Chapter 189 Zhen Lian is a duck tongue and a thin horse
"Thinking about our background, we don't have to study hard in the cold window and waste our time like a nerd. What's the fun?
Let's read a few books, but it's enough to understand a little better than others. Anyway, we can't have a career as an official.
Brother, I won’t be pretentious. I admit frankly that I am just a dandy, and I love prosperity the most.
In my life, I have not sought to be heard and known in the world, but I have only a monastery, beautiful maids, prostitutes, fresh clothes, good food, good horses, lanterns, fireworks, pear orchards, propaganda, antiques, flowers and birds, and good tea.
Drink, eat and drink.
As a descendant of an aristocratic family, if we don’t indulge in pleasure, we will be sorry for the hard work of our ancestors earlier.”
Zhen Lian's words were so confident and heroic.
"On the Qinhuai River in Jinling, there are light boats and river houses, full of sounds and colors, and perfume and fragrance. But compared with Yangzhou, where the world's fireworks gather, they are really nothing.
Where merchants gather, there will naturally be flowers. This place has been prosperous since ancient times and has the world-famous "Yangzhou Skinny Horse".
Bai Juyi has a poem that goes: "Don't raise a thin horse, don't teach a little prostitute. The funeral is now, I don't believe you will take it. The horse is fat and fast, and the prostitute can sing and dance. Between three and five years old, I have heard that the owner has changed." "A daughter raised by a thousand families must first teach music, and planting flowers within ten miles counts as farming." Since these "skinny horses" with weak willows and winds are bought home, they are not used as concubines to have children. What they want is a "thin, young, and handsome"
”, you can buy and exchange as you go, and you’ll have a fresh experience.
Ya Gong and Ya Po specially go to pick out eight or nine-year-old beautiful girls from poor families to buy. The first choice must be good-looking, thin and slender, and they must be "three-inch golden lotus". The bound feet must be "thin, small, pointed, and curved."
"Fragrant, soft, and upright" are indispensable.
After you buy it, you must first teach the rules carefully. Every time you smile, you will get the word "beautiful".
Walking should be light and graceful, as graceful as a giant.
Speak softly and in a soft voice.
To look at people, you need to look at them with affection and affection.
After that, according to their appearance, they are further subdivided into three, six or nine grades.
The superior ones have stunning appearance, are exquisite and elegant, and are proficient in playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting. They can recite poems, paint, play and sing, and are even better at all kinds of obscene skills.
The average ones are beautiful and graceful, well-educated, able to keep accounts and manage affairs, and play the piano and sing.
The lower-class people are ordinary-looking and illiterate, but they know how to dress and cook.
When Yapo bought these thin horses, she only spent a few hundred pennies. Their length, shape, appearance, and demeanor were all top-notch, but they only cost one or two taels of silver.
But when it comes time to sell, the price can range from a few hundred taels to as many as a thousand taels. For example, Chen Yuanyuan, a courtesan from Jiangnan in the previous dynasty, sold for a sky-high price of three thousand taels."
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It turns out that with only three thousand taels of silver, you can buy Chen Yuanyuan, the most beautiful girl in Qinhuai!
Jia Lian learned about Chen Yuanyuan's net worth for the first time, and couldn't help but feel a little excited.
These beauties in front of me are definitely not as good as the legendary Chen Yuanyuan, so aren’t they all cheaper than three thousand taels?
How about buying them all back?
Let's go home and shoot a movie?
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Now that it's here, let's make peace with it.
They built such a big stage, why not let them finish the show?
If you don’t watch it, you won’t watch it. If you don’t watch it, who won’t watch it?
If you don't take advantage of it, you are a fool.
So Jia Lian also raised his glass and said with a smile:
"Then I would like to gain more knowledge."
The two looked at each other, smiled, and drank the wine in one gulp.
Zhen Lian gave three high-fives, and an older woman appeared from behind the screen. She was over forty, but her beauty was still there.
She has charming phoenix eyes and willow eyebrows. Although she is no longer youthful, her movements are full of charm. Under her attire, she has a mature and charming charm, which is not overwhelmed by these young beauties.
