The night was dark and windy. Mu Shuangshuang carried a wooden bucket and quietly slipped out of her house. After tossing the bucket across to the other side, she took a few steps back, made a running start, climbed up the Old Mu Family's courtyard wall, and jumped over to the outside.
Having done all this, she was drenched in sweat and exhausted, panting heavily.
"Looks like I shouldn't act cool next time. It's so tiring, better to crawl through the dog hole!"
The Old Mu Family's courtyard wall surrounded all the rooms except Mu Dade's wing on the east side. Usually, Old Mrs. Mu only kept watch over the front yard, believing that nothing could escape her eyes.
But she didn't know there was a hole half the height of a person near the house where Mu Shuangshuang now lived. For a child like Mu Shuangshuang, crawling out was hardly any effort.
