To the surprise of the lords in the court, the prince was safe, but the investigation of the prince became more stringent, countless people were arrested, and the emperor seemed to vent the rebellious anger of the abolished prince on this group of people, thinking that it was their provocation that caused the prince's bad learning, especially the prince's foreign family was beheaded everywhere. People are constantly beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market in the capital, and the bright red blood stenches in the hot summer day.

Half a month later, Jiangnan.

Jiangnan water town, beautiful scenery, Qinhuai River, willow according to the law, smoky, even in the hot summer, on the side of the boat on this river, the breeze blows through the fog, but also adds a bit of refreshment.

In the past, either the wealthy salt merchants co-opted the officials, or the bureaucrats who were not enough to find talented people to serve as staff, or the officials in Beijing came here to see a thing or two, and this is indispensable to be accompanied by beautiful women and wine, so at this time, on the Qinhuai River, by the West Lake Bridge, Yan is smiling, and the aroma of fat powder can be spread far and wide.

Mothers have pushed out their trained skinny horses to compete for beauty.

In the previous dynasty, those wealthy salt merchants who covered the sky with only their hands in the Jiangnan area, for the vassal elegance, made a "girl" competition, originally whether everyone is beautiful or a small jasper, Yangzhou thin horses can participate, but the former dynasty has a strict atmosphere, extremely harsh on women, pay attention to the atmosphere, women from good families are categorically afraid to participate in this kind of event, only those Qing officials, prostitutes, actors and the like participated, even if these girls can be called everyone's in some aspects, still can't escape the contempt of the times.

In this dynasty, there are the four major families of Jia Shixue Wang who were born in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are local tyrants Zhen family, and the "girl" event can be regarded as a continuation, but the Zhao royal family has always disliked these luxurious and charming things, especially during the period when Lin Ruhai, a die-hard representative of the emperor, served as the salt patrol imperial history, and this event was very low-key.

Fortunately, Lin Ruhai is seriously ill in bed, I heard that it is not very good, his wife's nephew is selling the industry, it seems that he will not live long, and now all political affairs have been handed over to the government and the yamen, and he will not come out.

Lin Ruhai was seriously ill as soon as he came back to reinstate, and it can be said that there was no suppression at the beginning of the year, and the forces of the prince and the prince of Yide were no longer suppressed in Jiangnan, and they showed their skills.

The original crown prince is rightly named, and most of the people sent from the imperial capital are his people.

Prince Yide can be said to be the emperor of the soil in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Jiangnan region is full of their wings.

The upper side is orthodox, and the lower side has power, and the two parties are in dispute, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind.

How many officials died violently because of that, and the entire Jiangnan officialdom was in a miasma, and there was a bit of a situation in the next life.

"The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country", and this "girl" doesn't know the turmoil and darkness of this officialdom, and the more people she wins, the more famous she becomes.

Especially not long ago, I heard that the crown prince Chitose was abolished, and the Zhen family covered the sky with one hand in Jiangnan, and they loved to bloom with flowers, and the luxury of Jianghuai was even worse.

The small traders on both sides of the Huai River saw the opportunity, or sold some food, or some trinkets, gadgets and the like, although those high boys and girls did not look down, but at this time, the most important thing is to fly on the branches as phoenix sparrows.

There are also those sour people who have some talent but no fame or family background, and these are their customers, lucky vendors, who occupy a good position and earn money from eating all year long.

Previously, with Lin Ruhai's suppression, there were not many powerful sons and adults who had been tepid, and their generous patrons were also stingy. It stands to reason that the girl is booming, and their business should be better, but it is worse, is this strange?

It was noon, the sun was so hot that it was shining down, and some capable people didn't want to go out at this time.

The hawkers sat in the teahouse under the shade of the trees, and they didn't dare to drink the expensive tea, so they only asked the proprietress to send a bowl of hot water, and then gave one or two copper plates to kill the afternoon.

If there are many people, the proprietress is willing to let them sit, and she also frowns, hoping that they will leave with their butts on their butts, so as to make room for the nobles who can really afford to eat tea.

But a lot of the tea leaves in the year were about to rot, and they gave up on themselves, and went with these poor ghosts, and occasionally came in a hurry, and gave one or two leaves.

Aunt Chai is a pastry seller, and the daughter-in-law she married for her son is also a good cook, Aunt Chai was widowed in her early years, and her young son was weak, she not only grew with a thick waist and round shoulders, tall and black, and her hair was wrapped in cloth.

She is selling food, this food is no better than other things, can not be put for a long time, it is not good to annoy Aunt Chai, but a bewitching girl in the west of the city dislikes it is not good-looking, not delicious, Aunt Chai's temper came up, directly drove people away, watched the sun come up, left her daughter-in-law to look at the stall, and ran to the teahouse to drink herbal tea.

After the anger subsided a little, I saw a middle-aged man with a thin body, a white face and no need to wear silk, and a thing wrapped in an oilcloth in his hand came over, and Aunt Chai hurriedly got up and let people.

Although Aunt Chai is five big and three thick, but she admires this kind of scholar the most, her mother's family is also solid, she married the child his father despite the opposition of her family, his father is poor and doesn't even have a bowl, just knows a few words, but unfortunately his fate is not good, and he went early.

This middle-aged man is the distant uncle of Mrs. Chai's husband, and he is a very capable person, who works as a staff member in a large family.

Although Aunt Chai wants to be close to him, he is a tall man, if it weren't for the fact that he has no heirs under his knees, and he doesn't have an uncle who is close to him, only her husband and son are close to each other and take care of him, even so, he has never talked much to Aunt Chai, and he rarely goes out of his lord's mansion, and rarely sets foot in such a cheap place.

"Why is the eldest uncle here, come and sit down. ”

The middle-aged man frowned, the tables and chairs were clean, but there were shirtless people sitting there, some of them were talking about meat, and some were snoring with a rag covering their heads.

The man raised his head, the sparse immature leaves could not block the dazzling and dazzling sun, it was not very hot, but it was very dry, he had been out for so long, he didn't even drink hot water, his Adam's apple moved slightly, and he didn't dislike it, so he sat down where Aunt Chai pointed out.

Aunt Chai sat next to her, and didn't dare to get too close, this gentleman is a capable and tolerant person, often able to say a lot of Taoist news, these years "girl" in the south of the Yangtze River and Huai Yue famous, the Huai River side of the trail have been occupied by some powerful people in the city, if not for Mr. to entrust the relationship, their family will not get this stall.

"Sir, you also know that we are doing a small business, the first two years the girl was not prosperous, a lot of deserted, this year this girl is prosperous, we have prepared things early, and we are looking forward to selling them for a good year, but this day is deserted, I don't know what is going on, you give a pointer. ”