"Is the young master here to watch the play or…" The housekeeper is a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties. Hearing that a scholar had come to the Pear Garden, he was on high alert, even bringing two stout bodyguards with him.
No wonder he was so nervous; the trouble caused by the previous two scholars left such a deep impression on him that in his mind, scholars always had an air of pretentious righteousness that was hard to reason with.
What's wrong with his Pear Garden? How is it any worse than the Yihong Brothel? Aren't both just performing arts? Why is it acceptable for women to perform for money, but when men do it by singing in operas, it's frowned upon?
That's why, when Boss Liu met Ye Qiu his nose wasn't a nose, his eyes weren't eyes, but since he was running a business, he couldn't just kick him out without any evidence of wrongdoing, hoping that Ye Qiu would have enough sense to behave himself.
