Late Tang

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A group of Yingying and Yanyan laughed like silver bells, and poured into the banquet hall like a group of flowers and butterflies.The hall, which was filled with the aroma of wine and meat, all kinds of dirty jokes and the smell of men's sweat, suddenly changed the atmosphere.

In the hall, dozens of people gathered, and most of the officers from the eight towns and three tribes who had reached the fifth rank or above had arrived.

Zheng Congxuan was at the top as the envoy, and the two deputy envoys, Yu Juan and Li Jing, sat on the left and right.The other generals are ranked according to their ranks. Just now, everyone was eating and drinking happily, and suddenly such a group of young and beautiful women poured in, and the momentum suddenly became more enthusiastic.

As soon as this group of women came in, they walked up to the generals and sat down very eagerly and familiarly.Sitting there, Li Jing was surprised when a fair-skinned beauty with a fresh and refined face and a slight smile came in front of Li Jing.

A scent penetrated straight into his nose, which made Li Jing's nose, which had just been devastated by all kinds of sweaty and dirty smells, immediately refreshed a lot.Li Jing involuntarily closed her eyes and took a long, deep breath, the fragrance of ambergris was mixed with the fragrance of plum blossoms.Originally, these two scents were mixed, which was a big loss, but for some reason, the two scents on this woman's body now mix very well, and they don't conflict.

Suddenly there was a burst of laughter, Li Jing opened his eyes and saw that he had just closed his eyes and smelled the fragrance, and he had unknowingly smelled his nose on the two towering lotus chambers of the beautiful woman, attracting a group of generals big laugh.Li Jing also couldn't help chuckling, and when she looked up, she saw that beautiful woman's face was slightly red, and there was a look of anger in her eyes, which made her feel different.Compared with other Yingying and Yanyan women, this obviously slightly jerky woman has a special flavor.

"Brother Zhen Guo is really young and energetic. He has only been away from home for half a year, and he has already reached such a state of hunger." Tuoba Sigong is obviously older than Li Jing, but he just calls Li Jing " bro.Because of his change to Zheng Congxun's command earlier, Tuoba Sigong always felt that he was a little rude to Li Jing, so he often avoided it when he was in Hedong.This time we came to Chang'an together, and along the way, we were quite shocked by Li Jing's Zhen [***].Especially as he got closer to Chang'an, he heard that even the emperor liked Li Jing very much, so he began to take the initiative to approach him again, lowering his status and calling Li Jing his brother, all in the hope of resolving the somewhat stiff relationship between the two.

Li Jing's attitude made him a little puzzled, Li Jing didn't obviously reject this, but he didn't get closer to the relationship between the two of them, which made him a little confused.

At first, Li Jing was a little embarrassed. After all, the status of the people present here was not low. They were all officials from the fifth rank and above. They were either a town commander or a general of the army. Besides, Li Jing was not too good here at the foot of the capital.But when he looked up, he found that not only Helianduo, Tuoba Sigong and other Hu Renfan commanders were hugging left and right, laughing again and again, and looked like a silver pig.

Even Da Cui Anqian, Zheng Congxuan, and Yu Jian, who he regarded as role models for Chinese ministers, were the same.Cui Anqian even hugged four, Zheng Congxuan hugged five, and even Yu Jin hugged three.

Seeing their intoxicated appearance, Li Jing was very surprised.

Seeing Li Jing's strange expression, the beauty beside her whispered, "Why is the commander so surprised?"

"Shouldn't I be surprised?" Li Jing asked back.

The woman smiled sweetly.

"People in the Tang Dynasty favor literature and sex", and sex is a trend!From emperors and generals down to literati, they are not repulsed but envious of Xun Ji.Didn't you hear that Bai Juyi went out to guard Hangzhou from Zhongshu Sheren for the first and last five years, and said to himself: "I have traveled all over the rivers and mountains in the two places, and the wind and moon chants will be disabled in five years." "

"This should be considered a special case!" Li Jing said.He had indeed seen that the Tang Dynasty was very open in this respect before, but he did not expect to be open to this extent.

