Chapter 66 Visiting the Brothel for the First Time

More than 30 years ago, the Kingdom of Yun was still one of the five kingdoms. It was a kingdom that was neither the largest nor the smallest. At that time, the five kingdoms sometimes had wars. However, they still coexisted peacefully on the surface. The imperial families of the five kingdoms even had the custom of political marriages to maintain such kind of superficial peace. At that time, King Yun was still the Crown Prince. He was young and handsome, looking harmless. The domineering arrogance hadn’t shown up in his eyes yet. He looked completely different from Yun Su. Their appearance was different, but their gentle temperament was very similar. However, they were two different kinds of gentlemen. Yun Su was ruthless inside but gentle on the outside. In contrast, King Yun, who was still Crown Prince Yun at that time, was truly gentle from the inside to the outside. Crown Prince Yun was born in a complex royal family. He shouldn’t have been so pure. However, his mother was very powerful, and she had always protected him very well. Since his childhood, he hadn’t gone through the ups and downs. Therefore, he had an innocent and harmless temperament. Even the queen’s son, the king’s first son, was not as lucky as Crown Prince Yun. The queen owned the noblest position, but the king didn’t like her at all. The king would visit her once every few days. However, it seemed that he was just doing his job, and he rarely stayed in her place. King’s favorite concubine was the youngest prince of the Kingdom of Yun, Yun Hai’s mother. She was the princess of the Kingdom of Kong, and she was here for a political marriage. However, this princess died in an unexplainable accident. Crown Prince Yun’s mother and the princess of the Kingdom of Kong always had a close relationship. At least, that was what everyone thought. After the princess of the Kingdom of Kong died, his mother made a wise choice to adopt Yun Hai. Yun Hai became his closest brother among his siblings and later became a powerful general under his command. After he ascended the throne, he still whole-heartedly cared about Yun Hai. However, a lot of things happened later, and he had never trusted Yun Hai again. His clever mother then became the king’s favorite woman. Her mother’s brother was Prime Minister, so she became the only Noble Consort in the imperial harem, second only to the queen. The princess of the Kingdom of Kong brought such great benefits to them. However, the princess’s death remained to be a mystery. That incident ended with executing two concubines since they took the blame. Crown Prince Yun couldn’t help but suspect his mother because he had seen the princess of the Kingdom of Kong bullying his mother more than once. But his mother always faced her bullying with a smile. He was kind and naive at the time. He didn’t want to doubt his mother and wanted to protect his loved ones. Therefore, he kept everything to himself. Crown Prince Yun did not make any efforts to become the Crown Prince. He obeyed the order of his mother and married the Prime Minister’s daughter. He had his first son Yun Su early, which shored up his position of the Crown Prince. At that time, Crown Prince Yun didn’t know why power was so important. He was pure and nice. He just obeyed his mother’s arrangements and did not have his own opinion or preference. He thought his life would go on like this for the rest of it until he met a girl outside of the imperial palace. For the first time, he wanted to get someone crazily, and he really cared about her. He started to have desires, and such a special romantic relationship began. This teenage girl was from the Mengs. Her beauty was pure and peerless. However, her carefree and unrestrained temperament was even more impressive as if she was born to be a heroic man instead of a fragile girl. Her name was Meng Xi, which meant the rising tide in a dream, beautiful and dreamy, full of vitality. It was also like the tide of the night, which was glorious but left no trace after the ebb. Meng Xi’s life was like her name. There were ups and downs. She was vigorous during the rise, but she left no trace after the fall. Meng Xi was the eldest daughter of the Mengs in the Kingdom of Yun, a unique, beautiful girl. The Mengs was not an ordinary merchants’ family. This family was a symbol of wealth and power in the Kingdom of Yun—it was the richest family in this kingdom. At the same time, the master of the Mengs was the king’s sworn brother. The master of the Mengs had helped the king to make money and get power in secret. Therefore, the king always took care of the Mengs. With so much power and money, the master of the Mengs still had not fathered a son. As people always say, God is fair and won’t let people get everything. The master of the Mengs married many wives and concubines. He had tried so hard and spared no effort. However, his wives and concubines still could not be pregnant. It was obvious that he was the reason. Imperial physicians, highly skilled doctors, quacks, wizards, Shamen, fortune tellers all had visited the mansion of the Mengs. After a lot of effort and money spent, he only fathered six daughters without a son. Now the master of the Mengs was more than forty years old. He didn’t want to try anymore. For this reason, Meng Xi, the first daughter of the master’s wife, became the child that the master of the Mengs loved most. The master of the Mengs never wanted his daughter to move out after she got married. He tried to find a son-in-law who was willing to live with the Mengs so that his daughter could inherit everything of the Mengs. It would be perfect if he could have a grandson surnamed Meng. Of course, it was fine if Meng Xi had a daughter. He would find another son-in-law