The Three Letters and Six Etiquettes of Lóng Xīnláng and Fènghuáng Xīnniáng

"The Three Letters and Six Etiquettes of Lóng Xīnláng and Fènghuáng Xīnniáng" is a chapter in *The Pieces of the Past*.

## Plot

### 鹦鹉嘴虎脚的聘书

Hu Weisheng wanted to marry Yueti Xia, but her mother didn't think he was good enough for her. He chopped wood to earn more money to impress her, but he got arrested for "smuggling radioactive materials" because some of the trees he chopped down were near a nuclear plant. Xia made a deal with Tushan Honghong to become an Ark sex slave for nine years in exchange for freeing Weisheng and getting him out of China. Honghong gave Weisheng a note saying Xia would meet him in California, but she wasn't there and he hated her until nine years passed and she came to him.

### 鹰爪鹤腿礼书

Wangquan Baye ran into Dongfang Huaizhu, who needed help rescuing her sister from kidnappers. Huaizhu discovered that her sister's tutor molested her when she found out he had another girl in his house, so Huaizhu and Baye counterfeited money to get her sister to Hong Kong. When they got caught and sentenced to death, they refused Honghong's offer to become sex slaves. Huaizhu got pregnant and avoided execution, while Baye's family freed him and refused to free Huaizhu because they disapproved of her. Huaizhu later died giving birth and Baye got the baby afterward.

### 燕翅牛耳迎亲书

Yang Mie was accused of spreading rumors during China's war with Taiwan because he was looking for his adoptive brother/cousin Yitan, whose father was accused of and executed for aiding enemies of the state. Yang Mie initially refused Honghong's offer, but Cuiyu Minglan escaped from Baiyu Village's Ark location and had a plan to take it down, so he accepted the deal to go sabotage the warehouse. He was interrogated by an Ark worker and acted like there definitely *wasn't* two thousand three hundred and nine military officers coming to find him, which made the traffickers think there really were and they fled, which allowed Yang Mie and the other victims to escape.

### 骆驼头鸡嘴的纳采

Wang Fugui is Baye's son from Huaizhu and Baye physically abused him because of the circumstances of his birth. He wasn't allowed to leave the house, but he met Qingtong, the daughter of a woman who ran an Ark brothel in a casino. When the two ran away as teenagers, Fugui took the last of Baye's counterfeit money and got caught, so he took Honghong's offer and was kept in Qingtong's mother's brothel. Qingtong tended to his wounds and showed him photos, but Gladstone Gander got help when the owner of the casino tried to take him prisoner and he found out about the brothel. Fugui and Qingtong now live in Calisota, but they both developed age regression.

### 蛇颈鹅胸的问名

Yuyao is Hui Muslim and her father kept Shi Kuan, an Uyghur Muslim, and several others in a prison camp. She got everyone drunk during her arranged wedding and helped the laborers, but this counted as obstructing the military, so she got sentenced to death and made a deal with Honghong.

### 问名燕子魔眼

Dongfang Yuechu was in the Ark when he was a child and Honghong bought him. When he was an adult, he fell in love with her, but he ended up turning her in for sex trafficking and she was executed. Dongfang wrote a letter to his and Honghong's nine-year-old daughter Susu to tell her what happened, then he shot himself.

### 野鸡头和雄鹿角纳征

Fan Yunfei is an Uyghur from the Taklamakan region and he fell in love with Li Xueyang, but his rich family didn't approve of her. When they had a child, Xueyang smuggled weapons to get money and was caught. She refused Honghong's offer to be a sex slave, but Yunfei took it, resulting in Xueyang thinking he was willingly working to enslave people rather than being the one enslaved. Yunfei came to her doorstep and tried to give her gifts that are considered unlucky in Chinese culture, but he collapsed, causing her to realize the truth.

### 鸭身蛤蜊肚请期

Yan Ruyu was a pimp and he fell in love with Lü Jianwen, the cop hunting him down. After he rescued her from the Ark and he turned in some of his criminal friends, she tricked him into giving her info that would allow her to take the fall for his crimes. Ruyu's mother is Tushan Rongrong, Honghong's sister, so he was able to get Jianwen freed and sent to Calisota for free.

### 鲤鱼鳞孔雀的亲迎

Pingqiu Yuechu was sold to the Ark and the Tushan sisters bought and raised him alongside his brother Dongfang Yuechu. He saved Huandu Luolan from a viper bite, but she didn't like him because he was perverted. The two of them tried to raise money to free Pingqiu, but the Tushan sisters got mad and shipped him off to Calisota's Ark warehouse. Thankfully, Scrooge McDuck bought and freed him.