Zhu Youzhen and his entourage led the convoy and entered Tongzhou City at the last moment when the city gate was about to close. Later, many chariot and horse travelers who did not have time to enter the city could only sleep outside the city. Of course, this is also the result of Zheng Tuohai beating the guards of the city with a hundred taels of silver, otherwise, even they will be turned away.

Entering Tongzhou City, Zhu Youzhen saw that the city was not very large, and looked east along the wide main road in the city from the west gate, and the east city gate in the distance could already be seen. The buildings in the city are also similar to the architectural form of the Jingshi, the difference is that there are fewer of the Sifu and the deep house compound, while the restaurants, tea shops, inns and casinos are lined up one after another, one by one, but more lively than the Jingshi.

The destination of this trip to Tongzhou, which is the venue for the finals of the world's Oiran Championship, is the largest brothel in Tongzhou, Menghong Mansion.

In fact, this dream red building is not too far from the West City Gate, but due to the busy traffic on the street, the huge flow of people, and the small merchants and hawkers occupying the road, Zheng Tuohai's motorcade is very difficult. However, the distance of a few hundred meters took half an hour, and it also allowed Comrade Zhu Youzhen to see for the first time in this era the grand situation of traffic jams that were commonplace in his previous life.

In the middle of the city, the lights are red and willow green, and the tourists are weaving, and the mood of everyone gradually calms down. When the carriage stopped temporarily, several women saw the shouts of buying and selling around them, and finally regained their lively and enthusiastic shopping nature, poked their heads out of the car window, and chattered non-stop.

Seeing this, Li Zicheng smiled and said: "You Gongzi, there are three treasures in this Tongzhou, which are roasted catfish, sugar fire and Tongzhou bean curd. Tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, come and taste these local snacks again, but they also have a unique flavor. ”

Zheng Tuohai quipped: "No, no, Tongzhou obviously has four treasures, and Li Gongzi has one less treasure!" ”

Zhu Youzhen said: "What other treasure?" ”

Li Zicheng joked: "That must be Lao Zheng, don't you hear that 'there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure'?" ”

Zheng Tuohai laughed and said: "Li Gongzi is too good at joking, this treasure that the contemptible people say is this dream of the Red Mansion!" If there is no such treasure, the other three treasures are not treasures! ”

When Zhu Youzhen looked up, a tall four-story building on the north side of the street had already come into view. Against the backdrop of the surrounding low and dense houses, this exquisite high-rise building with colorful flags and bright lights stands out even more. Its plaque hangs high above the fourth floor, and it must be looked up with great effort to see it, and it has three big characters on it: Dream Red Mansion.

Entering the hall of Menghong Mansion, Zhu Youzhen saw that this place was wider than the Shanglin Garden of Jingshi, with nearly 100 tables, and it was already full of friends at this time. Zheng Tuohai had already sent someone to stand in front and arranged the seats, but it was only in the second row in front of the stage to the right, and it seemed that there were more people here who were stronger than him.

After Zhu Youzhen and others took their seats, Zheng Tuohai hurriedly sent Wu Mengmei backstage to prepare for tonight's performance. Seeing that Zheng Tuohai was extremely enthusiastic before and after running, Zhu Youzhen asked with a wicked smile: "Since Boss Zheng likes Miss Wu so much and spends so much money for her, what else does he participate in the Oiran Competition?" Anyway, the people who went to Lin Yuan didn't follow closely, so wouldn't it be better to just take her away? ”

Zheng Tuohai replied with a smile: "Gongzi You said that he was joking, although the contemptible people took Mengmei with him, they bet 50,000 taels of silver in Shanglin Yuan, if they run away, the 50,000 taels of silver will be gone." Besides, Zheng has been in Beijing for many years, and he still has a little fame in the rivers and lakes. If you play such a hand, you won't have to mix in the business world in the future! ”

Bao Yulian listened to it but didn't think so, and muttered disdainfully: "If you like others and don't redeem yourself for others, it's just fake love!" ”

Zheng Tuohai's ears were very sharp, and he smiled bitterly when he heard it: "Miss doesn't know, Zheng already has a wife and four concubines, and the tigress in the family is very powerful, so she won't let Zheng take Mengmei into the room, otherwise I would have redeemed Mengmei a long time ago." Moreover, Zheng is a rough man, wandering overseas all the year round, and there are only a handful of days in a year that can get together with Mengmei. If Mengmei is accepted, it doesn't make her lonely, and she has to suffer from the anger of the tigress? ”

Bao Yulian didn't believe it at all, so she said with a pretty face: "That's better than laughing in the Qinglou, and the song is welcome!" ”

Zheng Tuohai saw that Bao Yulian was angry, because she was already Zhu Youzhen's person, so she naturally didn't dare to offend, and said with a smile: "What Miss said is that Zheng Mou's affection for Mengmei is naturally not as good as You Gongzi's affection for Miss Bao. You Gongzi fell in love with Miss Bao at first sight, and spent thousands of dollars to redeem Miss Bao, Zheng was ashamed of himself! ”

Bao Yupian saw that he was pulled on himself, his face immediately turned red, and he refused to speak anymore, but he couldn't help but feel a ripple in his heart: "Is this person really emotionally attracted to me?" Or did you redeem me just because you had pity on me? There are so many poor people in the world, but why did he choose me? My father died because of him, so how could he have anything to do with him? There are so many beautiful women around him, and my identity is so humble and lowly, how can I have those non-trivial thoughts? But I've even seen him there, how will I get along with him in the future? …”

For a while, she was so confused that she didn't dare to look up at Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know that Bao Yulian had already moved so much in a moment, and he was also talking and laughing with Zheng Tuohai, Li Zicheng, Lin Youkun and others.

