[Three Kingdoms] Heroine Cultivation Manual

June and a half, not even a moment.

The Central Plains is no colder than the frontier, and the arrival of summer is only a matter of one night.There was still a cool breeze in the official reply last night, but this morning I realized that the weather is really hot.

Qin Chu sullenly sat on the couch expressionlessly.

The several ice basins in the study room were still exuding a chill, her hands and feet were cold, but her heart was filled with anger, and the hand holding the teacup was still trembling slightly.

"My lord, I've knelt down and fainted," Ma Chao said calmly as he stood in front of her, "Do you want to carry it down?"

She sneered: "Don't touch him. It's best to die in the sun."

Ma Chao made a promise, wondering if he took the "sunburned death" in her mouth seriously, turned around and left the study without blinking.

Seeing the guards walking away, Fushou, who was sitting upright, was secretly relieved and looked at Qin Chu.

She hasn't figured it out yet.

Since the eldest sister was promoted, Fu Shou has often come to the General's Mansion as a guest.Although Qin Chu was busy, he was very patient with her and often let people take her to play.

Because of her young age and being influenced by Qin Chu without regard for details, she quickly became friends with several female generals in the mansion, and even made some commoner friends outside.

But today, for some reason, when she was talking with friends outside the mansion, she suddenly met Ah Xiang going out with a military officer from the general's mansion.

This is also a common thing, but her commoner friend seemed to have an old relationship with the male military officer, and actually called out his name directly-after that, it became the current situation.

Her friend came from a low family background and was a commoner living in the women's market. It was only by chance that she met Miss Fu's family.

Ah Xiang asked a few words as he passed by, his face changed suddenly after learning about her occupation, and he didn't say much, and immediately dragged the military officer surnamed Xu back to the general's mansion, and Fu Shou followed him in a daze.

Cicada was quickly escorted home.

"Sister..." She pulled Qin Chu's sleeve carefully, looked up at her, "Is it Ah Shou's problem? Is it Cicada's problem?"

Cicada is her friend who was born in a girl city.

She asked twice in a row, probably because she was really nervous.Qin Chu suppressed his anger, forced a mild smile, and patted Fushou on the head:

"It's not your problem, let alone her problem. Ah Shou, you have to thank her for me."

As Qin Chu spoke, he paused slightly, and then looked at Fushou's big black and white eyes:

"She... Mother Cicada, if Mother Cicada doesn't want to be here—" She took a deep breath secretly, and struggled to say the next few words, "If you don't want to live in the female city, please tell me. The general's mansion is short of manpower now, Need more handmaids to help."

"Women's Market", a brothel in the Han Dynasty.

When Qin Chu uttered these two words, he felt numb at the root of his tongue.Her hand holding the pottery cup was almost numb, and it was frighteningly cold in the first dog days, and anger and helplessness lingered in her heart, and it was like a cloud of black mist.She looked at Fu Shou seriously:

"Ah Shou, be sure to write it down."

Fu Shou nodded with a vague understanding: "I understand, sister."

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, although the status of advocates was not high, it was not as humble as in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. *

In the eyes of the nine-year-old Fushou, Niang Chan is just an ordinary woman who relies on her body to make a living. Although she can vaguely feel the anger and helplessness of her elder sister, she can't grasp the specific reason.

"...Okay, it's time for you to go home." Qin Chu met her ignorant eyes, sighed, raised his hand to invite Li Jin in, and then pushed Fushou's shoulder, "Let Ah Jin see you off first. Let's go back home."

After she finished speaking, she didn't care about the two of them any more, she opened the door and walked out of the courtyard.

The garden is in full bloom.

The locust tree in the courtyard had only just been planted and hadn’t grown to a height that could shade the sun. Qin Chu’s eyes were squinted by the scorching sun, and he lowered his head after a while. Kneeling on the ground.

Seeing her coming out, Ah Xiang, who was watching from the side, immediately stepped forward to report: "Master, Xu Ying's matter has been investigated."

"Say."

"There are two people who went with him to the nulu, one is Shang Shucheng Lei Tai, and the other... is Fu Jun."

When she gave the second name, she hesitated for a moment and secretly glanced at Qin Chu.

Fu Jun is Qin Chu's third brother.

He is the elder brother of a concubine who is a serious son of Qin Chu, a child raised in the concubine of the Fu mansion, his ability is not as good as the other concubine sons, he can't be regarded as filial and honest, he can only use his family background to make friends with the dignitaries in Beijing, and reluctantly seek some small jobs.

There was a period of turmoil in Luoyang before, and all positions in the capital were more or less purged, and Fu Jun is now at home.This person used to be the number one person who came to the General's Mansion to fight the autumn wind. At the beginning, he visited Qin Chu several times, and he dared to insinuate a few times, begging her to help find some jobs, but Qin Chu didn't care.

Now that such a scandal has happened, he has his share.

Maybe there are some people in this world who are born with more than enough trouble.They are cowardly and incompetent, they have never done any great evil, and the most outrageous thing they have done is curfew and violating the night. They even show kindness occasionally, and they will give some extra wealth and food to beggars on the street. Like a villain.

But they are often bewitched by the outside world, and are used to doing small evils that are "knowledgeable by heaven and earth". A grain of sand is enough to crush the bottom civilians.

——Is visiting the women's market a crime?

