After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the arrival of missionaries in China, Western clocks and watches have gradually been introduced to the Ming Dynasty.

Lin Yu walked alone on the street, and when he saw that there was no one around, he clicked on the screen in the palm of his left hand, entered the auxiliary store, and spent 10,000 gold coins to buy an electronic watch with a step counting function.

It was now ten o'clock in the morning, and there were still four and a half hours before dawn, Lin Yu led the horse and walked along the Qinhuai River on the way back to the post house, so that he could learn more about the Ming Dynasty and Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The city of Nanjing in the middle of the night is still very lively, with the sound of oars and candles on the banks of the Qinhuai River, and the green buildings are lined up one after another.

The woman dressed in flowers and branches is singing and swallowing, and the red sleeves are lightly moved. Awning boats carrying drunken sons and sons roamed on the river, choosing the girl they liked.

There is a well-written poem - the merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the flowers in the backyard across the river!

If it weren't for his own crossing, the current Yangzhou City would only be afraid that it would have been a river of blood and a mountain of corpses, right?

Thinking about it, even so, Qin Huaihe still can't change her romantic nature, talented and beautiful, happy and happy, who cares about the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty?

are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, why do the soldiers of Yangzhou have to brave the artillery fire of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to bathe the city in blood, but these sons and brothers can spend all day drinking and getting drunk?

"Maybe there's no fairness in the world, right?" Lin Yu asked himself melancholy, as if he was asking the sky.

"The boy who led the horse, come in and play...... Do we know the new top brand Bian Yujing here? Come in and take a look! ”

An old bustard in his early thirties, still in style, standing in front of the door with a Xiangfei fan in his hand to solicit guests, noticed the imposing Lin Yu, and greeted him vigorously.

"Bian Yujing?"

Lin Yu's heart moved slightly, isn't this one of Qin Huai's eight yans?

In Lin Yu's impression, Qin Huai Bayan at this moment has its own destiny except for the deceased Ma Xianglan, Li Xiangjun followed Hou Fangyu, and Dong Xiaowan married Mao Bijiang, the lovers of these two belong to young talents, but they are more down-and-out types.

Others, like Liu Ru, who married the Donglin Party boss, are now the waiters of the Ministry of Rites, and Qian Qianyi, a scholar who is respected by later generations as "the water is too cold".

Gu Hengbo also used the pseudonym Xu Shanzhi to marry Gong Dingyu, who served as a military minister under Chongzhen, and after Li Zicheng broke through Beijing, Gong Dingyu surrendered to Dashun, and Dashun surrendered to the Manchu Qing after defeating Beijing.

Moreover, this Gong Dingyu is good at dancing with long sleeves, and his official fortune is prosperous, and he has been an official in the Shunzhi and Kangxi dynasties in history, and is quite valued by Dolgon, Fulin, Xuanye and others, and has been relocated to important positions such as Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, Shilang of the Criminal Department, Zuodu Yushi, Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and can also be regarded as a figure of the year in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

Kou Baimen is now with Zhu Chongba's descendants, Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, after the city of Nanjing was broken in history, Zhu Guobi was arrested by the Qing army and asked for ransom, and Zhu Guobi in desperation planned to sell all his wives and concubines, including Kou Baimen.

Kou Baimen returned to the Qinhuai River in a rage, borrowed a huge amount of money from his sister and returned it to Zhu Guobi, and redeemed himself and returned to the Qinhuai River.

As for the famous Chen Yuanyuan, he was already known to everyone before Lin Yu crossed, but he didn't know much about this Bian Yujing, and he had only heard of it slightly.

Seeing that Lin Yu slowed down, the old bustard greeted him even harder: "This son, the Spring Festival is short, and the young man Ruan, who happened to make an appointment with Miss Bian, didn't come tonight, Miss Bian is free, why don't you come to our 'Picking Moon Tower' to have a good time?" ”

"Young Master Ruan?" Lin Yu was stunned, "Which Ruan Gongzi?" ”

The old bustard had a look of contempt: "Don't you know that Ruan Gongzi, there are still a few Ruan Gongzi in Nanjing City?" ”

Lin Yu smiled dumbly: "Oh...... The son of Ruan Dacheng you are talking about, he will never come again in the future. ”

"What do you mean? Neuropathy! ”

Lin Yu didn't take care of the bustard, and led the horse to continue to walk along the Qinhuai River, admiring the wind and snow in the capital, it was rare to be so leisurely at this moment.

A woman in her early twenties upstairs with a beautiful head and a graceful posture was looking downstairs with a pipa in her arms, and her eyes happened to collide with Lin Yu who was passing by, and each other's hearts were moved.

When he came to this world, Lin Yu has seen many superb beauties, such as his wife Jiang Ruhua, showing everyone's beautiful beauty in her gestures; For example, the scimitar kills the enemy, and the heroic Gu Jinchao is even more glamorous.

