After a long conversation with Yao Qisheng and others, Wu Yuanming learned about the situation after being separated in Licheng County that day, because the target of the Qing army was mainly focused on Cai Dezhong and others of the Heaven and Earth Society, Wu Lu and several veterans did not spend much effort to get rid of the pursuit of the Qing army - only poor Wu Yuanming escaped with his life and died of a good horse, not to mention, he also provoked Zheng Xin, a little tigress. And Wu Lu and they also tried to find Wu Yuanming after meeting Yao Qisheng and others, but unfortunately they only went south all the way to find, and they never dreamed that Wu Yuanming was forced to go north by Zheng Xin's troublesome girl, and they didn't find it, Hui'er's little girl cried endlessly, and in desperation, Yao Qisheng had to take the three brothers of the Wu family and Hui'er and others south to Yangzhou, and waited for the rendezvous in the Lichun Courtyard designated by Wu Yuanming.

After arriving in Yangzhou, Yao Qisheng and others quickly found Lichun Courtyard, but Wu Yuanming delayed the future, and it was inconvenient for Hui'er to live in Lichun Courtyard for a long time as a guest, Yao Qisheng and others were helpless, and it happened that Han Shiqi, the prefect of Yangzhou, received the silver of the second largest courtyard in Yangzhou, and deliberately went to Lichun Courtyard to find fault and want Lichun Courtyard to close, this Han Shiqi is not only a person from the Yellow Banner of the Han Army, the house slave of Kangxi's younger brother Prince Gong Changning, and a friend of Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangning, how can a brothel in Lichunyuan afford to provoke him? Fortunately, at this time, Yao Qisheng stepped forward and found a few so-called anti-poems in the poems made by Han Shiqi in return for a tooth, so that the owner of Lichun Courtyard instructed someone to secretly threaten Han Shiqi, so frightened that Han Shiqi, who knew that the text prison was powerful, quickly stopped, and the old bustard of Lichun Courtyard spent some silver to stuff it to Han Shiqi, which suppressed a turmoil, and Yao Qisheng also became the benefactor of Lichun Courtyard and was able to move in the backyard. The old name Huazi was also a veteran in the Fengyue field back then, the pioneer in the romantic array, the poetry and song Fu lyrics and composition did not dare to say that the world is unparalleled, but in Yangzhou City can not find an opponent, relying on this skill, the old name Huazi has become the most popular figure in Lichun Courtyard, those singers and dancers in order to beg him to do lyrics and music to attract guests who love vassal elegance, all of them are willing to beg for pleasure, for more than a month, this old name Huazi does not know how many cheap godmothers Wu Yuanming has found, but he is also happy and happy- Anyway, it's much more open than Wu Yuanming.

After listening to Yao Qisheng talk about the situation of their group, Wu Yuanming told him what he had experienced these days again-of course, because there was a little girl with a temper similar to Zheng Xin's Hui'er in his arms, Wu Yuanming didn't dare to say anything about the relationship between Wu Yuanming and Zheng Xin and Dai Yan, so he could only be vague. But Wu Yuanming has experienced too many things, and it took half an hour to make it clear, when it comes to the tension at the time of the turtle killing conference, Hui'er was so frightened that she drilled into Wu Yuanming's arms, hugged Wu Yuanming and shouted, "Brother Wu, are you injured?" If the arrow hits you in the chest, you must have been seriously injured. ”

"It's okay, don't be afraid." Wu Yuanming took out the gold medal that was almost shot through and smiled: "Fortunately, that arrow happened to shoot on the gold medal, otherwise my old life would have been explained." Wu Yuanming pointed at Li Xiongfei again and sighed: "Later, fortunately, General Li sacrificed his life to protect me from the encirclement, but the brothers he brought with him died six people that night. ”

"General Li, thank you." Hui'er's little girl jumped out of Wu Yuanming's arms, was deeply blessed in front of Li Xiongfei, and said gratefully: "General Li, I really don't know how to thank you, if it weren't for your sacrifice to save me, I would never see Brother Wu." ”

"Miss Zhaohui is too polite, I am the general of the Pingxi Palace, and it is natural to protect the prince." Li Xiongfei hurriedly got up and replied politely. Because Zhu Fangdan has been kicked out by Wu Yuanming to find the girl in Lichun Courtyard, Li Xiongfei and others have no scruples about calling Wu Yuanming, and at the same time, Li Xiongfei is full of emotion in his heart, saying that although this little girl is full of people, her words and deeds are much more reasonable than that of the Han county lord Zheng Xin.

