Chapter 10: The Emperor's Prostitution
Yuan Baoheng seemed to see that Song Xiaofei was unwilling, and said: "This opportunity to meet Li Zhongtang is what I strive for, some opportunities are missed, we must learn to give up, giving up is also a kind of wisdom, otherwise it is easy to be self-defeating and lose future opportunities." ”
Song Xiaofei saw that his uncle said this, so he nodded and said, "Uncle, don't worry, after you leave, I will wake up my body and study harder." ”
After Yuan Baoheng left, Song Xiaofei was unsupervised, his future was uncertain, he felt that he had lost his life goal all of a sudden, and he studied hard for a few days, and his mood became inexplicably irritable.
That day, the autumn was crisp, the northern geese returned to the south, and Song Xiaofei decided to go to the capital to relax. Song Xiaofei had always been interested in ancient records before he crossed over. The museum industry originated in the Spring and Autumn Period in China, with a history of more than 2,000 years, it is a legal business, the industry is fiercely competitive, and most of the daughters inside are all intensively studied in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which is more elegant than the geisha of the small book, but it is a pity that this tradition has been lost in modern times, and has become a completely vulgar industry, otherwise it will definitely be the quintessence of the country, and it can apply for world cultural heritage. In ancient China, literati and celebrities had a habit of remembering, and Song Xiaofei also wanted to be a vassal and elegant, and wrote a famous sentence similar to "Yangzhou Dream in Ten Years", so he took some silver taels and went straight to the famous Eight Hutongs in Yanjing alone.
Bada Hutong was synonymous with fireworks and willow lanes in the late Qing Dynasty, and was famous at home and abroad. Because it is close to the inner city of the imperial palace, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it has been a place for officials in the capital to solve the dual needs of physical and psychological drinking. There is a ballad in old Yanjing, "Bada Hutong has been known since ancient times, and it is Baishun Stone Town in Shaanxi." Hanjiatan is full of string songs, and Wang Guangxie Street is brightly lit. The front of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple is full of cars, and the two camps are vertical and horizontal. How much do you know about the mink Qiu high-rollers, and the clusters of rouge slopes go up", singing the wind and snow in the eight alleys.
However, the Jiguan of the late Qing Dynasty is divided into several grades like the current hotels, the first class is "Qingyin Small Class", the second class is "Tea Room", the third class is "Lower", and the lowest class is commonly known as "kiln". The eight alleys are the concentration of the "Qingyin small class", and there are more than 100 large and small Qinlou Chu Pavilions. Menwai Street is still a bustling commercial street in Beijing, with opera gardens, teahouses, and restaurants, and countless jugglers in the rivers and lakes.
Song Xiaofei had just walked to Hanjiatan Hutong, and suddenly saw a lot of people in a vacant lot in front of him. He squeezed in to see that it was a Sichuan master demonstrating the disguise technique, he put on makeup for a **-year-old ugly girl, and after half a pillar of incense, the girl followed the past to judge the two, just like "Sister Feng" became "Hibiscus", and the crowd applauded.
Song Xiaofei was very curious, and stepped forward to ask, "Master, is there really such a thing as a disguise technique in the world?" Didn't you collude to cheat money? ”
The old man glanced at him and said angrily: "This guest officer, seeing that you are young and ignorant, I don't care about you!" But you can eat indiscriminately, and you can't talk indiscriminately. The disguise technique and face change are all the mastery of our Shu land. I have been walking the rivers and lakes for 50 years, and I don't dare to brag, although I can't do a makeover, but it's no problem to give you a look and make your parents not recognize you. If you don't believe me, you try? ”
Song Xiaofei thought to himself, it is not a glorious thing to visit the museum, it is better to be careful, so he sat on the square bench of the old master and said: "Try it, try it, if you can make me change my face and become more handsome, I will reward you with ten taels of silver, otherwise, I will smash your stall." ”
"It's a deal. As long as you fully cooperate, your parents will not recognize you. The gray-haired old man took out a few pieces of artificial skin from the bottom of the box, which looked like transparent pigskins. He asked Song Xiaofei to close his eyes and began to "operate" on his face.
After tossing for half an hour, the old man took out a bronze mirror and made Song Xiaofei open his eyes. Song Xiaofei looked at it, his chin became thicker, his eyebrows were bent, and he was really much more handsome than his original appearance, he thought to himself, no wonder the Goryeo sticks saved money from childhood to the age of eighteen to go for plastic surgery, and sure enough, the effect was different, he was more satisfied, and took out ten taels of silver to thank the old man.
Yi Rong, Song Xiaofei was secretly happy in his heart, I can finally do whatever I want, I must find two girls tonight and play Shuangfei. With his mind decided, Song Xiaofei trotted out and arrived at a Qingyin small class called "Qing Yuanchun" near Tanjia Hutong.
It was a two-story brick and wood building, six or seven feet high, with intriguing eaves. Several women with slender waists and heavy makeup stood outside the door, twisting their buttocks, raising their handkerchiefs, and whispering to the pedestrians on the stone road: "Guest officer, please inside!" Song Xiaofei saw that they were quite attractive, so he entered the lobby.
