PFC Chapter 586 The Daughter of the Red Mansion's Madam 1
Chapter 586 The Daughter of the Red Mansion's Madam 1
Zhang Xintong opened her eyes and found herself in an ancient boudoir. The room was elegantly decorated. It was not particularly large, but very warm.
It was dark outside, and now it was night. A single oil lamp lit the room. The sound of a guzheng (Chinese zither) drifted by, filled with endless sadness and intermittent sobbing. The original owner must have been crying recently, her eyes were dry.
"Xiao 9, transfer the original owner's memories"
"OK, transmission begins, time paused"
The original owner's name was Du Tong, and her hometown was Guangling. Guangling boasts the beauty of West Lake, classical gardens, historical trails, and Daming Temple. Guangling is not only beautiful, but also teeming with beauties.
There are many red houses in Guangling. The place where the original owner lives now is called Yuanyang Building. It used to be a very famous red house, but now no one comes here because the girls in the building are old and there are no new girls. The business has been taken away by other red houses.
The original owner was the daughter of Dujuan, the madam of Yuanyang Tower. Dujuan was also a girl in the tower and a former courtesan. She could be described as "a beautiful woman riding a jade horse, as graceful as a startled swallow or a flying dragon."
When Dujuan was young, she also yearned for beautiful love, so she gave birth to the original owner. Unfortunately, she was let down and later she was unwilling to get married. The men who wanted to redeem her were all attracted by her appearance, and none of them was sincere.
Du Juan earned a lot of money as a courtesan, and when she got older, she bought herself free. At that time, the business of Yuanyanglou was not doing well, and the owner wanted to sell it. Du Juan had some money and didn't know what to do after leaving Yuanyanglou, so she used the money to buy it.
The original owner grew up in Yuanyang Building. No matter how outsiders describe Yuanyang Building, for the original owner, this is her home.
Over the years, the girls in Yuanyang Tower have become older and older, with the youngest being 35 years old. From the dismal business when Du Juan took over to the total lack of business now, the sisters have been living beyond their means and have been reduced to having to sell Yuanyang Tower to make a living.
No one knows where the future lies or what they can do in the future. They just feel that life is so difficult.
In fact, the girls in the building are all miserable people. Most of them were sold here because their families were too poor to survive. If they had a choice, who would be willing to come here?
There was no business in Yuanyang Tower, and Dujuan thought about doing something else, but the girls in the tower only knew how to sing, play the piano, and dance, and nothing else.
Later, Yuanyang Building was sold and everyone moved into a small courtyard. They wore coarse linen clothes and because they could not find work, they could only make a living by washing clothes for others. Their lives were very miserable.
The girls in the building all took good care of the original owner, and she never had to suffer any hardship.
The original owner took after her mother Du Juan, and was so beautiful that she could make fish sink to the bottom of the water, geese fall to the ground, and the moon hide in ashamed flowers. Later, she was spotted by a wealthy family named Wen in Guangling. In order to make life better for her mother and everyone else, the original owner married Wen Shan, who was old enough to be her father.
Wen Shan was a businessman and his family was very rich. The original owner was naturally to be a concubine when she married him. She rarely went out after entering Wen Shan's backyard.
In the first few years, with Wenshan's love, life was okay, but Wenshan was very lustful. When he saw a pretty girl, he would try to bring her home, and he gradually forgot about the original owner.
Without Wen Shan's love, the original owner's life became increasingly difficult, and she eventually died in that small courtyard.
"Memory transfer complete. The original owner had three wishes: first: to preserve Yuanyang Tower; second: to find a livelihood and make life better for her mother Dujuan and the girls in the tower; third: to not marry and do what she wants."
Seeing that she was not going to get married, Zhang Xintong was not panicked. If she didn't want to get married, then she didn't. It would be nice to find a man of her family and date him for the rest of her life.
"Xiao 9, what is the side quest?"
"Tongtong, the side quest is to find someone worthy of entrusting your life to and marry him."
Zhang Xintong???
"Xiao 9, the third main quest conflicts with the side quest!"
"According to the literal meaning, as long as you don't marry, you can find a son-in-law."
How could this be possible? Xiao 9 had thoroughly mastered the text.
“Is this a big world or a small world?”
“It’s a small world here”
This is a small world, and her husband has no memories of himself. In this era, the husband is the most important thing. To be a live-in son-in-law, especially to be the son-in-law of the daughter of a brothel owner, a man must be very poor and have no future to be willing to do so. No one knows what identity he chose.
As soon as I mentioned it, a masked man climbed into her bedroom through the window.
Yuanyang Building has three floors. The first floor is the lobby. In the past, performances and eating and drinking were all held on the first floor. The second floor is the girls' room, and the third floor is the room of the original owner's mother Dujuan and the original owner.
The rooms of Yuanyang Building are on the left and right sides, and the first to third floors are open. It looks very spacious as soon as you enter the Yuanyang Building. The Yuanyang Building should be sold for at least three thousand taels. However, in the previous life, because of the price being forced down and secret tricks being used, no one bought the Yuanyang Building, and it was finally sold for only 800 taels.
The original owner's room was on the third floor, and he was able to climb in through the window, so it seemed he had martial arts skills.
The masked man saw the people in the room looking at him with wide eyes, and without thinking, he drugged Zhang Xintong.
This man was unethical. Zhang Xintong quickly held her breath and took another antidote. The original owner had no memory of this incident. Zhang Xintong reasonably speculated that in her previous life, the original owner fainted from crying, and this man had drugged her as soon as he entered the house. She knew nothing, and when she opened her eyes, it was the next day. At that time, Du Juan had reached a deal with the buyer of Yuanyang Tower early in the morning, selling it for 800 taels. The group hurriedly packed up their things, not even thinking about how she fainted and returned to bed.
Zhang Xintong couldn't faint. She wanted to keep Yuanyang Tower, so she naturally couldn't let Dujuan sell it.
However, Zhang Xintong pretended to faint. Although she closed her eyes, her consciousness was always watching the masked man. His steps were unsteady and he had no external injuries on his body. He must have been poisoned and was not in good condition.
The masked man closed the window, blew out the oil lamp in the room, and listened carefully to the sounds outside. Zhang Xintong had no internal energy, but she looked outside with her spiritual sense and saw six men in black coming towards her from the east.
The masked man obviously heard it. He looked back at Zhang Xintong, walked to her, picked her up and put her on the bed, then lowered the gauze bed curtain, lay down on the bed himself, and covered both of them with the quilt.
The masked man breathed lightly and hid under the quilt, but he did not touch Zhang Xintong's body. There was a little distance between them.
The man in black outside opened the window and looked into the room. Except for the bed, there was no one in the room.
A man in black tried to climb through the window to get into the house, but was stopped by another man in black.
"The women in this Yuanyang Building are all old women, don't look at them."
The man in black who wanted to climb through the window felt embarrassed about being exposed.
"I want to see if that person is there?"
The black-clad man who stopped people was not exposed
"He's not here, let's go! Let's chase him and don't let him get away."
The other four men in black searched the area but couldn't find anyone. After reuniting with these two men, they chased west together.