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"Hey, you stand here stupidly, with a bitter melon expression on your face, don't scare the girls here."

Min Zhi laughed and teased him, and lightly poked his shoulder with the hilt of his sword.

Qi Zhong reacted vigilantly, his face darkened: "What the hell is this place?"

"A brothel. Didn't you know how to talk before? What about 'reading a hundred poems and books is useless, the most is the heart of love'...and..."

"Enough." Qi Zhong's ears were thin red, his eyes were downcast, and his mind was restless: he clearly learned those words from reading scripts. He was young, how could he have visited such places before?It's nothing more than bragging.I didn't expect this girl to be so careless, she really thought that he had experienced Fang Cong all over the world.

Min Zhi had already seen that he was pretending, and the embarrassment he showed now really made her laugh.

Cough lightly: "Hey, brother Qi. Don't be angry, we haven't done our business yet. The girls are waiting!"

As he spoke, he gave Song Sanniang a wink.Immediately, a group of young women playing the piano stopped their musical instruments one after another, and flocked over in a charming manner.

All the fish and wild geese fall, and the moon is ashamed of flowers.Charging Qi with all his strength, he raised his silk silk and winked, alluring.

The language is ambiguous.The ambiguity made Qi Zhong's hairs stand on end, and he raised his eyes with resentful anger, staring straight at Min Zhi, so scared that she didn't dare to speak any more.

"You, are you going to help or not?" Gritting his teeth and saying this sentence, the coldness in Qi Zhong's voice made everyone present feel cold.

Min Zhi's expression suddenly became indifferent, and he didn't say a word.

Qi Zhong turned around to leave, but Min Zhi glared at him and ordered, "Stop!"

"Didn't you ask me to help you find someone? If you don't communicate with the girls, how will they know where the person you are looking for is..."

This sentence directly stepped on Qi Zhong's thunderbolt point, he turned his head with scarlet eyes, and asked coldly: "What?"

"I sincerely beg you to help me find my sister. You can fool me whatever you want, but she will never be in this place of fireworks and willow lanes. I don't allow you to insult her!"

Min Zhi was so yelled at that he rolled his eyes slightly, and replied speechlessly: "Who told you that this is Fireworks and Willow Lane? The girls here are all doing serious work, so don't accuse her of innocence."

"That's right." The beauties on the side also echoed.

Qi finally frowned, feeling that he had been fooled.

"Forget it, I just wanted to make a joke with you."

Min Zhi sighed, and realized that he was going too far, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and said in a gentle voice: "They are all girls from a good family, and they are here to perform art and not to sell themselves. I just thought that their backgrounds were scattered, maybe they were wandering on the way, Just happened to hear about your sister."

"So that's the case." Qi Zhong heaved a sigh of relief, and his tone softened, "Then you didn't say it earlier? I misunderstood your painstaking efforts."

"Hehe." Min Zhi laughed dryly, called the group of girls again, and asked, "Hey, tell me, is there a girl named A Tang around you who likes crabapple flowers?"

Seeing her earnestly helping, Qi finally felt good feelings in his eyes, and stepped forward and said: "She is very gentle and understanding, with clean facial features, and she likes the fragrance of crabapple flowers."

The beauties discussed it left and right, and finally shook their heads silently, expressing their helplessness.

The light in Qi Zhong's eyes suddenly dimmed.

Seeing this, Min Zhi asked unwillingly: "Think about it again, isn't there really?"

The girls thought for a while, then shook their heads.

Knowing the final result, Min Zhi also had some regrets, stood beside Qi Shengsheng, and comforted him: "Don't be discouraged. It's just a coincidence that they don't know. I'll talk to the proprietress later and ask her to write to her about those things. Sister, ask if there is any whereabouts of your sister elsewhere, it will take longer, but you will find it in the end, trust me."

Qi Zhong raised his eyes and saw her earnest promise, his heart warmed up, and he said with a smile, "Thank you very much."