After telling the story again, Wu Yuanming said to Yao Qisheng: "Father-in-law, Mr. Gu Yanwu and Mr. Huang Zongxi, they don't know why they were suddenly caught by the imperial court, and they will be escorted to Jiangning for interrogation in Yangzhou in the near future, they are all leaders of the Jiangnan literary circle, if the children can recruit them to serve under their command, it will be much more convenient and easier to recruit other Jiangnan scholars, and it can completely solve the dilemma of insufficient officials under my father's command; Even if it can't be used by children, it can retain a trace of my backbone in the Ming literary world. So the child wanted to ask his father-in-law to think of a way to rescue them from the court. ”

"This is not very easy to do, Gu Yanwu's reputation is too loud, the imperial court finally caught them, and they will inevitably be rescued by others, we are not so easy to start. Besides, we don't have enough power. "Rao is Yao Qisheng is resourceful, but he suffers from insufficient strength in his hands, and he also feels helpless to rescue Gu Yanwu and others. While thinking about it, Zhu Fangdan suddenly knocked on the door outside and shouted: "Wu Gongzi, Wu Gongzi, Lichun Courtyard will start auctioning thin horses soon, let's go and participate together." ”

"Mr. Zhu, those two people made it clear tonight that they wanted to raise the price more than silver, and we don't have much silver in our hands, anyway, we are not in a hurry to leave Yangzhou, let's buy a thin horse another day." Li Xiongfei replied to Zhu Fangdan in a loud voice. Zhu Fangdan thought about it, so he changed his words and said: "Even if we don't buy it tonight, then let's go and see the excitement, at least we can watch them eat dogs and spend a lot of money to do a lot of wrongs." ”

"Not interested." Wu Yuanming was about to refuse, Yao Qisheng suddenly said: "Child, let's go and take a look, those two people don't seem to be ordinary rich people, they are very likely to be from the government, let's find out what their identities are first, if the identities are enough, whether our rescue of Mr. Gu Yanwu and their actions are successful or not, maybe it will fall on them." ”

"It's okay to see, but you're not allowed to come around in Lichun Courtyard." Hui'er's little girl interjected in Wu Yuanming, grabbed Wu Yuanming's ears and said viciously. Wu Yuanming smiled and kissed her lightly on the face, and said softly: "Of course, with my beautiful and lovely sister Hui'er here, how can I be here unless I am blind?" The little girl was coaxed by Wu Yuanming's rhetoric, but she was coquettish in Wu Yuanming's arms. Wu Yuanming instructed again: "If you want to go to see the excitement with your eldest brother, go and change into men's clothes, otherwise let other men see your flower and moon appearance, who is still in the mood to buy a thin horse?" The little girl was coquettish for a while, and then she went to change into a scholar's dress, pretending to be a very delicate little scholar, and rushed to the venue of the auction of thin horses with Wu Yuanming and others.

When I arrived at the East Flower Hall of Lichun Courtyard, where the thin horse was auctioned, the flower hall was already crowded, because everyone knew that the fat man and the arrogant man were going to fight for a lot of money here, so everyone wanted to come and see the excitement, and even many customers made a special trip from other brothels to see the excitement, which also added a lot of business to Lichun Courtyard - and at the same time, it also ignited the fighting spirit of the two wronged leaders who were ready to throw silver. Yao Qisheng is half a snake in Lichun Courtyard, there is a special private room on the second floor of the flower hall, Wu Yuanming and others have just sat down, and the old bustard of Lichun Courtyard announced in the middle of the flower hall: "Girls, come out to pay respects." ”

"Here we are." With three crisp and beautiful promises, three petite and thin pretty girls turned out of the backyard and walked straight to the red felt platform in the middle of the flower hall. "It turns out that the three girls who boarded the red felt platform are indeed very moving, the three of them are not very old, that is, fifteen or sixteen years old, all born with delicate melon seed faces, fragrant cheeks and powder faces, three pairs of big eyes are all watery like a few deep springs, slender waist pigeon milk, if the body is sharpened, delicate as if a gust of wind can blow down, the most can arouse the beast nature of men ravaged. Seeing that Hui'er's little girl was very jealous, she leaned into Wu Yuanming's ear and whispered: "They are not as beautiful as me, right?" Wu Yuanming smiled noncommittally, just pulled the little girl to his lap and sat down, and gently stroked her back through his clothes.

