Secret of a Thousand Beauties by Mingmei Yip

Author:Mingmei Yip
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-10-09T22:00:00+00:00

18

The Opera Singer

Two days later, Aunty Peony left with two large bags and my embroidery wrapped around her waist under a loose long top. I had a bad feeling about this, because when Leilei’s body had been found, she also had Along the River with her. Of course, I was not going to mention this to Aunty. It was bad luck, and talking about bad luck only makes it worse. The good thing for us was that Aunty would be away again, leaving the house to ourselves. For a few days we would be free of her prying eyes. Of course, I had something planned: entering Aunty’s secret chamber for a longer look, this time without fear of being caught.

So the next day I gave Little Doll some money and told her she could spend it on whatever she wanted in the neighboring village. As soon as she disappeared down the road, I picked up my oil lamp and went up to Aunty’s room, then entered her secret chamber. I wouldn’t dare steal any of her imperial treasures, but I could now copy the embroidery patterns I liked, since Aunty had destroyed those I’d written on the cave walls. I still had these in my memory, but there were others I had never seen, so I wanted to copy as many as possible.

After a few hours of copying in the dim light of the secret chamber I was worn out, and so I picked up Aunty’s diary and began to read at random:

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