Chinese New Year…Oh, it’s not Chinese New Year, but it’s also urging marriage!

“Since this brothel is solved, let’s go to the next one.”

Xu Yanmiao pondered for a while and arranged the itinerary for tonight.

The moonlight is hazy tonight, and the colorful clothes are intoxicating. Some officials sat in another brothel. In the midst of the sound, color, and makeup, their minds were distracted. They took off their pants and belts and prepared to take up their guns and go into battle.

[Wow! The pipa in this building is so beautiful! ]

Nai Gong——

The beginning of the dirty words squeezed to the mouth, and the rest of the words could not be spit out.

The officials’ faces turned pale and pale, and they took a deep breath.

If you can’t afford to provoke, you can afford to hide! They changed a place!

So they changed a brothel.

Admiring the flowers, the moon and the beauty, nodding their heads, reciting poems and making couplets. The beauty listened to the poems, and after a dance, she looked back and smiled sweetly.

The quilt was already warm, the atmosphere was just right, and the officials were dazed...t

[Hey! How come I see an acquaintance again? It turns out that he not only visits the brothel every day, but also changes one every day? ]

[He is rich enough, these fresh soups and desserts in the brothel don’t seem to be cheap? ]

"?!"

The officials were so scared that they trembled, and Mingji watched the other party suddenly become silver-plated gun heads, and almost couldn't keep the elegant and charming smile on her face.

"Enqing..."

Before they finished their words and started teasing again, they saw their patrons hurriedly stand up, tie their belts, and make similar excuses: "I suddenly remembered that I had unfinished business, so I left first."

After a few days, those officials looked haggard.

——No one can stand being exposed every day, showing how unhealthy they are in front of their colleagues, or broadcasting to the whole building whether they are short, flat, and fast.

They found a time and chose a certain official's mansion to gather together.

In the middle of the night, a square table, a figure, a copper lamp, and precious ointment burning in the cup.

These officials gathered around the square table with solemn expressions:

"Who knows! What on earth does Xiao Bai Ze want to do!"

Everyone was crazy.

If it were someone else, they would have warned or taken action. If they were more ruthless, they would have killed the man and dumped his body, pretending that it was Tiger who did it, and then pushed out a scapegoat. If the emperor is unhappy, so what? The man is dead anyway.

But... this Bai Ze! He has a golden body! An

official suddenly stood up and walked around the room, rubbing his shoes: "Why is he so kind! He even sympathizes with the brothel girls? Why doesn't he sympathize with his colleagues who are innocent and infected? Don't we just like to have fun? Who did we offend? It's not us who built the brothel!"

Another official smiled bitterly: "He walks around there every day and doesn't bother us. We can't stand it ourselves."

"I really can't stand it! It's disgusting! He talks about this disease and that disease every day, this short and that short..."

The other officials glanced at him secretly and remembered that this person was the shocked [Three Breaths! Only three breaths! Does he need to see a doctor?】 The victim. Hearing that he didn’t pay that day, he left in a rage.

Oh, Xu Yanmo was also the one who complained about not paying.

【I’ve never seen such a thing in my life! It’s fine if he was short, but why didn’t he pay? It’s shameful to be a freeloader!】

According to the victim’s tearful confession, he forgot that day, and these brothels would keep a record for regular customers, so he wasn’t a freeloader!

Everyone felt sympathetic, but the title of “freeloader” still stuck with the victim.

"There is a way." An official tapped the table with his fingers, and said with a smile: "If he wants to close the brothel, let him close it. After that, we don't care about anything, but we don't suppress it deliberately. After leaving the brothel, what can those things pickled in rouge and powder do? In order to eat and live, they will have to find patrons sooner or later. By then, Xu Yanmo will know that they are willing to be lowly. He won't care."

"Why not suppress it?"

"Suppress it? Do you want to give Xiao Bai Ze something to talk about, or are you afraid that the things in your family will not be exposed?"

The person who answered the call laughed twice and said no more.

Everyone in the room was excited at once, and they talked one after another to finalize the matter.

The next day, Xu Yanmiao heard that all the brothels were closed and the indentures of the prostitutes were destroyed, but these prostitutes were not happy, and they were all gloomy.

"Isn't this certain?"

Lian Hang really rarely saw Xu Lang angry.

