The most lively place in Jinling City is undoubtedly the Confucian Temple, that is, the area of the Confucius Temple.

The most deserted place in Jinling City is Xuanwuze in the north.

Yue Qianqiu, who had only heard of Xuanwu Lake, had specially inquired at the beginning, and the reason why it was called Ze, not called Lake, was because Wu Taizu swept the Wei Dynasty and sat in Jinling, the capital of the country, before he sat in Jinling, the founding capital of the country, there was a phase master who saw the royal spirit of the founding Taizu, and the Tao was that Jinling was a blessed land, but Taizu had a catastrophe in Xuanwu Lake, if it was better to change the name, and it was not to change the word Xuanwu.

Therefore, Taizu finally won the world, and as soon as he ascended the throne, Xuanwu Lake became Xuanwu Ze.

This is not counting, just like Yue Qianqiu's life, the famous Taiping Prime Minister Wang Anshi directly abolished Xuanwu Lake, and returned the lagoon to the field, as a result, Xuanwu Lake disappeared for more than 200 years, but the Jiangning City is often waterlogged, and some people in this life think that since Taizu doesn't like Xuanwu Ze, then drain the lake water and directly replace it with good land to make Huangzhuang?

However, the fact is that it is not good at all, and the idea is simply rotten!

Emperor Taizu was also quite taboo about Xuanwu Ze in his heart, and on the day he personally inspected Xuanwu Ze's water discharge, it rained heavily from the sky, even if he was hugging from the front and back, Emperor Taizu was stunned and fell into the water while hiding from the rain, and then went to half his life after a wind chill. Wu Taizu, who barely escaped, no longer dared to fight Xuanwuze's idea, and hurriedly threw the proposal of returning the waste lake to the land into the garbage heap, and classified Xuanwuze as a forbidden area.

No fishing, no boats, no farming...... Countless refusals have forced many people to move out. As for classifying this beautiful place as a forbidden garden, because he had suffered a big loss, Wu Taizu didn't want to take such an evil hot potato again. He even regretted including this when he built the city.

Now a hundred years have passed, the forbidden area has long been less frequent than the old days with officers and soldiers patrolling, and a few generations later, the emperor also acquiesced to the ban, but after a long time, this place is famous. Except for a very small number of reckless scholars who are not afraid of ghosts and gods, Jianghu warriors with their heads pinned to their waistbands, or poor people who are so poor that they have to take risks, Xuanwuze in the north of Jinling City is a deserted wild lake most of the time, because few people walk, and there are many places by the water, wild grasses and reeds everywhere.

But on this day, a group of tourists came to the deserted wild lake, including even a female guest who had been rare to see in Xuanwuze for ten years or eight years. Dawu is different from Beiyan, although the defense of men and women is not so strict that they will go to the water to commit suicide when they are seen, but the more people with status, the more firmly the woman covers her at home, and she can't wait to go out of the door and not step out of the second door.

And now, in this group, although the girl who got off one of the carriages was not dressed in red and purple, nor was she full of pearls and jade, but she was wearing a plain azure skirt, but a pair of flawless mutton fat jade bracelets on her wrists showed the wealth of her family, not to mention the few handmaidens and many retinues who served in front of and behind her head.

However, at this time, she waved her hand to stop the crowd who were about to follow, and walked to the water's edge on her own. Her complexion is slightly unhealthy and fair, although her face is beautiful, but her eyebrows are slightly frowned, vaguely revealing a bit of weakness and weakness, but that is not weak at all, but rather resolute, but distinguishes her from those sad daughters.

Closely followed, there was only a maid dressed as a man. She lifted her skirt and carefully didn't want the new boots under her feet to step on the mud, and lowered her head and said, "Miss, what's so beautiful about this Xuanwu Ze, I heard that a lot of people in Jinling City are all taboo about this place, and you even came to this cold place on this cold day!" ”

After a long time of no answer, she hurriedly raised her head, but saw that her young lady had already come straight to the water's edge, and the lonely back of the cocoon made her feel a little embarrassed. Startled, she couldn't care about the new pair of buckskin boots she put on today, so she rushed forward in three steps and two steps, and grabbed her young lady's arm, lest one of them fail to see the other party's suicide.

However, even though her skills could not be matched by most of the entourage guards, when she grabbed the hand that obviously had no strength, she felt the silent resistance of the other party, she involuntarily retracted her hand, and said: "When I came out, the master repeatedly told you not to be petty. ”

"I know that he wants those nobles in the capital to see my best and most suitable side."

Describing this sentence indifferently, the girl standing by the water smiled, even if she was accompanied by the man's maid, but the loneliness and desolation of hanging each other could not be concealed at all.

Finding that the person next to her was silent, she didn't say anything, just looked at the water in the distance. However, in this gray weather, where it was impossible to distinguish whether it was water or sky in the distance, a sound of water came from far and near.

The men's maid doesn't believe it, in this kind of cold day, in addition to his own person who is generous, peerless, and has outstanding etiquette, but in fact has a somewhat unspeakable eccentric temperament, there are others who have leisure and elegance to come to a place like Xuanwu Ze where birds don't, and the first reaction is that there is a problem.

