"Brother-in-law, why do you suddenly want to buy a house? Are you planning to live in Guangling for a long time?"

Pan Long nodded: "The north is bitterly cold, and it will be better to live in Yangzhou after Aunt Cui is pregnant in the future." It is safer for children to grow up in Yangzhou. ”

Wu Jixing couldn't help but smile: "You haven't gotten married yet, you're already thinking about this?"

"There's nothing wrong with preparing early. ”

"That's right, anyway, the housing prices in Guangling City have been rising, and it's better to buy late than early. "Ding Lao, one of the two generals under Wu Jixing, said with a smile, "Some time ago, the county guard (Guangling prefect) even issued a special official document to restrict the family from only allowing one property in Guangling City. What was already in the past was either sold or heavily taxed every year...... In this way, housing prices in Guangling are still rising. ”

Pan Long was taken aback, and suddenly remembered a memory from his previous life, and asked, "How high is the housing price in Guangling now?"

The short and fat "Song Xiaoha" said a number.

Pan Long frowned slightly, this house price was a little beyond his expectations.

It's not that he can't buy it, but ...... The housing prices in Guangling are so high, which always makes him have some bad associations.

"Are the rich people of the whole Yangzhou flocking to Guangling?" he said to himself, "it is not necessary...... Unless there is a store to operate here, under normal circumstances, it is enough to send a few people to set up a point here and get commercial news in time......"

"Brother-in-law, what are you talking about?, why is the rise in housing prices worrying you so much?" Wu Jixing asked curiously.

Pan Long laughed dryly twice - of course he couldn't say that this was the psychological shadow of his youth in his previous life.

Fortunately, Wu Jixing didn't ask, although she is not very old, she has a lot of experience in the rivers and lakes, and she has already understood the truth of "everyone has their own secrets".

Accompanied by her, Pan Long spent an afternoon in Guangling City, looking at several properties, and finally finalized the contract and bought one of them.

It was a mansion with twenty-one rooms, one large courtyard, and a small courtyard, and could accommodate forty or fifty people.

The original owner of this room was a wealthy merchant with a strange name, called Jin San. He originally had a number of properties in Guangling City, but because he recently planned to leave Yangzhou and develop in other areas, he planned to get rid of some of them and keep only one property.

His properties, big or small, are in a good location. This mansion is no exception.

It is located in the northern part of Guangling City, some distance from the city wall. There are no tall buildings nearby, and the lighting is very good. And there is a certain distance from the main road that runs through Guangling City - but not far, not only can you reach the main road smoothly, but also have a certain buffer in case of war mutiny and other things, so as not to be affected by the pond fish.

Of course, as Pan Long's house, there must be few people in the world who dare to come here to cause trouble.

The two courtyards in the house were built into gardens, Pan Long was quite dissatisfied with this, after buying the house, he talked to Yaxing, and asked Yaxing to find someone to renovate the house and transform the large courtyard in front of him into a martial arts training ground.

If there is no martial arts training ground at home, he always feels that there is something shortcoming.

The people in the tooth shop were very puzzled, and they didn't understand why the good garden was bulldozed to build a martial arts training ground, but the rich one was the uncle, and since the owner himself was willing, then of course they didn't have any opinions.

However, Wu Jixing felt that it was a pity, and persuaded Pan Long to keep this garden and change the small courtyard at the back into a martial arts training ground.

"It's too small!" Pan Long shook his head, "Fang Yuan can't even reach ten zhang, he can only practice fists, feet, guns and sticks, not even bows and arrows, let alone horse riding or something......

Wu Jixing was speechless, in her thoughts, isn't the martial arts training ground just used to practice fists, feet, guns and sticks? Even, the martial arts training ground that can practice guns and sticks is already relatively large, and the general martial arts training ground is just to practice fists and feet.

As a result, Pan Long opened his mouth, that is, he wanted to practice bows and arrows and even cavalry battles, wouldn't this mean that he would have to bulldoze the big garden......

She couldn't persuade Pan Long, so she could only regretfully pick out the flowers and trees in the big garden that she looked at, and let Yaxing find a florist to transplant them to Yitian Courtyard.

After finishing this trivial matter, Pan Long was about to go back to the inn to rest, and by the way, let the "White Tiger Star" appear to give some guidance to his apprentice Zheng Shuang. As a result, Wu Jixing asked him with great interest, if he was interested in going to the painting boat to play?

"Painting boat?" Pan Long looked at Wu Jixing in surprise, feeling that his mind couldn't turn for a while.

