32. The Opening Ceremony of the Brothel

This group of girls in blue, with less clothing, showed snow-white legs, delicate slender waist and tempting jade-like arms hidden under their clothes.

As expected, more and more people came, attracted by the reputation, occupying almost half of the streets around here.

This was just the beginning. Ye Lan stood at the window with arms crossed in front of her chest and looked out with a slight smile. There was something more amazing!

Ye Lan listened to the drumbeat of the music and thought that it was about the time. It 'rained' again. However, it wasn’t the rain of petals, but broken jades, which would not hurt people and was not valuable. They were all the waste materials left from Ye Lan's mine. Ye Lan had someone grind these waste materials into fine sand, mixing them with fluorescent powders, and then sprinkled them down, making all dancers shiny when they were stained on clothes! In the daytime, these things were just colorful and beautiful, but at night, they were a symbol that the city never rested!

The ground covered with crystal and sticky sand, so today, all the onlookers would bring these traces back, which were means of attracting them.

With blue silk encircled and green jade sounded, four young girls in red came from all directions with long ribbons in their arms, flying in the air, which was what Ye Lan wanted, a shocking effect.

People below were dazzled by surprises round after round. In a short time, 14 beautiful girls were dancing on the stage, each wearing little clothing. Ha-ha!

Ye Lan looked up at the roof. Someone on the roof moved with the slight footsteps on bricks when hearing her finger snap. For an instant, the sound of Chinese harps and zithers stopped suddenly, making the people moved accordingly. At this moment, one girl in white was fluttering and coming down just like the girls just now, with both hands holding white soft silk belt, which was more beautiful.

The girl in white had long hair to the waist drifting away in the wind, even without a common chignon. Her hair was combed in the middle; her eyes were as gentle as water; her face was white but not pale. She looked like a tottering white magnolia. When the girl landed, the girls in yellow all turned around and threw silks and satins into the sky to form a beautiful soft-sword in hand, the ribbon knot of which shaped like a yellow peony. The girl in blue lightly tipped in the air and then stepped on the shoulder of the girls in yellow, knotting ribbons into a blue lotus flower as well. Finally, the girl in white stepped softly on the tip of the lotus flower that was still beautiful. With the girl above on it, it even became cleaner and nobler.

After a momentary pause, the more intense drumbeats went up, and the girls began to stand out in their respective positions. Hundreds of flowers blossomed in an instant, and the visual and wonderful performance finally ended in the exciting drumbeats.

Then came the thunderous applause, in which, Dan Niang and Old Cheng slowly came to the stage. The maidservant next to them carried bamboo baskets and sprinkled copper coins and sweets that was not maltose made in ordinary workshops, but fruit candy specially designed by Ye Lan and made by sweet-makers. Those candies were wrapped in edible sticky rice paper and painted with very good-looking patterns. It attracted all the children here. They knew that a new brothel had been in business, the procuress and pimp of which treated them well by giving them delicious sweets at the opening ceremony.

Kids had loose tongues and they were all outspoken. It was a very good way of advertising.

Ye Lan was never mean with these small things, and of course these expenses were really not a big deal in her eyes.

Old Cheng and Dan Niang stood on the stage and started the formal speech. Ye Lan knew they could handle it and would live up to her expectations since she made such a great event. Indeed, a large number of guests were attracted, as expected, for the discount, even including the customers from the brothel beside. In her Fallen Angels, the third and fourth floors were guest rooms with adequate sound insulation and protection while the fifth was rooms of Ye Lan, Old Cheng and Dan Niang, along with some self-protection mechanisms. Several suites had been furnished, with the name of Tian, Di, Xuan and Huang. They were all reserved to greatly cover the secrets. Although they had room names, it was impossible to find out who booked them.

The backyard of Fallen Angels was the residence of the girls, in which everyone had their own private house that Ye Lan willingly offered them. Of course, the ten top-class girls also lived here, for whom even a large kitchen had been built up. Ye Lan acted thoroughly based on the saying that "If you want to catch a man's heart, you must first catch his stomach." Therefore, she even paid more money for hiring the former chef in the imperial palace.

Besides, she also had famous chefs throughout the country, including three who made cakes in specific, two pastry cooks; one who served cold food; two who served dessert and drinks respectively.

Dan Niang made fun of Ye Lan that it was not a brothel but a restaurant. For that, Ye Lan was smiling. These people were not hired for doing nothing. As a boss, she had to squeeze enough money from them for a very long time before letting them go!

The win-win result would be the best.

