Chapter 51: The Thirteen Hairpins of Meizhou
Xue Wan'er said that if she could really produce a hundred new songs, she would not need to train too many famous prostitutes, only a dozen people would take shifts.
Du Ruo didn't care, so he let Xue Wan'er arrange it.
Du Ruo ordered people to write a few hundred recruitment inspiration, spread it in Meizhou City, and recruit civilian girls over the age of sixteen for interviews.
However, in order to avoid misunderstanding, he did not send a notice in the name of recruiting music prostitutes, but in the name of recruiting maids in the Du family.
In this era, if ordinary families have daughters, they are proud to be maids in official families, and become maids who have been maids in official families for three years and return home, "the people have hired each other." In the eyes of ordinary people, they are people who have seen the scenes, and they will definitely be more respectful when they marry a family than that ordinary girl.
Therefore, after the people in the city knew that it was Du's family who recruited maids, they rushed to send their daughters for an interview. Du Ruo asked Butler Li to check the first interview. Those who were over-age, those who were not in the age, those who were not in the hair, and those who were too ugly were not good.
The second level is to check the three sisters Xue Wan'er who were newly redeemed from the brothel. They also eliminate those with poor voice conditions and incomplete tone.
Those who pass the third level will be taken to Xue Wan'er, who will personally test the girl's throat and figure, and then screen out some of them.
Finally, Xue Wan'er selected eighteen girls and brought them to Du Ruo.
Du Ruo looked at the Shui Lingling girls in front of him who were about the same age as Su Xiaomei, and felt excited. Seeing them all surging youth and smiling shyly, it was a kind of enjoyment.
However, Du Ruo was not the one who evaluated them, and they were already qualified. What Du Ruo wanted to do was confess to them that they would not be maids but singers in the future, and explaining the nature of the work and treatment to them, which was equivalent to repeating the words they said to Xue Wan'er.
The eighteen girls were naturally curious about what Du Ruo said, and even asked Du Ruo many questions. Seeing that Du Ruo was so approachable and had no airs, the girls were trembling and were willing to stay.
"My sisters, you have a contract to take it home for your parents to see. If your family agrees, you will come here tomorrow morning."
But they were willing but not counted, so Du Ruo asked them to go back and ask their parents. Before leaving, Du Ruo gave each person two stale money as a hard work fee.
"You are generous. Do you guess how many of them will come tomorrow?" Xue Wan'er asked with a smile after the girls left.
"I'll be satisfied if I can come back halfway."
Du Ruo shook his head. At this time, the common people are willing to let their daughter be maids, but they will never let their daughter be a prostitute. Only those who are desperate will send their daughter to the teaching hall.
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After leaving Xue Wan'er, Du Ruo went to Su's house. After meeting Su Xun, Du Ruo met Su Shi and Su Xiaomei. Su Zhe was invited by his classmates and the second son of the Shi family in Meizhou.
"Brother Du Ruo, try the pine nut cake I made."
Su Xiaomei brought a plate of snacks to Du Ruo and sat down next to Du Ruo.
Although the two have not met during this period, they would communicate with each other every two days, exchange their current situations and say some longings. Du Ruo also told her to come to see her today, so she had prepared snacks.
"Hmph, I said why don't you give me food in the morning? It turned out to be waiting for you Brother Du Ruo." Su Shi smiled at Su Xiaomei on the side.
Su Xiaomei ignored Su Shi and said to Du Ruo: "My second brother has a nose that is better than my dark clouds and a nose that is Turin. I hid in the west wing and hid the snacks he made, but he also came to him by smelling the smell. Alas, it's really speechless."
"Black Cloud" is a black cat raised by Su Xiaomei. The ancients did not look at the breeds of cats, but only named them after the colors, such as "carrying butterflies" and "black clouds covering the snow". The original meaning of "Canhua" is also to take the colors of the flowers, and it later evolved into a variety.
"Brother Su is a big foodie. It would be strange if you have something delicious to hide from him." Du Ruo smiled.
"Foodie? This title is interesting, 'goods, valuables'. Does the foodie say I have taste? Haha, I accepted this title and I will become a foodie in Meishan from now on."
While smiling proudly, Su Shi reached out to pinch a piece of pastry.
Du Ruo and Su Xiaomei looked at each other and smiled. He was relaxed and happy. For some reason, in front of Su Shi, he could always be unconsciously infected by his optimistic attitude, which made people unable to remember any trouble.
But Su Shi, who has not experienced the ups and downs, feels a little heartless when he is optimistic.
"Du Ruo, are you here today just to see your little sister? Nothing else?"
The three of them had fun for a while, and Su Shi asked.
"Mainly I want to see my younger sister."
