Qin Lin is ready to move the pencil factory to Nanjing, where through the Yangtze River golden waterway through Jingxiang, Bashu, down to Suzhou, Song, Chang, from Yangzhou into the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal can be easily sent to North China, and transported to Ningbo, Yuegang, can also be exported to North Korea, Yueben and Nanyang.

He instructed his Jinyi lieutenants to inquire about the convenient places for workshops and shops, and he himself wore civilian clothes, ready to go out for a walk, and take a good look at the scenery of Nanjing City from the perspective of an ordinary Ming people, Confucius Temple, Mochou Lake, Huapailou, Zhuque Street and Liu Bowen Bridge, all of which have been famous for a long time.

Just about to go out, Lu Yuanzhi ran in with fat and rolled around, smiling so much that his eyes and nose were squeezed together: "Brother Qin, you are not a brother, you are my second uncle!" Guess what's out there? ”

Qin Lin rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Besides Xu Xinyi, who else can there be?" ”

The fat man smiled cheaply, and pushed Qin Lin out with a drag.

There is a warm sedan chair parked at the gate of the house, the sedan chair body of golden silk nanmu, and the sedan chair of azure persian velvet, unlike the sedan chair of the wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River who often make mistakes in gold and silver, but always look nouveau riche, but it is full of low-key and restrained luxury.

Four sedan chair men with soap, cotton clothes and cotton pants are all pulped and clean, four little maids in Tsing Yi have clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a sister-in-law who looks rich and dresses is holding the sedan chair.

As soon as he saw this formation, Qin Lin knew that it was not Xu Xinyi, and he had never seen Miss Xu sitting in a sedan chair.

Seeing that Qin Lin walked to the front yard, the sister-in-law whispered a few words into the car window.

A hand as white as jade stretched out from the side of the sedan curtain, gently lifted the sedan curtain, and Zhang Zixuan gently swayed and slowly walked off the sedan chair.

The daughter of the prime minister is still wearing men's clothes, but the dark silk cotton robe cannot hide her graceful figure, but instead makes her skin deceive the frost and snow, her face is as delicate as a flower, her eyes turn on Qin Lin's face, her eyebrows fly obliquely, the corners of her mouth smile, and her flower and jade appearance is as bright and radiant as the warm sun in early winter.

Since Lu Yuanzhi and below, all the official schools were amazed that Zhang Zixuan was as beautiful as an immortal, and they didn't dare to look up, so they bowed their heads and retreated.

Zhang Zixuanyun asked lightly: "Brother Qin is not seen for a long time, don't come to harm?" ”

Qin Lin was also stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "I don't see it for a while, like every three autumns." ”

Zhang Zixuan covered her mouth and chuckled, her pink face was smeared with a layer of color: "I'm afraid that the beautiful woman that Brother Qin always remembers is not the little sister of Pu Liu, but the heroic eldest lady, right?" ”

This sentence can be regarded as a joke between friends, but it has a bit of a taste of jealousy, Zhang Zixuan felt a little frivolous as soon as she spoke, and she was embarrassed.

Knowing that it was the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the captains didn't dare to raise their heads, and Lu Fatzi only heard someone next to him muttering secretly: "God, this Miss Zhang also said that it was Pu Liu's posture, I think what kind of Oiran on the Qinhuai River is, and she doesn't even deserve to lift her shoes!" ”

Lu Yuanzhi smiled, it seemed that Qin Lin could get the favor of Miss Xiangfu's daughter, and even he, the little brother, was honored.

Suddenly, the fat man became sad again, and he wrenched his fingers to settle the account for Qin Lin: the eldest husband has three wives and four concubines, if Qin Lin can marry Zhang Zixuan, Xu Xinyi and Li Qingdai home, it will be just right; If another one comes up, how will it happen? Don't squeeze out the position of the little junior sister, right?

As for whether Zhang Zixuan and Xu Xinyi are willing to have three female colleagues and one husband, Yuanfu Young Master Zhang Juzheng and Wei Guogong Xu Bangrui are both big figures standing at the top of the power pyramid of the Ming Dynasty, so whose daughter is the main wife and whose daughter is the equal wife, these complex and tangled questions, with Lu Fatzi's "simple" head, it is impossible to think about it.

