Dressed as an actor in the Qing Dynasty

It is said that Mr. Daotai invites you to go to the house to sing, but it is not actually there.

In the Qing Dynasty, Daotai was a foreign official in Beijing, and his official position was the fourth grade. This time, he came to Beijing to face the saint when he was summoned by the imperial court. At this time, the mansion in front of the sedan chair was Lu Daotai's old residence in the capital.

The sedan chair fell slowly, making a slight sound against the blue brick floor, and the bearer stepped over the front bar of the sedan chair and opened the curtain.

Su Qingchi folded his folding fan and got off the sedan chair.

The first thing you see is a five-person wide door with hanging flowers. The lintel is decorated with kazi flowers. The eaves column in front of the door is only a short section, hanging on both sides under the door eaves, and the drooping column caps are carved into petals.In the center of the vermilion lacquer gate are two symmetrical hollowed-out animal-faced copper door cymbals, with a large ring in the animal-shaped mouth, surrounded by a circle of red door gold nails, which are said to be gold nails, but they are actually wooden nails decorated with paint and gold powder.

The bearer went in to report, and a man who looked like a manager came out to take a look, and immediately asked someone to open the door, inviting Su Qingchi in.

This is a five-entry courtyard, the main house has double eaves on the top of the mountain, the center of the main ridge has a treasure roof, and the ends of the vertical ridges have matching glazed suanni kisses on the left and right, and the eaves under the eaves are decorated with sets of animals.

Su Qingchi looked at the surrounding environment silently, Su Baoer pulled his sleeves, his eyes were wide open, as if he was afraid of missing a scene, he didn't blink.

Originally, it was not possible to see the scene outside the courtyard. Su Qingchi thought it was just an ordinary mansion, but only after entering did he realize that there is something strange inside.

The pavilions, stacked mountains and artificial stones, flower and tree ponds, and courtyards and winding corridors are all exquisitely carved and extravagantly decorated.

There are hanging railings on the steps, pavilions and pavilions with "beauty leaning", fancy railings in the [-]th corridor, carved lattices everywhere, engraved with cloud patterns and turtle back brocade patterns.

The openwork carvings around the side rise and fall one after another, and the cobblestones, ice cracks, and dark eight immortals are paved continuously under the feet.

If it is said to be the deep courtyard of the imperial residence, I am afraid it is nothing more than that.

"Boss Su, sit down and have a sip of tea, I'll report to your lord right away."

After the butler clasped his hands and finished speaking with a smile, a servant girl brought tea and pastries.

As soon as the butler left, Su Baoer hurriedly grabbed a pastry and stuffed it into his mouth.

The sedan chair was bumpy along the way, and he was so hungry that his chest pressed against his back.

Su Qingchi's eyes widened, a handle had already hit Su Baoer's hand, Su Baoer's hand turned red all of a sudden, and the crisp seal rolled to the outside.

Su Baoer pouted and was about to say something, when a sharp-mouthed black-skinned dog snatched the pastry.

"Reckless, what do you look like?" Although Su Qingchi said to Su Baoer, he glanced at the dog, seeing that the dog swallowed the pastry without incident, so he sat back in the grand master's chair, took the teacup, and gently lifted the lid of the cup.

Su Baoer stuck out her tongue, sat back in the chair obediently, swung her legs to look left and right, touched here and there.

"Hahaha, Boss Su, it's really not easy to invite you." As soon as the words fell, a blue satin soap boot stepped in.

Su Qingchi raised the corners of his eyes slightly, and saw a middle-aged man with a bloated body, a pale complexion, and a fluffy gait.

Su Qingchi put down his teacup, got up and said with a smile, "Lord Lu."

Su Baoer on the side also jumped down from the chair and shouted like his brother.

From the moment Lu Yong came in, his eyes were stuck to Su Qingchi like glue, and he thought to himself, there is such a stunning beauty in the world.

