Chapter 383: Wandering into the Qinglou
In Luoyang, there are still zài in Qinglou, but there are relatively few pure Qinglou, and in general, they are all engaged in the business of wine, food and accommodation. The pure green building has little living space in Luoyang.
This phenomenon has a great relationship with Liu Yi.
First of all, let's start with Yihong Building, Yihong Building, is the industry of Princess Yiyang, and it has always been one of the top two green buildings in Luoyang. All the time, it has to look much more elegant than the average green building.
After Liu Yijian, Yihong Mansion added elements of food, post-modern singing, dancing and entertainment on the basis of the original. It has made Yihong House more eye-catching and popular.
Yihong Mansion originally had a lot of poetry clubs, poetry clubs or something, and there were also some performances of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in ancient times. However, it turned out that they were all through guò to highlight the young lady of the Qinglou and provide entertainment for those noble sons and brothers. Now, some of the original entertainment items are still there, and there are still those who want to ask the lady to sleep with them. However, the current Yihong Mansion is more humane, more free, more elegant and entertaining, and more meaningful activities. It's not just a thing to blindly let people call the young lady lewd.
For example, if there were to be some poetry meetings or something, someone from the government would come forward to organize those literati and ink writers to compare and learn from each other's poems, and there would be similar cultural awards similar to those in later generations. Really good poems, good words, and good articles will be selected by some great writers, and the first and second places will be selected, etc., and these articles and poems will be published in the Xinmin Daily of the New Han Dynasty and circulated. So that everyone in the world can see it. However, the reward is not the first night of the Oiran or anything. Rather, rewards are given out in the form of bonuses in kind. So. It is no longer a money-collecting activity of the Qinglou, but some official activities. It's just a matter of using the venue of Yihong House to hold the event. It can be said that participating in the activities of some official organizations of Qinglou such as Yihong Mansion can bring fame to those literati and artists.
In this way, relative to the meaning of the Qinglou, everyone knows it, and it is not the most important.
Well. Those celebrities in the Qinglou, especially those who can sing and dance, they are not really Miss Qinglou, they are in the Qinglou, playing and singing for the guests, no longer to please the guests, but to perform, to show their talents. This kind of woman, now. She is called an entertainer, or an artist. Real young ladies are just those women who do not have the conditions to become an artist and do not have a skill. They will pick up customers and make money to make a living. Of course, a large part of them are the ladies who pick up customers. In fact, they were all women from the families who had been convicted, and women who had returned from captivity.
Anyway. Now most of the Qinglou in Luoyang are modeled after the business model of Yihong Mansion. It is a bit similar to those star-rated hotels in later generations. The green building with its own song and dance hall, restaurant, accommodation and other services.
In the past, the business model of the Qinglou, for example, entering the Qinglou, calling the lady, drinking some wine, flirting, entering the room to do things, and leaving after finishing is a bit backward in Luoyang.
If the average green house does not have a variety of elegant activities, it is difficult to attract those who are really willing to spend money and have fun. At least, the general green buildings have been transformed into a business model similar to that of a restaurant, and it is no longer just those fans who call the lady to maintain business.
Of course, the kind of green building that does things when you go in is still zài.
And the green building that Xuanyuan Qing stepped into was the kind of old green building that was relatively pure.
This green building is not big, and the environment is not too good. It is estimated that the customers it faces should be a green building that meets the needs of prostitutes in the lower echelons of society.
There is nothing particular about this kind of green house, and the guests who come in will not come for the sake of fine wine and food, or some kind of elegant activities, and will not come to listen to music and music, but directly to vent. They were very direct, came in, took a fancy to a certain girl inside, and went into the room to do errands.
Of course, in the hall in the Qinglou, there are still a lot of banquets, and there are already a lot of fans coming in, and they are pulled to the banquet table by those turtle mothers or something, and then several Miss Qinglou with thick fat and powder, surrounding their uncles and sons, and they are prodigal, hoping that these guests can choose them to do things.
The fans who came here, I am afraid that they are also some relatively vulgar people, but also anxious people, individual, in the hall, holding some young ladies up and down, although not a real knife into battle, but take advantage of the siblings, and make some young ladies half-dressed, it is a common thing to have a spring outbreak.
This kind of liquor in the Qinglou is generally provided by the Qinglou for free, but it should be added from the prostitution fund.
Those young ladies and fans will naturally pour over some of the wine, and naturally the aroma of the wine will overflow and float outside.
Xuanyuan Qing was so attracted by the aroma of wine in a moment of embarrassment.
But when she came in, she was really stunned, and for a moment she was even more ashamed, so ashamed that she wanted to find a crack in the ground to drill down.
