Tao Shang and Cao Cao walked slowly and chatted all the way, and soon they arrived at Changle Street in the north of Luoyang.
The so-called Changle Street was a famous commercial core street in Luoyang in the past, somewhat similar to Houhai and Nanluogu Lane in Beijing in later generations.
In the past, there were many wine shops and music shops here, and there were countless stalls, vendors, and goons... However, after a fire in Luoyang, this place is now no different from a slum. There are burned-out buildings everywhere, and the shop owners who used to line both sides of the street
The traffickers were now replaced by countless begging refugees.
Cao Cao ordered most of the people accompanying him to wait outside the street, while he and the pottery merchant led Xia Houyuan and Xu Chu into Changle Street respectively.
After turning a few corners, the four of them arrived directly below a tall wooden building with about three floors. The building was burned beyond recognition. In the wooden building, the old decorations were also destroyed by the Xiliang Army.
After looting and leaving an empty house, it was indeed a miserable scene of depression.
The potter squinted his eyes and vaguely made out a few large characters that were not very clear on the wooden plaque that had been smoked but black...
"Fangze Pavilion?"
The potter touched his head in confusion, turned to look at Xu Chu behind him and said, "Where was this place originally?"
Xu Chu glanced at the potter with disdain, shook his head and sighed: "Thankfully you are still a member of a prominent family... Can't you tell just by the name? You look like a tiger..."
The pottery merchant's face instantly turned red... Being despised by a Biaozi who was unanimously evaluated as a "tiger idiot" by both contemporary and later generations, the pottery merchant felt that he really fell short of the time travellers.
Cao Cao stood there and watched for a long time, with a hint of loneliness in his eyes, and finally sighed.
"Cao didn't have much hope at first...Brother Tao, let's go."
The potter scratched his head in confusion and said, "Brother Meng De, what you said you wanted to do was to go to the bottom of this burned-out ruined building... and stand for a while?"
Please, Brother Cao, are you too busy? Tao has a lot of things to deal with...he is in a hurry.
Cao Cao nodded, and while leading the pottery merchant out of the street, he said, "I don't know, my dear brother, that Fangze Pavilion used to be a famous singing and dancing hall in Luoyang..."
Xu Chu and Xia Houyuan couldn't help laughing when they heard this. It seemed that this place was indeed what they expected.
The pottery merchant turned to look at the two of them, and then turned to ask Cao Cao: "Singing and Dance Hall? What an elegant name...Brother Meng De, you are not fooling me. I look at their expressions, this place should have been called a prostitute back then."
The museum is more friendly to the people.”
This time, Cao Cao's expression was extremely serious, and he said: "Cao has always acted in his own way, so he doesn't care about other people's gossips. Cao Cao and Ben Chu have played almost all of Luoyang's fireworks land back then. What's the point?
Hidden? But Fangze Pavilion is indeed just a song and dance studio!"
Look at what he said, how domineering he was... I even played in the Land of Fireworks.
The pottery merchant was too lazy to tell Cao Cao about the difference between a dance studio and a brothel. In his opinion, one was probably a bathing club and the other was a business KTV.
"Then what?"
Cao Cao sighed and said: "There is a dancing girl in Fangze Pavilion, called Lai Ying'er... This girl is aloof and elegant in nature. She has long sleeves and is good at dancing on stage, which attracts everyone's attention. However, she is taciturn and almost inhumane off stage, which makes her
If you want to kiss Fangze, you have no choice but to give up and retreat when faced with difficulties. There are countless people in the entire Luoyang City who admire this person but cannot fulfill their wish... Cao is also among these people!"
Tao Shang looked at Cao Cao with wide eyes, as if he couldn't believe that Cao Cao came here specifically to find a woman.
But with the name Ying'er, the pottery merchant really knew that there was such an unofficial history.
According to legend, Ying'er was a famous prostitute in Luoyang during the Eastern Han Dynasty. She lived a life where "the young people in Wuling were fighting for their heads and singing red silk songs for countless hours". Later, she was acquired by Cao Cao. It is said that this girl fell in love with a guard named Wang Tu.
, the two of them knitted a green, leek-colored top hat for Brother Ah Man without being ashamed.
Later, Wang Tu violated military orders and delayed the war. He was tied up with ropes and taken to prison. He was sentenced to death for rebelling and was beheaded by Hou Ling in public display.
At this time, Lai Ying'er showed extraordinary courage. She knelt in front of Cao Cao, looking so helpless. She repeatedly said: "I am willing to die on behalf of the king..." and told the story of her relationship with the king.
Picture of personal love.
Cao Cao ordered Lai Ying'er to train a small singing and dancing class within a month and agreed that Lai Ying'er could die on behalf of his lover. Lai Ying'er conducted intensive training day and night, from music theory, timbre, sound quality to dance postures, and props were trained for Cao Cao
The seven dancers fulfilled their promise. Although Cao Cao was reluctant to part with her, she finally decided to die and replaced Wang Tu.
After Lai Ying'er left, Cao Cao summoned Wang Tu, but Wang Tu frankly told Cao Cao that he and Lai Ying'er were just having fun. Cao Cao became furious and kicked Wang Tu down. He wanted to kill him, but he agreed to Lai Ying'er.
The son refused to kill him, so he had to drive him away.
Of course, the pottery merchant would not take this folk tale that was circulated in later generations seriously... but the facts were before his eyes, and the pottery merchant never thought that there really was such a famous person.
After being surprised for a while, the pottery merchant slowly said: "I probably understand what Brother Meng De said... that there used to be a dancing prostitute named Lai Ying'er in Luoyang City..."
Cao Cao turned around and glared at the pottery merchant, saying, "It's not a dancing prostitute, it's a dancing concubine."
Potter: "…………"
It’s just one word difference, what’s the difference? I never thought that Cao Cao also had such a persistent and cute side.
The potter coughed slightly and said: "Okay, there is a dancer named Ying'er, who has many admirers, and Brother Meng De is one of them, but this dancer is too noble, and he is stunned.
I haven't peed on your pot... So Brother Meng De came to Luoyang this time just to try and see if Ying'er survived this huge disaster... If she is still alive, Brother Meng De will
If we perform a scene with her where a hero saves a beauty, then we can win the beauty back, is that what you mean?"
Cao Cao's face, which was not white to begin with, was now even more frighteningly dark.
"That's what I mean, but could you please stop saying it so bluntly...Brother Tao?" Cao Cao whispered through gritted teeth.
Upon hearing this, Tao Shang said helplessly: "Asking what love is in the world, it makes people agree to each other in life and death...Brother Meng De, you are a man of the right temperament."