The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

Chapter 1982: I just wanted to be a chivalrous knight-errant.
Ru Shuang looked at Feng Jiuxiao, her eyes sparkling, and smiled sweetly, her breath as fragrant as orchids: "Are you eighteen years old?"

Feng Jiuxiao said expressionlessly, "You're wasting your opportunity."

Ru Shuang stared into Feng Jiuxiao's eyes, trying to discern the boy's true thoughts from them, but the boy's gaze was as deep as the sea!

She was silent for a moment, gritted her teeth, and steeled her resolve: "I'm going all out this time!"

Feng Jiuxiao's eyes flashed: "It seems you are indeed under a lot of pressure!"

Ru Shuang's eyes were like mist, and her voice was ethereal: "I have seen many people like you, saying the same things, deceiving those sisters into believing that heaven has suddenly favored them and sent a loving man to save them from their predicament!"

"They were so eager to give their hearts away! But in the end, all the so-called lovers turned out to be heartless! Some of them were just there to play with feelings, cheat them out of money and sex, while others were sent by the Liu family to test the sisters' feelings!"

"Anyone who even thinks of eloping with an outsider will be severely tortured! Anyone who harbors lifelong resentment towards the Liu family, or even reveals the Liu family's criminal secrets, will be tortured to death! The sisters' fates will only get worse, there is no worst! So, none of the sisters dare to utter a word now!"

Feng Jiuxiao asked, "Did you try to escape?"

Ru Shuang smiled bitterly, "How can we, weak women who can't even kill a chicken, outrun the thugs of the Da Le Tou family? There are thugs everywhere here. Even if we manage to escape from here, can we escape Diexi Town? The whole town is full of Liu family spies! To be honest, we don't need the Liu family to supervise our every move. Some of the girls here act as our spies!"

Feng Jiuxiao said with great sympathy: "Yes, some people can't resist coercion and temptation in the end, and end up becoming accomplices of evildoers. Although they are hateful, they are also pitiful!"

Ru Shuang was taken aback. "Do you sympathize with those who betray their friends for personal gain?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Everything has two sides! They are nothing more than weak women who can't even kill a chicken. They are facing some vicious and unethical scoundrels. You can imagine what the outcome will be! Thugs and hooligans, with no bottom line and despicable methods, which weak woman can withstand their vile and cruel tortures?"

Ru Shuang couldn't help but sigh: "This is the perspective of you outsiders! You're high and mighty, so you think you have a big view!" Her words were full of sarcasm about the injustice of fate!

Feng Jiuxiao asked, "Which is more important, life or dignity?"

Ru Shuang said self-deprecatingly, "You ask me? If I had chosen dignity, would I still be here selling smiles? Chaste and virtuous women who chose dignity would have died long ago! Is it wrong for those who choose life? If it weren't for those wicked people who forced us into prostitution and kidnapped us here, would we have had to make a choice?" As she spoke, her voice grew louder and angrier, and years of pent-up emotions finally erupted!
She didn't know why she was so emotional today. Perhaps it was the calm demeanor of the young master Long that made her feel safe, or perhaps it was something else. Anyway, she had already vented, so whatever!
Feng Jiuxiao clapped his hands and said, "Isn't it comfortable to be yourself again?"

Ru Shuang let out a long sigh of relief, and smiled, "Yes, it feels so good! It's exhausting to have to pretend to be nice every day and live with a mask on!"

Feng Jiuxiao asked, "Besides monitoring you, do they have any other means of controlling you? For example, do they give you slow-acting poison and stop giving you the antidote if you don't obey? Is that possible?"

Ru Shuang frowned slightly. "It seems not. They only use violence."

"Do you also have espionage and intelligence gathering missions?" "How did you know?"

"My guess!"

"You're really amazing!"

"What kind of person is that madam, Madam Liu?"

"Her? Hmph! If the girls commit crimes, those thugs might at most take advantage of them, but she really kills them! To her, the girls are just talking tools; their lives are completely unimportant. If one batch dies, she just brings in another. What's that saying? She treats human life like dirt! She doesn't even consider us human!"

"Alright, I understand. Miss Ru Shuang, if this Heaven and Earth Paradise were to dissolve, what are your opinions?"

Ru Shuang was taken aback: "Disband?" She seemed to have never thought about this before!
Feng Jiuxiao asked, "Which of the girls here came here voluntarily?"

Ru Shuang smiled bitterly: "Which girl would willingly become a prostitute? Is it because of a good reputation? A noble profession? Easy work? Aren't they all tricked and deceived into it? Who doesn't have a story of hardship and tears?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Then if we disband this place, wouldn't everyone be able to escape this sea of ​​suffering?"

Ru Shuang sighed and said, "Young Master Long, that's why they say we have such a miserable and lowly life. We didn't want to come to this kind of brothel to do such a lowly job, but we were forced to. After spending so many years selling our smiles here, if we're suddenly told to go somewhere else, where do you think we can go? Go home? Will our families still recognize us? They'll only see us as a disgrace to the family! As for finding a rich husband to marry, that only happens in legends! What normal man would marry a slut who has slept with thousands of men?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Don't belittle yourselves like that! You are all unfortunate people! So, according to you, this place should continue to be maintained for the time being?"

Ru Shuang's eyes were lifeless. "If we don't keep going, what will we eat?" She suddenly looked at Feng Jiuxiao. "If you shut down Heaven and Earth, will you support us?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "How about we let the girls change their professions and become weavers or embroiderers?"

Ru Shuang looked into Feng Jiuxiao's eyes, "I'm certain now that you're a good person. I can feel that you genuinely want to save the sisters from their suffering. Your martial arts skills must be very high; I believe you can defeat the Liu family and have the ability to open a weaving workshop and allow the sisters to support themselves through their own labor. However, over the years, since they came here, the sisters have been forced to learn various methods to seduce and serve men. They have to learn music, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, and dancing; they have to learn how to interact with people; and they even have bedroom skills. They've finally learned so many survival skills, and if you suddenly make them discard them all and start over, some of them might not be able to accept it! Unless you also use whips and sticks, they might accept it!"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Me, use whips and sticks to force them to reform? What a joke! How about this: we can keep this place here and open a weaving workshop, letting them come and go as they please? What do you think?"

Ru Shuang stared at Feng Jiuxiao's face, unable to fathom the young man's true thoughts. "Can you tell me why you're willing to help us?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "It's for no particular reason, I just want to be a chivalrous knight. When I see injustice on the road, I'll draw my sword to help. That's my idea."

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