Seven Money's Invitation

  The sauna girl Xiaoyu who served Zhao Yun was not actually named Xiaoyu, but Feng Qing. Xiaoyu was her name in the shop. Feng Qing thought that as a massage girl, she couldn't reveal her real name to customers, lest the police would expose her true identity. As for why she was called Xiaoyu, it was because Feng Qing's younger sister was named Feng Yuya. Feng Qing had been working as a sauna girl at "Jing Mei Sauna Center" in Dongcheng District, Guangzhou City for over a year.

  She is from a remote mountain village of Luojiawan, Fengyang City, Sichuan. She has an older brother named Feng Jiajun, who is three years older than her, and a younger sister named Feng Yuya, who is eleven years younger than her. Her father died in the last semester of her junior high school at the age of 48.

  She spent all the family's savings and borrowed over 30,000 yuan from relatives and friends to treat her husband's liver cancer. After two rounds of chemotherapy, his hair had almost fallen out and he was severely emaciated. After resting at home for half a year, he went to the provincial tumor hospital for a third round of chemotherapy, but this time he couldn't withstand it and the doctor had to stop the treatment halfway through. He returned to Dongwan Township in April 1995 and died in May after suffering from a high fever that wouldn't subside despite being treated at the village clinic and later at the First People's Hospital in Fengyang City, where CT scans revealed that his cancer cells had spread throughout his body, including to his brain. In the end, she spent over 100,000 yuan but was unable to save her husband's life, a truly tragic outcome!

  At that time, Feng Jiajun was in the third year of high school at Fēngdū County No. 1 Middle School, and his younger sister Feng Yuyā was still a preschooler, staying at home. The three siblings knelt by their father's bedside before he passed away, wailing loudly with their mother, grandfather, and grandmother, tears streaming down their faces, snot and tears spreading across the cement floor.

  Because of the debt at home, Feng Qing, who was among the top students in her class, gave up going to high school and taking the teacher's exam. Instead, she chose to work outside half a year after her father's death to earn money for her brother to attend university and her sister to go to school. Her brother had good grades too, so he had a good chance of getting into a first-tier university. As for why Feng Qing wanted to work outside, the main reason was that their family owed over 20,000 yuan in debt, and her brother needed at least 4,000 yuan per semester to attend university. Another reason was that the boy she liked, Xiong Shuiqing, had started liking another girl from a wealthy family at Dongwan Middle School during her father's chemotherapy, which hurt her deeply.

  In 1996, after the Lantern Festival, Feng Qing followed her fellow villager and classmate Li Yuling (also known as Lingling) to work in an electronics factory in Guangzhou. Feeling that the salary was low, in early 1999, 17-year-old Feng Qing jumped ship with Li Yuling, who was three years older than her, to a place called "Jing Mei Massage and Health Center" in Guangzhou to work as a masseuse. At the time, due to Feng Qing's youth, naivety, and simplicity, she couldn't resist the temptation of money and gave herself to a hypocritical private entrepreneur boss named Qian Dawei from Guangzhou. That night was her eternal pain, forever etched in her memory...

  Qian Davie first met Feng Qing at "Jiamei Massage and Health Center" on July 4th. At 9 o'clock, Qian Davie drove an Audi sedan with his business partner Liu to the center for a massage. They were received by Feng Qing, while Xiaoya received Liu, and they accepted massages from Feng Qing and Li Yuling in the same room. Of course, he didn't know her real name, only that she was called Xiaoyu. Qian Davie saw her simplicity through his conversation with Xiaoyu.

  The second time Qian Dawei came to "Jing Mei Massage and Health Center" was on July 8th. This time he came alone, wearing a short-sleeved pink shirt and a pair of off-white casual pants, with shiny off-white leather shoes. Qian Dawei had a square face, big mouth, high nose bridge, small eyes, and a brush-like eyebrow, with a crew cut and a goatee. He was tall and sturdy, with a ruddy complexion, and both arms were tattooed - the left arm had a blue dragon head and the right arm had a white tiger head. He found Xiaoyu and whispered in her ear: "Xiaoyu, tonight you come alone to the 302 VIP massage room to serve me, I'll give you a big tip."

  "I can go to the VIP massage room to serve you, but don't get any wrong ideas about me."

  "I don't know."

  At this time, Aya (real name Zhao Yating) from the same dormitory walked over and teased Qian Dawei: "Boss Qian, why did you specially ask Xiaoyu to serve you today? Don't tell me you've fallen for Xiaoyu?"

  "Xiao Yu's massage skills are great, it feels very comfortable, and she looks pure and lovely, so I came to find her on purpose." Boss Qian adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, casually placing his hand on Xiao Yu's shoulder, rubbing her plump and tender shoulders.

  During the massage, Qian Dawei kept teasing Xiao Yu, fondling her high chest, causing Xiao Yu to put down her hands and dodge several times, blushing and scolding: "Director Qian, if you continue like this, I won't give you a massage anymore."

  "Your massage time isn't up yet, are you daring to leave?" Qian Zong sat up and grabbed Xiaoyu's jade-like hand.

  "Let me go and I'll give you a massage, Director Qian."

  "Okay. To be honest, I took a liking to you the moment I saw you and wanted to be friends with you. After the massage, I'll take you and Xiaoya to the karaoke bar to sing songs, how about it?"

