People in the Tang Dynasty, Jian'an style

"My name is Ai Pasha, Master."

"Oh, Ayi Pasha, there are no rules here. No need to call me master all the time. Stand up and speak."

"Yes, Master."

Li Wenbin was helpless and looked at the other girl who had just knelt down.

Her veil was already tied. When she saw Li Wenbin raised his chin towards her, she quickly stood up and stood respectfully with her hands hanging down.

Li Wenbin walked past them and sat on the chair. Two Turkic girls immediately followed him, knelt down on the left and right, and gently massaged his legs.

Chapter 56: Don't Force Yourself

The two Turkic girls were raised as slaves since childhood. They had become accustomed to the rules of serving their masters and did it very naturally without any sense of affectation or deliberateness.

Li Wenbin wanted to wake them up and raised his hand, but he was too lazy to correct them. He just looked at them and said, "Why are you still wearing veils at home? If you walk around the courtyard at night, be careful that the guards will mistake you for robbers."

The two girls obviously understood the joke. They looked at each other with smiles in their eyes, and the girl who was still wearing a veil took it off.

This girl is even more beautiful, with the corners of her mouth slightly upturned, as if she was born with a sweet smile. Her beautiful appearance looks a little familiar.

Li Wenbin asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Amyra."

"Amyra, why do you always wear veils?"

Amira replied meekly, "Master, except for the hands and feet, a woman's private parts are all shameful. Only her biological parents and her man can see them. No one else can see them."

"Oh."

Li Wenbin rubbed his nose and said awkwardly: "Then you should cover yourselves."

Ai Pasha said seriously: "Master, we just thought it was someone else, so we hurriedly tied up the veil. Everything we have belongs to the master. In front of the master, there is no need to hide."

Li Wenbin was a little overwhelmed and changed the subject: "Was the music you just played from your hometown?"

Amyra replied, "Yes, sir, this is the music from our hometown. We are far away from home, and it is cold and lonely at night. We are in a bad mood, so we played the music from our hometown. We didn't expect to disturb you, sir."

"home……"

Li Wenbin was absent-minded for a while, looked at them, and suddenly asked: "If I can send you back, are you willing to go back to your hometown?"

The two girls looked at each other and lowered their heads slightly.

Li Wenbin asked: "What?"

Ai Pasha replied softly: "I can see that the master's kindness comes from the heart, but although we miss our hometown, it is only because that is where we grew up. We don't want to go back. We don't want to go back."

Li Wenbin frowned and asked, "Why?"

Amyra said quietly, "My wise master, how do you think we two girls will survive and protect ourselves if we go back?"

Li Wenbin was silent for a moment, thinking of Ming'er who wanted to take but couldn't, wanted to give up but couldn't, and couldn't help but sigh deeply, muttering: "Most of the time, things are not satisfactory, but there are only a few that can be told to others."

The two Turkic girls didn't quite understand this line of poetry, but they could see that their master didn't seem happy.

Although they spent most of their time in this yard these days, they had gotten to know their master a little bit.

I know that he is a very powerful noble lord in this great Eastern empire.

They are worried about being far away from their hometown, and are troubled by not having enough food and clothing and having an uncertain place to go. What worries could a powerful person like the master have?

They were very curious, but they were very polite and didn't ask.

Li Wenbin ordered: "Play the song again. I want to hear it too."

Amyra, who looked a lot like Jessica, was more lively than Ayi Pasha and boldly asked, "Does the master like this piece of music?"

Li Wenbin sighed: "I'm just in a bad mood..."

It’s nothing, I just miss home.

The sad sound of the Qiang flute, which makes people feel homesick, is still floating in the air. Li Wenbin has left the Turkic girl's residence and strolled towards the back house.

When passing the cross-pond rainbow bridge, Li Wenbin leaned against the railing, looked up at the moon, and stood there in a daze for a long time.

……

When he returned home, Li Wenbin was surprised.

The small courtyard where people originally lived was now deserted, with only a few eunuchs left who were in charge of cleaning.

After asking, Li Wenbin found out that he had changed his residence again.

The new residence was several times larger than the small courtyard he lived in before, and there were several times more people serving him.

"Young Master, what do you think of this place?" Jinxiu accompanied Li Wenbin and followed him around. "If you are not satisfied with anything, please let me know."

