Damn that heartthrob

(Don't jump to Zuozao, part of the text is in Zuozao)

After chatting with Qian Yuanzun for a long time, the weak Chen Sheng leaned on the bed and thanked Qian Yuanzun.

Qian Yuanzun, who knew what he wanted, touched his beard with a smile, took out the things he had just put away, first drew a very complicated spell in the air, and then squeezed the things in his palm neatly with five fingers.

This move was somewhat brutal, but what appeared next was not a terrifying picture, but flying fireflies and the fresh scent of grass and trees.

The house darkened at this moment.

The fireflies spread out, bringing a little bit of quiet and mysterious light.

The people in the room didn't respond to this, but Xue Li was timid and afraid that a foreign body's face would suddenly appear, so he climbed onto Chen Sheng's bed silently while no one noticed him around.

Chen Sheng didn't bother to care about him, he just concentrated on watching the past that the old woman wanted to show him.And as the fireflies flew up, the people in the room first saw the figure of the old woman.

The old woman stood in the golden field, the gray hair on the side of her face fluttered in the wind, blocking a pair of eyes with unclear emotions.

It should be autumn now.

The harvest season brings the aroma of grains, which should make people happy, but when you look up, there is only one wheat field around.Now the heavy rain in the east, the drought in the west, and the erratic climate have ruined the surrounding fields, dried up the expectations on the old woman's face, and made her feel as weak and pale as her dry and cracked lips.

Then a crow appeared and flew over the dead branch, which symbolizes bad luck.The old woman raised her head when she heard the sound, and left with the crow in a blink of an eye.On the way of chasing the crow, the elderly figure became smaller and smaller, and his body became lighter and lighter.

When she followed the crow to the corner, the old woman transformed from an old woman into a six or seven-year-old girl.

When she was young, she came to a poor home, and was pulled by an elderly woman by her hair and taken to a brothel.

At that time, the sky had just dawned, and the wife in charge of the brothel was lazily leaning aside, looking at the young old woman coldly.

And the person in charge of the brothel who bought the old woman was Mrs. Xiang Teng whom Chen Sheng had met.

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"This year is not good, and the people who receive it are not good."

The bright red nails touched the cheap jade belt, and then threw it aside in disinterest.

He picked up the melon seeds on the side with his backhand, counted them casually, squinted his slender fox eyes at Mrs. Teng, and said very dissatisfied: "Bring me this kind of tender seedlings, how long will I have to grow them before I can replace them?" A lot of silver! And, what's your name?"

"Aju."

"Aju?" Mrs. Xiang Teng took a taste of the name, stopped thinking about changing her name, and said: "The foundation is not bad, that's all, let's take it down first."

The woman on the side laughed immediately when she heard this sentence, holding the money given to Mrs. Teng, she never looked at her daughter again, and left without looking back.The young Aju entered the brothel from then on, and because this brothel was not well-known in the local area, the guests who came here varied from good to bad, and there were all kinds of people.

The girls in the building are having a hard time, so they don't have a good temper.

If you want to say, the one with the worst temper is Ye Nu.

Ye Nu is different from most of the girls in the building.She is both talented and beautiful, not only can recite poems and paint pictures, but also can play the piano well. It is said that she is the concubine of a rich man, and her life is not bad, but later the wife of the rich man took advantage of the rich man's absence and secretly The mastermind sold Ye Nu into a brothel, which changed the appearance of the originally gentle woman.

But Aju didn't know whether this was true or not, she only knew that Ye Nu was the one with the worst temper in the building.The eccentric Ye Nu is Mrs. Xiang Teng's cash cow. Even if she has a bad temper, Mrs. Xiang Teng will pamper her and will not reprimand her.

And because of Aju's good looks, Mrs. Xiang Teng gave Aju to Ye Nv to take care of her, as if she wanted Ye Nv to train A Ju well so that she could sell it for a good price.

But Ye Nu didn't take a good look at A-Ju and didn't teach her anything.

At that time, when she was young, Aju didn't understand Ye Nu's intentions, she just thought it was Ye Nu's bad intentions, and decided that Ye Nu didn't want to teach her well, maybe she wanted her to accept those low-level guests in the future.

