Shen Jingdan returned to his room and found that his concubine Lu Yun was not there. When he went downstairs and saw other "Qingcheng" (prostitutes) he was familiar with, he asked where Lu Yun had gone.
The woman said that Midoriya went to Nagasaki Castle Town in the afternoon and would probably be back soon.
Shen Jingdan took a few Kuanyong Tongbao and asked the maid downstairs to bring some refreshments and hot water for washing to his daughter on the second floor. Then he went out to the Tushen Hall.
This Tushen Hall in a house in the Tang Dynasty is actually a Tushu Temple. The three words "Fu Fu Palace" are written on the plaque in the main hall. A pond was dug in front of the Tushu Temple, and a small bridge was erected on it. The water in the pond It is drawn from the ditch outside the large wall of the Tang Dynasty house and is connected to the water system of the entire Nagasaki Castle. If you come here after the beginning of spring, you will feel like a small bridge and flowing water.
However, it was already winter at this time, and several mat sheds were set up on the square in front of the Tutu Temple. In addition to the thatched roofs, the sheds were surrounded by straw mats, which was very tight.
Shen Jingdan came outside a banquet tent and heard the sound of music coming from the tent. He listened carefully and found out that it was "Nine Links" that was being sung, and he couldn't help but smile.
"Nine Links" came from southern China and became popular in the Edo period with the arrival of a large number of Chinese sailors and merchants. In a broad sense, the song "Nine Links" is the general name of many Jiangnan tunes. After one song is sung, the next one will be sung. One song. For example, the "Dajiu Lian Diao" popular in Suzhou is composed of "Wugeng Diao", "Hua Ming Diao", "Hua Ming Diao", "Haha Diao", "Xiangjiang Lang Diao", etc.
Since the Ming Dynasty, most of the lower-level sailors on merchant ships engaged in Sino-Japanese trade were Fujianese, so "Fujian tune" has become quite popular on merchant ships and in places such as Nagasaki. First, it was sung by the Chinese themselves, and later it was gradually added to the Japanese tune. "Qingcheng" was sung together, and eventually it became popular among Japanese people.
Shen Jingdan opened the cotton curtain and went inside. The Japanese actress on the stage was playing the Yueqin and singing in poor Hokkien dialect: "I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared. Look, I gave the slave a nine-link chain. He took it with both hands and couldn't untie it. The slave (took) a knife to cut it, but it couldn't be cut..."
The merchants and senior sailors who were listening to singing and drinking below were divided into several areas according to each merchant ship, separated by screens.
Everyone pushed cups to each other and shook their heads in response. Especially every time the actress sang "Yeah, yeah, yeah", everyone in the audience joined in, and dozens of people said "Yeah, yeah" together.
"Hey, shipwreck owner~" A businessman holding a Japanese "Qingcheng" and shaking his head saw Shen Jingdan and quickly stood up to greet him. "Come and sit, come and sit." Several other businessmen and Yinshi were on the same ship. When the sailors on board saw it, they all stood up to pay their respects.
Shen Jingdan bowed his hands in return and walked to the round table where the businessman was. He and everyone at the table bowed their hands before sitting down.
Many of these merchants are representatives of domestic merchants, also known as "cargo heads." Since Shen Jingdan got the letter, many merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang came to him, hoping to join; there were even merchants from Shanxi who also joined the business. Got a share.
At this time, the Japanese maid replaced all the dishes in front of Shen Jingdan with a new set, and the businessman on the side quickly poured him a glass of wine.
"Although this trip is in winter, it has been a smooth journey. I would also like to thank the owner of the sunken ship for taking the trouble. Let me express my feelings over a glass of old wine." A businessman picked up the wine glass, stood up and said to Shen Jingdan, then drank a glass of wine. Drink it all.
Shen Jingdan kept saying "I don't dare, I don't dare" and drank the wine in his glass with a smile.
All the businessmen applauded together and then raised their glasses together.
At this time, the maid brought another big dish, Sendai Domain's yoshipin abalone.
"Eat the food, eat the food." The businessman who paid for the meal hurriedly greeted everyone with his chopsticks.
At this time, the sound of the piano on the stage changed and the music became melodious. After the Japanese actress finished singing a nine-link song, she changed to another song: "The colorful clouds are blooming, and the moon is bright like water flooding the tower. It turns out that it is the sound of the wind playing with the bamboo, but it is the sound of the golden pendant." "The moon moves the shadows of the flowers, and I suspect that the master has come. His eyes are diligent, shouting out his feelings urgently, leaning against the door to wait, just wanting to know that the child has arrived, and the Qingluan Yellow Dog is good-looking." ("Caiyunkai") )
Since his concubine Lu Yun was not there, Shen Jingdan casually invited a "Qingcheng" to sit beside him and drink with him.
While everyone was drinking, they punched each other to give orders. Sometimes when they lost, the "Qingcheng" who was accompanying them would drink for the businessman they were in love with. For a while, there was laughter on the table, and the men punched each other and chatted.
Shen Jingdan looked at everything familiar in front of him and smiled without saying a word. Suddenly, he felt the "Qingcheng" beside him stand up and sit down again, but then he smelled a very familiar smell of gouache. He turned around and saw that it was His Japanese concubine Lujun is back.
Lu Yun looked at Shen Jingdan with a smile, leaned into his ear and whispered, "Why are you here so suddenly? Didn't you say you would come back in April when you left last time?"
Shen Jingdan shook his head, leaned into Lu Yun's ear and said, "There are too many people here. I will tell you when I get back later. Anyway, there is some trouble. I will take you to see someone later and you will understand."
