Volume 5 Chapter 14 The Green House Chooses the Oiran This is the high roller
Xiao Peng slowly opened his eyes, got up, stretched his waist against the rising sun, jumped off the roof, and walked to the front hall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time, it was a month later, Xiao Peng and Yue Jin went to see this villa that day, they were very satisfied, the furniture was very complete, and the imperial court raided the house, but it was just a copy of the valuable gold and silver, and these tables, chairs and benches were not moved at all.
Xiao Peng went to Yue Ke's yamen with Yue Ji on the same day, and Xiao Peng also got to know Yue Ke, Yue Fei's grandson.
Yue Ke's image is different from the martial arts and fierceness of Yue Jiajun, he is a typical Confucian scholar, seeing Xiao Peng's bearing, and being a friend of his son, he didn't say a word, and sold the villa to Xiao Peng for 20,000 taels.
And Xiao Peng also settled in the Southern Song Dynasty, and then Yue Ji took Xiao Peng to invite craftsmen to redecorate the villa, and at the same time recruited a group of servants and miscellaneous servants.
Xiao Peng wrote a plaque of "Xiaoyao Villa" in thin gold font, and asked someone to frame it and hang it above the gate.
After reading Xiao Peng's calligraphy, Yue Jinzi was amazed again and again, and he asked Xiao Peng for words like he had asked for words from the political commissar of Ming.
Xiao Peng was in a good mood, with a stroke of the pen, he simply painted an ink painting, which was the scenery of the South Lake from the perspective of the villa, and then mentioned the poem he chanted by the lake at the beginning, and finally wrote Xiao Peng, the free son.
Yue Ji was overjoyed, such as taking the poems and paintings home with the treasure, after Yue Ke saw it, he couldn't help but be shocked by Xiao Peng, and he also had a deeper understanding of Xiao Peng.
Since then, Xiao Peng has become a frequent visitor to Yue's mansion, Yue Jin also has two younger brothers, one Yue Ao, but fifteen or sixteen years old, now studying abroad, not in the house, the third brother Yue Yingjian, is still a yellow-mouthed child.
Xiao Peng has been traveling with Yue Jin and his three or five friends for more than half a month, reciting poems, and occasionally going to Xiao Peng's villa for a small gathering, drinking and having fun, so uncomfortable, they are all the second generation of officials, they are already crowned, and they read almost the same books.
The capital of the Southern Song Dynasty is in Lin'an, which is now Hangzhou, only two hundred miles away from Jiaxing, and it is only a day's journey by horse-drawn carriage, so these guys are not in a hurry at all, although they usually read the books of sages, but no one will study hard all day behind closed doors.
"Brother Xiao, you are so talented, why don't you participate in the imperial examination? If you are willing to participate, then the name of the champion belongs to you!"
Xiao Peng smiled and shook his head, and said to the person who was talking to him: "Brother Wang doesn't know, my human nature likes to be at ease, I don't want to be disturbed by mundane things, and I have no interest in being an official. ”
"Hahahaha...... Brother Xiao, are you really ...... What a ......."
"You want to say that you have no ambitions! Hehe, that's right, Xiao is such a guy with no ambitions, Xiao Mou in this life, he just wants to be unrestrained, eat and wait for death. ”
Several friends laughed and shook their heads, this Brother Xiao can often give people a sense of deviance, but it is refreshing, laughing and scolding, but full of philosophy of life.
Yue Jin suddenly said to Xiao Peng with great interest: "Brother Xiao, do you know that there are a few Qing people in Cuiyan Pavilion who are going to choose an Oiran tonight, are you interested in joining in the fun?"
"Oh?" Xiao Peng came to be interested, he knew this Cuiyan Pavilion, he often heard these guys mention that it was the top fireworks place in Jiaxing, and most of the girls in it were excellent at color and art, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they were all good at it.
Cuiyan Pavilion is not a pure brothel, in fact, many people confuse the Qinglou with a brothel, prostitutes are divided into geisha and prostitutes, geisha as the name suggests, is a prostitute, not a prostitute.
Geisha are more like singers or dancers in modern nightclubs, but geisha will also work part-time to accompany alcohol, but that's all, of course, it's not so absolute, sometimes geisha meet their favorite benefactor, and they don't mind having a spring breeze with them.
