Chapter 21: The Joy Pavilion

It wasn't until sunset that the lights were on that I read all the legal texts roughly. She stretched her waist and called Chun Tao when the time was almost up.

Chun Tao thought that Li Wei was hungry, so she said, "Miss, I'll let someone bring the food." ”

"No, I don't. I'll take you out to eat today. ”

Hearing that Li didn't hesitate to take her out to eat, Chun Tao happily asked, "Miss, where are you taking me to eat?" ”

"I'll take you to a good place to eat and play." Li did not hesitate to sell the pass. "Go and get what I asked you to buy in the afternoon."

Chun Tao's face was full of suspicion, and she turned around to get it. Not for a while

Son, Chun Tao brought two sets of clothes.

Li didn't hesitate to take one of them casually and planned to change it. Don't forget to turn back to Chun Tao and say, "You also put it on." ”

When Chun Tao heard this, she exclaimed: "Miss, this is men's clothing!" Chun Tao thought it was bought for the prince. ”

"How can you go to the Joy Pavilion without changing into this men's clothes! Besides, if this dress was prepared for the prince, wouldn't you think it was too small?! Li did not hesitate to change while talking.

Joy Hunt! Hearing these three words, Chun Tao felt that her whole person was not good. Chun Tao looked at Li Wei, who had already been dressed, and said in her heart: Miss's courage is getting bigger and bigger, and she actually wants to take herself to the kiln! Although I thought so in my heart, I still changed into men's clothes as I was ordered.

Chun Tao couldn't help but complain, "Miss, you just promised to help them fight the lawsuit, so why bother to go to a place like Xunhuan Pavilion." ”

"If I don't go there in person, I don't know what happened and how I can help him fight for his reasons and turn the tide."

Chun Tao thought sideways, "It seems to be such a reason." ”

Li didn't hesitate to look at Chun Tao's playful appearance, "You girl! ”

The two of them went out from the back door of the palace, and along the way, Chun Tao was as uncomfortable as a thorn on her body, but she didn't hesitate to look calm and calm.

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At this time, the Joy Pavilion is in full swing, and the guests are like clouds. The girls are all greased and powdered, and they dress themselves up in a flamboyant and delicate way; The men were deeply involved, fascinated, confused, and squandering their money.

As soon as Li Wei took Chun Tao to the door of the Joy Pavilion, a turtle boy warmly welcomed them into the inner hall.

"The little one looked at the two masters, I think it's the first time I've come to our Joy Pavilion, right?" The turtle looked at the two as he walked.

Li did not hesitate to smile at the corner of his mouth and said politely to the turtle father: "Little brother has good eyesight!" Since I was a child, I have been doing business with my father and have rarely returned to Beijing, but this is the first time I have come here. ”

The turtle prince looked at Li Wei with bright clothes, fine skin and tender meat, and the wealth and nobility revealed in his gestures made him sure that the son in front of him must be of extraordinary origin.

The turtle man smiled and said, "The master is really a little one!" I don't have good eyesight, but I've been doing this work with people for a long time, so I can naturally distinguish one from the other. Let Ye see a smile. ”

"Hehe, this little brother is polite. Today, I have to bother my brother to introduce us to a few girls. Li didn't hesitate to listen to the turtle prince, so he threw a look at Chun Tao, and Chun Tao immediately understood, and took out a silver ingot from his waist and gave it to the turtle prince.

Gui Gong didn't expect Li Weixi to be so generous, and with this white silver, he was even more attentive to Li Weixi. Gui Gong introduced the top girl of the Joy Pavilion to Li Weixi. Along the way, from time to time, there were drunk prostitutes or girls playing with prostitutes passing by them, in exchange for a sigh in Li Weixi's heart.

When he was still a few steps away from the inner hall, Li did not hesitate to stop suddenly, and when the turtle prince saw this, he turned around and asked puzzledly: "Master, why don't you leave?" ”

Li did not hesitate to deliberately show displeasure, but did not speak.

Chun Tao understood, "We heard that the top card of your Joy Pavilion is a dream girl, do you plan to fool my son-in-law with these flowers and grasses, or are you afraid that my son-in-law will not be able to make a bid?" ”

Chun Tao's words made Gu Gong very aggrieved, and he hurriedly explained to Li Weixi. "Master, don't get me wrong. The small ones don't intend to fool you, and they don't intend to fool you, and they don't want to be afraid that you won't be able to make a bid. It's just that this dream girl is different from the other girls in this Joy Pavilion, she can't be seen for money. ”

"Oh, is the rumor true?! I heard that the Taifu Mansion Qian Gongzi brought 500,000 taels of gold and didn't have the opportunity to meet Miss Rumeng. Li did not hesitate to probe it.

