Chapter 1: Burning the Pear Orchard
In 970 years of the Great Yuan Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, the Great Yuan Emperor was stabbed to death in the palace, and the Shatuo people captured the capital of the Great Yuan and changed the name of the country to Hou Yuan.
Later, the princes of various places successively proclaimed themselves kings and set up their own doors.
After 36 years of scuffle, the world was divided into five.
In 1006 A.D., the king of Houyuan fought in the southern city, took Jinling as the capital, entrenched in the Central Plains, and established the Warring States.
Li Ke, the king of the Northwest Domain, was attacked by the Khitan army, and finally the Northwest Domain was taken away by the Khitan. It is called Liao.
Southern Wu loves to domesticate wild beasts, Southern Tang is good at secret arts, and Min Han is good at witchcraft
Although the three small countries are small, they are entrenched in the south because of their respective advantages.
I was born in the Southern Wu Later Yuan at the junction of the Southern Tang Dynasty... A garden, well... The garden to which we are sent.
In the troubled times, to open such a garden at the junction of the three countries, it is very good to think of Li's mother's means and background.
Later, I finally understood that this gentle, intoxicating and intoxicating township was not only a welcome destination for people, but also a meeting point for the intelligence of the Three Kingdoms.
All the people in Liyuan live in this intertwined interest and live in troubled times.
My name is Jinse, and I've been here since I was born.
If it weren't for her, I think I would definitely be a girl like Aunt Qin, and save some money for my retirement.
The fire in front of me is so brilliant
I'm a little tired,
The fire is getting bigger and bigger
The mung bean cake on the next street is really delicious, and if you want to say regret, it may be that you didn't buy a few pieces to eat before setting the fire just now.
So be it.
Stand up and jump from the top of the highest building in the pear orchard
This fire is so warm.
I've never been so warm in my life
If there is an afterlife, I think...
Forget it, I don't want to have an afterlife.
Someone seemed to be shouting my name in the distance
But I don't want to know who it is.
Take another look at the stars in the sky, and the stars are so beautiful today.
"Ah Jin?"
"Ah Jin? Wake up, it's time to go to the front yard to pick up the girl's change of clothes? ”
In a trance, it was as if someone had pulled me out of bed.
"Are you having nightmares again?"
I'm a little awake, and it's this dream again.
I've been having this weird dream lately, in which I burned down the pear orchard and died in the fire.
"Today is your mother's death day, I helped you prepare the sacrifices and paper money, you will come back after collecting your clothes in a while, find a place to worship quietly, don't be discovered by the grandmothers."
Aunt Qin neatly helped me clean up the bed, took the offerings under the bed, and patted me on the shoulder: "Hurry up, come down when you are washed." ”
She's a girl, though I hate to admit it.
I mean, the woman I gave birth to was a girl from the pear orchard.
She gave birth to me in this garden, and then she died.
I don't know much about her, except for the occasional mention.
It is said that she was sold, and the grandmothers asked her to pick up customers, and she ran, and ran countless times, but she was all caught.
Her days were spent picking up customers, running away, and then being caught and beaten.
It is said that the last time she ran away, she ran very successfully, ran very far, but she was still caught back, and when she came back with me, no one would pity her because she was pregnant, but only beat her harder, maybe I was born hard, and I was not beaten in that beating.
I don't know why, but no one asked her to beat me off, and after giving birth to me, she was dragged to pick up the guest by force, and died in bed, and it is said that the guest was perverted, and Mama had no way to deal with it, and she was reluctant to let her go to the bed of the perverted guest······
In the blink of an eye, I have been living in the garden for 10 years, and Aunt Qin inadvertently told me yesterday when she was doing laundry that Grandma should let me pick up customers in two years. I didn't react, leaned against the window in the attic, and looked out in a daze.
The sky outside was so blue, and the clouds were drifting so high.
I was born with a somewhat eccentric temperament, and I refused to get close to anyone since I was a child, so I naturally didn't like it, and if it weren't for Aunt Qin's care, I don't know if I would have survived until now.
The owner of the pear orchard does not come often, and everything in the garden is managed by Mother Li and her grandmothers.
In fact, the grandmothers in charge of the garden treated me quite well, as long as they didn't cause trouble, they should not have me.
The girls saw through it, and although they knew that I didn't have a heart for them, they didn't have any bad intentions. Still like to chat with me, and want to leave me some delicious food. He would tell me interesting things, and sometimes he would give me some pocket money to sneak into the street to help them buy things that their mother didn't let them use on weekdays.
I just follow Aunt Qin to take care of the food and clothing of the people in the garden every day, and find some fun for myself in idleness, and the days go by day by day.
The girls in the garden are old, sold, new, and come and go.
When Aunt Qin was young, she was also a girl from this garden, she was very beautiful, and she played the piano well, and everyone who came to see her style was about to break the door of the hall. Later, because of an accident, she ruined her face, and there was no way to pick up customers and no one was willing to redeem her, so she begged her mother and stayed in the garden to do chores, I think Aunt Qin should have saved a lot of money, but I don't know why she didn't redeem herself and leave here.
In the evening, Aunt Qin knocked on my door again, and I saw that she hesitated at the door for a long time and refused to knock, so she jumped out of bed and opened the door, and Aunt Qin was startled by my actions.
Without waiting for her to speak, I smiled at her
"Aunt Qin, I know, isn't it just picking up customers? I know, it's not a big deal, it's a matter of time or night, there are no idlers in the garden, I know. ”
Aunt Qin looked at me and wanted to reach out and touch my face, but I subconsciously dodged it, and she put it down.
I don't know why Aunt Qin is always so careful with me, and she doesn't want to dig into the problems inside.
She raised me and took care of me until now, and I should be grateful to her, but I have never been close to her.
The sound of commotion in the front yard broke the awkward and delicate atmosphere.
I pricked up my ears and listened, and the sound of the silk and bamboo wind music was mixed with the noise and the crying of girls.
"It's been a long time since you've had any guests make trouble?" I ran to the window and looked.
The girl in the front yard can be seen faintly from the attic in the backyard, but she can't really see it.
The attic in the backyard is only two stories high, and the front yard does have three floors.
Mama Li is really painstaking for the layout of the front yard, the whole flower building is wrapped in fine yarn, the flower building is brightly lit, looking at it from afar, every time there is a wind blowing the fine yarn, this flower building has a sense of ethereal, and it seems to be a fairyland in the dark night.
There is an independent moon-watching platform at the top of the third floor, and every full moon night, there are girls who go up to play the piano and dance, like Chang'e descending to the earth, seducing mortals to come and find out.
Tonight is not a full moon night, the moon watchtower is lit up, and there is no one.
The third floor is peaceful, and the second floor is constantly bamboo, and it doesn't seem that anyone is making trouble, that is the sound of the first floor and the compound.
Aunt Jean pulled me back from the window and sighed; "A few days ago, my mother fell in love with a girl, and I guess she got it back."
I was even more curious, and wanted to run to see what kind of girl was worthy of my mother's painstaking efforts to get into her hands.
didn't make it, was pulled by Aunt Qin, and drove back to the attic: "What are you curious about, in a few days you will learn the rules of picking up customers with her." ”
When I heard this, I immediately lost interest.