In the capital, the largest street is Desheng Street, this street traverses the entire capital, from the west gate to the east city, 30 years ago, Emperor Wu of the Great Jin Dynasty personally conquered, swept the world when the class teacher returned to the dynasty passed through this street, so it was named Desheng Street.

Since then, this street has become one of the symbols of the capital and the most prosperous street in the capital.

Although it has been snowing heavily for three days, the outside of the city is still plain white, but there are not many traces of heavy snow left on Desheng Street, after all, this is the capital, and the street usually has special people to sweep, and where people come and go, there is no trace of nature.

At this time, on the street of Victory Street, a young man who was not particularly tall, carrying a bamboo basket, was walking down the street with a huddle.

This young man is naturally Li Xin.

He cowered not because he was afraid, but because he was cold.

Now, he only has two clothes, a shirt and an outerwear, which is the autumn dress, and now he has entered the wax moon, and it is about to be the end of the year, and the cold wind blows on his body, making him shiver.

Fortunately, today is the big sun, the sun is shining on his body, finally let Li Xin be more comfortable, he looked around on the street for a while, and then his eyes locked on a slightly chubby, two-handed, mustache middle-aged man, Li Xin stepped forward and gently patted the middle-aged man's shoulder.

"Hello eldest brother, the younger brother has just come to the capital, and I have something to inquire about with the eldest brother."

The middle-aged man stopped, looked back at Li Xin, and after seeing Li Xin dressed in a single shirt, there was some contempt in his eyes, but as an ordinary person in the capital, he still had to hold his "identity", the middle-aged man coughed and began to face Li Xin.

In his opinion, the young man in front of him probably came to the capital to join his relatives and wanted to ask him for directions, so he put his hands behind his back, looked at Li Xin with a smile, and said: "Little brother, if you have any questions, Wu has lived here for decades, and there is no place in the capital that I am not familiar with." ”

Li Xin bent down to thank him, and then asked seriously: "Big brother, where is the largest green building in the capital?" ”

The middle-aged man's smiling expression froze on his face, and he looked at Li Xin in a daze, and he didn't recover for a long time.

This young man, not to mention his shabby clothes, has unwashed soot on his face, looks like a poor family, and speaks with a foreign accent... How... Just ask Qinglou?

The world is going down!

What's wrong with this society, is it that I, Wu, can't keep up with the times, and the young people now are like this?

Li Xin was stunned when he saw him, thinking that the eldest brother didn't understand, so he patiently added: "Qinglou is a brothel and a kiln." ”

The middle-aged man's eyelids twitched, and his smile was very stiff: "Little brother, it's broad daylight at this time...... Or in the morning... It's not appropriate to ask this, if you really have an idea, I can take you to a few good places for my brother in the evening..."

Speaking of this, he looked at Li Xin with a lot of affection, obviously treating Li Xin as a fellow practitioner.

The reason why Li Xin chose this middle-aged man was because he saw that his steps were vain, his face was pale and bloodless, and his demeanor was obscene.

Li Xin shook his head and said, "Big brother, the younger brother has something to do when he goes to the Qinglou, and I ask the eldest brother to make it convenient..."

The middle-aged fat man squeezed his brows and smiled very obscenely: "Isn't it just to do things when men go to the Qinglou, everyone understands this, but the bigger buildings are not open at this time, if the little brother is really in a hurry, the foolish brother can take you to a few smaller places..."

Li Xin looked at this obscene fat man speechlessly.

This guy is hopeless.

In the end, after several entanglements, Li Xin finally asked the location of the Qinglou in the capital, or the location of the most expensive Qinglou in the capital.

That is the Rouge River located in the south of the city.

The Rouge River was originally called the Qinhuai River, the river is ten miles of painting boats, step by step towers, every night, the Qinhuai River is brightly lit, because the ladies in the Qinglou often wash the rouge by the river, over time, the river water is faintly exuding fragrance, so it is called the Rouge River.

After Li Xin asked the way, he said goodbye to the obscene middle-aged fat man, turned around and walked in the direction of the Qinhuai River.

I have to say that Li Xin simply asked for directions, this fat man simply hit him at first sight, and he couldn't wait to worship Li Xin directly on the street, and it took Li Xin a long time to get rid of the fat man's entanglement.

Before parting, the fat man told Li Xin that his name was Wu Daoxing.

However, Li Xin didn't have the heart to deal with this fat man now, he had to rush to Qinhuai River and sell the basket of copycat beast charcoal on his back.

He knows very well that these "animal charcoal" carved out by himself cannot be put on the table, and the real rich people are not willing to buy it, and the slightly poorer people are not willing to spend a price far more expensive than ordinary charcoal to buy, so these copycat charcoal, the best selling point, is the Qinglou.

In this era, charcoal in winter is about the same as the status of air conditioning in later generations, that is, as long as you are in the service industry, you must burn charcoal in the room, after all, no one wants to come out to spend money and be frozen, so for Qinglou, charcoal is just needed and a necessity.

But there is a problem in this, that is, ordinary charcoal, bamboo charcoal burns without a card, and the real expensive charcoal Qinglou can't afford to burn, if at this time, there is a charcoal that looks like animal charcoal, but it is very cheap compared to animal charcoal......

With this wish, Li Xin came to the largest Qinglou on the edge of the Qinhuai River.

Proud Building.

The so-called spring breeze is proud, the proud building is the most favorite place after the lifters won the jinshi, although it is a green building, but it is relatively high-end, there is basically very little kind of low-end service that sells directly to the body, the people of the proud building, all read and read, you want to go to them, just have money is not enough, but also have to pursue it yourself.

This is the difference between the high-end of the industry and the low-end of the industry, this feeling of wanting to refuse and welcome is the favorite tune of those who read, therefore, in ten miles of Qinhuai, this proud building has the best business and the easiest to make money.

It's morning, and the proud building has not yet opened to do business, Li Xin carried a basket of charcoal on his back and gently knocked on the door of the proud building.

The one who opened the door to greet Li Xin was a very thin maid, this maid looked like she was fourteen or fifteen years old, and after glancing at Li Xin up and down, she said crisply: "This son, we can only open the door when we are proud, if you want to come, you will come again." ”

People who really know how to do business are often less likely to make things difficult for customers, after all, a smiling face, a kind word and no cost, so this maid's perennial habit makes her quite polite when facing Li Xin.

Li Xin untied the bamboo basket from his back, then picked out a piece of the most finely carved tiger-shaped beast charcoal from it, put it in his hand, and handed it to the little maid.

Li Xin's tone was polite.

"Little sister, I'm here to see your host, please let the young lady pass it on, just say that I have animal charcoal to sell here..."

Speaking of this, Li Xin paused and continued.

"One hundred pieces of money."