Du Ruo did not hide anything, which made Su Xiaomei lower her head and smile, while Su Shi kept tutting.
Du Ruo continued: "But there is one more thing, I want to trouble Brother Su and my younger sister."
"What's the matter? But say."
The two of them became serious.
Du Ruo told the story of buying Yipinlou and making music. Su Xiaomei didn't think it was wrong to do it because of Du Ruo's interest.
Su Shi widened his eyes: "It turns out that the tallest building in Meizhou was built by you. It's so rich!"
Du Ruo smiled modestly and said, "If you don't talk about this, I'm here today. I plan to ask Brother Su and my younger sister to write lyrics for my new song. If I can't fill in the lyrics, the restaurant will not be able to perform."
"So it's just writing lyrics, it's simple." Su Shi waved his hand, "How many poems?"
"One hundred poems." Du Ruo said.
Although she told Xue Wan'er to give her a hundred songs, Du Ruo could not copy all the original lyrics of the previous life. After all, the original lyrics are too far from this era, so many people's lives are inevitably separated from this time.
Moreover, the style of a hundred songs is too large, and others can't hear anything in the song, but Du Ruo is worried that the lyrics are still his own words, and others can see something wrong at once. It's not like "I regret meeting you too late" and "It's my fault to meet you".
"What? One hundred poems!"
Su Shi and Su Xiaomei were shocked, and Du Ruo said, "You can just write eighty poems for me. You just need to fill in the vernacular lyrics and rhymes."
"Actually, one hundred songs are not difficult." Su Shi looked at Du Ruo curiously and said, "I was shocked. You have written so many songs? Is it really all of them?"
Without waiting for Du Ruo to answer, Su Xiaomei reached out and grabbed Du Ruo's arm and said proudly to Su Shi: "Of course it was all written by Brother Du Ruo himself, so he disdained to use the old songs. Brother Du Ruo, I will write it for you, two hundred songs are fine."
Du Ruo thanked quickly and said, "I know you will definitely help me, but if my uncle and aunt knew that you wrote the lyrics, would there be any obstacles?"
Su Shi said: "Let's hide it, I will use the four words "Meishan Foodie" as the pseudonym."
"Then I..."
Su Xiaomei thought about it, and Du Ruo smiled and said, "It's better to call it Fairy Goose."
He wanted to say "Gehuang Fairy", but he was afraid that Su Xiaomei's singing was exposed in front of Su Shi, so he reduced the word.
Su Xiaomei nodded at Du Ruo, "What goose fairy? How come I look like a goose? Tell me quickly..."
The two of them had a fight, and then Du Ruo explained that he and Su Shi had eaten all the snacks before leaving.
Su Shi and Su Xiaomei agreed that after receiving the music score, they would complete the lyrics within three days. The brother and sister were both proficient in music, and playing the piano and flute was no problem.
The next day, Du Ruo came to Xue Wan'er early and waited for the eighteen girls yesterday with a little nervousness.
The hanging heart did not fall until noon. The ending unexpectedly made Du Ruo unexpectedly. Only five of the eighteen people did not come, and thirteen people came.
"Very good!"
Even Xue Wan'er was overjoyed and congratulated Du Ruo: "The five people who did not come are of average qualifications, and these thirteen people are all top-notch talents."
Du Ruo said: "Okay, I have to rely on Miss Wan'er to teach me."
"I dare not do my best."
So, he signed a contract for the thirteen girls, and had a clerk from the state office to serve. After all the procedures were completed, Xue Wan'er led the girls in line to Du Ruo and looked at him earnestly.
"Please give me the name of the flower."
"Bianming? Oh, stage name."
"Stage name, this title is better. Please give it to your son." Xue Wan'er begged again.
Du Ruo scratched his head, looked at the row of people in front of him with their own beauty, and stared at his green girls with wide eyes, and inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind.
"You thirteen people will be collectively called the 'Thirteen Flowers of Meizhou' in the future."
The girls looked curious and chattered happily. Du Ruo blinked at Xue Wan'er, who was also a little stunned, and began to name the Thirteen Flowers one by one.
This is easy to choose. Du Ruo chose the name from "Dream of Red Mansions". The first one chose "Xiren", the second one took "Qingwen", and the third one was the beauty embryo here. Du Ruo gave her "Daiyu", and the other picturesque little girl Du Ruo gave "Baochai", and the best-developed one gave "Keqing"...
In short, if you pick up the nice names in "Dream of Red Mansions", you may not necessarily have to be the Twelve Beauties.
"Young Master is really good to taste."
"The stage name I took is really beautiful, poetic and picturesque."
Xue Wan'er and several sisters were amazed at Du Ruo. Compared with the stage name Du Ruo, their Wan'er and Mei'er were simply vulgar.
Chapter completed!