Chapter 36: Mei Xiang Lou
Jiang Tu looked up at this gentle township that covers an extremely large and magnificent area, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the imperial capital is the imperial capital, far from being comparable to those poor and remote areas in the south of the Yangtze River.
This is Meixianglou, the property of the Wei family, a luxurious and erosive place. The cost is staggering, but the business is surprisingly good because the service and quality are the best. There has never been a shortage of rich people in the world, and there are countless rich children and dignitaries who come and go here.
"Brother Jiang, why do you look so lost?" The purple-clothed man who came out to greet him asked with a smile.
"Nothing. Thank you Brother Tao for your concern. He didn't think about the red-clothed shadow that had been lingering in his mind for a while, and arched his hand.
"If you have something on your mind, let's have two glasses of wine first, and then find a girl to talk to." The man in purple smiled heartily and pulled him in.
The man he called Brother Tao was Sima Zhao, the eldest son of Sima Ao, the imperial master of the dynasty, who came to the imperial capital from Yangzhou, south of the Yangtze River, to prepare for the Great Imperial Examination. At his uncle Kou Huai's house, he and Sima Zhao hit it off at first sight and became friends, and today Sima Zhao specially picked up the wind and washed the dust for him in Meixianglou.
The two went up to the second floor, and one of them was already sitting in the banquet waiting. The man's long black hair was draped over his shoulders, his sideburns were like knives, his eyebrows were like ink paintings, his eyes were deep and far-reaching, and his slender and snow-white fingers were on his knees, silently looking at the crowd coming and going downstairs. faintly exudes an extraordinary bearing of no anger and self-authority.
Jiang Tu was slightly surprised and asked, "Who is this?" ”
"This is Sima Zhao." Sima Tao introduced.
The imperial capital is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sima Tao is already very good, and it seems that his younger brother is even more otherworldly. Jiang Tu thought to himself.
The man didn't get up after listening to Sima Tao's introduction, but nodded lightly and looked down again. This made Jiang Tu slightly displeased, even if you are the dragon and phoenix among people, I am not necessarily worse than you, so big?
"Hehe, my brother has always been cold and silent, and I hope Brother Jiang won't be surprised." Sima Tao observed the words and explained.
"Come, taste these thirty years of Lu wine." Sima Tao poured a full cup for Jiang Tu and greeted.
"Yes, good wine." Jiang Tu drank it all and praised.
"This kind of good wine can only be drunk in the place of the Wei family. As long as you have enough money, you can buy centuries-old wine here. Sima Tao slowly filled himself with a glass.
"Hundreds of years ago?" Jiang Tu was surprised.
"Of course, and no less. This is the heritage of the thousand-year-old family, who every year hides countless fine wine cellars. Leave it for future generations to enjoy. ”
After a few glasses of wine, Jiang Tu let go a little, talked with Sima Tao, and gradually rose, feeling that he hated seeing each other late. And Sima Zhao, who was sitting quietly, didn't say a word, and cherished words like gold.
"Brother Jiang, do you know that Meixianglou is not famous for its food and wine, but for the beauty of the world." Sima Tao said.
Hearing the four words of the world, Jiang Tu couldn't help but think of the woman in the crimson shirt, only she can afford these four words. No, those four words are not enough to describe her.
Sima Tao raised his palm and patted it, and someone immediately sent a picture album, which was full of images of women sketched by skilled painters, lifelike, and no different from real people.
"The beauties of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the beauty of the islands and reefs in the East China Sea, the wildness of the snow country in the north, and the customs of the desert in the Western Regions, you name it." Sima Tao pushed the atlas in front of him.
Jiang Tu flipped through a few pages, and the people in the painting were really charming and attractive. It's just that it's far less than the woman in red I see today, who was once in the sea and couldn't be watered. He found that he had no desire to look at these women anymore.
"What? This is already a first-class beauty worth hundreds of gold, and she can't get into Brother Jiang's eyes? Sima Tao found that there were no waves in his eyes and knew that he was not interested in them.
Jiang Tu smiled comfortably, ready to pick one at random, not wanting to live up to Sima Tao's kindness.
"Bring me the Oiran album." Sima Tao commanded. Those few overnight golden oirans are really ridiculously expensive, and few people care about them on weekdays.
Jiang Tu opened the album with only a few pages, and his eyes brightened imperceptibly. These few are far more beautiful than they saw before, both in appearance and temperament.
"I want this." Sima Zhao, who had never spoken, stretched out his finger and pointed to one, and after he finished speaking, he returned to a cold and unsmiling state.
"Okay." Sima Tao smiled and nodded.
The maid of Mei Xianglou immediately took out a special piece of paper and covered it with the image of the oiran, which indicated that the oiran had already been mastered tonight.
Jiang Tu flipped through it again, looked at a few, and was quite moved. A portrait on the last page is also covered. Jiang Tu couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, what did the last one look like?
He lifted the piece of paper and froze at it. Isn't this stunning and familiar face the woman in red I saw today?
He jumped up with excitement and shouted shortly breathing, "This, where is she?" ”
"Childe, I'm sorry, Miss Yuyun already has a master." The maid stepped forward and replied.
"Who? I'm willing to pay ten times the price. I will redeem her and bring me your master. Jiang Tu said.
