Chapter 21: The Broth
Finally, Cao Xiaojin finished writing, with a total of nineteen pieces of paper. Cao Xiaojin dried the last piece, and then handed Du He a thick stack of paper, saying, "Hold it, I couldn't help it. If you write too much, you will go to the house every day in the order from top to bottom. I believe that it will be effective within five days."
Du He reached out to pick it up, but Cao Xiaojin suddenly shrank his hand and said, "I want to tell you in advance. If this matter is revealed, you will be punished alone, so don't confess me."
Du He was unhappy and frowned and said, "We are allies now, but you let me be punished alone?"
Cao Xiaojin said: "Breaking off the engagement is your business, so you will naturally bear the consequences. Moreover, even if the saint punishes you, he will never take your life. I am different. I am a villain with no foundation, no different from an ant. I will kill you if you say it. I want to live a few more years, so you must not give me up."
"Okay." Du He nodded vigorously, "Don't worry, I will never give you up. I will bear all the consequences alone."
Only then did Cao Xiaojin hand over the stack of paper in his hand to Du He.
Du He looked at the paper one by one. There were at least three or four brothels written on each paper. The nineteen pieces of paper added up to more than one hundred brothels. Du He looked up at Cao Xiaojin and couldn't help asking: "You have been to so many brothels. Is your kidneys still there?"
Cao Xiaojin's old face turned red and said, "I just went to these places to drink flower wine and never stayed overnight. My aunt was very careful. I dare not stay outside at night."
Du He nodded, stuffed the stack of paper into his arms, and said, "Then I can save some money when I drink wine too."
"I can't save it. The amount of money you should book a room is as much as you want. Don't even think about how much you want."
Du He was immediately discouraged when he heard this. Fortunately, he had a wealth of money, so he probably still had money to spend on going to brothels.
After this, Cao Xiaojin said, "Okay, I've told you the solution. More than 100 brothels have been written to you. Next, it depends on your own. I'll say goodbye first."
Du He said in surprise: "Look at my own? Don't you go with me?"
"Don't make trouble." Cao Xiaojin waved his hand quickly, "You are going to make a big noise this time. At that time, it will inevitably be said to the public. If it is spread to my aunt, I will have a good life. I will say goodbye first, don't send me." After he said that, he grabbed the door and left as if he ran away.
Du He followed out of the study and shouted: "Wang Danian!"
Wang Danian immediately ran over and asked with a smile on his face, "Shaolang, what are you asking?"
Du He asked: "Who is in charge of our family's money now?"
Wang Dainian said: "It's Ning's accountant."
"Let's go, take me to Ning's account."
"Here!"
Ning Account House lives in the warehouse. The warehouse in Du Mansion is quite small. There are two guards outside the warehouse. Du He is the owner and naturally enters the warehouse without any obstacles.
After entering the warehouse, I first pass through a small room similar to a communication room, which is the residence of Ning Chanfang.
Ning's account room was a thin old man in his fifties. He was dialing his bill in the house. When he heard someone knocking on the door, he turned around and saw that it was Du He. He quickly got up and bowed with a smile: "Greetings to the young man."
"No need to be polite." Du He said, "I'll withdraw some money."
"I have prepared it for Shaolang a long time ago, Shaolang will come with me." After that, he brought Du He to the outer warehouse.
When I opened the lock of the external warehouse and entered, I saw that several cases were used to form a long long case. The long case was filled with mahogany pallets. Each pallet contained money, as much as it was, and there were notes in each pallet, and the purpose of the money was marked on it.
Ning walked over to the account room, pointed to the ten pallets filled with copper coins on the long desk, and said, "Shaolangjun, this is the monthly payment you forgot to receive a few months ago, a total of 30 stakes. Do you want to count them?"
Thirty silos are three thousand copper coins, so Du He could not count them. He looked down on these 30 silos at all and said, "Thirty silos is too little, I want to take more."
Ning's accountant was embarrassed when he heard this: "A Lang (Du Gou)'s official reminder repeatedly that your monthly expenses are ten coins, which is already a lot. Shao Lang, don't make me embarrassed."
Du He said: "I have big things to do now. If I need money, please give it to me."
"This..." Ning's accountant hesitated for a moment and suggested, "Why don't Lao I and Mr. Du write a letter together and send it to Ci County, please tell me?"
Du He didn't bother with him, so he snatched the key from Ning's account and said coldly: "Wang Danian, call someone in and help me move the money."
"Shaolang...you...how can you do this...Alang will blame me when he comes back..." Ning's accountant jumped so anxious that he wanted to take back the key, but he was old and weak, slow, and could not touch the key at all.
Du He held his hands and said, "Don't worry, I will keep the account and hold the money for how much I get. If Brother comes back and asks about this, I will take it all my responsibility and will never involve you."
Ning's accountant didn't know what to say for a moment, so he could only sigh helplessly.
It was not the first time Du He snatched the keys of the warehouse and forced the money to withdraw money, but this time, Ning's account gradually felt something was wrong. Du He kept sending people to move the money, without any intention of stopping. After rough calculations, he found that the money he moved out was almost more than 500 chunks.
"Can't move! Shaolang! Can't move..." Ning Chan shouted in pain.
Du He raised his hand and patted his shoulder, and said lightly: "Don't worry, I will save some money from my family. If you just manage the money and keep the books for my family, don't worry about these leisure time."
