The boat that Dai Yan and the others were riding was parked on the bank of the canal closest to Changlingou, and when Wu Yuanming and the others arrived at the ship, Dai Yan and the others had been waiting on the boat for a long time. Seeing that Wu Yuanming returned safely, Dai Yan mentioned that the heart of the throat was finally put back in her stomach, and no matter in front of everyone, she jumped off the boat and cried and ran over and threw herself directly into Wu Yuanming's arms, hugged Wu Yuanming's face and buried herself in Wu Yuanming's arms, crying and crying - this also caused a big disaster......

"Wow, another beauty, Wu Gongzi is really a blessing." Zhu Fangdan smashed his thick lips with envy, and suddenly, Zhu Fangdan turned to Zheng Xin and asked, "Miss Zheng, the Daiyan girl you are talking about, could it be her ......." Zhu Fangdan didn't have the courage to say it anymore when he said this-because Zheng Xin had already drawn out his short sword with fire in his eyes, and his murderous appearance of gritting his teeth and clenching the dagger with his bare eyes was not only intimidating? Even Li Xiongfei, the veteran general of the battlefield, did not dare to provoke this tigress who was already on the verge of making a fortune and dodged from afar, not to mention Zhu Fangdan, who was powerless.

To the surprise of Zhu Fangdan, Li Xiongfei and others, Zheng Xin did not immediately rush up and cut Wu Yuanming and Dai Yan, the adulterers, into meat sauce, but suddenly smiled and asked Wu Yuanming with a smile: "Brother Wu, when did you become so close to Sister Dai Yan?" Although the voice was cordial, anyone could hear the slightest murderous aura in her tone, and Wu Yuanming was no exception, so Wu Yuanming could only quickly explain: "Xinxin, don't get me wrong, your sister Daiyan was a little frightened last night, so she is still a little excited now." ”

"Really?" The smile on Zheng Xin's little face disappeared, and he glanced coldly at Dai Yan, who was still snuggled in Wu Yuanming's arms, and said coldly: "Then you still don't push her away?" Do you want to take her to Yangzhou together? Wu Yuanming knew that he was sorry for this little girl who was so affectionate to him, so he hurriedly pushed Dai Yan away and comforted: "Dai girl, don't be excited, it's not good for you to do this, right?" We...... You're still a girl who hasn't been out of the cabinet, and it's not good for you. ”

"What did you say?" Dai Yan was so angry that Wu Yuanming was irresponsible, and she opened her mouth to say what happened last night. Wu Yuanming hurriedly covered her mouth and said: "Ren Weichu has been killed by me, the chasing soldiers may come in a while, everyone hurry up and get on the boat, hurry up and leave Gaoyou County to Yangzhou." With that, Wu Yuanming picked up Dai Yan and walked to the boat, but Dai Yan's body was crooked and she snuggled into Wu Yuanming's arms, forcing Wu Yuanming to carry her onto the boat - which also made Zheng Xin more suspicious.

After everyone got on the boat, Wu Yuanming ordered the boatman to start the boat immediately, and pressed Dai Yan, who was struggling to speak, into the cabin, and instructed the newly bought maid: "Miss Dai has a fever and is talking nonsense, you must take care of her." Dai Yan shouted angrily: "You are just talking nonsense, when did I have a fever?" Zhu Fangdan also came over to make fun, "Miss, in Xia Zhu Fangdan, he is well-known in the apricot forest in the world - known as the first doctor in the world, if you don't dislike it, you can let Zai Xia diagnose and treat you, and know if you are really sick." Saying that, Zhu Fangdan really went to grab Dai Yan's soft little hand.

"Get out!" Wu Yuanming kicked away Zhu Fangdan, who wanted to take advantage of his de facto wife, but Dai Yan took the opportunity to shake off Wu Yuanming's hand on her mouth, and shouted: "Brother Wu, do you want to be irresponsible?" I ask you, what the hell are you ...... Woo. When Dai Yan called here, Wu Yuanming quickly pressed her soft little mouth, Dai Yan struggled desperately, Wu Yuanming didn't let her speak, and Zhu Fangdan took the opportunity to rub oil to take advantage, and there was a big chaos on the deck of the already small ship.

