Chapter 11: Borrowing the Dead to Resurrect the Soul 11
Because of the loss of Guo Yang's help, Xiao Taohong had almost no choice. She had no choice but to return to Dingwang Village, hoping that her affairs would not be known to outsiders and that she would be able to live here.
But I don't know what's wrong, Little Peach always feels restless. Ever since she learned about her origins, she has never been able to sleep. She always felt that there was a big secret in her life experience, and she wanted to rescue her aunt. Not only did her aunt know everything she had to know, but she was also the only relative she had in the world. She must rescue her aunt.
Under the torture of night and day, little peach finally couldn't bear it anymore, and a bold idea appeared in her mind. She wants to go to the barracks to have a look, even if she can't save her aunt, she has to see her aunt with her own eyes and talk to her a few words. Otherwise, Little Peach is about to be driven crazy by herself.
After making up her mind, Xiao Taohong left Dingwang Village under the pretext of going home to visit her relatives. She came to the southwest alone disguised as a businessman and found this unknown military camp. This is a military camp built by the minority themselves, and there are not many soldiers in it. At the beginning, the imperial court borrowed troops from ethnic minorities to fight, and this battle had already been fought. However, the benefits promised by the imperial court to the ethnic minorities were not fulfilled, and the soldiers of these ethnic minorities stayed here and did not leave. They set up their own temporary military camp here, and asked not only for equipment and supplies from the imperial court, but also for military salaries and food. The imperial court had to give, because the soldiers of these ethnic minorities were not only brave, but also unreasonable. They had no choice but to let the soldiers stay here. From time to time, the soldiers asked for supplies from the regular barracks, even from the barracks. Of course, the military prostitutes who are going to come are all old and ugly.
Little Pink spent a small amount of silver to buy off a young man who delivered food to the barracks every day, and entered the barracks with the young man. But the first time I found nothing, it turned out that the military camp was very strict with military prostitutes, and they could not be seen casually. The second time, Little Peach still didn't see any military prostitutes. It wasn't until the third time that I saw a woman who looked very similar to Little Pink.
When this woman and Little Peach looked at each other, the two immediately had a psychological feeling. Little Peach was almost immediately certain that this woman was her aunt. And this woman also felt that this girl was very kind and familiar.
The two walked to a corner and confirmed the relationship after asking each other a few words. The woman did not answer positively about the history of the family, but promised that as long as she could save her out, she would tell her everything she knew.
But Xiao Peach has almost no choice, and it is not okay to spend money to buy an aunt. If you show your daughter to the people in the barracks, don't say that you can't save your aunt, even you will be forced to stay in the barracks.
Little Peach's aunt saw that Little Peach really had no way to be in a hurry, and finally believed Little Peach. She stuffed a packet of medicine into Little Peach and asked her to pour it into the barracks' meals on the fifteenth day of the month. As long as the soldiers take this medicine, they have a chance to leave the barracks. Because military prostitutes could not leave their barracks, they could not approach the barracks kitchen. This step requires the cooperation of someone who can approach the kitchen.
A few days later, Little Peach pretended to send a large pig to the soldiers on behalf of the villagers. When the soldier saw the pig, he relaxed his vigilance against Little Pink. Little Peach took the opportunity to enter the kitchen and drugged the meal she was cooking while everyone was busy killing pigs. After getting the medicine, Xiao Taohong and the villagers who came with her calmly left the barracks.
In less than a day, the barracks were collectively poisoned, and many soldiers fell ill, and they almost died when they fell ill. The soldiers in the barracks were in a mess, who had the heart to care about the military prostitutes in the barracks.
Little Peach's aunt escaped from the barracks without incident, and Peachy was already waiting for her aunt outside the barracks.
The two men left the barracks overnight and left the southwest dressed as a couple.
On the way, Aunt Peachy talked about their family's past. It turned out that Xiao Taohong's grandfather's family, that is, his grandfather's family, was a well-known Jinyi family. When he was in Emperor Zhengde, he once knew Jinyi Wei. However, with the failure of Jiang Bin's conspiracy to rebel under the command of the Jinyi Guard of the Zhengde Dynasty, their family's life became more and more difficult. But because Jin Yiwei was the emperor's secret agent after all, he was not defeated. However, when Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, the situation changed significantly. It turned out that their family and the Lu family beside Emperor Jiajing were mortal enemies, so they got such a tragic end now. Their Li family and Lu family are both Jinyiwei families, and they have served in Jinyiwei for several generations. In order to squeeze out the Lu family, the Li family used improper means to squeeze the people of the Lu family to the father of Emperor Jiajing. Nominally, the Lu family is the head of the palace guards, but in fact, it is actually a spy sent by the emperor to the vassal king. I didn't expect that the Lu family would take the salary of Jinyiwei and become a real slave of the palace. The Lu family not only became the most loyal servant of the prince, but his wife became the nurse of the little prince, who was later Emperor Jiajing. When Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, the Lu family re-became the new owner of Jinyiwei, and Emperor Jiajing's brother Lu Bing became the new Jinyiwei Tongzhi. If a child in his teens and twenties can be a fellow of Jinyiwei, it means that the future commander of Jinyiwei will be in Lu Bing's bag. Of course, the Li family bore the brunt of the first shot victim of the opposition forces within the Lu family's clear Jinyiwei. All the men of the Li family, regardless of their age, were killed, women over the age of 40 were killed on the spot, and all women under the age of 40 were used as official prostitutes and military prostitutes. and issued a strict decree that the children born to the women of the Li family will be slaves to men and prostitutes to women for generations.
