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Qiao Lingxiang didn't stand firmly, fell to the ground, the books above her head and the bottle in her hand were all scattered on the ground, ping-pong, the aunt who was holding the whip on the side ran out of patience, and once again waved the whip in her hand and hit Qiao Lingxiang's body, she could avoid directly letting the whip touch Qiao Lingxiang's skin, and waved the whip again and again on Qiao Lingxiang's body through the heavy fabric, and cursed with hatred in her mouth: "How many times have I taught you?" Yes? You can't even learn the basics of walking and balancing! ”

Qiao Lingxiang, who was beaten by the whip, bit her lip tightly, and was stunned not to let herself let out a little wail, Qiao Lingxiang shrank into a ball on the ground, even if she was through such thick clothes, the whip was still dense and painful when it hit herself, Qiao Lingxiang's hands hugged her head, so that the aunt who beat her from seeing her couldn't control the flowing tears.

After a while, there was a knock on the closed door, Zhou Xuemei's flattering voice came in from outside, and the aunt withdrew her hand breathlessly, she spat at Qiao Lingxiang unsatisfied, and kicked Qiao Lingxiang with her foot in anger, then slowly sorted out her somewhat messy clothes and hair, stepped over Qiao Lingxiang's body, and slowly opened the door, letting Zhou Xuemei, who was waiting outside the door, come in.

"Aunt Chen, it's hard for you to discipline our family's Lingxiang." Zhou Xuemei smiled flatteringly at Aunt Chen, who had an arrogant expression, and then turned to the side and waited respectfully for her to leave.

Aunt Chen glanced at Zhou Xuemei lightly, shrugged her nose, let out a crisp snort, and then tilted her head, crossed her hands in front of her chest, and swaggered out of the room.

After Aunt Chen left completely, Zhou Xuemei put away her flattering appearance, turned around to look at Qiao Lingxiang who was still lying on the ground in the house, walked in and closed the door, and then gently kicked Qiao Lingxiang with her foot, and asked tentatively: "Lingxiang, are you okay?" ”

"I don't need you to fake it here." Qiao Lingxiang's body trembled for a long time, and finally got used to the pain from her body, she got up in some pain, the clothes on her body greatly reduced the speed at which she got up, Qiao Lingxiang was like a penguin shaking her head, slightly comical to manipulate her body for a long time to completely stand up from the ground, Qiao Lingxiang didn't look at Zhou Xuemei, she gently patted the ash on her clothes with her hand, and passed by Zhou Xuemei's side.

"You kid, you're getting more and more rude. Mom had been waiting for a few days to come and see you. Zhou Xuemei was also annoyed, she seemed to be an elder helplessly watching the behavior of the naughty junior, and counted a few words of Qiao Lingxiang eagerly, and then handed the food she brought in her bag to Qiao Lingxiang, "Here, this is a bun made by my mother, eat a little more, look at you, you are getting thinner and thinner." ”

"Tang Ling and Gu Qingzhi, how are they?" Qiao Lingxiang didn't accept the bun handed over by Zhou Xuemei, she just raised her eyes and looked at Zhou Xuemei coldly.

"Qingzhi and them, they were arrested by the villagers a few days ago, but after all, this is a big taboo, so they are still locked up in the dungeon, and the subsequent punishment will have to wait for the village chief and the high priest to discuss."

"What about Tang Ling?" Qiao Lingxiang asked.

"You don't like to eat steamed buns, I also brought you corn here, this is grown in the Li family, and their corn is the most famous in the village." Zhou Xuemei didn't answer Qiao Lingxiang, but continued to rummage through her bag, and took out a few sticks of corn wrapped in a plastic bag from it.

"What about Tang Ling?" How could Qiao Lingxiang not know that Zhou Xuemei was changing the topic, she frowned, took a step closer to Zhou Xuemei, she stood straight in front of Zhou Xuemei, and asked word by word, her eyes stared at Zhou Xuemei, and she swore not to give up until she got the answer she wanted.

"Lingxiang, Tang Ling didn't come back." Zhou Xuemei sighed, she didn't look at Qiao Lingxiang, but walked slowly to the table and chair on the side, put the corn and buns on the table, and sat on the chair slowly, Zhou Xuemei lowered her head, looked at the calluses on her two hands, and rubbed her fingers one after another.

"What do you mean you didn't come back? You make it clear! Qiao Lingxiang looked at Zhou Xuemei's indifferent appearance and yelled at her uncontrollably, but her heart began to chill because of Zhou Xuemei's words.

"I went to ask those people, they only brought back a few boys of the same age, without Tang Ling, they didn't see any little girls at all, I also went to ask Zhao Fang, Tang Ling hasn't been home for several days, probably died somewhere."

