Chapter 14 The Fourteenth Chapter Gao Guoshu Visits Fengcai Tower at Night

As soon as Gao Heng and Qian Du boarded the boat, the boat immediately sailed back from the original road against the current.Only then did Qian Du know that this boat was specially for cruising on the river to attract guests, and upon receiving the guests, they would immediately send them back to Fengcai Tower.When Qian Du first arrived at the academy, he was surrounded by a group of women, and he was sweating all over. Now that he was close, he looked at the women carefully. Although they were all coquettish, they were all women in their thirties, and their looks had faded. , Thick foamy makeup can't cover the fine lines of fish scales on the front of the forehead and the corners of the eyes.Although she hugged her shoulders and rubbed her back affectionately, she only felt the fragrance of the powder and powder hit her, making her dizzy, but she couldn't arouse her lust.Gao Heng was like a fish in water, he lost one and hugged another, touched this breast, kissed that cheek, everyone was his "little dear", and smiled and said to Cao Bust: "Where is Qiao Meier? What's wrong?" Don’t you see?——This yard has changed. There’s a tall building built on the lawn over there. What’s the name? The upper and lower floors have been painted and decorated, how much money did you get! You can see that your business is doing well.”

A woman held a glass of wine, twisted Gao Heng's face and poured it down for him, and said with a smile: "Just Qiao Meier! Are we so annoying to the master? I'm going to accompany the master tonight. I will taste it myself." Is it better for Qiao Meier or mine!" "Success!" Gao Heng said with a red light on his face, "Again Cao Mama and Qiao Meier, the four of us share the same bed, let's have a Sanying fight against Lu Bu, Bian Zhuang thorns three tigers!" As he spoke, he pulled Cao bustard over, put an ingot of fifty taels of ingot on the table, and pulled the woman to sit on his lap, and asked the woman, "Didn't you just touch the crisp?" Sister?you are good!Mama Cao herself calls it 'Mom Fuck' - I have tried it too, let's compare it with Qiao Meier tonight!Thirty is like a wolf, forty is like a tiger.Women, after fifty, they are still sitting on the ground sucking dirt.The more this is the case, the more fun it is than Huang Hua's daughter..."

Hearing what they were saying, Qian Du pretended to be convenient, walked out, and looked carefully at the Fengcai Building.The Fengcai Building is indeed tidy and luxurious: there are no courtyard walls on all sides, all are two-story Xieshan style red buildings, with cornices, bucket arches, painted pillars and carved beams, redwood railings on the upper and lower corridors, which have only been painted recently.Various colored lights are hung under the eaves of the corridor, shining brightly all over the courtyard.Girls, big and small, some served tea, some delivered wine, walking upstairs and downstairs with small steps, and the smell of wine, meat, and powder wafted everywhere.A bastard upstairs suddenly shouted loudly: "Miss Qiaomeier is here!" Two little girls in the chief corner came out of a room in the southwest wing of the upstairs with a woman on their hands, and walked lightly to the north room. .At the sound of the bead curtain, Gao Heng came out with a smile.Talking and laughing surrounded the woman into the north room.There was another burst of laughter in Beifang, but he couldn't hear what was said.Just as Qian Du turned around to go upstairs, he suddenly heard a "wow", as if the water basin had been overturned, and a man cursed harshly: "You bastard! What kind of wild man are you thinking about? A good basin of water will It’s overturned, the carpet that was just laid in this room—look, look!—how dirty is it?” He seemed to have kicked someone, and a woman covered her face with a handkerchief, and she was shaggy. He headed out the door.He was sobbing and sobbing, choked up so that his steps were staggering.Qian Du couldn't help being startled, and was about to ask, when the man was wearing big pants and shirtless, he chased after him, grabbed the woman's bun, pushed and rubbed her, and dragged her down.Pressing his voice, he cursed viciously: "Bitch, who told you not to accept customers, I just want to iron you out!" Then he kicked the woman twice on the ground, hitting Qian Du's calf with her head On, struggling to get up.Seeing him being so bullying, Qian Du stared at him sideways, and said, "Why are you so arrogant? Look at her body, can she stand up to being kicked by you? She's not afraid of a life-threatening lawsuit!"

