On a cold night at the Buddhist Gate, the warmth of the day fell from the clouds to the iciest of the seabed, and the spring breeze became cold and cold, raging in the spacious and depressed backyard of Punan Temple, making a whimpering sound.

Babbling, lying on the wooden bed, heard the wooden door slowly pushed open, and then a burst of footsteps stepped in from outside the door, she concentrated on the comer, there should be two people, one of them has strong steps, as if he is cautious, and the other is slow and sparse, it should be an old man.

Shen Yan's footsteps gradually approached her, until he stopped at the head of his bed, and after looking at her for a moment or two, he stretched out his hand and shook her violently, pretending to be asleep, and she tried to control her heartbeat and breathing as much as possible, and remained as it was.

"Abbot, the little beggar has slept to death."

Hearing Shen Yan call another person as the "abbot", Yan Duan, who was pretending to be asleep, was shocked in his heart, and his teeth were gritted to death.

When Yan Du was still shocked, he only heard the old monk who had been kind in his heart, and smiled contemptuously: "Hurry up and send it to the dock, they will sail tomorrow to sell this batch to Shengjing." ”

Hearing the abbot's command, Shen Yan immediately responded respectfully: "Okay abbot, don't you come to see this kid?" He was born wonderful! ”

Listening to Shen Yan's words, Yan Du felt that he was a tool to be flattered by him.

"Don't look at it, if this little beggar is good-looking, he will call the price higher, and the old man in the capital will raise more young men and confine him, and it is most suitable to send him there."

Yan Du heard every word clearly, it turned out that they were going to sell themselves to human traffickers, the pickled and filthy words seemed to be engraved in front of their eyes, the young man was forbidden, she knew for the first time that there was such a dirty thing in the world, and her whole body was tense, and she forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart.

"The Yanfu was wiped out overnight a few days ago, and the government investigated it a little strictly, so be careful." Abbot Hui's dignified voice sounded again.

Hearing the abbot's words, Shen Yan couldn't help but regret: "Hey, there is a cash cow missing!" I don't know what to do with the Yan's Wanguan family wealth? ”

As soon as Yan Du heard them mention Yan's family, her whole body was concentrated, this was the first time in the past few days that she had heard about her own family from the outside world.

"I heard that it was Jiangnan Taishou Bao Wenbin who gave them a funeral, but they were all burned to the ground, and the government couldn't find anything, and the second master of the Yan family was nowhere to be found."

At present, whoever touches their family wealth is tantamount to announcing it to the world, the murderer is him, who will be so stupid! However, the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, Yan's family, thousands of acres of fertile land, rich and rival the country, this big fat pork, maybe one day when the wind and waves subside, it will be taken away by a wolf!

Thinking of this, Hui Ming felt that the sesame oil money he had asked them for before was too little, and he couldn't help but feel melancholy in his heart, and then glanced at the "goods" lying on the bed, thinking that he could sell it tomorrow and exchange it for a night of wine in Wanhualou, and his heart was a little more depressed......

With the sound of footsteps gradually moving away, Yan Dui, who was lying on the bed, could no longer suppress her emotions, tears slowly overflowed from the closed eyes, and swept across her white and moon-like face, her hands clenched into fists, silently venting the grief in her heart.

There is a saying: The tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs. Her tiger cub, who left the captivity of her family, ended up being deboned and fleshed by this immoral and humiliating dog, and thrown from one snake den into another wolf den like an object.

Suddenly! A small sound of the door opening sounded behind him, and Yan Dui, who was still crying, quickly buried his face in his arms, so that the visitor would not notice his abnormality.

The sound of limping footsteps told her the identity of the person who came, she was a little unclear, why Shen Xing would come over now, wasn't he afraid of Shen Yan?

I saw Shen Xing quietly walk to her bedside and carefully put an ointment with the scent of wormwood in her bandaged hand.

It turned out that Shen Xing was here to deliver medicine, he should know that he was going to be sold, this also shows this kind of dirty thing, Shen Yan and Hui Ming have done it many times, Yan Du wanted to jump up and grab Shen Xing, and asked him why he didn't stop them, why didn't he report to the official, but when she thought that he was just a child about the same age as herself, thinking of his unfavorable right leg, and thinking of the fear in his eyes when he looked at Shen Yan, was she still qualified to question him?

Our thin fists are powerless to resist power!

Yan Du held the ointment in her hand tightly, and in the cold and dark backyard of the Buddhist gate, she wept because of grief and hatred, and was angry because of weakness and incompetence. Now she is no longer the Yan Du who is loved by thousands of people, but a wandering beggar Xiaobao, who has nothing, and wants to seek a way of revenge in this Daheng Dynasty that bullies the weak and fears evil, and the weak eat the strong......

Tears dried, anger exhausted, Yan Du lay on the bed, his thoughts returned, and carefully analyzed the current situation.