After regaining his senses, Lu Yong laughed loudly, and supported Su Qingchi with both hands, "Boss Su, get up quickly, hahaha..."

Both hands secretly touched Su Qingchi's hand.

"Brother, this old man touches you." Su Baoer suddenly yelled and pushed Lu Yong away.

"What nonsense, Mr. Lu has high morals and high prestige. How could you be such a lustful and inhuman person? If you talk nonsense like this again, I will tear your mouth off."

Su Baoer's eyes immediately turned red, and she covered her mouth and did not speak.

Lu Yong's face turned red and white, coughed, and waved his hands, "Come on, Tongyan Wuji, Tongyan Wuji, hahaha."

Su Qingchi glared at Su Baoer, and smiled at Lu Yong, "Master Lu laughed."

Lu Yong waved his hands, although he didn't care about it on the surface, he felt unhappy in his heart.

Su Baoer at the side secretly spit out her tongue at Su Qingchi while no one was paying attention.

"I don't know what drama Mr. Lu wants to hear? Qingchi..." Su Qingchi turned his gaze away from Su Baoer and changed the subject.

Lu Yong stretched out his hand to stop Su Qingchi's words, "Boss Su is not feeling well, just stay here and talk to me."

Su Qingchi didn't know what was going on in Lu Yong's heart, so he just smiled and sat down on the grand teacher's chair opposite Lu Yong.

Su Qingchi took the teacup, rubbed his fingers against the side of the cup, looked up at Lu Yong, and smiled charmingly, "Master Lu, everything here is not ordinary."

Lu Yong felt his heart itch when he saw it. Hearing Su Qingchi's reminder, he immediately got up and said, "A few days ago, someone gave me a good thing. Let Boss Su have a look, housekeeper."

"Yes." The butler withdrew, and when he came out, he was holding a rosewood box in his hand.

Lu Yong took it, glanced at Su Qingchi, smiled and slowly opened the box, and handed it to Su Qingchi, "Boss Su."

Su Qingchi put the teacup away, glanced at the box, and saw a suet white jade on the yellow silk and satin, the color was soft and lustrous, one could tell it was a treasure with just one glance.

Su Qingchi nodded, "It's a good thing."

There was no trace of surprise on his face, he sat down and turned the lid of the cup, but didn't take another look.

"This..." Just as Lu Yong was about to say something, he suddenly saw the jade pendant hanging from Su Qingchi's waist, the quality and quality of which were far beyond his comparison.

Lu Yong thought to himself for a while, and gave the housekeeper a look. The housekeeper nodded, retreated behind the scenes, and came out again, with a hollowed-out gold thread box in his hand.

Lu Yong opened the box with a smile on his face, "Boss Su, how about this one?"

With a smile on Su Qingchi's face, he reached out to pick up the agate bracelet and held it up to the light for a closer look, but he was reluctant to let go.

Lu Yong rubbed his round belly, grinning all over his face, "This is a gift from the late emperor, how about it?"

Su Qingchi smiled, "Treasures are naturally treasures, but they are not as real as silver."

Su Qingchi rolled his eyes, and said with a smile, "Master Lu, don't blame him, Qingchi is a layman, so naturally he can't compare to Master Lu's generosity."

After all, he put the agate table back into the gold box.

Lu Yong was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, and waved the housekeeper to leave.

"In ancient times, there was a daughter of King You who won a smile from a beautiful woman, and Lu is willing to follow her." Lu Yong clapped his hands, and the butler came out with a red silk scarf.

Su Qingchi sneered secretly in his heart, no wonder he was famous, he was indeed mediocre.

He doesn't love the country but loves the beauties, and dies in the Western Zhou Dynasty with a sweet smile.

Zhou Youwang Fenghuo played the princes, such a stupid and immoral act, but he was willing to follow it.

When the red silk was uncovered, there was a stack of silver bills inside. At a glance, there were thousands of taels.

"My lord..." The butler seemed to have something to say.