Aju was very depressed because of this. At this time, Xi Nu in the building approached A Ju again, and provoked A Ju and Ye Nu with a few words, causing Ye Nu to lose a rich benefactor.

Xi Nu snatches Ye Nu's guest, she is so happy from ear to ear, she keeps giving A Ju some small favors.

Children's hearts are simple, and they only need a little profit to pull their impetuous hearts away.Until one day, the notorious villain in Wangjing came to the building, and the man who always liked to torture people was the existence that the girls in the building avoided like snakes and scorpions.

When the villain came, Xi Nu was chatting with Aju, the bastard came to look for Xi Nu, Xi Nu shrank her neck in fear when she saw it, then the villain didn't know what to think, but turned his attention to A Ju .

Seeing Xi Nu's body stiffen, she immediately stepped aside.

Aju had heard the story of the villain, and when she saw the villain approaching, she was so frightened that she cried immediately.

She cried twice, and the man felt that she was annoying, so he raised his hand and slapped her.Waiting for the sound of applause to fall, Ye Nu came out of the room, cursed at Aju for being noisy, and stretched out her hand to pull the man into her room.

After the man left, Ye Nu couldn't get up for five or six days.After this, Aju began to get close to Ye Nv, although Ye Nv still had no good looks towards her.

In mid-June, there were more people on the street. Ye Nu looked at the sky outside the window, instead of looking at the guests from last night, she fiddled with the money box next to her hand, her eyes casually glanced at the disgusted expression of the old woman at the street corner, and placed it on the wooden box. The hand on the box was stunned.

When the guests left, she closed the window and asked Aju who had just come in: "Have you been to the Ten Thousand Gigabit Festival?"

Wanzhao Festival in June is a local festival in Wangjing.In the past few years, Wangjing was plagued by drought, and the river fell and the sea dried up. Because of the severe drought, the local people had the idea of ​​praying for blessings and offering sacrifices in summer.The most mysterious thing during this period is that after the festival that year, the drought really ended.For this reason, the summer festival has gradually become the most important festival in the area, with the same excitement as the New Year's Day.

In Wangjing, the Wanzhao Festival is a festival to welcome spring and welcome summer, to pray for the summer heat, to pray for good weather, and to seek home and peace.Also because the meaning of the festival is different, it has a bit of solemnity, so some people with low status in the eyes of the world cannot participate in the Wanzhao Festival, so as not to pollute the environment of praying and offering sacrifices.

Aju can't remember whether she has been there, but Ye Nu has never been.

Before entering the brothel, no one thought of taking her there. Once she entered the brothel, she would be a lowly citizen, and it was impossible to go there.In addition, there was a rule a hundred years ago that criminals had tattoos on their faces and lowly ones tattooed on their necks. She was afraid that others would see the brand marks, so she didn't dare to go even if she wanted to.

And recently, she seems to be tired too. Looking at this small world and the quagmire from which she can never escape, Ye Nu said to Aju the day before the festival: "I don't want to live anymore."

Aju doesn't understand.

But Ye Nu said, "Living is meaningless."

Aju didn't understand what Ye Nu wanted, but she didn't want to persuade Ye Nu strangely.Xu Shi knew from the bottom of his heart that living like this was not living.

Yenu decided to commit suicide. On the eve of suicide, she took the cloak from the closet, and sneaked out with Aju on the day of Wanzhao Festival.

Today, the streets were very lively with people coming and going, and they were so happy that they ran out, even their steps were a little bit jumpy.

Ye Nu bought a piece of sugar cake for Ah Ju, and the two were enjoying the stolen joy, when they turned around, they saw a person holding a bamboo tube on the opposite street.

The man was dressed in green clothes, his facial features were regular, and he lost his mind because of Ye Nu.Seeing that idiot was looking at her, Ye Nu raised her eyebrows in displeasure, and then met a regular visitor in the building.The regular customer pointed at her and yelled, scaring Ye Nu and A Ju to run back to the building.

