1. The Year of Poverty

“I

want to give you a woman.”

I was carried back and thrown to his son as a small gift by the one-handed army of Langdu.

“What do you think? Do you look like him?”

Leaving me behind, Langdujun clapped his hands with satisfaction and grinned with yellow teeth. “Do you know what’s better?”

Without waiting for the third son to answer, he went up and said to himself, “Guess what her name is?”

Lang Dujun proudly repeated my nickname word by word: “Wan, Wan, Wan Wan, and Wan Wan in your heart..”

Hearing this, Lang’s third son’s body in the wheelchair trembled.

It seems that my name is prickly and has been quenched with poison, which is on the tip of his heart. Seeing this,

Lang Dujun was very proud. He patted his son on the thin shoulder and went out laughing.

When he arrived at the door, he did not forget to say, “Be careful. It is said that this little hoof can play with a knife.”

The door closed at the sound.

I carefully examined the third son in front of me. In his

early twenties, his face was delicate and cold, his body was thin and cool, his Adam’s apple trembled slightly, and he coughed a few times. I am

white, tender and strong, like a banshee cultivated in the willow lane. I want to eat him up and wipe him clean.

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Well, that seems to be the case.

I can’t wait to put it up.

“Your father sent me to test your body.”

With these words, I broke his crippled leg with one hand and reached into his skirt with the other.

But he caught him with his backhand and said, “Who allowed you to say such dissolute words with such a face?”

“Oh, I’ve been a madam with this face for many years.” With an evil breath,

he shook off my hand fiercely and forced out a word: “Get out.”

It was as if one more sound had dirtied his mouth.

“You are so fickle.” Humming coldly, I unbuttoned my cheongsam one by one and said, “Just roll away, but you can’t blame me for the money we’ve agreed to redeem ourselves for such a large military office.”

As if I didn’t give up, I poked him in the chest with my index finger and grinned viciously in his ear.

Third Childe, I know what you’re reading. Don’t think about it. In such troubled times, your white moonlight might have died outside long ago.

He sat in a wheelchair with a calm face and did not know whether he was sad or happy.

Just as I was about to get up, I was caught off guard when a bullet whistled past my ear, leaving a hole in the door frame behind me.

Almost, just a hole in my forehead.

I looked up, and I don’t know when he had a gun in his hand.

Immediately afterwards, he squeezed open my cheek and thrust the muzzle of the gun into my mouth. “Say one more word if you like.”

And then he loaded it.

I swallowed. It

is said that Lang Zi, the third son of Lang, is a good stubble. He is modest and refined. He never gets angry. Unfortunately, he lost his leg many years ago. Since then, he has lived in seclusion in his house.

But how can I look at it? I’m afraid it’s a tough guy?

Three days ago, I was visited by Governor Lang, the warlord of Los Angeles.

With a face like the white moonlight of his third child.

He told the mother of the brothel that he would redeem me. The

mother’s face was embarrassed, and her smile was even uglier than crying. After a while, she leaned close to her ear and said,

“It’s not that I don’t want to give up. It’s really that these little hooves and pawns are too sharp.”

“What kind of riffa?”

The mother stamped her foot and said, Wan Wan, Wan Wan, she has killed people. Yes, that gentleman.. The word

“Wan Wan” struck him in the heart, stirring up a great deal of interest.

Lang Dujun narrowed his eyes and looked at me from head to foot again and again, murmuring, “I didn’t expect that. It’s really a bad fate.”

Later, I knew where the evil was and where the fate was.

It turns out that not only the face, but even this name, has the same pronunciation as the small character “Wan Wan” of Shih Wan-chun, the white moonlight of the third son.

My God, it’s really a great fate. The day I

left the brothel, I wore a sleeveless cheongsam, my shoulders were covered with a layer of gauze, and my arms were half covered and half exposed like lotus root knots. It was worth my mother’s training, and it was very attractive.

My mother saw me out of the house, but with a sad face, she grabbed my hand and said,

“Wan Wan, please don’t make trouble in the Governor’s Office. This ransom..” You will be given 20% of the ransom.

I made a gesture: “37.”

Seeing her hesitating through clenched teeth, I smiled savagely and said, “It’s three for you and seven for me.”

“You are too dark!”

“Otherwise, I’ll go to the governor’s office and kill someone else.” I grinned more menacingly and frantically. “At that point, you won’t be giving me money, you’ll be burying me.”

“Little Wolf!” She spat hard at my feet.

Looking at the way she wished she had beaten me to death and starved me to death, I was so proud that I turned my head and got into the car of Lang Dujun. In the

car, this 50-year-old guy kept staring at me.

“Like, really like.” He lit a cigarette, puffed on it, and then spat the smelly smoke into my face.

“It’s a pity that the third brother has lost a leg. I don’t know if I can taste your little beauty.”

He grinned grimly and pinched my cheek. “Little beauty, you just help me to see if he is really unconscious.”

Lang Dujun’s face was cold, and he showed his intention: “… …” Look at that leg. Is it real or not?

“I see.” I wrung my eyebrows and coughed. “Stop smoking quickly. It’s choking.”

With these words, I pulled the cigarette butt out of his mouth, grabbed it with my teeth, and began to smoke.

Dead old man, can’t even trust his own son’s disability. So

I was ordered to leave and tried every means to seduce him, but in the end I was driven out of the house by the third son, Lang Ziyu, with the smell of gunpowder in his mouth.

Lang Zi didn’t touch me, but he didn’t let me go. Not long after I

left the room, two or three old women came up and pressed me and began to drag me roughly.

“Where to?” My struggle only resulted in a series of pinch marks on my body.

“The Third Childe ordered me to wash Miss Wan Wan’s body clean.”

Old women don’t know how to take pity on women.

That night, I was pressed in the hot tub, and the rough brush rubbed every inch of my skin, including the soles of my feet, armpits, and even my lips and tongue.

The more delicate the place is, the more they will not let it go. When I

was fished out, I had a burning pain all over my body.

To tell you the truth, being a madam is not such a pain, nor is it such an insult.

But I am not wronged, who told me to owe it to myself.

My quarrel with Lang San was over from then on.

The next morning, as if deliberately disgusting, Lang Dujun pressed us to have breakfast together. At the

same table, Lang Ziyu and I sat side by side.

My neck was unnaturally red, scalded by hot water and rubbed by hair brushes.

But in the eyes of Lang Dujun, it is another ambiguous explanation.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk. It seems that the third brother did not let down his father’s kindness yesterday.”

He held a steamed stuffed bun and did not put it into his mouth. He just put it in his hand, just like us.

“What kind of kindness?” Lang Ziyu’s face was as calm as ever. “Is this leg broken?”? Or is she this..

He glanced at me and swallowed the ugly word.

Lang Dujun’s eyes drifted for a moment, and finally he took a bite of the meat. The smell of

meat mixed with the smell of onions immediately dispersed in the air.

“Father’s love is like a mountain. It’s really too much to bear.” With that, Lang Ziyu rocked the wheelchair and left by himself.

“What are you waiting for?” At the dinner table, Lang Dujun spat at me fiercely. “You’re his man now, and you’re not going to take good care of him. Do you really think you’re coming back to be a young grandmother?”

I ran after him with a shrunken mouth.

Only in our room, Lang Ziyu still didn’t give me a good face.

He turned the pages of the newspaper, some of them yellowed.

I picked up one on the ground and saw that it was from May last year. The headline told of a mighty student movement in the south. The girls

inside all had neat short hair and wore trousers and short shirts.

I laughed and wriggled. “How can you look good in a cheongsam?”

Lang Zi stretched out his hand more and more, and even took the initiative to fish on my flat lower abdomen, but in order to fish me farther and not to block his light. I

didn’t want to be caught off guard, and my face was red by the way.

“Yes, they’re not like you. They don’t have ink in their stomachs, and their brains are empty. It’s good to serve people with color.”

He looked up and noticed my blushing face. Instead, he became interested

. “What’s wrong?”? Shy, can’t you?

I pursed my lips unnaturally and put on an artificial smile.

“Don’t just talk about it, Third Childe. It’s better to get real.”

Lang Ziyu drew back his hand and wiped it carefully on his handkerchief.

Seeing that the skin was about to break, he spat out the word “dirty.”

I raised my chin and said, “I’m dirty, but maybe I’m cleaner than yours.”

Afraid that he was going to pull out his gun again, I quickly pressed his wrist and said

, “Third Childe, you can’t just look at people by their origins.”. You are the third young master of the warlord family, not the same.

I leaned close to his ear and said, “I can’t even taste a woman.”

Then, before he could tell me to get out or shoot me through the head, he ran away quickly.

Lang San must have been so angry that when he went out, I heard the sound of the broken teacup on the ground. Lang Dujun, who was

passing by, also heard this. Laughing, he looked into the room and teased,

“The hooves in the brothel are different. It’s only been one night, and the third brother can’t even hold his cup.”

“The third son isn’t so bad either.” I held my waist.

He narrowed his eyes, leaned over, pointed to his left leg, and got right to the point: “That third brother’s leg..”

I think he’s really disabled. He’s motionless. I pinched and scratched so hard yesterday that the third son didn’t say a word. I covered my mouth and smiled.

As he spoke, the door opened behind him.

