"Think about it, you just have to hurry up." Sister Han Qiao said, "Australians are very fast and resolute in doing things, not to mention the registration of household registration cannot be delayed. If such a shady person is discovered, the fine will be a lot of money. !”
"Yes, I know." Sister-in-law Yao quickly lowered her head and responded.
Because she remembered the "beautiful thing" in the backyard, as soon as she left the upper room, she went to the backyard.
Sister-in-law Yao is so fawning, on the one hand, because she was born in a low-class brothel and worked as a guest sister-in-law in a first-class brothel like Fuchun Yuan. Sister Han Qiao has a "grace of knowing someone"; on the other hand, it is also related to her own future. livelihood.
This "good stuff" was obtained by Wang Dong less than a month ago. Despite his young age, this Wang Dong is an experienced hand in flowers. His father, Wang Daniao, was a womanizer, and his son was not inferior to his father. He slept outside in flowers and willows very early, causing trouble and attracting wind.
However, although Wang DaNiao made a lot of money by relying on the ditch map in his hand, he was not considered rich after all. Moreover, he was greedy for women and his expenses were not small. There is not so much money for this son to play around in the courtyard. Wang Dong went about "helping prostitutes and paying for food" in the court. He was handsome, knew Shuanglu chess, and knew everything about Taoist characters. The friends I have made are also people who talk nonsense and do not keep their duties. After hanging out in a brothel for a long time, he was instigated by others and started to seize women from good families and then resell them.
To recruit women from good families, the targets are mostly young widowed women from below-average families or young women with little experience in remote places. They are lured with good words and personal love to elope and run away, and then resold at the right opportunity - because most of these women are If the origin is unknown and there is no mediator, most people will never dare to buy it. Those who dare to ask are mostly brothel madams who are backed by evil forces. Doing this kind of business harms people's integrity and makes it easy for the owner to seek revenge. If you don't have enough support, you won't be able to do it.
Wang Dong has a relationship with his father in the yamen, so he is naturally confident. After the Australians entered the city, he disappeared for a while and reappeared not long ago. It was said that it was because of his father Wang Daniao that Wang Dong was captured by the Australians for a few days. However, he did not know the whereabouts of his father. , the Australians saw that Chou Yinmao couldn't grow up, so they released him again.
Since Wang Dong is of no use to the Australians, there is no need to hide anymore, but his home has been sealed off by the Australians. I had nowhere to go, but luckily the business in the brothel was booming again, so I just went back to my old job, helping prostitutes and paying for food in various brothels, which was quite a happy life. More than ten days ago, he suddenly brought a girl to Fuchunyuan and asked for a price of one hundred taels of silver. Because although this girl is a widow, she is a "little one" - she is still a virgin; and she comes from a wealthy family. She is not only literate, but also has some knowledge of music, chess, calligraphy and painting - this is a rare "pretty thing" in the guild. According to usual practice, four to five hundred taels of silver is no problem. Sister Han Qiao bargained with him and finally settled the deal for fifty taels of silver. Brothels have always aggressively bargained for women of unknown origin.
As for the abducted woman, when she discovers that the place her lover brought her to is not a "rich relative's home" but an out-and-out brothel, she will "scream and no one will come."
It is very common for abducted women to make noises, seek life and death, and be scratched, bitten, kicked, and beaten. To Sister-in-law Yao, this is nothing. There are ways to "treat" them in brothels.
There is a remote courtyard in the backyard of the hotel, and the courtyard door is closed all year round. Sister-in-law Yao came to the door and knocked lightly a few times. The door creaked halfway open, revealing an old servant woman. Seeing that it was Sister-in-law Yao, she quickly smiled and said, "Aunt Yao!"
Sister-in-law Yao didn't answer, raised her legs and entered the courtyard gate. Inside the courtyard gate is a small courtyard. Although this place is small, it is the place where the prostitutes in the brothel get very excited. The three main rooms are the "court hall", and the east and west wing rooms on both sides are the "prison cells". All new prostitutes must "kill their power" here. Not to mention the girls from good families who are unwilling to degenerate into prostitution, but also the girls from the Lehu family who have nothing else to think about except this bowl of rice. As long as they are sold out, New prostitutes from Sister Han Qiao's family come here to "drink sesame oil". The so-called "drinking sesame oil" means taking sesame oil in your mouth, stripping off your clothes, lying on a stool and whipping the person with a whip. One blow is three hundred times. Don't let a drop of sesame oil fall from your mouth. If it does, start from the beginning. No matter how strong a woman is, she has to bow her head after drinking sesame oil two or three times.
Newcomers will be beaten, and the "old people" of the brothel will not be able to escape. Those who violate the rules of the brothel, those who have too few customers, those who have good intentions... will be brought here to be "interrogated" and tortured - as usual, this is not allowed I yelled to avoid disturbing the enjoyment of the old man who came to play in front of me.
There was no one in the yard, only a tight and slow sob echoed in the yard. It was sad and desolate, and it felt scary even in the summer afternoon.
Sister-in-law Yao didn't care about this, and she didn't care about the servant girl who was following closely behind her. She asked, "How is that woman?"
The servant woman smiled hurriedly and said: "Now I am willing to eat rice porridge, but my whole body is beaten badly and I still can't sleep well at night. I asked my slave this morning if I could get some medicine to remove silt and reduce swelling."