After destroying the door, she didn't want to go over to find her second uncle to say goodbye, but his whereabouts were erratic, unless he took the initiative to appear, otherwise even his father who was hand-eyed couldn't find him.

She pondered over and over again the words of the abbot of Huiming, "Tomorrow we will sail to prepare to sell this batch to Shengjing." In this way, these monks, who are merciful on the surface and dirty on the inside, are ready to sell her to human traffickers and send her to Shengjing, the capital of Daheng.

Shengjing City, that's where my mother grew up!

I still remember that Mama Xiao proudly taught herself that her mother, Mu Shi, was a famous official in the history of Daheng Kingdom, Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, and the envoy of the degree, and the founder of Pengcheng County - Mu Yan, the only daughter, Mu Shaolan, who once shocked the entire Shengjing City.

Yan Dusk closed her eyes deeply, her two eyebrows furrowed tightly, and when she thought of her mother, the pain of eternal separation inevitably came to her heart.

The swallowtail phoenix butterfly tattooed on the back by her mother was faintly painful, that night, Xiao Mama and Bai Feng pressed her to death, and stuffed the white silk cloth in her mouth, she was stabbed by the hot tattoo in pain, two lines of tears continued to flow out of her eyes, she didn't understand why her mother wanted to let herself suffer such a spicy pain, and finally couldn't stand the severe pain, and finally fainted.

When she woke up, the swallowtail butterfly was engraved on her young back, and her mother, who was crying because she was distressed, finally told her the legend of the "Phoenix Butterfly League......

"Since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, men are inferior to women, women have a low status, and they are often constrained. The ancestors dreamed of butterflies and deeply felt that a woman's life was as short as a butterfly. However, breaking out of the cocoon into a butterfly, fearless and fearless, is the most important character that a woman needs to have. Women also need to have the hard work of butterflies and be reborn in Nirvana, so that they can float in the world and be unrestrained. ”

"The ancestors realized that women should not be weak for beauty, but should be upright and tenacious. The end is the body, the body is not humiliated, and the corner is incorruptible. Righteousness is thinking, fairness and integrity. Tenacity is wisdom and tenacity, but also retreat and advance, perseverance. Keep for the heart, one heart and one person, unparalleled in the world. “

Therefore, the Phoenix Butterfly Alliance was founded, one person and one butterfly were engraved in the body, passed on to the world, and the people in the alliance helped each other and reciprocated. Those who have different intentions will be judged, and those who give grace will be beneficial. ”

I don't know much about myself, I have had the aura of a big son since I was born, I can't understand why a woman's status is lower than that of a man, and I don't know much about my mother's words, so I can only listen to her earnest teachings in a daze.

"My mother is ruthless in getting a tattoo on your back, it's not that she doesn't love you and doesn't hurt you! I lost my relatives at a young age, and I knew that the woman was lonely and helpless, and later in Shengjing Sansheng, I was fortunate to meet my master, Mr. Beiguo, and passed on the swallowtail phoenix butterfly to me, so that I could have sisters who were like brothers and sisters. ”

"I will pass on the swallowtail butterfly to you, and the phoenix butterfly alliance must draw a knife to help each other when it sees the butterfly, and we will be in the same boat through thick and thin. Even if my twilight does everything in the world, she will never be helpless! ”

That's right! Phoenix Butterfly Alliance, it is her reliance!

Her wrinkled eyes suddenly opened, and her eyes shone brightly in this desperate night, like a morning star that had found hope.

Truly! Niangqin does have a person who is like a sister in Shengjing City, although she has never met herself, but she has always been talked about by her mother, she is her godmother - Song Qi, the daughter of Changping Marquis.

Twilight carefully put the ointment in her hand into her arms, which might be the only way out for now......

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Thirty taels, this is the price at which Shen Yan sold her.

Twilight was packed in a burlap bag and pretended to be unconscious all the while they were allowed to complete their handover with the traffickers. She squinted, carefully peeking through the cracks in the tattered sack, observing the whole process.

There were two people who came to trade human traffickers this time, and Shen Yan was very respectful to them, although he couldn't see his expression, Yan Du could still imagine that he must still have that seemingly warm but actually sly smile on his face at this moment.

The fat trafficker was called Boss Li by Shen Yan, and he kept greeting Shen Yan and saying something inconsequential, while the thinner man standing next to him kept not smiling, and roughly checked whether her hands, hands and feet were complete, and then gave the price.

The two sides were very familiar with the process, and after Chen Shouzi paid the money in the sleeve of his loose robe, Li Fatzi picked up the sack containing himself and walked in the direction of the cargo ship. Feeling that his body was hanging in the air, Yan Duan paid attention to his surroundings vigilantly, but heard Li Fatzi a male duck and asking Chen Slender next to him:

"I just saw that this kid's hand was injured, why are you willing to give thirty taels?"

