The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"Hey you!" The man in green was about to get angry again, but was held down by Qi Shaofeng once again.

The man in green glanced at his friend, mumbled something, and turned his head away.

But Qi Shaofeng said to Lu Weiyuan: "My friend is just not good at speaking and speaks too fast. I hope the young lady will forgive him."

"He is not good at speaking and speaks too fast, so I am insulting him maliciously with my words?" Is Lu Weiyuan the kind of person who would easily let go of someone who offends him?

Qi Shaofeng's face changed: "If the two girls hadn't mentioned my brother's death first..."

"So what? I said it just for you. Didn't your elders teach you not to listen to what is inappropriate? Do you think you are right to eavesdrop on other people's conversations?"

"Girl, you..."

Lu Weiyuan glanced at Qi Shaofeng and said, "Your dissolute brother is addicted to sex and will die without a burial place. What do you think?"

"It's true that my brother was a playboy all his life, but he made countless women famous with his wonderful painting skills, saving them from having to spend their old age alone in places of entertainment and wasting their good time...Although he was a playboy, he didn't deserve to be ridiculed by such a girl!" Qi Shaofeng's face was full of anger.

The green-dressed man finally found his chance to interrupt: "That's right, those... women should thank the fourth son of the Qi family for his kindness. They are prostitutes, with no special skills and a hard life. If no customers come to patronize them, they will starve to death. The fourth son of the Qi family is kind-hearted and has made them famous and attracted business for them. He has done a great deed. Why should you use his good deeds as a topic of conversation after he encounters misfortune?"

He felt that what he said made sense, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "What a pity, Queen Xie's tyranny has disregarded the livelihoods of so many innocent women and insisted on banning and closing down brothels everywhere. Those women are really pitiful. They were originally good, but were forced to show their faces and work hard because of such a chaotic order. Alas..."

The green-clothed man's toad-like eyes did not notice the sudden coldness in Lu Weiyuan's eyes, and he was still complaining about the "bad trend" of women studying and practicing martial arts and going out to work in recent years. After that, he sighed about the beautiful scene of singing and dancing on both sides of the river in the past, completely unaware that he was in danger.

"Brother Zhang." Qi Shaofeng waited for this "Brother Zhang" to finish speaking before he raised his hand and gently pulled him. However, he did not express any disrespect to his superiors by saying something disrespectful. Instead, he just shook his head and said, "It's a nice day, and there are tourists everywhere. Don't say these words that spoil the fun. As for..."

He looked up and gave a fake smile: "Since the two girls don't understand, I won't force it."

"Understand?" This time, it was not Lu Weiyuan who spoke.

The gentle smile that was always on Luo Chuanke's face was gone at this moment. She was dressed in men's clothes, and her hair was simply tied into a tight bun. The sunlight that dispelled the rain clouds was faintly golden and fell on her slightly angular face, bringing out a kind of handsomeness that was out of the ordinary, making her usually gentle appearance a little more aggressive.

"If you ask me, this is also a young man from the Qi family. If you were like those 'famous' women and had a taste of having clients flock to you in just a month or half a month, would you still be able to say so easily that Qi Jibai is doing a good deed?"

She turned her head, and her eyes also fell into the sunlight that was very rare in this sleeping town. In contrast to the light of light, Luo Chuanke's pupils were pitch black, as if any light that fell into them would be ruthlessly swallowed up: "Believe me, no Hua Niang would think that your brother who died without a complete body was doing good deeds, no Hua Niang would like the so-called reputation given by his kindness, and no one would expect that there would be endless abusers on their body."

"Master Qi, you should experience it yourself. A living person, in just one month, becomes unrecognizable, festering from the inside, and turns into a pool of rotten flesh... That's how it feels."

Luo Chuanke glanced at Qi Shaofeng with a dark look, and quickly withdrew his gaze, as if he didn't want to continue arguing with the other party. Instead, he stood up slightly and gently pulled the sleeve of the angry Lu Weiyuan, signaling her not to pay attention to the two of them: "Let's continue with our story."

Lu Weiyuan flicked his sleeves and turned back.

"Brother Zhang", who was dressed in green and looked like a toad, widened his eyes even more when he saw that the two were so "untactful". When he was about to stand up and say something else, he was firmly grabbed by Qi Shaofeng - this time he held him down very seriously and did not let Brother Zhang interrupt the story of the guest from Luochuan again.

But they did not let the boatman drive away immediately, but continued to stick to Lu Weiyuan's boat.

The two people on the boat also pretended that they did not exist.

"With two extremely beautiful courtesans appearing one after another, this Water City has been bustling for a while. While this bustle has intensified with the death of Qi Jibai, it will also be pushed to its peak and then fall heavily with each death."

It is rare to see clear skies in the water city, and most of the time of the year it is covered with mist and rain.

And it was under such rare sunshine as today, when the red silk hung on the tree outside Tianwu Pavilion before nightfall yesterday had not yet been removed, that an unexpected incident occurred.

The red silk flutters in the gentle breeze.

The water ripples in the pale golden light.

The bright red silk left a colorful reflection on the clear water, and in that reflection, there was a person lying quietly at the bottom of the river. Even though the river water had distorted the light, the person's beautiful and fairy-like eyebrows were still clearly visible.

The shadow of the red silk wrapped around the female corpse, as if wrapping her in a bright red cocoon, as if she was just sleeping soundly.

"...The new courtesan of Tianwu Pavilion, the stunning Yue Mingye, who was known as the Moon Fairy, died silently in the river next to Tianwu Pavilion. No one knows how she died or how she appeared in that place. Why did such a dignified courtesan disappear for a whole night without anyone noticing..."

The guest from Luochuan lowered his voice slightly and said, "The one who discovered Yue Mingye was an ordinary gatekeeper. According to him, Yue Mingye was still wearing the same dress she wore when she appeared the previous evening. The dress was a gift from a noble. It was made of snow-white silk, and very fine silver threads were mixed into it during the weaving process. The hem of her skirt was painted with the moonlight and clouds, and every move she made was glittering with silver light, as if she was walking on clouds in the sky."

Even though it has sunk into the lake, it is still extremely beautiful.

"And the only thing that was not right about Yue Mingye was that someone had tied a red silk around her waist. It was the red silk that was tied outside the brothel door and was only tied by her benefactor after the new brothel girl auctioned herself off on her first night."