The two returned to the building, took off their cloaks, their hearts were beating like drums, fearing that their identities would be exposed and being scolded, and at the same time feeling sorry.

Afterwards, they looked at each other and laughed.

Aju became closer to Ye Nv, and she was not afraid of her cold face. She just asked her: "I heard that my wife is different from us. We were betrayed on the initiative of the family, and the lady was betrayed because of the viciousness of the lady. And the lady's husband Since you dote on your lady, why didn't she take the opportunity to run back and ask for help?"

Ye Nu's smile remained unchanged, and she said quietly: "At first I watched closely in the building and couldn't run out. When I got the opportunity a year later, I thought he would help me. But when I came to the man's house, I saw that The family is going to have a wedding banquet, and only then do they know that the wife has given birth to a son."

"The poisonous woman sold me into the brothel. I thought that the person didn't know, and would be annoyed if he knew. In the end, the person treated the poisonous woman no differently. There were only a lot more Yingying Yanyan in the yard. At this time Only then did I realize that to them, I was just a dispensable decoration at home. They said it was love, but when they saw me again, they kicked me out, leaving only a sentence of ignorance."

At that time, Aju didn't understand, so she just asked, "Why?"

Ye Nu was silent for a moment, laughed at herself, and said, "He thinks I'm ashamed, dirty, and doesn't want to recognize me. Only then did I realize that it's not that he couldn't find me, but he just didn't want to find me. And even though I ran out that year I went to the brothel, but I didn’t have much money on my body, there was a brand mark on my neck, and there was a word on the household registration in my hand. As long as Mrs. Xiang Teng doesn’t take me to change my household registration, I can’t go anywhere, and I will be the goods in the building until I die. So..." She paused here: "I'm going back again."

When Aju heard this, she suddenly lost her voice.

Most of the lives of brothel women are like this.

The luxury and smoothness in those scripts can only be owned by high-rise buildings in big places.

Ye Nu hummed the song for a while, and took out the scissors in front of Aju with a smile. She always felt that she was tired of everything in this world, and that living like this was nothing but torture.But when she picked up the scissors, she didn't dare to stab it.

What is the point of living like this?

Why do you still not want to die?

Is it possible that you still have expectations?

Or...

Unknown why, the scissors fell to the ground, tomorrow or tomorrow.

It's just that this tomorrow doesn't seem to be the same as the previous tomorrow.

There was a fool in the building.

It was the man who had been watching Ye Nu in the street last night.

Seeing him coming, Ye Nu saw that he was dressed in plain clothes, so she didn't want to accompany him.But because he took the money, Ye Nu also accepted him.

As a result, nothing happened overnight.

"That idiot is still playing the way of a scholar! He obviously doesn't know a lot of big characters, so why pretend!"

Early the next morning, Ye Nu and Aju said: "He didn't do anything, he just blushed, hesitated for a long time, asked me if I was tired, told me to rest, and said he would come back tomorrow, and he didn't know what to say." Bring me something to eat, I'm dying laughing."

Aju didn't understand what was so funny about it, and felt that there was not much smile in Ye Nu's eyes, but it was surprisingly cold.

Aju, who didn't understand why Ye Nu was like this, turned her head, and then the man came for five days in a row, every day.But the better he treats Ye Nu, the more irritable Ye Nu's character becomes.Aju didn't understand, so she secretly went to ask Xi Nu, Xi Nu sneered, and only said that Ye Nu was afraid that her husband would treat her too well.

But Aju thinks that if someone treats her well, it will be a very happy thing. She doesn't know why Ye Nu keeps scolding others, and she can't understand why Ye Nu doesn't like others to be too kind to her.

Aju hopes that someone will treat her well, just like a beloved person treats Ye Nu.

Recently, the strange person in the building was more than my beloved. One morning, when I opened the door to Mrs. Teng, a half-drunk man suddenly poured in.

The man had disheveled hair, a full beard, a stone mirror hanging around his neck, and a long sword behind his back.

Seeing him like this, Mrs. Xiang Teng looked disgusted and wanted someone to fork him out, but he raised his hand and threw down the money and blocked Mrs. Xiang Teng's mouth.

