CHAPTER XXI

Huamanlou, also commonly known as the first floor in Jiangnan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is also a place where some people in the rivers and lakes, and many dignitaries and nobles, squeeze their heads and want to go in and drink a glass of wine.

Qinglou, which is different from a brothel.

The biggest and most fundamental difference between the two is that the women in the brothel only do the skin business.

And the girl in the Qinglou only sells her art, but she doesn't sell herself.

As the saying goes, what you can't get is the best.

You must know that almost all the women in any Qinglou are good at singing and dancing, proficient in music and rhythm, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and some women even have martial arts, which are essentially different from the vulgar fans in brothels who only know how to please men.

Some of them were once the ladies of princes and nobles. Only because the family was persecuted, and after the family fell into the middle of the road, would they sell their art in this green building.

Among them, there are more women from poor families. It was only because of the hardship of the family that the parents could not bear the suffering and hunger of their children, and they were forced to send their young daughter to the Qinglou.

Therefore, the woman in the Qinglou is accustomed to seeing the warmth and coldness of the world, and has seen through the seven emotions and six desires in the world. They are not only higher than ordinary people in personality, but also because of their tragic experience, they will unconsciously exude that kind of feeling, which makes people feel pity.

And this feeling is fatal for the knights who have been in the rivers and lakes all the year round, as well as the dignitaries.

These people, after being accustomed to life and death on the rivers and lakes, and the deceit in the court, can only get some comfort from the women in the Qinglou.

It's no wonder that the world always says that there are many fragrant grasses in the green building, and chivalrous women are out of the dust.

And the green building on the shore of West Lake Lake, which is called Huamanlou, is the outer building of the green building.

In this flowery building, there are only twelve women, and all twelve of them are the top brands.

The twelve of them used to be people with prominent backgrounds, and they were once ordinary people and even many high-ranking officials and nobles who could not meet them.

And it is precisely because of the past identities of these girls that they will invisibly create a unique attraction for this flower building in the dust.

And most importantly, that's not all.

The most admirable place in the rivers and lakes is because twenty years ago, in this green building, there was a chivalrous woman who made many martial arts people fall in love with it.

This Qinglou woman, when the rivers and lakes were in turmoil, although she did not make a meritorious achievement to turn the tide, but it was also in that era that she issued a voice that impressed countless people.

In the end, this chivalrous woman, like many big people back then, also lost her life to save the world.

This is also why the people in the rivers and lakes are willing to hold such a serious martial arts conference in this green building.

This can be regarded as a memorial, but it can also be regarded as a mourning.

And now the heads of several sects who have come to Jiangnan have also had a tangled past with this chivalrous woman.

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Located in the most prosperous area of the West Lake, this green building has been lit up with all the red lanterns.

Flowers are all over the building.

Half of the building is built on the shore of the lake, and the other half extends into the lake.

The whole building is made of sturdy nanmu, and the walls outside the building are all painted with nine layers of red paint.

At night, under the light of the red lanterns hanging outside each floor, this green building is particularly gorgeous.

Similarly, the current building is already brightly lit.

Because the building is three stories high, and in the second or third floor, there are only private rooms, and there is no hall.

On weekdays, if you want to enjoy the singing and dancing on the stage on the first floor, you can only choose a seat in the hall on the first floor, or you can only lean on the wooden railing of the square aisle in the second and third floors, overlooking the performance under the central building.

It's just that the high-rise aisle, which is quite wide on weekdays, is full of people at the moment.

These people, all of them young, were armed with weapons.

But they were not uniformly dressed.

Some of them wore black and white robes, some wore black vests, and some wore green shirts........

In short, at a glance, you can know that these people should be disciples from various sects.

But the only thing they have in common is the way they look.

Whether it is the knights on the second floor or the third floor, they are all silently watching the big names in the sect in the hall on the first floor.

In this catastrophe of the rivers and lakes, there are twelve major sects of martial arts, and eleven sects have been present.

The Sanyang Daoist of the Diancang Sect rushed to Hangzhou City with his disciples at noon today to participate in this martial arts conference.

But the twelve major sects that were originally scheduled to be present still did not see any trace of the Yaochi Immortal Sect.

And the affairs of the rivers and lakes are imminent, since the date has been set, even if the people of Yaochi fail to arrive as scheduled, they can only be held on time.

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In the middle of the hall, on the table in the center, there are naturally people from the Buddhist sect.

However, the people of the Buddha sect have precepts in their bodies and are not allowed to enter and leave the Fengyue place. Therefore, the people of the Buddha Sect who came to convene the conference this time were only Master Kongzhi, Wuchen Presiding, and Master Wunian.

On the other round table, also near the center, sat four people.

Shi Wuwei's brother and sister, as well as Su Wushi and Wang Zhengnan, naturally sat at the same table.

The rest of the Taoist disciples who descended from the Entering Cloud Temple were above the corridor on the second floor, watching the conference.

In front of the central hall, on the stage where the girls sang and danced, stood a middle-aged man holding a folding fan.

The man was dressed in a gray-and-white robe, and his jet-black hair was tied up on top of his head.

What is remarkable is the man's eyes, and the look that goes into them.

His eyes are like torches, embarrassed, and he describes his eyes.

And he also has a special identity.

He came from the richest businessman in the world, the Mo family.

He is the chief manager of the Mo family in charge of finances, and he is also Mo Changkong's uncle and uncle, named Mo Ruohua.

In this martial arts conference, the Mo family did not send the rest of the personnel to the scene, but just asked the chief manager to come and meet with the heads of the various major sects.

He saw that the auspicious time had arrived, but the people of Yaochi still could not be present, so he could only speak to the people in the building.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the auspicious time has arrived, but the Yaochi Immortal Sect has not yet arrived, so this martial arts conference will officially begin~."

After finishing speaking, he paused for a moment, and looked at the leaders on the field with a smile on his face, and then spoke again.

"Under Mo Ruohua, he is a member of the Mo family. Although the Mo family did not send personnel to the scene this time, my brother is willing to arrange and provide food and accommodation for all the martial arts people who came this time. I hope that through this, I can also do something for the people in the south of the Yangtze River."

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