Well, the scene inside is really unsightly. Look, a strong man is carrying a petite young lady on his shoulders, striding upstairs with a wicked smile, and the young lady is slapping the strong man coquettishly, but he is not really angry. Also, a young lady, half-pushed and half-pushed, snuggled into the arms of an old man with spring in her eyes, and kissed her mouth to mouth, which was quite forgetful. Also, an excessive man pulled the collar of a young lady to his arm, revealing a snow-white, a snow-white jade rabbit, which was actually exposed like this, but the woman didn't care, and stood up to the man, and said something with a smile.
What the hell is this? Xuanyuan Feng was really stunned, she didn't understand why these women here were so shameless, and they could let those men despise them so much.
If it was before, Xuanyuan Qing would definitely be furious when she saw the scene here, maybe she would definitely make some ridiculous movements. However, she now understands some things about men and women. In her heart, these days. I think about these things from time to time. In her heart, although she felt that the people here were so profligate here, it was not right. But she doesn't find anything too unacceptable.
That, it seems that it is really normal for men and women to love, these women, at a glance, they seem to be voluntary, look at those young ladies who are being pinched, it seems that they are enjoying themselves. That kind of look, when she was with her sister Xuanyuan Feng. I saw it in my sister's look.
But it was precisely because Xuanyuan Qing understood these things that she didn't know what to react to for a while.
At this time, with a hula sound, a group of young ladies who were waiting for the guests to come to the door suddenly surrounded them.
They were talking about something, but soon, these young ladies retreated a little disappointed, and then looked at Xuanyuan Qing with a strange expression. Scold. These young ladies, in a hurry to solicit customers, stepped forward to greet someone when they saw someone coming in, and for a while they didn't see clearly that it was a woman who came in. But after seeing clearly. They immediately walked away with a look of disappointment.
"Childe...... No, girl, are you—are you on the wrong track? "One with a thick layer of fat. As soon as she spoke, Miss Qinglou, whose face had powder on her face, looked at Xuanyuan Qingdao curiously.
This young lady of the Qinglou is actually an ordinary person. Many of them are still relatively old, and they are old and yellow. I had to rely on fat powder to make it look a little more enchanting.
The young lady Qinglou who asked this question was afraid that she was almost forty years old, and there were wrinkles between the corners of her eyebrows.
Liu Yi was behind Xuanyuan Qing, watching her break in by mistake, of course, Liu Yi also followed in, but Liu Yi's eyes were like electricity, and he saw from afar that this was a green building, and after coming in, after taking a look, he could see that this was a rather low-grade green building, and the young ladies in it were all vulgar young ladies.
Liu Yi wanted to take Xuanyuan Qing away, but when he saw the young lady asking, and Xuanyuan Qing was about to say that he was wrong and wanted to leave, Liu Yi hurriedly said: "No, no, it's not wrong, well, we're here just to come here." ”
"Huh? This son, you, are you with her? ”
"Ouch, Childe is here? Quick, Xiaolian, Xiaocui, come and greet this son. ”
"Childe is so handsome, what do you think of the slave family?"
"Childe, why don't you let the slave family wait for you?"
"I don't want money, Childe, come with the slave family......"
As soon as Liu Yi came in, these young ladies who were originally going to welcome Xuanyuan Qing all their eyes lit up, and they bypassed Xuanyuan Qing all of a sudden, and surrounded Liu Yi, this one touched Liu Yi, and the other wanted to take Liu Yi's hand and wanted Liu Yi to prostitute them. Some people have a little vision, and when they saw that Liu Yi was dignified, he looked like the son of a rich family, and he actually said that he didn't want money.
"Hehe, everyone's good intentions are understood, go, call your people who can speak, give me a private room, prepare some wine and food, well, the wine should be the best. I'm going to talk to this girl about something. Hehe, when I have the opportunity, I will definitely visit you in the future. Liu Yi naturally didn't take a fancy to these vulgar fans, but he didn't show a look of dislike for them, and dealt with them casually, asking them to call the person in charge to get him a more elegant room.
Well, Liu Yi faintly saw that this Xuanyuan Qing should no longer be so rejective to himself, and he should have the opportunity to take it down. Now, I've narrowed the distance to her a little bit, and if I can take her while it's hot, it won't take too much time and effort.
The ambiguous environment here is a good place to better provoke her spring love.
If it was earlier, when Liu Yi was a little bored in his heart, he might really go to a serious restaurant with Xuanyuan Qing to drink and chat, but now, Liu Yi has no heart to drink seriously. Xuanyuan Qing attracted him even more.
