Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Cangchun Tower Zhang Sanyu Ronglu Escort Zhong Wang Wuzang Shuixing

The prostitute that Zhang San saw was the woman named Cui Zhi who had a good relationship with the gangster.At this time it was already dawn, Cuizhi covered her mouth with a flowered handkerchief and said, "Oh, it turns out that Mr. Zhang also has this kind of elegance!" Zhang Sandao said, "I'm here to find a girl named Shui Xing." Cuizhi laughed louder "How dare Mr. Zhang step on flowers and pick flowers!" Zhang San said seriously: "I don't have time to talk to you! Let me ask you." Cuizhi let him into the room, which was only ten feet away. It was square, without windows, and an earthen kang took up most of the room. There was only a reed mat and an old felt on the kang, and the whole room smelled of pickled fish.Zhang San explained the reason to Cuizhi, and Cuizhi said: "This brothel is divided into four grades. The first grade brothel is called Qingyin Xiaoban. The house is spacious and gorgeous. Plum blossoms, magnolias, peach blossoms, and apricot blossoms are all blooming on the door. Live here. The prostitutes in those places are mostly Suzhou and Hangzhou girls, young and beautiful, dressed fancy. There is no first-class court in Tianqiao, only in the north of Zhushikou Street. The prostitutes look ordinary. There are two teahouses in Dasenli. The third-class brothel is called Xiachu, the house is small and poorly equipped, and the prostitutes are older. The fourth-class brothel is called Xiaoxiachu, also called Laomatang, and the facilities are the same The place is similar, but the prostitutes are older. The situation is even worse for those of us who are behind-the-scenes, but we are the girls of the Queen Mother, and no one dares to care! The water apricot girl you mentioned is probably sold to the Qingyin class."

Zhang San bid farewell to Cuizhi and came out, walking towards Zhushikou Street.At this moment, a song came out from some brothel: "In the next life, let the slaves give birth to mules, horses and dogs, and never give birth to the female skirts in Fireworks Lane..." The singing was sad, sad, and desolate... When Zhang San came to Zhushikou Street, he saw a few horses tied in front of the back door of a brothel, which seemed to be the mounts of Bai Die and others, and a gorgeous car, with two vicious bodyguards guarding the door.Zhang San felt that something was wrong, so he went around to a room, went into the room, and looked around.This brothel is very luxurious, with red walls and green tiles, rockery, magnolia and red peaches, small bridges and flowing water, very elegant.Zhang San got out of the room and sneaked to a main room.But I heard footsteps.A bustard walked in in a panic.Zhang San looked through the window and saw that in a room next to it, the furnishings were elegant, with red silk and green curtains, and there was a picture of Li Xiangqun, Dong Xiaowan, Liu Rushi, Chen Yuanyuan and other Qinhuai eight prostitutes traveling in spring.On the screen, there are oars on the Qinhuai River, lights and shadows on the Qinhuai River, the Confucius Temple is crowded with tourists, eight prostitutes are sitting on a phoenix boat, playing flute and flute, and their eyes are full of melancholy.There is a pair of couplets on both sides. The left couplet is: Everyone gets drunk if wine is not drunk;Lying on the bed in the room was a sleepy old official, about sixty-three or fourteen years old, with an evil spirit, wearing Jinxiang official uniform.When Zhang San saw it, he almost cried out that this person was Rong Lu, Minister of Military Aircraft, and it turned out that he also came here to steal incense and jade.

