Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 47
Famous prostitutes in Jinling are proficient in poetry, poetry, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they know how to sing songs and operas.

But they all think that singing is the worst, so unless they are close friends, women seldom come out to sing.

After Yin Chun, there was only one Fan Yu who sang "West Chamber", playing the role of Cui Yingying.

After Fan Yu, the four famous prostitutes finally appeared on the stage. For some reason, they even made an appointment to appear together hand in hand.

Yang Chao remembered before that in order to lengthen the performance time, they were performed one by one.

Now that the four of them are on stage together, there may be some story in it.

Among the four, Gu Mei played the zither, and the Bian sisters stood at the two ends of the jinse, each playing the pipa, Shacai played the flute, and Li Xiangjun sang alone.

At the beginning, everyone's eyes lit up, and there were so many beauties appearing at one time, but they were all amazed soon.

Because they had never heard the libretto in Li Xiangjun's mouth, it should be a new song.

There are new words appearing, and they can be accompanied by Sha Cai, Gu Mei and others. The words are by no means ordinary.

After listening carefully, these scribes realized that it was a long poem:
Beauty is not born from the mother's womb, it should grow from a peach blossom tree,
I already hate that peach blossoms are easy to fall, and falling flowers are more affectionate than you.

When you are still, you can practice movement and meditation, and you can see your lover in front of you.
If you use this mind to learn the Tao, it will be so difficult to become a Buddha.

To make the best of the same heart and make a close relationship, although this life is short and lingering,
……

Yang Chao was surprised when he heard it, and after listening intently, he only heard the last sentence: "Worth the Tathagata and not the Qing!"

This is exactly the long poem written by Tsangyang Gyatso that I copied, but Li Xiangjun composed a tune and sang it.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that Li Xiangjun used this long poem to impress the other courtesans, and they were willing to accompany her and let her sing the finale.

Just finished singing.

"well!"

"so good!"

"It's a good 'not to lose the Tathagata and not to lose the Qing'."

"What a Li Xiangjun!"

"What a incense fan pendant!"

"Good talent, don't lose to Cai Zhuo!"

Everyone below cheered.

They all thought that this new poem, which they had never heard before, was written by Li Xiangjun, and directly praised Li Xiangjun's literary talents as not inferior to legendary women like Cai Wenji and Zhuo Wenjun.

Under a long poem, the atmosphere suddenly reached its peak, but then came to an abrupt end. These famous prostitutes are really good at handling it.

Yang Chao couldn't help looking at Li Xiangjun.

Li Xiangjun finished singing at this time and was about to leave the stage when he saw the surprised Yang Chao and gave Yang Chao a mischievous smile.

By the time the four famous prostitutes finally finished their performance, the sky had already dawned, and they managed their time well.

At this time, many guests left one after another, and the Ruan family sent carriages to send them away one by one, and finally those famous prostitutes and prostitutes were also sent away.

Yang Chao occasionally noticed that when he left, Liu Rushi's complexion was very bad.

When Yang Chao returned home, he fell down immediately.

These days, I was nervous, excited, and excited, and only deep exhaustion remained afterward.

Yang Chao woke up amidst bursts of noise.

"Is blacksmith Yang here? Oh, it's the second sister-in-law."

"Hu butcher, what are you doing? Beating children came to my house!"

"Isn't this here to ask questions? This kid stays out all day and night, saying that he is having a party with your Chaoer!"

"I don't know about this either. Will I be arrested?"

"Who knows, the defendant accused him of gathering a crowd for misconduct, so he can't eat it and walk around!"

After Yang Chao heard it clearly, he realized that it was Hu Quan's father, Hu Tuhu, who was talking to his mother, and the two were worried.

Hu Quan was held tightly by his arm by his father. Seeing Yang Chao come out, Hu Quan struggled again, but he couldn't break free.

The butcher's hands were like pliers, tightly grasping his son's arm, and his other hand was already stretched out to grab the ear.

Yang Chao saw that both of Hu Quan's ears were red, and wondered how many times he had been pinched.

"Brother Yang, come here, come here!"

Hu Quan couldn't break free from his father's confinement, and yelled at Yang Chao.

