When Chu Changting woke up, she found that she was being tied up in a dark room, and her brain was buzzing.

"Nampo, Nampo?!" As soon as his mind came to his senses, Chu Changting didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly called his younger brother's name loudly.

……

There was a dead silence.

Chu Changting felt her heart tremble, she struggled to get up, but she was planted on the ground because her hands and feet were tied. She wept bitterly, but she still struggled to move her body, desperate for the response she wanted in the dark.

No...... No...... I can't lose anymore, I can't.

She couldn't remember how she had been brought here, and she couldn't even remember what had happened before she fell unconscious. The memory came to an abrupt end as Mei Makeup came to an abrupt end in front of her, followed by a silky darkness that clung around her throat.

In the endless darkness, Chu Changting only felt that his face was warm, his heart was beating violently, as if an invisible big hand was choking her throat, and the suffocating fear spread up his spine, Chu Changting struggled to get up again like crazy, and then slammed into a cold wall with a bang. Ignoring the pain in her back, she leaned against the wall to stabilize herself, and then moved her steps along the wall in the darkness.

"Don't waste your efforts, there are no windows here, the doors are locked, and it's just you and me." A cold female voice sounded, and the piercing darkness was like a broken surface of water, and the stormy waves hit Chu Changting's heart in an instant. She was stunned in the dark, and for a long time, her sour throat could barely make a sound.

“...... Who? ”

"Who are you? Where am I? What about my brother? And the girl who got it with me?! ”

"My name is Han Yaoxi, and I was sold to the Qinglou by my aunt. You, like me, are now in a firewood room in the backyard of the Qinglou. Han Miao's voice was like the wind that passed through the darkness as silent as death, "As for the people you mentioned, I have never seen them. You came alone and were stunned and resisted. ”

"W-What? No! No, it won't! Chu Changting slid down the wall and fell to the ground in horror, Chu Nanpu and Mei Makeup's whereabouts were unknown, making her heart like a shabby ragged clothes full of holes, and a little cold could freeze her liver and intestines.

Sitting on the ground, she felt that it was dark, and the pain in her head became more intense and rapid, making her almost unable to control her expression.

The heavens are unfair, unfair!!

"Don't be sad, girl, these individuals are mercenary, and they won't kill people easily. You and your loved ones are only temporarily separated. The priority is to think about how to get out, not to feel sorry for yourself. Han Miao's voice was like a basin of cold water poured on Chu Changting's confused head. It's just that the successive blows have made Chu Changting really overwhelmed, and the past fifteen years have been so happy that when grief hits, it will be so painful.

Resentment bewitches God, and hatred is riddled with hatred. When the pain reached the depths, it became the armor of the protector, Chu Changting's eyes suddenly became steep and sharp, she forced her mind to calm down, and responded with a choked voice: "Miss Han, what can I do?" ”

"We two weak women who are powerless, what else can we do except be obedient on the surface." Han Miaoxi sneered coldly, "If the girl believes me, don't waste your efforts in vain, and save some energy to deal with the things that will happen later." After enduring this time, there is a way to get out. If you can't bear this time, you will be separated from your relatives forever. ”

"Hahahaha, hahahahahaha." Chu Changting suddenly laughed a little maniacally, "Fate is really cruel to me. ”

"I was so confused and naïve in my past that I never had anything to do to protect my loved ones when disaster struck." Chu Changting choked up and spoke, tears surging out like a, "I have been hiding behind others and relying on others to protect me. I'm so weak and incompetent. ”

The corpses of relatives are not cold, the first seven have not passed, and they can't just go before they are dressed in linen to guard their filial piety, and they still have to go...... To force a smile to please others.

Han Miaoxi listened quietly, with a hint of emotion on her face, but it was still cold: "It seems that the girl also encountered a lot of accidents to end up in such a field." ”

"If the girl has a grudge, it's useless to cry." Han Miao's voice was stiff, but it seemed to be a little warm and hidden inside, "I have no father and mother since I was a child, and I live in my aunt's house, although my aunt raised me, she never liked me, beat and scolded me every day, let me do rough work, and her daughter also looked at me unaccustomed to it, and made me trouble every day." Therefore, I was sent to the Qinglou as soon as I was ready. ”

"Most of the people who come from this building are eunuchs, princes, children of families, and elegant guests, if the girl has a skill, she can only sell her art and not her body, so that the old bustard earns a lot, she must be willing, and you can also protect yourself first."

"I want to get ahead, I want revenge, so I have to endure." Han Miao's words flowed into Chu Changting's heart like a spring, "So girl, do you understand?" ”

Just then, the door creaked open. The bright light from the outside made the two of them close their eyes in unison. Before the two of them could get used to the sudden light, they heard a rough and brutal voice say, "The two girls are the first flowers in the building today, and they will go with me to dress up in a while, and don't resist, otherwise it will be the end of the corpse wilderness." ”

Chu Changting's heart trembled heavily, she looked in the direction of Han Yaoting with half-squinted eyes, only to see a delicate beauty sitting there coldly, her yellowish hair hanging messily around her inverted triangle face, a pair of slender sleeping phoenix eyes were heavy but swaying, and they were pitiful for no reason, and the thin lips and lip lines were fine, like petals on the delicate chin. Han Miaoting noticed Chu Changting's gaze, she just bowed her head slightly, signaling Chu Changting to believe her.

