After the rebirth, the queen took the Meiqiang tragedy script

chapter 69
The year I was born was the 20th year of Xingrui, a disaster year.Zhongzhou was in drought, Leizhou was flooded, and Yunzhou had a month of heavy snowfall, starvation was everywhere.

Although I don't remember much.I have never seen dry land, nor flood, nor knee-deep snow.

But I have no doubts about it.

Because other than that, I can't think of any reason why my parents would sell me and my second brother.

It must be because I can't live anymore.

That's right, it must be because I can't live anymore.

I was just five years old when I was sold to the brothel.

At that time, my second brother was nine years old, not much taller than me, skinny, and coughing all day long. Others said he was suffering from tuberculosis and would not live long.

The old bustard soon found out that the second brother was ill, and was afraid that he would offend the girls and customers in the store, so she threw him in the alley outside the brothel to fend for himself.

Every day, I secretly left my own food, wrapped it in a plaid cloth cut from the corner of my clothes, and brought it to my second brother, while I stole some food from the girl and the kitchen.

A month later, Shengjing entered winter.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and I feel that my second brother will not survive this winter.

The tenth day of October is the annual Flower Tasting Fair in Shengjing.

The old bustard and several beautiful girls have been preparing for this flower tasting event for several months, and it feels like an enemy when they mention it.

I have tentatively asked them what the flower tasting club is for.

The girls told me that the one who tastes the flowers will be the "flower" in "There are flowers that can be folded and straight to be folded".

After speaking, the girls always smiled knowingly and teased each other.

I was so confused, I could only lower my head and continue wiping the floor.

On the day of the Flower Appreciation Fair, there were very few customers in the store, and there were very few girls. Only a few of us were young to clean and work in the store.I stole two pieces of torn clothes left by customers from the girl in the store and took them to my second brother, then hurried back to work.

In the middle of the night, the outside of the store suddenly became lively. I looked out from the window on the second floor and saw a large group of people coming back around a girl from a building.

I know that girl, she is the number one in our shop, only her flower name is Butterfly.

Her hair was covered with flower hairpins, her face was covered with thick white powder, and she was painted with exquisite makeup. She was wearing a gorgeous and rich red brocade robe with black and white butterflies embroidered on it, which complement each other like a pair. A couple who are about to fly.The brocade robe with wide sleeves and narrow waist reveals a deep neckline, a pair of jade-white fragrant shoulders and slender collarbone looming in between.

It's breathtakingly beautiful.

Only then did I understand that the "flower" they were talking about was not a flower in the ordinary sense, but the beauty in front of me.

Miss Butterfly won the first place in the flower tasting meeting and was elected this year's oiran, which won fame and money for our store.

The old bustard decided to give her an extra servant girl.

Miss Butterfly chose me among all the girls.

From then on, I became the oiran's maid.

That night, Butterfly entertained a guest, and I waited outside the house all night.

Early the next morning, she threw me a man's jacket and asked me to dispose of it.

I was ecstatic, because it was a well-made thick jacket, which was strong enough to withstand the severe cold of winter.

I gave the jacket to my second brother.

Butterfly was elected Oiran for three consecutive years, and after I followed Butterfly, life became easier.

She always throws unwanted clothes and food to me and asks me to "dispose" of them.

With these things, the second brother not only survived that winter, but also gradually improved after the spring of the second year.He stopped coughing and grew taller.

He wore that somewhat bulky jacket and went to a goods store to find a job as a small porter. He got two copper coins a month, which was enough for food and clothing.

I always wanted to ask Butterfly why she chose me back then, but she was always deserted, so I didn't dare to ask.

Until I was eight years old, one day a customer in the store lost something, and the madam suspected that I had stolen it, so he beat me up, scolded me for being muddy and stuck to the wall, and remained steadfast even after being with the oiran.Only then did I know that when I stole the food from the shop, the bustard knew about it long ago. If Miss Butterfly didn't ask me to go, I would have been kicked out of the brothel long ago.

This time it was Butterfly who came forward to vouch for me again, and the bustard let me go.

I couldn't help asking why the butterfly wanted to help me.

"Because if I don't keep you, you will be kicked out of the brothel, and most likely you will starve to death. You can pick a child on the left and right, and everyone will be picked. Picking you can save someone's life, why not?" said Butterfly. Very casual.

Butterfly and I talked a lot that day.

She told me that she was originally from Zhongzhou, and her family was originally a wealthy local family with [-] to [-] mu of land.However, in the past few years, there was a drought in Zhongzhou, and there was no food growing on the ground, so life became more difficult. In the second year, even taxes and food could not be paid.

At this time, a group of officials and gentry from the capital wanted to buy their land.But the price these people offered was too low. Her father didn't want to sell all the land at a low price, but only wanted to transfer [-]% of the property, pay this year's tax, and keep the rest of the land in his hands.

Because her father had some reputation in the village, he and several other village chiefs discussed the matter of selling the land.For the clinker, the other party's original intention was to take advantage of the drought to annex all the local land properties, and they thought it was charity if they took out such cheap money.

Naturally, it was difficult for the two sides to reach an agreement.

At the time of the stalemate, a fire suddenly broke out in the village, killing more than half of the people in the village, and Die Die's parents and several brothers also died in the fire.

After the fire, no one in the village resisted the sale of the fields.Butterfly and the only remaining elder brother were also forced to sell their ancestral property, and buried their family with the little money they got in exchange.

Her brother didn't believe that the fire was a natural disaster, and after spending more than a year investigating, he finally found out that the fire was indeed arson by officials and gentry.However, he went to the county government several times to file a complaint but was rejected.

The officials in the village protect each other, and he has nowhere to appeal. Then in the middle of Beijing, at the feet of the emperor, there must be someone who can control these lawless people.

So, he brought his only younger sister to Beijing to sue the imperial court.

Clinker, as soon as he handed in the complaint to the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion, he was taken in the next day, and within a few days, his body was thrown out by a roll of grass.

Butterfly, who had been waiting at the gate of Jingzhao Mansion for five days in the cold wind, only waited for his brother's body.She hugged her brother's body and cried until all the tears flowed, and no passer-by looked at her more.

"That's when I realized that the sky in the capital is darker and colder than the sky in my hometown." Butterfly said to Qin Baozhu.

Then, she told Qin Baozhu that when she was living on the street and was about to starve to death, it was the old bustard who gave her a bite to eat.Even the flower name of her butterfly was given to her by the bustard at that time.

And her real name is Chen Lan.

(End of this chapter)