The place
you want to bring me is the brothel?
The cardamom has been boiled into porridge
. When I was 24
years old, I went to the theatre with my mother. On the stage, the actors babbled and played “Another Spring”.
Listen to this name is full of spring, and the content of the play also live up to expectations, a piece of fragrant grass.
It was about a young lady who hired a young prince in the court. But the pearl embryo dark knot, with a handsome poor scholar on.
The moon is on the top of the willows, and after dusk, the young lady and Junxiucai are holding hands and singing to each other in the back garden, where they must have an affair: “The slave will throw away this red thread tomorrow and commit himself to the palace to be the bride.”. Although the wedding dress is not as red as the blood in the heart of the slave, you must not forget the slave.
At that time, the queen mother gazed at him and spat at the skin of a melon seed, saying, “Little girl with no taste, I don’t believe that this poor scholar can’t compare with the son of the prime minister. When he’s old, poor, ugly, fat and bald, and marries two or three little goblins, I’ll see if you regret it.”
Then he broke open a piece of the skin of a melon seed and said, “This prince is unlucky enough. Why did you commit yourself to the palace?”? You don’t have to live in the palace to commit yourself, do you?
Unexpectedly, after several years, the mother’s words turned out to be a prophecy.
Tonight, it seems that the palace is indeed less committed than palace.
Hsu Chih-wan said, “I can’t take care of this. Just pretend I didn’t see anything tonight. Goodbye. The third prince will see you forever.” As soon as
I grabbed her clothes, she turned around miserably and looked at me miserably. “Your Highness, I really don’t know anything. The three of us met together every day, and I looked very normal.”. Who knows, who knows that the two of them did this behind my back.. Under
the moonlight, her big eyes were pitiful, as if she were being bullied.
I was amused and teased her. “Are they behind your back?” I said? That sounds like you’re the right match, and now you’ve caught your lover in an affair with someone else?
“No, no. I was wrong. It wasn’t behind my back. They were doing this kind of thing fair and square. But I didn’t see it.”
I said, “You know yourself.”
She gave me an ingratiating smile and imperceptibly pulled her sleeve from my hand and said, “Your Highness is wise. Your Highness is powerful. Your Highness is more talented than Zhuge and more handsome than Pan An. Of course I have to know myself in front of Your Highness..” Your Highness, can I go now?
I pulled her sleeve back and smiled at her. She couldn’t help but smile back. “No,” I said. In the moonlight
, Hsu Chih-wan’s face looked like a frosted eggplant. I took from my sleeve the bottle of elixir that my mother had given me today and put it in her hand, saying, “This is the best medicine for wounds. Take it and apply it to the wound every day. It will stop the pain and leave no scar.”
The eggplant took the medicine and blinked her eyes. Then I said, “OK, now you can go.”
Eggplant immediately smiled and narrowed her eyes. She waved her hand at me and said, “All right, your Highness, go to bed early. See you tomorrow!” As soon as he turned around, he slipped away quickly.
I stood there for a moment, looked at her back and smiled. Turned around and left. The shadows of
the trees whirled and a gust of wind blew.
Not far away, a shadow flashed under another sycamore tree, half hidden from the tree, looking silently in this direction.
Shake, also did not enter the night. After the assassination
in Mulan’s paddock, his father had no intention of hunting any more. After a short rest of two days, he ordered his troops to return to the court.
Before I left, on the day I was assassinated, the bodyguards who followed me up the mountain bit their tongues and committed suicide in the dungeon. When Lord Liu, who was in charge of interrogating the case, rushed over, only one bodyguard was still alive.
He stared at the ground and cried “ho, ho, ho” three times, then he died.
The father knew it and sat in the courtyard chair for a long time without speaking.
He patted me on the shoulder and said, “Father will give you justice.”
Justice, the world is not black and white. Some things, even the son of heaven can not control.
Back in the palace, autumn has passed for a month, the rustling wind has eroded the high walls, and the front court of the harem has suddenly become busy. For several days in a row, when I went to my mother’s harem to pay my respects, I saw her busily giving orders, and the portraits of all kinds of women poured into the Qifeng Palace like running water. The ladies have also become frequent visitors to the Qifeng Palace.
All day long, there was an endless stream of people coming and going in the Queen’s Palace. Looking ahead, the undercurrent is also surging.
Only because the selection of the prince’s concubine was put on the agenda.
The harem of the former court was busy, but the prince was like a man who had nothing to do. All day long, apart from going to the Taixue class, he stayed in the East Palace and did not go out.
