Du Shouchang is in his forties, with his current family wealth, almost equivalent to starting from scratch, his father left him, just a little industry, after Du Shouchang made a fortune, this is a lot of construction, the establishment of Wanxiu Garden, don't think that he built this garden just for pleasure, but for friends.

"Celebrities from the north and south will visit the Wanxiu Garden, and the wheels and hooves will come. Spring garden feast peach and plum, autumn fence orchid chrysanthemum, talk about tired and drunk, the host immediately drove a small boat to carry guests across a river in the heart of the lake temple to visit the monks. ”

There is also a lake in the west of Huai'an River, it is customary to call it West Lake, Wanxiu Garden is built at the exit of Huai'an West Lake, called West Lake Mouth, the geographical location is excellent, all the visitors who browse the West Lake, they have to pass the Du's Wanxiu Garden, so Du Shouchang has made many famous people by this garden, which is equivalent to using the West Lake, using the monks in the Huxin Temple to serve themselves, this first play is quite beautiful.

Yang Chao took the Du family's luxury carriage and rushed to Wanxiu Garden at night, not mentioning it all the way, and walked into the manor, which was magnificent and gorgeous before.

Banquet in the depths of the manor in a high-rise building, open the window to see the West Lake scenery, this building is called Menghong.

"Haha, General Yang doesn't know, the name of this building has a great origin!"

In an accord on the second floor of the building, there are only three people, one of them is Yang Chao, the second is Wang Xiao, and the third is this Du Shouchang.

Wang Xiao immediately said: "I don't know what Mingtang is, please also ask Brother Xiangcao to teach!" ”

Du Shouchang's word Xiangcao, known as Du Xiangcao.

Du Shouchang twisted his fine long beard, smiled, looked at Yang Chao and said: "When my mother was pregnant with her little sister, she happened to dream of a long rainbow in her arms, and she was named Hongying after her little sister!" ”

Yang Chao is a little bit clear, let's talk about it. Instead, it was to lure out his sister and tell Yang Chao that his sister's name was Du Hongying.

Yang Chao had no choice but to ask: "Then I don't know what the relationship between Ling Mei and this Menghong Tower is?" ”

Du Shouchang said with a smile: "This building is the little sister's boudoir building. My little sister loves this West Lake scenery very much, so she lives here all year round! ”

Wang Xiao's expression moved. There was a hint of joy in his eyes.

Yang Chao was also stunned, Du Shouchang was in his sister's boudoir, banqueting Yang Chao? Doesn't that mean something?

Yang Chao was not sure, and immediately showed sincere fear: "How is this good?" How could Miss Du's boudoir allow me, a martial artist, to trespass, wouldn't it disturb Miss Du's name. ”

Du Shouchang waved his hand: "The general's words are wrong. In fact, inviting the general to come is also the meaning of the little sister. The little sister has often been unable to sleep at night recently, Xu is evil, and she is about to ask the general to be deterred. ”

Yang Chao laughed: "So I'm a door god." ”

Du Shouchang also laughed casually.

Then he said: "If it can deter evil spirits, let the little sister sleep peacefully." Next time, I will invite the general to come and let the little sister thank you in person. ”

Yang Chao smiled: "Haha, I hope so." ”

Speaking of which, Yang Chao felt that his words seemed to be too ambiguous, these words were nothing in later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was possible to make people think that Yang Chao was interested in Du Shouchang's sister, Yang Chao had never even seen anyone, how could he be interested.

Du Shouchang didn't break it, he drank and talked again, and the time was getting late, and Yang Chao said goodbye and left.

Wang Xiao had already heard it. When he went back, he excitedly told Yang Chao that Du Shouchang seemed to be interested in Yang Chao and wanted to give his sister to Yang Chao. He asked Yang Chao what he meant, Yang Chao was noncommittal, with a big businessman like the Du family, the marriage is often a gentry group, although it may not be attached to the local high-ranking officials, but the petty officials are still okay, as for the military attachés, they generally will not marry, because the status of the military attache is too low.

According to the previous market, it is more than enough with Yang Chao. As long as Yang Chao is not a marquis, he is still a military attaché. was always overpowered by civil officials, could it be that Du Shouchang was betting that Yang Chao would be able to become a marquis in the future. I have to say that his vision is poisonous enough, with Yang Chao's plan, if he can reverse the general trend of the world in the future, the marquis is the most basic.

But Yang Chao has not seen Du Shouchang's sister, he will never consider it, even if he has seen it, he may not think about it, Yang Chao at least has to understand whether his temperament is suitable or not, etc.

Wang Xiao was too positive, and came early the next morning to ask Yang Chao what he meant, and it seemed that he had already gotten angry with the Du family.

Yang Chao smiled and said that he had not met Miss Du yet.

Wang Xiao colluded with it, and Du Shouchang wanted to feast Yang Chao again that day, obviously planning to find an opportunity for Yang Chao to meet Miss Du.

Of course, it's still a night banquet, where rich businessmen make friends with officials, although it is already a matter that everyone knows, but businessmen find a protective umbrella for themselves, and officials take the opportunity to find a long-term treasury for themselves and use each other.

But it is still taboo to win over generals with heavy troops in a bright and bright manner, so it is okay to have a night banquet, but it is too flamboyant in broad daylight.

