In ancient times, there were many types of brothels.
Some brothels will accept you no matter what your virtues are, as long as you have collected enough prostitution money for three melons and two dates.
Places like that are the lowest-level brothels. They are usually located in alleys and are renovated from several ordinary houses connected together. There is no signboard at the door.
The women who live there are extremely miserable. They are forced to work for more than eight hours almost every day. They cannot eat well, sleep well, and are particularly prone to getting sick; because the customers who go to that kind of place are basically poor.
There are workers, entertainers, and even beggars. Many people even have problems with their personal hygiene. It is normal for them to have infectious diseases or other diseases... Therefore, most women who enter such brothels will not survive for more than a year and a half.
A place that is a step above the bottom-level brothels is the brothel that we often see in many movies and TV dramas - a restaurant with several floors and a private courtyard. You can drink and eat on the first floor, and there are also private rooms upstairs.
There are more rooms, they are cleaner, and there are naturally more girls in them.
This kind of brothel serves those who have a little spare money.
Among them, most of them are scholars, especially those who have failed in the academic field. All of them... feel that they are far superior to others and their talents are not recognized. Outside, they are literati who look down on each other, and they can't hear anything good. When they get to the brothel,
But it was different. What poured into their ears were all kind words, which made them very happy.
Of course, this kind of treatment must be exchanged for money...
If you have money, you are the boss. When you use up all the money, you will not hear those words. At that time, who the hell will care whether you are talented or not? The ugly words in the mouth of the old bustard can make these people scold.
The sour scholar doubts life.
Next, there is a kind of brothel called Jiaofangsi, which is considered an "official brothel". It is affiliated to the Ministry of Etiquette and is responsible for celebrations and welcoming distinguished guests to perform music. It is also an official brothel.
Most of the women here are the female relatives of officials who have committed crimes and were punished, including their wives, concubines, daughters, maids... There are also some wives and daughters of the defeated who were captured in the war, or
Robbing civilian women during wars and so on.
Women who join the Jiaofangsi as prostitutes will be included in the lowly status, sit together for generations, and be treated inhumanely. The imperial court also regarded the Jiaofangsi as a business without capital and profit, and took away the female family members of those corrupt officials.
Come and make money as a cash cow to make up for the losses caused by those officials.
Like Dong Xiaowan, Liu Rushi, Chen Yuanyuan...the famous prostitutes who are familiar with music, chess, calligraphy and painting are basically taught by the music officials in the Jiaofang Department; in fact, there are not so many people who have read them in folk brothels.
Most of the talented girls who read books are girls sold by poor families, and there are also women who have been abducted or even raped by traffickers. They don't even have the opportunity to receive education, let alone other things.
No matter what, these women living in the world are miserable and helpless.
They may have been sidelined by their husbands because of an arranged marriage that they had no right to decide, or they may have been sold as goods and become slaves just because of bad luck. Even social rules are on the side of those who exploit and bully them.
side.
Let’s get back to business…
After the above-mentioned period of heavy science popularization about the flesh and blood industry in feudal society, let’s take a look at the brothels in the martial arts world of Dashu, a parallel universe...
Here, there is a rather exaggerated folk brothel.
Its grade is higher than any of the three brothels mentioned above. According to current terms, it is roughly a high-end club.
Its background is unfathomable, its financial resources are strong, and it takes both black and white... Although it is a place of fireworks and romance, not everyone can enter.
Qiliu Youlan is just such a place.
Young masters from wealthy families, well-known masters in the world of martial arts, heroes with well-known trade names in the green forest, or big bosses who cannot be named but who look wealthy and powerful at a glance can enter.
But ordinary people... Suppose you have sold all your family property and want to come here to fight for a shot, and then starve to death... Sorry, we will not accept you.
There are also those who are disheveled, have a peculiar smell on their bodies, and have a bad complexion, and they look like they are sick... These people don't do business either; you know, the girls in this brothel are all very valuable, if they are
What kind of disease did you catch? Who should I ask to compensate you?
In short, this is a place that only welcomes "respectable people".
Today, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai behaved very decently. Therefore, as soon as they walked to the street where Qiliu Youlan was located, the madam sitting by the railing on the second floor of the brothel stared at them.
