Chapter 179 What? ! My parents also came to see the courtesan?

Shen Chaoyan’s curiosity was piqued: [What kind of gossip could there be in our family?]

Tianshu: [Your eldest brother and your second brother are old enough to get married. Your mother wanted to find a girl for them, but they refused. Your mother suspected that the two brothers had problems in that area and was planning to have another one!]

Shen Chaoyan’s eyes lit up: [What do you mean by having another one? It’s not what I think it means, is it?]

Tianshu: [It’s what you think it means.]

Shen Chaoyan became even more excited. She loved this kind of gossip: [Wow! My mother is great! I support my mother to give me another brother or sister!]

Her mother, Lu Qiyun, was only 37 years old. In the world she used to live in, 30-something was the best age for a woman.

There are many people who get married and have children at this age. Her mother wants to have a fourth child. As a child, she will of course support it unconditionally.

Tianshu: [However, your father has been busy with court affairs recently and has neglected your mother. Your mother thought that your father was too old to do it, so she went to Miaoshoutang to find a doctor and spent two hundred coins to buy a pair of aphrodisiacs. ]

Shen Chaoyan: [Oh my! In ancient times, Wei...Brother sold so expensively? ]

Tianshu: [Your mother bought fifty packs. ]

Shen Chaoyan was completely shocked: [My mother went to wholesale aphrodisiacs? Two hundred divided by fifty is only four coins per pack. It is worthy of the ancient times, the prices are really cheap! ]

Tianshu: [Miaoshoutang can stand firm in the capital by making small profits but quick turnover. But! Is cheapness the main point? 】

Shen Chaoyan thought for a moment:【So, what is the effect? ​​My mother can't be pregnant already, right?】

Tianshu:【That's not the case.】

Shen Chaoyan:【My father is only forty-five years old. Is his talent already gone? Fifty packets of aphrodisiac can't save him?】

Tianshu:【No, your father got angry when he knew that your mother added aphrodisiac to the tonic soup he fed him. He had a cold war with your mother. Recently, the two old people have been sleeping in separate rooms. Your mother sleeps in the bedroom, and your father sleeps in the study.】

Shen Chaoyan:【No way! I was still hoping to hug my younger brother and sister, but this is the result?】

No, no, it's not good for the old couple to have conflicts. It affects their relationship!

We have to find a way to reconcile them!

Because Sikong Yu was guilty of a heinous crime, he could not be buried in the imperial mausoleum after his death. The Prince Jing's mansion was raided, and his funeral was over in just two days.

Sikong Yan handed the mess he left behind to Shen Yushu and Zhang Huaimin, two of his trusted men, one civil and one military, to deal with.

And he himself finally had some free time. After dealing with several urgent memorials at noon, he came to have lunch with Shen Chaoyan.

"Your Majesty, please try this beef soup first."

Shen Chaoyan personally served Sikong Yan a bowl of soup, and then kept picking up dishes for him, "The stir-fried phoenix tongue is delicious, the cherry meat is very flavorful, and the sweet-scented osmanthus shark fin is particularly fragrant."

It is said that those who are attentive to others for no reason are either treacherous or thieves.

Sikong Yan looked at the pile of dishes on his plate and raised his eyebrows at Shen Chaoyan, "My beloved concubine, is there anything you want to tell me?"

In fact, he had already heard what was entangled in Shen Chaoyan's heart.

Shen Chaoyan put down the chopsticks in her hand and began to lay the mat, "Your Majesty, I had a dream last night. I dreamed that my father and mother quarreled because of me. They quarreled so much that they even slept in separate rooms."

At this point, she paused and said with a worried look on her face, "This dream is too real. I am worried and want to go back to the Shen Mansion to see my parents. Do you think it's okay?" Anyway,

in the original comic, the original male and female protagonists often went out of the palace to show their love in various ways.

And she had been back to the Shen Mansion before.

Therefore, as long as she could make Sikong Yan happy, she could leave the palace this time.

Sikong Yan thought that she left the palace to reconcile her parents' relationship and sleep in the same room, so he agreed.

Anyway, his father-in-law and mother-in-law are good at educating children. If they can give birth to another pillar of the Great Xia Dynasty, it will be a happy event that benefits the country and the people.

"Then pack up, and when Li Heguang leaves the palace to do business in the afternoon, you go out with him. Three days later, I will go to the Shen Mansion to pick you up."

