In ancient times, brothels were divided into many types.
Some kilns, as long as you have enough money to get enough of the prostitute, they will receive them no matter what kind of virtue you have.
Places like that are the lowest-level brothels, usually opened in alleys, converted from several ordinary houses connected together, and there is no sign at the door.
The women who were wandering there were extremely miserable. They were forced to open for more than eight hours almost every day. They couldn't eat well, couldn't sleep well, and were particularly prone to illness. Because the customers who went to that kind of place were basically poor, those who worked and even beg for food, many people had problems with personal hygiene, and it was normal for them to carry infectious diseases and other things... So most women who entered that kind of kiln lived for a year and a half.
And the place that is higher than the lower-floor brothel is a restaurant that is several-story high in many film and television dramas. It is a unique courtyard. You can drink and eat vegetables on the first floor. There are also private rooms upstairs. There are more rooms and cleaner, so there are naturally more girls inside.
This kind of brothel is for those who have a little spare money.
Among them, most scholars are scholars, especially those who failed the grade. Those... all feel that they are talented and have no appreciation for talent. Outside, they are literati who look down on each other and cannot hear any good things. When they go to brothels, they are different. They are full of praise in their ears, which makes them very useful.
Of course, this kind of treatment needs to be exchanged for money...
If you have money, you are the old man. When you use all your money, you will not hear that kind of words. At that time, who would care whether you have talent or not? The madam's ugly words can make these sour scholars doubt their lives.
Next, there is a brothel called Jiaofangsi, which is considered to be the "official kiln". It is affiliated to the Ministry of Rites and is responsible for the celebration and welcome to the VIPs to play music. It is also an official brothel.
Most of the women here are the female relatives of officials who were punished for committing the crime, including their wives, concubines, daughters, maids... and some losers who were captured in the war, or folk women who were raped and captured in the war, etc.
Women who enter the Jiaofangsi as prostitutes will be included in a lowly family, and will be treated inhumanely for generations. The court also regards the Jiaofangsi as a business that is cost-effective, and uses the women of corrupt officials as money trees to make money, filling the losses caused by those officials.
Like Dong Xiaowan, Liu Rushi, Chen Yuanyuan... famous prostitutes who are familiar with music and calligraphy, chess, calligraphy and painting are basically taught by music officials in the Jiaofangsi; there are actually not so many talented women who have read books in the folk brothels, most of them are girls sold by poor families, and women who have been abducted by human traffickers or even robbed by them. They have no chance to get education, so I won’t talk about anything else.
In any case, these women who are wandering in the dust are all miserable and helpless.
They may be held by their husbands because of an arranged marriage that they have no right to make decisions, or they may be sold as goods and become slaves just because of bad luck, and even social rules stand on the side of those who exploit and bully them.
Socrates once advocated that "even evil laws are laws that should be followed", and then he obeyed the trials of the Athenian nobles and accepted the poison.
I think this philosopher has said a lot in his life, but only his obsession before his death is that taking poison is not enough to cure it. He should be sent to the Jiaofangsi for a while, and I think that will change his view.
Of course, you can also say that he used as a negative example to inspire the world to understand "evil law and illegality".
Get back to the point...
After the above-mentioned heavy feudal social flesh industry popularization, let’s take a look at the brothels in the martial arts world of Dazhi, a parallel universe...
Here, there is a rather exaggerated folk brothel.
Its grade is higher than any of the three brothels mentioned above, and in today's terms it is roughly a high-end club.
Its background is unfathomable, with strong financial resources, and both black and white are all... Although it is a place of fireworks and a place of romance, not everyone can enter.
Seven Willows are just like this place.
The masters and sons of wealthy families, famous masters in the world, heroes with names in the green forest road, or big men who are inconvenient to name but can be rich and powerful at first glance, can enter.
But for ordinary people... Suppose you sell out all your family's ancestral property and want to come here to fight a shot, and then starve to death... Sorry, I won't receive it.