"Enough!" Zheng Xin suddenly roared, the sound was loud enough to be comparable to Zhang Yide's retreat of Cao Cao's million-strong master on the longboard slope back then, and Wu Yuanming, Dai Yan and Zhu Fangdan, who were so frightened, were all agitated, and they all stopped moving and talking. Zheng Xin pulled Wu Yuanming over, looked at Wu Yuanming's frightened handsome face with a gloomy face, and then looked at Dai Yan's pretty face that was crying with pear blossoms and rain but with a red spring color, and was puzzled in his heart, pointing at Dai Yan and yelling at Wu Yuanming: "Stinky thief, tell me honestly, what happened to you and Sister Dai Yan last night?" ”

"Nothing happened to me or her." Wu Yuanming flatly denied it, then turned to Dai Yan and smiled: "Dai girl, we didn't do anything last night, right?" Dai Yanna dared to say those things between her and Wu Yuanming in front of so many people, but she just glared at Wu Yuanming with a red face and didn't make any answer, Wu Yuanming hurried to her ear and whispered: "If there is anything to see my father-in-law in Yangzhou, our affairs are not based on the orders of our parents and the words of the matchmaker, and we can't take anything seriously, now you help me stabilize this little tigress first." ”

"What are you biting your ears?" Wu Yuanming dared to bite his ears with other women in front of her, and Zheng Xin immediately turned into a female tyrannosaurus spewing flames, and she was about to tear Wu Yuanming to pieces with her teeth and claws. Wu Yuanming said quickly: "Xin Xin, don't get me wrong, I am comforting the girl, telling her not to mind that her clothes were torn by Ren Weichu, anyway, I arrived in time to get rid of Ren Weichu's dog official, she didn't suffer much loss, just a little body was seen, that dog official has been slaughtered by me, and she doesn't have to be sad." ”

"Is that really the case?" Zheng Xin was skeptical of Wu Yuanming's words, although it was a shame for her body to be seen by other men in this era, it was natural for Dai Yan to react so violently. But Zheng Xin knew that Wu Yuanming was scheming, and he didn't believe Wu Yuanming's words very much, so he turned his seductive gaze to Dai Yan again, and Dai Yan was already overjoyed by the meaning contained in Wu Yuanming's words at the moment, and knew that Zheng Xin's bear temper was not easy to provoke, so he nodded with a red face. Zheng Xin believed it at this time, and sympathetically took Dai Yan's hand and comforted softly: "Sister Dai, it's okay, that dog official is dead, you should treat it as a nightmare, and you will forget it in a few days." That's right....... Speaking of this, Zheng Xin suddenly remembered something, leaned into Dai Yan's ear and whispered: "Sister Dai, Brother Wu, this stinky thief, have you seen your body?" ”

"Hmm." Dai Yan blushed and nodded subconsciously, which caused Zheng Xin to be jealous again, glaring at Wu Yuanming and snorting very dissatisfied. Wu Yuanming hurriedly changed the topic, raised his hands and said: "Don't talk nonsense, we will go to Yangzhou in two days at most, Xinxin, I have something to tell you." ”

"Tell what?" Zheng Xin pulled Dai Yan to sit on the side of the boat and asked Wu Yuanming coldly. Wu Yuanming saw that the treacherous plan succeeded, and said with a smile: "The purpose of our trip to Yangzhou is mainly to meet my father-in-law, I have great respect for my father-in-law, I hope you will do the same to him, don't play petty with him, you must respect him with the etiquette of the younger generation to the elders, and be filial, otherwise I will be angry, understand?" When Wu Yuanming said this, he said to Zheng Xin on the surface, but his eyes were looking at Dai Yan with a smile, this trick successfully made the two little girls misunderstand that Wu Yuanming was saying to themselves, Zheng Xin was blushing and agreed, Dai Yan's face was redder than Zheng Xin, and he nodded lightly.

