Chen Xin calmly sent Xiao Er away, walked to the corridor calmly, and entered Liu Minyou's house, as soon as he closed the door, he immediately changed into a "Xing" look, and said in a low voice: "This is the Qinhuai River, I inquired with Xiao Er, the brothels are concentrated in two places, one is called Zhu City, and the other is called the old courtyard, we are about the same distance from both sides." Let's go and see it in the afternoon? ”

Liu Minyou was packing his small bag, and said boringly: "If you want to go by yourself, I'll go buy Jinling Tuyong in the afternoon, and then I'll come back to rest, see which places are good, and choose one or two places to see tomorrow." ”

"Pan Jinlian has turned over as the master?"

Liu Minyou denied it: "No, she asked me if I had been to the Qinglou, and I said no, she was still surprised." I'm just not interested in that place. ”

Chen Xin rubbed his forehead, he also felt a little tired all the way, and thought about it: "Then why don't I go to read a book in the afternoon." ”

A few people had lunch in a hurry at the inn, Chen Xin only left a personal guard to guard the luggage, and gave everyone else a holiday, Nie Hong and Pu Zhuang took them to play by themselves, and then sent Zhou Laifu and his shop pù guys out to inspect the market, and Chen Tingdong went to visit his old friends by himself.

After sending these people away, Chen Xin tied a short knife to his arm, caged it with his sleeve, and only brought a fur dog by his side, Chen Xin went to the battlefield a few times, and he felt a sense of insecurity without weapons on weekdays, and this time he not only brought a knife, but also brought a newly made hand system, "But this gun is still very imperfect, there is no safety machine, he usually does not dare to load ammunition." The other guards are all carrying Qijia knives or short swords, and many merchants in the late Ming Dynasty have swords, so as long as they are not too ostentatious, no one cares.

After Chen Xin packed up, he went out with Liu Minyou and Song Wenxian, and as soon as he walked to the door, he saw the stupid monk still standing there, Liu Minyou went up and asked strangely: "Silly monk, why don't you go out with them?" ”

"Captain Nie, they disappeared in a blink of an eye, I don't know the road, I don't dare to go alone."

Liu Minyou had no choice but to say: "Then you can follow us, don't get lost, it's just that we all go to the bookstore to read, and it's boring for you." ”

The stupid monk was not boring, immediately followed, a few people crossed the Huaiqing Bridge, to the street behind the Gongyuan, because it is very close to the Gongyuan, there are many bookstores and inns, there are more shops selling pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other items, most of the pedestrians are scribes but there are many new humans dressed in demon clothes, and occasionally one or two red-haired and blue-eyed Westerners are also dressed as Ming Dynasty, and the people around them are familiar with it, and they do not watch the monster in general.

Liu Minyou chose a bookstore called Moyun, walked in, the bookshelves were full of all kinds of books, Liu Minyou inquired with the shopkeeper and began to look for Jinling Tuyong in front of a bookshelf, Chen Xin had no special goal, after turning around, he asked the shopkeeper if there was a soldier to see, and the shopkeeper led him to an inconspicuous bookshelf.

Chen Xin took a look, there are still a lot of books here, including Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", "Actual Record of Military Training", "Miscellaneous Collections" and "Zhizhitang Collection", as well as Yu Dage's "Zhengqitang Collection", "Continuation of the Martial Arts Classic", "Recent Matters of Washing the Sea". Other books such as "The Art of War", "Wujing Zongyao", "Wu Zi", "Liutao" and other books are also available, Chen Xin asked the shopkeeper to take a copy of the Zhengqitang Collection, and flipped through a few pages at will, there were too many contents, he planned to buy it and go back to read it slowly, and then scanned the bookshelf, and then bought the Wujing General Essentials, the Zhengqitang Collection of 16 volumes, and the Wujing General Essentials a total of 20 volumes, which has already placed a lot of them.

The shopkeeper immediately handed over another volume of books, and said: "This lord, this "Soldier's Record" is also a treasure of the soldiers, and the heavens will see if they agree." "This guy ushered in and sent him, his eyesight is quite good, looking at Chen Xin's appearance and the books he reads, it is estimated that he is a military attaché, so he immediately called him an adult.

Chen Xin was a little hesitant, afraid that he would not be able to finish reading these many books when he took them back, but he still took them, and just opened them absentmindedly, and a picture attracted him, on which the shape of an artillery cannon was drawn, and the ramming stick, charge shovel, turning cane, and washing broom were all listed on the same page, and the picture was exquisite and lifelike.

"Red cannon." Chen Xin hurriedly turned it up from the beginning, "The five soldiers of the sky use firearms as their long skills, and artillery as the vanguard, and they are good at destroying the battle...... Western artifacts of its casting materials, the price of thick Seiko, where the size is different, the system is different......

There are about three kinds. Chen Xin turned to the next page, there is a picture, a cannon is mounted on the slope, roughly at a 45-degree angle, and the muzzle of the gun has a ruler, and the pendant is pointed in the middle of the arc of the ruler, and the picture reads "Artifact Vertical Sixth".