Led by her, all the beauties who had just led the way bowed down to Pingting, making people dazzled for a while.
At the same time, behind the screen, flutes and pipes were playing, and songs were being blown, with soft and sweet sounds, and the songs were full of soul-stirring melodious sounds.
Zhen Lian smiled and said:
"We are no different from ordinary merchants. We don't have to ask for a nanny, and a shaman (a businessman who sells livestock) takes us around to see people.
I called the Yabo brains and brought all the top skinny horses here, and we also followed their example of buying skinny horses and had fun."
The Yapo, who still has the charm of a mature woman, swayed her waist and respectfully held two trays in front of Jia Lian and Zhen Lian, each containing more than a dozen gold hairpins.
Then he saluted and said with a smile:
"I will ask the girls to meet the guests. If the uncle likes anyone, he will insert a gold hairpin into her hair. This is called a 'banding'.
The one on the belt belongs to the uncle."
After that, he kowtowed politely.
He stood up and took a few steps back before directing to the group of beauties in gorgeous costumes and hairpins:
"Girl, go forward."
"Girl turn around."
"The girl stretched out her arm to have a look."
"Girl, look at the uncle."
"How old is the girl?"
"Girl, let's walk again."
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What kind of beauty pageant, what kind of flight attendant selection, what kind of Haitian feast, in front of this, are they nothing?
Have you ever seen Bingbing, Yuanyuan, Zizi, Feifei, Yinyin, Zhenzhen and Minmin who are all thirteen or fourteen years old? They are all professionally trained.
Moreover, you can buy one for less than three thousand taels of silver!
Who can bear this?
You might as well buy them all and take them home!
What are you keeping the money for?
What are you doing to save your life?
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Jia Lian was in a state of confusion, feeling that his eyes were completely inadequate for use. Suddenly and unintentionally, he caught a glimpse of a faint smile on the corner of Jiang Chunsheng's mouth.
The smile was very light, as light as a wisp of smoke in an ink painting.
But just like ink painting, this subtle touch of freehand brushwork shows a charm that can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.
Jia Lian woke up instantly!
"Wait!"
Everyone was stunned.
Jia Lian cupped his hands towards Zhen Lian:
"Let them go down first, I have to rest here for a while."
Zhen Lian was a little puzzled, but she still waved her hand and asked Ya Po to retreat with all the beauties.
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Jia Lian let out a sigh of relief.
Good guy, if you can't control this, if you stack it up, you'll almost end up dead.
"Sure enough, if you come to Yangzhou without getting drunk and dreaming, your visit will not be in vain?
But, I have to ask clearly first, is our banquet going to be the ‘Hongmen Banquet’?”
Jia Lian deliberately asked this rather rude question in order to force the nine people in front of him to show off.
Zhen Lian didn't expect Jia Lian to be so straightforward, and she didn't react for a moment.
Why doesn’t this person act according to common sense?
How can we implement the game as planned if you still ask us to do it well?
Huang Taijun sneered:
"We are hosting a banquet with good intentions, but we don't know anything about the 'red door' and 'black door'."
Jiang Chunsheng quietly looked at Jia Lian's handsome, half-joking face, and suddenly said:
"Second Master Lian is serious.
We sincerely serve wine and hold banquets, how can we have the evil intentions of the "Hongmen Banquet"?
If Lord Zhen had not been in disobedience today, he would definitely have come to this banquet. The presence of Mr. Zhen and Master Lian also represents the wishes of Lord Zhen.
Even if Second Master Jia Gongzi Lian doesn’t give us eight common people any face, at any rate, he still has to give Master Zhen some face, right?
If there is anything to say about our banquet, it does come from something.
The menu that Mr. Lian saw just now was modeled after the "roasted tail banquet" in the Tang Dynasty.
Second Master Lian is well-informed, so naturally he should understand the meaning of the ‘tail-burning feast’?”
His face was still gentle and gentle, but his tone was obviously a bit cold.