"There's another important question." Wu Yuanming coughed and said: "Xin Xin, you also know that there is a sister Hui'er who is with my father-in-law, her temper is carved out of the same mold as you, although she looks beautiful and cute, she is as arrogant and tricky as you, greedy and delicious, rough and rude, and the same jealousy ...... jealousy and petty nature." Wu Yuanming also ignored Zheng Xin's eyes and said directly: "But you must live in peace, don't pinch your neck and gouge your eyes as soon as you meet, you should be a little older than her, let her." ”

"Why should I let her? Can't she let me? Zheng Xin's voice was so sour that she could use it to pickle vegetables, humming and chirping about how to fight for the wind and be jealous after meeting Hui'er without falling behind, Wu Yuanming took the opportunity to get rid of her entanglement and slipped to the side to rest and sleep. Dai Yan was relieved after getting Wu Yuanming's hint, and she also ran to the cabin to think about how to pull Wu Yuanming to her house to be her son-in-law. Leaving Zheng Xin in place, sometimes with an angry face, sometimes gritting his teeth, his expression was constantly changing like a convulsion......

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Along the canal all the way south, on the morning of the third day after leaving Gaoyou, the passenger boat taken by Wu Yuanming and others finally arrived at the periphery of Yangzhou, and was able to see the true face of the largest city in the world. This is the most prosperous and wealthiest city in the era of agriculture and animal husbandry, and it is no exaggeration to say that Yangzhou City in this era is already the limit of urban population and prosperity in the world! Although it had gone through the war and experienced the inhumane Yangzhou Massacre, by the sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the population of the city had recovered to more than 397,900 Ding - this does not include the family members of the Shilin gentry who did not pay the food and the large number of black people who did not declare to evade the Ding tax.

"Yangzhou! I'm finally here! Looking at the bustling Yangzhou wharf, Wu Yuanming was full of emotion, secretly wondering if the person he was looking for would be in this city, and suddenly turned around on a whim, smiled at Zheng Xin, Li Xiongfei and others who were enjoying the scenery of Yangzhou and asked: "Tell me, what is the most famous in this Yangzhou city?" ”

"What is most famous in Yangzhou?" Zheng Xin clapped his hands after thinking for a while and said, "I know, Yangzhou salt merchants are the most famous!" Every Yangzhou salt merchant is rich and rivals the country, and all of them are big fat sheep. ”

"That's not right." Wu Yuanming shook his head, then turned to Li Xiongfei, Zhu Fangdan and the others and said with a wicked smile: "As men, can you tell me what Yangzhou is most famous for?" ”

"Yangzhou Skinny Horse!" Li Xiongfei and Zhu Fangdan replied in unison, and then laughed with Wu Yuanming, and the smiles of the three of them can be described in one word - cheap! Zheng Xin didn't know what Yangzhou Skinny Horse was, and wondered: "Skinny Horse? Aren't horses fatter and fat? What's so good about skinny horses? Zheng Xin's stupid words provoked Wu Yuanming, Li Xiongfei, and Zhu Fangdan to laugh wildly, and Zhu Fangdan smashed his mouth with regret and said: "It's a pity that the first-class thin horse costs 1,500 taels of silver each, which is too expensive, otherwise I really want to buy one." Li Xiongfei, who had run out of funds for the operation, also sighed and nodded, expressing deep regret for this. Wu Yuanming pulled out the silver ticket that Ren Weichu gave him from the shoe, and said with a wicked smile: "What are you afraid of?" I have four thousand eight hundred taels of silver here, and I can buy three horses, one for each of us...... Hahahaha....... ”

