Jiaojiao and Mingyue sat in Xiuchun Pavilion, drank wine for a while, and after eating food for a while, Jiaojiao suddenly felt something, so she asked Mingyue:

"Sister Mingyue, are you willing to stay in Cuiyun Tower for the rest of your life?"

Mingyue put down her wine glass and sighed:

"It's not that I haven't thought about redeeming myself, and I've saved some money in my hand. However, if I leave Cuiyun Tower, where else can I go?"

Jiaojiao said: "The world is so big, where can't I accommodate myself? Why do you have to stay in Cuiyun Tower?"

Mingyue said: "Stay in Cuiyun Tower, I can finally have a bite to eat, a bed to sleep in, and I don't have to suffer from wind and rain." If I leave here, I don't know where I'm going to stay?"

Jiaojiao said strangely: "Doesn't my sister have a family?

Mingyue raised her glass and took a sip of wine, her eyes gradually moistened, and she sighed again:

"I have a hard life since I was a child, my mother died when I was ten years old, and my father sold me into Cuiyun Building when I was fourteen. Now ten years have passed, and I don't know if my father is still alive...... Even if he's alive, I don't want to see him again......"

Jiaojiao couldn't help but feel sorry when she heard it, she didn't expect Mingyue's life experience to be so miserable. She guessed that Mingyue entered the Qinglou at the age of fourteen, and she must have suffered countless hardships in the past ten years, and she didn't know how Mingyue survived. She held Mingyue's hand and comforted:

"Sister, I can't imagine that you actually have such a ruthless father! You can't bear to sell your own daughter into the Qinglou at such a young age! In the future, if I see your conscienceless father, I will definitely beat him up and make my sister angry!"

Mingyue shook her head and said with a wry smile:

"Forget it! When I was just sold into Cuiyun Tower, I scolded him every night, and I hated him so much! I thought to myself, how could there be such a father in this world who would push his daughter into the fire pit with his own hands! But ...... It's been ten years! Now I don't have the slightest hatred for him...... Come to think of it, cough! Back then, my family was really poor and couldn't open the pot......

"However, he is your own father! No matter how poor the family is, there is always a bite to eat, right? How can you sell your daughter into a prostitute in a green building, it is simply a beast!" Jiaojiao said indignantly.

Mingyue looked at Jiaojiao and couldn't help but say:

"By the way, Sister Jiaojiao, how did you come to Cuiyun Tower? I heard Mother Yang say, you are from the disaster area? Are you suffering from a drought there? Is the drought very bad?"

Mingyue was thinking in her heart, weren't you Jiaojiao also sold to Cuiyun Mansion by your father? But if there is a bite of food at home, in this world, which father will sell his own daughter to Qinglou as a prostitute!

"I ...... Naturally, I came from the disaster area, where we had a terrible drought, and it was terrible! It hadn't rained for years...... There wasn't a single wheat in the field!cough...... My father also can't think about it, in order to survive, he took me all the way to Chang'an City and sold me into Cuiyun Building......" Jiaojiao replied hesitantly. She said in her heart, eldest sister, what are you pretending to be bad, you want to pretend to be my "father", and say that what is from the disaster area, this is good, how can I be round with this lie?

Sure enough, Mingyue listened to Jiaojiao's lie, and couldn't help but wonder:

"It hasn't rained for several years? You've traveled all the way to Chang'an? Sister, where is your hometown? Why are you so far away from Chang'an? What about you...... How did you get here?"

What this Mao Jiaojiao is good at is stealth skills, but her ability to lie is really not very clever. Moreover, among the four provinces that have been affected by the disaster, Shandong and Shannan are the farthest away from Chang'an, and they are at most 800 miles away, so how can they come to Chang'an "all the way"? According to common sense, if the victims of the disaster in Shannan Province want to sell their daughters, they can go to Jinan Prefecture, so why should they go so far to Chang'an?

Mao Jiaojiao's words have led to at least three questions from Mingyue. She was in a hurry, and immediately changed the topic:

"Sister, let's not talk about the unpleasant things in the past. Even if my sister doesn't want to go to your father, my sister can go to other places to settle down, so why do you have to stay in this Cuiyun Building?"

