Chapter 37: The Young Master of the Green Gang

  The mother of the brothel went downstairs to call someone, while Song Kai and Lu Botao sat in the elegant room talking.

  The room is elegant, with wooden walls hanging a few landscape ink paintings, hollow carved incense burner emitting slowly rising green smoke, carrying a faint fragrance. In the distance, there is a Liuqin Guzheng, next to it is a wooden table, on which are placed the Four Treasures of the Study.

  Song Kai was experiencing a high-end brothel for the first time, his head scanning around, feeling that it wasn't bad.

  "In the lower reaches of the waves, is the young master of the Green Gang, may I ask Big Hero Song..." Lu Botao asked in a voice like a Mandarin duck, with a smiling face.

  "Call me Song Kai," Song Kai waved his hand, "I'm not a big hero either. What does your Green Gang do?"

  "Hmm... Qing Bang... This, heh heh, is actually just a small organization that manages the canal transportation docks, naturally it wouldn't catch Song Lang's eye," Lu Botao chuckled.

  Song Kai nodded and thought that this Green Gang should be similar to some kind of underworld, people who want to work at the dock have to worship the dock.

  Just then, more than a dozen women came in at the door with a rustling sound. These women were all wearing flower-patterned bodices and skirts, their faces painted with rouge and powder, their hair combed back, and they stood in a row after entering the room.

  "Song Lang, you choose two, these girls have good voices, the songs they sing are nice to listen to," Lu Botao rubbed his hands together and chuckled.

  Song opened his eyes and swept a glance, suddenly very disappointed. These women's faces were at most ordinary, let alone compared to Liu Yuxian and Nie Lingdang, even Sun Ximei was much better-looking than them.

  More importantly, these women don't even have any temperament, they're not as good as the "princesses" in KTV private rooms.

  "Never mind," Song Kai waved his hand, "there's still something important."

  Lu Bo Tao saw Song Kai's expression and knew he didn't like it. His face sank, and he glared at the old madam, shouting: "Zhang Mama! Are you looking down on me Lu Bo Tao because I have no money or power?!"

  "Oh my, Young Master Lu, what's with the way you're speaking?" The old madam twisted her hips and smiled as she accompanied him, "Young Master Lu is our esteemed guest at Chunyuan Building, a first-class noble guest. How could I be lazy and slow?"

  "Stop spouting nonsense!" Lu Botao's chubby hand slapped the table, causing it to shake violently. "I've already said that Song Lang is my honored guest, and you're still bringing up these irrelevant things - what do you mean? What do you mean? Are you afraid I won't pay for spring, summer, autumn, and winter?"

  The madam looked embarrassed and then said in a low voice, "Master Lu, I'll be honest with you, it's not that I don't want them to accompany the two of you, but there's something important that needs to be prepared. Master Lu also knows that the Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner, and Autumn Moon will represent our Chunyuan Building in the Huakui competition during the festival. This competition is crucial for us at Chunyuan Building, as it will determine whether we can become a top-tier building or not."

  "What about Chun Hua, Xia He and Dong Mei?" Lu Bo Tao waved his hand impatiently, as if he also knew the importance of this competition to Chun Yulan.

  "They are also going to be backup dancers and are practicing," the madam replied cautiously.

  Lu Bo Tao glared at the old procuress, then looked at Song Kai and smiled apologetically in a low voice: "Song Lang, look... should we..."

  Song Kai gave Lu Botao a strange look, and in his heart, he had a slightly better impression of this fat man. Hearing that the master of the brothel had something to attend to, he could still be considerate, it seemed that this person was not a show-off after all.

  "Never mind," Song Kai waved his hand, "we still have important matters to discuss, let them all go down."

  Lu Bo waved his hand, the old madam was overjoyed, and let the girls go down. She hurriedly said: "Today is really sorry for Mr. Lu and Mr. Song. Today's wine table is all free, it's considered that I'm making amends. On Mid-Autumn Festival day, I hope the two gentlemen will come to Chunyuan Building to give us some face."

  "Go ahead, you'll be there on time," Lu Botao waved his hand impatiently.

  After drinking tea, the two of them started talking, and Song Kai asked about the reason for today's conflict.

  Lu Bo Tao's chubby mouth twitched, and he said: "That stinky Taoist priest, half a month ago, I was gambling in the casino and lost a lot of money. At that time, I was anxious, and then this stinky Taoist priest appeared, saying that as long as I believed him, I would win every time I gambled. Of course, I didn't believe it, but what followed was that I followed what that stinky Taoist priest said, and I won seven times in a row! Ah? It really worked, and I deeply trusted that Taoist priest from then on. Later, the Taoist priest read my face and told me that I had hidden diseases, which is why I'm so fat, and there's also a 'sweeping star' beside me, which is why I always lose in casinos. I believed him, bought his medicinal pellets, and even gave him that 'sweeping star', who was actually a beautiful young maid I just bought."

  Song Kai's eyes widened in surprise, this was a clever scam.

  Lu Bo Tao slammed his fist on the table in agony, "But that stinky Taoist priest who was killed that day was a complete fake! I only found out later that he had colluded with the people from the gambling den to cheat me. That bastard not only cheated me of my money but also stole my maid, and what's even more infuriating is that he insulted my intelligence! Me, Lu Bo Tao, may be a bit dull, but I'm not stupid! He actually dared to insult my intelligence. If it weren't for running into you, Song Da Xia today, he would have even insulted me as a person!"

