The escort agency picked up Song Dani and rushed back to Pingcheng. According to the manager Yu's wishes, he hoped to rush back before the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he urged Jiang Sishenghai to go as quickly as possible along the way.
Jiang Sihai and others also wanted to go home for the festival. The group was eager to return home and did not delay along the way. They hurriedly and slowly set out for another five days.
That day, at dusk, Jiang Sihai and others stopped in front of a ruined temple.
"Everyone will spend the night here tonight. Dahe, take the brothers to the yard and look around." Jiang Sihai ordered as he dismounted.
"I know, brother, don't worry." Shi Dahe nodded and took the three escorts to the place where they were going to stay overnight. They wanted to check whether there was any danger or suspicious people.
"Boss Jiang, why did you stop? It's not dark yet. Let's walk for a while." Manager Yu greeted the carriage, a little dissatisfied. It would be a while before it gets dark, but Jiang Sihai actually stopped. , stay here for the night.
"Guanshi Yu, don't leave. There are no people in the area for dozens of miles ahead. If you miss this place, you will have to sleep in the wild again tonight." Jiang Sihai said, then pointed at the dark clouds on the horizon and said: "It's going to rain tonight, broken." The temple is safe.”
"Yeah." Manager Yu thought about it. When they came, they stayed in the wild for two days because there was no place to stay. The insects and wolves howled one night, which made him unable to sleep a wink all night.
He said nothing and followed down. It would be good to have a ruined temple to stay.
Jiang Xiangyuan jumped off the carriage, turned around and helped Xiao Ming down, then frowned and said, "Sister Ming, we have to rest here tonight."
Xiao Ming smiled, it would be nice to have a place, and this guy even disliked it. Compared to the wild where the sky is a quilt and the ground is a bed, this is already very good.
Li'er and Song Dani followed them out of the carriage. At this time, Song Dani was different from what she had been that day. After all, Steward Yu was concerned about her identity. When they arrived in town, Steward Yu generously took the money and invited the two ladies from the Sihai Escort Agency. The one who gave her gave her two more clothes and made them new from the inside out.
Now she is wearing newly made clothes, dressed plainly, with only a silver hairpin on her head. She is somewhat more beautiful, but she is still thin.
Apart from these, Manager Yu didn't care much about Miss Song. She still rode in the same car with Xiao Ming and the others, and they got along with each other every day. They had some feelings for each other. Although she didn't like to talk, she was the most loyal. The audience had a great time chatting with the joking Jiang Xiangyuan and Li'er.
But when she was silent, she often looked at Xiao Ming.
The ruined temple has been in disrepair for a long time and has not been inhabited for a long time. One side of the door has been missing. The weeds outside are as tall as a person. The Buddha statue inside has fallen incomplete. It is no longer clear which Buddha is enshrined. The window lattice has fallen off and is scattered everywhere. It was dusty, with cobwebs everywhere, and there were still bonfire ashes left by previous generations on the ground.
After Granny Fang and Granny Cheng knew that they were going to stay in the ruined temple at night, they quickly cleaned up the inside, chose a relatively clean place, and put up a simple curtain to separate the inside and outside. It became a resting place for several girls. After finishing their work, they put the bedding used by Xiao Ming and others on the carriage into it.
At night, everyone used the small stove Xiao Ming brought to boil a pot of tea, put on an iron pot to heat some steamed buns, and cooked a pot of fresh mushroom soup, along with the fruit wine and cans from Xiao Ming's family. Dinner is served.
"It's good to have Dr. Xiao here. How could we have such treatment before." Shi Dahe sighed with a smile while eating steamed buns. What he drank was canned food. Escorts are not allowed to drink alcohol when they go out, and even fruit wine is not allowed.
But this is already very good. If in the past, when I was out and running unlucky, I could sleep in the wild and have hot food to eat at night. It would be nice to have hot food and hot soup cans like now. I really can’t think of it.
Everyone else nodded in agreement, even Guanshi Yu stopped talking at this time and just ate canned fruit.
When you go out, keep everything simple, and it would be wrong to stutter.
After dinner, everyone sat around the fire to keep warm. In the early autumn weather, the night was already a bit cool. The burning fire was also to prevent wild beasts. It rained at night just as Jiang Sihai said, with a gentle drizzle. The breeze drifted into the ruined temple from the dilapidated window lattice.
Xiao Ming couldn't sleep, staring at the dark night outside with her eyes open. It had been twenty days since she left home, and she began to miss home again. The Mid-Autumn Festival would be in half a month, and she hoped to make it back.
Outside the curtain, the two bodyguards on duty whispered, "It's raining again. I'm afraid the road will be difficult to walk tomorrow."
"Yeah." The other escort nodded. The night wind blew in with the rain. He felt a little cold and moved towards the fire. Looking at the dilapidated door, he was really worried about the dilapidated door. Doors will blow down in the wind.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there was thunder from time to time, and lightning flashed across the sky, making the night particularly scary.
Next to her, Song Dani was not asleep. She turned over uncomfortably, and her heart trembled when she heard the thunder. Li'er in the corner was sleeping soundly, and snoring could be heard.
"Doctor Xiao, are you asleep?" Song Dani called softly, and her fingers couldn't help but touch her gently.
"No?" Xiao Ming replied. She couldn't sleep in such an environment. In her previous life, she often traveled. She must rest in a safe environment at night. After having space, she has been resting in it. , she couldn't close her eyes in this ruined temple.
"Why aren't you sleeping yet? Are you homesick?" Xiao Ming asked.
homesick? Song Dani opened her eyes and looked out the window through the dim light. From time to time, lightning flashed to bring light to the dark night. She couldn't describe what kind of mood she was feeling in her heart. She was homesick, but she still had no home. It had never been her home. After her mother died, her father married her stepmother, and she lived under her stepmother's beatings and scoldings day and night, while her father ignored her.
After being away for so many days, she didn't think about it for a moment. She couldn't wait to escape. She knew that her second uncle had no good intentions in taking her. There were two cousins in the second uncle's family. The second uncle's family came back when they worshiped their ancestors the year before last. Until now, she I still remember the appearance of those two cousins, their gorgeous and beautiful clothes, fair faces, and slender fingers. When she brought them water, they would not even look at it, and they were angry that the water was dirty and refused to drink it.
They laughed at her and made fun of her.
She will never forget it.
She also knew that there would be no consequences if she went away. How could her second uncle think of her when he had a good marriage at home? But she had no choice. That night she overheard her stepmother discussing with her father about selling her. Filling a house for the sixty-year-old widower in town.
How could she be willing, but she was afraid, until the second uncle sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that he would take her to the city and find a home for her, for which her parents received a lot of money.
They are all being sold. Instead of being sold to a sixty-year-old widower by the stepmother, it is better to be sold to the second uncle.
Xiao Ming asked her if she missed home? She didn't want to.
In her thoughts, she seemed to hear the sound of the road and voices outside the door.
"Master, there is a ruined temple ahead, let's take shelter from the rain inside!"