Lang Ziyu, pushing a wheelchair, appeared at the door of the room and said, “Father, I don’t need you to worry about things in Wan Wan’s room.”

“Yes, yes, the third brother. He’s really a father of a tiger but not a son of a dog. I’m a lascivious man, and you’re not so bad either.” The

door slammed shut. Lang Ziyu and

I are from the same house. Nothing happened last night except that he almost shot me.

But after this incident, perhaps it was found that I was not completely on the side of the old boy, Lang Zi’s attitude towards me was a little better, at least I was allowed to stay in the room.

As long as I am quiet, I don’t make a sound, and I don’t molest him with words. After a

long time, I still wrote poems and words with him.

He read “The Desolate Sword,” and I read “The Year of the Impoverished Desire.”. The more star

tled Langzi became, the more he couldn’t hide his surprise: “In the brothel, are you still teaching Li Shang-yin’s poems?”

Not only that, but they also teach the Four Books and Five Classics, Nei Xun, and Nu Jie. That is to say, the Qing court has fallen, and the imperial examinations are no longer held. Otherwise, I would certainly be able to get the first prize.

He smiled contemptuously, thinking only that I was bragging, and then began to sneer in disgust:

“Wan Wan is confined outside, but with a face like hers, you can enjoy a happy life in this embroidered house with a red door.”

Enjoying happiness? Enjoy your.. As soon as

he stared, I shut up, and I could only feel sad.

Ah Bah, enjoy your mother’s blessing! Do you want

this blessing?

Occasionally, he looked up from his papers and papers and stared at me.

A pair of originally untraceable eyes, suddenly oozing turbulent tenderness.

That is to see Wan Wan’s expression. At the moment when

he was most absorbed and I was most like Shi Wanjun, I suddenly took out a cigarette and stuffed it into my mouth, exhaling a fragrant and artificial smoke ring. He called to him

in the voice of a madam, “Third Master, if you look again, I think you’re going to eat me.” The tenderness in

his eyes was gone for a moment, as I expected.

I covered my mouth and bent over with a smile, very happy, for this little trick that made him sick.

“Get out of here.” He had a cold voice, and he was very restrained.

“All right, all right, I won’t smoke. I won’t tease you. Why are you still angry?” I straightened up and threw the cigarette butt at my feet.

Can be caught off guard.

Without waiting for me to crush it, the sparks first splashed on the newspapers scattered on the ground and lit up at once.

Lang Ziyu’s pupil suddenly enlarged, and his legs and feet were not good, so he simply threw his whole body on it, just to protect the newspaper.

For this he allowed the fire to creep up his trouser legs, choke into his nasal passages, and scorch his skin.

What kind of newspaper is this. It’s

light, but it’s as heavy as life.

The fire went out quickly and was no big deal.

Lang Dujun rushed in and eagerly looked at the new burns on Lang Ziyu’s legs. He was more anxious than anyone else and more afraid than anyone else.

Get up and slap me in the face. The

force was so great that my right ear could not hear clearly for the next two months.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but I saw the guilt and regret on the governor’s face after the slap.

But what I don’t understand is the affection between father and son. Lang Zi at the

other end looked at the yellowed newspaper more and more delicately. Some of the words had been spent, and it could be vaguely seen that it was one day three years ago.

There is a photo of Shi Deqing, the overlord of Los Angeles three years ago, with a girl standing in the background who can’t see clearly.

The eyebrows and eyes are tough and delicate, and they are very similar to me.

I took the hint, and I think it was his favorite, Shi Wanjun.

Boring. The truth in this newspaper is so boring. After

that, I suddenly became honest.

I began to serve Lang Ziyu, really serving him, kneeling on the edge of his wheelchair, changing plasters for him three times a day, rubbing the muscles of his calves.

Whenever he reads the newspaper again, I get upset. I roll my eyes and laugh at him:

“Wan Wan is so kind. Can I kneel at your feet and serve you like I do?”

“She’s a progressive young man, with short hair, studying foreign languages, writing articles, and attending a modern school. How could she kneel at a man’s feet and wait on him?”. When he

said this, Langzi was so proud and proud that people wanted to sew up his mouth and break his other leg.

But I could only give him a painless twist on his leg, then put on a veil with the right temperature, and carefully wipe it on one side.

“She’s a young lady from a scholarly family, and I’m a maid from a firework alley. She’s magnificent, and I’m inferior. Is that all right?” I muttered grumpily.

“She’s not a young lady, she’s a goddess…”

That’s ***ing enough.

Without waiting for the next word, I shoved the veil into his mouth and poked it so that it would be more tightly blocked.

When he spit it out, I said ferociously, “If you like to say it, say it again.”

This head of Langzi has not recovered yet, and the old boy is not stingy, and sent over a woman whose appearance is quite similar to mine.

Perhaps I had frightened the warlord by killing and setting fire, and this time it was said that he had been replaced by a charming girl.

Finally not a “Wan Wan.”.

A change of form without a change of dressing, the small print is called Junjun, Wang Rongjun.

Miss Junjun stopped me outside the door before she entered the room.

“If you dare to come near the Third Childe, I’ll kill you.” I opened my mouth, showing my fierce little tiger teeth.

“It’s not up to you to decide whether I’m close or not. It’s up to the master and the son.”

The little girl pursed her lips and even smiled contemptuously at me. “I heard that my sister used to be a cheap girl.”

“Now that the Qing Dynasty has fallen, how can we put aside this cheap nationality?” I retorted, “I only have the heart of a Bodhisattva to save all the men in Los Angeles.”

The voice did not fall, the voice of Lang Ziyu came from the room.

“Wan Wan, where did you put that book of poetry? Go and find it for me.”

“Here you are. Wait for me!”

I laughed and jumped away.

Perhaps, Lang Ziyu is giving me kindness.

He told the stand-in number two that even if he was a stand-in, even if he was kneeling at his feet, only I was qualified.

Or maybe he just has an earache.

My love affair with the men in Los Angeles has long been a problem for him.

Unfortunately, I underestimated Wang Rongjun.

She’s not a good girl. She’s a hundred times better than me. In the

daytime, she was really like a serious person, but at night, she was not ambiguous at all, and she climbed directly onto Lang Ziyu’s bed and arched in her arms.

She is the madam, and I am as tender as a bowl of tofu soup.

In the middle of the night he suddenly felt a thin arm, and Lang Tzu, half asleep and half awake, called out, “Wan Wan, don’t make a scene.”

“The slave family is not Wan Wan. Please open your eyes and look at me..”

One dares to speak, one dares to see.

Langzi opened her eyes and saw the new face in her arms. She clenched her fists in amazement and sullenness. “Do you know what you’re doing?”

I heard the sound and saw the scene in front of me. I went up and grabbed Wang Rongjun, pressed her body and put her on the beam.

“What did I say during the day?” I puffed out my cheeks, annoyed at her contempt for me.

“You say that you and the men..” She couldn’t figure out the situation.

“I say, if you dare to come near the third son, I’ll kill you.”

“Wan Wan, come here. Don’t make a scene.” But without waiting for me to show the knife, Lang Ziyu called me behind him.

My hands around her neck still refused to let go.

“Be good and come here.” He was patient and soft in his voice.

Do what, just let her go? I don’t want it!

I was unwilling, but I still went to his bed. The more Langzi waved, the more I put my face together, like an obedient pet.

He touched my chin, which was wrinkled with discontent, and covered my eyes with his hand. “Be good, don’t look.”

He felt under the pillow. In

a flash, I heard a gunshot. Followed by the sound of the

body falling to the ground. It’s

not a joke. It’s not a threat.

It was true that the bullet really passed through Wang Rongjun’s head and penetrated the girl who was also three points similar to Shi Wanjun.

I pushed aside his hand, looked back at the bloodstain, and Wang Rong’s two eyes, and covered his mouth.

“Did I scare you?”

I can’t make a sound.

“Don’t be afraid, it’s over.” Lang Ziyu took me into his arms with one hand.

I listened to his heartbeat, like the ripples of calm water.

Killing is like him, as usual.

“She was raised by my father, and my father put her here to do things for him and keep an eye on me for him. She was so dirty that she should have thought of her own fate.” Lang Zi more indifferently wiped the muzzle of the gun.

I don’t know what he thought, but when I slowed down, he opened my fingers, put the gun handle into my palm, and gathered my fingers one by one, so that I could hold it firmly.

“I hear you’ve killed people in brothels, and you’re a respectable man?”

Langzi raised his cold eyebrows and eyes and began to look at the sweat on my forehead. “Did you use a knife?”? The knife is too blunt, too sharp, and your hands are dirty. The gun is better. Here you are.

I tried to hold it, but my hands were shaking. When he

grasped it, he fell to the ground with a bang, picked it up and fell again.

I only think of one thing, if for the governor staring at him will die, then I.

“The third son..” As soon as I opened my mouth, I realized that my voice was also trembling. “I tried your body and your legs for Lang Dujun. Why?” Why that night..

“Why didn’t I kill you that night?” He helped me catch what I couldn’t say.

“Well, why?” Lang Tzu raised his head and narrowed his eyes, pretending to think. “I wanted to, too, but I missed the shot that day.”

Liar.

