The 14th day of the first lunar month.

The Qinhuai River has become lively.

Although the Lantern Festival has not officially begun, every business on both sides of the Taiwan Strait has already decorated the lanterns and prepared enough goods, and is ready to welcome the Lantern Festival with all their might.

Ten miles of Qinhuai, a prosperous place in Jinling.

Jinling City is built on the river channel, with densely populated banks, and along the river are streets, with restaurants, strong wine and music, countless merchant ships, and pleasure boats traveling day and night on the river.

The boats of the pleasure boats, the singing girls are in it, singing and dancing, and the silk and bamboos are floating.

The scholars and scholars in Jinling City linger.

On the banks of the Qinhuai River, half of them are talented and half of them are beautiful.

On this day, Xie Anran's son-in-law found a lid and left the princess's mansion and came to the Qinhuai River for a walk.

It reached the entrance of the "Yanyu Building", the brothel of the Qinhuai River.

But I saw that a pretty singer had already looked forward to him and eagerly came forward.

"Mr. Prince Consort, you are here. The waiter is so anxious!"

The singer said in a sweet voice.

Xie Anran smiled gracefully, followed her to Yanyu Tower, shaking the jade fan in her hand, and asked with a smile: "How are you rehearsing the song "Search and Search" by Xiaohunhou?"

"Thanks to the Yuefu songs compiled by the princess, I have the confidence to be able to perform this year's courtesan conference. I have already rehearsed very skillfully, so I will sing and dance. I would like to ask my princess to give me some advice!"

The singer said pretty.

The two of them went up to the lively Yanyu Building and arrived at a fairy room upstairs. There was already a dance band preparing to rehearse the new lyrics of Hunhou.

By the way, this is the day when the "Qinhuai Palace" was born every year.

In more than a dozen brothels on the banks of the Qinhuai River, each of them will send the most outstanding girl to prepare for the best program to represent their own brothels to welcome this grand ceremony.

Among these programs, there are blowing, pulling, singing, singing, dancing, acting, and opera... There are no limits to the types, and there are many different types.

The courtesan of Qinhuai is chosen for Lantern Festival every year.

In the entire Jinling City, all powerful kings, clans and nobles will come to support the courtesan conference.

The guests donated gold to the courtesan, and each person could give one gold, which would be divided into the courtesan’s level according to the amount of gold.

At the Qinhuai Flower Courtesan Festival, if any girl can win the championship in one fell swoop, she will be able to use the Supreme Glory of the Flowers "Qinhuai Flower Courtesan" for the next whole year.

The brothel is naturally full of guests and many distinguished guests. They spend a lot of money to attract the smile of the courtesan. There are countless people.

This title of courtesan is so valuable!

In order to compete for the name of the courtesan, they tried their best to write a new Lantern Festival program to attract the support of their distinguished guests.

Major brothels have invested heavily in literati and masters from Jinling City to make programs for them.

With the strength of the brothel girls in various Qinhuai families being almost the same, the most important thing about the program is to highlight the word "new".

In the past month, the new poem "Search and Search" by Xiao Hunhou has become a trend among the literati in Jinling City.

The girls from various brothels in the Qinhuai River cannot say much about this new word, and they almost become little fans of Xiaohunhou.

Taking this new lyrics of Hunhou and changing them to a song or dance program will naturally arouse the interest of many distinguished guests.

However, it is difficult to compose a poem and adapt it into a song and dance.

What's more, this is a new lyrics of Hunhou that no one has ever written before. It is difficult to compose a music for it.

The Le Ji in Qinhuai brothels do not have the ability to adapt this.

To compose a music for this new lyrics, of course, Xie Anran must take action.

Xie Fuma is one of the few senior Yuefu masters in Jinling City, a top master, and the most popular handsome guy among the Qinhuai River girls.

A few days ago, Yanyu Tower invited Prince Xie Anran to compose a song for this new lyric of Xiaohunhou's "Search and Search" and handed it to the most outstanding girl in the building to perform.

Everyone knows that the prince consort has no money in his pocket, but he is very talented!

As a reward, as long as the prince-maid comes to visit Yanyulou, Yanyulou never accepts Xie silver and enjoys it at will...

Even the other brothels were eager to thank the prince-consort for going to them to eat, drink and enjoy. The more they were, the better.

