Chapter 42: The Singer Hates
People's feelings are mutual, and when a person takes the initiative to be good to another person, he can't help but expect the other person to reciprocate his own goodness. Xu Mingzi is a ghost, but ghosts used to be people, and ghosts also have human forms.
At the beginning, Bai Tang was not a ghost here with Xu Mingzi, but in the Fifth Hades Hall under the control of Bao Yue, Xu Mingzi generally did not have any interest in Bao Yue's people, but one day, Bai Tang came to the door by himself.
She said that she often traveled to the Fifth Hades Hall and the Sixth Hades Palace, and found that there were many problems in the Sixth Hades Palace, and she wanted to discuss them with Xu Mingzi. Generally speaking, Xu Mingzi is very disdainful of such people. But after a few sentences, Bai Sugar's suggestions turned out to be very constructive.
She managed to enter the little hell of the half-cut. But at first, Xu Mingzi didn't treat her, only let her do some very simple things, and didn't let her get in touch with internal things.
Bai Sugar is neither angry nor annoyed, how to do things or how to do things. At first, Xu Mingzi suspected that the white sugar was the eyeliner sent by Bao Yue, and even sent someone to stare at the white sugar.
Xu Mingzi's performance made Xu Mingzi very satisfied, she did her duty when she went to work, and after work, she would go to the ghost market to buy vegetables, and then go home to cook, eat and sleep. Life is very monotonous, and he does not come into contact with the people of the Fifth Hades Palace.
After staring at it for nearly a hundred years, Xu Mingzi relaxed his guard against white sugar. Bai Tang also found that Xu Mingzi's vigilance against herself had eased, but she did not lower her requirements for herself. This made Xu Mingzi even more satisfied.
The position is rising step by step, and there are more and more opportunities for Bai Tang and Xu Mingzi to come into contact.
After the relationship between the two became close, Bai Tang also opened his heart and talked about why he had to apply from the Fifth Hades Hall to the Sixth Hades Palace.
White sugar was born in the late Qing Dynasty, and foreigners frantically poured into the country, and white sugar was the first Qing Dynasty people who came into contact with foreigners in that era. But...... She was exposed as a dancer.
Bai Sugar's family was poor since she was a child, and there were many children in the family, so she often couldn't eat enough. When he was ten years old, Bai Tang couldn't stand the poverty of his family, so he took the initiative to go to Chunzhulou.
Although this Chunzhu Building has the name of a rather erotic place, it is actually more like a "women's talent performance troupe". There are some of the best masters in the entire Haidu region who train beautiful girls who perform for the nobility, and in those days when merchants had low status, no matter how much money you have, if you are not a nobleman, you are not qualified to enter.
Such a spring bamboo building naturally attracts many people. Every morning, the residents of the neighborhood will see a group of beautiful girls, wearing plain long shirts, sitting on the balcony practicing musical instruments and dancing, they never laugh and play, and their serious appearance makes people can't take their eyes off.
White Sugar's appearance was not outstanding, she used to work in the fields at that time, and her skin was a little tanned. The figure is also not good, a little fat. The waist is not slender enough. Such conditions are not enough to enter Chunzhu Tower. But she was reluctant to return home, worrying every day about whether she would have enough to eat.
She was guarding outside the Chunzhu Building, kneeling, and she begged the steward to let her go in and work, whatever she wanted, and she could pour dung buckets for those girls.
She guarded it for a month, but the flesh on her body did not fall off at all. But that little face was indeed a lot whiter.
The steward intended to keep her, but she was only ten years old, so she couldn't really let her do chores and dump the dung bucket! The steward thought twice and decided to bring her to the teachers, if one of them said that she was gifted in some aspect and could be cultivated. Then she can stay. Of course, if she can't do anything, she'll have to fuck off!
If God doesn't let her eat this bowl of rice, then she can't afford to serve this bowl of rice, and no one can help her. Having made up his mind, the steward brought in the sugar.
White sugar was lucky, and a woman who sang a minor tune was willing to take her as an apprentice.
The woman who sang the minor key said that the nobles had never heard the minor tune sung by the countrymen when they were working, and they thought it was novel. This is the reason why Chunzhu House only entertains nobles.
Bai Tang followed the master and sang better and better, her posture was not outstanding, but it also met the aesthetics of many rich people. In their opinion, only rich people are chubby, and the poor ghosts can't eat enough, so they are naturally black and thin. What is the beauty of being so thin that there is only a handful of bones left?
Chunzhulou only performs, not sells girls. The people who come here are very elegant.
Here, I had a full meal of sugar, clothes made of materials I had never seen before, and jewelry rewarded by guests, which was regarded as my own savings.
Life has gotten better, but the outside landscape is getting worse and worse. The port opened, and a group of foreigners with yellow beards and high hats poured into Chunzhulou.
They don't care if the girls want it or not, as long as they like it, they will forcibly take possession. If there is resistance, they shoot their guns at the heads of the rebels.
Moment. The head blossoms. Red-white liquid splashed onto the wall.