When someone asked about it, he just said that he had been playing chess and holding books recently, and welcomed you to come and give advice and so on. Others congratulated him on getting married, but he just smiled and said nothing. I seem to have chosen someone else’s concubine.
Cao Xiliang was not very careful. He heard the prince say that he was welcome to give advice. He really went to the East Palace several times with a pair of new ivory chess pieces. As a result, he was shut out. He didn’t even step in. A gentle concierge stepped out and said that the prince was not in the palace today. When he asked when he would come back, he answered that he didn’t know.
Tsao Hsi-liang asked me quietly, “The prince is not a broken sleeve, is he?”? Seeing that he’s about to choose a concubine, he’s not in the palace every day, and I haven’t seen him interested in women on weekdays. Maybe he’s looking for a man he likes.
I gave him a cold look. He covered his head and said, “Forget I said anything.”
It was the day when Xu Zhiwan came to my palace to practice etiquette. After reading the scriptures all morning, he began to eat. Somehow
, I always felt that she was not very energetic today, reading the scriptures from the front to the back, reading directly from the first page to the last two pages. Eating is also absent-minded, half a day, a bowl of rice is not finished.
I put down my chopsticks and asked, “Isn’t the food very appetizing today?”
She moved her eyes from the bowl to my face and shook her head slowly.
I thought for a moment, then called Joy and said, “I remember that this morning my mother sent me two boxes of new grapes. Go and get them.”
Grapes have just been picked up from the town in the well, and the glittering drops of water are scattered on the purple skin, faintly congealing a few brilliant flowers, which are very attractive. Xu Zhiwan stretched out his finger and touched the grapes, but the expression on his face was still the same.
I reached out to pick a grape fruit, gently broke the skin, purple and transparent flesh from the skin to break free, earn a faint sweet fragrance. I put it in front of the glass lamp in front of Hsu Chih-wan and said, “Come on, what trouble have you made?”
Hsu Chih-wan sat up with a quick brush, then sat down with a little caution. Her dark jade eyes slipped out from under her eyelash fan and looked at me. “I want to ask for a day off tomorrow. Can I?”.
I broke the grape skin and asked with an expressionless face, “Why?” “My birthday is tomorrow,”
said Hsu Chih-wan.
I said, “Your birthday is on the sixth day of the sixth month. It’s long past.”
Hsu Chih-wan stared at me with his eyes wide open. “Your Highness, did you check my account?”
I put another peeled grape into her cup and said, “Don’t change the subject. What’s the matter?” Just
as Hsu Chih-wan was about to open his mouth, I added, “Don’t tell me any more lies about who has a birthday, who has a birthday, who has a big wedding, who has a baby, and so on. Do you think I’ll believe them?” The grapes in the
cup had already covered more than half of the wall of the cup, and were shining brightly in the sunlight. Xu Zhiwan lay pitifully on the table and thought for a long time with his mouth flat. Finally, he made up his mind and said to me in a low voice,
“Your Highness, to tell you the truth, I..” I’m taking Wei Ling out of the palace tomorrow.
I said, Oh, this? All right, I’m right.
Hsu Chih-wan brushed again and sat up: “Huh?”? Really? The street markets in the
capital are naturally very prosperous. On both sides of
the street, there are many restaurants and restaurants, and all kinds of small shops are lined up in turn. From Zhudian Zhicong on the left, Satin Restaurant, to Yaopu Teahouse on the right, Rice Stall Noodle Branch. It is a good scene of prosperity.
And the restaurant standing in front of us is a strange army in this prosperity.
It stands on the side of the street, painted red and carved with all kinds of twisted flowers. It was obviously daytime, but he was still holding a red lantern, in which purple smoke was burning faintly. When he smelled it closely, it seemed that there was still a faint fragrance. It bewitches a strange and charming taste on the street. On a plaque in front of the main entrance of the
restaurant, the words “Drunken Spring House” are written in large Chinese characters. The fan
in my hand snapped shut, and I said, “Hsu Chih-wan, you brought Wei Ling out to visit the brothel, didn’t you?”
Hsu Chih-wan stood listlessly behind me. When he heard me ask, he said with a flat mouth, “Your Highness, you’re wrong. We came out this time on official business.”
I said, Official business? Do you come here on official business to molest a good woman or a good boy?
Wei Ling corrected me with a straight face and said, “Third Brother, you’re wrong. No matter whether you’re a woman or a teenager, there’s no good family here. There’s only loss here..”
