Meanwhile, Su Hua, who was on everyone's mind, listened to the singing and dancing outside with her arms crossed, while watching the two old women in the room singing and dancing in harmony with a speechless expression.
“Girl, people’s fates are predetermined at birth. No matter how unwilling you are, once you’re in Black Wind Stronghold, you have no choice but to accept it.”
"That's exactly right! As the old saying goes, 'A woman marries a man for food and clothing.' We women are already blessed to have a man who cares for us. We can't think about other things!"
"The girl is beautiful and young. As long as she serves our chieftain well, she will live a life of luxury, with fine clothes, food, gold and silver. There is nothing she cannot live without."
"The most important thing for a person is to be content. You're a new girl, so you may not know yet, but even a mosquito, once it enters our Black Wind Village, will lose three of its legs if it tries to escape! Three days ago, a young girl who had just come up the mountain tried to escape, but she was caught by the villagers and beaten until her hands and feet were completely crippled, and she didn't have a single piece of intact skin left on her body."
"But another girl, Azheng, is different. She serves the chieftain perfectly every day. Now, apart from the chieftain, she lives the most comfortable life in the whole village. It is a blessing for us women to live like her..."
Su Hua's temples throbbed with excitement. Those in the know would recognize the two as cleaning women from Black Wind Stronghold, but those who didn't would think they were brainwashing masters who had fallen from the sky.
Seeing the two of them talking non-stop, spittle flying all over the room, Su Hua finally couldn't help but raise her hand to stop them, "Alright, alright, stop talking, or the mosquitoes in this room will be killed by your nagging..."
The two old women were surnamed Niu and Ma, respectively.
The old woman was just starting to play the good cop when she suddenly heard Su Hua speak up, and her eyes lit up instantly. "Miss, have you figured it out?"
Before Su Hua could speak, Granny Ma slapped her thigh and stood up with a laugh, "It's good that you've come to your senses. It will make life easier for you in the village from now on. Apart from A Zheng, you're the girl who knows how to make the right choices all these years."
Su Hua smiled slightly, "You've figured it out, my foot!"
When Granny Niu and Granny Ma saw Su Hua smile, they were even more delighted. "Girl, the water is getting cold. Let us help you change and bathe. Our chieftain loves fragrant young girls the most."
"No, no need." Su Hua saw the two men coming up to undress her, and a girlish shyness quietly appeared on her face. "I am used to bathing alone. With the two of you here, I can't bathe properly."
Upon hearing this, Granny Ma immediately smiled as if she were an experienced woman, "Oh dear, you really are a young girl, even shy about taking a bath. If our chieftain were to take a bath with you in the future, wouldn't you be so embarrassed that you'd want to crawl into the ground?"
"Alright, enough with the nonsense!" Old woman Niu scoffed from the side, her eyes darkening as she looked at Su Hua before leaving.
"We two will stand guard outside the door. If you need anything, please feel free to call us."
But if you still have any inappropriate thoughts, it's best to get rid of them to avoid making things awkward for each other.
Su Hua smiled sweetly, "Don't worry, Aunt Niu and Aunt Ma, I understand."
"That's good." Seeing that she was well-behaved, the two old women didn't make things difficult for her anymore and turned to leave the room.
After the two left, the smile on Su Hua's face vanished instantly.
She immediately pulled out a packet of pork jerky and a packet of beef jerky from her sleeve, which was actually from her spatial storage, and stuffed them into her mouth. Since eating lunch, she hadn't even had a drop of water all day.
After being drugged by Scarface's eyes in the alley, she regained consciousness on a mountain road. Scarface and his group were extremely cautious, not only binding her hands and feet with hemp rope, but also covering her head with a burlap sack. She couldn't see the road and could only barely tell that she had entered the mountains from the sounds of insects and birds and the bumpy road conditions.
However, she couldn't understand why someone's eyes could be so eerie. Just two or three seconds of eye contact with him made her feel as if he had snatched away her soul and spirit.
It's somewhat like the mind control techniques she'd heard about in China.
But compared to mind control, Scarface's red eyelids seem stronger and more eerie.
Even now, thinking back on it, it still feels both incomprehensible and impressive.
If most of the people in Black Wind Stronghold have this ability, it will be difficult for her to escape.
Furthermore, now that she's come to Black Wind Stronghold, she must find the mastermind behind it all; otherwise, even if she manages to escape once, she'll have to be on guard all the time.
This room, to put it nicely, is actually a cave with three sides made of stone. The entrance is just a door made of a few pieces of wood nailed together and covered with paper. A candle is burning inside the cave, and the old woman standing outside can see almost everything inside.
Su Hua quickly ate the dried meat and drank two large cups of spatial water droplets before she recovered. She glanced at the clean clothes and bath tub beside her and moved the tub to the entrance of the cave to block it.
With his back to the cave entrance, he quickly took off his outer clothes and got into the bathtub for a perfunctory "battle bath".
Just as Su Hua got out of the bathtub to change her clothes, Granny Niu and Granny Ma pushed the door open and came in, but because the bathtub was blocking the way, they couldn't move it after a few tries.
The act of pushing the door instantly turned into knocking, with each knock landing on the wood.
Accompanying this was the increasingly impatient urging of the two old women.
"Miss, miss, please open the door quickly, it's getting late."
Su Hua's lips curled into a cold smile. "It'll be ready soon."
The candlelight cast a soft glow on the bright red dress, making the silver buttons on the skirt gleam. Su Hua reached out and touched the silk hem of the skirt, her delicate brows furrowing slightly. This shimmering red dress, in both material and style, was quite different from the dresses worn by women in the Yu Dynasty.
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