Wang Yi is about 34 to [-] years old, with a long face, sword-shaped eyebrows, thin cheekbones, and shrewd eyes.Before coming here, Shen Chu knew about this person's background. He was born in the royal family of Yangzhou, a branch of the queen's mother's family, and a second-class Jinshi in the third year of Emperor Renbao.He was able to serve as the magistrate of Yangzhou at a young age. Although he had the full support of his family, his own ability should not be underestimated.

A group of people took several carriages or rode horses, and went to the small Qinhuai River.

The Little Qinhuai River is the most prosperous area in Yangzhou. It connects with the Beicheng River in the northeast and flows into the canal through Longtouguan in the south, about two kilometers away.All along the river are cornices, white walls and black tiles. The peach willows are set against each other by the river, and the streets are full of people and skirts.

It's early summer now, the wind in the evening is warm, and the air is full of strong fragrance of flowers and powder.

Li Di and Shen Chu rode on tall horses, attracting countless glances along the way. Many women leaned on the railing and threw flowers, sachets, purses and the like at them.

Fu, the prime minister of Yangzhou, was not yet thirty, and was dressed in blue and white official uniforms. He accompanied Li Di to ride a horse at the beginning. Wang Zhifu thought it was not suitable for an elderly person like him to play horses, and Zhou Yushi was also not good at riding horses. The two sat in the carriage behind.

This Fu Nian looked like a veteran of Fengyuechang at first glance, and he looked like a human being. He was at ease all the way, so uncomfortable.

Quite a few flower girls by the corridor under the corridor were familiar with him, and they half-covered their faces with their handkerchiefs and smiled coquettishly, "Master Fu, how long has it been since you visited us? Did you have a new friend, and you forgot about us a long time ago?" ?”

There was no trace of embarrassment on Fu Nian's face, and he smiled, "I can't forget you beauties, don't I come to see you?"

These flower girls were teased one by one, and their branches trembled wildly, and they didn't really care about whether his words were true or false.

Shen Chu smiled and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Fu to be so flirtatious that it attracted many women to look forward to seeing him."

Fu Nian looked quite complacent, and said with a smile, "Haha, the other benefits of this Yangzhou are not enough to praise, but this beauty is unique in the world, and it is hard to find it in the whole world outside the border of Qinhuai and Gusu. We will arrive at Honglianfang later. , Your Highness and Lord Shen will be able to see the beauty of our Yangzhou women."

Shen Chu gave Li Di a teasing look, and jokingly said, "Your Highness is indeed blessed."

Li Di's complexion suddenly darkened, and he said gloomyly, "It seems that Mr. Shen is looking forward to it."

Shen Chu tensed up all over, sensitively smelling the danger, and tried hard to save himself, "Ha, haha, I don't dare to linger on the beauty because I'm on official business."

Li Di snorted coldly, as if he was warning but also as if he didn't believe it, he leaned over on his horse and said, "But in Gu's opinion, the beauty in this world is not one ten thousandth as good as Xiao Chu, let alone this Yangzhou woman. "

Shen Chu couldn't help but blushed, thinking that Li Di is a stunning beauty, but it's a pity he didn't dare to say it in front of so many people.

Fu Nian acted as if he hadn't seen the intimacy between the two, and sighed, "I don't know why Brother Ming Yi couldn't think about it and stayed in Bianjing City. The girls in this capital city are not as good as our girls in Yangzhou. It's a pity, a pity. !"

Shen Chu was surprised, "Did you hear that Mr. Fu also knows Mr. Chen Mingyi?"

Fu Nian: "Ming Yi is my fellow apprentice, the favorite student of my mentor, Mr. Shou Geng. I am not as good as him in knowledge and talent, but he is not as good as me in this life."

Shen Chu praised, "Mr. Shou Geng is a great Confucian in the world, and all his disciples are among the dragons and phoenixes." But he said in his heart, this Fu Nian and Chen Mingyi's romantic feelings are quite similar, and I don't know what Mr. Shou Geng is Such a person, the disciples under the seat all have such a miraculous style.