I was about to go upstairs when I saw the old mother and seven or eight big men chasing the two teenagers down the stairs. The freckled old mother held a handkerchief, pointed at the noses of the two young men and scolded: "Phew, dog, I dare to come to the old lady to eat the overlord meal if I don't have money!" ”
The two young men were Emperor Tongzhi and Guibao, the eunuch who had served him since childhood. Gui Bao listened to the old mother's insult, and was angry and annoyed: "We don't want to repay the debt, when did we not give money before?" Today we met a group of little beggars on the road, and we kindly helped them, but we didn't expect them to steal the money bag. ”
"It was before, and today is today. After talking for a long time, you still don't have any money to give, and my mother is not in the mood to listen to you make up stories. If you don't give money today, don't think about taking half a step out of Qingyuanchun! Ah Si, call me. The old mother was angry and gave orders to the leading nursing home.
Ah Si was two meters tall and a fat and strong Mongolian man, he shook his fleshy head from side to side, patted his bulging belly, and held a knife in his hand, and viciously threw himself at Emperor Tongzhi and Guibao. Gui Bao stepped forward to stop him, but was kicked over by Ah Siyi, and lay on the ground "Oops, oops, oops" and screamed. Emperor Tongzhi went up to help Guibao and said, "It's just to supply you with silver another day, why do you beat people?" Ah Si ignored him, sneered a few times, and stepped forward to beat him with a knife.
Most of the emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty hunted and practiced martial arts, and just when Ah Si was close, Emperor Tongzhi flashed behind Ah Si and tripped him with a sweep of his legs. Ah Si was caught off guard and fell into a vicious dog eating.
"What are you doing in a daze, come on, what does my mother usually do with your group of rice buckets." The old mother saw that Ah Si was at a loss, and spat at the rest of the people.
In the blink of an eye, the remaining guards surrounded the Tongzhi Emperor, they were wearing black coats, and at first glance they were people who practiced martial arts, and attacked the Tongzhi Emperor together, and the Tongzhi Emperor was a little struggling, and he was defeated and retreated.
Song Xiaofei inadvertently glanced at the gold medal on the waist of Emperor Tongzhi, with the pattern of a dragon on it, he was taken aback, thinking of Gui Bao's sissy speech, and thought: "Could it be that this person in front of you is Emperor Tongzhi?" The emperor let the women of the three palaces and six courtyards not soak, but came out to make a scoop, which is really a miracle in the world. However, the history books do say that Emperor Tongzhi often slipped out of the palace in Weifu to have fun in the museum, so he wouldn't really touch him, right? ”
Thinking of this, Song Xiaofei ran over to help Emperor Tongzhi and shouted, "There are many people bullying few people, what kind of hero is it?" ”
Ah Si obviously never treated himself as a hero, and when he saw someone standing in the way, he raised his knife and rushed towards Song Xiaofei, approaching him, but he didn't move, the old mother scolded, why didn't he beat him? What are you doing stupidly? Ah Si turned around and smirked, revealing two big tiger teeth, "He... There are guns. ”
Song Xiaofei took the M1847 pistol and withstood Ah Si's balls. The gun Yuan Baozhong gave to Song Xiaofei before he died.
The two sides were at a stalemate, and at this time, a stunning girl went downstairs with a few silver tickets, shouting as she walked: "Stop fighting, everyone don't fight." Mom, you let them stop, I have a few silver tickets given by the third emperor a few days ago, have you seen enough? ? ”
The people who were fighting stopped fighting, Song Xiaofei looked up, the girl had a goose-egg-shaped face, two depicted eyebrows like willow leaves, wearing a colorful dark flower skirt, looking slender, slim, with a butterfly hairpin on her head, and a silk fan in her hand, very gentle and delicate. This girl is similar to his first girlfriend Ouyang Xiaoxue in his previous life, Song Xiaofei stared at her face and was fascinated, is there really someone in this world who looks exactly like her? He remembered the picture of kissing with Ouyang Xiaoxue on the Mutianyu Great Wall, and couldn't help but think about it.
"Hey, my daughter's house is just eating inside and out." The old mother saw that Qian was open-eyed, and the nursing home couldn't beat Emperor Tongzhi and Song Xiaofei, so she grabbed the silver ticket, found a step for herself, waved her hand to let the men in the nursing home retreat, and said to Emperor Tongzhi, "Get out, it's cheap for you today!" ”
"I'm not leaving tonight!! Look at this ring, is it enough for tonight's money? "From childhood to adulthood, no one dared to talk to him in this tone, Emperor Tongzhi was stunned, took off the sapphire diamond ring in his hand and handed it to the old mother, this diamond ring was a coming-of-age gift from the Empress Dowager Cixi to the Tongzhi Emperor. The old mother took the diamond ring and saw that the color of this gem was the best, and she smiled, "My lord, your ring, even if it is enough to redeem the phoenix girl!" If we had come up with this earlier, we wouldn't have had to go to such great lengths. ”
Emperor Tongzhi went downhill and said to the old mother: "Then I will redeem myself for the Fengxian girl." ”
Song Xiaofei went to school in Yanjing, and once saw the sapphire diamond ring in the gem exhibition of the National Museum, and he was more sure of the identity of Emperor Tongzhi, and was thinking about how to talk to him, Emperor Tongzhi came over and patted him on the shoulder: "This brother, I see that you are very righteous and clever, can you take a step upstairs to talk?" ”;