Zhang Yuanyi and his master went all the way south, and the purpose of their trip was to pass through Yingchuan County again, go straight down to Huawukou, and take a boat to Longwan Island.

Longwan Island is located in the endless sea area in the south, and is known as the "Three Secret Realms" together with Nanjia Island, the holy land of the Demon Cult, and Linglan Island, the uninhabited land in the north.

Among them, Longwan Island is especially famous for its beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery; Linglan Island is famous for its desolation and uninhabited and snowfall in all seasons; as for Nanjia Island, it is an ordinary island and is known to the world because of the words "Demon Cult Holy Land".

Out of the jurisdiction of Cangwu County, on the way to Yingchuan County, there is a long mountain road to go, this time Zhang Yuan learned to be obedient, followed Zhang Daoling closely throughout the whole process, and never ran blindly.

Zhang Yuan held the book in his hand, it was the "Hundred Works", he read it while walking, and it was not entirely correct to say that he was reading, because he was afraid of falling while walking, he took two steps and picked up the book to look at it or two, then closed the book and began to recall the content of the book, and then picked it up again and looked at it twice. The two abilities that every reader hopes to get the most are one glance and ten lines, and the other is to never forget, and these Zhang Yuanyi have all of them.

In fact, Zhang Yuanyi is not talented, but he has always been serious and likes to do things with his heart, as long as he treats things with his heart, he can often learn quickly, such as cooking, such as carpentry, and even weaving. The most fearful thing about anything is to be attentive, because if you are attentive, there is no Zhang Yuanyi who is not good at learning, of course, except for practice, this Zhang Yuanyi still has no clue.

As for Zhang Yuanyi's lack of care, he may really not have it, in the early years, when he listened to Brother Da Yong by paying attention to the guests, he learned a lot of words and idioms, and he made up his mind to take everything seriously.

But such drawbacks will not be small, which leads to a lot of thoughts and worries in a day, as many as cow hair, all kinds of things, a person and everything is in his heart, how tiring it is, it is estimated that ordinary people have long been exhausted and exhausted, and Zhang Yuanyi is young and vigorous, energetic and can still maintain vitality, but what about later? Who can always be full of vitality and never get tired. So is it really good to learn fast and learn well now? No one knows.

Zhang Yuanyi glanced at "Hundred Works" one last time, closed the book and recalled the content, this time he simply came to a book from beginning to end, starting from the first page of the book to recall, and waited until the time of a pillar of incense passed, he confirmed that he had indeed completely read and remembered the book.

After he finished reading this book, he understood the reason why Zhang Daoling lent him this book to read, he asked the master what Xueyue Tower was when he passed by Xueyue Tower, and the master did not answer clearly, but just casually perfunctory, he continued to ask and was rewarded with a chestnut, he didn't understand at the time, but now he understands.

"Hundred Crafts Map" is mainly a detailed description of some occupations, and the last few pages happen to be about the occupation of the Qinglou. In fact, Zhang Yuanyi probably guessed that he was not far from ten, mainly from the old beggar's sentence "He was too poor to go to Xueyue Tower, so he came to deceive you little girls" to think in this direction, and now after reading "Baigongtu" is just a hypothesis in his heart.

But when he actually finished reading it, he didn't have the kind of happiness of knowing one thing, but had mixed feelings in his heart.

The women who entered the Qinglou had unavoidable reasons, either because their families were poor, or because they were abducted, or because they had no hope for life. Most of them were women from good families before they started their careers, and they were already resistant to opening the door to receive customers.

And the bustard generally does ideological work first, and if this trick really doesn't work, he begins to use personal mutilation to persecute him. There are many ways to mutilate, in addition to the more common rape, rape, etc., the most vicious methods are mainly as follows: one is the sacrificial whip, which is made of leather and has a steel needle inside, showing a little edge. The sacrificed woman was stripped of her clothes, tied her hands behind her back, hung from a beam, and whipped with a whip. The second is to "hit the cat without hitting the body", for the woman who is unwilling to pick up customers, tie her hands behind her back, block her tongue, and then put the tanuki in her pants, tighten her trouser legs, and vigorously whip the tanuki. When the tanuki eats pain, it scratches and bites on the woman's skin, causing her to feel pain in the skin.

In addition to being physically mutilated by the bustard, the prostitutes often insult the women, and some of the prostitutes do not treat them as human beings at all, and in order to satisfy their perverted pleasures, they can do anything, sometimes causing death, and they just pay a few small sums of money and bury them hastily. There is no way, they have always had a low status and their lives are worthless. Even the yamen may not be able to manage this matter, people are divided into three, six, nine and so on, and they are recognized as the lowest class.

