Chapter 910: Chapter 909: You’ve Offended Someone
Ah Jiu brought his people to the Fragrance Quest Pavilion just as the lamps were being lit, but it was as bright as day inside, surely the most thriving brothel in the imperial city.
"Oh, this gentleman..." A woman dressed in sheer fabric waved a handkerchief and walked over, a fragrant breeze trailing her, but before she got close to Ah Jiu, she was stopped by Yuan Ye.
The woman stiffened, looking at them warily. Yuan Ye tossed over one ingot of five taels of silver and said, "We’re here to find someone, a young master and a man in white."
"Who are you?"
"They are friends of our young master."
"I see, they’re in the Xiaoxiang Room and have asked for the company of our Miss Zuixiang, Miss Mi Xiang, and Miss Piaoxiang." The woman giggled, pointing to a direction upstairs.
Ah Jiu had already lifted his leg to head up there.
The woman watched them leave, turned around, and ran into their brothel’s madam, the young woman who initially sparred with Wufu.
"Sister Suxiang." The woman greeted her with a bow.
Ruan Suxiang waved her hand, looked up at Ah Jiu and his group, and asked, "What’s going on?"
"They’re guests looking for the Xiaoxiang Room," the woman replied.
Ruan Suxiang made a sound of acknowledgment and said, "No worries, Sixth Master from the Wang family’s Minister of Public Works has asked for you in the Yihong Room."
The woman acknowledged and fluttered away.
Ruan Suxiang looked back towards Ah Jiu’s disappearing figure and recalled that frivolous profligate, curling her lips slightly before turning to entertain another guest: "Ah, isn’t this Old Master Yang? It’s been a while since we’ve seen you..."
In the Xiaoxiang Room, the music and dance were in full swing.
Chi Yi and others looked stiff-faced at someone lying on a courtesan’s lap, flirting with her, suppressing the urge to storm off.
"Master Gui, when drinking flower wine, you should be more at ease. Look at you, you’re scaring Miss Piaoxiang so she doesn’t dare to come near!" Wufu said with a teasing smile to Master Gui.
Master Gui was enjoying the music and dance when he heard this and said, "So lying down like Xiao Five is what you call being at ease?" He took a sip of wine and handed the empty cup to Piaoxiang, who immediately took up the wine jug to refill it for him.
"Master Gui is too serious, you’ll scare away the little beauties, right?" Wufu gently pinched the chin of Miss Zuixiang, whom he was lying with.
"The young master is absolutely right," Miss Zuixiang said as she fed him a cherry. "No one is more considerate than the young master."
But Master Gui remarked, "No amount of seriousness compares to the ones beside Xiao Five." He gave a meaningful look at Chi Yi, who stood like a post.
Wufu sighed, "Nothing we can do about it, it’s a personality issue, they’ve been taught wrong."
Chi Yi twitched his mouth, standing very upright. He thought that it wasn’t him who was crooked, it was you, the fake man!
Master Gui chuckled and said, "Doesn’t Xiao Five plan to tell me how to play that poker sb le?"
"This?" Wufu sat up and said, "It’s easy, but we need some materials. I’ll have someone make it and bring it to you later, how about that?"
"Alright," Master Gui smiled and said, "As a trade, I’ll give Xiao Five a warning."
"Oh?"
"The young man you gambled with today is Wang Minghao, the heir of the main branch of Marquis Yongan’s Mansion, and he’s known for his revengeful nature. I’ve heard that someone once just looked at him and said his mouth was crooked, and they ended up losing their eyes. You’ve offended him today, so be careful in the imperial city in the future." Master Gui said with a smile.
Wufu feigned fear on his face: "Really? Isn’t gambling something both parties agree to? If you can’t afford to lose, then don’t play."
Master Gui smiled without saying a word. Not everyone had such a broad mindset.
Wufu showed a flattering smile: "Good immortal elder brother, what is this Marquis Yongan’s Mansion anyway?"
Why does it sound so familiar?