What’s the matter? What look, don’t you believe? He held up my face.

I knelt under the edge of his bed, pitiful.

To tell you the truth, I don’t know why I didn’t kill you. Maybe because I kept you, I could call you Wan Wan every day. Maybe it’s because I heard that you can kill people, and I think it’s interesting. Or maybe, because you are a fool, you and Wan Wan are too similar and too different. In short

He said no more.

I guess if he wants to say, in short, he won’t be able to bear it.

But the three words are too heavy, too expensive and too sincere.

He can’t talk to a woman other than Shi Wanjun.

The next day, Wang Rongjun’s body was dragged out.

The governor gnashed his teeth and strangled me by the throat, more than a hundred times as hard as I pinched Wang Rongjun. He was going to bleed and strangle people.

“I didn’t expect that in my governor’s house, these little hooves and claws would be so sharp.”

“Dad, let go.” Watching him tighten up more and more, Lang Ziyu’s voice at last came from behind him. “Be careful not to cut your face. It’s not beautiful anymore.”

He should have been out on official business by now.

He had a job in the government office and a lot of shops left by his mother.

But today he didn’t go out and fell from the sky, just to save me.

Lang Dujun drew in more tightly, and when he had only one breath left, he threw me away and turned to look at the man in the wheelchair.

“Dead boy, someone has come to collect the body of this short-lived girl!”! I don’t care. You pay for it yourself.

“I’ll pay double.” “Don’t just give it to her family. Her father has been training her for so long, and she deserves some of the money she’s worked so hard to earn.”

You.. Hello, you boy.

Lang Dujun was too angry to speak, and his eyes fell on Lang Ziyu’s legs, as if he was afraid that his burns would not heal.

“Son of a bitch, don’t think you’re getting an advantage just because you’re angry with me.” Before leaving, Lang Dujun put down a cruel word, “old three ah, we walk to see.”

Back in the house, Lang Zi couldn’t wait to lift my chin. His

voice is still cold, but his movements are inexplicably gentle: “Don’t move, let me see.”

“What’s there to see?” As I said this, I went to take off the collar of my cheongsam and said, “If you want to look inside, look inside. The scenery inside is beautiful.”

Lang Ziyu stopped moving and stared at me in a gloomy way.

I just wanted to tease him, but I didn’t want to really annoy him, so I admitted my weakness and raised my chin.

“Just look at it. It’s all right. I just pinched my neck red. I didn’t hurt a face like Miss Shih’s.”

Lang Ziyu looked left and right. After a long

silence, he blurted out a few words: “Not even the neck.” It was

not so much spitting as swallowing half of it and spitting half of it, vaguely, like a hot mouth.

But this half is enough for me to blush my whole face for no reason. Not long after

this, Governor Lang left Los Angeles temporarily and went to the south to discuss the matter.

Now the situation outside is too chaotic, the people are in dire Straits, the warlords are fighting back and forth, and the foreigners from all directions are eyeing covetously. The

more Langzi liked Li Shangyin’s poem “Wind and Rain,” he recited the line from the poem: “Yellow leaves are still wind and rain, and the brothel is orchestral.”

In his eyes, the common people and Wan Wan are yellow leaves, destroyed by wind and rain.

Warlords and I are brothels, regardless of the loss of life, still singing and dancing, free orchestral.

“Don’t curse like that.” I stared at him coldly.

Lang Tzu laughed and said, “How can you understand?”

“Yes, I’m a rude man. I’m not supposed to understand.” “Only Miss Shih is a goddess, and only she understands!” Not long after

we quarreled, two months later, Governor Lang returned to his house.

By the way, he brought a big gift to Lang Ziyu.

A gift that surprised all of us.

“I’ve got a beautiful young concubine, and I’m thinking of making you a little mother.”

The old boy laughed viciously and disgustingly. He clapped his hands and a girl came out.

She was the prize won by Governor Lang’s army in the south.

His appearance is eight points similar to mine, but he is more graceful, bright and noble than me.

But Lang Dujun deliberately wanted to destroy this nobility, like throwing a goddess into the mud.

He took her into his arms and squeezed the back of her neck with his big rough hands, as if he were playing with a cat. Then he called her affectionately, “Wan Wan, the tips of my shoes are dirty. Please kneel down and wipe them for me.”

The girl clenched her teeth and hesitated for a moment, then knelt down with a “splash” and dipped her sleeve in the mud bit by bit.

Lang Dujun was not satisfied, and did not know how to pity her, so he turned to crush her head and let her beautiful face stick to the cold floor.

“Wan Wan doesn’t know how to wait on people. Don’t wipe it with your sleeve or lick it with your tongue.” In

a flash, all the perseverance and light in Lang Ziyu’s eyes were broken.

I admit that I have imagined at least ten thousand times that if one day Shi Wanjun came back here.

But I never thought it would be in such a way.

“Wan Wan’s father was also your teacher, and my old friend, Mr. Shih Te-ching, gave her to me so that I could protect him and flee abroad.” Governor Lang proudly showed off their bargain.

“Third brother, Wan Wan will be your elder in the future. Call out to your fourth aunt.”

The girl was trampled underfoot as if she were naked.

Langzi clenched his teeth more and more, and it was not enough to bite them.

If he could, I guess he’d like to chew the old boy’s neck.

“Isn’t one leg enough?” After a while, Lang Ziyu finally opened his mouth, and his voice shook into a sieve.

The old boy smiled, but he laughed with pride and disappointment.

“Three years ago, you cut off one of my legs. Isn’t that enough?” Do

you have to do this, do you have to do this? You untie her, untie her, she’s innocent, she’s not wrong..

Lang Zi roared more and more, but his voice became smaller and weaker, so weak that he seemed to admit his mistake and beg for mercy.

Governor Lang is satisfied.

He finally released his foot and said

, “Third brother, do you see?”? The teacher you respect, who is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, doesn’t even want his daughter when he runs for his life. The noble goddess whom you adore is nothing but a commodity to be trampled upon.

The old boy picked up Shih Wan-chun from the ground and suddenly touched her little face with great tenderness.

“Let me have a good taste tonight. What is the taste that haunts my son?”. Don’t tell me, when you and your mother were young, you really looked the same.

That night, Shih Wan-chun’s shouts reverberated throughout the house.

Miserable and gorgeous.

One after another, like a hailstone as big as a bowl, they smashed into Lang Ziyu’s heart one after another.

“Wan Wan..” After listening for a long time, he seemed to finally feel numb and suddenly called me, “Come here.”

I went over obediently, and I didn’t want to disobey him at all.

“Lie down.” He ordered. So

I lay down and let him awkwardly unbutton and take off his clothes.

His hand was shaking, and I just grabbed it, so cold, like a hail.

“I’ll do it myself.”

He nodded his head.

But finally, when my clothes came off and his hand was on my shoulder, it suddenly stopped.

Then he patted me and signaled the end of this unreasonable absurdity.

“Still not.” Lang Ziyu rubbed my head as the only comfort he could give at this time.

With that, he staggered to the bedside, holding his face in his hands, laughing and crying.

At that moment, I was only distressed, and even forgot what Shi Wanjun, what Lang Dujun, why I came here, and what I had to do.

I only care about heartache, and I also care about him and myself.

The next day, Lang Ziyu did not go on a business trip. He stayed in his room as if he were

dead, and did not respond to calls or questions.

It was not until the dinner that Lang Dujun announced his wedding to his fourth aunt, Shi Wanjun, two months later.

Before this meal, I asked the old maid of the house.

This Shih Wan-chun is the fourth in line. I know that the first lady died early, but I have never seen the other two concubines.

The old maid snorted, “Last night, the Fourth Mistress screamed like that. Don’t you understand?”

She leaned close and whispered, “The first two were already tortured to death.”

It’s so sad that I shivered.

Lang Dujun said that he had bought the Shih family’s old house and ordered a new car from Germany, just to welcome the young lady of the Shih Deqing family, the former governor of Los Angeles, into the house in style. When I heard

this, I couldn’t help but burst out laughing: “The military governor really dares to use the words” three matchmakers and six hires. “Isn’t it better to take by trickery and plunder?”.

All the table’s eyes stopped on my mouth for a moment. Embarrassed,

I raised an index finger and pressed my lips tightly.

Lang Dujun then went on to say, what Western-style wedding like foreigners, what invited a lot of reporters.

Lang Ziyu’s face was livid. He poked the rice with his chopsticks and left the bowl.

Shi Wanjun also put down her chopsticks and hung her head in silence.

What are you doing? Keep eating. Don’t pay any attention to the third son. I didn’t take good care of him last night, and now I’m still in a little mood.

I greeted him in a careless way, and I was the only one at the table who was drinking and enjoying the fragrance. Even if I don’t

eat alone, I don’t forget to pick up a fat piece of Dongpo pork and put it in Shih Wan-chun’s bowl:

“Miss Shih, even if you’re in trouble, don’t let yourself be wronged. It’s not worth it.”

I speak with true feelings, and I really don’t want to wronged this beauty, this ray of white moonlight.

But I am just a broken flower, and I can’t do more for her.

But Shi Wanjun was ungrateful.

She glanced at Dongpo meat, then at me, and knocked her sleeve down on the ground.

Who is like you! Whore! A cheap thing!