Lu Yong raised his hand to stop it, "Get down."

"Yes." The butler withdrew.

The corner of Su Qingchi's mouth twitched into a smile, "Master Lu, what do you mean?"

Lu Yong approached Su Qingchi, bowed his head and whispered, "If Boss Su is willing...these and that bracelet belong to Boss Su."

While speaking, he took the opportunity to touch Su Qingchi's waist.

Su Qingchi avoided the pig's hands without a trace, and said with a smile, "You will not be rewarded for no merit, how can Qingchi bear it."

"Could it be that Boss Su thinks there are too few of these?"

"Where is it, Lord Lu's heart, Qingchi took it with his heart, but Qingchi dared not accept the money, nor could he accept it."

Su Qingchi sat down on the chair and sighed, "To tell the truth, my lord, when Qingchi first arrived in the capital, he offended Mr. Zhang Ruoxuan, the censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Mr. Lu is an official outside the capital, so he probably didn't know about it." His Excellency Zhang, who successively served as a member of the Ministry of War, Langzhong of the Ministry of War, Supervising Censor of Gyeonggi Province, Ministry of Punishment, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and now the Censor of Zuodu, has a first-rank official position and is deeply favored by the Holy One."

Seeing that Lu Yong's expression changed slightly, Su Qingchi continued, "Nowadays, everyone in the capital knows that I, Su Qingchi, was invited by Master Daotai to sing a concert. I must have heard about Master Zhang. Although Master Zhang is an upright official No, but he is old-fashioned, and several ministers in the court were impeached by him for praising actors, if I really surrender to my lord, I will defame my lord's innocence."

As expected, Lu Yong didn't speak, and sat back in his chair with a frown. Su Qingchi said again, "Lord Lu has stayed in the capital for a few days, and I'm afraid he already knows the rumors about him outside. Qingchi is not an ignorant person. Daotai Your Excellency has been invited several times, but it's not because Qingchi is unwilling, I really don't want to put your Excellency on the edge of the waves when your Excellency is about to leave Beijing, if Qingchi really stays in your residence today, wouldn't you just confirm the rumors?"

Lu Yong raised his head to look at Su Qingchi, Su Qingchi had a smile on his lips, with a three-pointed obsequiousness and seven-pointed laziness. Seeing his face like a crown of jade, looking forward to his posture, so stunning, Lu Yong is like a flower bush who has traveled dozens of times. At this time, I only feel the heat is unbearable, and my heart itches unbearably.

"If you don't tell me about the affairs of the official's house, no one will know about it. I only want Boss Su to nod." Lu Yong grabbed Su Qingchi's hand and hugged him, regardless of the presence of the housekeeper and servant girl. middle.

Su Qingchi frowned when he heard the thick breath in his ears, but his face was sincere and moved.

He placed his hands on Lu Yong's chest, "My lord, have you really thought about it? Would you like to follow the example of Tu Long at the end of the Ming Dynasty and Zheng Xie in this dynasty, and quit their official posts for Qingchi, and stay with Qingchi in the future? If so , Qingchi will be that child prostitute, so what if he is scolded by others?"

Lu Yong stopped his movements suddenly, rubbing his hands on Su Qingchi's waist with nostalgia, "This..."

"My lord doesn't want to?" Su Qingchi grabbed Lu Yong's sleeve, his eyes full of sadness.

Looking at Su Qingchi's appearance in his arms, Lu Yong wished he could hug him onto the bed in the inner room and take possession of him carefully, but...

"My officer..." Lu Yong put his arms around Su Qingchi, and was about to comfort him, but he was pushed away by the person in his arms.

"Hmph, if I knew your lord was so cold, why bother Qingchi...Hmph, just think that Qingchi was blind and saw the wrong person."

Lu Yong was only greedy for Su Qingchi's beauty, and wanted to deceive him for a spring night, but he never thought that Su Qingchi would have such a request.

