Some terms had been changed in previous chapters. Mei Ren Village > Mei Ren Manor
This must be one of Chu Xun"s most memorable chapter. Ever since Mei Qian Deng appeared, he had to deal a lot of changes brought by her and this time he even……… Well, just continue reading to find out what happened.
Chapter 21 – [Spoiler t.i.tle] Translated by HaruOngy (If you can see this line, you must have read this in the aggregator site which illegally steal various works. Be shameful of yourself for not appreciating the translator"s hard work. Don"t think only you want to have it the easy way. Support the fanbase!)
Today, by the time Chu Xun and Mei Qian Deng returned to Bai Long City, it was already night time.
The night of Bai Long City, it was music and singing night after night to make a show of happiness and prosperity especially the parts beside the river. Those pleasure quarters with a.s.sorted colours of signboards hanging on them were built along the Lu Luo River, forming an isolated district. All of the houses had big, red lanterns hang high in front of them. Occasionally, fogs would rise from the river and the lights would turned dim as if they had arrived at another world. Gorgeously dressed prost.i.tutes by norm stood in front of the door beside the river. They would do their best to put on smiling face as they rope you into a drunken stupor.
Chu Xun stood beside the river. During between the spring and summer period, the night wind carried along the cold-dampness of the river water. He drew back his neck and halted. "Wei, boor. Are we really going?" Chu Xun deeply thought, he was not only the most perfect Crown Prince in the history but the most pure Crown Prince in the history.
Mei Qian Deng nodded. If he didn"t go, how was he supposed to investigate Madam Nan"s death?
"I look so pretty, what if they got……"
Mei Ren Manor was the largest pleasure quarter in Bai Long City.
Currently, there were hubbub of voices inside the manor. Even Chu Xun standing in front of the door could feel the heat surges and music sounds. He indistinctly saw the swaying lithe stature of a woman wearing an exposed clothes. The procuress came out from the Mei Ren Manor and instantly saw two pretty youngsters.
The procuress had seen numerous coy and innocent youngsters bashfully walked through this door and turned into dissipated and unrestrained amorous patrons. She grinned and threw her handkerchief as she swayed her hips while walking with small quick steps. She first threw herself to before Mei Qian Deng. "These two Young Masters look unfamiliar, it must be your first time here right? Whatever type of ladies you want, our Mei Ren Manor had hundreds of beauties with different ability. Plump type, thin type, tall type, short type, refined type, valiant type, innocent type, cute type, s.e.xy type, aloof type. As long as Young Masters wish for, there will be none unavailable in our Mei Ren Manor!" This procuress chattered exactly like Senior Official Song yet at the same time more impetuous than Senior Official Song. She didn"t even gasp for breath while talking swiftly.
Both Mei Qian Deng"s hands were at her back. It was a downright the style of a spoilt rich man. She arrogantly answered, "Then, bring us the two ugliest ones in here."
The procuress was tongue-tied. Today, I have come across weirdoes?!
"No, that what. Young Master, I say, our Mei Ren Manor without exception are beauties. Not the prettiest, we will only have much prettier. If you don"t believe, take a look yourself. Where do we have ugly ones?"
Mei Qian Deng coldly smiled. She took out a gold ingot from her sleeves. It was that gold ingot that Chu Xun once made scene of back when they had just departed. She said, "As long as I wish for, there will be none unavailable in your place?"
The procuress looked at the gold ingot and her eyes shone instantly. Just as she about to stretch out her hands to receive it, Mei Qian Deng stuffed the gold ingot back and changed into two copper coins. "Answer me first, do you have them or not?"
"Have, have, have. These two Young Masters, please come inside." For the sake of the money, the procuress tolerated with these two odd temperament people. On the second thought, the procuress felt that these two Young Masters looked so good-looking. It seemed that there were no one in the Mei Ren Manor could rival them. Perhaps that Young Master who talked had the same thinking. They had already been such good-looking and basically didn"t see the beauties as a rarity and changed their taste to look at the ugly ones.
En, it should be like this.
Mei Ren Manor was extremely large and booming in business. The procuress led Mei Qian Deng and Chu Xun all the way inside. Men and women of all shades, kind and quality who abandoned all restraints shuttled back and forth beside Chu Xun as they pa.s.sed. The Crown Prince frowned. As if he was avoiding the jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers[1], he dodged far away. Chu Xun silently thought: The public morals are declining day by day, the public morals are declining day by day!
"These two Young Masters please wait."
The procuress brought them into a luxurious room. Then, she immediately shut the door and went outside to search for the ugly women in Mei Ren Manor. Chu Xun lowered his head and smelled both his shoulders. A strand of rouge aroma was blown to his face. He was disgusted by it. Slightly irritated, he asked Mei Qian Deng, "What are you trying to do exactly?"