"Returning to your old words," the man glanced at Qian Du, and immediately turned into a smiling Maitreya, "She is my daughter, and I am her godfather. This is our own family business. Guests, please rejoice—she is We bought it the year before last, and other people started to pick up customers when they were sixteen, but she was so stubborn that she refused to show her face when she was nineteen. This is what we eat in the running home, and it’s not a free warehouse orphanage, so we just keep working like this How did she do it?" "When I bought me back then, it was agreed that I would only sell my art, not my body!" The woman lay on the ground and said with her face up, "You Fengcai Building is a hell for bullies! Master..." She stared at Qian Du in despair, Like crying, "They bullied me for being illiterate, wrote a fake deed of prostitution, and forced me to pick up guests for the night... I played and sang, and I made money for them..." She sobbed Crying, Cao Bust had already gone downstairs, pulled the woman up, cut her hair and adjusted her clothes, babbling and "complaining" and comforting: "Yunyun, I have told you many times, don't mess with that old son of a bitch Wang Fuxiang. , stay away from him in everything...why don't you listen? He lost the bet and ate like a drunk cat. If he has nothing to do with you, who can he turn his anger on? All right, all right, go back to the room..." She spat at Wang Fuxiang in a blink of an eye, and said, "Look at your stupid face! What else can you do besides beating people? Why don't you roll in and support your dead body! Just stand here and show your eyes!" Only then did he change his smiling face again, and said softly to Qian Du: "Master Qian... hurry up! Master Gao and the others are singing a song... I'll settle down for Yunyun, and I'll come over to accompany you."

At this time, Yunyun was standing under the lamp beside the pillar. When Qian Du looked at her, she had an oval face, a slender waist, and a very exquisite figure, but her face was not bright, her eyebrows were sparse, and there were a few freckles under her left cheek. Not amazing.Qian Du said: "You opened this courtyard, isn't it for money? Isn't it money for her to make money by singing songs? If you treat her like this, there will be no people and no money in the future. Mama Cao, don't make money with the uncle. How much is the price for this elephant to give this Yunyun a face, and how much is the silver package for a year? Let me know the price. If you can afford it, it's her life; if you can't, it's her life." Look at what you said, Mr. Qian! I treat Yunyun as my own daughter!" Mrs. Cao blushed, and said with a charming smile: "My lord, it's her luck that you want to keep her. I don't make this money, you pay for it , Including the face, the total is 1,500 taels! If you are tight, I can give you a little more price!?" Yunyun, let's go upstairs!"

"No..." Yunyun looked at the dark and thin Qian Du with blinking eyes, and said decisively: "I told you, I won't sell myself!" As soon as the words fell, Wang Fuxiang yelled again in the room: "You son of a bitch!" Son, skinny!" Qian Du interrupted Wang Fuxiang's words, "You are just a bastard, are you very precious? - Yunyun, I pity you! Don't buy your body, just buy your safety. I will go to Yunnan in three or two days. Accompany Let me sing a song, okay?" Yunyun then took a serious look at Qian Du, seeing his loyalty and kindness, his face full of duty.After a long time, she nodded and said in a low voice: "Then... I'll go with you..." Mrs. Cao had already walked over with a smile, and personally helped Yunyun up the stairs, and said softly: " You followed this Lord Qian, you are really a blessing from your ancestors for eight lifetimes! Now you are Lord Qian's person, who dares to make things difficult for you, see if I don't expose him! Good girl, come into our business, Isn't the best way out is to find a good family to follow? You are in line with Lord Qian's wishes, this is the Bodhisattva of Heaven..." A load of good things was said.

The three of them walked into the main room of the north building while talking, only to see four women sitting by the east wall, holding a sheng, huang and flute in their hands, and a woman with light makeup sitting next to Gao Heng's chair on the west wall—you can see it at a glance. It's Qiao Meier.The whole body is dressed in moon-white river silk, rolled with plum blossom silver thread, a comfortable wrist, snow-white and crystal-clear, fingers as slender as onions, and an oval face that is rosy in pink, and the color is alluring.In terms of stature, she is much fatter than Yunyun.Qiao Meier only glanced at the three of them at the door, then lowered her head and played the zither, and the four people in the east hurriedly played harmony.Qiao Meier let go of her voice and sang:

