Chapter 217: Oiran
In the ninth year of Emperor Da Ruiwen's Jianyang, the Empress Dowager Ye abolished Emperor Xiao Chengyong, established herself as the emperor, the year name Yongning, and later generations honored the first emperor.
In a blink of an eye, Xiao Chengyong has been living as the king of Jianyang for three years. Xiao Chengyong, who was deposed of the throne by Ye Ningxiang, was much more comfortable and relieved in the Jianyang Palace than in the palace. Although there were still people in the palace who were watching him day and night, he had more time to get along with Gu Xiaomei and the good brothers Mu Sitang and Qi Huan who had befriended him because of Gu Xiaomei.
As long as he keeps a low profile at all times and does not act nonsense, Ye Ningxiang will definitely not take his life in order to show her benevolence. He has ambition, but his ambition is not enough, if he is given the power to deal with national affairs, he will work hard to deal with it, if he is taken away from power, he will accept it with peace of mind, this is probably due to the environment in which he grew up!
It is precisely because of his style of doing things without fighting or grabbing that Xiao Chengyong has been in the position of the prince for three years since he rolled off the throne.
Xiao Chengyong likes to write, does not like martial arts, especially loves to paint in the piano and chess calligraphy and painting, his painting skills are also first-class in the whole country, and his paintings are hard to find, and they are invaluable. When Mu Sitang arrived at the Jianyang Palace, Xiao Chengyong was painting.
"Brother Yong, don't you feel tired of painting like this every day?"
Mu Sitang Xiwu, over the years, has almost worshipped all kinds of masters on the rivers and lakes as teachers, and his martial arts are almost invincible all over the world, but he can't appreciate the vassal elegance of the literati at all, although his father Mu Jinglian is also a great writer.
Obviously not yet nineteen years old, Xiao Chengyong seemed to be older than Mu Sitang, the corners of his mouth hooked a light smile, and the warm smile was almost carved out of the same mold as his father.
"If you like it, you don't feel tired, don't you feel tired when Brother Mu practices martial arts and swords every day!"
Mu Sitang was speechless.
"Brother Mu is here so early, but what's the matter?"
Xiao Chengyong put away his brush, still looking at Mu Sitang with a smile on his face, and there was a unique charm of a young man between his eyebrows. Every time he saw Xiao Chengyong smiling, Mu Sitang always felt very uncomfortable in his heart. If Ye Ningxiang hadn't ordered Xiao Chengyong's legs to be broken back then, he wouldn't have limped up now, letting the disability on his feet cover up his world-class appearance.
Mu Sitang's answer was obviously half a beat slower, but he finally came back to his senses and was not too embarrassed.
"Brother Huan said that today's drunken dream of death in the building to choose the oiran, the choice is the most beautiful person in this Da Rui. I heard that the handsome and good-looking young people of this Rui country have gone there to join in the fun, and Brother Huan has already arrived over there, and I came here to bring you over this time. ”
Different from Mu Sitang's expectations, Xiao Chengyong did not have the slightest enthusiasm for this beauty, and even the smile that was still on his face a moment ago dispersed, and his tone was as flat as boiled water.
"Go ahead, I'm not going to join in the fun. The little sister will come to me in a while. ”
Mu Sitang smiled, pretended to be angry and said: "Hmph, little sister! You don't know that my little sister followed Cheng Ajiu to Jing'an to run business, and she won't be able to return to Yingdu in eight or nine days! ”
Xiao Chengyong's lips twitched twice, and his eyes blinked several times infrequently, as if he was very unhappy with the excuse he had just made. After hesitating for a long time, he opened his mouth with great reluctance.
"That'...... Alright then, I'll go with you. But I haven't been to the place where I was drunk, so you can't leave me when the time comes!"
"That's nature. ”
Mu Sitang patted his chest while smiling and pulling Xiao Chengyong out of the palace.
This selection of Oiran has been held in the Drunken Dream Death Building for five years this year, and Mingli is to choose some beauties who are beautiful and captivating the country and the city, but secretly they are to further improve the popularity of the Drunken Dream Death Building in the entire Darui by choosing the Oiran.
Although I knew that the selection of the Oiran was just a marketing ploy for the drunken dream of the dead building, there was still an endless stream of people who came to apply. People live in the world, the most important thing is to be recognized by others, a lifetime in an unknown mountain, eat bran and gnaw on the nest, such a day is not people's pursuit after all.
Therefore, any woman or man who thinks that he has a little bit of beauty hopes to take this opportunity to show himself in front of the world and make himself famous in the world through this other way. However, giving yourself a chance to become famous is one thing, and more importantly, if you are lucky enough to be selected as the top three, the prize money won is enough for ordinary people to live for several lifetimes.
Before dawn this day, there was already a long queue in the drunken dream building. There are men and women in the team, but without exception they are all handsome men and beautiful women. These people deliberately dressed themselves up beautifully, just waiting to win the first place in the competition for a while.
Xiao Chengyong is an existence that is incompatible with the picture in front of him, he is so nervous and restrained, he grabbed Mu Sitang's shirt stiffly, for fear that his lively and active Brother Mu would suddenly hook up with a beauty and leave him behind.
