Out of the teahouse on the edge of the Qinhuai River, Zhu Hong wandered around with three hundred boredom, and didn't know how to enter a street, there were no shops on this street, but there were many vehicles, there seemed to be a mansion in front, and the door was full of people standing in line, looking like something had happened at home.

Zhu Hongsan stopped and asked Li Chengen beside him: "Lao Li, what street is here?" Why so many people? ”

Of course, Li Chengen knew that the opposite side was Ma Mingyuan's mansion, and he was overjoyed to hear the emperor ask like this, he was at odds with those bastards in Huguang, and now he had the opportunity to give the boss of the Huguang faction a bad medicine.

"Young master, this is Xufu Street, the entire street is the mansion of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, don't you remember that after entering Nanjing, this mansion was rewarded to Ma Shoufu?"

I heard Li Chengen remind Zhu Hongsan to come, this is the mansion of his second brother-in-law Ma Mingyuan, but why are there so many people here?

"I remember, but what's going on in their house? What are so many people doing here? ”

"Young master, you don't know, after Ma Mingyuan became the first assistant, he mastered the promotion of officials in the world, and naturally many people came to pay respects, which is not too much, the queue for gifts before the year went all the way to the flower market street, it was called a spectacular!"

Li Chengen looked at Zhu Hongsan's face while speaking, how did he know that Zhu Hongsan had no expression on his face, and Li Chengen felt bad, so he stopped talking.

Zhu Hong nodded expressionlessly: "Not bad!" Ma Lao Er should also receive some silver, after all, he has been in exile with me for many years, and there is no merit and hard work! ”

Li Chengen didn't know what Zhu Hongsan meant by this, and he didn't dare to pick up.

At this time, the person sent by Dongchang to inquire about Li Xiangjun's news came back, and the fanzi came to Zhu Hongsan and told him the news he knew.

It turned out that after Zhu Hongsan left Nanjing, Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun were also politically persecuted not long after. After Emperor Hongguang ascended the throne, he used Ruan Dacheng, and he took the opportunity to frame Hou Fangyu, the enemy of the year.

Hou Fangyu saw that Nanjing couldn't stay, so he had to go to Yangzhou to defect to Yangzhou Governor Shi Kefa. After Hou Fangyu went, Li Xiangjun ended his career. washed away the lead, closed the door to thank the guests, and waited for the return of the son.

However, the eunuch Ruan Dacheng was able to let her go, and at the instigation of Ruan Dacheng, Emperor Hongguang's big celebrity Tian Yangfeng came to welcome Li Xiangjun as a concubine. Li Xiangjun resolutely refused, Tian Yang still insisted, she simply hit her head on the railing, and blood splashed on the fan that Hou Fangyu gave her. When the marrying person saw that there was a murder, he had no choice but to slip back with a sedan chair.

Ruan Dacheng was almost burned to death by those Donglin students back then, and now he can spare Li Xiangjun there. Ruan Dacheng can be regarded as a well-known figure in the literary world, but his character is not much better than Zhu Hongsan. He didn't want to let Li Xiangjun go, but wrote the lyrics and scripts for Emperor Hongguang himself, and after Li Xiangjun recovered from his injury, Ruan Dacheng immediately recruited her into the palace to serve as a singer under the guise of a holy oracle.

Li Xiangjun really can't resist this move, she is a woman in a green building, how dare she disobey the saint! As soon as the palace gate enters the deep sea, when will I be able to see Hou Lang who misses him day and night? At that time, Li Xiangjun asked someone to send the letter to Hou Fangyu in Yangzhou, so that he could come back to see him, but at this time, the war was tight, and all the transportation was cut off, and the letter could not be sent at all. In the end, with infinite nostalgia and regret, Li Xiangjun entered the palace.

In May of the first year of Hongguang, the Qing soldiers captured Yangzhou and approached Nanjing, and the Hongguang Emperor fled when he heard the news, and was finally hijacked by the generals and dedicated to the Qing army, and then the city of Nanjing was self-defeating.

When the city of Nanjing was broken, Li Xiangjun escaped from the palace with some palace people at night, and the streets were already in chaos, with Qing soldiers burning and looting, and refugees fleeing in all directions. Li Xiangjun walked towards the bank of the Qinhuai River with one foot high and one foot low, only to see the fire everywhere, and the night sky was reflected in a blood-red color. Finally came to the longboard bridge, stood at the head of the bridge, looked in the direction of Meixianglou but found that Meixianglou had also disappeared into a sea of fire. Li Xiangjun's heart sank, his feet were weak, and he suddenly sat on the bridge deck, his mind blank.

At this time, Su Kunsheng, the master who taught Li Xiangjun music back then, passed by the Changban Bridge, and accidentally found Li Xiangjun sitting on the ground stupid, and hurriedly helped her up, only to know that she had nowhere to go, so he took her to Suzhou with the flow of fleeing people. In fact, Hou Fangyu was also in Nanjing City that night, and he escaped and returned to Nanjing after the defeat in Yangzhou. When he arrived, it was when the Qing soldiers were raging and slaughtering the city, and he was anxiously worried about Li Xiangjun's safety, and rushed to the Qinhuai River with fire, but saw Meixianglou burning into a flame, and no one familiar with it was seen. He wandered around Meixianglou and searched for a whole night, but he couldn't see Li Xiangjun's shadow; In fact, at that time, Li Xiangjun was sitting on the longboard bridge only a stone's throw away from Meixianglou, but God teased people, but he didn't let them meet.

Where can Li Xiangjun, a weak woman, go to in chaos, after hiding in Suzhou for half a month, Li Xiangjun missed Hou Fangyu and returned to Nanjing.

