[R18] Meat is fragrant – Chapter 97 of “Charming Flesh and Fragrance” [English]

Chapter 98 The eldest lady of a warlord family who ran away with an actor Part 6

The Grand Theater in the middle of the night is a bit cold and desolate.

The lights in the backstage corridor were dim, occasionally turning on and off, and the shadows of people were stretched out on the ground. Along with the clattering footsteps, the two people held hands tightly and walked toward the exit of the theater.

“Hey, it’s really rare that you just came out of it now. Where are you two going next?”

A sudden male voice suddenly floated out from the shadows near the exit.

Qian Yunsheng stopped and Gu Mingyue paused.

In a dark place where the light could not reach, Wen Chuanxi was leaning against the wall in a dark long gown. He was holding a cigarette stick that was flickering with sparks, and he puffed out a puff of white mist in the mottled and hazy shadow. The swirling smoke ring happened to hit Qian Yunsheng’s face.

Qian Yunsheng’s brows moved slightly, and he waved away the oncoming choking smell with his hands. He glanced past the glass on the exit door of the theater and focused on the brightly lit street.

“Why, we need to tell you where we are going?” He glanced at Wen Chuanxi and said in a nonchalant manner. He held Gu Mingyue’s hand but unconsciously tightened it.

“No, of course no, how dare I ask you to report the trip to me. But, it’s so late at night, and Miss Snow is still here… I don’t see those military masters waiting outside today, so I think it’s better to ask someone to escort you two back, right?”

Wen Chuanxi’s words seemed to be for the sake of the two of them, but to the ears of those involved, they actually sounded threatening, making people nervous whether he knew something.

When they were eloping, Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared. Gu Mingyue was caught off guard and felt a little uncomfortable.Xue Heze did not lose her virginity tonight in the original work. She did not use Gu Mingyue’s emotional offensive method of suppressing first and then rising. She directly used suicide to force Qian Yunsheng to leave the theater with her early. Naturally, she did not encounter the headache situation at the moment.

Gu Mingyue straightened her chest and raised her head slightly, and she was about to clear her throat, carrying forward the usual appearance style of the delicate young lady, and giving a performance that was full of emotion and sound.

Those who make a living by acting and those who live their lives by acting, who is better or worse, may be evenly matched.

It’s a pity that Qian Yunsheng didn’t give her a chance to show off her acting skills. He said calmly: “It doesn’t take that much trouble. I will ensure the safety of Miss Xue. We are together, so you don’t need to worry about it.”

Wen Chuanxi grinned when he heard this, knocked the cigarette stick into the corner of the wall and put it in his arms. He patted his head pretending to be annoyed, “It’s late at night. I’m afraid something will happen to the two of you on your way home and you’ll never come back. If the master of the Xue family and the second young master Tang ask, there’s no one in Xianni Club who knows about it, so we can’t afford it.”

Gu Mingyue couldn’t tell the meaning of He’s words. There were only He and the three of them still in the theater at this time. Wen Chuanxi clearly knew something and deliberately blocked He at the exit. Maybe everything in the dressing room just now was overheard by He, an interested person.

Pretending not to understand, refusing to admit it even to death… is the correct reaction that Xue Heze should have at this time.

“What do you mean!” Gu Mingyue threw Qian Yunsheng’s hand away, raised her eyebrows and glared, pointed at Wen Chuanxi’s nose, and yelled sweetly and savagely.

“Miss, please calm down. I can’t speak, please forgive me.” Wen Chuanxi didn’t pay attention to Gu Mingyue’s bluffing attitude and accompanied Sin with a playful smile.

“What do you want to do? Tell the truth?” Qian Yunsheng was impatient and wasted time playing tricks on Wen Chuanxi. Trying to fool an understanding person was a waste of effort.

He’s words caused Wen Chuanxi’s laughter to freeze on his face. The handsome man in a dark long gown put down his joking expression and looked at the two people who were obviously pretending to be calm with a serious face.Qian Yunsheng and Gu Mingyue saw the man suddenly changed his face with a sneer, returned to his carefree look, and said in a leisurely tone: “What are you telling me? I don’t know anything, I’m just talking casually. What if you two encounter something on the road?The matter disappeared completely.God thought that I was too talented and condescended to stay in the second position for too long, so he gave me a chance to get ahead… Tsk, it’s getting late, you two, please leave quickly.” After that, he waved his hands impatiently.

This is… Gu Mingyue didn’t expect Wen Chuanxi to have such an attitude, and was a little unsure of his true intentions.

Qian Yunsheng raised the corners of his lips and showed a sincere smile to Wen Chuanxi for the first time.He exhaled and nodded: “Thank you.”

Being in the same theater troupe, he had no doubt about the authenticity of Wen Chuanxi’s words.This person would not go out of his way to tell the truth. As a witness to the big family scandal, he would not get even half a cent. However, if someone from the Xue family and the Tang family asked about it later, he would not go out of his way to conceal it. He would definitely tell half-truths and half-falsehoods about what he knew in order to save Xianni Society.

