Chapter 1436 Listening to Music in a Brothel, the Prince Visits

The song "Liangzhou" made both Si Lili and Sang Wen amazed.

Liangzhou is not the kind of pipa music that is suitable for a brothel. The passion, impassionedness and vigor of the pipa are completely incompatible with the temperament of a brothel. The artistic conception and style are far from being comparable to that of love and love music.

Sang Wen only knew that Zhou Chen had a noble status, but didn't know much more. But Si Lili was different. She knew Zhou Chen's status, and she was even more shocked by Zhou Chen's versatility.

It's amazing that someone like Zhou Chen, who was born into a noble family and has reached the peak of martial arts, can also have such superb pipa skills.

After the song ended, Zhou Chen returned the pipa to Sang Wen. He just played the song out of emotion.

Looking at Sang Wen again, Sang Wen was about the same age as Si Lili, but unlike Si Lili who was so radiant and charming, her appearance was not bad at all, but she looked a little deliberately clumsy and had a weak posture.

He seems to be an alert and intelligent man.

Zhou Chen was drinking with Si Lili, while Sang Wen was playing music on the side. Because both of them were housekeepers, even though they were in a private room, they were just eating, drinking, and listening to music. Authentic Goulan music. , and did not play any other tricks.

Zhou Chen Goulan has extremely rich experience in listening to music. No matter what kind of scene he is, he can easily grasp it.

Almost an hour later, Sang Wen was tired, and Zhou Chen didn't embarrass her. He gave her a piece of silver, and Sang Wen left after a polite salute.

As soon as Sang Wen left, only Zhou Chen and Si Lili were left in the private room.

Looking at Si Lili who was pouring wine for him, Zhou Chen suddenly said: "You seem a little afraid of me? Are you afraid that I will bully you, or are you afraid that I will force you?"

Si Lili's hand when pouring wine trembled slightly, and he put down the wine bottle, pretending to be shy.

"My lord's name has spread all over Kyoto, and he is famous. The little girl is just a girl from a brothel. The lord is too majestic, so the little girl is naturally afraid."

She wasn't pretending, but she was really scared. If she faced others, she might still be able to decline politely, but Zhou Chen was a great master.

Even though there were many of her subordinates in Zuixianju, they could not play any role in front of the Grand Master. As long as Zhou Chen wanted to, she could not resist at all.

Zhou Chen played with the wine glass and said with a slight smile: "You can speak so calmly about fear. It seems that the royal family of the Qing Kingdom in the past have indeed grown a lot in Northern Qi."

Si Lili's expression suddenly changed, his body retreated unconsciously, and he looked at Zhou Chen in horror.

"How could you..."

"Don't be nervous. If I want to do something to you, do you think you can resist?"

But these words of comfort did not make Si Lili feel at all at ease, but made him even more nervous and scared.

Seeing her anxious and fearful look, Zhou Chen stopped scaring her.

"As I said, don't be nervous. I have no ill intentions towards you, and I'm not here to entertain you. I was just asked to come over and see how you are doing."

"Entrusted by someone?" Si Lili didn't quite understand.

Zhou Chen drank the wine in the cup and said: "The Holy Maiden of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Begonia Duoduo, your good friend."

Si Lili was even more surprised: "Haitang Duoduo told you? How could she tell you such a secret?"

Zhou Chen is from Nanqing, and Haitang Duoduo is from Northern Qi. They are still close friends. Logically speaking, it is impossible to tell Zhou Chen the truth.

Zhou Chen smiled and said: "Perhaps she feels that I have a good relationship, or maybe she is worried about you, so she asked me to take care of you after returning to Kyoto. Do you believe it now?"

Si Lili finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although she didn't understand why Haitang Duoduo talked about her to Zhou Chen, since she told the truth, it meant that Haitang Duoduo felt that Zhou Chen could trust her.

Thinking of Zhou Chen's previous trip to Shangjing City to face off against the Grand Master in the Kuhe Palace, maybe it was at that time that Zhou Chen and Haitang Duoduo got to know each other, and they seemed to get along very well. They regarded Zhou Chen as someone he could trust. people.

Occasionally, she looked at Zhou Chen again, and she realized that maybe Haitang Duoduo had different emotional factors for this fifth-ranked grandmaster in the world.

After spending a long time in a brothel, she naturally knows a lot about men, and as a woman herself, she naturally understands women's thoughts.

If a woman feels that a man is trustworthy and can be entrusted to her, it means that this man has entered her heart.

Haitang Duoduo is a saint of the Northern Qi Dynasty and a disciple of Kuhe Gate. She has a high status. However, Zhou Chen is a great master and is also very outstanding in all aspects. Haitang Duoduo looks at Zhou Chen and can completely understand.

"Thank you for clarifying my doubts, sir."

