Chapter 12 First meeting (in)

Although Ban Xiyu closed her eyes tightly, her senses were always paying attention to the changes around her.

She heard the sound of the wheels turning, and then she was carried onto the carriage board. Her body collided with another sacrificial bride. After a while, another woman came next to her.

The girls were forced to squeeze in together and be pushed on a trolley.

Ban Xiyu's eyes quietly opened a crack. In the narrow field of vision, he saw the cart pushing them outside the temple. The dark red wall came into view, and then the cart stopped moving.

When she was confused, she heard a strange noise. It was the sound of sliding stone slabs that had occurred not long ago.

At the same time, the red wall in front of me also moved slowly.

After the ground briefly shook, the wall receded, replaced by a stone door eight feet high and four feet wide.

It was pitch black outside the stone gate. It wasn't until the group turned on the lamp that Ban Xiyu looked around with the faint candlelight. But the scene she saw was very limited. All she saw was old, dark and damp.

wall, and a secret passage leading to the east.

The man in black escorting the sacrificial bride did not shut up and silently pushed the cart toward the east of the slope.

About three quarters of an hour passed before Ban Xiyu's eyes suddenly became clear.

At this time, the light of the moonlight shone eastward, and she and the other sacrificial brides had already left the temple and turned to a secluded avenue. The man in black parked the carriage at a tall sycamore tree.

East.

And at the end of the road, there are people already waiting there.

The people who came to meet him were driving a carriage, led by a young man. When they were handing over, Ban Xiyu heard them saying:

"Then the new batch of ten sacrificial brides from Zhangjiacun are all there. Let's take them away quickly. They have to go to Xinghua Village to pick up the new batch of brides."

The person who responded gave the man in black a money bag and said, "Thank you for your hard work. With that little money, we can treat us brothers to drinks."

"Hey, thank you. That's it, they're leaving."

Afterwards, Ban Xiyu and the others were transferred to a brand new carriage.

Of course, a carriage is more comfortable than a cart, but the comfort only lasted for a moment. After a while, the groom holding the reins flicked his whip and spurred the horse to gallop.

Ban Xiyu was unprepared. He tilted his body and hit his head on the board.

She rubbed her sore head and thought, traveling in the dark, even if you open the curtains, you can't see clearly what is going on outside, what a scene it is, so it's better to think carefully about your plan to go east.

Ban Xiyu lay on her side and protected her head with her legs. The carriage was bumping, and her heart was filled with turmoil.

It can be inferred from the brief exchange of words between the man in black and the responder that Zhangjia Village was not the only village that was asked to sacrifice the bride, but there were many victims of women in other villages.

What is certain is that the so-called "mountain god" does not exist, and even the black-clad gang responsible for taking the bride away is not the mastermind behind it.

The sacrificial bride was turned around many times and moved in many places, but the real mastermind never really showed up.

In other words, it is impossible to say that people who have sex today are most likely to be ordered by others.

But what did those people want to do by abducting so many innocent girls? How could the theory of "mountain god" be fabricated? Didn't the government notice anything strange?

She thought with horror that there might be a bigger conspiracy brewing behind those things.

The person behind the scenes in Yandong has not yet been revealed, so it is not appropriate to act at this time. I hope Wen Jisheng can wink and stay put for the time being. After Zhai Mulue and others arranged for them to come to Donglai, she would try to find a way to get in touch with Wen Jisheng.

As for now... Ban Xiyu was worried that something unexpected would happen during the transfer, so he stayed up all night. At dawn, the carriage gradually slowed down.

Xiyu didn't rest for a moment that night, and she was extremely sleepy and exhausted. At that time, she saw the carriage stopped and came from the east, and she was relieved. Then, she heard the horseman's voice coming from outside: "Brother Li

Don't sleep, Lian Zhuang has arrived."

The man known as "Brother Li" woke up in a daze, yawned and stretched, and then the carriage knocked on the door of Lianzhuang.

The man was far away from the carriage, and Ban Xiyu couldn't hear clearly what they were talking about. He knew how long it had been before the carriage drove out of the villa through the side door.

Soon after, several maids and women helped the women in the carriage to different rooms. The rooms were not very elegant, but they were clean.

When Ban Xiyu was helped into the house, he smelled the faint fragrance floating in the air.

The aroma seemed to have the effect of soothing her emotions. After sniffing it for a moment, she felt tired, lazy and sleepy. It was not like an ordinary spice, but more like a fragrance. But by the time she noticed something strange, it was already too late.

Night.

Ban Xiyu fought back her initial consciousness and hid the whistle, dagger and other objects she had under her bed. After a while, she fell into a deep sleep.

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When she regained consciousness, Ban Xiyu woke up suddenly and heard the "clang" and "bang" from not far away. The loud "bang" sound continued, and the sound of tables, chairs and benches being smashed was directly transmitted to her house.

