After making up their minds, the three of them set off. Li Jinglong suddenly smiled at Zhu Quan and said, "Your Highness is better to change your clothes and then leave the house, so as not to shock the people." ”

Zhu Quan looked down at the filthy royal robe that he had been tossing around for a day, and couldn't help but suddenly, he hurriedly ran back upstairs to change into a gorgeous shirt, and Xu Li and the others went out of the palace and walked towards the Qinhuai River.

When I came to the "Wuyi Lane" on the bank of the Qinhuai River, the sky was already completely dark, and when I looked up, I saw the crowds of people on both sides of the river, the Chinese lanterns were brilliant, the gold powder buildings, the rows were lined up, the painting boat Lingbo, several merchants' boats in the river shuttled back and forth, selling food, river lanterns. On the sparkling waves on the river surface, the little river lanterns are like many stars in the Milky Way, and the scenery is extremely beautiful with the microwave slowly drifting.

Seeing such a beautiful scenery, Zhu Quan couldn't help but be happy, and said to Xu Ying with a smile: "The name of this Wuyi Lane is very strange, but what is the origin?" ”

Xu Ying smiled and said: "Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms, Sun Wu's garrison was stationed here, and because the officers and soldiers were wearing black uniforms, the garrison was called Wuyi Lane. As she spoke, she was a little apprehensive, it turned out that she was sneaking out of the house without her father today, and the mansion of the Duke of Wei at her home was close to the left, thinking of her strict father, she was inevitably a little uneasy in her heart.

Zhu Xu and the others followed Li Jinglong all the way to the Confucius Temple near Gongyuan Street, Li Jinglong pointed to Gongyuan Street while walking, and said with a smile: "Guozijian is over there." ”

Zhu Quan chatted with Jing Kun two days ago and learned that this Guozijian was the highest institution of learning in the dynasty, and when he saw that the Confucius Temple dedicated to Confucius was also built near high-end entertainment venues such as the Qinhuai River, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "This kind of school is built here, but I am afraid that the scholars have no intention of studying." ”

"Your Royal Highness's words are wrong, and the words in "Golden Clothes" are good: persuade the monarch not to cherish the golden threaded clothes, and persuade the monarch to cherish the youth! The flowers can be folded straight, and the branches must be broken without flowers. From ancient times to the present, on both sides of the Qinhuai Strait, the romance of talented people and beauties has endured for a long time. Li Jinglong smiled and said in a low voice.

"If these conceited and well-educated people linger in such places, I am afraid that after a few generations, the Ming Empire will be like the Southern Song Dynasty." Xu Ying said with a slightly lame brow, and as she spoke, she pulled Zhu Quan up and walked towards Juxing Pavilion and Sile Pavilion. Li Jinglong was quite disappointed when he heard Xu Ying say this, but when he saw that Zhu Quan was still smiling and groaning, he didn't think it was good.

After a cup of tea, the three of them came to the tea shop to sit down, Zhu Quan picked up the chopsticks and couldn't wait to pick up the bamboo chopsticks, and ate more than a dozen snacks on the table, sweet and salty, with different shapes, couldn't help but be overjoyed, chewing a hot thin-skinned dumpling in his mouth, and said vaguely: "It's really delicious, much better than the chef in my house." ”

Although Li Jinglong is not very old, he is a noble son who has been in the place for a long time, and Xu Ying is a woman, so the two of them naturally eat much more than Zhu Quan's village husband's ox swallow. Xu Ying saw Zhu Quan's anxious look, couldn't help but glance at him, and said with a smile: "This is the eight uniques on the banks of the Qinhuai River, the first unique: Yongheyuan's Huangqiao baked cakes and Kaiyang dried silk, the second unique: Jiang Youji's beef soup and beef potstickers, the third unique: Liufengju's tofu brain and scallion pancakes, the fourth unique: Qifangge's duck fat shortbread and assorted vegetable buns, the fifth unique: Qifangge's sesame oil dried shredded and chicken shredded noodles, the sixth unique: the osmanthus sandwich small lantern festival and five-color small cakes of Lianhu Cake Dumpling Shop, The seventh must: Zhanyuan Noodle Restaurant's smoked fish and silver silk noodles and thin-skin dumplings, and the eighth must: Kuiguang Pavilion's five-spiced beans and five-spiced eggs. "She lives near the Qinhuai River, and she is naturally familiar with these.

Zhu Quan saw Xu Li and the others frowning at their eating appearances, and couldn't help but chew the spiced egg in his mouth twice, swallowed it, picked up the teacup and poured it twice, and said angrily: "A manly man, you should gobble it up when you eat, chew it slowly like a woman, but it's boring." ”

Xu Ying heard him say this at this time, and suddenly smiled: "Looking at your appearance, it reminds me of Brother Lan Yulan." The two of you eat like you are eating like a cow, and you have no scruples. Speaking of this, he sighed and continued: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Brother Lan for a year." ”

"What is this kid?" Seeing her say this, Zhu Quan couldn't help but say angrily.

Li Jinglong heard her call Lan Yu, a recognized rising star among the generals of the Ming Empire, Brother Lan, and couldn't help but be even more curious about her origin. wanted to say something to explore, but he was afraid of making Zhu Quan unhappy, so he couldn't open his mouth.

