Go back to the Song Dynasty as a broker

Xiao’s Company operates a performance introduction service. There are many such establishments in Bianjing. At the beginning, they only helped free folk geisha to find performance opportunities, including performances in Goulan, shops and restaurants, and banquet performances for dignitaries and nobles, from which they drew a share of the remuneration .Later, it developed and expanded, and the tooth shop would also sign some geisha to teach them themselves.In addition, it will also cooperate with Jiaofang to help Jiaofang's geisha find performance opportunities.

Using the situation in the modern entertainment industry as an analogy, Jiaofang is similar to an art school or a trainee company, while Xiao's Company is similar to a brokerage company. It can serve artists from other companies and also has its own artists.

Now that Xiao's business is in such a situation, he has no time to serve outside geisha, so it would be nice if he can help his own geisha get jobs.

"Let's go, we don't want to see the trickster die on stage again, we won't cooperate with you Xiao's line!"

Xiao Tong and the little girl beside him were almost kicked out of the boss's mansion in Goulan. They had heard this ruthless speech no less than ten times.

This little girl is Xiao Yunu, a geisha raised by Xiao Shihang since she was a child. She is only 16 years old. She has a round face and is as cute as a doll. She is the most potential geisha in Xiao Shihang today.In the past few days, Xiao Tong took her to visit the boss of Goulan, hoping to get a chance to be on stage, but all of them were frustrated.

The two walked down the street dejectedly.

The sky was gloomy and gloomy, with a gust of spring breeze blowing by, Xiao Tong felt cold in his heart!

"Hey, isn't this Mr. Xiao's family? Why was he kicked out?"

Liu Qingmu and the servant girl had just come out of the tailor's shop and saw the scene of Xiao Tong being driven out from a distance. Seeing them pass by, they walked up to them.

Xiao Tong looked up, the woman in front of her was wearing a veiled hat, and a white gauze covered her face.But hearing this foxy voice, she guessed that it was Si Qinghu's classmate Liu Qingmu.

Liu Qingmu raised half of the white gauze, revealing half of her face, her phoenix eyes evoked a smile, so coquettish.

Xiao Tong knew that the visitor was not kind, so he showed his usual mean smile, "Yo, it turned out to be Mrs. Liu, what a coincidence!"

Liu Qingmu glanced at the tired little girl beside her, pretending to be sympathetic, "This girl is pretty, those Goulan bosses really have blind eyes!"

"That's right!" Xiao Tong echoed.

Liu Qingmu thought for a while, and then said: "Actually, I quite admire Master Xiao. Over the years, you have spent almost every performance of Si Qinghu's performances. This persistence, if it were me, would have been moved a long time ago." .”

This Liu Qingmu finally said something human, Xiao Tong was a little happy, but within three seconds, the other party changed the subject, "However, Si Qinghu is greedy for vanity and looks down on Mr. Xiao's family background, but he wants to talk to Mr. Liang, isn't it?" I fancy Mr. Liang's father is Lord Shangshu."

Xiao Tong finally understood, she said so much, just to arrange Si Qinghu.

She had seen this kind of tea-like people a lot in her previous life, she was very angry, she smirked, pursed her lips, and gritted her teeth secretly.

"However, I'm also happy to see Master Xiao's character clearly after her serious illness!"

Xiao Tong's visit to Qingyufang that day was not to offer a price to redeem Si Qinghu's body, so Liu Qingmu was not to mention how happy he was.

She didn't like Xiao Tong, but she was jealous that Si Qinghu had such a fanatical suitor!

From Si Qinghu's debut to a few months ago, Xiao Tong appeared in almost every performance of her, and spent money for her every time.Although this matter has brought troubles to Si Qinghu, who can deny that it is because of Xiao Silang's silver reward that Si Qinghu has always earned more than her.What's more, after listening to the anecdotes about Si Qinghu and Xiao Silang and laughing, everyone actually went to see who Si Qinghu was.

