open the window...
"Why is it you?"
He took a step back in fear, and the small stool was overturned on the ground.
Yan Zijie asked grimly, "Who did Ning Ning think it would be?"
He pushed the wooden door open and pressed forward. Yan Ning took small steps back, his face pale. He leaned on the round table, supported his body with his hands, and his wrists made a crisp sound when they collided with the round table.
Yan Zijie looked at his wrist with bloodshot eyes, grabbed Yan Ning's hand with the jade bracelet, and approached him: "When did Ning Ning buy the bracelet? How come I have never seen it before?"
Yan Ning struggled with his arms flailing. The mad Yan Zijie was extremely strong. He pulled up his wrist and used brute force to pull the bracelet off Yan Ning's thin white wrist. His wrist immediately turned red.
"My bracelet! Give it back to me!" That was the first gift Xie Jingyu gave to herself.
He was afraid of bumping into it, so he was reluctant to carry it with him, and he put it under his pillow and went to sleep with it.
"Oh, Ningning doesn't like red," Yan Zijie yelled at him with red eyes.
"I like it, I like red," Yan Ning said with a steady and firm tone, without fear of his gaze.
He likes red, and he also likes people who give him red bracelets. No one can change this.
Yan Zijie didn't know what had stimulated him. His hand holding the jade bracelet was shaking violently, and he murmured, "You don't like it... You don't like it... Ningning obviously doesn't like red."
Seeing his distraught look, Yan Ning thought this was a good opportunity to snatch the bracelet back, so he quickly reached out to grab it.
Dingling's voice came from the ground.
Yan Ning's eyes instantly turned red. It was broken. The bracelet was broken. It was Yan Zijie who broke it. Three years of brotherhood has come to an end. Yan Zijie, you forced me to do this...
Yan Ning approached Yan Zijie and stared fiercely at his crazy eyes, saying word by word: "I am not Yan Ning at all!"
Yan Zijie was completely enraged. He walked into the yard, took down the hemp rope hanging on the wall, and muttered, "Ningning, don't be afraid. Brother is here to save you."
He took the hemp rope and grabbed Yan Ning's neck with his big hand. When his struggles weakened a little, he began to tie the hemp rope around his body.
The feeling of suffocation was really uncomfortable. Yan Ning took a deep breath and said in a weak and hoarse voice: "Ahem, what are you doing? Yan Zijie, are you crazy?"
Yan Zijie seemed to be deaf to the noise and only focused on his movements, tying the knots tightly.
Until Yan Ning was locked in the cellar,
Yan Zijie finally regained his gentlemanly appearance.
"Ningning made a mistake and deserves to be punished. I will let you go back to your room when you realize you are wrong."
Yan Ning snorted at him. He would never let Yan Zijie get what he wanted.
The cellar was damp and dark. It turned out that he was most afraid of this kind of place.
At this moment, he was extremely sober. He had been trapped here only because of guilt and so-called family affection. But today, Yan Zijie broke it all with his own hands.
He had never been a very brave person. He would secretly look out the window and imagine the world outside the courtyard wall. He would talk to the fish and birds, telling them that he wanted to go to the mountains. But he just didn't have the courage to resist Yan Zijie, nor the courage to walk out of the yard.
It was Xie Jingyu who brought him the desire to live. He slowly began to look forward to practicing sword skills with him and going to the herb mountain with him again.
However, today he will take the initiative to break free from the cage, walk out of the place where he has been imprisoned for three years, and pursue the person who brought him hope.
Although it may not succeed, for him, having such an idea is already the beginning of escaping from this devil's den.
Even if he died, he wanted to die freely.
Yan Ning finally understood why those civil officials would die for their advice. For the sake of what they pursued, they were willing to do so even if it meant a bad ending.
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Xie Jingyu stroked the wind chimes twice, but the window was not opened. He shook his head helplessly, with a smile on his face.
Are you angry again? Then the food I brought today is just enough to appease people.
He pried open the window with a dagger and climbed inside. There was no one on the bed or behind the screen.
"A Ning,"
No one answered.
Xie Jingyu searched the cabinet in Yan Ning's room and found the clogs were wrapped in clothes.
Xie Jingyu thought to himself, this is not good.
He was angry at himself for taking it lightly.
There was only one old woman in the huge courtyard. When she saw him coming out of Yan Ning's room, she tried to flee in panic.
Xie Jingyu put the knife to the old woman's dry and wrinkled neck: "Where is Yan Ning?"
The old woman replied calmly: "His brother took him out, what are you looking for him for?" It was as if Xie Jingyu was an old friend who came to the house to look for someone.
"Where did Yan Zijie take him?" Xie Jingyu's knife did not leave her neck, but it did not hurt her.
She was pretty nice to Aning.
The old woman was very calm, as if she was chatting with a friend: "I don't know, maybe he went to look at a house. Zijie said yesterday that he would take Xiaoning and me to move."
Xie Jingyu nodded, said sorry, put away the dagger, and walked towards the gate.
The old woman slowly turned around, and when she saw him leaving, she moved to the entrance of the cellar, hugged her body and dragged the large wooden board down.
Xie Jingyu was watching all this from the side of the wall. He flew down and used his palm to knock the old woman unconscious.
He lifted up his clothes, jumped into the cave, and walked quickly inside.
In the dim cellar, Yan Ning's body fell to the ground, his fair face touching the wet and sticky ground. He was still smiling, his eyes trembling slightly, and he shouted, "Jingyu, you're here,"
Without any blame, without any complaints, and without crying, she just called herself obediently.
"I'm coming... I'm coming..." Xie Jingyu helped Yan Ning up lovingly and untied the rope for him.
The rough hemp rope left horrifying red marks on his skin.
Xie Jingyu gently rubbed his wrist and blew on the red mark: "I'm sorry,"
It was because I came too late that you suffered so much.
Yan Ning had tears in his eyes, but he didn't want to cry because he had already expected the best result.
"It's okay, I'm glad you're here, I'm waiting for you,"
Before he could finish his words, Xie Jingyu hugged him tightly.
"…Um…Jingyu, don't be afraid, I'm here,"
No one could understand Xie Jingyu's feelings at this moment. Even in adversity, Yan Ning was growing tenaciously. He succeeded.
His allure is coming back.
He hugged Yan Ning tightly, almost melting him into his bones and blood.
Yan Ning didn't know what happened to Xie Jingyu, so he could only pat him on the back to comfort him.
"Aning, come with me! I will take you to see the world outside the wall, to see the lilacs all over the mountains, and to eat the food that Aning wants to eat."
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