She was already too weak to do it, and at this time, she was in a hurry and fainted.

When she woke up again, she found herself naked, covered in strange charm-like symbols. The symbol is black, similar to the abstract image of a snail. Each snail symbol has a crooked word written on it. The ropes on her hands and feet were gone, and the room was locked, leaving her alone.

Grandpa asked, "Crooked words?" Can you recognize what the word is? ”

She shook her head.

"You write it out and take a look. It's okay to remember the general shape. Daddy said.

She thought for a moment, then dipped her hand in the teacup and drew a crooked watermark on the table, like the marks left by a damp earthworm just crawling past it.

"Can you read it?" She asked.

Grandpa looked at it for a while and said, "I don't know what this character means, but I know that this is a script used by the Manchus." ”

"Manwen?" She wondered.

Grandpa smiled slightly and said, "When I was a child, I read the Four Books and the Five Classics and studied Manchu. Because I have heard people say that the Manchu language in the palace is as important as the Chinese language. At that time, I thought that I would be admitted to the Jinshi and then enter the career in the future, so I studied a little. ”

"I see." She nodded.

"And then? And then what happened to you? Daddy asked.

Takemito said that she wanted to put on clothes, but there was not a single one in the house. She wanted to wipe off the strange symbols on her body, but she couldn't wipe off her skin even if she broke it. It was as if the symbol had grown on her. There were traces of cleaning in the house, except for the ashes of some Taoist priests who had burned paper that had not been cleaned. Maybe the bustard was afraid that she would use something to pry open the door and escape, or kill herself with a sharp weapon such as scissors.

Just as she was rummaging through the house, there was the sound of footsteps at the door.

She hurried back to the bed, curled up, able to block a little bit.

The key outside the door rang for a while, the door opened, and the bustard walked in with a man.

Out of shyness, she buried her head between her knees, not daring to look at the man's face.

The man snorted and said coldly: "After all these years, there are no less than a thousand men who have crossed over you, right?" What are you pretending to be shy! With that, he touched her back with his hand. After touching it for a while, he said, "This charm is very well drawn. So that she doesn't die. ”

She didn't know why the man said she wouldn't die, but she didn't dare ask.

The old bustard smiled gloomily: "Hey, hey, so that she can not only make money for us during the day, but also at night." ”

She still doesn't understand.

The old bustard walked up to her, put the wizened hand that was as wrinkled as a crow's claw, and pinched her breast, and said, "Look at how good your figure is! It's a good time to make money! I wasn't as good as you when I was younger. You came to me at the age of thirteen, I raised you for so many years, and I paid your parents for thirteen years to raise you, which means that I have provided you with food and clothing since you were a child, you know? I'm closer than your own mother, and now it's time for you to repay me. ”

She couldn't help but retort: "My mother didn't raise her daughter to let her do this. ”

The old bustard sighed abnormally, in the past, this kind of words could only be exchanged for a scolding and beating. She said, "I'm not going to argue with you about that. It's too late for you to regret it. Since you don't want to do this, then I'm going to make you do double! ”

"Double?" She lifted her head between her knees.

The old bustard said proudly, "We have brought your soul out of you. You continue to be your prostitute during the day, and your stand-in continues to be a prostitute at night. This will not exhaust your body to death, but it will also make your soul restless. The charm on your body is the charm that keeps you from dying when you don't have a soul. ”

"I'll have you to feel better in the future." The man added.

The old bustard said: "From now on, you will feel that there will never be a time to sleep and rest. You have to laugh and sleep with your guests twelve hours a day and night. ”

When the bustard said this, she didn't feel much scared. She had never heard of a person living without a soul, nor had she heard of a human soul being able to fit into something else.

"However, in order to prevent you from stealing your soul back, I will send you to a brothel in Wuzhen. This gentleman is the owner behind our shop, and the brothel in Wuzhen is his branch. So you're there and there's someone who is watching you and watching you. If you dare to run away, you will be a dead body without a soul, and you will surely die within seven days. Don't forget that your soul is in our hands! ”

Sure enough, after being locked up for a few days, she was sent to a relatively small brothel in Wuzhen by the bustard. The old bustard changed her stage name to Zhu Meiying, saying that she wanted to be homophonic with the bamboo beauty in Hangzhou. This confuses her soul and makes her think that she is always in the same body.

Since then, she has been busy until midnight in a brothel in Wuzhen during the day. After midnight, she dreamed frequently that she was being hugged by a strange man and doing the things she had done in Hangzhou. As a result, she could not calm her mind day and night, and she always felt very tired and lacked sleep.

In the long run, she was tortured to the point of physical and mental emaciation.