Not long after, a middle-aged man walked on the stage, clasped his fists to the guests, and shouted: "Welcome to Menghong Mansion!" The villain is the shopkeeper of the Dream Red House Li Datong, this year's turn to Tongzhou to hold the World Oiran Finals, the Dream Red House can be responsible for the undertaking, and thanks to the love of the princess, deign to come to the scene, the villain is really fortunate to live three lives, thank you here! Before Qunfang debuts, the villain would like to introduce you to a few distinguished guests today! ”

All the guests were attracted by his opening remarks at this time, and they all stretched their necks to see who these distinguished guests were.

"This first place is the son of Fang Yizhi Fang of Tongcheng!" Li Datong jumped off the stage, came to the table in the middle of the first row, and pointed to a young man in the center and introduced.

As soon as these words came out, the audience shook. There were also many people whispering: "This is the prince of Fang Man, who ranks first in the 'Four Sons of Jianghuai'?" 'Lingyun has been moving the rivers and lakes for a long time, and the cane and sword become the sound of wind and rain", who doesn't know who doesn't know, it's from his hand! And more people were full of reverence, and stood up to applaud this Fang Gongzi.

Fang Yizhi also bowed out of his seat in a chic manner and bowed to the crowd.

Zhu Youzhen didn't learn and didn't know how to do it in his previous life, how do you know where this wisdom is. When he saw others applauding, he had no choice but to applaud.

Seeing that the applause in the audience stopped for a while, Li Datong pointed to a younger son next to Fang Yizhi and said: "This second person is Chen Zhenhui Chen Gongzi of Yixing!" ”

The crowd boiled again, it turned out that Chen Zhenhui was not only one of the "Four Sons of Jianghuai", with an outstanding literary name, and his father Chen Yuting was a pivotal figure in the Donglin Party. At that time, the literati and students of the people were all proud of getting acquainted with the Donglin Party, and some people immediately couldn't help but want to talk to Chen Zhenhui before approaching, but they were all blocked by the strong man who was responsible for maintaining order in the Menghong Mansion, otherwise the venue would have to be in chaos.

"This third place," Li Datong said loudly, "Do you still use villains to make more introductions?" At the age of fourteen, he published "Xiangli Garden Occasionally", such as Gao Mao Xiang and Mao Gongzi! Are there any people who don't know how to venture out of the frontier? ”

This time, Zhu Youzhen finally discovered a historical figure he knew. In his previous life, he watched a garbage TV series "The Legend of Dong Xiaowan", and he also knew a little about the story of Mao Bijiang and Dong Xiaowan. In the TV series, Mao Bijiang is a famous literati with a lot of national integrity, who first fought against traitors in the court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and after the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he was not a Manchu Qing for life. And his love story with Dong Xiaowan, a famous prostitute in Jiangnan, is also a main line of this garbage TV series.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen also knows that most of the TV series in his previous life were made up by screenwriters, and they are often more than 108,000 miles away from real history. Not to mention, he has not watched less of those anti-Japanese war dramas, what grenades hit the plane, tearing up the little devils, and anti-Japanese plane heads abound, if you want to understand the historical truth from the TV series, it is better to listen to the speeches of Bush Jr. or Obama, and there are more to tell the truth.

The applause from the audience pulled Zhu Youzhen back from his distraction, and saw that he was a man with a long body, a face like a crown of jade, and eyes like stars, which was really a talent. At this moment, he was answering to everyone in a reserved manner, his eyes swept over the audience, but he suddenly made a certain decision on Zhu Youzhen's seat, and then swept away.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be stunned, and it took a while before he suddenly realized: This Mao Bijiang naturally doesn't know himself, so Zheng Tuohai and Li Zicheng are not good-looking. The reason why his gaze stayed was naturally because of Bao Yulian, who looked like a fairy, and the twin four sisters.

"What the 'Four Sons', they're all big men, pretending to be wool, who doesn't know who? But what's there to write a few crooked poems? In his previous life, if he wanted to say who was a poet, it was almost the same as scolding his eighth-generation ancestors! Zhu Youzhen scolded in his heart. Of course, this can only be a concrete manifestation of envy, jealousy and hatred.

At this time, Li Datong took the stage again and said in a loud voice: "The fourth prince of Jianghuai has arrived at the third, and the remaining one is Hou Fangyu's prince, and we have also invited it kindly. It was only because Li Xiangjun and Miss Li were accidentally cold that they couldn't make the trip, and Hou Gongzi had a deep affection for Miss Li and didn't come. ”

There was another commotion in the audience, but this time it was not because Hou Fangyu couldn't come, but because he sighed for Li Xiangjun's absence.

Li Datong continued: "Xiangjun's absence due to illness is really a big regret for this year's Oiran finals. But the remaining seven members of 'Qin Huai Bayan' are now all present, and you will definitely feel that this trip is worthwhile! Without further ado, the World Oiran Finals are now officially underway! ”

The crowd was thunderous with joy again. After a gong sounded, the audience fell silent.

Zhu Youzhen waited for a long time, but no one came on stage, and when he was irritable, a singing voice like heaven drifted into his ears from outside the venue.