The entire flower boat is divided into three floors, of which the bottom floor is where the boatmen, fishermen and servants rest.
The middle floor is where guests gather, and the top floor is where the oirans live.
If any talented person is destined to win the favor of the oiran, he will be invited to the top floor to spend the night together.
In addition, some extremely wealthy people also have residences on the top floors. It's just that it's far away from the courtesans, separated by a thick wall.
If you want to use your status to oppress others, or you want to kiss someone, that's probably not going to work.
As for how many courtesans there are and who they are.
Gu Beichuan and others also found out.
There were two people named Liu Jianfei and Lan Rushi respectively.
One is good at dancing and the other is good at singing.
Both of them ranked first in the oiran competition and had already accumulated a lot of popularity. In addition, they did not slack off during their days on the flower boat and performed almost every day.
As a result, the already high popularity has continued to rise, and it has even attracted several young masters from good families, saying that they would redeem their bodies and take them home.
But... can it really be redeemed?
Of course it's possible, but the Fu family and Hua Man Lou spent so much money and put in so much effort not just for fun.
The ransom money paid by the two of them was naturally horrifyingly expensive. Moreover, if you are not from a prominent family or an important official in the court, you will not be redeemed.
After all, after these courtesans are trained, their first priority is to make money.
Secondly, it is to make friends and win over noble people.
Therefore, if these two items can be taken up at once, then there is no reason not to sell Huamanlou.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Gu Beichuan and others.
They just came to listen to music and have fun.
On the second floor, most of the guests gathered here, including Gu Beichuan and others.
Before the oirans could finish, there was already a buzz of people and the atmosphere reached a climax.
However, Gu Beichuan noticed that most of the visitors were young gentlemen, or else they were middle-aged men with sallow complexion and skinny muscles, looking like they had been hollowed out by beauty.
I couldn't help but laugh. How could I be here now that my body is no longer good?
If I let you have a taste of the horse killing chicken and great health care in later generations, then it would be okay.
Finally, amid cheers, Oiran appeared on stage!
She came down directly from the third floor, stepping on the flower basket with bare feet.
Singing as you descend.
It must be said that the singing voice is pleasant and beautiful, even better than that of most stars in later generations.
No wonder you can rely on this voice to make a living. Sure enough, a person who can be an oiran can only rely on a face and a body, which is absolutely impossible.
Blah blah blah!
When Lan Rushi reached the ground, countless petals suddenly fell from the third layer, slenderly falling down from the top of her head. Coupled with the sunlight, it looks like a fairy descending to the mortal world.
Such a form of performance was naturally nothing to Gu Beichuan, who came from a later generation.
But the Dagan people had never seen this before, and they all raised their voices and howled like ghosts.
"Everyone Lan! Everyone Lan!"
"Everyone Lan is so beautiful, marry me!"
"Get out of here, everyone in Lan belongs to me!"
"Huh, you two idiots. I will go back and tell my father to propose marriage to everyone in Lan."
Amid the commotion, Gu Beichuan finally saw the Lan family through the crowd.
She is indeed a beauty, she looks soft and frail, and her slender waist is even more manageable.
Coupled with the pitiful look on her face, she deserves to be called a pure and beautiful girl.
No wonder it has accumulated such great popularity, and no wonder it can trigger the crowd into madness. It turns out that people set it up well.
"One more song, one more song!"
"Let's play another one, Lan!"
Cheers continued, and the Lan family was obviously very familiar with this situation.
Picking up his tone, he said: "Since you are so respectful, it would be better to obey my order and play another song."
In fact, there is competition between the two courtesans.
There are almost two courtesans on every flower boat, because only in this way can the fiercest competition arise.
This is like a method of raising gu in a house full of flowers.
The winner will naturally become famous after returning to Qiandu. Now that he has a noble status, he will naturally receive noble people, and his chances of escaping from the prison will be much greater.
On the contrary, if you lose.
The winner will lose a lot of his popularity. Even if he returns to Daqian, the situation will be much worse. The guests received were either merchants with some money or young masters from above. The real nobles were not in their turn to serve.
So as long as the oiran's name is still there, in fact, when it comes to the situation, it really isn't much better than before.
Since Lan Rushi appears first, she naturally wants to sing a few more songs to increase her popularity, so that everyone will not be so interested in Liu Jianfei who will appear later.
Everyone listened with great interest, but Gu Beichuan shook his head as if dozing off.
Without him, he was so influenced by the entertainment culture of later generations that he really had no interest in these songs and dances.
What's more, the scene was so noisy that you had to speak close to your ears.
He was really a little insensitive to this kind of environment.
"Everyone, why don't we go back early. In my opinion, this flower boat is nothing interesting."
Xiang Zhirou and Uncle Fu and others nodded when they heard this. The former is because he is tired of seeing similar scenes, and the latter is simply because he is old and cannot bear the noise.
Only Xiaohong was extremely excited.
When he heard this, he looked disappointed and said, "Are you leaving now?"
"Miss, can you stay a little longer?"
"No! As a maid, you should be obedient when you go out. Otherwise, I will tell the butler about your fault later."
When Xiaohong heard this, alarm bells started ringing in her heart. Then she simply turned her gaze to Gu Beichuan. She knew that outside, her young lady was probably undecided.
But this Mr. Gu is different.
"Mr. Gu, please stay for a little while."
When Gu Beichuan heard this, he looked helpless.
If it were his own family, he could have turned cold and said no at this moment.
But after all, Xiaohong is from Prince Jing's palace and is Zhirou's personal maid. It would be inappropriate to deny her face like this.
So he nodded and said, "Then I'll stay for a short while."
When Xiaohong heard this, a smile suddenly appeared on her face: "Thank you, Mr. Gu."
However, who would have thought that things would go wrong in just such a short time.
In the middle of the second floor, Lan Rushi, who had finished singing two poems, suddenly said: "Before I came to Huainan, I had always heard that there was a poet here, who was called the literary star from the sky who came down to earth."
"The little girl often reads his poems and has admired him for a long time."
"I wonder if this Gu Shijun came to the scene today?"
"If you come, please show up and see me. The little lady has one more unkind favor."
When Gu Beichuan saw this, he frowned slightly and wanted to lower his head to avoid it.
However, he didn't expect that there happened to be people from Huainan around him. Seeing that he was next to Gu Beichuan, they actually raised their hands!
