Brocade Pavilion, top floor, private chamber: Li Garden.
Li Garden was the most luxuriously decorated room in Brocade Pavilion, and naturally the most expensive too. It was only open to the most special guests—regular laugh-buyers had no right to even step inside.
Still, there was no shortage of people flush with silver eager to spend their coin just to sit in Li Garden.
For Brocade Pavilion had a rule: only clients who spent money in Li Garden could enjoy Brocade Pavilion's most exquisite services, including the privilege of listening to the Fifth Grade Gongmo Songstress "Wen Xiuyun" sing, face to face.
Songstresses in the Jingjiu Dynasty were divided into nine grades; unlike noble ranks, songstresses were highest at First Grade, lowest at Ninth. In all the Flower Houses of Li City, the highest grade a songstress could attain was Fifth Grade "Gongmo".
