In the evening after daytime, Zhang Xiaowu and others walked leisurely to Pingxiu Fang to drink wine. Passers-by were spreading rumors about the Twelve Golden Hairpins Competition held once in March in Cuiyan Pavilion. Guan Cheng inquired carefully,
He came back and said: "I heard someone talk about this yesterday. The Twelve Golden Hairpin Competition is the most famous beauty party in Daizhou and Huizhou. Twelve prostitutes compete to win the title of the best prostitute in the world.
good reputation."
"Won't Twelve Golden Hairpins sleep with you?" Wang Yijin interjected and asked.
"You are so young, what do you know?" Guan Cheng scolded with a smile, "She is a famous prostitute. She serves people with her talents and does not sleep with her - unless you win her heart, redeem her life and marry her home. The one who sleeps with her is
A prostitute is also called a red hustler, and a prostitute who doesn’t sleep with her is also called a qingguer.”
"Then you definitely didn't find Qing Guan'er yesterday." Wang Yijin said with a smile.
Guan Cheng coughed and said, "Well...listening to Qing Guan'er playing the piano is too expensive!"
Zhang Xiaowu thought to himself, it turns out that prostitutes in this era are quite respected. After all, prostitutes have talents, unlike prostitutes who can just split their legs and be done. Sure enough, they are skilled workers, in any era
To be respected by others, including selling yourself, you need to be talented.
As soon as the third quarter of the lunar month arrived, the four of them entered Pingxiufang. Fortunately, no one checked whether they were carrying weapons when entering or leaving Pingxiufang. Of course, no man came to Qinglou Lefang with weapons. After all, everyone was there.
Keep a weapon in your pants.
Cuiyan Pavilion is located in the innermost part of Pingxiu Square, passing through rows of pavilions and pavilions. Looking at the women upstairs in the brothel, they are shouting. Guan Cheng's eyes are red, and Wang Yijin is blushing and lowering his head.
Chen Guanxi old monk
He was generally unmoved when he was in trance, but Zhang Xiaowu waved his fan and walked forward without hesitation and swagger like a real prince. The other three people sighed in their hearts: "The Colonel pretends to be a prince, he is really pretending to be a prince."
When Zhang Xiaowu and others came in, the steward who greeted the guests at the door turned out to be a charming young woman in her thirties. She had a pair of charming eyes, and when she glanced at the man, his bones were numb. Brothel
In addition to the gentry, red hustlers, and maids, there are also female officials, that is, the old ladies who manage the qing guerr. They are not senior, but they are well-connected and well-connected. They can not only control the situation, but also control men.
This female officer, Dongxiang, was such a capable person. When she saw Zhang Xiaowu walking in from the front door in a grand and carefree manner, followed by three servants and subordinates, she stepped forward as gracefully as a water snake, her face half-covered with a paper fan and asked sweetly: "Little
Lang Jun looked surprised, where did this young master come from?"
Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile: "Sister, you are polite. I came from Yongzhou, and I didn't expect to meet the twelve golden hairpins fighting for beauty by chance at Lianglangguan. This is a sight not to be missed."
Dongxiang smiled sweetly again: "Young master, you are very lucky. The competition between the twelve golden hairpins is really rare. If the young master wins the favor of his daughter's family, he can take away the twelve golden hairpins. But there are many talented people today. Young Master
You can compete with others. I heard that Yongzhou has produced outstanding literary figures since ancient times, so I think you must also be a talented person."
Zhang Xiaowu said proudly: "I don't dare to call talented people, but I want to see the abilities of the students here and see who wins the heart of the twelve golden hairpins."
Dongxiang stepped forward and got a little closer. The aroma was so fragrant that Zhang Xiaowu couldn't help but take half a step back. The woman giggled, smelled Zhang Xiaowu's breath, and smiled angrily: "Young man is really good at lying. He is obviously a junior brother, but he still wants to say something like this."
That’s big talk.”
Zhang Xiaowu blushed and said awkwardly: "Who lied to you? I... I am Brother Chu."
Dongxiang said provocatively: "Whether it's brother Chu or not, I'll tell the two ladies to give it a try."
Zhang Xiaowu cupped his hands and stepped back half a step again: "I'm convinced, I'm convinced, my sister is still very discerning."
Dongxiang covered her mouth and smiled sweetly, her chest heaving, until Wang Yijin and the others were stunned and almost had nosebleeds. Zhang Xiaowu coughed before the three of them reacted. When Dongxiang saw a high-ranking official coming, she let go of teasing Zhang Xiaowu.
I asked a turtle slave to lead the way and sit down, and he was well served.
Walking into Cuiyan Pavilion, you first passed a screen wall, then walked through a corridor, and finally opened a door and suddenly came to a bright place. This is the whole view of Cuiyan Pavilion. Inside Cuiyan Pavilion is a
There is a three-story "Hui"-shaped building, and in the center is a garden like a fairy boat in the green field. But at this time, a waist-high ornate platform was built in the center of the garden, and the platform was decorated as white and flawless. Eight
Guards wearing white clothes and holding long swords stood around the Yantai. They saw these eight people with bright eyes and white teeth. They turned out to be eight young women disguised as men.
The erotic stage and the female guard attracted everyone's attention at once. Zhang Xiaowu thought to himself that this was too uniform and tempting.
They thought they had arrived earlier, but they didn't expect that the Cuiyan Pavilion was already bustling with people. After all, the fight between the Twelve Golden Hairpins is a dream for every man. How many people want to have a glimpse of the world-famous Twelve Hairpins?
