Chapter 16: Escape

In the first year of Tongtian, Gangnam Province.

There is a Liu family in Xuanzhou, who has been a businessman for generations and has a solid family background.

Liu Xiuxiu is the eldest lady of the Liu family, with two brothers, and she is very pampered at home. It was the best time she can remember.

Jiangnan is the land of fish and rice, and the Liu family buys rice to maintain the whole family. In Xuanzhou City, and even the surrounding counties and towns, there are rudders of Liujia Grain Bank.

Ordinary sales are just an income for the Liu family. The Liu family's biggest business was to sell it to the Great Zhou military as military rations. Whenever the imperial court issued an order to collect grain, the Liu family would collect grain from the tenants under the estate, but the need for military rations was huge, so in most cases they had a special way to collect grain through nearby prefectures and counties.

To do such a deal, it is inevitable to deal with the government. But fortunately, the two sons of Master Liu's family are also smart, and they are also very well organized in taking care of the affairs of the family, so Master Liu has never been worried.

Liu Xiuxiu is a girl, she stays in the boudoir on weekdays, waiting to get married at a certain age. Master Liu already has two sons, and he is especially fond of his only daughter.

There were unforeseen circumstances, and finally one day, disaster still befell the Liu family.

In the same year, Li Wancheng, the right minister of Wenchang Taiwan, inspected Jiangnan Province and thoroughly investigated the corruption of ink in Jiangnan Province.

No one expected that this matter involved the Jiangnan Provincial Jie Du Envoy, and countless officials below were implicated and deposed because of this. At that time, everyone in the Jiangnan officialdom was in danger, and they were as clean as water for a while.

But what has been done is like ink spilled on white paper, which cannot be washed.

The imperial history that followed Li Wancheng and the capable officials of Wenchang were all experienced people, and the tricks and feet of local officials were useless in their eyes. At that time, there were many big cases in Jiangnan, and even some officials talked and laughed with Li Wancheng during the day, but they were arrested and dismissed at night.

In the affairs of officialdom, Ben has nothing to do with the Liu family. However, no one expected that something would go wrong in this grain transport.

At that time, the Great Zhou Army and the Northern Wilderness Army were fighting in Mobei, and most of the grain transported from the south of the Yangtze River to the Gyeonggi area by water, and then pulled to Mobei by horse-drawn carriages. Food is consumed quickly, so the amount needed is also quite large.

As usual, the Liu family is responsible for transporting grain, and such a huge demand for grain actually needs to be shared by several grain stores. It's just that the Liu family's business is big, and the big head still has to come to the Liu family to do it.

The problem lies in this food.

When the grain was about to be delivered to Gyeonggi, the officials who inspected the grain found that the quantity of grain was wrong. What's more serious is that these grains are not only in the wrong quantity, but also mixed with some sand and gravel.

Such a practice is to delay military planes and cut them down according to the law.

When the news reached Liu's family, Master Liu, with red eyes, called the two sons in charge of military rations to the ancestral shrine and whipped them all night. The two sons have always refused to admit that they are not stupid people, they know the importance of transporting military rations, and they will not do anything here.

Old Man Liu sighed, he knew that someone was going to frame the Liu family.

Sure enough, the next day, it was reported that the river envoy had been investigated for embezzlement, and as for them, they were secretly reported to Li Wancheng by some villains in the dark.

Dare to delay the military plane, no matter who you are, directly raid the family and exterminate the clan, in order to prove the example.

Li Wancheng is the prime minister, and he will not pay attention to the grievances of a small businessman. As for the magistrate, he will not scrutinize it without interest. So the Liu family was convicted, and they were not even tried, and they were brought into the courtyard by the government on the same day.

In the chaos, a person broke into Liu's Mansion and kidnapped Liu Xiuxiu.

These people took Liu Xiuxiu and watched the experience of the Liu family's family being beheaded.

"Your relatives said that they were killed by those fellow businessmen, but in fact, it was Li Wancheng who gave the order to raid the family and exterminate the clan."

"If you want to avenge your loved ones, then follow us."

Those people said to Yoo so-so.

The death of a loved one gave Liu Xiuxiu a great shock, and the head of the familiar person flew out and landed on the cold ground, blood sprayed out, and Liu Xiuxiu's fists couldn't help but clench.

She agreed, and in fact, she had nowhere to go now.

The person who took her away was the Tai Sui Gang.

These people are also some streets and alleys on weekdays, the journey is long, with such a beauty by their side, they naturally can't stand it. As explained above, this girl must be perfect. So they didn't go too far, they just could do it with their hands and feet.

This way, dozens of days.

For Yoo so-so, it's like hell.

Eventually, she came to Shendu, with another strange woman. She was sent to the Qinglou, and the woman was sent to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

There are many stories in the Qinglou, talented and beautiful, drunk and singing, and peaceful.

But in that dark place, I don't know how many people died. Some women are pregnant, some are sick, and some are old and frail. Qinglou won't raise an idle mouth, they were beaten out, and they gradually starved to death outside, and no one would pay attention.