After the alcohol rack, Hongying came, suddenly found flowering branches to cover the green sleeves, washed the bow shoes and newly embroidered, glanced at the skirt and gauze by the wall, pulled the clothes to fight for the road, but heard the snowy night screaming, the dark clouds were full of peach blossoms ! "Okay!" Gao Heng raised his hands and applauded, and everyone cheered loudly.Cao bustard sighed: "In Nanjing, the golden voices in the past 20 years are Chen Lainiang, Cai Yuyun, Yin Huijie and Liu Xianglian. I have heard them all. They really bite gold and cut jade. No matter how far or near, the tunes are like Falling down from the Milky Way, piercing the ears and piercing the heart, the internal organs are all hot and hot! Qiao Meier sang today, but her confidence is a bit lacking, and no one has been able to match it in the past twenty years." Gao Heng smiled and waved his hands. : "Old Qian! You are so shameless that you have kidnapped all the sick Xishi—come and take a seat, and you will be punished with three glasses of wine!" Then he smiled and said to Yunyun: "Why, have you moved Fanxin? Look, how can I? I can’t compare to this master, why can’t I get hooked! People, I really need to talk about fate!” As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to touch Yunyun’s face, but was slapped by Yunyun. "Be serious! Don't I love little boys!" Everyone laughed.

"Okay, okay! Seriously, be serious—" Gao Heng didn't care, and said with a smile: "To eat your flower wine today, you have to show us a few hands to open our eyes!" Only then did Yunyun get angry, and smiled: " This is still a courtesy." Then he took off the pipa from the wall, tuned the string a little, and suddenly there was a cold voice, and the four stood in awe, listening to her singing: The little banished from the world of mortals, hated that he had missed Yujing Xianyu in this life, looked back on the prosperous dream of the Red Mansion, and aroused tenderness.Drawing water to water the flowers, adding incense and pulling out the fire, the twelve golden hairpins once gathered.Tens of thousands of bamboos are planted, the scenery of Xiaoxiang is like this, I feel sorry for you too...

Gao Heng squinted his eyes and pressed his hands to the beat. Qian Du was also fascinated, and suddenly opened his eyes and asked: "This is singing! Have you ever seen this book? Who wrote the lyrics?" Gao Heng also said : "Strange way, sounds familiar. Isn't 'Xiaoqing' just Lin Daiyu? I saw it at Fu Liuye's house, and he was reluctant to lend me the copy. There is no such book in the market. How can you have such a great fate? ?” Yunyun pursed her lips and said with a smile: “Isn’t the ‘Fu Liuye’ you’re talking about today’s official uncle of the country? It’s full of lies, saying that it’s a businessman, and what kind of imperial merchant—it’s the bottom line. Don’t you? I think you are all officials, right?——This word was written by an old Tanhua who lived in the official residence, named Liu Xiaolin. I borrowed a few manuscripts from him. A gifted scholar is a beautiful book. Mr. He has left a few poems about people and things here!" After finishing speaking, he pondered for a while, looked at his eyes, waved his five strings, and sang again:

