Chapter Twenty-Four: The Long Street
The banquets in the hall are late, and when the cups and plates are messy, everyone has more tricks to play with wine. One of them wanted to choose an official prostitute to sleep tonight, and he liked a woman with a light body, so he asked someone to sprinkle gold dust on the couch, and asked a few courtesans to go up one by one, and the woman who did not leave a footprint was chosen.
At this time, some Ming Gong was already staggering, and some simply lay on the wine table and snored, so everyone said that the wine was finished, and everyone chose a good woman to go back to the room to rest. Xue Chongxun had no interest in the official prostitute, and when he was about to leave, the courtesan who was pinched by him said with a disappointed face: "If you have no conscience, can you leave it alone if you make people emotional?" ”
Xue Chongxun was stunned, and then figured out the joint: this official prostitute was either raised by the state treasury or raised by the local government, and was well paid, and usually had a regular amount of money. But the magistrate had a rule of reward and punishment in order to make them serve their colleagues who were good guests, and to be more enthusiastic when they went to pleasure for themselves, and if they slept there was an additional reward...... Official prostitutes do not receive private guests, but they also want to make more money and have a savings when they are old. So the courtesan who was talking to Xue Chongxun tried every means to stay with him.
Originally, it was a scene play, Xue Chongxun planned to ignore it, but suddenly thought: Yu Liben played an unknown tune just now, mentioning Shangqingguan, what is the purpose? He wanted to know what kind of place Shangqingguan was, this thing was only known to the local people in Luoyang, so why not ask this courtesan by the way?
Yu Liben came to Luoyang because he received the secret sect of Taiping, but Xue Chongxun didn't want others to know the relationship between Yu Liben and his side, so it was inconvenient for the two of them to meet alone...... Maybe Yu Liben mentioned Shangqingguan, which was a hint that Xue Chongxun went to Shangqingguan to meet?
At this time, the interview made Yang Sidao have already selected a woman with big breasts, big buttocks, and fat to stay in the official brothel. Yu Liben got up and said goodbye...... He was a eunuch, so it was really difficult to stay here.
The officials of Luoyang Mansion arranged a residence for Yu Liben, because he followed the interview, so they arranged for him to go to the Eastern Capital Imperial History Museum. But Yu Liben shook his head and said: "I still have today's errand on me, I can't stay too long, I will continue to travel east in two days, and I will go to Shangqingguan again tonight and listen to that song completely." ”
Zhu Gong smiled: "Father Yu is careful of that female ghost, don't be hooked by her." ”
Yu Liben said with a smile: "I'm only for the rhythm, and if I have no desire, I'm just strong, even if it's a female ghost, I can't do it." ”
The princes must be thinking in their hearts that a eunuch is naturally just ...... Yu Liben seemed to have guessed their disdain, the smile on his face became a little stiff, and he hugged his fists and said, "Farewell." ”
Xue Chongxun understood that Yu Liben was going to Shangqingguan tonight, so he couldn't leave in a hurry, and he was more cautious in everything, so as not to attract suspicion...... Maybe Xue Chongxun was a little worried, few people knew about the things they designed in Youzhou, who would have thought that he had anything to do with an internal matter?
At this time, Xue Chongxun smiled at the courtesan next to him and said, "You said it lightly, I really don't believe that you are emotional." With so many colleagues, if you get emotional once you see one, then your intestines will be broken? ”
The courtesa blinked, "I hate it, what are you talking about so many people!" ”
Xue Chongxun laughed heartily, took her hand and asked her to lead the way. The princes who had not yet left all bowed to each other, with smiles on their faces.
They went out from the inner door of the hall, walked along the vermilion corridor, and then came to the courtesan's room, and when they walked into the door, Xue Chongxun felt a feeling, and couldn't help but chant a poem: "The silver grate of the head is broken, and the blood-colored Luo skirt is stained with wine." ”
The courtesan praised it flatteringly, but didn't say anything, Xue Chongxun immediately saw that this woman's literary cultivation was not high...... Not all official prostitutes are literate, and then he remembered that this woman was pouring wine on the side, I am afraid that the grade is limited, but he is too lazy to care, and he doesn't want to ask the name.
The courtesan closed the door and began to undress, which immediately disgusted Xue Chongxun. I can only play this way and the more I play, the more empty I become, and the higher my status is, the taste is also in my mouth, and I really can't be interested in completely carnal things. He immediately stopped: "You can talk to me, and when someone asks me, I will say that you are in bed." ”
"What's the matter, does Lang Jun dislike the slave family?" The courtesan was a little embarrassed, but then leaned in to curry favor.
Xue Chongxun shook his head with a smile: "I want to consolidate my foundation and cultivate my yuan, and I can't indulge in lust...... By the way, what was the name of the eunuch just now, and the Shangqing Temple he said was not far from here? ”
"Isn't it just west of Luoyang City? Father-in-law Yu, he really knows how to pick a place, this Taoist temple is selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, but it is a kiln! Hum! The courtesan looked disdainful, as if she wanted to say that she was a bitch and set up a torii, and this peer was really not bad.
"How did the Taoist temple become a kiln?" Xue Chongxun inquired curiously.
"The female Taoist priest inside pretended to be high, tarnished the Taoist name, and specially seduced dignitaries."
Xue Chongxun said with a smile: "It's really strange that a female Taoist priest would do such an ugly thing when she became a monk, but you also said that she hooked up with a high-ranking official, and people with no background couldn't trouble her." ”
The two chatted a few words, and Xue Chongxun heard the information he wanted to know, so he completely lost interest in this low-level official prostitute, and immediately found an excuse to slip out of here.
Out of the Fangmen, Xue Chongxun first returned to Xingyuan, and then took Sanniang and Fang Yuzhong to come out of the back door in a black felt car. At this time, it is getting late, but there are still pedestrians on the street, and many shops have not yet closed, and the lights are still bright. The curfew in Luoyang was looser than in Chang'an, and Chang'an actually had the function of defending against foreigners, and was a semi-militarized fortress.
When I just went out of the house, the flow of people was still dense, because the line was next to the eastern capital Miyagi, and the Mingtang in Luoyang was in this area, so it was more prosperous here. As the carriage went west, the number of pedestrians gradually decreased, and after a while, the long street was closed on both sides.
There was a little fog tonight, shrouded in the dim antique long street, which made Xue Chongxun recall those ancient ghost films, and couldn't help but pull his clothes, feeling a little chill immediately.
However, occasionally I can hear someone's dog barking a few times, which is a good sign, I heard that ghosts are afraid of dogs. In fact, Xue Chongxun doesn't believe in ghosts at all, but people are like that, they will be affected by the atmosphere and cannot be completely rational.
Walking to the door of a single-courtyard and single-family Taoist temple, Xue Chongxun looked up from the carriage window and saw the dark and gloomy classical building, and he remembered the singing in the middle of the night that Yu Liben said, how to think about how to look like the atmosphere in a ghost movie, and he was also a little chilly at the moment.
They got out of the car, Xue Chongxun looked left and right, there was no one, there were no residents around, the black lights were blinding, only two lanterns were hanging at the gate of this courtyard, glowing with cold and faint light...... Don't go in and see a few rows of coffins, just crawl out some bouncing zombies.
When they looked back at Sanniang and Fang Yuzhong, the expressions of the two of them were not very good, their faces were very white, and their hands were touching weapons.
"Call the door?" Sanniang asked coldly.
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