The young man scolded other young men: "I don't know which young man this is, he has some money and he does things! Is this how you sympathize with the prostitutes? I was still checking the location, and he did it directly?!" [Let

me see which young man it is, he is not good at doing things but more than making trouble! ]

Before I had time to look, I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, and someone outside shouted: "Minister Cui Yi is here, I wonder if Xu Lang is at home."

Lian Hang: "..."

Pretend to be hard, you can hear the voice in your heart, who doesn't know that Xu Yanmiao is at home.

Xu Yanmiao opened the door in confusion—there was no concierge or servants in his house, and he did everything himself: "Excuse me..."

Xu Yanmiao was stunned.

He hadn't noticed these two days, why did Cui Yi seem to walk in a wrong way?

[Oh oh!]

[She was caught by the madam when she went to the brothel, and was beaten black and blue. The marks on her face finally disappeared, but her legs are still lame.] [No matter how I explained to my madam , I couldn't prove that I was really just pulled over by my colleagues... Oh

, the reason I was pulled over was to prove that I was not controlled by my wife, so I didn't struggle, haha ​​... When Xu Yanmo asked him what he was doing here, Cui Yi calmed down and spoke eloquently. The point is that he has a small fortune, and now he heard that Hua Niang has nowhere to go, so he wants to provide her with a job and sincerely invites Xu Lang to donate. ——The donation is fake, tell Xu Lang, yes, this good thing is me, you must remember it! It is true! "Yi's wife's family has several manors and fruit trees, which can be taken care of by those Hua Niang."

"I have dozens of ponds and countless fish and shrimps. It's not difficult to ask those flower girls to help."

"If they are willing to herd livestock, my ranch is also short of people."

"If they are willing to learn to take care of

the sandalwood, thorny mulberry and hemp, they can also be assigned to manage." "If they know some needlework, my wife can also help them with embroidery work."

"We can also arrange laundry work for them."

Seeing that Xu Lang's eyes seemed to be getting brighter and brighter as she described, Cui Yi immediately described the way out she had arranged for the flower girls more actively, like a big rooster shaking its colorful tail.

Cui Yi was almost laughed to death by her colleagues.

This - an opportunity that came right to her door! Isn't this better than giving money or chatting awkwardly to leave a good impression?

Only a fool would give up trying to please Xiao Bai Ze just to not get to sleep with a few Hua Niangs at night!

As for the possibility of retaliation and getting bullied... Tsk, what can you do in the officialdom that won't cause people to hate you? I'm really afraid of this, I'd better quit being an official!

After finishing the story, Cui Yi accepted a little donation from the kind-hearted Xu Lang as a token of his appreciation - he didn't dare to accept too much, so he said that he would go to every house, fifty to one hundred copper coins would be enough, no more.

After collecting the money, he walked out of the door with his head held high, and then he ran into the doctor from the Ministry of Justice.

It was right in front of Xu Yanmiao's house, less than ten steps out of the door.

The two made eye contact and paused, and then tacitly chose not to pursue each other.

After the doctor from the Ministry of Justice entered the door, Cui Yi heard a voice from behind -

[Eh? What day is today? Another person is looking for donations?

Cui Yi sighed with regret. Well

, it seems that he is not the only one who is not stupid.

After regretting, he hurried home to discuss the matter with his wife. He had planned it all out, and his wife would be in charge of the whole process, so as to avoid being rumored by the outside world that he was being lenient and cherishing women.

Xu

Yanmiao kept a close eye on the destination of the donations, and never relaxed for a moment. He breathed a sigh of relief when he was sure that all the prostitutes had been arranged with jobs.

There were indeed prostitutes who were unwilling to work and only wanted to make money through the flesh trade, but the Cui family and some officials' families sent people to keep an eye on them, forcing them to either starve to death or make money through legitimate jobs.

They are all good people. 】

After the court session today, in Wuying Palace, when the old emperor heard the sigh of a new minister named Xu for the third time, he could no longer bear it and grabbed the man over and asked, "What do you think of the newly established Shangge?"

Shangge is a new department composed of businessmen who are responsible for serving as economic advisors to the court. Among them are men and women, all of whom are once very popular businessmen.