Mingyue raised her wine glass and drank all the residual wine in the glass, only to feel a mellow smell of wine rushing up, and she couldn't help coughing a few times immediately. At this time, she looked at the delicious dishes piled up on a large table in front of her, and instead of the slightest joy, her face was full of dazed and painful expression.

It's not that she didn't want to redeem herself, but what's the matter, she has been in Cuiyun Building for ten years, and she has more or less some feelings with the sisters in the building. If she was taught to be alone and left alone, wouldn't she become a lonely and helpless person? Moreover, she was still the number one in Cuiyun Tower, how could Mother Yang easily let her go out? If she opened her mouth to Mother Yang to redeem herself, the other party would definitely offer a sky-high price of ransom money. In the past ten years, she has accumulated more than 3,000 taels of silver for herself, which may not be enough to redeem herself, even if it is enough, if she gives all the silver to Mother Yang, how will she make a living in the future?

Mingyue sighed to herself:

"Sister, we are all hard-working women, and since we have entered the Qinglou, we have to accept our fate to God! If God doesn't give us a good life, what can we do? You have to ask me what my plans are in the future, and what plans can I have? In this Cuiyun Building, I can only live for one day, even if it is just one day......

"Sister, you can't say that...... Jiaojiao immediately shook her head and said:

"I have lived for so many years, and I have never believed in fate, and I have never accepted fate! I will do whatever others think and say whatever I believe in my heart!"

After a pause, Jiaojiao saw Mingyue bowing her head and pondering, but she didn't speak, so she continued:

"My sister was sold to Cuiyun Building by your father back then, because my sister was still young and had no way to choose. Now, ten years later, why does my sister still stay in that pickled and filthy place? None of the men who go there to have fun are good things! My sister has to force her face to laugh every day and have fun with those men, isn't my sister tired?"

“......”

Mingyue looked at Jiaojiao, and had the same question in her heart, don't you have to force a smile every day and have fun with those men, aren't you tired?

Jiaojiao said again:

"The two of us are both the same hardships, if my sister doesn't dislike it, let's become sisters with different surnames, and take care of each other from now on, okay?"

Mingyue immediately nodded and said yes.

So, the two of them bowed three times in front of the big rosewood table in this huge Xiuchun Pavilion, and poured the two wine glasses in front of them full of wine, and drank the wine glasses.

Mingyue reported that she was twenty-four years old this year, and Jiaojiao reported that she was twenty years old, so Mingyue became her sister, and Jiaojiao became a "sister".

After the two of them bowed, Jiaojiao wiped a handful of wine juice from her lips and said:

"Sister, in my sister's opinion, it's better to be like this...... After we go back today, my sister can propose redemption to Mother Yang, and as for the silver taels for redemption, it will be wrapped in my sister's body!"

"Wrapped in my sister's body, sister, after all, my sister has been in Cuiyun Building for ten years, my sister's ransom money, even if Mother Yang doesn't want 10,000, it should be priced above 8,000 taels, sister, where did you get all this amount of silver?" Mingyue shook her head and said.

"Sister, don't worry, I will tell Mother Yang that no matter how much my sister's redemption money is, she will only deduct it from my 'powder money'. Jiaojiao said confidently.

"Deduction from your 'powder money'? That's all my sister's hard-earned money, you have deducted it for Yang's mother, how can you live in the future?" asked Mingyue.

"Sister, don't worry!" Jiaojiao winked at Mingyue and said, "After my sister leaves Cuiyun Tower, it won't be long before my sister will leave!"

"But ......" Mingyue hesitated: "Sister, Cuiyun Tower is not a place where you can come if you want to, and you can leave if you want." If you promise Mother Yang not to take any money from now on, Mother Yang will not let you leave at will......"

Jiaojiao waved her hand and said with a smile: "Sister, you don't have to worry about this matter, Jiaojiao has her own way to get out." If my sister doesn't have a place she wants to go, she can find an inn to live in, and when Jiaojiao does everything here, she will go to her sister. If my sister wants to in the future, she can follow Jiaojiao to Xiao Guo together. It's a little cold, but it's your own home, and it's comfortable to live in!"