to try again. As long as his baby daughter liked it, the Mengs had a lot of money to support her. Therefore, the master of the Mengs had asked Meng Xi to take over some of his business very early. He trained and educated her as a real successor. Meng Xi grew up like a boy in such a family. She wore girls’ clothes and knew she was a female. Except for this, she was not as shy as other ordinary women. She knew nothing about the things that women were good at, such as needlework, singing, dancing, playing instruments. She practiced martial arts but didn’t master it because the master of the Mengs didn’t want his beloved eldest daughter to suffer. However, Meng Xi was good at riding horses, hunting, casting accounts, and doing business. She was also an expert at eating, drinking, gambling, and visiting prostitutes. In Meng Xi’s words, if she didn’t know how to play, how could she run a popular store? Meng Xi’s most profitable stores were all about eating, drinking, gambling, and visiting prostitutes. Among them, a casino and a brothel were the most popular. They had become the largest stores in Huaiyang City, crowded day and night. Mengxi made a lot of money from it. Naturally, she was not idle. These two places were her favorite to visit. The master of the Mengs would not ask Meng Xi to behave like a girl. He always liked his precious daughter for who she was. The master always smiled when he saw Meng Xi. He was so happy that his baby girl was talented in business! That day, it was fine and cloudless. Everything revived with vitality. It was not different from a usual day, a very normal and hopeful spring day. However, a special kind of heat quietly sneaked into people’s hearts. It seemed to be the beginning of a unique story. In the evening, the sun was setting. Crown Prince Yun finally left his mentor’s place, and he felt a little tired. Before he could return to his palace, he was dragged to a brothel by his close friends. Crown Prince Yun had been busy for a whole day. He wanted to have a good rest while his friends were desperate and anxious to visit that place, which made Crown Prince Yun curious. Therefore, he chose to follow them. At the door of the largest brothel in Huaiyang City, there were all kinds of beautiful women, fat or thin, pure or alluring. All of them were dressed up in seductive and sexy dresses. From time to time, they bared their shoulders and stretched their fair legs. Their tender little hands were very coquettish, moving around their bodies or waving at all kinds of male passersby. This was the first time Crown Prince Yun came to this so-called redlight district. When Crown Prince Yun saw the sexy scene at the door, he flinched and turned around to escape immediately. His friends soon pulled him back. They were all high-born young masters, ministers’ sons, who finally had the opportunity to come to the brothel and didn’t want to go back like this. Everyone was dragging and pulling Crown Prince Yun into the brothel. They didn’t forget to ridicule Crown Prince Yun for being henpecked and was not masculine enough. Sure enough, it was always easy to provoke a young and energetic man with words. Crown Prince didn’t want to be thought of as a weak man. He had to show his masculinity by entering the brothel. However, he still had to hide his identity. Crown Prince Yun was not henpecked, but it did not mean he was not afraid of his parents. In a private room, the beauties who came to entertain them were much better than those at the door. The eyes of those young masters almost dropped out. They hugged these beauties eagerly and touched them desperately. Crown Prince Yun was the exception. He saw these seductively dressed women who wanted to lean on him and smelled a mixture of scents of various kinds. He had always been arrogant and self-controlled, and at that moment, he felt a little nauseous. After entering the door, he always had the urge to run away. It could show how pure Crown Prince Yun was at that time. He hadn’t become King Yun yet, who indulged in women. Of course, Crown Prince Yun wanted to escape, and he did it. A half-naked woman was undressing herself, showing her shoulders and thighs. When she was about to jump on him, he immediately avoided her and opened the door to escape. The one who jumped on him was a beauty. She wore a lot of makeup, a skimpy dress, and pungent perfume. She looked a little too coquettish and tacky. With a greedy look in her eyes, she stared at Crown Prince Yun, who was pure, handsome, and always smiling. The scene was like a big bad wolf attacking a little white rabbit. That’s right. The big bad wolf was this beautiful woman. At that time, Crown Prince Yun was as pure as a white rabbit. No wonder the woman from the brothel wanted to jump on him. He didn’t look like a husband neither a father but a naive, inexperienced young man. Crown Prince Yun pushed open the door and started to get anxious. He felt like if he stayed longer, he would be eaten by the big bad wolf. He ran into a ruffian who happened to pass by while holding a girl in his arms. Feeling his ego was challenged, the ruffian would not go easy on Crown Prince Yun, who looked fragile. This ruffian was not good at martial arts, but he had many helpers. Crown Prince Yunand his friends came here to have fun, but now they had to have a fight. Crown Prince Yun didn’t have the nerve to tell his parents that he had come to such a place. He could only try to seize an opportunity and run away quickly while fighting. Hearing the sound of fighting outside the door, the friends of the Crown Prince’s didn’t have the time to make out with the girls. They joined the fighting quickly. They also didn’t dare to report this to an official. If their family knew that they took Crown Prince to a brothel, they would be doomed!