These young ladies have long been trained in Jin Qinghuo's eyes, and when they saw Liu Yiqi, although they came forward to pull as usual, they all knew in their hearts that such a prince with a noble demeanor and extraordinary demeanor would not be able to look down on them Qinglou women. Well, especially, they had noticed that this girl, who seemed to have broken in by mistake, was born as beautiful as a fairy, which made them each marvel and jealous. They all guessed in their hearts that it was very likely that this prince might be pursuing this girl.
Liu Yi took out a handful of money from his bosom and casually stuffed it into the hand of one of the young ladies, and the young lady said very cleverly: "Gege, son, what use of our mommy." Come, there happens to be a clean room upstairs. Please come with the slaves. ”
"Yes, yes. Come, girl. We'll send you up. The other young ladies, seeing that Liu Yi was generous, stepped forward one by one, pulled Xuanyuan Qing in the arms, and pulled her upstairs.
"Ah, I, I'm not......" Xuanyuan Qing was stunned, and turned his head to ask Liu Yi for help.
"Hehe, it doesn't matter, after walking for so long, it's the same to drink here." Lewi looked unimpressed. Follow with your hands behind your back.
After a while, Xuanyuan Qing was pulled by several women into a room that was quite elegant.
"Alright, let's go and get you ready for the food." Liu Yi waved his hand and asked these Qinglou ladies to withdraw.
"Liu, Liu Yi, this, this is Qinglou, right? I—It doesn't seem like we're drinking here, right? Otherwise, let's find another place. Xuanyuan Qing is now ashamed and unnatural in his heart.
"Where you come, you are safe." Liu Yi glanced at some of the rooms and knew it in his heart.
Over here. It should be specially arranged for those distinguished guests who occasionally come here to look for flowers and willows, and ordinary fans will not be brought to these specially arranged private rooms.
In the room. There are banquet tables, beds, and a lot of seemingly elegant calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall. It looks clean and elegant.
This time. Xuanyuan Qing didn't know why, his heart was beating very fast. Think, this time. Is it considered to be in the same room with Liu Yi's lonely men and widows?
"Sit down, it's a rare opportunity to drink with Sister Xuanyuan to relieve your boredom, looking at you today, it seems that you are preoccupied, and I accompany you shopping, and it is not easy to make you a little happier. Let's talk about everything today. Liu Yi asked Xuanyuan Qing to sit down.
"Alas, that's, that's okay......" Xuanyuan Qing knew that it was already like this, and it was not good to leave like this, so he had to sit down.
However, after she sat down, Liu Yi just looked at her and did not speak, and was a little silent for a while. She was a little embarrassed and uneasy by Liu Yi, and she didn't know what to say to Liu Yi.
Fortunately, after a while, the young lady of the Qinglou brought wine and food, and the director of the Qinglou also came, and Liu Yi directly threw a piece of silver to her, asking her not to disturb. Now in Luoyang, only those who are really rich and those who are really rich will use silver. Well, Lewis has already made people work out an equivalent exchange between silver, gold, and copper coins.
This is mainly because the New Han Dynasty has found the Jinshan located near the Rayatus Mountain in the Great Desert, which originally belonged to the Lanling clan. Although the gold mountain is not a real gold mountain, there is indeed a gold mine on the mountain, and in the future, a large amount of gold will be mined. In addition, somewhere in Bingzhou, a silver mine was discovered, which was dug up by Liu Yi according to the address of some metal mines in later generations recorded in the encyclopedia in the solar mobile phone. In this way, the silver of the Han Dynasty can no longer only be obtained from Western Europe and the Middle East. Therefore, Liu Yi asked the department in charge of the issuance of copper coins in the DPRK and China to start preparing for the issuance of silver and gold coins.
The value of silver and gold, the Han people have long known, in the past, just some silver blooms, circulated among those real high-ranking officials and wealthy families, and the people rarely used silver as money. But with the New Han Dynasty having its own gold and silver mines, Liu Yi thought that gold and silver could be officially designated as currency.
A burst of silver made the principal's eyes light up, and he hurriedly retreated, and no one was allowed to disturb Liu Yi again.
"Well, Xuanyuan ......" Liu Yi knew that no one would disturb him and Xuanyuan Qing anymore, and said: "Hey, you say, how do I want to call you good?" Name? Or is it a girl? Or is it an aunt? Aunt? Sister? ”
Xuanyuan Qing was a little absent-minded, she was a little flustered and weird from the moment she came in. Hearing this, he glanced at Liu Yi and said, "It seems that you have called all these titles, right?" Just now to ask me what my name is? ”
"Uh......" Liu Yi scratched his head, indeed, at different times and in different moods, Liu Yi's name for her is changeable. In fact, it's not just for her, it's the same for other women.