This time, she didn't care about whether it would make people unhappy, so she ran to the young lady without saying a word, directly picked up the person, turned around and ran away.

When she quickly retreated, those entourages had already hurriedly stepped forward to respond, and even drew their swords directly to guard them, as if they were facing a great enemy. In the face of this chaotic scene, the girl in the green shirt knew that everything she said was in vain, so she simply let it go, did not say a word, but refused to return to the carriage, her eyes just looked thoughtfully at the place where the sound of water came from, but it was a pity that the reeds on the shore of the lake were overgrown, and she didn't know whether it was a person or a ghost in a hurry.

She didn't know how long it took for her to see a small boat nimbly slip out from behind the reeds. At first glance, it seemed very slow, but every time the oars touched the water, they could travel far in an instant, and in a short time they were already on the shore where she had just stood. At this moment, the guards around her were all extremely nervous, and the men's maid dragged her desperately to get back to the car.

Just when there was a mess up and down, the girl in the green shirt heard a clear voice: "Old man Du Bailou, Qianqian is here?" ”

Although he only heard his voice and did not see him, or rather, a hat directly covered the face of the boatman, but when he heard this voice, the girl in green shirts, more precisely, Miss Cheng, the popular candidate for the princess that Yue Qianqiu mentioned to the little fat man, immediately shouted in surprise and joy: "Senior Du, you are here in person!" ”

With this sound, I saw a figure in the bow of the ship leap high, and after crossing a long distance, it landed on its toes and then another horizontal leap, and finally landed lightly and skillfully in front of the guards. Seeing that everyone's faces were full of vigilance, and even more so, he pointed his sword directly at himself, but he didn't take it to heart, and took off his hat directly.

This time, his tone was obviously much more casual: "I have to believe that after arriving in Yangzhou, I heard that you set off to Jinling, so I chased you all the way." It's cold and windy, and a place like Xuanwuze is not a place to enjoy fun, how could you think of coming here? ”

"Originally, I thought that Emperor Taizu was talented and strategic, but I didn't expect to be confused by a mere lake. Throughout the ages, things like physiognomy have not been able to blind many people who should have been wise, so they came to hang on to them. But more precisely, it's just to kill time, and I can't imagine that I can really wait for you. ”

Miss Cheng's face no longer has the indifference at the beginning, and there is a little more vivid girlish atmosphere. The entourage in front of the meeting was still surrounding her, so she raised her eyebrows and said: "Although Senior Fuyun Zidu has been away from Qingcheng for many years, after all, he has been the chief arrest head of the Criminal Department, and now he has not appeared in front of people for a year and a half, has he become a suspicious person in your eyes?" ”

It turned out to be really Fuyunzi Du Bailou!

A large group of guards was stunned. And the man-dressed maid who hurriedly carried someone back before stared at the former peerless swordsman with bright eyes, and it took a while to think of a question.

Although her own young lady was very famous in Yangzhou, it was in the circle of the daughters of the boudoir, such as Fuyunzi Du Bailou and other martial arts practitioners, how could she know?

What made her even more dumbfounded was that after seeing Miss Cheng cross a group of entourage guards and stride in front of Du Bailou, she actually gave a salute, and then flashed straight behind her. Immediately afterwards, this lady who has always been known for her exemplary etiquette among the daughters of everyone in Yangzhou said word by word: "Senior Du, I have thought about it, please take me back to Qingcheng!" ”

In the reeds, on another small boat, Yue Qianqiu and Little Fat Man, who had been cats for a long time, suddenly looked at each other.

Xiao Jingxian didn't know where to find out that people would come to Xuanwuze, so the little fat man grinded softly and hard, begging for nothing, forcing Yue Qianqiu to agree to come here to ambush, from last night to now, he has been squatting all night. At this moment, the little fat man had forgotten the sourness of the cold wind that night, and was just dumbfounded.

Didn't Zhao Qingya and Ye Guanghan say that this Miss Cheng was a popular candidate for his princess? Looking at this posture of hugging back and forth, it is indeed true, but now why did Fuyunzi Du Bailou suddenly appear? Why did people suddenly want to go back to Qingcheng? This Miss Cheng turned out to be from the Qingcheng faction? No, could it be that his brain was about to freeze because of the wind all night?

And Yue Qianqiu is also in the clouds, and he really wants to drag Ye Guanghan and Zhao Qingya here, so that the current prime minister and the former prime minister can take a good look at the puzzling scene in front of them. He pressed the urge to jump out, glanced at the boatman with the reed pole in his mouth behind him, and continued to hold his breath, but all kinds of brain holes continued to bubble out.

Just when he made up the Nth guess in his mind, he saw the men's maid who had carried Miss Cheng Cheng before suddenly rushed forward and shouted, "Miss, can you bear to leave the master alone?" ”

"He has a wife, a son, relatives and friends, and countless protégés, and my daughter is just a puppet who can earn him the family's attention and investment. What do you say you can't bear to bear? Since he was chaotic and abandoned, I lost my mother at the age of four, and I looked at me to make good use of it, and spread what kind of young phoenix life, I already have no father! ”