"Then let's go back first, Weier should still be waiting for us at the mansion."

The search for him was fruitless, and Min Zhi was going to take him back home.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, a shrill scream suddenly came out from the west wing on the second floor.

Immediately, the cry for help pierced everyone's eardrums: "Help!"

"Killed!"

"Help!"

The beauties downstairs were all frightened by the woman's cries for help, and hugged each other.

The guests upstairs and downstairs also panicked, jumping up and down, running around.

Min Zhi's eyes turned cold, he tightened the sword in his hand, hurried up the stairs, and rushed to the scene of the crime.

Qi Zhong came to his senses and hurried to catch up, but the crowd scattered and rushed to the door one after another, so he had to go against the current, and there was a long distance between him and Min Zhi.

Worried that she acted impulsively, and her safety would not be guaranteed.

Qi Zhong directly stepped onto a table near the stairs, jumped over the crowd blocking the stairs with lightness kung fu, and landed lightly on the long steps on the second floor.

As soon as he lifted his foot and was about to rush upstairs, there was a faint and cold scent of crabapple flowers in the air again, like a soul-stirring, freezing him in place, lost in blank memories.

Suddenly, at the corner of the empty second floor, a woman in red appeared abruptly, wearing a red gauze on her face, with a glamorous demeanor, gracefully arranging the hairpins on her temples, and calmly walked down the stairs.

Qi Zhong raised his eyes in shock, but he didn't know that she was walking extremely fast, and before he noticed, she passed by him.

The moment he tilted his head, he happened to meet the woman's icy gaze, and there seemed to be a murderous intent hidden in the deep pupils.

The woman also glanced at him lightly, then turned her eyes away in disdain, and walked into the crowd with her head down.

Qi Mo's lingering gaze on her back gradually changed from surprise to an inexplicable kindness, which made him suddenly feel helpless.

"Rogue Qi, come quickly!"

Min Zhi's hasty shout suddenly came from the west wing, pulling Qi Zhong back to his consciousness.

After calming down, Qi Zhong hurried to the scene.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw a frightened half-dead girl squatting outside the door. Her clothes were messy, her pupils were slack, and she seemed weak as if she had lost her soul.The owner of the building, Song Sanniang, was by her side, trying her best to comfort her.

Looking into the room again, it was pitch black.

Guessing that Min Zhi should be inside, Qi finally walked in quickly.

In the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers, he shouted: "Little lunatic, where are you?"

"I'm holding the lamp. Don't move, Rogue Qi. I seem to have touched a thread just now and cut my wrist. Be careful."

Min Zhi stood in the corner by the window, looking for the wick that had been extinguished not long ago, transformed her spiritual power into a cluster of flames, and suddenly lit the candle.

There was only a gleam of light in the dark room, and then Min Zhi scattered the sparks and lit several other candles one after another, and the room was suddenly bright.

Qi Zhong lowered his head and saw that just a few millimeters in front of his waist, there was a red line stretched as sharp as a knife's edge. If anyone rushed in recklessly just now, they would definitely... cut in half on the spot!

Thinking of this, Qi Zhong also admired Min Zhi's on-the-spot ability, there was a way to bypass this trap and enter the room deftly.

"Little lunatic. What happened just now?"

He turned over the extremely thin red thread, walked up to Min Zhi, and asked for details.

Min Zhi shook her head, and said, "I don't know. When I came, Miss Yu'er had already crawled out of the house. There were a few thin wounds on her body, but they didn't bleed. It's just that she was so frightened that she didn't know what she had experienced."

In this way, the two fell into a disorderly silence, looking around at each other, checking for clues missing in the room.

His eyes fell back to the red line at the door, and Qi Zhong paced over, looking for it along the left end of the red line.

Min Zhi also cooperated to search for the right end of the red line, and the two walked carefully, trying not to touch the line at all.

