"At least my back is clean and there's nothing to bite on."

At that time in Suzhou, Tao Xueqi said this to Zhang Qining.

The world is impermanent, and you still can't talk too much. You see, after Liao Jiajie met the ragged woman, she committed another taboo - if people don't know, they can't do it unless they do.

The middle-aged woman deliberately bumped into her, originally wanting to touch the porcelain to make money, so when she got close, Tao Xueqi felt the shallow malice caused by the desire for money. Shot early, and turned sideways to not let her touch herself. But the other party is obviously a veteran, and after one failure, there are other ways to continue. In short, Tao Xueqi is the fat sheep to be slaughtered today in her eyes.

"Oops-" She fell to the ground with exaggerated movements, and Tao Xueqi lowered her eyes and glanced at this lame drama.

The people around him didn't react, they all did what they should do, and even watched all this coldly, as if they were familiar with it.

In this way, the other party is indeed a veteran, and he specializes in attacking fresh faces from other places.

Tao Xueqi looked back and saw that Ji Ran hadn't noticed this, and thought to herself that she should solve it quickly. So he stooped down and squatted down, and spoke before the woman made a loud noise.

"Auntie, are you alright?"

Why did you run into it yourself?

The cold sound is like a cold plum fragrance floating in the ice and snow, as if the winter rain hitting the pipa, with a trace of biting cold in the beauty, as if the internal organs are about to be stung by the ice ballast, which makes people feel creepy.

The woman hesitated for a moment, but the thought of what she would have suffered if she had not taken the money back today made that hesitation immediately put her mind behind.

"You girl doesn't have long eyes when she walks, let me tell you, this medicine money is not a penny!"

According to the usual routine, she was going to say this sentence first. But...

She raised her head violently, and saw the face that was exactly the same as in her memory twenty years ago, and immediately froze in place, her body stiffened, her pupils were dazed, and she could only repeat one word in her mouth.

"You, you, you..."

“？”

Tao Xue looked at her puzzled, and gradually saw something on her face that had long been tortured by the years.

The eyes have swept over the past twenty years. She turned out to be the girl who was waiting by her side, what was her name? Because malice towards herself always came out of her back then, and observing her in the courtyard of the deep house was also one of my pleasures, so I still have some impressions.

But...

She thought that the Tao family was dead, and there were still people alive. Looking at the way she looks, she hasn't had a good time over the years.

Twenty years ago, this person was a little beautiful, and he tried to seduce the concubine in the family to be a concubine. How did it become like this now?

Escaping from the fire, was she pushed into the fire pit again?

Catching a glimpse of the punitive old scar on her exposed arm, Tao Xueqi faintly withdrew her gaze, thinking about how to solve this trouble. It wouldn't be nice if she talked nonsense.

Noticing that Ji Ran behind him was looking over here, a threatening smile rose in Tao Xueqi's eyes, and he put his index finger on his lips and shouted, "Don't talk too much." ”

The woman was also in chaos.

Why are the people who should have been burned in the fire alive? Why does she look exactly the same as she did twenty years ago, not old at all? She pushed Ji Ran away, stood up with a roll, and fled in panic without saying anything.

It seems that the tail behind him is not clean. Tao Xueqi thought so in her heart, and heard the person selling baked cakes on the side say: "I'm here to touch porcelain again, what if you really dare to be the government?" ”

The woman wrapped in a headscarf slapped him on the back with a palm, pinched her voice and whispered: "Concentrate on making your baked cakes, and take care of all the!" The government suppresses bandits, do you still have to help with a spatula? Work! ”

Bandits? Tao Xueqi's heart moved.

It's not difficult to inquire about the thieves in the Liao family realm, and you can find out almost casually by asking someone. The woman was under the hands of the bandits, not only her, but also several other women like her who had been blackmailing in this area all year round, and the children were begging, and the money they got would be handed over to the bandits.

Originally, the thieves relied on the mountains to eat the mountains, but this village does not raise idlers. Those people are old and yellow, and the women who have no appearance have to come out to touch porcelain blackmail in addition to washing and cooking, and take the money back, otherwise there will be no good end.

When people are mad, they not only want to torture a person's body, but also love to shatter a person's dignity.

Tao Xueqi thought, if she doesn't have to do anything, a person's malice will take the initiative to point the finger at her.

Indeed, as she thought, the woman had not received any money, and today was the day to hand over the money, and she would be punished.

First he was whipped and then put on a chain that tied the dog, and he was fastened to an outer post for three days and two nights, and he had to eat and drink Lazar, both men and women, and he had to settle it on the spot.

Eat the leftovers and cold rice that the last person in the village has eaten, and you can only eat it with your hands if you don't give you chopsticks, and the range of activities can only be in a small circle. If you go beyond that circle, whoever sees it will have to beat and scold you like a brute, otherwise they will suffer the same punishment as you.

