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Chapter 119, when will Jinling song and dance stop? (a)

The first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Nanjing

When Hebei and the Central Plains are already swarming and the people are struggling to make a living, the ancient capital of Jinling, located in the south of the Yangtze River, is still sleeping soundly in wealth and prosperity.

Here in Nanjing, the Ming Empire also set up a set of teams according to Beijing's six ministries and nine qing, which is called "staying in the capital...... Coupled with the benefits of the Yangtze River and the canal, Nanjing Yingtianfu was not only the highest political center in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, but also one of the famous economic centers in the world at that time.

At this time, Nanjing was the largest magnificent city in the world, and the scale was even higher than Beijing. There are two main city walls in the whole city, the outer Guo is one hundred and twenty miles in total, there are eighteen city gates, except that the city gate is covered with bricks, the walls are mostly rammed earth, relatively short. After entering the outer country, it is already regarded as an urban area, although you can still see a small piece of vegetable fields, but it is already a forest of houses and shops, densely populated, and pedestrians and cars are endless.

To put it simply, Nanjing built another outer wall outside the earliest city wall, including the developed satellite towns.

Walk a little further inside from the outer Guo, you can see the real Nanjing city wall, this city wall was expanded by Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty, not only tall and majestic, but also did not hesitate to build with bricks and stones, so it is extremely strong. The circumference of the city is about 60 miles, the battlements are 17,000, there are more than 200 nests on the city wall, 13 city gates are set up, people call "Shence Jinchuan Yifeng Gate, Huaiyuan is cool to the stone city, the three mountains are connected to the treasure, Hongwu Chaoyang is peaceful. ”

In general, Nanjing's city walls were built based on the local topography, not only using the walls of Yingtianfu in the Yuan Dynasty, but also making extensive use of the various hills around Nanjing as part of the defense system. Some lots use mountains directly as the basis of the city walls. Thus it is irregularly shaped. It is connected to Zhongshan Mountain in the east, Stone Mountain in the west, Xuanwu Lake in the north, Qinhuai River in the south, and surrounded by mountains and rivers, with extraordinary momentum. The city foundation is also extravagant to use granite or limestone strips, the two walls are built with large bricks, and the brick joints are mixed with lime and glutinous rice juice with tung oil, mixed into mortar for watering, so it is extremely strong.

It is a pity that this seemingly impregnable city defense system has never played its due defensive capability in the hands of the Ming army......

(Strange to come, although Nanjing's city defense system was so strong, it was the pinnacle of the Cold Weapon Age, no less than Constantinople in the Eastern Roman Empire.) But in the hands of the Ming army, whether it was Zhu Di's battle against Emperor Jianwen's Jingyan battle, or the Qing army crossing the river to destroy the Southern Ming, Nanjing was all looking at the wind. However, under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, Nanjing experienced many fierce battles, from the landing of Zheng Chenggong in the early Qing Dynasty to the Xinhai Revolution in the late Qing Dynasty, Nanjing was an important battlefield. ）

For those literati who are full of reverie and poetic poetry, when it comes to Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties in Jiangzuo, they will never forget the Qinhuai River, which seems to be full of poetry and picturesque, charming dreams, and has left countless wonderful legends of talented and beautiful women.

——The world-famous Qinhuai River, from the southeast to Nanjing, and then through the Tongji Bridge through the moat into the Tongji Water Gate, the river into the city wall is in the Huaiqing Bridge, here is also the starting point of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing. Qinhuai River water flows southwest from Huaiqing Bridge, Wende Bridge, Wuding Bridge, Zhenhuai Bridge, and Qingxi meet, and finally out of Sanshan Water Gate into the Yangtze River, this waterway is the ten miles of Qinhuai that later generations preached.