Therefore, early the next morning, Aju found a sleeping person lying in the corner of the building.

There are more and more weirdos this year.

Aju shook her head, it could be seen that this person was curled up, as if very cold, she couldn't bear to fetch a coat and sent it over.

To be honest, that little coat didn't match the man's figure, but after Aju came back, she still saw that the man was wearing that little coat.

It was kind of cute and ridiculous.

Aju chuckled, and turned around to see Ye Nu's lover coming again.

One day, many people came to the street, including my beloved.Seeing him standing with his friends, Ye Nu was about to turn around and retreat into the room, but she heard someone behind him asking why her lover kept looking upstairs, maybe she was also fascinated by the beauties in this building.

The beloved smiled, pointed to the place where Ye Nu was and said, "That's not the beauty in the building. That's my sweetheart." He spoke seriously, as if he had promised Ye Nu again: "I will come one day Take her away."

At that time, the peach blossoms in the building were in full bloom, and the petals came in through the window and fell lightly at Ye Nu's feet, bringing a little bit of different bright colors.

Ye Nu turned her head slowly.

At this moment, the figure of the benefactor downstairs merged with the figure of the rich man, but Ye Nu was no longer the one who was rejected and ashamed to admit.

Since then, Aju found that the way the two of them get along has completely changed.

Ye Nu would sit in front of the mirror and dress up seriously before her lover came, and would not laugh at him after he left, and she spent more and more time looking at her money box.However, the happy time is very short. It is not because the rich and powerful lover soon ran out of money and the capital to see Ye Nu.

When Ye Nu opened the money box for the first time, Aju was sitting beside her, and the money in the money box was an amount that Aju had never seen before.

Aju asked in surprise, "How much are these?"

Goddess Ye was in a trance. She looked at the money and silver, as if she saw the years in the brothel. She whispered: "About a tael of gold."

Aju was taken aback: "That's six thousand dollars?"

"A little more, about... seven thousand dollars."

Aju was dumbfounded, and said bitterly: "Aniang only sold me for fifty dollars."

Ye Nu said quietly: "The money and silver when you came in are different from when you went out. You are not the money now."

Aju asked ignorantly: "Then is this money enough for you to redeem yourself?"

Ye Nu thought for a while, closed the money box, and said, "Not enough."

Aju asked her again: "How far is it?"

"It's still a lot worse."

After Ye Nu finished speaking, she stopped looking at the money box.

Afterwards, when the lover comes again, he can only watch Ye Nu downstairs.

Ye Nu didn't say anything, she just leaned against the window and watched the scene silently.

One guest leaves, another arrives.

It's not the first time for Ye Nu to receive guests, and it's not like she hasn't been abused before.But when her beloved could not come again, and when she had new customers, she suddenly didn't want to receive them anymore.

Seeing this, Mrs. Xiang Teng scolded: "It's not a woman from an innocent family, why bother to put on airs! Do you really think you are a big girl? You haven't had enough of the hardships when you first entered the building!"

While scolding Ye Nu with the most vicious words, she let Mr. Gui hold Ye Nu's head, piercing Ye Nu's heart sentence by sentence: "Don't worry about it! Falling into such a dirty place, you still want to get rid of your body." Mud? Do you really want to see yourself as a person? It’s not that I’m laughing at you. What’s more, it’s just a man’s beautiful words when he’s still fresh. After a long time, you’re nothing.”

"Don't say anything else, didn't your previous gentleman treat you very well? But when you ran away and went to find someone, would they dare to take you?! Don't even look at what you are. Who is what? Fate, so what if you follow that lover? Let me calculate that he can pay you a gold or two, and I will ask you again, if you left with him, are you a concubine or a wife? If you marry you, let alone others , that is, family members will be pointed at by people when they walk on the road. It may be that which benefactor is his friend. At the wedding banquet, if someone says that he knows the bride, you will have face? Even if you leave this Wangjing, you You used to be from a lowly family, you will be ridiculed and ridiculed wherever you go, even if you give birth to a child, the child will be ridiculed as the birth of a whore!"