Mei Qian Deng looked around. The room was quite large. The front part was placed with table and tea set. On both sides, there were commonly seen musical instruments, pipa, jade flute, konghou and so on. The back part was separated with a bead curtain. She could see a bed. Beside the bed there was even a beauty couch. A row of paintings of different postures were nailed above the beauty couch using nails. On top of it were laid with various odd items such as red, coa.r.s.e cord, small leather whip, shackles and melted candles and so on.
Chu Xun following Mei Qian Deng"s line of sight had looked around this room. Then, in a whoosh his face blushed. "……" What sort of things are these?!!!
Soon, someone knocked the door. "Sorry for making both Young Masters wait so long." Two women entered. Their age was not too huge. With ordinary figure and ordinary appearance, they were not quite smart. They kept burying their head and could only secretly peek twice at Mei Qian Deng and Chu Xun who were inside the room. They appeared to be very nervous. Maybe it was their first time receiving such high-quality patrons.
Mei Qian Deng walked over soundlessly. Those two female audience as if startled and yet felt as if receiving spring breeze, were fully antic.i.p.ating this good-looking Young Master to do all sorts of flirting movements at them. It was just like what they were waiting for, Mei Qian Deng stretched out her slender and smooth hand and moved it towards the chest of one of them……
And softly poked.
With a poke, one fainted.
The other one had yet to react when she felt her body turned limp and already fell into that good-looking youngster"s bosom. So good……
She too had fainted.
Then, Mei Qian Deng pulled up one person in each of her hands. With her waist upright, she calmly went inside the inner room beside the bed.
Chu Xun stared while stupefied.
"Wei, boor, what are you doing?! Don"t mess around!"
Mei Qian Deng raised her head to give him an extremely indifferent glance. She was not bothered by Chu Xun"s words. Instead, she placed her hand onto the waist of one of the girls. Mei Qian Deng"s movements were extremely nimble. In a wink, she had already pulled out that person"s belt. After pulling the belt, she had yet to be done as she stripped off that little girl"s clothes.
Chu Xun: "……" He really couldn"t take it anymore. He closed his eyes and turned around. While stamping his legs, he silently scolded Mei Qian Deng. What an audacious pervert! After scolding her several dozen times, he had yet to finish scolding while he suddenly felt a whish of wind came over his head. Then, Chu Xun"s head was a.s.saulted with an unknown matter, spreading over his whole head.
Chu Xun pulled it down. With one look, he was enraged. "Why did you toss the other people"s clothes onto my head?"
"For you to wear it."
What?!
Chu Xun was too shocked. He violently turned around, wanting to question Mei Qian Deng. In the end, if he didn"t see he would not know. When he saw, he got startled.
He could only see that guy had already changed into a female clothes. It was a light blue, simple dress. The dress fabric was thin for the sake of draw an outline of a woman"s exquisite curves. It was too bad that when worn on Mei Qian Deng"s body. There was the slender waist, but without b.r.e.a.s.t.s and b.u.t.t, she was like a chopped bamboo stick with nothing worth seeing.
"c.r.a.p……"
Chu Xun secretly cursed while holding the clothes and standing without moving.
Mei Qian Deng took off the treasured beads band off. Without looking at the mirror, her bare-handed changed her hairstyle unique skill equally caused others to be stupefied. She combed her whole hair and styled it into a simple Flying Fairy Style. Once a while she would turned her body around to pluck the hairpins and hair clasps in the hair of the others.
At first glance, he looks really good, as if he"s really an immortal girl.
"Quick." Mei Qian Deng was absorbed in changing her appearance. After a while, she finally noticed Chu Xun was foolishly staring at her. That dull face was as if a little friend had seen a novel toy for the first time. She hastened. She quickly went over to take off Chu Xun"s clothes. No matter how Chu Xun dodged around, he was not female hero Mei"s opponent.
"Ah, no, no! Let me go, nooooo——"
With the decadent vocal music background, among the heavy cosmetic powder smell and unbridled teasing laughter sound, two unnoticeable girls came out from a room.
The one leading had a graceful carriage. Her steps were extremely fast as she pulled the girl behind her. The other girl seemed to be uncomfortable somewhere. Her steps were oddly coy and even used a handkerchief to cover half of her face.
There were a hundred beauties in Mei Ren Manor. Each of them didn"t recognise everyone in it. Mei Qian Deng and Chu Xun disguised as "beauties" without a hitch. Mei Qian Deng led Chu Xun quickly to a relatively peaceful area in the backyard. The decorations in here were much exquisite and refined. There was no one pa.s.sing around outside but some of the rooms were lighted up. It was not known if there were people inside those rooms.
En route, they met a drunken big man. That man had a lecherous face. When he met the two, he immediately pounced at them but was rendered unconscious with one finger poke from Mei Qian Deng.
Chu Xun"s inner heart could no longer use the word "crumble" to describe. Ever since Mei Qian Deng entered the palace until ** into prost.i.tutes today, in just some ten days period, Mei Qian Deng had again and again challenged his limit. Chu Xun was sad and indignant. Chu Xun had no other choice but to only gnash his teeth.
One day, this Crown Prince want to make Mei Qian Deng this boor submit under his legs (It should be [waist] though?)!