Blood and tears poured into the red rain, famous people were worried about work, worked hard for the beautiful woman, lost their memories, empty flowers and plants, and adjusted their own parrots, asked who would be with them, and the ileum turned into sadness... "This is Yong Daiyu's burial poem..." She chanted softly, "The person who buried the flowers today laughed like a fool, but I will know who will be buried in the next year." She was stunned and burst into tears. Qiao Meier saw that Yunyun took the lead as soon as she appeared on the stage, she felt very uncomfortable, she stepped forward and shook Gao Heng's shoulder and said: "It's getting late, let's go back to the room, I have a set of nagging orders, last time Yin Zhitai called Tang Yes, I’m still applauding—ask Yunyun to accompany Master Qian to eat their carnival wine, and I’ll sing you my own tune!” "Okay! Baby, I've left you out..." Gao Heng patted Qiao Meier's hand, and was about to get up, when he saw his body length walking with Jia Si in a hurry, he asked, "What's the matter?" "Back to the master," Jia Si took a step back, bowed and said, "Shopkeeper Liu of Nanchang Laomao Zhan brought twenty boatloads of salt from the water transport, all the way was fine, and Wu Shoubei, who was ordered to close at Nanjing Customs, detained them. They didn't bring any salt, and they will confiscate everything when they close it. They have no choice but to show your old man's sign, so they temporarily detain you and don't arrest anyone. They are anxious like ants in hot pot, anyway, please ask the master to go..." Gao Heng said: " Is it necessary for me to go there in person? Take my name badge, you go and protect them first, and then add the salt later, won’t it be over?” Na Jia Si repeatedly agreed, but refused to leave, and said again: "Two officers from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment have come to wait for the master one by one at the post." "Tell them," Gao Heng cut off his words, "I understand I left Nanjing for Sichuan early in the morning, and I don’t care about the affairs here, please go back.” Jia Si swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said: “The servant said, a Master Huang and a Master Ge will sit and not go. Say yes ...'Yizhihua' failed to rob the silver treasury in Zhangde Mansion, and now it is missing. Shanxi and Zhili feudal treasury transferred a total of 650,000 taels of silver to Shijiazhuang, to be secretly transported to Sichuan. Afraid of accidents on the way, the imperial decree called the master Personally preside over the escort, please go north immediately to Fenglingdu to pick up the money..." "That's enough, that's enough!" The more Gao Heng heard it, the more annoyed he became: "Such a confidential matter, the murderer just got it all out in the brothel in front of the bitches... As he stood up and adjusted his clothes, he cursed: "You just say ' Isn't it enough to have a decree? You can't stop nagging your mother!" Then he smiled apologetically at Cao Busty, Qiao Meier and the others, and said, "I'm an official, so I can't hide it this time. You accompany Master Qian Let's talk, I'll come back later..." After saying that, he hurried away.Those bustards and whores sent him out. Seeing Gao Heng leaving suddenly, Qian Du felt flustered, took out two bank notes from his bosom, and said to Yunyun, "This one is two hundred taels, I gave it to you, this is one thousand taels for redemption." Silver. Tomorrow, I will send another five hundred taels to your mother. Anyway, you won’t be subjected to those insults anymore... I’m leaving too, and I’ll come to see you tomorrow when I’m free..." That Yunyun burst into tears He stared at Qian Du for a long time, then suddenly blushed, lowered his head shyly, and asked, "You... are such a good person. You just pity me for spending money like this... don't you think of me?" "Where..." Qian Du became more and more embarrassed, and stammered, "It's up to you. I am ugly at my age... Besides, I'm not used to the scene here..." "I only want you to be nice." Tears rolled out of Yunyun's eyes, and she rubbed the corner of her clothes to wipe her tears and said in a sobbing voice: "A woman who has fallen to this point, what else can she choose? Redeem me... …Three thousand taels of silver is enough—I will be a good needleworker, and I will serve as your wife’s slave…I can do whatever…” She suddenly made up her mind, got up and threw herself into Qian Du’s arms, and said in a gentle voice: “ Tonight...don't leave..." Qian Du embraced her, combing her hair gently with his hands, feeling dizzy as if in a dream.Just as he was about to speak, the bustard Cao lifted the curtain and came in, clapping his hands and laughing: "Okay, okay! The moment we go to see off the guests, Bai Mudan will be there Lu Dongbin—Xiuying, Lan Caier, Yinggu... come and eat Their Acacia wine!" So everyone rushed in, and the room was filled with jewels and greenery, and the fragrance overflowed.When someone called Qiao Meier, someone came and said, "The girl is tired, come here tomorrow to congratulate my brother-in-law and sister..." Yi Ying and his rebel army failed to gather crowds in Shandong, failed to raise food, lost one to Heifengzhai, two to Sangqiao, ran to Wu'an scattered, and was attacked by local bandits in Baicaoping, although they barely won the battle , but could not