Jiangzhou Mansion of Jiannan Province is a very peculiar existence among the many state cities of the Great Shang Dynasty, adjacent to the southwest province of the barbarian land, the folk customs are rough and bold, but they are not lost in the rough and bold. The whole city is mixed, with the smell of rivers and lakes, the smell of earth and the smell of books.

Since bidding farewell to the Wanyu girl in the Red Sleeve Pavilion in Tianchang Mansion, Xiucai Jin Yunzhang bought a boat all the way to the west to join his uncle Jin Dazhong, who was the Taishou of Jiangzhou. At that time, Jiangzhou was too shou Jin Dazhong, and the sea was up and down for half his life, and he had no children and no daughters under his knees, so he pinned the thoughts of the Jin family to continue the incense on his nephew Jin Yunzhang.

Jin Yunzhang participated in several hometown examinations in Jiangnan Province, which is full of talents, but he was unable to win the examination, so Jin Dazhong spent 200 taels of silver to donate a prison student to him, preparing to participate in the township examination in Jiannan Province next year. For a Xiucai from Jiangnan Province, it is obviously much easier to participate in the township test in Jiannan Province.

After Jin Xiucai, who had left his hometown, arrived in Jiangzhou City, he quickly fell in love with it. This Jiangzhou city is the same as Tianchang Mansion, it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the mountain outside the city is called Yuluan Mountain, the water that passes through the city is called Yuluan River, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the products are abundant, although it is not as grand and prosperous as Tianchang Mansion, but it is by no means a poor and remote place.

Since Jin Yunzhang came to his uncle Jin Dazhong, he spent most of his time studying in the study in the courtyard of the back hall of the state government, and only went out to play with his cousin Liu Jinsheng in his spare time. Liu Jinsheng is the son of Jin Yunzhang's aunt, and he came to join the uncle who was the Taishou of Jiangzhou, and he is also an extraordinary talent.

Before Jin Yunzhang came, Liu Jinsheng had been in the state government for more than three years, and the scribes in the torture room called him brothers, and the relationship was very good.

Later, Liu Jinsheng's matter was somehow known to Jin Taishou, and Jin Taishou was furious and beat this unsuccessful nephew with 20 boards, and he was not allowed to interact with the scribes in the torture room.

Jin Yunzhang didn't know these when he first came, one day he went out for a stroll with Liu Jinsheng, and just walked to Beicheng Street, next to the Qinglou, a woman with heavy makeup scratched her head and walked over, the strong fragrance on the woman's body was tangy, pinching the handkerchief and shaking it enchantingly, and asked with a cheap smile: "Yo, uncle, do you need special services?"

Liu Jinsheng's expression at that time was like a tiger that had been hungry for three days and saw a big fat sheep, with a lewd smile on his face, and put his arm around the shoulders of the girl, "Ah, need, need!" and then walked with the girl, looking back at Jin Yunzhang as he walked, "Let's go, brother, let's go to Joy together!"

Jin Yunzhang shook his head in fear, the fragrance on that woman's body was too strong, strong enough to smoke and vomit all the stray dogs on the street. In the past, when he was in Tianchang Mansion, Jin Yunzhang would occasionally go to the Qinglou with his classmates and friends to drink flower wine, but such a woman really couldn't look at it, let alone touch it, he really couldn't understand the taste of his eldest cousin.

The next morning, Jin Yunzhang was reading a book in the study, Liu Jinsheng had just come back satisfied, Jin Yunzhang cautiously asked Liu Jinsheng, "Big cousin, can you also look at this kind of woman soliciting customers on the street? sister-in-law, she doesn't care about you?"

Liu Jinsheng looked helpless, "No way, my brother, in the past, my brother didn't look down on this kind of woman, but my uncle didn't let me interact with the scribes in the torture room, and he didn't let me go out to fight the autumn breeze. ”

Jin Yunzhang smiled bitterly: "Big cousin, if you don't have a daughter-in-law, go out and solve the physiological problem, brother, I can still understand." But the eldest sister-in-law in the family is like a flower, and she is not a hundred times or a thousand times stronger than the woman you found standing on the street yesterday? I really don't know what you think!"

Liu Jinsheng patted Jin Yunzhang on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Brother, you don't understand this, brother, I just like this, as the saying goes, family flowers do not have the fragrance of wild flowers, as the saying goes, a wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good as a prostitute......"

