Chapter 42: Willow Lane

The rain is still falling, like weeping.

The entire Liyang City was already dark, the night was deep, and everyone fell asleep in the dripping rain.

It is said that only the spring rain will be like a weave of sorrow, but why is the summer rain in the ancient city of Liyang so melancholy tonight? It seems that only by soaking a pot of sake can the continuous rain outside the window fade a trace of sorrow in my heart.

Only Tingshui Xuan's sword room was still lit with yellowish candlelight, and the guests who came to that room had not yet slept, but the night was deep and the rain was cold, and the figure by the window under the dim light and drizzle was standing there stupidly, motionless.

On the table under the candlelight, there was a table full of sumptuous meals, but the dishes were cold and the chopsticks were not moved. You can see that the person by the window has not eaten a bite.

On the bed not far away, Lu Xiyue was already lying in her clothes and fell asleep. Thinking about the daytime, I was tired and tight. Only Lin Yi was the only one, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.

He stood indifferently by the window, the rain hitting the window, and his worries were flying. He was a little strange that there was only a pot of liquor missing from the already cold dishes on the table, and if there was, he would not hesitate to pick up the jug and get drunk.

The clothes that were no longer shapeless have been changed, and now they are the gauze black robe that Lu Xiyue bought newly, this black robe is floating left and right in the candlelight, adding a bit of solemnity.

The woman in the green building in the rain, but is she?

How is it possible? The light veil as thin as the wings of a cicada, the face with heavy makeup, the swaying posture, and the faint fragrance gently rising in the rain. These have nothing to do with the girl back then, not to mention, this woman is still in the fireworks in Willow Lane.

If not, the look between the smiles and cheeks, the demeanor and demeanor after taking off all the glitz and glamour of vulgar powder, all reminded Lin Yizhi again and again that the woman was her.

But how did she end up here, and how did she end up in the land of fireworks, and seemed so willing?

The girl who smiled like a pear vortex back then, the girl who made Lin Yizhi's young heart tremble back then, how could she be a little contaminated with the land of wind and moon?

No way, it's absolutely impossible!

Struggling over and over again, he never wanted to believe it. However, the graceful figure in the rain reminded him over and over again that it was a fact, and that figure was her.

The door opened slowly, and the wind outside the door poured in, blowing the candles, and the yellowish candlelight kept shaking. The next moment, there was still no black figure in this room.

It's just that the woman who seemed to be sleeping deeply opened her eyes violently in the flickering candlelight, her eyes like stars, looking at the darkness outside the door, and she was speechless for a long time.

The ten-mile-long street has long been deserted, and the rain still shows no signs of stopping, and the rain brushes the basalt road very smoothly.

Lin Yizhi, dressed in black, walked slowly in the rain alone, a shabby paper umbrella, which could cover the wind and rain outside.

Hung Temple. He vaguely remembered the name, but the name of this brothel was quite elegant, not like any explicit titles such as Drunken Spring Building and Lichun Courtyard elsewhere in the world.

It's just that Lin Yizhi is only fifteen years old now, so how can he know where the Jinghong Courtyard is in the huge Liyang City?

Just walk aimlessly, maybe you can meet it.

Dark night, bleak wind, drizzle, lonely, old umbrellas.

I don't know how long I walked, and suddenly my eyes were faintly tingled by the light emitted by a glamour of red lanterns, although they were still far away, Lin Yizhi could already faintly hear bursts of lively men and women laughing and noisy.

I thought, I'm afraid it's here.

Lin Yizhi didn't dare to go over, because since he was a child, he never thought that he would one day have anything to do with this kind of beautiful place.

He hid himself in the darkness and looked through the rain to the place of light.

In front of me is a four-story wooden tall building, carved beams and painted buildings, although it is magnificent, but the colorful gauze tents in the open corridor and pavilion aisles between the floors, as well as the continuous laughter of **, is that anyone can conclude that this is a brothel.

Under the tall red lantern in front of the door, a few red, green, and green girls dressed in flowers are smiling like flowers to attract visitors who come in and out from time to time, this place is quite out of tune with the whole Liyang City, Liyang City has long been quiet, but here is the lights are brilliant, and the guests are endless.

It's just that I don't know how many prodigal sons there are, and how many prodigal sons who flaunt themselves as prodigal sons in the red dust.

Lin Yizhi looked at the red plaque on the gate through the bustling crowd, and the gilded three big characters were written upside down quite imposingly: Jinghong Courtyard!

But whether to enter or not to enter, so that this fifteen-year-old boy is in a dilemma, if someone passes by here, you can see a sweaty, red-faced young man hesitated here, took a few steps, and came back, the figure is quite ridiculous.

After all, it is the land of wind and moon, how can an honest person like Lin Yizhi enter without the slightest scruples?

