Chapter 58 404 Hot Spring Street (End)(2/3)
The pale woman did not answer my question, but just pulled me silently and continued to walk forward.
Just like this, two years have passed. Even if you live in parades, you rarely meet the grand scene of a courtesan parade.
Life in parading is very hard and painful. I don’t want to recall it deliberately in the past two years, until two years later, the old woman led me to the courtesan’s room.
Everyone told me that I was selected and the person who was selected was lucky because he was likely to become the next generation of genius.
But in fact, I didn't care about these things at that time. I was just curious why the courtesans who were parading on the street could look at sentient beings with such high-ranking eyes. Since that day, in this parade full of pain and helplessness, I have never encountered such unruly and desirable gaze again.
It was not until I became the candidate in their mouths and came to serve the courtesan to me that I found the real answer.
The reason why this courtesan can do whatever he wants is because he is not a human being.
He has a pair of special gray-green eyes and sharp teeth that can grow at night. He is a legendary vampire sailing from across the sea.
I also discovered a tacit secret that everyone knew. The courtesan tied under the silk on his neck was a raised Adam's apple.
The famous courtesan paraded the street is a little brother.
But the people in the corridor seemed to care about the gender of the courtesan. In fact, everyone seemed to be afraid of him, respect him, and look up to him, because only he could break out of all the rules and have true freedom.
This is something that all the wandering girls on the streets cannot obtain in their entire lives.
As a parade, he never accepts customers.
As a vampire who needs to drink blood, he disdains to bite the human neck and absorb blood directly.
He wore a long sword with him. Before nightfall, he would take off his makeup on his face and turn into a swordsman paraded in the crowds of people for food.
He would not drink human blood directly, he despised the smell of human beings. Every time he came back for food, he put fresh blood in the wine jar to make bloody wine.
He also gave each wandering girl a short knife, and applied a special medicine to the blade, so that it would not feel pain when cut on people.
When picking up guests, the traveling girls will use this special knife to cut the impolite guests' bodies. The wounds are usually indestructible parts, and death is prohibited here.
The traveling girls will collect fresh blood flowing from the guests with wine jars. All of this is done ignorantly by the guests. Their wounds healed quickly. No guests discovered the secret of this parade. Everyone tacitly abides by the rules of the male courtesan because he has real power to protect all those he wants.
Freedom, doing whatever you want, and controlling yourself and others is something I really long for.
The male courtesan buried these blood of punishment under the cherry blossom trees in the atrium and brewed jars after jars of blood.
Over time, this cherry tree has always bloomed all year round. Even on a moon-like night, the petals of the cherry tree turn into scarlet red blood. I have always believed that human blood has the most charming color in the world.
Although he forbids anyone from touching his blood, I took a sip.
I swear, this is the most delicious thing I have ever tasted in my life, enough to get anyone who has tasted it into it.
I even begged him carefully, begging him to transform me into his kind.
I have learned from the legend of monsters that vampires can transform humans into similar types, and I am willing to pay any price for this.
But the male courtesan rejected me, as expected.
He said that he would not transform any human beings because he did not like anyone's neck and blood.
He always expresses his disgust and disdain so freely.
Although it was expected, it did not prevent me from being depressed for a long time.
Because as a human being, especially this wandering girl on the street, I can't get a sense of security, and I'm worried about gains and losses all day long.
I am afraid that I will survive as a weak human being, and I am still afraid that I will not be able to truly control my destiny, but fortunately, I can see hope.
His existence makes me long for it. Although I can't really be him, he doesn't need anyone to be him.
Later, until later, the male courtesan disappeared-
He left only his favorite cat, his existence was erased from everyone's memory, and the rules he set disappeared.
Only I remember.
Remember this admirable history and this courtesan whom I look up to.
What can I do? I want to be him, so I really became the courtesan.
But I know that in this flower street where freedom and dignity do not allow, the endings of humans and vampires are different after all, and the courtesan is just a useless title.
Human beings are too weak to have no power to change everything, or even their own power.
I don't want this, I can't let it go, I'd rather destroy everything I have in exchange for this unrealistic fantasy - I want to be like him.
So I began to follow him and secretly drink the blood of customers and even ordinary male helpers.
Soon, I realized that I had fallen. I wanted a more absolute and dangerous sense of control than to just stop. I did not have his obsession with cleanliness and disdain. I could not resist the fresh blood of human beings. Although they did not have the richness of blood, I could no longer extricate my blood.