Si Qinghu himself was stunningly good-looking, with a clear singing voice, and every time he came and went, he attracted those curious elders into audiences who paid the bill.

She, Liu Qingmu, also wants this frenzy!So he said to Xiao Tong: "How about this, Master Xiao will cooperate with me, and I will use my fame to open the door for Xiao's business!"

"Oh?" Xiao Tong was very interested, wanting to know what her plan was.

Liu Qingmu looked around at the passers-by around, feeling scruples, and whispered in Xiao Tong's ear: "The reward is five or five cents, but you have to give me ten percent on the hook!"

Xiao Tong grinned knowingly, his small eyes showed a sly light.

This Liu Qingmu's wishful thinking is really accurate!She just wanted a fanatic fan to attract traffic. If Si Qinghu's fanatic fan turned around and gave her krypton gold, this gimmick would be enough to discuss it for half a year!

Although Si Qinghu is difficult to get close to and is fierce to her, she can't cooperate with bad-hearted people to exclude her, after all, Si Qinghu never hurt her.

On the contrary, she felt pity for Si Qinghu a little bit. She must have been too indifferent to the world on weekdays, so she was bullied by Liu Qingmu.She couldn't see the beautiful girl being hurt the most, and a sudden impulse arose in her heart, she wanted to teach Si Qinghu a lesson for this vicious fellow student!

Xiao Tong said loudly on purpose: "What? You want me to reward you Liu Qingmu on the hook bar in the future?"

After hearing Liu Qingmu's name, passers-by stopped and looked over.

"I'm from Qinghu, how could I change to reward you?"

Liu Qingmu was furious and lowered her voice, "You...don't you dislike Si Qinghu?"

Xiao Tong said loudly again: "How is it possible? I have always liked Qinghu, but now I want to be a useful person so that I can be worthy of her. So I will not cooperate with you Liu Qingmu!"

When Xiao Tong mentioned "Liu Qingmu", he deliberately increased the volume, and the onlookers knew it was her and started pointing.

Liu Qingmu was so angry that she pulled down her white gauze and ran away!

Xiao Tong and Xiao Yunu looked at her embarrassed back, holding their stomachs and laughing.

As everyone knows, Si Qinghu was sitting in a carriage outside the crowd, and heard her conversation with Liu Qingmu clearly!

Today, she and Ling'er went out to find a tax residence, and when they were returning, they stopped the carriage and asked Ling'er to buy two drinks, just a coincidence.

Xiao Tong expressed her determination in public, but she didn't feel any disturbance in her heart, she just thought that if she really changed her mind, being a useful person would be a good thing.

In the past, Xiao Tong offered countless bounties for her. Although it was a commercial act of yours and mine, it was difficult for her to ignore this heart.

So she let Ling'er go over, and introduced the high-priced job to Xiao Tong, as a reward.

Ling'er saw Xiao Tong and said: "You go to Zhang's mansion in the west of the city today, and I said it was introduced by my lady. The master Zhang there has just left, and there is a shortage of an elegy singer, 100 taels for three days."

After finishing speaking, Ling'er left, but she was secretly happy in her heart.

Just now they met Zhang's housekeeper who came out to prepare for the funeral, so they asked her lady to go back to Qingyufang to introduce a geisha.It must be that Xiao Tong's words offended her family lady just now, so he introduced this kind of work to her.

Xiao Tong was a little stunned, singing an elegy, wasn't he singing for the dead at the funeral?

Have all the geisha of the Xiao family been reduced to the job of taking care of the funeral?

But 100 taels for three days is really tempting...

She carefully looked at the girl beside her, thinking about how to persuade her.

Xiao Yunu was stared at on pins and needles.

"Don't look at me in charge, I won't sing to the dead!"

Xiao Tong took a deep breath, squeezed out a smiling face, and tugged at Xiao Yunu's hand: "My dear Yu Nu, you see, we walked for a few days and finally received the job, and the fee is quite high. , you just accept it!"