stand.Counting the troops, there are only fifty or sixty people left, and there are more than a dozen people from Liu Sanbald Heifengzhai mixed in.Discussing with everyone, some advocated to go back to Shandong. Since the officers and soldiers succeeded there, they were absolutely unprepared at this time.Hu Yinzhong was originally Liu Sanbald's subordinate, and a rift had already arisen. He was in an embarrassing situation at the moment, so it was inconvenient to say anything.Baldy Liu San was forced to come in by the officers and soldiers. Although he is a ruthless bandit, he has enough insight. He knows that once he leaves Yi Ying, he will immediately fall into the net of heaven and earth, so he blindly flatters Yi Ying and Yan Ruyun. Waiting for others, for fear of driving him away, he is a bumpkin, and he has no insight.However, Huangfu Shuiqiang thought that the great plains in eastern Henan were unobstructed, unobstructed, foodless, and grass-free. If they did not reach the Dabie Mountains, they would be discovered and besieged by the army. It is better to go north from Wu'an and set up a village in the deep mountains of Taihang Mountains to take root and stabilize the situation. Make plans again.Unexpectedly, when they attacked Zhuantianling, they were raided by the government army again.When Liu Sanbald saw soldiers and bandits attacking together, he took the opportunity to fight among himself and wanted to kill Yi Ying.After a night of deadly fighting, Yi Ying was defeated and retreated to Fushan Nvshao Niangniang Temple overnight. When the number was checked, there were only twenty-seven people left, and all horses, silver and dry food were lost. At this moment, the night is getting darker, and the Nvsnail Niangniang Temple stands quietly in the dark blue sky with upturned eaves. On the top of the floating mountain, a crescent moon sprinkles the bleak moonlight, vaguely reflecting the group of poor people sitting on the white stone steps. .The group of men lay in a haphazard manner in a sheltered place under the corridor on the east side of the temple gate, some snoring heavily, and some were smoking dry cigarettes one after another.Yi Ying, Qiao Song, and Lei Jian leaned against each other at the gate of the temple, and no one spoke.Qiao Song was wounded on his chest, half lying in Yi Ying's arms, coughing slightly from time to time.Lei Jian hung his left arm and leaned against Yi Ying's shoulder with the sword in his arms, also bowed his head and said nothing.Only the strong mountain wind whizzed past the hill from time to time, making whistling whistles. Listening to Qiao Song breathing evenly and falling asleep, Lei Jian lay on his lap and stopped moving.Yi Ying gently put them down, took off her cloak and covered them.Walking to the side of a big rock with tired legs, looking at the moon in the sky is just a trance. She was originally from Tongzhaipu, Tongbai, Henan.Although she looks delicate and beautiful, like a twenty-nine girl, she is actually over forty years old.As long as she can remember, her parents suffered from plague and passed away one after another.Yi Ying, who was six years old, lived by begging for food. The nun in Baiyi nunnery, Jing Kong, saw her pitiful, and took her in to be ordained in the nunnery, and her Dharma name was "colorless".Take care of the food, fruits and incense money offered by the pilgrims in the nunnery every day.In addition, do some chores such as sweeping the courtyard and opening and closing doors.Her name is "Colorless", but the longer she grows, the more charming she becomes. Her pair of slender hands and wrists are as white as jade, and her brows seem to be frowning but not frowning.Not to mention the people in Tongzhaipu, even the rich and powerful from Beijing and the great merchants from Liangjiang in the past often stopped by, using the pretext of "sending incense money" to come to the nunnery to have a look.Some people still have the idea of ​​ruining the Bodhisattva in their stomachs, and they come to disturb them every day. In the fifty-ninth year of Kangxi's death, he held her hand and said in a low voice, "How many times have I asked Guanyin. You are not from this temple, and you have another fruit. My child, I took you in because you were young. Homeless. Now that I’m gone, you can’t stay here, listen to me, no matter what, you have a good family, you should get married—it’s your life!” Sure enough, once Jingkong left, Yi Ying's life would be difficult.She often carries scissors with her, and the door opens at Chen in the morning and closes at Shen in the afternoon.A group of vagrants, they often come to hang out in the nunnery when they have nothing to do. At night, they throw bricks and tiles and even pry doors and windows, which scares her all night long, and she is restless all day long. Symptoms of half-madness.Seeing that she was moving, she cut it with a knife, but no one dared to provoke her for a while. Suddenly one day a Taoist priest named Jia Shifang came to the town to perform in the empty field of Andong.There were many spectators around, and Jia Shifang also performed together with two Taoist priests, one old and one young.After playing the game, Jia Shifang immediately took an airlift and went around the circle for alms. Only Yi Ying offered some food, but she didn't receive any money after going around. Jia Shifang looked up