Seeing my reaction, Yun Qingyue chuckled lightly and continued: "Okay, everything that should be said has been made clear to you, and then I'll tell you about me." ”

I was silent, just staring at her in a daze, my gaze eager to pierce her.

Turns out she has always been a boy? That's too bad, isn't it? I've coveted her for so long, and I feel like I've eaten flies now.

"You know what? In the Qinglou in ancient times, there were actually two kinds of people," Yun Qingyue walked to the edge of the pond while talking, brushed the wild flowers with her bare hands, and said leisurely: "These two kinds of people are collectively called Youling, among which Youling is a man and Ling is a woman. ”

"You Ling seems to refer to an actor, not a prostitute = prostitute," because I knew Yun Qingyue's identity, I suddenly lost the obsession and impulse I had before, and the tone of my voice became straightforward, and I was not prepared to save face for her at all.

"You're right," she looked at me and said, "The Qinglou in ancient times was not what you imagined, it was not simply used to vent ****, more often, it was a stage." Many of the people who go there go to see performances, not open a room, because they want to open a room to get their favorite Youling to bed, which costs a lot of money, and this price is not affordable for ordinary people, and those high-ranking officials and nobles, under normal circumstances, because of their identity and face, rarely do this kind of thing, therefore, many times, the main job of Youling is to perform some programs for the entertainment of the audience. ”

Hearing Yun Qingyue's words, I couldn't help but say sarcastically: "Oh, I understand what you mean, you mean that in ancient times, those ticket takers went to the Qinglou, in fact, they just listened to songs, watched dancing, and occasionally played the piano and composed poems with vassals, right?" They didn't go to roll the sheets, the women in the Qinglou were all ice and jade, and the goddesses who specialized in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, right? ”

Regarding my sarcasm, Yun Qingyue just blinked at me, and then continued: "My brother and I have been in Yihong Courtyard for three full years. As soon as we entered, we received strict training, practicing singing, dancing, calligraphy, piano, and many other filthy and obscene things, in short, we were not idle for a day, and if we did not study well, we would be beaten and denied food. ”

"It doesn't feel like your brothel = house, but like a very professional study class," I continued to scoff.

"Say whatever you want, in short, the life we live in there is 10,000 times more bitter than your life in school," Yun Qingyue said this, stopped talking, turned around and looked at the pool in front of her in a daze, and only said after a long time: "They gave me something strange to eat, let me dress up as a woman, they said that I am beautiful and have a bright future in the future." ”

"Promising a bright future? I don't know the end of the road, right? I snorted.

"At that time, I was young and didn't know much, I just wanted to be fed and clothed, and as for what they wanted me to do, I didn't really have any ideas in my heart, in short, as long as I could do it, I would try to do it."

When Yun Qingyue said this, she raised her hand and threw the wildflower in her hand into the water, and then continued: "When I was six years old, my brother and I made a sensation when they first appeared on stage. ”

"At that time, we were playing 'Funeral Flower Yin,'" Yun Qingyue continued.

"Funeral flowers? It sounds so familiar," I frowned, thought in my heart for a while, and then suddenly realized: "I know, this is in the Dream of Red Mansions, I heard Mr. Storyteller sing this when I was a child." The content is that Lin Daiyu put away the fallen flowers and buried them, and recited poems and prayed while burying them, and then Jia Baoyu listened to it next to her, and she cried so much, she felt that this sister was too painful. Am I right? ”

"At that time, we called this book the Stone Record," Yun Qingyue looked at me, and then smiled bitterly and said, "I played Lin Daiyu at the time, and my brother played Jia Baoyu." He is excellent, and I am Ling. ”

"Huh?" Hearing this, I felt a little wrong, and couldn't help but ask her: "You is a man, Ling is a woman, are you a man or a woman?" ”

Yun Qingyue didn't answer my words, but continued: "After that stage, because we were too popular, we have been on stage one after another since then, and there are more and more dignitaries and dignitaries who come to cheer us, and Yihongyuan has made a lot of money relying on us. The nicknames given to us by those visitors were Baoyu and Daiyu. ”

"And then?" I asked.

"And then something happened." When Yun Qingyue said this, she smiled bitterly and said: "Some people have taken a fancy to us, or many people have taken a fancy to us, and the reason why they have not moved is just because the price of the bustard is too high, and ordinary people can't afford it." This situation lasted until the second year, when my brother was ten years old and I was seven years old. ”

"My goosebumps are up," I grinned.

"That's the way it is, I didn't want to disgust you," Yun Qingyue snorted, her expression was a little self-deprecating, and then she turned around and continued to look at Chi Shui and said: "This year, there is a big official who comes to our field, he is in a high position and has a lot of money, and every time the old bustard of Yihong Courtyard talks to him, he can't wait to kneel down and lick = his toes." ”

"What did he do afterward?" I asked subconsciously.

"He was a military attaché, and his appearance was extremely rough, his face was full of meat, his voice was rough, and he exuded a pungent smell of fishy smell all over his body, and in my opinion, he was simply a brute. I don't know how such a person became a big official, I heard that it was because his uncle was in power in the imperial court, so he also ascended to heaven. As Yun Qingyue spoke, her little fists clenched again, as if the psychological shadow left by the beast had not yet dissipated.

"After he came, he stared at me and my brother, he was especially fond of me at first, after I finished the stage, when I came forward to thank the guests, he snatched me into his arms, I was almost scared to death, I cried directly, and even peed my pants, because he not only hugged me, but also reached into my clothes and squeezed them, I was really scared." Yun Qingyue said.

My fists clenched.

"At that time, my brother was like crazy, and desperately stepped forward to take me down, but in a hurry, he punched him," Yun Qingyue said this, her small fist already clenched.

"Punched him?" Hearing this, I knew something bad was wrong, and I asked a little nervously, "What happened to your brother?" ”

"He made a condition, five thousand taels of silver, either me or my brother, in any case, to give him one, and the brothel did not dare to disobey, and that night he sent my brother to his house.

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When Yun Qingyue said this, she suddenly turned around and glared at me and shouted, "My brother went to protect me, do you know?!" ”

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