Chapter 114: West Lake Boat Lady (Second Shift)
June 25. Qin drove to Hangzhou.
Chang Feng suggested to everyone: "There is a way that the beautiful scenery of Hangzhou's West Lake is unparalleled in the world, and the strange flowers and plants on the shore of the West Lake are fragrant in all seasons."
"It's easy for us to get out of Beijing. Now that the errand is done, it is better to stay in Hangzhou for ten and a half more days. Enjoy."
Everyone looked at each other.
Chang Feng smiled and said, "Director Yang likes to recite poetry. Hangzhou is the most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty. You can learn more from the poets."
"Grandpa Li likes to make friends. I think the local gentry will come in a hurry to make friends with gifts."
"Two uncles of the little country, play all the fun things in Hangzhou. Eat everything delicious."
"As for me and Xu Shizi. Haha, the West Lake Boat Lady is one of the four major schools of Daming flower industry. When we arrive in Hangzhou, how can we not learn something?"
Li Guangyin said in a gloomy voice, "Chang Qianhu. Do you want to stay in Hangzhou for a few more days and do something? I advise you not to make any extraneous troubles!"
Chang Feng half-jokingly said, "Where can it! Listen to the advice of others to eat well. How can I not know what is good or bad?"
"Gonggong Li doesn't know that Humble Jing is an out-and-out tigress. I'm in the capital, and if I look at a beautiful woman a few times, she'll be full of old punches at me."
"It's easy to get out of Beijing. How can I not get carried away?"
Changfeng's reasons are reasonable. Traveling out of Beijing on a business trip to Hangzhou may not be encountered once or twice in a lifetime.
Have a good time here, and there is nothing out of the ordinary to delay returning to Beijing for more than ten days. The errand of worshipping Mazu has been completed.
Li Guang agreed: "Okay. It's a pity I got seasick. When you go to the West Lake to play boats, remember to send a few ashore to me, so that I can also see and understand."
Eunuchs also like women. It's also excellent to have a good hand addiction.
At night, Chang Feng followed Xu Fatzi to the West Lake and chartered a flower boat.
Playing with boat girls on the West Lake is the great joy of the Jiangnan dignitaries, gentry and heroes, literati and scholars, and wealthy businessmen.
Since the Tang Dynasty, there has been a "beautiful boat girl" on the West Lake.
The Tang Dynasty poets Yuan Zhi and Bai Juyi, and the Song Dynasty poet Qin Guan were all frequent visitors on the flower boat.
Qin Guan has a saying: The West Lake is slippery and delicate.
Water and slippery do not necessarily refer to West Lake, it may be a woman on a flower boat.
Chang Feng had never been on a flower boat before, and he thought that the flower boat was a small boat. He was also curious, in the clouds and rain on the boat, was he not afraid that the boat would overturn and drown in the West Lake?
Changfeng got the flower boat, and I saw that the flower boat was divided into two layers, and the big one was amazing.
The one who accompanied the two to visit the flower boat was a hundred households in Hangzhou sent by Jinyiwei, surnamed Liu.
Chang Feng was surprised: "Liu Baihu. It's a big boat."
Liu Baihu said something, which made Chang Feng gain insight: "Master Chang, this flower boat is a warship!"
"Grandpa Tai killed Chen Youliang, relying on the bravery of the sailors of the Western Wu Palace's Navy."
"More than 100 years have passed. The warships that participated in the Battle of Poyang Lake are old. The sailors, on their part, sold the ships to the merchants."
"The merchants sold it to the ship prostitutes."
After speaking, Liu Baihu pointed to a pillar on the porch of the front cabin of the ship.
A few lines of words are engraved on the pillar: "Third-class building ship, the first year of the dragon and phoenix, built by the Ministry of Industry of the Western Wu Palace." The commander of the Neihu Water Division, the Yizi Battalion of Liao Yongzhong of the Zuo Cheng of Huguang Province.
Dragon and phoenix is the era name of Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming. At that time, the grandfather had not yet been proclaimed emperor, and was nominally a courtier of King Xiaoming.
And Liao Yongzhong ...... It was the specific person who drowned King Xiao Ming.
Chang Feng and Xu Fatzi were amazed after seeing it.
Xu Fatzi said, "My ancestor, King Zhongshan, also participated in the Battle of Poyang Lake. Perhaps, he commanded thousands of troops on this ship back then!"
