Unparalleled Concubine

The middle-aged man's smiling expression froze on his face. He stared blankly at Li Xin, not recovering for a long time.

This young man, not to mention his poor clothes, with unwashed soot on his face, looks like a poor man, and he speaks with a foreign accent...why...asking brothels?

The world is going down!

What's wrong with this society? Could it be that I, Mr. Wu, can't keep up with the times? Are young people now like this?

Seeing him stunned, Li Xin thought that the elder brother didn't understand, so he added patiently: "The brothel is a brothel, a kiln."

The middle-aged man's eyelids twitched, and his smile was very stiff: "Little brother, is it broad daylight...or morning...it's not appropriate to ask this question, if you really have an idea, Brother Wei can take you to some good places at night... "

Speaking of this, he looked at Li Xin with a lot of affection, obviously he regarded Li Xin as a fellow.

The reason why Li Xin chose this middle-aged man was because his footsteps were frivolous, his face was pale, and his expression was wretched. He looked like an old prostitute who often visited brothels.

Li Xin shook his head and said, "Brother, I have something to do when I go to the brothel, so please make it easier for me..."

The fat middle-aged man frowned, and smiled wretchedly: "Men go to the brothel, isn't it just to do business? Everyone knows this, but at the moment, the bigger buildings are not open. If the little brother I'm really anxious, Brother Yu can take you to a few smaller places..."

Li Xin looked at this wretched fat man speechlessly.

This guy is hopeless.

Finally, after several entanglements, Li Xin finally found out the location of the brothel in the capital, or the location of the most expensive brothel in the capital.

That is the Rouge River in the south of the city.

The Rouge River was originally called the Qinhuai River. There are ten miles of painted boats on the river, and every step of the way. Every night, the Qinhuai River is brightly lit, because the girls in the brothels often wash rouge by the river. People call it Rouge River.

After Li Xin asked the way, he bid farewell to this wretched middle-aged fat man, turned around and walked towards the Qinhuai River.

What I have to say is that Li Xin simply asked for directions, and this fat man fell in love with him immediately. He wished he could ask Li Xin directly on the street. It took Li Xin a long time to get rid of this fat man's entanglement.

Before parting, the fat man told Li Xin that his name was Wu Daoxing.

But Li Xin is not in the mood to deal with this fat man now, he has to rush to the Qinhuai River and sell the basket of fake animal charcoal on his back.

He is very clear that the "beast charcoal" carved by himself is not available on the table. The real rich people are not willing to buy it, and the poorer people are not willing to pay far more than ordinary charcoal. Therefore, The best selling point for these counterfeit charcoal is the brothel.

In this era, charcoal is roughly equivalent to the air conditioner of later generations in winter. That is to say, as long as you are in the service industry, you must burn charcoal in the room. Generally speaking, charcoal is just needed and a necessity.

But there is another problem here, that is, ordinary charcoal, bamboo charcoal has no sign when burned, and real expensive charcoal brothels can't afford it. If at this time, there appears a animal charcoal, but compared to animal charcoal Very cheap charcoal...

With this wish in mind, Li Xin came to the largest brothel by the Qinhuai River.

Proud building.

The so-called spring breeze is proud of the horse, and the Deyilou is the place where the students love to come to after they have won the Jinshi. Although it is a brothel, it is relatively high-end, and there are few low-end services that directly sell themselves. The Qing courtiers are all literate. If you want to have sex with them, you don't need money alone, you have to go after them yourself.

This is the difference between the high end of the industry and the low end of the industry. This feeling of refusal and welcome is the favorite tune of those scholars. Therefore, among the ten miles of Qinhuai, this Deyilou has the best business and is the easiest to come to. money.

It was morning, and the Deyi Building hadn't opened for business yet. With a basket of charcoal on his back, Li Xin gently knocked on the door of the Deyi Building.

The one who opened the door to greet Li Xin was a very thin maid who looked about fourteen or fifteen years old. After looking Li Xin up and down, she said crisply: "Young master, we are going to the Deyi Building. The door can only be opened at Youshi, if you want to come, come again at Youshi."

People who really know how to do business are usually less likely to make things difficult for customers. After all, a smiling face and a polite word don't cost much, so the habit that this maid has developed all the year round makes her quite uncomfortable when facing Li Xin. Be polite.

Li Xin untied the bamboo basket from his back, then picked out a piece of the most finely carved tiger-shaped animal charcoal, put it in his hand, and handed it to the little maid.

Li Xin's tone was polite.

"Miss, I'm here to see your boss, please let me know that I have animal charcoal for sale here..."

Having said that, Li Xin paused and continued.

"One hundred cents a piece."

Chapter 5 Deyilou Cui Jiuniang

Because it is located in the capital city, the buildings in the capital city must not be higher than the palaces in the imperial palace, so the Deyi building is not particularly high, only three floors in total.

