Chapter 7: The Peerless Two Beauties (Four)

Li Zhenli gently knocked on Li Xiangjun's boudoir. No one can refuse to see Li Xiangjun, but she cannot refuse to see her godmother who has adopted her for more than ten years. She is not her biological child, but she is better than her biological child.

"Xiang'er, what's wrong with you? My godmother, I'm always back happily when I see others, but you can only lock yourself in the house when you come back, your eyes are red, as if you have cried?" Li Zhenli walked into Li Xiangjun's boudoir with doubts.

"Godmother, you are here. I just made the wind and sand blinded my eyes when I came back. You know, the weather here in Beijing is dry." Li Xiangjun hurriedly covered up.

Li Zhenli sighed inwardly and said, "Godmother is a person who has experienced it. You have a thought in your heart. My godmother can tell at a glance."

"Godmother, I..." Li Xiangjun wanted to speak but stopped.

"Xiang'er, if you don't want to say it, your godmother won't force you. I'm the one who raised you, and you know your godmother's character." Li Zhenli kindly grabbed Li Xiangjun's hand.

"Godmother, I, I went to the street to see that person today." Li Xiangjun hesitated for a moment, and still said what he kept in his heart.

"Who are you talking about the brother you have been looking for for ten years?" Li Zhenli asked in surprise.

Li Xiangjun nodded and shook her head, feeling very conflicted, and she didn't seem to have decided to tell the whole thing about her godmother Li Zhenli.

"This is a good thing, why are you unhappy? Could it be that he already has a wife?" Li Zhenli asked in surprise.

"no."

"Why, he can't recognize you?" Li Zhenli asked.

"Not that." Li Xiangjun shook her head and said.

"Why?" Li Zhenli was surprised. This was a bit confusing.

"His identity, his identity..." Li Xiangjun was in a mess, but she didn't know how to talk about it.

"What's wrong with his identity? Can he still be the emperor?" Li Zhenli said.

Li Xiangjun looked at his godmother Li Zhenli in surprise and said in a shocking voice: "Godmother, how did you know?"

"What?" This time, Li Zhenli was a little stunned.

"He is the emperor, I see it really." Li Xiangjun said excitedly.

"No wonder Lianying said that you were a little lost as soon as you came back and locked yourself in the house and didn't come out." Li Zhenli was also shocked by the news and her heart beat faster. The mother and daughter were searching in the capital for three months but still couldn't find anyone. This is really a challenge to their psychological endurance.

"What should I do?" Li Zhenli, who has experienced the storm, was also a little confused at this moment and could not think of any good way to deal with it.

Li Xiangjun's mind was also blank. The news came too suddenly and it made her unable to accept it all at once.

It seems that she cannot help herself, because she is just an ordinary citizen now, although she has some reputation, but it is not enough to give her the opportunity to enter the palace and meet the emperor.

"Godmother, why not end the business of Meixianglou and go back to Jiangnan." Li Xiangjun said.

"This, this godmother has no problem, but why do you tell Lianying? That girl always breaks the bastard and asks the truth. If there is no strong reason, she may not be willing to go back with us!" Li Zhenli understood Li Xiangjun's mood at this moment. Since her wish was almost slim, she also learned about the identity of her brother who had been looking for ten years. She was already content. Li Xiangjun's thought of returning to Jiangnan was naturally clear.

"What should I do?"

"How about this, let's tell her that we are not accustomed to the local conditions and are not used to living in the capital. We will end the business of Meixianglou in a few days and go back to Jiangnan." After all, Li Zhenli is old and she came up with a reason at once.

"Okay." Li Xiangjun seemed a little reluctant, but he nodded and agreed.

Zhu Yinglong, who returned to the palace, first ordered people to burn a pool of hot water. He had to soak it in well. There was no good opportunity to clean his body along the way. From Yongding Gate to Zhengyang Gate, he even got sweaty and naturally wanted to take a hot bath.

Removed all the constraints, Zhu Yinglong was soaked in the pool with bare body, moaning comfortably.

"Xu Yingyuan?"

"The slave is here!"

"I am not in the capital these days. I have any interesting things happening in the capital. You can tell me what you want to do, just treat it as a rest for me to relieve my boredom." Zhu Yinglong said.

"Back to the emperor, the capital city has been relatively calm in the past three months since you left. If you want to say anything interesting, every time the Liaodong war report is reported to the capital city, the restaurants and teahouses in the capital city are often full. The storyteller said almost day and night, but the crowd of people listening to the book has not decreased!" Xu Yingyuan said excitedly.

"Don't say these things. I don't like to listen to them. Tell me something I like to listen to." Zhu Yinglong interrupted the trend of Xu Yingyuan's downward words.

"This, I am..." Xu Yingyuan said a little stutteringly.

"Have you been staying in the palace these days and listening to those hearsays?" Zhu Yinglong glanced at Xu Yingyuan and said. Although the eunuchs had to follow many rules, they were still at least free. In addition to not being able to leave the capital without authorization, they still had a lot of time. The workload was not very large.