Jin Yunzhang hurriedly interrupted Liu Jinsheng's words, "Okay, okay, big cousin, I really convinced you! I think the uncle beat you lightly, you shouldn't hit the 20 big boards, you should play the 40 big boards!"

The two of them talked and laughed for a while, Liu Jinsheng proposed to go out for a meal, and the two of them went out of the back door of the state government together, came to the street, and were about to find a place to eat, when they saw a Xiucai with a square scarf coming over, and when they saw Liu Jinsheng, they hurriedly came over to say hello, "Oh, isn't this Brother Liu? I haven't seen you for a while, what are you busy with?"

Liu Jinsheng snorted and arched his hand, "Brother Sun, I really haven't seen you for several months! This is my cousin Jin Yunzhang, a prisoner of Guozijian, who came to study here with my uncle and is preparing to take the Jiannan Dao Township Examination next year." Cousin, this is Sun Boling's grandson, our Jiangzhou showman, a famous scholar, compiled a "Sun Tzu Collection", specifically to teach people how to be a grandson, if not a grandson, how to pretend to be a grandson. ”

Sun Boling laughed and pointed at Liu Jinsheng with his hand, "This Brother Liu, every time we meet, we will hurt me!" We drank together in the restaurant, Lord Taishou paid a private visit, and happened to arrive at the restaurant, Lord Taishou is your maternal uncle, of course you are not afraid, I must be panicking, what can I do if I don't pretend to be a grandson?"

Jin Yunzhang also smiled, and Sun Boling saluted each other, Liu Jinsheng said that he was going out to eat, and invited Sun Boling to go along, Sun Boling smiled and said: "It's the first time I've met Brother Jin, this meal should be invited by me, there is a painting boat on the edge of the Yuluan River outside the city, let's listen to a little song on the painting boat, chat while drinking, and enjoy the scenery along the river, isn't it wonderful?"

Liu Jinsheng raised his big finger and praised: "Wonderful! It's really wonderful! As long as there is a place where a beautiful little lady sings, it must be wonderful! Brother Sun is really a wonderful person, and he knows my heart best!"

Sun Boling scolded with a smile: "You are too thick-skinned, today I am picking up the wind and washing the dust for Brother Jin, you are just a drunken drinker, even if there are wonderful people there, you can only watch from the side, say okay, you can only see but not touch!"

The three of them hired a carriage, went out of the city and walked two miles to the east, found a painting boat by the Yuluan River, chartered the painting boat, ordered wine and food, and asked the boss to find a Qingqi person on the green building by the river.

The Qingqi man got on the painting boat, holding the red-toothed jade plate in his hand, babbling and singing, Liu Jinsheng looked at the Qingqi man with white teeth and red lips, his eyes were about to fall out, Jin Yunzhang really felt ashamed for his cousin.

After listening to the song for a while, Jin Yunzhang suddenly remembered the Wanyu girl who was far away in Tianchang Mansion, and couldn't help but feel sour, got up and came to the window of the painting boat, and looked at the river scenery with his hands.

Jin Yunzhang was afraid that Liu Jinsheng and Sun Boling would see the joke on himself, so he quietly wiped away his tears with his sleeves, and at this time, he saw a woman in an orange shirt not far from the river, took off her shoes and put them on the shore, and suddenly jumped into the river. Jin Yunzhang was taken aback, "Oops! Someone committed suicide by throwing himself into the river!"

Liu Jinsheng and Sun Boling also came over to see the excitement together, only to see that the woman who threw herself into the river was about 30 zhang away from here, Jin Yunzhang panicked, and really wanted to jump into the river to save people, but he didn't know how to water, so he was in a hurry to turn around on the boat. The boatman and a few guys stood at the bow of the boat and watched, shook their heads and sighed: "It's a pity, looking at the color of the clothes, it seems that the age is not too old!"

Jin Yunzhang glanced back at the boatman, and suddenly remembered that the boatman knew how to water, and he was like a savior, and shouted repeatedly, "The boatman, the boatman, you are so good at water, go down and save people!"

The boatman and a few fellows looked embarrassed, "This minister, this is the Yuluan River! The water is deep, it is not easy to save people when you go down, and if you don't make it, you will have to drown! For the sake of a person who throws himself into the river, it's not worth it!"