Live first.

Chu Changting nodded slightly, and then the two were sent to different rooms to bathe and change clothes.

Bathing for Chu Changting was an elderly woman, with a pair of round eyes and amiable, without the slightest hint of the anger and bad spirit that the mother-in-law in the Qinglou often had. Chu Changting secretly glanced at her with his peripheral vision, only to see her lowering her eyes, only carefully washing Chu Changting's hair.

"The girl always looks at what the old body does."

Chu Changting was taken aback by her mother-in-law's unexpected words, she quickly took her eyes back, and then pretended to be calm and said, "It's nothing, look at the mother-in-law's face." ”

"Girl, you are still too young, you must know not to judge people by their appearance in the future." The mother-in-law was still blistering at Chu Changting's hair, and there was a bit of sophistication in her voice, "Especially in this kind of Fengyue place, on the surface, the wind and waves are calm, but in fact, they eat people and don't spit out bones." It is your luck that the girl met the old body today, you just need to remember what the old body said, see less and talk less, and you can survive in this flowery building. ”

"Thank you mother-in-law for mentioning this." Chu Changting frowned slightly, feeling that this flowery building was not like an ordinary green building, and there must be a strange mystery in it. But she suppressed the curiosity in her heart at the moment, and just asked softly, "Can I ask my mother-in-law, if it is an eight or nine-year-old child who is ...... What will you do if you are sold to this flowery building? ”

"The old body doesn't know. Or buddy, or resold and sold, or hidden by a hundred fans and secretly cultivated. The woman skillfully washed Chu Changting's long hair, and then began to wash her body again, "The principle of Hua Manlou is to make the best use of things, so although it is dangerous here, it will not die easily." ”

Hearing his mother-in-law's words, although Chu Changting was still worried, when he thought that his younger brother was not worried about his life for the time being, his heart that had been hanging was finally relieved. Just thinking about plum makeup, she became worried again. Although Mei Xiang is strong in force, if she is unscathed, she will not be able to be in this Longtan tiger's den now, so she must have encountered something wrong...... Thinking of this, Chu Changting couldn't help but clench his fists, looked at his mother-in-law and said, "Can I ask my mother-in-law again, apart from me and my fair aunt here, are there other girls who come in this flowery building?" ”

"The girl asked too much." The mother-in-law withdrew the hand that washed Chu Changting's body, and then took a cloth from the side to dry it, "Girl, it's time to go." ”

Chu Changting gritted his teeth, so he had to get up and dress, and then followed his mother-in-law outside. Just as soon as I opened the door, I saw a hundred fans leaning on the railing outside the door, gently shaking the folding fan, and looking at her playfully.

Her heart sank, anger burning her newfound sanity.

Where is Chu Nanpu, where is Mei Makeup, are they alive or dead now, are they sick or injured...... Thousands of questions came to his heart, but Chu Changting could only suppress it.

"Granny Rui, you go down first." Baimian Fan raised his eyebrows, and the woman left. Only Chu Changting and Baimian Fan were left standing opposite each other, and the atmosphere was very delicate for a while.

"The old body always thinks you are familiar." As he spoke, he twisted his waist and walked to Chu Changting's side, and the folding fan in his hand gently picked up Chu Changting's chin, "Just now, the old man suddenly remembered where I had seen you." ”

Chu Changting frowned slightly, pretending to be calm, and squinted obliquely at the hundred-faced fan.

"The old man just came back from Fengzhao last year, and it was when General Shen Liangchen returned to the dynasty in victory, and I took the girls to watch the excitement on the Huamanlou floor." The hundred-faced fan said unhurriedly, but every word was like a sharp knife cutting at the tip of Chu Changting's heart, "At that time, Chu Changting, the prime minister's concubine who had a marriage contract with him, was picked up by him from the city tower, and the two of them rode to the palace together, so it was not beautiful." ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Chu Changting suppressed the panic that his identity might be revealed, and pretended to be calm and said coldly.

"A beauty like Chu Changting, I have never forgotten my old body." The hundred-faced fan pressed against Chu Changting's ear, and the delicate breath spewed out on Chu Changting's neck, making her feel flustered in her heart, "It's just ......"

"It's a pity that the old man heard a while ago that the Chu Mansion has been beheaded all over the house." The hundred-faced fan retracted the body that was pressing beside Chu Changting, and then carefully looked at the change in the expression on Chu Changting's face, "That kind of beauty, just like that, died like that." ”

"Tsk, that's a pity."

"I'm just a wandering beggar, and I don't understand what you're saying." Chu Changting said coldly.

"If Miss Chu hadn't died, where would she be now?" Baimian Fan withdrew his fan, leaned it against his chin, and looked at Chu Changting's gaze with a playful and vicious look, "That must be with her nine-year-old brother." ”

Hearing the Baimian Fan mention her younger brother, Chu Changting's lips trembled suddenly, she squinted her eyes and glared at the Baimian Fan angrily, and then gritted her teeth and said: "The boy who came with me is about seven years old, but he is not my younger brother, it's just that I saw him as homeless and too pitiful, so I took him in." If you send him to the government, it will be a crime of deceit, and you will lose your head. You can give it a try. ”