Old Master Xu Ying blushed and Qiqiai Aiai said, "There is no slave, I have a few times left the palace."

"Then tell me, what have you seen and heard about these few times when you left the palace?" Zhu Yinglong just wanted to take a break, but he had no special meaning.

"Your Majesty, I have seen a lot of it, but I don't know what the emperor wants to hear?" Xu Yingyuan said.

Zhu Yinglong thought for a while and said, "Then let me choose the place you go the most every time you leave the palace?"

"Sister, I'm embarrassed to say it." Xu Yingyuan hesitated, his face flushed.

"What's wrong with me? You are a eunuch. Can you still go to a brothel?" Zhu Yinglong said unhappily.

"Your Majesty, I just went to the brothel." Xu Yingyuan held it in for a long time before he came out.

"Wow, hahaha..." Zhu Yinglong laughed wildly. This was such a big strange thing. I have never heard of a eunuch taking the initiative to go shopping in a brothel.

Xu Yingyuan was ashamed of shame, but he didn't dare to hide it, so he could only tell the truth.

"Tell me, what kind of brothel can attract you, a rootless person, to the point of being," said Zhu Yinglong, after laughing, Xu Yingyuan was too embarrassed, so he held back his smile and asked.

"A new brothel has been opened in Beijing recently. Although it is not big, it has caused a sensation in the capital since its opening. The princes and nobles of the capital are flocking to it and are constantly supporting it. For three months, except for the rest days, the audience is full almost every night!" Xu Yingyuan said, "I was also a little curious when I heard it, so I went there secretly. The performance inside is indeed wonderful and makes people linger. Especially the two pillars inside are all beautiful people, one is called Yang Lianying and the other is called Li Xiangjun. I heard that they came from Jiangnan. They were once popular in Suzhou Erjiao, who was famous in Jiangnan. I don't know why I came to Beijing in the north?"

"Wait, what do you think of them?" Zhu Yinglong stood up from the water in surprise and asked.

"Your Majesty, one of them is Yang Lianying and the other is Li Xiangjun." Xu Yingyuan said hurriedly.

The name Li Xiangjun awakened Zhu Yinglong's long-standing memory. Could it be the little girl named Li Xiang that she saw in Meixiang Tower on the Qinhuai River ten years ago? Logically speaking, she should be Li Xiangjun among the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai. Although Meixiang Tower caught fire afterwards, and Xu Ruying and he and Xu Ruying also sent someone to search for it, they were unable to find it due to war. The sea of ​​people was vast. For the shadow at that time, he did not have such ability, so the search for someone was left unresolved. Now when he heard this news, Zhu Yinglong was surprised.

Another woman named Yang Lianying, if Zhu Yinglong remembers correctly, she is also a figure among the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai, which is the famous Liu Rushi in later generations. Liu Rushi's original surname is Yang, named Ying, and Yang Lianying. Both of them are outstanding women who value both beauty and wisdom. Moreover, Liu Rushi's strong national integrity is admired and admired by later generations.

"What's the name of this brothel?" Zhu Yinglong asked.

"Go back to the emperor, call me Meixianglou!" Xu Yingyuan felt that the emperor seemed to be very interested in these two women. When he contacted the young emperor, he was originally a romantic person, and he immediately felt relieved and replied quickly.

"How many times have you been to Meixianglou?"

"I have only been to me four or five times, but many of the girls in Meixianglou are selling their skills but not their bodies. They come and go very freely, unlike ordinary brothels, otherwise they would not dare to enter as slaves." Xu Yingyuan hurriedly said, "It's like a fixed opera troupe, but their programs are mostly based on singing and dancing, and they are different from opera troupes, which are very novel!"

"Oh, isn't it just a singing and dancing troupe? Is there anything worth making a fuss about?" Zhu Yinglong said casually. This kind of art form is nothing in later generations. Which party in later generations is not like this? There are also crosstalk and sketches, and the program is even more exciting!

"In a few days, when I finish the government affairs I have accumulated, how about you accompany me to see a show?" Zhu Yinglong said.

"Your Majesty, this is not an ordinary place. You are the 1950s. You can accompany the slaves and others in that kind of pickled place..." Xu Yingyuan said hurriedly.

"Why, I can't go there when you go there. Although they have a brothel sign, you said that you don't sell your skills? I went there quietly and didn't let you discover it." Zhu Yinglong glared at Xu Yingyuan angrily.

"Your Majesty, if something happens, I will not dare to take responsibility." Xu Yingyuan whispered.

"Hmph!" Zhu Yinglong said dissatisfiedly, "If something happens, I will take the blame. I will let you, a little eunuch, push me to the tank. I will really go back more and more. At worst, I will take it myself!"

"Don't, Your Majesty, let me accompany you." Xu Yingyuan thought that the emperor would give him his own. If there was something wrong, I'm afraid the crime would be even greater. It would be better to accompany him with me.
Chapter completed!