Chapter 166: Picking a maid in Qifeng Tower
After the two said yes. Jiang Yanyun hurriedly washed her clothes, and hid in the room to dress up before coming out. Rong Yuanhang sat in the small passenger on the second floor above, smoking and waiting, and after a while, she walked up from the gangway.
At this moment, Jiang Yanyun has a little light makeup on her face, wearing a rose-red cardigan coat on her upper body, and a flowered skirt on her lower body. The clouds are elegant, smiling smartly, and the end is graceful and noble, and the air is like a quiet orchid.
Rong Yuanhang's eyes lit up, and he teased: "Wow, do you need to be so grand?" β
"This is the first time Xiang Gong has taken the slave family to the street, of course Yan Yun has to dress up pretty," Jiang Yanyun said a little shyly: "You can't take an unkempt dirt girl out, the slave family can't let Xiang Gong lose face." β
Rong Yuanhang smiled: "What is natural beauty? My Yanyun is! Even if you don't dress up, you're still beautiful. β
"Thank you for the compliment." Jiang Yanyun curtsied and bowed, with a look of joy on her face.
"Hehe, okay, let's go, we have to talk to my uncle and sister."
"yes, okay."
Out of the stern of the boat, looking at the vast sea water, there is still a distance of 100 meters to the shore and the beach, Jiang Yanyun's light body technique is not enough to cross this super long distance without getting wet. Hesitantly looked at Rong Yuanhang next to him, and just wanted to summon a lightning leopard to let it wade through the water. Rong Yuanhang naturally said to himself: "You have to ask someone to build a small bridge." β¦β¦ Yan Yun, I'll take you over. β
"Hmm," Jiang Yanyun hummed in her throat, and her face blushed and her heart jumped as soon as she was stopped by Rong Yuanhang. When she jumped over a hundred meters and came to the beach, her head was still dizzy.
Rong Yuanhang asked her to wait for a while, and then dodged to the foot of the mountain in the west, which was also a coconut grove, where Zixing and Xiao Yufeng's master and apprentice liked to cultivate in a quiet place on weekdays.
"Voyage, what's the matter?" Zixing sat cross-legged on a picnic cloth and looked at him with beautiful eyes and a smile. Xiao Yufeng was practicing swords not far away, and when she saw her husband coming, she stopped and walked over while wiping the sweat beads on her face.
"Uncle Shi. Masters. Rong Yuanhang greeted them and said, "I'll go out to the city with Yan Yun, and by the way, let's see if there are any girls who like me to buy one or two people to come back to serve you." Uncle Shi, do you think it's okay? β
"Husband wants to buy a girl?" Xiao Yufeng asked.
"Hmm. What do you mean? β
"Master, look at this ......" Xiao Yufeng turned his head to look at Zixing. The main thing is to take her opinion as the subject prevails.
Zixing said: "Why bother to find someone and a maid? I think it's enough to hire one in the village. β
"But Uncle Shi...... It's a bit inappropriate to invite someone in the village, it's too close, and I'm afraid your identity will be revealed. Rong Yuanhang said.
"Yes, Master, it's better to be cautious!" Xiao Yufeng also said peacefully.
"Alas...... My body. Zixing sighed unconsciously before raising his head and said, "Voyage." It's up to you, the girl's focus is on suppleness, hard-working, and other ...... Well, if one day she's ...... Maybe it will become a maid in the room. It depends on your mind, you choose a good-looking, knowledgeable and courteous person, and the qualifications are still quite important, in case you are pregnant with your child in the future, at least you can't lose in talent. β
Rong Yuanhang's heart jumped when he heard this, and Zixing had already made it clear. This maid may become a maid in the future, so it means that she is willing to be one of her women.
Xiao Yufeng was stunned for a moment, then his face turned crimson and his eyes looked at him strangely, Rong Yuanhang pretended to be confused and nodded: "Okay, then let's choose a 'posture' of the best, if we don't get the best, we would rather lack than abuse, uncle, that's what you mean?" β
Zixing looked at him and grinned, and his beautiful eyes contained a different meaning, and said, "Hmm." Go ahead. β
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Rong Yuanhang looked at Xiao Yufeng's complicated eyes, his heart was worried, and he fled after saying goodbye. This time, looking for a maid became a potential concubine, and he knew that he was in front of beauty. Resistance is weak. However, he had already made up his mind not to go to another woman. So far, there are quite a few women around me.
