When Li Yuntian left Yixiangtang, it was already dark at night, and Chen Ningning, Zheng Wanrou and Lei Ting naturally wouldn't stay overnight in Yixiangtang, Hongluan and Zijuan personally sent them outside the gate.

After Li Yuntian's carriage went away, Zijuan glanced at Hongluan a little proudly, and entered the courtyard gate with easy steps, from Hongluan's calm appearance at night, she could be sure that Hongluan still didn't know Li Yuntian's true identity, otherwise she would definitely not be so calm and calm.

Hongluan turned around and stared at Zijuan's back, her willow eyebrows frowned slightly, she felt that Zijuan's look just now was meaningful, as if she was hiding something from herself, and she was very active at night, deliberately getting close to Chen Ningning and others, did she want to get Li Yuntian's support at the Oiran Conference? But this also seems to be a little too enthusiastic.

However, Hongluan does not have the time and energy to ponder Zijuan's intentions now, and tomorrow night the Jiangnan Oiran Conference will be officially held, when she will have to compete with the Qingqi people, including Zijuan, for the title of Oiran.

"Young master, Zhao Dengyu is really hiding in the house of Chen Lan, a cloth merchant in Shaoxing Mansion, and now he has been secretly escorted back, and he will be rushed to Yangzhou in a few days?" When he returned to the Chen family's courtyard in Yangzhou, Li Manshan was already waiting in the living room in the backyard, drinking tea there, and when he saw Li Yuntian enter the door, he hurriedly put down the teacup and got up and said.

In private, Li Manshan still likes to call Li Yuntian "young master", which reveals incomparable cordiality and also shows his extraordinary relationship with Li Yuntian.

After Li Manshan sent people to Shaoxing Mansion, he quickly found Zhao Dengyu's family who was hidden by Chen Lan, but those Jinyi guards did not take Zhao Dengyu's whole family, but only brought Zhao Dengyu to Yangzhou, and the rest of the family was closely monitored.

"Zhao Wenju is a hundred secrets, but he still shows flaws." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, this news was a timely rain for him, as long as Zhao Dengyu arrived, then he was ready to start breaking Zhao Wenju's psychological defense.

"Young master, I checked, Chen Guangzong went to Hangzhou last year, and he had socialized in the three major green buildings in Hangzhou, but I don't know if he has seen Miss Hongluan and Miss Zijuan."

Subsequently, Li Manshan reported quietly, "According to the news from the inquiry, Miss Hongluan's home is in a county below Hangzhou Prefecture, and it was sold into the Invitation Moon Pavilion four years ago, and Miss Zijuan's home is in Hangzhou City, and it was sold into Tianxiang Pavilion six years ago, and they are all local household registrations. ”

Since the appearance of Hongluan and Zijuan, Li Yuntian asked Li Manshan to send people to Hangzhou City to investigate, wanting to know if Chen Guangzong had an intersection with the two, and to explore the background of Hongluan and Zijuan.

"Local household registration?" Li Yuntian frowned slightly when he heard this, so Hongluan and Zijuan were both natives of Hangzhou, and it was unlikely that the two of them had been to other places with ancient traffic conditions, which also meant that he had never seen Hongluan before, because he had never been to Hangzhou before.

"Miss Zijuan grew up in Yangzhou City since she was a child, and Miss Hongluan is still unable to determine whether she is a local or moved from other places due to her remote family background, and someone has already gone to Miss Hongluan's house to inquire about the news."

Hearing that Li Yuntian was interested in the household registration of Hongluan and Zijuan, Li Manshan added that in fact, the fastest way is to check the household registration records of Hongluan, the government of Hangzhou, but it is obviously inconvenient to do so.

"Notify me as soon as there is news." Li Yuntian nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, Li Manshan has been by his side for so many years, and his actions have become more and more meticulous, which makes him quite gratified, and he can let Li Manshan stand alone in the future.

The next day, the city of Yangzhou was enveloped in a festive and cheerful atmosphere, and the annual Mid-Autumn Festival came.

This year's Jiangnan Oiran Conference is held by Baihualou, Baihualou is Yangzhou and Yixiangtang are the same name of the green building, early in the morning Baihualou people nervously arrange the hall on the first floor of Baihualou, tonight from the Jiangnan Qingqi people will be in front of the hall to build a high platform to compete for beauty, a showdown.

On the second floor opposite the high platform, there is a row of circular windows, each corresponding to a private room, where guests who come to attend the Gangnam Oiran Festival every year choose to enjoy the singing and dancing talent show of the Qing people.

Among the private rooms on the second floor, the private room facing the high platform is the "No. 1 room of the first word", and only the most distinguished guests can deserve this room.

Yangzhou is close to Nanjing, and it is the most prosperous and wealthy place in the south of the Yangtze River, with many dignitaries and nobles, so the competition for the No. 1 house has always been particularly fierce, and even because it is impossible to determine the ownership of the No. 1 house, there has been a vacancy.

However, this year's situation is different, because there is a dignified Zhenwu Marquis in Yangzhou, so who dares to compete with him for this No. 1 house?

Although Li Yuntian did not make it clear that he wanted to come to participate in the Jiangnan Oiran Conference, Wei Deguang, the behind-the-scenes boss of Baihualou, had secretly let out the wind that Room A No. 1 would be left to Li Yuntian, which made those powerful people who were interested in getting involved in the room suddenly retreat.

It was precisely because Baihualou was Wei Deguang's property that Chen Guangzong handed over the affairs of arranging a room for Li Yuntian to him, and also gave him a chance to tie up Li Yuntian, Wei Deguang naturally did not dare to slack off and do his best to do this matter.

