Chapter 15 (1/2)
Chapter 15 “Ancient Zither, Lute and Drums”
Normally no child would come to such a place, but this place was really unusual, cause n.o.body was surprised that Qingqing came here”
“This really is not an usual brothel” The middle-aged woman said as her vision concentrated on the crowd “This crowd is really diverse! There’s at least six 4-star martial artists here. There’s even a 7-starred one. He dresses as a person from Saint Academy unexpectedly! Eh? Why does he have blood qi on him? Is it possible that he’s injured ?”
“Saint Academy?” Little girl Qingqing said in a low voice “What does a person from one of the Six Great Orthodoxies doing here? Moreover a 7-star martial artist!” After a moment of thought she said, “It is indeed not a simple brothel, let’s see what’s happening here then.”
After entering, Qingqing and the mysterious woman sat in a remote corner to not bring any unnecessary attention. After all, in such a crowd n.o.body would really care about two persons.
When they sat down, a good looking male of 18 years old came to their table and asked carefully, “Would the two respectable ladies like something to drink ?” He had a black butler costume with on it “Warm Fragrant Building” embroidered with golden thread.
“What are you serving?” Qingqing said confidently, without any restraint. The young male quickly explained, “We mainly serve wine, but we also have some melon juice and the like.”
Normally, a woman would order a cup of wine for herself, but obviously Qingqing was too small to drink so she said, “We’ll just ask for some juice then”
“At this moment!” The young man said, and he asked curiously, “Are the two respectable ladies first time here? I’ll explain, to eat, drink, and watch a show one must pay up the table’s minimum fee. This table lowest cost is four taels of silver.”
“En.” The middle aged woman said as she took a silver plate, the cost of which would be at least an estimated 10 taels, and had thrown it to the waiter and said, “Take it, the rest is yours.” Having earned six taels of silver, the young male had quickly excused himself to bring their drinks.
The rich were treated quite differently, as the waiter quickly came back. “This drink is of a secret recipe that was provided by the Ninth Prince His Highness, it has the effect of clearing the mind. The respectable ladies will surely be satisfied!”
When the woman sniffed her drink, she said with a grin, “Rejuvenating Jade Flower, and a little bit of Heaven Grief Ginseng, good it really has the effect of clearing the mind!” She unexpectedly deduced the materials without even trying the drink!
“This respectable lady sure is fierce!” When the young man heard the woman say the materials, he had almost bitten his tongue of.
“Not worth mentioning.” The woman smiled, and said, “However this place is quite unusual. Could it all be the Ninth Prince’s idea?” When she said that, she unconsciously looked at Hong Xiaobao. Meanwhile Qingqing drank from her cup, and was listening carefully to the man’s explanation.
When the young man heard Hong Xiaobao’s name he said with a wors.h.i.+pping gaze, “Before, our ‘Warm Fragrant Building’ was an ordinary brothel. But in recent years, the Demonic Beasts have been attacking us more and more. More and more of crops were destroyed. Therefore people were training their martial arts in order to protect the simple people. But it meant a lot less traffic for our Warm Fragrant Building.
Listening to his words, the woman nodded. “Practising martial arts to protect common people and their lands is the correct path. But what happened afterwards?”
Because there were Demonic Beast in this world, everybody practised martial arts. For a martial artist closing up for a year of closed-door cultivation was nothing. Therefore who had the mood and time to come to a brothel?
“Afterwards, the Ninth Prince had come to this place and liked it. He gave us money, and he said that this was … uuhh … yes! He called that an ‘investment’! So, after he ‘invested’, he introduced these new things to us.” The young male said with a smile. “The Ninth Prince is a very intelligent person, when he implemented this performance art scene, it received everybody’s praise. The business is also raging!”
“En, these new thing I would really like to see.” The woman suddenly asked. “But in here I saw many martial artist, many powerful characters. Do they come here to relax?”
When they just came in, she had discovered that this place was full of crouching tigers and hidden dragons*. Why would 5-star, 6-star, or even 7-star martial artists come here?
“Respectable ladies may not know that in here we do not only perform arts. Here there are also a lot of weaponry exhibited for show. Also, when the Ninth Prince is in the mood, he will come to our place to explain the World’s Mysteries to these martial artists.”
“En, originally is like this.” The beautiful woman said as she drank from her cup, and spoke no longer.
No matter what in this world, something that could help martial artists would be a good thing. This brothel was truly not simple!
Meanwhile, on the platform four young women had stepped onto the platform. They unexpectedly were a quadruplet, wearing leopard skirts**. This unusual look was really enchanting, and all the man below couldn’t keep their eyes off of them. What was more mysterious, besides two girls holding a pipa***, one was sitting beside the zither. But what was really inconceivable that one of the girls was holding a pair of tambourines.
“Zither and drums?” Such accompaniment was never heard of, and as soon as Qingqing saw it, she instantaneously became curious.
The four girls looked quickly at each other, after which they all nodded. The fourth girl began playing on her drums with two small drumsticks, “Thump, thump, Bang!”