"Dare to ask Miss Zhang what advice she has here?" Qin Lin asked tentatively.

He always felt that the pearl of the palm of Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, seemed to have inherited her father's scheming and scheming, unlike Li Qingdai, who was as transparent as crystal and Xu Xinyi, who had no heart and no lungs, no one could guess what Zhang Zixuan thought in her heart.

"It turns out that in Brother Qin's mind, the little sister is the one who goes to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing!" Zhang Zixuan said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Can't you come to visit Brother Qin if you're fine?" Alas, I originally wanted to ask Brother Qin to take my little sister to visit the grand scenery of Jinling. ”

It turned out that the two brothers Zhang Jingxiu and Zhang Maoxiu were made big by those flattering officials in Nanjing, so they hurriedly went to Yangzhou to visit friends, Zhang Zixuan was really bored alone.

However, Liu Huanzhi heard that Xu Xinyi made a big fuss in Tianxiang Pavilion and arrested Qin Lin overnight, and felt that Zhang Zixuan must have been abandoned by Qin Lin, who had no eyes, and suddenly Liu Gongzi felt that the opportunity had come again, and ran to Zhang Zixuan's place to entangle her, which made her very annoying.

Since the end of the battle of Yanziji, Zhang Zixuan and Qin Lin have not seen each other for several days, thinking of recommending Qin Lin to her father with a family letter, she came to visit on a whim, wanting to talk to Qin Lin more and listen to his views on the new policy, so she proposed to go around outside.

Qin Lin was taken aback, and scratched his head in embarrassment: "Miss also knows that men and women don't kiss, I don't have anything, I'm afraid that as soon as we go down the street, the city will be full of wind and rain, which will make your father, who is the first assistant, angry, and my small body can't stand it!" ”

Zhang Zixuan grinned when she heard this.

At this time, etiquette and religion prevailed, and it was an outrageous move for her to visit Qin Lin alone without her father and brother to accompany her.

However, Zhang Juzheng has always regarded etiquette as a mustard, and since last year's controversy over the system and winning love, he has regarded Shilin Qingliu as bullshit, Zhang Zixuan also has the style of a father, often wears men's clothes and a few brothers to go out and walk around, tour the north and south of the country, and visit the heroes of the world.

So when Qin Lin asked, she took two steps closer, sighed like an orchid, and said with a playful smile: "Why, Brother Qin can hunt with the female general, but can't he swim side by side with the little sister?" ”

What a pretty mouth! Qin Lin was speechless when he was asked, so he could only scratch his scalp and laugh dryly, and thought to himself: "Although Zhang Zixuan's heart is as unfathomable as the East China Sea, she can still eat me?" He nodded in agreement.

Zhang Zixuan is not as heartless as Xu Xinyi, who completely ignores public opinion on etiquette, she has been prepared for a long time, and ordered a little maid to take out the things she was carrying, which are turmeric, eyebrow pencils, rouge, lead powder and other things, and let Qin Lin lead the way to the back hall.

I saw her rub turmeric water on her face, and carefully outlined it with eyebrow pencils, lead powder and other materials, and it had an effect after a while: the daughter of the prime minister of the country has become a thick girl with sallow skin and thick black eyebrows, and her appearance is very ordinary, and no one will pay attention when walking on the street.

Qin Lin looked at it again and again, although he was no longer worried about being watched by passers-by in the third layer and three layers outside-with Zhang Zixuan's original appearance, it was almost certain, but his bright and radiant face was covered, and he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart.

The two walked out side by side, and all the officials and schools felt funny when they saw that the delicate Zhang Zixuan suddenly turned into a black, yellow, black and yellow rough girl.

"Miss!" Zhang's sister-in-law and a few little maids had to keep up.

Zhang Zixuan pulled Qin Lin's sleeve and said with a grin: "With this wise and brave brocade family as a companion, what are you worried about?" ”

Those subordinates didn't dare to disobey, so they had to let Zhang Zixuan and Qin Lin leave.