She was no longer young, and she would not be able to stand the whip with the thorns. Not to mention the punishment after that, there were many women who were tired of being played by the men in the village and were thrown to do rough work who couldn't stand it and bit their tongues and committed suicide, but they were immediately discovered.

She had even seen a man pull a woman's hair, cut off the woman's tongue with a dagger, and pull up a handful of muddy grass and stuff it into the man's mouth. The woman's mouth was full of blood, and the tears from her empty eyes were mixed with blood.

The man said, "If you don't want it, cut it." ”

Since then, no one has dared to commit suicide, because here you can't even die. After being discovered, you have no other possibilities than to live a more miserable life.

She can't stand the punishment, and she doesn't want to die... Suddenly thinking that the recent body of the bandit leader seemed to be much worse than before, and suddenly remembering the Tao family twenty years ago, the face of Tao Xueqi she saw today flashed in her mind, as if she had grasped a life-saving straw.

She washed her face with water before telling the man the secret, and grabbed her hair with her hand as a comb, cleaning herself up as quickly as she could. She had taken care of the women of wealthy families, and remembered their words and deeds, sometimes with a much harder backbone than many of the women in the village.

But when she saw the woman in the man's arms revealing her fresh body, she still couldn't help but show her timidity, because her current appearance was really unsightly. As soon as she saw the woman, she thought of the young and elegant Tao Xueqi, whose appearance was still the same, and her eyes couldn't help but become vicious.

That look frightened the woman in the man's arms, and she couldn't help but tremble. The man was uncomfortable being served, frowned and slapped him, and took the animal skin clothes on the side and draped them on his body.

"You can't do this little thing, get out."

The man looked at the middle-aged woman below, perhaps she had also been tasted by him when she was younger.

"Stay away, it stinks." The man said ruthlessly, "You want to atone for your sins?" Go ahead. ”

He is no longer young, and he has gradually begun to gain weight in the past two years, making his originally ordinary, not handsome face more and more obscene and despicable.

"The village, the owner of the village... I don't know if you've ever heard of Tai Sui? ”

"Tai Sui?" The man raised his thick eyebrows, "Just ate the thing that can live forever?" ”

“… Be. The slave used to serve Miss Tao Jiachang in Zhengzhou, but later the Tao family was burned by you. The slave thought that the young lady was also dead, but I saw her today, and she looked exactly the same as she did twenty years ago. And the slave used to overhear what the master was refining, and heard Tai Sui or something... She knows for sure! ”

"Tai Sui—" The man narrowed his eyes, thinking that he had been a little overwhelmed lately. Where are the people? ”

"I just entered the Liao family today, she looks like..."Thinking of Tao Xueqi's face, the woman thought of the young man who looked handsome today, and Tao Xueqi was with her, and then looked at the ugly and vulgar old man on the seat, a trace of viciousness flashed in her eyes, and said: "She is very good-looking, the owner of the village can know if he asks people to go down the mountain and inquire a little." ”

She saw a glimmer of light in the man's eyes as soon as she heard the phrase "looks excellent", and her heart said sure enough, and then overflowed with the pleasure of success.

The man asked people to go down the mountain to inquire, and Tao Xueqi under the mountain was also waiting. If someone comes to her, it saves her trouble. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, there was no movement over there. She wanted that no one would come today, and she didn't want to make any noise, so it would be bad for Ji Ran to find out.

But after nightfall, the bandits, who had found out where she lived, sneaked into her room.

The two sneaked into the room, but saw Tao Xueqi sitting neatly on the edge of the bed, and a pair of dark eyes in the dark were amazingly bright.

They hadn't figured out the direction yet, and they were still some distance away from Tao Xueqi, only to hear a chuckle, and I don't know what was sharp like a blade against their necks at the same time. They only moved slightly, and their skin was cut, and warm blood slid down their faces.

The two were so frightened that they didn't dare to move for a while, and Tao Xueqi opened her mouth unhurriedly. "The people in the cottage?"

Handed the blade forward, the two were startled, and suddenly they didn't dare to nod, for fear that their lives would be saved if they moved, so they could only move their mouths.

"Yes, yes... Girl spare her life! ”

"Be quiet." Tao Xueqi frowned, next door was Ji Ran, she didn't want to alarm him. "Don't disturb other people's rest."

"Yes, yes." The two of them obediently whispered.

"You want to arrest me?"

"Don't dare, don't dare."

"Let's go, then."

"Yes, yes... Yes? The two of them kept answering, Tao Xueqi said whatever he wanted, and he was dumbfounded when he heard this. They glanced sideways at each other, not daring to say anything more.

The person who originally came to abduct Tao Xueqi was finally coerced to go up the mountain, and these two people were also confused in their minds, so they could only do it obediently.

