The sound of the shift (one watch, seven o'clock in the evening) was the signal, and the carriage that had been prepared for a long time set off immediately, but it was not from Ruan's house, but had already waited at the door of each Qinglou.

Wang Xiao's arrangement is very proper, he is different from Kang Cheng, and he has never had the habit of doing things in person.

He arranged for more than a dozen carriages to be parked, and he himself, of course, also went to the Qinglou, and he had to personally invite people.

Wang Xiao held a copy of Yang Chao's name card in his hand, because of the confidentiality relationship, it has always been Yang Chao to communicate with these famous prostitutes in Qinglou. Therefore, Yang Chao's name post is easy to use. For the same name post, Yang Chao prepared more than fifty copies, which were scattered in the hands of one by one Wang family, and those family members took them to invite people.

Wang Xiao also has one in his hand, because he also wants to meet certain people, such as Gu Mei.

Although Gu Mei's name has been faintly suppressed by Li Xiangjun over the years, it is still not something that anyone can see if they want to.

Among the four famous prostitutes, Wang Xiao has already met Li Xiangjun, and he still has no chance to see the other three.

After waiting in front of the Meilou for nearly an hour, hearing the sound of falling, Wang Xiao tidied up his clothes and walked straight to the Meilou.

The same situation also happened in front of the doors of famous and talented people, but the identity was just a servant and a family.

Among them, there are exceptions, the first exception is the magistrate of Jiangning County, who was personally invited by Hu Quan, he did not want to see the magistrate, but Yang Chao asked him to do this, in order to show respect.

Because a quarter of an hour before knocking on the watch, Yang Chao asked Hu Quan to ask Yang Wencong of Zhixian County, and for this reason, Hu Quan also specially gave an old man on the nearby street a penny of silver, and asked the old man to inform him of the time in advance.

Hu Quan handed over Yang Chao's name card nervously, not only did he soon see the county order, but he was soon taken out by the anxious county order.

Even the county order did not give Hu Quan a chance to kneel down and pay respects, as if he had been waiting for a long time, just waiting for Hu Quan to come to the door.

Now the county magistrate has arrived in front of Ruan's family and the river, and he got out of the carriage with a rather excited look.

"I've seen my old parents!"

Yang Chao bowed.

"Yang Gongzi is exempt, exempt!"

Yang Wencong actually bowed back to Yang Chao, although it was just an arch of his hand, but it was also incredible, the famous scholars of the Ming Dynasty were extremely contemptuous of people who did not use their fame, and a showman would never salute a child, not to mention that Yang Wencong was not only a lifter, but also a county order.

As Yang Chao considered, a low-level civil official is more likely to have an equal relationship with himself, and if he is a governor of the third or fourth grade, it is absolutely impossible to have this attitude.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "It's an honor for my parents to come, please do it!" ”

Saying and making gestures, let Yang Wencong enter the door.

At the same time, he nodded to Hu Quan, who set off again, urging the coachman to hurry to another house.

Everyone went to the meeting at about the same time, one person to one, in order to get the guests to arrive at the same time as soon as possible.

But Hu Quan wanted to invite two people, and they were two important people.

One is the county magistrate Yang Wencong, and the other is Jinyi Wei Baihu, Xu Zhongxiao.

One is the first guest to be invited, and the other is the last to be invited.

Yang Wencong was taken by Yang Chao to a guest room to settle down.

"Lord Yang, forgive me. The villain made his own opinion, the first to invite the old man to come, the adult sat down for a while, and the villain had to go to greet the guests. ”

Yang Chao said very politely, this is not a guest hall for gatherings, but an ordinary guest room, after all the guests arrive, they will be arranged in the guest room first, and they will be invited to the guest hall after everyone arrives.

Yang Chao continued to greet guests.

A beautiful woman, a talented and beautiful woman, an endless stream.

Some people know Yang Chao, such as Gu Mei, such as Sha Cai, and must be like the Bian sisters.

There are also those who don't know Yang Chao, such as Wu Weiye and Hou Fangyu.

Some have heard of Yang Chao's name, such as those other than the four famous prostitutes, and some have never heard of Yang Chao's name, such as Zhang Pu, such as Xia Yunyi and his son.

However, Yang Chao greeted him in front of the door, so that everyone knew Yang Chao.

