Chapter 73 Chapter 73: Prostitute

Tributes were continuously sent to the Yan army camp. 160,000 taels of gold, 6 million taels of silver; jade books, chariots, and crowns, as well as 600 female prostitutes and hundreds of musicians, will leave the city in the second batch.When Long Baiyue was let out of the sack in disgrace, she saw female prostitutes crying loudly gathered in a forbidden military academy.In order to prevent them from seeking death, the eunuchs did not dare to lock them in a room with beams, but even though they were outdoors, there were still people who kept taking advantage of others' surprise and swallowing privately held gold and other things, and would rather die than enter the camp of the northern captives .

It took Long Baiyue a while to recover, stretching her limbs and crawling into the crowd.She was smothered in the bag, her nose was bruised and her face was swollen, and there was still a large piece of blood scab on her forehead, mixed with all the beauties, she was not very conspicuous, so she took the opportunity to look around and figure out how to escape. After all, she was out of the palace, even though the situation in front of her was bad enough, Long Baiyue thought to herself mockingly.The person who was in contact with the eunuch was a Yan man who spoke a barbaric language. She looked at the tall and burly soldiers coldly, and guessed that they might be sent to the Yan camp in the near future.

The second batch of tributes was huge, so there were also a lot of guards.Long Baiyue looked at the serious-looking eunuchs and their minions of the Forbidden Army, knowing that it would be difficult to escape, she couldn't help screaming secretly.At this moment, a scream came from beside her, and a female prostitute in red hugged another woman with a pale complexion, crying, "Sister..." Long Baiyue rushed forward and asked, "What happened?" "Gold swallowing, my sister swallowed gold." The female prostitute in red hurriedly replied, watching Long Baiyue put her hand into her sister's mouth in surprise, causing the woman to vomit violently. .

"Really, the palace has been searched for so long, why do you still have gold?" Long Baiyue took the handkerchief that the female prostitute in red thankfully handed over, wiped her hands, and reprimanded, "Don't casually seek death." "Hmph, you put it lightly," the rescued female prostitute in white opened her eyes weakly, her unyielding face was full of suspicions that Long Baiyue was troublesome, "What do you think will happen to us if we are sent to the army camp of swallow bandits? , might as well die cleanly now." Long Baiyue was startled, touched her face and suddenly said: "Oops, I turned around and came back to life again..."

"I haven't seen you in the Jiaofang before. With your looks, you are just using it to make up the numbers?" The female prostitute in white proudly turned her eyes away, and said contemptuously, "You are just an ordinary court lady, so naturally you don't know our sorrow..." "Sister..." The female prostitute in red was a little embarrassed. After all, she was a lifesaver, so how could she repay her kindness with hatred. Long Baiyue could see that she was not used to their peony and rainy appearance, and she became angry—court prostitutes are amazing, she used to be an oiran, and she was as good as them in terms of beauty!So Long Baiyue also raised her swollen face, and said angrily: "Why don't I know? If you even have the determination to die, why don't you try to escape?"

"How to escape?" The female prostitute in white lowered her voice and said angrily, looking around secretly, "Didn't you see that the imperial guards are full of weapons?" "What is a weapon? If you can't escape, you will die under the knife at most. We have hundreds of people, and they only have a few hundred people. If we work together, at least half of them can escape." Long Baiyue retorted her softly. The female prostitute in white was stunned for a while, and then replied after a while: "Don't you understand, the reason why you can be held hostage by them is because no one is willing to take the risk of being the person who died by the knife."

Long Baiyue said: "I see that everyone is crying. I think everyone should know the end of being a prostitute in the enemy's camp. You just lack someone to take the lead—I am willing to take the lead. Can you respond?" The female prostitute in red trembled and shook her sister: "Sister, with our ability, this move is feasible." The female prostitute in white groaned for a while, held Long Baiyue's hand, and there was a trace of embarrassment in her answering tone: "Although my sister is not amazing, her courage is admirable. My sister has long since regarded death as home. Today, I will fight with my sister. If I can save Gaining a few sisters is a worthy death."