When Tao Xueqi entered the village, people passing by looked at her, and the woman also looked at her. Others were strange, surprised by Tao Xueqi's appearance, and even a little curious. Only she clenched her fists tightly, and her nails dug into the flesh of her palms.

She imagined that Tao Xueqi was forcibly dragged into the village in a very humiliating way, and her beautiful face would become a life-saving talisman that ruined her, and she wanted to see her become like herself. Instead of watching her walk into the stockade easily and swaggeringly, as if playing.

Even if she is not the daughter of the Tao family, twenty years later, she is still so beautiful, so clean, from the hair to the soles of her shoes, everything is exquisite, all of which reveal the fact that she is taken to heart, that expression seems to be sitting on the clouds, and she... It's the bed bugs she doesn't give a damn about. She's going crazy!

She has been hiding in the corner, but Tao Xueqi didn't know what method to use, and after walking to a place, she stopped as if she already knew where she was, and naturally raised her eyes to look at her, and her eyes fell on her without any difference.

The middle-aged woman suddenly felt an invisible force, and grasped her heart at the moment Tao Xueqi saw it.

"You, come here."

Tao Xueqi looked at her and opened her mouth gently. Everyone present noticed her because of her words, and instantly turned their heads to look at her according to her gaze.

Stared at by so many people, the woman felt that he was about to feel suffocated for a moment. It was as if it wasn't the sharp gazes of those people who were looking at her, but the knives that were about to kill her.

She didn't want to go over, but her legs and feet didn't obey the call, and the ghost made her move suddenly, and walked towards Tao Xueqi involuntarily little by little. Because of this uncontrollable action, she slowly walked through the crowd and walked not far from Tao Xueqi, her face suddenly turned pale.

"Little, miss."

She was originally a slave maid, and in the past 20 years she has stayed in this village that treats people like animals, and the humility in her bones has not only not decreased, but has increased day by day.

Tao Xueqi hooked her lips and smiled, her soft voice sounding a little ethereal, like a beautiful spirit that eats people in the mountains. While seducing you with a beautiful voice, I watch you sink in pleasure and swallow your bloody flesh into your stomach one by one.

"Remember me. What's your name? It's been so long that I can't even remember. ”

The middle-aged woman lowered her head, she shouldn't be afraid of Tao Xueqi, but what is this feeling? It was as if I was overwhelmed by a black boulder, and it was as if I was being controlled by something. The original malice disappeared from the body little by little, and the rest of the fear was the same, leaving only an empty shell that could not feel anything, like a toy to be fiddled with in front of Tao Xueqi.

"I... My name is—" She gritted her teeth, deciding she couldn't tell her her name. She suddenly remembered that someone could use their name to put a curse on others, and she felt that Tao Xueqi could do it.

"Miss..."She lowered her head, her palms broke out in a cold sweat, and her consciousness was so far away that she couldn't feel what she was saying. The owner of the village is waiting for you... He-"

"What's my business? See him? I'm not afraid of dirty eyes. Tao Xueqi had a smile on her lips, and her eyes were cold. Are you scared? Why didn't you see you when the thieves set me on fire and locked me in the room? Let me guess... You've fallen into trouble this time, haven't you? ”

"No, don't dare... I..."

"Huh. Lie. ”

Tao Xueqi withdrew the curvature of the corners of her lips, and the middle-aged woman couldn't help but be stunned.

"What did you sell me? Oh..."Tao Xueqi dragged a long voice, slowly approached her, and stopped not far away. "Do you know who I am?"

"Nope! I don't know, I don't know! She exclaimed, and that's when she realized why so many people around her didn't react at all.

Looking around, there was no light in the eyes of the people around, and all of a sudden it was as if they had been lowered, and their expressions were wooden. Standing in the distance like a puppet, black qi came out from the top of everyone's head, gradually converging into a thread, and finally arrived at Tao Xueqi's side.

Not only that, but there were threads like that on her own head and body, which were wrapped around her.

"What is this? What is it! ”

These black lines slowly rose into the sky, summoning dark clouds, a black-purple lightning pierced the clouds, and the thunder fell like a mountain collapsing, and the black lightning slashed into the stockade impartially. Immediately after the thunder fell, black and purple flames spread, and then gradually turned into ordinary flames, instantly turning the stockade into a sea of fire.

She had seen this scene before, as if it was the Tao family twenty years ago.

Tao Xueqi waved her hand, and a strong force pushed her into the fire, and something was entangled behind her. When the flames touched her, they turned black and purple again.

"Ahhh——!h

Caught twenty years ago. There is no escape.

In the firelight, she heard Tao Xueqi's voice.

It's not a natural disaster, it's not a man-made disaster, it's—

"Heavenly punishment."