章 4: Business Is Going to Hell
編集者: Dragon Boat Translation
It turned out that Pride Insect Aunty was not joking with the young fox.
Her aunt's brothel catered to all preferences, from the conventional fair-skinned, beautiful girls with long, straight black hair to the captivating blonde girls with voluminous waves.
According to Aunt Chong Qiong, the girls were the descendants of sinners.
The Ministry of Justice interrogated them before sending them to the Discipling Department to perform hard labor.
However, the talented girls who could enter the Ministry of Rites had to attend the major banquets and performances in the palace.
The Ministry of Justice did not necessarily want all of them.
They had to go through many selections to find those proficient in zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting.
Then, they would select the ten most beautiful and qualified girls.
The rest of them were all sent to the brothel with a cooperative relationship with the government.
The descendants of those sinners would earn money through performances to repay the mistakes of their families.
Simply put, the girls in Pride Insect Auntie's brothel were all born into rich families. They were either the elders of their families who had committed the crime of corruption or they had committed a serious crime. Still, the entire family was executed, causing all their family members to be sent to the Discipling Department.
The girls in the brothel needed to use their talents to earn money as compensation for the losses caused by the greed of their relatives.
The descendants of sinners only knew how to have fun.
They did not have the qualifications to perform and would be sent directly to the brothel.
She did not even know how to play music or sing and was not beautiful. What else could she do other than go to a brothel?
Unless you could compensate for the losses of our Xia Yu, everything was out of the question. If you continued to talk nonsense, they would kill you.
...
"No wonder that the commoners in the Xia Yu Kingdom are rich. All of them are desperate for money. I heard it in the brothel."
After living in his aunt's brothel for a few days, Su Yan gradually fully understood Xia Yu.
It was not only prosperious mentioned by the examinees. The law was simply about money.
Except for some treasons and felonies, they could be settled by paying money.
"Xiao Yan, go to the second floor and comfort Xiao Hong. She's trying to commit suicide by hanging herself!"
Chong Qiong, the shopkeeper, was sitting by the railing of the cylindrical building. She sensed something and poked her head out to shout at Su Yan.
"Alright!"
Su Yan, eating melon seeds on the first floor, glanced at the empty hall and sighed.
He turned around and went up the wooden ladder behind the stage to the second floor.
He looked around and found Xiao Hong's bedroom. Then he pushed the door open and walked in.
Su Yan pushed open the bedroom door and saw a young girl in a red long-sleeved shirt with a gold-inlaid belt around her waist.
She was standing on a wooden chair on the tea table. A simple white silk made from a sheet had already passed through the beam of the room.
Xiao Hong held the white silk with both hands with a determined expression.
She was sobbing.
Su Yan did not say anything else when he saw this. He jumped into the room and transformed from a human to a white fox in mid-air.
He landed on the tea table with a pitiful expression on his face. He blinked his small, round black eyes and made cute sounds.
It was common for the girls in the brothel to commit suicide. They were once the daughters of rich families.
When their families met with great changes, they were forced to go out to earn money.
For some girls with strong temperaments, it was unacceptable.
However, they still owed Xia Yu money, and before they paid off their debts, they had no choice.
Other than maintaining her business, the most tedious thing for Aunt was to persuade the girls.
"Little Fox, you don't have to persuade me. My ancestors have been exiled to the frontier. The reward money I earned in half a year can't even redeem my father. When I earn the reward money to redeem their freedom, they will probably be exhausted to death."
"There's no point in living alone." Xiao Hong looked at the little fox sorrowfully, but her hands unconsciously let go of the white silk.
She squatted on the wooden chair and hugged her knees with both hands, unable to look away from Su Yan's fox appearance.
Xiao Hong's grandfather was a local official in the Xia Yu.
However, due to her grandfather's involvement in a corruption scandal, the government's transportation team faced significant delays.
As a result, Xiao Hong's family received a harsh sentence from the Ministry of Justice.
The men were sent to the frontier to engage in laborious mining activities, while the girls were forced to remain in Xia Yu and endure grueling work.
Additionally, the girls were sent to the Disciplining Department for further punishment.
Xiao Hong did not enter the Discipling Department and was eventually assigned to Auntie's brothel.
Su Yan continued to moan.
Su Yan was not good at comforting people, but it was easy for the nine-tailed fox to temporarily bewitch people.
After the white fox moaned twice, Xiao Hong, who had originally wanted to commit suicide, could no longer suppress the restlessness in her heart.
She turned from squatting to sitting upright, pushed the cute white fox on the table, and buried her head in the fox's soft and warm fleshy belly, rubbing it hard. Occasionally, she blushed.
"Little Fox…You are cunning!" Xiao Hong's eyes were tearful. She rubbed his cheeks and began to kiss the nine-tailed fox.
"Hey, hey, hey. I should get paid. Kissing and hugging is already the limit of my free service."
Su Yan saw Xiao Hong opening her mouth as if she was about to kiss his fox body. He quickly raised his hind leg and stepped on Xiao Hong's cheek to calm her.
Chong Qiong had asked Su Yan not to do anything with the girls in the brothel, no matter how beautiful they were.
If Su Yan needed a girl, his aunt could pay him to spend the night with a courtesan in the Ten Thousand Flower Pavilion next door.
Su Yan could not do that. With the little fox's racial talent, if he could appease the lonely ladies, all the ladies would probably come to the little fox's dormitory and play with him until he was exhausted.
"Xiao Yan! Please go to Xiao Jin. She's going to commit suicide by jumping into the river!"
Just as Su Yan was trying to stop the infatuated Xiao Hong from eating him, the aunt on the fourth floor called out to Su Yan.
She saved Su Yan and asked Su Yan to go to the bedroom next door to comfort the blonde girl.
...
During the few days he lived in the brothel, Su Yan's main job was to use his racial talent to save girls' lives.
It was common knowledge that the people of Xia Yu liked white foxes, especially young girls and madams who liked little white foxes who knew how to act coquettishly.
Although the nine-tailed fox's seductive power was not enough to bewitch people's souls due to his young age, it was enough to deal with cultivators of the same level.
When he showed his seductive power to ordinary people, it could even bewitch them.
"Aunty, you really can't do this. The girls are so poor that they want to commit suicide by jumping into the river."
After Xiao Hong calmed down, Su Yan ran to the fourth floor and tried to persuade his aunt to do something.
The brothel girls thought of committing suicide because the money they earned was too little.
Instead of working here and being laughed at for the rest of their lives, they could end their lives.
The earlier she died, the earlier she reincarnated. She hoped to be reborn again!
"What can I do?" Chong Qiong also said helplessly, "First of all, our brothel is a legitimate business approved by the government. Similarly, people can choose to go to brothels to have sex. Their prices are lower than ours. If you have money, you can even go to the Ten Thousand Flower Pavilion to have fun with those cultivators and courtesans."
"How can we compete with them? If you want to expand your business, I'm afraid your mother might not be willing."
"What does it have to do with my mother?" As Su Yan spoke, he suddenly thought of something. His gaze froze, and he quickly covered his chest, "Aunty, I'm still young!"
"To the Beast Race, 15 is indeed a little young, but to the Human Race, it's just right."
Little aunt smiled at Su Yan and said, "If you want to go on stage one day, darling, let me know in advance. I'll organize a grand debut for you. With my connections, I can still visit some people from the government's Ministry of Rites."
She gently tapped Su Yan's forehead with her fair fingertips as she spoke. Su Yan could not help but reach out to cover his head.
Aunt's tone was slightly ambiguous, showing that she was teasing Su Yan.
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