After a few seconds, your eyes gradually adjust. Since I saw Da Mao and heard the sound of him messing around with the two guards just now, I found that the shortest figure was him. Among the few remaining people, one is my master, and the others are mostly students or apprentices of the master’s stranger friends. Each of them covered the lower half of their face with a towel. It seemed that even if they came to rescue me, they would still worry about their appearance being remembered.
I looked at the ground. The two guards were holding their stomachs and rolling around on the ground. Their expressions were painful, their mouths were slightly open, but they couldn't make a sound. From the interrogation room in the distance, there were sounds of roaring and pulling on the door, but even though the door was pulled open and rattled, the door never opened.
Master walked up to me, pulled me over and hugged me tightly. Then he started to check my injuries and said to me, Shan'er, don't worry, no one can bully you now. . We locked those guys in the house. I quickly told Master, "It's useless to lock the door. Master, they have guns in their hands. They can break the lock with one shot and come out. Run away quickly."
The master shrugged slightly and said with a very mocking feeling, don't worry, they can't get out. It's my soldiers who are holding the door. These little bastards have no ability to do this. Then he stretched out his hand and flicked my forehead, just like I usually get punished for doing something wrong, but this time it was very light. Master said, you silly boy, when people bully you like this and you can’t bear it anymore, why don’t you fight back? Master taught you a skill, but you learned it in vain? Just these few shrimp soldiers and crab generals, with your skills, you can take care of them casually.
Although there is another reason for this matter, now is not the time to explain it to Master in detail. Because there were so many "sinners" like me standing behind me, they were all very surprised when they saw the scene in front of them. The door was wide open, but none of them dared to come out. Instead, they moved further and further into the corner of the classroom. Retreat.
I started to express my gratitude to the other people who came to help. I had met all of them before. Except for Da Mao and I who played better, the others were just a few acquaintances. This kind of friendship did not warrant their adventurous attitude. save. In fact, I also guessed that after master knew my whereabouts, he asked other masters to help rescue me. Those masters are all well-known in the industry. Naturally, it is not convenient to do this kind of thing personally, so they ask their apprentices to help. No matter what, it's all a favor to me.
I looked at the two guards writhing in pain on the ground and asked Master, what happened to these two guys? The master snorted and said, this is retribution. To clean up this little scum, I don't have to do it myself. Do you remember the man who died at our door? I said this was done by that man’s ghost? The master said yes, but he had also warned that it would only be a small punishment to ensure that they could not stop them from saving people, but not to harm people's lives, otherwise the master would also deal with it. Master said that when we are far away, we will take this ghost away and let it practice in my altar. It is a person who died in vain and has a very violent temper. If I had not made a three-part agreement with it, I would not dare to say anything about myself Got it under control.
Da Mao tugged on my master's sleeve and said, Master Lin, leave quickly and wait until it's safe. Send Brother Shan out first. The master nodded, then tilted his body and shouted to the people in the classroom through me: Folks, the door is now wide open. If you don’t want to continue to be criticized and bullied, you can leave by yourself. As for whether you stay here or hide from the limelight, it's up to you.
After speaking, the master reached out and knocked on the classroom door a few times, and then said, there is an unfair hell inside, and the whole world outside. Goodbye and good luck.
Then Master and Damao each supported me on one side and took me to the entrance of the playground. When we passed the door, there were two sentries there. At this moment, the two sentries were still standing upright, but they did not react at all to our entry and exit. I was surprised and wanted to ask Master, but Master had already expected that I was going to ask, so he squeezed my arm and said softly, "Don't say anything. These two guys are fascinated and can't see us." When I turned to look at Da Mao, he winked at me triumphantly. Only then did I realize why he was able to sneak into the yard so easily just now. It turned out that he had already fascinated the two sentries at the door. They cannot see themselves.
After passing the sentry and walking for twenty or thirty meters, we arrived at the corner of the city wall. It was here during the day that I was treated as an enemy of the whole people. Reflecting the night, there was a whirring sound coming from behind the corner, and a wooden cart pulled by a donkey was parked. Master asked me to get in the car quickly, and he thanked Da Mao and several of my peers first. He said that after the matter was settled, he would bring his disciples to the door to express his gratitude. The situation was urgent now, so he took his leave first. Please also invite everyone. Take care of yourself and try to keep a low profile in the near future.
Da Mao and those few people were all juniors of Master, so they walked to the wooden cart one after another and comforted me a few words. These peers who rarely interacted with each other seemed so kind to me at the moment. I thanked them one by one. He also told them that Situ Shan would repay their kindness today. Da Mao finally came over to say goodbye to me. I hugged him and Da Mao said to me, we may not be able to see each other for a long time, but if you want to play with me, just send me a message and I will come to you. you.
