Chapter 356 Feasting on both sides, anger and joy are two heavens

Jiangnan is rich in the world, and Huaiyang salt merchants are rich in Jiangnan. There are such a group of rich people in the world entrenched in Huaiyang, even if there is no salt merchant and his family members at the dinner on this day, but after being an official in Yangzhou Mansion for a long time, it is inevitable that he will be infected with the extravagant atmosphere of this salt merchant long ago. Especially now that he is in the midst of a group of female dependents, Chen Lan, who was almost dazzled, couldn't help but think of the emotion of the eldest princess of Anguo before leaving Beijing.

No silk, no clothes, no gold thread, no scarf, no clouds.

At this moment, from the lady to the maid and servant, all of them are dazzling with gold beads. The materials of those clothes are from Wu silk, Song Jin, Yun Yi, camel brown...... All these are treasures in the tribute palace; As for the style, it is from the brushwork, ink, embroidery, yarn pushing, and even a very old woman is wearing a red and green embroidered yarn shirt. plus the pointed bun, goose gall bun, and fallen horse bun that are interspersed with gold and jade beads...... The brilliant lights in the room were reflected on it, and the dazzling feeling of resplendent was unimaginable to those who had not attended the meeting in person.

In contrast, Chen Lan and Jiang's dresses were a little shabby. Not to mention the Jiang family, who is already in his forties, the young Chen Lan has a silver-white embroidered placket collar tulle shirt on the top, and a fish-belly-white Hangzhou silk skirt on the bottom, and there are not even any gold beads on his head, only a white hosta, which looks extremely plain. Seeing a few gorgeously dressed ** people constantly looking at themselves, they almost didn't whisper, and Chen Lan just didn't see it, and dealt with the high-ranking women in Yangzhou Mansion as if they were nothing.

It's just that she is single-minded at this moment. Although she is used to having different rules for men and women in this world, since she got the letter from Hou Shi Xiaolang in Zhendong, she really can't rest assured about the situation outside. She had heard countless dirty things about officialdom in her previous life, and she had experienced a lot in this life, and she knew that sometimes she couldn't solve the problem by cleaning herself. If it weren't for the sake of that one in this reception, Xiao Lang would be difficult to avoid, and if Yang Jinzhou didn't follow and didn't know what kind of moths would come out, she would almost have planned to sacrifice the trick of being sick.

"This sideburn flower, also known as the floating branch flower, came from Songjiang Mansion. Use a green flower as big as the palm of your hand, decorate it with several pearls, and insert it on the side of the temples......"

After pressing and pressing, when several ladies talked about the popular sideburns flowers, Chen Lan finally couldn't help but glance at the Jiang family. Seeing that her mother-in-law's face was so good that she couldn't see where to go, she was really worried about the future, so she got up and whispered a few words in her ear, and sure enough, Jiang Shi also stood up: "Forgive me, these days on the boat, my old bones have been a little unbearable." It's not too early, and if you disperse early, you might as well go back and rest. ”

Although the Jiang family is not old, they occupy the light of Mrs. Yipintai, and although the rest of the people are reluctant and unhappy, they can only smile on their faces. As the host, Mrs. Fan thought about the program in front of her, but she had the intention to keep one or two, but when she said that, she saw Chen Lan's cold gaze looking over.

"This journey is a tiring boat, and the second is that I still have great meritorious clothes on my body, and there are many things wrong with drinking and feasting for a long time. Besides, all the adults in front of them are the parents and officials of Yangzhou Mansion, and they can't delay tomorrow, so this reception banquet should be dispersed early, so as not to be caught by someone when they are inspected in the future. ”

"Madame said yes, said yes."

Mrs. Fan didn't have a reason to feel furious, and hurriedly smiled and agreed, this hurriedly ordered someone to go outside to inform the servants who followed Jiang's Chen Lan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and when those girls came in and busily served the master and went out wearing a cloak, she had to take someone to send the general out diligently, but she didn't want to go directly to the front hall of the Doll Garden. This time, until the arrangements in front of her, she suddenly became nervous, while calling her mother to report the news, and on the other hand, she hurriedly accompanied the attendant in the hope of interrupting.

However, her gags did not slow down the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the slightest. The Jiang family, who was born in the Jiangnan family, not only hated the Jiang family's injustice, but naturally did not have any good feelings about the extravagant atmosphere purely for the purpose of showing off wealth. After arriving, she and Chen Lan were almost ahead of everyone, and Mrs. Fan and her party behind them were barely able to keep up as if they were trotting.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law entered the verandah from the moon gate, and they saw a commotion coming from the front hall. After a while, a few small servants standing in front of the door and waiting entered the door in a hurry, but the movement inside was quite large. Faced with such a scene, Chen Lan and Jiang exchanged glances, and immediately stepped up a few steps. However, when they were not a few steps away from the door, the big red brocade curtain was raised again, and a man slammed the curtain and went out of the house with a sigh.

