Chastity Layman

  Chapter 16 Merry Yabuzawa Heiyasubo

  The sun sets.

  Marquis Wu rode his horse to and from the square gates of the various streets in Chang'an. He ordered the gates of the city gates to be closed and the streets banned.

  Pedestrians on the street began to rush on their way. In Yongda Fang Chang'an County Prison, Qin Lang led a few people out, "Let's go, Pingkang Fang Nanqu, you won't go home if you don't get drunk tonight!"

  Wei Chang and Zhao An nodded with a smile.

  There are three east-west alleys in the east of Beimenli Street in Pingkangfang. The south is Nanqu, the middle is Zhongqu, and the north is close to the square wall is Beiqu. These are the famous Sanqu in Chang'an.

  Pingkangfang is a place where prostitutes live together. Among them, all the famous prostitutes are concentrated in Nanqu and Zhongqu, while the one next to the wall is only the residence of lowly prostitutes.

   Liu Jiu, dressed in soap clothes, pretended to be Qin Lang's white guard and followed behind.

  Qin Lang was dressed in a green official robe, and Wei Chang and others in soap robes walked through the streets and alleys along the way, but no Marquis Wu came to stop him from asking.

In fact, although Marquis Wu has issued an order on the street to close the gate, in fact the city gate is actually closed only by distinguishing the color. .

  Once the city gate and square gate are completely closed, all pedestrians will be prohibited on the streets outside the city and square, and those who violate it will be punished.

  Qin Lang deliberately made a detour to Yong'an Square first, and went back to call the old horse head Ah Huang. When he passed the Fangjiao street shop, he deliberately walked into the street shop.

   "County Qin?" Old Zhang hurriedly greeted Qin Lang when he saw him.

   "Captain Zhang is handing over?"

  Lao Zhang nodded, today was a bit unusual, he made a false alarm, and finally got acquainted with Yi Guogong’s son Chang’an County Captain, and got a few taels of gold and silver.

  In general, the harvest is not bad.

"Captain Zhang, I just took office today, and I just left the office. I'm making an appointment with Wei Shuai, Captain Zhao, and Li Facao. I'm going to Pingkangfang Nanqu for a drink. I passed by you, and I remembered that you should also take over. I’ll come over and call you to go with me.”

Hearing that he was going to Pingkangfang Nanqu for a drink, Lao Zhang was a little moved. It was a place where famous prostitutes gathered, a place that he would not even dare to enter on weekdays. He just went to Beiqu occasionally to find a good-looking prostitute's house for a drink.

   "Could it be that Team Zhang is still afraid of being blamed by his wife?"

  Old Zhang laughed, "The mother-in-law doesn't care about men's affairs, I'm just afraid of disturbing you, County Captain Qin."

"If there's anything to disturb or not to disturb, it has to be lively when drinking. And didn't you say before that Wei Shuai would invite you to drink? It's better to hit the sun than to choose a day. Just today, it's Pingkangfang Nanqu, and we'll have more later Let Wei Shuai choose a young and beautiful lady to accompany you to drink."

  Lao Zhang was very moved, and immediately agreed with half a push.

   "Does Captain Zhang know any Wuhou brothers who are close friends? Let's call together and have fun." Qin Lang said with a smile.

"There are a few brothers." Lao Zhang thought for a while, but he still couldn't match Qin Lang's enthusiasm, so he finally called several subordinates who had a good relationship with him on weekdays. Long these Wuhou junior officers.

  Everyone heard that they went to Pingkangfang Nanqu to drink flower wine, and everyone howled like wolves.

Although the soldiers in the early Tang Dynasty were all from small landlords or self-cultivated farmers, and their family conditions were good, but this is only good compared to those ordinary people. Wherever you can go, you can only listen to other people's bragging.

  I am very happy to have the opportunity to meet him, and what is even more rare is that I can also take this opportunity to get to know the son of Duke Xia Yi and the new county captain of Chang'an.

  Therefore, Zhang Cheng, the head of the Wuhou team, followed Qin Lang with seven or eight officers under his command, and everyone went happily to Pingkangfang.

The Marquis along the road saw this scene and greeted Lao Zhang, so Lao Zhang said proudly to everyone he met, saying that Chang'an County Captain took up his new post today, and invited him to Pingkang Fang for a drink together, and always Special emphasis is on going to Nanqu.

   This scene aroused the envy of many Marquis Wu.

  Qin Lang also simply said to Lao Zhang, if there are those Marquis who are more familiar but not on duty, he should simply invite them to go with him.

  So when the team came to the north of Pingkangfang, there were already more than a dozen Marquis Wu.

  Front door, Fangzheng and Marquis Wu are closing the door, the door is already half closed.

  Seeing Qin Lang in a green robe coming, and the familiar face of Wei Scar, Fangzheng thought they were here to handle the case.

   "Wei Shuai, this is the East Street under the jurisdiction of Wannian County, and it will be dark again, and the gate of the square will be closed immediately. I don't know what happened?"

   "Wang Fangzheng, this is our newly appointed Chang'an County Captain. It's not official business to bring the brothers over for a drink."

  Fangzheng listened, but he was relieved. He was afraid that he would be doing some business at this time, and the reception was either not or not. After all, this is the territory of Wannian County.

  Qin Lang also greeted Fang Zheng, and invited him to have a drink or two. Fang Zheng said that he was still on business, so it was inconvenient to go, but he said he would close the door after a while, and he would go over to toast.

  Enter Pingkangfang, and to the east is Sanqu where prostitutes live.

