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Chapter 326: Immortal Seeking Meeting

"Huh——~"

The next morning, when Qin Lang came out of Taihua Palace in a relaxed mood, he was greeted by respectful and gentle voices from both sides:

"Morning, Master Qin..."

"Oh?"

Qin Lang looked at the shy blushes on the faces of the two maids on his left and right, and guessed that they must have been listening outside all night.

Looking around, he found that there were only these two maids. The maids and guards who used to be there were no longer there.

When I think about it carefully, it seems that this was the situation when I came here yesterday.

In other words, the empress was obviously very careful and had cleared the area in advance before summoning him.

Qin Lang looked at the two little maids with a smile:
"Good morning, you guys too."

"Morning, Master Qin..."

The little maid blinked her eyes and lowered her head. Facing the "kind" Qin Lang, she didn't know how to respond and could only repeat herself.

They would glance at Qin Lang curiously, and would all exclaim in their hearts that the man the emperor liked was indeed very handsome. But when their eyes met Qin Lang's "amiable" eyes, they would immediately shyly look away, burying their heads even deeper, like ignorant newborn hens.

"Hahaha."

Qin Lang found it interesting and raised his hand to touch the heads of the two maids.

"Mr. Qin...Mr. Qin..."

This is the emperor's man, the majesty's lover. The poor little maids were so flattered to have such a "great blessing". Their faces turned red. They dared not hide, nor did they want to hide. They could only tense their bodies and close their eyes, with their necks shrinking, making them look more and more like two pampered little hens.

At this moment, a cold voice suddenly came from the hall:
"Master Qin, why haven't you returned to the Princess's Mansion yet? Is there something else that needs to be dealt with?"

"?!"

There was obviously a strong internal force in this voice. Qin Lang shuddered and slipped away angrily without saying a word. The two maids stood back on both sides of the door trembling with fear, their hearts pounding.

……

squeak-

After a while, the empress pushed the door open and walked out. She was extremely beautiful and her pretty face was flushed with a healthy light pink, but she had no expression on her face. After crossing the threshold, she silently glanced at the two maids on both sides. When she saw the panic in their eyes and the blush on their faces, she felt angry and amused at the same time.

What’s funny is that the little maid’s reaction is indeed adorable.

What makes me angry is that a certain pig-head is "sunny" everywhere, and I don't know where he gets so much inexplicable charm from.

In the end, he could only shake his head helplessly and whispered to the two maids:
"You have worked hard on keeping watch all night. Go to the imperial kitchen to get two bowls of Polygonum multiflorum and snow lotus porridge. Then go to Xing'er to get a few taels of silver."

"Thank... Thank you, Your Majesty!"

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After leaving the palace, Qin Lang walked through the streets alone on his way back to the Princess's Mansion, which was a rare sight during the day.

He usually didn't notice this when he was shopping with his female relatives, but at this time, he could feel a lot of the fun of the city, and the latest situations on the streets actually reflected some changes that Qin Lang knew about.

For example, Tingyuxuan.

After all, Tingyuxuan in the capital is the "headquarters". It has carved buildings and painted rafters on the outside, and pavilions, towers, pines, cypresses, bamboos and orchids on the inside. It is very elegant. Except for a "research" trip when Qin Lang first arrived in the capital, he never went there again.

But today, firstly, he happened to be free, and secondly, Qin Lang had heard some women discussing "Nichang" along the way, so he decided to go to Tingyuxuan for "research" again.

The closer Qin Lang walked to Tingyuxuan, the more women he saw on the road.

It shouldn't be like this around such a place, and the reason for the abnormality can be seen from the books that many women are reading with great relish.

……

"Sister, this "Colorful Clothes" is really interesting."

"That's right, otherwise why would I tell you to hurry up and buy it? "Nishang" has been very popular these days, and it is said that the first issue has a limited circulation. I heard that many ladies in the mansion are also trying to grab it." "Oh, these people are really something. They used to grab "Zhu Yan" and now they are grabbing "Nishang"..."

"Ah, who can blame me for being so powerful... Hey? Look, sister, isn't the first item on the silk book what the widow next door was wearing the other day?"

