Jiang Shuyao was shaken awake.
The moment her consciousness returned to the cage, the pain in the back of her neck made her gasp.
She touched the back of her neck, looked at Xie Pei's face in her field of vision, and sat up suddenly.
"Where is this?" She looked around vigilantly.
Xie Pei suddenly wanted to cry: "Bandit den."
Jiang Shuyao looked at the house where he was, and couldn't help but be confused. It was not like a bandit's den, but it was clearly a simple little Buddhist hall.
Xie Pei answered this doubt for Jiang Shuyao. Rao is that she is not afraid of the sky and the earth, and under such a situation, her voice trembled with fright: "I saw them kill people, and then they shaved their hair and put on the robes of the dead."
Jiang Shuyao was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly reached out and ruffled Xie Pei's bun, and touched her face with black and gray.
Xie Pei was stunned for a moment. He wanted to cry, but Jiang Shuyao almost didn't cry out after being rubbed by him like this. He resisted his anger and said, "What are you doing!"
Jiang Shuyao wiped her face again, and Xie Pei became even more angry: "I will fight back!"
As soon as the voice fell, there was a sound from the door lock, Xie Pei froze all over, and immediately turned off the fire.
The wooden door opened, and the bandits who had changed into monks' robes walked in. Except for the leader, everyone else had a fierce look in their eyes and was full of rage.
"Which family are you from?"
Xie Pei subconsciously wanted to bring out the name of Xie Guogong's mansion, and when the words came to his lips, seeing the murderous intent of the gangster, he suddenly lost his confidence.
"Xie Guogong's mansion." She was hesitating when Jiang Shuyao's voice came from her ear.
Xie Pei hurriedly tugged at her sleeve.
The gangster headed on the opposite side was silent for a while, and the person next to him immediately said: "Brother, who cares about her, that woman killed our three brothers, we can't let them go."
Hearing the information about Zhou Shi, Jiang Shuyao felt a little tight in her heart and held her breath.
The leading gangster was not as angry as they were, but his face sank: "I can't even beat a woman, so I have a face to say."
Can't beat it? It seems that the Zhou family has no worries about life.
Jiang Shuyao breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brother, what do you think of them, we can't attract attention anymore."
Jiang Shuyao felt the killing intent, and his whole body was tense, and suddenly said, "Actually, we are not the daughters of Duke Xie's residence."
The man looked up at her, his eyes heavy.
Jiang Shuyao shrank, her voice trembling: "I, I'm just a passer."
Xie Pei didn't react, and stared at her with wide eyes.
Everyone was stunned.
Her sudden words dispelled the killing intent in the air inexplicably.
Jiang Shuyao raised her sleeves and wiped away the tears that didn't exist at the corners of her eyes, her face was bitter, like a sigh, like she laughed at herself: "Look at me, how can I be a wife, I'm just a plaything."
Xie Pei: ? !
If it weren't for the terrible situation at the moment, she would definitely gasp for the lies that Jiang Shuyao casually told.
The man at the head is different from the other rude gangsters. Before he was killed, he was also the staff of the nobles and had seen the world.
Jiang Shuyao's hair was in a messy bun, and her head was half-raised. Even if her face was dirty, she couldn't hide her flamboyant, enchanting eyes. When she lowered her eyes, the tail of her eyes flew up, agile and charming, and had nothing to do with the appearance of the high-sect mistress.
At this point, Jiang Shuyao also gave up, knelt on the ground, tremblingly said: "If the eldest brother was not seriously ill and needed to take medicine, I would not be condescending to go to the house to pass the room, today's incident, is it? The robbery is also luck, I beg the eldest brother to save my life, my father and brother are still waiting for me to take silver taels home to save my life.”
When this group of people came in just now, only the leading man did not have any evil thoughts in his eyes. Jiang Shuyao looked at his posture and seemed to be disdainful of being in the company of this group of rough people. Anyway, the end was either humiliated or dead, so why not give it a try
She whimpered and said, "The second master of Duke Xie's mansion is a beast. He raised a yard and all the women used it for fun, beat him when he was happy, beat him when he was unhappy, and asked the doctor to prescribe wound medicine after the beating. For the next fight, even Shang Xiang will bring us to beat him for fun."
What she said was so sincere and sad, even Xie Pei almost believed it. She began to doubt her own cognition... This, this is her second brother, right
Men are most greedy for power and sex, and they are the most easily manipulated by power and sex.
Seeing the beauty cry, even the gangsters who had murderous and evil thoughts just now softened their hearts.
"Those big families never treat us ordinary people as human beings." Jiang Shuyao said angrily.
