"Since there are so many people inviting you to the banquet, if my husband has time, it won't be a problem to attend a few times." Ruyi put the handkerchief away and looked at him and said.
She had also received many invitations these days, either private or public, and they were extremely polite. They vaguely mentioned that she hoped she would take her husband with her. At first she would politely refuse, but after seeing them more often, she became too lazy.
Got it.
At this time, I felt that although my husband never participated in such banquets, people always have to have some social activities in this world, otherwise I am afraid I would offend many people. My husband didn’t have many friends to begin with, and Li Xuan and that guy
After Capt. Li left, he spent more time alone.
"I won't go." Li Yi answered simply, "I'm afraid the lady doesn't know who they are and their motives are not pure. It would be troublesome if she went."
Of course Li Yi knew what their purpose was. They just wanted to use him to promote publicity. The competition for courtesans was at its most intense. Everyone wanted to have more chips in their own hands, so they participated in the invitation of one person.
There must be a second or third person. It’s rare to have a few free days and I don’t want to fall into this quagmire again.
Liu Ruyi said nothing more. She received two more invitations this morning. Since my husband didn't want to go, there was no use keeping them, so we might as well get rid of them together.
The most direct impact of the oiran competition on Li Yi is that he has much less time to be lazy than usual. Before the oiran was elected during the Shangyuan Festival, there was no curfew in Qing'an City, and the officers had to go out to patrol at night.
Although the county captain does not need to do everything personally, he still has to sit in charge of the county government at critical times. It is one thing that no one cares about him, but there must be a limit to laziness.
Driven by festivals and oiran competitions, the theater's business was getting hotter day by day. Old Man Sun did not take the opportunity to expand outwards. Instead, he took a steady approach and managed several theaters in an orderly manner. He also arranged for the orphans to be in them.
Those older children in their early teens were still capable of pouring tea and wiping the table, and since then, the flying female thief in the city has disappeared.
When I walked back to the county government office, several detectives on duty were squatting in the duty room chatting.
"This city is becoming more and more lively day by day, from morning to night every day, and I am exhausted." Someone was complaining, and only Daniel had such a rough voice.
"Why are you so stubborn? I've been patrolling all day, and all I encountered were trivial things that I couldn't figure out. I just found a brothel, went into it, watched the show, and came back to do business when the time was up."
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"I have to say that the performances in the brothels these days are not bad. The girls are working hard to compete for the oiran, and they have shown their housekeeping skills. Yesterday I saw a girl with a soft body who could put her head on
On the butt..."
"What is this? Guess who I saw when I went to Qunyuyuan to see my sweetheart a few days ago? The county captain! I saw the county captain enter a room. I asked the sweetheart later.
, guess whose room that is?"
"Who is it?" When it came to the gossip about Lord County Captain, everyone was obviously interested and asked one after another.
"You will never guess that it is actually..."
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Li Yi couldn't let this guy talk any more. He walked behind the guy who just spoke and asked, "Aren't you afraid that the county captain will know when you visit a brothel while on patrol?"
The detective was talking about the gossip about Lord County Lieutenant. He was getting excited and casually added, "Hey, Lord County Lieutenant can't see it anyway, so it's okay to be lazy. When it comes to being lazy, who can be better than County Lieutenant?"
Sir..., let me tell you, you will never guess whose room the county captain went to that night in Qunyu Courtyard, and I will scare you to death if I tell you..."
Halfway through his words, he finally felt something was wrong. The brother across from him was winking at him vigorously. His heart sank. Just as he was about to turn his head, he was kicked on the butt.
The policeman who was kicked by Li Yi lay on the ground like a dog chewing mud. He didn't dare to get angry. He touched his head and got up with a smile, "Sir, why are you here at this time..."
Li Yi Leng snorted and said: "If I didn't come, how would I know that you were bold enough to visit the brothel during patrol! By the way, what did you want to say just now? Keep talking, I'm listening..."
"Nothing, nothing..." The police officer already knew the county captain's temper. As long as it was not a big problem that violated the principles, he would not blame them. He said with a smile: "You don't know something. These days, because of the oiran competition,
, The brothel is the place with the most people, and it needs to be patrolled the most. We don’t relax outside either, there are two people in a group, there are always people watching on the street..."
"Since you all have nothing to do, go out on patrol. If anyone still sneaks into the brothel, go to the solitary room and stay in the solitary room for three days..." Li Yi waved his hand and said impatiently.
Everyone dispersed as if they had been granted amnesty. The solitary room was not a place for people to stay. If they stayed there for three days, half of their lives would probably be gone. With the words of the county captain, no one would dare to enter a brothel in the future.
There was once a felon who refused to reveal where the murder weapon was hidden. The adults just let him stay alone in the solitary room for five days. When he was released, the eight-foot-old man cried like a child. He was trembling and confessing as soon as he came out.
From then on, everyone regarded confinement as the cruelest punishment.
As soon as he stepped out of the door, one person immediately turned around and asked the detective who had just spoken, "Continue, continue, whose room the county captain entered..."
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"Sister Ruoqing, please advise my young lady." Inside the room, the girl in green shirt grabbed Wan Ruoqing's arm and said with a grimace.
"The young lady rejected those young men and did not attend the banquet. My mother didn't care about her. She has been praising Chen Miaomiao these days. What will happen if the young lady cannot win the oiran..."
The oiran is a natural protective barrier. If there is no such barrier, the young lady may not be able to maintain her innocence soon. She is a has-been oiran... By then, the life of the master and servant will be very difficult...
Everyone else was desperately trying to build momentum for the oiran, but my own lady did the opposite. As a maid, she was extremely anxious.
Wan Ruoqing patted Xiao Cui's hand, raised her head, looked at the woman sitting there dressing up with some confusion, and asked: "Zui Mo, have you really made up your mind not to compete for the oiran?"
The woman took off a gold hairpin with pearls and jade on her head, put it in a brocade box, inserted a wooden hairpin into it, carefully closed the brocade box, walked to Wan Ruoqing, and pulled her
He raised his hand and said: "Sister Ruoqing, how about I just work with you from now on? Anyway, when you perform, you can't find anyone else to draw the background. Do you think it's okay for me to be your royal painter?"
"The background you painted is so lifelike. No one in the entire Qing'an Mansion can do it better than you." Wan Ruoqing said with a smile, then seemed to realize something, looked at him in surprise, and asked:
"Are you planning to..."
"No one can do better than me?" Zeng Zuimo seemed not to have heard the second half of her words and said, "Sister Ruoqing has forgotten that person..."
When he mentioned "that person", although his silver teeth were clenched tightly, his pretty face was covered with a layer of pink for no reason.
