The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

On weekdays, Jia Cong would not pay attention to an invitation from an oiran.His family owns a kiln, and he sees a lot of oirans.But when the oiran came to deliver the note, he caught up with Su Cheng's casual teasing, so he became interested.After making a verbal application with Chen Ruijin and getting approval, Mr. Jia specially changed his body with brand new pink arrow sleeves and put a branch of peach blossom on his head, which made Su Cheng roll his eyes.Chen Ruijin looked at him seriously for a long time, and took a Xishangmeishao suet pendant from his dowry and put it on for him.

Jia Cong looked down at himself, and said with a smile: "If you look like this and bring two strong thugs, all women from good families on the street will run away if they see me."

Su Cheng said: "Uncle Cong, you still have to take a folding fan and Liu Xiaoqi."

"Folding fans are unnecessary." Chen Ruijin took out a purse in the shape of a rich peony, and put some rue into it.

Jia Cong laughed and said, "It's not Mixiang."

Chen Ruijin glanced at him: "Bring Mixiang to my man and send him to a brothel?"

Jia Cong bowed: "Daughter-in-law, I was wrong!"

Su Cheng said enthusiastically, "Take some broken silver and send it to the little girl. Auntie, I still think I should have a folding fan."

Chen Ruijin said: "Bringing a folding fan is a straw package that is elegant. Your uncle is a talented man in the world, so you don't need to put on airs, just chant a poem casually to be elegant."

Jia Cong hurriedly said, "I haven't written poetry for 800 years! I don't even know how to read jingles." Su Cheng watched the two of them giggling for a while, and shouted for someone to invite Liu Xiaoqi.

Nothing happened recently, Zhenming is pointing out a few small martial arts.Hearing that Miss Su invited him, Liu Xiaoqi smiled flatteringly at Zhenming.Zhenming snorted and waved him away.Liu Xiaoqi rushed to Jia Cong's yard in a hurry.When he asked, he actually accompanied Jia Cong to meet the oiran!He hurriedly aimed his eyes at Chen Ruijin.Chen Ruijin said: "If Jia Cong wants to pretend to be a rich man, you should pretend to be a thug."

Liu Xiaoqi muttered, "Isn't it another rich man?" He looked up at Jia Cong's outfit for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, let me wear such a suit, I'd rather be a thug."

Jia Cong snorted, "What do you know, this is called role needs!"

Liu Xiaoqi found the clothes of the people under her body to wear, and borrowed a very thick gold ring to show off her wealth.Chen Ruijin glanced at it for a while, and asked him to take off the gold ring, wrap it half a circle with red cotton thread, and put it back on.Jia Cong laughed and said, "It was dirt, now it's even dirtier!"

Liu Xiaoqi pointed to the peach blossom on his head: "Big brother, don't laugh at second brother!" Several people laughed for a long time.

The two of them were not afraid of being ostentatious, each rode on a tall horse, and happily headed for Hongxiangfang.

Li Tao, the oiran, lives in Hongxiangfang.When I got to the place, I saw that the business here was good.Upstairs, red sleeves are frequently recruited, and the signboards at the door are all brand new.As soon as the two of them entered the door, the old bustard squeezed his throat and shouted "Master~~", waving a handkerchief and approaching Jia Cong.Before she could boast for her girls, Jia Cong smiled and took out Xue Taojian from Li Tao's bosom and handed it over.

The old bustard took a look and was stunned. He raised his head and looked at Jia Cong several times: "This is the uncle?"

Jia Cong nodded and pointed to his nose: "It's true!"

Liu Xiaoqi followed behind and shouted: "It's true!"

The old bustard forced a smile all over his face: "Uncle Jia, Miss Li has been waiting for a long time, please come to my servant~~" He quietly glanced at them again.

Following the old bustard all the way to the backyard, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed.Some mountains dripping water, small bridges and corridors, exquisite and delicate.Turning into a small courtyard through the bamboo forest path, seeing a few peach blossoms in full bloom in the courtyard, green radishes entangled with graceful Taihu stones, and smelling a strange fragrance, Jia Cong said: "To be able to reach the highest level in a profession, personal attainments must be It’s not shallow. The highest level of fantou is the oiran. The aesthetics of the oiran’s courtyard must not be vulgar. There are completely two worlds between here and the outside.”

The old bustard laughed and said, "Oh, it's the first time I've heard such a compliment from my family. He really is a scholar, and his sweet mouth is different from others." Now he looked at Jia Cong with a more relaxed look.Liu Xiaoqi snickered.

Jia Cong said seriously: "I said it is a principle that is universally applicable, it is a rule, not a sweetheart."

"Yes, yes." The old bustard covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled, and opened the door curtain, "Master Jia, please~~"

Jia Cong coughed, took square steps towards the threshold with his hands behind his back, and was taken aback for a moment.