There are also those who are not dressed, have a odor on their bodies, and have a bad face, and look like they are sick... These people don't do business either. You know, the girls in this brothel are all precious. If you get infected with something, who will the madam ask to compensate?
In short, this is a place to only receive "decent people".
Today, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were very decent; so, as soon as they walked to the street where Qiliu Youlan was, the madam sitting next to the railing on the second floor of the brothel was eyeing them.
The brothel's eyes were so vicious. When she saw the faces of the two, she looked clean and tidy, with red faces. When she looked at their eyes, it was already at night and she didn't show any tiredness. Then she understood that the living conditions of these two must be very good, and they were definitely not the kind of person who had to work hard during the day.
Looking further down, the two of them were dressed well, and they both took a paper fan in their hands as if they were decent. This outfit alone was worth the income of a poor family for a year.
Also, they looked like they were walking swaggeringly and strolling in the garden without any hurry at all. This is also a characteristic of rich people.
The madam just looked them up and down and was sure that these two must be young men who had eaten and met. And their high-end brothels like Qiliu Youlan were going to do business with such people, and only such people could come and go to places with their consumption levels.
So, when Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai walked to the door of Qiliu Youlan, the two of them had not yet stepped into the threshold, and the old madam came out like a hungry tiger pounced on food.
"Ouch"
Accompanied by a howl as if a pig was killed, the madam with heavy makeup flashed in front of Sun and Huang with one step: "Two young men! Why are you here!"
The voice was so loud that she was so intimate that she was afraid that she would not be so enthusiastic when her own ancestors came.
I don’t know if I got the secret code from Mom Sang, but when I heard this roar, four women suddenly emerged from the lobby on the first floor of the brothel. Their faces were all like peach blossoms, graceful and graceful, and soft and soft. The clothes they wore were covered with silk and gauze, and the necks were white... No woman on the street would wear such clothes that could see her shoulders, arms and even collarbones through the gauze, but it was different in this brothel.
"Come on, why are you polite? Please come inside~" When the madam said this, the women were already attacking Brother Sun and Brother Huang, pushing Brother Huang into the door as if they were hostages.
The two of them felt that their arms were being hugged by someone, and they were wrapped in some fleshy things, and they were dragged into the lobby of the brothel when they were distracted.
The first floor lobby of Qiliu Youlan is not welcome. In addition to the screen arrangements that look very expensive, it is basically an open space connecting the stairs everywhere.
Most of the guests who come here are unwilling to live in the same room with other unfamiliar guests, and they don’t want to be disturbed, so they just go to the private room upstairs to sit.
This private room is naturally divided into grades, but it is not arranged in accordance with "Heaven", "Earth", "Xuan" and "Huang" like most places. As mentioned earlier, everyone here is decent people. If you arrange it that way, everyone will choose the word "Heaven". No one will even enter the word "Earth", let alone the word "Yuan"...
Therefore, each of the elegant rooms with the quiet seven willows has a separate name, and they are all named after four words, some are called "high mountains and flowing water", some are called [Zeroling Book Network] "A leaf knows autumn", some are called "blossoms like brocade", and some are called "morning clouds and evening rain"... Today, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were pulled into a store called "happy but not thinking about Shu".
The above four-character private rooms are all of the same level. The furnishings in the house and the wine and dishes are the same. In addition, there is another level. Generally, only those real big people or regular customers are qualified to enter. There are only four private rooms in total, all of which are one-character private rooms, namely "spring", "summer", "autumn", and "winter", which correspond to the four most famous beauties in the seven willow lanterns, namely spring rain, summer sun, autumn leaves, and first snow.
These four are undoubtedly beautiful women who are as beautiful as immortals and have both outstanding colors and skills, and the top card among them is Miss Chuxue.
Don’t look at Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai’s first arrival, they already knew all the above information because Dong Wan told them all before coming.
As the saying goes, county officials are worse than to be in charge. Although Dong Wan is just a small captain, who can't give him some thinness in this Xuzhou territory? Besides, he is also a decent person. The captain family is also very rich. Although his gray income is not as good as the county magistrate, it is not much. Maybe he is a little richer than Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi. Even Zheng Ge can become a regular visitor of Qiliu Youlan, so Dong Wan can naturally do it.