"If you go back to your master, I don't know if Mr. Qian is carrying fifty taels of gold, but Miss Rumeng really didn't see him." After looking around, the turtle prince changed his words, and said mysteriously: "500,000 taels of gold is not a small amount, if the young man really brought it here, how could so many people in the Xunhuan Pavilion not know, let alone the small ones." ”

"Xu is the one he is carrying a silver ticket, so you naturally have no way of knowing."

Gui Gong had a disapproving expression, "Master, you don't know. That Mr. Qian is a frequent visitor to our place, and he doesn't come back and forth, at least there are two or three retinues or small servants. On that day, Mr. Qian came alone, if he really had so many silver tickets on him, how could he not bring anyone, this makes no sense! ”

Li did not regret to recognize the meaning of Gui Gong's words. "Little brother is right! Speaking of which, this Qian Gongzi has come to your Xunhuan Pavilion several times and only asks for the side of the dream girl, which can be regarded as infatuation, why does the dream girl insist on refusing to meet? ”

Gui Gong lowered his voice again and said, "Gongzi doesn't know, but the girl who is like a dream wants to be Princess Yan, how can she have anything to do with him." What's more, this rich son has a bad reputation, and there are many wives and concubines in the family. No, Miss Rumeng was afraid that he would ruin his reputation, and he would not want to see him. ”

"But Prince Yan was married a few days ago, how can she become Princess Yan?" Chun Tao interjected.

Gui Gong shook his head, "I don't know about the little one." ”

Li didn't expect that there was such a reason for this. She turned to say: "Since the girl who is like a dream doesn't see Mr. Qian, then Mr. Qian is really going to return in disappointment!" ”

"How can you! Every time this young man comes back to see the girl who is like a dream, he will go to Miss Furong to spend the night after being rejected. ”

"It seems that this Furong girl can be regarded as an old friend of Mr. Qian." Li didn't regret that he had almost heard it from Guigong, and walked to the inner hall again.

"Who's to say it isn't! This rich boy didn't spend less money on Furong. The turtle man kept up with the steps.

"Master, you have fun." The turtle prince took Li and Chun Tao to the inner hall and retreated.

As soon as you step into the huge inner hall, in addition to the magnificent interior, you will be greeted by the unique pattern of this joy pavilion. Unlike other green houses, the first floor of the inner hall of the Joy Pavilion is divided into a number of small rooms, which are separated by light romance veils. A breeze blew, the veil floated gently, and the whole inner hall was like a dreamlike fairyland, and the girls seemed to be fairies shuttling through it. This scene is very easy to provoke the lust of men, no wonder the business of the Joy Pavilion is so prosperous.

The most conspicuous thing is the red curtain in the center of the inner hall, on which a little girl of about thirteen or fourteen is singing, accompanied by an elderly man beside the little girl. The old man's erhu is very good, and the little girl sings very seriously, but no one appreciates the performance of the old and the young. The cubicle under the curtain is full of scenes of wind and snow, male and female love, and the movements of individual prostitutes and girls are extremely explicit, looming through the light veil, which can't help but make Li Weixi frown.

Li did not hesitate to take Chun Tao around to the backyard, and found some miscellaneous servants and mothers-in-law in Xunhuan Pavilion to inquire. Although she broke some money, she learned that Liu Rumeng had a bad reputation among her subordinates, and they all said that she was arrogant and domineering on weekdays, and she was not as generous and kind as the outside said. Li did not hesitate to find out an unexpected information in it, a fire-burning woman said that she was the godmother of Xiaoyu, the personal maid of the peony girl of the Xunhuan Pavilion. And Xiaoyu and Xiaocui, the personal maid next to Rumeng, have always been friends, and the two are like sisters. Xiaoyu once wanted to comfort Xiaocui because of Qian Gongzi's matter, but she never thought that Xiaocui would make Xiaoyu feel relieved in turn, and revealed that Qian Gongzi's matter was a move to prompt Liu Rumeng to settle in Yan Wangfu as soon as possible, if she followed Liu Rumeng into the palace, she would find a way to get Xiaoyu to go to the palace to be a maid.

Hearing this news, Li did not hesitate to turn back to the inner hall again to send Chun Tao to find Xiaoyu. Chun Tao found Xiao Yu waiting there outside the door of a private room on the second floor, and made an excuse that Xi's mother was looking for her, so she took Xiao Yu to a more hidden place outside the door of the inner hall.

