In the evening after the day, Zhang Xiaowu and others walked to the flat embroidery workshop to drink flower wine, and passers-by were rumored to be in the Cuiyan Pavilion Twelve Golden Hairpins Douyan Meeting once in March. Guan Cheng inquired carefully, and came back and said: "Yesterday I heard people talk about this, these twelve golden hairpins are the most famous Fengyue beauty reward meeting in Daizhou and Hunzhou, and the twelve prostitutes compete for the reputation of the world's first prostitute. ”

"Don't the twelve golden hairpins sleep with you?" Wang Yijin interjected and asked.

"At a young age, what do you know?" Guan Cheng scolded with a smile, "People are prostitutes, serving people with talents, and they don't sleep with them - unless you win the hearts of others, and then redeem her and marry her home." It is a prostitute who sleeps with her, also called a red girl, and a prostitute who does not sleep with her, also known as a child of Chunqier. ”

"Then you must not have looked for Chun Er yesterday." Wang Yijin said with a smile.

Guan Cheng coughed and said, "This ...... It's expensive to listen to Chun Qi'er playing the piano! ”

Zhang Xiaowu thought to himself, it turned out that prostitutes in this era were quite respected, after all, prostitutes have talents, not like prostitutes, and they will be finished with a split of their legs. Sure enough, it is a skilled worker, and in any era, it is necessary to be respected, including selling one's body to be talented.

As soon as the third quarter of the first month of Youchu arrived, the four of them entered the Pingxiu Workshop, but fortunately, when they entered and exited the Pingxiu Workshop, no one checked whether they were carrying a blade or not—of course, no man came to the Qinglou Le Fang with a blade, after all, everyone brought their own murder weapons in their pants.

Cuiyan Pavilion is in the innermost part of the Pingxiu Workshop, passing through the rows of pavilions and pavilions with fat swallows and thin floors, looking at the women on the upper floor of the prostitution hall shouting one after another, Guan Cheng's eyes are red, Wang Yijin blushes and lowers his head, Chen Guanxi is generally unmoved, and Zhang Xiaowu swaggers forward with a fan like a real son, and the other three sighed in their hearts: "Lord Xiaozuo pretends to be a son." ”

When Zhang Xiaowu and the others came in, the steward who greeted the guests at the door turned out to be a young woman in her thirties who still had charm, and she gave birth to a pair of charming eyes, and when she glanced at the man, the man's bones were crisp. In addition to the Qinglou, the red girl, and the maid, there are also female officials, that is, the old mother who manages the Qing Hongqier, who is not big in grade but has a deep and wide range of communication, and can not only control the field, but also reduce the man.

This female official Dong Xiang is such a capable person, seeing Zhang Xiaowu walking in from the main gate with a big smile, followed by three subordinates, she stepped forward like a water snake, and asked with a paper fan half-hidden and sweet: "Xiao Langjun looked at Mian Sheng, where did he come from?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile: "Sister is polite, the kid came from Yongzhou, I didn't expect to meet the twelve golden hairpins in the Two Wolves Pass, when you look at it, you can't miss it." ”

Dong Xiang smiled coquettishly: "Childe is lucky, the twelve golden hairpins will be really rare, if the son wins the mind of his daughter's family, he can take the twelve golden hairpins away, but there are many talented people today, and the son can compete with others." I heard that Yongzhou has produced Wenjie since ancient times, and the son must also be a talented person. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said proudly: "I don't dare to call myself a talented person, but I want to see the ability of the students here, who won the heart of the twelve golden hairpins." ”

Dong Xiang stepped forward and got a little closer, the fragrance was smoky, Zhang Xiaowu couldn't help but take half a step back, the woman giggled, smelled the breath on Zhang Xiaowu's body, and sneered: "Xiao Langjun is really good at deceiving people, obviously he is a junior brother, and he wants to say that big thing." ”

Zhang Xiaowu blushed and said embarrassedly: "Who lied to you, I'...... Where is the first brother. ”

Dong Xiang provoked: "Is it Brother Chu, I'll tell the two little ladies to try it." ”

Zhang Xiaowu arched his hand and took half a step back again and said: "I am convinced, Xiaosheng is convinced, and my sister still has a great eye." ”

Dong Xiang covered her mouth and smiled, her chest was undulating, and she saw that Wang Yijin and the three of them were stunned and almost had a nosebleed. Zhang Xiaowu coughed, and the three of them reacted, Dong Xiang saw that a big official was coming, so he let go of teasing Zhang Xiaowu, so he called a turtle slave to lead the way and sit down, so that he could wait.

Walking into the Cuiyan Pavilion, I first passed a shadow wall, then walked through a corridor, and finally pushed open a door, and suddenly came to a bright place, which is the whole picture of the Cuiyan Pavilion. Inside the Cuiyan Pavilion is a set of three-storey "Hui" buildings, and the center is a garden like a green fairy boat. But at this time, a waist-high platform was erected in the center of the garden, and the platform was decorated as if it were white and flawless. Eight guards dressed in white and holding long swords stood around Yantai, only to see these eight people with bright eyes and white teeth, and it turned out to be eight young women dressed as men.

Yantai and the female guards attracted everyone's attention at once, and Zhang Xiaowu said that this was too tempting to subdue.

