The guests in the room looked up at the scene in a daze, their eyes filled with amazement, "Die Yi is worthy of being Die Yi, so beautiful!"

Listening to everyone's praise for the oiran, Chu Xinyue covered her mouth with her hand and whispered to Xue Youli, "With this look? She's the oiran? Have these men never had good food?"

Xue Youli curled her lips, "Aren't all men like this? No matter how beautiful the girl you marry is, after a while, if you see her on the street, you'll want to pick her up and take a bite."

"Pfft! Your words may be a bit crude, but they're very descriptive!" Chu Xinyue suppressed a laugh and gave Xue Youli a thumbs-up. "But honestly, Xunhuanlou really knows how to market themselves. They scatter flower petals, grab a red silk scarf and leap from the second floor, doing a 720-degree spin in the air. They're bound to charm these unsophisticated men!"

Xue Youli looked at the ID card above Dieyi's head and couldn't help but hide the joking arc on the corner of his mouth. "This woman was trained by Murong Ye. She is quite skilled."

Chu Xinyue took a sip from the teacup beside her and said, "I can see. Without any martial arts skills, what woman would dare to jump down from the second floor like that?"

As soon as Dieyi stood still, two maids immediately brought the guqin and the guqin table to the stage.

Dieyi sat in front of the piano table, and her white fingertips gently plucked the strings. Suddenly, the ethereal and melodious sound of the piano reached everyone's ears.

The guests put down their wine glasses one after another and stared at Dieyi who was playing the piano on the stage.

"Wonderful! The sound of the piano is like the sound of nature. It can sweep away all the fatigue in one's heart. It's really wonderful!"

"Dieyi's piano music is unmatched in the capital, and it makes people intoxicated!"

Seeing that everyone in the hall was paying attention to Dieyi, Xue Youli nudged Chu Xinyue with her elbow.

Chu Xinyue turned her head to look at her, and seeing her chin nodding towards the outer courtyard, she immediately understood.

So, Chu Xinyue put down her teacup and pretended to have a stomachache, "Ouch! My stomach doesn't feel right! Brother Ali, please accompany me to the toilet!"

"Okay."

After Xue Youli helped Chu Xinyue up, he took advantage of everyone's inattention and quickly walked towards the toilet in the outer courtyard.

As soon as they left the hall, another guest with the same beard walked into the hall.

He is Chi Yan in disguise.

Tonight, he and Xuan Ming split up into two groups. Xuan Ming would be responsible for secretly picking up Xue Youli and the other two, while he would be responsible for delaying time in the open and diverting the attention of the guys from Xunhuan Tower.

……

On the way to the toilet, Xue Youli and Chu Xinyue looked around a few times. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, they quickly turned behind a rockery nearby.

Taking advantage of the cover of the rockery, the two men tore off their beards without hesitation, took off their men's clothes, and put on women's clothes prepared in advance.

When the two of them came out from behind the rockery, they were dressed exactly like the maids who served tea in Xunhuan Tower.

Xue Youli silently activated the navigation mode on the Book of Heavenly Secrets, and Chu Xinyue, relying on her memory from last night, led her in the direction where she heard the child crying. "I remember very clearly that the child's crying came from that direction last night."

However, she had only taken a few steps when Xue Youli grabbed her and said, "Don't go this way, there are sentries!"

Xue Youli looked at the moving black dots on the Book of Heavenly Secrets and pointed to the path next to the rockery. "Let's go around this way."

With the Book of Heaven's Secrets in hand, she knew the layout of Xunhuan Tower very clearly.

Chu Xinyue followed behind her without worrying about being discovered.

The further you go, the fewer lights there are and the dimmer the light becomes.

Just as they were about to walk out of the rockery, Xue Youli suddenly grabbed Chu Xinyue's wrist and signaled her to stop.

Chu Xinyue understood the hint in her eyes, leaned her back against the rockery, and then slowly tilted her head to glance outside.

This is the deepest part of the backyard, where four or five little girls in their early teens are standing in a row with their shoulders hunched.

Liu Si Niang, who had just been entertaining guests in the front hall, was walking slowly around them.

She looked at these little girls as if they were merchandise waiting to be sold.

"You guys dared to cause trouble for me right before I went on stage. Do you want to be locked up in the dark room again?"

When the girls heard the word "small dark room", their faces turned pale. "No, please don't lock us up in the small dark room!"

Liu Si Niang narrowed her eyes coldly. Where was the charming look she had when she was receiving guests?

She paused, her slender eyebrows raised. Her fiery red lips looked like a man-eating monster in the light and shadow. "Then why don't you want to change your clothes? It's your turn to go on stage soon. Are you trying to ruin our Xunhuanlou's reputation by being so uncooperative?"

"We want to go home..." The oldest girl among them bravely said, "I'll ask my parents to give you some money. Can you let me go home? I miss them so much!"

As the little girl finished her words, Liu Si Niang suddenly attacked, pinching her cheeks fiercely with her nail-painted fingers. "During the time you've been at Xun Huan Lou, do you know how much effort and money Xun Huan Lou has invested in training you? Can your parents afford it?"

The little girl's shoulders were still shaking, but she mustered up the courage to reply, "Even if my parents can't afford it now, I'll definitely find a way to raise enough money to pay you back later! As long as you can let me leave, I promise not to give you a single ounce of silver!"

"Okay, stop daydreaming. Now that you've stepped into Xunhuanlou, don't even think about leaving in this lifetime...ah!"

Liu Si Niang had only said half of her words when the little girl suddenly grabbed her arm and bit it.

The little girl exerted all her strength and clenched her teeth tightly, causing Liu Si Niang to scream in pain.

She tickled and kicked the little girl, but still couldn't get her arm back from her mouth.

Liu Si Niang burst into tears in pain and shouted to several thugs not far away, "Are you all dead? Come and pull her away!"

Hearing this, the thugs rushed over. Two of them grabbed the little girl's arms, and the other one pinched the water girl's mouth and forcibly pulled her away from Liu Si Niang.

Liu Si Niang lowered her head and looked at her arm that was bleeding from being bitten by the little girl. She rushed forward, raised her hand and slapped the little girl's face several times.

clap clap clap!

clap clap clap!

Every slap was extremely loud.

The little girl's face was soon beaten red and swollen, with blood oozing from the corners of her mouth.

"You little bitch! Dare to bite me? Do you believe I will make you live a life worse than death?"

Originally thinking about tonight's auction, Liu Si Niang had been suppressing the anger in her heart.

After being bitten by the little girl, her temper exploded.

Seeing the little girl bleeding after being beaten by her, she shook her hurt hands twice, and the anger in her heart finally subsided.

At this time, a maid came over hurriedly, "Fourth Sister, Sister Dieyi is almost done playing the zither, and she wants to know if everything is ready here."

The maid's gaze shifted, landing on the girl with a swollen face. Her expression changed slightly, "Fourth Lady, why did you hurt her face? How can she go on stage for the auction in this state?"

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