Xiaoyu didn't see Xi's mother, knowing that it was the two strange "sons" in front of her who lured her here, and her face was full of panic.

Xiaoyu didn't know what the purpose of the two was, she was so frightened that she quickly looked for an excuse to escape in her mind, "Two sons, there are few people around the peony girl, and the slave and maid will go back first." ”

Li Wei smiled softly, "Xiaoyu, you don't need to be afraid. We're not bad people, we just have something we want to ask you. After Li didn't hesitate to finish speaking, Chun Tao stuffed her with a piece of silver.

Xiao Yu held the heavy amount of silver, and it was a little unbelievable that this silver came so easily.

"If you answer my young master's words truthfully, there will be a silver reward." Chun Tao took out another ingot of silver and deliberately weighed it in his hand and played with it.

Xiao Yu had never encountered such a good amount of money, so she hurriedly said, "Childe, please ask." ”

Li didn't hesitate to ask a few innocuous questions first, and slowly led the topic to the conversation between Xiaoyu and Xiaocui that day. At first, Xiao Yu seemed to be a little hesitant, but when she saw the ingot of silver in Chun Tao's hand, she gritted her teeth and told her what Xiao Cui had said to her.

It turned out that Liu Rumeng already knew that Qian Yuanzhuo and Furong conspired against her. So she decided to plan and forced Zhao Qingcheng to save her. Liu Ru dreamed that Zhao Qingcheng would connect her to King Yan's mansion, so that Liu Rumeng could come to a building near the water and get the moon first.

"Childe, do you have any other questions for the slave?" Xiao Yu's eyes kept staring at the silver in Chun Tao's hand and never took her eyes off.

Li didn't hesitate to wave his hand, and Chun Tao willingly gave Xiaoyu another ingot of silver in his hand and sent her away.

After Xiaoyu left, Chun Tao said with a sigh: "I really didn't expect that the girl like a dream looked weak and pitiful, but it turned out that she was pretending!" The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, "Miss, like Miss Meng, she is so scheming, let's not help her!" ”

"Having said that, even if I agreed, how can I break my trust." Li did not hesitate to say lightly.

In fact, Li Wei did not hesitate to learn that he was indirectly used, and he was inevitably unhappy, but he sighed more! Liu Rumeng really took great pains to be with Zhao Qingcheng, and I don't know how Zhao Qingcheng would feel if he knew that a woman was so deep in love with him that she had exhausted her calculations? Although women in this world are not as easy as women in other worlds, even so, they still dare not agree with Liu Rumeng's behavior.

Chun Tao saw that Li didn't hesitate to stand for a long time, and couldn't help asking, "Miss, then what should we do next?" ”

Li did not hesitate to retract his thoughts, "I want to go to meet Liu Rumeng." After speaking, he took Chun Tao and walked into the inner hall again.

Before the two of them stepped into the inner hall, several girls immediately greeted them.

"This boy is so handsome!" One of the girls in purple said.

Another girl in yellow next to her chimed in, "Yes! You see, this skin is smoother and fairer than it looks. ”

"Childe, let me serve you today!" The girl in red wanted to take the lead, and she didn't hesitate to leave.

The other two girls didn't do it, but immediately argued, which made the parties a little crying and laughing.

Mother Xi saw that the girls were arguing at the door of the inner hall for a man, and secretly scolded these uncompetitive people in her heart, and the steps under her feet sped up a few points.

"Go, go!" Xi's mother drove away the girls.

The girls didn't dare to question Xi's mother's drive, and they all threw up their sleeves and dispersed angrily.

Xi's mother turned around and faced Li Weixi, and said with a smile: "Childe, I just made you smile, please bear with me." I don't know if my son has a favorite girl? ”

Li Wei replied with a smile: "Mother Xi, you're polite." I want to see the girl like a dream, and I also ask Xi's mother to introduce it on my behalf. ”

As soon as she heard that Li did not hesitate to say that she wanted to see Liu Rumeng, Xi's mother immediately frowned. She said embarrassedly: "Childe, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you." Although this dream-like girl is in my Joy Pavilion, I can't be her master. She said she wouldn't see anyone today! Why don't I change you to a girl?! ”

Li didn't hesitate to smile, she no longer lowered her voice, and said in her original voice: "I think Mother Xi will take me to see Miss Rumeng." ”

When Xi's mother was still surprised, Chun Tao stepped forward and whispered a few words in Xi's mother's ear. Mother Xi took a closer look at Li Wei again, and smiled knowingly: "Childe, please come with me." ”