The madam of this brothel has such poisonous eyes. When she saw the faces of these two people, they were clean and tidy and rosy. When she looked at their eyes, it was already night and they didn't look tired at all. Then she understood -
-The living conditions of these two people must be very good, and they are definitely not the kind of people who have to work hard during the day.
Looking further down, we can see that the two of them are well dressed, and they both hold a decent paper fan in their hands. This outfit alone is worth the annual income of a poor family.
Also, the way they walk seems to be swaggering and leisurely, without being in a hurry. This is also a characteristic of wealthy people.
The old madam just looked them up and down and was 100% sure that these two must be young men whom she had met before; and their Qiliu Youlan, a high-end brothel, wanted to do business with such people.
Only this kind of people can frequent places with their consumption level.
So, when Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai strolled to the door of Qiliu Youlan, before they even stepped forward, the old bustard came out to welcome them like a hungry tiger rushing towards prey.
"Ouch--"
Accompanied by a howl that sounded like a pig being killed, the heavily made-up madam flashed in front of Sun and Huang with a single step: "You two gentlemen! Why are you here!"
The voice was so loud and the tone was so affectionate. I'm afraid she wouldn't be so enthusiastic even if her own ancestors came.
I don’t know if I got Mama-san’s secret signal. As soon as I heard this roar, four women suddenly poured out of the lobby on the first floor of the brothel.
They were whispering; the clothes they wore were all silk-bottomed and covered with gauze, with white flowers on their necks... No woman on the street would wear such clothes where shoulders, arms and even collarbones could be seen through the gauze, but in this brothel
It's different here.
"Come on, come on, why are you so polite? Please come inside~" When the madam said this, the women were already pushing and dragging Brother Sun and Brother Huang into the gate as if they were holding hostages.
The two of them felt that their arms on both sides were being hugged by someone, and they were being wrapped and rubbed by something fleshy. They were dragged into the lobby of the brothel in a moment of distraction.
The lobby on the first floor of Qiliu Youlan does not entertain guests. Apart from some expensive-looking screen furnishings, it is basically an open space connected to various staircases.
Most of the guests who come here don't want to be in the same room with other guests they don't know, let alone be disturbed, so they go directly to sit in the private room upstairs.
This elegant room is naturally divided into grades, but it is not arranged according to "Heaven", "Earth", "Xuan" and "Huang" like most places. As I said before, the people who come here are all decent people.
, if you arrange it like that, everyone will choose the one with the word "Heaven", and no one will even enter the one with the word "Earth", let alone Xuanhuang...
Therefore, each of the elegant rooms in Qiliu Youlan has its own name, and they are all named with four characters. Some are called "High Mountains and Flowing Waters", some are called "One Leaf Knows Autumn", and some are called "Blooming Flowers"
", there are also those called "Chaoyun Muyu"... Today, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were pulled into a room called "Le Bu Si Shu".
The above-mentioned private rooms with four-character names are all considered to be of the same grade. The furnishings in the room and the food and wine served are all the same. In addition, there is another grade, which generally only caters to the real big shots or regular customers.
Only those who are eligible to enter, there are only four such elegant rooms in total, all with the same name, namely "spring", "summer", "autumn", and "winter", which correspond to the most prestigious of the Seven Willows.
The four beauties are Chun Yu, Xia Yang, Qiu Ye, and Chu Xue.
There is no doubt that these four are all beauties with heavenly beauty, both beautiful and beautiful, and the top one among them is Miss Chuxue.
Although Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai have just arrived, in fact they already know all the above information - because Dong Wan told them everything before they came.
As the saying goes, the county magistrate is not as good as the current one. Although Dong Wan is just a small head catcher, in this Xuzhou territory, who can't give him a little favor? Besides, he is also a decent person, and the head catcher's family is also very good.
The rich man's gray income is not as much as that of the county magistrate, but it is still quite a lot. Maybe he is a little richer than Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi; even Zheng Ge and Zheng Ge can become frequent visitors to Qiliu Youlan.
Of course Dong Wan can do it too.
With the cautious characters of Sun and Huang, they wanted to squeeze out all the information Dong Wan had about this brothel before they would give up. Dong Wan was also tortured by the two of them until his scalp went numb.
