"Since there are so many invitations to the banquet, if Xianggong has time, it's okay to attend a few times." Ruyi put away the handkerchief, looked at him and said.
She has also received a lot of invitations these days, private or public invitations. The lines are extremely polite, vaguely mentioning that she wants her to bring her husband along. Got it.
At this time, I feel that although Xianggong never participates in such banquets, people always have to socialize a little bit in life, otherwise they will offend many people. Xianggong doesn't have many friends in the first place. Li Xuan and that After Catcher Li left, he spent more time alone.
"No." Li Yi replied very simply, "I'm afraid the lady doesn't know who they are, and the purpose is not pure, so going there will be troublesome."
Of course Li Yi knows what their purpose is, they just want to use him to hype the hype. The competition for the oiran is the most intense time, and everyone wants to have more bargaining chips in their own hands. There must be a second person and a third person. It is rare to have a few days of leisure and not want to fall into this quagmire again.
What should have appeared did not appear, and a lot of insignificant things appeared...
So Liu Ruyi didn't say anything more, and received two more invitations this morning. Since the husband didn't want to go, it was useless to keep the cow, so he might as well deal with them together.
The most direct impact of the Oiran Competition on Li Yi is that he spends much less time being lazy than usual. Before the election of the Oiran in the Shangyuan Festival, there is no curfew in Qing'an Fucheng, and the guards have to go out to patrol at night. Although the county lieutenant doesn't have to do everything himself, he still has to sit in the county office at critical times. No one cares about him, but there must be a limit to laziness.
Driven by festivals and oiran competitions, the business of the theaters is booming day by day. Old man Sun didn't take the opportunity to expand outwards, but first worked steadily and managed the theaters in an orderly manner. Those children in their early ten years old are still capable of pouring tea and wiping the table, but since then, the flying female thief in Fucheng has disappeared.
When walking back to the county office, several policemen on duty squatted in the duty room and chatted.
"This city is getting more and more lively every day, from morning to night every day, I am exhausted." Some people complained that only Da Niu had such a rough voice.
"You said why are you so stubborn? You patrol all day, and all you encounter are trivial matters. You can't tell the truth. Just find a brothel to sneak in, watch the performance, and come back to deal with business when the time comes. …”
"If you say that the performances in those brothels these days are not bad, those girls have tried their best to compete for the oiran, and they have used all their housekeeping skills. I saw a girl yesterday. She has a soft body and can put her head on it. ass…”
"What is this? Guess who I saw when I went to Qunyuyuan to see my good friend a few days ago? The county captain! I saw the county captain enter a room. I asked the good friend later. , whose room do you think that is?"
"Who is it?" When it came to the gossip about the county lieutenant, everyone was obviously interested and asked.
"You will never guess, it's actually..."
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Li Yi couldn't let this guy talk anymore, walked up behind the guy who spoke just now, and asked, "Aren't you afraid that the county captain will know when you visit brothels while on patrol?"
The catcher was talking about the gossip about the county lieutenant, and the talk was on the rise, and he answered casually, "Hey, anyway, the county lieutenant can't see it, and it's okay to be lazy. When it comes to laziness, who can compare to the county lieutenant?" My lord..., let me tell you, you will never guess whose room the county captain went to in the Qunyu Courtyard that night, saying it scared you to death... "
Halfway through the conversation, he finally felt that something was wrong. The brother opposite was winking at him vigorously, his heart sank, and just as he was about to turn his head away, he was kicked in the buttocks.
The catcher who was kicked by Li Yi lay on the ground in a muddy posture, and didn't dare to get angry. He rubbed his head and got up with a smile, "My lord, why are you here at this time..."
Li Yi snorted coldly, and said, "If I don't come, how would I know that you are so bold as to visit the kilns while on patrol! By the way, what did you want to say just now, keep talking, I'm listening..."
"It's nothing, it's nothing..." The arrester knew the temper of the county lieutenant, as long as it was not a big problem that violated the principle, he would not blame them, and said with a smile: "My lord does not know, these days because of the oiran contest, The brothel is the place with the most people, and it needs to be inspected the most, and we didn’t relax outside. There are two people in a group, and there are always people watching on the street... "
"Since all of you are free, go out and patrol. If anyone still sneaks into the brothel, he will go to the confinement room for three days..." Li Yi waved his hand and said impatiently.
The crowd dispersed as if they had received an amnesty. The confinement room is not a place for people to stay. If they stay for three days, half of their lives may be lost. With the words of the county captain, no one will dare to go to the brothel in the future.
There was once a felon who refused to reveal where the murder weapon was hidden. The adults just let him stay in the confinement room for five days. When he was released, the eight-foot man cried like a child, and he confessed tremblingly as soon as he came out. Yes, since then, everyone has regarded confinement as the cruelest punishment.
As soon as he stepped out of the door, one person immediately turned his head and asked the police officer who had just spoken, "Continue to talk, continue to talk, whose room did the county lieutenant enter..."
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"Sister Ruoqing, you can persuade my young lady." Inside the room, the green shirted girl grabbed Wan Ruoqing's arm and said with a bitter face.
"Miss rejected those young masters and didn't attend the banquet. Mom doesn't care about her anymore. She has been praising Chen Miaomiao for the past few days. If Miss can't compete for the oiran, what should I do..."
The oiran is a natural protective barrier. If there is no such barrier, the young lady will soon lose her innocence. An outdated oiran... By then, the life of the master and the servant will be very hard...
Everyone else is desperately trying to build momentum for the oiran, but the young lady is doing the opposite. As a maid, she is already in a hurry.
Wan Ruoqing patted Xiao Cui's hand, raised her head, looked at the woman sitting there dressing with some doubts, and asked, "Zui Mo, have you really made up your mind to stop fighting for the oiran?"
The woman took off a gold hairpin with pearls and jade on her head, put it in a brocade box, inserted a handful of wooden hairpins into it, carefully closed the brocade box, walked to Wan Ruoqing, and pulled her He said with his hand: "Sister Ruoqing, how about I live with you from now on, anyway, when you perform, you can't find anyone else to paint the background, do you think it's okay for me to be your royal painter?"
"The background you painted is lifelike. In the entire Qing'an Mansion, no one can do it better than you." Wan Ruoqing said with a smile, then seemed to realize something, looked at him in surprise, and asked: "Are you going to..."
"Is there anyone who can do better than me?" Zeng Zuimo seemed to have not heard the second part of her sentence, and said, "Sister Ruoqing forgot about that person..."
When talking about "that person", although she gritted her silver teeth tightly, her pretty face was covered with a layer of pink for no reason.