Escaping

One week later...

Ling had managed to escape from the brothel after midnight.

He was currently hiding inside an uncompleted building.

It was raining cats and dogs.

Ling had knocked out a customer who had the same height and build as him and had worn his clothes when leaving the brothel tonight.

Before they would notice, he would have gone far.

Ling decided to run even if it was still raining so he left the uncompleted building and started his run on barefoot.

He was amazingly fast like a gust of wind.

He was surprised at his speed and exerted more effort.

Ling did not know that if he had stayed in that uncompleted building a minute longer, he would have been caught by the guards sent after him.

Ling kept running and only stopped when he saw a river.

He took off his clothes and jumped inside the river.

He swam underneath to the other side and when he came out at the otherend he did not have much strength to walk so he lay down for a while on the shore.

After 20 minutes he regained his strength and began running into the village.

He managed to find shelter inside a couple's storeroom.

It was very dark inside but it was warm and there was a table he could sleep on and so the table became his bed for the night.

The next morning, the storeroom's door was opened by an aged lady who screamed the moment she saw him sleeping on the table.

Ling was awakened by the shout and saw the aged lady screaming.

"Ma'am please don't shout" Ling said sleepily.

Last night's escape had really sapped his energy.

"Take this" the lady threw him a cloth which he used to cover his lower regions.

By now her husband had arrived and seeing Ling still lying on the table covered by his wife's cloth he fumed.

"Sir,i'm not a bad person. Let me sleep for a while then I'll answer any question you want to ask."Ling said before falling asleep again.