Xue Hong walked out of Xue Mansion and was about to go to Cuiyun Tower as promised, but suddenly found that... he didn't know the way...
Xue Hong had no choice but to return to Xue Mansion and ask Xue Pan for directions. It is no exaggeration to say that Xue Pan knew all the restaurants, brothels and brothels in Jinling City.
Sure enough, as soon as Xue Hong said the name Cuiyun Tower, Xue Pan's face showed an expression of "Brother, you finally understand."
Xue Baochai, who was lying on the bed to recuperate, listened to the two people's words and did not answer them. He just looked at them with a smile.
Xue Hong shined a light on Xue Pan's head: "Don't talk nonsense, I have something serious to do, tell me quickly."
Xue Pan honestly told the address of Cuiyun Building, Xue Hong gave Xue Baochai a few more words, turned around and left with a long stride.
After Xue Hong left, Xue Pan left Xue Baochai's room.
At this time, Xue Baochai's face suddenly turned cold. He opened the quilt and sat up. A closer look revealed that the quilt seemed to have been torn by hand.
Xue Baochai: "Ying'er!"
A cute and well-behaved maid walked over quickly from outside.
Xue Baochai: "Go out immediately and follow Brother Hong to see if he has really arrived at Cuiyun Tower, when did he enter and when did he come out, and report back to me."
Ying'er was horrified: "Miss, are you... asking me to follow Uncle Hong? This... servant dare not."
Xue Baochai: "Go quickly. If you are discovered, just say you happened to be passing by."
Ying'er had no choice but to accept the order.
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Cuiyun House is a brothel, not a brothel. There is an essential difference between the two.
A brothel is similar to a high-end hotel in ancient times. The women in the brothel are more responsible for playing music and dancing to entertain the guests. Even the courtesan usually only sells his skills but not his body.
Of course, if you pay enough money or have a high enough status, nothing will matter...
But in general, brothels are much cleaner than brothels.
Xue Hong dismounted from Cuiyun Tower and went straight to the fourth floor. The fourth floor was also the last floor of Cuiyun Tower. Basically, the people here were either young masters from Jinling's aristocratic families or high-ranking officials.
To be fair, if you randomly beat ten people here, nine of them would probably be on the same level as the Jinling Prefect.
Don't think it's an exaggeration. As a thousand-year-old city, Jinling has countless local gangsters.
After Xue Hong arrived on the fourth floor, there was a young girl at the stairs to receive the guests.
After asking about Xue Hong's intention and whether he has an appointment with the person, someone will be sent to verify it. After verification, the person will be led to the corresponding box.
As Xue Hong walked past, he felt that there were many people in invisible positions throughout the corridor, but they did not have any murderous intentions. They seemed to be the presence of security personnel.
After the woman led Xue Hong to the box, she apologized and left.
Xue Hong opened the door and walked in, and saw Zhu Xie and Chen Chen sitting at the banquet. Not far away from them were ten girls holding various musical instruments.
As soon as Zhu Xie saw Xue Hong, he quickly stood up and pulled Xue Hong in: "Junchen, why are you here! Sit down, sit down!"
"Let's see how it goes! These are the girls with the best skills in Cuiyun Tower! Junchen will definitely be satisfied."
With that said, he pressed Xue Hong on his seat and waved his hand.
Then the music started playing.
Unexpectedly, the ensemble of various instruments was not as noisy as a symphony as Xue Hong expected, but instead was as light and crisp as flowing water in the mountains, and sweet to the ear.
The tinkling sound of the guqin and the sound of the flute make people relax unconsciously, as if they are among the mountains and rivers.
Xue Hong admitted that he was superficial.
Zhu Xie poured a glass of fruit wine from the silver pot and drank it in one gulp: "Comfortable! These three thousand taels are worth it!!"
Chen Chen was much better in comparison, half-closing his eyes and listening to the music quietly.
Xue Hong closed her eyes and enjoyed the washing of music.
After the song ended, Zhu Xie waved his hand and asked people to retreat.
There were only three people left in the huge room.
Xue Hong told the story about Xue Baochai, and Zhu Jie immediately said that this was nothing! Not to mention a mere draft pick, even if his father selected a concubine, he would guarantee to fish out Xue Baochai!
Xue Hong raised his wine glass and toasted Zhu Xie.
Zhu Xie suddenly said with some embarrassment: "Hey hey hey! What is that, Junchen! I want to ask you to save someone."
Xue Hong: "Save people? Isn't there an imperial doctor?"
Zhu Xie: "The capital is too far away from here, and it's not convenient for my father to send an imperial doctor here."
Xue Hong: "Identity, name."
Zhu Xie: "The patrol salt censor Lin Ruhai."
Xue Hong's expression changed slightly, but it was still as expected: "It's him? The son-in-law of the Jia family in Rongguo Mansion, the prince's chosen concubine."
Zhu Ji: "That's him."
Zhu Xie told Xue Hong what happened while eating.
At present, the court is generally divided into three parties: "civilians, military generals, and nobles."
Civil servants and generals are easy to understand, and nobles refer to those after the heroes of the Ming Dynasty. The four princes and eight princes are representatives of this aspect.
As for Lin Ruhai, he was the fourth generation prince in his family, and as a Tanhualang, he should be a civil servant and noble, but he was selected by Rongguo Gong to recruit his son-in-law.
In the end, he ended up being disliked by civil servants and distrusted by nobles and nobles.
Fortunately, Lin Ruhai himself had the talent of Xuanma to worship the prime minister, so the Emperor sent Lin Ruhai to Yangzhou to manage the salt political commissar with the important task.
Originally, the Emperor's plan was to leave Lin Ruhai to his son, who is now the emperor's high-ranking official. But no one expected that those gangsters in Yangzhou were so courageous! They actually poisoned Lin Ruhai's family openly and openly!!
The emperor did not want to alarm the snake, nor did he want to kill Lin Ruhai in vain, so he ordered Zhu Xie, who was in Jinling, to secretly find a miracle doctor and treat Lin Ruhai.
Zhu Jie and Xue Hong had been together for three years, so they naturally knew something about Xue Hong's medical skills. So they turned to Xue Hong for help.
Xue Hong looked at Zhu Jie pretending to be disgusted, and said jokingly: "Okay! Why do you have to do something? Please invite me to Cuiyun Tower. You have already planned it."
Chen Chen directly raised his hand and said, "Junchen, don't look at me. I don't know anything. I'm just here to make up the numbers."
Xue Hong thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: "That's fine, I'll just go there. But Your Highness, if my younger brother and sister come to Beijing, I'll have to trouble you to take care of them secretly."
Zhu Jie smiled widely and her chest clapped loudly: "No problem! Just hug me! What about Prince Teng and Prince Jia? If they dare to cause trouble, I will let them swallow it themselves!"