Here, the training of Liu Xiuxiu is very cruel.

She learned to serve men and learned almost all the skills in the Qinglou, just to seduce Li Wancheng. She changed her name, and her name was Liu Shenyu.

She was very successful, and as soon as her pure and elegant face appeared in front of Li Wancheng, she attracted his attention. Without the charm and flamboyance of the Qinglou woman, she was a little more shy, and she wanted to talk about it, but she just caught Li Wancheng's itch.

Liu Shenyu didn't know what those people asked her to do.

She felt sick every time that old body pressed in front of her. This disgusting made her ask again and again when she would be able to do it and kill this old fellow.

The reply she got was the same, told her to keep waiting.

After a long time, Liu Shenyu also knew that these people were using her.

She wanted to escape from here, but the Hidden Spring Pavilion was very well guarded, and even the maids around her were the ones who came to monitor her. There are fierce thugs outside, and she is a weak woman, and it is difficult for her to escape from here.

Because he was worried that others would see the clues, Liu Shenyu took the "work" of other guests in addition to Li Wancheng.

Most of the people who can see Liu Shenyu are some children of rich families, and to deal with them, Liu Shenyu has the means to make them obedient. Liu Shenyu bewitched them and asked them to take her out of here.

These arrogant rich disciples were used to being arrogant, so they naturally found the steward of the Zangchun Pavilion without any taboos to forcibly take Liu Shenyu away.

Some of these rich children were taken away by their elders. Some people with weak backgrounds directly became a corpse.

Liu Shenyu is in this small courtyard, spending dark nights and days.

……

The scenery outside the car window quickly swept behind him, and Liu Shenyu's heart sank to the bottom with the bumpy road.

There were three people in the carriage plus him, and the woman she recognized was the woman who was sent to the capital with her.

I heard that this woman entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, and I don't know why she left.

Zangchun Pavilion left very suddenly, and Liu Shenyu guessed that it should have something to do with the two officials who came yesterday. Since one of them can sit on an equal footing with Li Wancheng, I think his status will not be low.

Yesterday's assassination was thrilling, but those two men were so good at it that they let them escape.

I don't know if all this is because of them.

Liu Shenyu was thinking about it, and she realized that the woman was looking at her. Seeing Liu Shenyu's gaze, the woman smiled in return.

Opposite the woman, sat a dead man. Their faces were covered with a black cloth, and they could not see their faces clearly. Just a pair of eyes, looking at the woman unscrupulously.

The woman was dressed very casually, and an ordinary gauze dress was gently covered, and even the red belly pocket was clearly visible. The plain gauze was extremely thin, and it couldn't hide the woman's slender white legs at all.

The woman put her legs in front of the dead man, and the sound of the dead man's heavy breathing was clearly audible.

Gradually, the dead man's hand became a little uncontrollable, and he touched his hand to the woman's leg. The woman smiled playfully, and gently put her hand on the dead man's waist.

Both of them seem to be like they don't exist.

Liu Shenyu didn't think there was anything strange, in Qinglou, such scenes were common.

However, the next moment, a stream of blood suddenly splattered on her face. Liu Shenyu was surprised to see that the woman was holding a hairpin in her hand and stabbed it fiercely in the dead man's head.

This time it was very fast, and the dead man did not react, his body only twitched for a moment, and he was unconscious. The whole person gradually went limp, and it was as if a blood hole had opened in his head, and blood gushed out of it.

The woman made a silent gesture to Liu Shenyu, and opened a crack in the curtain with her hand, and a groom was still driving the car, unaware of what was happening in the carriage behind her.

Liu Shenyu said cautiously: "If you do this, they will kill you." ”

"You think if you don't, they'll keep you alive?" The woman glanced at Liu Shenyu, "These people are going to the desert to the north, where there is no need for a delicate woman like you. Hehe, I might be very popular there, but I'm not willing to be the plaything of the people of the Northern Wilderness. ”

Liu Shenyu didn't expect that the place they were going to was the Northern Wilderness.

The woman pulled out the dead man's saber, a long knife, the woman glanced at it, put the hairpin in her hand into the palm of Liu Shenyu's hand, and then pinned the saber to her body.

"If anyone comes near you, stab her with a hairpin. Remember, learn smart! ”

With a smile on her face, the woman opened the curtain and slashed at the groom's back with a flash of lightning.

The groom was in pain, and as soon as the reins of his hand were loosened, the carriage began to spiral out of control, slamming into a tree by the side of the road. At this moment, the woman jumped out of the carriage with the willow sunk fish.

The two of them rolled on the ground, and although there was grass nearby, it was inevitable that there would be some gravel mixed in with it. Both of them were scratched with blood all over their bodies, and they were very embarrassed.

There were a few dead soldiers in front of them, and when they saw what was happening here, they came on horseback.

"Follow me!" The woman took the willow and the fish and plunged into the woods.