She secretly wrote to ask her sister who was originally in Hangzhou. The sister told her that the bustard had a bamboo beauty, and after the sisters had finished serving, she gave the bamboo beauty to the guests to sleep with. The old bustard told the other sisters that there was a rag doll in the bamboo beauty, and the rag doll had her birth date and menstrual blood in it, and if anyone wanted to leave in the future, they would be punished in the same way.

The bamboo beauty burst into tears, and begged her grandfather: "Can you help me go to Hangzhou, go to the green building, and take out the rag doll inside when I sleep with the bamboo beauty?" ”

Grandpa smiled: "I thought you wanted me to help you deal with the bustard, but I wanted to refuse just now." Because you've only heard that I'm a helpful magician, but you don't know that I'm not as good as I used to be, and I certainly can't deal with the old bustard who knows how to do sorcery. It's not that you can't, it's that you can't. In the end, if you want me to take out the rag doll in Bamboo Beauty, I won't refuse. It doesn't take my magic. If you don't agree, it's not that you can't. I've always helped people as much as I can. Another reason is because you remind me of a very important person. I almost thought you were her. I helped you this time out of my selfishness. I hope that if she has any trouble, there will be someone to help her. I have always known that you should not give anything in return for helping others, and that all the efforts that are given in return, even if you accumulate merit, will be offset by the loss caused by the giving, and in the end it will be in vain. But ......"

Daddy watched the last bit of red fade from the sky.

Takemito sighed, "Although I think the opposite of you, in the end it is the same. ”

"Oh?"

"I have different identities than you, different experiences, different ideas. I was abandoned by my family at the age of thirteen and entered the Qinglou, everything had to be won by myself, although my heart was high, but the reality forced me to pursue interests everywhere and at all times. So when I target each person, the first thing I see is how much he can benefit me. Even every time you help someone, you have to expect a return. But after meeting him, I suddenly felt that I could give up everything, and suddenly felt that fame and fortune were things outside my body. That's why I fell out with the bustard, and I was so abused. Takemito wiped her tears.

Grandpa smiled miserably and said, "Yes." They are all people in temperament, but the change is the opposite. It's also really weird. ”

After Grandpa met Bamboo Beauty, he turned back to Hangzhou and found the Qinglou mentioned by Bamboo Beauty.

Grandpa walked into the green building, and the old bustard came directly over, saying a lot of flattering words that sounded like goosebumps. Grandpa thought to himself, the current affairs are chaotic now, and the impact on the Qinglou is also great. On weekdays, the bustard should rarely see guests and come forward in person, but now it is like this, it can be seen that the business is cold and the door is cold.

Involuntarily, Grandpa sympathized with this old bustard. The world is difficult, and perhaps she is also forced to be helpless.

The bustard hurriedly recommended the girls to his father.

Grandpa shook his head and said, "I'm not here to see the living girl, I'm here to see the dead girl." ”

The old bustard smiled and said, "It turns out that this boss has already heard the rumors about us here?" ”

Daddy nodded his head and said, "Yes." I'm here to see it. ”

The old bustard smiled and said: "This boss, others came here to see the dead girl, it was after spreading wild on the living girl, and the physical strength was not good before playing the dead girl in the dream." I haven't seen anyone who comes in and only plays dead girl. ”

Grandpa was slightly surprised. This bustard must be the essence of the people, and you can see the slightest clue. It turns out that the bustard is to let the exhausted bosses toss in their sleep, so as to highlight that her green building is different from other green buildings, in order to attract customers≡ she wants a bamboo beauty as soon as she comes, if there is no suitable reason, it is indeed difficult to explain.

Grandpa's eyes rolled and he smiled: "I came from Wuzhen, and I already know how good Zhu Meiyi is there." I heard that there is another body of hers here, so I rushed to Hangzhou. I just want to see the difference between a woman with a soul and two bodies. If I'm here to find a living girl, why should I come to you! When it comes to Qinglou, how can Hangzhou compare to Nanjing? From the perspective of the whole country, the top four Qinglou are all in Nanjing, among which the "Sixi Tang" is the largest, and the "Sixi Tang" girls are not only many, but also young, so the business is the most prosperous. ”

When the old bustard saw his father say "Sixitang", he thought that his father was indeed a master of picking flowers, not an ordinary womanizer, and was immediately suppressed for a few minutes.

Grandpa peeked at the bustard's face, saw that she was fooled, and added: "I came here, not to hunt for beauty, but for curiosity!" Hunting for beauty is just to satisfy lust, although it is good, it is not enough for outsiders. Curiosity is to satisfy curiosity, and it can be told and spread everywhere. If you don't think you're making enough money, I'll make it up for you. ”