CMWKSD -Chapter 109 Wanhua Pavilion

The three Ji brothers—Ji Zhouye and the other two—stood there like idiots, practically drooling.

The courtesans in the capital’s brothels were completely different from those in Qingshui County. More beautiful, more alluring, more seductive…

In short, the ones back in the county couldn’t compare in any way.

Ji Zhouye hurriedly took out his own silver. When Ji Wanqiao and Ji Weizhou saw this, they also quickly pulled out theirs.

Jiu Yue had given each of them twenty taels. After wandering the streets all day, they’d only spent three to five taels.

What’s more, each of them still had silver their families had given them.

Since Jiu Yue usually kept a tight rein on them, they barely had any chance to spend money at all.

Today was a rare opportunity!

And they even had Jiu Yue’s special permission.

Naturally, they had to learn from those high-ranking officials and nobles and throw money around lavishly.

Pooling everything together, the three of them were surprised to scrape together seventy taels of silver.

Prices in the capital were high, but no matter how high, it shouldn’t cost seventy taels just to book two girls.

They couldn’t afford a courtesan queen anyway—at least they had that much self-awareness.

So they’d just pick some ordinary girls.

The three marched in high spirits into a brothel called Wanhua Pavilion.

Dressed in fine clothes, they caught the madam’s assistant’s eye at once. He immediately beamed and went up to them. “Young masters—”

After all, this wasn’t their first time visiting a brothel, so the three were quite at ease.

…

“Do you know where they went?”

Shao Qing also felt something was off, but according to the people he had in the capital, the three really had gone to Wanhua Pavilion.

Jiu Yue was so angry she laughed.

She’d rarely given them a day off, and this was how they repaid her?

Straight to a brothel.

Jiu Yue stood up sharply and whispered something into Shao Qing’s ear.

Shao Qing looked shocked, but in the end, he nodded.

Jiu Yue then went to the study and hauled Ji Yiqing and Ji Chaomian out together.

If there was something good, of course everyone had to share it.

She even deliberately changed into a more dashing outfit—though she had no intention of disguising herself as a man. In truth, brothels didn’t actually forbid women from entering.

As long as you wanted to, you could go in.

Ji Yiqing and Ji Chaomian followed behind her, utterly confused.

They’d been racing against time with their studies lately and truly hated wasting even a single moment.

That was, until they saw the glaring signboard of Wanhua Pavilion.

And Jiu Yue clearly meant that they were going inside!

Ji Yiqing: Wife, if you’re unhappy with me, just say it. Why drag me to a brothel like this?

Ji Chaomian: Dazed and confused… my first time ever entering a brothel, and it’s my sister-in-law treating! Who would believe that if I told them?!

Shao Qing was waiting at the entrance. When he saw Jiu Yue arrive, he quickly went up to her. “Boss.”

Jiu Yue held a folding fan for show. “Are the people ready?”

Shao Qing nodded repeatedly.

Jiu Yue waved her hand. “Then let’s go.”

Ji Yiqing grabbed her hand. “Jiu Yue, we’re not going to a place like this!”

Jiu Yue smiled like a little fox and tugged at Ji Yiqing’s sleeve, dragging him in without a word. “Husband, I hear the girls in Wanhua Pavilion are all stunning. Don’t you want to take a look?”

Ji Yiqing waved his hands like a windmill. “I don’t!”

Ji Chaomian, meanwhile, was practically carried inside by Shao Qing.

The madam came forward, smiling brightly when she saw Shao Qing.

Shao Qing stepped aside, revealing Jiu Yue. “This is my boss.”

The madam immediately dropped her previous smile and put on a fawning one. “Madam, everything you asked us to arrange has already been prepared.”

Jiu Yue nodded. “Have them dress nicely.”

The madam smiled like a blooming flower. “Of course, of course. We’ll make sure Madam is satisfied.”

She then led the three of them up to the second floor.

Pointing at several rooms in front of them, she said, “They’re all inside.”

“And those three little brats?” Jiu Yue asked.

Shao Qing replied from the side, “They’ve already been led into private rooms to wait, as per your instructions.”

Then he pointed to two empty rooms.

Jiu Yue lifted her foot and kicked Ji Yiqing and Ji Chaomian straight into the rooms.

Ji Yiqing let out a loud howl. “Wife!”

Jiu Yue dug at her ear. “Stop yelling. I’m just letting you broaden your horizons.”

With that, Jiu Yue and Shao Qing waited outside the doors.

Ji Zhouye and the others had no idea what was happening at all.

They only knew they were downstairs in the main hall, sipping wine with beauties by their side.

The madam had said there were girls in the house willing to serve the three of them for free. From across the floor, they’d glimpsed those beauties—

just one look was enough to make their legs go weak.

The madam immediately led the three of them up to the second floor.

After all, the men of the Ji family were all good-looking. Someone had taken a fancy to their faces and was willing to sleep with them for free.

The three didn’t find this strange at all.

They just felt like a huge windfall had fallen from the sky and smacked right into their heads.

Once inside the private room, they hurriedly started stripping off their clothes.

The beauty said she’d be there shortly. The three felt like they’d waited until the flowers wilted.

The door to the private room opened and closed again.

A graceful figure swayed her slender waist, walking toward them with light, delicate steps.

Ji Zhouye was so excited he nearly howled.

Through the screen, he could see layers of gauze sliding off one by one. Just imagining it was enough to make Ji Zhouye feel like he was about to get a nosebleed.

The beauty hadn’t even reached him yet, and Ji Zhouye waited patiently.

One breath… two breaths…

The beauty stripped completely bare…

Then suddenly, screams came from next door—sounding like his eldest and second brothers.

Ji Zhouye thought he’d gone mad. How could his big brother and second brother possibly be in a place of pleasure like this?

What he didn’t know was that the rooms on either side were exactly Ji Yiqing’s and Ji Chaomian’s.

The two of them screamed like pigs being slaughtered when they saw the beauty undressing.

They covered their eyes immediately. “Indecent, do not look! Miss, we didn’t come here to have fun. Please let us leave! Please, miss—”

But there was no sound at all inside the room, only the occasional cough.

Ji Yiqing covered his eyes, knowing Jiu Yue was standing outside, and kept pounding on the window. “Wife! Wife!”

He flipped the window open and tried to climb out—

Only to be sternly stopped by Jiu Yue, who was waiting outside. “Go back! Look carefully!”

Ji Yiqing felt utterly miserable…

“Look at what?!” Ji Yiqing hugged his trembling, weak, pitiful, helpless self. He hadn’t even slept with his own wife yet!

He was a virtuous, upright man.

He absolutely would not do anything with other women.

Absolutely not.

Ji Yiqing hugged himself. “Wife, I really don’t want to patronize prostitutes!”

Jiu Yue rolled her eyes. “Who told you to patronize anyone? I’m telling you to look carefully at the consequences of patronizing prostitutes!”

The girl walked out from behind the screen—and behind her followed a man.

…

Meanwhile, when Ji Zhouye saw the girl step out from behind the screen, the smile froze on his face. When he came back to his senses, he let out a scream.

The girl smiled and walked toward him. “Young master—”

Ji Zhouye no longer cared about anything else. He hurriedly scooped up the clothes on the floor and shrieked as he rushed for the door. “Help! Help!”

The rooms were deep inside, with hardly anyone around, so it didn’t affect Wanhua Pavilion’s business at all.