"Huh?"

Chen Lan and Jiang recognized the man almost at the same time. Seeing that several more people chased out of the door, Chen Lan immediately called out. As soon as this voice came out, the few people who were about to catch up with Xiao Lang immediately stopped and looked this way, and Xiao Lang, who was flying away in anger, was also stunned. When Chen Lan stood on the verandah with Jiang in his arms, his extremely ugly face finally turned around, and then he slowly walked over with his hands behind his back.

"Mrs. Yang, Mrs. Yang, it seems that the banquet is dispersed later?"

Seeing Xiao Lang's slight chin, Chen Lan naturally helped the Jiang family to return the salute. After a few words of tacit greetings on both sides, Chen Lan asked, "Is the front hall already dispersed?" In that case, why didn't my lord come out? ”

Xiao Lang glanced back at the officials who came forward behind him, and then sneered: "Governor Fan said that there was something important to report to Lord Yang, but somehow there was a bunch of drama on the table, Lord Yang suddenly came back and saw that kind of messy situation, naturally it was a big thunder, at this time Governor Fan is making amends for his crimes, I'm afraid it will not stop for a while, why don't I send Mrs. and Mrs. on my behalf?" ”

There is no need to think about it to know what kind of situation Yang Jinzhou saw when he came back, Chen Lan was secretly angry, and quietly glanced at Mrs. Fan, seeing that her face was blue and white, he didn't bother to say anything. The Jiang family responded to Xiao Lang's words with a smile, and the group ignored the few officials who didn't know what to do, nor the ladies who looked at each other in the back, and went straight along the road to the back courtyard gate.

Halfway through, seeing that no one was catching up, Chen Lan instructed the girls to look back and forth, and asked Xiao Lang again: "Xiao Shi, didn't you discuss going in and out together, why did my uncle throw you down and rush back in the middle of the middle?" ”

"It's not Fan Cheng's old fox yet" Xiao Lang's handsome face showed deep disgust and hatred, "Halfway through the meal, he took Brother Yang to discuss it by saying that there was important news in Nanjing." I think as soon as he leaves, the rest are cats and dog-like characters, which should be easy to deal with, who knows that in the blink of an eye, a group of heavy makeup and glamorous dramas will come up, one by one, dressed up like a woman, it will be disgusting to look at Fortunately, when I was about to lift the table, Brother Yang came back, and then he was so thunderous, he directly lifted the table"

It's a mess...... Mess

Chen Lan only felt that his head was a little big, and the more he scolded King Jing who had escaped the incident and disappeared without a trace in his heart. And the Jiang clan was worried about Yang Jinzhou's great thunder, and immediately asked: "After all, the Fan Governor's Mansion used things to trick the whole brother out, and now the whole brother suddenly turned back......

"Mother, what kind of sex is Uncle Quan, that cold face, the person who wants to sell the customs can't afford to drag it out if he wants to, when did he lose his sense of proportion?" Chen Lan answered before Xiao Lang, and then couldn't help but look at the Zhendong Hou Shi who had just almost suffered with sympathetic eyes, "Xiao Shi really suffered for others this time. ”

Xiao Lang clenched his fists and wanted to find something to vent his anger, but the road was wide, and the wall next to him was at least four or five feet away, and the girls and servants around him were all from the Yang family, so he could only snort from his nose to be considered angry. Then he said viciously: "If he tricks me into coming to Li Dai Taozhuang, but he can't do things himself, I will have to ...... Damn, it's all because he's so infamous, what kind of goods those people are looking for, none of them can catch the eye"

Most of the city of Nanjing in the dark night is already quiet, only the ten miles of Qinhuai River are still full of sheng songs. The waning moon shone on the water, and the lights on the richly decorated boats reflected the brilliance of the stars from time to time. On the railing of the painting boat, you can see from time to time that the old men in their sixties and seventies, and the young men in their fifteens and sixteens are either drinking and singing, or playing and singing with J, which is just not alive.

However, in this kind of gold-selling place, most people spend a lot of money in fine clothes, and occasionally there are one or two poor men, and most of them follow the rich and powerful. There is a way that bustards love money and sisters love pretty, compared to those nobles who live in eight seats, even if the young male brother is a little poorer, but there are still endless possibilities for rising, in contrast, whether it is a famous Oiran or a second-class famous J, the silky eyes naturally flew towards a handsome brother.

At this moment, on a gorgeous double-layer painting boat in the middle of the river, Xu Yang, the garrison of Nanjing, and Pingjiang Bo Fanghan, who had just returned from the capital, were drinking and feasting. Because one of these two is a military general with great achievements, and the other is an earl in charge of Cao Yun, he naturally called a dozen girls with a big hand, and the guests at the meeting all had someone to serve wine around them, not counting the stunning beauties who played and sang and danced in the center, so after a while, most of them were completely intoxicated, and the rest were flattered and sent to the two masters as if they were not dying.

