Chu Lang

The ancients once said: "The spring breeze is ten miles away from Yangzhou Road." It is also said that "dreams go up the stairs around the Qinhuai River". It is said that the beauty and magnificence of the south of the Yangtze River are unparalleled, but they don't know the elegance and gentleness of Chang'an.

Chu Yue asked Xie Changge where he was taking them, but Xie Changge didn't say anything, but asked Chu and Tang to follow him.

Seeing that they were far away from the market, red lanterns were hung in front of the alleys around.The red candles penetrate the dark green screen windows, and occasionally there are a few tall buildings. In front of the buildings, there are either women in red and green or a handsome young lady in white.Where Xie Changge took Chu Yue and Tang Zhong was self-evident.

When Chu Yue saw the bustard soliciting customers in front of Liuxiang, she immediately broke into a cold sweat.

"That's why I want to go back." Chu Yue's calm face was rarely covered with panic.

Xie Changge thought that Chu Yue felt that he brought them here to prostitute, so he laughed out loud: "Ziyu, don't get me wrong, I really came here to do business."

"No, you and my senior brother can go, I'll go back first." After finishing speaking, he turned around and was about to leave.

Once bitten by a snake and afraid of well ropes for ten years, he was ruined by fireworks all his life, and instinctively resisted this kind of place.

Tang Zhong knew Chu Yue's knot in his heart, so he explained to Xie Changge: "Zi Yu once made an oath that he would never step into Fireworks and Willow Lane in this life. If Brother Xie really has something important to do, why don't I accompany you there? Let Ziyu go back first."

Xie Changge's wishful thinking was very good. After finishing the business in Liuxiang, he can take the opportunity to lure Tang Zhong away, and he will do some happy things with Ziyu, but he didn't expect that Ziyu would not step here for a while. One step, let his own ideas go blank, and made Ziyu so unhappy.

"Senior brother, that's why I'm taking my farewell." Chu Yue walked away quickly after finishing speaking to the two of them.

"I didn't expect him to hate this place so much." Xie Changge was a little disappointed.What should I do if I let Ziyu know that he is a frequent visitor to the fireworks field in the future.

Tang Zhong didn't explain the cause and effect to him in detail, but only asked: "I don't know what's important for Brother Xie, but he insisted on going to this kind of place to solve it."

"So what about this kind of place? The girls don't just sell themselves. They are all masters of art since elementary school. A girl only has a few benefactors. They are all hard-working people." Xie Changge sighed.

Then he said to Tang Zhong: "I came here to meet the one who sent someone to assassinate me in Qingfeng Xiaozhu a few days ago. Help me and Shi Xuan. I didn't expect to offend Ziyu... After today's business is over, I have to apologize to him personally."

"If I had known this, I would have gone with him." Tang Zhong was full of black lines, "My martial arts, my master won't let me mention his name outside, fearing that his reputation will be ruined."

"It's okay, you can stroll around in the building. When you're tired, come to the Guiyan Hall on the second floor to find me." Xie Changge winked at him, then leaned into Tang Zhong's ear and whispered, "This place is very good, just go Have fun, don't be afraid to spend money, I will treat you today."

After all, Xie Changge took Shi Xuan up to the second floor.

In the lobby on the first floor, there are a few dancers dancing a dance they learned from the West, and a few people who look like scholars are writing poems for them with pens and paper.Tang Zhong went over to take a look, and felt that the literary talents of these people were mediocre, except for the piles of gorgeous rhetoric, after careful reading, they were not as wonderful as the few articles that Mo Zhu racked his brains when he was studying in the mountains. .

After a while, the musical instruments stopped, and the dancing girls left the stage.

Tang Zhong felt bored, and just as he was about to go up to the second floor, he heard a woman in front of the stage saying: "A few days ago, a new guqin player from the Western Regions came to the building, named Ruxue, and he played guqin better than us people from the Central Plains." , How about asking him to play a song for you guys now?"

