The wind is gentle and the fun is endless

Huanhuan and Xiaoyu walked slowly on the street. They each carried a bag containing rouge and men's clothes.

Xiaoyu complained, "Miss, why don't we go to the stables and call a carriage to take us? We have to walk such a long distance. We have been walking for a long time and the sun has already set."

"Oh, are you dizzy? Who was the coward who was so scared at noon that he was afraid of being discovered?"

Xiaoyu pouted with a bitter face and said, "But this time the bag is so heavy and we have been walking for so long. I am so tired."

Huanhuan persuaded him kindly: "I am doing this for safety. After all, the fewer clues there are, the safer we are. Okay, stop complaining. I will switch with you. You take my bag and I will take yours."

After that, Huanhuan and Xiaoyu exchanged bags. Seeing that Xiaoyu was still reluctant to move, Huanhuan encouraged Xiaoyu and said, "Think about the glutinous rice cakes. Do you have strength? Hmm? We're almost there. Try harder."

After coaxing Xiaoyu, he finally got to Yihong Pavilion with her. It was still daytime, and Yihong Pavilion was deserted.

He slowly looked at the setting sun and whispered to Xiaoyu, "It's best to finalize the matter before night falls. When night falls, they will have guests here, and who knows what trouble will arise. Let's find a corner where no one is. You help me put on my clothes, and I'll go in quickly. You stay outside and wait for me to come out to find you."

Xiaoyu nodded, and the two of them followed Huanhuan's plan. Then Huanhuan, dressed in men's clothes, walked into Yihong Pavilion.

The lights were not on yet and it was a little dark in Yihong Pavilion. The guys were moving tables and chairs, and occasionally there was the sound of wood hitting the floor. A girl with a big bright red flower on her head sat on the side of the stage holding a pipa and plucked the strings a few times in annoyance.

Seeing that no one noticed her, Huanhuan quickly stepped onto the stairs and walked to the second floor. As soon as she reached the second floor, the door of the outermost room just opened, and the person inside stretched out and almost bumped into Huanhuan, but fortunately Huanhuan turned to the other side and avoided it.

Just as Huanhuan was about to apologize, she saw the girl who had just come out flicker her veil and give her a wink. She was suddenly speechless and couldn't help but quicken her pace.

Finally, he knocked on the door of the chief steward of Yihong Pavilion slowly and unsteadily. The chief steward opened the door and saw that it was an outsider. He stuck his head out and cursed: "You little bastards are all just eating for free!"

Huan Huan hurriedly said, "Calm down, Chief Steward. It's Mr. Feng. I have something good to discuss with you today."

The housekeeper of Yihong Pavilion then took a closer look and said in a pretentious tone, "It's Miss Feng... I'm very busy and don't have time. Please go back."

"Butler, butler, there is no point in pushing away such a good way of making money." As he spoke slowly, he moved sideways and entered the house through the gap between the butler and the door frame.

The housekeeper of Yihong Pavilion turned around and looked at Huanhuan expressionlessly. Huanhuan smiled and supported her arm, pulled her to the chair and pressed her to sit on it, saying, "The housekeeper has been using my rouge for a while. How is it?"

The chief steward of Yihong Pavilion just opened his mouth to say something, but Huan Huan immediately rushed to say, "Very good, right!"

The chief steward was somewhat dissatisfied with Huanhuan's behavior and turned away without paying any attention to her.

He slowly turned to face her again, still smiling, and said, "From now on, the housekeeper's Yihong Pavilion will use my rouge. What do you think?"

After hearing this, the chief steward glanced at Huan Huan and said nothing, as if he was too lazy to respond to this suggestion.

"As for the price, it's easy to negotiate." Huan Huan continued without getting discouraged, "As long as you change all your rouge to mine, I can reduce the price by 10%. If you can announce to the public that you are using my rouge, I can reduce it by another 10%."

This sentence elicited a response from the big manager. She looked at Huan Huan in confusion and asked, "The reason for announcing that they used your rouge is...?"