Everyone’s pursuits are different. Wen Chuanxi truly loves Kun Opera and the extravagance and spendthrift style of Shanghai’s revelers.He is more suitable here than Qian Yunsheng. Without the resistance from the number one, he may be able to achieve something of his own in the near future.

Gu Mingyue pulled Qian Yunsheng’s sleeve, indicating that it was time for them to leave.She pouted her lips and looked at Wen Chuanxi with suspicion. After being looked at by he teasingly, she spat with a rosy face, raised her head and turned her face to the side in embarrassment.

Wen Chuanxi was not surprised by the spoiled and awkward young lady, he folded his arms leisurely and watched the two open the door and leave arm in arm.

“Ha.” The man in the dark gown raised his head and smiled lightly.He took out the cigarette rod in his arms and took a deep puff.It’s okay if he leaves, because if he leaves, no one will compete with him for the first place.However, it is also a bit lonely.

Qian Yunsheng, that bastard, he did all the good things by himself.

In the future, he Wen Chuanxi will definitely be chased around by the rich lady.

In the late autumn of 1924, none of the three people thought that they would see each other again after saying goodbye. When they saw each other again, they were already 25 years apart.

In the morning when the sycamore leaves were withering and the morning light was dim, Gu Mingyue and Qian Yunsheng stepped on the golden fallen leaves and boarded the train bound for the capital Nanjing.

As a famous actor, Qian Yunsheng naturally had a lot of savings. Even if he deposited most of his income in the bank, the belongings he hurriedly collected at home were worth about 2,000 yuan.Coupled with the money and jewelry in Xue Heze’s bag, the two of them don’t have to worry about food and clothing even if they live in seclusion in the future.

The train’s whistle sounded “woo-woo”, and then the carriage started to shake.Gu Mingyue, who was sitting in the third-class seat, glanced out the window. The morning mist had not yet cleared, and a gauze-like mist shrouded the buildings in Shanghai. She wrapped her hands around the red knitted shawl around her shoulders, and the wide-brimmed gray-blue felt hat covered most of her face. Only her delicate chin and tender red lips were exposed. Just a small piece of jade-white skin was enough to attract people’s imagination.

“Let’s sleep for a while.” Qian Yunsheng patted Gu Mingyue’s shoulder and gently brought her into his arms. The large and thick woolen scarf covered the two of them tightly, driving away the wet cold air.Gu Mingyue rested her face comfortably against Qian Yunsheng’s shoulder and neck. This position made her feel safe and could completely block her face.

Just after the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War, a large number of refugees from other places poured into Shanghai and slept on the streets.Outside the concession, there are poor people huddled in corners, hungry, cold and homeless everywhere. Gu Mingyue does not know the historical situation of this world, but she knows from the original work that in the war-torn and turbulent era, this is not the first war, and it will not be the last.

The country’s chaotic situation created a group of warlords similar to Xue Heze’s father, and it was the common people who suffered.

The train left Shanghai not long after, Gu Mingyue sighed, she had no clue how Qian Yunsheng and Xue Heze encountered the bandits.As the most important cannon fodder of this article, Xue Heze passed away before the male protagonist met the female protagonist, so the space is surprisingly short.Since the system encountered an unknown attack in the last mission world, some functions have not been repaired. Therefore, Gu Mingyue knows very little about the plot that was briefly mentioned in the original work, and the information he has is vague.

The sound of a man’s long and steady breathing could be heard in his ears. After the train left Shanghai, Qian Yunsheng could finally escape from his nervous mood and breathed a sigh of relief.His body suddenly relaxed, and fatigue instantly invaded his brain. He hugged the soft and warm woman in his arms and fell into a deep sleep.

After not sleeping all night, Gu Mingyue closed her eyes but felt no sleep at all.The train tickets were expensive and it was not a holiday for returning home. There were not many people in the huge carriage.It takes about 10 hours to get from Shanghai to Nanjing. During this time, she has to find a way to deal with the next bandits.

After experiencing many mission worlds, she gradually discovered some subtle connections between various mission interfaces.These subtle connections run through time and space, inextricably linking the past, present, and future of different mission worlds.So far, the tasks she has undertaken in each unique task interface have been in similar locations – the continent where the descendants of Yan and Huang lived.

The world where Gu Mingyue grew up was structured by a novel, and all the mission worlds she entered were also generated based on the story backgrounds of different novels.Whether it is an ancient background mission or a modern background mission with advanced technology, the mission world she is in cannot be separated from an established historical and technological background framework.The mission world in the modern setting has many similarities with the mission world in the apocalyptic setting. For example, the country’s geographical location and appearance, humanities and folk customs, and the development process of science and technology are basically the same.Based on her experience in doing tasks, Gu Mingyue made a bold guess: the development of all task worlds follows a baseline world line, which runs through ancient and modern times, is all-encompassing, and covers all possible and necessary historical developments of human society.There may be many branches on the base world line, and each branch world line is related to the base world line but is independent and parallel.On this basis, the mission world in the background of the novel originated from one of the parallel and independent branch world lines, and continuously derived countless branches, each branch forming its own world.

