Chapter 212 Fengque Tower
As the sun sets and the lights are on, the streets of Tianjing are full of prosperity. The night market that starts from sunset usually ends until midnight the next day. How could those shops that make money in the day can miss such a good opportunity? They are already busy. The streets of Tianjing are full of pedestrians returning home and residents who have dinner for a walk, bustling with the hawkers shouting hard.
A young man in plain clothes and black hair was riding a pure black horse and moving forward among the crowd. He grabbed the reins with his left hand and a sword with his right hand. This was the privilege of the generals in the court - wearing swords in the city. If he had no military post and wearing swords, not only would the sentries at the door not allow these people to enter. Once he found out that he was wearing swords in the city, he would have to hold them thirty rods. He was detained for seven days. Passers-by saw the black sword and subconsciously chose to avoid them.
The young general on the horse was Gu Fan. After walking on the streets of Tianjing City for a while, he saw the five-story attic that seemed to be hovering in the sky from afar. Fengque Tower is located in the center of Tianjing City where every inch of land is valuable. If it is a building, it is not all. It is just a five-story building in front of the door like a phoenix in the palace. Hence the name. After the five-story building, there is a garden covering an area of 100 acres, including several five-story buildings, all of which are carved railings and jade-like buildings, layer by layer, like a phoenix roving on to the paulownia, as if it were above other buildings in Tianjing City.
In front of the Fengque Tower, there are six rows of beautifully dressed and handsome Haonu. Behind the door is the long and long corridor passing through the hall, connecting the small building behind it.
Many bright carriages at the door, green nick sedan chairs, pink gold paint sedan chairs, etc., were all organized under the guidance of the slaves, and there was no panic at all.
Such decorations and momentum can make ordinary civilians and even ordinary families with small wealthy families discourage.
This is true. The minimum consumption of "Fengque Tower" costs hundreds of taels of silver every time, which is a typical gold-selling cave. Moreover, Fengque Tower occupies such a good market, how can it only be a business of wine, meat, food and accommodation? Fengque Tower is the largest brothel in Tianjing City.
Gu Fan looked at a row of profound and exquisite pavilions, as well as the faint pink tooth tents on the top of the pavilions, and the faint fragrance mixed with the slight sound of silk and bamboo orchestras. Before he could enter, he could already feel the warm fragrance of soft jade and the slight sound, which made people's roots rot.
Fortunately, Gu Fan knew that Fengque Tower was not a dirty place for business. Although there were brothels in Fengque Tower, they were all pure officials, who only sold their skills and not their bodies. The women inside were all beautiful girls who were proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and were amazing in poetry and songs. The princes and nobles of Tianjing City, civil and military ministers, and sometimes they often spent a lot of money to invite these pure officials to the scene. This was an elegant place of elegance, but it was very different from the brothels that were generally engaged in business.
However, such places make more money than brothels that sell meat.
In the city of Tianjing, some idle princes, nobles, literati, civil and military ministers would call friends every now and then, hold small church meetings, drink and have fun, talk about poetry, appreciate calligraphy and painting, etc.
At this time, women need to accompany you to appear romantic, especially elegant women. Of course, maids, concubines, and tigresses at home are all inappropriate.
Of course, these honest officials are the most suitable ones.
Every time the church meeting, if you want to invite these honest officials, even the coldest ones will cost hundreds of taels of silver. It is not uncommon for those red ones to be thousands of taels.
As the leader of the Confucian minister, the Murong family never held such a church. The Murong family even suggested to the Grand Tutor and wrote several chapters, suggesting that the court prohibit the ban on banning places of romance and misery to prevent chaos in the officialdom.
However, this memorial was strongly opposed, and even more so that the brothels in Tianjing City paid too much taxes to the court every year, and the relationship was even more complicated. Even a person like the Taifu who was powerful in the court could not be solved.
There are even rumors among the people that when Emperor Yaowu Stars enjoys the people every time he or she is in the accord on the top floor of Fengque Tower during the Dragon Yuan Festival, he or she stays in Fengque Tower every time he visits in private. Regardless of whether the rumors are true or not, he can get such a large piece of land in the center of Tianjing City and maintain such a good relationship with the royal family. No matter what, it is enough to prove that the boss of Fengque Tower has an extremely strong background, and is definitely not just economic strength. What is even more amazing is that even after working in Fengque Tower for more than ten years, the old man who has been in Fengque Tower for twenty years has never seen the boss of Fengque Tower, and he doesn’t even know any information about him. He is really a mysterious person.
When Gu Fan arrived at the gate of Fengque Tower, two noble slaves immediately came up and looked him up and down.