The amount of money spent on shopping in brothels is completely incomparable to the great reputation of the courtesan.

The pretty singer sang and danced while playing under the musician's zither.

After watching the singer's singing and dancing, Xie Anran was quite satisfied and nodded, "Well, it's not bad! His figure is beautiful and flawless, just be more proficient.

On the Lantern Festival tomorrow, the princes and princes will invite a banquet for a few princes and princes to come and have a good reception!"

"Yes, the prince consort, I will definitely be fully entertained!"

The singer said happily.

Xie Anran thought for a while, took out a volume of "Stone Story" from his sleeve, and said, "Just this new poem about Hunhou can only be as fresh as the Lantern Festival during this period.

If you look back and pick out some in this book, this fifth chapter will be very good, but it will be a stage show, enough for you to be in the scenery of Yanyulou for a whole year!"

"The Story of the Stone?...Huh, it was written by the little marquis again?!"

The singer took the notebook in confusion and looked it up, and was stunned and ecstatic.

"I will rehearse tonight. Chapter 5, "Jia Baoyu's Travel to the Illusion, Twelve Beauties", will be on stage tomorrow. It will definitely cause a sensation and become the focus of the courtesan!"

Xie Anran asked in confusion: "Is it too late?"

The process of compiling a stage play is extremely complicated.

It takes a long time to rehearse a group of people to be familiar with each other’s cooperation.

He is good at scribing music music, but he is not very good at rehearsing operas.

“With this book, lines, and plays are completely available without any changes.

Only by acting is done and it’s time to sort it out.

Our Yanyu Tower invited a top painter with a very high standard and asked him to draw the entire play, segments, and scenes. It is easy for everyone to remember it. In this way, it can be done quickly in just one night!"

The singer hurriedly said.

"Oh, who is the master painter? So powerful!"

Xie Anran was surprised.

"A few days ago, I saw a scholar on Changle Street. He was very good at making new poems about the lady, so I asked him to come and help him and paint some pictures of the lady for Yanyulou."

The singer immediately sent someone to invite the painter.

After a moment, a young scholar in green clothes walked out with restraint.

"Master Yan?"

Xie Anran was surprised.

He has no relationship with his master's father, Homo Su.

However, this year, there were only four honors in the palace examination, and the Lord Yan accounted for one of them. It was difficult not to know him!

This master's father Yan was born in a poor and arrogant manner, and had mixed knowledge. He could not get along with the Confucian scholars in Jinling City and was quite excluded.

Unexpectedly, I was so poor that I needed to make a living by painting in brothels!

"I've seen Prince Xie!"

When the Lord Yan saw the second biggest playboy in Jinling City, he recognized it and couldn't help but look a little embarrassed. "It's not easy to live in Jinling City. I'm short of money and have to come here to make a living..."

The price given by Yanyulou is too high... so high that he can't refuse.

A painting on the street only earns 100 to 20 yuan in copper coins, but Yanyulou paints a high-quality maid's painting and pays a liang of silver. As long as his mind is not broken, he will definitely embark on this road to becoming rich.

"Brother, don't say much!"

Xie Anran immediately interrupted the words of his father Yan and said happily: "Immediately, in Chapter 5 of "The Stone", Jia Baoyu Meng met the twelve golden hairpins, draw it as soon as possible. Come and draw the play, I will compose the background song. Rehearse today and use this latest program tomorrow!"

He was not those Confucian scholars, and he was also knowledgeable and would not reject his master Yan.

Xie Anran handwritten the manuscript of "The Story of Stone" to his master Yan.

"Stone Story? Xiaohunhou's Hou? What a good book!"

The Lord's father Yan looked around for a moment, his face was excited, flushed, and he rubbed his hands excitedly.

Hunhou's new poem is too short and there is no room for him to play.

There are those scene pictures over and over again. Xiao Hunhou was drinking cold wine in the inn, and the girl leaned against the window, couldn't draw too many tricks, and she didn't earn much copper coins.

But the content of "The Story of Stone" is too rich and fulfilling, and there are countless characters. Any paragraph is an excellent scene and can be painted in a big and special way!

If you want to make a fortune in Jinling City, it depends on it!

"no problem!"

"Just a lady picture, I'm the best at this!"
Chapter completed!