"Let"s enter."
Mei Qian Deng choose a room. Chu Xun was afraid there would be those impure paintings inside it so his steps were hindered many times. He was then suddenly pulled inside with Mei Qian Deng"s one hand. He didn"t even have strength to resist. It was an empty room.
Chu Xun, "……" Scares me for a sec there!
The interior of the room was arranged exquisitely. It was many times better than the room they were in previously. There was a dressing table with numerous rouges placed on it. Mei Qian Deng silently inspected the room. There was no hiding place that could fit two people. She could only pull Chu Xun"s small flexible waist into her arms and with a leap they landed on the roof beam.
Chu Xun wanted to shove Mei Qian Deng down from the roof beam but in the end, it was only a wishful thinking.
He was a bit puzzled as for why Mei Qian Deng would want to keep watch in the graveyard and visit the brothel as if she was used to it. However as the Crown Prince, that prideful heart and tsundere face of his didn"t permit him to bow his head now to admit that Mei Qian Deng was far much capable than him.
Mei Qian Deng and Chu Xun kept watch on the beam for around a lighted joss stick time when the door of the room was pushed open again. A man and a woman entered. Seeing from the top, the first thing Chu Xun saw was those peaks on that woman"s chest. They were s.h.i.+ningly white. Chu Xun"s face blushed.
"This is the detailed account for the previous group of goods. The money are already in you guys" account. Go and bribe more those several bosses of the dock." The one talking was a middle-aged man. His voice was a slightly raucous one.
Chu Xun frowned. He had heard this person"s voice before. It was one of the men who came to the warehouse to check goods inside the small inn previously.
The woman was fully clad in red. She was precisely the star of the Mei Ren Manor, Hong Zhan. She had an indifferent expression as she threw the book onto the table upon receiving them. She was very haughty when facing that man as if she was not at all fond of him.
He could only hear that man said, "This bad temper of yours. It"s fine if you release at me. Don"t offend the superior or you will make a fool of yourself."
That woman icily snorted. "In the past, it"s because in honour of Xue Dan that I helped him. Now that Elder Sister is no longer here, I will need to trouble you to return and tell him. This business, I will not accept it anymore. Whether he want to kill or dismember, I will entirely obey the venerable one"s desire. But you have to ask him in my place. The agreed pledge that year, does it end well?"
"Madam died of illness. It"s not like Lord caused her death. Don"t make troubles purposely." That man ought to have affection for Hong Zhan. His tone in all his rebukes contained helplessness and forgiveness.
Hong Zhan didn"t listen. She sneered. "How is he not the cause of her death?! He acts as the good official who is honest in performing his duties. These private business are all pushed to Xue Dan and us to shoulder. If the matter is exposed, he immediately kill Xue Dan. Xue Dan originally had a weak body and yet she still need to work hard. He just want to shove Xue Dan to the Yellow Springs[2]."
"That illness of Madam, you too know the details yet Lord have never say anything. Besides, since Lord had married her, she is one of those on same boat and it is unavoidable for her to escape from implication. He had never stay out of the matter."
"That is an illness which is completely unrelated to him, of course he will not be worried of it!"
"Enough!"
Chu Xun listened attentively from the roof beam. So, it turned out that Nan Bai Cheng relied on his Madam"s connections to exploit Mei Ren Manor"s territory and social relations.h.i.+ps to smuggle the salt. This was still within the norms. However, how sort of relations.h.i.+p did this Nan Bai Cheng"s Madam have with Mei Ren Manor? Hong Zhan called her Elder Sister Xue Dan. Were they biological sisters? Or maybe, Xue Dan was one of the prost.i.tutes previously? Nan Bai Cheng helped to redeem and marry her so she worked herself to death for Nan Bai Cheng?
Chu Xun stared at the detailed account book that Hong Zhan carelessly threw on the table and licked his lips. The evidence was just right below him. He must get it. No matter who it was related with, as long as he had no evidence in his hand he would not be able to advance forward.
While thinking such, he suddenly felt a breeze blew pa.s.sed his ear. He turned around. He was the only one left on the roof beam. Mei Qian Deng had disappeared. His heart panicked. Where is Mei Qian Deng?! He quickly searched downwards.
Mei Qian Deng was holding her sword facing right in front of Hong Zhan. That previous man had left at an unknown time.
Chu Xun remained on the high place. He looked at Hong Zhan. A section of s.h.i.+ningly white chests. Then he looked at Mei Qian Deng…… Man and women really are different. Mei Qian Deng this boor only have brute force. He doesn"t even have chest muscles.
[1] An idiom which means dangerous people
[2] The underworld/nether world in Chinese mythology
The chapter"s t.i.tle is Prost.i.tution. Pipa Konghou Translated by HaruOngy (If you can see this line, you must have read this in the aggregator site which illegally steal various works. Be shameful of yourself for not appreciating the translator"s hard work. Don"t think only you want to have it the easy way. Support the fanbase!)