The bright moon of the Yellow Spring is slanting to the west, and the silver light is scattered all over. On the sheep's intestines, Wu Chunsheng held a small wine bottle in his hand, and walked hobbly, and the oblique moon reflected his figure for a long time.

Wu Chunsheng muttered while sipping: "What the hell, I lost for three days in a row, and even my wife was so angry that I went back to my parents' house." ”

Liu Bao's evil state appeared in his mind again: "Wu Chunsheng, give you two more days to make up five hundred taels of silver, otherwise I will ...... you."

Wu Chunsheng couldn't help but shudder, and thought to himself: "Liu Bao of this money village is not a good man and a woman. ”

Wu Chunsheng regretted a little: "I really shouldn't have borrowed money from him at the beginning and wanted to turn over the old book, borrow two hundred, repay five hundred, and repay the money in two days, alas, my life is not guaranteed." ”

Between thoughts, Wu Chunsheng walked to the door of the house, stood at the door and hesitated for a long time, finally sighed and pushed the door in. When Wu Chunsheng passed by the second door, he suddenly stopped, tilted his head thoughtfully. After a long time, Wu Chunsheng drank the last sip of wine as if he had made a decision, wiped his lips casually, and reached out to gently push open the door.

Wu Chunsheng tiptoed to the side of the bed and looked at the little girl sleeping soundly on the bed on her back. This girl is about ten years old, her childish appearance is a little gorgeous, her eyebrows are curled, her nose is straight and her cheeks are tender, her lips are a little red, her skin is soft, and her slender body is so slender that it is conceivable that this little girl must be a stunning beauty when she grows up.

"Ahh Uncle... What do you want to do......

Wu Chunsheng was slightly stunned, and immediately showed a shameless smile: "Yuanyuan, don't be afraid, let my uncle love you well?"

Wu Chunsheng climbed on the bed, approached Chen Yuanyuan, and said with a smile: "Come, don't hide." ”

Chen Yuanyuan burst into tears and begged: "Don't, uncle, don't come over!"

Xu Fu's beloved knot she reincarnated as Chen Yuanyuan, born in Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Yuanyuan's parents died when he was a child, and he was adopted by his aunt, but his uncle was in the middle of the family because of his gambling and greed. Chen Yuanyuan was sold by his uncle to the Qinhuai Fireworks Courtyard when he was ten years old to pay off his uncle's gambling debts, and Chen Yuanyuan has been in the dust since then.

The young Chen Yuanyuan worked hard to learn the folk tunes, and often asked the old folk artists for advice, and the technician who taught the music was also very pitiful and carefully plucked her.

Chen Yuanyuan understood the environment at that time, and she knew that in Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if she couldn't be an excellent actress, she couldn't become a famous prostitute, so she attached great importance to hooking up Chinese people and the like to string plays. And Chen Yuanyuan also wanted to take the opportunity of extensive communication to get acquainted with some celebrities and scholars, because in the society of the late Ming Dynasty, the life of feudal scholars and doctors always pursued romance, and many people were also singing and chasing prostitutes, obsessed with sound.

Chen Yuanyuan has worked hard to read and write, learn opera and sing since he entered the fireworks courtyard, and later he can also write good words, with poems such as Wan Fenji and Wu Yu Words, and most of them are poignant and lamental.

When Chen Yuanyuan was eighteen years old, he performed on stage in Suzhou, calling himself Yufeng actress Chen Yuanyuan. She played Hua Dan, she played a light body, said that she was delicate and delicate, and suddenly because she was beautiful and stunning, she could sing and dance, which made her a popular courtesan, and since then she has become famous and famous all over the world.

Mao Bijiang, is a famous Jiangnan celebrity, is the famous Jiangnan four sons, he and Chen Yuanyuan first met in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the young party Mao Bijiang saw Chen Yuanyuan for the first time was fascinated by her, and intended to take her home from Liang. On the eve of entering Beijing to take the test, Chen Yuanyuan completely entrusted himself to Mao Bijiang.

Mao Bijiang, Mingxiang, nickname rope, word Pijiang, the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty writers, at that time and Tongcheng Fang Yizhi, Yixing Chen Zhenhui and Shangqiu Hou Chaozong and called the four sons of the late Ming Dynasty.