No. It is said that each of the twelve hairpins has their own abilities, and they are both good at color and art. They are good at pipa, bamboo flute, shengxiao, guzheng, sleeve dance, round dance, Hu dance, shrunken bone dance, singing, minor tunes, composing, and chanting.
Poetry, at that time, beauties would give poems to talented people and select the best ones to serve people with their art. Scholars from Daizhou and Huizhou came here to compete in order to show off in front of these twelve beauties.
You will win a good talk by yourself.
Men, it’s nothing more than fighting for wine, sex and wealth. Cuiyan Pavilion has the world’s best wines, the world’s beauties, and the world’s wealth. This is what men strive for. Talented men use their talents, and rich men use their wealth. There are many in the banquet
The waitresses who accompany the wine are naturally lower-class women who sell their skills as well as their bodies, also known as red shopkeepers. However, the men's thoughts are all focused on the twelve golden hairpins who sell their skills but not their bodies.
There is a circle of elegant seats around the ornate terrace, and half of the twelve elegant seats are already occupied. Sitting on the chairs in the elegant seats, you can probably smell the fragrance of the woman on the ornate terrace and see her hair by raising your head while drinking.
Silk and cheeks. There are some round tables set up outside the seating area. The round tables are separated by small waist-high screens and do not interfere with each other. The small round tables are spread all the way to the surrounding pavilions, and there are rows of them on the pavilions.
Although the table on the corridor is located farther away, the experience of viewing it from top to bottom is even better.
There was a buzz of people around, and several familiar people recognized each other. Some said: "I guess Brother Gao will not let go of such an elegant thing." The other said: "Why is Brother Sun Xian not afraid of the tigress in the family?"
Someone said: "This is the Twelve Hairpins Competition. We and other common people also want to see who is more powerful, the beautiful woman, or the talented man." Some boys delivering wine often walked in, and some people who couldn't bear to drink actually started to drink now.
A little drunk, he hugged the maid next to him and said, "You can also play a little song." It was such a lively scene, but the four of them were a little dizzy.
Zhang Xiaowu asked the turtle slave whether these seats were special. The turtle slave smiled and said, "My dear guest, please forgive me. To sit in the nearest seat around the Yantai, you need to pay one thousand taels of drinks in advance. For the row outside, it becomes five taels."
One hundred taels of silver, and one row further out becomes two hundred taels of silver. The fourth row requires fifty taels of silver, the last row requires twenty taels of silver, and the seats in the surrounding corridors also cost twenty taels of silver. Dear guests,
It’s optional.”
Guancheng exclaimed: "Why is it so expensive to sit in the upper seat?"
The turtle slave said with a smile: "Dear guest, don't think it is expensive. Some people spend money and are not qualified to sit there. It should be noted that the people sitting there are either the young masters of the gentry, or they are high-rollers with huge sums of money, or people with high status.
Officials and ordinary young masters just pooled together a thousand taels of silver, but we didn't dare to attack them, lest they ruin the enjoyment of other distinguished guests."
Zhang Xiaowu said: "These twelve leaders are probably also a symbol of identity and status. They are either extremely rich or extremely powerful."
The turtle slave's eyes lit up, and he immediately extended his thumb and praised: "Your honor is wise, that's what I mean. I'm stupid, but I can't explain it as simply and thoroughly as your honor."
Zhang Xiaowu laughed, looked at the surrounding customers, and ordered a seat in the third row for 200 taels. The turtle slave didn't mind that they spent less money, and led them to sit there with a smile.
Guancheng watched the turtle slave accept the money and sighed: "Yesterday I bought three women from a brothel at the end of Pingxiu Square. How much do you think I spent?"
Wang Yijin said: "Two hundred taels?"
Guancheng curled his lips and said: "You have never been to a brothel. Do you think everything is so expensive? It only costs me ten taels of silver. But we have spent two hundred taels of silver sitting here. This Cuiyan Pavilion is really
Make money."
Chen Guanxi clicked his tongue and shook his head in pain. In his opinion, what could he do with two hundred taels of silver? It would be a huge loss to choose a table here. A penny is worth a noodle cake, and two hundred taels of silver is 20,000 noodle cakes. This is
One seat is enough for ordinary people to feed their families for several years. The poor are really poor and the rich are rich.
Wang Yijin looked at the door: "That's it, there are still people who don't have seats." Sure enough, there were some poor students who came late. Because they couldn't afford twenty taels of drinks, they could only stand outside and watch the fun.
There isn't a single seat.
The reason why Cuiyan Pavilion became the number one brothel in Pingxiufang is nothing more than to capture the minds of men. For men, a wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a prostitute, a prostitute is not as good as stealing, and stealing is not as good as being unable to steal. As long as the fish cannot be stolen,
Cats are all a gluttonous feast, so these famous prostitutes in Cuiyan Pavilion have become the favorites of men.
The handyman first served some drinks and cakes, and the turtle slave asked if there was any familiar sister accompanying him. Zhang Xiaowu said that there was no familiar woman for me when I first came to Guibao. The turtle slave said in a low voice: "The one sitting in the third row is
Most people will ask a familiar girl to accompany them for drinks, otherwise they will look a little different."
It was the first time in Zhang Xiaowu's life that he had entered a brothel. He didn't understand the rules inside, so he had to smile bitterly and said that the turtle slave would recommend one or two casually. The turtle slave was immediately filled with joy, thinking that he would be rewarded by his sisters, so he called
Two girls who had the best relationship with him accompanied Zhang Xiaowu, a fake young man.