"Today I can be regarded as revisiting the ancestral homeland!"
Chang Feng sighed: "Alas. This is really a hundred and twenty years of fighting and the stars have changed, and only the warship has been used as a flower ship."
Fat Xu smiled lewdly: "Cough. The Battle of the Bed
The danger is no less than the battlefield. Today, the three of us have to fight those slippery little girls."
Liu Baihu said with a smile: "The prince thinks too much. The West Lake boat lady is not a Yangzhou skinny horse. You can't see blood! It's true that the flooded Seventh Army is flooded."
The three of them got on the boat. The shipowner's aunt called her five daughters to accompany her.
The division of labor between the two floors is different. The lower level is used for reception, banquets, listening to music, and dancing.
The upper floor is where the guests and the bed lady fight hard.
The three of Chang Feng hugged the delicate boat lady on the lower level, drank wine and listened to tunes. It's not pleasant.
Chang Feng suddenly complained to Liu Baihu: "Ma Youlu of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce is really too ignorant!"
Liu Baihu has been sent by Jinyi Wei in Hangzhou for eight years. He has long been a brother to the local gentry. He and Ma Youlu are very familiar and have a great relationship.
Liu Baihu asked tentatively, "Did the head of the Jockey Club offend Chang Ye?"
Chang Feng took a sip of wine, hugged the boatgirl's slender waist and said, "It's impossible to offend. The man gave me money a month ago and drove me away."
Liu Baihu hurriedly patted his ass: "Our grandfather Chang is selfless, honest and self-controlled. The head of the Jockey Club is really out of tune, thinking that with a few pieces of broken silver, he can befriend Chang Ye......
Chang Feng interrupted Liu Baihu with an anxious expression: "Cough, who doesn't like silver!"
"The question is where to send it and where to receive it!"
"Last time, he actually sent me silver in the Qin Mission. There are so many captains and wrestlers in the line. There are also local officials who are waiting to see them, and there are many people with mixed eyes."
"No matter how much I like his silver, I don't dare to take it!"
Xu Fatzi listened to Chang Feng's words on the side, and was a little strange: Chang Ye, what's wrong? The obedient voice seems to knock Ma Youlu with a stroke.
Chang Feng's words changed: "Liu Baihu, in fact, I had better make friends. Especially my friends in the business field."
"Our official salary is only a few pieces of silver. It's better to do business quickly."
"Today, the moon is as bright as a mirror, and the West Lake is picturesque, so it is suitable for making friends and making money. It's better to let Ma Youlu come to see me on the flower boat."
Liu Baihu understood: "Gotcha! I'll go to Ma Youlu and ask him to bring the silver to the flower boat."
Chang Feng didn't speak, which was considered acquiescence.
Liu Baihu walked to the door.
Chang Feng shouted at him, "Remember to let him bring Xu Ye's share too!"
Liu Baihu smiled and said, "Order!"
Chang Feng drank wine, and Xu Fatzi touched the buttocks of the beautiful boat girl, killing time. Half an hour later, Ma Youlu, the head of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce and the head of the Hangzhou branch of the Four Seas Association, came to the flower boat.
He took eight strong men and carried two large wooden boxes onto the flower boat.
Chang Feng went out of Beijing on a mission, and when he saw a businessman, he naturally wanted to hum haha, with an indifferent face and a full fight.
Ma Youlu saluted Chang Feng and Xu Fatzi. Then he said, "The two are on the same page. Do you want the girls to go to the upper cabin first?"
Chang Feng bowed slightly.
Five bubbly beautiful shipwives went to the upper cabin. Only Chang, Xu, Ma, and Liu were left in the lower cabin.
Ma Youlu opened the two wooden boxes. The wooden box was full of silver ingots with white flowers.
Ma Youlu arched his hand: "Last time, students didn't know how to do things. It should not be in the Qin Mission, and the two of them should be honored."
"It's hard work for you two to get on the boat. These two boxes of Chengyi, one box of 2,000 taels are for Chang Qianhu. One box of one thousand taels is for Deputy Xu's thousand households."
When Chang Feng saw Yinzi, his indifferent expression just now was swept away. A smile bloomed on his face: "Haha, I have always regarded the Jockey Club as a half-brother."
"Since you are your own brother, why should you be so polite?"