With the fall of night, the street in front of the Baihualou gradually became lively, many luxurious carriages and sedan chairs stopped in front of the door in turn, the people who came out of the carriage and the sedan chair were all dressed brightly, and at first glance they were not rich or noble people, talking and laughing with each other and entering the hall.

What was different from the past was that Lu Xing, the prefect of Yangzhou, and Han Hu, the commander of Yangzhou Wei, stood at the door and greeted him, waiting for Li Yuntian's arrival.

Originally, Zhang Sheng, the transfer envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Road, also planned to come out to greet Li Yuntian, but considering that Li Yuntian was now investigating the case of the Lianghuai Salt Road, he chose to avoid it with interest.

When two carriages surrounded by dozens of guards appeared on the street, Lu Xing and Han Hu, who were talking and laughing, immediately stepped up to meet them, and the only person who could have this kind of travel momentum in Yangzhou City was Li Yuntian.

The vehicles and pedestrians along the way knew that Li Yuntian's motorcade was not easy to provoke, so they flashed to the side of the road and made way for a passage.

"Master Hou is here, and the Hundred Flowers Building is shining!" After Li Yuntian got down from the first carriage, Lu Xing and Han Hu stepped forward with a smile and said.

"Ben Hou is just a spectator today, so you don't need to be restrained." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, and then helped out Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou, who were disguised as men, from the car, and Lei Ting and Zhao Xinyue, who also showed themselves in men's clothes, took the second carriage.

"I've seen two ladies." Lu Xing and Han Hu had seen Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou before, so they bowed to the two, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou smiled and bowed slightly because they were wearing men's clothes, which was considered a return of courtesy.

The wives of ancient officials are noble wives and husbands, and according to the official title of their husbands, they will be named the corresponding wives by the imperial court.

Although Lu Xing is also a civil official of the fourth grade, there is still a distinction between the civil officials of the same rank, taking the officials of the four grades as an example, the most honorable is the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, followed by the officials of the six departments, followed by the officials of the six departments, then the officials of other ministries and yamen in the capital, and finally the officials of the local yamen.

It can be said that Li Yuntian is already the leader of the four civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, and his wife is noble with his husband, Lu Xing and Han Hu naturally have to salute Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou, otherwise they will mess up the rank and dignity of officialdom.

It's just that Lu Xing and Han Hu couldn't have imagined that Lei Ting, who had always appeared as Li Yuntian's personal guard, would be his sixth wife, and according to etiquette, the two should also salute her, and there are very few people in the concubine room of the Ming officials who can "inherit the glory of the main room and enjoy the title of the wife", and Li Yuntian can be described as an alternative among the alternatives.

Under the guidance of Lu Xing and Han Hu, Li Yuntian and the two of them chatted and laughed and entered the Baihua Building, and the dignitaries and nobles along the way greeted him one after another, although Li Yuntian did not announce that he was coming to participate in the Jiangnan Oiran Conference, but Lu Xing and Han Hu could greet them at the door in person, and the person who lacked Zhang Sheng was put in Yangzhou only Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian smiled, bowed slightly to the people on the side of the road, and also exchanged greetings with some of them from time to time, and the atmosphere seemed quite harmonious.

The No. 1 room of the first word had already been cleaned up, Lu Xing and Han Hu sent Li Yuntian and his party into the room and then retreated with interest, it was obvious that Li Yuntian was distracted by Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou this time, how could the two disturb Li Yuntian's interest.

After Lu Xing and Han Hu left, some dignitaries and dignitaries in the Jiangnan realm came to the No. 1 room of Jiazi to catch up with Li Yuntian, which included both the princes and nobles on the ground in the south of the Yangtze River and the six high-ranking officials who stayed in Nanjing, and the atmosphere was very warm.

At the same time, in a courtyard in the backyard of the Baihua Building, the Qingqi people who participated in the Jiangnan Oiran Conference were nervously making final preparations in the room, they had worked hard for several years to fight tonight, and once they became the Oiran throne, they would be worth a hundred times as much as once.

Since there were twenty or thirty Kiyo people attending the Oiran Tournament this time, every few Kiyoku people were assigned a room to freshen up and dress up.

Since they are both from Hangzhou, Hongluan and Zijuan are in the same room, and the two of them are waiting for people to put on makeup in front of the dressers on both sides of the room.

Hongluan and Zijuan are the popular candidates for the Oiran, one is superb, one is outstanding, the casino in Yangzhou has opened odds for this, betting on these Qingqi people who can be elected Oiran, two of them have the lowest odds and are comparable, which means that the casino is very optimistic about the two.

"Girl, I just heard that the Marquis of Zhenwu is here, but I didn't expect him to come to the Oiran Conference!"

Just when Hongluan, who was dressed in a big red dress, was arranging the bun on her head under the service of the two maids, Xing'er burst in from the door in a hurry, and it was a very happy thing for a girl like her to meet the legendary young marquis of Daming.

"I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain!" Seeing Xing'er's fussy appearance, the corners of Zijuan's mouth, who was sitting behind Hongluan in a purple skirt, couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile, and then opened his mouth to chant two ancient poems, but it was ridiculous that Hongluan didn't know that Zhao Gongzi was the famous Zhenwu Marquis for so long.

Hongluan couldn't help but open her eyes when she heard this, Liu Mei frowned slightly, she naturally heard that Zijuan had something to say, but she didn't know what Zijuan was alluding to, so she couldn't help but feel a little strange in her heart.