key to come

"Huh? Did he lose my money or did I bully him?" Shen Lang was startled.

"Little brother, think about it carefully. If you want to buy such a luxury house on your own, I'm afraid it will be difficult in your life." Luo Xi reminded: "This house is very valuable."

"Yeah, I sold this one, can't I just change it to a cheaper one?"

"Who dares to buy something bestowed by the emperor..." Luo Xi rubbed her forehead: "If you dare to sell it, you will be sent directly to the prison."

"Why can silk and satin be sold?"

"The mansion bestowed by the emperor and the silk and satin rewarded are not the same thing..."

"This..." Shen Lang was speechless: "Okay, I'll earn more!"

Thinking about it carefully, it is equivalent to owning a house in the third ring road of Beijing. Even if it is not what I want, it will be more comfortable to live in, right?

Well, this is the goal of other people's life. I worked hard to achieve it. It's amazing.

"Then..." Mo Yu looked at Shen Lang silently: "You can owe the follow-up money first, give me the first payment, and I will pay a little bit first."

Shen Lang silently took out the property he had just acquired, Mo Yu couldn't bear to see Shen Lang's pained face, but there was nothing he could do about it.

It's too late to rejoice if someone else owns a mansion bestowed by the emperor. I've never seen anyone go bankrupt because they didn't have the money to decorate it.

Besides, when someone else gets a luxury house, some of the previous furniture can be moved over and used as long as the materials and workmanship pass the test, instead of buying new ones.

Shen Lang, who is poor and white, is really the only one.

Although Shen Lang is already a rich man compared to ordinary people, but in Chang'an City, he is a poor man.

"Huh." Shen Lang looked up at the sky: "Life is really difficult."

I don’t need to say anything about the lack of money in modern times. How could there be such a shortage of money in ancient times?

He felt like a bottomless pit, no amount of money was enough.

Seeing Shen Lang's misery, Luo Xi didn't have the heart to talk about the cost of maintaining the house every year in the future, and didn't continue talking about hiring a servant.

In fact, after Shen Lang finishes finishing the house, he still needs to buy a luxurious carriage, so the stables of this house cannot be left empty.

Equipped with the horses given by the imperial mansion, it costs a thousand taels of money...

If this was rewarded to her, the Yinyang family would directly help her with it, and then define it as the property of the Yinyang family. As long as she was alive, she could live there forever, and it had nothing to do with her after death.

It's a pity that the three places where Shen Lang is located don't have this kind of strange treatment.

"Little brother, it's almost time, you are going to Jiaofang." Luo Xi said to Shen Lang: "Shall we stay here today or go back to the inn?"

"Go back to the inn! I've spent all my money, and I can't live for nothing!" Shen Lang gritted his teeth: "I have to make money back as I spend it, isn't it just a little money, can it be hard to beat your Lord Lang?"

There is also a lucky bag of a fifth-rank wizard as a base, and the money that Ji Yunzheng wants to give himself, and what he is spending now is drizzle.

Shen Lang clutched his heart and walked out, performing self-hypnosis for himself while walking.

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Royal Palace.

Ji Nanxian listened to the eunuch's report with a look of surprise.

Is this Shen Lang so loyal?Want to spend your own money on renovations?

He has prepared the approval funds for the construction team and furniture here, and will submit them to Liang Zan after Shen Lang goes to Qin Tianjian to report tomorrow.

After all, it was because Shen Lang had an extra second grade, and the money had to be squeezed out.

What he didn't expect was that Shen Lang had such a backbone that he directly spent the money himself, and it was the Mo family who hired him.

Even if he is a talent that the Mohists value, and the construction fee is waived, it is not cheap.

Mohist materials are much more expensive than normal materials, and there will be more organs and other functions inside, which is equivalent to a wooden cabinet that normally costs five taels of silver, but those processed by Mohism can be sold for 30 taels, and the labor is still removed.

Well, he is a businessman, he is doing business, and he is not short of this little money, which is understandable.

Ji Nanxian shook his head with a smile, funny kid, unexpectedly he only likes to take advantage of small things, not big ones.

You must pass the test of Qin Tianjian tomorrow!