A child is a child after all, even if he sometimes looks quite mature. So I told him that I would definitely do it. After we leave, don't forget to remove the tricks on the two sentries. You should also be more careful yourself and don't get involved in this incident of mine.
Then the master got in the car, took a package from the donkey's back and threw it to me, saying that I have brought you some clean clothes here, please change quickly, and we will leave the city now. I asked Master where we were going? Because I knew from the time Master and the others came to rescue me that I was definitely not going home, at least not in a short time. Master said, let’s go to the countryside to escape the limelight.
I quickly changed my clothes, and Master drove the donkey cart towards the outside of the city. On the way out of the city, I would pass many places I had been to. It was already getting late, and there were not many pedestrians on the road. But the surrounding tall and short houses look so scattered in the unique geographical structure of Chongqing. Electric lights were on in many houses. Perhaps when people were living their lives smoothly, I was escaping in a hurry. This is the place where I grew up, but because of a mistake I never made, do I want to stay away from it?
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt sad. When Master and Da Mao came to rescue me, when Master held me in his arms, and when Da Mao said goodbye to me, I didn't cry. But at this moment, I am sitting on the wooden cart. , hugging his knees and crying. Master was driving the donkey cart behind me. He must have heard my crying clearly, but he didn’t say a word, or even looked back at me. He just silently carried out the memories that had accumulated in his heart these days. Tears, shed all at once.
Gradually we drove out of the city. The suburbs were mostly farmland and hillside. In those days, if you wanted to cross the river, you could only take a ferry boat. However, it was already very late and there were no boats. There were far fewer lights on the outskirts of the city than in the city, and the roads were getting harder and harder to walk. So the master used a flashlight to illuminate the road and drove the donkey cart to a wild road up the mountain. There were more weeds, indicating that this road Although there are people walking on the road from time to time, there are not many people walking on it. After the master stopped the car, he used a frame to support the wooden board, then removed the rope that tied the donkey, and tied the donkey to a tree on the side of the road.
Master said to me, let’s just make do here tonight and start our journey again tomorrow morning. You have been suffering these past few days. Go to sleep. Master will watch over you. Even though Master said that, I couldn't sleep no matter what. The starry sky was very good that night, so I asked Master how he found my whereabouts. Master said that since the day I was taken away, he had asked people to inquire around and found several base camps near the city, but he was unable to enter and confirm where I was being held. Before today, there was a The monk suddenly came to find me and told the master where I was, and the master contacted a group of helpers to come to the rescue.
Master said, Shan'er, you must listen to Master from now on. If you were obedient and didn't go out that day, what would happen next. I asked Master, but I was very careful at the time and saw that no one was around to burn paper for that person. This person died here. If the resentment is not eliminated, it will have a great impact on the people around us. Master scolded me and said, have you forgotten that I am still here? Even if you don't do these things, doesn't Master know how to do them? You secretly went out in the middle of the night, and someone happened to see you at home, and then reported you. You suffered a lot, and now you have a home and can't go back. Do you think it's a good deal?
Of course it's not cost-effective, but I have never regretted what I did, because if it were someone else, they might do the same thing. This is the conscience in my heart. So I told Master, do you know who reported me? Master said he didn’t know, but he must be our neighbors and knew what our occupations were. In the afternoon after you were taken away, someone came to my house again and asked me if I was in this industry like you.
I asked Master a little strangely, what is wrong with our industry? Just because it is a folk craft that has been passed down for thousands of years, should we be judged as feudal? If we ourselves don’t fight against such unfairness, let alone us, even this industry will be hopeless.
As I spoke, I was a little emotional. It has really frustrated me these past few days. Now that Master is the person closest to me, I naturally don't need to be secretive anymore. But after the master heard this, he looked at me for a long time, then sighed and said, Shan'er, the world has changed. It's nice to say that you are a feudalist. Now we have a title called "Cow Demon and Snake God" , that is to say, people who pretend to be gods and spread feudal ideas.
I stopped talking, feeling angry and resentful. I didn’t hate the person who reported me, because maybe he himself was a person who didn’t see the world clearly. I’ve figured it out these days. When I encounter this incident, forget it. I deserve this fate, and all I need to choose is whether I want to get through it or not.
Master said that no matter whether we are high officials or emperors or ordinary people, in the final analysis, we are all human beings. As human beings, we will be confused and may make mistakes. However, it does not matter if we do wrong things, but we must never do bad things.