One day had passed managing the brothel. Ye Lan had a stretch and was planning to go back. Suddenly looking back, she saw Libao devouring a plate of black-sugar pie and was very happy. Dan Niang next to her had come back early and was looking at Libao. She was eagerly pouring more tea for Libao, with doting eyes full of him, regardless of Ye Lan. She was not used to the dotting look in Dan Niang's eyes and could not help shaking her goosebumps.

"Libao, have you finished eating yet? I'm sleepy and want to go back." Ye Lan really did not want to interrupt this, but she still made a noise. After all, she had to be sure about it.

"Ah? Oh, I'm full!" After seeing Ye Lan, Libao nodded his head to show that he had eaten well. He pushed the tea offered by Dan Niang and ran to Ye Lan, "Let's go. I'm sleepy, too. I'll take you back."

"Hey!" Dan Niang heard the conversation and frowned. She leaned forward and said, "Where are you going? Do you want to leave now? Is it too early? Master, stay a little longer."

"It's getting late, and I'd better go home. I'm sleepy." Ye Lan winked bewitchingly, with cunning sense flashing in her eyes.

"Master, you really want to go? You can rest here." Dan Niang tried to keep them with a smile.

"But it's too noisy here for your opening today." Ye Lan deliberately frowned and said with a look of disgust.

"Seriously? This is your courtyard." Of course, Dan Niang did not dare speak out this sentence, but she frowned for knowing the purpose of Ye Lan's visit. She blinked. "Master, aren't you going to the Fengtian Academy? There are many teachers and students from the Fengtian Academy coming to our brothel. Besides, there are still two years to go before the Fengtian Academy enrolls students. Master, how can you wait for such a long time."

She could not wait? Ye Lan smiled. It was the sentence that she waited for. She deliberately frowned and said in a distressed way, "So what should I do?"

"Leave it to me. I'll do it! I'll take care of it." Dan Niang hurriedly volunteered. Her assurance made Ye Lan relieved.

"Well! Then, I will have to stay here for one night. Ouch, I'm sleepy." Ye Lan had a stretch and went to bed leisurely. Libao had to shrug his shoulders and Dan Niang served him to find more food. He was a legendary magic beast. How could it be enough for him? He had a big appetite. At the right moment, these chefs were busy today because Dan Niang had asked them to make every dish double, but the money was counted on those businessmen who were dizzy and drunk with beautiful girls. They didn't care about the extra dish money.

Today, everyone knew that anyone who came in would be given a jar of wine named daughter-red and a free set meal.

However, these people could not calculate well. The pre-cost would be made up, or more, by adding extra a few coins to each other dish.

Ye Lan adopted the operation method of the modern ballroom that beautiful girls would get more dividends if they sold more wine, without reducing the basic salary. Ye Lan, the master, paid for all purchases every quarter, including, according to grade, everyone had 20 sets of clothes, 10 sets of headwear, 100 sets of jade bracelets with various colors, which was much better than the benefits of other brothels. In all ages, super stars and whores wear the most fashionable clothes. If they wanted to catch the customer's eyes, they had to make themselves beautiful, so beautiful girls had no savings. What customers paid would be put on the public account, so was the reward, but not the tips given privately. However, Ye Lan always had a way to knock out the tips.

Dan Niang was greatly impressed by Ye Lan's means. Dan Niang herself was also a blackmailer. However, she felt dwarfed in comparison with Ye Lan.

Ye Lan went to bed. She was not worried about Libao. Since Dan Niang liked him, why would she seize people's love? She just wanted Dan Niang for those secrets she wanted, but Dan Niang was too cunning, so she had to give her a lesson. As for Libao, as her pet, Ye Lan wouldn’t make it suffer. Dan Niang had been wallowing in the brothel for a long time, so she was good at mental stratagems, while Libao would only be foolhardy. Therefore, she had to have a good test for Dan Niang. If she was sincere, then let bygones be bygones, but if she only wanted Libao for fun, then she would never make that happen.

She wouldn’t make anyone around her suffer That was her principle.

After Dan Niang appeased Libao, she came out to greet the guests leisurely, holding the handle of the fan. Now, there was no need for her to cater too much for the guests who had already been calmed down by these seemingly innocent little girls. She just needed to show her face and salute to finish the task.

Dan Niang naturally knew that she had served Ye Lan just now. However, it was worthy. After all, she was her master. Besides, she did it for Libao!

If she quietly helped Ye Lan to do this, Ye Lan only thought she was flattering. Now, through Libao, she not only had a personal commitment but also kept Libao, winning both at one stroke.That was good.

This brothel was lively, and the opening was more and more fun. It was prosperous all night, with lights blazing all around, which was like a day.

The next day, Ye Lan did not wake up until she heard a knock at the door. She, in a daze, opened the door with the sleepy-bleary eyes.