However, after hesitating for a while, Lin Yizhi's face turned red, but he put his face on his waist, lowered his head, and strode towards the courtyard.

It's just that Lin Yizhi never dreamed that in the dark place where he was hesitating just now, a pink figure, staring at his back hatefully, had already scolded thousands of times.

As soon as Lin Yizhi walked into the courtyard, he was greeted by the aroma of rouge in his nose, and the smell was so strong that Lin Yizhi hurriedly lowered his head and sneezed a few times.

When he raised his head again, one of his left and right arms had already been grabbed, but the fat powder was even stronger. Lin Yizhi looked fixedly, and the left and right sides were being dragged and touched by two exposedly dressed and bewitching women, and these two girls were quite presumptuous and rubbed their chests on Lin Yizhi's arms.

Where had Lin Yizhi seen such a formation, his head suddenly grew three times, and he even regretted how he came in impulsively just now, and couldn't help but release the coercion of the foundation building in his body.

These delicate women, which one of them is not a mortal fetus with the naked eye, not to mention the double foundation building, it is the cultivation of the condensation period, they are also unbearable, each of them is coquettish, as if they were pushed by someone, and they were planted to both sides.

"Boom—" The two girls smashed the teapots and bowls on the tables on either side. In an instant, the hall of Jinghong Courtyard, which was originally laughing and lively, instantly quieted down, and everyone's eyes looked at Lin Yizhi and the two girls, but after a while, the hall began to be noisy and laughing again.

I'm afraid that everyone will regard Lin Yizhi as a prostitute who didn't find a satisfactory girl, and made a prostitution.

Just think about it, Lin Yizhi's situation at this time is also miserable enough, a disciple of Mo Weifeng of the Liwu Sect, although he is not taken seriously in the Liwu Sect, but in the eyes of the people outside, he has already been a figure among the immortals, and for the first time in his life, he was treated as a rogue prostitute. Lin Yizhi also shook his head secretly and sighed, so he was not embarrassed.

After this experience, although the two girls did not understand the reason for this, they did not dare to come forward again, and whispered together for a while, and one of them turned and went inside.

Lin Yizhi was happy, just bluffing, standing there motionless with his shoulders crossed, although the posture was a bluff, it was also quite scary.

After a while, the girl who had just left went and returned, followed by a middle-aged woman who was full of fat and fat and fat.

In the end, this old bustard is a person who has seen the market, his eyelashes are empty, and he has already practiced the ability to see people and talk about people, and talk about ghosts.

only looked Lin Yizhi up and down a few times, and then basically touched his bottom to the ground, before anyone arrived, the laughter came first, and the flirtatious laughter couldn't help but make Lin Yizhi's brows frown a few times.

The old bustard rolled in front of Lin Yizhi like a ball of meat, and his big fat face with heavy makeup leaned in front of Lin Yizhi's eyes, and he bared his teeth and smiled: "Yo yo yo, this is something that does not have long eyes to offend this young master, young master, are you here to be happy, or are you here to find someone?"

This old bustard saw that although Lin Yizhi tried his best to maintain a very sophisticated appearance, but looking at his lame posture, he knew that this black-clothed young man was the first time to come to this place of fireworks, but he listened to the girl's return, saying that this person was a little mysterious, and saw that his expression was quite different from those sons and daughters of the gentleman's family, so he said patiently and politely.

Lin Yizhi opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to call this old bustard, one was that he was fifteen years old and didn't know anything about this fireworks and willow lane, and the other was the first time he came here, and no one had taught him how to call the fat woman who suddenly appeared, so he opened his mouth a few times, but he didn't know what to say.

Seeing this, the old bustard and those little prostitutes were all amused by the embarrassment on Lin Yi's face and the majesty that he deliberately maintained, and a few girls laughed so much that the spring light leaked out.

Lin Yizhi's face was white and red again, but he secretly said in his heart: Even if you don't come to this place in the future, you won't come to this place again.

Or the old bustard is sophisticated, and said with a smile: "I think this son is the first time to come back to this wonderful fireworks, but don't be nervous, what do you need to speak, we don't have much here, but there are more beautiful girls, which one do you look at, I'll call you two?"

Lin Yizhi hurriedly waved his hand, but he didn't know what to call this person, so he had to ignore the thirty-seven twenty-one: "Boss, you misunderstood, I'm here to find someone!"

Not only were the girls in the courtyard laughed, but even the prostitutes who were laughing with the girls were laughing back and forth.

The old bustard didn't care, only rolled his eyes and said, "Looking for someone, my place in this Amazing Courtyard is not big, but every day there are a few people who don't make a special trip to find someone for the girl, but this silver is ......" After that, he rubbed his fat fingers like tender tofu in front of Lin Yizhi a few times, and then stopped talking.