Yang Chao felt that his mood was still a little complicated, is this a blind date, I didn't expect that I would suddenly go on a blind date, it was too easy, of course, this is because of the interaction between women, the so-called women chasing men.

If the meeting goes well, is he really going to get married, it is said that he is not young, and his parents have been talking about getting married for a long time, but Yang Chao has been dragging it out.

To choose the object of marriage, with Yang Chao's habits, it is impossible for the parents to order the matchmaker, but with the character of the Ming Dynasty, it is unlikely to fall in love freely, this difference in concepts, so that Yang Chao has really never met a girl from a normal family until now, and it is obviously impossible for a Qinglou woman like Liu Ru to get married, otherwise the mother probably dares to use hanging to force Yang Chao.

If you really want to get married, if you choose each other, you can see it and have a compatible personality, this is basic, as for the family, Yang Chao has actually figured it out, if you don't find a right person, it's basically impossible, Game of Thrones, it's so realistic.

Therefore, Yang Chao is looking for the Du family, which can be regarded as a good match, and the financial resources of the Du family can fully help Yang Chao achieve his goal as soon as possible, of course, Yang Chao can also choose other military attache families to marry, but in Yang Chao's opinion, unless he can make friends with the military attache at the level of Nanjing Zhenshou, he really can't help himself much, but the military attache of the town, that is a noble, a prince, people can not look down on Yang Chao, and if they are civil officials, needless to say, people can't look down on Yang Chao.

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, it was most common for military attachés to marry wealthy merchants, one needed status and an umbrella, and the other needed wealth, complementing each other and cooperating with each other.

Yang Chao thinks a lot, thinks very complicated, and is very entangled in his heart, always feeling that a way like himself to obtain cooperation through marriage belongs to betraying his own hue!

But Yang Chao really thought too much.

It was good during the day, but suddenly before night, the Du family changed its hexagram.

Wang Xiao hurriedly came to find Yang Chao and told Yang Chao that Miss Du was sick, so she couldn't see Yang Chao.

Yang Chao was stunned at first, he didn't believe that Miss Du was sick at this link, it was too coincidental.

"What the hell is going on?"

Yang Chao asked in a deep voice, there must have been some accident that made the Du family suddenly dispel their thoughts of marriage.

Wang Xiao sighed: "Brother Yang, there is news from Beijing that many high-ranking officials have jointly impeached you, but the music has been detained by the emperor, and there is no Ming Fa Di report." I also just found out, and the Du family also knows that it has not been for a long time. ”

Yang Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly, it turned out that because of this incident, Shi Kefa only received the emperor's holy decree yesterday, asking them to thoroughly investigate Yang Chao's affairs, and today the rich businessmen know about it.

So many officials impeached Yang Chao, Du Shouchang immediately retreated, he wooed Yang Chao because he saw that Yang Chao had a bright future, but he didn't expect so many people to be impeached suddenly, and Du Shouchang's city government easily thought that Yang Chao was involved in a political struggle, so he didn't want to go to this troubled water at this time.

Yang Chao sighed: "So, I'm more than lucky!" ”

Wang Xiao said: "It's not enough to be convicted, but the credit of Haizhou's victory this time is probably offset by the merits." ”

Because he released the water himself, he killed tens of thousands of captive soldiers, and his exploits were erased.

But Yang Chao didn't even know the real reason, was it really because the water flooded the people's homes? The common people may believe this, but in the political struggle, this can only be an excuse.

"So can Brother Wang find out who is targeting me? Could it be the Marquis of Zhenyuan? ”

Yang Chao suddenly thought that he only seemed to have offended one Zhenyuan Marquis in the officialdom, and as for the others, he didn't seem to have offended.

Brother Wang said with a bitter face: "The matter is very troublesome, it doesn't seem to be aimed at you, according to the news I inquired, it is a group of senior officials who want Zhou Shoufu to fall, and you are implicated." ”

Yang Chao doesn't know how he was involved with Zhou Yanru, the first assistant, is it because he helped him raise money back then, speaking of which, he helped Zhou Yanru do this, and he really didn't get any benefits, Zhou Yanru never gave himself any direct benefits, and Yang Chao never fantasized about getting benefits from him, just with his virtue of murdering Zhang Pu and playing Ruan Dacheng, Yang Chao didn't think he would remember his own good, this is a thick-faced politician, and he can deal less with less dealings.

Unexpectedly, Yang Chao was implicated again.

"Looks like I'm going to have to go back to Nanjing."

Yang Chao secretly thought in his heart that he had to go back to prepare and deal with this wave.

Because Yang Chao remembered that Zhou Yanru was finally ordered to commit suicide by Emperor Chongzhen, would he be implicated?

He had to hurry back to Nanjing, but he had to do some activities.

So Yang Chao immediately resigned from Shi Kefa, handled various relevant documents from him, and then set off immediately.

The boat going south was still found by Wang Xiao, but at this time, Wang Xiao did not cut off ties with Yang Chao, did not choose to avoid suspicion, and did not choose to protect himself.

This made Yang Chao a little relieved, if he was the same as Du Shouchang, Yang Chao would not blame him, but even if his friend did it, he would only be regarded as a business partner in the future.

took the Wang family's boat, and returned to Nanjing after half a month.

At this time, it was already more than June. (To be continued).