Traveling through life as a widow: six sons to support her in her old age

In mid-June, the triennial draft began.

The queen started a busy life. She realized that compared with power and status, love would only be a stumbling block.

The emperor was very pleased with the queen's performance and rewarded her with many good things.

Shen Yuge played with the rare oriental pearls, looked at the gold and jade hairpins that symbolized fertility and longevity, looked at the hollow phoenix gold hairpins, and various jade ruyi, two boxes full of pearls and jade pendants, and pearl hairpins...

For the first time, she experienced the sweetness of being without love. Lan Qiyan is not stupid. She is wise but appears foolish. It's a pity that people in the capital can't understand it.

It’s just a pity for General Yu that his wife is not moved!

Lan Qiyan was also very busy. The Happy House was packed with business every day, while the brothel opposite was empty.

Li Shutong went looking for her sister crying, but was told that her sister was not at home.

She asked around and finally dragged Li Shuyu out of Happy Building with a gloomy face.

"Sister, why are you in Happy House?"

Li Shuyu was quite unhappy. She was just seeing the exciting part. "Of course I am happy."

"Why are you taking care of her business instead of mine?"

“How can I take care of your voice, it’s not serious.

Happy House is not like your brothel. Here we have talent shows, skits, crosstalk, all formal performances. My housekeeper is under too much pressure. Can't we come here to relax?"

Li Shutong drooped his face and said, "Sister, my whole family is waiting to eat. Now there is no customer, what am I going to eat?"

"Are you kidding me? Even if this brothel is gone, you still have a place to eat."

"Sister, please help me."

"You can sell the brothel and use the money to buy food."

Li Shutong was shocked. "Sister, listen to what you said, are you talking like a human being? I sold the brothel and I'm living off my savings?"

"Let me introduce you to someone. She must have a solution."

……

This was the first time Lan Qiyan met Yu Zian’s uncle, who looked like a respectable man.

Her first question was, "Are the girls there willing or forced?"

Li Shutong looked at Li Shuyu.

"Look at me, tell me the truth."

Li Shutong sighed, "It's not voluntary, but I didn't force them.

They were all sold by their own families, some by their grandparents, and some by their own parents.

Some were sold by their relatives because their family members had died, while others sold themselves to save their families.

At most, we would give them five taels of silver, and then we would raise them to learn various skills, and when they grew up, they would start to receive customers.”

Lan Qiyan suddenly thought of a saying: There would be no killing without buying and selling.

"What if there is no brothel? Uncle, please help me analyze it."

"Even without brothels, this situation will not stop. These girls will be sold to widowers, old bachelors, or sick men for wedding ceremonies, or old men with some money.

There are also the backyards of various dignitaries, or directly becoming slaves.

In the final analysis, women are a commodity.

Even if she is a girl from an aristocratic family, so what? Isn't it still the fate of the emperor?

Look at those ladies who participated in the beauty pageant. Some of them already have lovers. But so what? As soon as the imperial decree comes, they have to enter the palace.

Did the good day come when it was chosen? It's nothing more than one more wronged soul in the well of the harem."

Li Shuyu slapped him, "Can't you control your mouth? This is to Qi Yan, if it were someone else, would you still want your head?"

"Sister, you're still hitting me. You've made me stupid. I wouldn't say anything to anyone else."

Lan Qiyan only felt that there was still a long way to go to improve the status of women.

The deep-rooted ideas that have been formed by people over thousands of years are difficult to eradicate.

But she wanted to give it a try, just in case she succeeded.

"Qi Yan, please help me. You mainly attract women, and I attract men. We should not interfere with each other."

Lan Qiyan's eyes rolled around, "I can help you, but what benefit can you give me?

Don't talk about my relationship with you, I don't recognize any relatives. My mother-in-law only gets free food if she brings ten people to consume."

Li Shutong held up three fingers and said, "I'll give you 30% of the benefits. You just need to come up with ideas, and I'll do the rest."

Lan Qiyan held up five fingers and said, "Fifty-fifty. I have this idea and I can do it myself."

Li Shutong held out four, "Four and six at most, I'll give you six and you'll give me four."

Lan Qiyan smiled slightly, "Deal."

Li Shutong felt a pang of pain. If Lan Qiyan's idea couldn't revive the brothel, he would wreak havoc in Happy Building every day.

Lan Qiyan glanced at Li Shutong. If used properly, this thing could be a knife, but if used improperly, it could become a sword that would stab him.

They did it right away. After a month of hard work, Li Shutong's brothel was completely renovated and the first floor was converted into a huge stage.

A woman dressed in light gauze and with alluring makeup on was dancing on it. There was white smoke all around her, and with the row of lanterns above her head as a backdrop, it looked like a paradise on earth.

The girls have fair skin and dance gracefully, seducing one girl after another.

Li Shutong couldn't stop laughing. No wonder Lan Qiyan said these girls were wearing too much when he first saw them.

It turns out that this is the elusive sense of mystery, the pulling feeling of holding the pipa half-covered.

Lan Qiyan was wearing men's clothes, waving a folding fan and humming a little tune. She simply moved the decoration style of a modern bar here, but she didn't expect the effect to be so wonderful.

Li Shutong's Tian Shang Ren Jian focuses on men's business, while Lan Qiyan's Kuai Huo Lou focuses on women's business.

Many people found that when they returned home they no longer heard the quarreling in the backyard. After asking, they found out that it was the mistress of the house who took the concubines from each room to the Happy Tower.

The women who have been to Happy Building suddenly realize that they have wasted their time scheming and deceiving each other for a man for so many years.

It turns out that the world outside is so beautiful, and it turns out that women can also be pleased.

Even Shen Yuge, who had just finished the talent show, was reluctant to leave the Happy Building.

It turns out that this is what men’s happiness is. It is indeed very happy and makes people feel comfortable both physically and mentally. It can help them live at least ten years longer.

The women stopped fighting and became harmonious. Every day they rushed to interact with the mistress, looking forward to her taking them out to see the world. They were even unwilling to serve the old man at home.

Those men have lost their patience and have completely lost their charm. How can this be possible?

It’s all Lan Qiyan’s fault. She has completely ruined the morals of the capital city. Women can only stay in the back house. How can they come out to visit Happy Tower?

Therefore, at the end of June and the beginning of July, the memorials impeaching Yu Zi'an for not managing his household properly could be displayed for two miles in the Yangxin Palace.

The emperor's brows were wrinkled into the Great Rift Valley in East Africa with worry. This Lan Qiyan is really good at making trouble. What kind of life did General Yu live in the past?