After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

It's cold and quiet.

Liu Yunxiang opened his eyes with difficulty, and what he saw was a pale face, his eyes closed tightly, and there was no sound.

This is a woman. She is leaning against the wall, as if she was thrown there randomly. She still has makeup on her face, with dark eyebrows and blush, and fragrant pink lips, but there is a strange atmosphere at this moment.

Looking further down, you can see a pool of blood under her body...

Liu Yunxiang's eyes widened, and he raised his head in shock. Only then did he realize that he was tied to a large chair, his mouth was tightly tied with a cloth strip, and his hands and feet were tied.

This is a room with no windows on all sides, with a charcoal fire burning in the middle.

Da da da……

Like the sound of running water.

Liu Yunxiang followed the sound and saw opposite her, hidden behind the firelight, there was a chair with a woman tied to it. The woman's eyes were unfocused, her face was pale, and her whole body was trembling.

One of the woman's hands was hanging down. She had a cut on her wrist, and blood was dripping down her fingers.

Then there was a sapphire bowl underneath, with blood covering most of the bowl.

Woo...a little noise.

Liu Yunxiang suddenly looked to the side and saw a woman tied up like her next to him. She had just woken up, her body was shaking, and her expression was full of fear.

Liu Yunxiang was also panicked and scared. What on earth is this place?

Didn't Chongming sell her to Ya Po and move her to the south, just to a place like Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, or to work as a maid for a wealthy family, but this situation is obviously not right.

At this time, there were footsteps approaching. Liu Yunxiang quickly closed his eyes and squinted a little. He saw a tall and strong man coming in, like a guard or something, with a sword on his waist. He hurried in and brought in a man. Breathing cold wind, he strode to the woman opposite, bent down to pick up the bowl of blood on the ground, and placed an empty bowl again.

As soon as the guard stood up, a young woman wearing a scarlet satin jacket rushed in.

"Stop taking her blood, she's dying! Don't you see, she's dying!"

"Girl, there is someone else after she died." The guard stopped the woman and said gloomily.

Because of these words, the woman looked over to them.

She cried and shook her head, "Stop killing people, please. If my mother knew, she would never agree."

"I would like to advise you, girl, don't talk nonsense."

The guard said as he pushed the woman out.

As the footsteps faded away, Liu Yunxiang opened his eyes and looked at the woman next to him. She had collapsed, crying even harder, and her whole body was shaking.

Liu Yunxiang took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

What is this place?

Why take their blood?

Who are these people?

She was locked in this small dark room and obviously had no way of knowing.

The woman opposite slowly stopped shaking, the rise and fall of her chest became weaker and weaker, and then she slowly closed her eyes.

The guard came in again a short while later. Seeing that the woman was dead, he cut the rope around her body and threw it next to the previous female body.

He picked up a small bowl of blood on the ground, frowned, and then looked over here, his eyes darkening.

After an unknown amount of time, someone came in and dragged the two corpses out. Liu Yunxiang guessed that it was at night, or in the latter half of the night.

The woman next to her had cried so hard that she had no energy left, and was lying limply on the chair.

It was really uncomfortable to sit on the chair with my hands and feet tied like this. There was no support for my head, and my neck hurt when I tilted it for a while. In such a situation, it was certainly impossible for Liu Yunxiang to fall asleep.

After a long time, voices could be vaguely heard.

She hurriedly held her breath to listen. First she heard some chaotic footsteps, and then someone spoke.

"Uncle He, I've been here in Zhenbeiguan for so long and I haven't come to visit you yet. It's so rude."

This is... Yan Mu's voice.

"More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye. The last time we met, you were only in your teens. You were sitting on the wall, and your father was so angry that he stabbed you with a bamboo pole. Hey, we can't bring up the past, as it only adds to the sadness."

It was a male voice, and the voice was a little hoarse.

The two continued to talk, and their voices gradually became distant.

Liu Yunxiang tried his best to shout, but he could only make a whine. He tried to make some noise, but he couldn't move at all.

"Yan Mu!"

"Yan Mu!"

She held it in until her face turned red and she was sweating, but it was of no use.

The sound completely disappeared, and after a long while, the man sent Yan Mu out, and he just left.

Liu Yunxiang was so tired that he slumped on the chair and took a few deep breaths.

At this time, the door opened, and Liu Yunxiang's breath froze. He saw the previous guard coming in first, followed by a man in a blue-gray robe. He looked like he was in his 40s and had a majestic look on his face.

There was another person following behind, it was the woman who begged for mercy before.

"Dad, no matter how much blood you draw, it's useless. My mother can't wake up..."

with a snap.

Before the woman could finish her words, she was slapped hard by the man in green robe.

"Unfilial daughter, you cursed your mother!"

The woman covered her face and shook her head, tears falling down, "Dad, you were once a general who protected your family and country, and stabilized the people. How can you...how can you kill people now?"

"Shut up!" The man pulled the woman over and said angrily: "Why do these people die? As long as I can save your mother, I will not show mercy no matter how many people are killed. Qingqing, I know you have suffered. , but for your mother, you must grit your teeth and hold on. Once your mother is rescued, father will resign and take you and your mother back to your hometown, and we, a family of three, will live an ordinary life."

The man said, pushed the woman onto the chair, and then said to the guard beside him: "Go and ask for the miracle doctor."

The guard went out, and soon a woman wearing a bright red gown and rich makeup came in. The woman has a graceful figure and a smile on her face, but the smile is accompanied by heavy makeup and exudes an evil spirit.

The so-called miracle doctor came in, looked at the faces of Liu Yunxiang and the woman next to her, and fixed his eyes on Liu Yunxiang's face, with a look of surprise in his eyes. However, at this time, the woman next to him did not hold back and began to cry.

The woman chuckled, as if she was amused, and pointed her slender fingers at the woman, "Let's start with her first."

The guard stepped forward, grabbed the wrist of the woman next to him, and cut it off with a knife. However, the woman struggled fiercely, and the guard knocked her unconscious with a knife, and then let her hand hang down naturally, and blood dripped from her fingers into the bowl.

At this time, the demon doctor took the hand of the woman named Qingqing and plunged it in with a very thin bamboo tube. She groaned softly and pressed her lower lip tightly. There were many bruises on her arms, and she must have been pricked several times.

There was a groove as thick as a thumb on the bamboo tube. The guard poured half a bowl of blood into a porcelain pot. The mouth of the porcelain pot was so thin that it would break if touched.

The demon doctor held the porcelain pot, tilted the pot body, and blood flowed into the groove drop by drop, and the blood flowed into Qingqing's body along the bamboo tube.

"A woman's blood is clean, which is most suitable for curing Madam's blood disease." The demon doctor said.

The man nodded, "That's what the demon doctor said."

"However, blood and blood do not all blend together. Your concubine's blood and your wife's blood can blend together. This means that as long as the blood of others can blend with your daughter's blood, it will definitely blend with your wife's. Therefore, I need to test my blood first. Testing blood is also dangerous. Your Excellency and I have told you before, right?"

The man glanced at his daughter and nodded quickly, "I told you."

The demon doctor nodded, "If something unexpected happens, please don't blame me, sir."

As soon as he finished speaking, the girl named Qing Qing suddenly started to tremble all over and was breathing rapidly.

Seeing this, the demon doctor hurriedly pulled out the bamboo tube and said, "This woman's blood cannot be used."

After saying that, she looked at Liu Yunxiang again, "Then let's try hers."