Yang Chao walked up to him with a smile: "Father Hu, don't dare to twist it anymore. If you twist it again, your son's ear will fall off."

Yang Chao first made a joke with Hu Tuhu.

Hu Wanguan snorted, "You brat, tell me, what the hell are you doing with my family?"

Yang Chao shook his head: "What the hell? We are doing something big!"

Hu Wanguan laughed angrily: "A big deal? What big things can you do with a bigger fart?"

Hu Quan continued to struggle, kicked off his shoe with one foot, and threw it towards Yang Chao.

"Brother Yang, the meeting ticket is in the shoe! Take it away quickly, don't let my father see it, if he sees it, it will be gone."

The shoe was thrown in front of Yang Chao. Yang Chao picked up the shoe, smelled a foul smell, and took out the 3000 tael meeting ticket from the shoe, but lines of writing had been written on the back. 300 taels of silver, 700 taels of remaining silver, and finally "500 taels of silver, 1000 taels of remaining silver".

The withdrawal amount is written on the north side, which is probably the origin of the endorsement.

"what is that?"

Hu Wanguan saw that his son was hiding something, and Yang Chao didn't let him find out, so he asked curiously.

At this time, Mrs. Zhao said contemptuously: "The meeting ticket, I don't even know the meeting ticket!"

"Conference ticket?" Hu Wanguan was taken aback for a moment, then twisted Hu Quan's ear again: "You brat, tell me the truth, what's going on?"

Hu Quandao: "I won't tell you, you are a money fan, you can never take Brother Yang's money!"

Yang Chao had already come up at this time, and took Hu Tuhu's hand: "Father, let go, do you really want to wring your son's ears off?"

As he said, he sent the ticket to Hu Tuhu: "Look, this is a real ticket. It was given for helping others, and there are 1000 taels left."

"What?"

Hu Tuhu snatched the ticket in his hand.

"Really 1000 taels?"

Butcher Hu couldn't help asking.

Yang Chao smiled and said, "You can see for yourself."

Butcher Hu said in embarrassment: "I can't read!"

Hu Quan was let go by his father, and immediately robbed the ticket while weeping, muttering: "Brother Yang, why did you give it to him, you are so confused."

Mrs. Zhao looked at her son for a while, the butcher for a while, and Hu Quan for a while.

It's curious, it's worrying, it's funny.

The curious thing is that my son got another meeting ticket, still 1000 taels.

What is worrying is, what Hu Tuhu said is whether he is gathering a crowd to commit crimes, which is the same as what his father committed.

What's funny is that Hu Tuhu is holding the meeting ticket.

Butcher Hu took the meeting ticket and looked left and right, avoiding his son.

He laughed and scolded: "You brat, you think I will take any money you have."

Speaking of reluctantly returning the ticket to Yang Chao, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart, for 1000 taels, I have to kill hundreds of big sows of one hundred catties, but I haven't figured out how many sows I have to kill.

Yang Chao smiled and put away the meeting ticket.

Ruan Dacheng gave a total of 3000 taels. He took 300 taels for the first time, and gave 150 taels to Liu's workshop, and 100 taels to Kang Hui for expenses, plus subsequent expenses, such as hiring carriages, sending out door, The servant's money cost a total of 500 taels of silver.

Later, Kang Hui said that although those famous prostitutes did not ask for money, according to the usual practice, they had to pay them money.

Normally, in their respective homes, seven to eight taels to ten taels would be enough. If they were to go out to support others, they would get two to thirty taels, and Kang Hui said that 30 taels would be enough.

Yang Chao simply wanted to be more generous. Anyway, it was Ruan Dacheng's money, so he simply sealed 100 taels per person, and the favor he lost was his own. It would be convenient for many things to build a good relationship with these courtesans in the future.

Among the famous prostitutes in Nanjing City, besides the four famous prostitutes Li, Gu, Sha, and Bian, Yang Chao also hired six second-rate famous prostitutes for a total of 1000 taels of silver.

In addition, among the entertainers, Zhang Kui asked for 300 taels, and the others, Yang Chao, paid 200 taels in total. This is the reason for the last 500 taels, which is the performance fees of these artists.

With 1000 taels left, Yang Chao planned to settle accounts with Ruan Dacheng today.

