It's getting dark, and it's a good time to visit flower houses.
The imperial concubine is wearing a white dress, which is an improved version of Mingjiao's male disciples' clothes. It shows less flesh and is a little wider to cover up her figure. Coupled with corsets, masculine hairstyles, and a little bit of make-up, at first glance by candlelight, you can't tell it's a woman at all.
The same is true for the empress, who changed into a black curly train and with makeup, her face, which was three points similar to that of the emperor, became even more similar. The whole person looked over and thought they were the brothers of His Majesty the Emperor.
All of this is thanks to the ingenious girl Bi Ge, who has first-class makeup skills.
However, the imperial concubine who doesn't like makeup is very disappointing to her craftsmanship. At most, she can help her to paint more fiercely every time, so that she looks more majestic and compelling. In fact, she felt that she could completely transform the imperial concubine into a white lotus, and then the imperial concubine could pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, learning from the concubine Shu back then, crying and pretending to be pitiful all day long.
How nice, it can also drive other women half to death.
It's a pity that the imperial concubine doesn't like it, she just likes to confront her head-on.
At this moment, Concubine Shen was obsessed with folding a fan to pretend to be a noble son, while looking around, she played the role of a romantic young man who had just arrived.
Beside her was Empress Fu, who had a serious face and was deliberately dragged by her "friend" to meet the world.
Yep, now they're playing a pair of buddies. Shen Yuqing is the elder brother who lingers in the flowers, and Fu Qiushui is the standard heir of the family with a coffin face and no interest.
The two actors performed well, at least no one around noticed anything unusual.
Shen Yuqing's pseudonym was Lu Ming, and she took the surname of the leader of Mingjiao and the "Ming" of Mingjiao. Fu Qiushui's pseudonym was Qiu Yu, and he took the homonym of "Autumn" and "Rain".
The newly appointed Mr. Lu put away his folding fan, pointed to the largest and most beautiful painting boat by the Taihu Lake in front of him, and said with a smile: "Brother Qiu, we are going there today, so don't be so stern, and carefully scare the beauty!" .”
She can change her voice, and she sounds flawless. Fu Qiushui couldn't, so he could only minimize the chances of speaking. Hearing this, he just frowned slightly and didn't make a sound. Neither refuse nor agree.
Shen Yuqing didn't care about her reaction, she just dragged her there. At this moment, she and Fu Qiushui were very close, and she whispered, "Why do you think we both dress up as black and white Shuangsha?"
"What are black and white double evils?" Fu Qiushui asked in a low voice, his mouth moving slightly, without showing any expression on his face.
Shen Yuqing rubbed her chin: "I don't know, I heard from others that one is dressed in black and the other is dressed in white, like black and white. But if you ask me, it's more like black and white impermanence."
The "others" are naturally those game players before Shen Yuqing's time travel. She herself is an NPC, and she doesn't understand a lot of things, all of which are information obtained from players.
Fortunately, Fu Qiushui didn't ask any further questions, and nodded slightly, expressing that he also thought of the impermanence of black and white.
But it doesn't matter, although the combination of one black and one white is vulgar, it does look like a couple's outfit... Bah, it fits everyone's aesthetics and preferences. So when I saw two handsome young men with such outfits on the road, everyone got used to it well. After all, it was commonplace, and it fit their personalities very well.
Since the painting boat and painting boat are on a boat with so many tricks, it must be taller than ordinary brothels. For example, you have to pay an entrance fee to enter this painting boat, and the girls inside are also relatively high-end.
Most of them are Qingguan, and although the rest receive customers, the price is not much cheaper than Qingguan.
Shen Yuqing casually threw out two ingots of silver, and the emperor covered the expenses for today's outing, so the two of them could spend money lavishly. It's not my own money, so of course I don't feel bad about using it.
After throwing away the money, she directly dragged people in, with an attitude of "I have a lot of money, so I don't need to look for the rest".
The gatekeeper Gui Gong was overjoyed, quickly collected the money, and came to lead the way in person.
"My lord, in the hall on this floor, there are all the most ordinary girls, only the ones on the round platform are different." He introduced them to the two with great spirits.
The girls serving in the hall are basically the cheapest ones, and the girls standing around the hall are slightly better. If you like it, you can pull it into the house.
The girls' own "fragrant boudoirs" are all exquisite and beautiful. Although they are cheaper, they are definitely not cheap. After entering the house, if you want to go directly to the gun, you can do it; but if you are not in a hurry, the girls are also good at playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and can play with you, but every girl has her own specialties Live, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting also have their own emphasis.
The girls on the round platform are all newly tuned-taught, so-called unbudded girls. I have never received customers before, and I have never been a Qingguan, basically they are all young and cute.
This kind of newcomer exists every day, but there is only one person a day, so this girl's first-night will be auctioned, and the highest bidder will get it.