After eating snacks, Xu Ying pulled Zhu Quan towards the river, bought a bunch of river lanterns and put them in the sparkling waves.

Looking at Xu Ying's pair of tender lotus-like arms stirring the river water, sending the river lantern away, with a coquettish smile on her face, Zhu Quan's heart moved, and she smiled secretly: This girl is quite heroic when she dances the sword, but at this time she is completely like a girl.

At this time, a gorgeous painting boat slowly floated in the river, only to see that both sides of the boat were hung with bright palace lights, two figures flashed on the side screen windows, and on the broad bow stood a gorgeously dressed, aged about forty years old, quite a bit of a beautiful woman, the bow hung a finely carved wooden plaque, but on it was the three words "Qingbo Fang".

When Li Jinglong saw the arrival of this painting boat, he couldn't help but smile happily, and called to the old bustard at the bow of the boat: "Mother Wang, hurry up and dock the boat and wait for my son to board the boat." It turned out that he came to the bank of the Qinhuai River today to meet the girl on the painting boat, and how he didn't like to meet the riverside by chance at this time.

The old bustard heard the call, turned his head and saw Li Jinglong, but his face showed embarrassment, and he hesitated for a moment and said: "Li Gongzi, Miss Ji has another distinguished guest today, and she specially ordered not to disturb each other today, there are many offends, and the concubine will make amends to the son another day." As he spoke, he did not instruct the captain to anchor the shore, and it was obvious that he had no intention of entertaining Li Jinglong on board.

Although the old bustard Wang's mother rejected Li Jinglong, she couldn't help frowning, and said in her heart: Qingbo, this girl is quite accomplished in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and even has a high spirit, and she favors talents like Xie Jin, but she ignores this Cao Guogong Li Jinglong. I think that this Li Jinglong is hereditary from his father, General Li Wenzhong, and I heard that the current emperor is also quite protective of him. With his family background, he is humble and polite to Qingbo, never forced each other, and it is obvious that it is a true feeling, how can he not enter Qingbo's eyes? It's weird.

Li Jinglong heard this, depressed in his chest, it turned out that although he was the Duke of Cao Guo, his family background was prominent, but he had a deep affection for Ji Qingbo, the girl on the Qingbo boat, and it was difficult to help himself, he knew that this Ji Qingbo was a famous prostitute on the Qinhuai River, not only outstanding but also quite talented, and most of the people he received were talented people in Shilin, and his illustrious family background was vulnerable in front of a few lines of poetry from others.

Xu Ying glanced up at the painting boat, and suddenly said to Zhu Quan: "If Gongzi Li wants to go on the boat to play, you are not allowed to go." She had heard that this Ji Qingbo was quite famous in Yingtian City, so she said this.

Zhu Quan saw that her face suddenly changed from a coquettish smile to a slight frost, and couldn't help laughing: "But why?" ”

When Xu Ying heard him ask him so much, she couldn't help but blush slightly, stomped slightly, and said angrily: "If you board this ship, you will have to suffer more when you practice martial arts tomorrow." ”

Hearing that Xu Ying was actually threatening as a senior sister again, Zhu Quan couldn't help but get angry and smiled bitterly.

At this time, they heard a burst of people roaring and neighing on the long street on the other side of the river, and the three of them looked up, but saw that on the crowded street on the other side of the river, there was actually a person riding a high-headed horse running high. Tonight, the Qinhuai River on both sides of the tourists are weaving, shoulder to shoulder, at this time there are people riding horses, suddenly startled the tourists shouting, hurriedly dodge, a few mouth curses, or dodge a little slower passers-by to the horse knight chuck a few leather whips, suddenly whipped and screamed and rolled and climbed, embarrassed.

Xu Ying saw the face of the knight on the other side clearly, and couldn't help but smile, it turned out to be someone she was familiar with, and she was about to call out, when she turned her head to look at Zhu Quan on the side, but she frowned and didn't speak.

"Brother Lan, junior brother Li Jinglong is here." Li Jinglong, who was next to him, waved his hand and called out to the knights on the other side.

The knight on the other side was a young man, slender in stature, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a grim countenance, a faint scar on the left side of his face, a pair of cold eyes under his thick eyebrows, a cold light that shone without regard to everything, and a red steed under his seat. The young knight suddenly heard the call, turned his head to look at the other side of the river, his eyes swept over Li Jinglong and then fell on Xu Ying, his eyes suddenly showed joy, he took the reins of his horse and ran towards the small street facing the Qinhuai River for more than ten steps, turned his horse's head to the place where Yang Xu and the other three were standing on the other side of the Qinhuai River, spurred the horse, and galloped.

At this time, the people on both sides of the river saw his situation and naturally understood that he wanted to jump across the river, seeing him flying horse jumping up from the river, the onlookers couldn't help but exclaim, it turned out that the Qinhuai River here is a slightly narrower river, but there are more than three zhang wide, in the minds of everyone, no matter how the horse is a horse, no matter how good the riding skills of the person riding, it is definitely difficult to succeed.

In front of everyone's eyes, after the young knight's prancing horse took off for more than a zhang, there was a loud "Teng" sound, and it happened to land on the broad bow of the painting boat called "Qingbo" in the river, the red horse's four hooves borrowed strength, the young knight roared, the reins were wrapped, and one man and one horse actually rose again and fell straight towards the place where Zhu Quan and Li Jinglong stood.