Li Wenbin didn't have any requirements. He was already very satisfied with his current living conditions. He just wanted Jinxiu to remember it and build a training ground for him to practice martial arts.

"By the way, young master, today..." Jinxiu suppressed her smile, looked around, and then leaned close to his ear and said, "That woman is here. I see, she can't hold it back any longer."

"Oh? You can't help it so soon?"

Li Wenbin was a little surprised - when he discussed it with Jinxiu, he estimated that Changsun Wugou could at least hold on for half a month.

You can't hold on for just over ten days?

It seems that she is just like that...

Jinxiu smiled and said, "Young Master, this is a critical moment. Whether there will be any breakthrough depends on you."

Li Wenbin rubbed her hair and said with a smile: "Go and help me pass on a message to the princess. Just tell her that I want to see her, and the location is..."

……

"What?" Zhangsun Wugou was stunned. "He wants me to go to Baihua Tower to meet him?"

Jinxiu bowed slightly: "Yes, madam. That's what the young master said."

"This..." Zhangsun Wugou was a little embarrassed, "How can I, how can I go to a place like that?"

"Young Master said that Your Majesty is a heroine. How could a mere Hundred Flowers Tower be a problem for you?"

"Then, do I have to go?"

Jinxiu shook her head: "No, Madam. Young Master also guessed that doing so would make Madam feel embarrassed, so he said that if Madam really didn't want to go, she didn't have to force herself."

Zhangsun Wugou heaved a sigh of relief, and then she continued, "But from now on, Madam, please don't come to look for the young master again."

Changsun Wugou: ...

You call this not forcing yourself?

She felt powerless, and finally she could only sigh: "Go back and tell Wenbin that I will definitely go, so he can rest assured."

"You are wrong again, Madam." Jinxiu said with a smile, "The young master has never been worried about anything. On the contrary, you should be more careful..."

"Oh, by the way, my dear, you don't like waiting for people..."

After saying that, without waiting for Changsun Wugou to say anything else, Jinxiu looked at her deeply, then left with her slender waist twisted.

Changsun Wugou slumped on the couch, wanting to cry but without the tears.

Although she wanted to avoid going, she couldn't bear the consequences.

This damn...master!

Could it be that he enjoys torturing me?

The long nails pierced into the palm of his hand, and scarlet blood flowed out, but Changsun Wugou seemed unaware.

Chapter 57: Baihua Tower

During the Tang Dynasty, the Hu people did business and opened shops in the Tang Dynasty, the most popular of which were jewelry stores and hotels.

Needless to say, jewelry from the Western Regions is superior to local jewelry in the Tang Dynasty in terms of shape, style, and quality. The reason why there are so many Hu restaurants is because they have Hu girls.

Men are the largest consumer group in the hotel, and having young and beautiful Hu Ji serving wine will naturally attract many drinkers.

"Picking lotus and throwing it into the water, the man's interest is in the floating flowers." Fine wine and beautiful women complement each other.

There are too few Han women working as hotel waitresses, so they have no competitiveness.

As a result, the Hu people's hotels became larger and larger, and of higher quality, becoming the favorite place for dignitaries, wealthy businessmen and wealthy people to stay.

Therefore, the big restaurants in Chang'an and Luoyang were generally opened by Hu people.

Changle is adjacent to the East Market and is a very lively place in Chang'an.

The "Baihualou" in Changlefang is one of the best Hu people's restaurants in Chang'an City.

This hotel is extremely large, but it only has one floor. In the middle is a two-foot-high circular performance stage with a diameter of several meters. The seats on all sides are placed facing each other with the stage as the center.

If some guests do not want to be seen by others, the waiter will bring screens to surround three sides of their banquet. There will be another folding screen facing the stage. If the guests do not like to watch the performance on the stage and want a more private environment, the folding screen can be used to block the front as well, thus turning it into a private room with no one around.

But very few people who come here to drink would block off all four sides. They come here to drink for the fine wine and the beautiful women, so why would they leave the beauties outside the table?

When they were happy after drinking, they would even jump onto the stage and sing and dance with Hu Ji, or even drive Hu Ji away and perform a solo dance.

The drinkers who could appear here were either rich or noble. It would be unimaginable for such people of status to behave like this in other dynasties.

Can you imagine a 70-year-old man who is the richest man in the world, or a scholarly leader in his 60s, or a local governor in his 50s, drunkenly waving his hands, dancing and singing to himself in front of his friends, followers, subordinates, and even complete strangers?