The second floor is for girls who are more upscale, and the third floor is for ladies. But this kind of girl will not show you the girl directly, you can only order one from the roster, and then be led into the boudoir.
However, after the general customers tell their preferences, Mr. Gui and the others will take the initiative to recommend the ones that meet the requirements, so as not to let people choose the type they don't like. However, there are also advantages and disadvantages of the same type. Generally, the top ones are more expensive.
If the guests give generous rewards, Guigong will hide the overpriced ones with affection, and start recommending the best one from the price he can afford. Instead of throwing out a lot, watching the guests choose the middle one because of their lack of money, and showing the financial distress of the guests to the people around them.
Shen Yuqing looked around and found that the girls here are having a good time.
It seems that because the owner of this painting boat is very good at management and brainwashing, the girls don't feel that they are miserable here. Rather than worrying about being favored or not after getting married, they seem to be more willing to stay here, save more money, and then go out with the money to live by themselves when they are old and decrepit.
I heard that the boss of this house is generous, although the ransom money is high, but the boss does not restrict the girl to have a small treasury. The benefactor's reward painting boat will not be taken away here, and the girl will keep it for herself. The people who come here are either rich or noble, and the money given by a girl is enough for the boss to make a lot of money.
At the same time, benefactors also give a lot of rewards. Although the redemption requires a lot of money, it is not a burden for the girls.
As long as you take the initiative to pick up customers, you will soon be able to save up all the money. The rest is enough for them to live a nourishing life, and they can also leave a large amount of property to their children who don't know if they will have it.
Shen Yuqing had inquired about it before she came, and heard that the girls here are very good. After redeeming herself, she took the money and went to other places, found a small town to set up a female household, and then raised ten or eight noodles. In the past, I used my own pair of jade arms to sleep tens of thousands of people, but now they change people to warm the beds seven days a week.
Anyway, as long as the money is more, those with four or five sons in the family don't mind sending one of their sons to be a male concubine.
In fact, male wives and male concubines are also very popular in Dayan, since the love story between the former state teacher and the emperor began to spread. If it weren't for the emperor not being interested in men, there would probably be male concubines in his harem.
There was one in the first emperor's concubine, who was the second son of a certain state's mansion at that time, and belonged to the family who overwhelmed the country and the city. But people looked down on the stallion Xiandi, and after being forcibly brought into the palace, he refused to sleep in bed, and committed suicide when he got a chance. It made the first emperor very embarrassed. He was the one who made a mistake and forced people to death. He didn't have the face to anger the Duke's mansion, so in the end he subsidized a lot of things for the Duke's mansion to expose the incident.
Later, the first emperor learned to be good, and no longer forced to marry male concubines, and even didn't want to touch men, so he conscientiously accepted women.
The first emperor was a fairly wise emperor when he was young, but when he was old, he would inevitably do some foolish things. Also, in terms of beauty, she is too intemperate.
Shen Yuqing looked at the girl on the stage who was blushing playing the piano with great interest, and reached out to poke Fu Qiushui: "How is it? Brother Qiu, do you like this?"
Fu Qiushui glanced lightly, noncommittal.
"Tsk, you don't even like this." She shook her head, "Mr. Turtle, quickly bring your roster, my brother has high eyesight, and he doesn't like him here."
Guigong quickly took out a small plate from the top shelf of the cabinet by the stairs. The cabinet was divided into two columns, each with three rows. It is estimated that one column is for the roster of Qingyuan, and the other column is for ordinary girls, and they are divided into three classes.
Inside the plate that was taken out were three rows of small wooden plaques engraved with names and patterns.
It's not a pendulum either, it should be half-embedded in the wooden plate, with a rope tied to the tip of the top. The wooden sign protrudes slightly from the bottom of the plate, and the bottom half of its thickness should be stuck in the bottom of the plate, but the card is not very tight, and it can be easily pulled off by stretching out the rope.
After pulling the wooden sign off, you can see the part that was previously covered, and the price is engraved on it. So if you don't pick it up, you won't see the price.
Mr. Gui saw that the two were not short of money, so he pointed to the nine girls in the first row.
"These nine girls each have their own merits. I don't know what the two young masters like. The younger ones can also be your advisers."
Shen Yuqing glanced at it: "Are they all Qingguan?"
Mr. Gui smiled, and glanced at Fu Qiushui quietly. This young man is not easy to mess with, if he really has a girl to sleep with, he is afraid that she will be unhappy.
Shen Yuqing didn't make things difficult for Mr. Gui: "That's right, I'm afraid Brother Qiu won't be able to accept the excitement as soon as he comes up, so take your time and find a Qinger today."
She flipped through the two signs casually, and asked, "Maybe together?"
The two girls each have their own boudoirs, but Shen Yuqing doesn't want to be separated from Fu Qiushui. She came today to see what those girls who can raise a group of male concubines look like after redeeming themselves, not to listen to Qin Guanwu.