"Ladies and gentlemen, these three girls are called ......." The old bustard of Lichun Yuan also wanted to introduce the names of the three girls so that they could be auctioned separately, but the fat man walked to the railing in front of the private room and interrupted loudly: "Mom, don't talk nonsense, these three girls will sell together, and I will pay five thousand taels of silver." As soon as the fat man's voice fell, the hall immediately became a sensation. Not to be outdone, the arrogant man also jumped up and shouted: "Damn, I also want to buy three of them together, and I will pay six thousand taels of silver!" ”

"Ten thousand taels of silver!" The fat man's scream caused a burst of landslides and tsunami exclamations, but the old bustard of Lichun Yuan smiled on his face, in the past, the first class thin horse of Lichun Yuan was sold for up to 2,500 taels, and now this price has exceeded the highest price in history.

"! Fifteen thousand taels! The arrogant man's words pushed the exclamation to the peak again, and the fat man doubled the price without blinking, "Thirty thousand taels!" This price made people including Wu Yuanming, who was born in a princely family, stunned, and even the arrogant man's face changed color, hesitating whether to continue bidding.

"Thirty thousand taels? A prince in Beijing only earns 20,000 taels a year, so how much money does he have? The little girl stuck out her tongue on Wu Yuanming's lap, raised her head and asked Wu Yuanming in surprise. Wu Yuanming was also extremely surprised, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "How do I know about the silver he came?" Hehe, 30,000 taels of silver, Guizhou's annual Ding tax is not so much. "Wu Yuanming's words are not exaggerated at all, Guizhou at that time was the poorest province in the country, and there were many Tusi Tuwang in the territory, and these people did not pay taxes to Wu Sangui, so this province could only provide medicinal materials and minerals and military resources for Wu Sangui at most, and he had to find ways to buy food from other provinces for the people in the province - it is a pity that those full relics in later generations selectively ignored this, and only boasted that Yungui was richer than Jiangnan, and Wu Sangui was able to basically defeat the main force of the Qing army during the rebellion of the three feudatories, relying on the food and salary provided by these two poor provinces.

"Thirty-one thousand taels." The arrogant man held back for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and shouted a new number. But the fat man yawned and said, "Fifty thousand taels of silver!" ”

"Fifty thousand taels!" The guests and ** in the flower hall all screamed, and the sound was like a bomber taking off from this flower hall. The arrogant man's face was already pale, and he didn't dare to open his mouth to bid, and the old bustard of Lichun Yuan, who was smiling with a smile on his face, asked the price three times and no one agreed, so he saluted the fat man and smiled: "Congratulations, uncle, these three girls are all yours." The fat man laughed and bowed to the people behind him, one of whom had already drawn out a stack of silver tickets from the dragon head and sent it to the old bustard, and led the three delicate girls to the fat man.

"Hahahahahaha, little beauty, come here, Uncle Xiang." The fat man took the three girls who were almost old enough to be his granddaughters into his arms, kissed them in public, looked up at the arrogant man opposite, and said with a sarcastic smile: "Tubaozi from Guangxi, you know what it means to be rich and rival the country, right?" Go back to Guangxi, don't be embarrassed in Jiangnan. Hahaha......! ”

"Hillbilly, go back to Guangxi." The thugs brought by the fat man laughed together, mocking the man who had no money and dared to be arrogant in Jiangnan. The arrogant man was furious and roared angrily: "Mom, hit Lao Tzu!" ”

"Hit!" The twenty thugs brought by the arrogant man either ran around the corridor to the opposite side, or jumped off the flower hall and jumped to the opposite private room through the tables and chairs to fight, and the thugs brought by the fat man were not to be outdone, and they raised their swords and fought happily with the thugs brought by the arrogant man, and the prostitutes in the flower hall were scared to jump, and they fled in all directions, and the scene was suddenly chaotic. The fat man didn't care about this, and openly tore open a newly bought girl's shirt at the scene of the fight, and leaned his big mouth on the girl's small white and tender pigeon milk, and looked at the arrogant man from time to time, his eyes were full of sarcasm and contempt.

