"The Taoist Priest and the old man thought of something. From the functional point of view, this tomb should be a banquet hall. Shi Zhouhezhu was probably a person who liked liveliness during his lifetime, so he laid it out like this in the underground palace, but he was in the dark underground. , no matter how hard I try to design it, it still looks lifeless.”
"Yes, even if there are a few dummies placed in the banquet, it still means something like that. There is a pool of stagnant water and several empty cattails. Guangshi Zhou Hezhu is busy on his own."
"What are you two planning over there?" Luo Laoqi called from behind: "Come here quickly, there seems to be something in the pool!"
After hearing the words, the two people hurriedly came to the edge of the pool. The bathing pool suddenly changed. The pool water was rapidly surging from the center to the surroundings. After a while, something gradually appeared in the center, vaguely like a round platform.
The round platform stopped after it rose half a foot away from the water. It was a stone platform made of bluestone, in a regular circle, with a diameter of about a foot or so and a thickness of about a dozen. There are three wrist-thick stone pillars supporting the stone platform below. The surface of the stone pillars is very smooth. I don’t know whether it is due to being soaked in water for a long time or due to frequent lifting and lowering friction. The color of the stone looks very strange. It is neither like the bluestone used in the stone platform nor the stone pillars. Sand slate common in mountains.
In addition, there were some white things on the round platform. The Taoist priest with a grimace looked carefully, and the more he looked, the more he thought they were several naked female corpses. He heard Luo Laoqi's breathing increased in intensity next to him, knowing that this guy He saw some aspects more accurately than himself, so he asked: "Old Qi, what is on the stone platform?"
"Oh, Taoist priest, please stop pretending and let Sajia calm down and watch for a while."
Xia Houxiang, an untouched young man, was also blushing at the sight. The female corpses were in very bold poses, with their breasts exposed and their legs twisted together, creating a living erotic scene. The most important thing was that the female corpses were extremely well preserved and completely There was no sign of the decay that a dead body should have, but instead each one had an abnormally fresh look. If it weren't for the lifelessness in their eyes, everyone would have believed that they were sleeping girls.
Xia Houyun stroked his beard and said to the grim-faced Taoist priest: "It really corresponds to our previous inference. The banquet here is exactly the same as the 'Guanchi Wine Banquet'. Unexpectedly, there are even girls in the pool. In order to satisfy his own needs, Shi Zhouhezhu Selfish desires require a lot of thought."
The Taoist priest with a grimace nodded and replied: "The aristocratic class has always been like this. They are not willing to give up the things they had in life even after death. However, the poor Taoist saw that the three girls were not dummies at all, but zombies made of dead bodies. Then why did the skin still show up? Can you stay so moist and fair?"
"This old man is also a little confused. I have seen a lot of zombies of all kinds in the past, but I have never encountered one that is maintained like this. Could it be related to the fact that the zombies have been soaked in water?"
"Isn't it all rotten after being soaked in water for a long time?"
"No, I have heard of this method before." He Siniang suddenly interrupted.
"Oh? Come and listen, Fourth Mother."
"This is called the 'corpse moisturizing method'. It is a cruel method invented by the barbarians. It is specially used to preserve the corpse of a girl. I have not only heard of it, but I have also seen it with my own eyes." He Siniang slowly said next. A miserable past.
The Baixi Gate where He Siniang once lived was a branch of the Huojing Gate. This sect mainly makes a living by performing arts and singing operas, and the Huojing Gate belongs to the branch of the "Orchid Gate" in the Outer Baixing, so let's talk about it in detail, He Siniang was a member of the same family as those who performed on the streets, performed on high platforms, or even sold their bodies in brothels.
The Orchid Sect has the most complex branches among the eight outer professions, covering almost most of the professions that women can engage in. One of them is called the "Shuiyang Sect". All professions related to "prostitutes" are under the control of the Shuiyang Sect. .
The name of Shuiyang Gate is taken from "flowing water" and "yanghua". Yanghua is another name for catkins. When the flowers bloom, they float like snow. This is a metaphor for the frivolous nature of the prostitutes in the gate, and the arrogance and rudeness when they gain power.
Of course, the "prostitute" mentioned here is a general term, which includes not only prostitutes who are prostitutes but not their bodies, but also prostitutes with outstanding talents, as well as ordinary prostitutes, as well as official prostitutes, domestic prostitutes, etc. Military prostitutes, civilian prostitutes, etc.
Nowadays, during the period when the Northern and Southern Dynasties were in conflict, domestic prostitutes were the most developed among the Shuiyang clan, especially during the Liu and Song Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties. The decline and decadence of the aristocratic clans had reached the extreme. The men did nothing serious all day long and were devoted to smoking clothes and shaving. Make noodles, make powder, apply Zhu, and then gather for banquets to fight for wine and wealth. The whole society indulges in corruption and sensuality, and even keeping prostitutes at home has become a common practice. Rich people do not have more than ten or twenty prostitutes, and they are too embarrassed to support their waists when they go out. Prostitutes and even Shuiyangmen have made great progress in this sick society, leaving other sects in the outside world not knowing whether to laugh or feel helpless.
Some people say that there was a difference between prostitutes and prostitutes in ancient times. Prostitutes only sold their skills but not their bodies, and prostitutes only sold meat. This is actually wrong. Both prostitutes and prostitutes were engaged in erotic services, but prostitutes have received special training and have the ability to sell meat. Certain service skills, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are only the most serious of the service skills, and there is no need to mention the others; prostitutes do not have so much fancy work, you come and I finish the work, and the main way to make money is to walk. quantity.