In the late Ming Dynasty of the four princes, the real national integrity of the country to be regarded as the frontier, the frontier is more practical, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, he lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, not the Qing Dynasty, the whole festival ended. But Mao Bijiang and his predecessor Tang Bohu and other four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, his personality is suave and uninhibited, and he often has the name of a good woman in the southeast.

His marriage and love life are also very legendary, in addition to the dew couple, there are more than a dozen women who have had a love relationship with him.

Mao Bijiang got married at the age of nineteen, and in the second year of Ming Chongzhen, he married Su Yuanfang, the third daughter of Su Wenhan, a scholar in the middle school, and gave birth to two boys and a girl. Su Yuanfang is a native of Jingzhou, two years old when he was two years old, and his grandfather Mao Mengling was appointed as the commander of Huichang County, Jiangxi Province, and Su Wenhan was only three years old at the time. Su Yuanfang can paint, and some paintings have survived in the world.

In the autumn of the third year of Chongzhen, the twenty-year-old Mao Bijiang went to the country on the bank of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing for the first time to participate in the township test. The old courtyard between Wuding Bridge and Zhaoku Street on the south bank of Qinhuai is opposite to the Gongyuan across the river, where famous prostitutes from Nanqu gather, and it is the favorite place for the lifters to go at that time. Here, the Mao family first befriended Wang Jieniang, the second sister of the triplets of the Wang family, who was famous and famous in Qinhuai.

While interacting with Wang Jie, Mao Bijiang also befriended another famous Nanqu prostitute on the Taoye Ferry of the Qinhuai River. Li Xiangzhen, the word Xueyi, is called Shisheng and Li Shiniang in Nanqu. She looks good, her skin is like snow, she is very smart and skillful, especially a pair of eyes are smart and bright, both smiling and smiling, she is a person in Qin Huai Bayan.

When Mao Bijiang was in Jinling, she stayed in Li Shi Niang's Hanxiu Zhai for the longest time, and she was Mao Bijiang's confidante. Li Siniang is self-respecting and worth on weekdays, often calling herself sick and not making up her own makeup. The bustard's mother took pity on her, so she obeyed her wishes, and often politely declined guests. As for a confidant like Mao Bijiang, Li Siniang is self-reliant and tired.

From the third year of Chongzhen to the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty, he went to Jinling Township six times to try it, and he had contacts with Li Shi Niang, and he also learned to sing Kun dialect from her. Before the township examination in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Ni Sanlan came up with thirty current essay questions and asked the candidates to submit the manuscript before entering the school. Mao Bijiang was busy with entertainment during the day, and when he slept with Li Shiniang at midnight, he typed a manuscript every day, and in a month, he completed 30 articles, which were praised by his friends, and Li Siniang also appreciated it very much.

In the spring of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, he passed through Suzhou on the way to the frontier, and was recommended by fellow villager Xu Zhi to go to the Hengtang apartment outside the gate to visit the famous singer Chen Yuanyuan in the pear garden, and the two fell in love at first sight. In the autumn of that year, he went to Xinjiang to make an appointment to visit Chen Yuanyuan again, made a marriage appointment with Chen Yuanyuan in person, and made an appointment to marry him on a later date in the coming year.

But in the second year, Chen Yuanyuan was bought by Tian Wanqiang, the elder brother of Chaotian Guifei, and went to the capital to dedicate it to Emperor Chongzhen to compete for favor, but to no avail, and then was accepted as a concubine by Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty at that time. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Chen Yuanyuan was plundered by Li Zicheng's general Liu Zongmin, which provoked Wu Sangui to be angry and lead the Qing soldiers into the customs for Hongyan.

Chen Yuanyuan was sold to the Chen family opera troupe because of his poor family, changed his surname to Chen, and lived in Qinhuai, Nanjing.

Mao Bijiang met Chen Yuanyuan's sister earlier, Dong Xiaowan, a famous prostitute of Nanqu on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, came to Rucheng Congliang from Suzhou, and began to settle her in the Yanyue Building of the Water Painting Garden as a separate room, and officially became his wife the next year.