Hearing that someone was about to play the piano, Tang Zhong stopped in his tracks.In addition to studying medical skills in his life, his favorite thing is the piano. When he heard someone dare to claim that the piano skills are outstanding, he immediately became interested.

All I heard was a crisp voice from the stage: "It's too late to show your talent."

Immediately, a dude shouted from the audience: "I don't know how much money I want to let Mr. Xuexue stay with me for one night."

"My lord, I'm joking, Ruxue is a performer, not a body."

Only then did Tang Zhong turn his head, and saw a person standing on the stage, dressed in white, with creamy skin, who had never insulted the name Ruxue.

Ruxue is not a Han Chinese, but a bit taller than a Central Plains person. He has a Persian face, his skin is abnormally white, and his eyes are blue when he looks carefully. Fortunately, his hair is black, so it doesn't look too much. weird.

He hugged a paulownia qin, sat cross-legged on the table, bowed his head and started to play the qin.

The strings were picked up by the fingertips, and a song called Fengqiuhuang resounded throughout the lobby on the first floor.

Kunshan jade broken phoenix calls.

Young Master Ruoxue, with lowered eyebrows and raised eyes, showed amorous feelings.

Tang Zhong thought that he was already immune to his handsome appearance when he faced people like Chu Yue every day, but he never thought that today he would be in the land of flowers and willows, stepping on a staircase and falling into a nightmare.

After Ruxue finished playing the tune, he said "I have an appointment tonight" to the dandy in the audience, and walked straight towards the stairs.

"My lord, please excuse me." The crisp voice came to his ears, and Tang Zhong just woke up like a dream.

"Master Ruxue." He called out in a daze.

Ru Xue smiled at him, this smile reminded Tang Zhong of a ray of warm sun in the cold winter months, and of the snow-covered green bamboo in Master's yard.

"You're interesting, what's your name?"

Hearing Ruxue asking for his name, Tang Zhong's thoughts returned to Liu Lane from the small courtyard on the mountain: "My name is Tang Zhong."

"My name is Gurzhen. If you have nothing to do later, wait for me in the Bihai Hall in an hour."

what?

Tang Zhong fell into a stunned state again for an instant. He didn't know whether it was because Ru Xue was not the real name of this person, or because he was asked to meet privately by the beauty for no reason.

No longer caring about the stupefied Tang Zhong, Ruxue went up to the second floor with his paulownia qin in his arms, and then went straight into Guiyan Hall.

But after entering a carved wooden door, just now Ruxue's dusty aura disappeared completely in an instant, as if that Rusong-like person just now was just an illusion.

He was still wearing the white clothes, and he was still the shockingly white person, but his demeanor had completely changed to that of a street gangster.He casually threw the piano to the cabinet at the entrance, and walked towards the inside with big strides.

Xie Changge was holding his "concubine" in Liuxiang in his arms, and was punching each other with a glass of wine. After seeing the snow, he pushed the young lady in his arms aside, and whistled at the person who came.

"Should I be surprised that the Prince of the Huns has a Persian face, or should he be surprised that the Prince of the Huns has become a violinist in Liuxiang, Chang'an?" Xie Changge asked.

Prince Gurzhen of the Huns put his right hand on his chest, bowed to Xie Changge, and said, "Gurzhen has seen Prince Dali."

Then Gulzhen replied: "My mother is a Persian woman, so I don't look like a Hun. As for being a luthier, let me tell you the truth, Your Majesty has left my Hun envoy aside for too long, and the cost of food and drink is too high." With money, we are all rough people, so I have to come to Liuxiang to earn money."

Xie Changge knew what he was talking about was nonsense. After all, the Huns had plenty of money, so how could they let the prince perform in the street himself?He didn't bother to chat with Gulzhen, so he immediately picked up the subject: "Is it your person who wanted to assassinate Gu in Qingfeng Xiaozhu a few days ago?"

Gurzhen immediately showed a puzzled expression: "I don't understand what His Highness the Crown Prince means."

Xie Changge gestured to Shi Xuan with his eyes, and Shi Xuan took out a stack of papers and put it in front of Gurzhen.