For the nobles of the Eastern Han Dynasty, of course not.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong set up a state-owned women's house, and collected the money earned for state use.For the aristocratic men of the Han Dynasty, it was a very common thing for them to spend entertainment and spend time with their colleagues in this way.

But to Qin Chu, this was an unforgivable crime.

She made Xu Ying kneel until late at night, but the anger still did not dissipate, and the low pressure around her continued into the night meeting.

A few confidantes lowered their heads carefully, sat on the couch obediently, and listened to her slow warning:

"Military regulations prohibit those who flirt with women shall be beheaded. I don't care what women are or are not, whether it's legal or not—you remember, no matter who it is, as long as my subordinates commit the crime again, I will punish you together!"

No one dared to speak.

Qin Chu closed his eyes slightly.

There are so many Xiliang female soldiers under her, most of them come from miserable backgrounds, if they were not desperate, they would not join the army.

She led these soldiers to fight for many years, and watched them go from cowardly to brave, and then to victorious after repeated battles.Other officials did not dare to invite female actors to the celebration banquet held for this purpose, but now that she ascended to a high position, her military attache dared to enter and leave the women's market majestically—this was a humiliation to her and to other female generals.

Qin Chu has never concealed her identity as a woman. From Weihan to the present, she has been suppressed almost all the way.

When she was young, her marriage was regarded as a bargaining chip, she was despised by the soldiers for the first time in the war, ridiculed by the enemy when she went to the battlefield, and when she returned to Beijing with all her military exploits, she was looked at by the emperor as a "prince concubine"—doesn't she have any resentment in her heart?

She established the Xiliang Detachment of Women because she was holding her breath, and wanted to eliminate those ridiculous prejudices and put down those despicable injustices.

Therefore, the female city is a restricted area that she has been unwilling to approach.

For her, relying on money and power to enter and exit brothels is fundamentally the exploitation of women.

If a certain group is opened up a way of "making a living by relying on the flesh / body", more people will swarm up smelling the smell of blood - are you weak and can't work?Let's go to the women's city.Can't afford a girl at home?Let's go to the women's city.

There are so many noble people in Luoyang, you can easily support yourself as long as you have a passable face and beg them for money with your flesh/body!

That's what people say.

The women's market is simply the most ignorant and backward dross in the feudal era. They suck the flesh and blood of all the women in a dynasty, but they support any man in this era.

"...Xu Ying asked to be killed tomorrow." Qin Chu took a deep breath and continued coldly, "I will send someone to investigate the remaining two people."

"..."

Pang De and Ma Chao remained silent, while Zhang Liao shut up and drank water.

Military generals are usually speechless and unsuitable for speaking on such matters.

As for Xun Yu, he has always restrained himself and upheld himself, so naturally he has no objection to this.

"Xu Ying is only a middle-level general, but it's really strange that he can get along with Lei Taifujun." Everyone was silent for a long time, still waiting for Qin Chu to speak, but Guo Jia opened his mouth.He was the first to follow behind Qin Chu, and he was sensitive to man and machine, so he was trusted by Qin Chu, so he was used to bluntly speaking when discussing matters, "My lord, why don't you keep him for a few days and ask about the relationship before beheading him?"

"No." Qin Chu vetoed without thinking.

"This is the General's Mansion, military discipline is the most important thing, and the laws of the army should not be affected for the sake of convenience.

"One day when Xu Ying asks about beheading, people will despise military law for one day-there are always clues to be found in the relationship between people. Once the majesty of military discipline collapses, it will be difficult to rebuild."

Qin Chu picked up his teacup and took a sip:

"It is precisely because other armies can't help women that this decree is ignored here. If this is the case, I need to pay close attention to relevant punishments, and I must not open such a mouth."

Guo Jia nodded when he heard the words, and quickly realized his limitations as a counselor.He puts more emphasis on efficiency than law. He can win surprises on the battlefield, but it may not be applicable to internal affairs.

The military officer offered the wine and said sincerely: "It's Jia's idea that's gone."

Qin Chu waved his hand.

As a male, Guo Jia is a direct beneficiary of the women's market and her party. His position on this matter is opposite to that of Qin Churan, and his considerations are also different. Therefore, he couldn't understand her overreaction at first.

But Qin Chu didn't care too much.She embarked on this path, never relying on others to understand.

She flipped through a few volumes of official documents, and suddenly remembered something, and said suddenly:

"Seven days before Fengxiao, did you go to the women's market once?"

"?!"

Guo Jia's hand shaking the fan shook, his face changed drastically, he put down the feather fan neatly, immediately bowed his head to salute her, and quickly explained:

"Jia was only invited by Chen Xingshi to go to the restaurant to discuss matters. Although there are entertainers playing the piano and music before the wine, Jia and others have not invited advocates!"

"I know." Qin Chu looked at him indifferently, "If you really invited him, Xu Ying would not be the first person to die because of it."

These words were said very seriously, and everyone's eyes turned to Guo Jia's face again.

Guo Jia knew she was wronged, so she immediately got up from the collapse, bowed deeply to her solemnly, and gave her a very standard gentleman's salute, just as she was about to promise not to offend, she heard a rapid knock on the door.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Miao's anxious voice sounded, which seemed distorted through the wooden door:

"My lord, Lei Tai is dead!"

Guo Jia's breath stuck in his throat, and he was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately forgot what promises or guarantees he made, and turned around to look over.

Qin Chu was also taken aback, and the fingers holding the celadon cup curled up slightly, causing slight ripples on the surface of the tea, and she frowned.