If Shen Lang failed the test, Ji Nanxian would still use him, but the usage would be different.

He knows who he can trust and who he cannot trust.

Qin Tianjian's test was varied, and every time he set the test himself, the supervisor didn't know about it, and the possibility of cheating was completely ruled out.

This test is more about whether Shen Lang is harmful to the Great Zhou Dynasty and whether he is loyal enough.

Chapter 118

Walking on the alleys extending in all directions, Shen Lang was full of poverty and lack of money.

"Have you heard? Master Xiao has made a breakthrough."

"Really? How did you break through?"

"It's because of a few words from one person, my generation of scholars..."

"Third Young Master, I just heard a good poem, one by one..."

The streets are full of people talking about Shen Lang, and the matter of Grand Master Xiao's breakthrough cannot be concealed, so Ji Nanxian chooses to directly announce this matter to the public to create momentum for Grand Master Xiao and Shen Lang.

The matter of Shen Lang rescuing the prince was suppressed by Ji Nanxian. One was that this matter had been concluded before, and the other was to protect Shen Lang.

Relying on his strategy to protect the crown prince, no one believed him when he said it, even Ji Nanxian was skeptical. After all, Shen Lang himself was a person without fear, maybe it was a coincidence.

If Shen Lang is a loyal person, then treat it as nothing; if Shen Lang is not, then announce the matter, insist that he was the one who saved it, and force him to be protected by the royal family and make suggestions for Da Zhou. Coupled with Qin Tianjian and Confucianism telling the truth, as long as he wants to live, he has to obey orders.

Otherwise, a person of unknown origin and unfaithful will push Da Zhou into the abyss if he uses him to support Gu.

However, Shen Lang didn't care about these things, his mind was full of money.

Out of a man's instinct, he unknowingly walked to the entrance of Jiaofangsi. This Jiaofangsi is not the same as a brothel. A brothel is a building with a courtyard, and this Jiaofangsi is even more advanced than a brothel Some.

At the entrance of the alley is the signboard of Jiaofangsi, and each courtyard inside is the place of Jiaofangsi, which belongs to each oiran.

The entrance ticket here costs five taels of silver, which is 5000 yuan. This is really not a place that ordinary people can afford.

However, the people inside are indeed worthy of the consumption.

The girls of the Jiaofang Division include the daughters of criminal officials, and high-ranking orchids who were snatched during the war. Normally, girls from good families have to find ways to come in. Even if they come in, they can only be maids, not oirans.

Secretary of Jiaofang, what he is playing is an identity.

Those oirans used to be the real ladies of the family, the daughters of officials, and only the outstanding ones among them could compete for the position of an oiran, and the rest could only be the kind of handmaids who could enjoy it for money.

Most of the people who come and go here are high-ranking officials and dignitaries, who are either rich or noble, so the requirements for artists are naturally much higher than those of ordinary brothels.

From standing to sitting, from eating to sleeping, from talking to how to laugh, there are strict requirements for every word and deed.

It's not enough to be more beautiful than others just because of status. To be an oiran, one needs to be versatile and proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. These are all trained by special personnel.

And those female relatives of criminal officials were used to being pampered before, not to mention whether they could bear the crime, the huge psychological gap alone was enough to make people collapse.

Those who can adapt to be the oiran the fastest are the strong ones.

To enter this Jiaofang Division not only requires money, but also status. For example, not everyone has a pass for the inner city, and Shen Lang only got one today.

"Yo, just came, everyone is waiting for you."

At this moment, Shen Lang heard Ji Qianhe's voice.

He turned his head and saw that Ji Qianhe was dressed as a scholar, waving a folding fan, and looking at him with a smile.

It is no longer a question of her looking high at Shen Lang now, she went out to greet this national scholar directly.

"Which yard are we going to?" Shen Lang said listlessly.

"Huh? You don't like this kind of place?" Ji Qianhe raised her eyebrows: "It's settled, I'll pay the bill today, let's play."

"Ghosts like this kind of place." Shen Lang yawned: "I just wanted to invite you to play before, lest you bother me because you lost money, and you can make friends in the future. I don't like this kind of place myself. .”

