Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

"Oh no!" Lin Xi's face turned pale in an instant, and a cold fear instantly spread throughout her body. She subconsciously wanted to open her mouth to call for help, wanting the people outside to let her out.

But when the words came to her lips, she swallowed them back.

She couldn't shout. What if the person who locked the door had bad intentions? Not only would her shouting be useless, but it might also bring immediate danger.

Lin Xi leaned against the cold door, her heart pounding so wildly that it almost burst out of her chest. She forced herself to take a deep breath and suppress the panic in her heart.

You have to stay calm! You can only rely on yourself now!

She quickly analyzed the situation: The shopkeeper was stalling, feigning courtesy, and now he'd locked her up here... Why? Was it for money? Or had they learned of her identity and were trying to extort more...

No matter which situation it is, it is extremely disadvantageous for her at the moment.

Lin Xi quickly looked around the small space she was in. There was nothing else except a table, chairs and a screen.

She raised her head and glanced at the rough wooden wall, but suddenly stopped. In the shadow near the joint between the ceiling and the wall, a faint light was leaking out very covertly.

what is that?

Lin Xi narrowed her eyes, trying to make out what was happening under the dim light. Suddenly, she seemed to remember something, and her heart skipped a beat.

A thought flashed through his mind - this pawnshop was on the street, and now it was dusk, the lights on the street should have been on, and the light leaking through the wooden boards should be the lights in the market.

Thinking of this, she immediately moved a chair and stood on it, then stood on tiptoe and carefully felt the area with her hands, regardless of the dust.

Sure enough, what her fingertips touched was not a flat wooden board, but a vertical, slightly curved wooden window frame. However, due to its age, the color of the window frame almost blended with that of the wall, and it was covered with dust, making it difficult to detect from below.

This discovery immediately cheered up Lin Xi. She wiped off the dust vigorously, and the outline of a narrow, old wooden window that was almost integrated with the wall finally became clear.

And that halo of light came through the almost invisible gap between the window sash and the window frame!

Lin Xi was delighted and didn't care about the dirt. She stretched out her hands and pushed towards the window with all her strength.

Not until her arms began to tremble with soreness from excessive exertion did she finally push the wooden window, which was so hard and seemed to be rusted, open a narrow gap.

Years of accumulated dust fell down, choking Lin Xi and making her eyes red and her throat itchy. However, she was afraid that people outside would discover her actions, so she held back her cough.

She continued to push hard and finally pushed open a gap large enough for someone to lean out. The night wind blew in, bringing with it the hustle and bustle of the street, and also allowed her to see the height of the ground clearly.

The height of a two-story building is not very high, but unlike the soft grass in the Lin Mansion, the roads in the market are all paved with hard stone slabs. If you jump down rashly, not to mention breaking your arms and legs, if you are unlucky, you may even sprain your neck.

But if he just sat there and waited for death, and waited for the shopkeeper to open the door, he would not be able to escape either. Thinking of this, Lin Xi stood in front of the window, hesitant for a moment.

Just as she was staring downstairs, hesitating, she suddenly heard faint whispers outside the door.

Lin Xi was startled and quickly shrank back, frantically closing the window as quietly as possible. Then she quickly jumped off the chair, moved it back to its original place, and pressed herself against the door again, her heart in her throat.

The voice was a little unclear through the door, as if it came from the corner of the stairs. Lin Xi held her breath and tried her best to catch the intermittent words, but due to tension and distance, the sound was distorted and she could only hear fragments.

"The person is still up there...keep a close eye on him."

"Tsk... what a... big trouble."

"Let's talk about it when someone arrives...handover."

Scattered fragments of words were pieced together and reorganized in Lin Xi's mind, and finally condensed into a conjecture that made her hands and feet cold - they

They knew! They really knew her identity!

They trapped her not for the little bit of pawn money, but to "hand her over" to someone else as a troublesome "goods" so that they could extort a huge sum of money from the Lin family.

Lin Xi's face suddenly changed, her head was buzzing, and she couldn't help but recall Shen Jingyuan's expressionless face.

"If something happens to you, how many people will use you as a pretext to threaten the commander? Have you considered the consequences?"

At that time, she just thought he was alarmist and annoying.

But now... every word of these words turned into the cold reality before her eyes, transformed into a loud slap in her face.

At this moment, Lin Xi, who had never felt fear or regret after being scolded, being surrounded and pushed by street kids, having her wallet stolen, and even having a rickshaw driver extort a pair of earrings from her in just one day, finally felt real regret.

She regretted her willful behavior, regretted running away from home without hesitation, regretted putting herself in such a dangerous situation, and even more regretted that she might have put her parents who loved her the most in an irretrievable situation.

Lin Xi's hands and feet were cold, and her heart was beating wildly in her chest, but then a stronger desire overwhelmed the pure fear.

She must not sit and wait for death. Even if she dies, she must not become a bargaining chip for these people to threaten her parents!

This thought was like a shot of adrenaline, forcing out the determination that belonged to the Lin family in her bones. She turned around abruptly, grabbed the teacup on the table, quickly wrapped it with her handkerchief, and then smashed it hard to the ground.

The porcelain cup made a muffled sound in the handkerchief. Lin Xi quickly squatted down, picked up the sharpest piece of broken porcelain, wrapped the bottom tightly with the handkerchief, and then carefully put it in her arms.

Then, without hesitation, she moved the chair over and stepped on it, holding on to the windowsill with both hands, gritted her teeth, and began to climb up using her hands and feet.