She spat and said all kinds of bad words, dirty, derogatory, poking the heart, eloquent, which has the appearance of a goddess.

I closed my eyes and was spittled by her.

When she finally spat heartily and ran away, I opened my eyes again and said, “Governor, we are the only two left. Please eat more.”

Then he raised his chopsticks as if nothing had happened, and the next piece of Dongpo meat was put into his mouth. It’s so

oily that I feel sick.

“Wan Wan, if you were a man, you could be somebody in a world like this.”

“Yes.” I nodded. “I just want a good father who won’t break my legs.”

Damn, I can’t keep my mouth shut again.

I tentatively raised my eyelids to see the old boy’s gloomy look, and finally dropped my chopsticks and ran away like smoke. At

the other end, it is only a short time. When I went to Lang Ziyu’s room

again, I was frowned by a strong smell of burning.

I was afraid that he would do something to kill me, so I kicked the door open and broke in.

There was a brazier in the middle of the room, and sparks were jumping, while Lang Ziyu took a stack of newspapers in his hand.

Some are ready to throw themselves into the flames, and some have already turned to ashes.

This is the newspaper he has saved for three years, which is dedicated to recording things in the south, helping him to see if the goddess is well on the other side of the world, and accompanying him to endure every day and night in his wheelchair.

Now, the goddess has fallen into hell, and he wants to burn them.

I tried to say something to him, but I swallowed it, and none of it was so appropriate.

Half a day, I squeeze out: “How?”? Did you really burn it? When he

asked, he had only one left in his hand.

It was on that day that he threw himself on the ground to save himself from the flames. The

more Langzi didn’t answer me, the more he squinted his eyes and read the whole newspaper again, as if he were talking to himself:

“This is a picture of a teacher speaking to students and progressive young people as the governor of Los Angeles three years ago, when the warlords were fighting.”

In his mouth, his teacher Shi Deqing and his father had been old friends, and they were the students of the same year. In the

early years, both of them served as officials in the Qing court, and after the Republic of China, they served in Luocheng. For many years, they were in the same boat, one in charge of political affairs and the other in charge of military power.

Lang Ziyu and Wan Wan became a pair of childhood sweethearts.

He took a breath. But then, somehow, maybe there was good and evil, or maybe it was just for the sake of power, and one day they suddenly went to the wall of brothers and fought to the death.

It was in this speech that the teacher said in public that my father, who was in charge of the army at that time, was ambitious, disregarding the common people, colluding with foreigners, and wanted to ruin the motherland. Everyone was excited and shouted back, saying that he wanted my father to hand over his military power and get out of Los Angeles. A lot of people came that day, you see.. “This is Wan Wan,”

he said, pointing to the girl who had just been captured by the camera.

I asked cautiously, “..” Then what

I was training for my father outside the city. Not long after this speech, the teacher came to me and listed many evidences of my father’s collusion with foreigners. He begged me, for the sake of justice, to cooperate with him from within and from without, to seize my father’s power, and to prevent him from selling his land to foreigners.

He pointed to his broken leg and said, “Finally, as you can see, the teacher and his family fled Los Angeles. As for me …” This is my price.

I Baba looked at his wry smile.

Should say not to say, this boy, also be a bit of.

“And then what?”

At that time, old man yuan proclaimed himself emperor, and all the soldiers from all over the country fought against him. This battle was a battle to protect the country, and we had to fight. So I dragged a useless leg to the battlefield and saved my life. That was the last battle I fought. “It’s all in the past,”

he said, hammering his leg. Seeing that

Lang Ziyu was about to raise his hand and throw the newspaper into the fire, I quickly pressed it: “Don’t..”

“What’s wrong?” He looked up at me and his eyelids were heavy and blue.

In case.. What if she’s not Wan Wan?

“What did you say?”

I smiled awkwardly and copied the girl’s expression in the photo.

“I said, don’t burn it.”. This picture is so blurred. How can you see people clearly? What if it’s not Wan Wan? What if it’s me? I remember three years ago, I also went to that speech, and it seemed to be in this position. I don’t know, it’s really me!

He smiled. How could you go to a place like that?

Yeah, I was asked.

Almost forgot, the presence of progressive youth, I am a fool, to fly all over the sky smoke?

I shrunken mouth: “I do not care, this must be me!”! I’ve never taken a picture before. Maybe this is the only picture in my life! Don’t burn it! If

he wants to rob, I will protect him to death. If

he wants to grab it, I’ll just lift it over my head.

Lang Ziyu sighed and raised his hand to rub my face.

This time it’s not appeasement, it’s thanks.

Thank me for the reason why I left this newspaper, and thank me for being importunate.

Seeing me fold the newspaper square and put it back in the drawer, Lang Tzu-yu suddenly asked,

“You say, a person like a teacher is concerned about his family and country, and his sleeves are clean.”. Would he really betray his own daughter to escape?

“Childe.” I deliberately turned my back on him. “Most of the time, people look different from him.”

Lang Ziyu looked me up and down and nodded as if he had realized something.

Shi Wanjun’s cry, and then one after another in the house for several nights.

I seldom went out on weekdays, but I came back later than Lang Ziyu in those two days.

On the third day, he finally could not sit still and waited in the house.

As soon as he saw me, he ordered someone to hold me down and say, “Search her.”

I yelled, “Are you crazy?”? What do you want to search for? What can I have?

Who knows? A man’s towel, watch, token. Lang Zi stared at me like a hawk. “If you steal someone, take it out yourself.” Just

for a reason. I don’t believe he’s really looking for this.

He was so suspicious that he was afraid that I, the only person around me, was also calculating him.

But I chuckled and said, “What kind of jealousy are you?”

What jealousy! Am I jealous of you? Perhaps he had never been told this before, but he blushed and directed the old maids to “clean up and see what she does when she goes out.” I felt my

hands all over my body, and it made me laugh and cry, and I almost rolled on the ground. I couldn’t help but beg for mercy: “Little ancestor, please let me go. You let them all go out, and I’ll take it out myself.”

Lang Zi more a look, a few hands then spread out.

I obediently put my hand in my pocket and took out a small bottle.

When opened, it has a creamy texture with a slight mint fragrance. What

is it?

“Don’t touch!” As soon as Lang Ziyu reached out his hand, I opened it and said, “Don’t get it dirty.”

When I waved, he looked disgusted and finally put his ear close to him.

Once upon a time, in a brothel, the guests were neither light nor heavy, and they didn’t treat people as human beings. Some sisters have wounds, and if you put this on them, they’ll get better faster.

Lang Ziyu understood at once. He looked at me in surprise. “Is that what you’re doing these days?”

Or what? It was such a mess outside that the shop that used to sell it was closed. I ran around and couldn’t find it, and finally I went to the south of the city 40 miles away to buy it.

I thought for a moment, then looked at him with a look of grievance. My heart crossed and my hand stretched out. I turned my head and said,

“Why don’t I give it to you? You can give it to her as a favor.”

Seeing that he was unmoved, I sniffled,

“I don’t want to give it to her myself. If I turn around, she’ll laugh at me again.”. Who am I, whore! After all, who would know about this medicine except the lower class?

Lang Ziyu clenched my fist and said, “Wan Wan, you are Wan Wan.”

After a pause, he said, “She is my father’s fourth aunt.” Then

he gave me a hug. It’s

tender and sweet. It’s a bluff.

If not, his hands went all over my pockets and sleeves, so that I wouldn’t have to hide something that would kill him.

He doesn’t trust people. It’s in his nature.

But there are some things I believe him, and that’s my destiny.

But if you want to say that this family does not know how to love people, it must be Shi Wanjun.

When I gave her the medicine, she cried and made trouble, and the bed was about to fall apart.

Perhaps it was really painful, perhaps it was really humiliating, and she insisted on shouting abuse at me to make herself feel better, as if she had completely drawn a line with me. “Broken shoes!”

She cried. “Don’t be so direct,”

I said with a cheeky smile. “You can say, ‘advocate the cultivation of leaves.'” “Coquettish!”

She continued.

I smiled good-naturedly and said, “Then say, ‘Lean on the door and smile.'”

She was not reconciled: “Humble!”

I mastered: “Dirt and chaff.”

So a few rounds, the medicine finally finished, she panted, I am not afraid of the dead pig boiling water hot smile.

I’m not much of a server.

But before I left, I did not forget to carefully cover her with a quilt. By the way, I leaned over and said in a low voice,

“There used to be a way in our brothel. If you didn’t want to, you could find some pig’s blood, smear it on your pants, and say you had a month..”

Get out! Get out Without waiting for me to finish, she cried hoarsely, “Who wants your pity?”? Who will learn your dirty moves? Having said that

, that night, there was no movement.

The governor’s office is finally quiet.

“What did you do?” At night, Lang Ziyu asked me.

“Nothing.” I shrugged. “I guess it’s the governor himself. After all, a man of his age can be a father.”

He ignored me, and when he was about to close the door and shut me out, I grabbed his wheelchair.

“What’s wrong?”

I twisted my waist and said, “Young man, it’s quiet tonight.”

He smiled knowingly. “That’s just right. Everyone should have a good sleep.”

Then he took my hand away and slammed the door.

