Luoyue didn't know what they were going to do, so she just watched quietly without saying anything.

After Xie Xueling and Xiaoliu approached the pickled vegetable jar, Xie Xueling kicked the jar. In an instant, the porcelain pieces shattered and the pickled vegetable juice flowed out.

"Xue Ling! Xiao Liu!"

Luoyue was afraid that they would get hurt, so she whispered to stop them.

Xie Xueling gave her a soothing look, squatted down, picked up a piece of porcelain with a sharp edge, and then struggled to cut the hemp rope that tied her hands behind her back.

When she got tired of cutting, she handed it over to Xiaoliu, and the two of them kept doing it, taking turns.

They cut for nearly half an hour, until their hands were covered in blood, and they were almost able to cut the hemp rope.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound from the cover above the cellar.

Xie Xueling and Xiaoliu quickly sat down on the pickled vegetables and pretended to be panicked.

Soon, the cover of the cellar was opened, and a wooden ladder was lowered from above, followed by two adults coming down from the front and the back.

One of them was the woman who abducted Xie Xueling and Xiaoliu. Next to her was a thin man with shifty eyes, who did not look like a good person.

"Hongniang, are you fucking crazy? How are you going to sell all these girls? If you lose them, I'll settle the score with you!"

The woman named Hongniang spat, "Yang Laosan, what do you know!"

She pointed at Luoyue and said, "This is a rich lady, with delicate skin and tender flesh, and she can read and write. If she is sold to a brothel in Kyoto and trained for a few years, she will definitely become a famous courtesan in Kyoto, and the kind that is worth a lot of money for a night! As for these two..."

She turned her fingers softly, pointed at Xie Xueling and Xiao Liu, and smiled sinisterly.

"These two were sent to me by name, so I don't want to miss them. And the older girl is prettier than this rich girl, so it's a pity to send her to a brothel. I heard that there are many dignitaries in Kyoto, and among them are those high-ranking and powerful gentlemen who like delicate girls like this..."

When Yang Lao San heard this, he understood immediately and said with a sly smile: "Damn it, you are still a capable woman!"

He looked at Xie Xueling carefully and praised: "It is indeed good leather. Where did you get the job?"

"You don't have to worry about that." Hongniang received a hundred taels of silver as hush money, so she naturally wouldn't tell Yang Laosan about such a good customer. Instead, she said, "The most troublesome thing now is how to get these four people out. I have prepared a carriage on the official road. As soon as they arrive, they will be taken to Kyoto immediately."

Yang Lao San said as a matter of course: "This is not easy. Just do it the same as before. Put them into the toilet and then lie that you are going outside to pour it out."

Hongniang shook her head and said, "No, the families of the two girls I just kidnapped have some tricks. I don't know where they found twenty or thirty strong men, who blocked the north and south exits of the town and are searching every house. If we don't fool the searchers, we won't be able to get them away tonight."

Yang Laosan cursed, "What a fucking trouble!"

After saying that, he spat a mouthful of thick phlegm at Xie Xueling and Xiao Liu, cursing, "You damned girls! If you two weren't valuable, I would beat you up first to vent my anger!"

"Okay, go out and think of something."

Hongniang was also annoyed and her brows were furrowed the whole time.

Yang Laosan cursed a few more times, then climbed out with Hongniang on the wooden ladder.

After they left, they put away the ladder and darkness once again enveloped the entire cellar.

Luo Yao couldn't help it and threw himself into Luo Yue's arms and burst into tears.

"Sister! Sister! I don't want you to be sold to a brothel! Don't leave me!"

Luo Yao is about the same age as Xiaoliu, around eight years old. Although he does not understand the true meaning of a brothel, he knows from what he has seen and heard that it is not a good place.

Luoyue held back her sadness and comforted him softly, "Don't cry, Yaoyao. Sister will not leave you."

She was coaxing her brother while secretly shedding tears.

If she had known this earlier, she would have listened to her wet nurse and not come back with her aunt.

Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in the world, and it is futile for Luoyue to regret.

"Sister Luoyue, please stop crying."

After Yang Laosan and Hongniang left, Xie Xueling and Xiaoliu used the porcelain pieces hidden in their hands to cut the rope.

The two men didn't care about the wet pickled vegetable juice on their bodies and hurried over to untie Luoyue's siblings.

Luo Yue looked up in surprise when she heard the sound. After seeing that Xie Xueling and Xiao Liu had been untied, she asked in surprise: "Xueling, how did you untie the ropes?"

She remembered that Xie Xueling and the other person were thrown down with their hands tied tightly.

How come they broke free in the blink of an eye?

Xie Xueling smiled and said, "Of course it was cut with porcelain pieces."

She deftly used the porcelain piece to cut the rope on Luoyue's hand, and then showed the porcelain piece to her.

Luo Yue used the light from above to see Xie Xueling's bloodstained hands. Her eyes couldn't help but turn red. She held her hands tightly and said distressedly, "Xueling, you, your hands..."

Xie Xueling said nonchalantly: "Sister Luoyue, I don't feel any pain. These are just flesh wounds, nothing serious. Xueling was bullied before. They pushed me down and my injuries were much more serious than this."

"What? You're being bullied!"

Luoyue's heart tightened, she couldn't understand what kind of person would not like a child like Xie Xueling who was so cute, well-behaved and sensible.

Xie Xueling said: "Well, that was all in the past. Now no one in the village dares to bully me!"

Luo Yue was relieved, happy but also worried: "Sister Xueling, are we going to just sit there and wait for death?"

Although she was born into a noble family, she had lived in a deep house for many years and was the type who never left the house.

Now that he was suddenly abducted, he couldn't think of any good ideas for the time being. He could only shamelessly ask Xie Xueling, who was younger than him.

Xie Xueling tilted her head and said, "Of course not! My sister-in-law told me that I should stay calm and not panic when encountering problems. Only in this way can I come up with a solution!"

Luoyue calmed herself down and looked at her with Luoyao, their eyes full of anticipation.

While Xie Xueling was thinking, Xiaoliu searched the cellar but found no sharp knives, only a few sharp ceramic fragments.

"Sister Xueling, these are the only ones we can use to defend ourselves. Do you think they can help?"

Xiaoliu picked out a few pieces of porcelain and handed them to Xie Xueling for inspection.

Xie Xueling took it, looked around, and praised: "Xiao Liu, you are amazing!"

Xiaoliu smiled shyly.

Luoyue watched their interaction and asked in confusion: "Xueling, what do you want these porcelain pieces for? We still can't get out."

Xie Xueling gave her and Luo Yao a piece of porcelain and said, "Sister Luoyue, when those two bad guys come down again, we will take advantage of their unpreparedness and stab them with the porcelain piece. There are four of us and they only have two, so we have the advantage in numbers. As long as we stab them, we can take the opportunity to escape."

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