Although Wuhang City is roughly the same as the city wall of Qishan County, the specifications are far from the same, and it is dozens of times that of the latter in terms of land occupation alone. Wuhang, which is a prosperous city in Jiangzhou, is not comparable to a small county town in Qishan County. In ancient times, there were few wars, and now it is Jiangzhou, which has been peaceful for decades, at this time, it seems to be like a peony at the apex, and it is extremely graceful, and one-third of the annual tax revenue of the Dayao treasury is also exhausted out of Jiangzhou.

The soldiers of the city gate captain put on their bright armor and new thick winter coats, put their spears and spears in their hands in one place, and built a fire to bake and keep warm, and they also got two jugs of wine from a nearby restaurant and placed them beside the fire, waiting for them to warm up their stomachs.

This kind of frosty day, getting up early in the morning to guard the city gate is the most difficult, and the hand holding the gun and spear is frozen and stiff after a short time, but unlike the virtue of a few colleagues who are addicted to alcohol, Xu Yougong would rather bury two sweet potatoes in the ash heap and cook them, rather than use that little bad wine to make himself feel false warmth for a while, and spend money in vain.

Xu Yougong, who holds the official position of lieutenant, no matter how you say it, is also a serious person with the status of a military attache of Dayao, although it is not high, only from the eighth grade, even the sesame mung bean petty official who owes a smile to many wealthy families in Wuhang City, but he is in charge of one of the two city gates on the city wall of nearly a thousand zhang in the near east, and there are dozens of people under him, all of whom are panting like cattle when they can't run a hundred steps with a full coat, so that this lieutenant who has been in the battle array looks really piercing, but he is not good to say anything.

Most of these dozens of people were once green-skinned scoundrels in the city, and they used to do some things like stealing chickens and dogs and stealing people's homes to dry outside their belly pockets all day long, and it was difficult to convict them in the Wuhang Yamen, so they were caught and squatted in the squad room for a few days and then released, and after they went out, they became even more intensified.

However, these green-skinned scoundrels who disturbed many Jiangzhou street vendors and small jasper families were uneasy, put on light armor and took a sword, but their bones did not change, and they were still young when they were children, and they gave a headache to the deputy lieutenant Xu Yougong, who was still a young child, and now they have become more and more unscrupulous.

"Eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, all of them are stained, and they want these people to do anything. ”

Xu Yougong was really annoyed, although he couldn't get used to what this group of people were doing during the rotation, it was inconvenient to care, and he was so presumptuous that he was still sleeping in the kiln when he was a little bit of people, did he know that he was going to cut off people's heads in the city for the past two days, and it was when it was critical, and he was still fooling around in the kiln....

He picked up the two trustworthy young men next to him, both of whom were from the countryside to make a living, and they hadn't been contaminated by those green-skinned scoundrels who were unbearable habits, and they wanted to go to the rouge alley to fish for people.

As soon as they said that they were going to Rouge Lane, the two young people from the same township showed a shy smile, but they were both a little happy, and they were seen by Xu Yougong, and one of them gave a brain melon, and scolded:

"The women in Rouge Alley are all goblins who suck people's bone marrow, born with a charming skin, and charm you, and when the time comes, you will be emptied of your body bones and money bags and thrown out like rags. ”

After the two young people from the same township were hit by this, they only laughed, but they thought in their hearts that every time they came back, they would talk about the green-skinned scoundrels of the women in Rouge Lane, and in comparison, those watery girls in the countryside suddenly became like village girls.

"You have to get it, and when you suffer in the future, don't blame Lao Tzu for not reminding you at the beginning. Xu Yougong glanced at the two young men who were absent-minded, and beckoned them to rush towards Rouge Lane.

Rouge Lane, as the name suggests, roughly understands what it is. However, the prostitutes in Rouge Lane are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, from the most inferior kilns patronized by peddlers and pawns to the buildings where the children of powerful and rich families in Jiangzhou linger, they can all have a place in Rouge Lane.

Literati and, to Wuhang City, there are few who do not go to Rouge Lane to do that elegant thing, so there are a lot of pen and ink left here, the most famous of which is the sentence "Star Yingying, open the makeup mirror, green clouds disturb, comb Xiaofu also; Longpu is greasy, and the fat water is also abandoned", a sentence to say that the prostitution of Rouge Lane is prosperous.

The sky is bright, Xu Yougong put on the face of the birth of no one to enter, and the two young people from the same township followed behind, at this time Rouge Lane has experienced a night of hustle and bustle, and it is already extremely tired, and it is silent before resting, and the three people who broke in have not been able to make any waves, and they are hurrying on the messy road.

