Chapter 84: Luoyang Tour
The potter and Cao Cao, the two of them walked slowly on horseback, chatting all the way, and soon came to Changle Street in the north of Luoyang.
The so-called Changle Street used to be a famous commercial core block in Luoyang, which was somewhat similar to Houhai and Nanluoguxiang in Beijing in later generations.
In the past, there were many wine shops, many music shops, and countless stalls, vendors, and pawns...... However, after a fire in Luoyang, it is now no different from a slum, full of burned buildings, and the shopkeepers and peddlers on both sides of the street have now been replaced by countless begging refugees.
Cao Cao ordered most of the people accompanying him to wait outside the street, and he and the pottery merchant led Xiahou Yuan and Xu Chu into Changle Street respectively.
After turning a few corners, the four of them came to the bottom of a three-story tall wooden building, which was burned beyond recognition. In the wooden building, the decorations and furnishings in the past were also looted by the Xiliang Army, leaving an empty house, which is indeed a miserable depression scene.
The potter squinted, and on the blackened wooden plaque, he could vaguely see a few large characters that were faintly unclear......
"Fang Ze Pavilion?"
The potter touched his head for some reason, turned his head to look at Xu Chu behind him, and said, "What was this place originally?" ”
Xu Chu glanced at the potter with disdain, shook his head and sighed: "You are still a child of the Wang clan...... Can't you see this name? You're like a tiger......"
The potter's face turned red instantly...... Despised by a biaozi who was unanimously evaluated as a 'tiger idiot' in both contemporary and later generations, the potter felt that he was really falling into the share of a traverser.
Cao Cao stood in place and watched for a long time, with a few traces of loneliness in his eyes, and finally sighed.
Cao didn't have much hope...... Brother Tao, let's go. ”
The potter scratched his head for some reason and said, "Brother Meng De, what you said you wanted to do was to go under this burned down ruined building...... Stand for a while? ”
Please, Brother Cao, you're too idle, aren't you? Tao has a lot to deal with...... In a hurry.
Cao Cao nodded, and while leading the potter out of the street, he said: "Brother Xian doesn't know, this Fangze Pavilion used to be in Luoyang, and it was a famous song and dance hall ......."
Xu Chu and Xiahou Yuan couldn't help but smile when they heard this, it seemed that this place was really not what they expected.
The potter turned his head to look at the two of them, then turned his head and asked Cao Cao, "Song and Dance Hall?" Elegant name...... Brother Mengde, you didn't fool me. I look at the expressions of the two of them, this place should have been called a brothel back then, and it was more close to the people. ”
Cao Cao this time, his face was extremely serious, and he said: "Cao Mou has always acted in his own way, so how can he care about other people's gossip?" In the land of fireworks in Luoyang, Cao Mou played almost all over the time and at the beginning, what is there to hide? But this Fangze Pavilion is indeed just a song and dance workshop! ”
Look at what people say, how domineering they are...... The land of fireworks, and I played it all over again.
The potter didn't bother to talk to Cao Cao about the difference between a song and dance workshop and a brothel, in his opinion, it may be that one belongs to the bathing club and the other belongs to the business KTV.
"And then?"
Cao Cao sighed and said, "In Fangze Pavilion, there is a dancing girl, called to be a Ying'er...... This girl is lonely and elegant, and she is good at dancing with long sleeves on stage, attracting everyone's attention, but she is silent and silent off the stage, almost impersonal, so that people who want to kiss Fangze have to give up and retreat in the face of difficulties...... Cao is also among these people! ”
The potter looked at Cao Cao with wide eyes, as if he couldn't believe that Cao Cao had come here specifically to find a woman.
However, with the name Ying'er, the potter really knows that there is such a wild history.
According to legend, Ying'er was a famous prostitute in Luoyang during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and lived: "Wuling is young and struggling, and a song of red silk is not counted". Later, it was obtained by Cao Cao, and it was rumored that this woman fell in love with a guard named Wang Tu, and the two were not ashamed, and knitted a green leek-colored top hat for Brother Agui.
Later, Wang Tu violated the military order to delay the fighter, was tied up with ropes and taken to prison, betrayed and sentenced to death, and Hou ordered to be beheaded for public display.
At this time, Lai Ying'er showed courage beyond ordinary people, she knelt in front of Cao Cao, looking so white and powerless, she repeatedly only said: "May Wang Tu die on behalf of ......" and said her personal relationship with Wang Tu.
Cao Cao ordered Ying'er to train a small singing and dancing class within a month, and agreed that Ying'er could die on behalf of her lover. Lai Ying'er carried out intensive training day and night, from music theory, timbre, sound quality to dance posture, props trained seven dancers for Cao Cao, and fulfilled her promise, although Cao Cao was very reluctant to her, but she finally decided to die and replaced Wang Tu.
After Lai Ying'er left, Cao Cao met with Wang Tu, but Wang Tu frankly told Cao Cao that Lai Ying'er was just playing on the spot, Cao Cao was furious, kicked down Wang Tu, and wanted to put him to death, but because he promised Lai Ying'er not to kill him, he had to drive him away.
Of course, this folk tale that was circulated in later generations was naturally not taken seriously by potters...... But the facts are in front of him, and the potter never thought that there was really such a number one person.
After being surprised for a while, he heard the potter say slowly: "Brother Meng De's words, I probably understand...... In Luoyang City, there used to be a maiko named Lai Ying'er......"
Cao Cao turned his head and glared at the potter, and said, "It's not a maiko, it's a maiko." ”
Potter: "............"
It's just a word difference, is there any difference? I never thought that Cao Cao also had such a persistent and cute side.
The potter coughed lightly and said, "Okay, there is a ...... called Ying'er There are many dancers and admirers, and Brother Meng De is also one of them, but this dancer is too high-minded, and he is stunned that he doesn't pee on your pot...... Therefore, Brother Meng De came to Luoyang this time to try it and see if this Ying'er survived this huge disaster...... If she is still alive, Brother Meng De will play a heroic rescue drama with her. You can hug the beauty, does that mean? ”
Cao Cao's face was not white, but the black one was even more terrifying at the moment.
"That's what it means, but could you please not say it so bluntly...... Brother Tao? Cao Cao gritted his teeth and whispered.
Hearing this, the potter said helplessly: "Asking what is the situation in the world is called a promise of life and death...... Brother Meng De, a man of temperament. ”
Cao Cao said depressedly: "Thank you." ”