Fu Nian said modestly, "Master Shen is absurd. Although my teacher is in Yangzhou, he has also heard the annotations of Zhu Zi's edition of the Four Books. He has been fascinated by Zhu Zi for a long time, and has always hoped to have the opportunity to talk with Zhu Zi."

Shen Chu said earnestly, "Zhu Zi is an old man who lives in seclusion and doesn't like to communicate with others. If there is a chance, if he talks with Mr. Shou Geng, it will definitely become a good talk in the world."

Fu Nian felt a great pity.

At this time, a woman on the side of the road smiled and said, "Hey, the two nobles beside Mr. Fu are so handsome. I don't know which sister or sister is lucky today."

Fu Nian cupped his hands and said, "It's easy to say, easy to say."

Shen Chu had a Spartan face, thinking that this brothel girl is really open.

Soon arrived at Honglianfang.I saw a bewitching double-petalled red lotus painted on the lintel, two slender-footed white cranes standing at the door, and two handsome servants, all dressed in white, also painted their eyebrows and put on lip balm, which was not obtrusive at all. On the contrary, it looks very attractive.

Shen Chu couldn't help sighing in his heart, no wonder it's the No. [-] Qin Lou Chu Pavilion in Yangzhou, even the servants at the door are so beautiful, not to mention the famous courtesans inside.

Entering the yard, there is a screen wall in the middle, and before the screen wall is a small pond, in which lotus leaves stand gracefully, and red, pink, purple, white, and yellow lotus flowers are in full bloom.From the pond to both sides, there are two canals meandering inward, surrounded by seasonal flowers, trees and clumps of bamboo.

Wu Lian, the owner of Red Lotus Workshop, personally greeted them at the door and led them to the private room on the third floor in the backyard.Wu Lian is over thirty years old, with a beautiful appearance, a lotus red tinsel on his forehead, a pair of peach blossom eyes, a pair of red clothes, half of which is slightly exposed, slender jade fingers, and a delicate voice with anger. People, half of the men who saw her would collapse, and if they listened to her voice, they would almost be wiped out.

Wu Lian put his hand halfway on Fu Nian's arm, and said in a charming voice, "I heard that there are distinguished guests visiting, and now I see that they are all men like Yushu Lanzhi, which makes the girls in my workshop see it." Wu Lian The principal's words and demeanor seem frivolous, but there is a sense of alienation that is eager to refuse and welcome. At first glance, she is the kind who just waits for thousands of men to offer gold, silver, jewelry and sincerity, but she abandons it like a shoe. Let her beauty be like poison, and make these men even more irresistible.

It's just time to talk in the private room, except for Wang Zhifu, Fu Fucheng and a few other people in the group, most of them are already fascinated by the Wulian master, and they don't know when it will be.

The elegant room faces south from the north, with four floor-to-ceiling screens on the north side of which is a beauty's couch, and the south side is a long corridor outside the door, facing the yard.There is a screen in the room, and the singer is sitting outside the screen with her pipa in her arms, singing Wu Nong's soft words, and a group of people sit inside and drink wine.

Many people have already been seduced to the point of itching, but Li Di and Shen Chu, who are the leaders, are as immovable as a mountain, and the others dare not make any big moves.

Apart from Li Di and his entourage and people from the Yamen of Yangzhou government, there are also some famous country gentry and wealthy salt merchants. The number of people is not too many, but they are all famous people in Yangzhou.Most of these people are veterans of Fengyuechang. Seeing Li Di's reluctance to enter, they couldn't help but feel a little frightened. In order to avoid the next day, the salt merchants secretly winked at Wang Zhifu and Fu Nian .

Wang Yi and Fu Nian are both smart people. At this time, they came out to find a way out for the salt merchants. They were afraid that they would have to put on a label and lose their skin first, so they all looked at their noses, noses, noses, and hearts, pretending to be clean. .

