The night cage is smoky and sandy, and the crescent moon is like an eyebrow.

How can a beautiful word describe ten miles of Qinhuai in such a night, the river surface at the white bridge is open, and hundreds of boats of different sizes are gathering here at this moment, and a waterway is unimpeded, leading to an open water area on the side of the white bridge. Red driftwood wrapped in ribbons forms a circular blank water, which is where the upcoming Oiran Lady Contest is displayed.

On both sides of the Qinhuai River, there are no less than 100 Qinglou Red Pavilions, but today, only more than 10 of these 100 are fortunate to participate in the competition of the Oiran, because in the primary election, the judging panel composed of Nanjing's local merry men and giants in the industry has conducted a fair runoff, and hundreds of Qinglou beauties have been helpless to go out.

From tonight to the night after tomorrow, the twenty women who participated in the Oiran competition were from one of the top ten famous buildings in Qinhuai; Their names may not be known to outsiders, but in Nanjing City and the Jiangnan area, they are well-deserved household names, and they are the idols of many people's dreams.

Every woman who enters the top 20 represents a superior skill; It's not a bed craft, it's a kind of meat. Abilities other than desire. Since ancient times, the red prostitutes in the Qinglou are by no means famous by their bodies, and the celebrities in the Qinglou are all skilled beyond others. The culture in the Qinglou is far beyond the meaning of the laity, and go to the Qinglou to vent. Desire, that is the most inferior pursuit, the most inferior, the most vulgar, the most despised.

A system formed during the Tang and Song dynasties, by the time of the Mengyuan and Yuan dynasties, the Tatars did not understand the culture of the Han people in the Central Plains at all, and the Qinglou in the Yuan Dynasty was just a place to sell meat; After the restoration of the rule of the Han people in the Ming Dynasty, the flower industry flourished for more than 100 years on top of the Qinhuai Dynasty, and gradually restored the essence of elegance, which can be regarded as a cultural inheritance.

Song Nan and Li Daniu stood on the white bridge and looked at the glittering water by the railing, listening to the heated discussion from the crowded crowd around them, and they also understood some general situations between their words. It turns out that the candidates for these twenty Oiran girls are all local celebrities, and from the judgments of the people around them, you can roughly hear their evaluation, that is: good color and art.

Qiu Yuelou's Gu Lianlian's dancing skills are at the peak, and it is said that she can move between square inches, and it is even rumored that she can do palm dances. Qiuyuelou's mother Guan once proudly claimed that Gu Lianlian's dancing skills had been taught by masters, and it was said that they were passed down from the disciples of Gongsun Auntie in the Tang Dynasty.

Meng Xiaoxiao of Shuiyue Tower is good at music and rhythm, and the dozens of songs she composed are widely circulated, and she can't reach them. And her sister Zheng Rong'er in the same building is good at playing, and the two can be said to be a perfect match, becoming a pair of top cards that Shuiyuelou is proud of.

Zhao Yazhi of Yi Hongxuan is good at calligraphy, painting, poetry and writing, and is a well-known talented woman from far and near. …… Sun Yanyan of Wanfang Pavilion has a good voice, and she will teach people to be fascinated when she sings songs. …… Zheng Peipei, who lives by the fence, is a holy hand in chess, and has taught the local and even Jiangnan national players to return in the black and white land between square inches......

In short, all this, the people around him chatted with great interest, and Song Nan was also an eye-opener, but he didn't expect that in an industry like Qinglou, there were so many exquisite, and there were so many talented women.

Song Nan couldn't help but sigh; Here, this kind of industry is extremely elegant, and the people who are engaged in the industry are also ridiculously high, and in the future generations after a few hundred years, the material technology is more than 10,000 times more developed than here, but the same industry, the same practitioners, the difference between heaven and earth.

In later generations, people went to such places not to see any skills at all, but just to vent. Desire to go. What is needed is not what talent the client has, but how hot her figure is, how coquettish her manners are, whether her hands and mouth work are good enough, and whether she can satisfy her perverted desires. And those employed women in later generations can only be described by the vulgar word 'bitch', they sell the flesh of every inch of land, and other than that, they have nothing, and they are completely indiscriminate occupations.

"Bang bang." Three rings pulled Song Nan back from his emotion, and Song Nan, like thousands of people on the river and bridges on the shore, focused his eyes on the river; At the entrance to the blank water separated by driftwood, a small boat creaked out, and a man in his forties stood at the bow of the boat in a robe, and saluted in all directions.

"Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, someone Fang has given you a salute." The man laughed loudly.