“What good sleep is there? How good can sleep be without beauty?” I shouted angrily through the door, “To put it bluntly, I don’t think I’m dirty.”

Then I walked away angrily. After a few steps

out, I felt the door open again.

I can even feel the hesitation of the people behind me.

But he didn’t say it in the end, and I didn’t look back.

16

Torturing me soon became Shi Wanjun’s only pastime in this house.

I knew she didn’t want to see me, to see my face like hers, to see that I was as humble as I was, and now I was more decent than she was.

Only by humiliating me, making me more turbid than mire, lower than depression, and more painful than ghosts in hell, can she feel a little comfortable.

So she quarreled with Lang Dujun and forbade me to eat at the same table with her.

“How can I put the food that a prostitute has picked up into my mouth?” She raised her head to speak and added a sentence in foreign language that I didn’t understand, as if she was noble.

The old boy breathed in her ear and said, “Of course she can get off the table. How can you thank me?” When he

said this, his tone was light, and he made it clear that he would pull down her noble fig leaf in public.

Shi Wanjun blushed with anger.

I don’t know what Shi Wanjun did, but the next day, the old boy really kicked me off the table.

Do evil!

I gave her plasters and taught her to use pig’s blood, but in the end she rushed to serve the smelly old man in order to humiliate me!

My heart is really cold.

In the evening, Lang Tzu came back and asked at the dinner table, “Where is Wan Wan?”

Shi Wanjun kept her head stuffy and did not speak.

“Dismissed.” Lang Dujun answered indifferently.

Lang Zi suddenly raised his head and said, “What do you mean by sending him away?”? Where did you send it?

As if she had found a backer, Shih Wan-chun finally dared to say,

“If you come from a low-class family, you should be sent back to a brothel.”

Lang Zi looked at her more quietly and threw down his chopsticks to rush out of the door.

I hurriedly called out behind me,

“Childe, are you going out?”? That’s just right. Take me out to eat pigeon. I can’t even eat the food in this house. How can I put the food that the goddess has picked up into my mouth?

He understood, “Wan Wan, come and help me push the wheelchair.” On the way

to the restaurant, Lang Ziyu’s wheelchair suddenly stopped in front of a shop.

“Wan Wan, let’s go in and take a picture.” He said.

“But it’s already dark.” I frowned in embarrassment.

“Come on in, there’s a light inside, and it looks just as good when you shoot with it.” The boss greets her warmly, “Are you two married? What do you want to shoot?”

“He is me..”

Without waiting for me to finish, Lang Tzu-yu took over and said, “I’m going to the battlefield. This is my new wife. I want to remember her.”

I blushed and shoved him. “What are you talking about?”

Lang Tzu’s face did not change. “She’s shy.”

The boss grinned and said, “I’m sure I’ll take the most beautiful picture of my wife. I’ll put it in your pants pocket and take it with you wherever you go, so that you can return safely and triumphantly.”

It was my first time to take pictures, and I listened to the boss’s command awkwardly, posing in a wooden and stiff posture. After

a lot of trouble, the boss took the money and issued a voucher saying, “Come back in ten days.”

At that time, I didn’t know that it was only ten days, but I almost didn’t have a chance to see these pictures in my lifetime. When he

went back, Lang Ziyu always wanted to say something.

After a long time, he finally asked, “Wan Wan, where is the gun?”

I pointed to my waist and said, “I wear them all next to my body.”

“Wan Wan, one day, will you put that gun to my head?” Without thinking,

I said, “If you want to kill me, in order to protect yourself, I can only point to it.”

“You are quite honest.” He smiled bitterly and turned his head away.

Soon, Shi Wanjun was no longer satisfied with small fights.

She deliberately planned an expensive vase, pointing to the wreckage on the ground, and asked me to kneel down to pick it up.

Lang Dujun sat on the sofa watching the play with his arms folded. She was making trouble and he was laughing. It was really warm.

“Whoever breaks it will pick it up.” I stood there motionless and did not coax her.

“What are you..”

All right, all right, it’s the same thing again. I’m a lowlife and you’re a young lady. No, aren’t you a progressive youth? I scratched my head in wonder. “Why do you talk about your birth every day?”? What’s so great about my family background? My surname is Li, and I am a descendant of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty for 18 generations. It’s not the same now, covered with dust. I’m here to wait on you, young lady.

Shi Wanjun was speechless by me, and she angrily picked up the sharpest piece from the ground and pointed it straight at my face.

“I’ll cut her face!” She shouted at Governor Lang.

“Better not.” The old boy smiled coldly. “I’m afraid of blood. I can’t see it.” *** the

fear of blood!

I shivered with nausea.

I stepped forward, grabbed Shi Wanjun’s hand, raised it, and put the fragments against my face.

You scratch it, pull it lightly, and it will be broken. If I don’t get better, I can live with this scar for the rest of my life, as you wish. Her hand was shaking, so I held it tighter. “Is it easy?”? Is it simple?

I suddenly raised my voice and snapped, “But does it work?”

You.. Why are you so fierce?

I took her hand, which was trembling more and more, and pointed it in the direction

of Lang Dujun on the sofa. “Whoever breaks it will pick it up, and whoever does it will pay for it.”. He made you like this. If you have the ability, you can cut his throat, and you can get out of the sea of misery. Heaven and earth are not benevolent and regard all things as straw dogs. You and I are both straw dogs. Is it useful to destroy me? With

that, I helped her put the blade on her neck and said, “You see, it’s easy to cut your neck.”. Living well is the hardest part.

I let go.

Shi Wanjun’s hand also dropped heavily, and the fragments fell to the ground.

The old boy was satisfied with the play, and his smile was even stronger. “Did you just say your surname was Li?”

I’m making it up. I’m a fool, and I’ll follow my benefactor’s surname. Governor Lang, you have redeemed me, and from now on I will take your name as Lang.

I just can’t imagine that such Shi Wanjun will kneel at my feet one day in the end.

To tell you the truth, for the next few days, I had a very happy time.

For the coming day, go to the photo studio to get fresh photos.

“Do you think I’ll close my eyes?”

“There’s one, the one next to it. I don’t seem to be looking at the camera.”

“I always thought it was better to wear my hair up, but you told me not to wear it that day.”

Approaching the first three days of taking the photos, I always asked a lot of pestering questions around Lang Ziyu.

He never tired of saying to me, “If it doesn’t look good, just shoot another set.”

“No, this is my first photo shoot!”

I waited eagerly, as eagerly as the bride waited for the beloved to lift the veil after the sedan chair.

But after all, the change came first.

I had just asked for the certificate of the photo from Lang Ziyu’s room, saying that I would rush to get it early in the morning. As soon as I went out, I met Shi Wanjun.

Suddenly, she knelt at my feet.

“Miss Wan Wan, help me.”

She finally stopped calling me a whore, and she stopped calling me dirty.

I did not tease her, nor did I take advantage of her danger to pull her up and take her back to my room.

“Come on, what is it?”

“The governor, the governor will give me to someone else.” As soon as she said the first sentence, she said, “Commander Tao of Cloud City has seized a batch of ammunition for the military governor.”. When the governor negotiated with him, he took me with him, and he, he..

“He wants you?” She really broke down in tears, so I had to help her say it.

Shih Wan-chun nodded and held out a finger

. “But it’s agreed. Just one night. One night is enough.”. The governor said that the ammunition was very important. As long as I helped him, he would, he would.. I can’t catch it

this time.

After sobbing for a long time, Shih Wan-chun finally said, “He gave me back my freedom and gave me to Tzu-yu.”

I understood, I understood completely, but I still held back and asked her, “So?”? Why did you come to me?

“Miss Wan Wan, they all say that you and I look alike, as if you were carved out of the same mold.”

She raised her head and looked straight at me with pure eyes, which really made me feel pity. If

I didn’t know how to do it.

“Please, tomorrow night at eight o’clock, at the Annam residence. Please.”

I don’t speak.

She did not give up: “Anyway, you have been so many people…”

I grabbed her by the throat and said, “Say one more word. I’ll kill you and make you innocent.”

The next night, Lang Ziyu and I ate together in the house.

I didn’t say a word, which was different from the excitement of waiting for photos a few days ago.

“What’s the matter?” He picked up food for me.

I bit my lip for a long time before I answered,

“Third Master, if, I mean if, you and Miss Shih stay together forever for one night, do you think it’s worth the deal?”

“What are you saying?”

“I said, Third son, you’ve been kind to me, and I’ve returned your kindness. In the future, no matter what you do, you won’t be able to blame me.” “It’s not worth it,”

he said coldly.

“Really?”

Fake.

Before I finished speaking, I felt dizzy. The table of food in

front of me was blurred in my vision.

It seems that I have no choice at all about what to ask for and what is worth it. I had a dream

in which I put a gun to Lang Ziyu’s head and asked him why over and over again.

Why are you doing this to me?

To him, am I really just a prostitute who deserves to be replaced by Shi Wanjun?

He was silent and could not say a word.

“Tell me.” I begged him. I begged him for an answer.

He gave me the answer in silence.

So I finally pulled the trigger.

But nothing happened. He was still standing there.

Only his hand was faster, and before I could buckle the second time, he penetrated my chest with a knife first.

I watched the blood spread from my chest to my eyes, and as far as I could see, it was scarlet.