The so-called painting boat is actually a green building built on a ship. These large ships slowly sailed on the water near Gwangling Castle, receiving customers who wanted to hunt for beauty, but also to be elegant, and most importantly, unwilling to let others see them.

As a human being in two lives, Pan Long has never been to such a place. He never dreamed that the first time he went, he was invited by his sister-in-law.

...... If you want to say that your brother-in-law invited you to go, it barely makes sense, don't you think it's weird for your sister-in-law to talk about this kind of topic?

As soon as he saw Pan Long's expression, Wu Jixing understood what he meant, and immediately blushed, and immediately hurriedly explained.

It turned out that recently, Bai Yingxuan, a famous courtesan "rain master" in Guangling City, was old and wanted to be good, and the "Chunfeng Building" where she was located decided to hold a singing and dancing performance for her to celebrate her ability to smoothly break away from this skin and meat business and live a stable life.

Bai Yingxuan has been in the industry for more than ten years and is famous. She was able to go ashore smoothly and well, and many people were happy for her. Even in the Guangling literary circle, many people will come to congratulate her.

Wu Jixing and Bai Yingxuan are also familiar - when Qionghua Pavilion negotiated with the forces of the rivers and lakes, she chose the negotiation location on her painting boat "Drunken Moon Boat" more than once. Everyone has a good relationship, and now that she wants to be good, Wu Jixing naturally wants to have a show.

Only then did Pan Long understand...... It turned out that I went to the Congliang celebration, not to ...... Ahem.

"Well, I'll be there on time. ”

Of course, he would not refuse, but rather, he was also quite curious about Congliang.

Although it is often mentioned in the book of storytelling, it is often mentioned that the woman is good in the dust, but in fact, this situation is rare. The bosses who run the leather and meat business are all black-hearted ghosts, where is it possible to put the cash cow out?

Unless it is really old and decrepit to the point that it has no use value at all, otherwise, once it is reduced to dust, don't fantasize about anything good.

Anyway, Pan Long has been in the rivers and lakes for a few years, and he has never heard of even one famous prostitute who has succeeded in doing good.

It's rare to encounter, and of course he wants to see it.

That night, he changed into a literati dress, came to Yitian Villa early, and went to the painting boat "Drunken Moon Boat" on the Crescent Lake in the south of Guangling City with Wu Jixing and others.

The Drunken Moon Boat was a very large ship, and its hull was even larger than the giant passenger ship that Pan Long had seen in the Tongtian River. But Pan Long could see at a glance that the ship was big and inappropriate, and it could not move fast or withstand the wind and waves. It can only be a situation in a narrow water area with a calm surface such as Xinyue Lake, and once it enters the Tongtian River in the south, I am afraid that the boat will capsize in a few minutes.

On the side of this big ship, there are lanterns. Each lantern has a name on it, and it looks like it's all a woman's name.

"These lanterns are the names of the girls who pick up guests on the Drunken Moon Boat today. The tall, thin man known as Ding Lao Hum said, "If she has guests tonight, the lantern will be extinguished." If there are no guests, the lanterns are lit. ”

Pan Long looked at it and saw that more than 20 lanterns were all lit, which was quite spectacular.

"Don't look at it, Drunken Moon Boat won't do business tonight. A scholar next to him couldn't help but say, "Today is the big day of the rain master, and of course her sisters have to celebrate her." Even the stewards of Chunfeng Building have to give them this face. ”

Pan Long nodded and smiled at the scholar.

The scholar saw that he was quite polite and smiled back, but seeing that there was a little nervousness on his face, Pan Long couldn't help but wonder a little.

Famous prostitutes are good, what is the matter with this scholar?

Could it be that he was a fan of this prostitute, or even a guest of the scene?

But this is really a difficult question to ask, so I can only give up.

The group got on the boat, entered the cabin from the stern, and soon came to the hall located at the top of the cabin, led by the maid.

The hall is built majestically and doesn't look like it's on a ship at all. If it weren't for the slight ups and downs under your feet from time to time, you would even be mistaken for being in a big restaurant on the shore.

As the boss of the green forest forces in Guangling City, the seat of Qionghua Pavilion has naturally been set a long time ago. Inside a cubicle separated by a gauze cloth.

There are two tables in the compartment, and the space is quite spacious. Pan Long and Wu Jixing sat at one table, Hum Ha Er sat at another table, and there was a maid guarding the door, waiting for the summons at any time.

