The Fengyue place of the Qinhuai River is commonly known as the old courtyard, also known as the song, which evolved from the Fule Courtyard in the early Ming Dynasty.

Originally, this Fuller House was not a pure Fengyue place, but mainly some musicians trained by the Ministry of Education, mainly performing music, dance and opera, and some family members of prisoners acted as prostitutes and made a living by selling their hues.

During the Yongle period of Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, many generals of the Jianwen Dynasty resisted stubbornly in the Battle of Jingjing, which caused great losses to the northern army and angered Chengzu Zhu Di, so after he occupied Nanjing, he wantonly confiscated the wives and daughters of the generals of the Jianwen Dynasty and filled them into the Fule Courtyard for the soldiers to stay in the prostitution, and the Fule Yuan slowly evolved into a special Fengyue place.

The old courtyard of Jinling is in the southeast of Jiangnan Gongyuan, the front door is facing Wuding Bridge, the back door is facing the banknote street, and the Gongyuan is across the river.

This river is naturally the Qinhuai River, but it is not the section in front of Zhang Bin's mansion, he came back and inquired only to know that the old courtyard is in the inner city, and it is still quite a distance away from where he lives, but fortunately, he really lives on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and it is not a deception of Bi Maokang.

The first trip to Huizhou can only be said to be half-baked with the Bi brothers, he originally thought that he had to run a few more times to fool Bi Maokang to Jinling, but he never thought that before ten days, Bi Maokang ran to Jinling to find himself!

When Zhao Ru ran in and told him that Master Bi was coming, he was stunned for a long time, and then he was surprised: "Is it Lord Bi from Huizhou?" ”

Zhao Ru nodded and said, "Yes, my lord, it is the little Bi in Huizhou." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he hurriedly got up and ran out, and ran to the door to see, isn't it Bi Maokang.

Good fellow, he didn't come from a light car, and there were two carriages parked outside the door, one with a canopy and one without a canopy, the one with the canopy was obviously a car, and the one without a canopy was obviously pulling things, and the clothes boxes and baskets were piled up on it.

Obviously, he's planning to come and stay for a long time!

Zhang Bin ran forward with surprise on his face and arched his hand: "Master Bi, are you here to serve in Jinling?" ”

He didn't pretend to be surprised, he really didn't expect Bi Maokang to come over by himself after only a few days, which was simply effortless!

Bi Maokang nodded and laughed: "Hahahaha, yes, after you left, I struggled with my brother for a few days, and my brother finally agreed to let me come to Jinling to take up a post." ”

How does that feel a little wrong?

Listening to what he meant, as long as his elder brother agrees, he can come to Jinling to serve, the question is that his brother is neither the first assistant of the cabinet nor the secretary of the ministry, nor is he the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Gonggong, is what he said useful?

Zhang Bin couldn't help but be surprised: "You got in touch so quickly?" ”

Bi Maokang shook his head and said with a smile: "How can it be so fast, my brother only repaired the book yesterday and sent it to the capital, but the six departments of the southern capital still have some authority in addition to the household department and the military department, and the other four departments are basically an empty shelf, if you don't make any mistakes, invite people to come, no one will come, just go to the Ministry of Industry to fill the vacancy, there should be no problem." ”

This is also true, except for the household department and the military department, the personnel of the six departments of the southern capital are relatively neat, and the shortage of other yamen personnel is quite serious, it seems that they have not made up for it, if they don't make mistakes, who wants to run to eat and wait for death!

Zhang Bin looked at the open-top carriage behind him and asked curiously, "Hasn't Master Bi found a good place to live yet?" ”

Bi Maokang nodded and said: "Yes, I came in a hurry, I haven't found a good place yet, I don't know if there is a place to park the carriage here, I want to park the carriage here first, and then find a temple or inn to live in first, and then slowly find a house." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help but move in his heart, at this time, the shop on the side of Nanshi Street had been bought, and there were two rows of warehouses behind, and the cloth in the courtyard where Cao Huachun and Cao Huayu lived had already moved over, and the courtyard of the three entrances, Cao Huachun's family lived in one, Cao Huayu's family lived in one, and the outermost one was just empty.

If Bi Maokang doesn't dislike it, just let him live in, so that it is convenient for him to win over.

Of course, the premise is that he doesn't dislike it, and if he dislikes it, then there is no way.

Thinking of this, he tentatively said: "I happen to have a separate empty room in this backyard, I don't know if Lord Bi likes the small place, if you don't dislike it, you can live there first." ”

Bi Maokang was pleasantly surprised: "That's a good relationship, I don't have any family members here, it's enough to enter a vacant room, by the way, don't keep calling me Master Bi, just call me Meng Hou directly." ”

Zhang Bin said in surprise: "Brother Menghou, that little brother is better to be respectful." ”

Bi Maokang smiled heartily: "Okay, Shuangquan Virtuous Brother, it will be much more comfortable to listen to this way." ”

Zhang Bin smiled and said, "It's not early this day, why don't I take Brother Meng Hou to put things away?" ”

Bi Maokang nodded and said, "Okay, please lead the way in front of the virtuous brother." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he directly ordered Zhao Ru to run to greet the Cao Huachun brothers, and then pulled Bi Maokang into his carriage and turned to the compound behind.

As soon as Zhang Bin and Bi Maokang got off the carriage, the three Cao Defu brothers hurriedly ran over, bowed in unison and saluted, "Teacher." “

Bi Maokang couldn't help but be curious: "Who are these three?" ”

Zhang Bin hurriedly introduced: "These three are the students of the younger brother, Cao Defu, Cao Delu, and Cao Deshou, and they and their families live in the back two courtyards. Defu, Delu, Deshou, this is Master Bi. ”

When the three Cao Defu brothers heard this, they all bowed to Bi Maokang and said, "I've seen Master Bi." “

Bi Maokang was naturally happy to respond, he originally brought three family members, and with the help of Zhang Cha and Zhao Ru and the three brothers Cao Defu, the things were quickly moved into the house.

After tidying up for a while, the sky slowly darkened, Zhang Bin looked up at the window, and said a little embarrassed: "Brother Menghou, little brother didn't expect you to come over today, and I didn't prepare any good wine and food, why don't we go out to eat?" ”

Bi Maokang nodded and said, "Okay, why don't you go directly to the old courtyard to eat, save tossing back and forth." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he fainted at the wrong point, he just came, and he wanted to go to the old courtyard so impatiently, is this Qinglou woman so attractive?

However, since the people came, this Qinglou would have to go shopping sooner or later, and it didn't make much difference whether it was sooner or later, so he directly instructed Zhang to send them a few words, and then led Bi Maokang out.

At this time, a carriage and two horses had been parked outside, Wang Er was already waiting in the carriage, and Zhang Cha and Zhao Ru quickly turned over and got on the horse.

Zhang Bin and Bi Maokang got into the carriage, and the group of five went straight to the old courtyard.

Within half an hour, the old courtyard arrived.

To be honest, this was the first time Zhang Bin came to Jinling Old Courtyard, and as soon as he got out of the carriage, he was startled by the scene in front of him.

I see, a wall will be Qinhuai River side of a large piece of land encircled, in the wall, embroidered buildings stand in a forest, row after row, I don't know how many, on the street, the flow of people is like weaving, shoulder to shoulder, lively extraordinary, where is like the gathering place of green buildings, it is simply the pedestrian street of later generations!