When he yelled this to Madam Teng, he yelled loudly, as if he wanted all the women in the building to listen.

She said mercilessly: "Once we enter this industry, no one will look down on us, even we ourselves can't think highly of ourselves. If you want to hate it, you hate your own life. Don't think about it in this life, and try to be better in the next life." Let's try to live again!"

Her words were harsh and poisonous, directly piercing into Ye Nu's heart.

Ye Nu was scolded and then dragged away.Although she cried very sadly that night, she still couldn't avoid picking up the guests.

There was a lot of noise in the room when Ye Nu received guests, Aju sat outside the door, thought for a long time, and suddenly ran to Xi Nu's room, and asked Xi Nu how to grow up quickly.

Xi Nu was fiddling with a few pennies in her hand, when she heard the words she narrowed her cloudy eyes, and said eccentrically, "You really want to rob customers so soon? Look at your talent, you should behave like you are asking people, I will not do anything that is not beneficial."

Aju left Xi Nu's room disappointed after hearing this, and in the afternoon of the next day, she quietly went to Ye Nu's room, stole Ye Nu's rouge, and went to the mirror to learn how Ye Nu painted her eyebrows and eyes.

Ye Nu woke up and saw her sneaky look, and asked her, "What are you doing?"

Aju was a little frustrated when she was discovered. Looking in the mirror, she felt that she could not be as mature and enchanting as Ye Nu, so she said disappointedly: "Sister, when will I be able to pick up guests..."

When Ye Nu heard that her face turned blue and white, she was about to scold her, when she heard her say: "If I can earn the money to redeem my sister's body, can my sister go away with my lover instead of staying in the building to be tortured?" Someone bullied?"

Ye Nu was taken aback, maybe she didn't expect her to say these words, and finally she pursed her lips, looking like she was going to cry or not, and lay awkwardly on the bed, with a nasal voice, and cursed lightly : "I want you to mind your own business!"

After finishing speaking, A-Ju was a little frustrated again, turned her head to the side of the person who had been sleeping in the corner of the living room, and said, "Tell me, is it difficult for people to be happy?"

Hearing this, the man opened those dim eyes, and finally said nothing, but hugged the cracked Shi Jing tightly in his arms.

And after that day, Ye Nu never leaned against the window to wait for her husband. Every day, her husband would come downstairs and stand there waiting for a period of time. What color clothes are people wearing today, whether their hair is high or low, and what they are doing.

"He's wearing purple clothes today."

"Sister, he is still wearing purple clothes today, doesn't he need to change clothes?"

"Sister, he is good. Grandma in Qianjie fell down, and he helped her up and sent her back."

"Sister, he found the money bag! Will he come to see you!...Ah, why is he still standing where he is?"

"...Sister! This idiot returned the money!"

Aju yelled in dissatisfaction, but Ye Nu, who hadn't reacted all this time, hit her on the head with a book and reprimanded her: "That's the right thing to do, how can you laugh at him for being stupid. "Ye Nu took Aju's hand, and said word by word: "Poverty does not lose righteousness, and attainment does not deviate from the Tao. This is the foundation of human beings."

Aju opened her round eyes, shook her head sincerely, and said naively: "I don't understand."

Ye Nu thought for a while and said, "It's just that sister hopes that Aju can become an upright person like him, and don't learn from Mrs. Teng, do you understand?"

Aju hated Madam Xiang Teng very much, so she understood what Ye Nu meant and nodded vigorously.Afterwards, Aju turned her head, snorted, and said something disturbing——

"Sister, why did the grandma's daughter approach him?"

Ye Nu, who hadn't seen her husband for a long time, moved when she heard the words, she poked her head and looked out the window, only to see a bright figure beside the handsome husband.It was a girl whose appearance was not as good as hers, but much more lively than hers.

Then the lover came to wait for Yenu, and the girl came to accompany the lover.Ye Nu was silent in front of the mirror for a day, combing her hair repeatedly, and tears suddenly appeared in her eyes.