What else is there in this parade that the life of a man disappears in my hands, and I feel more control and safe than the life of a man who wants to absorb his blood?
...
"Miss Yuzi's Self-Report" was played, and after a brief period of drowsiness, Qi Jue completely woke up.
The burning atrium and cherry trees disappeared, and the rich parade disappeared. Qi Jue was in a dilapidated fishing village.
This is the core of the copy and the starting point of the story of Miss Yuzi.
It was dawn and white mist floated on the water.
A little girl in torn clothes sat at the dock. She wrapped her curled knees with her hands, her shoulders twitched, as if she was secretly hiding here and crying in depression.
Qi Jue walked over gently, and the little girl with red eyes raised her head and looked over like a poor little rabbit with a vigilant and scared look.
Qi Jue pointed to the steps beside her and asked softly: "May I ask, can I sit here?"
The little girl looked at him in confusion, and the mist in her eyes gradually dissipated. After a while, she nodded.
Growing in this dilapidated fishing village, she had never seen a little brother who was so beautiful.
Moreover, this little brother from a foreign land also had a pair of unique gray-green eyes. She stared at these beautiful eyes with concentration and curiosity, for a moment she forgot that she was still crying just now.
Qi Jue smiled: "Sorry, it seems to disturb you."
The little girl came to her senses and wiped the tears remaining on her face without sounding.
"Are you Yu Zi?" Qi Jue suddenly asked.
The little girl was stunned. She raised her face and hesitated for a while before nodding: "Do you know me?"
Qi Jue nodded: "A friend of mine, please let me hand this over to you."
As he said that, he handed Miss Yuzi the five thousand coins he had entrusted him to take care of Xiao Hui and handed them over to Xiao Yuzi again.
After all, the cat belongs to him and that guy, and no one needs to pay for the feeding fee.
Xiao Yuzi opened the purse curiously. When she saw clearly that five thousand coins were filled inside, she was stunned: "This, this is...?!"
Qi Jue smiled: "This is for you."
"Ah...but why give it to me?"
Holding the heavy purse, Xiao Yuzi's hands trembled unconsciously. She had never seen such a large sum of money. Even if her mother was sick and her family borrowed money from the bank, there was not so much...
The money is so heavy that it is enough to buy her life.
Qi Jue: "Because my friend thinks you need this money urgently now."
"Maybe from the day I was sold to Yuzhi House, nothing that happened now can't be changed" - Miss Yuzi once told him that Dawn who was asking Qi Jue to leave with the little gray cat.
So to end this sad and bloody story and to truly complete the side mission "Please free Miss Yuzi", we must return to the starting point of the story
——When Miss Yuzi was not sold to parade, everything happened afterwards.
"You need this money very much now, right?" Qi Zuo asked Xiao Yuzi in a gentle tone.
Xiao Yuzi's hand holding the purse was shaking even more violently. She lowered her gaze and bit her lip, shook her head first, hesitated for a while, and finally nodded hesitantly.
"Before dawn, if my family can't raise enough money to pay the debt to the bank, I will be sold to the city parade..." She rubbed the gravel on the ground with her toes. "I don't know where the city parade is, but the sisters next door said that it was a place that was terrible and desperate for girls."
"Brother, have you been there?" Xiao Yuzi suddenly raised her face and looked at Qi Jue.
Qi Jue nodded: "Yes, that's a terrible place. You won't be happy after you go there."
"It's true..." Xiao Yuzi lowered his eyes sadly, "But if your friend gives me this money, where will he sell me? Is it a better place than parade?"
Qi Jue smiled softly: "Don't worry, she won't sell you."
Xiao Yuzi opened her eyes unexpectedly: "Who is he going to sell..."
"Yu Zi, don't worry, no one will be sold after taking this money. This is your money." Qi Jue said gently and confidently.
Xiao Yuzi was stunned. If she had this money, she would not have been forcibly taken away and sold to the streets, but the surplus money would also allow her to live a good life...
"Really?" Xiao Yuzi confirmed carefully, "Do I really don't need to pay any price?"
Qi Jue laughed: "Really, I'm not lying."
"But, but why?" Xiao Yuzi looked at the large amount of money in disbelief and asked blankly, "Why is this my money?"
"Because..." Qi Jue, who couldn't make up the reason for the moment, paused, "This is my secret between her and me, and I will only tell you when you grow up."
"Eh?" Xiao Yuzi blinked blankly.
"But she has a condition." Qi Jue said again.
Xiao Yuzi immediately became nervous: "What?"
To be continued...