Chapter 34 The Evil Courtesan (16)
After the stage performance of the new Oiran Festival is over, it is time for customers to exercise their right of virginity and spend a night of passion with the courtesans they have won by bidding for them.
Saeki, who was over fifty years old, was already drunk. Surrounded by many prostitutes and supported by them, he walked towards Xiangyu's room with great momentum.
"I still remember that Xiangyu's sister was also a great beauty, but she had a very fierce personality. She started tearing and biting me right away, which immediately aroused my interest. Once I'm in the mood, I can't control the severity of my attacks! Hahahahaha!!!"
Saeki and his servants boasted incessantly. Not only were they not ashamed of having once toyed with a prostitute to death, but they also flaunted it as if it were an achievement.
The moon tonight is covered by dark clouds, with only a few faint starlights visible.
The moon is dark, the wind is strong, it is a murderous night.
"Beauty, here I come. Are you ready to serve me?" Saeki drunkenly pushed open the door of Xiangyu's room, rubbing his hands with lustful eyes.
The new courtesan had changed into a pure white wedding dress, covered her face with a veil, and sat upright on the bed.
Saeki twisted his fat body and slowly approached while burping.
He grumbled in dissatisfaction, "Why are you wearing a veil?! Did I pay a high price for you to cover your face?! Do you think I've never seen the world? You lousy courtesan, you don't even know the etiquette of supporting a customer, and you're still sitting here like an idiot?!"
The woman on the bed didn't react at all.
"Huh? You don't answer me... Have I spoiled your bad habits?!" Saeki was so angry that he staggered two steps and tore off the woman's veil.
The veil fluttered to the ground.
Saeki was dumbfounded.
The woman sitting on the bed is not Xiangyu at all!
There was a blood-red Lycoris radiata tattoo on her left cheek, and her eyes were like a pile of fire in a thorn bush, which made people shudder.
Time spike.
The one sitting on the bed instead of Xiangyu was Shisui!
"You, you, you, who the hell are you?!" Saeki was so scared that he took several steps back.
"Old man, your appearance is a joke. Don't you realize that you're so ugly that it violates public order? Are you worthy of being served by an oiran?"
Tokiho sneered and stood up from the bed.
After this scare, Saeki sobered up a lot.
He shouted, "I spent a full 500,000 taels of silver, and Yuejianlou actually dared to find an ugly woman to cheat me?!"
Saeki pulled out the whip from his waist, wanting to teach this "ungrateful" woman a lesson.
Shisui was delighted when she saw it.
"Just now I was worried about getting my hands dirty by taking you down with my bare hands... Thank you, old man, for being so polite and even handing me a weapon."
She rushed over, snatched the whip from Saeki's hand, and strangled him with her backhand.
"You can say I'm a liar, but if you say I'm ugly, I won't let you off!"
After a few moments, Saeki's shouting became weaker and weaker, and after struggling symbolically for a few times, he died completely.
A life for a life, an eye for an eye.
In addition to Xiangyu's sister, there were at least a dozen prostitutes who were toyed with to death by Saeki. It would be too easy for him to just die like that.
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It was not until the second half of the night that Saeki was found strangled to death in the room by Xiangyu's servants.
Not only did he die, but he was also whipped repeatedly. His clothes were disheveled and his skin and flesh were torn to pieces by the whip. It was a horrific death!
But Xiangzhu and Shisui had long disappeared.
This horrific courtesan murder case quickly spread beyond Yuejianlou and to every corner of Yoshiwara, and was showing signs of spreading to the nobles in the capital.
Saeki was a jeweler with a distinguished family background and extensive connections in the capital. He died tragically in Yoshiwara, and Tsukimiro Heisaburo could not escape connection and responsibility.
Even Taira Saburo's father, whom he hadn't seen that year, was furious about this incident. He sent someone on horseback to come overnight to urge him to find the murderer as soon as possible to calm the anger of the Saeki family.
"Xiangyu, and that servant with the Lycoris radiata tattoo on her face! Search them all! Even if we have to turn Yoshiwara upside down, we must dig these two bitches out for me! If we still can't find them before tomorrow morning, bring your heads to me!"
Heisaburo was furious and drove all his capable men out of Yuejianlou to look for someone.
He pushed all the cups, vases and ornaments around him to the ground. The fragments were scattered everywhere, but he still didn't feel relieved.
He hit his legs, which had long lost all feeling, hard. If he could walk, he would have gone and dragged Xiangyu back himself!
"Cough cough cough..." Heisaburo was weak and started to gasp for breath when he got excited.
He covered his mouth with his hand, and after catching his breath, he found that his hand had caught a pool of blood...
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At this time, Matsuyama and Xiangyu had already escaped from Yoshiwara through the back mountain of Jingxian Temple.
After Xiangyu finished her performance at the New Oiran Festival and returned to her room, she was knocked unconscious by Tokiho without warning. She was put into a sack and dragged onto a corpse transport cart, and the porters who were unaware of the situation took her directly to Jingxian Temple.
As usual, the porters threw the "corpses" in the sacks into the mass grave on the back mountain.
Songshan waited in the dark for the porter to leave, then immediately loosened the sack to let Xiangyu breathe, carried her on his back and ran towards the back mountain.
The wind was howling in the early winter night, and it was freezing cold.
But he did not dare to stop for a moment. He walked until his shoes were torn and the soles of his feet were bleeding. Finally, at dawn, he found a hidden cave where he could rest his feet and build a fire to warm his hands.
Xiangyu also woke up at this time.
When I opened my eyes, I found myself in a dark cave in the wild.
"Mr. Matsuyama?? ...I was clearly in my room just now, and I saw Su Su! Ah...my head hurts!"
She was at a loss as to what to do with her situation.
After Songshan explained to her the story of Shisui replacing the prince with a raccoon cat, Xiangyu shouted that something was wrong.
"Sui Sui stayed alone in Yoshiwara? The OP would have eaten her alive!" She excitedly pulled at Matsuyama's clothes, "And you let her do that? Just so the two of us could escape?"
Songshan comforted Xiangyu, who was furious, and took out an envelope from his arms: "This is what she left for you."
"A letter? Sui Sui can't even read, how can she write a letter?"
"Not only is she literate, but she also seems to be hiding a lot of things from us."
Xiangyu opened the letter from Shi Sui:
"Ms. Xiangyu, it is an honor for you and Mr. Matsuyama to meet me (laughs).
But don't thank me, and don't worry about me.
Natural disasters are not to be feared, ancestors’ teachings are not to be followed, and people’s words are not to be pitied.
Yoshiwara will soon become a battlefield, and hundreds of courtesans will flee.
I would like to ask you for a favor. If you encounter former colleagues who are displaced, please give them a sip of water or a bite of food.
Your night is over, but theirs is not.
We agreed that you would come back to Yoshiwara next spring."
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