On the contrary, Murong Xue looked at Li Jing with some strangeness. The Li Jing in front of her didn't have the slightest appearance of a legendary warrior on the battlefield. Instead, she had the youthful appearance of a rural scholar who had just entered the capital.The originally tense mood in my heart was relaxed at this moment, and I even let go of the task in my heart for a while, and said with a light smile: "This is not a special case. Yuan Zhen, who is as famous as Bai Juyi, was once a prime minister. Aiming for entertainment and travel, a little unkempt, known as profanity." Yuan and Bai have a deep friendship, and sometimes they exchange diners and flirt with each other. For example, when Bai Juyi was appointed as the governor of Hangzhou, he asked Yuan Zhen to invite Shang Ling, a Hangzhou song diary. Going to Yuezhou, they had sex for more than a month before returning them. The prostitution of officials in this dynasty is so prosperous, and the court has no prohibition."

Li Jing became interested in this matter for a while, and in order to resolve the little embarrassment just now, she took the initiative to chat with this obviously special woman.After Murong Xue explained it to Li Jing, he learned that there was no regulation prohibiting officials from being prostitutes in the laws and regulations of the Tang Dynasty. Not only that, some officials even institutionalized sex records.For example, after the announcement of Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty, there was an activity called "Traveling Flowers", that is, to choose two handsome young scholars from the same discipline, and let them ride around the famous gardens near Qujiang or around Chang'an to pick famous flowers. The two are Tanhua Envoys of the Two Streets, also known as Tanhualang.This is the so-called "the spring breeze is proud and the horseshoe is in a hurry, and you can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day".There are usually girls at the flower banquet to add to the fun.There was a Jinshi in this dynasty who became a "Tanhualang" in the list, and the daughter-in-law who had a good relationship with him "sent congratulations with Liaoling's hand and silk", and wrote a Qilu song "Unpacking the small-character envelope of Liaoling, and the Tanhua Banquet will be shown in Chuncong Dai. The eyebrows are slightly green, and the mouth of the sandalwood is thinly red."

The flourishing of sex records in the Tang Dynasty even affected many areas of social life. An interesting phenomenon appeared in many murals and statues in the Tang Dynasty: solemn and solemn bodhisattvas and fairies, each with beautiful appearance, plump body, red lips and clean teeth, and looking forward , and even appeared half-naked.According to "Jingluo Temple Pagoda Records", it is confirmed that the Brahma girl in the murals of Baoying Temple in the Tang Dynasty is a portrait of a daughter of a noble family.Some dancing and music Bodhisattvas in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang are actually images of Kabuki.

In view of this prosperous atmosphere, the literati living in the Tang Dynasty were consciously or unconsciously aroused their subconscious minds, which made the literati’s love affairs constantly recognized by the society, and even regarded as a kind of romantic affair, which was Some people who follow the trend follow blindly.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the style of officials and nobles became more and more luxurious, so sex records became more and more popular.

Not only private records, but also official records, and even military records.And there are several kinds of girls, for example, there are meat sellers, which are relatively lowly, and they are only patronized by traffickers, and there are some girls who are performers. They all have skills, such as singing, dancing, or musical instruments. , and even mastered everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.This kind of female recorder is very high-level, and is usually invited to come when officials and scholars gather.

These record girls are equivalent to the Ming Dynasty and public relations of later generations, relying not on flesh and blood but on various skills.

And Xu Fu's aristocratic family has private records of raising and raising, family records.Even in the emperor's court, there are a large number of court singing and dancing girls.

Those who came today belonged to high-level geisha, not the geisha as Li Jing understood it literally.According to Murong, there are 3 female records in Chang'an City, of which more than [-] people gathered in the palace, and the most famous one in Chang'an is Pingkang Fang, which has about [-] various female records. Adding up the low-level prostitutes, Chang'an, a metropolis with more than one million people, has one hundred thousand prostitutes.