Zhou Xuemei calmly stated what she had learned in the past few days, pursed her lips, of course she knew the importance of Tang Ling to Qiao Lingxiang, Zhou Xuemei was not a hard-hearted person, she was selfish but still had a little conscience in the end, she felt embarrassed about Tang Ling's experience, she slowly raised her head, and was about to comfort Qiao Lingxiang for a few words, but the upper body of the whole person was pressed down by Qiao Lingxiang who pounced on her.

"You promised me! I did everything you asked for! Why don't you go looking for it! That's just a kid! Qiao Lingxiang's red eyes contained monstrous anger, her hands clutched Zhou Xuemei's collar, and she yelled hysterically at Zhou Xuemei.

"What can I do? What did I promise you? Zhou Xuemei turned a blind eye to Qiao Lingxiang's anger, she looked indifferently, asked casually, and slowly stretched out her hand and grabbed the hands that grabbed her collar, "I'm a country woman, what can I do?" It's just a child, a useless child, who wants to take a great risk to save her? What's more, they don't know where the kid has gone, and we don't even know. ”

Zhou Xuemei broke Qiao Lingxiang's fingers one by one, and easily broke free from her shackles, Qiao Lingxiang's anger disappeared in Zhou Xuemei's words little by little, she was pushed away by Zhou Xuemei with a disgraced face, her legs were weak, and she knelt on the ground, her eyes looked at the floor emptyly, her eyes were blurred, Qiao Lingxiang's eyes began to boil, and the bean-sized teardrops dripped on the floor, making a crisp sound of "pop".

Seeing her like this, Zhou Xuemei didn't say anything anymore, tidied up her collar, put her bag back on her back, stood up from the chair, bypassed Qiao Lingxiang, and slowly walked to the door, then turned her head to look at Qiao Lingxiang, and reminded her in a dull manner: "The time of sacrifice has been determined, just two weeks later on Saturday, you ...... Listen carefully to Aunt Chen's words, and remember to eat the buns and corn. ”

The door was closed again, and in the empty room, Qiao Lingxiang knelt on the ground, and didn't raise her head for a long time, the small whimper echoed for a long time, but it was blocked in the sealed window, and no one paid attention to it outside.

In the closed cave, through the cluttered living room, open a door, and come to the hidden basement, dim lighting, flickering, narrow corridors, on both sides are one cell after another, you can't see the inside clearly, only hear a noisy whisper, one after another.

In a dilapidated and simple cell at the end of the corridor, Tang Ling lay on the dirty ground, her eyes closed, after a long time, she finally began to tremble slightly, like a dead corpse, and as her eyelids continued to tremble, Tang Ling immediately let out a rapid cough.

"Uh-huh, cough-cough-cough! Ha ......"

Laboriously opened her heavy eyelids, Tang Ling still maintained a lying position, in a strange place in the hazy vision, an unspeakable stench wafted from her nose, Tang Ling whimpered in pain, and her chaotic consciousness had not yet told her about the situation at this time.

"Are you awake?"

The beautiful female voice came into Tang Ling's ears, and a familiar figure entered Tang Ling's sight. Liu Ruyan slowly squatted down through the railing of the cell, supporting her face with one hand, and raised her eyebrows with interest in the face of Tang Ling's flat expression after seeing that it was her.

Tang Ling lowered her eyes, struggling to support her body and wanted to sit up, Liu Ruyan outside the railing just watched her get up and sit on the ground very slowly, Tang Ling was a little tired and panting, just a simple action of sitting up, she felt extremely difficult, the dizziness of her head almost swallowed her body, Tang Ling rubbed her head, trying to relieve the feeling of discomfort.

"I'm surprised that you're still back to normal, it seems that there is something special about your body." Liu Ruyan shook her body casually, her ponytail flicking in the air, "Do you have any questions you want to ask me?" ”

"Who am I?"

As soon as Liu Ruyan's words fell, Tang Ling's hoarse voice came out, and she stared at Liu Ruyan outside the railing, as if she was sure that Liu Ruyan knew everything.

Liu Ruyan was stunned for a moment, she slowly stopped shaking her body, and looked at Tang Ling, who was messy in front of her, but still light and breezy in a cage, the feeling that the other party brought her had changed, and it seemed that she was no longer the childish girl she was before. After being isolated for a while, Liu Ruyan suddenly laughed, the corners of her mouth rose, and she said clearly: "Don't you know? ”

"You planned it, right?" Tang Ling didn't answer Liu Ruyan's question, she continued to express her doubts, but there was not much exploration in her tone, "You are in a group with him, right?" ”

"Oh?" Hearing this, Liu Ruyan still didn't understand anything at this time, the smile on her face began to become weird, and the gaze that looked at Tang Ling began to become eager, like a child finally found a toy that attracted her, Liu Ruyan said with some excitement: "You even know this?" ”