Chapter 93A: Is This Person Crazy
Without sensing Nalan Ye’s considerations, Luo Qing Luan swept a glance over him, “Other people imitated Heavenly Dream Tower to create ‘queen of flowers’, but they’re merely making fools of themselves. We don’t have to care about these things and only need to keep innovating. That’s all.”
The ideas she came up with were actually best for Hongyu to carry out, but Hongyu currently had already been redeemed and was now serving Luo Cheng. She would have to find a subst.i.tute first. This just happened to also be a good opportunity to push out a new ‘queen of flowers’. It’s just that the ‘queen of flowers’ she would be launching was of a higher quality than the kind of ‘top commodity’ that the people of Western Chu had accepted.
Even the romance novels she penned were secretly much coveted. Luo Qing Luan had confidence that her plans would succeed and asked, “At present, who’s the best dancer at Heavenly Dream Tower?”
“Can it be that Worthy Young Brother Luo wants to teach someone to dance?” Nangong Yu was somewhat curious.
When it came to the courtesans, the skills they were best at involved only song and dance, these kinds of skills. As for other arts like painting, calligraphy, poetry composition, and so forth, a person needed to be naturally talented as well as come from a family with financial means in order to be nurtured. It’s not like any random beautiful girl could just be found and instructed for a few days to be good at those other arts.
Don’t mention Heavenly Dream Tower, any random courtesan from any of the other courtesan houses basically had some skills. Those were not rare. And his Heavenly Dream Tower had a total of forty or fifty ladies. There were close to ten best at dancing and were also very good at welcoming guests. Every time talent was displayed on the stage at the lobby, dancing was the talent most often on display.
Luo Qing Luan asked straightforwardly, “That’s good. Call all of those ten or so young ladies who can dance here. I’d like to have a look at them first.”
Nangong Yu called out and Mama Du, who was waiting outside, brought in a group of young women who were at the prime of their lives and whose figures were outstanding. Suddenly, the sounds of chittering and chattering, buzzing and chirping abounded. The private room on the fourth floor permeated with the fragrance of cosmetics. Over ten young ladies first curtsied in respect then stood in a straight line. It’s just that they were also curious, each staring at Nangong Yu and Luo Qing Luan. Their gazes wandered on Nalan Ye’s body even more.
One young lady leading them stood in the middle, appearing to be fifteen or sixteen years old. Wearing a purple jacket over a long skirt, whose waist was slender, with a small yet exquisite face and large eyes, and delicate skin. She also didn’t put on airs and only seemed a little tired, displaying a languid yet gentle and lovely manner. “Sir, why have you called all of us? Last night, Boss Li from Myriad Treasures Tower had me dance the whole night through. I’m still sleepy.”
Once she heard this, Luo Qing Luan could tell that the young girl had not guessed Nangong Yu’s ident.i.ty. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so casual. Even if it’s her, she’d already met him a number of times, also Nangong Chen and Nangong Qing as well and felt that Nangong Yu resembled the other two a bit. Yet only after she spoke to Nalan Ye a number of times did she know his ident.i.ty. However, she certainly wouldn’t say anything about it and only sized up the ten or so girls before her. The idea in her mind slowly took shape.
In the beginning, she even thought that Nangong Yu would only be able to find two or three outstanding dancers. She didn’t expect for there to be more than ten of them, but that’s fine, too. There were dances for small numbers of dancers and there were other types of dances for large numbers of dancers. In any case, she only needed to bring forth new ideas and cause the customers’ eyes to shine, astonished and stunned, that’s all.
As she looked at them, Luo Qing Luan even stealthily glanced at Nalan Ye, thinking that he had already been captivated by these women.
This glimpse wasn’t serious, but she actually discovered that Nalan Ye simply wasn’t paying any attention to that group of beautiful women. Instead, he was staring at her. After he noticed that she was looking his way, not only did Nalan Ye not exercise restraint, he even smiled at her. The expression in his eyes suddenly became seductive and he actually winked at her.
Watching this, Luo Qing Luan’s heart skipped a beat while her brain suddenly was reminded of the last time the two of them were alone together, the time when she was lying on his chest, teasing him. The two of them were half dressed, ambiguous to the extreme. Furthermore, those scenes br.i.m.m.i.n.g with seduction……she suddenly shook her head. Why did she think of these things? Inexplicably, anger burst forth and Luo Qing Luan snapped at Nalan Ye, “What’re you looking at, did your eyes cramp up or something?”
“If you’re not looking at me, how would you know that I’m looking at you?” Nalan Ye wasn’t angry at all. Instead, he smiled, “Moreover, Qing Luan, the two of us are getting married soon, so what if I took a few more looks at you?”
Not feeling like bickering with him, Luo Qing Luan glared at Nalan Ye and no longer paid him any mind. Once Nangong Yu finished telling them the reason why he asked them to come, all of the women, whose eyes were lazily half closed, instantly shined as they looked at Luo Qing Luan, as if she was made of gold.
“Is this Sir Luo?” That woman dressed in purple walked over, both surprised and delighted as she said, “This servant is named Yan’Er. Sir Luo……oh, Miss Luo, are you teaching us sisters how to dance? I wonder what kind of dance it is, will it also make us famous?”
Luo Qing Luan shook off her feelings from Nalan Ye’s attention and replied cooly, “Whether you can become famous will depend on how well you learn. This dance I’m talking about may not have ever been seen before by all of you. Even though it’s not very difficult, but it’s very different. If you’re unable to express its distinguishing feature, or if there’s doubt in your hearts, you’ll be completely incapable of expressing this kind of feeling.
Yan’Er replied very confidently, “As long as it’s something you’re able to do, us sisters would not be unable to learn. I wonder what you want to teach us?”
She’d already learned all kinds of dances for seven or eight years. It’s as if she started learning as a child and had learned quite a bit. Swan dances, rainbow feathered dances, flowing sleeves dances, wave dances and so forth, she even knew unusual sword dances. She was the best dancer in Heavenly Dream Tower.
There was practically no dance she was incapable of dancing herself, not to mention there was no dance she was unaware of. If it wasn’t for the fact that this Miss Luo before her had come up with new tricks which caused Heavenly Dream Tower’s business to prosper, perhaps she might’ve thought that Luo Qing Luan was talking big.
Luo Qing Luan replied, “There’s a kind of dance which is extremely alluring. It relies on the dancer’s waist and hip strength to display the dance’s easthetics. It’s very distinctive, but I’m wondering if Yan’Er and all of you ladies have seen it before or not, and whether you dare to perform this dance?”