Prostitute
Huo Changqing angrily moved his belongings to Wang Ling's yard. At first, Wang Ling was surprised, but after learning about the quarrel, she became even more attentive. She even came to Changqing's room in her spring clothes in the middle of winter.
"What are you doing here?" Chang Qing asked casually while lowering his head to read a book.
"I made some soup and snacks to improve my eyesight, and my husband must be tired from reading."
She put the soup on Changqing's table, and while he was drinking the soup, she went behind him and rubbed his shoulders.
A dark cloud emerged from the mountain and trembled with a step-shaking ornament, and fell on the yellowed paper. It was exactly the chapter of Sima Xiangru's Changmen Yuan. He was being resented and he was also being missed.
"That vixen went to the study in her spring clothes, isn't she afraid of freezing to death? Let's send some soup over too!"
Luliu was very disdainful when she told Gillian the news.
Gillian was happy to see the two of them reconcile. Changqing moving out just gave her time to do her own things.
"I'm going out for a while. You keep an eye on me here. If anyone comes, just tell them I'm sleeping."
Gillian put on a veiled hat and went straight to the Nong Yu Fang on Chang'an Street. This place was often visited by aristocratic women, and of course there were also many men with homosexual tendencies. She paid a large price and sat on a chair to select the boys standing in a row.
She shook her head. It was already the second batch. Her mother came forward and asked, "What kind do you want?"
"More childish, with eyes that are more pitiful."
Mom nodded and went back to select them herself. She thought young women like those who were cold and indifferent, so she called these people. These young and tender ones were the favorites of older women. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and not everyone has the same taste.
The next group of people who came really made Gillian look at them carefully, and she walked closer to these people.
"Turn around and drink some water."
Gillian gave the order, like an experienced person.
She picked the one with the most awkward movements.
"What can you do?"
"I...can play the flute."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then Gillian burst into laughter. He blushed, "I have it with me. Do you want to listen to a song?"
Gillian knew he was serious, so she stopped teasing him and said, "No need, it's just you."
Everyone retreated.
As soon as Gillian sat down on the couch, he came up and rubbed her legs, while secretly trying to see Gillian's face clearly.
"Do you dislike me because I'm an old woman?" Gillian glanced at his actions.
“You have a very young voice.”
He didn't think she was an old woman.
"Hearing is not as good as seeing. I am already forty years old and can be your mother." Gillian sighed.
"I won't force you. If you don't want to, you can leave now and I'll still give you the money." She supported her head with her hands and closed her eyes.
She felt the hands spreading up from her calves like vines. He knelt on the ground. She took a deep breath, frowned slightly, and then her chest heaved like waves.
He was kicked, and a thin layer of clouds floated on the surface of the water in the copper basin.
Gillian said, "You just said you can play the flute, play it for me."
He wiped his hands with a handkerchief and took out the jade flute.
The lingering music wrapped around Ah Jiao, who lay in bed, like soft taffy. She grabbed a Ruyi and threw it at him. The flute's sound suddenly took an unpleasant turn.
He looked at her in panic, not knowing what he had done wrong.
"Do you like to blow the phoenix?"
"Everyone plays the song of Sima Caizi."
"If you don't understand what this means, don't try to teach me."
"yes."
Everyone in the streets and alleys knew Sima Caizi's deep affection, but she said he didn't understand his meaning, thinking he was a resentful woman who was not in harmony with her husband. She couldn't bear to see people playing this song of love.
Gillian also looked at the boy through the curtain. No matter what he was thinking, at least he obeyed her on the surface and did not make any unnecessary comments. The most important thing was that he had a good appearance, which was enough.
"Have you received any guests?" she asked Qingbai.
The boy shook his head.
She hooked her finger at him and the boy came over like a Chow Chow.
She pulled off his gold hairpin and gently combed his hair with her fingers. He didn't dare to move and leaned obediently against the edge of the couch.
She took off the jade hairpin from her hair and put it in for him. "Turn around, let me take a look."
He turned around and saw her suddenly draw open the curtain, her young, watery eyes staring at him intently.
His heart trembled and his heart beat faster.
"That's about 70% similar."
Like whom? Like her husband? He didn't dare ask.
"Sir, you can't go in. Let me inform you first! Sir!" Mom's anxious voice sounded at the door.
The next moment, Huo Changqing kicked the door open angrily. He looked coldly at the man and woman behaving intimately, and drew his sword.
"My husband, even if you are the emperor's nephew, cannot kill people and violate the law."
She slowly stood up and stood in front of the boy.
So this is her husband. They do look a bit alike, he thought as he stood behind her.
"What does it have to do with you if I kill him?"
"Murder is against the law. You are my husband. If you kill him, my husband will become a criminal. Why is it not my fault?"
Huo Changqing sneered when he heard this, "You still know that I am your husband, then you dare to come here to have fun!"
"My husband can have three wives and four concubines, I just came here to listen to music, why can't I?"
"That's the concubine you gave me!"
"That's the woman you slept with yourself!"
Chang Qing was choked by his breath, "I didn't touch her!"
Gillian was also stunned for a moment, then reacted, "If you say there is no, then there is no. I am not a jealous person, but you should at least be fair. Come over here with such momentum and let others see that something that didn't exist has become true."
Chang Qing thought about her words about the women he slept with and felt that Gillian wasn't really that virtuous. She was jealous, too, and her jealousy was subtle and profound. But he was happy. Now that he had calmed down, knowing he was in the wrong, he softened his voice and tried to pull her back.
"I bought some red bean cakes. Let's go back together."