He Siniang has the most say in this. This is not because of anything she has done, but because Shuiyang Clan has a very subtle fate with the Huojing Clan where she lives, and the Murong Clan where she sings operas. Although the three families all make a living by pleasing others, their working methods are different. However, what is very strange is that most of the girls from Huojing Clan and Murong Clan ended up in Shuiyang Clan. The ending of the girls from these two sects. It seems that none of them are very good. Only a few can find decent families to marry. Even if they get married, most of them will end up like Gu Jiuniang, and end up miserable. Most of the girls will go to the road of selling themselves in flower houses. I also commented on the Orchid Gate in this way - when I went on stage, I sang and danced, when the curtains fell, the lights were yellow and the shadows were thin, when I was young, I looked at the shore without feeling sad, when I was old, it was difficult to walk on the duckweed, and the eagle raised its eyebrows and licked its hands, and finally the gilded sign was hung. Flower House.
He Siniang chose to leave the Orchid Gate, perhaps for this reason. She had heard too many tragic endings of sisters, and one of them still makes her heart palpitate to this day.
There are many Huojingmen halls. In addition to the Baiximen in Guangling, which is the most famous, there is also the "Shengximen" in Dingzhou in the north, which is also very famous. This team was established in the middle of the Jin Dynasty and has been rooted in the Jizhou area. It has experienced The former Qin Dynasty settled in the Central Plains, and the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms disrupted China. Until the Northern Wei Dynasty, it is still running well, but the service targets have changed from the powerful people of the Jin Dynasty to the Hu people.
The incident He Siniang mentioned happened in the third year of Tai'an in the Northern Wei Dynasty. At that time, there was also an oiran named "Pan Ji" in the Shengxi Gate. Her appearance was said to be that of the reincarnation of Diao Chan and the descendant of Chang'e. Although she was a Han, she still made her look... Countless barbarian people flocked to him.
Once a person becomes more famous, more people will naturally pay attention to her. At that time, Houergan, a Xianbei nobleman in Dingzhou, took an eye on her and offered a large price to Jia Gui, the leader of the Shengximen, to buy Pan Ji to sing in the mansion.
How dare Jia Gui disobey? The most important reason why Sheng Ximen could survive in the Northern Wei Dynasty was that he was willing to be a lackey for the Hu people. In the past, when there was this kind of business, he always nodded and agreed, especially this time the buyer was Hou Ergan. He was equivalent to a feudal official in the Han dynasty. Not to mention paying for Pan Ji, even if he took off his clothes and smiled, he would not hesitate.
However, Hou Erqian's request was not limited to this. He heard that there was also a beautiful oiran from the Southern Dynasty, who was traveling with Jia Gui, so he asked Jia Gui to find a way to invite that person too, and then he would have a couple in his house. The courtesan competes for beauty, and the courtesan in the Southern Dynasties was He Siniang.
Jia Gui also agreed to this request. After all, this was not a multiple-choice question. He then wrote a letter explaining the proportion of the spoils, and Feige passed it to Pang Dahai, the leader of the same sect of Baixi sect.
Pang Dahai is not a Jia Gui who has no bottom line. After receiving the letter, he had to think about all aspects. But when he saw the reward for going north, he immediately felt that he had thought too much. He didn't even wait until the next day. In the afternoon of that day, someone was sent to escort He Siniang northward.
In this way, two courtesans from the Huojing Clan, one from the south and one from the north, were sent to the palace in a daze. "Gao" is the Chinese surname of Hou Erqian. The Northern Wei Dynasty implemented the Chineseization of the household system and the official system. Almost all nobles had Chinese names. The transliteration of the last character of the Xianbei name was adopted. Maybe the pronunciation of Hou Erqian among the Hu people is different from that of the Han people, so his Han nationality The surname is "Gao" instead of "Qian".
But what He Siniang and the others didn't know was that although Hou Ergan was a Xianbei noble, he had Goguryeo blood in his body. This family had an extremely weird temperament and obvious mental hereditary diseases. The famous perverted dynasty of the Northern Qi Dynasty in later generations was a descendant of Hou Ergan. Established by Gao Yang.
At first, He Siniang and the others thought they were being sent to the mansion to set up a stage for singing, but after entering the Gaofu mansion, they gradually realized that something was wrong. First of all, the servants in the mansion were very strange. She is restrained but has a rosy complexion, especially the maid's clothes. The upper body looks normal, but the lower body is actually wearing crotchless pants. If she walks a little longer, the secret part of her crotch will be clearly exposed. He Siniang and Pan Jiju was so surprised that she couldn't figure out what was going on in this mansion.
In fact, this is a manifestation of Hou Erqian's mental disorder. His lust is different from that of normal people, and he has been distorted to the point of perversion when it comes to matters between men and women. The original reason for letting the maids wear crotchless pants was to satisfy his own convenience, so that he could have desires while walking. , whichever maid pleases your eyes can be pushed down directly. Later, he became bored with these things, so he asked his servants to rejoice together in front of the hall, and he sat in the hall to watch. If any of the men in the hall did not work hard, he would have someone lead a vicious dog and bite him from behind. In order to save their lives, they can only grit their teeth and grit their teeth. Over time, they are as tired as eggplants beaten by frost. On the contrary, the maids are nourished and look much better. However, the fear and uneasiness shining in their eyes proves that there is something more terrifying in the house. things.
