foxy charmer

Before the Qixi Festival, Liuqingtang became lively. Most of the buildings and courtyards were replaced with new lanterns, and the dresses of the goddesses were also completely new. Fei Yu often leaned on the railing on the third floor to observe the situation in the hall.

Li Lian knew what she was doing, so she said, "Sister, don't worry, I will take good care of it, and there will be no chaos."

"I'm also looking at the account books when I go back. It's better to look at the beauties." The woman's vermilion lips were half-opened, and pale tobacco shreds flowed out from the bright red lips, casting an unreal fog screen in front of her eyes.

She casually cast her eyes on the men and women on the first floor. The warm fragrance of silk and bamboo, playfulness and coquettishness are full of real gold and silver.

Money cannot be faked.

Suddenly, Fei Yu's gaze froze and stopped on the man who just came in.The man held two lotus buds in his hands, and when he entered the door, he smiled and gave them to the goddess who came to welcome him.

Fei Yu raised her head, looked at the sea that could not see the sky, and muttered to herself, "Are all the lotus flowers blooming?"

"At the end of June, it's midsummer." Lian replied.

The cigarette in Fei Yu's hand dropped a little, she turned around, turned her back to a pool of wine, and took two steps inward.

"There are so many people outside," she said softly, "I want to visit He."

Lian Lian was stunned for a moment, then the corners of her lips curled into an imperceptible arc, she seldom smiled, the little girls who just arrived were always afraid of her, she could only show a little tenderness when facing Fei Yu.

"I'll take my sister there." She said, stepped forward to hold Fei Yu's hand, and led her into the boat through the back door.

Liuqingtang is at the bustling time, but after sailing for a few miles, it loses its voice. The summer night wind is cool, and Fei Yu is sitting on the bow of the boat, with her feet in wooden clogs resting in the water. The awning boats cut through a layer of thin water waves together.

The lotus pond was approaching, surrounded by lotus flowers and leaves, so she withdrew her feet and stood on the boat. Liu Lian was afraid that she would not be able to stand firmly, so she wanted to help her, but Fei Yu waved her away.

"I'm standing firm," she said without holding on to anything outside, with a long cigarette still clinging to her left hand, and she stood up by herself stepping on the slippery wooden clogs.

"I have lived in the south of the Yangtze River since I was a child. If you throw me down here, I can swim back."

Li Lian thought she was joking, but when the night wind blew, it raised a few strings of gold tassels on Fei Yu's temples, she looked back, her peach blossom eyes widened like a smile but not a smile, and Li Lian was speechless.

That's no joke.

"The lotus pods here are blooming really well." Fei Yu bent down, and the long golden tobacco rod twirled half a circle in her hand. Struggle down.

She picked one and stuffed it into Liu Lian's mouth, and when she scratched her long fingernails dyed with cardamom, the green skin of the lotus seeds fell off. I don't know how she did it.

Sulfur chewed it, but did not remove the lotus heart, no matter how sweet the lotus seeds were, there was only bitterness left.

"Is it sweet?" Fei Yu asked her.

So Lian nodded, "Sweet."

"That's for you." Fei Yu laughed twice, stuffed the lotus pod into her hand, pulled a lotus flower with a cigarette stick, and broke off a petal.

Li Lian thought that Fei Yu was just taking the petals for fun, but she didn't want her to put them in her mouth directly, and bit them down with a click.

"Sister?" She was a little surprised, it was the first time she saw a man eating lotus.

"It's troublesome to peel the lotus seeds," Fei Yu lowered her eyes, and her eyes fell on the petals in her hand, "Once my mother recovers and finds that I'm not there, she will be furious. Every time I come out to eat, I can only make quick decisions. Lotus seeds take time If you don’t have enough to eat, it’s not easy to take it home. The lotus is very good, you can hide two petals in your clothes at the end of the day, and you can take it out to cushion your hunger when you are hungry in the middle of the night.”

She glanced at the lotus pod in Liu Lian's hand, "Lotus seeds are a rare thing, I can eat them a few times a year."

Liao vaguely knew some of Fei Yu's past, and in the increasingly chilly night wind, holding the lotus pod, she couldn't help but whisper, "Sister, you really don't have to stay here anymore."

The previous life was already full of hardships, is it possible that the second half of my life will also be broken in the mud?Li Lian couldn't bear it, she couldn't see any promising bright spots in Fei Yu's life.

Fei Yu lowered her eyes when she heard the words, and then turned to look at the way she came.

Behind her is a piece of lotus, and in front of her is the brightly lit Liuqingtang. The boat is parked in the lotus pond. From here, the surroundings are dark, with occasional fishing lights, but the Liuqingtang behind is like a transparent area. The shiny amber has become the most amazing scene in the night.