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Today, a new customer came to the building looking for Ye Nu. This new customer is about the same age as my lover, and for some reason, Ye Nu always thinks he looks familiar.When the cloud and rain were over, Ye Nu stared blankly at the bed curtain above her head, and suddenly heard someone around her say: "Actually, I've always wanted to come to you before, but I couldn't come because of my beloved."

Like he didn't understand what he was saying.

Ye Nu's expression changed slightly at this moment.Her body was stiff, her writhing neck seemed rusty.The expression on his face seemed to be the same as before, but his eyes were weird and a little creepy.

"Do you know the beloved?"

She asked quietly.

The man said, "Yes, I live next door to my beloved."

And this sentence was like a cold wind, causing Ye Nu's body to suddenly become cold.

At this moment, Mrs. Xiang Teng's figure appeared in front of Ye Nu. In a trance, Ye Nu heard her own weak voice, which seemed to be scattered in her heart.

"Then do you know that my beloved is pleasing to me?"

The man was taken aback, "I know, so what? Someone else will come here without me, whoever you accompany is not accompanying, and I won't tell my beloved, so you can feel at ease."

He said it lightly, and it only brought countless troubles to people.

Ye Nu closed her eyes, her throat was extremely sore, and Mrs. Teng's words and the people in front of her became extremely tormenting weapons, which cut Ye Nu's body and mind, making her unable to maintain a peaceful side, and roared heartbreakingly. out.

This is the first time Ye Nu has done something to a guest.In fact, Ye Nu didn't know what she was calling, but the grievances of these years finally crushed her.

She growled, as if she wanted to shout out all the indignation.

Seeing her crazy, Aju felt sore.

Ye Nu was crying and laughing, took the money box frantically, and sat on the ground holding the money box, crying like a lost child.

And after tonight, Aju suddenly found out that Ye Nu had changed, and she had the air of an old man who was about to leave.Those eyes are always lifeless, as if the rain is pressing inside.

Ye Nu called Aju, handed the cloth bag full of money to Aju, and said, "Give the money to my beloved, and let him use it to see me."

Although Aju is ignorant, it is not that she does not understand.

"But Sister, if you hand over the money to him, even if he can come to see you, he won't see you for long. The money will always be used up. You might as well keep the money for yourself. When you save enough, you can redeem yourself! "

Ye Nu shook her head, took a deep look at her, and said without joy or sadness, "I can't wait anymore, just call him over."

Aju had no choice but to quietly throw the money to Mrs. Teng while she was busy with Mrs. Teng.

When the beloved received the money, his face turned red with shame. He took the money and went to Mrs. Xiang Teng first, and asked her how much she needed to redeem Ye Nu.

Xiang Teng glanced at Madam Teng. Throughout the ages, there have been many women in brothels, and there are not a few people who have good friends. But even if the relationship between the two parties is good, there are very few people who will come to redeem these miserable women.If you ask the reason, it's simple, one is because the brothel asks for a high price, pointing to this point to make a fortune, and the other is that it is not a glorious thing to bring a brothel girl home, even if the men who come here are all low-spirited, they still care about themselves With that stinking face, few people spend a lot of money to redeem the brothel girl.

The beloved may be different from those people, but when Mrs. Xiang Teng saw his appearance, she didn't think highly of him, so she said indifferently: "One tael of gold." After she finished speaking, she sneered and said: "I see You don’t even have the appearance of six thousand dollars, even five hundred dollars.”

The beloved didn't say anything, but turned around and counted the coins and banknotes in the money bag, and then went to see Ye Nu.

Ye Nu is still so beautiful, but she is much more haggard today than in the past.She smiled when she saw her husband, but then avoided his eyes.It was rare for the two to meet, so they didn't know what to say at this moment.

My lover really likes Ye Nu, when we first met, and even more when we get along, and because of liking, I don't want her to stay here and suffer.

And Ye Nu also really likes her husband, but she doesn't have the courage to go out of the brothel, so she said to her husband, "I called you here today for no other reason. I have a younger sister in the building. We have known each other for two years and we have a very good relationship." Recently, I thought that after waiting for two or three years, she might be old enough to receive customers, and I don’t want her to be like me, so I want to beg you, I have some money, you can use it to redeem her for me, and find her You are fostered by a good family, and as for the money in your hand... it is my thank you gift."

