dhibooks Chapter 127 Qunfang Pavilion
Chapter 127 Qunfang Pavilion
"This little official can really talk, I am such a sweet-mouthed mother, my heart is trembling!" The old bustard got the money and was complimented by others, patted her choppy face and said: "Mother Cuixi, I will take it with me personally." You go to the second entrance, make sure you arrange a good position."
Cuixi's mother tucked her purse around her waist, and she really led them into the second yard by herself.
The layout of the second courtyard is the same as that of the first courtyard, except that the lanterns in the first courtyard are all red lanterns, but the second courtyard has been changed to ordinary gauze lanterns, instead of the sluggish atmosphere of bright red, the lights are all ambiguous.
In other words, it is much more elegant.
Cuixi's mother has been here for many years, and she can feel it through her purse. There is a naked body inside, and the weight of her hands must be a golden naked body!
Five taels of gold can be exchanged for more than 50 taels of silver!
She hurriedly found a good private room for them. This private room happened to be obliquely facing the center stage, and the viewing position was excellent. It was impossible to be directly opposite, as it was contracted by powerful people all the year round. The private room, like them, can only sit in the private room opposite.
But also very good.
"It's the best place to see. Someone will serve tea and tea in a while. If you have anything, you can ask the aunt at the door to do it." Cuixi's mother pointed to |【The servant woman standing at the door said: "This is Cuigu."
This Cui Gu was older than Cuixi's mother, and she was not very talkative, but she just stood at the door like a wooden stake to give them a blessing.
Cheng Pengyun's Chang Sui immediately took a purse to Aunt Cui: "I will trouble Auntie to take care of it tonight.
"You're welcome." Cui Gu took the purse, and only then did she smile and become more lively.
After tea and snacks were served, Wu Youwei picked them up and took a sip. They were ordinary tea leaves. Stretching his neck, he saw that the snacks were also ordinary furnace fruit and jujube cakes.
"Isn't this too common?" Cheng Pengyun was similar to Wu Youwei. After tasting the food and drinking tea, he looked disappointed.
"It's just free tea and snacks, of course it's not much good." Yang Yiqing said: "I asked before I came here. There are also good tea and snacks here, but they cost money!"
Wu Youwei understood that the free items are just ordinary items, but you have to pay for the good ones!
Chang Sui, who was beside Cheng Pengyun, went out without Cheng Pengyun's instructions, and said to Cuigu at the door: "Serve good tea and eight snacks. This is 20 taels of silver. If you don't have enough, you can make up for it."
He didn't say anything, if there is too much, it will be returned, here, there is no more, and if there is not enough, it is almost the same.
Cui Gu smiled like an old chrysanthemum at this moment: "Your honored guest, please wait a moment, we will come right away!"
Sure enough, after a while, Cuigu brought two ten-year-old girls over. She herself was carrying a teapot and tea bowl, and one of the two girls was carrying a lotus-shaped dried fruit plate with eight kinds of dried fruits on it; A dim sum plate in the shape of the same lotus flower holds eight kinds of dim sum.
Quickly took away the original free tea and snacks, and replaced them with a large teapot and tea bowl. After the snacks were arranged, Cui Gu quickly said: "The dried fruit plate is presented to the three first-time distinguished guests."
This is to save face, and the three of them listened pleasingly.
After delivering the goods, she left with her things and people without hesitation, she was still guarding the door, but the two little girls came back after delivering the things, and stayed by Cui Gu's side, and if there was anything to tell, she ran away. I can still do things like a leg.
On the other side, across from them, there was also a table with Zhou Ying and Wu Ying.
These two people didn't come alone, they brought four people with them. Among these four people, there was one Juren and three scholars.
Juren is middle-aged, but a scholar is young, but it doesn't look like he is very rich, but he is very comfortable here, and his character is not very good.
At this moment, the six of them sat together, drinking the best tea, eating the fragrant pastries, and there were plates of fresh and dried fruits.
"Young Master, that man is here." At this time, Chang Sui came in and whispered, "He is already sitting in the private room opposite us."
