chapter Five
On such a cold day, these women wore very little clothing, and some even went barefoot, exposing half of their calves. They seemed to have just taken a shower, and their disheveled hair was moist with mist. Others may have injuries on their bodies and walk slowly and with a limp.
They didn't seem to see anyone suddenly appear in the room, and no one glanced at Shi Yunlin. After they came in, they walked straight to the cabinet and took out pieces of coarse cloth to wipe their wet hair. Some people took off their pants and didn't care about anyone next to them. They lowered their heads and applied medicine to the wounds on their thighs.
Shi Yunlin took a quick look and saw some whip marks on her legs. With just one glance, she immediately looked away.
Shi Yunlin's heart was beating wildly and her mind was in chaos. She...didn't see the identities of these women at all. She had seen the brothel girls in Beijing by chance. Those women wear brightly colored clothes with half-revealed shoulders and beaded hairpins. They always walk with their waist twisted and always have a smile on their face.
But she had never seen a military prostitute. My understanding of military prostitutes is limited to reading books in the past, and only mentioned them briefly in books. She had no idea these women were military prostitutes, she just thought they were strange.
Shi Yunlin was still confused after analyzing it. In her wild thoughts, she suddenly came up with an idea - couldn't these people be all Qishan Lang's women? Will I want to get along with their sisters in the future?
She tried her best to advise herself that people should not be judged by their appearance, let alone look down on them. Just be kind!
A loud gong sound suddenly interrupted Shi Yunlin's thoughts.
There were many footsteps and the voices of soldiers talking in the corridor outside. The soldiers on the drill field were back.
Immediately afterwards, Shi Yunlin saw several women in the room immediately put down what they were doing and walked out numbly.
She saw a woman going out through the half-open door, and was immediately picked up by a soldier and walked forward. Another soldier passed by behind her and pinched her waist. The woman remained motionless, as if she was used to this kind of thing.
Shi Yunlin stood up immediately, her face turned pale. She suddenly understood the identities of these women.
She froze there, her mind going blank for a moment, and then all kinds of thoughts immediately flooded her mind. She couldn't help but think - did Qishan Lang regret it? Because he regretted knowing that she had wanted to marry the prince of Qi State, or he didn't want to get into trouble with Xiang State, or for other reasons...
Anyway, he threw her into the army.
The door was pushed open again, and this time two people came in one after the other. The woman in front is tall and tall, with a square face that is indistinguishable from male to female. Behind her followed a skinny soldier.
The fierce woman looked at Shi Yunlin, with a strange color in her eyes.
"If you didn't send such a beauty to Manchun Tower, why would you send it to this place?" the fierce woman said, her voice hoarse and rough. She asked the skinny soldier behind her: "Clean goods?"
"Clean, clean! What Lao Li sent is absolutely fine, Sister-in-law Zhou, don't worry!" the skinny soldier replied while looking up and down Shi Yunlin.
Shi Yunlin clenched her hands, kept stepping back, and said in a panic: "I, I am the princess of Xiang..." As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Shi Yunlin felt even more desperate. Xiang is gone, where is the princess of Xiang.
The woman shouted coldly: "Ha. If you were a princess, I would still be the Queen Mother."
She raised her chin to the skinny soldier again and ordered: "Take him to Room 13."
"Okay." The skinny soldier walked towards Shi Yunlin.
Shi Yunlin pressed her lower back against the wall, unable to retreat. Seeing the sly-looking soldier getting closer and closer to her, in a panic, she grabbed the bowl on the table next to her and threw it at him.
With a crisp sound, the porcelain bowl fell to the ground and immediately fell into pieces.
The skinny soldier smiled and took a step aside, easily avoiding the porcelain bowl Shi Yunlin threw at him. The fierce woman said "ouch" and covered her forehead. A fragment of the broken porcelain bowl bounced up and hit the fierce woman's forehead.
The woman opened her hands and saw the blood on her hands, and her face turned dark immediately.
"Call Da Zhuang and the others over here!" the woman shouted angrily.