The beloved didn't say anything, just remained silent for a moment, took the remaining money from Ye Nu, and asked her, "How much does it cost to save her?"

"Three thousand coins. And I have seven thousand coins here. You leave one thousand coins for her, and you keep the three thousand coins for yourself. We got to know each other once, and this is a little return gift from me."

Ye Nu handed over all the money lightly.

The beloved paused when he heard this: "If I want to save you, how much do I need?"

Ye Nu was taken aback, and said dryly: "I am the cash cow in the building, at least three taels of gold, don't worry about it, you can't afford it. Besides, you are very boring, I don't look like you If you plan to stay together, you should keep the little money I gave you, and find an innocent girl to kiss."

Hearing this, the lover smiled wryly, and asked her gently: "Have you been saving this money for a long time?"

The corners of Ye Nu's mouth fell unconsciously, trembling a little, as if she wanted to cry, but she didn't want to cry in front of her lover, so she just said stubbornly: "No way! I'm the number one, I have a lot of money, I just need to coax you Those benefactors can easily get money that you can't get, so you don't need to feel bad about it."

Hearing this, the beloved got up abruptly, stopped looking at her, and only said: "Leave Aju to someone else to take care of you, I'm afraid you can't rest assured. If you trust me, I'll go home today and tidy up, and I'll pick her up tomorrow." Go and raise her as my own sister."

When Ye Nu heard this, her beautiful eyes were covered with a layer of water color, and she hummed with a strong nasal voice, saying hello.

"I'm waiting for you."

Then on the second day, Ye Nv waited for a long time with Aju, who was not well dressed, but no husband came to look for her.

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Three years later

The 13-year-old Aju is still childish, but the manager of the black heart feels that she is old enough to receive customers.

The flamboyantly dressed Ye Nu stood in the building and yelled at the guests last night for not being sympathetic. She dragged Aju, counted the money coaxed from her benefactor, and drove Aju to the backyard cursingly.

Xi Nu with a haggard face fiddled with the few coins in her palm and said, "I'm so bored these days, why is it raining and raining all the time? It's annoying."

Aju remained silent, fetched a bucket of water, and looked at the branches against the rain curtain, feeling a little strange in her heart.

It has been rainy in Dongzhou this year, and there have been floods in Xiazhou. Now I can only pray to God to bless Wangjing and not let the floods disturb me.

Thinking of this, Aju shook her head, first brought Ye Nu a bucket of water, then bent down to look at the drunk man hiding under the stairs, and said, "I heard you cough a few times yesterday, if you If you feel the ground is damp and cold, you might as well ask Mrs. Xiang Teng for a room."

The man lay motionless on the ground, as if dead, and did not reply.

Aju didn't get angry when she didn't hear the other party's voice, she just sat on the stairs and said to him: "You are also a weird person, you are obviously rich, why don't you find a good place to stay in this kind of place?" .And you gave the money, Madam bullied you, and you didn't say anything, and you didn't ask yourself for an explanation, isn't it a bit silly?"

She talked a lot, and she talked endlessly, and she mentioned Ye Nu again, and asked angrily in her heart: "You said, why do people always lie to others?"

The person lying under the stairs heard a movement here, and he was like a piece of stinking carrion. With a slight movement, the stench on his body made Aju almost turn around and run away.

"Because you are stupid, that's why he lied to you and you were deceived." After a long time, Aju heard his hoarse voice.

But Aju thought for a while and said, "No, even if I'm stupid, that's not the reason for others to lie to me. Why do you have to make excuses for other people's evil? People who are obviously deceived have a hard time."

"So, have you been lied to?"

Aju shook her head and said, "I am not the one who was deceived."

The man was silent after listening, Aju sat for a while, then heard the voice from the room on the left, and suddenly cried while talking.

The disheveled man asked her, "Why are you crying?"