She cried so much that the thought of humiliation by the gangsters completely disappeared. Everyone was born in poverty. After hearing her say this, and thinking about their own experiences, there was a feeling of being in the same hatred.
But this is only useful to the gangsters with a stubborn brain. The head of the man's face remained unchanged, and his eyes swept across her face, obviously not eliminating some thoughts.
"You said your family was poor, how could you raise such flesh?"
Xie Pei listened, and instantly broke out in a cold sweat.
Jiang Shuyao started to cry again, and said, "If it weren't for the fact that I was born similar to a young lady from a rich family, how could I be sold into Duke Xie's mansion? Thanks to this, my brother's illness can only be saved."
"It's alright, it's alright, the one crying, Ye Naoren is crying." A bandit next to him interrupted.
Jiang Shuyao closed her mouth, looking cautiously like a humble and humble woman.
"Big brother, let's talk about how to deal with them later. I've been hungry for a day, let's find something to cushion the stomach first."
Xie Pei loosened the hand that held Jiang Shuyao's cuff, feeling a sense of happiness for the rest of his life.
I thought this was the end of the matter, but Jiang Shuyao suddenly said, "Brothers, if you don't dislike it, let me cook a meal for you."
As soon as these words came out, the leading man finally believed her identity. Because whether it is a high-level mistress or a rich lady, they will not cook in person, and only commoner women will enter and leave the kitchen.
His gaze on Jiang Shuyao was a little less murderous, and he said, "I'll go with you."
Jiang Shuyao nodded and pulled Xie Pei, who was stiff all over, and followed the man out of the house.
He was staring at him, and it was difficult for Jiang Shuyao to make small movements.
The monks in the temple eat simple food. Every day, they are boiled vegetables under steamed buns. Jiang Shuyao can't make flowers no matter how good he is.
After sending Xie Pei, who was easy to reveal the filling, to wash the vegetables, she opened the cage and glanced at it, and there were still a few steamed buns in it.
Burn the wood to warm the steamed buns, and then boil the green vegetables, barely enough to make a meal.
She has a quick hand and looks like someone who cooks all the year round. No matter how suspicious Rao is, the leader of the gangster has to believe her words, thinking that she is really a civilian woman.
After the meal was ready, the two were locked in the previous room again.
Xie Pei let out the sigh of relief he had just held, and said with difficulty, "Will they still kill us?"
Jiang Shuyao sighed: "This is not what I am most afraid of."
Xie Pei knew what she meant, his face was pale, and he seemed to console himself for a while, and asked, "Aren't the gangsters just asking for ransom?"
Jiang Shuyao shook his head: "It sounds like they sounded like desperados hiding in the East and Tibet. I guess they brought us back because it was inconvenient to clean up at the time."
Xie Pei was silent.
After a while, she suddenly held Jiang Shuyao's hand: "I was wrong in the past..."
Jiang Shuyao patted the back of her hand.
Xie Pei suddenly burst into tears, not daring to look into Jiang Shuyao's eyes, wiped his face with his sleeves, sniffed, and said, "I heard people say that there were noble girls who were once kidnapped by bandits, and after they were rescued, they all shaved their hair to become sister-in-laws. went."
Jiang Shuyao looked sideways at her.
Xie Pei was emotionally broken, and his nose was red from crying: "I'm afraid. I'm afraid that I won't be able to escape, and I'm even more afraid that my family won't want me if I escape."
"The old lady spoils you so much, no."
Xie Pei choked a few times, crying so much that he couldn't speak clearly: "What about you, what do you do?"
This question made Jiang Shuyao stunned.
She only focused on how to escape, how to survive, and how to reduce the possibility of being violated, but she forgot that this place is not modern. In her eyes, whether it is her or the noble girls who were once abducted, everyone is a victim, but obviously for the ancients, instead of sympathy and pity, what everyone would do is to name them "" unclean" yoke.
Even Xie Pei, who grew up pampered and arrogant, would worry about being rejected by his family. This concept has long been engraved in the bones of the ancients.
Xie Pei was still crying. She seemed to have thought of the tragic future. She was inevitably afraid, but she wanted to comfort Jiang Shuyao: "Don't be afraid, third brother, third brother... Maybe you won't mind." She wanted to say firmly that Xie Xun would not I do, but I can't say anything.
Jiang Shuyao was shocked, and the short words were like a blow to her.
Once she saw Xie Lang's clear, elegant, considerate and gentle, she thought that he must be the one in ten thousand lovers, but he was only one of the feudal men, so she was extremely disappointed and sad.
Before that, she thought that she felt pity for Zhou and Lin from a bystander's point of view, and it was only now that she suddenly thought of Xie Xun, she realized that she might not have any thoughts of hurting them.
When she was in a trance, the wooden door was pushed open with a squeak, and Xie Pei's crying stopped.