Finally, Du He asked someone to stop, then wrote the amount of withdrawal in the account book, signed his name, and pressed his handprint, and left the warehouse with Wang Danian.
Ning Chan picked up the account book and looked at it, immediately collapsed on a box, wailing in pain: "One thousand seven hundred coins... a prodigal, a prodigal..."
Du He ordered people to move all the money into his room, then locked his room, and then left and went to have a meal.
I just finished the court today, so it is not advisable to take action. I will start shopping in brothels tomorrow.
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The next evening, Du He set out with two boxes of money in a carriage and headed to Pingkangfang. His first target was Wanhualou.
There are no best brothels in Chang'an, so we can only say that each has its own advantages. On the list of brothels in the first echelon, Wanhualou business should be the best.
As soon as he arrived at Wanhua Tower, the madam twisted her waist and greeted her, reached out to pat Du He's chest, and said with a charming smile: "Isn't this Du Shaolang? We have been here for a long time. Our Yuehong is looking forward to you every day. Yuehong-Yuehong-Du Shaolang is here! Come and welcome the guests!"
Du He thought to himself after hearing this: "So I am a regular visitor to Wanhualou? No, it's not me, but Du He, the former playboy."
A charming response came from the upper floor: "Here you come..." A charming girl in a big red gauze dress walked downstairs.
Du He took a look from afar and was shocked. What is this called Yuehong? She looks really not very good, her eyes are so small, and she still has single eyelids. Although she is very exposed, her chest is open. If you insist on telling the advantages of this woman, you may be young. This woman looks about the same age as Du He, and she looks like she is fourteen or fifteen years old.
Du He is really not interested in such a woman. In his eyes, this can only be considered a girl, not even a woman, because she has no femininity. I really don’t know what kind of aesthetics the original owner of this body has and likes this.
Yuehong came to Du He and slept into Du He's arms. Du He pushed her away politely, looked at the madam and said, "I want to book a venue today."
"Purchase the venue?" The madam was stunned when she heard this, and then said happily, "Du Shaolang, book the venue... You have to come early. Now you are all here. We open the door to do business, so you can't drive the guests away..."
Du He heard the implication of her words and secretly regretted that she had come a little late, but the matter still needs to be resolved, so he said, "Let's make a price."
The madam's eyes rolled and after a long time, she said, "Eight hundred stakes!"
In fact, even when Wanhualou is at its best business, it only earns one or two hundred coins a night. Usually, it is already very high. Now he offers a price of 800 coins, which is a sign of making things difficult for others. It is not because she wants to make things difficult for her on purpose. After all, she has to offend customers, especially now that she has already been on the customer, she has to drive the customers away. If she doesn’t get more money to compensate, it is definitely impossible.
Although Du He felt that 800 guan was a bit expensive, he could not lose the first battle and nodded directly: "Okay, move the money in."
Wang Dainian immediately ran out and asked the guard guard outside to start moving boxes.
The two men carried in, lifted the lid, and it was covered with copper coins. Du He said, "There are five hundred stags in each mantle. Do you want to count it?"
The madam reached into the two boxes and snatched them. The copper coins collided and made a sound. She was sure that there was no fraud. She stood up and smiled and said, "How can Du Shaolang be trusted by his old body? It's just a scale, but a scale."
Du He said proudly: "Then let's expel the guests quickly."
The madam nodded repeatedly: "Yuehong, take Du Shaolang to the upstairs room. Don't worry, Shaolang, and you will definitely invite all the guests away in half an incense stick."
Du He followed Yuehong upstairs and entered a private room. After sitting down for a while, someone immediately started serving food and drinks. Countless girls came to this room in a row. Du He observed carefully and found that no one was attracted to them. Among these women, the oldest was only seventeen years old, which was completely the age of a middle school student. Not to mention whether they were good-looking or not, this age alone made him unable to do it.
If you can't do it, you have to do it. If you do it, you have to do the full set. He ordered two women who look more in line with his aesthetic taste to accompany him. One hand is one, and others hug the woman, but his hug the woman's posture is actually... he hugged her shoulders and backs.
Du He only has two hands and can only hold two women, while other women are responsible for telling jokes, playing the piano, singing music, etc. In short, it gets excited.
Du He doesn't like the wine in this world very much. It smells too bad and it's hard to sip. When the girls persuaded him to drink, he replaced it with water. Although it was a bit disappointing, who made him rich? He was the old man tonight, and he said he wouldn't drink it if he didn't drink it.
It was time to sleep late at night, and the girls rushed to serve Du He. Du He really didn't dare to let them serve him. There was no safety measure in this world. If there was any disease, wouldn't he cry to death?
He insisted on not staying overnight and wanted to go home. The madam and the girls couldn't stop him, so he sent him away together. Du He got on the carriage and went home.
There was a curfew. On the way back, he met Wuhou of the Five City Military Commanders patrols at night. When he saw that it was Du He, he was unwilling to make things difficult for him and let him go.
Du He was also surprised, and he didn't expect that he would have such special treatment.
He didn't know that Du He used to visit a group of playboys in Chang'an City in the middle of the night. The curfew was used to restrain the common people. These playboys were supported by someone, and the Wuhou was really too lazy to care about them. Even if they were caught tonight, they would have to release them the next day. When they met these playboys, the Wuhou would at most a few words of admonition. Some of them were beaten by Cheng Yaojin's son, so the Wuhou was also very troubled when he saw these playboys.
Chapter completed!