Shen Chaoyan was very happy to see that the man agreed on the spot. She hugged his neck and kissed him, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

In fact, in her opinion, it doesn't matter whether there are brothers and sisters.

She mainly wants to go back to repair the emotional rift between her parents.

In the afternoon, Shen Chaoyan dressed up as a little eunuch again and sneaked out of the palace with Li Heguang's carriage.

On the way out of the palace, Shen Chaoyan changed his eunuch uniform and changed into men's clothes.

When she passed by the Shen family shop, she opened the curtain and happened to see Shen Linfeng standing at the door of the shop.

So she immediately asked Li Heguang to stop the carriage, "Li, my second brother is here, I will go back with my second brother later."

"My queen, please be careful outside."

Li Heguang watched her walk to the front of the Shen family shop, watched her reunite with Shen Linfeng, and then left.

"Second brother!"

Shen Linfeng never thought that Shen Chaoyan would actually leave the palace. He looked at Shen Chaoyan in men's clothes with surprise and said with a smile, "Sister, you came at the right time! There is a courtesan competition on the Hongxiulou painting boat tonight. Let's go and take a look."

Courtesan competition?

It sounds very interesting.

It's not too late to persuade parents when you go back tonight, let's go to the painting boat first!

So, the brother and sister hit it off.

In the afternoon, after Shen Chaoyan accompanied Shen Linfeng to inspect the shop, they went to the pleasure boat together.

The Hongxiulou pleasure boat, on a five-story luxurious ship, is the best pleasure boat in the capital.

The ship is very large, with nearly a hundred rooms on it.

Hongxiulou has an unwritten rule that it only receives eighty-eight guests every night.

When night falls, when the number of guests on the Hongxiulou flower boat reaches eighty-eight, the flower boat will leave the river bank and slowly head to the island in the middle of the lake.

This lake is located in the west of the capital. Looking down from the sky, the shape of the entire lake is like a round gourd, so it is called "Fat West Lake" by the people.

There is an island in the middle of Fat West Lake, and the winner of the Oiran Contest will be sent to the island in the middle of the lake.

The guests would hold up cards to bid for the virginity of the courtesan, and whoever offered the highest price would be able to spend the night with the courtesan on the island in the middle of the lake.

Shen Chaoyan certainly couldn't miss such an interesting and lively event.

Thinking of the fact that the son of the great scholar Wen Boyan had been married for many years but had never had a wedding night, she felt that how a couple spends their first night after marriage was something that needed people like her to popularize.

However, the booklet she had drawn before had already been sent out, and it seemed that there were not enough poses and patterns on it.

And a place like the flower boat was the most suitable place to draw inspiration.

After she walked around and looked around more tonight, she could give the booklet she drew to her second brother to print more, specially for newlyweds.

It will definitely sell well!

The interior of the painting house was very spacious. After walking in, the stage decorated with flowers and satin came into view.

The seats under the stage were already full of guests.

When Shen Chaoyan saw the introduction of the characters above their heads, his eyes widened.

Wow!

What

a bunch of acquaintances!

There are the governors of the Censorate, the ministers of the Ministry of Works, the Minister of Public Administration, the vice ministers of the Ministry of Revenue, the generals of Huaihua, the generals of the Household, the Marquis of Yichun, the eunuchs of the East Factory, the eunuchs of the West Factory, and even the 82-year-old retired old Tai Shi.

[The eunuchs of the East Factory and the West Factory came to join in the fun. As human beings, they have physical defects. I can understand that they come here to be served by women to find the dignity of men, but what is the 82-year-old old Tai Shi doing here? 】

Heavenly Book: [The old Tai Shi has a hobby. He likes to eavesdrop. Later, he will take advantage of the chaos and hide under the bed in other people's rooms to eavesdrop on what they are doing. 】

Shen Chaoyan: [Frog fun! An old lady teacher at her age is still eavesdropping? Imagine the exciting scene of the bed being hit and shaking... Tsk tsk tsk! Can an eighty-year-old heart bear it? Huh? Wait! The two figures hiding in the northeast corner and northwest corner look so familiar to me? 】

Tianshu: [Of course they look familiar! One of them is your dear mother, and the other is your beloved old father! 】

Shen Chaoyan was almost petrified on the spot: [What, what? ! Why did my parents come to the brothel so late at night? 】