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Chapter 375 Crossing the River
It is said that this boat was specially found by Wu Bazi and decorated with great care. There were dozens of lanterns on the side of the boat and fine wine and delicious food were prepared inside the boat.

But Wu Bazi opened the dock door and pushed Miss Yaoqin inside. Miss Yaoqin was from a good family, not to mention she was born with a good appearance. She was treated like a treasure in the brothel. She had never suffered such an injustice and burst into tears immediately.

Wu Bazi was a notorious scoundrel, and he had no intention of trying to appease anyone. He stepped forward and cursed, "Little bitch, don't be ungrateful. If you cry again, I'll hit you with my fists!"

Miss Yaoqin was not afraid of him at all. She was painting in her room when Wu Bazi suddenly brought his servants to pry open the door. Unfortunately, all the girls and servants in the building were gone at that moment. As a weak woman, she had no power to fight back, so she was grabbed by several men and put into the car. Her hands and feet were held down all the way and she could not move. Now he was treated so rudely that her tears really fell like beads from a broken string.

Wu Bazi snorted heavily, asked the servants to bring wine and food, and shouted, "Come and drink with us!"

Yaoqin was crying non-stop and had no intention of drinking with him. Wu Bazi raised his glass and drank. He drank three or four glasses himself. Seeing that she was still crying, he felt even more unhappy. He was furious and took advantage of the alcohol to tear Yaoqin's hair and threw her to the table, with her face pressed tightly against the table.

"You little whore, you really don't know what's good for you. You ignored my words? You don't want to drink? You have to drink even if you don't want to!"

He casually grabbed the wine jug and, regardless of Yaoqin's attitude, forced the wine into her mouth. Yaoqin didn't even open her mouth, so he poured it all over her head and face. Wu Bazi then laughed and said, "Bah, you're such a hypocrite when you're out here selling wine!"

Yaoqin was so humiliated that she became furious and wanted to bang her head against a pillar to end her life. However, Wu Bazi had promised Lu Lingfeng not to cause any death, so he stepped forward and hugged Yaoqin tightly.

"Want to die? If you didn't want to sell yourself, you should have died when you were fourteen. You should have lived to eighteen. A few days ago, Mr. Chen was sixty and you served him. I'm not as good as an old man in his sixties, huh?"

He casually pulled out the gold hairpin and earrings on Yaoqin's head, and Yaoqin's makeup was immediately gone. With the wine all over her head and face, she looked extremely disheveled and unkempt.

Wu Bazi just laughed and tried to pull Yaoqin's clothes. Yaoqin tried her best to protect them, but one of her shoes was still taken off. She took the opportunity to push open the door and was about to jump into the river to commit suicide, but was stopped by Wu's servants.

Wu Bazi stood inside the doorway and shouted, "Do you think I'm afraid of you just because you're throwing a tantrum? Even if she really dies, it's just a few taels of silver as compensation. You're making a fuss and annoying me. What kind of courtesan is that? She's nothing more than that. It's really boring. Let her get off the boat!"

Yaoqin stopped crying when she heard that she was going to be let off the boat. When the boat reached the shore, several cruel servants threw her off, leaving her in a miserable state.

Wu Bazi stood by the boat and shouted, "You bitch, go back on your own. I won't send you off!"

After saying that, he ordered his men to sail the boat back, leaving Yaoqin alone sitting by the river, heartbroken.

When she stood up to leave, she found that her shoes were still on the boat. She could not move barefoot. Looking at her reflection in the river, she did not look like a courtesan in a brothel at all. She just looked like a ghost with disheveled hair and tear marks on her face, looking very miserable.

Looking at the waves on the river, Yaoqin thought to herself that she had a miserable life. She had fled here after encountering a demon disaster and was abducted and sold to a brothel by a villain. She had been living in the dust ever since. She regretted listening to slander and being tricked into falling into the dust. She thought she was superior because she made friends with nobles and princes, but she disappeared in a hurry. It was all because of her self-deprecation that she became a plaything in the hands of others and suffered such a great humiliation for nothing.

The more I thought about it, the more bitter I felt. I couldn't help but burst into tears and sob.

At this moment, a small boat came and stopped opposite Yaoqin. A boatman in his thirties asked her while holding the oar, "Miss, do you want to cross the river?"

Yaoqin looked up and saw that the boatman had a dull expression and was quite impatient.

"Whether you can cross the river or not, I will leave!"

Only then did he remember how disheveled he was, and he said hastily, "I want to cross the river. Boatman, please take me across."

The boatman then stepped forward and gave her a hand, without even looking at her, and continued rowing. Yaoqin sat down in the boat and suddenly saw a treasure box beside the boat. The box was made of fine fragrant wood, and all four sides were golden, probably plated with gold edges.

Yaoqin was very surprised. Although she came from a prostitute family, she was educated like a lady from a noble family. She had a good eye and could recognize that this was made of top-quality material. The boatman was dressed simply and if he made a living by transporting people, how could he afford such a box?

The boatman saw Yaoqin staring at the box and suddenly laughed, "It's beautiful, isn't it? I fished it out of the river a few days ago. It was also lost by a girl, who also lost a lot of gold and silver jewelry. It's just that I was unlucky, so I only fished out this box."

"Ah?" Yaoqin was a little surprised.

Seeing this, the boatman started talking to himself.

"One day, a man and woman were crossing the river, and a large boat from the other side came to pick them up. You'll see, the girl was truly beautiful, like a fairy from heaven, and the man was also a handsome scholar. I thought they were a couple, but who knew that the scholar wanted to sell his beautiful wife."

"Why is this?" Yaoqin was also interested at this moment. Perhaps listening to other people's stories could ease the sadness in her heart a little.

The boatman laughed and said, "I heard that the girl was a prostitute who had turned good, and the scholar redeemed her body. But the scholar's master wouldn't allow her to marry him, saying that a lowly woman couldn't marry him, even a concubine. The scholar had no choice but to spend a lot of money. A businessman friend of his heard about this and negotiated a sale with him, setting the price at three hundred taels!"

The boatman held up three fingers and said with a smile, "I heard that girl was a top prostitute, and she cost fifty taels a night. Now that she's married, her price is actually lower, only about three hundred taels. The scholar would have wanted more than that to redeem her, but he was desperate to get rid of her so he agreed to it."

"What happened to that girl later?" Perhaps it was because she felt sympathy for her peers, but after hearing the girl's story, Yaoqin thought of herself and for a moment was extremely concerned about the girl's ending.

The boatman went on to say, "The scholar had been hiding this from the girl, but when the time came to exchange the money for the goods, the indenture had to be brought out and she saw it. The scholar knew he could no longer hide it, so he told her the truth. That's when the fun began!"

"What happened?" Yaoqin asked immediately.

The boatman pointed to the box and said, "The girl took the box in her hand and opened it, only to see a golden light, full of gold objects. The girl laughed and threw, throwing a layer of gold objects into the water. The scholar was extremely regretful and hurriedly asked the girl to stop. The girl only opened the second layer, and found pearls, jades, and night-shining pearls. She scattered a handful into the river. She opened the third layer, but found the deeds to the city. The girl laughed and said that she had treasures in her box worth tens of thousands of gold, but today she was selling them for only three hundred. I have treasures in my box, but I have no eyes to see. I don't know how to judge people, so I have wasted my life. I said, "It is easy to get priceless treasures, but it is hard to find a lover." Then she jumped into the river and committed suicide."

(End of this chapter)