The two of them went out to the mouth of the mountain with Jiang Yanyun, and suddenly saw a big man with a full face and cheeks coming from a distance, Rong Yuanhang was stunned and said, "Old Ruan, why are you here again?" β
The person who came was none other than Nguyen Mao Qi. After eating breakfast from his sister's house, he first called Jiang Yan: "Hello young grandma." Then he replied, "My old Ruan is going to come and serve you, young master, where are you going?" β
"I'm going to go to the city with my wife," Rong Yuanhang thought for a while and said, "You came just in time, the goods have arrived last night, help me inform Miss Nangong, and Brother Miao, Brother You and others, how about it?" β
"Has the goods arrived?" Ruan Maoqi thought for a moment and said, "No wonder I saw your war beast crested mountain eagle make a move from a distance last night. Young master, take me over, I'll inform them. β
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Rong Yuanhang, Jiang Yanyun, and Ruan Maoqi rode the Guanshan Eagle and flew straight to the southern suburbs of Zanglong Town. The foothold is also in the yard of the farmhouse that he bought earlier.
Here, he parted ways with Ruan Maoqi, Rong Yuanhang and Jiang Yanyun were going to the town to do other things, and the former went to inform Nangong Ningxiang and Miao Renfeng, You Suyang, Qi Zhang, Wang Amao and others, and asked them to bring someone over to pick up the goods tomorrow.
Entering the bustling city, Jiang Yanyun dragged Rong Yuanhang to a high-end cloth shop first, bought some fabrics, and then took them to a tailor shop, handed them to the tailor, and asked him to make several sets of clothes according to the size of each of the four people in the family.
"Master, do you know how to get along with Anri?" Rong Yuanhang asked.
The tailor was an old woman with silver hair and a kind face, she raised her eyes to look at Rong Yuanhang and Jiang Yanyun, and said, "Xiao Xianggong wants to find a place with Anli?" β
"Well, yes." Rong Yuanhang just asked Ruan Maoqi where he could buy maids and slaves, and the other party said this 'He'anli', saying that the best and most beautiful slaves and maids in the city are sold here, but the price is very amazing.
But Rong Yuanhang doesn't care about money, what he cares about is the girl's qualifications.
"Heanli is not a good place." The old woman said slowly: "Little Xianggong, why do you want to play with such a woman at a young age? Those are miserable people, alas, iniquity. β
Jiang Yanyun said dissatisfiedly: "This grandma, my husband is not going to play with women, you just need to tell us how to go." β
The old woman looked up at her, expressionless, turned her head slowly, and instructed a servant in the shop: "Go and ask a carriage for the guests." Just ask the coachman to bring it over. He turned his head again and said to Rong Yuanhang, "The carriage fee is three cents of silver." β
Rong Yuanhang nodded: "Well, thank you, master." β
In a few moments, the servant in the tailor's shop called a carriage down the street. Rong Yuanhang and Jiang Yanyun paid the money in the store. I told the driver the address and asked him to bring it directly.
The carriage went out to a crossroads and turned westward, then went straight for more than ten miles, rounded a large lake with willows, and stopped at a street along the embankment.
The coachman pointed to the entrance of an alley and said, "Two guest officers. This is He'anli, the carriage is not allowed to enter, the whole street is the Qinglou Academy, most of them do the skin and flesh for a living, you go to the end of the inside, there is a small lake inside, a compound next to the lake, is the Fenglou. β
The Fenglou is what Ruan Maoqi said is the best and most beautiful woman in the city. After getting out of the carriage, Rong Yuanhang and Jiang Yanyun walked directly into the alleyway. This street is called Heanli. It is about twenty or thirty meters wide, and the houses on both sides are close to each other, and the pavement is paved with long bluestone bricks, which looks very neat and clean.
Rong Yuanhang was a little curious, and looked at the doors of the shops on both sides. But it's not like imaginary prostitutes with a large group of warblers and swallows? The woman stood at the door to solicit customers, but on the contrary, she looked very deserted. In some courtyards, there were one or two small servants or gatekeepers standing under the lintel, also with indifferent expressions. Seeing Rong Yuanhang Jiang Yanyun, a man and a woman, passing by, they didn't say hello.
"Every house here has a yard full of prostitutes? Courtyard? Rong Yuanhang was very skeptical.