Qin Lin and Zhang Zixuan walked side by side towards Liu Bowen Bridge, and after walking for a while, he always kept looking down at the ground, as if he was thinking about something.

Zhang Zixuan laughed: "Why does Brother Qin bow his head frequently, dare to have the ticket landed?" ”

Qin Lin laughed twice, slurring, embarrassed to say.

"There's nothing wrong with it, the little sister knows everything." Zhang Zixuan was a little angry.

"This, then I'll say it, don't be angry," Qin Lin hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't resist the instinctive curiosity and research habit of the forensic profession, and rushed out: "You didn't wrap your little feet, did you?" What's the deal with foot binding? ”

Qin Lin knew that foot binding seemed to be very popular at this time, but the strange thing was that no one with the female surname he met was foot binding: Jin Yingji is a Korean, needless to say, Li Qingdai often goes up the mountain with Li Shizhen to collect medicine, Xu Xinyi is a violent woman, they are not bound to their feet, and now they see Zhang Zixuan also walking freely, which seems to be completely different from the legend.

As for Zhang Zixuan, even if she applied turmeric water, she couldn't hide her crimson face, her water-like eyes glared at Qin Lin, and she said angrily: "Queen Ma still has big feet, how many dignitaries have bound feet?" You guy is so dishonest, you actually asked me this, I hate it! ”

In fact, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's queen horse is a big foot, so the court of the past dynasties, dignitaries are not very foot-binding, "Wanli Ye is compiled" recorded that "in today's ban, all the selected daughters are registered as soon as they are registered, that is, they remove the foot cloth (foot cloth), don't be a palace style", and when the Hongguang Dynasty selected the concubine among the people, the queen mother even specially decreed that the woman to be selected does not need to bind her feet.

Ordinary working women, whether they are weavers in the south of the Yangtze River or peasant women in the fields, are even more unlikely to bind their feet, in contrast, it is the girls of Shanxi Datongfu and Yangzhou thin horses in the Qinglou who pay special attention to this.

Even if the foot is bound, it is not like the arch of the foot is broken as in the later Qing Dynasty, and most of it is just tightly wrapped in cloth to look thin, which is similar to the meaning of wearing high heels in later generations.

The emperor's daughter is not worried about getting married, like Zhang Juzheng is not too far behind the emperor as the first assistant, why should Zhang Zixuan suffer from foot binding? It's just a little bit of cloth to wrap the feet a little thinner, not too big, and walking is still free.

The feet of women in the Ming Dynasty were even more private than their breasts, Zhang Zixuan was ashamed and ashamed, and explained to Qin Lin a little, but she already had a fever at the root of her ears.

Qin Lin, a partial-born person, didn't know how abrupt and beautiful it was to talk to a boudoir lady about the problem of small feet, and listened to it with relish, and his two eyes kept aiming at Zhang Zixuan's feet, looking like that, he almost wanted to take off her shoes to take a look-after all, he had lived in modern times for a long time, and in the summer, the streets were full of beautiful eyebrows wearing sandals and slippers, and Qin Lin didn't think it was a big deal to look at the woman's bare feet.

Zhang Zixuan was embarrassed, she was "wanton and light" by Qin Lin, Rao is she was very well cultivated, and she couldn't help but tease: "Brother Qin cares so much about the problem of foot binding, do you want my little sister to take off her shoes and show you?" ”

As soon as Qin Lin entered the forensic related question, he was distracted, and he was curious about this question purely in the spirit of research, so he nodded hurriedly and said yes, and leaned down to look at Zhang Zixuan's feet.

"Dengzi!" No matter how deep Zhang Zixuan's city government is, she can't withstand such "teasing", and for the first time in her life, she made a move on a man - she knocked Qin Lin on the head and rushed forward angrily.

Qin Lin was stunned, why was he fine just now, but now he was angry again? It's really a woman's heart.

Zhang Zixuan walked a few steps, suddenly burst out laughing again, turned around, and smiled like a flower: "Little sister finally understands why Miss Xu is attacking Tianxiang Pavilion at night!" Tell me honestly, did you guys take off her shoes too? ”

(To be continued)