Mr. Gui nodded immediately: "Yes, yes, this way please."
Shen Yuqing and Fu Qiushui went upstairs unhurriedly, turned a corner, and saw a green screened window.
Because it is a Qing Dynasty, there is no need to do intimate things, so the windows here are very transparent. There is still a large blank area in the middle of the huge wooden carved hollow window, which is only half covered by the gauze curtain, and the girl and benefactor inside can be seen through the window.
When Shen Yuqing turned her head, she saw five people sitting inside, and the three who were facing them looked familiar.
Fu Qiushui snorted, and Shen Yuqing blinked at the two people inside.
Good fellow, unexpectedly met Concubine Yun, Concubine Wei and He Man.
Probably because He Man didn't have any girls, she followed Concubine Yun like a servant, so Huafang didn't want to force a girl to come over.
The two parties did not say hello after meeting, pretended not to know each other, and parted ways. Shen Yuqing and Fu Qiushui's private room is not far ahead, and it looks very elegant.
The two girls had already received the letter and were waiting inside. There was a small cabinet at the entrance, Mr. Gui put two wooden signs on it and left.
"I've met the two young masters." The girl is graceful, since she is Qingguan, there is no need to put on a coquettish look.
They looked like normal art girls, and asked Shen Yuqing and the two of them what they wanted to see in a natural manner. Playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, singing and dancing music, writing poems and guessing riddles are basically fine.
Shen Yuqing urged Fu Qiushui to order one, but Fu Qiushui didn't speak.
She wasn't embarrassed, she chose a style of music on her own, and asked them to pick a tune at will, and then one played the pipa and the other danced.
Not to mention, the dance is really beautiful. Although it is not as good as the dancers raised in the palace, it also has a special flavor.
At the end of the song, Shen Yuqing suddenly became interested and asked them to guess lantern riddles.
The lantern riddles provided here are very novel, and there are no bad street ones out there. Shen Yuqing had never seen these lantern riddles before, and followed the two girls enthusiastically to see who could guess the riddles faster.
Fu Qiushui thought it was quite interesting at first, but after a while he suddenly became a little unhappy.
She stretched out her hand silently, and pulled back Shen Yuqing who was about to get together with the two girls.
What about going out with her to play? Why are you so busy flirting with other women
Fu Qiushui's face turned darker, and he looked more like a coffin face.
The two girls were also interested. They were having a good time at first, but when they were interrupted, they immediately remembered their identities. Seeing that Fu Qiushui was not happy, she took the initiative to keep a certain distance from Shen Yuqing.
The girls who can get into the first class are all very skilled, and their eyesight must be good. As soon as they entered the door, they noticed that there was something wrong with the atmosphere between the two of them, and now it was even more clear, and they roughly guessed what was going on.
Isn't it just that a pair of Qi brothers came to the painting boat on a whim to have a look? They have seen many of these.
Naturally, the two sons of a powerful family are not good at marrying each other, so they can only form a pact to represent equal status of both parties. This kind of contract formation is very popular in Jiangnan, and many of them not only form a contract, but also have wives and children, which does not affect it at all.
These two don't seem to be casually forming a pact for fun, they must be genuinely emotional, otherwise why would the one in black be jealous? They come here to order girls, probably just for fun, and they don't really do anything at all.
And it seemed that the black-clothed Mr. Qiu himself was not willing to come, but just accompanied the white-clothed Mr. Lu. And Mr. Lu deliberately brought Mr. Qiu over, probably because he wanted to see his face change.
Lively romantic and serious attack, common character design.
The girls were not interested in plugging it in to act as an eyesore light bulb. Seeing that Shen Yuqing had finished the guessing activity because of Fu Qiushui's interruption, they both covered their lips and laughed.
"Young master Lu has neglected his sweetheart, so don't bother playing with us. Why don't we two sisters play music to accompany you, and you continue to guess?"
Shen Yuqing graciously put her arms around Fu Qiushui's waist, and admitted: "Okay, you guys come to some tunes that suit the occasion."
In an instant, the serious attack from the flirtatious to the flabbergasted by the flirtatious, the two girls looked at each other, a little uncertain as to who would go up and who would go down. However, mutual attacks are very common here in the south of the Yangtze River, so there is no need to distinguish them so clearly.
It's just that if you make a clear distinction, you can get more rewards if you try to please the person below.
So the two girls became the accompanists, and Shen Yuqing pulled Fu Qiushui to guess the crossword puzzle.
I was too involved in playing just now, and forgot to take care of my wife, so please hurry up now, otherwise I feel like I will sleep on the floor when I go back.
However, being black-bellied is not so easy to please. The empress acted face-to-face regardless of previous suspicions, but she made a note of it in her heart.