"How many people are here?" Zhou Ying asked.
"Three." Chang Sui said: "It is said that one is a big businessman from the south of the Yangtze River, surnamed Cheng, the young owner of Cheng's shop, one is Juren surnamed Yang, and that."
"The Cheng family? Which Cheng family?" Zhou Ying would always find out the details of the other party when causing trouble, so as not to offend people who shouldn't be offended.
Do you know if there are any dignitaries in Beijing?
After the current emperor ascended the throne, he met them twice, once when he ascended the throne, and once when he was married. It was clear that he didn't like to see the Zhou family very much.
Zhou's family is just his natal family who are not close to him.
So when Zhou Ying was looking for faults, she always watched people order dishes.
"It's Cheng, a wealthy businessman in the south of the Yangtze River, and the natal nephew of Xu Fu's stepwife, Duke Jing of Wei State." It's a bit of a circle, but they are indeed relatives.
"I remember that Wei Guozhuang's first wife was named Zhu, and his stepwife was named Wang?" Zhou Ying frowned: "Why is his surname Cheng?"
"It's a cousin." Chang Sui said: "But the blood is very close, and now this one sometimes goes to the Duke's mansion to visit his cousin."
He also used the power of the Duke's Mansion to show that he had a backer, otherwise, what would a wealthy businessman from the south of the Yangtze River be in Beijing?
Nothing counts.
How about being rich?
At most it is a piece of fat, the kind that anyone can go up and take a bite of.
Wu Ying doesn't understand!
He asked, "Why did a duke of the state marry a stepwife who was born in a merchant?"
No matter how low the marriage is, you shouldn't marry such a stepwife, right?
Knowing that he didn't understand what was going on here, Zhou Ying told him in a low voice: "In the beginning, that person was not of high status. Isn't it because Xu Xianzong, the previous Duke of Wei, had no son? After he left, his younger brother Xu Chengzong took over the title. This is Xu Chengzong's son, maybe he didn't expect to become a prince at the time, after the death of his first wife, he married such a step-wife, but now it's not easy."
"You mean, you don't dare to deal with them anymore?" Wu Ying said angrily, "Just because of that businessman?"
In his heart, he looked down on businessmen, and no one in the Wu family was in business. They all either farmed or became petty officials.
"How is it possible?" Zhou Ying said, "I'm talking about the drug use, it can't be done.
"Then...then he..." Wu Ying was discouraged: "How can I lose my reputation?"
"Of course you can't beat him to death with a stick at first." Zhou Ying said, "If you don't sleep with Hua Niang, don't sleep. First defeat him in talent and learning. After a few days, the Cheng can't always leave, right? Wait until he leaves , it's easy to handle, as long as it doesn't implicate the noble mansions, everything else is easy to handle.
Duke Wei's Mansion was a mansion that had existed since the founding of the country, with in-laws all over the Ming Dynasty, and Duke Wei's Mansion was Taizu's in-laws, Chengzu's Yue's family, and Empress Ren Xiao Xu's natal family.
Now that the emperor is talking about it, he hasn't released the fifth suit with the Xu family yet.
At that time, Emperor Chengzu gave his original wife who shared weal and woe, the imperial decree: "Mr. Xu, the daughter of Xu Da, King Wuning of Zhongshan, is my concubine. She has assisted the feudal kingdom for more than [-] years. Worrying, helping me to work hard to found the country, now the world is cleared up, I have ascended the great treasure and allowed Lai Xiangcheng to take the title, and now the special envoy enshrines Jin Baoli as the queen, so as to honor the mother of the gods to honor the world."
The posthumous title "Renxiao" can be described as the greatest compliment to a woman.
Moreover, the Xu family has always kept a low profile, but no one dared to provoke them. Once they provoked their family, the royal family would punish him without the Xu family's revenge.
When Emperor Taizu burned the building of meritorious officials, only Xu Da followed him and left the building of meritorious officials together.
With such a backer, he dared not and could not let people put medicine in their tea, and then let a few flower girls go in to do business. In that case, Duke Wei's mansion would also be ashamed.