The two young men looked left and right, and they didn't see a few women along the way, and even if they did, they were yawning servants and maids, but the two people who had never seen anything in the world also glanced at them a few times, and they were indeed a little different from the mothers-in-law and aunts in the township, that is, the posture of walking could have a little more charm.

Xu Yougong walked in a hurry, he had already done it no less than three or five times to catch people early in the morning, and every time it made this deputy lieutenant of Wuhang City quite uncomfortable, he secretly swore that if there was a next time, those green-skinned scoundrels would be absolutely terrible.

Rouge Lane is only a hundred feet away from beginning to end, and according to the words of those people, it should be in a house at the end of the alley. According to the rules of Rouge Lane, several houses at the end of the alley are the most inferior kilns, that is, they have to show their heads to go out to solicit customers, and the money for the night is also the cheapest.

Rouge Lane is only a hundred feet away from beginning to end, and according to the words of those people, it should be in a house at the end of the alley. According to the rules of Rouge Lane, several houses at the end of the alley are the most inferior kilns, that is, they have to show their heads to go out to solicit customers, and the money for the night is also the cheapest.

From the end of the alley to the end of the alley, the houses gradually became dilapidated.

He pushed the door in, it was a small room, the furnishings were shabby, the only thing that could be worth a little silver was the sturdy bed frame, two broken quilts, wrapped in two men and two women who were naked at a glance, Xu Yougong recognized the faces of the two men, who were the two leading figures among the green-skinned scoundrels, and he couldn't help but drag the two people out of the dirty and broken quilts where the two beds of cotton wool were exposed.

The two women, both defenseless, saw the strange man come in, and held their weapons, and even though they were a little frightened, they shrank into a small ball away from them with all their might, and the occasional spring light made the two young fellow villagers look at it intently.

These two women are just cardamom years, said to be women, in fact, they are only half-old little girls, but they have been in Rouge Lane for two years, although they are a little afraid of these officers and soldiers, but they do not even have the courage to beg for a hard night's silver, when even if an arm is stretched out from the broken quilt to pull the two green leather clothes that are hurriedly putting clothes on their bodies, the meaning is obvious, give money to go.

"Uncle, I don't have any money at this time, I'll talk about it another day. The two green skins broke away from the hands of the two little prostitutes, and said flatteringly to Xu Yougong, "Hey, why bother the adults to come here in person, don't look at these two girls, but they still have some skills, adults might as well try it too?"

Xu Yougong's face was ugly, and one of the two green skins hurriedly changed his words: "The goods in this small grass nest are not worthy of the identity of adults, and our brothers will enjoy it, so we will go back with adults." Then he was almost dressed and went out.

One of the two little prostitutes saw that the two green skins were about to step out of the threshold, and despite the fact that they were defenseless, they jumped up and grabbed one of the green skins' legs, and scolded him for not letting him go.

Xu Yougong frowned slightly, in his eyes, these women who earned money by selling their bodies were actually all the way compared to the green-skinned scoundrels under him, but in the end, they were barely a deal, and it was a little unreasonable not to give money.

He looked at the two green skins, and the man with his legs moved out of the house, and the little prostitute let go of her hand, and slowly crawled back to the bed, naked and wrapped in a dirty quilt, and looked at the two still indifferent green skins in front of the door.

Xu Yougong, who felt that his head was as big as two usual, took out his money bag, took out two pieces of broken silver and threw them on the broken quilt, ignoring the words of the two little prostitutes behind him, and left without looking back, and his men hurriedly followed.

The door of the house was open, blown away by the wind, and opened again, and the creaking sound was heard far away.

It was not until dawn and pedestrians began to appear in Rouge Alley that one of the two little prostitutes came out and closed the door.

Wei Changpan, who witnessed the whole process, lay down again, and was helped up by Sister Cui to look at the scenery outside, and he saw this scene as soon as he looked up.

Sister Cui beside him saw that his expression was different, and sneered: "This is in Rouge Lane, there are not ten times a day, but seven or eight times, these are still small, the most afraid of those big places, a little careless, offended by the big people, when the time comes, it will inevitably be difficult in every way, if the background is not hard, this business will not be able to continue." ”

"Okay, I've seen this mess, let's go back and lie down, it's not easy to do anything. ”

Sister Cui, who was a little bitter, snorted, looked up and said with a smile: "People who have never done this business, how can they know the hardships of this industry." ”

She sat down in front of the bronze mirror of her makeup, and began to apply heavy fat powder to her face.

Outside, the water of the Longpu River is still flowing westward.