The skinny soldier shrank his neck and glanced at Shi Yunlin again. "What a pity." He shook his head and ran out quickly to call someone.
Shi Yunlin was in shock, watching the soldiers running out, as if she had just realized that she should run away. It was too late to think about whether she could escape, so she rushed out in a panic.
The fierce woman grabbed Shi Yunlin's back collar and pulled hard. Shi Yunlin was dragged directly to the ground, and her back hit the leg of the table, causing a sharp pain.
The teapot and three porcelain bowls on the table shook with the table, making crisp sounds.
Shi Yunlin endured the pain, stared at the woman carefully, and moved back while holding on to the table legs. Her gaze angered the woman. The woman took a step forward, threw away the lid of the teapot, held the teapot, and poured the cold water inside into Shi Yunlin's face. The water droplets rolled down Shi Yunlin's white cheeks and followed her. The thin neck flows into the collar. Shi Yunlin couldn't adapt to the cold in Qi country. When she was splashed with cold water, she shivered and her whole body became cold.
The fierce woman squatted down with the trousers on her knees, held Shi Yunlin's chin with one hand, and said: "As long as the newcomers are obedient, there will always be a few days of lenience that will save them the service of a few soldiers. Let me tell you, big time Zhuang and the others are the most ferocious on the battlefield, and your little body and bones can't handle it. If you don't want to be ruined today, you have to be obedient and understand things!"
"Why don't you admit your mistake and beg for mercy!" The fierce woman pinched Shi Yunlin's chin slightly, leaving a red mark on her face.
Shi Yunlin felt pain everywhere on her body, especially her chin, which was pinched so hard that she struggled to breathe. She stared at the woman with her eyes wide open, but she pursed her lips tightly and remained silent.
Admit your mistake and beg for mercy?
No. She would rather die than bend her knees and beg for mercy.
The fierce woman who was called Mrs. Zhou immediately became furious. One of the women here will die soon, and there just aren't enough of them now. She really didn't want the girl just sent in front of her to be killed so easily by Da Zhuang and the others. But she had already spoken her words, and she absolutely could not go back on her words. While pinching the thin flesh on Shi Yunlin's forearm, she cursed: "You ungrateful thing, why don't you admit your mistake and beg for mercy!"
There were no tears in Shi Yunlin's elegant eyes because of pain and fear, only determination. She stared at the woman with burning eyes and said word by word: "If I don't die today, I will definitely kill you with my own hands in the future. And if I die, It will turn into the most powerful ghost and come to you!"
The woman was stunned and frightened for a moment.
"Sister-in-law Zhou, Da Zhuang and the others are here." The skinny soldier had already brought someone over. He stretched his neck and looked at the scene in the house curiously.
Four men as strong as tigers appeared at the door. They were bare-chested and covered with flesh.
Qi Shanlang rode his horse and rushed to the military camp. He reined in his horse and paused. Looking at the military camp in Kushibi in the distance, he closed his eyes and listened. The next moment, he rode in the exact direction.
The jet-black and shiny horses galloped between the military camps, trampling all obstacles. The soldiers on the way screamed and fled. They wanted to curse, but when they looked back at the figures on the horses, they immediately fell silent. There was also a soldier who had eaten wine and had no time to dodge and fell to the ground. The next moment, the horse's hoof stepped directly on his back.
The black horse galloped to the innermost row of military camps.
There was only one door in the middle of the long row of low buildings, with a few idle soldiers standing at the door.
Qishan Wolf's horse speed did not slow down, and he did not dismount when he got close to the door, and rushed straight into the door. The figures standing at the door were so frightened that they fled in all directions.
After entering the door, there is a long corridor, with doors connecting to both sides of the corridor. Different from the two rows of houses which are low, the corridor is like a ridge, narrow and high.
Qishan Lang rushed into the door on horseback. The tall horse quickly turned around in the narrow corridor, and its powerful shoulders hit the wall. The wall immediately cracked and several bricks fell. The whole row of military camps shook for a while, as if the ground was shaking. The soldiers in the houses were stunned and didn't know what was happening.