"Suliao," she spoke in a low voice, but against the wind, the wind blew those words clearly to Suliao's ears.She said, "Look, how beautiful Liu Qingtang is."

There is a dream, not only the men's dream, but also Fei Yu's.

Liu Lian stepped forward, she put her arms around Fei Yu's waist from behind, and put her chin on her shoulder. "But not as beautiful as my sister, I just want to look at my sister."

"No," Fei Yu turned around, she and Liu Qingtang behind her appeared in Liu Lian's eyes at the same time, with bright lights on the left and peerless elegance on the right, she curled her lips and said with a smile, "You have been able to see people other than me a long time ago. something."

When she moved rice for the girls, when she danced for Lianghuan to buy pears, when she didn't dislike the pestering and teasing of the goddesses, Li Lian had long seen light other than Fei Yu.

Lian Li was silent for a moment, then said after a while, "They are not as important as my sister."

"Men, women, living things or dead things, if a person only loves one thing in his life, he will not be able to live." Fei Yu breathed out a white silk with a cigarette in his mouth, and the tobacco was blown by the wind. , soon disappeared without a trace.

"You're in your twenties this year," she asked, "Do you want to go outside and have a look?"

Lian raised her eyes and looked directly at Fei Yu, "Then sister, do you want to go out and have a look?"

Fei Yu laughed and said, "I'm in such a tattered body, what are you going out for?"

"If elder sister says so, then Liulian will keep Yuanhong today." Liulian took off her shirt, and she stood naked in front of Fei Yu, "Elder sister, take me."

Those black eyes were clear to the bottom, without a trace of filth, Fei Yu was startled, as if seeing the child from 15 years ago.

She didn't move for a long time, and Li Lian continued, "My sister always feels that she is unbearable, but she regards the ladies in the building as pearls. But if there is no sister, none of us will end up dead or disabled. Li Lian I can't speak, but I can be sure that no matter what happened to my sister in the past, no one in the companion building will think that my sister is dirty and unclean."

She took two steps forward and kissed the corner of Fei Yu's lips. She was usually a reticent person, but her lips were soft and warm.

Such a shallow kiss stayed on Fei Yu's face for a long time, until the wind blew the boat, she backed up a little, but those eyes were still looking straight at Fei Yu, and she told her, "There is no such thing as a kiss in this world." People are more beautiful and noble than sisters."

Fei Yu lowered her eyelids, and she seemed to be in a daze for a while, before she came back to her senses and chuckled, "Okay, put on your clothes."

This is not the first time that Liu Lian said this to Fei Yu, nor is it the first time that Fei Yu avoided talking about it.

She also doesn't like to talk about it, and always ends the topic halfway.

Liao opened her mouth, she wanted to say something more, but after Fei Yu turned around, she had to swallow everything.

"Yes." She could only change back to the taciturn maid, propped up the pole, and slowly sailed the boat to Liuqingtang.

The crowded lotus and lotus leaves seem to want to keep the boat, but they can't hold back the intention of the people on board, just leaving a little sound of water flow in vain.

When they came, they were full of makeup and alcohol, and when they returned, they carried a boat full of lotus fragrance.

The fragrance of the lotus sent the two of them downstairs with the sleeve, and when they turned their heads again, they had already disappeared quietly, and it could only be an accidental corner in memory.

In front of him is drunk life, dream and death, behind him is a pool of deep dreams, Liu Lian is the first to go ashore, and she helps Fei Yu to come up.

No matter which dream it is, as long as Fei Yu wants to go, she will follow behind Fei Yu, she never looks up at the sun and moon, she only looks at Fei Yu.

This is an instinct engraved in Lian's bones and blood, and it has been 15 years since he was seven years old.For fifteen years, she could no longer get rid of this habit.

That year she looked up and saw the peony behind the woman's temple.She sat in the car, listening to the conversation outside through some wooden bars.

"A girl, why is she locked in the prison car?"

"She can't speak, and she has an unruly temper. She beat and scolded and scolded. No matter how I taught her, she was disobedient. I starved her for three days before. I thought she had learned to behave, but when she was released, she got scratched." Guest, that gentleman is so angry that he wants to ask me for compensation. Where can I pay for the compensation? If you don't tie your hands with iron chains, you will hurt people if you move around."

"If you hurt someone, can you just send a seven-year-old ugly girl?"

"Young lady doesn't know. That gentleman is especially fond of young girls and prostitutes. Every year, he recruits a lot of little girls. I heard that they have to throw them away because they are used a few times, so they don't care about their appearance. Anyway, she is also undressed with me. If you can’t get it, it’s still troublesome to keep it, so just send it away.”

"How much."

"What did the lady say?"

The woman didn't look at her in the prison car, moved away the long smoke, and exhaled wisps of smoke. She asked, "How much do I need to pay?"