"Why did you choose your sister and her daughter?" Bai Li stared into the eyes of the old beggar.

"Because they are the most suitable candidates, because I know that Mrs. wants revenge just like me, because I know that Mrs. and I don't want the people of the Zhang family to have a good time." The old beggar paused: "And because I don't want to involve innocent people, I think these things are always the business of our two families, and it should be solved by our two families themselves." It was my original plan to involve my wife, but the matter of Soul Silk was a complete accident. ”

"Accident?" Bai Li looked down at the red filaments that were wrapped around his fingers.

"I thought about not being obsessed with revenge anymore." The old beggar sighed and looked up at the sky: "When I was twenty-eight years old, I met a girl. Her background is as pitiful as my mother's. Her biological mother died young, and her father married another house when she was eight years old, and gave birth to a younger brother shortly after the marriage. Since her brother was born, she has been completely reduced to a slave in that family, not only serving her stepmother, but also taking care of and raising her younger brother. Even so, she still can't escape the fate of being scolded by her stepmother and beaten by her father. When she was thirteen years old, her stepmother told her father that the family was in difficulty and could not afford to raise two children, and that she could sell her to the flower house for some money. She knelt on the ground and begged for her father and stepmother to let her live, but her tears could not touch anyone's heart.

Her father listened to her stepmother very much, and within two days, he sent her to the flower building. She is a beautiful girl, and when she dresses up, she looks like those rich boys. The grandmother in the flower building was very satisfied with her, and immediately gave her father five taels of silver. To tell the truth, five taels of silver may be a whole year's expense for a poor family. Even if her family is not poor enough to open the pot, when her father saw the five taels of silver, his mouth was so smiling that he could grin to his ears.

She knelt on the ground and begged her father, hoping that he would not sell her for five taels of silver, but he just kicked her away and left without looking back.

Mama asked her to stay in the flower building with peace of mind, saying that according to her appearance, she could not be the kind of girl who picked up customers. But she knew that what Mama said was false, and she just wanted to cultivate her and turn her into a more valuable girl. That night, she jumped from the second floor when she had the chance. ”

"It's a fierce girl, but can she escape from that kind of place?" Bai Li asked worriedly.

"She can't escape." The old beggar shook his head slightly: "What kind of place is that?" It's a place where people eat people. Every day, girls were sent in, but very few came out, either infected and died, or were bought with money. She had just jumped off when someone found her. She tried to escape, but she hurt her leg when she jumped down, and she didn't crawl a few steps on the ground before she was dragged back by the thugs inside. ”

"She's been punished, isn't she?"

"Yes, she was locked up in the firewood room by Mama and stayed with a bunch of biting rats. She was so frightened that she curled herself into a small ball and slapped desperately at the rats that kept crawling on her. Just as she was about to hit her head against the wall, about to end her life, the thugs rushed in again. Mama was very angry, saying that she was a toaster and did not eat and drink, and after having someone beat her, she threw her to the thugs. ”

The old beggar closed his eyes in pain: "She lay in the firewood room in the backyard for a whole month, and finally resigned herself to being a girl in the flower building." Because her heart is dead, she never smiles at those guests, even if her grandmother beats her, she doesn't laugh. But because of this, she aroused the curiosity of the guests, and they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to make her laugh. In less than half a year, she became the most popular girl in the building. When Mama saw that she could make money, she no longer forced her, and even changed her to the best room in the building and found someone to serve her. But she still refused to laugh. ”

"And how did you know her, old man?"

"Naturally, in the flower building, a red girl like her who can make money, Mama will not let her out easily. I wasn't a beggar at the time, but a carpenter, and there was a repair job in the building that happened to find me. In order to make money, I went. ”

"Even if you go, you may not be able to talk to other girls, right?"

"Yes, I can't speak." The old beggar recalled the scene of that day, and a helpless smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth: "I used to hear a scholar say a word that no one is in his eyes. I don't know what that word originally meant, but I do know what it really means to be nobody. She can't hold anything, no one in her eyes. Even if you stand face to face with her, there's nothing in her pupils. I looked at her like I was looking at a living dead man who could still breathe. Originally, I thought I was pitiful enough, but when I saw her, I felt that she was more pitiful than me. ”

The old beggar walked up to the cornerstone and gently touched the outline of the cocoon with his hand.

"It's a mixed place, and there are all kinds of people among the guests. Some people are vassals and elegant, pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, and some people are unruly and want to force her to comply. Because I couldn't see it, I helped her block a few disciples, and only then did I get a little bit of light in the corner of her eye. I took the initiative to talk to her because I felt that I felt that I was in sympathy with her. In my opinion, if you can't die, if you can't choose to end your painful life with death, then you have to work hard to live and live better than everyone else. Even if you are in Hualou, you can be an extraordinary woman. I told her stories, stories about the strange women in the flower building. But it wasn't until I was about to leave the flower building that I saw a little bit of temperature in her eyes. I know that she came back to life because of what I said. ”

"And then?"

She said she didn't want to stay in the flower building for the rest of her life, and she said she would find a way to get out. She asked me if I would like to take her in if she was no longer in the flower building and she had nowhere to go. I told her that I was willing, and that I would come and pick her up if she wanted to. ”

"Did you pick her up?"

"I went, but I saw her like a rag doll." The expression on the old beggar's face changed: "She found a rich merchant who was willing to redeem her, and she thought that after the rich merchant ransomed her, she would find a way to escape." In her opinion, it was much easier to escape from a wealthy merchant's house than from a flower house. But she chose the wrong person, and she was fooled. The reason why the rich merchant was willing to redeem her was not because he wanted to take her as a concubine, but because he wanted her to die in place of his daughter. The old beggar had red eyes: "In this world, how can there be such a thing, the life of a rich family is life, and the life of a poor family is not life?" She is also a living, flesh and blood girl, who knows how much it hurts. ”

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