Chapter 187 Selling Herself into Prostitution
I originally thought that if any bad guys came to disrupt the borrowing of troops, they would definitely target Huo Gannian.
I didn't expect that he would go after Yun Chen.
When Zhi Luo hurried back and said that Yun Chen was kidnapped by eight burly men, Huo Gannian subconsciously crushed the teacup in his hand.
The sharp porcelain pieces pierced Huo Gannian's hands, making them bleed profusely. However, he seemed to feel nothing and grabbed Zhi Luo by the collar.
"You are the bait! Used to lure Yun Chen into the game! Right?!"
Facing Huo Gannian's murderous rage, Zhi Luo struggled to break free, feeling angry and humiliated, and burst into tears:
"How have I ever offended you? Why should I be treated so rudely?! If it weren't for my savior, Master Yun, I wouldn't have come to tell you the news!"
Staring at Zhiluo's tearful face, Huo Gannian gritted his teeth and finally said nothing.
He let go of his hand and slowly sat down at the table, his brows furrowed. His eyes were extremely sharp as he began to calculate rapidly.
Report to the police? Impossible.
It is possible that after reporting to the authorities in Zhao State today, a secret letter will be sent to Nan State overnight.
If the matter of borrowing troops fails because of this, Nan Lijun, who has to vent his anger, will definitely blame Yun Chen.
Go find it yourself? Unrealistic.
In Zhao Country, he was unfamiliar with the place. In Comet City, there was only one branch of the Huo Gang, and its influence was too weak to be compared with the local big merchants...
Huo Gannian asked Zhiluo to describe the scene of Yunchen's kidnapping over and over again, trying to find useful clues from it.
Unfortunately, Zhiluo was picking out the pipa in the music studio at that time. When she heard the fighting and ran out, Yunchen had already been kidnapped.
So, is this the Huo Gang's revenge for an old grudge, or are they sabotaging the loan? And is Zhi Luo truly innocent?
There is no one available at hand, and I am fighting alone.
After a long silence, Huo Gannian finally made up his mind.
There is a group of people who are familiar with Zhao State and have outstanding organizational capabilities.
He is not dependent on anyone, but he already knows Huo Gannian's identity.
Heartless and ungrateful, only caring about money and not people.
But what Huo Gannian lacks the least is money.
Unrighteous blood guard.
This is Huo Gannian’s best option right now.
However, the only red paper that could contact the Wuyi Blood Guard was on Yun Chen, so Huo Gannian needed to use other methods to find the Wuyi Blood Guard as soon as possible.
Zhi Luo didn't know what Huo Gannian was thinking. He only saw that his face was deep and gloomy, as if there was sharp lightning rolling behind the dark clouds, ready to alarm the whole area.
He said: "If you really want to repay Yun Chen for saving you, do one thing for her."
Zhi Luo had a bad feeling in his heart.
Sure enough, the next sentence Huo Gan read made Zhi Luo feel like he was falling into an icy cave.
"How about I sell you into prostitution?"
Soon, the news began to spread on the streets:
Something big has happened recently in the red-light district of Comet City.
A beautiful girl who played the pipa very well was sold to the largest brothel in Comet City as a prostitute.
The beauty was very beautiful, and her singing and playing the piano were charming.
What made the men even more infatuated was that the beauty was still a virgin.
According to the rules of the industry, the brothel had a fixed price, with two taels of silver as the reserve price, and was scheduled to auction the beauty's virginity to the public on the first day of July.
As soon as the news came out, many guests became interested and spent money to reserve seats for the ceremony that day.
Two taels of silver is not a small amount, but in a brothel, a den of money, two taels is just the threshold price, and one can only get a secluded position where one cannot clearly see the beauty on the stage.
Once the guests take a fancy to the beautiful lady whose virginity is about to be filmed, they may spend a fortune on her.
In the brothel business of Comet City, the virginity of the current top courtesan was once auctioned for 1,100 taels.
The courtesan that year was nineteen years old, and the man who took the photo of her was sixty years old. His grandson was the same age as the courtesan.
This time, the person who was said to have reserved the best viewing seat for three hundred taels was not an old man, nor a pot-bellied nouveau riche, but a mysterious nobleman.
A beautiful pipa-playing girl in a down-and-out brothel.
A low-key, wealthy, mysterious and handsome man.
It really has the mood of a play.
In less than three days, the news spread throughout the fireworks circle of Comet City.
On the night of the first day of July, the brothel was packed with people inside and outside, almost breaking the door down.
In the crowded hall, in the center were a dozen burly men, surrounding a gurgling pond.
The pond is filled with pure white lotus flowers, with tender buds about to bloom shyly hidden among them.
In the center of the pool, a beautiful woman in a dress as thin as a cicada's wing sat on a white jade platform, playing the pipa and singing.
The beauty lowered her head to sing, revealing her delicate pink neck;
She tilted her head and smiled slightly, revealing her fair and distinct collarbone.
The dress was extremely thin, and one could vaguely see the lotus root powder embroidered bellyband underneath, which wrapped around the beauty's soft and tender body.
The beauty was not wearing shoes, and the hem of her dress was slightly immersed in the water, half-covering her pair of flawless white jade feet.
The pipa played melodiously, and the singing was soft and sweet with a hint of resentment, which made the men feel itchy.
A group of perverts surrounded the beauty, commenting on her and making obscene jokes loudly, completely abandoning all propriety and morality and tearing apart their usual decency.
Indeed, a man who likes to come to such a place is unlikely to be here to review his studies and practice calligraphy.
Zhiluo had never set foot in a brothel in her life, nor had she ever sung in thin clothes in front of so many men.
Not to mention barefoot.
In this Confucian-speaking world, only prostitutes disdain to expose their feet.
A decent woman would never go barefoot in front of a man outside her family, as that would be the same as stripping naked in front of others.
Zhi Luo tried to hold back his tears while singing and playing the guitar, occasionally looking towards the row of rooms on the second floor that had the best viewing area.
Huo Gannian said that he would be among them, but Zhiluo had to be the "bait".
How far would this go? Zhiluo didn't know. She felt panicky inside, like a little lamb among wolves.
Finally, the sound of the pipa stopped, and after two crisp sounds of cups being struck, the auction officially began.
A charming housekeeper walked to the edge of the pond and started bidding for Zhiluo's virginity for fifty taels.
"Fifty-five taels!"
"Sixty taels!"
"Seventy taels!"
The perverts in the hall were shouting out prices.
From time to time, servants' calls could be heard from the best and most expensive rooms on the second floor:
"One hundred and twenty taels."
"Two hundred taels."
"Three hundred taels."
The price was quickly driven up to eight hundred taels, and the guests in the hall couldn't help but get excited and make a fuss, filling the entire hall with noise and bustle.
Zhi Luo felt his head buzzing with noise, and all he could see was the greasy face of a strange man with hideous features.
She began to feel suffocated.
"One thousand taels." Such an arrogant voice came from the second floor.
A young man walked out of the right wing, half leaned over the railing, looked at the pool below with a smile, and threw a glass of wine into it.
The wine spilled into the air, and the wine glass hit the pipa with a bang, which scared Zhi Luo.
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