To a certain extent, her guess is roughly close to the truth of the mission world.The only thing she didn’t expect was that there was not just one base world line, but an auxiliary line parallel to the source. This auxiliary line has spawned countless fantasy mission worlds in the future.

According to her current theory, Gu Mingyue deduced that the world line of this mission interface is very close to the baseline world line, and that the historical process should be after ancient times and before the end of the world and modern times.Based on her understanding of the commonality of previous mission worlds, the geographical location of their destination, Peiping, should be equivalent to that of the capital of the modern mission world.

There were too many things on her mind, and no matter how excited Gu Mingyue was, she could not hold back her physical sleepiness. When the train temporarily stopped at the small station at noon, she and Qian Yunsheng hurriedly bought some roast chicken and pears to satisfy their hunger, and she fell asleep in the man’s arms with a slight frown on her eyebrows.

At dusk in the evening, the ten-hour journey finally came to an end. The train slowly pulled into the station in Xiaguan, Nanjing and stopped.Here, Gu Mingyue and Qian Yunsheng will take the ferry to Pukou and transfer to the Jinpu Railway.

The two got off the bus from Xiaguan, Nanjing, to Pukou Railway Station. The waiting time to get on and off the boat plus the time to cross the river took more than an hour in total.Pukou Railway Station was built at the junction of the dry port and serves as a transportation hub for passenger and cargo transfers. From the ferry terminal to the square outside the station and then into the waiting hall, there is a constant flow of cars and people.There were many hawkers selling goods gathered near the platform, and there was an endless stream of tourists buying things. The sound of shouting and bargaining was noisy, and it was extremely lively.

In order to save money, Gu Mingyue and Qian Yunsheng still bought third-class tickets.The third-class carriage is close to the locomotive. The steam locomotive burns coal, and the noise is loud and strong when driving. Large clouds of white mist and black smoke carrying dust drift towards the carriages behind. The carriages closer to the front are more likely to be polluted.The female relatives of wealthy businessmen and noble families always travel in first class, and even if they are unlucky, they will fly in second class.Qian Yunsheng took into account the delicate skin and tender flesh of Miss Gu Mingyue’s body, and originally wanted to buy a first-class ticket on the Jinpu Railway. However, due to Gu Mingyue’s firm opposition, he had to buy a third-class ticket.

Looking at Gu Mingyue’s blue and dark circles, Qian Yunsheng felt heartbroken.Because her family was wealthy and well-connected, Miss Jiao, who had never experienced hardship while studying abroad, was already looking a little haggard when she sat down on the train from Shanghai to Nanjing.A first-class ticket of 64 yuan per person is expensive, and there will be a lot of money in the future. He knows that money should be spent sparingly, but he can’t help but feel guilty when he sees Gu Mingyue’s tired look.

He didn’t want to see Gu Mingyue care about money. She was the eldest lady and she should be aloof all her life and not worry about worldly things.Qian Yunsheng secretly made up his mind that after he arrived in Peiping, he would immediately find a way to earn money to support his family, and he could not just sit back and have nothing.What kind of life Gu Mingyue lived before she joined him will remain the same after she joined him.

Passengers in the third-class carriage were not allowed to dine in the dining car. Gu Mingyue and Qian Yunsheng had some Nanjing-style beef pot stickers, shredded chicken noodles, crab roe shaomai, shredded radish cake, honey lotus root, osmanthus-filled dumplings, and steamed dumplings at a better restaurant near the station.The dishes were delicious and the portions were moderate. The two hungry people actually ate most of the plates with the force of a strong wind.

The journey from Pukou to Tianjin was long, and Gu Mingyue and Qian Yunsheng had to spend a whole day and night in the carriage.Before boarding the train, the two bought duck fat cakes, Huangqiao cakes, assorted vegetable buns, scallion pancakes, five-spice tea eggs, and Lu’an Maojian tea near the platform.I also bought two oranges, pears and other seasonal fruits to quench my thirst on the road.

After a bumpy day, Gu Mingyue’s gray-blue inverted large-sleeved thin cotton-padded jacket and black pleated horse-faced skirt were already stained with a lot of dust.In order to avoid being noticed by thieves, the two of them wore ordinary clothes of ordinary fabrics and ordinary workmanship. The rattan suitcase they were carrying was the same as theirs. Apart from their outstanding appearance among the tourists, there was nothing special about them.

At around 8 o’clock in the evening, the Jinpu Line railway departed. Gu Mingyue, who was sitting in the car seat, looked at the sky covered by black clouds and could not see the moon and stars, and had a vague premonition.