At this time, the city of Nanjing had become the world of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there were Manchu Tartars with money rat tails everywhere, and Li Xiangjun had no choice but to go to see his good sister Kou Baimen to find Hou Fangyu.

Kou Baimen married Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, as a concubine as early as three years ago, although he was not treated by the main house, he was still very favored by Zhu Guobi. At this time, Zhu Guobi took the lead in becoming a surrender faction, and he was the red man in front of Duoduo, so Li Xiangjun settled down here in Kou Baimen.

However, in this era, the world was in turmoil, and everyone was in danger, who would have thought that after three years, the former Chu king Zhu Hongsan raised troops in Guangzhou and fought to Nanjing in one go, reoccupying the capital.

Once a son of heaven and a courtier, Zhu Guobi's good days came to an end, the whole family was thrown into the edict prison by Jinyiwei for interrogation day and night, Zhu Guobi had no way to sell Kou Baimen in order to raise money, Li Xiangjun could only leave Zhu's mansion to live in Jiming Temple in Nanjing.

In the past, when Li Xiangjun was famous, he could gather a thousand taels of silver in one night, but now that he is old, and secondly, Li Xiangjun is in very poor health due to years of exile, and he can only be sick in bed, and he needs Kou Baimen's support in daily life.

Kou Baimen returned to his old business and rented a small building on the edge of the Qinhuai River. However, Kou Baimen is not young this year, she was born in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and she is twenty-six years old this year, and no one patronizes her business, so she can only rely on her old reputation to sing some songs for others and earn some scattered silver to survive.

That fan had a pair of clever mouths, and told the tragic experience of Li Xiangjun and Kou Baimen very vividly, Zhu Hongsan sighed and said after listening to it: "Hey! Since Miss Xiangjun is living so bleakly, how can she not be saved as an old person, let's go and patronize her today, which can be regarded as opening a show for her, hahahaha! ”

Li Chengen was about to cry when he heard it on the side, but suddenly heard that Zhu Hongsan was going to prostitute Li Xiangjun, and he scolded this faint gentleman in his heart angrily!

In fact, this kind of thing is nothing in troubled times, Zhu Hongsan has seen people who are 10,000 times more bitter than Li Xiangjun. Although Li Xiangjun and Kou Baimen are miserable, after all, there is no problem with food and clothing, and the homeless people outside the city can't eat the food, so go and pity them?

Zhu Hongsan suddenly remembered Hou Fangyu and asked, "What is Hou Fangyu doing now?" ”

That fan scratched his head and said: "Your Majesty, this subordinate doesn't know, the subordinate only heard that Hou Fangyu left Nanjing and returned to his hometown in Henan, and he had to ask Jinyiwei for specific information!" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded: "Okay, Lao Li, you go back and ask Jinyiwei about Hou Fangyu!" After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he secretly said in his heart that it was a pity, it would be good if Hou Fangyu was in Nanjing, wouldn't it be wonderful to be strong in front of Li Xiangjun in front of his lover! Thinking of the wonders, Zhu Hongsan laughed, and took people out of the south city to go to the Jiming Temple in the north city.

Out of Xufu Street is the flower market street in Nancheng, which is the main road in Nancheng and leads directly to Fudong Street. When he arrived on the street, Zhu Hongsan just wanted to ask people to find a carriage or sedan chair, Nancheng is four or five miles away from Jiming Temple, and there is a subway in Nanjing in later generations, but now it is all about walking to the place, where there is still physical strength.

When Zhu Hongsan was looking for transportation, a small sedan chair carried by two people walked in front of him. It's April now, the temperature is already very high, more than 20 degrees, the sedan curtain on the side of the small sedan chair is lifted, which is convenient for heat dissipation, and a burst of fragrance wafts in front of Zhu Hongsan, Zhu Hongsan is seeing a big beauty sitting in the sedan chair in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Hongsan's beauty standard is not the same as the mainstream aesthetic view of the Ming Dynasty, he thinks that only twenty-four to thirty-four or five are beauties, but at this age in the Ming Dynasty, they are all mothers, so they can show up for Zhu Hongsan to see. So Zhu Hongsan didn't see a few satisfied ones when he came out today, except for the lady who was too young to be in her fifties, or the big-footed woman who wore coarse cloth clothes, that kind of woman didn't mean that Dr. Dai Shi couldn't look down on, even Zhu Hongsan, who was cold and unscrupulous.

The woman in the sedan chair is probably the most beautiful woman Zhu Hongsan has ever seen today, in her twenties, her face is like a peach blossom * her lips are greased, the key is that the woman's skin is very white, and at the same time she is leaning on the sedan chair frame thinking about her thoughts, frowning slightly, which is exactly the type that Zhu Hongsan likes.

Zhu Hongsanyi was overjoyed when he saw it, this kind of chick could be easily let go. Zhu Hongsan pulled Li Chengen beside him and said, "Lao Li, hurry, that little sedan chair, let people follow!" ”

Li Chengen knew that there was another girl from a good family who was going to be poisoned by the faint king, but he didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly called two fans and asked them to follow the small sedan chair behind and stop them in the uninhabited alley.

The two fans bowed down to receive the order and chased after the small sedan chair. Who knew that the two sedan chair drivers were very fast, and they disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Hong was so angry that he hurriedly stopped a sedan chair on the side of the street, dragged out one of the people sitting inside, and said to the two sedan chair drivers: "Hurry up, catch up with the sedan chair in front of you and give you ten silver dollars each!" ”

Under the heavy reward, the two sedan chair drivers fought hard and chased after the sedan chair. It still works, and after chasing for two miles, I finally caught up with the sedan chair in Sheepskin Lane.