Chapter 102

Bianjing.

At night,

West Fruit Lane of the Imperial Street,

Kang Residence.

Mama Qi was combing Madam Kang Wang's hair in the dim candlelight.

"Da Niangzi, regarding the Yuan family's matter, should we send a letter to Yang Zhou?"

Madam Kang Wang, Wang Ruofu, looked at the wrinkles on her forehead and the corners of her mouth in the mirror and said impatiently:

"What does the Sheng family's business have to do with our Kang family? Do you still remember when I wrote to my younger sister to partner in lending money at high interest?"

"This servant naturally remembers."

"She actually told me that the Sheng family's vast public funds are in the hands of a concubine? What kind of reason is that? If she didn't want to lend it, she should have just said so; why make up such a heartless, rotten excuse!"

"Da Niangzi, the concubine in their family is formidable."

"Formidable? It's that she lacks means; what kind of thing dares to jump in front of me?"

"Da Niangzi is right."

As soon as the words fell, a personal steward of Kang Haifeng arrived at the courtyard gate.

"Madam, the Master has brought back a young lady, saying she was a gift from a close friend. It was hard to refuse, so I ask Madam to settle her."

Wang Ruofu's chest heaved violently.

Crash!

Wang Ruofu threw the bronze mirror in her hand and said through gritted teeth:

"I was truly blind back then!! How did I fall for such a piece of trash who only knows how to show off his might on a woman's belly!! You go deal with it."

"Yes, Madam."

The big sensation in Bianjing,

If you have any grudges or favors with the Yuan family, or if it involves your own relatives, you would definitely write a letter to tell your friends and relatives.

If a great grudge has been avenged, like the wife of Marquis Yongping, you would have to write it even more.

If there is a relative relationship, like Madam Kang Wang, and it involves her niece, who is a blood relative, she really should have sent a letter to Yang Zhou.

But she didn't write it, and the Wang family is far away in Runzhou.

And now that Sheng Wei is in Youyang, there is no one in charge in Bianjing. The shopkeepers who heard about this were unsure of the relationships among the high-ranking families, so most of them just mentioned it slightly in their letters, only saying that the Yuan family's reputation had become poor.

There would also be those close cousins, female cousins, and other relative relationships, especially those living separately in Bianjing and other places,

who would treat this as gossip and interesting news; after all, this belongs to the first-hand sensational news in Bianjing.

The relatives in Bianjing had almost all visited.

On the seventh day,

Xu Zaijing also made an appointment with several close families to have fun together, going to the three-story wooden building that occupies a large area next to the Jinming Pool polo field of the Liang family.

Previously, there was also a small building here, which was often frequented by the nobles of Bianjing who liked to play polo. Later, it was bought by Madam Wu and rebuilt.

At that time, Madam Wu went to the Marquis's mansion to chat with Madam Sun and mentioned this matter. Xu Zaijing, who heard it, gave suggestions. Thus, this three-story wooden building became a comprehensive entertainment facility of the Great Zhou era.

Si hour (around 10:00 AM),

Xu Zaijing, along with Zaihang and Anmei, arrived here.

Many horses and carriages were already parked outside the building.

On the second floor, someone was waving their hands and shouting: "Fifth Brother, you finally came."

Then he came downstairs.

Xu Zaijing looked up and didn't see anyone, only the two characters "Wu Lou" hanging on the wooden building.

After stopping the carriage and horses, the three of them walked in with their personal attendants.

At the entrance, there were several flights of steps, adding up to more than a person's height.

At the entrance, there was a thick cotton curtain. The cotton inside this curtain could be taken out and sold for dozens of taels of silver.

Walking into the building.

The interior of the building was not dim because bright light shone in, and lanterns were set up in places where the light couldn't reach.

The first floor was a place for bathing and soaking. Only male guests could bathe and soak here. The female guests' area was in an independent wooden building not far away, guarded by stern, strong women.

After bypassing the rockery, walking straight leads to the stairs to the second floor.

Seeing Hu Yanjiong, who had just called out, had already walked down quickly, followed by Liang Liu Lang.