Generally, there are almost no people coming to Fengque Tower who ride horses like Gu Fan.
But when they saw Gu Fan wearing bright clothes and the temperament of a scholar, the slaves lowered their eyes and saw the sword around Gu Fan's waist. They immediately knew that he was a general in the army and hurriedly invited him in. When they saw the big red gift post Gu Fan took out, their faces immediately changed, and they filled with smiles, as if they were pugs begging for bones.
Gu Fan was not stingy with them. After throwing two silver coins to each of them, the two noble slaves narrowed their eyes with a smile, and bent their backs, and quickly invited Gu Fan into it.
"Where you go, you still have to pay attention to the rules."
Although Gu Fan now has many magic weapons, pills, magic tricks, but the silver on him is only a few hundred taels of silver. Most of them were military pay when he was working in the southwest and monthly profits given by his family. The reward was four taels at once, and his heart felt a little painful, but he understood the truth. Wherever he went, there would be rules. When he went to Fengque Tower, he would spend a lot of money. He should give rewards if he should be rewarded. He would be stingy, otherwise there would be many small trips waiting for you.
In Fengque Tower are many long corridors, pavilions, garden pools, and many wing rooms. The decoration is much more spacious than that of wealthy families.
After turning around, an open-minded flower hall was presented in front of me, just like the main courtyard of a wealthy family. The pavilions were bright and the courtyard was spacious, and many young people gathered. Gu Fan saw a young man surrounded by young people, dressed like a young man, holding a folding fan in his hand and a jade pendant hanging around his waist.
At this time, he was surrounded by stars in the middle of the princes and princes. Gu Fan looked closely and felt a cold sweat for the young man. This was no one else, but it was Murong Quehan who went to Yu Chuyuan to hunt with Gu Fan and Murong Que on the day of Longyuanjie... The Murong family's family rules were extremely strict. If someone knew about the place of Fengque Tower, going back would definitely not be as simple as being confined!
"Mr. Mu is such a wonderful writing!" A gentleman next to Murong Quehan covered his mouth with a painting fan and said with a smile: "This mandarin duck seems to be coming out of the painting..."
"Mr. Mu, I heard that you guys all like to draw spring. Gong, why do you like to draw flowers and birds?" A gentleman standing behind Murong Quehan walked to Murong Quehan and teased. As soon as he finished speaking, the other young men burst into laughter. Even the women of Linlang Peihuan and a few wealthy slaves around these guys laughed.
When he heard the Qing Gong mention Chun Gong, Murong Quehan's face turned red, and he immediately argued: "I, I just like to draw flowers and birds, can't you? Don't you give it to me?"
This quibbling made everyone laugh again.
When Gu Fan heard this, he smiled slightly and sighed, as if he also felt that Murong Quehan was a little cute. Suddenly, Murong Quehan looked up and saw Gu Fan walking upstairs by two slaves outside the crowd. Gu Fan and Murong Quehan looked at each other in an instant. When Murong Quehan was temporarily lost, the brush in his hand actually fell on the drawing paper with a "knock". A picture of mandarin duck playing in the water immediately touched a huge ink ball.
"Mr. Mu, why did your brush fall off?" A Qing Gongren next to him hurriedly picked up the brush that Murong Quehan fell, and looked at the picture of the mandarin duck playing in the water that was destroyed by an ink ball with regret.
"Did Mr. Mu see a girl from Fengque Tower? His eyes are straightened..." A young man in white next to Murong Quehan held a folding fan in his hand and said with a flattering smile.
"Yes, I must have fallen in love with a girl..." The people next to me agreed when they heard the young master in white.
"Hmph!" Murong Quehan suddenly threw the scroll on the table, looked at Gu Fan not far away with anger, shook his sleeves and walked out the door, which surprised the young people.
Not to mention those young masters who were with Murong Quehan, even Gu Fan felt that the second monk was confused when he saw Murong Quehan leaving. However, he heard the Haonu next to him say, "Customer, please follow us to the third floor. That guest is already waiting for you in the private room."
Gu Fan nodded and followed the two nobles up the stairs. He saw that the stairs here were paved with good marble, and the corridors on both sides were decorated with landscape calligraphy and paintings by famous artists. Each one was worth more than 1,000 taels of gold and jade. This way of embellishing calligraphy and paintings was extremely elegant. Moreover, the corridors of Fengque Tower circled up and were extremely long, which showed the height of the five-story building. After a while, Gu Fan was led by these two nobles to a room decorated with wood doors and through the blue shirt curtains.
Two nobles bowed to Gu Fan and said, "That guest is inside, the young one will leave first..."
Chapter completed!