Chapter III

Spring goes to autumn, and in a blink of an eye, Yuexi has come to Yuexing Pavilion for three years, and these three years are not long or short, and Yuexi has also become a well-known girl in the pavilion, because she is still young now, she rarely goes to the front, so she has the current fame, and the four Oiran in the pavilion all said that Yuexi will have to compare them to them in the future!

On this day, Yuexi just went down to the attic and saw the front yard being noisy, why is the front yard so lively before it has started to open yet? With questions, Yuexi came to the front yard, grabbed a little girl and asked, "What's wrong today?" Why is it so lively? What are you busy with? ”

"Sister Yuexi came just in time, just now Sister Yueyue told me to send the sugar gourd she bought for you, she doesn't have time, I was just about to go and you came! Sister go get it herself, it's right on the counter! ”

Hearing that there was a sugar gourd, Yuexi's eyes lit up, and she immediately took a bite of the sugar gourd, and the sweet and sour taste made her smile, and she took the sugar gourd and ate it while walking to the door, and then remembered what she was doing here, and pulled the little girl just now and asked again!

Yuexi took the sugar gourd out of the front yard, still thinking about what the little girl said just now: "Sister Yuexi doesn't know?" Sister Xiyue wants to ...... today" The little girl didn't say anything about the words, but Yuexi knew what it was, but some time ago I heard that Sister Xiyue had saved enough money to redeem herself, Yuexi ate the remaining sugar gourd in one bite, and ran to the door of Xiyue's room and knocked on the door!

"Come in"

After Yuexi entered the door, she saw Xiyue sitting in front of the dresser and drawing her eyebrows, Xiyue saw her come in and smiled and said: "Xiaoxi'er is here, do you smell the pastry I just made, keep it for you, it's on the table, go eat!" ”

Yuexi was not as happy as usual when she heard that there were pastries, but she kept looking at Xiyue and didn't know how to speak!

Seeing her strange Xiyue first asked, "Yuexi?" What's wrong? Your face isn't very good, isn't it uncomfortable? Do you want to get a doctor? ”

Yuexi shook her head and asked, "Sister Xiyue, I just heard Xiaocui say that you want to ...... today."

"You got it? That's right, I'm already eighteen, and it's too late to pick up customers today! ”

"But you've already saved enough money to redeem yourself!"

Xiyue smiled bitterly: "Yes, I have already saved enough money to redeem myself, but what about a woman like us who redeems herself?" After the girl who entered the Qinglou redeemed herself, even if she went to be a maid for others, people thought we were dirty! ”

"But didn't there be a member of the staff who said two days ago that he wanted to redeem you? You can ......"

Xiyue interrupted her and continued, "Yuexi, do you remember Yanhong who was redeemed not long after you first came to Yuexing Pavilion? ”

Yuexi nodded: "Remember, wasn't she redeemed by Li Yuan and returned home to be the fourth lady, and I don't know what happened!" ”

"She's dead!"

"Dead? How did he die? ”

Xiyue looked out the window deeply, as if she had seen far, far away, Yuexi remembered which direction was the mass grave outside the city!

After a long time, Xiyue retracted her gaze and continued: "She was redeemed for about half a year, I met her when Shuqi and I went to the street to buy rouge gouache, Yan Hong told us that she was pregnant, at that time she was really happy, the joy of being a mother, happy!" We were all happy for her, but it didn't take long to hear that the fourth lady of Li Yuanwai had a miscarriage and both mother and child, and the miscarriage was only as for both mother and child, but at that time she was a member of Li Yuanwai's family, and we didn't have the right to ask, you know that it is impossible for the concubine to enter the ancestral grave when she died, so they took a straw mat and threw it directly in the mass grave, Sister Bingyan took someone to find her body after a night, bought a coffin and buried her well, and listened to the people who followed Sister Bingyan to say that Yan Hong's mouth and nose were full of black blood, and she was obviously poisoned! ”

Xiyue sighed and continued: "Yuexi, the rules in the pavilion are set by Sister Bingyan, in order to give people like us a way to live, how can there be any girl in other Qinglou who is under the age of eighteen and does not accept guests, like you at your age in other Qinglou I don't know how many times to pick up guests, but then again, like us, a good fate to marry a peddler pawn husband and godson for a lifetime, or be a concubine for others like Yanhong, meet a good housewife and live a safe life, meet a bad housewife all day long, and don't know how to die when the time comes, It's better to forget it like this, at least you can still be free, and you don't have to intrigue! ”

"Even if that's the case, you don't have to sell yourself, let's go talk to my mother, she'll agree!"

Xiyue smiled and said: "Silly girl, I want this myself, if I don't want to Bingyan, Sister will definitely agree, but the Moon Star Pavilion has the rules of the Moon Star Pavilion, what will the other girls do after breaking the rules for me?" If everyone is the same as me, how can there be guests in the pavilion, and when there is no business, the Moon Star Pavilion will not be able to hold on, and the lives of those girls will be even worse! ”

When Bingyan and Liuyue came to the small garden, they saw Yuexi sitting on the swing in a daze, and the osmanthus cake in her hand was about to fall to the ground, Liuyue stepped forward and patted her, but there was no response, and she still didn't react when she took the things in her hand, and asked Bingyan strangely: "Sister Bingyan, what's wrong with Yuexi?" She usually took her food, and she jumped up and grabbed it! ”

Bingyan shook his head, and then patted Yuexi: "Xiaoxi'er? ”

Yuexi didn't know how she got out of Xiyue's room, and when she reacted, she only saw Bingyan patting her, slapping her and calling at her, while Liuyue stood behind Bingyan eating snacks!

"Mom, are you calling me something?"

"No, it's just that you're in a daze, and you don't know if your food is robbed, what's wrong with you?"

Yuexi looked at her empty hands, and then looked at Liuyue who was eating osmanthus cake with a proud face, sighed, and continued to be in a daze! Now the ice smoke and the flowing moon are even stranger, what's going on? After asking Yuexi several times, she looked up at Bingyan after speaking: "Mom, a few days ago, the shopkeeper Lin clearly said that he wanted to redeem Sister Xiyue and marry her as a concubine, but why didn't she want to?" ”

Bingyan sat down beside her, hugged her and said, "Xiaoxi'er, you are still young, you don't understand, you will know in the future, and my mother hopes that you will never understand!" ”

Swing with her for a while, and the ice smoke will go to get busy! Yuexi went out after playing for a while, and came to his usual favorite place - Qingfeng Slope, although the scenery here is good, few people come, compared to the Yuexing Pavilion is much quieter, Yuexi walked slowly, while walking and thinking about things without paying attention to the feet, stepping on the river mud slipped, and fell in, although it was already summer, but the weather was not hot, the water was even colder, Yuexi kept splashing on the water, but to no avail could only sink and float in the water, and wanted to call for help but the water poured into the mouth as soon as he opened his mouth, After repeating it several times, she was exhausted and no longer had the strength to flutter, she could only hold on to what she could touch, because it was remote and few people came, Yuexi thought that she was going to die this time, and she finally fainted from exhaustion, but before she passed out, she felt as if someone had picked her up!