Jiang Yanyun turned his head to look at him, and said with a smile: "Xianggong doesn't know. If you want to see the girl inside, you have to hand over the name post, and you have to see if the girl is in a good mood to greet you. β
"You can call your friends and entertain them here. Usually this kind of place is a man's second home. Once the people inside get along with a certain man, they will not come out to entertain a second man, and they pay attention to mood and elegance. It's not like the out-of-the-box Goulan Advocate Lao, which is purely a lowly skin and meat business. β
"Oh......" Rong Yuanhang listened attentively.
"Do you want to try it?" Jiang Yanyun asked suddenly.
"Huh? This...... Not okay? Rong Yuanhang was eager to try, and he really came to this world, and he had never visited this kind of place once.
Jiang Yanyun smiled "poof". slapped him on the arm and scolded: "You really want to go? β
"Ahem, where do I have?" Rong Yuanhang said seriously.
Jiang Yanyun said: "Xianggong, the slave family wants to remind you that those women are too dirty, and they can't help it." Don't you sneak here, huh? β
"No, are you like that?" Rong Yuanhang's face was serious, and he didn't see the slightest smile.
"Well, the slave family believes in you! Let's go, let's hurry up and go to the Fenglou and see if there is a girl we like......" Jiang Yanyun said this, and took his arm by the way, feeling sweet in his heart.
At the end of the walk, I saw another small lake, and from a distance, there was a building covering a large area, and its wall was very high, at least about ten meters high, standing there in a rolling cylinder.
"This is the so-called famous Fenglou in the city? Why is it so like a prison? Rong Yuanhang muttered.
"It was originally a prison," Jiang Yanyun said, "If the slave family's estimate is good, the slaves and maids in it are taken from all over the world and sold through here." β
Rong Yuanhang's heart sank when he heard this, and he no longer had the same relaxed mood as he was just now.
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"What kind of girl do you want to buy?"
In the living room of the Fenglou, Rong Yuanhang and Jiang Yanyun explained their intentions. A woman with a behaving body came to greet her. The woman's surname is Zhao, this is the shopkeeper in the house, she has a pair of Danfeng triangular eyes, hanging eyebrows, and a smile on her face before she speaks. Next to her stood two tall, burly men and a woman in her forties with a fleshy face.
Jiang Yanyun and Rong Yuanhang glanced at each other, turned their heads and said, "Shopkeeper Zhao, you have to see someone before you say it, right?" β
Shopkeeper Zhao nodded with a smile: "Of course you can." β¦β¦ Mama Pan, take them to see the goods. β
The middle-aged woman replied, "Yes." Two distinguished guests, please go to the backyard with the slave maid. β
Rong Yuanhang and Jiang Yanyun, followed by Mama Pan and two big men, were led to the backyard. There is an iron gate locked here, and the big man on the left is unlocking it with a key in his hand.
"The people inside are all locked up?" Rong Yuanhang frowned and asked.
Mama Pan smiled and said, "Hehe, son." Some girls are not very obedient and have not learned the rules, so they are afraid that she will run around, so they simply lock them up. β
The door was opened, and Mama Pan was the first to break in. I heard her shout when she entered the courtyard: "Girls, stand still, there is a guest coming!" β
"Ahh There are guests coming, ...... quickly."
There was a cacophony of women with warblers and swallows, and then hurried footsteps. Rong Yuanhang and Jiang Yanyun entered. I saw a woman in a linen cloth shirt in front of me, and she was actually lining up in an orderly manner, as if the army was waiting for the chief to review.
The women were of all sizes, tall and short, but they were all very young, some of them looked to be only about nine or ten years old, and the oldest was only about twenty years old. They all stood there with their heads bowed, their hands clasped together, and their legs together.
The courtyard is wide, but once entered. There was an eerie feel to it, with a courtyard the size of half a football field surrounded by a tall fence. Behind this group of women, there were a lot of sheets, clothes, and other things that were swept away. There are wooden basins in the ground, with water stains, and they are placed in separate rows. Rong Yuanhang guessed that this should be an existence similar to the Huanyi Bureau, and the usual work of these girls was laundryβthere were also fabrics and clothes stacked like a hill next to them.
The women were divided into six rows, each with twenty people, leaving a two-meter path in the middle.
"Xianggong, go and take a look, and tell them if you like the one." Jiang Yanyun quietly passed over. Then he said to Mama Pan, "Tell them to raise their heads." How do you see this? β
"Yes," Mama Pan agreed, and shouted angrily, "You, everyone raise your heads." Let the host see your face! β
When all the women heard this, they all looked up, Rong Yuanhang looked at it, and immediately exclaimed, these women are all bright eyes and beautiful like flowers! And the figure is standard, enchanting and moving, it's just dazzling!