Hsu Chih-wan immediately turned around and covered Wei Ling’s mouth. Wei Ling pulled her hand off again and said with a righteous look on his face, “Oh, Chih-wan, it’s all right. Third Brother doesn’t know the situation and the rules here. We’ll teach him. Third Brother won’t be angry.” A few words popped out
of Hsu Chih-wan’s throat: “Your third brother doesn’t need us to teach him.”
Wei Ling leaned his head on Xu Zhiwan’s shoulder and cast a pair of innocent eyes on me. “Brother San, do you know what’s going on here?”
Hsu Chih-wan turned his back to me and buried his head deep in Wei Ling’s shoulder. Look
carefully, it seems that he is still trembling.
I glanced at her and touched Wei Ling’s head with a smile. “Third Brother doesn’t know,” I said in harmony. “Does Wei Ling know? What’s here?” “Wei Ling knows,” said
Wei Ling joyfully! Wei Ling teaches three elder brother this inside the rule, in the past Wei Ling’s knowledge etiquette all wants three elder brother to teach, also thought that this life all did not teach three elder brother’s time. I didn’t expect that today would come.
Then he reached out his hand and patted Hsu Chih-wan on the back. “Actually, Wei Ling didn’t know about this either. Wei Ling learned about the brothel from Chih-wan.”
Zhiwan is Wei Ling’s first teacher. I’m also the third elder brother’s first teacher, so if you count this up, I’ll be the third elder brother’s master. If the third elder brother wants to thank, he should thank the master first.
I looked at Hsu Chih-wan with an expressionless face and said, “Then I thank Shizu.”
Xu Zhiwan managed to squeeze out a smile and stammered, “No …” You are welcome It should be. As it should be..
Zuichunlou is a brothel, but the decoration is not gaudy. Inside the
courtyard, mahogany is used as pillars, and flowers and plants are carved, circling the pillars. There is a pavilion in the building, and the sound of lute and dulcimer bursts out. In the scattered
seats, there are some idle flowers and grass, which are not deliberately pruned neatly, but allowed to grow wantonly.
There is a different kind of romance everywhere. Xu Zhiwan and
I, Wei Ling came to the second floor to sit down and asked for a few dishes. Joy, dressed as a servant, stood with her hands down.
I asked Hsu Chih-wan, “What exactly are you doing here?”
Xu Zhiwan covered his face with his hands and did not speak. Wei Ling, with a white cloud cake stuffed in her mouth, lisped back, “Zhiwan said, bring me here to see the flower queen.”
“Flower Queen?” I raised my eyebrows and looked at Hsu Chih-wan. “It seems you’re quite familiar with this place.”
Hsu Chih-wan lay prone on the table, burying his face so tightly in the crook of his arm that he could not see his expression clearly, and gave another “whoop” from his throat.
“No, third brother.” Wei Ling swallowed the white cloud cake from his mouth and picked up another piece from his plate. “It’s the prince’s brother who is very familiar with this place,” he said. “We’ve come to see the prince’s brother’s lover today.”
27
“It was a fine, cloudless, sunny day.”
“I walk in the streets, and the streets are really beautiful. There are flowers, grass, people, dogs, and food. There are steamed stuffed buns, steamed bun, ice-sugar gourds, hawthorn, dates, and yams in the ice-sugar gourds.”
“When it comes to yams, there are so many ways to make them. They can be cooked with sugar, braised in brown sauce, or stewed in soup. But personally, I prefer to eat baked yams. When we talk about baked yams, we have to mention baked sweet potatoes. When we talk about baked sweet potatoes, we have to..” With the
fan closed, the handle of the fan struck lightly on the table and gave out a light “thump.” I said lightly, “Don’t do that. Pick the point.”
Xu Zhiwan looked at me carefully and slowly lowered his head. A pair of deer eyes slipped out from the edge of the table and looked at my face. Speaking of baked sweet potatoes, that.. That day, I was buying baked sweet potatoes, suddenly next to a man, said he also wanted to buy, I … As soon as I heard this voice, it sounded very familiar. When I looked back, I.. I saw the prince.
I looked at her with an expressionless face. She looked at my face and her voice became lower and lower. Ture I didn’t lie to you..
I said, “Even if the prince goes to the street to eat baked sweet potatoes, what does it have to do with you coming to the brothel?”
Hsu Chih-wan said, It’s not that the prince wants to eat baked sweet potatoes. There’s a woman standing next to the prince. She’s very beautiful, and it’s that woman who wants to eat baked sweet potatoes.
