Chapter 26 The Original Owner's Life Story
According to Xiao Fei, he saw with his own eyes that the woman entered the brothel without being coerced. He also saw that the concubine had a very pleasant conversation with the brothel madam, and finally they went to the second floor hand in hand in a friendly manner.
Since Xiao Fei could only wander back and forth outside the door, he did not hear their conversation. After seeing them go upstairs, he went in and gave the eunuch some silver to find out the news.
After some inquiries, I found out that the reason why the Fanhua Brothel was doing a booming business and making a fortune every day was all thanks to this woman. She was truly a singing girl, as she actually had such a talent.
In the past, he only knew that she was a homeless person who sang in restaurants and teahouses. He never cared about what songs she sang and had never heard them.
Sometimes when she wanted to please him by singing for him, he would reject her with disgust. In his opinion, her songs were nothing but mediocre.
Unexpectedly, the songs he heard in the brothel last night were all ones he had never heard before. At that time, he admired the musician who composed the songs very much. He didn't expect that after all his admiration, the person who composed the songs was actually his mistress.
After learning about the other side of this woman, he was really shocked and angry. He was shocked that a singing girl could have such talent, which was not inferior to those young ladies, and even better than them.
But what made him angry was that this woman had such talent but had never told him, and had the audacity to come to a brothel to show off. What was she thinking? Even if she was short of money, she couldn't come to such a place. What if something happened?
When he brought his people to the brothel, he heard the beautiful singing coming from the room as soon as he went upstairs. This made him realize that the woman's singing voice was so good, and he had previously had a preconceived notion that she was worthless.
Yun Wansheng looked at the man with a cold face and didn't speak. Her eyes flashed slightly, and when the man was about to start scolding her, she spoke first.
"My Lord, I was wrong. Please show some mercy." Now is not the time for her to confront him head-on. If she gives in appropriately, she might suffer less.
"You also know that you are wrong, why don't you challenge me this time?" Mu Xingci said in a sarcastic tone.
"Uh! When did I ever challenge you to a fight? Don't accuse me wrongly." Now she could only show goodwill in disguise, hoping to make this man less angry.
"Yun Wansheng, is this something you did that you're too afraid to admit?"
"What are you asking me to admit to that I haven't done?"
Mu Xingci looked into her innocent eyes and chuckled, "Yun Wansheng, I've noticed that you've become smarter and deny anything that's disadvantageous to you."
Yun Wansheng didn't respond, but just smiled, neither admitting nor denying.
"Okay, you can deny what happened in the past, but you can't deny what happened today, right?" A gleam flashed in Mu Xingci's eyes.
Yun Wansheng blinked slightly and said, "My Lord, the reason I did this is not entirely because of you, because you took all my things away.
You let me live a life of luxury for half a year, and now you want me to live a life of poverty. How can I bear it?
Therefore, I must earn more money while I still have some, so that I don’t starve until my skin turns yellow and my hair becomes dry. If I ever return to my old self, you will despise and hate me even more.”
Mu Xingci looked at the aggrieved woman in front of him with a slightly gloomy look in his eyes, as if what she said was true.
"So, this is my fault?" His tone was calm.
"Isn't it?" Yun Wansheng looked back at him with her red lips slightly pouted.
"Yun Wansheng, you should be thankful that you were only teaching others to sing in secret and didn't reveal your identity to anyone. Otherwise, how could you sit in front of me so peacefully?"
"Don't worry, my Lord. Although I don't understand some of the rules, I still know my limits when it comes to major issues. I will never do anything that would affect you, my Lord."
Mu Xingci looked at the woman's serious attitude, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "You're lucky! Come here."
"What?" Yun Wansheng watched the man opposite her turn into a gentle wolf, moving back out of the car instead of forward.
"Yun Wansheng, I don't think I have told you how to punish you yet?" Mu Xingci stared at her with cold eyes.
Yun Wansheng cursed inwardly, "You bastard!", stood up and walked to sit next to the man. She was not a masochist, and she didn't care about coaxing the man as long as she could avoid being punished. Anyway, the man was not bad looking, so she might as well treat him as a sleeping duck.
Mu Xingci raised his hand and grasped the woman's slender white hand, kneading it gently with his fingers. "Yun Wansheng, tell me, you are just a singing girl from a poor family. Why are your songs so elegant? Those lyrics and music don't sound like something you would write."
Upon hearing this, Yun Wansheng smiled guiltily, "My Lord, I lied to you about something."
"What's up?"
"In fact, I had studied before I was twelve years old. I was also a daughter of a wealthy family. When I was studying in the academy, my grades were always among the best. No matter whether the teacher tested me on poetry, songs, or settlement questions, I could answer them fluently. My classmates at that time even gave me the nickname of a little talented girl.
Unfortunately, all this came to an end after a group of bandits broke into my house, robbed my money, and killed my parents and brother.
My grandfather has been in poor health for many years and has no energy to go out to earn money. In order to survive, he decided to leave his hometown and take me to an unfamiliar place to sing for a living.
In order to make people pity us and earn more money, we told others that we came from a poor family. In short, the more pitiful we sound, the better.
Since I followed the Marquis, our lives have been a little better. I didn't expect that my rather paranoid personality would always annoy you and make you dislike me.
As for those pieces of music, they were indeed composed by me. I could compose them fluently when I was eight years old. If I hadn't been a girl, I might have passed the imperial examination and become a scholar."
Mu Xingci was stunned when he heard her talking about her life experience with a wry smile. He really didn't expect that this woman's life experience would be so miserable.
"How could your parents and brother be murdered at home? From what I know, most bandits only rob money. Killing people would only attract government suppression, which would be disadvantageous to them."
"Maybe he thinks my family is rich?" Yun Wansheng revealed the original owner's identity and gave a reasonable explanation for what she was doing now. Otherwise, how could she explain those modern songs?
"Then how did you and your grandfather escape from the bandits?" Mu Xingci continued to ask.
"When the bandits broke into my house that day, my grandfather had just taken me to the temple fair in Yanzhou City, 20 miles away. When we got home, we saw that our house was on fire and the bandits had already fled.
We heard from the neighbors that they saw a group of bandits breaking into my house." Yun Wansheng thought about the original owner's memory.
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