Traveling across the heavens starting from the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 19 Forty Thousand Guans of Silver

After drinking Wanhualou’s secret tonic soup.

My whole body is filled with warmth.

My body feels much better and I have regained some of my strength.

It's almost time to see you.

It's time to get down to business.

Li Huaian patted Su Ruoqiu in his arms, stood up and said, "Okay, I've finished the soup. I'm going to go find the madam and talk about the money to redeem your life."

"Slave, wait for Li Lang."

Su Ruoqiu is slightly blessed.

Li Huaian smiled and hooked her chin, lowered his head and kissed her.

"Wait for me."

"kindness."

After speaking, Li Huaian turned around and left, going to find the Madam of Wanhua House.

At this time.

Su Ruoqiu spoke again: "Li Lang, I also have some money here. If the ransom money is too much, I can also help myself."

"Li Lang can use these coins of mine."

"Taohua, go get my box quickly."

talking.

He quickly ordered Taohua, the maid next to him, to get the money.

This action seems to be sincere.

Su Ruoqiu wanted to take out her private money and hand it over to Li Huaian, so that she could find the madam from Wanhua House to buy her deed of sale.

For her, even though the deed of sale was just a thin piece of paper, she needed to pay a very high price to buy it.

Even if you become an oiran and want to save enough money to redeem yourself by yourself, it will take more than ten years to save it.

I was so afraid that my lover became timid when faced with the price.

Let her dreams shatter.

So she wanted to express her attitude to Li Huaian through this behavior.

The attitude of wanting to leave Wanhua Tower with her lover.

Li Huaian stopped, turned around and asked, "Do you still have private money?"

Somewhat puzzled.

Shouldn't the oiran not have to receive guests before leaving the court?

This was also verified last night.

White snow reflects red plum blossoms.

Perhaps because she was afraid that her lover would misunderstand, Su Ruoqiu explained: "These coins are saved by the slave in daily life. They are some rouge and gouache given by the building, and they are money for living expenses."

"Now I have saved more than ten thousand coins."

Taohua, the maid next to her, also started to help.

"Li Langjun, please don't misunderstand me. All the private money my lady has is money saved by my lady from the expenses provided by the building."

"The lady is naturally beautiful. She rarely uses rouge and gouache. She doesn't have many demands in life. The building takes care of everything, so the money given by the building is gradually saved."

"Miss's money was all saved bit by bit by watching her when I was with her."

It's clear.

Li Huaian shook his head and said, "No need, just keep this little money for yourself."

"As long as I'm here from now on, there's no need to save yourself this much."

"I'm not short of money."

The coercive attitude cannot be refuted.

In the world of the Tang Dynasty, he cannot yet guarantee that he can become the God of Wealth in the world.

But in the future, maybe.

With only more than ten ounces of silver, there was no need to take it out.

Moreover.

How can you let people pay part of the money to buy Su Ruoqiu?

To do so would be a bit too stingy and fussy.

After all, he is still a bit chauvinistic at heart.

After refuting Su Ruoqiu's idea of ​​paying some of the money.

Li Huaian looked at the maid Tao Hua. She looked like a beauty, and she was very protective of her master just now.

Whether it's his appearance or his behavior just now.

It all made him feel that this maid was very good.

Then he looked at Su Ruoqiu.

"How about I redeem this maid as well? When we leave Wanhua Tower, you will have a companion, so that you won't have no one to talk to and serve you."

"Your name is Taohua?"

"Are you willing to let me redeem your life?"

"Miss?"

The maid Taohua looked delighted and looked at Su Ruoqiu in disbelief, wanting to know if this was true.

As a maid in Wanhua House, she never expected to leave the brothel one day.

Unexpectedly, I could leave with my young lady.

This was naturally hard for her to believe.

Someone is willing to redeem her life.

Hearing that Li Huaian also wanted to redeem his maid Tao Hua, Su Ruoqiu was naturally moved and nodded quickly: "It's good that Lang Jun can redeem Tao Hua. I will thank Lang Jun for Tao Hua."

talking room.

I made a thank-you gift to my lover.

Subsequently.

Looking at the maid Tao Hua, she started to confide.

"The slave and Taohua have been together since childhood, supporting each other. Although they are masters and servants, they have already become sisters. Even if the husband does not mention it, after a while, the slave will plead with the building and use my private money to help. Peach blossom redeems one’s life.”

The words show the friendship between the two people since childhood.

"Well, I'll redeem you and Taohua together."

After Li Huaian said that, he opened the door and left Su Ruoqiu's boudoir.

Behind me came the sound of the maid Taohua kneeling down in the room to express her gratitude.

"Thank you, Mr. Peach Blossom, and thank you, Miss."

