FH Chapter 55: 听墙角
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Inside the room, Liu Fu was shirtless, revealing his fat belly with thick hair, as if he had just washed up.
Xiao Lingchuan was stunned and motioned to Li Haitang to avoid him. It was not good to see a naked man like this.
Unexpectedly, Li Haitang didn’t receive the reminder at all. He looked attentively through the holes in the Korean paper and silently commented on Liu Fu’s figure while watching.
Liu Fu was not fat, but his belly was surprisingly big. His eyes were black and his eyes were cloudy. At first glance, he looked like he had been drained by alcohol and sex.
“Qiu Ju, my little sweetheart, come on, let me hug you!”
Liu Fu looked at Qiu Ju with a squinted look, suspicious water stains flowing from his mouth. He made a lot of money in the Qin family. Because he was a slave, he couldn’t find a young lady from a good family, so the marriage was delayed.
With money, Liu Fu didn’t want to treat himself badly, so he wandered around streets of an ill repute; red-light district, and his skills were first-rate.
Ever since he met Li Qiu Ju, Liu Fu had started to think about her. After a brief exchange, he learned that Li Qiu Ju is vain, so he always bought some rouge and gouache to coax her.
Going to a brothel to have a drink costs a lot of money at one time, so it is better to find a girl from a good family. Moreover, Liu Fu has played a lot, and it is not the intact one or unopened. Li Qiu Ju is still a young girl after all.
“You smell like alcohol, did you go to drink wine at the brothel again?”
Li Qiu Ju put on her coat, sat up from the bed, and said reluctantly, “You just leave me alone at home, not caring about me.”
“My darling, I, Liu Fu, am helping you with a big thing. I owe that Tattooed Monk Lu (鲁智深, one of the outlaws of Water Margin (《水浒》) monk who does not follow the Buddist commandments) a favor. If I don’t give you some hush money, what if one day he spills the beans?”
The monk Liu Fu mentioned was the “master” who once told Counselor Qin fortune. He also said that Li Haitang had a big butt and was easy to give birth to, so she would definitely give birth to a fat boy.
“Humph, don’t even look at what time it is.”
Li Qiu Ju looked reluctant, but Liu Fu was doing things for himself, so she couldn’t say anything.
Today she met her mother, Mrs. Liu, and her mother had already agreed to her marriage. She and Liu Fu had already ‘rice is cooked’— what’s done cannot be undone and her family objected, but she still wanted to get married.
“Qiu Ju, your skill is so good, I just need you to serve me.”
After Liu Fu finished speaking, he grabbed Li Qiu Ju’s hand and touched his shorts, “If you don’t believe me, check it…”
The scene became more and more bold. Li Haitang lamented that she didn’t bring some cakes and tea. It would be better to have a chair. She likes to watch reality shows.
Li Qiu Ju and Liu Fu didn’t fall asleep. They seemed to have arrived early. Xiao Lingchuan rubbed his sore forehead and thought about whether to take Li Haitang for a spin first.
In the inner room, there was a rustling sound of taking off clothes. Liu Fu hugged Li Qiu Ju and kept talking dirty words. When he was about to go further, Li Qiu Ju refused, “I’m not feeling well.”
“Is it menstruation?”
Liu Fu secretly thought that it was bad luck. It would be better to find a girl in Hualou to be happy. Why should he come back in such a hurry?
“No, it’s not.”
Li Qiuju touched her belly with a soft smile on her lips, “I have been retching frequently these past few days. I thought it was because of the coldness in my stomach. I went to the medical center to see a doctor for a pulse diagnosis. He said that I was already one and a half months pregnant.”
Li Qiu Ju’s menstruation was not accurate, sometimes once every two months, so she didn’t pay much attention to it. Only after checking her pulse did she know she was pregnant.
The doctor warned me that I should pay more attention in the first three months and not have sex, otherwise I might have a miscarriage.
“Really?”
