Tian Xiaoman moved her body. Because she had been sitting for too long, her legs were a little stiff, so the movement she made when she stood up was inevitably a little big.

Fortunately, the black girl leaning next to Tian Xiaoman was sleeping very soundly. Even when Tian Xiaoman accidentally touched her, the girl did not wake up.

Tian Xiaoman looked at the black girl apologetically, and suddenly remembered something. She had just talked to the black girl for a long time, but why didn't she think of asking her name? She would ask her when she woke up.

Tian Xiaoman stood up, quietly moved his stiff legs, and looked cautiously towards the opposite corner.

There, there were three figures, the remaining three girls.

At this time, the two girls were huddled together, both sleeping soundly, and the girl who had been lying there seemed to be no movement.

Tian Xiaoman coughed lightly. In the darkness of the night, this small cough was very obvious, but even so, the three girls and the black girl were not awakened.

The room was quiet. Tian Xiaoman walked around the room, looking around in the corners on the ground.

Suddenly, she noticed that there was actually a rat hole behind a pile of firewood.

Tian Xiaoman was delighted, thinking that God would not let her go.

She tiptoed over and looked inside the rat hole.

It was pitch black inside and she couldn't see anything. She turned around and looked in the direction of the black girl and the three girls. They were still sleeping soundly.

Tian Xiaoman felt slightly relieved and called softly a few times towards the mouse hole.

Unfortunately, no sound was heard.

Tian Xiaoman did not give up and called out a few more times. As the shouts grew louder, a girl in the opposite corner was awakened.

She saw Tian Xiaoman's strange behavior and asked in a low voice, "What are you doing in the middle of the night?"

Tian Xiaoman was startled and turned around quickly, "It's okay, I'm just taking a look."

Tian Xiaoman's mind raced. Could this be a rat hole abandoned by the rats?

Otherwise, why has there been no movement for such a long time?

Since someone was awake, Tian Xiaoman could no longer shout at the mouse hole, so she had to sit back down.

The black girl next to him was still sleeping soundly and didn't wake up even after all the commotion.

Gradually, Tian Xiaoman became a little confused and sleepy. Tian Xiaoman decided to observe quietly for the time being. If there was really danger, he had to protect himself even at the risk of exposing his space.

When Tian Xiaoman woke up again, he was awakened by the sound of the door opening. It turned out that two bandits came to deliver food.

Tian Xiaoman still remembered these two bandits. They were the two bandits who brought Tian Xiaoman here yesterday.

The breakfast was a bit disappointing. Each person had a bowl of porridge so thin that you could see the rice grains, and a coarse flour steamed bun.

Tian Xiaoman was so hungry that she ate half of the steamed bun in no time. She choked and rolled her eyes.

Fortunately, everyone had a bowl of porridge, otherwise, Tian Xiaoman would have choked to death and lost his life.

"Alas..." the black girl sighed, "I don't know what these bandits are thinking every day. They only have one meal a day, and they are still not full. A few days ago, they had two meals a day, two steamed buns a meal. Why are they starting to cut their rations now?"

Tian Xiaoman smiled secretly. She found this black girl quite interesting. They were all trapped in the bandits' lair, but she actually complained that the bandits did not let her have enough food.

Didn't this girl escape from famine in the south? As far as she knew, the road was not peaceful, and they were hungry and full. It was good enough to reach the destination alive. How could they be picky?

Tian Xiaoman guessed that either the girl's family was well-off and she had a lot of money, or she might have been taken care of by the villagers and had never suffered much.

However, what Tian Xiaoman didn’t know at the moment was that neither of her two analyses was correct. When she later witnessed how powerful this girl was, she almost popped her eyes out in shock.

After breakfast, the five remaining girls in the room sat in a corner, each looking at each other with some vigilance and some pity.

Tian Xiaoman smiled helplessly and took the lead in breaking the silence, "My name is Tian Xiaoman, and my family is from Tianjia Village, Pinglin County. Where are your sisters?"

The black girl slapped her forehead and said, "Oh, we talked for so long yesterday that I forgot to tell you my name. My name is Chen Ying, and I'm from Yuzhou Prefecture."

Although the three girls opposite were a little hesitant, they also answered Tian Xiaoman's words. The girl who discovered Tian Xiaoman talking stealthily to the wall last night spoke first.

"My name is Xiaotao, and I'm from Kang County. The girl next to Xiaotao was a little plump, but her skin was very fair. It was obvious that she had not done much work. She said, "My name is Xiu'er, and I'm also from Kang County."

The last girl had been lying in the corner. When Tian Xiaoman came in yesterday, he found that the girl was motionless, like a porcelain doll without a soul.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Tian Xiaoman shamelessly asked, "What about you, sister?"

After a long time, the girl moved and turned her head towards Tian Xiaoman.

Only then did Tian Xiaoman see the girl's face clearly. The girl had an injury on her face. There was a long scar on the left half of her face, extending from the cheek to the temple. Blood stains around the wound could still be seen, which showed that the injury had not been long.

However, the other side of her face was very beautiful.

Before, her injured face had always been facing the wall, with only half of her good face exposed, so Tian Xiaoman didn't notice that she was injured at all.

Tian Xiaoman's eyes flickered, but soon calmed down. The way he looked at the girl was no different from the way he looked at other people.

The girl's face was calm, and she opened her red lips slightly, "Jiang Furong."

Tian Xiaoman smiled at the girl, his two dimples twinkling, but thought to himself, "Jiang Furong? What a good name! If this girl hadn't hurt her face, she would really be like a hibiscus flower."

After the girl finished speaking, she turned her face away and returned to her previous state, motionless, as if she did not exist in the room.

Chen Ying pulled Tian Xiaoman's arm and began to tell the origin of Jiang Furong.

"I'm the one who's been in this room the longest—"

There was no other way. Those bandits looked down on her, so they had to keep her locked up like this.

"But think about it, this isn't bad, I can still eat and drink two free meals a day from the bandits."

Two steamed buns for a meal was considered a good meal for Xu Ying.

If she ran away, I'm afraid there would be no such food outside.

As long as the bandits didn't touch her, Xu Ying decided to treat this place as a place where she could eat for free, which was fine.

"It's just that..." What troubled Xu Ying was, "Since yesterday, the food has been reduced from two steamed buns per meal to one steamed bun per meal, and only one per day. It's unfair!"

Tian Xiaoman: Sister, do you know that you have gone off topic?

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