Column (Ch6-Even an oddball wants to know about Pleasure Maiden)

Written by-Silver crown

Ch-6 Even an oddball wants to know about Pleasure maiden

I glanced at Sanlang with some disgust. I lay down and said

"Well, I got marked by those blue robes and I don't even know when will I become a cold body under the sea."

"It would be a shame without doing anything in my remaining time. So I will tell you guys, a unique story that you guys haven't heard yet. It's a story of my life before I was here"…

I feel a little melancholic about my family after I saw Shrimp's terrible death. I'm scared. I don't want to die yet. I'm still trembling inside whenever I recalled the scene I saw.

I'm merely putting up a strong front for my roommates. My past life experiences told me not to look away from the current problems I'm facing.

I'm the ring leader of these physically and mentally fatigued cellmates.

Once I start showing signs of weakness, the balance will break. Then, all the things and effort I'd built up would crumble in a matter of seconds. Which may even result in more casualties.

All of the roommates are still teenagers. Although most of them can think and decide for themselves, these guys don't know what is right and wrong. In this kind of situation without subsequent knowledge, they only have a narrow perspective. They are unable to see the problems with a broader mindset.

They need a strong pillar to survive this voyage to the sect. I didn't want to be their pillar but as the saying said 'Nail whose head is sticking out from the rest is the one that attracts the Hummer'. I stick out from the rest. So out of necessity, I became a ringleader of this cabin.

"Ho...Ho...Our high and mighty turtle is going to tell his story," someone remarked with a sarcastic tone.

I sat down and shifted my head toward the person who spoke. Raising an eyebrow, I said with a threatening tone

"Mantou, it seems like you want some beating as dessert."

"Yeah...Screw you Mantou. If you don't want to hear move to the other side." one of my roommates shouted.

Then, they started their verbal fight with their respective group.

That stuffed bun face lad was rather aggressive of me. I feel like I was a class monitor in all boy classes at middle school. I can tell them to do what we need but couldn't make them obey or be submissive to my command.

There are many groups like Mantou who build up their little group. My sight landed on a certain someone with a red Iris.

That red iris youth is an oddball in this cabin. His nickname was Rabies dog aka Rab dog.

He didn't join any group or didn't make friends with anyone. The hack, he doesn't even turn in the black pill to me.

I didn't dare to make a fuss about him either. He is the one who claimed from first blood to the third. Consecutively killing three peers in the first month in pill looting time.

I hurriedly shifted my gaze not to attract that psycho radar. I heard Sanlang say something to me but I couldn't get it.

Facing Sanlang, I said "What are you talking about? I couldn't hear properly."

"I said 'we only ask about the pleasure maiden, not your story,'" Sanlang said annoyingly.

"Why you.." I cracked my knuckles and glared at Sanlang.

Sanlang made some defensive posture but I have a bigger body than him. How could a skinny monkey like Sanlang have a chance to fight back a bear like me. I subdued him with an arm lock and gave him a hefty noogie.

"I also want to know about that too," Zhou Chi said shyly.

I was about to say something to Zhou Chi but I stopped when I saw some other horny lads perking ears. I looked around and sighed.

You will know people's true colors when you are in pinch. Many of them who fondly love my storytelling didn't dare to peek a glance while I got stepped on. Not that I could blame them, they just want to live.

I cleared my throat and opened up my speech.

"Cough, we all come from Angran county" I pointed my finger to Zhou Chi

"A fisherman's son" then pointed to Sanlang "Peddler" and pointed in another direction "Fish seller" and "Dock workers"

"Errand boy" I pointed the thumb at myself.

"It's a fact that most of us come from common laborers" I look at the Rab dog who closed his red eyes and pretended to be resting. I shift back to Sanlang who was still in my arm-locked position and said

"However from poor to rich, there is no one who hadn't heard of the prestige and news of a certain place in our county."

"So, what place appears in your mind?"

"I know that it's Golden Cherry Guest House" Sanlang replied.

"Yes, from the mayor's birthday, and celebratory events to a foreign envoy visit."

"All come to one place called Golden cherry but I'm sure none of you know the real business of that house," I said.

"Is that house a brothel?" someone asked.

"Not really but quite close," I answered.

Everyone looked at me in puzzle expressions. I waited some time to make everyone's curiosity reach a peak.

"Unlike brothel, you guys know this place is made for high-class entertainment."

"Us commoners could stare from the gate and drool, where tycoons and aristocrats play and school, with their excess money in this beautiful place."

"Pleasure maidens are the chosen ladies of this Cherry Guest House. They were especially natured as top quality consort for rich people from a young age."

Some lads moved their asses slightly to listen to our conversation. I continued

"From thousands of seeds, they choose a handful of most beautiful ladies with a standard of a fairy, well educated, can do all kinds of housework and 12 kinds of womanly arts."

"How beautiful is a pleasure maiden you say? Haven't you ever heard of an event, where a son of a foreign merchant saw a maiden dancing on a celebration?"

"He became infatuated so much that he stood there like a living statue for three days."

Everyone gap in admiration.

"So have you seen a pleasure maiden big bro Turtle?" Zhou Chi asked.

"I didn't see directly, there is a veil separating between me and teacher."

Everyone looked disappointed and some even shifted their asses away. I released Sanlang from my arm and said

"Nonetheless, that couldn't prevent me from hearing the teacher's pleasant voice like flowing streams."

"Every time I take a breath, I feel her flowery fragrance from my nostrils."

"Her elegance and graceful demeanor make me unable to forget her."

"She is a pretty famous person in angran county or even in the Song dynasty."

"Come on, It is easy, even dogs living in the county know her news, try to guess her name."

"Don't tell me she's ' Blossoming Moon'"

They are looking at me with expecting gazes for my final answer. I waited for a while then nodded my head with a smile.

My audiences become hyped up after hearing my teacher's name.

"You mean that 'Blossoming Moon' even one thousand gold isn't enough to make her sing a song ."

"That 'Blossoming Moon' a lotus with flower feet?"

Many of my roommates asked me with envious expressions. Although I don't know why they hyped her small feet, since it was right, I confirm most of their statements.

"But you are just an errand boy, right? How could you be able to learn from a high-class pleasure maiden like her", someone asked.

"Thus why I said I would tell you my story. You guys didn't even listen to what I was about to say. I was doing errand jobs there not to earn a coin but to learn literature."

When I got my thunder back, I started to talk about my real intro

"Because of a reason, I wanted to become an official in Angran county."

"You guys already know, commoners could be official by two methods. Doing meritorious deeds in a battle. Or, passing the official exam that was held in the county."

"But the lecture hall only allows rich noble households or some rich merchant daughters to enter. I tried to blend inside by adorning a silk robe like young masters but got beaten black and blue. "

Some of my audience laughed including Sanlang who was a little overreacted.

"I still got my bottom teeth before I entered the Lecture hall now it became like this" I show my gums which only held five molar teeth.

"I was at a loss. I tried my luck in every place where someone was likely to teach me just how to read. Inns, shops, ship accountants, and lastly end as an errand boy at Golden Cherry Guest house ."

I dazedly stared at my roommates and became nostalgic about my life after being reborn in this world. I don't care if I would get jinxed or not. I will tell them a story and bottom up my yearning for my home. I accept whatever fate will offer after I finish my life story.