"Childe, please calm down, as long as the Oiran has a master, it will not change. This is the rule of our Mei Xiang Building. Even if you want to redeem yourself, you have to wait until there are no guests. The maid said without humility or arrogance.
"No, I'm going to see her now, go and call me your steward." Jiang Tu said loudly.
The maid was very embarrassed to see his excited appearance, and the people who came and went here were not simple people. How dare she be offended easily by a little maid, but if she really goes to the steward, she is afraid that she will be reprimanded again.
"Brother Jiang, don't be excited. Mei Xiang Lou does have the rules of Mei Xiang Lou. Sima Tao grabbed him and comforted.
"Isn't it possible to wait until tomorrow?" Jiang Tu was emotional, he couldn't bear the woman he liked to be entangled with others, which was unbearable for any man, and now he had regarded Yu Yun as his woman.
"I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow?" The maid whispered, "This girl is a little special, she has always been a master. ”
"What? Why? Jiang Tu felt like he was about to lose control of himself.
"Because she was left by Wei Gongzi to His Royal Highness, the redemption still requires the consent of His Royal Highness the Prince." The maid replied cautiously.
"I see, stand down." Sima Tao didn't wait for Jiang Tu to speak again, and waved the maid away.
"Brother Tao, I'm too excited just now." Jiang Tu sensed that he was behaving inappropriately, and took a deep breath to calm himself down.
"It's okay, it's just that I don't have any friendship with those two people, so I can't help much." Sima Tao said. "But I heard that His Royal Highness is a merciless person, if you are willing to pay a sufficient price, he should agree."
"That's fine." Jiang Tu raised his head and drank a glass of wine.
"It's just a woman, how can she be so excited to become like this!" Sima Zhao interjected abruptly.
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward, and Sima Tao glanced at his younger brother next to him, and frowned imperceptibly. Jiang Tu just didn't hear it, and for the sake of the two of them entertaining him, he didn't refute anything, and drank in a muffled voice.
The lobby downstairs suddenly became noisy, and the three of them followed the prestige, and two groups of people were confronting each other.
In this kind of Fengyue place, the people who come and go are all high-flying and domineering gentlemen, and it is normal for them to quarrel and fight, and most people have long been surprised.
"That's Lu Hui?" Sima Zhao looked at the round fat man. The people who had a dispute with him were Guan Shicong and Meng Lun.
"Forget it, don't pay attention to him." Meng Lun pulled Guan Shicong to dissuade him.
"Forget it? As soon as he opened his mouth, his mouth was full of, and it was smoked to Uncle Ben, and the uncle was going to beat him until his mother couldn't recognize him. Guan Shicong picked up a red sandalwood round stool and rushed towards Lu Hui.
Lu Hui's family members hurriedly stopped in front of him, protecting their master with their bodies. The angry Guan Shicong held a stool and smashed his head to the point of bleeding, but he didn't dare to fight back, for fear of accidentally injuring the son of the head of the household.
"You, you, don't go too far, I'm not talking about you, what's your business." Lu Hui hid behind and said tremblingly.
"Meng Lun is my brother, you say that he is talking about me, Lao Tzu has to feed you today." Guan Shicong stared at Lu Hui with a hideous face and said. A mouthful of Lao Tzu uncle, his words are vulgar, and he doesn't care about the image at all.
"Why are you stunned, why don't you pull the dogs around him away and let Uncle Ben beat him to death." Guan Shicong kicked the guards he had brought and asked them to pull away Lu Hui's servants.
This is Mei Xianglou, the territory of the Wei family. With the relationship between Guan Shicong and Wei Zijie, the guards of Meixianglou naturally know who to help. Soon, the few servants brought by Lu Hui didn't know where they were dragged to, and he was the only one left.
Guan Shicong held a round stool and walked towards Lu Hui with a cruel smile, Lu Hui kept retreating, the fat on his cheeks twisted into a lump, fell to the ground, looked at Guan Shicong who was approaching step by step, and said calmly, "I'm not afraid of you, if you dare to hit me, I'll tell my father." ”
Guan Shicong laughed and kicked him to the ground. teased: "What is your father? It's just a book of the military department. What can you do by telling him? "The two fathers are of the same rank, as long as they have a good sense of proportion, no one can control the troubles of these young children.
Sima Zhao saw this scene upstairs, stood up and said to Sima Tao, "Go and save him." ”
"This is just a fight between the sons and daughters, that kid will grasp the measure, at most teach him a lesson, why bother?" Sima Tao then stood up, and in his opinion, this was nothing more than a farce between children.
"Lu Hui is someone I admire, I'm here, how can I let him be humiliated." Sima Zhao looked at Sima Tao coldly and said in a firm tone.
Sima Tao was slightly stunned, and an extremely complicated expression appeared on his face with the dim candlelight on his back, like disappointment, helplessness, and boredom, and then quickly hid it and put on a gentle smile again.
"Okay, since you say so, then help him." Sima Tao agreed.
Jiang Tu looked at the two brothers, and his face was very blank. With his intelligence, he could naturally see that these were two gentlemen fighting, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it at all. But this Sima Zhao, who looked amazingly gasy, actually wanted to get involved, did he have a deeper intention?
Do you want to take the opportunity to make a good hand over to the military department? Or do you want to see if I'm someone to make friends with? He secretly speculated, not knowing what Sima Zhao meant.