"! Dog fat pig, Lao Tzu wants your life! The arrogant man over there was so angry that he pulled out a steel knife and jumped out of the flower hall, wanting to kill the fat man himself. But as soon as his feet touched the land of the Flower Hall, a group of Qing troops suddenly rushed outside the Flower Hall, numbering at least three hundred, each with swords and guns to surround the Flower Hall and separate the two sides of the fight. The first pipe band hugged his fist to the fat man who was biting the girl** and said: "The last general, Xiong Ruhu, was ordered to come here to protect the adult, and he has seen the governor." ”

"Governor? Zhu Guozhi? Wu Yuanming was a little taken aback, and said in his heart, how did this governor of Jiangsu, who was supposed to be in Jiangning Mansion, come to Yangzhou City? But Wu Yuanming thought about it and understood the reason, although Jiangning was prosperous and wealthy, it was far better than Yangzhou, Zhu Guozhi came here as the governor of a province to naturally make a lot of money, and listening to his tone, he wanted to buy these three girls and give them away, presumably he came to Yangzhou to make a fortune under the banner of welcoming and escorting Gu Yanwu and others. And the arrogant man in the flower hall was also taken aback, and exclaimed: "Governor? Are you Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangsu? ”

"Now that you know the name of Lord Ben, do you dare to go against Lord Ben?" Zhu Guozhi let go of the big mouth that bit on the girl's **, turned his head and instructed the bear pipe belt: "Xiong Guan belt, take down all these rebels who attacked this governor, and send them to the yamen of Yangzhou Mansion for careful torture." After that, Zhu Guozhi pushed away the girl whose skin had been bitten and oozing blood, and then grabbed another girl and tore her clothes, openly rubbing her breasts.

"Piercing!" The bear pipe belt promised to do it. The arrogant man hurriedly shouted: "Stop, General Ben is also an official of the imperial court." As he spoke, the arrogant man took out a seal letter and an official defense document from his arms, and shouted: "This general is a member of the imperial court, Sun Tingling, the general of Guangxi and the husband of Princess Kong Sizhen of Heshuo!" ”

"Kong Sizhen's fiancé?" Wu Yuanming and Yao Qisheng looked at each other, and said in their hearts, why did this waste general, who has so many green hats that he can open a cloaking shop, come here? It turned out that this Sun Tingling was originally Kong Sizhen's father Kong Youde's confidant and favorite general, Kong Sizhen was pointed out to him by Kong Youde as his wife when he was very young, but he has never officially married. After Kong Youde was eliminated by Li Dingguo for the people, Sun Tingling became the leader of Kong Youde's old department, and took Kong Youde's old troops and horses to do mischief in Guangxi, making the local people in Guangxi miserable, and the people complained bitterly. As for the political position, this green hat king Sun Tingling is a complete super wallgrass, vacillating between the Qing court and Wu Sangui, reaping the benefits on both sides, and belongs to the kind of super white-faced wolf who eats inside and outside and eats human flesh and white.

By the way, Sun Tingling's grandfather Sun Degong is also a famous traitor, in the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's third decisive battle Guangning Battle of the Shaling Field Battle, the army formation of 30,000 Ming troops withstood the Manchu Eight Banners Iron Cavalry countless charges, Sun Tingling's grandfather Sun Degong took advantage of the fierce battle between the two sides, led his subordinates to suddenly flee backwards, opened the side of the Ming army to let the enemy army over, and shouted defeated, defeated. caused the morale of the Ming army to waver, thinking that the front was really defeated, and began to retreat. was chased and killed by the Houjin Iron Cavalry, and the whole army was annihilated. And after Sun Tingling's grandfather Sun Degong fled to Guangning City, he closed the powder magazine and set fire to it everywhere, and finally opened the city gate and let Houjin enter the city, which directly caused the failure of the entire campaign - so Sun Tingling and Wu Yuanming can be regarded as the descendants of traitors in the same lineage, the difference is that one is a traitor's grandson and the other is a traitor's son.

"It turned out that the Guangxi general Sun Daren arrived, so forget it." Because Sun Tingling made trouble for Wu Sangui's nest from time to time in Guangxi, Kangxi loved and reused it - another point is that Kangxi's father and son have slept with Sun Tingling's wife for two generations, so after Sun Tingling's identity was violent, Zhu Guozhi didn't dare to poison again, and waved his hand to stop the bear's action of taking people. Zhu Guozhi sneered at Sun Tingling again: "I just don't know why General Sun left his post without permission?" is not in the supervision place of Guangxi, but ran to this Yangzhou Lichun Courtyard? ”

