Chapter 265: The Story of Orchid
She guessed correctly, this orchid was one of the orchid pavilions in Flower Street. What's even more coincidental is that this orchid is the person in the 'Splendid Fang' that Cheng Xiaoxiao has been staying at the door for a long time.
Yes, now you can't just call her Orchid, people just told Cheng Xiaoxiao that her name is Manli.
Manli has been in Fairview for several years, although she still looks young. But compared to other orchids, Manli is one of the older ones.
Every month, new girls are sent in from Fairview Workshop, and Manli, an 'old man', can only rely on repeat customers, and the appearance of newcomers has taken away Manli's already few customers.
At that time, Manli herself was also very anxious, but she couldn't think of any good way to improve the situation.
Until one day before the business opened, Manli was called into the room by the bustard, and as soon as she pushed the door open and entered the room, she was (tào) sacked, and since then Manli has been living a long and dark life.
The more Cheng Xiaoxiao listened, the more frightened she became, and the goosebumps on (shēn) rose layer after layer, and she wanted to ask Manli to stop and let her continue slowly, but she couldn't help but want to continue listening.
"They took me to a closed room, where I was forced to pour a large bowl of water-like liquid and was in a coma for the rest of the day."
Manli clearly didn't want to remember the painful (ri) time, and her big black grape eyes were filled with tears of horror.
"It would be nice if I had been in a coma, but every day people torture me with all kinds of torture instruments, not only me, but also their ......"
"Wait, she, guys?"
Cheng Xiaoxiao rubbed the goosebumps on her arms with both hands and asked suspiciously.
"Yes, they are. I wasn't the only one in that room, there were many orchids dressed like me, some of them newcomers I had ever seen in Fairview. Manli nodded at Cheng Xiaoxiao and explained to her.
"The newcomer was also arrested? I thought ......"
Cheng Xiaoxiao originally wanted to say that she thought that it was an orchid like Manli who could no longer attract guests to be sent away by the bustard, but thinking of this hurt Manli's heart a little, so Cheng Xiaoxiao stopped talking halfway through.
Manli already understood what Cheng Xiaoxiao meant, but just shook her head indifferently
"The newcomers I met happened to have a few more words in the past few days, and she said that some of the newcomers didn't understand the rules and couldn't teach them. I guess it's because they're disobedient, that's why they ......."
Manli frowned again as she spoke, as if she couldn't bear to continue.
After a moment of relaxation, she cleared her throat and continued
"These are all things I know after I have briefly regained consciousness after being beaten, and as for the rest, I have seen them after I die."
"Is there anything else (qg)?"
Cheng Xiaoxiao found it difficult for her to accept these alone, the dark room (ri), the endless abuse......
Just listening to Manli's description, Cheng Xiaoxiao felt that she couldn't imagine that kind of life, but she didn't expect Manli's story to be over.
"One day I was beaten to the point where I couldn't breathe, and after the chaos I realized that I had become a ghost."
Manli took a deep breath and held back as many tears as she could
"It wasn't until I became a ghost that I realized that every time they beat us, they would wrap us in layers of cloth, and those cloths would end up in a wooden barrel."
"Cloth and barrels? What kind of strange form of abuse is this? ”
Cheng Xiaoxiao was a little incomprehensible, all she could think of at the moment was that this was the perverted torture method of those abusers.
"It was as if they wanted to preserve the blood and sweat that came out of us (shēn), and soon after I died, they changed their ways."
Manli remembered as much as she could, and she kept rubbing her hands in place, trying to give herself some comfort.
"I saw them attach their utensils to the other orchids (shēn) after they finished fighting, scraping the blood and sweat that flowed out little by little."
Manli didn't cry all the time, but her voice was already shaking.
"I don't know exactly what they're going to do, I didn't want to stay in that room anymore, so I came out of the way."
Manli knew that only by telling Cheng Xiaoxiao everything she knew (qg) could Cheng Xiaoxiao help her more quickly.
So even though she was very resistant to those memories, she still explained everything to Cheng Xiaoxiao.
"Can you help me get the rest out? There are still a lot of orchids out there that haven't been tortured to death, but they're all dying and won't live long, so we need to do it as soon as possible. ”
Cheng Xiaoxiao had already gasped several times, she was originally standing in front of Manli, and as she received more and more information, Cheng Xiaoxiao had already walked around the end of the alley several times.
As soon as Manli's last request came out, Cheng Xiaoxiao stopped almost immediately. She stood there, quickly turning (shēn) and seriously promising Manli, "Help!" I'm sure I'll help you get them out, not just to save them, we'll go now!" ”
Cheng Xiaoxiao is not only holding back a cloud of anger in her heart now, but also a sense of mission to save all those orchids.
This is not Cheng Xiaoxiao's impulse, she also knows that the person who can catch so many orchids must not be ordinary people, and she is just a weak woman who can only rely on jade pendants to collect ghosts.