He hurriedly looked at the back, this is the thirteenth volume of the "Records of the Soldiers" "Western Fire Attack Artifact", the author's name is He Rubin, Chen Xin has not heard of this person, the book divides the Hongyi cannon into three categories, one is the battle system, the second is the offensive system, the third is the defense system, the name of the red Yi cannon is also the big snake system, the half snake system, the Eagle Fu system, etc., the system is different, the biggest difference is one of the offensive systems, Chen Xin looked at the demonstration trajectory on the map, it should be a high ballistic artillery such as the cannon, in addition to the Furlong machine, the big Franc machine, The big bird system and so on, and finally there are different formulas of door medicine, cannon projectile, and gun gun.

What is especially rare is that He Rubin described in detail the size of the Hongyi cannon and the Furlong machine in the book, listed the gun lengths corresponding to various air diameters, and even the size of each small part, Chen Xin was more and more surprised the more he looked at the description of firearms, far more than Zhao Shizhen's "Artifact Spectrum" he bought last time, and according to his inquiry, Sun Yuanhua's "West Law Divine Machine" is now no shadow at all, obviously "Soldiers" was written in the front, why is this He Rubin not famous at all.

He looked up at the shopkeeper, who seemed to know what he was going to ask, and explained diligently: "This He Rubin is a native of Suzhou, a general in Zhoushan, and a deputy chief soldier in Ningshao. ”

Chen Xin nodded, no wonder it was mentioned in the book that the battle of Ningyuan used Western cannons to frustrate the slave atmosphere, this volume should have been revised in the new edition in the first year of Chongzhen. He immediately bought the book, and the shopkeeper brought other volumes as well, containing a wide range, all kinds of equipment, marches, camps, attacks, time, and location, and even medicine have a description, Chen Xinru got the treasure, and the shopkeeper happily brought the baggage skin to help him wrap it together, Chen Xin grabbed the stupid monk and let him carry it, and the fat monk effortlessly threw the burden on his shoulder.

Chen Xin himself took the thirteenth volume of "Western Fire Attack Artifact Theory" and looked at it carefully at the door.

Liu Minyou over there searched for a long time but didn't find it, and the shopkeeper was busy greeting Chen Xin, a big customer, knowing that Liu Minyou only bought one copy and didn't bother at all.

"Mother, I finally found it." Liu Min shouted loudly and laughed out loud with a copy of "Jinling Tuyong".

Liu Minyou also got a treasure, and asked the guy to take it, Song Wenxian happened to come over, and the shopkeeper next to him put a few books on the counter, Song Wenxian smiled: "I'll pay the silver together." ”

Liu Min thanked him, took the "Jinling Tuyong" and walked to the door, looked at him carefully, and said while looking at it: "There is really a black sunset, this, forget it, don't look at it." ”

Chen Xin said casually next to him: "I'm not optimistic, these things are just like the former residences of celebrities, and a dilapidated house is also called an attraction." ”

Liu Minyou continued to flip and scolded: "Pit father, this flat embankment view of the lake, as soon as Chen Tingdong said it, I didn't have the heart to see it." ”

Chen Xin shouted, "It's really a cheat, the soldiers all wrote the bird system of the steel machine on fire, I thought I was the first to do it, and I was happy in vain." ”

Liu Min sighed, he was presiding over the research and development of the sewing pistol, and he originally had a sense of accomplishment, but after hearing this, he hurried over to take a look, Chen Xin pointed to a passage in the book, "Birds use fire, there are people who use water to pluck beads, those who use flint, and there are steel machines to hit each other......"

Liu Minyou was stunned, looked at Chen Xindao, and said: "That means that Jiangnan has sewing guns?" ”

"Whatever, it's estimated that Fujian and Guangdong have it, but we don't have time to dig people over there, let's do ours, Lao Tzu doesn't believe it's better than theirs."

Liu Minyou glanced at the bag on the back of the stupid monk and said in surprise: "Can you see so much after you buy it?" ”

"I'll see what it's for, let Liu Pojun, Zhu Guobin, and Lu Chuanzong go to see it, take these books and sort them out, and cooperate with the original drill code, which is the textbook of the military academy, haha, I just remembered it."

The sea dog smirked: "Brother Lu is going to scold his mother again." ”

At this time, Song Wenxian Shi Ran came out of it, holding a few books by himself, and the sea dog went up to help him get it, but he also refused. Several people have been delayed in the study for a long time, it is almost time for dinner, when looking for a food shop along the street, passing by a dim sum shop, the aroma is fragrant, Liu Min has a curious look, it turned out to be bread, there are other snacks in the store, such as nourishing cakes, hemp balls, wooden rhino cakes, black and white cakes, manna cakes, etc., among which the wooden rhino cakes are Guihuā cakes, every year when Guihuā is opened, some people pick and sell, after making cakes, the fragrance is overflowing.