Among them, the Fengyue land of the Qinhuai River is called the "Old Courtyard", also known as the "Nanqu", where there are both official prostitutes of the Jiaofang Division, as well as private prostitutes, and most of the high-grade Qinglou are concentrated there, while the other two Fengyue places in Nanjing, "Nanshi" and "Zhu Market", are where low-grade prostitutes are located - "Nanshi" is where vulgar prostitutes live, and the peddlers and pawns go in and out of it, not to mention. "Pearl Market" is mostly a half-closed door crooked prostitutes and the like (analogous red apricot out of the wall), although it is occasionally bright, but the scenery is much worse, it is called Goolan by the locals, and it is also the origin of the low-level brothel called the low-level brothel as Goolan in the future. Only Nanqujia is in the four seas, literati and ink writers flock to it, and the official prostitutes in the music can be about 2,000, and there are still many private prostitutes and maidservants, which are innumerable.

Although this day is not a festival, it is still a crowded and lively scene on the "Southern Song" of Qinhuai in ten miles.

——Fang Yizhi, a famous scholar in Tongcheng who volunteered to lead the hot-blooded warriors south to Qiongzhou to investigate the details of the "thief", successfully returned to Nanjing with a "Donglin tour group" after falling into the hands of thieves for a time, and by the way boasted about their wonderful "escape behind enemy lines"......

So, Fang Yizhi's friend Zhang Pu? After Zhang Dai, Mao Xiang and other celebrities of the Restoration Society, as well as some seniors of the Nanjing Donglin Party, learned of this, they mobilized the scholars of the Restoration Society in Nanjing City to set up a banquet and wine on the Qinhuai River and hold a grand meeting. The second is to celebrate the success of the "righteous man and gentleman" of the Donglin Party in supporting the new emperor Zhu Yihai, once again mastering the court, and realizing the situation of "all the people are in the court".

As the leader of the Fushe scholars, the idol star of this era, Zhang Pu's appeal among the Jiangnan scholars is naturally extraordinary. All of a sudden, in the streets and alleys leading to the Qinhuai River Huanchang, there was an endless stream of scribes in Confucian robes. And after the news spread, it attracted many rich idlers to come over and join in the fun...... In the end, the banks of the Qinhuai River were crowded with people and mixed laughter. Dressed up daughters, suave teenagers, yellow-haired old men, drooping young children, like a stream. In the Qinhuai River, the painting boat cruise, shuttling back and forth, silk and bamboo orchestras, the sound of music is like wisps, a peaceful and prosperous scene!

——Even from the perspective of modern people, the ten-mile Qinhuai at the end of the Ming Dynasty was full of cars and horses, lively and abnormal, and everywhere was rich and extravagant, and some sedan panes were even made of ivory. The women who went out laughed loudly along the street, and the atmosphere was very open. The people were also richly dressed. In particular, women's clothes are even more gorgeous, with bright colors and rich styles, which are not much worse than the dresses of modern urban women.

Although at this time, it was only across the Huaiyang land of the Yangtze River, and it was already groaning among the hooves of soldiers and horses, and the smoke of beacon fires......

“…… Alas, this is really a song in the leaky boat, drunk in the burning house! I don't know how long I can see this scene? ”

In one of the largest luxury painting boats on the Qinhuai River, Yu Guozhen, a new talent who returned to Nanjing with Fang Yizhi, was known for his courage and bravery, holding a cup of fragrant hot tea, while admiring the potted plum blossoms on the boat, while looking at the scholars from all over the country who greeted each other on the painting boats in the river, and listened to the scattered bursts of silk and bamboo music and the soft words of Wu Nong, who couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.

The boat he was waiting for now, except for the deck, had two floors on the deck alone, the hall downstairs, the bedroom and the terrace upstairs, the hall was very spacious, and the interior was also very elegantly decorated. A table was set up, and a large round table was set up in the middle. At this moment, the guest of honor of this event, Fang Yizhi, whose skin was slightly tanned by the scorching sun of the South China Sea, was sitting at the big round table, spitting and telling a group of scholars about his "Escape from the Qiongzhou Thief Cave", while Yu Guozhen, who was also a party involved, hid to the side very wisely, silently drinking tea and eating snacks.