But in this era, it is very normal. Not only for those high-ranking and respected people, but also for those married women with children or girls who are still raised in seclusion, it is also normal. It has nothing to do with identity and status, but a custom.

Since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and even the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Hu and Han peoples have been closely integrated. Over the past hundreds of years, the culture, thoughts, customs and habits of the Hu people have been largely absorbed and assimilated by the Han culture of the Central Plains, becoming part of it. When high-ranking officials and nobles were in a good mood, singing and dancing in public became a very elegant and tasteful activity.

When the news of Li Jing's annihilation of the Eastern Turks reached the capital, Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty was overjoyed. He dismissed the dancing girls and began to dance in the hall, twisting his hips and swaying his waist. Emperor Li Yuan, who was the retired emperor at the time, even snatched the pipa from the singing girl to accompany his son. The ministers also followed suit, leaving their seats and running to the hall, singing and dancing.

Imagine a group of men in official robes, with beards or white hair, dancing in the solemn palace. It was like a group of demons dancing wildly. More than ten years later, when the crown prince Li Zhi had his first son, Li Shimin, as the grandfather, ran to his son's East Palace and took the lead in dancing.

The emperor and all the officials were like this, and this phenomenon was even more common among the people.

The banquets in Baihua Tower are arranged around the circular stage, and the private rooms on both sides are in the best position to view the stage.

When Li Wenbin arrived at Baihua Tower, six charming Hu girls were dancing sexy and movingly on the stage.

Amid the rhythmic and cheerful dance music, he came to one of the private rooms and pushed the door open.

The guests behind him took a quick glance and saw a beautiful woman lying on her side behind a low table, with her chin supported by one hand.

The shoji door was closed again. Although it was just a brief glimpse, the beauty of the woman was overwhelming. One could also feel that the woman was extremely beautiful, with great charm and temperament. Her bent long thigh was extremely beautiful.

But when it comes to what is the most beautiful part of her face, eyebrows, facial features, body shape, or what she looks like, I can't remember anything at the moment.

Even though she was lying lazily on the couch, that kind of noble, awe-inspiring and inviolable sacred beauty was deeply imprinted in everyone's mind.

The only feeling left in his mind was "Extremely beautiful!"

The guest drank the whole glass of wine, still savoring the beautiful woman's graceful figure and incomparable beauty. He could feel the lingering fragrance on his teeth and cheeks, and the aftertaste was endless. Only then did he realize that beauty is truly a feast to the eyes!

However, he did not know that the beauty was the extremely noble Princess Qin, Changsun Wugou, who was known as the Flower of Chang'an, the woman among women!

Zhangsun Wugou was not wearing any formal clothes today, but even in a plain shirt, she was as dazzling as a flame.

Although she was wearing a plain shirt, it was made in the style of Hu clothing and was very tight and fitted.

Half-sleeves, lapel collar, short boots, crescent-white laces, pearly white pointed satin boots...

Li Wenbin couldn't think of any words to describe Zhangsun Wugou. Perhaps... she was like a plate of delicious fish sashimi that was sliced ​​as thin as a cicada's wing and as white as first snow. When people saw her, they would want to take the whole plate and swallow her proud and enchanting body to satisfy their appetite.

Changsun Wugou smiled at him, patted the couch beside him, and said softly, "Come and sit!"

Li Wenbin looked calm, walked over calmly and sat down beside her.

Changsun Wugou originally thought that he would keep a certain distance from her as he did before, but when she saw him doing this, a hint of surprise appeared in her eyes.

Li Wenbin sat down carelessly and asked directly, "The princess sent her maid to see Wenbin several times. What's the matter? Why didn't she let the maid explain it to her in person?"

Zhangsun Wugou made a face at him and said with a smug smile: "I have a good plan, but...the secret cannot be revealed, hehe..."

"What is the secret? Now that I'm here, you can tell me."

Zhangsun Wugou narrowed her charming eyes slightly and said seductively: "Do you think...I will tell you easily?"

Li Wenbin's eyes flashed quickly, and he picked up the half glass of wine she had placed on the table and took a sip.

He wasn't angry?

This time it was Changsun Wugou's turn to be surprised. She glanced at Li Wenbin in surprise, rolling her eyes slightly, thinking about his unusual reaction.