Seeing that the two of them refused to accept the offer, the salt merchants couldn't help but secretly castigate in their hearts, thinking that they usually eat, drink and enjoy themselves, but at the critical moment they pretended to be deaf and dumb.But even though they are rich, they really dare not form a relationship with the people in the government office. If they turn around, they have to bow and bow to them and worship them like ancestors.

They were anxious like ants on a hot pot in their hearts, they looked at each other and didn't know what to do, they didn't know what to do, they didn't know how Li Di and Shen Chu would get on the road, and they didn't dare to be the first birds easily, for fear of stealing chickens and losing money , but folded itself in.

At this time, Zhu Lu, the leading salt merchant, gritted his teeth and stepped forward cruelly, "All the girls in the market are like this. I'm afraid I will dirty the eyes of the nobles, but it's nothing if I don't have any red fragrant nephrite close to my bosom." interesting."

"We vulgar people don't have much to show for it. We only raise some girls and we are sensible. Why don't we call them to serve the nobles for a glass of wine?"

Shen Chu was startled, he had known that Yangzhou salt merchants kept skinny horses that were famous all over the world and worth thousands of dollars, but he never expected to see them today.Taking a closer look at Zhu Lu again, he felt very familiar. This man with a big round face, fat head, big ear grooves, and nose was not exactly the copy of Zhu Baoyu, but he was older and shrewd, plus what Zhu Baoyu told him back then. Those words, he guessed almost in his heart.

He was engrossed in his thoughts, but he didn't notice Li Di's expression. When he came back to his senses, he said coldly, "It seems that Mr. Shen is really curious about this Yangzhou skinny horse. Why don't you bring it up and give it to Mr. Shen quietly."

Shen Chu looked at Li Di in surprise, wondering why this man was going crazy and why he was unhappy again.

Mao Tuan said to him in his mind, "Mother, just now you told me about that Yangzhou skinny horse!"

Shen Chu's heart was agitated, and then he looked at the expressions of the people around him, he was hesitant to speak, and he really wanted to find a hole to bury himself.What did he do.Everyone knows it well, but no one will point it out. He said it so thoughtlessly, and he didn't know how many people he would offend.

The salt merchants were both happy and worried for a moment. The happy ones felt that Shen Chu seemed to be very interested in this skinny horse, and the worried ones were that for some reason the Fifth Prince seemed even more pervasive.

But since you have opened your mouth, there is no reason to take it back. It is all prepared in advance, and you have to go through it and say it again.

Soon, I saw a dozen or so young women filing in, with hair like dark clouds, skin like fat, willows in the wind, and eyes flowing. Style, all in it.

The hearts of all the salt merchants are bleeding. These ten or so girls are carefully selected and trained, and the ones who can be sent to Li Di are all selected from the best. All of them are their favorites. Sending them out is like cutting their flesh and drinking their blood.However, for the endless stream of gold and silver treasures, they endured it.

When Shen Chu saw the dozen or so girls in front of him, he couldn't help cursing inwardly that these people were indeed old beasts.These girls know that they are only fourteen or fifteen years old, and the older ones are no more than seventeen or eighteen. They were originally poor or trafficked women who were taught piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, singing and dancing, and female red tailoring by them carefully, in order to be able to sell them one day. A good price, or give it away at a critical moment in exchange for greater benefits.

And look at these girls, nine out of ten were sold, and maybe they still have to be grateful to these people. In their opinion, if there were no salt merchants, their life would probably be even more miserable, with no food, no warm clothes, and being trafficked The situation in the land of fireworks is even more tragic.At least now they can read and write, and they can sing and dance well. Even if they give it to others, it will be a family they could not imagine in the past.

Shen Chu felt sad for a moment, he didn't know whether to pity or sigh, and he couldn't help but think of the fact that the owner of the Red Lotus Workshop called Wu Lian, and he didn't know how many stories there were in it.

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Uh, now it’s even Sunday, which is equivalent to cutting off Friday and Saturday, what a sin!I don’t know why the speed of coding has slowed down significantly. I may check things while coding, and I have procrastination. Hey, it’s hard to lose weight——

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