Although Fang Yizhi described their trip to Hainan Island as ups and downs and thrilling, no matter which version of the "real experience", it is actually quite boring and boring - specifically, first of all, the children of the "Donglin Tour Group" traveled all the way to Guangzhou, eating, drinking and merrymaking, and then they were scared away by the rumors of "thieves attacking". Then, after the rumor of "the thief attacked" was falsified, the rest of the people crossed the sea to Hainan Island in ignorance to "investigate the thief's situation" under the flickering of Yu Guozhen, who was also a Jiangnan scholar, and then went to Sanya by train. During this period, Yu Guozhen managed to get in touch with the "relevant departments", revealed his identity as a traverser, and by the way, sold Fang Yizhi, a cadre, as a petition...... In the end, these stunned young people threw themselves into the net and were wiped out in the hotel in Sanya.

However, although the prestige of this group of Jiangnan scholars in the late Ming Dynasty was very loud, for the traversers of the modern way of thinking, the use value of Fang Yizhi and their gang of gentlemen is really pitiful - after using Doraemon's 22nd century black technology props for hypnotic interrogation, it was confirmed that they were not Ming 007, let alone the legendary Jinyi Wei masters, they were really just a group of thrill-seeking rich young masters, These people have become chicken ribs in the eyes of the relevant departments: such a group of weak scholars who can't lift their shoulders and can't pick them up, they don't have the physical strength to dig stones in the mines, but their stinky tempers are more stubborn than the other, and it is also very difficult to plot rebellion and co-opt around, and it is even more impossible to carry out ideological reform...... What should I do?

In this regard, some people proposed at that time to simply shoot all these wastes and throw them into the sea to feed the sharks!

Fortunately, under Yu Guozhen's plea, the above cruel proposal was finally not implemented. Several archaeologists who came to this time and space, because they were planning to investigate the scenic spots in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, also took the opportunity to put forward a proposal for "waste utilization...... Although Yu Guozhen felt that he was fully qualified to be a tour guide, if Fang Yizhi and the others were all lost in Qiongzhou, how could he dare to go back to Jiangnan alone?

So, after another hypnosis and indoctrination of memories, Fang Yizhi and others, whose minds were already muddy, finally walked out of the detention center tremblingly, and then boarded a big ship bound for Guangzhou under the greeting of smiling Yu Guozhen and the rest of the old men dressed in Ming Dynasty clothes.

According to Yu Guozhen's description and the false memories instilled, when Fang Yizhi and others were arrested by the Qiongzhou thieves because of a "misunderstanding", Yu Guozhen, who was out for medical treatment because of illness at that time, and who escaped by luck, immediately launched relations everywhere to get them out of prison. It's just that they couldn't find a way out for a while, so they had no choice but to let Fang Yizhi and them eat in prison for a few days.

Fortunately, in the end, Yu Guozhen finally found a familiar maritime merchant, and then through the relationship of this maritime merchant, he made some money to the thieves in Qiongzhou, and finally got them out. However, in order to prevent long nights and dreams, it is better for everyone to return to the realm of Daming by boat as soon as possible......

Strictly speaking, such a statement is simply full of loopholes, but fortunately, the foreign aid that Yu Guozhen received this time is really strong - the "relevant departments" and the other party Yizhi and his party have used extremely strong hypnotic hints. On the other hand, the "Donglin Tour Group" that landed on Hainan Island all got out safely after all, and even the accompanying servants and dart masters did not lose a single one, but they lost some of their belongings (if after going to prison, the money in the luggage was not lost, it would be abnormal). Therefore, all the gentlemen who have become frightened birds naturally accept Yu Guozhen's explanation.

Next, after arriving in Guangzhou and resting for a while, Fang Yizhi visited the "sea merchant who rescued them from the Qiongzhou thieves" under the introduction of Yu Guozhen - although most of the scholars in the late Ming Dynasty were arrogant and despised any lowly people except for the scholars and gentry, and usually looked at the businessmen with their nostrils, but after all, the other party was his "life-saving benefactor", so he should be thanked......

Then, after a polite exchange with each other, the sea merchant played by the former Lingao Senate agent - in fact, he? came to do this business, but after falling into trouble and ruin, he defected to the Lingao Traverser Group, so it was completely a true performance - he took the opportunity to propose to Fang Yizhi and Yu Guozhen that he had a few family elders and brothers and friends, and wanted to go north with all the Donglin scholars to see the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River......

For such trivial matters, without Yu Guozhen, a ghost in the traverser, beating the side drum, Fang Yizhi readily agreed.