This is the main hall.The room is not big, and the first thing you see is a large ebony plaque with three beautiful characters on it, "Tao Li Tang".Hanging below is Tang Bohu's "Qingxi Song Meng Tu".In the middle of a small sandalwood table, the aroma is tangy.There is an ancient bronze bottle on the case, with ebony bases on both sides for couplets, but no couplets.Jia Cong asked casually, "Why are the couplets empty?"

Then I heard a woman say softly: "I beg you to send me a pair."

There is also a huge wooden vat in the middle of the hall, which is steaming hot.A young woman sat naked in it, the hot water just did not reach the tip of her nipples, and half of the two round lotus pods were exposed.There are no flower petals in the jar, only clear water, and the skin is white and plump under the mist.The woman didn't apply makeup, her plain face was delicate and beautiful, comparable to the glowing peach blossoms on the trees outside.Looking at the door with bright eyes, Jia Cong and Liu Xiaoqi felt as if someone had slapped her chest, and she couldn't breathe.

Liu Xiaoqi kicked Jia Cong.Jia Cong looked up at the plaque, and said in his mouth: "The insight of the world is knowledge, and the understanding of human feelings is the article."

The woman chuckled: "Is this the couplet in Mr.'s study?"

"That's not it." Jia Cong also laughed, "It was hung in an upper room of our relative Ningguo's Mansion." Nai moved his eyes down, looked at the woman openly, and suddenly a few paintings flashed in his mind .In the city where he lived in his previous life, the museum often held exhibitions of famous European paintings.The woman's pose is natural and casual, resembling a Titian painting.The Dajiala Art Museum also collected many works of this Italian, but because of the large cultural differences, they did not confiscate the works of all nude women.He was staring at the naked beauty, Liu Xiaoqi coughed and kicked him again.Jia Cong looked at the woman and cupped his fists apologetically, "Sorry, I'm sorry."

The woman tilted her head and looked at him with a smile on her lips, but there was no smile in her eyes: "Are you Duanxiu?"

"Hey! Don't distort my sexual orientation!" Jia Cong hurriedly said, "I'm straighter than chopsticks."

The woman stood up with her hands on the rim of the tank, splashing with water, like a white jade statue standing in front of the two men.Jia Cong immediately thought of many famous Western sculptures of nudes.The woman stood grandly in the tank, and asked with a smile, "Is it pretty?"

Jia Cong sized her up and praised, "It's pretty. It's not easy to carve everyone, and the human body is indeed the most difficult to express." Liu Xiaoqi coughed twice.Jia Cong cupped his fists again apologetically, "I'm sorry, I'm thinking too far." He said considerately, "It's still cold, you have to get up, wipe it off quickly, or you'll catch a cold immediately. If you don't want to wear clothes, just Sit inside and don't get up."

The woman opened her eyes wide and stared at Jia Cong for a long time, then sat back in the vat in frustration, and said unwillingly after a long time: "Are you really not broken sleeves?"

"Really not." Jia Cong said, "I have seen many beauties of all kinds since I was a child. And my family opened a kiln, and it is the most famous kiln in Beijing, I am used to it."

The woman said angrily: "You have never slept with sister Yao, and there is no maid at home."

Jia Cong shrugged: "If I want to sleep, do I want as much as I want? I don't want things that are at my fingertips. It's just like Mr. Su Tao will not accept bribes, because the family has money."

The woman is dumb.After a while, the woman narrowed her eyes and looked at Jia Cong: "No. Your eyes look like you are looking at an object."

Jia Cong said honestly: "I have seen many Western oil paintings and sculptures of nude women. In the West, body painting and body sculpture are two very common types, and there are many masterpieces. I personally like the Italian painter Titian Vecellio. style. By the way, Miss Li...you are Miss Li Tao." The woman nodded. "If Ms. Li is interested, she can learn Western oil painting. Using yourself as a model, you may be famous forever. The whole concept of people in future generations will change. After 200 years, there will be a female painter named Zhang Yuliang, who also came from a family background. Wouldn’t they be respected by the world?”

Li Tao smiled sweetly: "Mr. Jia, why don't you make a painting for my family, so that it will be famous forever in the future?"

Jia Cong spread his hands: "Unfortunately, I won't."

Li Tao said angrily, "Sir, why don't you learn? Mr. Jia is a great talent in the world, and it's easy to learn Western painting ideas." While speaking, he stretched out his slender hands to stir the water on the surface of the tank.

"It's not true." Jia Cong said, "I don't have artistic talent, and my husband forced me to practice calligraphy when I was young."

Li Tao glanced at him, his eyes were full of waves, and suddenly the circles around his eyes became red again: "If the third grandma asks you to draw her, you will definitely be able to draw."

"No." Jia Cong said.Liu Xiaoqi kicked him again.Jia Cong explained, "My daughter-in-law knows that I am not good at this, so she won't let me draw her, for fear that I will paint her as a saltless Yaksha."

Li Tao stared at him for a long time, like watching a monster.After a long time, he sighed dejectedly: "Mr. Jia is indeed a cultivator."