After this conversation, Si Lili seemed more relaxed. She had not experienced the feeling of not having to pretend in front of others for a long time.

Zhou Chen put down the wine glass and said, "Pour some wine."

"Sir, may I call you a few more people to come over and play and sing?"

"Okay, just look at the arrangements."

For three days in a row, Zhou Chen would go to Zuixianju every day, and every time he would find the oiran manager Lili to accompany him. The news soon spread throughout Kyoto.

After Emperor Qing heard about it, he said cheerfully: "I'm still thinking of finding him a well-matched noble girl to marry. How about he go to a brothel every day?"

Seeing that Emperor Qing was in a good mood, Eunuch Hou also smiled and said: "Your Majesty, although this young Master Zhou is a Grand Master, he has not actually been crowned. After all, he is still a young man with a young heart. He loves women and loves women. He is really a human being. Common sense.”

"Oh, you old guy, you don't have that ability, but you know a lot about this kind of thing."

Eunuch Hou said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it is precisely because of my incompetence that this old slave understands the character of a young man like Young Master Zhou better."

Emperor Qing nodded: "That's what you said. As a young man, no matter how great his achievements are, he is still immature. It's good to like women. It's a good thing. So tell me, should I reward him with some beauties?"

"ah?"

Eunuch Hou was confused. Should you ask him about such a thing?

"Ah, what, forget it, it's useless to ask you. Go down, go down."

Emperor Qing waved his hand and drove away Eunuch Hou, and then his expression suddenly became serious.

"The great master likes women, who would believe it?"

Looking at the four great masters in the world, none of them is a womanizer.

As an emperor, before he became a grand master, his desire for power far exceeded women. After he became a grand master, his desire for women was almost gone. Otherwise, there would not be only a few sons in such a huge palace, because He rarely stayed in the harem.

Rather than staying in the harem, he preferred to stay in his bedroom, polishing arrowheads and forging armor.

Using himself to judge others, he felt that if Zhou Chen could become a great master, he must be a determined person and could not be a lustful person. He felt that Zhou Chen deliberately showed this to others, and even simply acted it out to him. of.

However, he felt that this was not a bad thing. Zhou Chen's sending such a signal showed that he still had some scruples and had no intention of being treasonous, otherwise there would be no need to pretend like this.

"He will soon be crowned, and it's time to inherit the title. Grand Master, I'm afraid one earl is not enough..."

Except for Emperor Qing, other forces that were eyeing Zhou Chen also knew about this matter, but just like Emperor Qing, they didn't take it to heart very much.

She's just a brothel girl and can't affect the situation.

On this day, Zhou Chen was still drinking in Zuixianju. The oiran manager was helping him pour wine, while Sang Wen was sitting there, playing the pipa.

After playing the song, Sang Wen stood up a little decadently.

"Sir, I have been learning your Liangzhou song for three days. Although I can play it, there is still a big gap compared with you."

"With different moods, the mood of the music played will naturally be different. You are also very talented. You are very similar to an old acquaintance of mine. You play well."

Zhou Chen praised Sang Wen, saying that even if the mastery of the same piece of music is the same, when a man and a woman play it, the feeling and artistic conception are different after all.

It took Sang Wen three days to master this Liangzhou Dabian, which is enough to show that her pipa skills are already very superb.

Sang Wen bowed lightly: "I would also like to thank you for your appreciation and teaching me this piece of music."

She had known Zhou Chen's true identity for a long time, but after getting along with him for the past few days, Zhou Chen didn't despise her at all, and even taught her to play Liangzhou, which made her extremely grateful and moved.

You must know that she is just a lowly girl from a brothel, and Zhou Chen is not only a grand master, but also the son of a distinguished noble, and will inherit the title soon.

Their identities were very different, but she felt respected by Zhou Chen, which she had never experienced before.

Sang Wen rested for a while, then went to change his clothes, and then came in with a group of women to perform songs and dances for Zhou Chen.

Si Lili poured wine for Zhou Chen and asked inadvertently: "Sir, have you fallen in love with Miss Sang Wen?"

Zhou Chen glanced at her: "Why do you ask?"

"I see that adults seem to treat Miss Sang Wen differently."

"Have it?"

"Of course, I've been in Zuixianju for so long, so I still have some discernment."

Zhou Chen said casually: "Maybe it's because she is good-looking. I treat good-looking girls a little differently."

Si Lili said with a smile: "There are many good-looking girls in Zuixianju, but I have never seen adults treat other girls like this."

She has been with Zhou Chen for a few days. Although Zhou Chen comes to Zuixianju every day, he does not stay overnight and has never slept with a girl from Zuixianju. He comes here every day, except for her and Sang Wen. I ordered other girls, drank and listened to music every day, and occasionally played small games with them, but I never took advantage of them.