Sister-in-law Yao smiled proudly, indicating that she was willing to eat porridge, which meant she had a desire to survive. She knew that she needed medicine for the pain in her body, obviously because she was afraid of being tortured. After working so hard on water grinding, it’s time to replace it with something softer. Naturally, if she thought she could delay it for a while, she would have to give her some more pain - this was not a place to be clever.
"Since she is already soft, there is no need to force her to kneel on the bricks every day. She can also be given better food. But she must be shackled at night to prevent her from committing suicide." Sister-in-law Yao said to the servant woman.
There have been women like this in the past who pretended to be submissive and hanged themselves with a rope when their defenses were down.
When a person dies, not only will there be official trouble - they will have to spend money to ward off disasters - but the courtyard will also feel unlucky. Everyone who works in this industry is very superstitious about the places of gods and ghosts. Suspicion breeds ghosts, and on stormy days, there are often "haunted" things, and there is no peace in the brothel. For the old bustard, not to mention the psychological fear, he still had to ask the monks and Taoists to do it. Another expense.
This kind of thing has happened in the past at Fuchun Yuan, so Sister-in-law Yao is particularly careful about it.
"Yes, slave, don't worry."
"Take me to see it."
The maid led her to the door of the east wing and opened the door. The room was small and dark inside, with a few benches and bricks scattered randomly on the square tile floor, and a handful of bamboo strips soaked in a bucket in the corner. At that moment, handcuffs and shackles were nailed to two wooden pillars, and a woman was shackled on one of them, sobbing uncontrollably.
There was an unpleasant smell in the house, the smell of human sweat, urine and leftover food mixed together. Sister-in-law Yao didn't dislike it, she just paused to let her eyes adjust to the dim light inside. Then he walked over with shaking steps.
Hearing the sound of someone coming in, the woman who was chained to the pillar raised her head. Her face was haggard and pale, and she looked to be no more than seventeen or eighteen years old. Her clothes were ragged and her hair was messy. However, her skin was soft and her frame was slender. She clearly belonged to a pampered family. Origin. Especially the pair of small feet under the hem of the skirt are wrapped so beautifully that it looks like they were made by a famous artist.
Seeing Mrs. Yao coming in, the woman had a look of fear on her face - she was beaten hard every day these days. During the day, she was whipped with bamboo boards and canes, and at night, she knelt on bricks and lit up the lamp. She was tortured until life was worse than death. When I saw Mrs. Yao, I was like a kid seeing the King of Hell. I couldn't help but tremble all over my body like chaff.
Sister-in-law Yao felt proud, looked the woman up and down, and said, "Miss He, have you thought about it these days?"
This woman is none other than He Xiaoyue who escaped from the Qingjie Courtyard. After she returned to Guangzhou with Liu San and his entourage, they were placed in a charity hall. He Xiaoyue was originally from a wealthy family in other places. Because her fiancé passed away, she was forced by her family to stay in the family and observe filial piety. Her husband's family did not value her at first, and they were afraid that she would not be able to maintain her youth. , it was disgraceful to the family to cause trouble, so he simply donated some money and rice and sent her to Qingjie Yuan to observe the festival. He Xiaoyue had been in Qingjie Hall for more than half a year. Now she finally escaped. How could she bear the loneliness and boredom in the charity hall. Looking for an opportunity to wander secretly on the street, he fell in love with Wang Dong, a young prodigal. She was a girl in a boudoir. Although she was a bit fierce, she always stayed in the boudoir. She didn't know the dangers of the world, and she was still young. She could do it with just a few words. She was seduced by him and sold to the Spring Visiting Courtyard.
She struggled a lot when she first arrived at the brothel, but the methods used by the brothel turned her vigor into a cry for mercy. Gradually, my determination to stay chaste became much weaker. I just wanted to avoid the pain of my skin and flesh, which dragged on for a while.
Needless to say, I feel regret in my heart, but the matter has come to this, let alone escaping, even committing suicide. He Xiaoyue felt a little timid when she saw this ferocious "old bustard" coming in.
"Bless your sister-in-law," He Xiaoyue said in a low voice, "Please sister-in-law, please be merciful and allow me to ask someone to send this message out. I still have a few coins at home. I will give it to you to redeem my life..."
"Redemption?" Mrs. Yao sneered, "So you are still dreaming about this dream! Let me tell you, your adulterer sold you to the courtyard for three thousand taels of silver. Now that you are eating and drinking in the courtyard, this account I haven’t even settled it with you yet! If I just bring you three to five thousand taels of silver, I may not even be willing to pinch you from the corner of my eye!"
Three to five thousand silver is not something that even a wealthy household can easily come up with. He Xiaoyue knew that the old madam would not let her go, and she felt regretful and resentful in her heart. She begged in a low voice: "Please show mercy to me. I am a widowed and chaste woman. If you can spare me, my love will be the best in the courtyard." As a horse, I will serve the people in the courtyard for the rest of my life."
"Hey, I really can't tell that you are a chaste woman," Sister-in-law Yao said with a smile, "Even if you are a chaste woman, why are you hanging out with that frivolous bachelor again?"
At this point, He Xiaoyue lowered her head and said nothing, just sobbing. Sister-in-law Yao knew that her psychological defense was slowly breaking down, so she struck while the iron was hot. (To be continued.)