Jia Cong said with a smile: "This has nothing to do with cultivating Taoism. Although sex and love are two different things, once a person has a lover in his heart—whether he is a man or a woman, or whether the person he loves is of the same sex or the opposite sex, look at the handsome men and beautiful women. It’s like looking at oil paintings and sculptures. I appreciate its natural beauty, and I’m not interested in having sex with it.” He thought for a while, and then said, “Actually, I don’t really support your profession. Of course I know, As long as there is a species of human beings, there must be two primitive occupations of killer and prostitute. Before I got married, I didn't feel much. After I got married, I felt..." Nai smiled, "Coitus is a kind of It is a very happy thing. If you don’t like the other party but you have to have sex with them, it will destroy the happiness of this behavior. For example, you. It’s okay if every guest is satisfied, but in fact most of the guests are I'm not satisfied. What kind of wrinkled old man, greasy fat man, dirty muddy legs..."

Li Tao angrily hit the water: "Shut up!" Jia Cong shut up immediately, and made a gesture of putting on a plaster.Li Tao closed his eyes lightly, two lines of tears dripped from the corners of his eyes.Liu Xiaoqi quickly gave a thumbs up from behind and stretched it out in front of Jia Cong, then quickly retracted it.

Li Tao didn't wipe away her tears, she stood up with her mouth pursed, raised her legs and stepped out of the big wooden vat, walked barefoot to Mu Shi next to her, took down a big cloth towel, and Shi Shiran wiped her body.Then he turned around and took the clothes on the imperial concubine's couch, from the small clothes to the pink brocade robe, all in one go, like flowing clouds and flowing water, when Jia Cong and Liu Xiaoqi were two sculptures.After putting on the clothes, he turned around and smiled at the two of them: "Do I look good?"

Jia Cong raised his hand to tear the plaster from his mouth, then wiped his mouth twice with the back of his hand, Fang nodded: "It looks good, in an objective sense."

Li Tao looked at Liu Xiaoqi again: "What does that little brother think?"

Liu Xiaoqi also nodded: "It looks good in the objective sense."

Sitting on the imperial concubine's couch, Li Tao wiped her feet with a cloth towel and asked, "What is objective meaning?"

"Just don't have personal preferences, and stand from the perspective of a bystander." Jia Cong said, "Miss Li is a rare beauty both in motion and stillness."

Li Tao looked up at him slightly, then lowered his head to put on his socks: "Mr. Jia has seen countless beauties in his life. In your opinion, who is the most objective beauty?"

Jia Cong thought, "Objective beauties... Mrs. Xue, the wife of Jiang Zixuan, Marquis of Pingyuan in the capital, and Mrs. Chen, the concubine of Wu Wang. They are the most objectively beautiful women I have ever seen."

Li Tao began to put on the pink silk shoes: "In Mr. Jia's personal preference, who is the most beautiful woman?"

"Subjective aesthetics——" Jia Cong said, "My wife, Ms. Chen Ruijin, and my cousin, Ms. Lin Daiyu, a military advisor of Yan Wangzheng's North American Second Route Army, are the two women I think are the most beautiful subjectively."

Liu Xiaoqi said softly from behind: "Last time you said the most beautiful woman was Liu Er's sister-in-law?"

Jia Cong said seriously: "I personally think that Sister-in-law Liu is the most coquettish woman. With her charming posture, women will fall in love with her. This is what I mean by dynamic beauty. In terms of appearance alone, Sister Xue and Concubine Chen are the best."

Li Tao burst out laughing, shook his head and said: "It seems that the slave family is not attractive."

Jia Cong said with a smile: "A single flower is not spring, and spring is full of thousands of purples and reds. Each has its own beauty, and even the small flowers on the roadside are touching. Miss Li is no exception."

Li Tao stared at him with a half-smile and said: "Mr. Jia is really very cautious. He praises me in every sentence, and stays out of it." Nai glanced at Liu Xiaoqi, and said softly, "But I'm afraid that someone will go back and ask me The third grandma complained, and the third grandma will show the face to the grandfather?"

Jia Cong hurriedly said: "What I'm telling is the truth!" Then he looked back at Liu Xiaoqi, "Of course I'm also afraid that my daughter-in-law will be unhappy. It's not that I'm afraid that she will show her face, just coax her. I like her, so I care about it." Her emotions, I don't want to make her feel bad."

Li Tao scrutinized him for a long time, and seeing that he was not fake, he sighed: "The third grandma is actually a blessing accumulated in several lifetimes, to have such a husband who always cares about her."

Jia Cong also sighed: "I'm the one who has acquired the blessings of countless lifetimes. I have an ordinary appearance and ordinary aptitude." In the next life, "it's a lottery to catch up with a goddess like her." After a while, he said with emotion, "No matter how good you are to her now, it can't bring back the suffering she suffered when she was young. The real suffering is the suffering when she was a child..."

Li Tao said helplessly: "Beauty doesn't work anymore."

"Well, it doesn't work." Jia Cong said, "Any other tricks?"

"Yes." Li Tao turned around lightly, "Please come with the third master and my servant."