Sure enough, this Mu Sitang is really the Mu Sitang that Xiao Chengyong knows, and just entered the door of the Drunken Dream Death Building, he relied on the face of the woman who would be moved when he saw it, and then Mu Sitang was very natural to emphasize color and ignore friends, and hung Xiao Chengyong aside.
On the other side, Qi Huan's female fate was even worse, two or three young girls surrounded him, as if their mouths were electrocuted, and they chattered endlessly.
The two best friends all abandoned Xiao Chengyong, an ignorant, confused, and apprehensive beautiful boy without exception.
"Xiao Langjun, you are also here for a beauty pageant?"
The delicate and crisp sound passed through Xiao Chengyong's ears, making Xiao Chengyong, who was already very nervous, suddenly feel excited, and his hair couldn't control it and stood up.
"I ...... I don't ......."
Before Xiao Chengyong's words were finished, he was pulled aside by this woman who seemed to be delicate and actually had great strength.
"The registration for the election is over in half an hour, I see that Xiao Langjun's skin is quite first-class, although this leg is a defect, but it doesn't have a big impact, and it's not difficult to get a ranking. Anyway, I have set the position for you, and you can just follow this team forward. ”
Until he was placed in the team by the unknown woman, Xiao Chengyong was still foggy, he didn't know what he was going to do next, and his expression seemed to be asking anyone passing by him: Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?
Xiao Chengyong's uneasy mood was interrupted by the sudden commotion at the door, and he looked at the very discordant sound, which was actually some men and women who had come from afar to participate in the selection of the Oiran because they were drunk and dreamed of death, and the people in the building were isolated from them and did not allow them to sign up.
"Why don't you let us in?"
"I want to see your boss!"
"Ahhh
"The registration for the Oiran is always over before the hour, who made you late! ”
The men in the building were also angry, and lectured the latecomers hard for a while, and then prepared to close the wide open door.
"Wait. ”
Suddenly a fair, bewitching but not gaudy man's hand suddenly appeared on the side of the wooden gate. The man's voice is also different, extremely magnetic, but also full of strong tenderness, just as soon as he speaks, people have a sense of convincing from the inside out, and people can't help but do what the person asks.
So the young man who closed the door really waited and waited, that is, at the moment of waiting, the man took advantage of the gap between the doors and quickly entered the drunken dream and death building.
The young man hurriedly slammed the two doors shut with all his might, only to hear the shouts of ghosts and wolves and the knocking of knocks that seemed to pierce the door.
"Who...... Whoever told you to come in, get out!"
The man was neither humble nor arrogant, and seemed to respond with a smile: "Okay, I'll go out now." ”
In addition to the secret passage that cannot be known by outsiders, there is only such a small door leading to the outside, and now the outside of this door is full of complaining handsome men and beautiful women, even if the young man is bold, he does not dare to open the door at this critical juncture, and let those evil ghosts outside the door to disrupt the entire Oiran selection competition!
"Okay...... Alright, you can go and stand behind the man over there!"
The young man said to the man hatefully, and after he finished speaking, he kept scolding, and his whole face was red with anger.
The man turned around with a smile and walked behind Xiao Chengyong. At this time, Xiao Chengyong really saw the Lang Jun who had just played tricks and made the young man angry enough.
This Lang Jun is dressed in white like snow, Xu is face is too handsome, his face is wrapped in a thin white veil, leaving only a pair of eyes outside, although his appearance is half-hidden, but it reveals an otherworldly mystery.
However, Xiao Chengyong felt that it was no longer important whether he could see the full appearance of this person, because he felt that as long as he was lucky enough to see the eyes on this person's face in this life, he would be in vain.
Those eyes don't seem to be like the mortal world, and there seems to be another wonderful world hidden in the dark pupils, which makes people can't help but follow their hearts and can't help but want to see more of these mysterious eyes.
His eyes are large, but their sockets are so deep that even if he does nothing but simply open his eyes and see things, he will reveal a kind of charm that is difficult to extricate from people's hearts.
What made Xiao Chengyong even more uneasy was that at this moment, the pair of extremely charming peach blossom eyes were staring at him very gently.
"You're here to pick an Oiran too?"
Xiao Chengyong nodded sneeringly, and then shook his head desperately, the force was so great that he almost broke his neck.
"Then what are you doing in line here?"
This man is also poisonous enough, and Xiao Chengyong, who was standing there dumbfounded, was speechless when he asked a question. Xiao Chengyong secretly scolded in his heart: It's not because he happened to see the man in white playing a scoundrel here, and he just entered the Da Mingyue Palace even though he was late.
Although Xiao Chengyong thought so in his heart, in the end, he didn't say a word. His face flushed, and he took two steps to the side with his hands and feet. But he had barely taken two steps back when he remembered a very stern sound in his ears.
"Don't you know where you're going at this time?"
This roar made Xiao Chengyong stop his tracks, and after swallowing his saliva fiercely, Xiao Chengyong opened his mouth with difficulty: "I...... I'm not running...... Don't run anymore. ”