However, the Deyi Building occupies a large area. The Qinhuai River, which is the most prosperous ten miles, takes up one mile forcibly.

At this time, in a private room on the third floor of Deyi Building, a beautiful woman in a crescent white jacket was kneeling and sitting beside a low table with a smile on her face. The young man, covered with soot, also knelt on the cushion, his expression indifferent, neither humble nor overbearing,

The beautiful woman's surname is Cui, but no one knows her real name. People in Shili Qinhuai all call her Jiuniang.

Jiu Niang is not the owner of Deyilou, but the big shopkeeper of Deyilou. After all, with the scale of Deyilou, there must be an extremely strong backer behind her. Otherwise, it is impossible for her to gain a foothold in the capital as a woman.

But to be able to survive in Shili Qinhuai for so many years, the ability of this Jiu Niang is self-evident.

A black tiger-shaped object was placed on the low table. It was not really carved into a tiger, but a piece of charcoal carved into the shape of a tiger. He pinched it, and then a touch of eye-catching black charcoal gray appeared on his white hand.

Jiuniang glanced at the young man sitting opposite her, then smiled lightly and said, "Little brother, although brothels are a low-level business, don't think that the people in our brothels are ignorant, you charcoal, don't you?" Beast Charcoal."

Li Xin grinned at Jiuniang, showing his snow-white teeth.

"My sister, this is not animal charcoal. There is no animal charcoal worth a hundred cents in this world."

This beautiful woman looks like she is in her early 30s. She is not much different from Li Xin's age in her previous life. Moreover, Li Xin has been struggling in the workplace for so many years, so he naturally knows the truth of "sweet mouth and hard work". , So when he saw people, he always talked about his sister and kept his mouth shut.

Jiu Niang covered her mouth and smiled: "Little brother can really talk, but it's useless to be able to talk. Your charcoal is either charcoal or bamboo charcoal. Ten yuan a catty is everywhere on the street. How can there be a reason for a hundred yuan?"

Li Xin coughed, pointed at the piece of charcoal on the table, and said in a calm voice, "Although it is not animal charcoal, it looks like animal charcoal. For my sister's business, just looking like it is enough. Is not it?"

In the industry of brothels, especially high-end brothels like Deyilou, the most important thing is to be high-end, otherwise they will not be able to attract those real money owners. Therefore, most of the things in Deyilou are the best, but it is here Burning charcoal is not very easy, after all, real animal charcoal can be equivalent to silver or even gold, such a high-end thing, Deyilou can't afford it.

Jiuniang shook her head slightly: "The real animal charcoal has a strange fragrance when it burns. The people who come to Deyilou are either the princes and grandsons in the capital, or the new dignitaries in the examination field. They are all people who have seen the world, and they can be distinguished immediately."

Li Xin pursed his lips and said softly, "Sister, you can sprinkle some incense powder on the stove."

Jiuniang was stunned for a moment, then came to her senses, clapped her hands and laughed softly: "That's the reason, for our business, it doesn't matter if it's a decent animal charcoal or not, as long as it looks like it. , Burn a few pieces like this in the girls' room, and then sprinkle some incense powder into it, those stinky men may not be able to tell if it's true or not."

Speaking of this, Jiu Niang looked down at the piece of animal charcoal on the table, and said to Li Xin with a half-smile, "But little brother, you animal charcoal, although it looks like a big bug, it's not like a serious animal charcoal." Beast charcoal is also different."

Li Xin bowed his head and coughed, his face flushed slightly.

He has never seen what animal charcoal looks like in this era, so he can only carve it according to the appearance of the tiger-shaped jade pendant he saw in his previous life, but all decent animal charcoal has a mold, and Li Xin made it This, obviously not.

Seeing Li Xin's face turned red, Jiu Niang covered her mouth and smiled, and said, "Okay, don't make fun of you, little brother, seeing that little brother doesn't speak like an ordinary person, I think it's because of bad luck that he fell into such a state To this extent, although the bamboo charcoal of the little brother is not very similar, it can also fool those rich people who have no knowledge, so Deyilou bought these things for fifty yuan a piece, and treat them as a little brother friend."

The animal charcoal that Li Xin made, two or three of them together can weigh a catty. Except for the leftovers that were lost during the carving, two pieces of charcoal can be carved out of a catty of charcoal, and the price of charcoal in the capital is about ten yuan. A catty of money, even if it is sold for fifty yuan now, the price has increased ten times out of thin air.

Li Xin bowed his head a little embarrassedly.

But soon, the woman in front of him made him look with admiration.

I saw this beautiful woman standing up gracefully, took out a box from a cabinet behind her, and then squeezed out a palm-sized object from the box, and placed it in front of Li Xin. This object was black, but it had its own The lines form a tiger shape as a whole.