The room was quiet for about ten seconds before Tiger said, "You're quite lucky. Our eldest brother sees that you're pretty and doesn't mind that you've had men before. We'll get you some food in a bit, and after you eat, go and serve our eldest brother."
"Your eldest brother?"
Li Hongying was resistant from the bottom of her heart. How could she not resist being asked to serve a strange man?
Just looking at these two makes them look fierce; their older brother must be even fiercer. If she's not served well, will he chop her up with a knife?
She had even imagined Chen Jinlong as a burly, unshaven, and menacing god of war with wide, menacing eyes.
Even more terrifying than Zhong Kui!
"I... I'm afraid I won't be able to serve your boss well enough."
"If you don't serve well, you'll be punished by your elder brother."
"Then I'd better not serve you."
“Refusing to serve the eldest brother will result in punishment. Do you think you have the right to refuse? I just said you are lucky. If the eldest brother doesn’t like you, you’ll probably be dealt with tomorrow. How will you have the chance to serve the eldest brother?”
They might sell you to some fool or cripple in the mountains. But if you treat your elder brother well, and if he's happy, he might let you stay with him for a few more days, then find you a good family to marry into so you won't suffer.
After thinking for a while, Li Hongying could only nod slightly, succumbing to the other party's threat.
Try to think more positively. She's already slept with a man anyway. Since she can't escape, she should try her best to make that older brother happy. Even if she can't escape in the future, pleasing the older brother and winning his favor will make life a little easier.
She suddenly thought of something: she had a plundering system, and there were two people standing in front of her, so why not take this opportunity to find out where the space was?
[System, quickly check if these two people have any spatial abilities.]
[Yes, host, execute immediately.]
The system responded incredibly quickly, from receiving the command to activating the detection function and then providing the results. It gave Li Hongying a reply in almost two seconds, and the reply was very straightforward: "No, absolutely nothing."
Li Hongying didn't have much of an emotional reaction to the results; it seemed she had become accustomed to disappointment after so many disappointments.
She nodded to Tiger and Leopard and said, "Okay, I will do my best to serve your eldest brother."
Coo coo coo!
Her rumbling stomach cried out, "You're not going to give me any food? I'm so hungry, please go and get me some!"
"Wait a minute, it'll be brought to you soon."
Tiger went out, leaving Leopard to guard her.
Soon, Tiger brought over stir-fried vegetables and steamed buns. Leopard untied Li Hongying's hands, but her feet were still bound.
Hu Zi handed the food to Li Hongying, who was so hungry that she took it and wolfed it down.
While eating, she asked the system again: "I've been sold here. Can you help me escape?"
No. My only function is to probe space and then help you seize it; I have no other special abilities.
Why can't you add more features?
[Host, please be content. Without me, you wouldn't even have the ability to plunder other people's spaces.]
Li Hongying: "..."
She fell silent after being confronted by the system.
Victory Brigade
It was already past 8 p.m., and Liu's mother, as she and Liu Aiguo had planned, pretended that Li Hongying had gone missing while picking mushrooms in the mountains.
Feeling that it was about time, Liu's mother went to her neighbor's house to borrow a flashlight and spread the false news that Li Hongying had disappeared while picking mushrooms.
“My daughter Hongying went to pick mushrooms on the mountain during the day, and she hasn’t come back yet. I’m so worried! I have to go look for her. Hongying, what are you doing on the mountain?”
Her voice was trembling with tears, making it clear that she cared a lot about Li Hongying.
Her neighbor was taken aback when she heard this, not because she was surprised by her unusual concern for Li Hongying, but because she was surprised that Li Hongying hadn't returned at this time, and that she was probably in danger.
The neighbor, a kind-hearted person, worried for Liu's mother, saying, "Aiguo's wife hasn't come back yet, we have to go find her quickly. Wild animals roam the mountains at night, it's dangerous. Let alone a woman like her, how many strong men in the village would dare to go up the mountain alone at night? Sometimes even groups of several people don't dare to go up. Aiguo's wife, all alone, sigh."
Your Aiguo has difficulty walking, how can you manage alone? You need to bring two more people with you, so you can look after each other.
"I... I'll go and call my nephew from my own clan to go with me."
"Alright, you'd better call all the young men in your Liu family. With more people, and all of them being strong young men, you won't be too afraid when you get to the mountain."
"Yes, I rushed to call for help. It was too late, and I was afraid Hongying was in danger."
"Okay, go ahead."
Liu's mother grabbed a flashlight and left in a hurry. The neighbor didn't think much of it. Although she knew that Li Hongying was often beaten and scolded by Liu's mother and Liu Aiguo at Liu's house, it was normal for Liu's mother to be worried when it involved a matter of life and death.
After Liu's mother left, she did indeed go to call for help, and had two young men in their twenties from her family accompany her to the foot of the mountain.
But the two young men were hesitant to go up. After all, if Li Hongying didn't come down now, she must have been eaten by wild animals. If they went up, they would be going to their deaths.
“Auntie, I think the three of us are too few. If we encounter wild animals, we won’t be able to escape. Let’s call a few more people. More people means more strength, and if we encounter wild animals, we can fight them together. Besides, with more people, we can find your sister-in-law sooner.”
Liu's mother was only there to make a show of it; she wouldn't dare go up the mountain like that. But since her nephew said so, she did as he suggested.
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