Jiang Shuyao immediately returned to his senses, put aside distracting thoughts, and concentrated on dealing with the person who came.
This time, only the leading man came alone, and his eyes fell on Xie Pei: "You go out."
Xie Pei was shocked and looked at Jiang Shuyao in panic.
Jiang Shuyao still looked humble and pitiful: "Big brother, my sister is still young and can't be scared."
The man said nothing, Jiang Shuyao bowed his head tremblingly.
For so many years, the man has followed the nobleman to do business, and he has seen many beauties, but there are very few who are more beautiful than the woman in front of him. For these people, great beauty is always untouchable.
But now it is different. This woman is extremely beautiful, born in poverty, without danger, humble and docile, and it is impossible to find. If you simply kill her, or enjoy it with those rude people, it would be too wasteful.
He walked over and softened his voice: "Do you want to go back to Duke Xie's mansion?"
Jiang Shuyao raised her head with tears in her eyes, her beautiful eyes full of fear: "No, I don't want to go back."
"Then are you willing to live with me?" He was waiting for this answer.
Jiang Shuyao didn't answer immediately, after hesitating for a while, she tentatively asked, "Then what about my sister?" Without waiting for the man to answer, she straightened her body up and said sincerely, "Brother, I'll tell the truth, what we ordinary women ask for It's simple, I just want to live a good life. If the elder brother can protect our sisters, I will treat it as a cow and a horse, and put a ring on the grass."
Hearing these words, Xie Pei was so frightened that she couldn't breathe, she knew too well what was going to happen next.
The man smiled cheerfully: "Okay." He turned to Xie Pei and said, "You go out, and they don't dare to touch you if you have my orders."
Jiang Shuyao tightened the palm of her hand holding the hairpin, her whole body tense.
Xie Pei cried and did not want to leave, and the man lost his patience.
Remembering to give face to the beauty, he endured not to do anything, and shouted for someone to come in and drag Xie Pei away.
After Xie Pei was dragged away, the wooden door snapped shut.
Jiang Shuyao couldn't calm down any longer. The tight string in her heart suddenly broke. At this point, she had exhausted all her strength.
She shoved away the man who was approaching her, but when she turned around, she was grabbed by the sleeve, and with a "swoosh", one sleeve was torn off.
It seems that the beauty is particularly moving when she is frightened. The man slowly walked towards her while removing his robe, and said with a smile: "Why do you want to hide, you regret it?"
Jiang Shuyao collapsed completely, his palms were sweaty, and he pinched the hairpin desperately.
The moment the man came over and got close, she instinctively waved towards his neck.
Maybe it was stabbed, maybe it wasn't, Jiang Shuyao's mind was in chaos.
She heard the man's screams, and felt that he rolled over and fell beside her, without dying, twitching and howling.
Got stabbed
Jiang Shuyao stared blankly at the golden hairpin in his hand—it was not stained with blood.
She raised her head, and the figure against the light in her blurred vision gradually became clear.
The tip of the sword dripping with blood, the bright official uniform... Finally, Xie Xun's face.
Others are very afraid of Xie Xun, because he always has a cold face, but Jiang Shuyao knows that there is not much emotion under his cold face.
It was only at this moment that she realized what Xie Xun really looked like with a cold face.
His face was frosty, his eyes were full of anger, and the air around him was frozen and depressing. He was like a hardened cold sword, and his body was full of vigor, which made Jiang Shuyao instinctively retreat in fear.
His eyes fell on the man who had taken off his robe, and then turned back to the arm that was exposed after her sleeve was ripped off.
The man was still struggling, and just got up on his knees, Xie Xun cut his head with a sword without blinking.
There seemed to be the sound of blood splashing, Jiang Shuyao smelled the bloody smell in the air, and the blurred vision only focused on Xie Xun's hostile face.
She hated herself for being useless, and when Xie Xun's eyes fell on her arm again, her first reaction was to hide her arm behind her.
Xie Xun suddenly strode forward, and when she subconsciously retreated, he pulled her sharply and embraced her with one hand.
His tone was no longer as flat as usual, his voice trembling: "Are you alright?"
In front of him was a bright color of official uniforms, and beside his ears was the sound of his heart beating rapidly in his chest.
Jiang Shuyao's reason has not yet returned, and subconsciously wants to explain that he has not been defiled, and he is afraid that Xie Xun is the kind of feudal man who will think that she is not innocent enough even if his wife is kidnapped.
As soon as she opened her mouth and said the word "I", the long-standing fear suddenly defeated her, tears kept rolling down, and she choked and cried.
The iron fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.
Xie Xun threw the sword without hesitation, just to take her deeper into his arms.