Xiao Yunu's remuneration for accepting a job was divided between four and six cents, and Xiao Tong didn't talk nonsense, and directly stated the most attractive conditions.

Xiao Yunu thought for a while, and said with disdain: "Singing a song to the dead once will make me unlucky for several years, so it's not worth it!"

The little girl who can't even be moved by money, so Xiao Tong decided to talk about feelings.

She pretended to be pitiful, saying that Xiao Yunu and Xiao Shixing's fate shared weal and woe, and then she burst into tears to express her sympathy.In the end, the little girl was so moved that she whimpered and nodded, wiping her tears.

Xiao Tong patted her to comfort her, feeling extremely complicated.

It's too difficult to be an ancient manager. With my appearance, no matter how I look at it, I look like a prostitute who forced her into prostitution!

Forget it, singing elegy is not a shameful job, who is not born, old, sick and dead!

However, this little girl is also kind and simple, and she is not moved by money, but because she regards Xiao's line as her own home and wants to protect her home, she bites the bullet and agrees.

Give more resources to this girl in the future, Xiao Tong secretly told himself.

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The people from Xiao's line traveled all over Goulan and various shops in Bianjing, and inquired about the banquets of wealthy households, big and small. After five days, they only received two cheap small restaurant performances and a high-priced but unglamorous day job.

Those who reject them all do so for two reasons:

Worried that the geisha introduced by the Xiao family died during the performance;

These tricksters are crooked and have no audience popularity. How many tickets can they sell?

It seems that relying on finding performances to make one's own geisha popular is not feasible.Fortunately, Xiao Tong was also in the entertainment industry in his previous life, and there are many ways to make money in this industry!

What Liu Qingmu said that day reminded her.

Since her geisha is unreliable, she can only find someone who is so popular that even the boss of Goulan will scramble to curry favor with her, so that she can sign her into her dental shop, get a chance to perform in Goulang, and then bring an unknown geisha to the stage, and then cooperate with marketing means to make this unknown geisha popular.

In the modern entertainment industry, this is called bundling!

But the question is, where can I find that well-known geisha who is willing to sign in Xiao's line?

Just when she was overwhelmed with worry, the inner hall of Qingyufang was full of tense atmosphere.

Aunt Yu sat on the top chair with a dignified manner and a dignified face. She stared at Si Qinghu standing in front of her with disbelief in her eyes, "You said you don't want to marry Mr. Liang?"

Si Qinghu was dressed in white, with his usual calm and unhurried air, he said: "Qinghu has thought about this matter for a long time, Mr. Liang is not my good match, I don't agree to this marriage, I hope aunt will forgive me."

Aunt Yu sneered, "Qinghu, Auntie just wanted to match you up because she saw that you and Mr. Liang are in love. Why, you despise being a concubine and want to be a wife? You don't even look at Mr. Liang's identity, what is your identity?" ?”

Si Qinghu smiled calmly, and said: "My aunt thinks too much. If Qinghu likes it, why not be a concubine? Qinghu only treats Mr. Liang as a friend, and there is no love between men and women."

Aunt Yu's face became gloomy, it was a bit unexpected that Si Qinghu didn't like Mr. Liang.But so what?She has not been able to sing for a few years, and it is impossible to sing songs that surpass her previous works. It is not certain whether she can earn enough [-] gold for Jiaofang in the past few years.It's better to marry her when she is worth the price, and get a sum of money as soon as possible to feel at ease.

Si Qinghu guessed what Aunt Yu was thinking, and had already figured out how to deal with it. He calmly took out a handout from his sleeve and gave it to her, saying: "This is two hundred gold, aunt, will you accept it?"

Aunt Yu was a little puzzled, "You are..."

Si Qinghu explained: "I remember that I signed a living contract with Qingyufang back then. The contract said that if I become famous, the redemption fee will be two hundred gold. The two hundred gold is my redemption!"