Li Jing who was listening couldn't stop talking, looking at the beauty in front of her, Li Jing asked with a smile: "Is the girl also a geisha?"

Murong Xue nodded.

"Then what skills are you good at?"

"Qingqi, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing, even fencing, riding and archery, polo, cuba, everything!" Murong Xue said directly.She wasn't lying, she really knew all of these things, and she was very proficient.As a female assassin of Lijingmen, these are all necessary.In addition to this, she can even refine poison, dispense medicine, heal wounds, make traps, forge weapons and so on.

Li Jing looked at the beauty in front of him who was obviously a few years younger than her in a little surprise, and he directly grabbed her hands, those hands were as pale as scallions, with slender fingers.But as soon as she held these hands, Li Jing believed her words a little bit, because her hands did have calluses like those of martial arts practitioners.

"Awesome!" Li Jing couldn't help but praised.Murong Xue felt subconsciously unnatural when Li Jing held her hands.For an assassin, if his hands are held by others, it means that his life and death are also held by others.But she couldn't show it, so she could only suppress the restlessness in her heart and let Li Jing hold it.But Li Jing's hands were so hot, the place where they were being held felt hot for bursts, the more he thought about it, the more itchy his hands became.

However, in Li Jing's eyes, her appearance was shy and youthful, and she couldn't help laughing.

"What, is this the first time out?"

"Yes." Murong Xue replied, apart from training and killing people, this was indeed the first time she participated in a banquet, and it was this kind of banquet.It was the first time to be so close to a man, and his hands were still held in his hands, and he felt the heat of his hands all the time.

"Could it be that you are still a virgin?" Li Jing was a little surprised. Later generations said that virgins can only be found in kindergartens.But now seeing a prostitute who might be a virgin, Li Jing couldn't help being surprised.It's not that he's a virgin or something, it's just that he was surprised by Qinglian, who is not stained with mud, although maybe this is just a way of doing business in this industry.

Murong Xue felt that she could no longer be calm, she found that her heartbeat started to speed up and her face became hot.A burst of confusion and panic climbed into her heart for the first time. She was able to break into the bandit's stronghold alone and take the head of the bandit leader.Why do I feel this way now?

Seeing her nodding slightly, Li Jing felt very interesting.

With the addition of this group of high-level courtesans brought by Chen Duo, the banquet arrived very late in the sound of joy without knowing it.

Zheng Congxuan and the others all got up, and the banquet was considered to be over.

Li Jing also got up, ready to reward this beauty who made him relax all night, but when he took out his body, he found that he didn't bring any money.At the moment of embarrassment, Chen Duo appeared and said flatteringly, "Looking at the commander-in-chief's constant laughter just now, it seems that he is still very satisfied with Miss Murong?"

Li Jing nodded, and Chen Duo immediately hit the snake with the stick, "Since this is the case, it is also Miss Murong's blessing, why not let the subordinates decide and send Miss Murong to the commander to make a bed and warm the quilt."

Li Jing was a little surprised, and wanted to refuse at first, but when he lowered his head, he saw Murong Xue's black eyes with a hint of expectation. After pondering for a moment, he couldn't help but nodded.It was really because of the previous conversation that Li Jing knew that it was too common in the Tang Dynasty to give female diaries as gifts.Moreover, to be honest, this woman really surprised Li Jing, and what was even more rare was that the two of them could talk so much while sitting together.

"Marshal, it's getting late, since Miss Murong has been accepted, why not just rest in this manor for a night tonight, just let Miss Murong serve the Marshal." Chen Duo suggested with a smile.

Looking at Murong Xue, Li Jing thought about it, and this is true.In the military camp, it is not convenient to bring a woman back.Besides, he also drank a lot of wine tonight, so he didn't bother to go back at this time, anyway, he brought quite a few guards here tonight.

"Then trouble brother Chen."

"No trouble, no trouble." Chen Duo couldn't hide his excitement and ecstasy, and replied repeatedly. (To be continued.)