"Master, are we going directly to Dangyang Academy? Liu Song, the book boy who has been with Liu Mingzhi since childhood, was carrying a small book basket and asked the interested Liu Mingzhi enthusiastically.
Liu Mingzhi looked around and ignored his book boy. He was still so excited about reading even though he was sick. His brain had suffered from water damage or his brain had shrunk.
The streets of Jinling City were filled with cars and horses, and crowds of people came one after another. The land in the south of the Yangtze River has always been known as the land of plenty, and Jinling is the leader in the land in the south of the Yangtze River. Compared with the land of the capital, except for the lack of a royal palace and the Ninth Five-Year Master who commands the world, the rest of it can be compared with the land of the capital. One or two shoulder to shoulder.
In name, this was the first time Liu Mingzhi had truly seen Jinling in another world. The cries of vendors on the street were so pleasant, and the various stalls lined along the street were so novel. With all kinds of strange playthings.
"Young Master, come and take a look. These are all precious jewelry trafficked from the capital. Even the concubines and princesses in the palace like them very much. Young Master, please buy one. Buy one as a gift to your wife. The vendor boasted with great effort. Carry your own goods."
Liu Mingzhi took a jade hairpin in his hand and looked through it. The jade hairpin was obviously made of inferior jade and had no smooth and transparent texture. Liu Mingzhi laughed: "If all the concubines in the palace really use For jewelry of this quality, the Royal Family is not worthy of the title of Royal Family.”
"Master, buy one, buy one for your wife." The vendor looked at Liu Mingzhi's agitated look and encouraged him softly.
Liu Mingzhi became interested: "Oh? If you buy one, you will get one for your wife? Seriously?"
The hawker was startled, and the corner of his mouth twitched, thinking that the rich man in front of him didn't play according to the routine.
"Young master, don't make fun of the villain. What the villain means is to buy a hairpin for his wife."
"Wrap it up."
When Liu Mingzhi saw the hawker's appearance, he was too lazy to joke with him. An ordinary hairpin was not worth much.
The hawker showed a smile: "Young master is just happy. I will find the best jewelry box to wrap it up for you. Master, please wait."
"Wait a minute." Liu Mingzhi's expression was fixed on a wooden hairpin in one of the stalls, and he was stunned. The wooden hairpin had nothing special about it. It could be said that it was ordinary and inconspicuous.
Liu Mingzhi came to his senses and pointed to the wooden hairpin in the corner: "Boss, I don't want that jade hairpin anymore, replace it with the wooden hairpin."
The hawker looked at the two hairpins with some embarrassment. No matter how poor the jade quality was, the jade hairpins still had the word "jade" on them and were worth several coins. The wooden hairpin was worth ten cents, which was a sky-high price. The hawker was better than anyone else. Knowing how big the profit gap was, I was a little reluctant to hear that Liu Mingzhi wanted to exchange the goods.
"That wooden hairpin is priced at the price of a jade hairpin, so wrap it up."
"Young Master is really kind-hearted. Compared with that Young Master Liu Papi Liu, Young Master, you are really the most conscientious young master in the world."
"How dare you call my young master Liu Bapi in private? I think you don't want to hang around in the land of Aurous Hill anymore." Liu Song suddenly became furious and pointed at the hawker to get angry.
Liu Mingzhi frowned slightly and looked at Liu Song unhappily. He didn't understand how Liu Song could suddenly become such an arrogant and arrogant person: "Xiao Song, what are you going to do? Why don't you apologize to the boss quickly?"
Liu Song looked aggrievedly at his young master who was angry at him: "Master, the Liu Bapi this guy is talking about is you, master. Xiaosong is venting his anger on you, master!"
Liu Mingzhi pointed at himself in disbelief, and then stared at the vendor closely: "Me? Liu Papi?"
The hawker also looked at Liu Mingzhi in astonishment: "Master, are you Liu Mingzhi, the eldest son of Yuan Liu's family?"
"If there is no second eldest son besides Yuan Liu, I think I will be the Liu Mingzhi." Liu Mingzhi said sadly.
The hawker trembled and knelt on the ground with a plop: "Master Liu, please forgive me. It's all nonsense. Please forgive me, Master Liu. I beg you."
Liu Mingzhi was stunned at first, then frowned and stared at the hawker kneeling on the ground. He raised his hand and pulled the wooden hairpin from the hawker's hand: "Xiao Song, give me the money and leave."
Liu Song looked at Liu Mingzhi in disbelief: "Master, this guy is ruining your reputation in private, and you let him go so easily?"
"Otherwise, what can we do? Take him to see an official? Just give him money and leave. Just clear the money and goods."
Liu Song glared at the vendor kneeling on the ground unwillingly, then took out a piece of broken silver and threw it on the ground, following Liu Mingzhi who had walked away.
After the robbery, the vendor Yu Sheng wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and then looked at the broken silver in his hand dreamily, as if it was something rare.
"Komatsu."
"Master?"
Liu Mingzhi listened to the vendors cursing him. He pointed at the two people and asked the crowd: "Is it true that I used to molest women from good families, beat and scold the elderly, and snatch snacks from children as they said?" , kicked through the widow’s door?”
"Master, don't you know what you look like?" Liu Song wondered why his young master would ask such a strange question.
"It's been so long that I can't even remember it clearly. Please help the young master review it."
"Master, in fact, you are not a playboy at all. They said that you beat and scolded the old man because they didn't know that the old man was disrespectful. When you stopped the young master, you forcibly extorted the young master's money. You snatched the children's snacks because you saw him. The children's snacks are stained with dirt. I want to help the child throw them away to prevent them from eating them. Relying on the status of the richest man in Jiangnan, the young master can't eat anything he wants, so he grabs the children's snacks. These fools It will spread rumors."
