Yangzhou, the water outside the city has long disappeared, the embankment of Hongze Lake has also been blocked, the imperial court disaster relief is still powerful, Emperor Chongzhen allocated 500,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury for disaster relief, Yangzhou local government also actively assisted the people to rebuild their homes.

Although there was also water pouring into Yangzhou from the tattered city walls, Chen Yue noticed this consequence early on and mobilized the young people in the city to fill the gap, so that there was not much water entering the city, not to mention that the water outside the city came and went quickly, and did not cause much damage to Yangzhou City.

The Xiaoqinhuai River is still very lively, and the painting boats in the river are everywhere, and the silk and bamboo are so beautiful that countless literati and rioters compete to go.

In just over a month, the trauma caused by the war has basically disappeared, and Yangzhou is still the prosperous Yangzhou of the past.

In an alley away from Xiao Qinhuai, there lived a mysterious family, and I saw the maid come out to buy things, but the owner never showed up. Only occasionally from the courtyard faintly heard a beautiful pipa sound, evoking people to reverie infinitely.

The owner of the yard is naturally a generation of beautiful women Kou Baimen, and she has lived in seclusion here since she came to Yangzhou. Chen Yue had a series of major events in Yangzhou at that time, and he didn't have much time to pay attention to her, but he occasionally came to sit down and listen to the sound of the pipa after he was tired.

In the eyes of Liu Neng and other subordinates who knew some inside stories about Chen Yue, this woman was already Chen Yue's person, but only Kou Baimen and her personal maid knew that she had no relationship with Chen Yue so far.

Is it worth it to do everything yourself? Kou Baimen often asked himself, but he couldn't tell the truth, he only knew that if he was closer to that person, his heart would be calmer. Whenever he heard the news of his victory, Kou Baimen would be happy for a long time.

However, since he left Yangzhou with his troops, he has not heard from him for too long, and he doesn't know if he will return to Yangzhou.

Otherwise, forget it, he is just a lowly prostitute, and he is not worthy of a hero, even if he returns to his old business, it is far better than living such a bleak life. But Kou Baimen couldn't make up her mind, because she knew that once she chose to enter that quagmire, there would be no possibility of being clean, and there would be no possibility with him in this life.

Suddenly there was a sound of opening the door, and then there were small footsteps, Kou Baimen smiled slightly, and the maid Qiuhe came back from shopping for vegetables.

As soon as Qiuhe returned, the small courtyard was much more noisy, because she was always chattering.

"Miss, cucumbers are much cheaper today than in the past, I spent ten copper plates to buy a lot of them, I know that you like to eat cucumbers the most, Miss."

"Miss, I heard that Xiao Qinhuai has built another green building, and the head of the house is a famous prostitute in Nanjing City, the one named Xiao Yueyue is far worse than you, Miss."

"Miss, I heard that the Marquis of Pingnan has sealed the Duke of Qi, and he has already carried the coffin to Hangzhou to bury his father."

Qiu He chattered, and the last sentence made Kou Baimen's face change.

"What do you say? Pingnanhou went to Hangzhou? ”

"Yes, miss, I heard from Brother Ma, the news must be right." Qiu He looked at her young lady carefully, not knowing how she would react.

Brother Ma is the head of the Yangzhou Mansion, and he is a member of the Enemy Intelligence Department, and he has been ordered to secretly follow the master and servant.

It turned out that he went to Hangzhou and buried his father Shouxiao, no wonder he never returned to Yangzhou. Wuhu and Yangzhou are also more than 200 miles away, Yangzhou is Chen Yue's old nest, the development of the Wuhu war Yangzhou is very clear, Kou Baimen knows that Chen Yue won the battle, and also knows that his father Chen Jianghe, the Marquis of Zhongyi, was seriously injured.

"Miss, what should we do?" Qiu He asked worriedly, Chen Yue went to Hangzhou to guard filial piety, one guard must be three years, this Yangzhou should not be able to come back, according to Brother Ma, many of Qi Guogong's old staff have already gone to Hangzhou by boat.

"Let's go to Hangzhou too, the old marquis is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, I want to kowtow to the old marquis in front of the grave!" Kou Baimen said resolutely. No matter what, we must see him again and make a break with everything that was before.

The next day, the master and servant of Kou Baimen packed up their things and resolutely left Yangzhou and went to Hangzhou.

Yangzhou and Hangzhou are the same as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and they are the most prosperous cities in the world, and there are passenger ships to and fro every day.

The master and servant of Kou Baimen took a two-story passenger ship, with more than ten rooms, the rooms were small, but it was enough for two people. Putting the pipa in his arms on the bed, Kou Baimen sat by the open window, watching the boats in the canal come and go in a daze.

Yangzhou to Hangzhou nearly 600 miles, passenger ships every day dawn and overnight, every day is also 40 or 50 miles, to Yangzhou at least more than 10 days.

Of course, the passenger ship is in charge of food, and every time it arrives at the coastal city, it will stop, and the boatman will go to the shore to buy vegetables and grain.

Not all the guests on the ship are going to Hangzhou, and many of them get off the boat in the middle of the way, such as Zhenjiang Changzhou, and there will be guests who get on the boat from here to Yangzhou, and most of them are businessmen.

On this day, the ship arrived in Suzhou, and a few guests went down, but many more came up, more than ten people, crowded into two rooms, one of which was next door to the cabin of Kou Baimen.

These people were very noisy, laughing and laughing as soon as they got on the boat, and the planks did not isolate the sound.

"I'll go find the boatmen and tell them to be quiet!" Seeing that Kou Baimen's face was not safe, the maid Qiuhe stood up and said, she knew that her young lady had always loved Qingjing.

"Forget it, when you're out of the house, just bear with it, it's not far from Hangzhou anyway." Kou Baimen said lightly.

It's just that the group next door kept talking, so that she didn't have the heart to read anymore. When I couldn't help but listen, what was being discussed was the matter of the Shui Shi Academy, and then the name of Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi Guo, suddenly came out of the mouths of those people, which made Kou Baimen feel refreshed.

Listen carefully, but it is Qi Guogong Chen Yue who wants to run a water master school, and sent people to spread the news in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as long as they are literate, they can go to Hangzhou to go to Qiyun business to apply for the exam, and after passing the exam, they can enter the school to study, and if they can graduate after two years, they can be awarded the seventh rank military attaché.

Zhengqipin, already at the same level as the county order, although in the eyes of the reader, the military attache of the Zhengqipin is nothing and the status of the county order is far away, after all, the idea of being noble and cheap has been deeply rooted, and there are too many guards along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, among which there are countless hundreds of thousands of officials, and they are just digging in the ground, how can they get into the eyes of people?

But ordinary people don't see it that way, because for many people, even if the hundred households in the guard house are already great officials, there is no problem in bullying a commoner or something. Especially for those who have gone to a private school and can't succeed, instead of choosing to be an apprentice in a other business house, it is better to apply for a water master school, maybe they can also fight for an official body to glorify their ancestors, isn't it better than anything else?

Quietly listening to the words from the guests next door, Kou Baimen had a smile on his face.