Soon, Longer introduced Li Xia into a room, arranged for tea, lit incense, and prepared bath water.
Li Xia did not drink tea. He sat down and asked, "Tell us about the murder case in April."
"OK."
Long'er sat next to Li Xia, stretched out her hand to squeeze his arm, and started talking.
"Speaking of which, at that time, Tang An'an had not performed on stage or lived in Miyun Court, so she did not entertain guests. I don't know how Sun Yanei knew about her and sent people to snatch her.
She had just been caught at that time, and her lover came over, named Li Xia. They quarreled in the West Garden, and the Sun family members drove everyone else out. When the nurses rushed in, they saw Sun
Yanei was beaten to death by Li Xia..."
Li Xia asked: "How did Li Xia know Tang An'an?"
"Li Xia's father's name is Yong. After Mr. Li lost his wife, he took Liu Susu and Liu Jia as his concubine. Liu Jia was a famous prostitute in Nanqu who became famous more than ten years ago and was the best at playing the piano.
My mother Hu used to have good relations with the Liu family. The ones who have trained the most diligently over the years are Tang An'an and Ji Xixi. She taught them piano, chess, calligraphy and painting very deeply. She has taken them to visit the Liu family several times."
"Li Yong can let his concubine teach people how to play the piano?"
"Hmm, Mr. Li thinks that qin art is just qin art, and he doesn't regard it as a shame to associate with prostitutes. Tang An'an must have met Li Xia at that time. Later, Li Xia even came here to tune the qin. I heard that he
He looks very handsome."
Li Xia asked: "You haven't seen it?"
"I saw him once from a distance. He walked without turning his head."
"Where's Sun Yanei? What's his name?"
"I don't know what Sun Yanei's name is, but he is the Yanei of some Shaoqing. His father has a very high official position. But oh, he has never been to our place before. That time in April was the first time."
"First time? Are you sure?"
Long'er said: "That's right, many people in the courtyard said it was strange. Tang An'an has not been on stage before, and Sun Yanei has never been here before. Why would he want to snatch her as soon as he came?"
Li Xia asked: "Do Sun Yanei and Li Xia know each other?"
"We know each other." Long'er said: "As soon as Li Xia arrived, Sun Yanei called out his name. I also heard people guess that they were not jealous, but Sun Yanei was trying to catch Tang An'an to bully Li Xia."
Having said this, Long'er shook his head again and said, "But this isn't right. Why would a yamen bully Li Xia?"
Li Xia asked: "What happened next?"
"At that time, Hu's mother reported the case. If Li Xia had beaten Sun Yanei to death later, people from the Qiantang County government would have arrived. Unfortunately, someone was still dead, and Li Xia was arrested. Later, even Mr. Li's family was arrested.
People were burned.”
"Where is the Feng Curtain Building? Isn't it affected?"
"What are we afraid of? Mother Hu even scolded the Qiantang County government officials. Well... the Sun family wanted to beat Li Xia to death on the spot, so Mother Hu came forward and asked the government to take Li Xia away."
Li Xia then understood that to be able to open such a brothel here, there were no ordinary people behind it.
"What else do you know?"
"I don't know... Lang Jun, shall we go to bed? Long'er will serve Lang Jun well..."
The next moment, there was a knock on the door, and Nian'er's voice came in.
"You little prodigal! How dare you provoke anyone regardless of who brought them..."
When Long'er was in a state of emotion, she heard a "bang" and the door of the house was pushed open forcefully.
Nian'er rushed in in a few steps, and when he looked around, he saw Li Xia and Long'er sitting together. Long'er had untied her belt and taken off her outer clothes, her shoulders were half exposed, and her face was covered with blush.
"you you……"
Nian'er raised his hand and pointed, but before he could say anything, he started crying.
"Ugh... What can my girl do? What has she done wrong to deserve you to treat her like this? It's obviously you who has caused her trouble... and you still use her savings... you use her savings to go whore... a heartless man...
Woohoo..."
She was still crying when a box was handed to her hand.
"Take it," Li Xia said, "Tell your girl and pretend you have never met me."
Nian'er was stunned, and when he looked up, Li Xia looked calm and calm.
She became a little angry, took the box, stepped forward and covered Long'er's clothes so that Li Xia wouldn't see it again, crying and yelling angrily.
"You are not allowed to go whoring in our Fenglian Building!"
When something like this happened, Long'er felt extremely aggrieved and immediately went to complain to Mother Hu.
There is not only one mother in Fenglianlou, but now the most famous one is named Hu Zhen.
When Hu Zhen was young, he was called "Hu Zhenzhen" and he also made a splash in Lin'an.
Rumor has it that she once went into the Forbidden Palace at night to serve the officials, but the officials did not keep her in the palace when Concubine Jia was still there.
"You mean, Li Xia came to you to ask about what happened at that time?"
"Yes, after talking about this, we were about to play, and Nian'er ran in and drove him away."
"Young man, I'm afraid he wants to know what others think of him." Hu Zhen shook his head and muttered to himself.