Liu Ruis and Li Xiangjun came hand in hand, and they also brought a person, Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi has never explicitly promised Yang Chao, Yang Chao later sent someone to Zhu Mansion once, but unfortunately he didn't even enter the door, but he didn't expect Qian Qianyi to come.

He came with Liu Rushi and Li Xiangjun, and he didn't take the carriage hired by Wang Xiao, but his own carriage, carrying two beauties, and he was very happy.

Yang Chao didn't know what was going on, but he could probably guess that Qian Qianyi went to Meixianglou today, and when the servants of the Wang family invited two famous prostitutes, Qian Qianyi came with him.

Everyone went in, and another carriage was late, and Yang Chao waited reassuringly under the lamp.

There are twenty-four lanterns at the gate, which are hung in three layers, each of which is more than two feet of lanterns, illuminating the front of the door as if it were daytime, and people can see Yang Chao standing in the door at first sight.

The people who got off the carriage were no exception, but his expression was extremely bad, very suspicious, and very complicated.

Yang Chao enjoyed the look of the visitor very much, but he still took the first step to salute: "Xiaomin Yang Chao has seen a hundred adults!" ”

Yang Chao had a smile on his face, looking at Xu Zhongxiao's eyes, he was full of mystery at this time, he felt that he couldn't understand it at all, and he couldn't see through this young man.

Then Yang Chao took Xu Zhongxiao into Ruan's house.

The music sounded, and all the servants of the Ruan family moved, as if the music was an order.

One by one, the guests were invited out of the guest rooms at the same time, and the arrangements were very exquisite, the nearest rooms were all women, the farther ones were all celebrities and talents, and the farthest ones were rich businessmen.

The courtyard was extremely bright, Xu Zhongxiao saw many great scribes who are rarely seen, although they were not officials, they had a great reputation in Jiangnan and had a great influence in the officialdom, and they couldn't afford to provoke hundreds of households like him.

Xu Zhongxiao only received Yang Chao's invitation yesterday, he couldn't imagine what Yang Chao would ask him to do, but when he saw the content of the invitation, he was immediately shocked, and the invitation told him that the people who participated in the rally had Qian Qianyi, Zhang Pu, and these two people were enough.

As for the other famous prostitutes and talents, Xu Zhongxiao didn't care too much.

However, although Xu Zhongxiao agreed to come to the rally, he kept wondering in his heart, and even didn't believe it, he didn't believe that Yang Chao could invite these big shots.

Seeing it with his own eyes at this time, he had to accept that Yang Chao actually knew these people, which made Xu Zhongxiao couldn't help but be shocked, how did Yang Chao suddenly develop and know so many big people.

At the same time, I couldn't help but drum in my heart, what did this kid ask him to do, he didn't have any entanglement with these scribes, what kind of medicine was he selling in this gourd.

Xu Zhongxiao knew that he had bullied the Yang family, and his relationship with the Yang family was not good. Yang Chao didn't have a reason to invite himself, but he invited himself, did he just let himself know that he Yang Chao knew so many big people, let him know that the Yang family was not easy to mess with, and he was demonstrating to him?

If this is the case, Xu Zhongxiao thinks it is not a big deal.

That Qian Qianyi and Zhang Pu are not officials, but the energy in the imperial court is definitely not easy to provoke, because although these people are not officials, it is difficult to ensure which of their disciples and friends will be in a high position, and he is a hundred households of Jinyiwei, and he can't afford to offend these people, but Jinyiwei and the civil official group have always been well water and river water, and they don't mess with them, and they won't mess with them for no reason.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhongxiao felt that he had basically guessed what Yang Chao meant, and invited him to come in addition to demonstrating to him, but also to tell him that the Yang family is not easy to provoke, so don't provoke him in the future.

Xu Zhongxiao smiled secretly in his heart, it seems that the Yang family's money can't be grabbed.

If you can't grab it, forget it, if Yang Chao wants to get back to the blacksmith shop from his own hands, then don't think about it.

The blacksmith shop is now the pawnshop of the Xu family, the deed is in hand, Xu Zhongxiao is not afraid of lawsuits, Yang Chao knows these civil officials, doesn't he Xu Zhongxiao know people, not to mention anything else, the relationship involved in his own pawnshop is not something that one or two civil officials can afford to provoke.

Xu Zhongxiao pondered quickly in his heart, and before he knew it, he followed Yang Chao into the Ruan family's guest hall.