And then I woke up. The

real world was even dirtier, with a middle-aged man standing beside the bed, staring at me disheveled.

I did not guess wrong, he is the Tao Commander in Shi Wanjun’s mouth, and now he is holding the arms that control the life and death of the Lang family.

Wake up? It’s good to wake up. It’s fun to wake up. He said with amusement.

“You can’t eat anything even if it’s funny. It’s poisonous.” I quickly understood the situation and responded coldly.

Immediately, my hand touched his waist, and when he reacted, the gun in my hand was already against his forehead.

“Commander Tao, beauty is in the way.” I warned.

He held up his hands. “Okay, okay, I won’t touch you. Don’t mess around.”

Don’t mess around? What if I just want to mess up, just to mess up? If I kill you, you tell me what will happen to the Lang family, and what will happen to the old boy of the Lang Dujun? I grinned grimly. “Commander Tao, you sent it to me yourself. Don’t blame me for being disrespectful.”

The villain can’t talk too much.

Don’t wait for him to beg for mercy, and don’t let him die.

I didn’t hesitate to pull the trigger.

However, everything is like a dream.

I pressed it again.

Second time.

Third time.

Nothing has happened.

This gun has no bullets at all.

Lang Ziyu, he deliberately gave me a weapon that was doomed not to kill people, but to be killed by people.

21 The

opponent quickly captured the turning point.

For a second, he tried to grab the gun from my hand. I rolled over to avoid it, suppressed it with my elbow, and hit him on the back of the neck with the handle of the gun.

But he is so solid that I am like a mole ant hammering on the back of an elephant, which is not painful or itchy.

In the final analysis, after all, it is the commander of one side of the battlefield, and its strength and size are absolutely suppressed. Soon

, Commander Tao returned to the upper hand.

I didn’t struggle twice, and a sharp pain came from my legs unexpectedly, and rushed into my brain, dizzy and hot.

I don’t know when he had a knife in his hand and stabbed me into my flesh without thinking.

Pain.

I clenched my teeth and kept silent, screaming in vain.

Not wanting to arouse his interest, he pulled it out, separated it by two inches, and stabbed it again.

It’s so ***ing painful.

I still clenched my teeth, and he repeated the cycle.

At last my face turned white with pain. I tried to squeeze a smile and asked in a rustling voice, “..” Did the commander stop when I called out?

“He’s a tough guy. Why would Governor Lang keep a wolf around?” He didn’t answer the question. “When I saw the fourth aunt that day, I didn’t realize that she was such a person.”. Tell me, why do you want to kill me?

Why is that?

Because he tried to assault me?

Or did I appear as a prey in order to kill him?

Seeing that he was about to draw his knife again, I tried my best to stop: “Don’t stab..” One more cut, and this leg will be useless.

“Do you want to keep your leg at this time?” He put his hand on the handle of the knife and maliciously turned it to the left, and the pain made me bow my back.

“Please don’t..” I bit my lips until they were torn, and the smell of blood in my mouth made me vomit. I still freed one hand and put it around his neck with all my might. I pinched my voice and put on my usual smile. “Commander, I’m at my wits’ end. I didn’t kill you. I deserve to be in your hands.”. Please keep me alive and let me do anything. Confused by me,

he stared at me with amusement, wiped the sweat from my back, and played with my trembling.

Your legs are almost bleeding. How can you serve me? Don’t let me touch you and make you cry worse than killing a pig.

I raised my body, which was shaking with pain, and tried to put my mouth forward. In a low voice I told him, “Commander, no one has touched me yet. I’m a baby.”

His eyes finally lit up. I

know. I got half my life back.

He released his hand, looked at the half of the knife resting on my leg, and grinned in bad taste. “Just carry it like this, and you’ll die of pain.”

“Doesn’t matter..” “Just don’t kill me,” I begged. Ready to feast on his prey,

he finally pounced and tried to tear at my blood-soaked clothes.

I pulled the knife out of my leg in great pain and took the only chance to plunge it. With

a glance, I knew that I had lost again, and this time I had lost thoroughly.

The sharp blade pierced his arm, not to death, but to make him stumble back two steps in pain.

“Well, well, you’re really good. You really want to die.” Commander Tao wiped the blood. “No one has hurt Commander Ben for many years, but today he almost broke his hand twice.”

Soon, he gritted his teeth and opened his mouth again, ready to rush up and break my neck. With

his life hanging by a thread, the door opened. There was a familiar person sitting in a familiar wheelchair at the

door, holding a gun. There was

a gunshot. I was the one who was

aiming.

Bullet through my strong upper shoulder, I finally can not support, was knocked to the ground, gradually blurred consciousness.

“Uncle Tao, I haven’t seen you for a long time. Why are you so embarrassed?” Lang Zi rubbed the muzzle of the gun more and more habitually, smiling and savoring the blood left on Commander Tao’s arm, half teasing and half discussing, “Is this shot enough to relieve his anger?”? If it’s not enough, I’ll shoot her again. But, this man, you must let me take him alive today.

“Who are you to make a deal with me?” Commander Tao disdains everything.

“My men have now besieged your house.” Lang Zi is more and more in control, “really start to fight, you want to die, I and she also want to die, but I don’t want her to die.”. The shot just now has given Uncle Tao face. After all, let it be known that you were a girl doll..

“Boy.” He threatened viciously, “Your father’s ammunition is still there.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Langzi cut off his words without a care. “That’s your and my father’s business. I don’t care.”

He pointed to me on the ground. “I only care about her.” Commander

Tao looked at me, who was soft on the ground, and then at Lang Ziyu, who was in a wheelchair. He laughed

excitedly and said, The third son of the governor’s office actually covets his father’s woman. Why do you want to taste this baby so much? The word

“baby” changed Lang Tzu-yu’s expression.

I didn’t expect your father to be so sincere that he hasn’t touched her yet. It was so close that I was allowed to taste it first. Commander Tao Nuu said, “For a woman, it’s not worth risking your life with you.”. One shot is enough. Take the man with you. In the car that

pulled out of the Annan residence, I hung my breath. In

a daze, he mumbled “why” over and over again.

My hands were so cold that he couldn’t warm them even if he held them tightly.

“If I don’t fire that shot, I’m afraid I won’t be able to take you away. I won’t dare to take the risk.” Lang Tzu held me in his arms as hard as he could. “It was only after that shot that he realized that to me, you were just a beautiful woman who made me angry. It wasn’t a big deal, and it didn’t matter.”

He bit the last two sentences.

“If I don’t shoot you and you don’t go into a coma, I don’t know how he’ll hurt you and torture you again, and I don’t know what leverage he’ll raise by coercing you,” he added. “What leverage I can’t afford?”

「…… Not this.. “That’s not it,” I repeated unwillingly in a weak voice.

Whether it was for me, or for him to get away with it even if he failed, I did not dare to estimate, nor did I care.

Lang Ziyu was silent.

After a while, he hung his head and said, “This is because I didn’t protect you.”

「…… There’s more..

He won’t respond.

He knows what I’m asking, and only he knows what I’m asking. If

he doesn’t answer, I will answer for him.

Even if I have to push hard for every word.

「…… You give me a gun that won’t kill anyone. Because, if one day, I really have to turn against you. If I raise my gun, there will be enough time and opportunity for you to kill me without thinking. Is that right? I

smiled bitterly until my eyes were moist and hot. “You’re really clever, Third Childe!” I asked. With a last effort,

I touched the inside pocket, and then turned my head to look at the way I had come.

I lost it. It’s gone. The photo voucher. The thing that

once told me to look forward to the stars and the moon is not important at all now. In the middle of the

night, when I returned to my house, Wan Wan stood waiting outside the door.

“Is Miss Wan Wan all right?” As soon as she saw me, she asked earnestly.

But Lang Ziyu did not hesitate to pull out his gun and aim it at her beautiful forehead: “No one is more contemptible than anyone else, do you understand?”

Lang Ziyu really wanted me to take her place. There was no need to use the little trick of drugging. Early in the morning,

I guessed that it was Wan Wan who had done it. I had put him down, but I didn’t want Lang Ziyu to look for me after he woke up.

He’s not loaded. He’s not gonna actually fire it.

So I didn’t want to see it anymore. I brushed Lang Ziyu’s hand lightly and said, “It hurts so much. Help me go in and lie down.” When I

went in, I saw Shi Wanjun get a slap behind me. It’s from

the Landour army.

I don’t feel happy at all, I just feel sad. What qualifications does

the old boy have to beat her?

How can you forget that you are the culprit.

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From that day on, Lang Zi has been doing me all kinds of good.

I ignored it at first, because it was so painful that I couldn’t speak. The

body is getting better, and I don’t talk to him even if I can talk. The female nurse invited by

Lang Ziyu was professional and patient, and examined my body meticulously. She

even asked me to pose in a strange way.

I opened it cooperatively.

“Am I?” I asked her in reply.

She blushed and was seen through by me for her errand. After

Lang Ziyu came in, I threw a pillow at him without saying a word.

Are you satisfied? Is it novel? Or are you more suspicious of me? I exposed him.

He just wanted to see if I was really, as Commander Tao said, an innocent baby.