She glanced at the light-transmitting window and wondered, did she sleep until midnight, or did she sleep from dawn to dusk and then dawn again?

When Ban Xiyu opened the door, the first thing he saw was a square courtyard. There were evergreen trees, unopened sweet-scented osmanthus, and a few clumps of green grass.

Just as she was following the sound, the old woman standing guard outside the door stopped her immediately. The old woman had a mean face, glanced at her coldly with triangular eyes, and said, "I have an order.

, the girls are not allowed to walk around privately, please go back to the room."

Ban Xiyu looked back at the past with neither humility nor arrogance, and opened her mouth: "Whose order is it? Do we know that abducting a girl from a good family is a serious crime in Daxuan? We--"

Without shutting up, she paused.

Why can't she make a sound?

Ban Xiyu looked shocked, Dongshu touched her neck and throat - it didn't hurt, and there was nothing strange on the surface, but why was she speechless?

The mother-in-law looked at her frightened look, smiled sarcastically, and then pushed her into the room with her legs: "You will not be able to speak until the girls are completely obedient. If the girl doesn't want to become

Mute, please sleep better in those few months, be obedient, and don't ask for trouble."

After that, she slapped the door hard in front of Ban Xiyu, almost locking it.

Ban Xiyu was so shocked that she paced back and forth in the room. She tried again in disbelief, but she still couldn't make any sound. Just as the mother-in-law said, the person in Zhuangzi didn't know if they had used some method to make it happen.

It makes it impossible to open or shut up anymore.

She suddenly stopped and looked at the incense burner in the room.

Different from the situation when I came here, at this moment, the faint fragrance that I smelled before falling asleep no longer exists. There is the sandalwood fragrance of wooden furniture in the room, and there is a faint fragrance of flowers and plants in the air as if through the wind.

Ban Xiyu thought, could it be the effect of the strange fragrance before?

There was a weird noise just now. I heard someone smashing things, but no sound was heard. Could it be that other girls woke up and found that they were trapped, lost their voices, and made a fuss?

She frowned, feeling more and more that there was something wrong with Zhuangzi.

Many questions lingered in Ban Xiyu's mind. She wanted to find out, but there were guards and women guarding the yard inside and outside, so she couldn't go anywhere.

She can just wait.

But that wait was until dark.

Ban Xiyu waited for her mother-in-law to deliver food to her, but she didn't wait for the conspirator to make a move, and she had no chance to find clues about Coco.

Until late at night before going to bed, she was still feeling anxious.

It is unspeakable that Yuanji was not as affected as being trapped in that small area. Those people just left them alone, watching the "sacrificial brides" struggling helplessly, as if they were boiling eagles, burning away their initial dignity.

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Ban Xiyu could imagine what kind of playful intention those people had, smiling as they watched them desperately doing useless work. But they had no fish on the chopping board, just waiting for the sword hanging above their heads.

Come from Luodong.

Because of the overwhelming emotions in her heart, she didn't have a good rest all night, and her mind was filled with endless dreams.

When it dawned again, the women finally opened the doors of the girls' rooms in the courtyard. They yelled and begged all the women to line up in a long queue and go to the elegant courtyard to the southwest one after another.

During the walk, everyone needs to pass through the central garden, and then pass through a small bamboo forest before stopping in front of a circular arch.

A group of women stopped in front of the door, and several fierce-looking women grabbed the young and weak women and pushed them inside. The timid ones began to cry silently.

"Why are you crying? Go inside!"

After entering the door, the group of people was dispersed. Some were sent to the west wing, some to the east wing, and some passed through the corridor on one side and entered the house in the backyard.

Ban Xiyu and the woman beside him were sent to the west wing.

Ban Xiyu pretended to be sad, covering her face and wiping away tears, while looking around calmly——

It is a quite elegant house. There are paintings and calligraphy hanging on the high walls, antique porcelain bottles are placed in the four corners, light gauze curtains, and the fragrance is lingering.

And in that exquisite house, there was a strange person. He was wearing a gorgeous dress, a gold hairpin on his head, and his red face was unparalleled in beauty.

Everyone discovered that there was a graceful woman in the house.

The mother-in-law who sent them here said: "From the bright moon, we will be trained by Miss Liandie herself, from morning to night, six hours a month.

"If we don't know how to look, then we should study hard. If we don't know how to look, then... well, then let's work from dusk to dawn until we learn how to please a man!"

The mother-in-law glanced at everyone with warning eyes, nodded again to Liandie, and then left the room.

She walked away lightly, leaving the horrified woman behind.

The ability to please a man?

Isn’t that the trick of a brothel girl?

The human trafficker "Mountain God" abducted them here, so he forced them into prostitution and turned them into prostitutes?
To be continued...