Pan Long looked at the hall and saw eight such compartments. In addition, there is the general seat, and many scholars and businessmen are sitting in the general seat, waiting with anticipation on their faces.

More than one person has a look of regret on his face, it seems that Bai Yingxuan, a famous prostitute known as "Rain Master", is indeed very popular.

He looked up again, and noticed that from the roof of the hall, there were many colored silks hanging down, and all but one of the white silks had names on them.

"What's the deal with the names on the silk?" he asked.

"That's the Oiran of the old boat. Ding Lao Hum explained, "The color of the colored silk represents their final ending. White silk and green silk are good, red silk and yellow silk are old deaths, and purple silk and blue silk have remained in this line of work until they were transferred to the manager. ”

Pan Long took a look and saw that among the fourteen colored silks, there were only two white silks, two green silks, one purple silk and one blue silk, and the rest were all red and yellow, so he couldn't help but sigh.

There were fourteen famous prostitutes who could be called Oiran before and after this ship, but among these fourteen famous prostitutes, not to mention the good ones who went ashore, there were only six who could live to old age. On the contrary, there were eight who died young.

"Sure enough, it's a man-eating business!" he couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.

Wu Jixing also shook his head, but didn't say anything.

If you want to say that people eat people, why not green forests?

As a native of the Green Forest, if she sighs about this like Pan Long, a decent hero, it will be a bit hypocritical and false.

Pan Long's gaze swept over the same compartments as them, and with his eyesight, the thin gauze naturally couldn't block his vision. I saw that there were tables in each compartment, and there were vegetables, fruits, wine, and dishes, and it was obvious that there were guests.

But maybe it was because they came early, and there were only two compartments in them besides this one.

Inside one of the cubicles were several scholars, smiling, discussing something. Pan Long listened attentively, but he was discussing that he wanted to compose a poem for Bai Yingxuan to celebrate her good ashore.

In the other compartment was a big man, not to mention the tiger's back and bear's waist, and his appearance was even more vicious. It belongs to the type that walks at the gate of the city, and the soldiers will unsheath their swords as if they are facing a great enemy.

The big man held the maid in his arms and took advantage of it while drinking, and the scene was really unbearable. But looking at the maid's expression, it wasn't very unhappy - Pan Long guessed that the two sides probably knew each other, maybe the big man was the maid's regular customer at all.

After a while, people from each compartment came one after another. Pan Long noticed that the person sitting in one of the cubicles had a serious expression and a look in his eyes the power that naturally arises from being in a leadership position for a long time.

The man also behaved quite well, he himself sat at a table with a man who looked like he was supposed to be a bodyguard, but he didn't speak, just drank tea in silence.

In addition, there is a person in the compartment who is also worth mentioning, it is a fat man with a round face, all his clothes are golden, and he has sewn a lot of gold leaves on his clothes, which looks golden, as if the words "I am very rich" are written on his body.

Wearing this dress to go out really has a bit of a sense of robbery. This person dares to wear it like this, and he doesn't even bring a bodyguard, so he must be very skilled.

It's a pity that there are too many people in the hall, and there are also many people who know martial arts, so many people gathered together, which disturbed the flow of heaven and earth vitality, so that Pan Long could not judge this person's skills from the flow of heaven and earth vitality.

When all the guests in the eight booths arrived, several courtesans came up to the stage to play the piano and sing. Pan Long's attainments in music are very average, that is, the level at which he can hear whether he is out of tune or not. At least to his ears, these courtesans play the piano very well, and they sing well, if they go to participate in the talent show in their previous life, at least they should not lose to others in this part of their talent.

...... The premise is that their competitors don't perform chest smashing boulders or anything.

I remember that back then, someone performed a single palm breaking brick and breaking a boulder on his chest during the talent show of the talent show, and the painting style was very wrong - and he actually won.

After a few songs, a chubby, smiling middle-aged man came to the stage and said a kind word, which was basically to thank everyone for taking care of Bai Yingxuan and Chunfeng Lou for so many years, and wished Bai Yingxuan a smooth and safe life after going ashore...... Yunyun.

At first, these nonsense could still get the nods and applause of everyone, and soon some people began to be dissatisfied, shouting for this ugly man to get out of the way, and ask everyone to come on stage to sing.

The fat man was not embarrassed, he laughed and got off the stage, and then a woman in a blue and white costume walked up to the stage accompanied by two maids.

Seeing that many people couldn't even hold their breath, I thought that she was the host of today's banquet, Bai Yingxuan, a famous prostitute in Guangling.