Liu Fu was overjoyed. He picked up Li Qiu Ju and spun her around, then gently placed her on the bed. They rubbed their ear to ear and temple to temple for a while, then blew out the lamp.
The plot came to an abrupt end at a critical point. Li Haitang missed the point and looked unhappy. She raised her head and looked at the sky speechlessly.
Xiao Lingchuan was also silent. The two of them leaned together to enjoy the cold wind. After waiting for about an hour, the steady breathing of Liu Fu and Li Qiu Ju came from the inner room.
“Wait for me here. The slave deed has been written. All that’s left is Li Qiuju’s fingerprint.”
Xiao Lingchuan took out an envelope and a box of red ink paste used for seals or Chinese vermilion seal paste from his arms, and quietly entered the inner room.
The light was turned off in the room and it was pitch black. Li Haitang did not dare to breathe loudly. She clasped her hands together and prayed silently in her heart. If the savage was discovered, would she run or not?
Run ba, he is doing things for himself, he seems very unjust, if he doesn’t run, she will be caught.
“It’s done.”
Li Haitang was struggling when Xiao Lingchuan’s tall figure walked out of the house. He hugged Li Haitang’s waist, to leap onto roofs and vault over walls, and went straight to the Counselor Qin’s courtyard.
“I clicked on their sleeping holes and took care of everything.”
Xiao Lingchuan had to make Li Qiu Ju press her fingerprints and find a cloth to dry the red ink pad on them. He was not used to contacting women, so he could only do it while wearing gloves.
Once the contract of the slave is obtained, all that remains is how to steal the beams and change the pillars—replace the original with a fake. As long as this step is completed, Li Haitang’s identity will be completely changed.
It’s okay to say that she is a servant of the death contract but where is the evidence?
What about the deed of renunciation? Red lips and white teeth, empty words without proof, everything depends on proof.
Everything was ready and all she needed was the east wind aka all is ready, only waiting for the last crucial element. The savages were very capable. Li Haitang felt confident that finding such a husband was a real gain. Although there could not be any substantial relationship for the time being, she thought that she had to settle her fate first.
The outside of Counselor Qin’s courtyard is very large. There are flowers and grass planted in the courtyard. Under the eaves, there are two windproof lanterns hanging on the left and right sides.
The bedroom was dark, with the windows and doors closed and thick curtains hung.
Xiao Lingchuan and Li Haitang jumped onto the roof. The two hung on the eaves and looked in through the breathable windows.
Inside the room, the candle’s flame flickered and fluttered, the bed tent made of light gauze was half-covered, a naked woman was tied up with a rope, her body was crisscrossed with bruises and purple marks, she moved from side to side, struggling desperately, and in her mouth, she was also blocked with a handkerchief.
Li Haitang and Xiao Lingchuan exchanged glances, nodded to each other, unspoken. Before, they had heard that Counselor Qin had a special fetish for abusing and beating women, empty holes don’t come from the wind, this was all true.
“Master, I just love the newly hatched bird , the more you struggle, the more excited I get.”
Counselor Qin was sitting on a table not far from the opposite side of the bed, on it were several plates of pork cooked in soy sauce, roast duck, and a plate of shelled peanuts.
He warmed the jug of wine, his florid beard sticking up, and with one hand he raised his whip and waved it at the bed couch.
“Ah!”
The whip struck the woman’s neck, and in an instant, there was more than one blood purlin, and the handkerchief in her mouth fell off as she screamed out in pain.
“It’s in the middle of the night, if you shout, Master I won’t be happy.”
Counselor Qin stood up and walked in a circle with his hands behind his back, his mouth chanting, “Master I’m not happy, the consequences are serious.”
“Let me go, please, oooh…” The woman’s pupils dilated, suddenly like being drained of strength, she could not resist. She signed a death contract, Counselor Qin caused her death, her parent’s eyes that only open whenever they see money, will only turn a blind eye.