Until he got to the end of the wall, Qi finally found no other strange things on the left side, but the end of the red line was actually nailed to the top of the thick wall, like a nail that penetrated deeply, as if it had pierced through the wall!

There is no way for the soft thread to be so sharp without strong inner strength. The owner who arranged this red thread must be a fairy forest master.

While Qi Zhong was feeling emotional, he took a closer look at the color of the red line, and suddenly smelled a faint fragrance of crabapple, which made him take a few steps back in shock.

He shook his head, stepped forward again in disbelief, and sniffed twice again, but there was a smell of blood on the red line.

Feeling strange, Qi Zhong pinched the center of his brows, calmed down his thoughts, and told himself that this was an illusion.

"Rogue Qi..."

At the end of the piano room on the right, Min Zhi's voice came.

Qi Zhong turned around and hurried over.

Pulling back the veil behind the screen, the scene in front of him was the most astonishing scene since he grew up.

On the soft incense bed, there is a person lying in the air.The reason why it was suspended was that his body was entwined with numerous red threads, tightly strangled in the air less than one centimeter away from the bed, so that he could only lie in mid-air, unable to move.

The walls on both sides are full of holes, which are the places where the red threads are anchored. They are densely entangled in one center, and penetrate deeply into the flesh and blood of the man... The blood drops flowed along the red threads, as if these threads had grown stronger in the blood. .

The most frightening thing was that the person on the bed was still alive, staring straight at Qi Zhong and the two of them with terrified eyes, which was an instinctive desire to survive that was afraid of death.

Min Zhi's face was stiff, even faintly angry.

Qi Zhong was a little puzzled, following her gaze, the man's clothes were disheveled, and there were women's clothes under his feet. Obviously, in Youmenglou, a special place of "wind, flowers, snow and moon", he seemed to be forcing a man into prostitution.

Qi Zhong thinks this is one of the reasons for Min Zhi's anger, and the other is what she said personally.

"It's you! The leader of the dignified school, dare to leave the Tang Sect without authorization, and do such dirty things on the territory I support?"

"Save...save me...watch..."

Hearing Min Zhi's voice, the man called the leader of the Tang Sect on the bed let out a beast-like cry.

Qi finally swallowed his throat, and stared at him complicatedly.

Min Zhi became even angrier: "I am."

The intensity of the red line seems to be increasing, and it cuts into the flesh and blood again, and the pain doubles.The tears at the end of the man's eyes were like a waterfall. If his tongue hadn't been strangled, he would probably have called his father and mother.

"It's a disgrace to our Tang Sect!"

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During the interval when Min Zhi reprimanded that person, Qi Zhong carefully observed the messy red lines in front of him, the roots were distinct, but he just couldn't find the untie one like a knot.

"Okay. I will save you first, and after I get back, I will deal with your family law."

As Min Zhi said, she drew out the rapier at her waist, ready to cut off the red thread closest to her.

Qi Zhong's eyes widened immediately, and he rushed towards her quickly: "Don't chop!"

"despair--"

It's too late.

Seeing the thin thread break, Qi Zhong came to his senses and quickly pulled Min Zhi's elbow, protecting her in his arms, covering her eyes by the way, and whispered: "Don't look."

The severed red thread quickly shrank like a rubber band, and was pulled together with countless other red threads. The last violent scream disappeared, and at the same time, the sound of blood gushing into the walls was powerful, and the strong smell of blood quickly enveloped the entire room.

A group of Hualou servants who rushed over accidentally ran into the scene behind Qi Zhong and the two, and retreated in horror, leaning on the wall and vomiting.

"what happened?"

Min Zhi pulled away the hand that was blocking her eyes, glanced behind Qi Shengsheng, and immediately withdrew her gaze, terrified and afraid to watch this bloody scene again.

The man who was tied to the bed just now was twisted into a puddle of flesh by the thread!

Flesh and flesh, accompanied by those lightly falling red threads, spread all over the floor.