Just to the left of the room door, the panting of a man and the slapping of flesh against flesh continuously emanated, yet there was no woman’s voice to be heard.
The room door was not closed, and she just walked in.
However, the scene that met her eyes left her somewhat dumbfounded.
The man, of indeterminate relation, was at that moment sprawled on top of a woman, and that woman was not Xun Hui but one bound with rope, her body filthy, her hair a tangled mess...
If she wasn’t mistaken, that woman ought to be the man’s mother.
Yang Ruxin suddenly felt a wave of nausea and the urge to vomit.
The man had no awareness of someone entering, but the woman, who had originally been closing her eyes, suddenly opened them. Looking past the man’s shoulder, she locked eyes straight with Yang Ruxin.
Yang Ruxin’s heart quivered slightly, and inexplicably, she thought she understood the woman’s gaze—was she pleading with her to help her find release?
Just then, the man let out a shrill cry, seemingly having climaxed, and then he got up, hitching up his cotton pants carelessly. "Dammit, so loose, not satisfying at all... Ah... who are you?"
Yang Ruxin sighed, "That’s your mother, and you’re worse than a beast."
"Where did you come from? Now that you’re here, don’t bother leaving." The man actually laughed, "Didn’t expect a woman to come offering herself..." Saying so, he walked towards Yang Ruxin and looked her up and down, "I bet you’re tight. Come on, let me have a go first, then I can sell you for a good price... Ah..." Before he could finish, he screamed in pain and collapsed onto the ground.
The woman on the kang bed suddenly started laughing eerily.
Yang Ruxin frowned, "You’re not crazy!"
"If I wasn’t crazy, I would have died long ago... cough cough..." The woman’s voice was frail, and just after speaking one line, she began to cough violently.
Yang Ruxin quickly took out a Medicine Pill and popped it into the woman’s mouth, a concoction of Dao Xuzi intended to replenish qi and nourish blood.
The woman took a breath, "I’ve... struggled to stay alive for more than twenty years, just because... cough cough..." She paused, "There’s one regret that will keep me from dying peacefully... Miss, I know you weren’t brought here by capture, and I don’t know why you came, but I beseech you, help me..."
Yang Ruxin didn’t see herself as a saint, but she truly wasn’t the type of person to stand by and watch someone die, especially not a woman like this whose tendons in her limbs had all been broken. Thus, following her instructions, she dug out a blackened purse from a corner of the dark, sooty kang bed. Opening it, there was half a Jade Pendant inside.
"Please, help me go to... Brother Tianlin at the Duo Family in Quanzhou Prefecture, tell him... I’m sorry..."
"I’m not inclined to do such things," Yang Ruxin exhaled, "but I can help you see him in person, and you can apologize to him yourself..." That too, would count as doing good.
The woman’s murky eyes suddenly sparked with a glint of Light.
"However, how will you thank me?" Yang Ruxin asked with a smile, "I can’t just risk it all for nothing, right?"
"The Chu Family..."
Yang Ruxin nodded, "I have to knock you out, otherwise I can’t take you with me." With that, she passed another Medicine Pill over.
The woman nodded, then opened her mouth and without hesitation, swallowed the Medicine Pill.
Yang Ruxin sighed. Did she really have such a trustworthy face? But let it be. If that was the case, she might as well follow through with good deeds to the end. Suddenly she remembered something, "Oh right, I forgot to ask, where do the old rascals put the new women they bring in?"