Or a dying person who is dying, "Did you hear from your lady how we met?"

I shook my head to show that I didn't know.

"Go, get me some cigarettes." She said suddenly, "It should be in the cabinet over there, bring it for me, thank you."

The woman who took the pipe showed a satisfied expression, but there was no trace of worldly sophistication on her face. She lit the cigarette happily, and took a sip carefully.The decoration on the pipe is gorgeous and complicated, and it looks like a valuable and elegant thing.Between the fingers of this former beauty, the black smoke pipe with gold pattern stood straight, and the smoke gradually rose.

I don't know why, but I feel that she is really rejuvenated at this moment. Unlike the facial modification by candlelight, her whole body seems to reveal the temperament of a girl.

[-]. There is no need for a reason to come to the world and to make a difference

do you know?How I like it, this kind of life, someone is willing to listen to me tell lies all night.

"I just asked you if you know how your young lady and I met, right?" After recovering from the mist, she still squinted her eyes, and her soft voice naturally carried a bit of soul.

I was a little uncomfortable, so I nodded very quickly.

She tilted her head, her simple bun hung down charmingly, and some broken hair stuck to her fair neck.

"It's very strange. How can a trickster who lives in Yoshihara's nights become friends with a rich and well-clothed Miss Gaomen? And it's still a year-end friendship."

She took another sip of the cigarette and closed her eyes, as if remembering, but also as if she was simply enjoying it.I looked at her smooth forehead, but I didn't know her age at all.Since I first came here with the young lady, she has been living here, in a quieter corner of Yoshiwara, living with those tricksters who have nowhere to go when they get old.

In fact, at least as long as I've known her, she's no longer entertaining guests.If she wanted, she would come out some of the time and play a few tunes for the fun, and the rest of the time she would teach newcomers how to better please a man.In short, this former oiran does have the capital to live a relatively leisurely and free life when his age is no longer.

I stared intently at her nails, but the tension surged again.In fact, I have always known very little about the past of Miss. I know that I am also curious about it, but I am even more afraid that I know too much.I don't think I'm the kind of foolish and loyal person who thinks that I shouldn't talk about my master in private. On the contrary, because the lady has always treated me generously, we are more like friends with a distinction between primary and secondary.As for the young lady's secret, I always maintain a respectful attitude.

"Let me think about how many years ago that was... I remember that your young lady was still a virgin."

She smiled generously, and when she smiled, she drew her eyelashes to hide the fine lines spreading around her eyes, "She was really a very honest child. At that time, she was so young and beautiful that people were jealous, especially the kind of youthful honesty, It almost makes me think she's been on a rampage."

Outside the house, a beat was faintly heard nearer, and she exhaled another puff of smoke, and then in the scattered thin smoke, the outline of her flower-like lips gradually became clear.

"When the night fell that day, the song that pretended to be sunny was played in Yoshiwara as usual, but soon the sound of rain covered everything up. This is why I remember that day so clearly. I like rainy days. Because when it rains, it seems to cut off the outside world. Yoshiwara, I only have one room left. There is me in the room, and maybe there are guests. Because of this kind of atmosphere that seems to be isolated from the troubles, I am always very easy to hypnotize myself. When I am alone, I tell myself: 'It is okay to not I was disturbed reading a book', when I am with guests, it is especially easy to believe that 'the person in front of me is the only lover in the world that belongs to me'."

She said: "When your young lady came to visit, I was half-retired and no longer an oiran. I also sat in this room reading a book when it rained. When she knocked on the door and got my response, she immediately The door was completely opened at once. It seemed that there was a thunderstorm that day, and her shadow was reflected in the wide square door frame by the lightning, she was thin and small."

"You didn't know how cute she was at that time," she covered her lips and smiled, "I didn't say anything, and I didn't put down the book, and your lady said to me loudly: 'My name is Qingkong Shen Wife, still a virgin, I came here to ask you to teach me how to serve a man.' I really didn't expect that she was a rich lady from a family background, and she knelt down anxiously almost after she finished speaking. I watched Her face was on the ground, and her back was very thin."