The youngest girl in the first row, she was the shortest. Rong Yuanhang came near. I saw that the girl was only about nine or ten years old, and she was born picturesquely and cutely. The big watery eyes peeked at Rong Yuanhang, and he didn't dare to look at it again, but he didn't dare to bow his head, but turned his gaze away.
"What's your name?" Rong Yuanhang suddenly felt that the little girl was a little pitiful.
"My name is Shu Daiyan......," the little girl replied timidly. Suddenly, Mama Pan shouted, "No. 18, how did I teach you?" Well? β
Her fierce snort, the little girl who called herself Shu Daiyan was so frightened that her whole body trembled, and she squeaked and didn't dare to speak again.
Rong Yuanhang raised his eyebrows, and just as he wanted to speak, Mama Pan changed her appearance and said with a playful smile: "Childe, the daughters here don't have any names, so I'm waiting for you to choose a name." β
"You're scaring her." Rong Yuanhang glared at Mama Pan, pointed at the little girl and said, "She, how much?" β
"Xianggong?" Jiang Yanyun, who was standing on the side, was puzzled, thinking to himself what was the use of buying such a young girl to go back? Can you serve good people?
Rong Yuanhang has long had an anger in his heart, and since he saw these girls, he has unconsciously had this kind of anger. He also ignored Jiang Yanyun, but stared at Mama Pan.
Mama Pan was stunned by his murderous eyes, and she was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time. After breathing a sigh of relief, he replied with a blushing face: "She is the eighteenth...... One hundred taels of gold,...... It hasn't budded yet. β
"Hahaha......"
There was a burst of wild laughter, and suddenly a group of people walked in from outside the door. The leader is a thirty-year-old boy with a bright clothes and a white face, and next to him is the Zhao family, the shopkeeper of the Fenglou, and behind him, there are all big men with strong looks.
"Zhao Niangzi, what is new this time?"
The boy in brocade laughed, and suddenly saw the rows of girls inside, as well as Rong Yuanhang and Jiang Yanyun, and was stunned and said, "Yo, are there still people picking?" β
"These two are our guests," Shopkeeper Zhao said to the brocade-clothed boy with a humble expression: "Young Master Yuwen, I just returned a little sheep the day before yesterday, and I am the child of the official eunuch of Zong Qingguo, and my appearance and figure are very good, so I will send it to you later." β
As soon as Rong Yuanhang saw this man surnamed Yuwen, he felt a sense of disgust for no reason. The boy in brocade turned a blind eye to Rong Yuanhang, and searched for the women with a pair of eyes glowing blue.
Suddenly, his eyelids opened, and he pointed to the little girl opposite Rong Yuanhang and said, "That...... Come here! Hey. β
Rong Yuanhang's face changed.
"Young Master Yuwen, she's ...... Isn't it too small? She's only nine-and-a-half-year-old. The shopkeeper Zhao on the side frowned and said.
The man's smile remained unchanged: "Small? It's small enough to taste! Hehe, Zhao Niangzi, don't worry, I'll lose money if I kill you. Your Long Knife Gang has never made a loss-making business, so if you don't know much, call her over. β
"Eighteenth, do you hear me? Come over here, Young Master Yuwen has taken a fancy to you! Mama Pan shouted, at this moment, even she didn't care about Rong Yuanhang's attitude.
When the other girls heard this, they all showed very sympathetic eyes, and some even secretly wiped their tears and wept. They knew that the fate of the Eighteenth was bound to be tragic, and it was so .......
"Who are you, have you asked me?" Rong Yuanhang suppressed his anger and spoke indifferently, and grabbed the little girl who was trembling.
"Huh?" The man surnamed Yuwen raised his eyebrows.
"Ah, don't!" Shopkeeper Zhao hurriedly intervened and said, "Young Master Yuwen, they are my guests, they may not know your identity, don't be angry." He hurriedly said this, then ran to Rong Yuanhang and whispered: "This son, don't blame me for not reminding you, Young Master Yuwen is the young gang leader of the Ancestral Sword Sect!" β
Jiang Yanyun was taken aback. Rong Yuanhang didn't care, and said coldly: "So what? (To be continued.) )