She didn't give Long'er a good look, and scolded: "Xiao Lang Hoo, how pretty do you think you are to seduce guests? You broke the rules, spread your hands."
There was a "pop" sound, and the mother-in-law stepped forward and gave Long'er a thumbs up.
Long'er was so painful that she burst into tears, gritting her teeth and not daring to make a sound.
Hu Zhen turned to look at Nian'er again and cursed: "And you, dare to bring some idle people to see your girl. If she is harmed, you can't afford to pay for a hundred of them. If you dare to do anything again,
Moth, beat him to death! Spread your hands."
Nian'er suffered many blows, tears welled up in his eyes, but he didn't cry.
Hu Zhen took the box, got up and walked to Miyun Courtyard.
All the way into the house, I walked to the dressing table and saw that Tang Anan had already dressed up.
She put the box on the table and said, "Li Xia said, I will pretend that I don't know you from now on."
Tang Anan was stunned and whispered: "That's what I meant too."
Hu Zhen said: "If I hadn't known that you didn't like Li Xia, I would have killed that stupid girl Nian'er today... for daring to find a thief to steal my money tree."
Tang Anan said nothing.
Hu Zhen said: "What? Do you have him in your heart? Then I will beat Nian'er to death now."
She said, turned around and walked out.
Tang Anan quickly grabbed her sleeve and said, "Mom, please stop scaring me? I don't like him anymore."
"Remember, if you don't deserve to like someone, he doesn't deserve to like you either."
"good."
Hu Zhen nodded with satisfaction and sighed: "I'm angry that you gave away your savings to others casually. When you get older, you will understand that human relationships are fleeting and only gold and silver can be with you."
Tang Anan lowered his head and said nothing.
Hu Zhen said again: "Li Yong's son is useless. He has brought trouble to you and cannot afford to redeem you. You treat him with utmost kindness and justice, but he still loses his temper. How can such a small-minded person be worthy of your love?"
"Um."
"I thought about my friendship with Liu Susu and saved him. When you see him today, you are thinking about our friendship. From now on, we will not owe each other any more and don't have any more contact. I worked hard to train you, not to sell out and settle down."
"My daughter understands, as long as she doesn't see him again."
Now that the matter was over, Hu Zhen took a closer look at Tang An'an's makeup and said, "It's pretty, so be more plain."
"It's already the most plain."
"Then don't put on rouge, put it all on." Hu Zhen said, "Today's literary gathering is full of famous scholars who don't care about sex. Being too gorgeous will ruin their style... Zhu'er, come and do An An's makeup.
She has been repainted, and all the hairpins have been removed to cover up her appearance. Don't let her appearance overwhelm her talent."
"yes."
Hu Zhen was quite resolute. While personally choosing clothes for Tang Anan, he asked: "How many songs have you practiced?"
"Three poems, two Liu poems and one Yan poem."
"Why did you choose these three songs?"
"My mother said last time that if you sing new lyrics and you meet someone who has different political views, you will easily offend someone."
"Change, let's sing Jiaxuan lyrics today." Hu Zhen said.
Tang An'an said: "My daughter's singing style is not suitable..."
"If you don't know how to sing, then let Xixi sing instead. But let me tell you, the less famous you are, the harder it is for you to choose which guests to accompany you in the future."
"My daughter wishes to sing."
"Okay, today you sing Water Dragon Song." Hu Zhen said, threw the lyrics on the case, and said displeasedly: "Have you memorized the list I asked you to memorize?"
"Forgot it."
"Do you think it's strange? How can these people with such good reputations afford you your current worth?"
"It's strange."
"Because I didn't take the money today." Hu Zhen said, "Anyone of these people, as long as they are willing to compose a poem for you, you can make you famous all over the world. From now on, others will come to my Fenglian Tower with admiration, and they will find someone next to me.
Girl, you have enough money to wrap your head around your head, do you understand?"
"Understood, my daughter has finished singing, please ask them to compose lyrics for me."
Hu Zhen nodded and said: "Check with me again who are the attendees. Don't name anyone wrong."
"Yes." Tang Anan began to recite.
"Xie Xianggong will return to his hometown in a few days. All the princes gathered in Gushan to see each other off..."
"Attendees include Gu Xinjiang Gong, whose name is Wanli, whose courtesy name is Ziyuan, and whose name is Gu Xin. He was a Jinshi in the second year of Baoqing. He once served as a censor in the palace. He lived idle for twelve years and founded Bailuzhou Academy. Jinke, in Bailuzhou Academy.
Forty people were admitted to the imperial examinations, the world was shaken, and Duke Jiang was able to recover..."
"Ouyang Shoudao, courtesy name Gongquan, a disciple of Duke Jiang, Jinshi in the first year of Chunyou..."
"Wen Yunsun, courtesy name Song Rui, a disciple of Duke Jiang, the number one scholar in the new science..."
"Liu Chenweng, courtesy name Huimeng, is a disciple of Duke Jiang..."