Chapter 311: Mentor and Disciple
In the garden, Yan Shifan's concubines were rarely happy, enjoying flowers and drinking tea in the sun, and they also got together to whisper when they had a good relationship, a harmonious and beautiful scene of a large family.
However, in the Rouge Leopard's hut, Ruyu tells a creepy true story.
"When I first arrived in the capital, Master rented a house and asked me to keep it at home, and he went out to pick up some work and take it home to do.
There are many wealthy families in the capital, and the master's craftsmanship is excellent, and some large families can also receive the job of carving crystal cups and jade bracelets, which is more than earning in their hometown.
My craft is getting better and better, and I do a lot of work with Master, only a little slower than Master. Master was very happy and said that in two years, I would be able to surpass him in my craft.
Master also said that when he has saved enough money, he will buy this small courtyard he rents, and he has no children or daughters, so he will let me take his surname and be his son in the future, and give him the incense to continue."
Ruyu's whole person fell into memories, as if he was hypnotized, with a happy smile on his face, in fact, that should be his happiest time.
The rouge leopard stared blankly at her, not daring to ask or interrupt her. After a while, Ru Yucai's smile gradually disappeared, and her voice became low and hoarse.
"Later, I grew a little taller, a little stronger, and a little bit of a man. Master thought it would be okay to let me hide at home, so he began to take me out to do business.
A lot of people complimented me on my handsomeness, but there were fewer men who beat me up like they used to, and many women started approaching me. I was ignorant at the time, and I would be attracted to beautiful women.
But Master was very strict with me, and he told me that I couldn't mess around with those people, and that in the future, he would help me talk about family affairs, so that I could fight for good fortune, so that I could inherit his craftsmanship and incense in the future.
Later, the president of the chamber of commerce, Tan Xinren, found my master and asked us to carve furniture and jade for his family.
The salary he gave was very high, and the work was very urgent, so Tan Xinren let us live in his house to catch up with the work in order to hurry.
Master and I worked day and night, and Master said that when we got the money this time, we could buy the small courtyard, and we would have a home in the future.
Tan Xinren has a concubine, who is very favored, and she has to decorate the most objects in her room, because she is too busy to work, and Master and I can only do it separately.
She was supposed to hide in other rooms when she was alive, but she would always come to me secretly to talk, praising me for being handsome, saying that she was bought by Tan Xinren, and Tan Xinren had a lot of concubines, and he would sell or give them away again when he got tired of playing, and shed tears as he spoke.
She was very beautiful, and I sympathized with her, so I talked to her a little more. Later, when the master found out, the master was very angry and asked me to exchange jobs with him and go to another room to do things.
One day at noon, after Master and I finished eating the food provided by Tanfu, Master said that he was very sleepy, so he found a place to take a nap. Later, I learned that because Master drank alcohol, I didn't drink alcohol, so they drugged Master's wine.
Then she came again and brought me a pot of tea, and I happened to be very thirsty, so I drank it. Then, as if I was obsessed, my mind was full of women. She took off her clothes and took off mine, and I ......."
Ruyu's face was not red, but turned very white, and her remorse and anger made her whole body tremble slightly.
In order to appease her, the rouge leopard poured her a cup of tea and handed it over, but she reflexively leaned back, as if she wanted to avoid the cup of tea back then.
"That night, I lost my soul and didn't know whether to tell my master, and then, Tan Xinren led someone to arrest us, saying that I *** his concubine.
I defended that she was looking for me, but Tan Xinren didn't listen at all. He beat me and Master, and then, having four of his servants set me up, a thin old man walked in and took off my pants.
The master shouted like crazy, begging Tan Xinren to let me go, he didn't want to be paid, how much money Tan Xinren wanted, as long as he had it, he would give Tan Xinren.
Tan Xinren looked at my master and said: Lao Tzu has money, and there is no shortage of you. What's more, it's not something I can forgive if I say it's forgiving.
Then the thin old man did it, although he used medicine, but I even did
I was scared and painful, but I still passed out. When I woke up, I was already in the prison of Shuncheonfu.
That thin old man was able to enter the prison of Shuntianfu, and he came to change my dressing every day, so I didn't die in prison. Later, after two sessions, the lawyer who talked about Xinren's invitation was very powerful, and even the people of Shuntianfu couldn't talk about him.
Then, I was transferred to the prison of the Criminal Department, saying that I was a *** official and merchant concubine, and I was sentenced to hard labor and exile according to the law, and I was disabled and sentenced to three years.
After a few days, my wounds healed, but I knew I was a wreck. It's just that I can't let go of Master, and I want to go to Master when I'm released.
One night, Yan Shifan came to prison. I didn't know him at the time, but I was scared when I saw him. But the food I ate that day was drugged, and my whole body was weak, and it was like talking about Xinren's family, *** burned myself.
I'm not a man anymore, and the medicine is as if I knew this, and my desires have become very weird.
He walked into the prison and said: Lai Tiangong lost you back then, but I didn't expect to find you until today, it's really fate to meet thousands of miles away."