Little Peach's aunt Ah Yue is the youngest daughter of the Li family, and she was still an ignorant child back then. If it weren't for the Lu family, in order to take revenge on everyone in the Li family, they would have killed Ah Yue long ago. Ah Yue stayed with her mother and watched a large group of soldiers bully her mother every day. Little Pink's grandmother, that is, Ah Yue's mother, once wanted to kill Ah Yue with her own hands, and even wanted to help her daughter Ah Yue escape. But it didn't work, and when she was thirteen years old, Ah Yue was captured by an officer and put into his military tent. Ah Yue was tortured to death by the officer, and she couldn't get out of bed for a whole month. When Ah Yue was able to get out of bed, she crawled all the way to her mother's room, only to learn that her mother committed suicide that night after learning about Ah Yue.
Ah Yue has lived a life that is worse than death since then, and before she is thirty years old, she is already sick and sick, and she looks like she is fifty or sixty years old. She was left by one group of soldiers to another and continued to be tortured. Later, I learned that this group of soldiers was a group of soldiers from ethnic minorities, but they were still a group of stinky men, and it was no different to her.
Many years later, by chance, Ah Yue was favored by a wizard who was interested in her blood and wanted to use the poison she had made herself. Ah Yue, who had been numb for a long time, didn't want to live for a long time, and also agreed to the wizard. Unexpectedly, the poison not only did not poison Ah Yue, but also restored Ah Yue's appearance as a girl. But in this way, Ah Yue has to endure the humiliation of the soldiers twice as much every day.
Ah Yue endured it while insisting on learning martial arts. She found that her physique had undergone a fundamental change through the sorcerer's poison. She is not only a master of using poisons, good at distinguishing various poisons, but also can be said to be handy in learning kung fu. But Ah Yue can't deal with so many soldiers alone, and Ah Yue knows almost nothing about the outside world and doesn't know where to go. The appearance of Little Peach just solved all of Ah Yue's problems. Ah Yue can not only be with her relatives, but also leave the barracks and completely separate and cut off her original life, which is great news for her.
Back in Dingwang Village, in order not to attract everyone's attention, the two discussed that they would definitely not appear in the same place at the same time. Fortunately, they look alike, and half of them can't tell who they are. They take turns picking up customers and doing business. In order not to reveal their identities and not to be discovered by everyone, they discussed the principle of picking up customers on the third, thirteenth, twenty-third, and thirtieth days of each month. So that they have their own living space and can do what they want to do.
Ah Yue is very curious about things outside, and always maintains an excited and optimistic attitude. Xiao Taohong also has a murder case on her own, so she doesn't want to take Aunt Ah Yue out on a trip. She knew that Aunt Ah Yue had poisoned many people, so she scared her aunt that the Ming officials were arresting the murderers of the officers and soldiers. was so scared that Ah Yue didn't dare to bring up the matter of playing again.
But as Ah Yue became more and more accustomed to life here, Ah Yue began to be difficult to discipline. In fact, the widow Wang who often quarrels with her neighbors is Aunt Ah Yue, and Xiao Taohong rarely talks to outsiders. Growing up in a brothel, she learned to be submissive to outsiders from an early age and never had conflicts with outsiders.
Aunt Ah Yue always criticizes Xiao Taohong for being timid and content with her current life. In fact, Xiao Peach has begun to dislike her current life, and is ready to buy a fake identity again and live in other places. Anyway, they have a little money, and what they need is peace and not being discovered by outsiders.
But Ah Yue didn't want to leave for many reasons. First of all, Ah Yue found that she was used to the current life, and it seemed impossible for her to live without a man. Second, the business here has been formalized and basically on track, and she doesn't want to give up the business here. Third, there are a lot of poisons that can be collected. Soon after arriving here, Ah Yue discovered a secret, because she had been using poison for many years to practice, and she could no longer leave it. As long as she doesn't refine poison for three days, she will be sad, if she doesn't refine poison for five days, her qi and blood will not be smooth, and if she doesn't refine poison for seven days, she will immediately return to her original ugly appearance. But she can't leave here, and she doesn't allow Xiao Taohong, the only relative, to leave here. She imprisoned Little Peach, hoping that Little Peach would change her mind and promise herself to continue living like this.
This is all the secrets of Xiao Taohong and Ah Yue, and Xiao Taohong said it in one breath. Ah Yue also lowered her head dejectedly on the ground, it seems that Xiao Taohong's words are true, and Xiao Taohong is not lying.