As the song and dance came to an end, the singers and dancers gradually came down. Someone finally got to the point.

"Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, Uncle has finally returned from the capital this time. With your backbone, the transportation on the canal will not be so messy anymore. ”

"Isn't it? Now that shipping has accounted for the share of the entire capacity from south to north, I heard that those merchants still don't want to build sea ships, and then go on like this, where will we eat? Not to mention anything else, just the various taxes along the way, the taxes collected over the years have become less and less. ”

"I heard that the imperial court still wants to focus on the imperial examination to determine the share of the north and the south? Our Jiangnan is a treasure land of Wenhua, even if it is a leisurely person, it is more than a step stronger than the so-called northerners, but look at the current situation, among the three assistants, except for Yuanfu and Song Lao, the two next to them are northerners, and if this continues, there will be no place for us southerners."

Speaking of this, the heartbroken middle-aged scribe suddenly turned his head and glanced at the young scholar who was sitting at the end of the seat, and saw that he was just looking at the beautiful woman beside him**, his face suddenly looked a little unsightly, and then he coughed heavily: "Stop, you fell off the list last year, didn't you come back yesterday and complain that the few Jinshi exam papers that circulated out were not better than you?" ”

"I said that?" The young man raised his head, glanced blankly at the people around him, and saw that although everyone looked at him differently, the two important ones obviously did not recognize him, and he smiled, "Shibo is also too exalted to me, if I want to say this, I must be drunk and complaining, and I will never dare to mention it in person." However, the last subject was the chief examiner of Zhang Laoren, who passed away last year, Zhang Lao is from our southerners, if this is still unfair, it is not to smear Zhang Lao......"

He wanted to say more, but was stopped by a sharp look from the middle-aged scribe, and immediately smiled at the others disappreciatively, and lowered his head to tease the beauties around him. When he heard that the other people around him joined in impassionedly, they criticized the Jinyi Wei and the two commanders in succession for non-punishment, and complained that the previous officials were so dignified but wanted to measure the acres of land, and said that the inspection of the city department of Ningbo Mansion was more severe...... No matter what others say, he doesn't even raise his head. And others only looked at the red and bright cheeks of the girl next to him and the movements of struggling twice from time to time, and they knew what kind of situation this was, and over time no one paid attention to his direction.

"Public ......"

"What male, what kind of adults are the other people here, what male, I'm just a poor scholar."

He squeezed his eyes, and when he saw that the others were still talking vigorously, he took the girl by the shoulder, and quietly withdrew. When he arrived at the outer railing, he continued to be distracted, listening attentively to the words inside, while continuing to tease the people around him, after a while, he suddenly heard a change in the movement inside, and immediately held the people and sang.

After a while, Pingjiang Bo Fanghan walked out of the cabin side by side with Xu Yang, the Nanjing garrison, and saw a young man standing on the edge of the fence on the side of the ship with a J woman in his arms and singing a Jiangnan song, the two looked at each other, smiled contemptuously, and turned around and walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor behind the boat, and the four or five attendants behind hurriedly followed.

When the group passed, the hand that had been holding the girl's shaved shoulders slowly fell, and the person also turned around, and there was still the first wandering wreck in the shining eyes. Staring at the place where the figure had disappeared for a long time, he looked sideways for a moment at the girl who had fallen asleep, and helped her to walk to the opposite side. It wasn't until he saw an old bustard coming over with a smile on his face that he familiarly stuffed a silver ticket into his hand, and immediately plunged into the small cabin next to him, and closed the door with his backhand as if he couldn't wait.

Fang Han and Xu Yang went up to the second floor of the painting boat, and there were suddenly only a few Jiangning Mansion officials and a group of Qing scholars and so on left in the large cabin on the ground floor. Even if there was no big man, when he was drunk, someone in it hugged the beautiful woman and shouted five drinks and six strokes, which attracted many people to coax for a while. In this noisy atmosphere, the old bustard outside hurried to the bow of the boat under the dead wind lamp and unfolded the silver ticket, seeing that it was a big ticket of one hundred taels, there was a smile between his eyebrows, and he took it into his arms after looking east and west. But when she turned back, she stopped in front of the door of the small cabin, and there was a slight hesitation on her face.

This place is not an ordinary house, let the two of them hang around in it, will it ......

However, when there were gasps and moans, and even the creaking of the bed, she finally pressed her chest, leaving that worry behind. The proprietor of this painting boat is not her, and most of the expenses of this chartered boat tonight have to be paid, but there are not many people who will be out of pocket at that time. This hundred taels has to be hidden, but it is as easy as a snap.