Lu Yun nodded and stopped asking.
"What did you do in the city?" Shen Jingdan asked casually.
Lu Yun then leaned into his ear and explained that a girl from a brothel he was in love with was ill, and she was afraid that she would only be here for a few days, so she went to the city to visit her.
At this time, a businessman who knew Lu Yun at the table said to Shen Jingdan with a smile: "Hey, Mrs. Ru, the owner of the shipwreck, is here." After saying that, he looked around the businessmen at the table and said to Lu Jun: "I haven't seen you for a year. Are you ready? Let me propose a toast to you and your wife on behalf of everyone."
Shen Jingdan smiled and said: "Well, you old Huang, you came to make fun of us just after Lu Yun came back. Come on, punch us and see if I don't knock you out."
Businessman Lao Huang put down his glass of wine, looked around at everyone and shouted with a smile: "It's not yet clear who will win over whom, do you think so? Come on!"
It is said that since the 23rd year of Kangxi (1684), the Qing government felt that the country had been stabilized, so it issued the "Sea Exhibition Order".
With the "Sea Exhibition Order", the number of Tang ships traveling to and from Nagasaki increased year by year. In the 27th year of Kangxi's reign, the number of Qing merchants and crew members exceeded 9,000. Tang ships and goods came in large numbers. In addition to limited trade, there were also Smuggling incidents inside and outside the harbor caused Japanese money to flow to the Qing Dynasty.
As more people came, some began to look for women to be long-term mistresses in Nagasaki. Eventually, they drank too much and started fighting over women in Nagasaki Castle Town.
In order to prevent contact with the Japanese and put an end to smuggling, the Nagasaki Administrative Office took advantage of the fight and spent a year to build a Chinese house covering an area of more than 30,000 square meters on the hillside on the south side of Nagasaki Port, forcing all Chinese entering the port to People stay there until they return home.
In order to prevent the many merchants and sailors who stayed in the Chinese houses for several months from getting depressed and causing trouble, the shogunate allowed brothel girls from the Flower Street and Maruyama in Nagasaki Castle to enter the residential area to provide services to the people who stayed. For these brothels The shogunate called the woman "Qingcheng" just to sound nice.
These local brothel girls are called "Dutch Tour" and "Tangren Tour" respectively according to their different living areas.
Initially, after registering at the "Otname Club House" on the right side of the outer courtyard of the entrance gate of the Tang Dynasty Yashiki, these brothel girls were allowed to stay in the inner courtyard for one to three days; later it developed to the point where they could stay for ten days at a time in the senior crew's area and in the lower-class crew's area.
Five days; after that, you can register continuously and stay until the Tang Dynasty returns, and you can stay for several months at a time.
It is said that the service spirit of these Japanese women is really considerate. They are not only wives for the Chinese for one night, several nights, and several months, but they can also recite poems and paintings, hold lamps and study ink, and even cook and eat like housewives.
Daily life...that is, what is that and what is that, hey hey hey...
The source of income for these Japanese women was that after the Chinese left Hong Kong, they took their registration certificates to the Chinese New Year Bank in the city to receive a "yangdaiyin", which was the middle price drawn after the goods shipped by Tang Dynasty ships were sold.
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Of course, there are also many Chinese businessmen and sailors who feel pity for these brothel girls who are married to them, and will secretly carry some jewelry items in their carry-on luggage every time they come. But when these women take these items out of the Tang Dynasty Yashiki,
They would often be searched by the knife-carrying guard outside the second door of the residential area, and they would eventually be confiscated.
Ordinarily, with such strict control by the shogunate, smuggling should be put to an end, right? But do you think it is possible?
Among the Japanese merchants, there were some very courageous ones who wanted to bypass the government and play tricks.
For example, they dug tunnels into Tang Dynasty houses, used sea cucumbers, abalone, otter skins and gold to exchange for large amounts of white sugar, fine tea sets, dishes and even Tang Dynasty clothes and trousers, and then sold them to the people at high prices, making a lot of profits.
However, the management in this era of Nagasaki was still very strict, and the Japanese businessmen who participated in smuggling were eventually beheaded and exiled to an isolated island.
There are also Chinese people in the residential area who sneak out of the gate and run to the castle town. They are eventually captured by the patrolling samurai on the street and tied back to the big wooden cage in the outer courtyard.
When Shen Xuan entered the door, she saw such a person locked in a wooden cage.
After Shen Jingdan had a few fistfights with the businessman Lao Huang, he said goodbye and left. Everyone thought that a little farewell between him and Lu Yun was better than a wedding, so they no longer wanted to stay. Before leaving, Shen Jingdan ordered the maid here to send him off.
Some food was brought to his room.
When walking out of the mat tent, it was getting late. Shen Jingdan walked in front, while Lu Yun was half a step behind him, following closely behind.
When the two returned to the townhouse, candles had been lit upstairs and downstairs. When they got to the second floor, Shen Jingdan walked outside his daughter's room and coughed twice. The sound of his daughter's footsteps came from inside the house.
"Daddy is back." Shen Xuan opened the door and saw her father standing outside the door with a woman, and said happily.
When Lu Yun saw the girl who opened the door, before he could be surprised by her stunning beauty, he was shocked when he heard her calling Shen Jingdan "daddy".
She ignored Shen Xuan's appearance and pushed Shen Jingdan into the house. She quickly asked: "She is the Ah Quan you mentioned? Why did you bring her here?"