She thought that Shen Yuqing was really not interested in brothels, but after she came here, Shen Yuqing has always been more active than her, and it seems that she is ambitious. Forget it, after calling the girl, she still had a good time alone, and she really didn't clean up recently.
Fu Qiushui thought, it's time to establish a family rule.
It just so happened that her son and daughter were grown up, and if she didn't set up rules, Shen Yuqing could bring the two little ones to the sky.
The imperial concubine who didn't know the truth was still cheerfully pulling people to guess lantern riddles, completely unaware of what was about to greet her.
After guessing this batch of lantern riddles, Shen Yuqing suddenly realized that a long time had passed. The noise in the downstairs hall was basically inaudible, probably dragging the girl he liked into the room.
Look at the hourglass, it is really late.
"It's time to go." Fu Qiushui stood up, she lowered her voice, and whispered in Shen Yuqing's ear.
Shen Yuqing nodded, and stuffed a large-denomination banknote into each of the two girls, and pressed a few more banknotes under the two wooden signs, and left the boat. When passing by the room at the corner, there were no three acquaintances inside, and they probably left long ago.
"Oh, by the way, there is a lion dance today." After leaving the boat, Shen Yuqing slapped her head.
She forgot, she said she would come out to see the lion after seeing the girl, but she forgot about it.
The lion dance is actually nothing to look at, but this lion dance is done on water. Stepping on wooden stakes to do all kinds of difficult movements, although it is a piece of cake for Shen Yuqing, but it is also quite interesting to find something new.
The past few days seem to be a festival somewhere in Suzhou, so it is very lively.
On weekdays, the number of people on the streets of Suzhou will be much less after midnight at night, only about one-fifth of that during the day. There is basically no curfew in Dayan's cities, especially the bustling cities on the Jiangnan side, which are a bit lively at night.
It has been a long time since midnight tonight, and there are still huge crowds of people. Everyone looked not sleepy, and they were still joining in the fun everywhere.
"I don't know if the lion dance is still there, let's go and see?" Shen Yuqing asked.
Fu Qiushui nodded: "Let's go."
The place for the lion dance is on the other side of Taihu Lake, just half a circle along the lake. There are obviously more people here than other places, and it seems that the lion dance team is still there.
"They don't rest?" Shen Yuqing asked curiously.
A passer-by by the side said cheerfully: "Where is it, they have to rest for a quarter of an hour after dancing once."
However, this kind of fun and free excitement, many people are willing to watch it several times, so many people who have watched it still hang around and refuse to leave.
The lion dance lasts for a quarter of an hour, and then do it again after a half-a-quarter hour break. It's not easy to dance six or seven times a night in order to earn reward money. And generally in this case, many people are not willing to spend money, so they just watch the fun and don't give money.
Fortunately, Dayan is now much richer than before, and the people have more spare money, and it is in such a prosperous city as Suzhou, so there are quite a few people who are willing to tip. And they don't just give a penny or a penny, they also sell money for nothing.
So once you do it, you can earn a lot.
"But it's not much if it's shared among everyone."
Shen Yuqing looked at the lion dance team sitting on the side resting, the team was quite large. More than a dozen people, two of them danced at one end, and each time there were five or six lions frolicking together. Some of the remaining people were responsible for collecting money and shouting, and some were responsible for serving tea and food to the lion dancers.
Rest alone is definitely not enough, and you must eat and drink. Lion dance is physical work, and sometimes they do some difficult movements, which consume a lot of energy.
Shen Yuqing was very embarrassed when she saw it. Compared with others who worked hard to make a living, she was like a prodigal who didn't make money and wasted money everywhere. But when she thought of the pile of treasures in the emperor's small treasury, her self-criticism immediately disappeared.
It's rare to have a little conscience, but it ends up giving up halfway.
Listening to her muttering, the Empress Empress twitched her mouth slightly. She wisely decided to pretend not to hear, otherwise Fu Yanjun would die of anger after relaying the words to Fu Yanjun.
"It's time to start!" Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted excitedly.
It turned out that a new round of lion dance was about to start. Seeing the crowds in front of her, Shen Yuqing probably couldn't take it too seriously, so she simply jumped onto the branch in front of her with her arms around Fu Qiushui. It is close and high, and it is a good viewing point.
Fu Qiushui looked over curiously. She had seen lion dances before, but hadn't seen ones on water yet.
It is very difficult on flat ground, and it is even more difficult to step on wooden stakes on flat ground, not to mention stepping on wooden stakes on water. Most people will not be afraid of falling on the ground, but they will be more worried about falling into the water, even though falling into the water is actually less likely to be injured than falling into the water.
After all, water can hold people back and cushion them.
The author has something to say: Thanks to Landmine: Liu Yao, Ge Ge Yi, Splendid Hua Nian, Filling the Pit in Dreams, Luo Yun
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