Rouge Leopard's hand shook, the tea spilled on the ground, and Ruyu looked up at her with a deep despair and mockery of fate on her face.
"You know who Lai Tiangong is, right? Otherwise you wouldn't be so surprised."
Rouge Leopard nodded with difficulty: "He is an official of the Yan Party, as you said, he was the county commander who wanted to snatch you from you in the first place?"
Ruyu nodded: "Back then, he just wanted to dedicate me to Yan Shifan, but after two years of going around and around, I still couldn't escape from Yan Shifan's clutches.
That night, in the cell, Yan Shifan insulted me. After the potion passed, my heart was like ashes, and I wanted to die.
But Yan Shifan told me with a smile: Zhao Shilang summoned the master into the Ministry of Engineering and gave him the job of making office. He also told me that my master's work now is to carve jade pendants for the three princes.
If he wants my master's life, he doesn't have to kill people with his own hands, as long as he asks Zhao Shilang to make some moves and cut a knife on the jade pendant that has not yet been carved, my master will be beheaded.
I was scared and begged him to spare my master. He told me that as long as I was obedient, he would not kill my master, otherwise, he could kill me at any time.
The next day, Yan Shifan brought someone in, bound my feet, dressed me, changed into a woman's clothes, and then took me back to Yan's mansion in a carriage from the prison of the Criminal Department, saying that I was a newly bought concubine.
He got two kinds of medicine, one for me to soak my feet in, and the other for me to drink as tea. The foot soaking medicine made my legs weak and made my feet smaller and smaller.
The medicine I drank made my voice thinner and thinner, and my skin and breasts became more and more like a woman......
The only thing he didn't move was my two hands, and he said my hands were precious and useful to keep."
The rouge leopard gritted his teeth, trying to make his voice seem calm and indifferent. Because she still doesn't know if this is Yan Shifan's trap to test herself.
"When Ke Yupei was still the first prince and didn't die, it was at least more than three years, and in the past three years, you have never been out of the Yan Mansion again, haven't you seen your master?"
Ruyu shook her head, "I've seen it twice. The first time was not long after I entered the Yan Mansion, and I was worried that Yan Shifan would not keep his word, so I asked Yan Shifan to take me to see the master.
As long as Master is alive, it makes sense for me to live this kind of life that is worse than death.
Yan Shifan took me to the door of Master's courtyard in a carriage, and proudly told me that if I wanted to kill Master, I should tell him the truth.
I dressed as a woman and walked into Master's room, where Master was eating, and he didn't recognize me at first glance, but then his face turned pale.
He scolded me for being shameless and making a big mistake, he spent half his life trying to rescue me from the Xianggu Pavilion and teach me the craft, but I not only ruined myself, but also was willing to do this kind of *** thing.
I didn't dare to tell him anything, so I just cried and asked him, "Master, if I can still come back and follow you, will you still be my master?"
Ruyu stopped, as if her chest was blocked by a ball of cotton wool
mouth the same. The Rouge Leopard's chest was also very blocked, and her voice also had a breathless feeling.
"Your master, Zeng Zao, what did he say?"
A smile appeared on Ruyu's pale face, but that smile made the rouge leopard more uncomfortable than any kind of howling and crying, it was an indescribable laughter, it was a miserable laugh with a hint of relief in despair.
If you have to find a metaphor, it is like a person who sinks into a swamp at the last moment, in the eyes above the mud, sees his relatives being rescued.
"Master said that his apprentice was dead, and he had no more apprentices.
He said that his apprentice is the best child in the world, neither the few wastes that the Ministry of Industry forced to give him, nor the *** billet in front of him. It's a pity that such a good child is already dead.
After the master finished speaking, he ignored me, drank glass after glass, and soon drunk himself. I helped him to the bed, covered him with the quilt, kowtowed to him, and left."
Rouge Leopard held back the tears rolling in his eyes and maintained his last vigilance: "What about the second time?"
Ruyu looked at her two hands: "The second time, it was Yan Shifan who asked me to help him re-carve the prince's jade pendant into King Yu's last year. I became suspicious, if my master was still alive, why didn't he ask my master to do it?
So I refused to live or die, Yan Shifan had no choice but to tell me that I couldn't let anyone know about this, so I couldn't find my master.
In order to prove that he did not harm my master, he took me to the gate of the Ministry of Works in a carriage, so that I could see through the curtain that Master was on duty from the Ministry of Works.
Master, he is old, although it has only been more than a year, Master is really old. Yan Shifan told me that Master was an alcoholic, so his hands were shaking, and his skills were no longer as good as mine.
Sister Leopard, you say, could it be that my master is drinking because of me? You're well-informed, you help me think about it, is it because of me?"
The rouge leopard finally couldn't hold it anymore, tears rolled down, she no longer suspected that this was a trap, no longer suspected that this was Yan Shifan testing her.
She hugged Ruyu tightly, felt Ruyu's tears wet her shoulders, choked up, and whispered to Ruyu in her ear.
"Your master must miss you very much, he must miss you very much. You're a good boy, you're a good apprentice, you've done nothing wrong, you're not wrong."