In the blink of an eye, he had been in Wei Xiaobao's Mansion for half a month.

This day... As night falls,

Outside Wei Xiaobao's mansion, a group of guards, surrounded by a carriage, slowly drove out of the street.

Naturally, sitting in the carriage were Lin Pingzhi and Duolong.

And this time Lin Pingzhi is still relatively happy.

Because this time he was going to the place he had always wanted to go to, where in addition to some literati and scholars, there were also many dignitaries.

But Lin Pingzhi doesn't care about these, what he cares about is being able to fulfill one of his wishes.

It was already evening, and Lin Pingzhi, who was sitting in the carriage, looked at the street outside, and at this time, the streets were lined with lanterns.

A lot of vendors were shouting, but the pedestrians didn't stop, but rushed to his favorite place... It is said that it was a poetry and song meeting held by Liu Rushi.

But now, he's thinking about his current situation.

In fact, he really doesn't have much desire for the forty-two chapters, because he knows the approximate location of the treasure, but there must be something he doesn't know about it, and now the problem is that if you want to get the forty-two chapters, you must go from Shuang'er, after talking to Su Quan, he went to find Shuang'er, and he can obviously feel Shuang'er's intentional or unintentional estrangement... When it comes to the forty-two chapters, the words are full of vigilance...

So now the question is back to the beginning, how to make Shuang'er trust himself... She could clearly sense that Shuang'er was doubting herself now...

Soon a commotion interrupted his thoughts, for there was a bustle outside the carriage.

Looking at the colorful flower boats in front of them, they were surrounded by people.

Not everyone is eligible to get on the boat, but this street along the river has become a night market...

There are all kinds of vendors, and there is also an endless stream of pedestrians.

There are young men and women dating again, there are also relatives and friends who gather here after dinner, and more people eat melons, because the name Liu Ru can make countless literati and dignitaries crazy.

There are even many literati standing on the riverside, looking at the luxurious and lively flower boats in a daze, secretly complaining about unfairness.

This battle was also very lively, with four or five flower boats connected together...

The flower boat is even more colorful, and the figures are continuous, and it looks very lively.

There were several large planks of wood on the way to the boat, and the entrance was guarded by a few guards.

And at the entrance behind the guard, there are special people verifying the identity of the people on board... Of course, it is to prevent some people with ulterior motives from being confused with the majority of the general public.

It can be seen how grand this poetry conference held by Liu Ru is, not only some literati and writers came here, but even the families and children of dignitaries.

Lin Pingzhi also sincerely sighed that this Liu Ru can be mixed to this extent, in fact, think about it, according to records, this Liu Ru is not only one of Qin Huai Bayan, but she herself is also born in a thin horse, this thin horse is not the thin horse in "Tianjingsha", but a delicate woman with a slender figure and a weak willow supporting the wind specially cultivated for the rich and noble families in the Jiangnan area. And there are three, six, nine and so on for thin horses. The main basis is "thin, small, sharp, curved, fragrant, soft, and positive".

Thin horses with the best qualifications need to participate in training such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Because these top lean horse masters will be sold to the homes of the rich and noble, they can cater to the interests of the rich and noble. As a lean horse of medium level, they need to participate in the training of bookkeeping and stewardship, and as for the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, it is not something they need to master. As for the skinny horse with the worst qualifications, he only needs to learn how to cook and stir-fry, as well as some tailor's skills.

Don't think that the cultivation of thin horses is a charitable act that can enable these women at the bottom to enter the rich and noble families and live a decent life. On the contrary, the cultivation of thin horses is to satisfy the perverted desires of these large families in the Jianghuai region.

These skinny horses have all undergone very perverted devil training before entering these large households. They often go through a lot of inhuman torture, and at the end of each day, they don't have enough to eat, so that they can have a thin body.

Liu Rushi is also such a miserable woman under the rule of the feudal dynasty, if she is born from a scholarly family, if everything is as usual, she will receive a good education from her family, and become a married wife to a certain talented son of the local noble family. But history has not been as good as it should be. Received some education at an early age. After that, there was a sudden change in the family, and Liu Ru was abducted and sold by traffickers.

In the first year of Chongzhen, she was adopted when she was less than ten years old, and became a prostitute under the teaching of Xu Fo, a famous prostitute in Jiangnan. In 1639 AD, fourteen-year-old Liu Ru was discovered by Zhou Daodeng, who was dismissed from his official position. Seeing that he was talented and had a good face, Zhou Daodeng decided to buy him home and become one of his concubines.

Liu Ru was educated in his early years, and because he was taught by the famous prostitute Xu Buddha during his time as a geisha, he was relatively proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Coupled with a natural good face, Zhou Daodeng liked this concubine very much, and often taught her to chant poetry and paint in person. Being favored by Zhou Daoden does not mean that Liu Ruyi's life has improved. On the contrary, Yoo's relationship in this family is unprecedentedly strained.