"That's ...... Okay?" Mingyue said hesitantly. After listening to Jiaojiao's words, she was inexplicably moved in her heart, but she always felt that something was not quite right.

Mingyue thought to herself: Why should Jiaojiao be so good to me? After all, we have only known each other for more than ten days, and she and I have only been sisters since she swore to me, and she did not hesitate to exchange her more than ten years of powder money for my free body, why is this? If she promised Mother Yang to use the next powder money to redeem me, how could she leave? Wouldn't that offend the entire Cuiyun Building? And the mysterious master behind the Cuiyun Tower, if he sent thugs to track me for thousands of miles, how could this be good? Listening to what she just said, she actually came from the Northland Xiao Kingdom, so how could she say that she came from the disaster area before?

Jiaojiao saw that Mingyue was silent and hesitant, so she couldn't help but stomp her feet and said hurriedly:

"Oh, Sister Mingyue! You just believe in your sister! Jiaojiao will never hurt you! If you don't leave today, do you still want to stay in Cuiyun Mansion and serve those dirty and rancid men every day?"

"Okay! I'll listen to my sister!" Mingyue said resolutely.

Just a thought, Mingyue chose to believe in Jiaojiao unconditionally, although she and Jiaojiao have only known each other for ten days, although she knows that most of what Jiaojiao said is false, however, she firmly believes in her heart that Jiaojiao will never harm her!

At this moment, Mingyue's heart has already made up her mind, no matter what kind of person Jiaojiao is, no matter where she comes from or where she is going, I Mingyue will follow her in this life......

So, the two toasted again and drank happily.

This 20-year-old "Fenyang drunk" in the Yuelou has a very mellow taste of wine, Jiaojiao drank a little spicy at first, and later, the more she drank, the more comfortable she felt. She called the hall again, and then asked for two jugs of good wine. Mingyue has lived in the Fengyue field for a long time, and often has to accompany the guests to drink, after all, there is also some alcohol. The two of them were in this empty "Xiuchun Pavilion", you drank one cup at a time, and the mountains of dishes on the big table in front of them, they didn't move much......

These two "sons" dressed as men stayed in the private room upstairs, drinking non-stop, and they were downstairs, in the atrium of the restaurant, it was also very lively, and those business travelers from south to north were already sitting in the entire lobby.

The two "sons" looked at the lobby on the first floor through the large window of the private room, and saw that the atrium was crowded with people, tables next to table, and the sound of drinking and noisy drinking was endless. On the side of the rockery, there is a high platform made of wood. At this time, there was a small long table on the high platform, and on each side of the table, one person stood on each side, the one on the left had a white dot on the bridge of the nose, and the one on the right, with a ball of white powder on each cheek, which happened to be the two brothers who were rapping in the restaurant that day.

I only listened to the funny man pick up a piece of black paperweight, slapped it on the long table, and opened his mouth and said loudly:

"Ranking officials, everyone is eating and drinking today, I am really happy, my brothers passed by the treasure land, and while they were happy, they said a joke for everyone, to help everyone drink, add fun, what do you think?"

"Laughing" then said: "Brother, is the joke you want to say funny?"

teased: "It's funny or not, it's not necessarily, but the incident I talked about today is so peculiar!"

He pretended to be puzzled and said, "Brother, what is so curious about the incident you are talking about?"

teased: "Don't hide it from my brother, what I want to talk about today is 'a scene in Chang'an'!"

He said, "A scene in Chang'an, what kind of scene?"

Tease blinked and said, "Guess what?"

He folded his hands and said: "Chang'an City has Qiushui Plain, Balin Plain, Huamanlou, Stacked Dream Building, Xuandu Temple, Ziyun Temple, Dajue Temple, White Horse Temple...... I just don't know what kind of scene my brother said?"

He shook his head and said, "It's not a plain, it's not a building, it's not a view, it's not a temple!"

He put on a more puzzled expression and said, "That's strange, is there a new scene in Chang'an City?"

teased: "My brother is right, the new scene in Chang'an City has a name, called ......'Bright Moon Bright'!"

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