Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 60 There is a goddess in Jiujiang!
“…Although the government has actively provided rescue and relief, and opened up its granaries for relief, there are simply too many people affected. How can the government provide relief?
Just when the poor people were starving for food, Liu Xianglan, who was only ten years old at the time, took a band to several surrounding states to perform for charity.

It is said that Liu Xianglan, who was only ten years old at the time, was already a beautiful woman created by nature, and everyone who had seen her said she was the Goddess of Jiujiang.

Although the charity fundraising did not raise a lot of money, it inspired many wealthy families. Later, wealthy families in several states donated money, helping the people of Ezhou get through the most difficult times.

From that time on, the goddess Liu Xianglan became a legend in several nearby states."

Su Shi praised: "Great kindness, although this woman has fallen into prostitution, her kindness is really worthy of praise! However, since she is so kind, is there no one in Jinghu North Road willing to save her from prostitution?"

Zhou Zhan sighed and said, "How could there be none? There were many wealthy merchants in Ezhou who wanted to pay a high price to redeem her, and the nobles who passed by also wanted to take her into their rooms, but Liu Xianglan openly refused, saying that she did not want to be a concubine and only wanted to practice in the world of mortals."

Su Shi was somewhat dissatisfied and said, "How can a good girl be willing to fall into prostitution? Although being a concubine is not as good as being a wife, it is better than living in a brothel, right?"

Zhou Zhan looked a little dissatisfied, but he didn't dare to get angry. He quickly explained, "Mr. Su misunderstood. Liu Xianglan has her own difficulties."

Su Shi asked, "What is the reason?"

Zhou Zhan sighed and said, "At that time, a noble was also dissatisfied, so he questioned Jiujiang Tower, and then got the news that it turned out that Liu Xianglan had been supporting the prostitutes who had retired from the brothel due to old age and fading beauty.

There were prostitutes in brothels one after another, but only a few were able to be redeemed and become good women. Many of them suffered a very miserable old age after they grew old and lost their beauty.

Since Liu Xianglan started accepting clients, she has been helping these poor people. If she left, those people might starve to death."

Hearing this, Su Shi couldn't help but become serious and said, "This girl is really amazing. She really has a heart of a bodhisattva."

Zhou Zhan smiled and said, "Not only that, last time Ah Yun wrote the inscription, I gave Ah Yun the 100 acres of land I promised him, but Ah Yun didn't want to take it and asked me to donate it to the Charity Bureau.

I sent it to the Charity Bureau and had a chat with the person in charge. The person in charge told me that the Charity Bureau actually receives donations from Liu Xianglan every month. Most people don’t know this.”

Xu Jian added: "Not only that, whenever there is a bridge or road construction nearby, Liu Xianglan will donate money every time. Many people know about this."

Hearing this, Su Yun was also a little surprised. There actually was such a remarkable woman in the Northern Song Dynasty. How come he had never heard of her in later generations? Moreover, he had been in Huangzhou for so many years, but he had never heard of her?
Zhou Zhan saw Su Yun's expression and smiled, "Liu Xianglan's reputation is naturally very good, but she is a prostitute after all. Who would normally mention her? If you talk about prostitutes all the time, at the very least you will be accused of being a frivolous person, and at worst you will be considered to have a bad character."

Su Yun nodded. The people he interacted with were only Zhou Zhan, Xu Jian, Guo Ke and others. These people were of much lower status than Su Shi. Who would mention these things in front of him?

Su Shi suddenly became alert and asked, "Why are you discussing this?"

Xu Jian suddenly became nervous, Zhou Zhan was also hesitant and didn't know how to answer, but Su Yun smiled and said, "My nephew wants to socialize with the literati around him, so he naturally wants to know about the various situations nearby, so he asked Xu Dongjia and Zhou Yuanwai about it, and then he talked about it."

Su Shi was skeptical, but with so many people around, it was not easy to ask in detail.

Su Shi and Guo Ke went back to continue chatting.

Zhou Zhan whispered, "Brother Su, why are you telling Lao Xu all this?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "When can you take me to Jiujiang Tower?"

Zhou Zhan was surprised when he heard this and asked, "You want to go to a brothel?"

Xu Jian was also surprised and asked, "Didn't you say that your friend wanted to know?"

Su Yun laughed and said, "Yes, I'm going to explore the way for my friend. Besides, isn't it normal for a young man full of vigor and vitality like me to go to a brothel?" Zhou Zhan and Xu Jian looked at each other.

Just when the two of them didn't know what to say, Ah Hui came back and ran to Su Yun and said, "Ah Yun, the two masters of the Wang family said they would definitely arrive. I came back first to report the news. They should be here soon."

Sure enough, as it was getting dark, I heard a commotion outside. The Wang brothers had indeed arrived.

Then Mr. Chen from the diplomatic treasury also arrived.

The place is packed with distinguished guests.

At this time, the aroma of rabbit meat had filled the entire compound.

When the night lights came on, the whole rabbit banquet was served, including skewered rabbit, stir-fried rabbit, rabbit with scallions, roasted suckling rabbit, rabbit meat soup, rabbit head soup... all of which were dishes that the people of Huangzhou and Ezhou had never seen before. Not to mention Guo Ke and his companions, even Zhou Zhan, Xu Jian, the Wang brothers, and Chen Zhushi had never seen such a scene before.

Everyone started eating and found the food was delicious. Even Xu Jian, the restaurant owner, had a great appetite. He started eating and drinking like a torrential rain and raised his glasses repeatedly. Everyone was eating and drinking and chatting at the same time, having a very enjoyable time.

By the time the moon was at its zenith, the table was in a mess, the food was gone, and everyone was feeling dizzy and didn't know where they were.

However, Su Shi was in high spirits and shouted that he wanted to go boating on the river. Su Yun still retained some rationality. Seeing that everyone was drunk, he wanted to prevent Su Shi from falling into the water, so he stopped him.

Su Shi was somewhat dissatisfied and said: "The boat driver is not drunk, what is he afraid of?"

Su Yun just refused, and Su Shi had no choice but to say that he wanted to go to Lingao Pavilion.

This was possible, so everyone drove to Lingao Pavilion. There were people in Lingao Pavilion. Zhu Ada had been living there recently, watching over Lingao Pavilion. There were many valuable things in Lingao Pavilion, so someone had to watch over it.

However, even though everyone was knocking on the door and shouting, it seemed as if no one was inside.

Su Yun asked Tian Asan, "Has Ah Da gone out?"

Tian Asan smiled bitterly and said, "I asked Ah Hui to bring him some wine and meat tonight. I guess he drank too much, right?"

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

Su Shi was not annoyed either, and said with a smile: "It seems that the rabbit meat tonight is indeed delicious."

The crowd roared with laughter.

Under the moonlight, the Yangtze River flows quietly. Su Shi leans on his cane and suddenly smiles: "If I can't enter Lingao Pavilion, I can watch the Yangtze River here. Gentlemen, I think I have a poem. Would you like to listen to it?"

Everyone was immediately overjoyed and started to cheer.

"Quick! Zizhan is so talented, come and do it!"

"I'm all ears, Zizhan, please do it quickly~"

(End of this chapter)