"Oh, it really is, stockings... Tsk tsk, they say this thing is extremely rare nowadays, it seems to be true, I don't know who the widow Wen got a pair of stockings through some connections, she shows it off by holding up the hem of her skirt all day long, hum... she must have seduced a master in the palace to get them..."

……

Qin Lang pricked up his ears, watching and listening all the way, and could clearly feel that the publication of the first issue of "Nichang" was a great success, definitely not less successful than "Zhu Yan".

Moreover, since the two monthly magazines are on different tracks, there is no problem of fierce competition at all. This win-win situation is also a good thing for Qin Lang.

After all, on one side is the imperial court, and on the other side is the Tianhe Sect.

On one side is the empress, and on the other side is Nan Lingyue.

They are all his wives, so Qin Lang is of course happy to see their "common prosperity".

……

Finally, Qin Lang bypassed the crowded "Nichang" sales point and came to Tingyuxuan. Although there was a certain threshold just to enter the door, Qin Lang had been here before after all, and Tingyuxuan also knew Qin Lang's identity, so the threshold was not a problem.

Although Tingyuxuan is also a brothel, it lacks a lot of romantic flavor. There are seldom female voices, but mostly sounds of stringed instruments, bamboo, zither and harp. There are many curtains and screens. Qin Lang meets several women on the way, and they all smile and greet him in a very reserved manner. Their temperament really does not have the flavor of an ordinary prostitute at all.

Of course, as Qin Lang had known before, these people were all prostitutes, each with their own specialties in music, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing.

What surprised Qin Lang was that the words and actions of these prostitutes now seemed to be even more "excessive" than when Qin Lang came last time.

For example, whenever the girls met Qin Lang, they always kept their distance carefully, and the smiles on their faces were always just right, starting with courtesy and ending with courtesy, which neither made people feel rude nor made people feel a certain sense of distance...

In short, if I were to describe it in two words, it would be [cold].

The girl from Tingyuxuan seemed to be more aloof than before. It wasn't a cold aloofness in the sense of being icy, but a kind of aloofness that came from within and was in accordance with etiquette.

When Qin Lang passed by a hall, he saw several men in gorgeous clothes. The looks in their eyes were full of infatuation with a dancer on the stage, but none of them dared to make any frivolous words or actions. They even drank tea very carefully for fear of making noise and disturbing the girls.

Qin Lang had certainly never seen such an exaggerated situation in other brothels, and even when he came to Tingyuxuan last time, it was not like this.

Obviously, during the period when "Nishang" was released, Tingyuxuan itself also underwent some changes.

Later, when Qin Lang met the head of Tingyuxuan, he was not too surprised to learn that this reform was indeed based on the advice Qin Lang gave to the empress when he was in Yangzhou.

……

At that time, didn’t Qin Lang help Ningxiang Pavilion before? He didn’t know the empress at that time, so he tried to slander Tingyuxuan. The article "The Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix" also clearly satirized Tingyuxuan as a place to "build a memorial archway".

So after meeting the empress in Yangzhou, the plan that Qin Lang proposed for Tingyuxuan was to stick to the "building a memorial archway" business to the end. If he was going to build one, he would do it openly and thoroughly, thus taking a "high-end" route.

……

It now seems that Ting Yuxuan is already doing this.

In addition, the person in charge also took Qin Lang to visit Tingyuxuan's "new project".

In a single room that charges a very high fee, the prostitutes, wearing only thin clothes and gauze, play the piano or the flute behind a screen, while in front of the screen is a clothes rack made of yellow pear wood, on which are hung the exquisite outer garments that the prostitutes wear when entering the room, including skirts, sashes, and overalls.

The powerful men who came into the room each held a brass whisk handle as long as chopsticks. While listening to the music, they gently lifted up the girls' clothes hanging on the clothesline, shook their heads and smelled them, commented on them, and vied with each other to recite a few lines of clumsy poetry such as "This dress smells so good, it refreshes the brain and invigorates the mind." They looked very happy.

"Boss, this is... the new project?"

"Well, this is called [Xunxianhui], which means to find immortals with incense."

"..."

Qin Lang understood.

Finding the Immortal with Incense…

Isn't this the [Beauty Fragrance] that I suggested in the beginning, or the prototype of "a prostitute selling original flavor"?
(End of this chapter)