Chapter Eighty-Eight: Between Going and Staying
Bai Ling wanted to ask something more, but Ai Songqing was obviously too tired to chat. Bai Ling smiled, poured a glass of water for Ai Songqing, and placed it at the head of her bed.
After everyone rested for more than an hour, the turtlepaws came up and led everyone to the bathhouse, and Bai Ling followed.
Tonight's bathhouse has changed places, and the pool soup in the bath is obviously clearer than the one they washed some time ago. In the steaming mist, the girl sat comfortably in it.
Ai Songqing and Bai Ling still sat together, the two leaning against the edge of the bath, submerging most of their bodies in the hot water, leaving only their heads to gasp outside.
"Is Bai Ling's throat better?" Ai Songqing looked at Bai Ling.
"It still hurts." Bai Ling shook his head, "I still haven't learned the qi method taught by the master......"
Ai Songqing laughed, "That's not something you can learn in a day or two." ”
"Did you all go well today?" Bai Ling asked, "What have you learned?" ”
"It's mainly leg presses and shoulder presses...... There are also repeated high leg raises, this one is the most tiring. Ai Songqing said in a low voice, "But everyone is very cooperative, no one complains and no one makes trouble." ”
"Rare." Bai Ling smiled.
Ai Songqing suddenly remembered something, she leaned slightly and leaned into Bai Ling's ear, "What you told me last time, May's tooth deal...... It seems that many people know about it. ”
"Yes."
"Yes," Ai Songqing nodded, "Everyone thinks it's an opportunity." ”
Bai Ling was silent for a long time, and his gaze was a little complicated.
She looked at the steaming bath in front of her, at the girls who were laughing or making trouble in front of her at the moment, and slowly leaned back, and the whole person was curled up on the side of the stone wall heated by the blister.
Ai Songqing looked at Bai Ling's speechless expression, and also retracted his gaze, "Bai Ling also thinks this is not good?" ”
"It's not bad," Bai Ling said softly, "instead of digging your own grave for some useless principles, you should hurry up and get a pass." If I hadn't gone to the forest house, I would have done the same. ”
"Well, so am I." Ai Songqing nodded, "What is Bai Ling's plan now?" ”
"What are Songqing's plans?" Bai Ling asked rhetorically.
“…… I, I don't know. Ai Songqing said with a frown, she looked up at the wall lamp not far away, "It's good to be able to leave here, but ...... Every time I think of that May tooth shop, my mind flashes back to the scene we saw in the forest house last night......"
Ai Songqing paused for a moment, she thought and wondered.
After a while, she looked at Bai Ling, "Actually, even if we go out, we also enter a good family, making concubines and maids for others, but others are officials, and we are still slaves." This life and death, in the final analysis, is still in the hands of others......"
"So it's better to be in this hundred flowers, everyone is a slave, and no one is higher than anyone?" With a slight smile, Bai Ling tried to answer.
Ai Songqing was stunned for a moment, she instinctively wanted to shake her head, but after thinking about what she had just said, she felt that this was indeed the truth.
"What's the matter...... she smiled helplessly, and reached out to brush the hair behind her ear, "How do you think it's better to stay in the kiln......"
"Well, that's what I thought." Bai Ling whispered.
Ai Songqing was stunned for a moment, "...... What the? ”
"One day at noon, Turtle Paw also took us to the tooth shop here, remember?" Bai Ling asked softly.
Ai Songqing nodded.
"A lot of girls were taken away at the time, but we didn't. I was wondering why, but when I heard about the May Special Deal, I suddenly realized something," Billing paused, "Even in a place like Baihuaya, those of us who came out of the Workshop Division were still in a higher position from the beginning. ”
“…… Higher position? ”
"Hmm." Bai Ling said softly, "Otherwise, how could the bustard mother suddenly let us start learning to dance now...... It's all for a higher price in May. ”
"I don't understand ......"
"You're different." Bai Ling looked at Ai Songqing, "Even if you fall into this place, you are still different from those girls from really humble backgrounds, and you can sell for a higher price." ”
"Why?"
"I'm not sure." Bai Ling shook his head, "But that makes sense. ”
“…… Na Bailing, do you want to stay in Baihuaya? ”
"Hmm." Bai Ling nodded, "If you really go out and be locked up in a certain mansion like that Miss Kong, then you will narrow the road - just like what Songqing said just now, if you go out, the origin of a slave is the original sin, but everyone is the same in this hundred flowers, who can look down on whom?" ”
Ai Songqing sighed at this time.
Yes, she did have a vague feeling before, but it wasn't until this moment that Bai Ling finished speaking, and she felt that a certain layer of window paper in her heart was suddenly pierced.
"Boling...... Don't you mind your identity as a 'green house girl'? ”
Bai Ling didn't answer immediately, her gaze floating on the surface of the water not far away.
“…… I do not know. ”
After a long time, Bai Ling replied softly.
Ai Songqing lowered her eyes and smiled a little embarrassedly, she suddenly felt that she had asked a particularly bad question - who wouldn't mind?
She scratched her head, trying to think of something else to break the silence.
Suddenly, Ai Songqing's light flashed, "By the way, has Bai Ling heard about Baihuaya being attacked by Jinyi Wei last night?" ”
……
At night, Bai Ling lay in bed and couldn't sleep for a long time.
Later in the night, it began to rain in the sky.
Bai Ling listened to the sound of wind and rain outside the window and closed his eyes.
The girls around them had worked hard all day, and now they were sleeping peacefully on their beds, and occasionally someone turned over in their sleep, or whispered a few words, only Bai Ling tossed and turned, and finally sat up against the head of the bed.
She recalled the news that Ai Songqing had relayed to herself tonight - Chen Yicong...... Sure enough, I'm still staring here.
She reached under the pillow and re-grasped the dark green purse in her hand.
The bits and pieces of the past few years came to mind, and when he looked back, Bai Ling suddenly realized that the various encounters over the years were also a thorny web intertwined with the fates of many women.
She thought of the Qu family, the Zhen family, and even Lin Jieyu, as well as the old lady Qu who died badly......
Countless people fell on the spikes at the bottom of life and bled out, regardless of whether they were high or low, all of them wailed.
Today, those once strong feelings and resentments have slowly faded.
Bai Ling felt like a traveler standing at a junction looking back at the past, and the stone monuments of his companions were scattered near and far......
Before I knew it, I had come so far.
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