As a result, something like this happened.

Hu Tuhu made everything clear when he saw it, took his son and went back, cursing and cursing along the way.

Yang Chao didn't have the mood to go on sleeping anymore, and planned to go to Ruan's house, when a servant unexpectedly came.

The person who came was a boy from the family of the Bian sisters, who came to give Yang Chao money, which happened to be 100 taels.

"My lady said that she dare not take your money. She also said that she doesn't want any of your colorful paintings."

Finished talking and left.

Yang Chao was a little puzzled, but felt that something was wrong, as if the sisters of the Bian family had a problem with him.

Yang Chao set off for the Ruan family, thinking about how he had offended the Bian sisters along the way, did he not take good care of them, they were all fine yesterday, and they performed very happily.

The Bian sisters and Li Xiangjun took the stage together at the end. Before Li Xiangjun stepped off the stage, he winked mischievously to himself, no matter how he looked, he didn't look unhappy.

I couldn't figure it out for a while, but I had already arrived at Ruan's house.

Ruan Dacheng happened to be at home.

Yang Chao explained to him a lot, and returned the meeting ticket with the stink of Hu Quan's feet to Ruan Dacheng. Ruan Dacheng refused with a smile. This was what Yang Chao expected, and this was his reward. Yang Chao didn't refuse, and put it into his arms again.

But Yang Chao helped Ruan Dacheng so much, and created such a big momentum, that he only gave 1000 taels of silver. After all, this scribe, in terms of money, is not as good as a businessman like Wang Xiao.

After talking for a while, Ruan Dacheng was no longer as excited as yesterday, after all, he was an old Jianghu, calm and calm, and looked like a deep city.

Speaking of yesterday's donation, Ruan Dacheng said that he didn't need to worry about himself, nor did Yang Chao. Early in the morning, Zhang Pu took his own people to visit the wealthy businessmen who agreed to donate yesterday. No more, although some of the scholars also agreed to donate.

Yesterday there were eight wealthy merchants, including Wu Tianxing 3 taels, Zhou Rui 2 taels, and the remaining six 1 taels each, adding up to 11 taels. Zhang Pu raised nearly 2 taels, and Ruan Dacheng promised to give 2 taels. Zhang Pu has 15 taels of funds in his hand, and he really doesn't need any money from scholars.

Yang Chao was also happy to be at leisure, but Yang Chao regretted not being able to go to Xu Zhongxiao's house to collect the debt in person. He really wanted to go to Xu's house to see what Xu Zhongxiao looked like after taking out 1 taels of silver.

After bidding farewell to Ruan Dacheng, he first went to Mingwalang and Liu's workshop to settle the accounts, but there was still some 50 taels of deposit left, and Yang Chao didn't want it, saying it was tea money for the hard-working masters of Liu's family.

Then I turned back to the nearby Nanshi Building. After finishing my work, I should take my official uniform home.

I met Wang Xiao as I wished, and this kid was waiting for Yang Chao, saying that he was about to leave Nanjing.

But instead of going back to Hangzhou, he went north again.

With so many donations raised yesterday, Wang Xiao could tell at a glance that transshipment of the money would be a big trouble. Obviously, it would be very difficult for a literati like Zhang Pu to operate, so Wang Xiao offered to help Zhang Pu transfer the money to go to Beijing.

The Wang family doesn't have any big influence in Beijing. Their family's canal business runs from Hangzhou to the northernmost Linqing, but the end point ends at Linqing in Shandong, and there is no foundation in the north.

But the Wang family has a wealthy businessman in Beijing as a friend. Wang Xiao plans to remit the money from Nanjing to Huai'an and Linqing first, and then transfer it to Beijing through his family's network.

It is very troublesome for the Wang family to do this, let alone Zhang Pu.

So as soon as Zhang Pu heard that Wang Xiao was willing to help, he agreed immediately, and when he heard that Wang Xiao was willing to accompany him to Beijing, he praised the Wang family as a righteous businessman.

He explained to Kang Hui again, and asked Kang Hui to go to the Bian sisters to see how he had offended the Bian family.

Yang Chao was carrying a big burden, and went home by himself first, and it was time to tell his parents about his becoming an official.

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