Chapter 52: The Bird Enters the Cage

As the group entered Kyoto, the women were pushed into a two-way courtyard by the guards and locked up in an empty room in the backyard.

Everyone panicked when they heard the sound of the lock clicking. Didn't you say that you want to be sent to a big household as a maid? How did you get locked up here?

Situ Ming, who was not the oldest among them, was the calmest, and she said to the women:

"Don't panic, let's figure out what the situation is."

Seeing that several hours had passed, the women were very tired from the journey, and a few of them were weak and vomited.

The locked room was empty, there were not even tables or chairs, and it was dark and damp, and the windows were sealed with wooden bars.

They were so tired that they had to sit on the floor. Some are thirsty and say they want to drink, some are hungry and want to eat, and more are anxious.

The hunger and thirst can be endured, but that aspect of the matter alone has to be solved by going out. A few women began to knock desperately on the door, but no one answered for a long time.

"It's not a good thing to ...... here," said a woman with a sad face.

"At the beginning, I lied to our parents, saying that we would definitely be better off when we arrived in Kyoto than at home, and that we would not starve and freeze. Who knew it would be like this. A woman complained.

She is a farmer's woman in Jiangzhou, because the summer rain is continuous, and the crops in the field are flooded. Seeing that there was no harvest this autumn, several members of the family had to go hungry, and they had to be sold by her father.

These women all came from Jiangzhou "and buy", their parents were willing to sell, some were willing to buy, and the two sides reached an agreement. Therefore, it is in accordance with the laws of this dynasty. It's not like those women who have been abducted or plundered and looted to see the light, why are they locked up here?

"We all shouted together, and we didn't believe that no one would come. Even if there is no one in this courtyard, it will always alarm the neighbors. Could it be that he starved to death here? "Situ 媗提yì.

"Don't you know this girl, before we rushed from Jiangzhou, we were ordered not to make loud noises. If anyone takes the lead and doesn't listen to them, they say they're going to sell us to those places. A woman said to Situ Ming.

"Who was there to pick you up from home in the first place?" Situ Cheng asked curiously.

The women had different opinions, some said that they were local matchmakers, and some said that they were relatives of their own family. Many women were kept in the dark beforehand, only to learn afterwards that they had been sold by their parents, sisters-in-law, and aunts.

However, if you are taken out, even if you are a hundred unwilling, it is equivalent to a fish cast into a net, and the more you struggle, the more you will suffer.

At most, they were not fed, and they were hungry. That's not all, when everyone was eating, they deliberately let a few disobedient people watch from the side.

People take food as the sky, and filling their stomachs is the top priority. Gradually, no one dared to resist anymore, not even speak out loud. If it weren't for the special scene just now, where would those women dare to bang on the door loudly.

"The law does not punish the people, we all shouted together, and when someone arrived, we all stopped. What can they do? Situ told them.

Those women were frightened by Honggu's methods on the road, and they didn't dare to do what Situ Cheng said.

"Everyone shouted that it was on fire, and they were not afraid that no one would come!" After Situ Cheng finished speaking, she shouted first, and then all the women shouted in unison.

Honggu and the man who led the team were sitting in the living room in the front yard drinking tea, when they suddenly heard the sound of women shouting fire from the backyard. She and the man looked at each other, put down the teacup and hurried into the backyard.

I saw a qiē as usual, and there was no fire or smoke. Honggu angrily scolded through the door:

"The little hooves are loose, aren't they, what are you yelling about?"

"Honggu, open the door quickly, I want to go out for convenience, I can't hold it back."

"Honggu, I'm so thirsty, do you have any water to drink?"

"Honggu, I'm so hungry, please give us some food!" The women said babblingly.

"You can't starve to death in such a short time, and whoever shouts again is not allowed to eat all day today." Honggu said sharply.

When the women heard her say this, they knew that she was not bluffing them, and they were all so frightened that they lost their voices.

"Honggu, do you really plan to starve us to death of thirst? So why did you go to such great lengths to bring everyone to Kyoto? It doesn't matter how much money you spend to buy us, you will lose a few of them anyway. Situ Cheng said to Honggu through the door.

"Hey, what kind of cheap hoof is this, with sharp teeth and sharp mouth, why didn't I find it on the way. I dare to talk back, there will be a good place for you to go later, you wait for me! When the red girl heard that there was a woman inside who dared to talk back to her, she only jumped to her feet in anger.

"I'm afraid you'll not dare to come into this house." Situ continued to talk to her.

"What, I'm afraid you won't make it?" Honggu asked rhetorically.

"I don't know if you're afraid or not, after all, you've seen the world." Situ Cheng said, that Honggu listened to it quite useful.

"But now that I think about it, I'm scared. Put yourself in your shoes, if I were you. Later, he took the key and opened the room, and looked inside...... "Situ Cheng deliberately didn't say anything."

Honggu was still waiting to listen to the following, and suddenly there was no sound inside, and she was wondering. Suddenly, there was no "ah" from inside, and she shuddered.

"Ahh I saw the corpses of several beautiful young women lying in this room, some of them starved to death, some of them died of thirst, and some of them were suffocated by urine. There are also a few alive, and those who are alive are eating something together, and when you look closer, it turns out that they are eating human flesh and drinking human blood. There's no way, people are hungry, but they can do anything. Situ Cheng scared her.

Honggu clutched her chest and said to the man beside her:

"Master Zheng, the little woman has lived for more than thirty years, and she has never seen such a rude woman. No matter where this kind of woman goes down in the end, she will definitely cause some trouble. When the time comes, it will not be the sin of the little woman, but the little woman who is blind and buys such a woman. ”

As he spoke, he repeatedly gestured to the man surnamed Zheng, begging to open the door to find Situ Cheng out.

"This can't work, we spent so much effort to finally send it to Kyoto. This hasn't been handed over to the owner yet, and the guards have been sent away by me for the time being. If you open the door and escape a few times, you will be responsible for this at least? The man surnamed Zheng did not agree to open the door.

"Honggu, I think you have a lot of ability. It turned out to be just a pig's nose with green onions and an elephant. Sisters, now you know, she's just an old mom who takes care of us on the road. I still think that I am the right lord, and I am a blessing to our sisters. Situ Cheng continued to provoke her.

At this time, the red girl's legs and feet seemed to be stepping on the charcoal fire, and she walked back and forth left and right angrily. This group of girls was very obedient to her on the road, why did they change when they arrived in Kyoto. However, she was also told by Situ Cheng that she was just a person who was hired to take care of those girls, and it would not be too much to say that she was an old mother.

The man surnamed Zheng also felt funny watching from the side, I don't know which woman was so bold.