The prince looked at the woman whole time … No, it was the fairy sister who didn’t look anywhere else, so even though I was standing next to him, he didn’t notice me, and then I followed them secretly.
Wei Ling raised her hand and asked, “Why does the fairy sister like to eat baked sweet potatoes?”
Hsu Chih-wan put his arm around her shoulder and said, “There are many kinds of fairy sisters, too. Some like to drink the wind, and some like to eat baked sweet potatoes. But like me, I can eat both meat and vegetables, and I don’t mind anyone.”
I looked at her coldly. She glanced at my eyes and shivered. Then she slowly lowered her head and looked at me flat at the table. “Then, then I came to this building. It was said that women were not allowed to come in. I thought I would come back next time in men’s clothes.”
“Then Wei Ling found out by accident, and she clamored to come over.”
“Your Highness, I really didn’t mean to corrupt Wei Ling …”
Eggplant hid her face under the table, showing only a pair of eyes. The expression is very pitiful.
I laughed for a while.
Unexpectedly, she thought I was angry, just because she thought she was a bad influence on Wei Ling.
But also did not expect, the prince actually really have a lover outside, although not Cao Xiliang said so outrageous, but also really surprised me.
The prince has been aloof since childhood, does not like to be touched by strangers, and has never been close to women, and cherishes feathers very much. When he was a child, a maid of honor bumped into him carelessly, and he bathed and burned incense all afternoon to clean himself. In the years since he became a prince, not a few women have thrown themselves into his arms, and he has always handed people out politely or coldly. How could
such a prince. My
arm was pushed, and when I came to my senses, Hsu Chih-wan said, “Look, look, it’s that fairy sister.” At the top of the stairs
, there was a slow sound of footsteps. The curved staircase with
carved flowers and winding grass first reveals a curved cloud bun with flowing gold and jade hairpins, and then reveals the thin shoulders with white brocade, graceful posture slowly up.
Seemed to hear the voice of our side, a pair of watery autumn eyes lightly glanced over.
The eyes seem to be affectionate, but when you look closely, the expression on your face is cool and gorgeous, which seems to refuse people thousands of miles away.
Sure enough, she is a very beautiful woman.
For some reason, this woman gave me a strange feeling.
But when I think about it, I don’t know what’s strange.
“Third brother, third brother?” Wei Ling shook her hand in front of my eyes. With a look of reverence on her face, she turned to Hsu Chih-wan and said, “Chih-wan, what you said is really good. The brothel is really a good place, and the fairy sister is really a great beauty. Like my third brother, who doesn’t even get distracted when he studies, he has been in a daze twice today.”
Hsu Chih-wan says, “Baby, you have to have your own aesthetic. You can’t look at your third brother in a daze before you think someone else is beautiful.”
Wei Ling put his hand back in front of my eyes, picked up a piece of cake and put it in his mouth. He said with a smile, “But Wei Ling looks good, but it’s just good.”. In Wei Ling’s mind, it’s better to know late. Smiling
, Hsu Chih-wan touched Wei Ling’s head and said in a gentle voice, “Wei Ling, as far as your aesthetic is concerned, the whole Da Cheng should learn from you.”
Wei Ling turned his head again and asked me, “What do you think, third brother?”? Does Chih-wan look better than that fairy sister just now?
I cast my eyes on Hsu Chih-wan lightly. Hsu Chih-wan quickly picked up his hand to cover his face. He felt that it was not enough to cover his face, so he simply covered his face directly on the table. He moved too fast, only to hear a loud bang. The teacup on the
table shook, turned upside down to the table rock, and smashed to the ground. The people sitting
around looked back at us.
Xu Zhiwan raised his head, with two red stripes hanging from the bottom of his nostrils.
I. I think I got a runny nose..
Wei Ling said anxiously, “Oh, it’s too late. It’s not snot. It’s blood. You’ve got a nosebleed.”
Hsu Chih-wan felt his nose, which had suddenly become red and swollen, and breathed a sigh of relief. “Oh, it’s a nosebleed. It’s a good thing.”
Wei Ling took the veil to help her press her nose and said, “What are you talking about? A nosebleed is much more serious than a runny nose. How can you be lucky?”