Sugar's dream-like life ended, and that year, she was sixteen years old.
No one dared to resist, the eldest girl in Chunzhulou was less than twenty years old, they wanted to live, they wanted to marry a prince wearing a jade hat, even if they were concubines. But the sea capital is already in chaos, which prince will stay here?
Being alive has become a belief for all of them. As long as they live, there is hope for them.
After being tortured for more than a month, White Sugar's hope returned.
It was the second son of a prince and nobleman, less than thirty years old, just a good age, with a wife, children, and a girl.
The man intended to marry Bai Tang and go home, but Bai Tang was still thinking about waiting for the price at the beginning, and deliberately hung the nobleman. But when something happens, all the girls in Chunzhulou are looking forward to finding a home.
He came, but not to marry her home, but to take away the gift he had given her before—a jade pendant.
White Sugar's hopes were dashed, and that night, when another foreigner was about to enter her room, she did not hesitate to snatch the musket from the foreigner's waist, and killed the beast first, and then herself.
Xu Mingzi was also very embarrassed when he heard about the past of white sugar. It is said that businesswomen don't know the hatred of the country, but how can any woman really want to be a slave of the country? Even a sixteen-year-old girl longs for the country to be rich and strong, and to live a happy life.
In later generations, there was a movie called "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", and when Bai Tang saw this movie, he seemed to have found himself. If the family is rich, what girl would want to dance in front of a group of strange men? was forced to be helpless, embarked on this road, his life was already very bitter, but he had to bear a thousand years of infamy and be abandoned by men......
White sugar is such white sugar, her name is sweet, but her whole life is bitter.
After coming to the underworld, Bai Tang did not choose to reincarnate, she did not want to experience the things before her life again, she wanted to wait, wait for the country to become strong, wait for the invaders to leave, and wait for women to have their own rights and make their own choices.
"Lord Xu Mingzi was very kind to me, and when I was cornered, it was the adults who took me in." Bai Tang still lowered his head, not knowing if he felt guilty in his heart.
"You were bullied in the Fifth Hades Palace, and you told me that your entire underworld believed that I could give women equal rights here, so you came."
As a singer before her death, she had been humiliated. After his death, there were still people in the Fifth Hades Hall who used white sugar as a singer to ridicule and ridicule, and in the first year of being a ghost, White Sugar had already decided to leave here.
I heard that there was a female little hell king in the Sixth Hades Palace, and Bai Sugar was determined to go, she believed that only women could understand women, whether it was in the world of the feudal era, or in the underworld that was not civilized enough, with a female boss, the work would be smoother.
She's a person who doesn't stop until she gets her goals, and she's been like that since she was very young. In her world, there is no life, only survival, and she has no right to choose her lifestyle, so she can only struggle to survive in the face of adversity and seek hope.
"Yes, I've worked for you for many years. I have also been waiting in the underworld for many years. I finally got what I wanted. Sugar's voice choked.
"White sugar, I didn't let you go, it's my fault. If you want to be reincarnated, I should let you go, but I don't have anyone at hand to take advantage of, so I don't feel at ease to hand over your work to someone else. Xu Mingzi said earnestly.
"My lord, then why can Fu You take over me completely? Are you really not taking advantage of the employment? Or are you not willing to let me live at all? White Sugar had tears in her eyes.
She didn't understand, why didn't Xu Mingzi let her go? Obviously, Fu You can already take over her work, her role here is not as important as before, Xu Mingzi has Xia Chunhua, Zhu Yao, and Fu You, why are you still dragging her?
The world has changed for the better, she wants to go back to the world, to feel the warmth of people, they can breathe, their hearts are beating. They are the ones who are alive.
"If I hadn't been willing to make you feel better, I wouldn't have accepted you in the first place. Do you know how many people have criticized me when I climb into this position, how many people say that I am in the position by climbing on the bed? I understand you. People's words are terrifying, and people's hearts are difficult to guess. But this is not a good time for you to be reincarnated. I want your idea to become a reality, but I tell you, not now. ”
Xu Mingzi told Bai Tang the truth in her heart.
The development of the world is indeed very good now, but there are still many women who are suffering from unfair things. She's waiting, waiting for this world to get better. In this way, she was relieved to let Bai Sugar leave.
"I ......" Bai Tang still wanted to argue, but there was nothing to say.
She has endured injustice, being wantonly humiliated in the world, and being ridiculed and ridiculed in the underworld, but is it smooth sailing for Xu Mingzi to take this position? Bai Tang understands that Xu Mingzi must have suffered a lot of grievances.
A woman's life is really hard.
"Is there really that day?" White Sugar asked.
"Yes. But...... You can't see it anymore. Xu Mingzi's face was gloomy.
After Qingyi finished speaking, she didn't owe sugar. Right now...... It's time for her to settle the reckoning with herself!
Xu Mingzi took out the brown paper bag from the drawer and fell on Bai Sugar's body. Bai Tang opened the paper bag, and his face changed suddenly.