So, several professors of archaeology and history who changed into the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the accompanying protection of the dart master Hu Servant, followed Fang Yizhi and other Jiangnan scholars, embarked on the journey back to the north, stopping and stopping all the way, visiting various places of interest (especially those ancient buildings that no longer exist in the 21st century), and it took half a year to finally arrive in Nanjing. Moreover, due to the huge difference in thinking between ancient and modern people, the various troubles encountered during this period are simply innumerable...... Thanks to the gold-lettered signboards of the Donglin Party and the Fushe, the face in the southern provinces is big enough, and Yu Guozhen is trying to cover it up in every possible way, coupled with the instant communication support in the rear, there is finally no big mess.

But Rao is like this, when this group finally arrived in Nanjing, Yu Guozhen was still exhausted, and felt that the whole person was ten years old.

What's even worse is that after arriving in Nanjing, Yu Guozhen still has a lot of things to do for the "ancient cultural inspection tour" of senior intellectuals to go smoothly, including not only guest tour guides and commentators, but even some more embarrassing things...... Looking back at Miss Ma Tong next to her, who was wearing a green shirt and a wig, Yu Guozhen couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Take a girl dressed as a man to visit the green house", a plot that only exists in third-rate costume dramas, how did it happen in the reality around me?

Not to mention that this Miss Ma Tong, who is dressed as a man, does not seem to be low-key at all, but is deeply interested in everything around her, and after stepping on the painting boat, she looks left and right with great interest, and from time to time she whispers questions in Yu Guozhen's ear.

But on the other hand, Yu Guozhen also had to admit that in the city of Nanjing at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were indeed a lot of "interesting" things worth seeing.

“…… Na, Xiao Yu? What's going on with that off-the-beaten-path guy on the other side of the river? Is it a man dressed as a woman? Or a woman? ”

Following Miss Ma's fingers, Yu Guozhen squinted and saw a red figure standing on the bridge opposite. At first glance, I thought it was a woman, but when I looked closely, it turned out to be a man with a red ribbon to tie his hair, his lips were smeared with red cream, his face was puffed with white makeup powder, and a little red rouge was added, and a red sachet with a jade pendant was hung on his belt, and he was wearing a red long skirt on his body, embroidered with flowers, plants, birds and beasts on the hem, and a short purple coat on the outside, "...... Uh, I have a bit of an impression of this guy, it seems to be a man from Songjiang Mansion......"

“…… Really a man? Ma Tong was slightly surprised, and then looked back, but saw two women in men's clothes and another man in women's clothes, walking out of a small building, greeting the man in women's clothes by the river with a smile, pinching each other's orchid fingers and flirting, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "...... Women wear men's clothes, men wear women's clothes, and more than one...... This Jiangnan of the Ming Dynasty is really fashionable enough! ”

“…… Yes, now in this place south of the Yangtze River, there are many strange people, and they still show off all day long that they are famous and romantic. Tang Bohu, who was excellent in poetry and painting, once wore women's clothes to meet guests, and there were people riding deer in the downtown area before, swaggering through the city......" Yu Guozhen replied.

“…… Riding a deer on the streets? Is that really the case? Ma Tong blinked curiously.

“…… That's right, it's a real deer, and there are people who get deer to pull carts, people who drink in singers' shoes, and people who buy African slaves to dress up as monsters to watch the door...... In short, it's just how cool and how to get it. Yu Guozhen shrugged, "...... A virtue with the rich men of modern times......"

Ma Tong seemed to be quite interested in these strange things that Yu Guozhen said, but unfortunately he couldn't witness them with his own eyes, so he had to continue to look around at the Qinhuai scenery with his eyes wide open - one thing that has to be admired is that the environmental pollution in ancient times is really much lighter than in modern times. Although the Qinhuai River passes through the city, the water is still crystal clear as seen from the painting boat, and fish can be seen everywhere. The shore is full of all kinds of painting boats, stands the pavilion and the pavilion, it is really Zhu Liang Qi sparse, carved beams and painted buildings, the pane bamboo curtain on the street is light yarn, the shore in front of the house is full of flowers and plants, dotted with strange stones, elegant and has a unique flavor.