"That's right, don't talk about the scene," Long Baiyue said angrily—why isn't she amazing?He also directly recognized her as his sister, and he was about to die, "You are familiar with the people here, and you should be friendly with everyone, and we will rush out when the time is right." The female prostitute in white nodded and went down to make arrangements.She seemed to have quite a status in the teaching workshop in the palace, she looked around for a while, and immediately several prostitutes approached her quietly.After she made some arrangements, the prostitutes nodded in understanding and retreated, then turned to chatting with other prostitutes.At this time, the female prostitute in white said to Long Baiyue: "It's done, after a quarter of an hour, listen to my sister's order at any time."

"Well," Long Baiyue nodded, and smiled confidently, "At that time, I will give an order, and everyone will run away in all directions. As long as they rush out of a gap, the officers and soldiers will definitely not be able to stop them." The female prostitute in white smiled but said nothing.They grew up in the palace since they were young, possessing unique skills, but never had any other thoughts. This woman in front of them is really strange—once Long Baiyue pointed out the way for them, they were more sure than her, and they definitely surprised her. A quarter of an hour later, Long Baiyue and the female prostitute in white looked at each other, and when the guards were handing over, they shouted in unison, and the female prostitute in white stood up and shouted: "Listen to the orders of friends, flying flowers chasing the moon—"

The female prostitute in red smiled and raised her sleeves, and a red rope flew out, tightly entangled with the owl on the roof not far away.She was originally a rope prostitute in the palace, and she was good at playing tricks with ropes. At this moment, she tossed and pulled the rope, and she flew up to the eaves lightly. The other female prostitutes are those who practice "Xiao Da" in the palace, that is, performers who perform donkey balls. They are not only good at singing and dancing, but also good at riding and shooting, and can hold a hard bow, which Long Baiyue doesn't know.