Hsu Chih-wan’s nose was covered, and his words became indistinct: Of course there’s a difference. I’m such a big person, and if I still runny nose in public, how humiliating it would be. A nosebleed is different. Bleeding is not a disgrace. As
she spoke, the nosebleeds dripped down her cheeks, dripping on her skirt and rolling on her hem. While covering her nose,
Wei Ling said anxiously, “It’s too late. Don’t talk. Your bleeding hasn’t stopped yet. If you open your mouth to speak later, it won’t be good if it rolls into your mouth.” Then he looked down at her clothes and said with a worried face, “Look at your clothes. They are all covered with blood now. How will you get back?” Sighing in secret,
I beckoned the waiter to me and said, “Please go to the long street and buy this girl a clean suit of clothes. Then go to the drugstore and buy some cotton cloth, some hemostatic, and some more curtains.”
Waiter dropped his hand and said, “I’m sorry, my guest, but we don’t offer this kind of service.” Joy, who was
standing by, took out two gold ingots from her brocade bag and put them on the table. “Don’t worry, my guest,” said the waiter with a righteous look on his face. “I’ll buy it for you as soon as possible!”
Then he quickly grabbed the gold and trotted away. “Tut, tut, tut,”
said Hsu Chih-wan, covering his nose and slurring his words. It never occurred to me that this Drunken Spring House was really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Even a little waiter was a master of face-changing in Sichuan Opera.
I said, “You’re not easy either. You’ve banged your nose like this, and you’re still talking nonsense.”
Hsu Chih-wan smiled and said, “Your Highness, I’m flattered. I’m flattered.”
Waiter kept his word and said as soon as possible. The speed was really satisfactory. I only drank half a cup of tea on the table and bought everything I asked for.
The waiter bowed to him respectfully and said, “I think it’s not convenient for the girl to change clothes, and she’s dripping blood. The little one has already opened an upper room for the girl, and the hot water is ready. The girl can go to the upper room to bathe and change clothes.” “You’re quite considerate,”
I said.
Waiter said with a smile, “It’s my honor to serve such a distinguished guest as you. Naturally, I have to be careful.”
Wei Ling accompanied Hsu Chih-wan to the upper room to change his clothes. I sat alone in the attic drinking tea, while the waiter served the food and fruit, and poured the tea courteously. I asked him, “How long have you been in this drunken spring building?” As he refilled my teacup,
the bartender said, “The little one hasn’t been here long. It’s been three years.” “Do you know when the flower queen came here?”
I asked.
The waiter smiled and said, “We have quite a few ladies here. My guest, which one do you mean?”
I said, “If it’s a queen, how can there be several?” “I don’t know, sir,”
said Waiter with a smile. “The girls at Zuichunlou are the best. There are four of them, and they are all beautiful. I really can’t tell who is better than whom, so they are all flower queens.” “In that case,”
I said, “the one I asked is wearing white brocade today. He just went upstairs. Do you know who I’m talking about?” As soon as
this remark was made, the waiter suddenly settled in place, holding the teapot for a long time and mumbling silently.
I said, “By the look on your face, you must know who I’m talking about. Do you know when she came and what her identity is?”
Waiter, carrying the teapot with an uncertain expression, looked straight at me, but did not speak. “We’re asking you a question,” said Joy. “Who is that girl?”
Waiter took a deep breath and said coldly, “The younger one doesn’t know. If my guest doesn’t have any other orders, the younger one will have to go down and serve the other guests.”
Joy was so angry that she stretched out her hand to hold him. The waiter knocked his hand away. Joy screamed, and the man looked at the gap and ran down the stairs quickly into the crowd downstairs.
“Your Highness, Your Highness, the slave’s hand, it hurts..”
Joy’s hand swelled up quickly from the blow, and a red envelope hung from her wrist, which was very strange.
Without a certain amount of power, you can’t hurt like this. I’m afraid
this waiter is not simple.
Originally, he was just worried that Xu Zhiwan would get into trouble outside. Unexpectedly, after
following her, she still caused a lot of trouble, not to mention the trouble, followed by a bunch of strange characters. The face
of the unidentified woman had never been seen before, but at first glance, it always made people feel strange, what was the problem. Where
the hell.. Suddenly
, there was a loud commotion upstairs, and groups of people rushed down from upstairs. The bonsai placed at the top of the stairs was trampled down and hit the ground. Someone accidentally stepped on it and screamed, which was covered by the cries for help from the people behind.
Go. Out of the water! My
mind stirred, I pushed aside the crowd, lit my toes, stepped on the fence and looked up-
the smoke billowed, and the white smoke poured out of the upstairs. The people who ran by were choked and covered their faces with sleeves.
Burning, it was the room that Xu Zhiwan had just entered.
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. Cardamom has been cooked into porridge
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