to the sky and sighed: "Tongzhai shop is on Yuchuan Road Famous town, I never thought that everyone is a miser!" The idlers next to him also shouted back: "Thousands of people have traveled to Tongzhaipu in the past, and I have never seen a single one asking for money without changing the trick!" "That's true! If you want to take it, you must give it first—" Jia Shifang smiled and bowed, and said to the old man: "Brother Piao Gao, borrow a liter of rice from the Gaosheng Rice Store here, and pay them a bucket of money when you earn it !” The white-bearded old man agreed, and carried it to the rice shop beside the street to ask for alms.The owner of Midianlin has always been a character who splits meat on the legs of egrets and scrapes paint on the skin of bedbugs. How can he make such a good relationship?I can't come out after hiding inside.Piao Gao smiled and bowed.Jia Shifang was not annoyed, she turned to Yi Ying, looked at her for a long time, and said: "I want to teach you a female disciple, but unfortunately you are not complete, and you are not from my sect. I leave a book for you and study hard. In the future, you will have another book." There is a positive result!" ... A gust of steep mountain wind blew, and Yi Ying shuddered. The hazy moonlight slanting to the west became darker, and the white stones all over the mountain were crouching like tigers and wolves. The shadows of the buildings are jumping and playing, giving people a kind of weird and mysterious anxiety.Before leaving, Jia Shifang said, "You are the golden boy under the female snail's empress seat. You are a male and female, and you will return to your original position after experiencing suffering in the world." Fushan here is said to be the place where female snails refine stones to mend the sky. The white pumice on the mountain is in the shape of a honeycomb. Some of them can float when thrown into the water. It is said that the froth of the stone liquid that was burnt when mending the sky was condensed.Now that the mountains and rivers are all defeated and retreating, and they just landed in the place where the female snail mends the sky, is there some kind of God's will in the dark-do they want to "return to their place" here, or regenerate from here to create a big situation?She touched her chest subconsciously, where her "Book from Heaven" was hidden, which was the "Secret Collection of Ten Thousand Laws" left to her by Jia Shifang.She has been studying this book for nearly 30 years, which does not seem very difficult to understand. It contains everything from reversing yin and yang, to shielding armor, and even spells such as turning stones into gold and turning beans into soldiers.What puzzled her was that the great magic above was practiced behind people's backs, and it was effective almost every time. When faced with strong enemies, ninety-nine out of one hundred times it failed.Asking the gods to help the spirits, catching ghosts and catching foxes, and eliminating disasters and illnesses, these small spells are easy to do.Killing the enemy in front of the battle, you can't stand the body, and you can't withdraw the beans!Since the first year of Yongzheng, Tongbai County sent troops to arrest her with "witchcraft to confuse people", but she was defeated by her fire-breathing refining technique. Defeated at Jiufeng Mountain, she fled to Huguang and Jiangxi alone, performed magic tricks to accept apprentices, lost again and fled again... For more than twenty years, except for the "disguise technique" which kept her beautiful in her twenties, the other spells were timeless. It's out of date, and it never came in handy anyway! She opened her eyes wide, looked carefully at the Ziwei constellation, and found her own constellation, "Tianqingshenzu".The dark purple sky is like a cauldron full of silver nails on the vast mountains, every star is so bright, flashing mysteriously, it seems so unattainable and inconceivable... Suddenly she remembered what was said in the preface of the book, "Use the Tao to overcome people, and use the law to drive out evil spirits. However, there is no need to use it. Scholars must know this purpose!" Suddenly she seemed to have realized something, her eyes flashed, and she said to herself: "So that's it, small spells are only used to practice the way, not to Killing the enemy. If spells can change the world, why does God pretend to be me?..." She muttered and looked up at the sky: Is Qianlong right, or the "Allah" I worship is right?But the sky is too high and too far away, countless stars wink at her, but they don't answer her question. "Holy envoy..." A female voice came from behind.Yi Ying regained consciousness from her reverie, and when she looked back, it was Lei Jian with a bandage hanging on her face, and said, "Why are you up? I'm here to guard the wind! Nothing will happen here—if the cold is unbearable, Men and women each light a fire." "It's not too cold." Lei Jian said, "Han Mei and Yan Ju asked us where we are going, do we want to answer?" He pointed to the left side of the mountain and said, "Look!" When Yi Ying looked down, he saw an arc-shaped bonfire burning in the dark bottomless valley, and it seemed that there were still people coming and going to add firewood.At this time, Yan Ruyun, Huangfu Shuiqiang, Hu Yinzhong and the others also saw the flames and gathered together to discuss.