Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

Huang Ruochu told the story with his own personal emotions, just for the pleasure of scolding himself. When Li Huoyue asked him, he finally reacted and chuckled awkwardly.

Then he continued, "I actually talked to that Qin Le once. At that time, she was stripped naked and lying on her stomach in the courtyard with her limbs completely spread out. That beast was holding a paperweight..."

Having said this, Huang Ruochu clenched his fists and seemed unable to continue.

Li Huoyue also frowned, some inexplicable thoughts came to her mind, and she thought of a question, so she asked Huang Ruochu: "At that time... was there a tripod next to it?"

Huang Ruochu shook his head and said, "Definitely not."

"This happened... several years ago, right? Do you still remember these details?"

When Li Huoyue asked the question, he did not have too much expectation for Huang Ruchu's answer. He did not expect that Huang Ruchu not only answered it, but also answered it so decisively.

"It's not that I noticed this detail. At that time, I didn't know that time travelers would be rounded up and killed. I didn't pay attention to whether there was a tripod or not." Huang Ruochu said, "The reason why I am so sure is that the original owner's husband is not at that level and is not allowed to have this thing. Not only did the tripod not appear in that scene, it would not appear in the entire mansion."

Li Huoyue had never paid attention to these rules regarding the big cauldron before.

"Do you think that Qin Le's identity as a time traveler has been discovered, so that bastard is playing a joke on him?" Huang Ruochu knew that the tripod was a standard weapon for time travelers to use when they were abused, so he naturally knew what Li Huoyue was asking.

"...Isn't it?"

"No, at that time, she didn't reveal that she was a time traveler." Huang Ruochu's face was full of regret. "That girl, ah, what an excellent person, the lyrics she wrote were not copied like Xu Jiao'er's, but she really thought them out herself, including the quick sketches, and finally combined with the layered colors of the southern painting style. The draft was a sketch and you can't tell at the end."

"That bastard! He is just a BT! He just wanted to do this, not because he knew Qin Le was a time traveler!!"

"Besides, even if there is a time traveler, it's not that bastard's turn to come!"

"Bah! That bastard will go to hell after he dies!!!"

Seeing that Huang Ruochu was getting more and more excited, Li Huoyue quickly spoke up to stop him: "Stop, my focus today is not on this person."

Huang Ruochu snorted, but his anger was still there. He slammed the table hard with his clenched fist before he stopped.

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.

“General Economics????”