Seeing Hu Yanjiong saw them and bowed in salute, not daring to look at the civet cat in Anmei's arms.

"Third Brother, Fifth Brother, Miss Anmei, spring greetings."

"Brother Jiong, long time no see!"

"Let's go, go upstairs. The two brothers from the Duke of England's family, as well as Fifth Da Niangzi, the Zheng family's, the Liang family's, and the Qi family's are all upstairs." After Seeing Hu Yanjiong finished speaking,

Liang Liu Lang whispered on the side: "A few teenagers from the civil official families have also come."

"Let's go. Let's go see."

As they talked, they went up to the second floor.

The second floor had places for wrestling, pitch-pot, and other entertainment, as well as tea pavilions and dining pavilions, where one could play and eat.

Walking to the stairs on the second floor, Seeing Hu Yanjiong shouted: "Everyone, look who's here."

The teenagers who were playing together turned their heads and bowed to greet them.

"Sister An, the female guests are on the third floor." Seeing Hu Yanjiong glanced at Anmei and said.

"Okay, Brother, Little Five, I'm going to the third floor."

"Go ahead."

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"Cough cough!"

Xu Zaijing coughed, interrupting Seeing Hu Yanjiong's gaze following Xu Anmei.

"Let's go, let's go, Rong Xian is also here." Seeing Hu Yanjiong said, covering up his embarrassment.

As he spoke, the three of them came to the hall where everyone was gathered.

Xu Zaijing looked and saw that there were four thick pillars in the middle of the hall, and the location should be connected to the first floor.

Beside the pillars, there was a water tank with steam rising. It seemed that the pillars were hollow and should have fire channels inside. The entrance was a person's height, and there was a place burning coal under the first floor.

The vigorous flames heated the four large pillars, heating the room through the water tanks around the pillars, and at the same time keeping the bathhouse on the first floor warm.

There seemed to be fire dragons under the feet, which made the whole second floor very warm.

Xu Zaijing took off his outer clothes and handed them to Qingyun, and Xu Zaihang also handed them to his servant.

When they got closer, they found that there were two people wrestling in the middle of the crowd. One was Rong Xian and the other was Gu Tingye. The battle situation was, of course, Gu Tingye bullying Rong Xian.

"Brother Ye, I admit defeat!"

Rong Xian begged for mercy.

Seeing Rong Xian admit defeat, Gu Tingye let go, his face quite happy.

Seeing Zheng Xiao taking off his clothes, Gu Tingye's eyes were full of fighting spirit.

Liang Liu Lang ran quickly to the wrestling place and shouted: "Who is betting on Brother Ye to win this time?"

Seeing Xu Zaijing coming over, Gu Tingye waved to say hello.

There were also teenagers from civil official families who loved to watch wrestling and other competitive games.

The envoys of the Northern Liao Kingdom might not know that a competition they proposed to hold in the Great Zhou Imperial Palace made several teenagers from civil official families who came here suddenly wake up.

That is, when people really want to compare weapons, no matter how good your literary talent is, it's useless, because people won't compete with you.

Of course, there were also those who didn't wake up, but because of lust, hearing Liang Liu Lang say that Rong Feiyan was also coming today, they came here to join the fun.

Hai Chaojie of the Hai family, Shen Herui of the Shen family, and Lu Zhang of the Lu family were the three teenagers who woke up.

The topic turned to Bai Gao and Northern Liao who came to show goodwill.

On this day, the people here were chatting about Great Zhou's national affairs, military, and imperial examinations.

The group at Qiyun Tower yesterday was trampling on human life.

Third floor,

Anmei, holding the civet cat, saw the Fifth Da Niangzi of the Duke of England's family as soon as she went up to the third floor. After seeing Anmei, the Fifth Da Niangzi said to her sisters: "Sister Anmei has come to pay back my civet cat debt! Let me touch it quickly, I miss it so much!"

"Meow~"

After Anmei gave the civet cat to the Fifth Da Niangzi, she looked around and saw many acquaintances. She also saw a noble girl who had grown up to be very beautiful.

The beautiful little girl nodded at her, looking very friendly.

(End of this chapter)