Chapter 34: Liu Yingying (5)
After listening to Xie Yuan's narration, Liu Yingying couldn't figure out whether her mood was surprised or surprised. Unexpectedly, the warriors standing in front of him turned out to be the warriors sent by the Ming Emperor to support Korea! The sudden change in Xie Yuan's role made her a little uncomfortable, and she felt a little confused in her thinking. Thinking about this short relationship with Xie Yuan, it seems to be a plot arranged by someone. What kind of role do you play in this play?
Liu Yingying tried her best to figure out her thoughts, she wanted to make clear the one thing she was most concerned about first, so she asked: "I want to know, you rescued me that night, because you asked me, or because of ......" Liu Yingying looked straight into Xie Yuan's eyes, she didn't finish her words, she thought that Xie Yuan should be able to understand the meaning of the words she didn't say, she was waiting for Xie Yuan's true words.
Liu Yingying really didn't want the true love she thought she had just gotten turned out to be a purposeful exchange.
"Yingying, to be honest, I really only came to get your help when I came. Through this brief contact, I realized that I had a deep ...... Fell in love with you. I didn't think much about it at the time when I saw that Japanese man wanting to bully you that night, I just didn't want anyone to hurt you, even if I died for you, I don't regret it! When Xie Yuan said that he was emotional, he couldn't help but hug Liu Yingying into his arms and hugged him tightly.
Two lines of hot tears flowed from Liu Yingying's eyes, and she also reached out to hug Xie Yuan. Thinking that he lost his relatives at a young age, tasted the warmth and coldness of the world, and finally found his true love today, Liu Yingying sobbed in Xie Yuan's arms and sobbed in a low voice.
"Yingying, you are the first and will be the last girl to make my heart move." Xie Yuan caressed Liu Yingying's back lovingly.
Liu Yingying slowly stopped sobbing, and she hugged Xie Yuan harder, for fear that as soon as she let go, her beloved would be lost.
In this way, two young people who are new to love embraced each other and quietly savored this wonderful moment.
"The old man who came in that night was Yukicho Konishi." After coming over for a while, Liu Yingying opened her mouth and said to Xie Yuan.
"I thought it might be him." Xie Yuan said.
"Then why don't you ask me what my relationship is with him?" Liu Yingying knew that Xie Yuan must be very interested in this matter, but considering her feelings, it was inconvenient to take the initiative. Therefore, Liu Yingying simply took the initiative to raise this question herself.
"......" Xie Yuan didn't know how to answer for a while.
"He's actually mine...... Father. Liu Yingying said with some hesitation.
Xie Yuan shook his head.
"Look scares you." Liu Yingying let go of the hands that were hugging Xie Yuan, affectionately tapped Xie Yuan's forehead with her fingers, and then helped Xie Yuan, who had not yet recovered from his shock, to sit down on the stool in front of the dresser.
"Although he is my biological father, I do not recognize him." After Liu Yingying finished speaking, she sat sideways on the edge of the bed and began to tell Xie Yuan about her life experience.
One day 18 years ago, the aunt and wife of a large family in Wangjing, the capital of North Korea, went to the temple on the mountain outside the city to offer incense. It was winter, and it had just snowed heavily and the weather was very cold. At the foot of the mountain, the aunt found a middle-aged man, thinly dressed and his limbs frozen in the snow.
Seeing the man's dying appearance, the aunt's wife was moved with compassion, and she quickly asked her entourage to carry the man down the mountain and send him to a clinic in Wang Jing for treatment. When the man woke up, the aunt found that the rescued man was a Japanese who had just arrived in North Korea and wanted to do a medicinal herb business.
After the man recovered from frostbite, he came to the aunt's house many times with gifts to thank him. After going back and forth, the man became familiar with his aunt's family, and with the help of the family, he rented a well-located shop on a bustling street in Wangjing City and started his medicinal herb business.
Gradually, he relied on the high-quality and inexpensive medicinal materials he had trafficked from the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty to open the market, and his business became more and more prosperous.
The aunt often went to the shop of the Japanese merchant to buy medicine. The Japanese merchants always sold to this aunt at the lowest cost price. After a long time, the two became good friends.
A year later, the aunt suddenly contracted a terrible infectious disease that was incurable with the medical conditions of the time. Seeing that there was no hope of help, his ruthless husband secretly abandoned his dying aunt and wife into the wilderness, so that she would not infect himself and his family.