Jin Yunzhang instantly understood, "Boat family, man, if any of you go down to save people, save people, there will be two taels of silver to give away!"

When a guy in a cyan short coat heard that he had two taels of silver to save people, his eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Okay, since this minister is willing to pay to save people, then my second prince will go into the water to save people, in case he is not rescued, or the person has drowned, don't blame me." ”

Jin Yunzhang's anxious head was sweating: "Thank you Second Brother Wang, please save people quickly, even if this person is gone, I will give you the silver!"

The boatman commanded a few men to swing the boat in the direction of the woman's throwing into the water, Wang Er was full of joy, took off his shoes on the bow of the boat, and jumped into the water at the bow, it seemed that the water was not bad. The boat was not slow, and quickly approached. At this time, Wang Er had already swam to the woman's side, grabbed the strap behind the woman's waist, and dragged her to the side of the boat, only to see that the woman was already unconscious from drowning, and her hands were still scratching.

Everyone on the boat hurriedly joined hands and rescued the woman who threw herself into the river, gently controlled the water, and quickly approached the shore to stop the boat. Everyone looked carefully, this woman who threw herself into the river looked like a woman, and she really had a bit of beauty!

The beautiful woman who threw herself into the river opened her eyes, only to see a young scholar squatting beside her, looking at her with concern, seeing her open her eyes, she said happily: "Ouch, okay, it's alive!"

The young woman who threw herself into the river looked at the scholar who was squatting beside her, closed her eyes again, and sighed, "Alas, you man, what are you doing to save me? Let me die!

When a guy standing next to him heard the woman say this, he was so angry that he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Who is this? People helped you up, and you still say this! This minister, you shouldn't spend money to save her up, I see, I'll just throw her into the water again now, and fulfill her!"

Jin Yunzhang couldn't cry or laugh, hurriedly stopped the guy, squatted beside the woman again, and said softly: "Little lady, ants are still greedy, let alone people?

The woman reluctantly sat up and shook her head, "You are a good person, but you can't control the affairs of the rivers and lakes." Those Jianghu people who use knives and guns to kill people without blinking an eye are not something that you can manage, so you still let me die!"

Jin Yunzhang said angrily: "Little lady, you just have to say, don't be afraid, no matter whether he is from the rivers and lakes or not, our big business country has a royal law! In broad daylight, who dares to kill people and set fires? You say, you say, you are in charge of the next step!"

The woman wept and said: "This Xianggong is from afar? Don't you understand, there is a sect in this city, called Shendaomen, which is rampant in Jiangzhou, and even the government does not dare to offend them easily.

Jin Yunzhang looked puzzled, "What is the Divine Sword Sect? is it a martial arts sect?"

Behind him, Liu Jinsheng smiled and said: "Little lady, what is the matter? I also have two acquaintances in the Divine Sword Gate, as long as it is not a big matter, I can help you settle it!"

The woman looked at Liu Jinsheng, and then said: "My name is Dou Yulian, I live in Wujia Village in the east of the city, my husband died tragically the year before last, and there is only an eight-year-old child under my knees. There is an elder in the Shendaomen, called Qi Changfeng, one day when he saw my beauty on the road, he wanted to rob me to go back to be a concubine, and he had already sent the dowry to my in-laws, I swore to die, and I was afraid that my in-laws and children would be affected, so I had no choice but to commit suicide!"

Jin Yunzhang was shocked and said: "You have all the children, that Qi Changfeng dares to rob the people's women, this is still necessary, let's go to the state government to complain now!"

The woman shook her head and said: "It doesn't work, don't say that you will sue the state government, you just sue the Jiannan Dao Jingluo Yamen, and the Shendaomen also has the ability to settle things." ”

Behind him, Liu Jinsheng quietly pulled Jin Yunzhang's clothes, "Cousin, I think you should leave this matter alone, that Qi Changfeng is an elder of the Divine Sword Sect, strong in martial arts, but a master of the third grade, lustful, murderous like hemp, I advise you to leave it alone, this really can't be managed, he has a good relationship with Jiangzhou Beijia and others, we can't make this trouble!"

Jin Yunzhang got up angrily, "As a scholar, I should take care of the injustices in the world! When I see injustices, I go around, what sage books do I read? This little lady, you get up, I will take you to the state government to complain, and the Taishou who loves the people like a son will not care!"