Chapter 49

Linyou the Frog Spirit sat across the table from his big brother Yanyou. Yanyou seemed to be in an extraordinarily good mood. He lifted a glass of rice wine into the air.

"A toast!" he proclaimed, "to my little brother becoming a man!"

Linyou blushed and looked down at the floor awkwardly. That did not seem like something he wanted announced to the world.

"Yanyou!" he hissed. "Shut up!"

Yanyou laughed uproariously. "These are the important things you need to know in life, little brother" he informed him.

Linyou looked away. Some of the things those women taught him he wasn't sure he would ever need to know. He cleared his throat.

"They were very thorough" he stated calmly.

Yanyou laughed again. "The girls at Madame Chow's earn every tael!" he exclaimed.

Linyou blushed, remembering one of their more licentious acts. Fortunately he was too tired to become aroused. He drank down his cup of rice wine in one shot.

Yanyou chuckled. "Let's head back now" he suggested. As they got up to leave Yanyou leaned in to speak quietly into his ear.

"Not a word of this to Kuanglu, okay? She'll have my head, and not in the good way" he joked.

Linyou nodded. He couldn't imagine himself telling anyone about his experiences of the past 8 hours.