Zhou Daodeng's family has a group of wives and concubines, and the wives and concubines are full of deceit in order to compete for favor. One of Zhou Daodeng's wives and concubines saw that her husband only doted on Liu Ru is alone, so she secretly harmed Liu Ru Shi. Zhou Daodeng died not long after Liu Ru entered the mansion. The wives and concubines who stayed behind used this as a reason to expel Liu Ru from the house.

For Liu Ruyi, her eviction from the house was not a particularly big deal. She soon returned to her old job and continued her career as a geisha. Unlike other geisha, Liu Ru is on her own this time. I prepared a painting boat, shuttled in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and chanted poems and painted with the guests.

Soon, Liu Rushi became a famous prostitute in the Jiangnan area, and later generations spoke highly of her. Yu Dafu called it "the head of Qin Huai Bayan". After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, he commented on Liu Ruye in his literary work "Ruler": "Yan is more than the Six Dynasties, and he is deeply in love with Ban Cai." "Liu Ru can be so famous in the Jiangnan area, relying on his mastery of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

In terms of calligraphy and painting, Liu Ruye's attainments are quite high, and his calligraphy and painting have always been treasures that future generations can't put down, and he admires his works with "an iron fist with a silver hook, and a wonderful trace". Liu is undoubtedly the pioneer of that dynasty. Although Liu Ru is a geisha, she has a low status and can only earn a living through her appearance and talent.

But she cared about national affairs, relying on her rich connections to talk to some groups at the time about her views on the current state of government. But in the love field, Liu Ruyi did not live well. Liu Ruye has had a total of three husbands in her life, but after all, she still didn't get the happiness she wanted.

The first one is called Song Zhengyu, who was a talent in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. This person is brilliant and graceful. Coupled with love at first sight for Liu Ruyi, Liu Ru decided to make a personal promise and entrust him for life. However, under the obstruction of traditional concepts at that time, and Song Zhengyu was a typical "mother's treasure man", Liu Rushi cut off the seven strings of the guqin with a knife, and since then he has been cut in two.

Liu Ruye's second husband was Chen Zilong, a well-known giant of the Restoration Society in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and one of the leaders of the anti-Qing Restoration Movement. At that time, Songjiang Mansion was in an uproar, and in the expulsion of Liu Ruye, Chen Zilong relied on his influence to help Liu Ruyi break the siege. Since then, the interaction between the two has gradually become frequent.

Chen Zilong was full of spirits, and in the face of internal and external troubles, the Ming Empire very much hoped to change the status quo of the country's poverty and weakness. This coincides with Liu Ru, who likes to talk about politics. In addition, the two often chanted poems and painted together, and lived happily. The two even live together openly. Liu Ru fell in love with Chen Zilong, thinking that he had found a soul mate. But the good times didn't last long, and the two had to break up because of the intervention in Chen Zilong's family.

After Liu Ru and Chen Zilong's love was forced to end, the two still kept in touch. Until 1646, the anti-Qing restoration movement led by Chen Zilong failed, and finally jumped into the river and died a heroic martyr. Liu Ru was very sad and couldn't let go of it for a long time.

Liu Ruye's third husband was Qian Qianyi, who later served as the right attendant of the Qing Dynasty's Ministry of Rites. This person was one of the leaders of the Donglin Party and had played a central role in the struggle against the Eunuch Party. He is thirty-six years older than Liu Ru, and he is completely a generation behind. However, when Liu Ru was facing a group of suitors, she chose to marry Qian Qianyi, which was the best choice she made without lowering the criteria for choosing a mate. In the first year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1644 AD, the Ming regime that fixed the capital of Beijing was overthrown by the Dashun regime of Li Zicheng. The Ming Dynasty was declared dead. In the following year, the entire bureaucratic system in Nanjing was officially put into use under the organization of some powerful ministers of the court, and Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, ascended the throne as emperor in danger and reorganized the Ming Dynasty, known as the Southern Ming regime in history. Liu Ruye's third husband, Qian Qianyi, with the support of Liu Ruye, served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Southern Ming regime.

However, even though the Ming Dynasty still had a million troops at this time, the corruption of the bureaucracy and internal struggles made the situation of the Nanming regime, which was already in danger, even worse. Soon, the Qing army broke through the city of Yangzhou, and the city of Nanjing was already in danger. Liu Ru, as a Han woman who cares about politics, is naturally unwilling to survive in the face of foreign invasions, and persuades Qian Qianyi to commit suicide by throwing herself into the water to show her loyalty.

But Qian Qianyi refused, on the grounds that "the water is too cold to go down". Liu Ru was very disappointed, so she jumped into the river alone, preparing to kill herself. Qian Qianyi's behavior is not his cowardice alone. In fact, there were countless scholars and doctors throughout the Ming Dynasty who chose to grovel and surrender to the Manchus in the face of the Manchu invasion.