So after a few days, Zhou Chen left a very good impression on her. In addition to the powerful label, she also gained the label of a gentleman.

What made her slightly uncomfortable was that Zhou Chen seemed to treat Sang Wen better than he treated her.

Zhou Chen didn't explain either. On the one hand, Sang Wen was good-looking, and on the other hand, Sang Wen's experience made him unconsciously put some filters on her.

The happy time in the brothel passed quickly. The other singing and dancing girls left, leaving only Si Lili and Sang Wen to accompany Zhou Chen to drink and talk.

While I was drinking, someone came and knocked on the door.

"Dong dong, dong dong."

"Master, it's me."

"come in."

Sun Yi opened the door cautiously and walked in.

"How did you come?"

In the past two days, it was He Qin, the 'bad gambler', the ninth-grade swordsman who drove Zhou Chen's carriage, while Sun Yi stayed in the house.

"Young Master, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince suddenly came to visit. Hearing that the young master was not in the residence, he left many gifts and left. Before leaving, he also said that he would come to visit the next time the young master is in the residence."

"hehe."

Zhou Chen smiled playfully: "Prince? It's interesting. Who in Kyoto doesn't know that I have been hanging around Zuixianju these days. He knew that I was not here and went to my house to visit him. This prince is quite interesting."

When the prince was involved, the faces of Si Lili and Sang Wen who were accompanying him changed drastically. Si Lili was fine, but Sang Wen stood up with a nervous look on his face.

"Sir, you guys talk about business, I'd better go out first."

Zhou Chen waved his hand and said, "Sit down, there's nothing to be ashamed of."

Sang Wen's face was bitter. This involved the prince, and she said it was nothing. She was just a prostitute in a brothel, how could she listen to such gossip.

But Zhou Chen didn't let her go, and she couldn't disobey him. She could only sit down again with a bitter face, but she made a small gesture, covering her ears with both hands and lowering her head.

Zhou Chen found her cute and pitiful appearance very interesting.

"Besides that, he didn't say anything else?"

"No, I came here as soon as the prince left. Tong Quan asked me to ask the young master what to do with the gifts sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Zhou Chen was not there, and as servants, they had no right to refuse the gifts sent by the prince, so they ran to ask Zhou Chen in time.

"They have come to our door, we can't send them back. The prince also wants to save face. If he insists on meeting, it's not impossible. Come to Zuixianju."

The three people in the room looked at Zhou Chen in astonishment. Asking the prince to meet at Zuixianju, isn't this a bit exaggerated?

Sun Yi asked naively: "Will His Royal Highness the Prince come?"

"Who cares? I'm too lazy to go to the grand court meeting when His Majesty asked me to. If I take the initiative to meet the prince, what will His Majesty think? So he has to come to me himself."

Hearing Zhou Chen calling him the prince and His Majesty without any respect, Sang Wen lowered her head even more, and her face became more bitter. Is this what she wants to hear?

Sun Yi understood what Zhou Chen meant, and stopped disturbing him. He closed the door and left.

Sang Wen thought she could breathe a sigh of relief, but Si Lili suddenly said, "Sir, I heard some rumors yesterday that His Majesty wants to find a wife for you. I wonder if it's true or not?"

"Find a wife for me? This old prince is really nosy."

"Cough, cough."

Sang Wen coughed violently. Oh my God, what sin did she commit? She heard all these lewd words. At this moment, she really wanted to be deaf.

Si Lili's eyes were shining. Although she didn't quite understand what "old prince" meant, she could tell from Zhou Chen's tone that Zhou Chen had no respect for Emperor Qing. Instead, he felt that Emperor Qing was meddling in other people's affairs. This was not the attitude a normal minister should have.

Zhou Chen had not paid attention to the news from the outside world these days, so he had not heard of this matter.

Thinking of Emperor Qing's series of marriage granting operations in the plot, this old prince seemed to really like granting marriages, and now he even set his sights on him.

Zhou Chen only thought about it for a moment and understood Emperor Qing's idea. He wanted to deal with him in the same way he dealt with Ye Liuyun.

It was a good plan, but he was not Ye Liuyun.

"I came to the brothel to have fun. Let's not talk about these bad things. Lili, can you sing another song?"

"Of course."

Si Lili had no reason to refuse. She asked Sang Wen to accompany her. She not only sang but also danced.

She was beautiful, sang beautifully, and danced beautifully. Si Lili of Zuixianju was worthy of being the first courtesan by the Liujing River.

Hearing the song and watching the dance, Zhou Chen's eyes became deep.

Emperor Qing was still Emperor Qing. He became a grandmaster. Unless he surrendered to Emperor Qing, Emperor Qing would never let him go. Sooner or later, the two would turn against each other.