The people seemed to know this person, and they all bowed their hands and shouted, "Everyone has worked hard. ”

Li Daniu was a little puzzled and muttered, "Isn't it the Oiran Competition?" How did a half-old man come out? ”

A young man holding a folding fan next to him said disdainfully: "You don't know him? The initiator of my Nanjing City Qinhuai Oiran Competition is Fang Qingshan, and he is also the master of ceremonies of the past nine competitions; You don't even know him, and you're coming to see some Oiran contest? What an idiot. ”

Li Daniu was about to go crazy when he opened his eyes, but Song Nan hurriedly grabbed it and said in a low voice: "If you don't understand, shut up, don't show your timidity, we're here to see the excitement, not to make trouble." ”

Fang Qingshan's voice on the boat came again: "Our Qinhuai Oiran Contest has been held for nine sessions, this year is the tenth, every year the three main and deputy Oiran girls are all expected to be talented, their survival zài, is a beautiful scenery in our lives, it is with them, we can have hope in our spare time, can hear their singing, see their dancing, read their poems, see their faces, what a lucky thing." So, let us thank them for the qiē they have brought us, thank them for their hard work in their skills, and thank them for the comfort they have brought us in our hearts. ”

Fang Qingshan's clever tongue was like a spring, even Song Nan had to admit that this guy had some ways, what 'a landscape in life' and what 'comfort in the heart' were words that could rarely be heard from the mouths of this era, Song Nan even suspected that this guy was also a traveler at a certain moment;

When he was thinking wildly, the people around him all thundered with Fang Qingshan's applause, and Song Nan also applauded, but seeing that Fang Qingshan smiled and nodded, when the applause subsided, he laughed loudly: "Tonight is the first night of the 10th Oiran Top 20 Qualifiers, the 10th Oiran Competition, every two years, and now it has been 20 years." Tonight, I have the pleasure of inviting you with the old Oiran Ladies, some of whom we have not seen for twenty years, but what we care about is not their old looks, but the joy and skill they have brought us. ”

As soon as these words came out, the sound of jubilation on and off the river suddenly resounded in the sky, especially the people in their forties on the shore, when the Oiran ladies were in their prime, it was also when they were young, and the feelings contained the memories of the past, the memories of the passing years, the sighs of old age and other complex feelings, and some people's eyes were moist with excitement.

Li Daniu leaned into Song Nan's ear and said, "Brother, are these people crazy?" Let's take a good look at these guys, a large group of people gathered together like this, and they all look like they believe in a cult, and sooner or later something will happen. ”

Song Nan scolded with a wry smile: "Don't worry about the scenery, watch the drama and watch the play." ”

Li Daniu turned his head, Song Nan thought, what do you know? In such dark times, people have few entertainment activities other than life, and someone can organize large-scale entertainment activities and create an idol effect, which will obviously form a great success. In later generations, there are more people who sell their kidneys to chase stars, which is not a strange thing at all, but it caters to people's psychology.

In the sound of silk and bamboo, a flower boat slowly sailed into the water from the entrance, and there were nine dressed women standing high and low on the flower boat, one of whom was indeed a, looking at his age, about forty.

"The champion of the first Oiran Lady Contest Huang Yingying!" Fang Qingshan shouted in a dragging voice.

"Warbler, warbler, warbler." The people on the shore were already weeping. The yellow warbler also had ruddy eyes and raised her hand to signal around.

"I believe that the dance of the warbler girl is still fresh in your memory, and she won the championship of the year with a long-lost neon dress and feather dance; You must be curious why she disappeared after winning the championship, it is because she found her destiny in life, a loving and righteous Qin Gongzi redeemed her life, and now twenty years have passed, they respect each other as before and love each other very much. We are happy for the warbler to arrive, and wish the world a lover to become a family eventually. ”

Song Nan could almost conclude that this Fang Qingshan was another traveler, this guy's way of speaking, sensationalism was not at all what people in this year had, and for a moment Song Nan wanted to call someone to take this Fang Qingshan and torture him immediately; But Song Nan quickly gave up this idea.

Maybe there are still many such people in the world of the Ming Dynasty, everyone is struggling to survive, whether he is or not, as long as he does not affect his own safety and does not become his enemy, why bother with his affairs.

It is not easy for people who have crossed through the future generations to survive, and last year a seriously ill and dying person in the Daimyo Mansion suddenly recovered, and after waking up, he shouted "everyone is equal" and "the emperor is just an ordinary person" Yunyun, and his head was cut off in three or four days. Song Nan concluded at that time that this thing was crossed, but he didn't know how to cherish this second life.