But they didn't have the melancholy of the woman upstairs, and there was a look of pity in their eyes, as if they were extremely disappointed in the world, but they longed for love and peace.

"Cut the candle Bashan and don't think about it, send Jun Lanji to cross Jianggao. I would like to send a piece of Xiaoxiang to the spring breeze and ask Xue Tao"

Lin Yu silently recited a poem written by Bian Yujing to the poet Wu Meicun in his memory, a woman with such talent should not have fallen into the place of Goolan, but who knew that it was a thin life.

"In this troubled world, how many people can I pity and help?"

Lin Yu sighed, led the horse and walked away, he was entangled in everything, where did he have time to stay in the land of fireworks.

"Mom, let this boy come in, I want to talk to him!" Just as Lin Yu left, the woman upstairs went downstairs like a gust of wind.

The old bustard looked disgusted: "This person is a pretending criminal, he must have no money in his pocket, but he puts on an unstoppable posture, I have seen this kind of person a lot." ”

"I don't want money, I just want to talk to him, and I always feel a sense of déjà vu."

The woman's face was looking forward to it, as if she had recalled the past, but unfortunately Lin Yu had already turned over and got on the horse, gradually drifting away, and disappeared from sight.

The woman could only let out a melancholy sigh, silently turned around and went back to the Yueyue Tower, leaving a word for the old bustard: "Mom, I haven't picked up customers for half a month, I don't sing songs, I don't play the pipa, and I don't see anyone!" ”

Lin Yu returned to the post house with a little melancholy, and asked the two family members who were recuperating from their injuries, Mrs. Jiang Ruhua, Fang Yizhi, Chen Zhenhui and others went to Zhang Shenyan's house and did not come back, so they wrapped a rifle in a bag and hung it on the saddle and left the post house.

"Zhang Shenyan is the cabinet and the secretary of the ministry, and his status is only below Ma Shiying, if I want to have a smooth career in the future, I should take the opportunity to get along with him. In case Ruan Dacheng sues the royal court tomorrow, let him help me say a few kind words. ”

Lin Yu asked the messenger of the post house, rode his horse and whipped, and arrived at Zhang's Mansion after a meal.

Compared with Ruan's mansion, Zhang Shenyan's mansion is much simpler, only the word "Zhang" on the two lanterns in front of the door indicates the identity of this mansion, and there are three or five family members patrolling outside the door.

"Who's coming?" A housekeeper asked.

Lin Yu turned over and dismounted: "This official Zhaoyong General Lin Zhenjiang, more than an hour ago, my wife Jiang Ruhua entered your mansion to meet Zhang Ge Lao?" ”

The family hurriedly saluted: "It turned out to be General Lin, Mrs. Zun did come to our mansion an hour and a half ago, but our lord was ill, and Mrs. Zun went to Qian Shilang's mansion after visiting." ”

"Onset?" Lin Yu was stunned for a moment, feeling a little sudden.

Jia Ding sighed: "My lord had gangrene on his back, and he was very old, so he drank too much wine in the palace today, and he began to vomit blood when he came back. ”

Zhang Shenyan in history died in this time period, and the history books record that he died of a backlash, that is to say, he died after the spread of the poisonous sores on his back, after all, he was already a seventy-year-old man.

"Alas...... In this way, the Nanjing Imperial Court will lose another upright pillar of talent! Lin Yu sighed helplessly in his heart.

Since you have come to Zhang's mansion, let's go in and visit this loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, this old minister is also honest and honest all his life, and can be called the pillar of the country, and now this humerus is about to break, how can it not be embarrassing?

Zhang's house was not flustered, the maids and maids performed their duties, and the hall was brightly lit.

Zhang Shenyan was lying in the bedroom, in addition to the white-haired wife and two concubines who were nearly sixty years old waiting beside him, there were two Lang Zhong waiting for him, frowning and saying nothing.

Zhang Shenyan has four sons and five daughters, as well as a large group of grandsons and daughters, and Zhang Xiaoguo, the second son who served as the ambassador of Kaifeng, has died in Kaifeng with Sun Chuanting the year before last, and died under the knife of the Dashun army.

The third son, Zhang Xiance, is currently serving as the prefect of Quanzhou Mansion, the political envoy of Fujian, and does not know the news that his old father is seriously ill, while the other two sons, the eldest son Zhang Wenzhong and the youngest son Zhang Chenglin, are staying at home in Nanjing.

Knowing that General Lin Zhenjiang, who was in the limelight, came to visit, Zhang Wenzhong, who was nearly 50 years old, hurriedly went out with 30-year-old Zhang Chenglin to greet him: "General Lin visited late at night, and he missed the welcome, so I hope to take care of him!" ”

Lin Yu also saluted: "I learned that Zhang Ge is seriously ill, so I came to visit. ”