The women in the Chu Guan brothel have learned music, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, etiquette, singing, dancing and drinking since childhood. Their overall quality cannot be underestimated. This is also the basis for them to sell themselves and entertain people with their sounds and colors.
From the perspective of the brothel owner, it is not easy to train qualified courtesans. They often require large investments and are raised in a luxurious single room like a rich lady. Some courtesans at the oiran level are even qualified to live in a small courtyard.
However, ransoming the life of a courtesan and courtesan is not as exaggerated as in a romance novel, and can easily cost tens of thousands of taels.
This is because the purchasing power of silver in the Qian Dynasty is not low. One hundred taels of silver is equivalent to one hundred thousand yuan, which is enough to redeem ordinary courtesans, and the oiran-level ones can also buy several hundred taels to more than a thousand taels.
This news is indeed somewhat unusual.
Even Fang Hong couldn't help but sigh after hearing this: "That's really a wealthy person. According to me, one hundred taels is enough."
Qin'er is not a famous actor, so why spend an extra two hundred taels?
Gao Feng said: "That's true. When a wealthy family buys a little girl to be a maid, the price is usually three to four taels, five or six taels. Some beautiful women are priced at more than ten taels, it all depends on whether they are willing to accept it.
Even for those maids who are older and have special skills, they only have twenty or thirty taels. Some outstandingly beautiful ones may reach five or sixty taels, but they are all at the level where they can be concubines, and they will not increase further. .
In addition, the women in brothels all claim to be prostitutes rather than prostitutes, which is the basis of their worth.
But as you get older, if you cannot redeem yourself in time, you will most likely end up relying on selling your body to make money.
By that time, the value will continue to decrease.
It seems that the high-roller is either really in love or really rich, and he doesn't care about spending more money. "
"It's either true love or money. Didn't you hear clearly what Miss Xiang'er said? Now Miss Qin'er lives alone in a courtyard inside and is treated as an aunt!"
Li Fan sneered and didn't take it seriously.
Why didn't such a wealthy family just take her out to live in it?
That can only mean that the other party does not have a room!
Li Fan felt more and more that the conditions really matched.
People in the demon sect are very precarious. Even the masters at the level of great protectors don't have much property, so they can only rent a place here to live temporarily, which is pitiful.
After chatting with Xiang'er and others for a long time, Li Ao finally waved them away amid the other party's reluctance.
Because the two general bannermen, Yu Liang and others came back, bringing news that everything was ready.
Yu Liang said: "Some of the guests outside have dispersed, but there are still many who are planning to stay overnight. Fortunately, Qin'er's place is secluded in the back and it is a private courtyard, so there should be no problem."
Li Fan stood up and asked, "How is our fighting strength here?"
The two general bannermen raised their hands and said: "We each have two bannermen under our control, and we can manage to gather four strangers, plus the two of us, there are ten in total.
There are also three strangers who were transferred from nearby, and they are all strangers who control one or two rare treasures.
In addition, there are other colleagues in Pingkangfang. When necessary, we can recruit reinforcements that are multiples of ours, and even troops from the Patrol Department. "
Fang Hong said: "The specific number of enemies is difficult to estimate, but it should be enough. We don't even need to ask for help."
Li Chuan nodded.
Nowadays, the power of weirdness is not very popular. Even if you take into account the recruitment of some reckless strangers to act as guardians, the number is limited, only three or five at best.
When the shadow puppet man attacked the convoy alone and wanted to kidnap the fox bride, he looked heroic, but in fact he was helpless.
Maybe, he, the Great Protector, has no alien subordinates at all, and is just a bare-bones person.
According to past data, this is also very possible. After all, the trend of weirdness has just begun to revive.
As for those ordinary people?
It is impossible for ordinary people to be the opponents of Demon Suppressor Fanzi.
No matter the number of people, armor, weapons, or training level and combat awareness, they are far from their opponents.
After the last attack, the demon sect showed signs of turning from darkness to light, which attracted great attention from the Governor's Office, and even began to equip the Demon Suppressor with weapons that were not normally distributed.
Putting aside other things, just with that set of straight armor, it is definitely not something that ordinary demon cultists from civilian backgrounds can compete with.
But this time, the Demon-Suppressing Division has equipped each team with two soldiers. They are armored combat units!
The others wore mandarin duck jackets that were common in the military, which had limited protection, but it was still better than the civilians who had no armor at all.
"Without further ado, let's do it."
Li Fan thought for a moment and ordered action.
The two commander-in-chiefs were veterans and immediately arranged for people to control the bustard and the suspicious characters they had targeted before.
As expected, there was no stranger among them, and the problem was solved quickly and neatly.
But when they kicked open the door and rushed in with several people trying to arrest Miss Qin'er, they unexpectedly found that there was no one inside.
"Sir, there is no one inside."
"What, no one? Impossible!"
This simply questioned their tracking work, and the two men under the general banner immediately complained.
"We have been staring at the front hall and backyard, even if we climb over the wall and window, we can still see!"
"Look for anyone hiding, or leave through the secret passage."
Someone else said.
While they were puzzled, Li Ao thought of some details they had obtained from previous inquiries.
Since this girl Qin'er was ransomed, she has stopped accepting guests and often locks herself in her room without seeing anyone else.
Even the two maids who were originally serving personally were only allowed in when delivering meals or pouring night fragrance.
"It can't be that there is a mysterious realm hidden in the room, right?"
He has been really scared by this thing recently. It is obviously a very rare thing, why do he keep running into it?
So when others were not paying attention, I secretly took a sip of the wine in the bottle, stood at the door and looked in from the outside.
As a result, what was revealed in front of him was not the original courtyard, but a crumbling ruin that seemed to have been burned by fire.
Its walls were blackened by smoke and fire, and all the doors and windows were burned out, but the pillars were still standing firmly, the beams and roof were not burned down, and the overall structure remained intact.
Gray-black mist lingered around, like the smoke from a fire.
The room was filled with mist and black smoke, as if someone had burned something here not long ago.
But judging from the reactions of others, they didn't notice it at all.
This fog and black smoke did not come from the original world, but came from the mysterious realm of another time and space.
His eyes followed the source of the smoke, and he saw the source of smoke like a bonfire that had just been extinguished inside the curtain and in the corner of the bed.
Suddenly, his gaze seemed to penetrate the bed board and cast it at the bottom of the bed.
"The Stranger (Wang Qicai) (ghostly)"
"Derivatives (Shadow Puppet)"
That shadow puppet who is the great protector of the Gu Heart Demon Cult is called Wang Qicai!
I really found him, hiding here!