Li Fatzi has long seen the goods brought by the little monk this time, which is so good-looking, but if he suffers from any serious illness, not to mention whether he can survive to Shengjing, it doesn't matter if he dies on the way and throws it into the river, but he is afraid that he will infect the entire cabin. Recently, I heard that there have been big changes in the capital, and this time it may have to be stopped, so this batch of goods is relatively large, more than 20 of them, all of which are bright and smooth, but you can't let this plague chicken harm the whole cabin of goods!

While putting away his money bag, Chen Shouzi glanced at the dead fat man next to him, and thought: Such a stupid thing, if he wasn't a distant relative of Master Li in the capital, he really wanted to go it alone. Now the capital and Jiangnan are in the limelight, and I don't know when I will be lucky next time after finishing this order, and I will have to increase the price when it is shipped to Shengjing. Recently, no matter whether the goods of other ships are good or bad, they have all been collected first, and Shen Yan said that this guy has long been familiar with the traffickers in this area, and he can give it to others at any time if he can't get along, and he doesn't want to bargain anymore, he just wants to sail quickly and make a lot of money with this order. However, there is no need for him to analyze too much with this fat man:

"This child is handsome, Second Master Lin and Master Li both like this, they are urging urgently, let's hurry up and start the boat today!"

Li Fatzi has always been unfond of using his brains, and he didn't say anything else after listening to his words, and boarded the boat with a bag of hemp. Feeling that the sack containing herself was placed on the board, Twilight knew that they were going to wake herself up at this moment, so she took the initiative to call out:

"Oops!" She moved her hands and feet gently, only to see Fat Li's greasy big hand reach in, lift her up, and say in a rough voice: "It's time for your kid to wake up!" Listen to me, you were sold by the monk in the temple, don't think about escaping, or I'll slap you to death! “

Yan Du pretended to be scared and hugged her head, trembling and begging for mercy, "Don't! Other! Hit me! I listen to you! “

Seeing Yan Dui's cowardice, Li Fat Man continued to pretend to scare her fiercely, scolding and scolding like a big eagle carrying a chicken, and picked her up all at once, Yan Du was still trembling in horror and shouting for mercy, but his clever eyes took the opportunity to observe the surroundings.

The wooden boat he was in, with a tall mast, three masts and five sails, a square head and a square tail, was a typical sand boat. There were not many people coming and going to load and unload goods, and the faint smell of tea told her that this ship should be specially designed to transport tea to Beijing. Indeed, it is late spring, and the spring dew before the rain in Jiangnan is the best time to taste, but the spring dew before the rain in Jiangnan can only be sold in addition to the Yan family, which can only be official property, and now that there is such a big thing at home, the boat should not be opened in the near future.

So, this is an official ship ?!

While Yan Du was still thinking about it, Li Fatzi had already carried her to the most remote cabin of the ship, and rudely kicked open the wooden door, and a small scream came from the small compartment full of despair, and the sunlight could not shine into the most remote cabin, only a faint oil lamp swayed with the salty wind.

With a "plop", she was thrown into it like a broken doll.

"Shhh Pulling the wound on his hand, Yan Du screamed in pain, of course Li Fatzi didn't pay attention to it, just snorted inside, and then slammed the wooden door shut, and locked it on the ground one by one.

Yan Du propped himself up on his elbows, and looked around, the room was full of young men and women who had been sold like herself, and there were still quite a few of them, more than 20 people were crammed into this dark cabin, and they had to endure the long waterway, could they really survive it?

"Are you alright?" A female voice with a hint of immaturity sounded in her ears, and she looked up at the inquirer, a girl who was slightly older than herself, and saw that she was wearing a coarse linen dress, with a pair of braids, her face was delicate, and her undulating breasts were full of the charm of a girl who had not yet been spoken.

Yan Du shook her head, met her concerned eyes, those unadulterated eyes bent a beautiful arc, she pointed to the other little girl who was younger than the two of them sitting on the side, and said to Yan Du affectionately, "My name is Xiao Feng, and she is my sister Xiao Zhao. “

Xiao Feng, the sudden words pierced into Yan Dui's heart like a knife, looked at the child in front of her like a big sister, and asked her how not to sacrifice her life to save her little maid Bai Feng.

"What's your name?" Xiao Feng blinked his big clean eyes, looking at Yan Du with a sad expression, he couldn't help but feel a little distressed, such a pink-carved child should be the rich life of the little boy! How did you end up in such a depressed situation?

Yan Du saw that Xiao Feng had pity in her eyes, she was also a fallen person, why did she still have feelings of pity? Witnessing the destruction of the door overnight, experiencing the deception of Buddhism, and dying in a different place if he is not careful, he no longer wants to trust anyone.

But as soon as she saw the smile that was like Bai Feng, she still lowered her head and didn't want to show her sincerity, and replied in a low voice: "My name is Xiaobao." “

At this moment, merchant ships are speeding on the Six Canals, cutting through the wall waves. This night, the greedy wolf star is exhausted in the south of the Yangtze River, the wind is thousands of miles, the phoenix butterfly leads the way, and in the future, Kyushu will step on it, and the world will be at my disposal!