"In this way, I'm going to see it in the next place, thank you Brother Yue for telling me the news, go to Cuiyan Pavilion tonight, all the expenses are counted as Xiao, hehe. ”
"Haha, in this way, our brothers will be disrespectful. ”
"That is, Brother Xiao's family has a lot of money, but he is not stingy, quite like the style of Meng in ancient times!"
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In the evening, Xiao Peng and Yue Ji and two other friends went to the Cuiyan Pavilion together, only to see tonight's Cuiyan Pavilion is lit up, like a festival, as soon as Yue Jin and a few people arrived at the door, there was immediately a familiar old mother came forward to greet him, it seems that these guys are also frequent visitors here.
But Xiao Peng doesn't care, people often say that they are romantic, but how many of the ancient talents are not romantic?
Cuiyan Pavilion is very large, even bigger than the watery years in Xiaoao, after all, Huayin City is just a county seat, Jiaxing is a mansion, and the specifications of this green building are naturally different.
Cuiyan Pavilion originally had many wings, but no one entered the wings tonight, all gathered in the hall, when Xiao Peng and they arrived, there were no vacant seats, and finally there was a table of guests who recognized Yue Jin's group, it was the Jiaxing Gentleman circle, the topmost group of young masters, in the purpose of flattery, took the initiative to give up the table.
Xiao Peng glanced at it, and most of the people present were some literati, gentry, wealthy businessmen and high-rollers, among which most of them were literati.
Some of them, like Xiao Peng, are martial arts people who play life and laugh proudly, and most of the others are still interested in confidants and scholars who enjoy the warm fragrance of nephrite.
Xiao Peng swept around, then stopped paying attention, just drank the wine on the table with Yue Ji and a few others.
After half an hour, the selection of the Oiran finally began, the pink gauze tent was put down, and the four graceful figures behind the tent loomed, causing people to reverie infinitely, and the waitress began to walk forward with a plate to sell paper flowers.
Xiao Peng turned his head to Yue Jin suspiciously, and asked, "Brother Yue, what is this for?"
"Brother Xiao, these paper flowers are the tools used to choose the Oiran, one or two silver can buy ten, when the time comes, the beauties who run for the Oiran will come forward one by one, which Oiran you prefer, just throw the paper flowers on her, and finally according to the number of paper flowers obtained, to determine who is the Oiran. Yue Jin patiently explained to Xiao Peng.
"Oh! I see. Xiao Peng nodded, indicating that he understood, and when the waiter arrived at Xiao Peng's table with the plate, Yue Ji and the others all looked at Xiao Peng with blank eyes.
Xiao Peng smiled slightly, put his hand into his arms, and when he took it out again, he already had an extra gold bar in his hand, and the gold bar was a whole catty, that is, sixteen taels, which was equal to one hundred and sixty taels of silver.
"This is sixteen taels of gold, you can buy 1,600 flowers, you can take the flowers!"
"......" Yue Ji and the others were stunned, and the guests around them all looked at Xiao Peng speechlessly, Nima, you buy so much, then who is the Oiran is basically up to you, let's play a fart!
This is the same as in modern times, if the contestants of those talent shows have a rich and powerful background, then the so-called popular vote can be completely controlled, and whoever wants to be in the position will be in the position.
However, their eyes are red, but they will not be stupid enough to go toe-to-toe with Xiao Peng on this, one hundred and sixty taels, that is almost the expenses of an ordinary family for a few years, no matter how rich they are, it is not such a flower!
There are also those who are more bold, they bought a hundred flowers at a time, and they were proud there, but as soon as Xiao Peng's words came out, those people were all dumbfounded, what is a high roller?
The waiter was dumbfounded, and Nuo Nuo said, "Male...... Childe, we don't have that many flowers, why don't you buy less?"
As soon as the old mother next to her heard the waiter's words, her eyes suddenly turned green, and she hurriedly waved the handkerchief in her hand and stepped forward, "You little hoof, what stupid things are you talking about?
After reprimanding the waiter, the old mother looked at Xiao Peng with a flattering smile, "Son, it's true that we are not well prepared today, but it doesn't matter, we can just treat it as Childe, you bought 1,600 flowers, how many flowers do you want to give to whom, just say it, we will write it down, do you think this is okay?"
"Hehe, I didn't see that you have a lot of brains!" Xiao Peng glanced at her in surprise and said, "Let's do it!" Brother, let's say okay, 1,600 flowers, let's have 400 each." ”
"Haha, Brother Xiao is really arrogant enough. ”
"Then let's touch Brother Xiao's light today!"
"Hahahaha......"