  "Nightclub? The men in nightclubs are no good, I'd rather not." Xiaoyu pouted and shook her head while massaging David's shoulders.

  "You and Aya come with me, just sing a song, what's there to be afraid of?"

  "Did Aya agree?"

  "She agreed. She was curious about what a dance hall would be like."

  "Aya and I will go with you to the dance hall on two conditions."

  "What conditions?"

  "Firstly, I don't drink alcohol in the karaoke bar, only soft drinks. Secondly, by 10 o'clock at the latest, Aya and I will be back here."

  "No problem. I'll take you two to my 'Paradise on Earth' amusement park and bring you back."

  "Are all expenses paid by you?"

  "Nonsense. I'm inviting you two to go dancing and singing, not only will I not ask you for a single penny, but I'll also give each of you 200 yuan as a labor fee."

  "Is there such a good thing?"

  "Are you still going to cheat me? I'll give you 200 yuan as a hard work allowance right now. - Please help me get that public document bag over there." Qian Zong said, turning his head from the massage chair and pointing to his public document bag.

  Qian took over the document bag handed over by Xiao Yu and pulled out two 100-yuan banknotes from the document bag to hand them over to Xiao Yu.

  "Are you really giving it to me?"

  "Here you go." David reminded Xiaoyu, who was overjoyed to receive the cash, "Don't forget to meet Aya and me at 'Heaven on Earth' dance hall later, okay?"

  "Okay." Xiaoyu's heart was filled with joy: Haha, this rich guy is paying for me and Xiaoya, and he's even giving me an extra 200 yuan as a labor fee. Who would be stupid enough to pass that up?!

  After massaging Qian Dawei, Xiaoyu said to him: "Director Qian, please wait a moment. I'll go change into a dancing skirt and put on some makeup."

  "Okay, I'll wait for you and Aya in my car outside the store."

  In the 504 dormitory, Xiaoyu and Aya both changed into their work clothes. Xiaoyu, with her short black hair, put on a light blue V-neck short-sleeved pleated dress that reached her knees, and wore a pair of high-heeled black shoes. Aya, on the other hand, wore a golden yellow suspender shirt, with a super-short black skirt below, and had white stockings wrapped around her legs. The two then began to apply colorful makeup.

  Xiao Yu took out her makeup box, washed her face clean, and then applied toner and moisturizer to her face using the small mirror on the lid of the makeup box. She applied foundation from the inside out, blending it lightly, and then took out a concealer stick and dotted a small beauty mark at the corner of her left mouth. Next, she did her eye makeup: first, she groomed her eyebrows - using a small brush to comb her eyebrow hair, drawing them on after that, and then using an eyebrow clip and scissors to tidy them up. Xiao Yu thought her beautiful eyebrows were perfect, so she asked Aya to help her draw eyeliner.

  "Aya, help me draw eyeliner. I've finished drawing mine, and then I'll draw yours."

  "This is the old routine. Tonight we will draw the most beautiful makeup, let Qian see that he envies us three feet! Hehe..."

  "Tonight we must stick together, can't let Qian Dawei this beast take advantage of us and get the better of us."

  "Don't worry, I'll take care of you."

  Zhao Yating had just finished fixing her eyebrows, so she called out to Xiaoyu to look down with her eyes and use her ring finger to gently pull up the eyelid a bit, then draw along the lash line from the outer corner of the eye to the inner corner (each section keeping at about 2mm). Next was drawing the lower eyeliner. Zhao Yating first used her ring finger to lightly pull down the lower eyelid, and then drew along the lash line from the outer corner to the inner corner. To enhance the effect of the outer corner, she used an eyeliner pen to draw along the lash line to the outer corner, creating a subtle gradation of the eyeliner at the outer corner, making it look more natural. Finally, it was time to smudge the eyeliner, which was in the opposite direction of drawing the eyeliner. She lightly smudged from the outer corner to the inner corner. Then Zhao Yating found an eyelash curler in her makeup box and curled her eyelashes by clamping them at the base and gradually moving outward, repeating this 5-6 times before applying mascara with a small brush. After Xiaoyu finished drawing on Zhao Yating's eyeliner, she took out a rose-red lip liner with her right hand and drew on a pure and simple lip shape, then filled in her lips with lip gloss using a lip brush. Next was applying blush. Xiaoyu pinched the blush brush to pick up some blush powder and lightly swept it onto both cheeks, then used the blush brush to evenly sweep away any excess powder across her face. Then she applied translucent powder, tapping off any excess after application, and lightly sweeping it across her forehead, eyes, nose, mouth, and other areas of her face as well as her neck. Finally, she sprayed some brand-name perfume on herself. The makeup was now complete.

  Xiao Yu stood in front of the mirror, admiring herself endlessly, thinking she had become even more charming and captivating.

  "Aya, you're looking good today."

  "Now our little Yu is simply an angel, like a fairy descending from heaven." Zhao Yating looked at Little Yu with envy, and carefully examined my makeup.

  "Aya you're also very pretty." Xiaoyu's heart bloomed with joy.

  The two of them each carried a suitcase and walked out of "Beautiful Sister Massage and Health Center".

  At 9:10, Qian Dawei invited Xiaoyu and Zhao Yating to get on the carriage at the door of the store, and arrived at "Tianshang Renjian" Entertainment City ten minutes later.