"Thank you for the reward." Li Xiongfei and Zhu Fangdan's mouths were about to smile crookedly, and they hurriedly thanked Wu Yuanming. Zheng Xinze's nose was almost crooked, and he shouted and rushed up to grab Wu Yuanming's silver ticket, "Okay, stinky thief, you dare to save private money behind my back, you are so bold, give it to me for safekeeping." Although Zheng Xin moved fast, Wu Yuanming moved faster, and quickly stuffed into Zhu Fangdan's arms, Zheng Xin was most afraid of dealing with Zhu Fangdan, a miracle doctor who was a mimi, so he had to shift the target to arrest Wu Yuanming, "Stinky thief, give me the silver ticket, and buy a thin horse for 1,500 taels of silver?" You are crazy? ”

"Yangzhou skinny horses are not horses." Dai Yan didn't know when she had come out of the cabin, and she also glared at Wu Yuanming angrily and explained to Zheng Xin: "Sister Zheng, Yangzhou refers to the women of Yangzhou, and a group of traffickers in this area specially buy thin and young girls from poor people nearby, teach them the skills of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and play double-land dominoes, and make them slim by controlling their diet, and also teach them ....... Speaking of this Dai Yan's face flushed, and said vaguely: "Teach them that kind of skills - I heard that there are hundreds of them, and when they grow up, they will sell them to rich people as concubines for huge profits, and the rest of them will be sold to the fireworks places such as brothels and flower boats, so Yangzhou's fireworks industry is very developed." ”

"It turns out that Yangzhou Skinny Horse is a woman, no wonder the stinky thief knows it so well! That skinny horse should be the prettiest woman among them? Zheng Xin gritted his thin white teeth and asked viciously. Dai Yan and Wu Yuanming, who was smiling evilly, nodded together, which made Zheng Xin even more angry, pestering Wu Yuanming to get back the silver ticket, but Wu Yuanming, who had long coveted Yangzhou thin horses, had long wanted to try it, and would rather be beaten and scolded by Zheng Xin than let go, and Zhu Fangdan over there couldn't wait to ask the neighboring boat about the market of Yangzhou thin horses, "Boat family, may I ask the best thin horse in this yard in Yangzhou?" How much does it usually cost per horse? ”

"Sir, want to buy skinny horses?" The boatman replied with a wicked smile: "Speaking of Yangzhou thin horses, of course, the best thin horses in the Lichun Courtyard of Mingyufang on the shore of Slender West Lake, that yard usually has to publicly auction three first-class thin horses every night, and the highest price is obtained, all of them are beautiful women with national beauty and fragrance, but the price is also relatively high, I heard that there are more than two thousand taels of silver a horse." ”

"Reishuin?" Wu Yuanming was taken aback, broke free from Zheng Xin's pull and shouted, "I heard me right, right? Is there really a Lichun Courtyard in Yangzhou? ”

"Sir's words are strange, Lichun Courtyard is the largest courtyard in Yangzhou, and it is famous far and near, doesn't Mr. know?" The boatman asked with a smile. Wu Yuanming was stunned at first, and then laughed and said, "Okay, it's good to have Lichun Courtyard!" I used to worry that there was no Lichun Courtyard in Yangzhou, and there was no place to find my father-in-law and Hui'er, but since there was Lichun Courtyard, it would be easy to find! After laughing for a while, Wu Yuanming tore off Zheng Xin's little hand that was pulling his ear, and said with a smile: "It's decided, let's go to Lichun Courtyard tonight, and while looking for my father-in-law and Hui'er to meet, we will buy a few skinny horses to see." ”

"I don't go to that dirty place!" Zheng Xin blushed and shouted: "You can go to your father-in-law, but if you dare to buy any skinny horses back, I will not only drive away all those skinny horses, but also your dog's life!" ”

"It's better if you don't go, that kind of place is really not for you to go." Wu Yuanming smiled and agreed to Zheng Xin's request, and said with a wry smile in his heart: "Let Hui'er's little girl wait for me in that kind of place for more than a month, and when we meet, I still have Zheng Xin and Dai Yan two tigresses by my side, I really don't know how she should clean me up...... Man, life is miserable! ”