Unlike the large cabin, which was surrounded by varnished partition windows, this small cabin had no windows, only a door, and was furnished with a simple wooden bed, a square table, and a chair, and nothing more. At this moment, the sleeping girl was lying on the only wooden bed, her mouth still moaning for a while, and her clothes were already disheveled.

And the person who was supposed to be having fun with her had already stood up and looked around. After searching all the corners to make sure that no one was watching the place again, he went to the wooden deck in the corner, and after a moment of familiarity, he removed the trap, revealing a copper pipe inside. Immediately after, he put his ear up.

Almost instantly, the voice that spoke in a low voice came out.

"Brother Fang, Chen Ying went to Suzhou this time, and it was obvious that she was degraded. When I agreed to the marriage, I thought that he attacked the Marquis of Yangning, and he was in the Governor's Mansion, and the soldiers and horses of the five cities were all able to turn around, whether it was the ginseng and leather goods I sent on the old road in Liaodong, or the current trade route from Jiangnan to the capital, he could take care of one or two, looking at the current situation, this transaction seems to be a loss. ”

"It doesn't matter if you lose money for a while, what matters is that you can't keep losing like this, if you really set up a Jiangnan Tax Department, determine the value of all cargo ships transported by sea, and strictly implement ten taxes and one ...... Our day is really sad that the current trouble is not this, King Jing was ordered to patrol and hunt, Yang Jinzhou guarded the two rivers, I don't know if it is one heart, or each has its own mission."

"It's never our turn to be the birds. I heard that many wealthy families have already sent people to fight in Yangzhou. But you probably don't know, I got an extremely secret piece of information......"

The sound behind the head suddenly became extremely slight, and the person who was listening with the brass tube in his ear suddenly frowned, and tried to get closer to distinguish the contents. When he finally heard the words "Ne" and "Master of Ceremonies", he froze for a moment, immediately removed his ears, and picked up the wooden board that covered the table and carefully put it back in place. When he turned around and saw the girl who was already tearing her clothes into a mess, he suddenly felt some inexplicable coldness on his body, and frowned while clenching his hands.

When he was busy working here, Xiao Lang had Yang Jinzhou on his side to help, so he should be doing his best work, right? Compared to him, it is much easier over there, otherwise if you really change this Zhendong Hou Shi to steal chickens and dogs according to Xiao Lang's words, you will not be able to pass the first level with that serious appearance. Alas, he used to live honestly in the fifth place in the west of the Qianqing Palace, and it was not easy to raise even a decent subordinate, and now he has to go out in person. This return to Jiangnan has finally been approved, and it is time to pay attention to a few people

However, it seems that Pingjiang Bo Fanghan and Nanjing garrison Xu Yang Xinghui will be pawns......

"Abominable"

In the room, Xiao Lang had viciously burst out these two words for the nth time. And after Chen Lan personally served him tea, he was also restless and frequently looked out. She naturally believes in Yang Jinzhou, but there are so many officials tonight, if he doesn't do it, he can't stand up for it, and if he does too much, it will have the opposite effect, and in such a strange situation, to grasp the degree of this is tantamount to giving people a big problem. Let's talk about it...... It's still King Jing's reputation that hurts people

Although he was also a victim, Chen Lan still had to persuade Xiao Lang with a heavy spirit, and this time he said more than he said during the previous half month on the boat. It's just that, as before, Xiao Lang still doesn't answer often, but his blue and white face has gradually improved, and even his shoulders, which have been stiff, seem to have relaxed. However, when the door curtain was lifted, the moment Yang Jinzhou stepped into the house, he still jumped up.

"Shuquan"

Chen Lan hurriedly greeted him, his concerned eyes touched his indifferent gaze, and he immediately relieved his heart. Sure enough, I saw Yang Jinzhou walking up to Xiao Lang, who was full of anger, and nodded with a smile.

"Xiao Shi rest assured, if you go down this way, no one should dare to come to that set again"

Although he knew that Yang Jinzhou was always the same, Xiao Lang still frowned and said: "That guy is famous after all, it is difficult to ensure that someone who pleases him will use this kind of method that is not on the stage, how can Brother Yang guarantee that no one will go sideways?" ”

"It's so simple." Yang Jinzhou looked at Chen Lan again, and said word by word, "I have never made it clear to people that you are His Royal Highness King Jing, they naturally can't go too far, so I only say that I have the responsibility to take care of you, and my wife is also ordered by the eldest princess of Anguo to take care of you, if there are any more such messy things, you can watch and do it, and then it will not be a table lifting, don't blame me for throwing people out on the spot, everyone's face is ugly." ”

ps: As long as there are four votes of pink, you can rise one place, and seven votes are two, you can't miss the opportunity and don't come again, everyone help, for the sake of the two actors who work hard to perform