On Wujing Road, before the opening of the Mu dynasty porcelain store, an incense cart stopped, and a girl twisted her waist and got out of the carriage, walked to the door and knocked on the door.

The door opened, and the girl smiled and said, "Here is Mu Zhongren, there is a letter from Master Mu, please ask the uncle to pass it on." The sheep fat jade handed over a letter, a small piece of broken silver.

Menzi nodded in agreement, and watched the girl board the carriage with Nana again.

"It's so fragrant, a good-looking girl." Menzi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and closed the door.

Mu Zhongren took the letter presented by Menzi, with a faint fragrance. When he opened it, Mu Zhongren's eyes lit up, and it turned out to be sent by the lily girl from Baihuayuan, saying that his birthday was approaching. I want to go to the West Lake in front of the door, and I think of how much Boss Mu has been favored in the past. I want to privately invite Boss Mu to cross the boat with me at the end of the time, so I should celebrate Miss Lily in advance.

Mu Zhongren couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised, the Lily Garden is a large green building on Yanliu Street by the West Lake. The girls in it are all named after flowers. The most famous and popular are the six girls of peony and rose.

These six girls can choose their own guests, basically belong to the kind of Qingqi people who do not sell their bodies, poetry, song and dance, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, they know everything, and they are proficient in one subject. This kind of girl usually earns a lot of money from her performances, so she waits for rich guests to spend a lot of money to redeem her. It's a lot of money, but it costs a lot to train such a girl in Qinglou, and if you train ten people, only two or three people may succeed in the end.

However, the identity is destined, most of the girls in Qinglou can only be concubines, you like it, you can treat her as a wife, but nominally, it can only be a concubine, such as Liu in the Ming Dynasty. Chen Yuanyuan, who was favored by the emperor, belonged to a minority other than the majority, a special category.

So there are some girls who don't want to, and they will plan to save well and redeem themselves. Then buy a living, or buy a house, buy a land, and lease it, meet suitable ordinary people, and get married. If you can't meet it, you will live alone.

The price of the girl's redemption, the Qinglou was informed in advance, and there was a contract. In this, I also have to talk about the ratio of Qingqinglou to the girl. Generally, if the girl used to be a Qing Qi person's performer, she made a lot of money for the Qinglou, and there were five or five open.

The proportion of the girls is distributed, and the Qinglou gives the girls out in the form of a dowry. The process is like marrying a daughter in an ordinary family.

Well done, other girls see it in their eyes, and it is also their own famous signboard.

The kind of person who sits on the ground and asks for money and redeems his worth all over the sky will not work in Dahua.

If you can't wait for the guests to redeem yourself, and you haven't saved enough money, you can choose a guest to break down when you reach the age limit. Either the Qinglou presides over the auction, and the one with the highest price wins. Since then, it has fallen into the upper middle ranks.

Girls in the upper middle rankings have the right to choose the guests and decide whether to stay with them. The older you are, the next one you will be.

Medium-sized girls do not have the right to choose guests, but have the right to decide whether or not to stay overnight. Otherwise, there is no right to decide everything.

Non-Qing people are divided into grades according to their figure, appearance, and talent.

The price of redemption for each class of girls is also very different.

The lily girl is in the upper middle and is willing to receive Mu Zhongren, sing and dance for him, and accompany him to drink. I didn't want to accompany him to Wushan Yunyu. Mu Zhongren just liked her appearance again, knowing that the girl was deliberately using it to earn him money, he was also willing. Because this kind of thing abounds in Qinglou. If the girl doesn't hang like this, that's abnormal.

But there is generally a scale, and I probably feel that if you get almost the money, it will make you satisfied. When a man is satisfied for a while, he will also empathize with him. The girl was hanging from another one.

This is the game of Qinglou that has not changed for thousands of years, and the only thing that has changed is the name of Qinglou.

The kind of post that Mu Zhongren received is also a hint.

After a man spends many times on a girl and can't get started, if he feels that the money is about the same, he deliberately goes to the scene a few times. Similar to a showdown. If you don't comply, I'll find someone else. That's the game.

Most girls will decide to ask for another sum of money to make you happy. will send this kind of post to take the initiative to invite.

After reading the letterhead, Mu Zhongren was naturally happy in his heart, he didn't plan to have a showdown, the post came, it seems that the lily girl was moved by herself.

Xi Zizi returned to the room, Mu Zhongren took out the secret medicinal wine, scooped some out and carefully poured it into a small porcelain bottle, put it in his arms and put it away. Uncle Forty, you need to drink some strong wine before running errands.

Since it is to celebrate the girl's birthday, you have to give a generous gift.

Mu Zhongren took out the check issued by the bank, which was convenient, and wrote a number to Miss Lily, and let her see it. Then I began to think in my heart, should I send a hundred taels or two hundred taels?

Miss Lily was placed in Qin Feng's previous life, and she was also at the level of a first-line actress, Mu Zhongren didn't think that Miss Lily had actually always disliked him for being stingy. Between the words of the girl and the other guests, the others heard about it.