But Cheng Xiaoxiao can't do it herself, Chu Yunshen can!
She is not stupid, she dares to single-handedly go to the nest of perverted sadists.
But no one says that a person can't spy on the situation first, right?
Cheng Xiaoxiao thought very well in her heart, she will go to the place that Manli said tonight to take a look, first check the surrounding (qg) situation, know herself and know that she will not be defeated in a hundred battles.
Then she took Manli and hurriedly went back to tell Chu Yunshen, if they were fast, they would be able to catch the perverted sadist tonight, and the efficiency of this work could be regarded as fast enough to fly, okay.
And Manli's words just now also reminded Cheng Xiaoxiao, she just had other things to ask Manli
"Manli, have you been quiet all the time you've been locked up there?"
Cheng Xiaoxiao was just a little suspicious, after all, Manli said that they were in a coma most of the time, so Cheng Xiaoxiao was not sure of her guess.
"No, we all cry when we are beaten very badly, and we are not in a coma."
Although Manli didn't understand what Cheng Xiaoxiao meant, she still replied seriously.
Now Cheng Xiaoxiao can be sure, the place that Manli said is very close to the yard of the supplier that Helulu said before.
It seems that there is a windfall!
This is probably the only thing that Cheng Xiaoxiao feels a little happy about tonight, and it can be regarded as the only thing she heard from Manli that makes her happy.
Cheng Xiaoxiao still remembered what He Lulu said in the warehouse at the time, although He Lulu just unintentionally mentioned it, but Cheng Xiaoxiao remembered this detail very carefully.
She remembered that He Lulu told Chu Yunshen at that time that he had heard a woman's cry on the other side of the supplier's yard.
Combined with Manli's words, Cheng Xiaoxiao had a bold idea.
Could it be that the perfume powder supplier lives near the psychopathic murderer?
She can kill two birds with one stone and kill two birds with one stone!
Thinking about it this way, Cheng Xiaoxiao was even more reluctant to delay time, she hurriedly asked Manli to lead the way, and she followed behind without leaving an inch, just thinking about quickly arriving at the place that Manli said.
Manli is also anxious, after all, she has been dead for a while, and she will only cry in this alley in the end, and she doesn't know much about other things (qg), let alone the situation of other orchids.
It's not that Manli didn't want to stay in that room and not leave, but the atmosphere inside has been very depressing, and she can only see that she can't help anything.
As she stays there, she becomes more delirious, her ghost powers are extremely unstable, and sometimes she even goes berserk with hatred, and she lets off her ghost in that room, causing the orchids (shēn) to be even less physically than before.
Such a Manli naturally didn't dare to stay there for long, so she started her floating (dàng) ghost life, until she met Cheng Xiaoxiao who could help her today.
Cheng Xiaoxiao and Manli continued to listen to Manli talk about her past while hurrying away, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
If she hadn't sneaked out of her mind tonight, if she hadn't followed those two uncles to Flower Street, Cheng Xiaoxiao wouldn't have met Manli, and it would have been impossible for her to know the new progress of the mandala powder matter before Chu Yunshen.
"This is it."
Manli took Cheng Xiaoxiao around another path at the end of Flower Street for a while, and finally stopped at the door of a courtyard.
The door was narrow and small, and it didn't look like it fit the spacious courtyard.
Backdoor?
Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at the old wooden door, and looked around the courtyard by the way.
It is true that it is said that there is no cave, when Manli took Cheng Xiaoxiao into another alley, she has been silently remembering the way.
The alley was next to the wall of the shop opposite the one where Cheng Xiaoxiao saw the notice, and it was still symmetrical with the alley where she met Manli.
It's just that the alley that Cheng Xiaoxiao and Manli walked into was deeper and narrower, and Cheng Xiaoxiao remembered that they turned three times before they arrived in front of this courtyard.
Well, when I go back, I will tell Chu Yunshen about the three turns (qg), and ask He Lulu if he has also walked this road.
Cheng Xiaoxiao thought in her heart while continuing to look around.
It wasn't until Manli yelled at her several times, and finally floated in front of her and called her, that Cheng Xiaoxiao reacted.
"Ah, what's wrong?"
Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at Manli in front of her with a confused face for some reason.
"What? You speak, why do you just lip shape? Cheng Xiaoxiao didn't understand what Manli meant at all, Manli didn't speak, she just kept glaring at her frantically, and she was still silently saying something.
"After, noodles?"
Cheng Xiaoxiao tried hard to identify it, and finally understood Manli's lips.
She looked back, and she wanted to complain a few words. Unexpectedly, Cheng Xiaoxiao's complaint was replaced by a scream from hers before she could say it.
"Ahh ——”
Cheng Xiaoxiao looked behind her with wide eyes, and a man who seemed to be smiling suddenly appeared at the gate of the courtyard that was originally empty.