"'Please, help me,' she said to me like that, in a pitiful voice. When I asked her to look up, I saw her face for the first time. It was really beautiful. What is even more amazing is her unwavering and resolute eyes. She immediately started calling me a teacher with a sincere face, never giving me a chance to refuse, and she didn’t seem to consider whether I would agree to her strange request.”

That's the kind of thing.I know that maybe what she said just confirmed a guess I had in my heart.The young lady decided to deal with those men with power and resources, so she pushed open the door of the former oiran on a rainy night and humbly asked for advice.But I still have doubts in my heart. According to what she said, the lady's behavior at that time should be regarded as a loss of composure, so what made the lady so anxious?

"Maybe it was that rainy day when I was really in a good mood." She gently smoothed the fine lines around her eyes with her hands. Those wrinkles were not clearly visible in the candlelight. Her movements not only did not look old but added charm, but Her tender lips sighed, "I told her everything, and the questions she asked seemed a little naive to me, she was really a girl who knew nothing, a pure blank slate. In that She disappeared for a few days after that, and I never thought she would come to me, especially when I heard from a kabuki the next day that she was the unparalleled and beautiful Miss Aozora."

"I think, for such a young lady, she came to me suddenly that day, maybe she was stimulated by something, and she suddenly figured it out the next night, so she took what happened that night as a joke." She seemed to sigh slightly again. With a sound.

"But she came to my place again. It didn't rain that day, and she sent me a greeting card one day in advance. When she came, there was no one else here, so I waited for her with a book. She once again solemnly greeted me. It's a teacher's ceremony."

"However, I don't like the title 'teacher'..." She exhaled lightly, looked at me and smiled again, "Ah, I seem to be a little sorry. I always talk about myself when I say it You don't mind if I add a little bit of my own feelings to the ramblings, do you?"

The room was strangely quiet, although I could hear the faint sound of singing and dancing in the distance, but there was really only silence here.The plain-faced woman in front of me stared at me, her lake-like calm eyes no longer wore long false eyelashes.Decades ago, she also spent one night after another in colorful clothes, but now she is wearing plain single clothes, looking at me with a smile, her lips with the same smile arc showing the original color.

It's not just the past meeting with Miss, maybe she wants to convey some other information to me.I realized that she was both a lonely person and a dying person with a burden on her mind.

I lowered my head and said, "Please tell me."

"At that time, I heard from her that she had changed her name to 'Shen Kong'. But it was not a particularly important thing. It is quite normal to change her name in this day and age. Shen Kong is a very good student, Although I think it's weird to refer to her as my student. I don't let her call me 'teacher', but we talk calmly and are basically friends. She is very smart, learns everything quickly, and has a good demeanor. , talk and grasp the timing of the topic, she was originally from a famous family with excellent self-cultivation, when she is willing to let go of her arrogance and learn some ways to add to the fun, I think no one can resist her charm." She recalled and said:

"She, really always surprises me. She is obviously a little unreasonable after contacting her, but she is unexpectedly able to detect subtle emotional changes in others. She is a little emotional, like a cold-eyed bystander standing outside the crowd , but it is the one who can feel the psychology of others the most.”

"Beauty and temperament." She stretched out her fingers and gestured, "Actually, neither is the key. Once you can accurately detect and grasp other people's psychological trends, everything will be easy to talk about."

"Look, even a prostitute like me, whom others think is heartless, likes your young lady very much. She is really nice. Even after she debuted in full bloom and became active in the upper class social circle in Edo, she is no longer She needs my help, but she still keeps in touch with me." She smiled helplessly, looking at my eyes with inexplicable years blending.

I found that her eyes are also a pair of eyes that can see through people's hearts.

"That's why I feel more and more sorry for Shen Kong..."

She sighed again.The cigarette I just lit has been burned out, she waved her hand, motioning for me to put away the cigarette pouch and put it in the original cabinet.

"Tell me, what is the purpose of Shen Kong for so many years?"

When I turned my back to open the cabinet, she suddenly asked.

Just by looking at that guy Takasugi, a dangerous figure flashed in my brain, but I knew there was no need to tell her this.After I finished everything, I sat back beside her.

"You know what us Yoshiwara women think of Aozora

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