Xu Yanmiao smiled shyly and politely: "Your Majesty, will the businessmen in this Shangge go into business again?"

The old emperor raised his eyebrows: "Of course not."

It is a hard rule that officials are not allowed to do business, otherwise there would be no need for collusion between officials and businessmen, and officials would directly use business to make money. If you want to be an official, you have to give up your own business - this condition is really harsh, but many businessmen still come here after hearing the news.

Scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans have the opportunity to cross classes. What is there to not give up for a family business ?

Xu Yanmiao answered calmly: "In this case, the rules and regulations of the Shangge are now mature, and I have no opinion."

The old emperor nodded, and suddenly an idea popped up in his mind: "Xu Yanmiao, how old are you this year? Have you reached the age of adulthood?"

"Your Majesty, I am nineteen years old and have not reached the age of adulthood."

Strictly speaking, Xu Lang is still a minor.

The old emperor asked with great interest: "Do you have an engagement? Or a woman you like?"

Xu Yanmiao was shocked.

[Could it be...]

The old emperor grinned: "Yes, I want to find you a marriage..."

His guess came true, and he was not happy at all.

Xu Yanmiao was embarrassed: "I think..."

The old emperor persuaded: "In fact, getting married is very interesting. Having a wife and children is a great blessing in life."

Xu Yanmiao was still embarrassed.

[For example?] His heart was full of disbelief and disdain.

The old emperor seemed to just continue what he said: "For example, think about it, after you leave the government office every day, you can have hot food at home."

[I can order takeout! Oh! It should be "ask for it."]

The old emperor paused and slightly changed the meaning of his words: "Of course you can go to the restaurant for dinner. Let's not talk about whether your salary is enough for eating in the restaurant every day - during the New Year, the restaurant is closed, where else can you go to beg for food? But it's different after you get married..."

[What if the wife can't do it? What if she doesn't want to do it? And even if we don’t consider these, my wife goes back to her parents’ home during the Chinese New Year, and I can’t go back because of too little vacation time, so don’t I still need to cook for myself?】

The old emperor was blocked for a moment, and forced himself to think, and tried to save his dignity: "Although your wife goes back to her parents’ home during the Chinese New Year, before she leaves, she will prepare your favorite meals for you and store them in the ice cellar. It will be convenient for you to cook at any time, and they will be different every ten days or half a month."

【Ah? So isn’t it the same if I let the restaurant prepare the meals and I store them in the ice cellar? Or it won’t be expensive to just hire a cooking chef?】

The old emperor: "..."

Do you know what fireworks are!

The old emperor swallowed the breath that was choked on him and tried to smile: "In addition to children, you can also raise cats and dogs together. I see that you seem to like them very much. I saw them on the road before and even imitated the barking of cats and dogs. It’s better to raise these little toys with people..."

[If we divorce because of an accident, is the cat my cat or her cat? If the cat belongs to me after the divorce, and I remarry, and my second wife divorces me again, but my second wife also likes cats and wants to take the cat away, is it possible that the cat will be awarded to her? If it is not awarded to her, and she is unwilling to give up, and comes to steal the cat? ! ]

The old emperor's forehead veins jumped: "..."

Can't you think of something better!

"Even if we don't mention these, you must have a wife to give birth to children for you and continue the family line?"

[Hahahahahaha!

Xu Yanmiao burst into laughter, which frightened the old emperor: "I can barely support myself, and I still want to raise a child in the capital city. I am risking my life! "

Xu Yanmiao was resolute: [I'm not stupid!!!]

The old emperor: ...

Okay, you're not stupid, I'm stupid.

After his veins were throbbing, the old emperor's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Xu Yanmiao... Could it be that you were scared by the diseases in the brothel and you don't dare to get married? !

This won't do! How can people not get married, how can they not have offspring!

"Let's go!"

Xu Yanmiao: "Hmm?"

[Leave what??? 】

In Xu Yanmiao's eyes, the old emperor finished talking about the benefits of marriage, and before he could respond, he decided on his own: "I'll take you to see Huang Yong. He and his wife are very loving. His wife is also very virtuous. Even if he has three confidantes outside, she will never be jealous. By the way, Huang Yong is from the Ministry of Personnel like you. He is a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel's Wenxuan Division."

Xu Yanmiao blinked.

"...Oh."