Rong Lu is a man from Zhengbai Banner in Manchuria, from the Guerjia family.He is a corrupt and treacherous aristocrat. As early as 1878, when he was the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he was dismissed for taking bribes. In 1891, he became a general of Xi'an.When the Sino-Japanese War of 1899-1895 was clouded, he was awarded the command of the infantry to handle military affairs, and a special patrol bureau was set up to supervise the defense of the five city regiments to defend the royal family.When Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao made reforms, he stood on the side of Cixi and strongly opposed the reforms, insisting that "the law of the ancestors cannot be changed." Soon after the Hundred Days Reform began in June 1898, Rong Lu served as Governor of Zhili and Minister of Beiyang. He became a powerful figure in the military circles of the Qing government. On the night of September 20th, he received a secret report from Yuan Shikai, hurried to Beijing by special car, and went straight to the Summer Palace to report to the Empress Dowager Cixi. He was ordered to take charge of the Ministry of War and control the Beiyang sea and land armies.Xuanzuo set up a military guard army, with Nie Tucheng stationed in Lutai as the front army, Dong Fuxiang stationed in Jizhou as the rear army, Song Qing stationed in Shanguan as the left army, Yuan Kai stationed in Xiaozhan as the right army, and self-recruited soldiers Ten thousand people were stationed in Nanyuan as the Chinese army.Rong Lu guarded Beijing like an iron bucket, and then started a new conspiracy.In the past few days, he has been deliberately planning to make Pu Jun, son of Prince Duan Zaiyi, his elder brother, in an attempt to dethrone Emperor Guangxu.Because he was most afraid that Empress Dowager Cixi would die before Emperor Guangxu, because Guangxu hated him to the core.He knew very well that the blood of Tan Sitong and other reformers flowed on his hands, and sometimes the dead souls of Tan Sitong and others appeared in his dreams, which disturbed him from having sweet dreams.He was disturbed when he saw the Boxers killing foreigners and burning churches.He thought: Are those foreigners easy to provoke?They have foreign guns and cannons, and dozens of countries are twisted into one rope to strangle China. The Qing Dynasty is like a chick that has just hatched, holding it in their hands, and the situation is critical!Therefore, he repeatedly played the book that the Empress Dowager Cixi suppressed the Boxers to protect the embassies of various countries.But the Empress Dowager Cixi chose to use the Boxers to restrain foreigners, and she was also preparing to release the Boxers in Beijing.The Duan Wang Zaiyi and the University scholar Gang Yi also tried their best to encourage the Empress Dowager Cixi to use the Boxers, which was exactly the opposite of his wishes.He has been in the officialdom all his life. He has experienced the turmoil in the officialdom. He knows that strong remonstrance is not good, so Yu Chang is leisurely and happy, seeking pleasure and living a life of seeking flowers and willows.After he had had enough of the noble ladies and maidservants in the honor and salary, he walked out of the mansion and came to the fireworks alley to show off his skills.He was a mountain of gold and silver, silk and satin from the North Sea, some of which were plundered silver, and took a lot of tonics. He came to the small class of Qingyin in Bada Hutong, and asked for the yellow girl by name.The brothel he lives in is called Cangchunlou, which is the most expensive brothel in Qingyin's small class. It specializes in the business of yellow-flowered girls. At this time, girls who have not had a romantic life are auctioned off to other brothels in just one night.Bustard Shui Yueniang is from Suzhou, she used to be a prostitute by the Qinhuai River in her early years, and later she came to Beijing to take care of this business in her mid-mature, and she opened the Cangchun Tower the year before last.She colludes with flower-picking thieves in Beijing, Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places, relying on the women they rob or deceive to attract customers. Baidie from Cangzhou is one of the thieves.

But she said that the bustard who came in was Shui Yueniang, she came to Rong Lu, greeted her, and said softly: "Master Rong has been waiting for a long time, that girl is very stubborn, she refuses to come here, we are trying to find a way !” Rong Lu rolled his eyelids and said impatiently, “I’ve already slept through it all.”Shui Yueniang said: "Damn the slave, the two from Sichuan haven't been delivered yet, they can't be connected, really damn it." Rong Lu ordered: "Hurry up, or I will ask my subordinates to smash this restaurant. " Shui Yueniang burst into tears, knelt down on the ground and said: "I will do it now, slave!" After speaking, she walked out gracefully.

Zhang San followed him windingly to a small courtyard in front, he saw Shui Yueniang entered the inner courtyard room, and quickly lay down outside the moon gate to take a look, only to see a watery girl with crying eyes like peaches.Bai Die stood in the middle angrily, panting.Shui Yueniang said angrily: "I really can't be anxious, can't be annoyed, can't be scalded, can't be smoked, can't be branded, if it's broken and scalded, Master Rong doesn't look good, hey, Master Rong is angry, what should I do? "I saw the girl's left foot was bare, and the right foot was wearing a small shoe embroidered with hibiscus birds.Zhang San thought, she must be Miss Shuixing.