I can almost tell you all the postures I have used...
In short, Shuangxie came here tonight fully prepared, and his main purpose was to find out from Chuxue the hidden story behind the duel between Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi.
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Not long after, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai took their seats in the "Le Bu Si Shu" room, and the food and drinks were quickly served.
However, the four girls who came to greet them at the beginning had already left. It seems that those four people were specially responsible for welcoming guests. They sent the guests into the private room and then went back to the first floor.
"You two gentlemen, please forgive me for my poor eyesight..." After the guests sat down, the madam became less exaggerated and just said in a normal voice, "I think you two are a bit unfamiliar. Could it be that... we are coming back to you first?"
Play here?"
"Hehehe..." Sun Yixie didn't show any stage fright. He immediately started with a lustful laugh, his mouth was as sweet as honey, "Sister, you have such good eyesight, we are just back here for the first time."
"Hey~ look at this young master, he is so good at talking, haha..." The old madam said this on the surface, but in his heart he was saying, "I can't tell that you are still a veteran. When you hear this, you sound like a veteran."
Come to a place like this."
"Sister, please stop teasing me. I'm very clumsy. This brother Huang next to me is a talented man with a wealth of knowledge and an excellent tongue." Sun Yixie's next sentence turned around and pushed his brother out.
"Really! That's great. The girls here like talented people the most. Mr. Huang will definitely have a lot of fun tonight." The old madam also followed his words and praised him.
Huang Donglai looked a little silly when he saw the two people singing and harmonizing in front of him. He didn't care about the presence of the madam, and immediately complained to Sun Yixie: "Brother Sun, you look like a fish in water. You can tell that you have a life."
"Ah? Ah... Hahaha." Sun Yixie did not respond to these words. He just made a haha and walked over. He kicked Huang Donglai under the table and told him "shut up" with body language.
"Then... I wonder if you two young masters are particular about girls? Sister, I can arrange it for you..." On the other hand, the madam started to get down to business. She might have been brought in by Sun Yixie.
The shameless atmosphere was contagious, and from this sentence she really called herself sister.
"Ha...that's easy to say." Sun Yixi said with a smile, "Sister, how many girls are you here who are not accompanying the guests? First call them all to my place and let me see them..." He paused,
"Oh, by the way, the four people at the door just now don't need to come. I've already seen them."
When the madam heard this, she felt a little displeased. She thought to herself: "What's the matter? You have a big appetite, right? If any of the girls I pull out here are pretty enough to compete with the top ones in other places, how about you?"
You actually want to call them all here to pick and choose for you? What do you think my Qiliu Youlan is? Do you think it is one of those miscellaneous shabby brothels you visited before?"
I think so in my heart, but I won't fall out because of this. After all, people have said that it's my first time and it's normal to not understand the rules.
"Hey, Mr. Sun, you don't know something..." After a few seconds, the madam deliberately looked embarrassed and said tactfully, "The girls here are all very delicate, and I don't have the heart to be a mother.
They are soft and reluctant to discipline them, which makes them look like this now... They are all holding their own airs, let them go, and push them back and forth, asking for this or that..."
This is no longer a hint, but a clear statement. If you still don't understand, it would be pointless to ask "what do you mean?"
The rules of Qiliu Youlan are: even if you only ask the girl to come over and give you a look, you don’t need her to accompany you after the show. If you choose someone else, you have to spend money, and you can’t make the trip in vain.
"Oh~ I understand, I understand." Could it be that Sun Yixie didn't understand this? He took out a piece of gold from his body and put it in front of the old bustard, "Sister, you are really good at caring for people, no?
It's easy...Haha, come on, this is my gift for meeting you, don't be too little, use it to buy some delicious food for the girls to replenish your health."
Usually the amount of money taken out at this time can roughly indicate the financial resources or the degree of generosity of the customer, but Brother Sun's move immediately made the madam judge him as the highest one.
"Hey~ The young master is too unscrupulous, giggle..." The old bustard was overjoyed when he saw the gold. He giggled on the spot, grabbed the ingot of gold and walked out of the house, "Wait a minute, you two, I'll go right away.