“I killed the first guest of my first night.” Smiling, I said it was not so much that I was proud as that I was cool. It was the big shot in charge of the bank’s financial affairs. It was said that he managed his money very well, and his wallet was full. Once upon a time, when Emperor Guangxu was still alive, he went to work as a housekeeper in the family of Zhuangyuanlang, where Wenquxing came down to earth. Later, Li Zhuangyuan’s family was destroyed, but he rose in the world. Oh, and your father, too.

I pretended to be indifferent and pulled out my ears. After this, my mother bribed the government for the brothel business, saying that she was assassinated. That old man has been greedy for so much money, and there are really a lot of people who want his head.

“You said you were with thousands of men..”

“Do you believe what I say?” I suddenly got angry. I straightened up and shouted at him, “Don’t you know what it costs to believe in someone?”? What did you say when you gave me the gun? I believed you because I believed you.

As soon as I got excited, I pulled the wound on my leg and grinned with pain.

Langzi wanted to hug me more and more, but he didn’t dare to touch me. He was at a loss for a long time and helped me lie back again.

This time he was dumb.

“Third Childe.” I called out to him suddenly.

“Hey!” He promised quickly with his eyes shining.

“Do you know my name?” Of course, he couldn’t say. “Who was born Wan Wan? Wan Wan is a word chosen by the mother of a brothel. It comes from Huang Ting-chien’s Man Ting Fang Chu Wan Yun Zai.”

Early Wan cloud servant girl, just win Luo Qi, then disrelish Liu Mo flower street. Narrow sock bow shoes.. Morning clouds and evening rain.

This poem, which was written by a prostitute thousands of years ago, is really not fragrant and not suitable for me.

My name is Wan Lan. Does it sound good? Wan-lan, Li Wan-lan, is also a wan-lan. I repeated that the name had not been read for a long time, and I was unfamiliar with it. “My father told me when I was a child that the mountains and rivers were broken, and the country would not be a country, but my generation was not afraid of life and death, and tried to turn the tide..” As I spoke

, I burst into tears for no reason.

“Where is your father?” He asked.

“Dead, the whole family is dead.” I clenched my fists and said, “In this world, I won’t let him live.”

He carefully wiped away my tears with his fingers.

“When you’re healed, we’ll leave here for the south.”. If you want to live and work in peace and contentment, we will hide in the market. If you want to turn the tide, we will go to the country. I did not fear life or death, but now that you are with me I fear.

What about dreams? Who’s going with you? Do you deserve it too? As soon as the words came out, I repented.

Depend on others, I still have to ask him.

So I sighed, averted his words, and said

to myself, “If you really feel guilty, give me a gun. Don’t lie to me. Give me a real gun, loaded with bullets.”. If I fall into danger again, at least I can end myself, suffer less, and have a clean body.

“No, I won’t let you..”

I gritted my teeth and said, “Give it to me..”

He thought for a moment, then took out the gun and put it into my hand. “If I lie to you again,” he said sadly, “you can shoot it through my head.”

“Is the account before that still counted?” I held it up to him, narrowed one eye, aimed at the position and pulled the trigger. The

bullet passed by his ear and pierced the teacup on the table behind him.

Looks like the real thing.

“Forget it.” I say.

Seeing that he refused to leave, I finally whispered in his ear,

“I’m not going to the south with you, Third Childe. Even if I’m with thousands of men, I’m cleaner than you, cleaner than anyone else in this room.”. You don’t deserve me, and this governor’s office can’t pretend to be me. I burned my heart

slightly, and the gun was dumb together.

After that, whether it is heartache or heartbeat, they all return to silence.

As a matter of fact, I knew it early.

Even if I say yes, we can’t wait for the day to go to the south.

Because of my interference, the arms of Lang Dujun were planted in the hands of Commander Tao.

He was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, but he could only worry. The smoke of the

Civil War finally spread here, and the weather was changing quietly outside.

Lang Ziyu was busy with his official duties. The old boy was still pretending to be calm, but he couldn’t sleep all night. He smoked one box after another. Once

, I saw Wan Wan also squatting in the corner to learn him to smoke, I passed by, looked down, walked two steps and turned back, pulled out of her mouth.

“Don’t smoke. It hurts your body.” Then I threw it on the ground and crushed it with my feet.

“You take care of me.” She picked it up, grabbed it with her teeth as if it were dirty, and tried to light it again. “Don’t you smoke too?”

I was amused and shook my head. “Who am I?”? Why do you despise yourself when you compare yourself with me?

She ignored me, couldn’t hit me several times, and angrily threw the soft cigarette butt on me. Miss Jiao, who was not familiar with the world

two months ago, is not a ghost now.

I squatted down, held her face in my hands, and looked at her haggard, downcast eyes

. “Did you look like that before?”? How is it that Lang Tzu has taken such a fancy to you that he is so deeply in love with you that he can’t forget you?

Lang Ziyu three words, to her also like a quench of poison.

Hearing this, he could not open his eyebrows, and Xizi felt a pain in his heart.

Before? In the past, I was progressive, I was new, I had no dust in my eyes, I thought I was outstanding, I wore a fur coat in May, and I was the one who saved my country. As soon as she spoke, she choked. Only now do I realize that being aloof and self-restrained is just because the real suffering and difficulties in this world have nothing to do with me in the past years. Once it’s about me, I’m the next best thing. Biting her lips,

she unwillingly dissected her heart and said, “I’m the meanest person, and I’m worse than a fool!”

I’m worse than you! The governor’s means are really tough. What could destroy her more than letting a man see how dirty he is.. She poked me in the heart and said. I

didn’t know what to say, so I patted her on the shoulder and got up and left.

She was miserable, and she deserved it.

But there are wrongs and debts, and it is not my turn to pay her.

I have my own things to do. At

the other end, the old boy tossed and turned every night, and the next morning he propped himself up again, as if he were strategizing.

He invited reporters to his home to record his speech that Los Angeles would never break down. Lang Ziyu was not there

that day. Before

going out, he came to my room, and I turned my back to him to sleep, and he turned over the poems I had not transcribed last night. His favorite poem, “Wind and Rain,” was copied on the

paper. In the poem, he wrote, “New knowledge is vulgar, and old love is separated by a good marriage.” This is very much like his situation today.

“Wan Wan, go to the south. I’ll leave tonight.”

I let out an exaggerated snore and pretended I couldn’t hear it.

“I got the tickets for you. You’re right. I don’t deserve it. You never get dirty. I’m the one who gets dirty.” He tucked me in. “I know you can hear me. Pack your bags and set off for the night. Listen one more time, one last time.”

I still ignore it.

He rubbed my head patiently and said, “Los Angeles is going to be destroyed. If you don’t leave, you won’t be able to leave.”

“I see.” I turned my back to him and whispered, “When are you leaving?”

“As a general, I cannot abandon the people of Los Angeles.”

“Oh?”? What can you do? Can you still go to war when your legs are broken? I was sarcastic.

Lang Tzu-yu, on the other hand, was magnanimous. He made a gesture of a gun and said, “Why can’t you?”? It’s very powerful. When all the foreigners have been beaten out, I’ll go and look for you.

Looking for me? Don’t look for me, Third Childe. You’ve done me the greatest favor by letting me go. I spat, rolled over and got up, as if I were going to start packing.

Later, I learned that he was a genius in shooting and a good marksman. He

said that the first time he saw me, he missed me, and the dog didn’t believe it. Before

leaving, Lang Ziyu finally said to me,

Wan Wan, I am a disabled person. In terms of strength and skill, I cannot protect you in this troubled times. If you have a chance, you might as well go to the battlefield, and even if you die, you can still be regarded as seeking a prosperous and peaceful time for the country and the people.

“Don’t give yourself a top hat.” I scraped my cheek with my fingers. “Are you ashamed?”

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He said, If you don’t go, you can’t go.

If I don’t do it, I won’t have a chance.

In the daytime, Lang Dujun and the young reporter were talking sanctimoniously in the study.

I took the gun out of the room, pulled out the bullets one by one, determined the number, and reloaded it. It is enough to suffer the

same loss once, and I will never do it again. With everything

ready, I went to the study of the governor.

With two shots, I easily broke the door lock and kicked the door in.

One shot was aimed at the defenseless Lang Dun’s army.

Scarlet blood immediately shot out of his left leg, and the strong body fell to the ground.

“Mr. Reporter?”

I called out, and the young man beside me answered shakily.

“Please, point the camera at him, at this man on the ground, this governor.” I swallowed my throat for fear of choking. Then ask him for me, ask him the answer I’ve been waiting for for 20 years. What corpses is he stepping on in his present position, in his life?

No one answered.

I continued, “Ask him and write it down.”. Twenty years ago, Lang Zheng, who was born in the same imperial examination, today’s Lang Dujun, and Shi Deqing, the former Shi Dujun, how the two of them, for their own selfish interests, colluded with Li Fu’s housekeeper to falsely accuse Li Qixiu, who had intended to reform and save the nation, of colluding with foreign thieves and disturbing internal affairs. In the end, the Li family was beheaded all over the house, and they died unjustly, and all their blood was spilled on the guillotine.

With that, I fired another shot, right leg.

He let out a deep sob.

