Chapter 645: Chapter 310 Qingliu Fang_2
“At least in prison, I wouldn’t have to deal with so much government work.”
Luo Ping, the current Family Head of the Luo Family, was handling government affairs while muttering to himself with a hint of plaintiveness in his voice.
Outside of Qingshi City,
in front of a shop specializing in selling lotus seed cakes.
As the next Family Head of the Luo Family, Luo Yao,
was standing there quietly with Luo Ze at his side.
“This is where I previously bought lotus seed cakes.”
“How is it? Not bad, right?”
The young Luo Ze silently lifted his head, looked at the shop in front of him,
and then gazed at the kindly middle-aged couple within.
He nodded slightly and said in a low voice, “The shop owners look so kind-hearted; no wonder their lotus seed cakes taste so good.”
Luo Yao listened to Luo Ze’s comments,
and the corner of his eye twitched slightly.
What on earth is this kid focusing on?
He brought Luo Ze to this shop to buy their lotus seed cakes, didn’t he?
And now, out of the blue, this kid talks about
how the shop owners have a benevolent appearance.
What’s that got to do with anything?
Luo Yao shook his head somewhat helplessly, then casually pulled out a few Silver Fragments from his chest pocket.
He then handed the Silver Fragments to Luo Ze at his side.
Giving Luo Ze Silver Fragments wasn’t a sign of Stinginess on Luo Yao’s part,
Money, after all, is only good if it’s enough.
The prices in the inner city of Qingshi City aren’t particularly high,
For buying snacks like lotus seed cakes or other small eats,
these few Silver Fragments were more than enough for Luo Ze to eat his fill and still have leftovers.
Keep in mind, the common folk within Qingshi City
deal with money in smaller denominations.
So these few Silver Fragments,
were genuinely quite a lot.
“Take this money and spend it however you like,”
“I have some things to take care of, so I’ll be leaving first.”
Luo Yao then turned and waved his hand at Luo Ze behind him,
and shortly after, he disappeared from Luo Ze’s sight.
“A few Silver Fragments…”
Luo Ze sighed softly as he looked at the money Luo Yao had just handed to him,
and then walked towards the shop that specialized in selling lotus seed cakes.
The money might not be much, but it should suffice.
After all, being a member of the Luo Family Clan,
every month, the clan provided an allowance of Silver to its members for their use.
However, this money had to be collected in person by the clan members.
Since Luo Ze rarely ever left the clan grounds,
eating and drinking freely from the clan’s provisions,
he had never collected his share of the allowance, allowing it to accumulate over time.
Had he known that he would need money for this trip,
he would have collected some himself,
so he wouldn’t have ended up in such a sorry state.
Within the inner city of Qingshi City,
after leaving Luo Ze’s side,
Luo Yao began to leisurely stroll around the bustling and prosperous streets on his own.
Times like these, utterly leisurely and free,
are extraordinarily precious for someone poised to become the next Family Head of the Luo Family like Luo Yao,
So naturally, he intended to thoroughly enjoy his day off.
“Young master, young master, come up and play…”
just as Luo Yao was about to indulge at a street food stall,
a somewhat coquettish voice suddenly called out from beside him,
Curious, Luo Yao looked up,
seeming to look for the source of the voice.
However, no sooner had he looked up,
the woman inside a brothel named Qingliu Fang, calling out vigorously, became even more enthusiastic,
Qingliu Fang, a brothel by nature,
and the woman shouting to attract customers for Qingliu Fang had long ago developed discerning eyes.
She could tell at a glance who would be a patron of Qingliu Fang.
What sort of people wouldn’t come here?
What sort of people are rich and noble.
What sort of people are just pretending to be fatter by swelling their faces.
He could basically tell at a glance and see clearly.
And like the man before him, clad in a garish robe, seemingly somewhat dandified, a handsome young master with an elegant air.
Clearly, he was the type that would patronize his Qingliu Fang.
Therefore, he naturally had to work extra hard.
To create more revenue for the Qingliu Fang he worked for.
“Young Master, Young Master, come up and play…”
“Young Master, don’t leave…”
The girls at Qingliu Fang, specially tasked with attracting customers, kept calling out in their coy voices.
He waved his white handkerchief in the wind continuously.
However, somewhat unexpectedly,
The dandy-looking, flamboyantly dressed, fairly talented-looking young master,
didn’t even turn his head back once.
He walked straight towards the distance and swiftly disappeared from her line of sight.
“Could it be that I misread the situation?”
At the entrance of Qingliu Fang, the girl slightly lowered her head, quietly questioning herself.
It didn’t take long, however,
for a man who seemed to have deliberately disguised himself to suddenly appear before her,
and, moreover, to walk into the Qingliu Fang.
“You, you are the young master from just now?”
The girl looked at Luo Yao, whose disguise was not very sophisticated, even his small mustache somewhat askew, and after a moment of silence, she asked.
“I’m not, I wasn’t, you’re mistaken,” Luo Yao shook his head repeatedly.
Then, he walked briskly into the Qingliu Fang.
Seeing this, the girl responsible for welcoming guests at the door pursed her lips in some resignation and stopped pondering the matter.
Whether the man who had just arrived was the same young master from before,
what did it have to do with her?
As one of Qingliu Fang’s courtesans, responsible for drawing in customers,
all she needed to do was perform her duties well. That was enough.
The rest, naturally, she didn’t concern herself with too much.
“Is the young master alone?”
“What is the young master’s surname?”
“The young master appears somewhat unfamiliar, doesn’t he?”
“Could it be your first visit to our Qingliu Fang?”
wore a smile on her face, her body slightly bent, at Luo Yao’s side.
Although Luo Yao’s disguise
was extremely poor in the eyes of this procuress,
even his small false mustache
was about to fall off,
none of that was important.
Since a customer had arrived, attending to him was the most important task for these procuresses in Qingliu Fang.
Everything else was, naturally, of lesser importance.
“My surname is… Luo,”
“Yes, Luo,” Luo Yao thought for a moment and then said to the procuress beside him in a low voice.
The reason why he had come to this place, Qingliu Fang, was not that he was lecherous, nor was it that he missed the feelings of frequenting brothels back in the day.
this brothel seemed somewhat peculiar.
But exactly what was peculiar about Qingliu Fang known as a brothel,
he was still somewhat unable to articulate.
In any case, it was peculiar.
Something just wasn’t quite right.
It was different from a normal brothel.
The procuress laughed and then led Luo Yao to a room of the highest grade.
As they walked, the physically faded procuress kept asking with a chuckle in a low voice: “I wonder if Master Luo has come to our Qingliu Fang to have a refined experience, or perhaps something more thrilling?”
Luo Yao walked with his hands behind his back, in silence behind the procuress.
As for the question the procuress asked,
he was of course clear about it in his heart.
It roughly meant to ask whether he wished to find someone who sold art but not her body, or one who sold both art and body.