This year, Dong Xiaowan was twenty years old, and he was thirty-three years old. Dong Xiaowan, whose name is white, is Wanjun, born in Nanjing, one of the eight Yan of Qinhuai, and is known as the saint of the Divine Comedy of Drinking Needles, and is among the top ten famous chefs in ancient China. She and Mao Bijiang accompanied each other in the troubled times for nine years, died in the eighth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, at the age of 28, and was buried next to the Yingmei Nunnery in the southern suburbs of Rucheng.

There are four major suspicious cases in the Qing Palace, the first is the Shunzhi monk, it is said that the Shunzhi monk is for a Han woman Dong Xiaowan. And Dong Xiaowan was originally the concubine of a famous man who took away Dong Xiaowan from him, and it is said that Mao Bijiang was grief-stricken because Shunzhi took Dong Xiaowan from him.

"Dreamy dust, sad and moving, the warbler is far away, looking forward to the empty building. A Chinese girl left her soul, and Ping didn't ask. On the shore of the sea, who witnesses the former alliance, and the edge of the forest, the past is unforgettable. After the golden lotus dance, the jade tree sings, the peach pair is gone, where is the willow branch? Can forget what can be done, the color and the empty are sent together, the long song is sent, and the lack of the moon is difficult to complete. ”

There is a Bantang River outside the city of Suzhou, the river water is gentle, the scenery on both sides of the river is beautiful and pleasant, there is an unknown hill on the riverside not far from the city, the bamboo forest on the mountain is secluded, quiet like a paradise. Originally, there were no people on the side of the mountain, only three or two simple pavilions for the tourists who came here to rest.

Later, a small building was built here, although the building is not big, but it is built in a chic and elegant, and a mother and daughter and several maidservants live in the building. The mother and daughter seem to have a very leisurely life, indulging in the mountains and rivers every day, watching the lonely clouds of stones, flowing water and falling flowers, and when they are tired, they play the piano and chant poetry in the flower pavilion in the courtyard, taste tea and play games, and do not seem to be burdened by their livelihood.

Whose daughters have this kind of leisure? They were originally the hostess and daughters of the Dong family's embroidery village in the city. Dongjia Embroidery Village is a well-known Suzhou embroidery village in Suzhou, because the needlework is fine, so the business has been prosperous. The Dong family is a family of Suzhou embroidery, to this generation has a history of more than 200 years, don't look at the embroidery belongs to the craft manufacturing industry, but it is very close to the art of painting, so the Dong family also has a bit of a bookish atmosphere.

The hostess Bai is the only daughter of Lao Xiucai, who has no ambition in his life, so he has to pass on the full stomach to his daughter. Bai gave birth to a daughter for the Dong family, in order to entrust the harmony of husband and wife, named Bai, number Qinglian, the little girl is not only handsome, but also very smart, her parents regard it as a treasure, carefully teach her poetry, calligraphy and painting, needlework and female red, and want to train a talented and virtuous girl.

This was a happy family, but unexpectedly, when Dong Bai was thirteen years old, his father suffered from dysentery in the summer, and the medicine did not work, and he died soon after. This sudden change hit Dong Bai's mother and daughter haggard, and after taking care of her husband's funeral, Bai was unwilling to continue to live in the old house in the city, seeing things and thinking about people, and feeling sad, so he spent a sum of money to build a secluded room on the bank of the Bantang River, and took her daughter to live in seclusion and live a quiet life isolated from the world, and the affairs of the embroidery village were all entrusted to the man.

Two years passed unconsciously, and it was already the last years of the Ming Dynasty. The court was corrupt, heroes were everywhere, and the world was plunged into war. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, the chaos was approaching Suzhou, and people couldn't help but panic, and the Bai family also planned to close the business of the embroidery village and recover the funds in case they could flee at any time. Who knew that as soon as the embroidery village guys settled the accounts, not only did they not have two taels of silver left, but they owed thousands of taels of silver outside.

It was obvious that the guy was making trouble, but Bai couldn't grasp it, he was angry and anxious, and finally fell ill in bed. Her mother fell, Xiuzhuang went bankrupt, her debts weighed down, and the burden of life fell on fifteen-year-old Dong Bai, who seemed to have fallen from the clouds into an ice cellar, unable to open her eyes for a while.