A-ju didn't wipe away the tears from her face, and said sadly: "Madam said, we are poor lives."

The man froze for a moment: "Are you crying because of this?" He had also said this to Madam Teng for several years.

"No," Aju pretended to be relaxed and said, "I'm almost at the age of being sold."

The man let out an oh and understood why she was crying.

As the days got closer, Aju felt more and more uncomfortable, but she couldn't show it in front of Ye Nv, so she said to the man here: "Madam said, let us have a good birth in the next life, I think about my next life , really can only count on the afterlife."

At this point, Aju suddenly stood up, bent down to look at him at the bottom of the stairs, and said curiously: "I don't have a chance, so I can't live a good life. You obviously have a chance, why don't you want to live a good life?"

"...Probably because I'm not worthy."

"It's weird, you don't look like us, do you still have to ask if you deserve it when you're alive? Then since you asked, who do you want to answer whether you deserve it or not?" Aju was surprised, and only pulled his hand vigorously, drinking tenderly. One voice: "Come here."

The man didn't want to move at first, but it can be seen that Aju has been insisting on it, and he has loosened his strength after all.

Aju dragged him to the kitchen and directed him to fetch water.The man put the mirror in his arms, tried his best not to let the rainwater touch the mirror, and slowly brought a bucket of water to Aju.

Aju sat in front of the earthen stove, waiting for a pot of water to boil. Aju took the basin and began to straighten the body of the man who was paralyzed on the ground.The man was uncomfortable, so he avoided it. Seeing this, she frowned dissatisfiedly, and said coquettishly, "What are you trying to do? I just want you to stand in the world."

"No need." After the man finished speaking, he turned around and lay down in the heavy rain, no matter how much Aju shouted, he was unwilling to get up.

And as the day when Aju picked up the guests was getting closer, Ye Nu's temper became more and more irritable. She repeatedly counted the money and silver in the money box, with such a gloomy face all day long.Mrs. Xiang Teng was always smiling. After all, there are very few women who are as beautiful as Ye Nu. Even if Ye Nu is old, her charm is not as good as others.

Although Aju is not as beautiful as Ye Nu, she is worse than young.As long as she hugs Ye Nu and A Ju, Mrs. Xiang Teng will feel at ease.It's just that the rainy days are sultry and hot recently, and it rains every day, and there are fewer guests.

The impetuous Mrs. Xiang Teng has been losing her temper because of the lack of customers recently.A few days later, the governor of Dongzhou came to Wangjing with his assistants to survey the landforms. People from the yamen cleared the streets. Mrs. Xiang Teng was very bored, so she chatted with acquaintances in the yamen.Waiting for the governor to come over, at this time the rain became lighter and stopped for a while.

Looking up at Mrs. Xiang Teng, she happened to have a face-to-face meeting with the governor of Dongzhou who had lifted the curtain, and then both of them froze for a moment.

Soon, the frame left before the eyes, and officers and soldiers with weapons on horses and on foot passed by, leaving only a red shadow of Mrs. Xiang Teng going away.Then, as if waking up from a dream, Mrs. Xiang Teng touched her face subconsciously, retreated back into the room with a pale face, and closed the door.

Immediately afterwards, the brothel was rarely closed for two days.Everyone in the building was saying that Mrs. Xiang Teng had taken the wrong medicine, but Mrs. Xiang Teng kept holding a piece of jade and remained silent for a long time.

A few years ago, the drought just passed, and now the flood is coming again.

Wangjing seems to be cursed, and the people living here gradually become depressed.

For some reason, Mrs. Xiang Teng, who had been depressed for two days, cheered up today and decided to sell Aju tonight.

Ye Nu scolded in the room all morning, the money box fell on the floor, and a lot of money was spilled out of it.The reflections of those coins and silver are reflected on the dark brown wooden boards, like Aju's vague future.

Xi Nu smiled happily, leaning against the fence, bent over the water snake, as if she was jumping for joy that A-Ju was about to be like herself.

Aju cried and hated, but on this day, she calmed down unbelievably.

She thought she didn't care anymore.

But when she stood on the stage, looking at