In fact, he didn't know that if he really dared to do this, the tea with the medicine would probably enter their stomachs...
"Okay, let's take advantage of them now." It's not that Wu Ying couldn't bear it, he was getting angry now, but he was also discouraged when the imperial court and Xungui's mansion were implicated.
Their Wu family can barely be regarded as a new rich family, and the empress's natal family, who has only been newly married for a long time, is really incomparable with other people's Guogong's mansion.
Zhou Ying called Chang Sui, and gave some instructions, and the three scholars who had raised people went down with Chang Sui.
They are on the second floor, and the third floor is usually filled with mysterious people. Those who are inconvenient to show up and like this tune are all on the third floor.
When it was halfway through You hour, it was all dark outside, and people from Qunfang Pavilion appeared one after another. On the stage in the middle, the music sounded. Twelve delicate dancers, dressed in pink and white dance clothes, danced gracefully to the sound of the music.
Wu Youwei recognized it: "This is Taoyao?"
"That's right, Taoyao." Yang Yiqing watched the singing and dancing, but could sit still, this is what he imagined the brothel and Chuguan would look like.
Of course, if he was the first to enter, and the men and women were chattering, he probably would have turned around and left long ago.
After the opening dance of "Taoyao", someone lifted the red silk curtains standing around the stage, revealing the drum inside.
Wu Youwei looked at it, it was a bit like a scene in a famous movie, with a circle of drums standing there.
Another beautiful woman stood on the stage, blessing all directions: "Today is the night of Qunfang Pavilion beating drums to spread flowers, which private room won the flower mark, please invite the guests inside. ...
It turns out that today is an event held here every month, that is, to pass the flowers by beating drums, and the guests in whichever private room the flower falls to have to accept the questions given by the oiran in the brothel.
For example, splashing ink, reciting poems and composing music, playing a sword dance, displaying kung fu and so on.
Of course, there are also wealthy businessmen and tycoons. If they can’t answer correctly, they have to throw gold, silver, jewelry, jewelry, jade, etc. on the stage, and ask the oiran or some confidante to save face for themselves. Or a confidante.
Wu Youwei understood, it was actually an interaction in disguise!
The oiran can't keep talking about poetry and prose, can he?Who has so much literary talent?
But the oiran doesn't sleep with people every day, okay?
On the night of beating drums and passing flowers, second-time women can take a rest, watching men's good shows is also one of their pastimes, and they can make money again, which is even more beautiful.
As for everyone, they also had the opportunity to interact with the oiran, and to show their financial resources or talents to their confidante, of course they were also happy.
The women here are better at speaking than each other, and they are more able to keep men's hearts than one at a time.
"Interesting!" Wu Youwei finally understood why Wantong made people choose today.
But here is not like in the movie, there are superb dancers dancing and beating the drums, but the twelve pretty little girls just now, each holding two small drumsticks, standing in front of the drums.
At the same time, a big drum was lifted up in the middle, and a very strong woman held the drumstick and hit it with a "boom", and there was silence all around.
After the drum beat, all the doors of private rooms were opened.
The door of Wu Youwei's place was also opened, Cui Gu stood there and explained with a smile: "Masters, please be aware, the servants are responsible for passing flowers at the door with two little maids, please pay attention."
Only the three first-timers knew that the maid at the door was not just standing there serving them food and drink, and the two little girls beside her were not just running errands, but were also in charge of passing flowers.
Cheng Pengyun's Chang Sui took out another five taels of silver, and two two taels of silver, and gave the five taels to Cui Gu, and the two taels to the two little girls.
Cheng Pengyun opened the folding fan with a "swish" and shook it lightly, then said implicitly, "Thanks for your hard work."
Wu Youwei and Yang Yiqing stared dumbfounded: Why do you have to pay for everything?
Xiao Xiao tightly hugged the things she brought: here are all the gold, silver and copper coins that Butler Lin Su gave him, and said they were spent for the master, but the cost here is too high!