Compared with the set props in the modern film and television city, the original Qinhuai street scene in front of you obviously has a certain moving charm.

It's a pity that as a rotten girl who likes to read ** texts, Miss Ma Tong's focus on observing the scenery seems to be different from ordinary people......

“…… Huh? What's going on with the green building across the bridge? Why are there so many men dressed up in demonic clothes hooking shoulders and backs, but not a single girl is missing? Ma Tong, who has good eyesight, suddenly frowned and asked Yu Guozhen, "...... Even if it's a cowherd shop, there should be a few female customers! ”

“…… Oh, that's the Little Pavilion......" Yu Guozhen replied unhappily, "...... It's a place where male prostitutes sell their butts to entertain men......"

“…… What the? Also had gay bars in the Ming Dynasty? It's so advanced! Ma Tong, who is a rotten girl, suddenly heard that her eyes were shining," ...... By the way, since there are gay bars for men, is there a lily for female guests? I'd love to check out ...... if there is."

“…… Sorry, I haven't heard of this either...... Please consider the current environment of the times, too. A drop of cold sweat suddenly oozed from Yu Guozhen's forehead, "...... Those wealthy ladies and ladies who have spending power rarely go out except for going to the temple to offer incense...... Of course, if you must want to engage in that kind of tune, you can also buy a maid for a few taels of silver, and you can play with it however you want......"

“…… That's not necessary, little girl, it was sold everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to come to Nanjing......"

Ma Tong waved his hand happily, "...... People just want to experience the atmosphere and atmosphere on the Qinhuai River...... If not, forget it! ”

——It's really tiring to communicate with the rotten girl lily clan...... "Wuwei Young Tiger" Yu Guozhen rolled his eyes, saying that he was also very upset today......

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Because it was still early at this time, and the guests did not come, the girls who arranged it on this boat were still dressing up in the small building (river house) on the shore (although there were beds on the boat, but generally speaking, few people would really live on the boat, and the girls were only on the boat to receive them when they got business). Soon a little maid came out to say a good fortune, served the hot tea that had just been brewed, and another little maid put a fine spot on the coffee table with the tea—hot buns that had just come out of the pot, as well as honey-refined bayberry, golden silk crisp and mille-feuille crisp, all served in small plates, each in small quantities, but very delicate, and a small cup of freshly made pine nut candy.

So, Yu Guozhen, who was in a cold sweat when asked by Miss Ma Tong, took the opportunity to divert the topic, pointed to the hot little bun and smiled:

“…… You see, this is an authentic Huaiyang flavor of Wuding buns, which seems simple, but it is the most exquisite. First of all, the dough of the bun should be white and snowy, and it will be soft and tough to eat, and the food will not stick to the teeth. The so-called 'five dings' are developed from the basis of its 'three dings'. Sanding is also known as three fresh, that is, chicken, meat, bamboo shoots; The chickens are selected from alternate hens, which are both fat and tender; The diced meat is made of five-flowered ribs, and the fat is moderate; Bamboo shoots are selected according to the season. Three fresh in one, relish, early in the morning, no hunger at noon. With these three cloves as the filling, fresh, fragrant, crispy, tender are ready, fat but not greasy. Later, some chefs came up with the ingenuity of adding two flavors on the basis of three dings: green shrimp and sea cucumber, thus becoming 'five ding buns'. It is known as 'nourishing but not too tonic, delicious but not too fresh, fragrant but not too greasy, crunchy but not too hard, delicate but not too soft. ’…… Taste it while it's hot. ”

“…… Oh, and there are so many doorways? It sounds like an advertisement...... Well, it tastes really good......"

Ma Tong muttered so, but still tasted a mouthful of steamed buns according to his words, and sure enough, his mouth was full of fresh fragrance and his lips and teeth were fragrant. Seeing that Ma Tong ate sweetly, Yu Guozhen continued: "...... Listening to Zhang Dai, eating this bun is even more amazing when it is accompanied by 'Kui Longzhu' tea. This kind of tea is made of Zhejiang Longjing, Anhui Kuizhen, Jiangsu Zhulan and other famous teas, taking the color of Kui needle, the fragrance of the orchid, the taste of Longjing, which can be called the color and fragrance - this Zhang Dai is the great writer who wrote "Huxin Pavilion Travel", on paying attention to food, there is no scholar comparable to him today......"