He opened the keyboard smoothly.

[Ji Qianhe invites Shen Lang to the Jiaofang Division]

This time you won't run into another existence like an assassin, will you?

Well, just run into it, it's also an extra income.

"Your reputation has spread throughout Chang'an City." Ji Qianhe poked Shen Lang's ribs with his elbow: "You can prostitute any oiran here for nothing."

"White prostitution? Am I that kind of person? I look down on prostitutes the most." Shen Lang curled his lips: "Don't worry, I have no idea about staying overnight."

Even if you don't pay for whoring, can you still be called a man?

Besides, he didn't mean to prostitute.

Ji Qianhe raised her eyebrows and gave Shen Lang a high look.

When I saw him before, because Qin Tianjian was full of young girls who joined Qin Tianjian, and sent two love poems to them, I thought he was a womanizer.

But just now when I went back and asked my father, my father said that Luo Xi was still a virgin, and she felt that Shen Lang was the type who lived among thousands of flowers and never touched his body.

If today, as he said, he was here just to drink in the Jiaofang Division, it can be confirmed that his so-called lust is just a disguise.

His confidante is probably Li Yunchen alone, and Ji Wangshu is just pretending.

Even if he fell in love with two or three, it's not a particularly playful thing, it's a common thing in this era.

Soon, Ji Qianhe brought Shen Lang to a courtyard, this time she reserved the venue, outsiders could not enter.

The room was already full of people, the oiran was sitting at the top and was playing the piano, and the rest of the people sat at the bottom in a proper manner, each with a maid beside them.

The appearance of this maid is a level higher than that of the girls who went to the brothel before, and any of them is Shen Lang. In modern times, if he has a car, a house, and savings, he has to marry more than eight hands, and it depends on whether he is willing to make do with it.

The car, house and savings mentioned here are not that kind of car, but a luxury car, a house or a villa, and a normal family.

If Shen Lang wanted to marry them as they were before they entered Jiaofang Division, then Shen Lang could only beg them to be blind.

Thankfully, this isn't modern.

"Yo, the great talent is here."

"Brother Shen is domineering!"

"It is my great honor to help Grand Master Xiao break through to the second rank!"

"Come, come, take a seat, I'll toast you."

Seeing that they were not in a mess when they greeted each other, Shen Lang couldn't help being a little surprised, thinking that when he came in at this time, it was already the beginning of the wine pool and meat forest, and the windmill was turning.

Apparently, Shen Lang thought that this way of playing was acceptable for their identities in the brothel, but not in the Jiaofang Division. After all, it was the property of the imperial court.

"Okay." Shen Lang sat down, picked up a glass of wine, and toasted everyone.

Seeing that he finished drinking, the girl next to him quickly poured wine for him, her eyes seemed to be dripping water, she seemed very greedy.

Even if the members of this group of soldiers were once dudes, even if they changed their clothes, they still couldn't hide their aura. Scholars like Shen Lang were more pleasing to the eye.

Shen Lang cast a glance at the oiran, she was pretty good looking, in terms of facial features alone, her appearance was definitely not inferior to that of Shen Lang's confidante, she belonged to the kind of stunning beauty who would definitely amaze men and turn their heads when walking on the street.

In terms of temperament, she doesn't look like a flower farmer, but more like a lady from a big family.

As expected of a cultivated oiran, if it wasn't for the fear of getting sick, she would have said anything.

Hua Kui got up and bowed to Shen Lang: "Xiaowan, I have met Young Master Shen."

"Hello, hello." Shen Lang arched his hands, his eyes didn't stay on her much.

Hiss, with such a beautiful voice, I might not be able to control it.

No, my life is important!

In other words, even if you have that kind of disease in this era, there should be a way to treat it, right?

She is an official oiran, so she should also undergo regular safety checks, right?

Hmm... want to indulge?

Psychologically, it's not long since I had 27 times with Luo Xi, but physically, I've been holding back for a long time!

Obviously, a person like Shen Lang is the type who refuses in every possible way before going, and chooses faster than anyone else after going.

Did you say nothing before sleeping?

Oh, I underestimated men too much.

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