However, Liu Yi did it on purpose, because, this guy, knowing on what occasions, what to call them would be better and more natural. In fact, sometimes, if it weren't for Liu Yi asking as deliberately as he did now, those women wouldn't care, because when Liu Yi called them, it would indeed make them feel very natural.
For example, when Xuanyuan Qing was very cold to Liu Yi, Liu Yi seemed to understand that she didn't treat him very well, so he would seem to be very polite and call her Miss Xuanyuan Qing very seriously, as if she deliberately kept a distance from herself, and the title was much more formal. In front of Sima Ruyan, he would follow Sima Ruyan to call her and call her aunt. In front of Xuanyuan Feng, especially when Xuanyuan Feng asked Liu Yi to say a family affair for Xuanyuan Qing, Liu Yi called Xuanyuan Qing directly by the title of his peers. When she is alone, when she is alone with Xuanyuan Qing, especially when she doesn't show that she particularly hates Liu Yi, Liu Yi will naturally call her sister, so that she can easily shorten the distance with Xuanyuan Qing. made Xuanyuan Qing unconsciously feel that Liu Yi was much closer.
"Then when no one is around, let's call you sister." Liu Yi said cheekily.
"Whatever you want. Anyway...... Well, looking at you today, you seem to be a little lost and depressed, and you don't go in when you get to our house, do you have any problems? Xuanyuan Qing seemed to be casual, but he mustered up the courage to ask Levio. After all, she had never asked Liu Yi about personal matters.
In Xuanyuan Qing's heart, or she herself didn't know, she might have regarded Liu Yi as an object that she could entrust for life. Before, no one mentioned it, and she didn't have any thoughts in her heart, but when she was brought up, she unconsciously often thought about it, if she really married, what kind of person would she marry? It just so happened that when she was thinking about this issue, it was Liu Yi's shadow that broke into her heart. Shopping today has indeed shortened the spiritual distance between her and Liu Yi, and for the first time in her life, she has felt that letting a man care for her is something that can make her heart throb and happy.
Sometimes it's really hard to talk about things between men and women. Especially women, once a man makes them feel good, especially after they acquiesce to this man in their hearts, then they can easily fall into it and start to pay attention to this man.
"Alas, don't say it, in short, it's a difficult thing." Liu Yi didn't say anything, but he still briefly said about Mrs. Zhang.
Xuanyuan Qing listened very carefully, and after Liu Yi finished speaking, she said faintly: "Who said it wasn't?" When it comes to the people around you, there are some things that cannot be handled properly, which will indeed make you upset. ”
"It's like ......" Xuanyuan Qing looked at Liu Yi, as if she wanted to comfort Liu Yi, but she didn't know how to comfort her, so she had to say: "My sister has not had a good time these years, the relationship between Sima Zheng and my sister is in name only, and I have also seen her like you from time to time, as if she is preoccupied and troubled." ”
"Well, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. However, I'm okay with this, if Mrs. Zhang can think about it, it will be fine, but, your sister, alas, I don't know how to say it. If you meet someone who is not ladylike, you will be a disaster for life. ”
"Isn't it? I saw that my sister was upset, and I didn't know how to comfort her. ”
"Heh, you are also preoccupied today, it can't be because of your sister's business, right?"
"Huh? No...... Well, maybe. Xuanyuan Qing didn't expect Liu Yi to suddenly talk about her, and wanted to deny it for a while, but it didn't seem to be all.
"Oh? So let's talk about it? Well, a toast to our gathering today! Liu Yi raised his glass and said.
Xuanyuan Qing really raised his glass and drank a glass of wine.
The wine went down, and the smell of wine surged up, making her face flush with wine red in an instant. Liu Yi looked at it, but felt that it was even more beautiful.
"I—I'm thinking...... Thinking...... Alas, I've been annoyed lately anyway. It's all your fault! Xuanyuan Qing may have drunk some wine, and his temperament is more open, and he seems to be very dissatisfied with Liu Yi and said.
"Uh, it's all me bad? What's wrong with me? ”
"What's wrong? What's wrong with me, you're still asking? It's okay what did you come to tell me? My sister told you to come, huh? Also, you tell me honestly, you said that you know everything about me and my sister, what do you know? Xuanyuan Qing glared at Liu Yidao.
"Huh? Is this—Is this important? "Where did Leo really know about her and her sister? On that day, Liu Yi just deceived her, originally thought that the matter had passed, but she didn't think she would have to ask. (To be continued......)