The female prostitute in white is their leader when they play donkey ball-the "friend head" who is responsible for catching the ball and hitting it into the hole.At this moment, she commanded everyone to escape in all directions according to the formation.The female prostitutes flew back and forth like flying flowers in an instant, making people dazzled. Several nimble female prostitutes snatched down the flagpole beside the school field, stepped on it together and threw it to the female prostitute in white. At this time, the female prostitute in red called out from the eaves: "Sister, be careful." Before she finished speaking, she kicked down a tile, and the girl under the eaves immediately caught the tile and threw it to the female prostitute in white. She saw her wave the flagpole, and the tile was knocked out in response, and a swallow was caught in a flash. The appearance of the soldiers, knocking them down in one fell swoop. Amidst the cheers, more kabuki took advantage of the chaos and fled in all directions. The guards were caught off guard and surrounded by them.The eunuch in the house hurriedly shouted: "It's reversed, catch me quickly!" The prostitutes cooperated tacitly, and instantly knocked down a few Yan soldiers with tiles, but the forbidden soldiers who had escaped from the surveillance of the Yan soldiers dared to disobey their orders. The female prostitutes are all dressed in the same attire, they look like angels, and a slight change of formation can make people dazzled.Long Baiyue stood in the middle stupidly, feeling that she was superfluous, hey, she'd better not command blindly, and run away quickly. The chaos has attracted the forbidden army continuously, and Long Baiyue just rushed out of the encirclement not long ago, when he found out that there were people outflanking him again.She hated in her heart: Obviously there are not many Yan troops, all of them are acting as minions for tigers, big men are only busy catching women to pay tribute, it is really hateful. A few prostitutes actually snatched the weapons of the Imperial Army. They were good at sword dancing, and their skills were as good as those of the soldiers. They couldn't penetrate the armor with strength, so they gouged out their eyes.All of a sudden, the school grounds were in chaos. Seeing that many female prostitutes ran away, an instructor of the Imperial Army simply killed a female prostitute and stabbed a female prostitute to death with a knife, shouting: "Who dares to run away?!" In a very short time, the female prostitutes were stunned, and the next moment, there was only a sound of "duh", and the instructor of the forbidden army was hit by an arrow in the throat, and he fell to the ground dead on the spot.Long Baiyue looked at the place where the arrow came from in horror, and it turned out to be the female prostitute in white. She had changed the bow and arrow in her hand at some point, and she shouted coquettishly: "You protect your home and country, you deserve to die!" Immediately the momentum was reversed, and the female prostitutes were excited, and two or three hundred people escaped in a blink of an eye.The female prostitute in white has become the target of public criticism, and the forbidden soldiers set up their bows and crossbows, aiming at her in unison.On the eaves, the female prostitute in red yelled heartbreakingly: "Sister——" The female prostitute in white turned a deaf ear to it, she slid past the crowd with the arrowhead between her fingers, caught sight of Long Baiyue, looked at her, and shouted happily: "Sister, you go, this way of death is much happier than swallowing gold!" Long Baiyue opened her mouth, and before she could answer a word, she heard a whoosh, and a soldier fell to the ground behind her - the female prostitute in white opened a way out for her.Long Baiyue was so grateful that she immediately turned around and ran away. Before she could take a few steps, she heard the girl in red yelling frantically from behind: "Sister——" Long Baiyue could only grit her teeth and continue running, she knew that the female prostitute in white was dead, and she felt sad - when she escaped along the road she opened, she didn't even know her name. A guard in front obliquely set up a bow and crossbow, aiming upwards at an angle, obviously pointing at the female prostitute in red on the eaves.Long Baiyue's heart tightened, and she warned herself that she could only be alone at the moment, but just as she was about to pass the forbidden soldier, she cursed herself at the last moment, using her previous skill of stepping on the dance floor, she leaped towards the soldier Forbidden army. The arrow slanted and landed at the feet of the woman in red. She was taken aback and woke up from the grief of her sister's death. She hurriedly jumped down from the other side to escape.Her red gauze skirt fluttered like a red cloud, Long Baiyue lay on the ground with her face sideways, watching the red cloud disappear on the roof, and smiled wryly, feeling the coolness of the knife resting on her neck. She is really a good person, while Long Baiyue mourned for herself, while protecting her cheek that was pressed to the ground.Her sash was held in the hands of the guards, who just grabbed her alive and dragged her to the controlled area arbitrarily, where the re-captured prostitutes were curled up, and the threatening knives were shining brightly . Long Baiyue was thrown into the crowd, and she really wasn't impressive. No one thought that she was the instigator of this turmoil.She cautiously stayed among the prostitutes, thinking about how to get out next time.Regardless of this failure, if she doesn't believe it, she can't think of other ways. After the situation calmed down, the servants and eunuchs counted the number of people, and sure enough, more than half of them were missing. Immediately, they jumped up angrily: "Go and search around! Except for the dead, I have to catch them all!" After learning from the pain, the eunuch simply took some time to bind each of them's hands and feet, and tied their mouths with cloth towels, so as not to collude with each other again.The prison wagons nailed with wooden fences were conscripted, and the imperial guards threw the prostitutes into the wagons, locked them, and began to transport them out of the city one after another. On the way out of the city, trucks pulling tributes were parked at various intersections.Tens of thousands of catties of silk floss; ceremonial ceremonies in the palace, Dasheng musical instruments, concubine crown clothes, and imperial horse outfits; the armillary sphere on the roof, the books and books of the Taiqing Building in the third hall, the Guozijian book boards; the collection of scriptures and Daoist scriptures; , Zongzheng jade certificate; more than 4 million pieces of warehouse silk, 48,400 pieces of table satin; paintings and calligraphy of Zhu Mian's family, as well as other objects of oil clothing, crude medicine, and tortoise shell; All waiting to be liquidated and shipped away. The flames of war have not been completely extinguished, and there are still several gates in the capital with smoke billowing.Dust hung over the road, casting a gray layer on everything new.There is only one bright spot in the gloom. Through the wooden fence of the prison car, when Long Baiyue's dull eyes glanced at the bright spot, her eyes widened suddenly, flashing a terrified light. Zimian! With her bound hands, she clung to the wooden fence, snatched them one by one, and moved in the crowded prison car, her eyes chasing his profile, and then his back from every gap. Surrounded by a group of generals from the Yan Army, he walked lightly through the dusty streets. He was wearing the emperor's Twelve Chapter clothes, and the new Twelve Chapter patterns embroidered on his clothes seemed to be able to emit light.The crown suit didn't fit well, and the gold belt inlaid with jade plates bound his slender waist, as if it could strangle him at the waist. Zimian!Zi Mian——Long Baiyue called him anxiously, slapping the hard wooden fence frantically, but could only let out an unwilling whine.In the end, her gaze dimmed in despair—why can Zimian wear the crown dress?Is he really a traitor?