Lin Yizhi knew the meaning of her action, so he threw a large piece of silver from his arms to the old bustard's hand and said, "These are enough!" Since Lin Yizhi officially became a disciple of the Liwu Sect, he has received five taels of silver every month, and he has never gone down to Liwu Mountain, and now after fifteen years, this silver is not lacking.

The old bustard's eyes lit up, and he weighed the weight of the silver with his hand, not twenty taels but also fifteen taels, and even smiled happily, nodded like pecking rice and said: "Enough, enough, don't say find one person, even if we find all the girls in the entire Jinghong Courtyard, it is enough." ”

Lin Yizhi didn't talk nonsense anymore, and walked to the first wing room upstairs. The old bustard stopped again: "Master, master, this is unbelievable, there are already people looking for happiness here, why don't you change the room?"

Lin Yizhi glared, and said inwardly: "You don't let me push the door to see, how do I know if the girl inside is the person I'm looking for?"

The old bustard shook his head like a rattle, and it was the first time he had encountered someone like this, but he didn't dare to say with the slightest slackness on his face: "Master, master, it's not a way for you to find it like this, I have more than 100 girls in this Amazing Courtyard, and there are nearly 100 rooms in this room, you have to go through them one by one, it's not to find the dawn, it's better for you to tell me what the name of the girl you are looking for is, I will call her to serve the master." ”

Lin Yizhi thought about it, but I know this woman's name, but I can't tell if it's her, if not, wouldn't it ruin someone else's reputation in vain, and thought about it: "I only remember this girl's appearance, but I don't know the name." ”

The old bustard smiled and said, "This is easy to do, you can tell it carefully." ”

Lin Yizhi said the same as the old bustard who saw the woman in the rain, and the old bustard laughed and said: "I came for the first time as a master, but I didn't know that the master had such a powerful vision, the person you said was the top brand of our Jinghong Courtyard, and the girl was called Qin Xiang, playing a good tune, but it was no better than those vulgar fans, and now she was in her own small building in the backyard, but if you want to see her, the price is ......" Before the words were finished, he stopped his voice and only looked at Lin Yizhi with a smile.

This old bustard is very cunning, in fact, Mo said that Lin Yizhi gave her nearly twenty taels of silver, even ten taels is enough for that Qin Xiang to show up, but seeing Lin Yizhi's stuffy head and stuffy head, it is the first time to come to this fireworks land, so I can't wait to blackmail him more.

The silver on Lin Yizhi's body was nowhere to be used, so he took out another ten taels of silver and threw it in front of the old bustard and said, "Is this enough?"

The old bustard sent the Buddha shrine to offer Lin Yizhi, and his eyes were about to burst into laughter, and he hurriedly beckoned two miscellaneous people to make an umbrella for Lin Yizhi, and then personally accompanied him to the backyard.

As soon as I came to the backyard, I felt a faint cool air blowing in my face, the courtyard behind it was not very big, but it was very quiet, not as noisy as before, and there were only four red lanterns hanging on the walls around the courtyard that were not very large.

It is even more dark and quiet. On both sides of the cobblestone path in the courtyard are planted two rows of deep and dense Xiangfei bamboos, and the rain hits the bamboo leaves, making a clicking sound.

It's a plain and elegant meaning. It's just that Lin Yizhi felt that the owner of this courtyard didn't seem to be happy, because the bamboo and the dim light always made Lin Yizhi feel the slightest desolation.

As soon as I looked at this small courtyard, I heard a burst of intermittent piano sounds, the piano sound was melancholy, faint and cut, and the drizzle of the drizzle, but it was a touching sadness.

I just don't know who strokes the qin, the sadness in the piano song, and the exquisite skills, which are really amazing. Lin Yizhi closed his eyes and listened to the sound of the piano, and slowly paced to a small building.

This small building is only a two-story wooden quadrangular pavilion, not very large, and the candle shadow in front of the window is flickering, and the sound of the piano is like crying and complaining from inside.

The old bustard saw Lin Yi's face listening attentively, so he whispered: "Master, the ...... is in the building."

Before the words fell, Lin Yizhi took out five taels of silver from his arms and threw them to the old bustard, who was also interested and went upside down.

Lin Yizhi slowly walked up the stairs, one step at a time. As he slowly went up, the stairs also slowly clicked softly, like a sigh, tickling every nerve of Lin Yizhi.

Finally came to the door, this is not a long time, but Lin Yizhi has walked quite a long time, and the drizzle in the sky has already soaked his black long clothes.

However, at the door that was close at hand, Lin Yizhi stood there suddenly, and then slowly raised his right hand, making a gesture to knock on the door, but his hand was like a thousand catties of heavy burden, lifting and falling, lifting and falling.

This was repeated several times, and finally the fingers that had not yet touched the door were already trembling slightly.

At this moment, I heard a faint female voice from inside the door: "Since you are here, why don't you come in and talk about it......

After that, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.