Those Good Old Days in Brothel after Rebirth - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Is There another Beauty? (1)

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

After breakfast, Ji Wujin went back to the place where she was reborn–Hua Wujiao’s boudoir.

After shutting the door, she started ransacking trunks and boxes—to look for silver (in ancient China, people use gold and silver as money)!

Ji Wumian firmly believed that Hua Wujiao must have some private money since she owned such a big brothel.

It turned out that she overthought things again!

After searching thoroughly for a long time Ji Wujin only found a string of bronze coins in a hidden drawer under the bed.

She sat cross-legged on the floor and her hand shook a bit and the coins circled around on the floor and finally stopped with a sullen sound. Her heart echoed with it. She roared in her heart, “Isn’t she too poor?”

She had to feed those daughters with the money she had right now. But with such little money, she would never satisfy those wolf-like ugly women!

Perhaps she should run away?

Looking at this exaggeratingly huge boudoir, Ji Wujin found it difficult to leave such a great heaven-like place behind.

While she was struggling in her heart, she suddenly cast a glance at this face in the bronze mirror and couldn’t help shivering

“Well, Hua Wujiao is a mama now. She doesn’t have to receive any guest now, so…”

She leaned to the mirror so as to have a closer look at Hua Wujiao’s face.

“Wow. Look at you, what a seductive face! Maybe someday some benefactor would fall for you…”

While she was appreciating that face, she heard a cry all of sudden.

She opened the window, looked down and saw it was Xiaocui.

She was crying sadly sitting under a peach tree in the backyard because she failed to grab the steamed buns for breakfast.

Ji Wujin rubbed her full belly in embarrassment. Xiaocui must be extremely hungry now all because of her.

She felt kind of guilty. In fact, she always shared food even back when she had still been a beggar. She did such a wrong thing because she was too hungry.

Gritting her teeth, Ji Wujin took out two coins she newly found, went downstairs and headed to the backyard.

“What’s wrong ,Xiaocui? Why are you crying in here?”

As Ji Wujin got close to the yard, someone said.

She slowed down and saw a girl in pink standing next to Xiaocui.

“Boohoo…I didn’t have breakfast today again. Mama Jiao ate mine…mine. I, I haven’t eaten anything for two days…”

The girl in pink got mad at Hua Wujiao and spoke for Xiaocui, “that old woman again?! She is way across the line! You serve her so well every day but she still treats you so badly. And she doesn’t even care about people here. All she cares about is herself. She is terrible!”

Ji Wujin rubbed her own cheek and was confused. Old woman? Is Hua Wujiao that old?

Xiaocui was still crying with tears in silence. The girl in pink felt sorry for her and sighed, “Anyway, what can we do? The money is in her hands. You can’t do anything she wants to do.”

The girl suddenly got angrier as if she remembered something,

“But my lady hasn’t eaten for two days too. She might be starving to death because of that old woman!”

Xiaocui even cried harder on hearing someone with the same experience like her.

“No food at all for anyone, not even for Panpan. Mama Jiao alone ate two steamed buns today. There is no food in the kitchen now. All of us will be starving to death…”

“Ahem!”

Ji Wujin gave a dry cough and then walked out because she was too embarrassed to show herself if she let them keep talking.

Xiaocui was still intimidated by her. But the girl in pink intrigued Ji Wujin’s curiosity.

Rosy lips, white teeth, she was fairly beautiful? How is it possible such a hot-tempered woman even has a hostess?

Ji Wujin slipped a few coins into Xiaocui’s hand while her mind was fast spinning, “Xiaocui, I was too hungry to eat your steamed bun this morning. Sorry for your loss. Take the coins and buy some steamed buns for yourself.”

The girl in pink was apparently not happy because she pulled a long face all of sudden. “Mama Jiao, you only care about your own maid. My Lady Panpan hasn’t had breakfast either. You know, she hasn’t had a bite for two whole days….”

She even was holding a wailing tone while saying those words.

Ji Wujin waved her hand in the air, “fine, fine. Xiaocui, buy two more.”

Xiaocui who stopped crying just now was about to cry again.

“Mama Jiao, it’s not even enough to buy two.”

“…”

Ji Wujin gave a look at the two coins that Xiaocui was holding tightly like they were her flesh, “do not buy steamed breads. Buy some flour and tell the cook to make more. But you should hand in there a bit longer…”

Before Ji Wujin finished the sentence, Xiaocui’s eyes turned red again and she ran away, covering her crying face.

“She is such a cry baby.”

The girl in pink pouted even harder now.

“Mama Jiao, how long should we wait for the steamed buns to be cooked.? My lady hasn’t had eaten for two days. If she waits too long, she…”

Ji Wujin was curious who this Panpan was and cut in before the girl finished her talking, “is she having apastia?”

The girl in pink snorted. “if there were food, how would she be having apastia…”

“I see. I will go talk to her.”

On hearing her, the girl in pink gave him a watchful look.

Ji Wujin blinked her innocent eyes, “I am holding a good heart. It is not good she doesn’t eat. Don’t worry. I will go talk to her. I won’t do anything else.”

Ji Wujin was curious because that woman must be something valuable since she even had a maid who was also beautiful in a brothel.

“You’d better do.”

The girl hissed and led the way for Ji Wujin.

Walking into the yard in the west and up to the stairs, Ji Wujin started to get a little thrilled.

After a whole morning’s observation, now she had a rough picture of the layout of the whole Sweet Smile Chamber. Those who lived on the second floor should enjoy some special status in here.

Hua Wujiao herself lived in the east on the second floor,  Gu Qingqing the prostitute queen in the middle and Panpan in the west alone which kind of surprised her.

Unaware of Ji Wujin’s emotional changes, the girl in pink kept nagging ahead, “what’s the use to talk to her? There is no food anyway. Do you think she won’t be hungry after you talk to her? My lady doesn’t want to go so low to fight over food with them. If….Miss Panpan wouldn’t have ended up here.”

She keeps addressing her miss or lady. And she was on a hunger strike? Is it possible she is a new girl so her maid still calls her miss?

“Have you had breakfast today?”

“Why ask?”

“Nothing. You sound like you are energetic since you are so talkative.”

“Hum!”

“What were you trying to say just now?”

“Hum! Nothing.”