The final fate is only a few kinds, either the old bustard and serves the Qinglou all his life; or the one with a better life is sent to the temple to accompany the ancient Buddha of the green lantern and survives; or he is abandoned after old age and decay, and becomes a wanderer on the street, with nowhere to stay, The best life is the Qinglou woman who is fortunate to redeem herself, one is to redeem herself by the wages she earns, but the silver taels required for redemption are too much, and it is difficult for ordinary women to get together in her life, and the other is that there is a person who wants to pay for her to take her away from this fragrant and mixed place. But is it really happy to be ransomed, most of them are just the beginning of another torturous life, how can there be anything that will be smooth sailing if you escape from the sea of suffering. The hardships are not enough for outsiders.

Zhang Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief, and thought of the beautiful woman in Xueyuelou with a bright smile, wearing a red dress, her hair scattered, and waving a silk scarf to invite customers.

When he thought of this, he could only sigh that he was so lucky.

He breathed a sigh of relief, recovered his look, ran forward, handed the book to Zhang Daoling with a smile, and said, "Master, I've finished reading it." ”

"Oh?" Zhang Daoling was slightly surprised, and said: "You kid is quite fast at reading, but don't swallow dates, you don't know anything about it." ”

Zhang Yuanyi smiled again and said, "No, I'm serious about reading books, and I've written them all down." ”

Zhang Daoling nodded, took out another book, and said: "Since you read so fast, and you like to read so much, so good, I'll give you another book, every time you finish reading the book, you will find the master to change the new book, if you can't, come and ask me, the master has a lot of books here, and it's up to you how much you can read along the way." But there is one thing to remind, you can't slack off in sword practice. ”

Zhang Yuan nodded and took the book, and began to ponder, the title of the book is "Butian Song", "Master, is this book to teach me singing?"

Zhang Daoling walked in front and said, "This book talks about astronomy, and it is about the twenty-eight stars in the sky. It's just written in the form of poetry. ”

When it comes to poetry, Zhang Yuanyi is interested, his earliest reading is the "Book of Songs" from Brother Dayong, although he has long memorized the content of the book, but Zhang Yuanyi still takes out the book from time to time to read it, because he really never gets tired of reading it.

But when Zhang Yuanyi just watched the first article of "Butian Song" and "Ziwei Palace", he was completely dumbfounded, this thing is really not something that ordinary people can understand, Zhang Yuanyi frowned, thought hard, and asked a bunch of questions along the way. Zhang Daoling is also very patient and solves doubts one by one.

It's just such a book, Zhang Yuanyi actually read it for half a month before he finished reading it.

They also traveled for half a month, plus they had been on the road for more than a month when they left the town, and it had been a month and a half since they left the town.

That night, the two were still in a hurry, the sky suddenly rained, the heavy rain came suddenly, such as a fine needle falling to the earth, the momentum was huge, fortunately both of them had an umbrella and did not fall to the point of falling into the soup, but the wind was howling, the heavy rain was blowing obliquely, even if it was an umbrella, it was difficult to resist all the rain splashes, and the two bought two cheap umbrellas because they wanted to save money, and now the small broken umbrella was crumbling in the wind, making an overwhelming squeak, as if it was going to break in the next second, plus the heavy rain made the whole mountain road muddy, and it was even more difficult to walk。

"Master, let's find a place to hide from the rain, it can't go on like this, it's too rainy." Zhang Yuanyi held the umbrella with both hands and shouted loudly.

His voice was quickly dispersed in this rain, and he disappeared without a trace in the rain, but fortunately, Zhang Daoling still heard it.

The sky is getting darker and darker, and occasionally there are thunder flashes, and the thunder roars, which is extremely terrifying.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, they didn't find a place to temporarily hide from the rain. And it was so dark that they couldn't see the road in front of them at all, and just when Zhang Yuanyi was about to despair, a lightning bolt fell, like a sharp sword, cutting through the sky. The shining arc rushed down from the clouds to the edge of the sky, illuminating the whole heaven and earth.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Yuanyi hurriedly looked around at the environment, and in the blur, he seemed to see a bright light in front of him, and looked at it carefully with wide eyes, it was a family!

Zhang Yuanyi was excited, and shouted loudly: "Master, let's go quickly, there is a family in front, let's go see if we can hide from the rain!"

As he spoke, he quickened his pace and walked forward with an umbrella, and looked back at the master from time to time, urging him to hurry up. Zhang Daoling also kept agreeing and followed.

When the two approached, they saw a small house, and the candlelight of the small house was like a bright light in the dark night, guiding the pedestrians who were hurrying.

Zhang Yuanyi was very happy in his heart, and trotted all the way to the small house, but Zhang Daoling stood in place with an umbrella, pinching his fingers, with a complicated look in his eyes.

Then I also followed Zhang Yuanyi, on the night of heavy rain, two travelers who were in a hurry both entered the house, and the rain was still falling without stopping, accompanied by strong winds and thunder.