When the merchant found out, he immediately went to the wilderness, risked his life to save the aunt from the wolf's mouth, and carried her back to his shop.
Relying on his medical experience accumulated over many years of selling medicines, the Japanese merchant judged that the aunt's symptoms should be typhoid fever. The patient had a high fever and was in a trance, and had reached the advanced stage of the course of the disease.
The Japanese merchant knew that several of the medicinal herbs he sold were specifically used to treat typhoid fever, such as Bupleurum chinensis, cinnamon sticks, and licorice. He put down the business in his hands, used his own medicinal herbs to make a medicinal soup according to the ancient recipe for treating typhoid fever, and carefully treated this aunt's wife.
After nearly half a month of treatment and conditioning, the aunt was rescued and gradually recovered.
The aunt was no longer willing to return to her ruthless husband. The Japanese merchants took her in to help with their business.
After a long time of love, the two lived together.
In the autumn of the following year, the aunt gave birth to a girl for the Japanese businessman. After discussion, the two decided: for the convenience of life in the future, let the girl take her mother's surname and name her Liu Yingying.
The birth of a daughter brought great happiness to the two of them. But the good times didn't last long, and when Liu Yingying was less than a year old, the man was forcibly recalled to the Japanese country to join the army.
Before leaving, the Japanese businessman left all his savings from years of business to Liu Yingying's mother and daughter, hoping that they could have a stable life. He also left one of his family's pair of jade bracelets to his daughter as a token of their future meeting.
Liu Yingying relied on the savings left by her father and depended on her mother, and her life was quite stable.
When Liu Yingying was six years old, her mother's typhoid fever relapsed. When she was dying, her mother took out a jade bracelet and put it on Liu Yingying's wrist, and told her daughter that her father was a Japanese named Konishi Yukinaga, and when she was one year old, her father returned to China to serve in the army, and has not been heard from since. If we can meet in the future, the bracelet is a token. After the mother finished speaking, she died, leaving her six-year-old daughter behind.
Liu Yingying was helpless alone, so she had to find the big family that abandoned her mother, hoping to take her in. Not only did the big family not take her in, but they also sold her, a so-called "wild seed," to a brothel in the distant city of Pyongyang.
The brothel where Liu Yingying was sold is now Fengyue Pavilion. Most of the women in Fengyue Pavilion came from poor rural families, and they were forced to engage in selling their bodies because they were forced to live or were abducted by traffickers.
Liu Yingying is different from them, she grew up in Wangjing, the capital of North Korea, and her family was quite prosperous when her mother was alive. The difference in the growth environment determines that Liu Yingying has an inner temperament that other women in Fengyue Pavilion do not have.
When Liu Yingying first arrived at Fengyue Pavilion, the old bustard saw that this little girl from Wang Jing was born beautiful, so he hired an artist to teach Liu Yingying to play chess, calligraphy and painting and other talents, hoping to cultivate her into the future leader of Fengyue Pavilion.
Liu Yingying is smart and clever, and it didn't take long for her to be proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. When she just turned sixteen, the old bustard couldn't bear it anymore and asked Liu Yingying to sell herself to pick up customers. Liu Yingying is not alive or dead, insisting on only selling her art and not her body.
The old bustard came up with all kinds of tricks to force Liu Yingying to comply, but they were all recognized by the clever Liu Yingying, and none of them succeeded. The old bustard had nothing to do, so he had to agree to Liu Yingying's request that she not sell her body.
Liu Yingying relied on her outstanding talent show to attract a large number of guests for Fengyue Pavilion.
One night after the Japanese occupied Pyongyang, the old bustard walked into Yoo Yingying's "music workshop" and was followed by an elderly man who appeared to be in his 60s and wore the casual clothes worn by older Koreans.
Many guests who come to enjoy Liu Yingying's talent show often have bad intentions and try to get some cheap by approaching Liu Yingying. Such guests often show their lust as soon as they enter the door.
And this time, the guest brought in by the old bustard was a little different, since he entered the door of the "Music Art Workshop", he did not look at Liu Yingying. Judging from the tired expression on the guest's face, the purpose of his visit to the "Music Art Workshop" was to find a quiet place, listen to music, and relax. As for who the person performing for him is, he doesn't care too much.