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After chatting about the way of eating, the few refreshments served were also eaten, but Zhang Pu, as the host, still did not arrive, and the geisha of the painting boat naturally did not appear. However, a few old professors who dressed up as Ming Dynasty people and went to Qinhuai Flower Street to hang out came back one by one.

So Ma Tong chatted with them with great interest about what they saw on the street - in general, although the "Nanqu" of the Qinhuai River is a famous place of wind and moon, it is not only the Qinglou painting boat. On the contrary, there are restaurants, inns, theaters, grocery stores, and clothing stores, which looks more like a modern high-end comprehensive shopping and consumption plaza. Of course, there will be no shortage of green buildings. The streets are all made of bluestone, very neat, the green trees on the side of the road, the green bamboos are dotted, and the canals on both sides are clear and the streams are springing, so that the old professors of history and archaeology linger, and they also secretly took a lot of photos back.

Looking at the small buildings in the photo that are as delicate as Suzhou gardens, Ma Tong, who came to Nanjing directly through the [random door], couldn't help but be quite surprised: "...... Is this house a brothel? Why is it so plain and elegant, like a high-end villa area? Isn't there a lot of red and green silk cloth hanging on TV, making a rich atmosphere, and then there are a few girls with heavy makeup standing at the door, shaking handkerchiefs and shouting, 'Uncle come and play'......"

“…… What kind of grade is that, it's just that the director is messing around with the set, this is the top club of the Ming Dynasty, Beverly Hills, and ......the like."

The old professor, who was holding a smartphone to show her, couldn't help but tremble when he heard this, and couldn't help but laugh in a low voice: "...... Do you think these Qinglou will entertain the heroes in costume dramas? Their customer base is all literati and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, one by one, the vassal elegance of the competition, and the pursuit of style! If it is really so red and green, it will definitely be ridiculed as vulgar, where will there be literati and ink artists willing to patronize?

Even those high-end clubs in the modern world seem to be desperately trying to make them look like classical gardens or Western-style garden palaces. Among the real rich people, except for those uneducated local tyrants, who would go to the noisy low-end MTV nightclub for entertainment? ”

“…… Belch...... I think so! I really can't imagine that Qin Huai Bayan will appear in Wei Xiaobao's Lichun Courtyard to solicit customers......"

Ma Tong rolled his eyes and muttered, but then his eyes lit up again, and he said to Yu Guozhen, "...... By the way, I said Xiao Yu, since we came to the Qinhuai River at the end of the Ming Dynasty, can you find a way to see the demeanor of Qinhuai Bayan? Otherwise, I always feel a little regretful......"

This time it was Yu Guozhen's turn to roll his eyes, "...... Please, the so-called Qin Huai Bayan is simply far-fetched and forced up by later generations. The story of Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan happened about ten years later, and now they are only a few years old, and they are not old enough to sell them. Liu Ru is fourteen or fifteen years old this year, and I heard that she has made her debut, but she is a famous prostitute in Wu County, Suzhou, and she has not come to Qinhuai River to participate in activities yet! And Ma Xianglan, the oldest among the eight Yans of Qin Huai, is a person in the Jiajing period, and she has been dead for I don't know how many years...... Do you want to go and sweep her grave? ”

When Ma Tong heard this, he immediately deflated again. And Yu Guozhen was reluctantly relieved - talking with a vitality girl and a group of old professors on the Qinhuai River**, no matter how you look at it, it is a matter of exhaustion...... In recent times, he has always felt that his discipline is getting less and less......

Just when Yu Guozhen was thinking so crankily, he suddenly heard the ship's mother crying out outside the cabin: "...... It's time for the public! ”

Before the words fell, a middle-aged man stepped into the cabin, only to see that this person was straight, wearing a brocade robe, with beautiful jade hanging from his waist, wearing a scribe's scarf, elegant bearing, beautiful hair over his chest, and an indescribable calmness and arrogance in his demeanor...... This is the head of Jiangnan scholars, the sky is like Gong Zhang Pu!

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