  In fact, Pingkangfang is very large, and Sanqu, where prostitutes live, only accounts for one-sixteenth of Pingkangfang. In the west of the square, there are Li Jing, the general manager of Lingzhou, Zheng Xuanli, the minister of the sect, the Minister of the Minbu, Dali Qing, Zheng Shanguo, the prince Zuo Shuzi, and other relatives.

  There are about a dozen families of high-ranking officials and nobles living in the square, and another hundred or so families of ordinary people.

   "Wei Shuai, is there a familiar yard?"

  Wei Chang smiled and said, "When it comes to acquaintances, then Jiulang is the one we know best here. He used to be a frequent visitor here."

  Liu Jiu had a big beard on his face and made some disguises, which was a little different from his original appearance. He stood on Fangnei Street and looked at the buildings in front of Sanqu, his eyes were full of memories and emotions.

   As a former Chang'an hero, he has been in Pingkang for a long time, and he often treats guests and drinks here. He is really familiar with this place.

   There used to be a lot of responses, and the Chang'an heroes gathered behind him, but now when I come back, it is already a bit strange.

"Unexpectedly, Shaofu is not familiar with this place, which is surprising. The prostitutes in Pingkangfang live together in Sanqu, and Nanqu's are all excellent prostitutes. They are all young and beautiful, and they have special skills. Everything is available, so the people who come and go are officials, scholars, princes and nobles, and they are often called to play piano and sing songs at the residence of nobles and relatives. These girls are all named, and each of them is followed by a dozen or even There are hundreds of people waiting on them, and there is also a special music class, often one person is a courtyard or a pavilion, these Nanqu courtesans are all named after courtyard pavilions, etc., the key is that they only sell art and not stretch."

"The middle ones are a bit worse. Most of them come from the teaching workshop. The girls are outstanding in skills, but as long as they have money, they can also dress up and entertain guests. The northern ones are different. The people who come and go there are ordinary people. Common people, even traffickers and pawns, poor students who came to Beijing, or low-level selected people, and girls are also some escaped households or some low-level slaves, etc., they are also older, less beautiful, and even have a large turnover of people. They change frequently, even their names are mixed up casually, and they are generally not looked down upon by officials, and if an official like you goes, the old bustard is also afraid, and she is not very good at receiving them, for fear of causing trouble and not being able to deal with it."

  Qin Lang nodded, it seems that any era is actually similar.

  Aren’t Nanqu’s high-end courtesans, those female stars who are sought after by others and have a high status. The middle song is estimated to be equivalent to the peripheral 18th-line stars or club young models, as for the northern song, it is the ones in ordinary foot saunas.

   "We have a lot of people, so we can rent a yard directly." Liu Jiu suggested.

   "Then you just pick one." Qin Lang is indeed not familiar with this place, although he doesn't know if the previous Qin Lang has been here before, and if he has any familiar girls.

   "Then Zhangtai Pavilion." Liu Jiu thought for a while, and finally said a name.

  The group of people followed Liu Jiu directly to the Zhangtai Pavilion. The prostitutes in Pingkangfang not only have the three major categories of Southern Song, Middle Song and Northern Song, but also have more detailed classifications.

  Generally speaking, the one named after the museum has the highest level, the girls in it are also the most popular, and the consumption is also high. Then there are pavilions and courtyards, these are all famous tricks.

   Further down are rooms, classes, and buildings.

   Further down is the shop, the lower place and so on.

  Qin Lang intends to take the opportunity to win over people, and he has gold in his hands, so he is naturally picky. Anyway, he is here today just to drink and bond, not really looking for a girl.

   At this time, behind Qin Lang, there were already more than thirty people. There were bad people, jailers, and Marquis Wu, but everyone wore military robes or black uniforms, and only Qin Lang wore official robes.

  Walk like a group of them on the streets of Nanqu, but there are not many old bustards at the gates of the pavilions on both sides who come out directly to solicit customers.

   Zhangtai Pavilion.

   A group of people came to the door, but Mr. Gui didn't go in to welcome them, but rather disliked such a person.

  After all, it seems that they should go to those small shops in Beiqu near the square wall.

  Qin Lang nodded to Lao Huang.

  The old horse stepped forward immediately, and directly took out a gold collar with an ingot of twelve taels.

   "Tonight, my family, Alang, has reserved the Zhangtai Pavilion."

  As soon as the ten taels of gold came out, the turtle man couldn't help but widen his eyes. Now that gold is expensive, it can be worth 200,000 yuan.

  Grand Turtle swallowed, "I don't know your master's name?"

  Although gold is dazzling, Mr. Gui of Zhangtai Pavilion doesn’t want to smash his own signboard. His own red girl, Youwei, often walks in the noble family of Gongqing. How can a small official in green robe receive him?

   "Open your dog eyes and see clearly, my family, Alang, is the new Chang'an County Captain"

  Grand Turtle sized Qin Lang up a few times when he heard it, and said with a smile on his face, "Oh, it turned out to be the Chang'an county lieutenant. He brought so many people here. Is he here on business?"

  He simply ignored stepping on a small county lieutenant.

  Liu Jiu took a few steps forward, pulled Mr. Gui past him, and whispered something in his ear.

  The turtle man stared at Liu Jiu with his eyes wide open as if he had seen a ghost, and it took him a long time to wake up.

   "Why, you're not welcome?" Liu Jiu asked.

  Grand Turtle looked at Liu Jiu, then at Qin Lang, and finally at Wei Chang, Zhang Cheng and the others, gritted his teeth, "Please come in."

  (end of this chapter)