With the cautious personality of Sun and Huang, they naturally had to squeeze out all the information about this brothel that Dong Wan had before they could give up. Dong Wan was also forced to ask questions from both of them, and they almost told them all the postures he had used...
In short, Shuangxie came tonight with great care. The main purpose was to find out the secrets of Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi from Chuxue.
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Soon, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai had already sat in the room "I don't want to miss Shu", and the wine and food were quickly served.
However, at first, the four girls who came to welcome them had left. I thought the four of them were responsible for welcoming guests, so they took the guests into the private room and went back to the first floor.
"Two young masters, I'm sorry, I'm a shy mother..." After the guest sat down, the madam spoke less exaggeratedly, but said in a normal volume, "I see that you are a little bit of a face, may you... come back and have fun here?"
"Hahaha..." Sun Yixie was not nervous at all, and immediately started with a lewd smile, with a sweet mouth, "Sister, you have such a good eye, we are coming back."
"Yeah~ Look at this young master, he is so good at speaking, haha..." The madam said so on the surface, but she was relieved in her heart, "I can't tell that you are still a veteran. When I heard that this kind of wind always comes to such places."
"Sister, don't make fun of me. I'm very stupid. The Huang brother beside me is a talented man who is knowledgeable and has a good reputation." Sun Yixie's next sentence turned around and pushed his brother out.
"Yes~! That's good. The girls here like talented people the most. Mr. Huang will have a good time tonight." The madam also followed his words and held them there.
Huang Dong looked at the two of them singing and reconciling each other, and he was a little stupid. He ignored the presence of the madam and immediately complained to Sun Yixie: "Brother Sun, you look like you are like a fish in water, and you look like you have a life at first glance."
"Ah? Ah... Hahaha." Sun Yixie didn't respond to this, but just blew it up and kicked Huang Donglai under the table, telling him to "shut up" in body language.
"Then... I wonder if the two young men have any particular things to do with girls? Sister, I can arrange it for you..." On the other hand, the madam began to get to the point. Maybe she was infected by the shameless atmosphere brought about by Sun Yixie. From this sentence, she really called herself sister.
"Ha... this is easy to say." Sun Yixie smiled, "Sister, how many girls are there who are not accompanying the guests now, call me here first, let me pass by..." He paused, "Oh by the way, the four people at the door just now don't have to come, I've seen it."
When the madam heard this, she felt a little unhappy. She said to herself, "What's wrong? You guy has a big appetite? The girl here just pulls out a beauty that can compete with the top cards in other places. You actually want to call them all to pick and choose for you? Where did you treat me, the seven willows, as a place? Do you think it was the messy broken kilns you had visited before?"
I thought so in my heart, but I wouldn’t turn aside because of this. After all, I said it was my first time, so it’s normal not to understand the rules.
"Hi, Mr. Sun, you don't know anything..." A few seconds later, the madam deliberately looked embarrassed and said tactfully, "The girls here are all very delicate. My mother is soft-hearted and I can't bear to discipline them, which makes them all... they are all holding their airs. If they ask them to go there, they will push them and ask for this and that..."
This is no longer a hint, but she is making it clear. If she still doesn't understand this and still asks "what does it mean", that would be boring.
The rule of Qiliu Youlan is: Even if you only ask the girl to come and show you a look, you don’t need her to accompany you after you see it. If you choose someone else, you will have to make money and not let others go in vain.
"Oh~ I understand, I understand." Could Sun Yixie not understand this? He took out a ingot of gold from his body and put it in front of the madam, "Sister, you really feel sorry for people, it's not easy... Haha, come on, this is a gift I gave me. Don't think it's too little, buy some delicious food for the girls to replenish your body."
Usually, the amount of silver you take out at this time can roughly show the customer's financial resources or generousness, and Brother Sun immediately asked the madam to judge him as the highest level.
Chapter completed!