It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 114

Shortly after Chunying pulled Jiang Yan into a dark path, the patrol team discovered something unusual not far from where Chunying and Jiang Yan landed.

The leading guard looked alert: "Everyone, be careful."

The patrol members quickly approached to check and found that it was just white snow scattered on the ground, and their hearts were immediately relieved.

"The snow was piled up there, how come such a large piece of it fell off?" The leading guard still felt strange.

He ordered his team members to search carefully for clues. As soon as everyone dispersed, the already shaky snow on the wall fell down, and a large area of ​​snow around it fell down, hitting the patrol members who had not yet moved away from the wall.

"Are we still going?" someone asked. He thought it was because everyone was moving around so much that the snow was shaken off. "If it was human-made, how could such obvious traces be left behind?"

Perhaps he was too suspicious, the leading guard wanted to check again, but when he saw his companions' faces and hands were frozen red, he hesitated for a few seconds and decided to give up.

Even if there is something unusual, the patrol teams responsible for other places should be able to discover and resolve it.

Jiang Yan didn't know that his unnecessary action had attracted the attention of the patrol team in advance.

If it weren't for the chance that other snow fell, the cold weather, and the fact that the patrol members were lax during the reunion holiday, they would have most likely been exposed and unable to escape capture.

At this time, Jiang Yan and Chunying had successfully reached the stable. From a distance, they could smell the faint stench of livestock brought by the cold wind.

After seeing off another patrol in the blind spot, Chunying tiptoed to the stable door, then immediately turned back and whispered, "The door is locked."

Jiang Yan asked expectantly, "Can you pick the lock?"

Chunying shook her head: "Aren't you afraid of being caught by the guards if you pick this lock..."

That means she can do it. Jiang Yan admired Chunying's versatility and quickly suggested, "Shall we go back?"

It was now late at night, and Jiang Yan's cloth shoes, which were only stuffed with a thin layer of cotton, were no longer able to keep out the cold. The heat from her feet quickly dissipated as soon as she stopped moving, and they were frozen like ice.

Chunying couldn't bear it any longer and agreed with Jiang Yan's proposal, but - "Let's not go back the same way, let's take another route."

"Okay, it's safer to take another route." Jiang Yan wanted to expand the route so that when they escape one day, they will have multiple options.

Chunying hadn't thought that far at this time. She just instinctively felt that Jiang Yan's destructive behavior was very likely to be discovered by the patrol team, and now people might be waiting at the wall to catch them.

The two men agreed and soon took advantage of the breaks in patrol to sneak along the paths outside the courtyards.

After passing through several courtyards with only one or two oil lamps lighting up and the doors half-open, the two men found that there was no way to go forward except a high wall.

The two looked at each other, then retreated to a blind spot, huddled together and waited for the patrol team that would pass by at some point.

About a cup of tea later, Jiang Yan and Chunying, who were hiding in a basket in the corner, heard heavy footsteps of varying degrees and some men's complaints.

Jiang Yan pricked up her ears, but could only hear vague words like "rest", "it's cold", "patrol" etc... They had mistakenly entered the rest area of ​​the Chang Mansion guards! ! ! !

The two people's breathing rhythm was disrupted, but fortunately they were some distance away and were not discovered.

When the outside world became quiet again, Jiang Yan and Chunying didn't even dare to breathe. They carefully took off the baskets covering their bodies and left quickly.

Afterwards, the two of them tentatively explored several routes. Once, in order to avoid the patrol, they almost sneaked into the front yard of the Chang Mansion's house, as well as the residence of what was suspected to be the Chang Mansion's think tank.

If they had not been sharp-eyed and caught a glimpse of the faint candlelight through another half-open courtyard door, they would have walked into the tiger's den again.

By the time they finally found a high wall that allowed them to climb back to the inner courtyard without attracting attention, it was already past midnight.

Leaning exhaustedly against the wall of the guest house, Jiang Yan and Chunying whispered about tonight's plan and said that the Reunion Festival was both their success and their failure.