Seeing this, Su Ruoqiu on the side quickly stepped forward to help her up and said: "Taohua, get up quickly, clean up with me, wash me up, go get the dress I made myself that I put under the box, and leave Wanwan in a while. When I went to the flower house, I wanted to walk out clean, wearing only the dress I made myself, and leaving with the small box I came with."

We are about to leave Wanhua Tower.

After going out.

She is no longer a brothel girl.

So she wanted to wash up, no longer have any traces of the brothel girl's dress on her body, repaint her eyebrows, be spotless from head to toe, and no longer look like an oiran.

How it came.

It's the same thing when you leave.

Don't take away anything that belongs to Wanhua Tower.

The maid Taohua understood what her young lady meant and quickly stood up and said: "Okay young lady, I will go and prepare the washing utensils and get the young lady's clothes."

Wait for the maid Taohua to prepare.

Su Ruoqiu, who stayed in the boudoir, was very excited, snickering from time to time, and couldn't help but walk back and forth in the room, her footsteps cheerful and relaxed, like a flying bird.

I can’t help but fantasize about what the sky looks like.

"Brother Li."

Hear the call.

Li Huaian, who was going to find the Madam of Wanhualou, followed the sound.

Only to find out it was Cui Yu.

It's almost noon.

The hustle and bustle of last night has long gone in the Wanhua Building. Most of the guests in the building have left. The remaining ones are probably some rich young men with nothing to do. They don’t need to worry about the future and can freely hang out in the flower building. pastime.

I thought that the friend named Cui Yu whom I met last night had already left Wanhua Building with the other guests.

did not expect.

This guy is still here.So Li Huaian stopped, waited for a moment, and asked, "Brother Cui, are you not leaving yet?"

"How could I, Mr. Cui, leave without waiting for Brother Li?"

Cui Yu took two steps and came to Li Huaian, laughing in a low voice: "Brother Li, last night was beautiful, but I enjoyed it so much. Being in the company of a beautiful woman must be as happy as a god. Cui is really envious."

"You didn't find anyone to accompany you last night?" Li Huaian didn't answer, but asked the other party.

Cui Yu shook her head and disagreed: "Miss Su is a courtesan. How can the beauty who accompanied me last night be compared to her? It cannot be compared to her. She cannot be compared to her."

Li Huaian agreed with this.

However, even if it is not comparable, he will not be allowed to tell the guy in front of him what happened last night. Men are different from women. Men never talk about private matters with their women among men.

This is something that cannot be said.

In this regard.

Cui Yu didn't bother and asked. Instead, he saw that the direction Li Huaian wanted to go was not leaving Wanhua Tower, and he was curious: "Cui just saw the direction that Brother Li was going. It didn't look like he was leaving Wanhua Tower. Brother, is there something wrong?"

"I?"

"It's nothing. I just want to find the Madam of Wanhua House and redeem Su Ruoqiu's life."

Li Huaian didn't want to hide his intention to redeem Su Ruoqiu's life, so he told Cui Yu directly.

Besides, there's nothing to hide about this.

Wait until the redemption is completed.

When outsiders come to Wanhua Tower again, they will naturally know that someone redeemed Su Ruoqiu's life.

Maybe the folks can even make up a story.

"Redemption?"

Cui Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said with admiration: "It seems that Brother Li is really stuck in Miss Su's gentle land and can't get out. He actually dotes on Miss Su so much that he wants to redeem his life and hide Miss Su in just one night." In your own pocket."

"Brother Li is really a role model for our generation, and Cui admires him."

"Unlike Cui, when he meets a beauty he likes, he is short of money and does not have the strength to redeem her, so he can only spend some money to guard her in a brothel."

"Ugh."

Talking about himself, he began to sigh.

Sigh.

Cui Yu then said to Li Huaian: "Let's go, Cui and Brother Li go to find the madam at Wanhualou, so that Brother Li won't be tricked by the madam when he negotiates the price alone."

"This is also good."

Li Huaian didn't hesitate much and agreed to go with Cui Yu.

Anyway.

There is someone who understands brothels.

After a while, I started negotiating with the madam of Wanhua House, but I didn't know anything about it and didn't know how to proceed.

"Why are you two gentlemen here? There are no beauties and no good wine here. I am still an old and beautiful woman, but I can't accompany you two gentlemen."

When the old bustard saw Li Huaian and Cui Yu coming to the door, he quickly stood up to greet them, saying words of self-pity.

"Old Madam, stop talking nonsense. Brother Li and I are not here to keep you company. You don't look at yourself in the mirror. Are you worthy of accompanying me and Brother Li?"

As soon as he entered the door, Cui Yu seemed to be a different person. He looked like a playboy. Without waiting for anyone to tell him, he sat down on the chair in the room and cursed the madam who greeted him with a smile.