Zhu Guozhi's attitude was very arrogant, which made Sun Tingling angry, but the strong dragon could not suppress the head snake, in order not to suffer the immediate loss, Sun Tingling had to suppress his anger and replied: "Last month, General Ben heard that Princess Heshuo Kong Sizhen Gege went south to Jiangnan, and General Ben and her were fiancées, and they hadn't seen each other for many years, so they went north to Yangzhou to see Sigege and wanted to discuss the marriage date with her. ”

"No wonder Kong Sizhen, that slut, didn't come to Yangzhou, it turned out that she received the news that this green hat general was going north to meet her, so she slipped away early. Damn, it's so bad that Lao Tzu doesn't have a chance to talk to that ** again! Zhu Guozhi muttered in his heart, and remembered that on the night when Shunzhi named him the governor of Jiangsu, Kong Sizhen was tactful and coquettish under his crotch, and couldn't help but regret and anger, and snorted coldly to Sun Tingling: "Since the general came north to see He Shuogege, why did the general, as an official of the imperial court, come to this land of fireworks?" Didn't the general know that the imperial court explicitly forbade officials to sleep in prostitutes? The general is not afraid that the governor will participate in the general to the imperial court? ”

"Damn, aren't you an official of the imperial court? Then why did you come to this fireworks brothel? Are you not afraid that Lao Tzu will participate in you to the court? No matter how good Sun Tingling's temper was, he couldn't hold it back at the moment, and couldn't help but scold. After being reminded by Sun Tingling, Zhu Guozhi remembered that there was a half-naked ** girl in his arms, and his old face that had not been red for more than ten years couldn't help but turn red, Zhu Guozhi coughed and snorted coldly: "Since this is the case, then this matter is settled." It's just that the governor of this province has received an urgent report, and Heshuo Sigege has something to do temporarily, and he has already returned to Beijing as soon as he arrives in Suqian, this time, and the general is afraid that he will have to run empty. ”

"! Stinky **, obviously deliberately avoiding me! Sun Tingling has long heard of his future wife's affair in Beijing, this time he came to Yangzhou to ask Kong Sizhen Xingshi for the crime, torture the truth of the rumors, and now Kong Sizhen suddenly returned to Beijing to deliberately avoid him, which invisibly confirmed the reliability of the rumors, so angry that Sun Tingling scolded again. Zhu Guozhi sneered and said: "Okay, since Sigege is not coming to Yangzhou, General Sun will please take care of himself, and the governor will not accompany him if he still has official business." With that, Zhu Guozhi waved his hand, hugged the three girls he had just bought and walked down, and the green battalion soldiers brought by the bear pipe belt hugged him tightly, and the group swaggered out.

Although Zhu Guozhi is also a Han Chinese, he looks down on other Han people very much by virtue of his identity as a slave of the Yellow Banner - this is also the fundamental reason why he came to Yunnan later and Wu Sangui's army is incompatible, Zhu Guozhi even dared to contradict Wu Sangui, and this Sun Tingling in front of him even slept with his wife, and Zhu Guozhi would still put him in his eyes. When passing by Sun Tingling's side, Zhu Guozhi couldn't help but stimulated Sun Tingling again: "By the way, there is one thing I almost forgot to tell General Sun, tomorrow the imperial guard Lord Donkey will escort Gu Yanwu and other Qin prisoners to Yangzhou City - I bought these girls to prepare to be filial to Lord Donkey, I heard that Lord Donkey and Sigege have an unusually 'close' relationship, if the general wants to inquire about Sigege's recent situation, he can go directly to him." With that, Zhu Guozhi laughed and left.

Zhu Guozhi deliberately put the word 'intimacy' very seriously, how could Sun Tingling not hear the meaning? It's just that Zhu Guozhi has half a battalion of troops around him to protect him, and Sun Tingling doesn't dare to twist his head off on the spot as a night pot. Only after Zhu Guozhi and the Qing army's green camp disappeared without a trace, Sun Tingling smashed a table next to him with a knife, and roared: "Zhu Guozhi! Tough ass! Lao Tzu will not kill you, and he will not be a man! Kong Sizhen, stinky **——! ”

"Kong Sizhen, stinky ** ——!" Sun Tingling's roar shook the clouds, like a ghost crying wolf, which was enough to make a child cry at night and leave the branches. But for Wu Yuanming and Yao Qisheng, the embarrassed father and son who were hiding in the private room on the second floor, this voice was even more beautiful than the heavenly fairy song, and the treacherous father and son of the raccoon dog looked at each other and smiled treacherously, and whispered: "If you want to save Gu Yanwu and them, you can land on this green hat general." ”