"Then what's the point of teasing a good woman and kicking a widow's door?"
"Master, you returned from a parade in Bingzhou a year ago. You saw a woman on the outskirts of the city who was planning to commit suicide, so you kicked in the door of her house and rescued the woman. It happened that this woman was a widow whose husband died. As the saying goes, widows There was a lot of trouble in front of the door. Young master, when you kicked the door open, you were seen by a passing scholar and spread the word.
As for teasing women from good families, it's even more so. Young master, every time you go to a famous brothel like Yanyu Pavilion, the pretty girls from the brothels will surround you like flies. Young master can't shake them off even if he wants to, so why bother teasing women from good families? Young Master, you are nineteen years old and have not yet started a family. Many women are flocking here just to have some interaction with you. Anyway, what they say has nothing to do with you, Young Master.
Liu Mingzhi looked unhappy: "When you say they are surrounding me like flies, you are calling me shit."
Liu Song's face darkened when he heard this, wondering why the young master's brain circuit was so strange and his focus was so different. He hurriedly shook his head: "Master, Xiao Song dares to swear to God, Xiao Song definitely doesn't mean this."
Liu Mingzhi said calmly: "Then you send it, the young master will watch."
Liu Song stared blankly at the young master who said, "Please start your performance." He scratched his hair anxiously, as if thinking about what I should do.
Liu Mingzhi suddenly remembered that his predecessor died on a woman's belly and asked curiously: "Xiaosong, do you think I'm lustful, young master?"
"That guy is simply a master of sex, love, and love. Master, you are naturally handsome. I have a fortune, and I haven't married yet. It makes sense for you to be more romantic and suave." Among them." Liu Song stammered.
Liu Mingzhi sneered lightly, knowing that what his little book boy said was not entirely true, so he didn't press the question forcefully.
He gently smashed the folding fan in his hand: "Okay, since you said that being romantic is a reasonable thing, let's go to the Yanyu Pavilion first and then transfer to Dangyang Academy."
"Ah, young master, I ordered Xiaosong to watch you arrive at the academy safely. Now that you have gone out and turned around and entered a brothel to have sex with a prostitute, how can Xiaosong explain to the master?"
Liu Mingzhi raised the folding fan in his hand and hit Liu Song hard on the head: "You idiot, only God knows about this matter. You know it and I know it. If I don't tell you, how will the old man know?"
"But, Xiaosong feels that this is a failure of the master's trust."
Liu Mingzhi hesitated word by word and said: "I trust you with my egg. In one sentence, do you want to go or not?"
"Go, go, go. If the young master says to go, go. I will listen to the young master."
As soon as they arrived at the gate of Yanyu Pavilion, the girl greeting guests saw Liu Mingzhi's master and servant from a distance. He greeted her affectionately, "Mr. Liu, you haven't been to Yanyu Tower for a few days, but you have missed the girls in our pavilion. Today you have to make up for the hurt hearts of our sisters."
Liu Mingzhi was not polite, and quietly reached out to the two girls' buttocks with his hands and patted them a few times: "Are you hurt mentally, or are you short of money to buy rouge and gouache?"
The girl gave Liu Mingzhi a charming look, and held up Liu Mingzhi's chin with her green-white jade fingers: "Master Liu, what do you think the slave family is lacking?"
"We are all lacking, we are all lacking. I will compensate you well today. I will replenish your soul and make up for your rouge and gouache. Xiaosong, take the money."
Xiaosong pouted and said nothing, took out two pieces of silver from the money bag and handed them to Liu Mingzhi.
"How's it going? Master, my miraculous doctor, have you cured the heartache of the two sisters?"
The two girls put away the money without leaving a trace: "Master Liu's miraculous medical skills, my sister and I will be cured soon."
Liu Mingzhi chuckled twice, winked and said: "The only way to relieve your worries is silver. Now that you two are cured of your illness, I heard that the girls in Yanyu Tower have excellent flute skills. Today, I How about seeing something?"
Before the two girls spoke, the brothel's old madam saw Liu Mingzhi from a distance and hurriedly greeted her: "Isn't this Master Liu? You haven't come to favor our girl for some time."
"Mother Wu is really joking. Guests come to your Yanyu Pavilion every day. What does it mean to have me, Liu Mingzhi, as your guest?"
"How can they compare to your status, Mr. Liu? To have you, Mr. Liu, visit my Yanyu Pavilion is a great blessing for my Yanyu Pavilion."
"Mother Wu, you are really good at talking. I am very happy to hear this."
The madam became excited now: "Master Liu, are you really happy today?"
"I'm happy, of course I'm happy."
The old bustard turned around and shouted excitedly: "Everyone, Mr. Liu will pay all the expenses for Yanyu Pavilion today."
Liu Mingzhi was stunned, what the hell, paying the bill? No matter what happens, I will foot the bill.
"Xiaosong, sir, did I say that I would pay everyone today?"
Liu Song said timidly: "Master, you used to pay all the money of everyone in Yanyu Pavilion as long as you were happy, but this time we only brought one hundred taels of silver with us when we went out."
"What the hell, just pay everyone's bills when you're happy. Did the old man's money come from the wind? How much soy milk and fried dough sticks are there for this prodigal thing."
"Mother Wu, come here."
The old madam twisted her plump body and leaned forward: "What do you want Mr. Liu to do? How many girls do you want to accompany you?"
"Young master, I don't want to order anything. My family is poor. Please take my leave." After saying that, he took Liu Song, who was staring at the brothel girl, and hurried out of the Misty Pavilion.
"What, I ordered ten girls to accompany me, and Mr. Liu actually ran away?"
"I ordered two jars of 50-year-old Bamboo Leaf Green."
The angry shouts of men came from the Yanyu Pavilion.