"To be honest, Madam Supervisor, I want not only the brothels and houses in Shanghuai City, but also the wives and daughters of the nobles to use the rouge I sell."

After hearing this, the head of Yihong Pavilion laughed as if she had heard something out of the blue. She sneered, "You really want to use the reputation of our Yihong Pavilion to promote your brand. Then I have to say that you think too highly of us, young lady. It is true that our Yihong Pavilion is at the top of the industry, but after all, we are a group of poor people who belong to the lower class. Our words are not important enough to be used as a reference." After saying that, she reached out for the teacup not far away.

He slowly and calmly handed over the teacup and said, "Don't worry about this, Madam Supervisor. Just follow my instructions..."

The chief steward interrupted and said, "Besides, competitors are enemies. It is precisely because we are the largest in the industry, and the others are eyeing us covetously, so we will never reveal our choices to them. The young lady is really making a wrong calculation if she wants to use us as a signboard."

After a moment of silence, he smiled and said, "Don't jump to conclusions so early, Madam Manager. I brought a lot of rouge today and I'll give it all to you. If you don't want to, you don't have to announce that you used my rouge. As long as you use my rouge here, I'll give you 10% of the transaction money. It's real money."

This proposal seemed to have touched the housekeeper of Yihong Pavilion. A sly gleam flashed in her eyes. She pretended to drink two sips of tea, and started to make plans in her mind.

Seeing this, Huanhuan took advantage of the situation and said, "My rouge is cheap and has good color. It is a business that can only make money for the housekeeper."

"Twenty percent!" Yihong Pavilion's housekeeper suddenly said, "I want twenty percent in real money."

"Deal!" He agreed slowly, and struck while the iron was hot to discuss the details of the next transaction with the housekeeper of Yihong Pavilion.

After an unknown amount of time, the business was concluded, and she slowly said goodbye to the general manager and walked towards the door. She was a little excited, and her heart was pounding. Thinking of such a large sum of money that she had never handled before, her thoughts could not help but drift around, sometimes thinking of the white silver, sometimes imagining the scene of the next transaction, and sometimes thinking of the scene of going to Qiaoji to purchase goods.

Oh, by the way, Qiaoji doesn't plan to stay in business for a long time. Oh, this is a tricky question. Huanhuan was immersed in his own thoughts when he was suddenly knocked back three or five steps.

It was nothing more than the same old tune in this red-light district - either drunkenness or a fight over a girl, but Huanhuan was so excited that she didn't notice the noise at all, and didn't avoid it, allowing the weaker party in the fight to be pushed over and pounce on her.

She was about to run away, but the man who was pushed over grabbed her and put her in front of him to block the strong man who was chasing after her. The strong man was still somewhat sober, and his fist did not fall on Huanhuan, but he grabbed the weaker man over Huanhuan. The man twisted his body but did not let go of Huanhuan, but used Huanhuan as a shield and shook it left and right.

Slowly sandwiched between the two, she was dizzy, but still trying to find a chance to escape. At this time, with the three of them as the center, many people on the first floor of Yihong Pavilion formed a circle and laughed at the excitement; the people upstairs also looked at the three of them with curiosity.

The chief steward heard the noise and came out of the house. He stood behind the railing on the second floor, leaned out half of his body and pointed at the people downstairs and shouted, "You, you, the rest of you, go! Throw the troublemakers out!"

The servant who heard the order pushed aside the crowd watching the excitement and tried to catch the three of them, which resulted in the scene becoming even more chaotic.

Suddenly, she slowly found a gap, squatted down slightly and rushed out, but in the chaos, someone grabbed her clothes and with a "hiss", most of her men's coat was torn off, completely revealing the women's clothes underneath.

The crowd suddenly fell silent, and then voices rang out, "Ah, she's a woman!" "Why is she a woman?" "It's actually a woman!"

The chief steward saw all this from upstairs and covered his forehead with one hand. He slowly regained some reason and pulled his hair in front of his face to block the view. However, there were already some sharp-eyed people in the crowd who shouted in surprise, "Isn't this the young lady of the Xu Mansion?"

The audience became more interested - this was really amazing!