Chapter 103 Successful Escape
Yesterday, she had seen in her dream that someone escaped from this house. But she might come across difficulties and grievances, which were nothing to kids like her who grew up in the mountains.
The bell ringer beat the watchman's clapper outside and reminded the residents that it was 23 o' clock. Su Jiuyue quietly fumbled out the small eyebrow trimmer that she had bought during the day from her sleeve pocket.
She first cut the rope that bound her hands and feet, and then softly woke Su Yi who was sleeping beside her.
Su Yi had been worried all day, and she really didn't sleep very well.
She opened her eyes in a daze and asked, "What's wrong?"
Su Jiuyue glanced out the window and saw that there was nobody outside. So she lowered her voice and whispered, "Let's escape now. I know how to go. You have to listen to me."
Su Yi couldn't wait to get the hell out of here. So when she heard that she could escape, she immediately became energetic and asked, "How?"
"I'll untie the rope for you first!"
After the rope was untied, Su Jiuyue gently leaned over to the door and glanced outside through the crack of the door. Then she snuck back quietly and opened a window at the back of the house.
At the same time, she beckoned to Su Yi. Su Yi didn't hesitate and followed her through the window neatly.
When out of the house, Su Jiuyue was dumbfounded.
She knew that there was a doggie door for them to crawl through, but she had no idea where the door was.
"Yi, there is a doggie door in this house. Let's look for it!"
Su Yi agreed, then looked around.
They should be in the yard of the third entrance. The houses in this pattern were similar, and they only needed to find the right direction to go out.
"The door is usually in the garden, and the garden with this pattern is usually in the southwest corner. Here we go." She pointed in a direction.
Su Jiuyue had never lived in such a lavish yard, and even this was the first time she had been such a house. After hearing Su Yi's words, she only thought that Su Yi was awesome!
"Okay! I gonna follow you!"
Taking advantage of the darkness of the night and their small statures, the two avoided the patrolling and headed southwest.
But neither of them expected that the garden was quite big, and after searching for a long time, they still couldn't find the doggie door.
Time and tide wait for no man. If they continued to dillydally, the escape may fail. If they were caught again, it would be difficult to escape the second time!
There was a rockery in front of them. Su Yi looked at the low wall of the garden, and directly started to move the stones, and she even called Su Jiuyue to come and help.
Su Jiuyue was very surprised when she saw that Su Yi seemed to plan to go over the wall, but she also felt that this was a good idea.
She was stronger than Su Yi, and they quickly lifted three stones and set them up together.
With pants, Su Jiuyue was much more easy to move.
Just as she wanted to say that she climbed up first and then pulled Su Yi up, she saw Su Yi neatly tucked her skirt into her trousers, stepped on the stone, turned over and climbed up the wall.
A series of movements were so smooth that she definitely was familiar to it. Su Jiuyue was stunned.
All noble ladies were like her? Then why did the dramas depict them as weak and delicate?
The next second Su Yi reached out to her, "Come on, Jiuyue. I pull you up."
Su Jiuyue also climbed onto the stones, grabbed Su Yi's hand and pushed it against the wall.
Su Yi grabbed the wall with both hands and lowered her body slowly, not forgetting to tell Su Jiuyue, "Jiuyue, be careful. Wait for your arms to stretch before jumping, and it is not high."
With both feet on the ground, Su Jiuyue hurriedly looked around, and saw that this place was in a small alley. It was obvious that they really succeeded!
Su Jiuyue breathed a long sigh of relief, and Su Yi also sorted her clothes. "Let's go! Let's go to my father! We must revenge!"
It was 1 o'clock in the morning now, but people were coming and going on the street, and many soldiers with torches were searching from house to house.
Suddenly there were two ladies appearing on the street, so the guardians came over immediately, "Who's there!"
Su Yi looked at the red tassels on their helmets as if she saw her families. She asked: "The Flying Tiger Army?"
"Exactly!"
"I'm the only daughter of the Hussar General. Take me to my Daddy!" Su Yi shouted loudly.
These soldiers of the Flying Tiger didn't sleep all night just to find this little "princess". Now she was here and they were suddenly overjoyed.
"Miss, come with me!"
It was the first time that Su Jiuyue rode a carriage, drank with such a good tea cup, and ate such delicious snacks.
She had been hungry for a day, because those evildoers seemed to have completely forgotten about them, not giving them a bite to eat.
But the first person they saw was not Su Yi's father, but a man in a black embroidered robe.
Su Jiuyue sheepishly followed behind Su Yi, only looked up and lowered her head quickly.
Even if she didn't know the identity of the man in front of her, she could guess from the current situation. The identity of this person was not simple.
Su Jiuyue didn't know, but Su Yi did.
She graciously gave Mu Shaoling a salute, "Your Majesty, good evening."
Su Jiuyue was shocked and quickly knelt down.
God! She had never even met the county magistrate in her life, but now she suddenly saw the prince! How scary!
Mu Shaoling had been very busy for the past two days. Since the conscription was almost done, now was the time when Su Zhuang needed to train the soldiers. But his daughter had lost. How could he calm down and devoted himself to troop training?
Fortunately, his daughter had escaped by herself, and she seemed to be quite smart.
"Who caught you?"
"Your Majesty, I avoided the servants that day because I wanted to go to buy a birthday present for my mother. But I didn't expect that I would be grabbed by those guys. So I didn't see their faces during the whole process, and I didn't know who caught me."
"Where were you held?"
"A three-entrance house in Yuqian Lane, which should be not far from the first entry alley."
The two asked and answered in an orderly manner.
Su Jiuyue knelt behind Su Yi and lowered her head like an invisible person.
Mu Shaoling hummed and said loudly, "Come!"
A guard with a sword in armor walked in, clasped his fists and bowed, "Your Highness!"
"Go and inclose that yard. Make sure that all the culprits in it are arrested!"
"Yes!"
Just when the guard was about to turn around and leave, Su Jiuyue suddenly remembered that there was a secret passage in that house.
"Your Majesty! I... I have something to... tell..." She was still very scared. After all, to the person sitting above, she was just an ant that could be crushed to death casually.
It was only at this moment that Mu Shaoling seemed to realize that there was actually another person in the house. His eyes fell on Su Jiuyue's head, and his chin raised, "Who are you?"
"I am Su Jiuyue from Xiayang Village. I am here with my sister to get medicines for my grandmother. I was caught by them, too." Su Jiuyue replied tremblingly.
"Xiayang Village? What do you want to say?"