Mu Zhongren was still determined to send two hundred taels. In the end, there is nothing wrong with this kick in the door. 000 Literature

At the wharf of Yanliu Street in West Lake, tourists have begun to travel in twos and threes on flower boats. Mu Zhongren just walked to the dock, looking at the long flower boat on the dock, and his heart was a little anxious. Lily Girl didn't say exactly which boat she was on. When he was wandering anxiously, a young man dressed up and asked, "Dare to ask, is it Mu Zhongren, Master Mu?" ”

"Yes, yes, I am." Mu Zhongren nodded and replied with a smile, it turned out that the girl had already sent someone to wait here.

The little guy stretched out his hand and pointed to a flower boat in the lake, and said with a smile: "The flower boat is already on the lake, please come with me." We went by boat. ”

"Make, make." Mu Zhongren then took out a piece of broken silver and handed it to the little servant: "Bother the little brother to lead the way." ”

The two of them went one after the other, bypassed a row of flower boats, boarded a small boat, and the two sat firmly. The captain stood firm at the stern, holding the oars with both hands, and with a force at his waist, the boat sprang out at once, drawing a shiny water pattern.

Mu Zhongren greeted the breeze, took a deep breath, and felt comfortable in his heart.

The boat is sick, the flower boat is seven or eight hundred meters from the shore, and the tea is close to the flower boat. A rough man came out on the first floor of the flower boat, helped to tighten the cable, put down the door panel of the flower boat, Mu Zhongren stepped on, the man stretched out his hand and pulled, and Mu Zhongren stepped into the flower boat.

"Thank you!" Mu Zhongren dusted off his clothes and walked forward. The boatmen of the flower boats do not have to tip.

Walking up the stairs, Mu Zhongren leaned out with a smile and said, "Congratulations to Miss Lily...... Hey, what about Lily Girl? Most of Mu Zhongren's body had already leaned out, and there was no woman on the second floor, only three fierce-looking men. Holding a waist knife in his hand, he looked at him with a sneer.

Mu Zhongren knew that something was wrong, so he turned around and was about to go downstairs, and when he saw the little guy downstairs, the captain of the boat and the rough man who pulled him, holding a dagger and a waist knife in their hands, looked at him with a smile: "Go up!" “

Mu Zhongren panicked in his heart, and when he raised his eyes, there were no other ships around the flower boat. Knowing the plan, I could only go up to the second floor.

"A few big brothers, uncle, what is this, for?" Mu Zhongren bowed with a flattering smile on his face.

The three people downstairs also followed upstairs, and the little guy went to the side of the ship, drew all the curtains, and in the cabin, a row of red lanterns lit up. Under the red light, the flower boat looks a little weird.

Mu Zhongren began to tremble: "Masters, what is the matter?" ”

The little guy walked up to Mu Zhongren, threw the broken silver in his hand, and said with a smile: "This tip is too little!" ”

"Well said, well said, how much do you want?"

"Thirty thousand taels!"

"Ahh Uncle, I don't have so many, do you look at me on my body, like I have 30,000 taels? Mu Zhongren cried with a sad face.

"Not like that!" The little guy shook his head and said with a smile: "How much do you have in the bank?" ”

Mu Zhongren's heart sank, and he sighed: "I saved more than a thousand taels." ”

The little guy waved his hand, and two men were carrying a person, a lean old man and a young man. Barefoot, trouser legs half-folded, and naked. Both were tied up, with strips of cloth in their mouths, whimpering and their eyes full of panic.

This is the boatman of the flower boat.

The man pressed the young boatman down and knelt in front of Mu Zhongren, and the little guy pulled the young boatman's hair and smiled at Mu Zhongren: "You lie!" His right hand quickly wiped the young boatman's neck, and a stream of blood spurted out, shooting Mu Zhongren all over the head and face. Yes! Mu Zhongren screamed in fright, and his legs collapsed to the ground as soon as he became weak.

The young boatman's body twisted a few times, and the man held him down, and in a few moments, the young boatman was silent and fell in a pool of blood.

The old boatman's eyes behind him were full of despair and anger, his mouth was whining, the muscles on his neck were exposed, his eyes seemed to pop out of his sockets, and he struggled hard, but he was held down by the two of them.

The little guy walked up to Mu Zhongren and squatted down: "Don't scream, or cut your throat, and no one can hear you screaming." ”

Mu Zhongren nodded tremblingly, and his body was wet. But I was so scared that I was incontinent.

Two men came over, helped Mu Zhongren to sit down on a chair, gave him a face cloth, and brought a basin of water. The little guy smiled: "Wash, wash." We're just talking to you about something. You won't lose silver either. ”

Mu Zhongren shuddered, washed his head and face with a faceker, and vigorously rubbed the blood on his body. Rubbing and rubbing, tears flowed. Looking at the basin of water in front of me again, I don't know if the blood is too red, or the red lantern is red. Smell the pungent smell of blood, look at the corpses on the ground, the grieving old boatman. Mu Zhongren couldn't hold back for a while, and vomited out. A basin of blood and vomit emitted a foul stench.