Gu Erzhen frowned, flipped through what was written on the paper, and then said to Xie Changge: "Since His Highness has already investigated everything, why do you need to ask me?"

Xie Changge sneered: "Mr. Gu has to figure out what you think."

"It's not good for Gurzhen to discipline his subordinates. They dared to assassinate His Highness without telling me. It's really infuriating. I hope His Highness can believe in the sincerity of the Huns, and don't lose confidence in the Huns because of a few minions." Gurzhen Every word is sincere, as if he really is a little prince who knows nothing.

Of course, Xie Changge didn't believe a word of Guerzhen's words, but he had to do enough superficial work: "Then I hope His Royal Highness can discipline those people under you after returning, don't try to use your brains, four days later Lishan Spring Hunting , father will talk to you."

The two talked for about an hour before Gulzhen came out of Guiyan Hall.Just as he was about to go back, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have invited a kitten to the Bihai Hall, but it was a bit late, and he wondered if the kitten had left.

When he opened the door and entered, Tang Zhong even thought about how to redeem Ru Xue.

"I'm late, I didn't expect the young master to leave yet." The first second he saw Tang Zhong, Gurzhen immediately returned to his unearthly appearance just now.

If Xie Changge saw him like this, no matter what, he would have to be named the manager of the troupe.

The leader of the actors, the actor is really good at it.

Tang Zhong lowered his head, blushed, and said to Gurzhen shyly, "Ru Xue, you may not believe me if you tell me, but I fell in love with you at first sight... If you don't mind, I will raise money to redeem you when I go back. You follow me from now on."

Seeing that Gul really didn't answer, he thought he was being abrupt, and added: "I really want to redeem you. Don't look at me like this. I'm actually a doctor. I used to be an imperial doctor in Zhaoguo. You After following me, the two of us will open a pharmacy together, which will definitely make you worry about food and clothing."

Gulzhen leaned in front of Tang Zhong, grasped his hand, and quickly made up a miserable life experience for himself, and said in tears: "I have wandered all the way from the Western Regions, and I have traveled to many places. They all coveted my life." Beauty, you are the first person who offered to redeem me."

Then he told Tang Zhongting about his various experiences from childhood to adulthood. Tang Zhong felt unlucky, so he hugged Gurzhen, and the two lamented the injustice of the world.

"My lord, you are really a good man." After speaking, Gulzhen burrowed into Tang Zhong's arms and began to untie Tang Zhong's clothes.

Tang Zhong suddenly became at a loss: "Ru Xue, don't be impulsive."

"My lord, let the servants serve you." Gulzhen blinked at Tang Zhong, making an appearance of being a little bird.But because of his tall stature, this look seems a bit weird.

Tang Zhong: "But didn't you say that you sell your art but not your body?"

Gurzhen: "Yes, but I do it voluntarily. The servants serve the young master voluntarily."

Tang Zhongmei's mind began to become clouded in the face of Tang Zhongmei's beauty, and he half pushed and half let Gu Erzhen untie his clothes.

"Wait, didn't you agree that you would serve me?" When Tang Zhong realized that something was wrong, it was too late.

The culprit, Gulzhen, blinked his blue eyes at him and said, "That's right, I will definitely serve you comfortably."

Xie Changge stood outside the Bihai Hall, listening to Tang Zhong's wailing, feeling that he was a little sorry for Chu Yue, who had entrusted his brother to him, but Gulzhen took advantage of him halfway.

"Your Highness, Young Master Tang Zhong... what should we do?" Shi Xuan asked.

Xie Changge supported his forehead and said, "Go back, go back to the palace."

The author has something to say:

Gulzhen: Is it useful to make things difficult for me?I'm just a little prince who doesn't know anything.

Xie Changge & Tang Zhong: I believe you are so evil.

Dreaming around the Qinhuai River and going upstairs——Wang Shizhen's "Qinhuai Miscellaneous Poems"

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Kunshan Jade Broken Phoenix Cry - Li He's "Li Ping Konghou Yin"