Gillian nodded, but before leaving, she went to her mother who was trembling with fear.
Chang Qing held her back and asked, "What else are you doing?"
"You ate without paying? Even if you're a captain, you can't eat and dine for free."
Changqing smiled and let go.
Ah Jiao took out a silver note from her bosom, and her mother gave her a few taels of silver. Ah Jiao said, "No need to change, I'll take it away."
"Take...take away?"
Mom was completely stunned. She didn't understand what Gillian meant. This young general almost destroyed her house, and she still wanted to take him home?
"Would you like to reconsider..."
"If you don't take my money, this place will close down tomorrow." Gillian's threat was obvious.
Mom thought about it. The young general had a frighteningly gloomy expression when he went up, while this nobleman came down unharmed. The two of them looked so harmonious and happy. Could they be husband and wife? She accepted the money anyway, knowing that she would be in danger of being stabbed if she withdrew her head.
Chang Qing laid out the mattress in the carriage and was about to get out to help Ah Jiao onto the horse, but suddenly his expression changed and he stared coldly at the young man behind her.
He received Chang Qing's gaze and lowered his head. Gillian was already walking towards him with a smile.
Seeing that she was still smiling, Chang Qing became even angrier, "You want to take him home?"
"He's a poor child. Instead of staying there, he might as well go home and play some music for you and me. We have a troupe of musicians at home, so we don't need him any more."
"Pitiful? Which of these people who have fallen into prostitution isn't pitiful? Which one of them didn't lose both parents, was kidnapped and deceived, and ended up in prostitution by mistake? How could the most pitiful people in the world gather here by such a coincidence? I think this place should be renamed Cunshantang."
"Huo Changqing, don't go too far!"
Ah Jiao couldn't listen any longer. While some of these people were vain and greedy, there were also poor people. These past scars were not a sharp sword that Huo Changqing could use to humiliate them. Besides, he was still useful to her.
Huo Changqing looked at Gillian's furious expression, and the fire that had been suppressed in his heart flared up again. "Who went too far? If you hadn't gone too far, you wouldn't have brought this pretty boy home!"
People passing by on the street all looked over, their ears perked up. This was at the door of a brothel, with a man and a woman, so there was bound to be some gossip to hear.
Chang Qing lowered his voice, a little embarrassed, "Let him go back, go wherever he wants, otherwise I won't let him get in my car." Chang Qing closed the car curtain with a firm attitude and got back in the car. He must not give in this time. If one person gets in this time, there will be two or three next time, who will be younger and more capable of coaxing people.
Li Si was not surprised to see Gillian coming over, because he knew that he was going to be abandoned again.
Ah Jiao took out another banknote and placed it in his hand. He bowed to her and prepared to leave, but Ah Jiao said, "There is a house in Yuntingfang, Zhuquemen. You can rent it there and live there first. I will come to see you tomorrow."
Li Si stood there in a daze. Seeing that he was young, Ah Jiao was worried that he wouldn't know how to do it. "This money is more than enough. It doesn't matter if you ask people to collect more. Just live well for now. If you need to add anything, just go ahead."
"Aren't you afraid that I'll leave?"
Ah Jiao smiled and said, "I have already spent two hundred taels on you today. If you are smart, you should know the principle of playing the long game to catch the big fish. Stay well, your wealth is still to come."
Gillian was about to leave when she suddenly remembered something and turned around to ask him, "What's your name?"
"Li Si."
Gillian nodded and then really walked into the car.
Although Chang Qing ignored her and was still sulking, he saw that she still lost the boy. As soon as he returned home, he put on a stern face and asked someone to move the things out of Wang Ling's place.
Gillian was reading a book inside. The sound of her turning pages would disturb Changqing. He would snort every time he turned a page, but she endured it again and again.
It was he who had insisted on moving to her place to work today. He was still up so late, reviewing some documents. He was just a military man, what could he review? She didn't know his tricks yet, and he was just waiting for her to persuade him to go to bed.
She refused to let him have his way.
Originally, Li Si had inserted herself into the music department in the palace, which would have made it easier for her to meet the Queen, but he was being unreasonable and now she had to think of other ways to deal with it. She had been patient enough.
Gillian put down the book and walked out.
Chang Qing immediately looked up and asked, "It's so late, where are you going?"
Gillian smiled and said, "It's so late and my husband is still reviewing documents. Naturally, I will go and bring him a bowl of hot soup so that I can accompany him until dawn."
Chang Qing heard the sharpness in her words and put down his pen to confront her, but Gillian had already pushed him away and walked out.
He ran into a retainer from the mansion outside the door. Jiang Zuo was his deputy, and he usually went out with him to handle official business. He came so late at night, so there must be something important.
Gillian couldn't help but laugh. What does it mean that a word has come true? What does it mean that you deserve it? He was pretending to revise some official documents, but now he has really gotten into trouble. Let's see how he will sleep tonight.
"Madam." Jiang Zuo bowed to her.
"What's up?"
"It's General Li Guang's letter, saying that something went wrong with the person the Lord recommended a few days ago. Please make a decision, Lord."
The person Changqing recommended...wasn't that Huo Zhongru? She thought for a moment and said to Jiang Zuo, "The general is taking a nap just now. I'll take it to you and let him take a look at it later. I'll give you an answer tomorrow morning."
"good."
After Jiang Zuo left, Ah Jiao took the letter to Chang Qing. It just so happened that she also wanted to see what kind of trouble Huo Zhongru could get into in a few days. More importantly, she also wanted to see Chang Qing's expression then.
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