Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

Li Huoyue opened his mouth, many questions surged between his lips and teeth, but suddenly he stopped, and the smoke disappeared in his internal organs.

She didn't dare ask any more.

I really want to know, but I’m afraid to hear something I don’t want to hear.

Emotions took over again, but Li Huoyue suppressed them skillfully.

He quickly changed the dull topic and asked another question:

"Has the picture changed since I left?"

This is the question I wanted to ask just now.

The second brother had not yet recovered from his emotions. It took him a while to slowly recall what was going on. He said, "It seems that... the three red dots in the Prince Liang's Palace have become one, and there have been changes in several other places as well."

He is extremely sensitive to numbers, and can keenly detect changes in quantity, even if the change is only slight in a complex situation.

Li Huoyue frowned, which was basically consistent with her guess.

This map should be some advanced prop.

"Eh? That's not right." The second child followed Li Huoyue's question and responded, "If this map can be changed, and mother is not at home, then who is this red dot?"

Li Huoyue sighed: "It's me, okay?" Li Huoyue opened his mouth, many questions surged between his lips and teeth, but suddenly stopped, and the smoke disappeared in his internal organs.

She didn't dare ask any more.

I really want to know, but I’m afraid to hear something I don’t want to hear.

Emotions took over again, but Li Huoyue suppressed them skillfully.

He quickly changed the dull topic and asked another question:

"Has the picture changed since I left?"

This is the question I wanted to ask just now.

The second brother had not yet recovered from his emotions. It took him a while to slowly recall what was going on. He said, "It seems that... the three red dots in the Prince Liang's Palace have become one, and there have been changes in several other places as well."

He is extremely sensitive to numbers, and can keenly detect changes in quantity, even if the change is only slight in a complex situation.

Li Huoyue frowned, which was basically consistent with her guess.

This map should be some advanced prop.

"Eh? That's not right." The second child followed Li Huoyue's question and responded, "If this map can be changed, and mother is not at home, then who is this red dot?"

Li Huoyue sighed: "It's me, okay."

Li Huoyue thought to himself that it was a close call and it was a good thing he hadn't made tea just now.

Li Huoyue had never witnessed any scenes of torture with his own eyes, but ever since he saw the big cauldron in Prince Liang's mansion, it seemed that he would hear these beastly things from time to time in the past few days.

She was wondering, could it be that the reason she heard it so frequently in the past few days was because she had never noticed it before?

In fact, these disgusting things happened around me, but I wasn’t paying attention to them at that time and didn’t think about them at all, so I had never heard of them before.

Huang Ruochu, who had calmed down, began to speak again: "I was shocked at the time, but that bastard forced us to stand behind Qin Le and watch. At this time, I found that Qin Le's lower... body seemed to be sick, and there was no sign of healing at all."

"I was afraid that the original owner's husband was also infected, so the original owner would also be infected, so I went to find that bastard with great concern. At that time, if he dared to say that he was infected, I would definitely use my broken body to exchange for his. Fortunately, that bastard thought that I was not good-looking, so he always did things with beautiful girls, and let Qin Le draw pictures or serve on the side."

"In the end, he saw how much I cared about this matter and thought I was a little ridiculous, so he asked me to find a carriage and send Qin Le back to Chulou to ask in person."

"That's when I talked to her. She was in great pain and her eyes were full of tears. She said she wanted to go home and missed her mother. She would never run away from home again just because she didn't want to eat bitter melon."

"There is no word for 'mother' in the South, but I had just arrived at the time and didn't react. I comforted her and said that her mother didn't expect that her daughter would be kidnapped and sold by bad guys. If her mother knew, she would definitely not make bitter melon salad for her."

"She cried even harder, and then said..."

Huang Ruochu's memory seemed to have returned to that time again. The thin woman with messy hair was lying on the ground with her head raised, crying hoarsely at the sky with all her might:

"I wasn't kidnapped, I chose it myself, I deserve it! I chose the oiran myself! I chose it myself! I chose it myself! I chose it myself! I chose to be the oiran myself!!"

The atmosphere in the room became solemn.

Although Huang Ruochu simply repeated what he said that day, Li Huoyue still felt a little uncomfortable after listening to it.

in the end……

How many times will this happen...

"Let's stop here for today." Li Huoyue was the first to come out of her emotions. She couldn't stop moving forward just because she was in a low mood. "I have something else to do. It just so happens that I have to go to the palace in a while. Do you want me to give you a ride?"

"Oh, that's not the case." Huang Ruochu stood up and carefully picked up the broken porcelain pieces. "I still want to talk to your sister-in-law for a while. You should go do something else."

After sending Huang Ruchu back to the eldest sister-in-law's yard, Li Huoyue hurried to the fourth brother's study.

The people in the house waited for her for a long time, but this time Lao Wu was not there.

It's rare for people to gather in this study room, but sometimes I don't know what to talk about when we get together. It seems like we have been used to it since childhood, and everyone shares what they have here.

It can be said that this room is the place where most of the Li family’s secrets can be heard.

The second and third sons were searching the bookshelf in the fourth son's room. Seeing Li Huoyue coming, they quickly called her over: "Huo Huo, come and help me look for it."

Li Huoyue was confused. Was the second son so anxious to read books and gain knowledge after just returning?

She walked over to the second brother and saw that he was in good spirits, so she asked, "Why, after being arrested, you suddenly came to your senses and plan to become an official?"

The second brother was amused by this, and gently tapped Li Huoyue's head with his index finger, saying, "Our family is a loyal family, we can't let me become a corrupt official and tarnish it for nothing."

"Then what are you looking for?" Li Huoyue turned around and looked at the fourth brother who was drinking tea leisurely with an expressionless face, without any intention of helping. "Fourth brother, you know the layout of your study best, why don't you help the second brother look for it?"

The second brother sighed and said helplessly: "Call me second brother."

"Second brother is looking for general economics, where do I get that stuff?! He didn't believe me even after I told him. He insisted that I threw it into a corner because I was not interested." The fourth brother was complaining, but there was still no expression on his face, as if it was not him who had spoken just now.

"Then what are you looking for?" Li Huoyue turned around and looked at the fourth brother who was drinking tea leisurely with an expressionless face, without any intention of helping. "Fourth brother, you know the layout of your study best, why don't you help the second brother look for it?"