Chapter 499 (2/2)

”Come in, young man.”

As soon as he arrived at the gate, a warm tortoise came up.

Song Yan nodded and went in with Guigong.

After entering the door, there is a huge screen, behind which there are laughter from men and women.

Around the screen, there is a wide hall in the eye. The hall is divided into two parts, with dozens of wine tables in each half. Nearly 100 tables are full, but there are a group of men and women holding each other.

Naturally, men come to ask for flowers and willows, while women come from the brothel. However, unlike song Yan's imagination, these women are more conservative in their dress. They don't show their chest or thighs. In the real world, those women's dress is far from perfect.

In the middle of the hall, there is a wooden ladder leading to the second floor. There is a faint sound of piano and other instruments coming from the upstairs room.

”Do you drink flower wine? Or listen to the music? ” Asked the tortoise, bowing.

”What's the difference between the two?” Song Yan asked curiously.

The Tortoise replied: ”drinking flower wine is just like in the hall. Let the girls in our building eat and drink with you. The drinks are free. Ordinary girls have one or two silver coins at a time and two silver coins at a time with good looks. If you want to stay overnight, the cost will be calculated separately.As for listening to music, you have to go to the box upstairs. One box is fifty Liang silver. If you are interested in the girl who performs music for you and want to spend the night, you have to add fifty Liang. ”

Song Yan nodded, ”where is the third floor?”

Guigong explained: ”the third floor is the first floor of our Tianxiang building. If you want to enter the third floor, you have to pay ten liang of silver for entering the building. There are nine first floors in our Tianxiang building. Every day, they will put up a question in front of the door. Only when you answer the question can you be qualified to be the first lady in the house.”

”What if you can't answer it?” Song Yan asked.

Guigong smiled: ”you are the kind of talented person, how can you not answer? However, if the childe disdains to answer questions, he can pay another one hundred Liang and enter the first-class room. ”

”You will do business. Take me to the third floor!” Song Yan takes out two ingots of silver and throws it to Guigong.

Suddenly, Guigong's eyes flashed. The two ingots of silver were at least 1782. Apart from the entrance fee of 12liang, the remaining 782 were half of his share in the building, which could be at least 30liang of silver. For a while, he became more enthusiastic: ”young man, please!”

All the way to the third floor, song Yan saw nine rooms.

However, there have been three rooms whose signs have been removed. Obviously, those three rooms have already had guests first.

In front of the other six rooms, there is a title board, or a poem written according to the title, or a couplet, or a riddle.

Song Yan is interested in it. He has browsed all the topics on six brands.

”Childe, this room is the Huakui Su Niang in our building. Unfortunately, her problem is too difficult. So far, she hasn't been admitted!” Guigong pointed to the biggest room and said.

Song Yan looked up and saw that Hua Kui's title was a couplet. The first couplet was: overlapping mountains, green mountains and heavy mountains.

But he said in his mouth, ”can you go in even if you give a hundred liang of silver?”

Tortoise Justice: ”the vegetable Niang and her eight first cards are different, only answers the question correctly to be able to enter.”

”I see.”

Song Yan nodded. He had learned a lot, but it was not difficult to get out of the couplet. Just then, a young man dressed as a childe came down to the third floor with the support of two servants and a middle-aged scholar.

”Mr. Wang, it's up to you whether my son can become the first guest of Huakui tonight!” The young man said to the middle-aged scholar eagerly.

The middle-aged scholar smiled proudly: ”don't worry, Mr. Zhou. What the students are good at is pairing up. Tonight, you are guaranteed to be the guest of honor of Huakui!”

[author's extras]: sanguine