Baidie said to Shui Yueniang: "I have an idea, you call a few sisters, stuff some aphrodisiacs into her mouth, and then carry it to Master Rong!" That's a good idea. I'll find some people and get me some aphrodisiac." He said and went out. Baidie proudly paced back and forth on the ground, humming a little song.Zhang San saw that the situation was urgent and the opportunity could not be missed, so he rushed into the house.Seeing Zhang San coming in suddenly, Bai Die was startled: "Zhang...Second Master Zhang, you..." Before he finished speaking, Zhang San punched his jaw crookedly, Bai Die couldn't speak, He rushed towards Zhang San.Zhang San waved his palm and hit Bai Die on top of Bai Die's head, causing Bai Die to die immediately.Zhang San took out a small shoe from his pocket and handed it to Shui Xing, shouting: "Miss Shui Xing, come with me!"

Shui Xing put on her small shoes and walked out of the house with Zhang San.At this time, there was a commotion outside the front door, someone shouted to arrest people, and there was the sound of knives, guns and sticks.Zhang San pulled Shui Xing to the backyard and saw that there was a back door, Zhang San turned the lock and the two rushed out. After running for a distance, there was a lot of shouting from behind. It turned out that Rong Lu heard about this and ordered his bodyguards to arrest him together with the bodyguards. Zhang San took Shui Xing to the east entrance of Zhushikou Street, and ran straight to Yuanshun Escort Bureau. The bodyguards recognized Zhang San and let him in.Just after entering the middle courtyard, I saw Wang Wuzheng writing on the stone table in the courtyard. On the rice paper, it said: "The mainstay is in the middle, and only Zhu Ming can be held back. The temple is eternal and beautiful, and it will always win the name of Shibi." Wang Wu saw Zhang San Come in and say: "Master Zhang, look at my calligraphy is not bad, so I imitated Wei Yuan's pair in Yuqian Temple." I, Zhang San, pulled Wang Wu over and told the story.Wang Wu looked at Shui Xing, and said, "This girl is pitiful enough, we should save her." He waved at Shui Xing, and brought her to a bell under the big locust tree. Push it, and the clock lifted half of it, which was one meter high.Wang Wudao: "Miss, hide here for a while." Shui Xing was still in shock, she couldn't help but slipped in.Wang Wu gently put the clock down and returned to its original position.

Zhang San looked at Wang Wu: "What can I do?" Wang Wu said with a chuckle, "Master Zhang has great skills, but he still has nothing to do." Zhang San smiled, jumped into the room, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. At this time, all the bodyguards and Yu Jiwen's father and daughter came out of the room.Wang Wu bowed his hands to the crowd and said: "Saving someone's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. I, Wang Wu, will definitely rescue this girl from the kang today. Please help me, brothers!" Everyone responded in unison. All of a sudden, Rong Lu's two bodyguards and some bodyguards rushed into the Yuanshun bodyguard office.The escort bowed to Wang Wuyi, and said, "Hey, where is Wang Wuye! A girl ran away from the Cangchun Building, and she was specially serving Lord Rong. Someone saw her running into this compound..." Wang Wuyi Wubi snorted: "Whoever saw it, you are blind." The head of the bodyguard quietly came to Wang Wu, and pouted at Ronglu's two bodyguards: "Master Rong is the empress dowager's big hit, don't you?" You're so annoying! Give me a step down." Wang Wu knew that Ronglu now holds the military power, he is the real power faction of Chaoyan, and he is dedicated to fighting against the Boxers, but this is not the time to poke a hornet's nest, so it's better to be patient for a while. So he nodded and said: "If you don't believe it, just search it, and feel more at ease." Liu Erye was secretly happy when he saw the five kings' words, and waved to the bodyguards he brought: "Hurry up and look around. "All the bodyguards searched around.

Rong Lu's two bodyguards, one was fat and the other was thin. The fat bodyguard walked up to the ancient clock, looked around, kicked it, and looked it up and down.Wang Wu sweated in his heart, and said with a smile, "This is a waste clock. I don't know where the brothers moved it here." The fat bodyguard looked at Wang Wu: "It is said that Wang Wu is used to using knives. , but I don’t know how strong it is, can you lift this bell?” Wang Wu shook his head and said, “I can’t move it, at least it weighs three or four hundred catties, and it was carried by six brothers with machines. Come in." The fat bodyguard spat, rubbed his palms, and said, "Look at me." As he spoke, he used all his strength to move the ancient clock, and the clock was slowly lifted, revealing a light blue apricot. Small shoes with a hibiscus bird base.Wang Wu clutched the handle of the knife so tightly that he was sweating.