Dust was shaken off the roof, and Shi Yunlin squinted her eyes to avoid the dust. The next moment, the woman's hand on her chin loosened.
"What happened?" Mrs. Zhou stood up and looked out with a frown. Da Zhuang and others had already walked over, and they couldn't help but look back in surprise.
The skinny soldier standing at the door looked at the black horse rushing towards him from the other side of the corridor, said "Ouch", and immediately dodged and hid in a room on the opposite side.
Just as Mrs. Zhou was about to question her fiercely again, the horse's long neigh resounded through the entire military camp as it was being reined in and stopped suddenly.
Aunt Zhou looked at Qishan Lang appearing at the door, her legs gave out and she fell to the ground. She still didn't know what the relationship was between the woman in the room who she had just pushed, pinched, pinched, and splashed with water, and Qishan Lang. She only knew that Qishanlang did not allow military prostitutes in the military camp, and this incident was a serious one.
The corridor was dark, and Qishan Lang was sitting on horseback, almost entirely in the shadows. His eyes passed over Zhou Ao Da Zhuang and others, and looked at the trembling figure huddled in the corner. His cold and stern face changed slightly, and he frowned slightly.
He got off his horse, lowered his head and stepped into the door, which was a little low for him, and walked towards Shi Yunlin step by step.
Shi Yunlin held a fragment of a porcelain bowl tightly in her hand, watching Qishan Wolf's approach step by step.
The piece of porcelain in her hand was picked up by Mrs. Zhou just now when she let go of her.
Qishanlang squatted down in front of Shi Yunlin. Shi Yunlin pinched the porcelain piece hard. For a moment, she didn't know whether to block it forward or stick it to her neck.
Qishan Lang took one more look at the ferocity in Shi Yunlin's eyes, then moved his gaze downwards, looking at the water droplets on her snow-like cheeks and her trembling thin shoulders. He withdrew his gaze, untied his cloak and threw it on Shi Yunlin.
Shi Yunlin stared at him. She hesitated and cautiously asked, "Won't you throw me to the military camp?"
Qishanlang looked at Shi Yunlin and tilted his head, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
But he said nothing and stood up.
Shi Yunlin's mind moved, her stiff hands softened, and the porcelain pieces she held tightly in her hands fell to the ground. She wrapped the cloak Qishanlang threw to her tightly around her body. She was so cold. She held on to the wall again, endured the weakness in her legs and slowly stood up, silently following Qishan Lang outside.
The big black horse kept tapping its front hooves in the narrow corridor, and made impatient sounds from its nostrils. But when Qishanlang took hold of the horse's reins, he immediately became quiet.
Qishan Lang got on the horse, and before Shi Yunlin could react, he bent down and held Shi Yunlin's waist, and directly lifted her onto the horse.
Shi Yunlin sat sideways in front of Qishanlang. Before she could sit firmly, Qishanlang had already turned his horse's head in the narrow corridor. Shi Yunlin hurriedly put her hand on Qishanlang's reining arm to prevent her from falling.
The horse's head cracked the wall of the house opposite, and dust fell. The skinny soldier hiding in the house opposite shuddered, and sewage dripped down his trouser legs to the floor.
On this side, Mrs. Zhou stared with wide eyes at the back of Qishan Lang taking the woman away. Shi Yunlin kept repeating in her ears that she was the princess of Xiang.
"She is really a princess. The princess of Xiang State belongs to Qishanlang..." Mrs. Zhou was dumbfounded.
It was already sunset time, and the setting sun dyed half of the sky with a gentle halo.
Shi Yunlin was so cold that she wrapped her body in mink fur. It took a long time for her to recover from the shock, and the chill on her body also eased. She gently moved her hand away from Qishan Lang's arm, and then held the horse's neck to sit firmly.
She turned her face little by little with small movements and quietly looked at Qishan Lang behind her.