It’s a pity that my father Li Qixiu is the Number One Scholar in Literature. He taught me a lot about the Four Books and Five Classics, poetry and songs, but he can’t use a gun, let alone dance with a gun and stick. On the day he

was bound to the guillotine, he was captured without a fight, and he went to justice generously, neither humble nor arrogant. Before he

was dragged out, he said over and over again, as if to me hiding in the rice jar, “..” We are the only ones who are not afraid of life and death, and we are determined to turn the tide.

My grandmother was still pregnant with a baby. She and Shi Deqing’s wife were sisters. She was a guest in Shi’s house, but she could not escape the disaster of extermination and was tied up.

The officers and soldiers pushed her mercilessly, and as soon as she fell to the ground, she could no longer get up, and blood gurgled down her legs.

She lay on the ground and twisted her head to look at Mrs. Shi’s feet in front of her.

She couldn’t understand why?

Power? Life?

His own sister and brother-in-law, her husband’s two best friends, personally buried their family.

This time, I finally put the gun to the head of Lang Dujun.

He didn’t say a word and confronted me with silence.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door behind him.

“Miss Wan Wan, let me do it.”

Shih Wan-chun appeared in front of me and said, “The guards heard the shot. If you had fired that shot, you would have died.”

She didn’t say the second half of the sentence. If she opens it, she can’t live.

I’m broken, but you and Ziyu can stay together in the future. If you kill his father, you’ll have to live with him for the rest of your life. Miss Wan Wan, you’re right. Whoever did this will pay for it. You pity me and give me a chance to kill him. She spoke with great calmness, as calm as if she were dead. “All right?”

She wasn’t going to care whether I could or not. She pulled the knife out of her arms.

She doesn’t know how to use a knife, and she doesn’t have a knife on her. She stole it from the kitchen. It’s actually very blunt.

She pounced on him and was easily thrown away by Lang Dujun.

She crawled to my feet again, took my trousers and held out her hand, and tried to ask me to give her the gun with a pleading look.

Finally, the convoy arrived.

More than a dozen guns were aimed at us, just waiting for a command from the governor of Lang.

Langdujun raised his upper body with difficulty and finally said, “Don’t hurt her.”

He raised his head and looked at me.

“I remember your name …” Wan Lan, right? Li Wan Lan, this is the name I gave you. Well, I’ve known for a long time that there must be today. Since I saw you, you and your mother are exactly the same. It’s a pity that I didn’t have the good fortune to marry your mother more than twenty years ago, and I didn’t have the guts to protect your mother.

You’re talking nonsense! It was my father who started it!

I did it. What do you know, girl? The phrase “We are the only ones who are not afraid of life and death, and do our best to turn the tide..” Lang Dujun smiled bitterly. In those days, your father was willing to let the whole family die in order to save me and Deqing. In return, we were able to use our fists and feet to achieve our ambitions. But he never thought that twenty years later, the world was still invaded by foreign powers and dominated by internal thieves. Deqing and I did become military governors one after another, but we were obsessed with power and were blinded by desire. In the end, we fell apart and killed each other. Your father’s death is not worth it, it’s not worth it.

I aimed at his head, but I was not so accurate, and my hand began to shake again. I have been waiting for

this day for twenty years.

I don’t care whether my father was betrayed by them or not. I really chose to sacrifice myself. All

I can see is that they don’t deserve my father’s death now.

What to turn the tide? In troubled times, these warlords only know how to work, regard power as bliss, and regard the common people as worthless.

“Hey..” He dragged a pair of legs to do it with difficulty. “I didn’t expect that one day my legs would be disabled, too, by a girl doll.”. Girl, do you know why I cut off the third brother’s leg?

I didn’t answer, so he said to himself, “It’s natural that he is angry and wants to overthrow Lao Tzu.”. But more, he did not believe, that year, the national protection movement started, I know that according to his temperament, must go to the battlefield. He has arms and legs, and I can’t stop him as a father. Two of his brothers died on the battlefield, and he was the only one left. I can’t bear to part with him. I really can’t bear to part with him. I’m afraid he’s dead, but I’d rather he be disabled. Anyway, I can support him for the rest of his life.

Lang Ziyu’s eyelashes moved slightly, shaking a little tears.

There’s another one. It’s for me.

He said, “Do you know why I have to marry Shi Wanjun?”?

I have to stop thinking about the third brother. I’m selfish. You’re the daughter of Qixiu and the person on the tip of my heart. Very easy to find you, I want to let the third heart from now on the eyes of you, to repay the rest of your life peace and joy. In fact, think about it, how can there be any white moonlight in the world? It’s just a white gauze tent without dust. As long as it’s immersed in the mire, it’s just as dirty and unbearable.

The old boy is on and off, regardless of any gaffes. What else did

he have to say? Before he could say it, there was another shot.

Only, it’s not me this time.

Not waiting to find a source, followed by four, five, six, seven sound, from all directions, intensified.

Not long after, outside the house was already a crowd of people fleeing in all directions, and guns were falling from the sky.

Three

days later, Los Angeles was completely destroyed, and the flames of the Civil War finally scorched the territory. The birth and demise of

a warlord, the fall and change of ownership of a city, in this troubled times, are perfectly normal. The

magnificent governor’s office has now become a huge live target. I

don’t have to do it, and I don’t have to kill Shi Wanjun.

A generation of heroes finally lost their bodies in the flames of war.

The beacon fire burned for five days, and when I woke up, I was already lying at the relief point.

Two months later, I went to the south alone.

Before that, I went to the original photo studio, looked at the charred rubble on the ground, and could no longer find the camera that had recorded my smile. After

that, I stayed in the south, working in the hospital during the day and writing articles for magazines when I came back at night.

I have also developed the habit of reading newspapers for more than ten years. It’s

interesting to say that I once read a notice in the newspaper about a missing person, and it turned out to be me.

The signature was a man’s name. Soon after, he came to me and told me a lot of things, but it was about Wan Wan. She

said that she had come to the south, a young girl with no money but beauty, and wanted to know what the situation was.

She could not read, so she listened by the wall outside the school, reading over and over the few foreign words she had known by heart. A

few years later, I married someone, and he was the one I married.

He said that Wan Wan was pregnant now, but the foundation of her body was too bad. She suffered a lot of sins and was depressed all day long. When

he heard her calling my name in her sleep, he often murmured that he felt guilty, so he wanted to find me and untie Wan Wan’s heart knot. As he

spoke, he took out a few tattered paper notes from his pocket.

“I’m a rickshaw puller, and I don’t have much money.”. Miss Li, Miss Li, you have a good heart. Save my wife. Wherever you go in the future, I’ll take you in a cart.

I refused to go, and I gave him some money, but he refused to accept it.

The next morning, he came to look for me again, and so did the third day. After repeating

this for half a month, I finally relented. The moment she

saw me, Shih Wan-chun burst into tears. She said “I’m sorry” to me over and over again.

I shook my head and said nothing.

A few months later, when Wan Wan was about to give birth, an old man suddenly came to the door. It was Shi Deqing.

He lost all his fortune abroad and for some unknown reason came running back.

Wan Wan refused to let him in, so Shi Deqing gave her a sudden push, ran into the house, grabbed a handful of jewelry and money, and ran away in a second. As soon as

he pushed, Wan Wan’s body fell heavily to the ground, and his legs were covered with red in an instant. In

this way, Wan Wan lost her first child in her life and has never been able to conceive again.

Still later, the Japanese entered the Shanhaiguan Pass, and the smoke of the anti-Japanese war was ignited on the land of China. There are more and more wounded in the

war, and the work of the hospital is getting busier and busier.

I stayed late into the night and then hurried to the next casualty.

At that time, I was already a head nurse.

One night, a little nurse came to me in a hurry and told me that a new wounded man had lost consciousness and was afraid that he was dying.

He still had one hand on his chest and could not move it, so that they could not heal the wound.

I’ll hurry to see the situation.

Like the other men who had come down from the battlefield, his face was covered with blood and blackened by guns, and he was in a very bad condition.

I stretched out my hand, and as if in a coma, he lowered his hand heavily in front of his chest, revealing where the bullet had penetrated his flesh.

I tried to stop his bleeding, and as soon as I touched it, I touched a small button. He had a pocket on his chest. I reached in

with my fingers, found a few pieces of paper, and took them out.

They were old, yellowing photographs on old paper and in old style.

But the girl in the picture is so young.

She was raw and stiff, with her head tilted and her hair slightly loose.

She was laughing, but in an instant, tears as big as my beans fell down in a string, falling on the photo and on his hand.

I grabbed the photo with my hand shaking like a sieve, but I pinched it so hard that I was afraid that the photo would fall to the ground and be covered with dust.

Everything seems to go back to thirteen years ago. It was dusk on the day of the

photo shoot, and he said I was his new wife and he was going to war. Smiling, the

boss replies, “Then I’ll take the most beautiful picture of my wife and put it in your pants pocket. I’ll take it with me wherever you go, and I’ll protect your safe and triumphant return.”

This picture, as if through time and space, has been treasured in his pocket.

Everything seems like a lifetime ago.

It seems like last night.

And as if, already exhausted.

I touched his hypothermic face and said, “Thirteen years, that’s long enough. We can go to the south.” But no one answered me anymore.

(At the end of the text, there is an extra chapter ~)