For a while, Lu Yong only felt a headache that was unbearable, but he was unwilling to let go of Su Qingchi, and almost agreed to him.

Fortunately, the steward at the side reminded him many times secretly that he was not fascinated by lust.

Lu Yong asked people to wrap the banknote together with the suet white jade and put it in Su Qingchi's hand himself. He stroked Su Qingchi's hand, "It's not that I don't want to, it's really..."

Su Qingchi didn't accept it, and just shook his hands and snorted coldly, "Lord Lu, you don't have to be like this. Qingchi, an actor, can't afford it. How can I, Su Qingchi, be a respectable person in this capital? How could I have suffered such abuse for nothing? .Little Bao’er, let’s go, so that people won’t laugh at our toad for wanting to eat swan meat.

After finishing speaking, he gave Lu Yong a hard look, shook his sleeves and left.

Lu Yong was dumbfounded and couldn't say a word for a while.

A servant hurried over outside the door and whispered something to the butler. The butler's expression changed slightly, and he turned around and whispered something to Lu Yong.

Lu Yong frowned immediately, and hurriedly asked someone to hand over the stack of bank notes to Su Qingchi, "Hurry up, just say that I have a little heart, Boss Su must accept it, and nothing happened today. "

The servant hurried down, only Lu Yong and the housekeeper were left in the courtyard.

"My lord, those people outside the door were clearly instigated by Su Qingchi, so my lord let him go like this?"

"What else can we do? If these people really make a fuss, under the eyes of the emperor, you think we can get something for you?" Lu Yong sighed unwillingly, "Well, I didn't meet this person, but I caused a lot of trouble."

Su Qingchi thanked the men, and followed Su Baoer into the sedan chair.

"Where's the silver?" Su Qingchi waved his fan lazily, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Su Baoer shook the stack of bank notes, "Here, one is quite a lot."

Su Qingchi sighed quietly, "It's a pity, I really like that agate bracelet."

Su Baoer received the banknote and the jade pendant, and thinking of what his brother said earlier, he couldn't help asking, "Hey, brother, who do you think are Tu Long and Zheng Xie?"

Su Qingchi had just exhausted his strength, so he handed over the fan to Su Baoer, and leaned on the brocade mat with his eyes closed to rest.

"That Tu Long was a talented man at the end of the Ming Dynasty. He was a romantic man, and he was not jealous of men and women. Later, he was dismissed from office because he messed with an actor."

He covered his lips and yawned lightly, with a hint of warmth on his usually cold and arrogant face, presumably he was in a good mood after getting the 1000 taels.

"Zheng Xie is one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. His poems, calligraphy and paintings are all excellent, and his painting is even more wonderful. He was naturally romantic. He resigned from office at the age of 61. He spent all his time with child prostitutes. Although he was simple and light, he was content."

Su Bao'er nodded. Nowadays, officials, literati and rich businessmen are popular with actors and pedophiles. He has heard of these things a lot.

Su Qingchi lifted the curtain with one hand, and saw the single-arch stone bridge not far away, and the stone pillars carved with animal patterns on the bridge.

Not far from under the bridge is a two-story building with a plaque hanging on it: Chunqin Garden.

The sedan chair wobbled and stopped in front of the building, and the two got out of the sedan chair.

As the sun went down, a few more sounds could be faintly heard outside.

After taking a hot bath, Su Qingchi finally felt completely refreshed. After wiping off the water and putting on his clothes, someone knocked on the door outside.

"Boss Su, Mr. Liu said that the merchant will have his birthday in three days, so you should make preparations." Old She said through the porter.

Su Qingchi lowered his head and fastened the buckle, glanced outside the door, and couldn't help saying, "Businessman? Which businessman?"

The old Shetou smiled and said, "Is there any merchant in this capital that can afford you, and it is naturally the merchant in the east of the city."

Su Qingchi's movements slowed down, as if he was thinking about something.

"Tell the boss, I understand."