They thought they had come earlier, but they didn't expect that there was already a lot of people in the Cuiyan Pavilion, after all, the Twelve Golden Hairpins would be a dream for every man, and how many people wanted to see the world-famous Twelve Hairpins but couldn't. It is said that the twelve hairpins have their own abilities, with the color and art of both unique, respectively good at pipa, bamboo flute, sheng flute, guzheng, sleeve dance, round dance, hu dance, bone dance, singing, minor key, pairing, poetry, at that time the beauty will give the talent a question, and select the best, to serve people with art. Scholars from all over Daizhou and Hunzhou came here to compete, in order to show off themselves in front of the twelve hairpins and win a good story.

Men, it is nothing more than fighting for a wine-colored wealth, Cuiyan Pavilion has the world's fine wine, the world's beauties, the world's wealth, and the men's fight is this bearing. Talented people make talents, rich people make money, there are many women who accompany wine during the banquet, these women are naturally inferior women who sell their art and body, also known as red women, but the men's minds are all on the twelve golden hairpins who sell their art and do not sell their bodies.

There is a circle of elegant seats around the Yantai, and the twelve elegant seats are already half full, sitting on the chairs of the elegant seats, you can probably smell the aroma of the women on the Yantai while drinking wine and tilting your head, and you can see the woman's hair and cheeks. Some round tables are set up outside the seats, and the round tables are separated by waist-length screens that do not interfere with each other. The small round tables are spread all the way to the surrounding pavilions, and on the lofts are rows of tables looking out over the corridors, although they are located a little farther away, but the experience is better when viewed from above.

There was a lot of noise around them, and several acquaintances recognized each other, and some said, "I guess Brother Gao will not let go of such elegant things." The one said, "Why is Brother Sun Xian not afraid of the tigress in the family?" Another person said: "This is the Twelve Hairpins Fighting Event, and we and other laypeople also want to see if it is a beautiful woman or a talented person." Some of the little people who delivered wine were often interspersed, and some people who were not strong enough to drink were actually a little drunk now, and put their arms around the maid beside them and said, "You can also have a little song." "It's a lively scene, and I only see that the four of them are a little dizzy.

Zhang Xiaowu asked the turtle slave, these seats can be exquisite, the turtle slave smiled and said: "Honorable guests forgive me, sitting on the nearest seat around Yantai needs to pay 1,000 taels of silver for the drink, the outer row becomes 500 taels of silver, and the outward row becomes 200 taels, the fourth row needs 50 taels of silver, the last row needs 20 taels of silver, and the seats in the surrounding corridors also need 20 taels of silver, and the distinguished guests can choose either." ”

Guan Cheng exclaimed, "Why is it so expensive to sit on the upper seat? ”

The turtle slave smiled and said: "Venerable guest, don't look at it expensive, some people spend money and are not qualified to sit there, you must know that the person sitting on the throne is not the son of the gentry family, or a high-roller with a huge amount of money, or an official with a noble status, and the ordinary son is a partnership to raise a thousand taels of silver, and we don't dare to subordinate them, so as not to let them spoil the Yaxing of other honorable guests." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "These twelve thrones are also a symbol of identity and status, either huge wealth or great power." ”

The turtle slave's eyes lit up, and he immediately stretched out his thumb and praised: "The honorable guest is wise, that's what it means, the small mouth is stupid, but it is not as simple and thorough as the honorable guest's explanation." ”

Zhang Xiaowu laughed, looked at the surrounding guests, and ordered a seat in the third row of two hundred taels, and the turtle slave didn't think they spent less money, so he led them over and sat down with a smile.

Guan Cheng looked at the turtle slave and accepted the silver and sighed: "Yesterday I asked for three women in a prostitution hall on the edge of the flat embroidery workshop, how much do you guess I spent?" ”

Wang Yijin said: "Two hundred taels? ”

Guan Cheng pouted and said, "At first glance, you haven't been to Qinglou, do you think it's so expensive everywhere?" I only had ten taels of silver. But let's sit here, and we spent two hundred taels of silver, this Cuiyan Pavilion really makes money. ”

Chen Guanxi shook his head and felt painful, in his opinion, what is wrong with two hundred taels of silver, choosing a table here, it is really a loss. One penny for a dough cake, two hundred taels of silver is 20,000 breads, this seat is enough for ordinary people to eat for a few years, it is really a poor death of poverty, and a rich death of wealth.

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 the cost of twenty taels of silver, so they could only stand outside and watch the excitement, and they didn't even have a seat.

The reason why Cuiyan Pavilion became the first green building in Pingxiu Workshop is nothing more than to capture the man's mind. For men, wives are not as good as concubines, concubines are not as good as prostitutes, prostitutes are not as good as stealing, prostitutes are not as good as stealing, as long as the fish that can't be stolen, it is a gluttonous feast for cats, so these famous prostitutes in the Cuiyan Pavilion have become the top meat in the hearts of men.

The handyman first offered some wine and pastries, and the turtle slave asked if there was a familiar sister to accompany him, Zhang Xiaowu said that I did not have a familiar woman when I first came to Guibaodi, and the turtle slave whispered: "Most of the people sitting in the third row will order a familiar girl to accompany the wine, otherwise it will seem a little different." ”

Zhang Xiaowu really entered the Qinglou for the first time in his life, and he didn't understand the rules inside, so he had to smile bitterly and say that he was casually recommended by the turtle slave. The turtle slave was suddenly full of joy, thinking that he would not have to get a reward from his sisters, so he called two girls who had the best relationship with him to accompany Zhang Xiaowu, a tomboy.