  Song Kai drank a glass of wine unnaturally and sneered, "This heroic soup, isn't it too unscrupulous?"

  Lu Bo Tao waved his fat hand and said a few words before saying: "Right, Song Lang, you said you wanted to handle the official identity card."

  "Oh, yes, does Brother Lu have any acquaintances?" Song Kai hastily asked.

  Lu Bo saw Song Kai speaking so nicely, and he too became happy, saying: "I do know such a person. In our Green Gang, there are often vagrants coming in, they don't have official introductions, we all find this person to handle it, never had any mistakes. It's said that his sister's husband or something, works as a judge in the prefecture, so those official introductions are real, no need to worry about being investigated."

  Song Kai smiled and said, "Then I'll have to trouble Brother Lu to introduce us."

  "Alright, after dinner I'll take Brother Song over," Lu Botao chuckled, his two eyes squeezed into a line by the fat on his face.

  Just as they were eating, a plump maid pushed open the door and came in with dishes.

  The dish is carved beautifully, although it doesn't taste great, but the appearance looks pleasing to the eye, called Nine Linglong.

  The door opened, and the sound of a bamboo flute came in faintly. Song Kai was originally not paying attention, but inadvertently heard the sentence "Ask the wine to ask the blue sky, I don't know what year it is tonight in the heavenly palace."

  "Huh? Isn't this 'Shui Diao Ge Tou'? Song Kai was puzzled, this poem is from his own store, how did it end up being sung here?"

  "Ah, ah," Lu Botao gnawed on a chicken leg, grinning, "So Brother Song also understands poetry."

  That fat maidervant circled around Lu Botao and didn't leave immediately. When Song Kaifeng asked, she hastily replied: "Yes, this is the most popular poem recently! Our mother spent thirty taels of gold to get this poem, and now Autumn Moon Miss is playing and singing it, preparing to win first prize at the Mid-Autumn Flower Queen Competition!"

  "Ah?" Song put down the wine cup in his hand, "When did this happen? How... cough, I mean, is this for real?"

  "It's true," said the fat maid with a shake of her head, "a poem can sell for thirty taels of gold. Alas, these literati really know how to make money."

  Song Kai nodded, guessing that Nie Zhong had made the decision to sell, but why hadn't she told him about this matter?

  Lu Bo Tao wiped his mouth and waved his hand: "Meimei, you go down first, today I have something to do with Song brother, come see you another day."

  Chubby girl somewhat unhappily said "yes", then backed out.

  Song Kai was stunned, looking at Lu Botao, "You... you and her..."

  Lu Bo Tao chuckled softly and said: "So Song Lang had seen through it, we are truly in love."

  "Pffft!"

  The wine almost spit out of Song's mouth.

  Lu Bo Tao didn't think much of it, "Song Lang, I spend every day in the brothel, those women may look charming and smiling, but they only care about my money and status. Only Niu Niu is different, she doesn't mind that I'm fat, I know she genuinely likes me, and hehe, I also like her, you see her chest, it's like a turbulent wave... going to bed with her must be amazing."

  "Halt, stop right there!" Song Kai waved his hand, "However, Brother Lu, you and that fatty, haven't gone to bed yet?"

  "No, she's always shy and I don't want to force her. Niangniang isn't a woman from the brothel, she's Autumn Moon's personal maid, a good family's daughter," Lu Botao hastily clarified.

  Song Kai smiled and said, "Let's go, now that the official invitation is settled, I can relax."

  "Alright," Lu Bo Tao and Song Kai walked out, the singing voice outside became clearer, it was coming from a room on the third floor not far away. The second floor was for VIP guests of Chun Xiang Lou, while the third floor was where the four great dan (female lead) lived. Only men recognized by the courtesan or those with extreme power had the possibility to go up there.

  Song Kai looked in the direction of the sound, his heart moved.

  "Hey, Brother Song, what's up? Want to go see Autumn Moon? Lu Bo Tao stood beside Song Kai, looking at Song Kai's eyes and whispered with a smile, "If you want to see her, I may not be able to help, but beg Yiyi, she might be able to help you, Brother Song."

  Song Kai waved his hand, "Forget it for now, let's focus on the main task, we can visit her later when we have time."

  "Yes, yes," Lu Bo Tao and Song Kai went downstairs and left.

  A white-clothed young master who was passing by heard Song Kai's words and snorted in disdain, saying in a low voice: "You two rough men also dare to think of seeing Miss Qiu Yue, it's truly a toad thinking of eating swan meat."

  Lu Bo Tao's ears were quite good, and he faintly heard the slanderous voice. He immediately turned his head, staring at that person, "You bastard! What did you say?!"

  That young man in white clothes was obviously a talented person. Seeing Lu Botao's appearance, he was frightened and quickly said, "Nothing, nothing..."

  He said and ran far away in a puff of smoke.

  Moreover, these pretentious literati always think they are superior, as if the autumn moon would deign to meet with them," Lu Botao sneered, and together with Song Kai, left through the back door of Chunyuan Building.

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