This scene really shocked Li Huaian, and he was a little unable to react. He almost didn't dare to admit that the Cui Yu in front of him was the literati Cui Yu he knew.

Now he is showing a bit of a gangster spirit.

Don't hesitate.

Say.

For Li Huaian, the madam in front of him was not bad in appearance or figure. For a modern person, this is when a woman becomes mature.

Maybe for the ancients, it was old.

For him, she is the big sister type.

but.

The Madam didn't feel any dissatisfaction with Cui Yu's insults, but instead smiled even happier.

"What Cui Langjun said is that the Nu family is old and young and cannot be judged by the two Langjuns. The Nu family apologizes to the two Langjuns here and asks the two Langjuns not to be offended."

"okay."

Cui Yu waved her hand, picked up the grapes on the table, picked one and ate it. It felt good, and she handed it to Li Huaian who was sitting next to her.

"Brother Li, try these grapes. The grapes that the old bustard kept for himself are of good quality, better than those given to the guests. He must be hiding something secret."

When Li Huaian took the grapes and tasted one, he immediately became concerned about the quality of the grapes.

"How about it?"

"not bad."

Li Huaian nodded, agreeing with the taste of grapes in his mouth, but also said: "However, I have better ones there. If I have a chance in the future, I can give them to you to try."

Although these grapes are good, compared with fruits in modern society, the quality is much worse. Whether it is sweetness, size, or freshness, Datang's grapes cannot be compared with fruits in real society with technology. .

Even with technology and hard work.

This is also an irreparable gap in ancient times.

"That's for sure."

Cui Yu smiled and didn't care.

In his opinion, Wanhualou's grapes are already very good. No matter how good they are, how much better can they be? The reason why I mentioned grapes just now is just as an excuse.

Let’s transition to the next thing.

"You two gentlemen, you have also eaten these grapes. Can you tell me why the two gentlemen came to my house?"

Seeing that Cui Yu and Li Huaian were quiet, the old bustard quickly asked about their background.

"why?"

Cui Yu pointed at Li Huaian and said: "Are you blind? This Li Langjun was the top winner in your Wanhua Tower Oiran Competition last night. You have just been given so much time, but you still can't guess the purpose of our coming?"

"Ouch."

"It turns out to be Li Langjun, the slave's fault."

"Li Langjun's poem last night really enhanced the beauty of the Nu family's flower house. The Nu family would like to thank Lang Jun here."

Hearing this, the old bustard quickly turned to Li Huaian, apologized, and slapped himself on the mouth, and then asked: "Li Langjun, what was wrong with my oiran's service last night? Please forgive me, sir. I will go to my house later." Ruoqiu’s boudoir teaches her a lesson to vent her anger on Mr. Lang.”

"What do you say?"

Before Li Huaian could answer, Cui Yu became anxious and threw a grape out, hitting the madam.

"There's nothing wrong with Miss Su. It's me, Brother Li, who has fallen in love with Miss Su and wants to redeem her. I'll let you, the old madam, tell me a price. I just don't know if you, the old madam, will let her go."

"Not just Su Ruoqiu, but also the maid Taohua beside her."

Li Huaian did not forget his promise to his maid Taohua.

"Yes, and the maid next to Miss Su."

Cui Yu smiled at Li Huaian and said, "I'll tell you that Brother Li has such deep love and righteousness that he even has to ransom his maidservant. You, my brother, will be handed over to me, Cui."

"Redemption?"

The old bustard smiled and said: "This is a good thing. If Qiu can escape from the sea of ​​suffering, leave my Ten Thousand Flowers House, and never set foot in the brothel again, it will be too late for the slave family to be happy. How could they not let her go?"

"It's just that after all, Ruo Qiu was raised by the slave family from a young age. They have feelings for her. For so many years, the slave family has tried their best to cultivate Ruo Qiu and devoted all their attention to Ruo Qiu. They have to separate suddenly."

"My slave, I feel very uncomfortable."

Talking.

The madam began to wipe away her tears, looking sad and reluctant to leave.

"Snapped."

Cui Yu slapped the table with her hand, picked up the remaining grapes and threw them on the old bustard. She said loudly: "Don't pretend to be pitiful here. What are you training Miss Su for? You old bustard has no idea." number."

"Besides, my brother Li likes Miss Su. That's her fate."

"Don't pretend to be pitiful. Just tell me how much money you need to redeem Miss Su. I'll tell you a real number. Otherwise, I will smash your Wanhua Building."

"Now, let the slave family do what they want."

The madam shed tears and looked at Li Huaian and Cui Yu who looked angry. He hesitated and closed one of the five fingers he was about to extend, turning them into four.

"Five, instead of [-] guan, the slave family only needs [-] guan to buy the oiran's deed of sale."

"How many?"

"can."

At the same time, two voices sounded.

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