To Minyou couldn't help but buy a few, one person divided one, a few people just gnawed on a shortage, the stupid monk finished eating, Liu Minyou had to give Weihai his own fake copper coins to him, let him buy it himself. The shopkeeper took the copper coin and looked at it, and actually showed some surprise, such a good copper coin is generally not easy to see, so he quickly accepted it.

A few people ate while walking, found a food shop on the side of the street at random, went in and ordered, and when Liu Min and a few people finished eating a cake, the three cakes that the stupid monk bought behind him also finished eating.

When waiting for the dishes, Chen Xin and the others each took the book and looked at it, Chen Xin's one was the shortest, only thirty pages, he hastily read it and put it away, and picked up one from Song Wenxian's books next to him.

"The Legend of Ruyijun"? What is this book about? Chen Xin looked at the cover and asked.

Song Wenxian smiled: "The adults themselves see it." ”

Chen Xin casually flipped the page, and what came into his eyes was a line of "When the Empress Wu was caressing, her thoughts were wandering, and she was lying on her waist with a mound. Ao Cao took his hands and lifted his feet back and placed them at the north entrance. Later, he was guided by two hands, and it was very difficult at first, and he couldn't enter the ......" There was a picture of the spring palace next to him, and he couldn't help laughing: "Ancient action movies." ”

Song Wenxian said suspiciously: "This book is about the Empress Wu, and the Tang Dynasty can be called ancient, but what is this action movie?" ”

Liu Minyou listened to the two of them, grabbed a look, and laughed, he asked Song Wenxian: "Mr. Song was in Beijing for a long time, why did he buy it when he arrived in Nanjing?" ”

Song Wenxian twisted his beard and said seriously: "If Jingshi doesn't have this kind of illustration book, it will naturally be worse, and the Jiangnan Bookstore's production is also more exquisite." ”

Chen Xin also took Song Wenxian's other books and looked at the covers, which were "The History of the Embroidered Bed", "The Biography of the Crazy Woman", "Meat Futon" and "Lamp Grass Monk", and it was estimated that the content was similar, and he praised in his mouth: "Mr. Song goes in and out of Huā Cong, he has to learn anytime and anywhere, keep improving, and can be a model for my generation." ”

Song Wenxian was complacent and did not blush, "This is interesting, and it cannot be said." ”

Liu Minyou asked: "Why is there no "Golden Vase Plum"? ”

Song Wenxian said with a smile: "I have already read that book, and many of the pleasures of the boudoir are plagiarized from "The Biography of Ruyijun", why is this illustrated book interesting." ”

Liu Minyou: "......"......

The food came up quickly, the taste of Nanjing is similar to that of Suzhou and Hangzhou, very light, although the fragrance of the ingredients is retained, but for a few of them who are used to eating the heavy taste of the north, they really can't taste good or bad, and they gobble it up and go home.

When I returned to the inn, it was almost dark, and Nie Hong and the others had already returned. The inn's junior brought hot water, Chen Xin washed his face, rinsed his mouth with the green salt he had just bought, and rubbed his teeth with his fingers.

Chen Xin estimated that Xu Xinsu would not come back in two days, and he didn't know what to do tomorrow, so he went to Liu Minyou's house to discuss with him.

"Have you picked a spot?"

"Well, I looked at three places, it seems to be good, you look at that one, the first is the white mandarin spring tide, the second is the cow head Yanluan, and the third is Yan Alum Xiaowang."

Chen Xin grabbed the book and flipped it by himself, and said: "The spring tide of Baihu is eight miles away from the city, but it is very close, but as the name suggests, it should be spring, let's not go this autumn, Niushou Mountain doesn't know how, but it is thirty miles away from the city, and it is a little difficult to go back and forth on the same day. ”

"You're just like Chen Tingdong, nothing is good, so where do you go."

"Is there anything closer?"

Liu Minyou thought for a while and said, "Bao'en Temple." ”

Chen Xin opened the book and found the scene of the lighthouse of Bao'en Temple, and said in surprise: "It's actually a night scene, in the direction of Jubaomen?" ”

He immediately went to the window and pushed open the window, looked to the south, sure enough, there was a bright place, the floor where they were located was the third floor, just to see the top of the tower of Bao'en Temple, the minaret of Bao'en Temple was made of glazed splicing, under the light of the lights lit in the temple, the glaze on the spire was dazzling and colorful.

Both of them were amazed, and Liu Min said: "According to this book, it was expanded during the Yongle period, and those outsiders came to kneel in front of this tower, and they were all impressed." ”

Chen Xin smiled, returned to the table and continued to flip through the book, and finally stopped after a while and said, "Look, aren't these two attractions very good." ”

Liu Min had a look, but it was "Qin Huaiyu singing" and "Qingxi cruiser".

"You really can't forget the Qinhuai River."

At this time, there was a sound of drums and singing in the river outside, and Chen Xin said with a smile: "Qin Huai is so famous for singing late, of course you must never forget it." ”

The window of the room next to it creaked, and the stupid monk's broken gong voice sounded, "Sing your mother's song, and let people not sleep." ”

Note: The glazed pagoda of Bao'en Temple was destroyed in the war of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. (To be continued.)