The old bustard personally arranged the seat for the guest, then pulled Liu Yingying aside, put his mouth to Liu Yingying's ear and whispered: "This guest officer is the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in Pyongyang, you have to wait well." Even if he brings it up to you...... Do that, my mother begs you to make an exception and agree to him, otherwise this Fengyue Pavilion will have to close its doors. ”
After listening to the introduction of the old bustard, Liu Yingying's face showed a trace of disgust. He had long heard that after the Japanese occupied Pyongyang, they burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. As a Korean citizen, Yoo had an instinctive hostility towards these Japanese executioners.
"What tunes do you want to listen to?" Liu Yingying walked up to the guest and asked politely.
The guest waved at the bustard. The old bustard immediately exited the room playfully and closed the door casually.
"Let's play a song "Peony Blossoms". After the guest finished speaking, he sat on the chair behind the coffee table, listening to Liu Yingying's performance on the stage, and slowly tasting the sake that the old bustard had prepared for him a long time ago.
Generally, most of the guests who come to the "Music Art Workshop" come to see Liu Yingying playing music with their eyes, and their attention is often on the people rather than the music. And this guest kept his eyes closed throughout Liu Yingying's performance. He was listening to Liu Yingying's music with his ears, and he was really enjoying the relaxation and pleasure that music brought him.
At the end of the song, Liu Yingying stepped off the stage and poured wine for the guests.
Just as Liu Yingying raised his wrist to pour wine for the guest, his slightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and his eyes were firmly fixed on Liu Yingying's left hand holding the wine jug.
On her left wrist, Liu Yingying carries the jade jade bracelet left to her by her mother before she died.
"May I ask the girl, ...... you jade bracelet" The guest stared at Liu Yingying.
"It was left to me by my mother before she died." Liu Yingying was stared at a little worriedly.
"The girl's ancestral home is in Wang Jing?"
"yes."
"Can you take the liberty of asking, how old is the girl?"
"Sixteen."
"Can you take off your bracelet and let me have a look?" The guest impatiently pleaded with Liu Yingying.
Liu Yingying glanced at the guest suspiciously, a little reluctantly, but she still gently took the jade bracelet from her wrist and handed it to the guest.
The guest grabbed the jade bracelet, lowered his head and looked at it carefully and repeatedly, and then, with a trembling hand, he took out an identical jade bracelet from his body and compared the two jade bracelets several times.
"Daughter, are you ...... My daughter! After comparing the two jade bracelets, the guest excitedly held Liu Yingying's hands, his eyes full of tears.
The guest in front of him is the medicinal herb merchant who left Yoo Yingying's mother and daughter more than ten years ago to return to the Japanese army to join the Japanese army - now the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in Pyongyang City, Konishi Yukicho.
Liu Yingying's eyes widened in astonishment, looking at the old man in front of her, who was already in tears. She had imagined the image of her father countless times, and for her, the word father was so abstract, so distant, so ethereal. Although her mother always told her when she was alive that her father was a good man. But after the death of her mother, as time went by, in the depths of Liu Yingying's heart, she still continued to accumulate resentment towards her father. For more than ten years, she has not received any fatherly love. Her father's departure left her with countless fears and despairs. She felt that it was her father's ruthless abandonment that made her lonely and helpless.
Now, the father who left a grudge in Liu Yingying's heart is sitting in front of her, and Liu Yingying is a little uncomfortable.
Moreover, this father is now the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Pyongyang, an executioner whose hands are stained with the blood of the North Korean people!
Liu Yingying felt ashamed that she had such a father, she withdrew her hands from the hands of Yukicho Konishi in disgust, stood up, walked to the window, looked out of the window, and said in a flat tone: "You recognized the wrong person, I don't have a father like you." I am a North Korean and my mother is Yoo Xiangyun. ”
The old tearful face of Governor Konishi suddenly froze, and he looked at Liu Yingying blankly. His long-lost daughter is in front of him, but his daughter doesn't want to recognize him! Konishi bowed his head in pain.
"I know you're resentful of your father. It's the father who can't stand you, no, it's the mother and daughter! But I couldn't help it! The country is recruited, and the emperor's order is difficult to disobey! After a moment of silence, President Konishi spoke, as if he was explaining, and as if he was apologizing to Liu Yingying.