Chengping twenty-two years, early spring. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The sound of firecrackers at the end of the year has not yet dissipated, and the air is still filled with the faint smell of gunpowder smoke left after the firecrackers explode.

The eventful Chengping twenty-one years have finally passed, ushering in a new year, in this new year, there are ups and downs, the situation in front of the door can almost distinguish one or two, there are those who are busy, and there are those who are full of birds.

During the New Year's holidays, the yamen has the rules of hanging seals and sealing the yamen, but the officials above can go home for the festival, but the pawns below still have to stick to their posts, so as long as the city gate of Jiangdu is open for a day, the soldiers guarding the city will not rest for a day.

A weather-covered man came to the front of Jiangdu City along the wide official road, looked up at the two big characters above the city gate, and then walked slowly towards the gatekeeper.

Jiangdu, together with the imperial capital, is called the north and south two capitals, with the imperial capital in the north and the Jiangdu in the south, which is prosperous and prosperous.

The more prosperous and prosperous the place, the deeper the water and the wider the sea. The water depth is hidden in the dragon, the sea is wide and the fish jumps, the fish and the dragon are mixed, if you want to gain a foothold here, you must stay for a long time.

Who is the shrimp in other people's mouths, who is the small fish that shakes its head and tail, who is the big fish at ease, who is the fisherman who fishes with a net, who is the angry Jiao who overturns the river and the sea, and who is the real dragon that is hidden in the depths, this is all scored clearly, otherwise the end will be drowned in this sea.

The small people who come and go are shrimps, muddy, busy just for a bite of food, and I don't know when they will be eaten all the bone.

The little officials, businessmen, and green-skinned bastards with a little bit of status are small fish, and they don't know how important they are when they eat a few small shrimps on weekdays, shaking their heads, for fear that others don't know their abilities, and they will eventually be eaten by big fish.

The officials, big businessmen, and gentry who have entered the rank are big fish, they can't go up or down, and they can't do big things, but they are extremely good at protecting themselves, and they can barely be regarded as at ease in the vast sea of Jiangdu.

The three divisions above are the fishermen who are boating and fishing on the sea, they do not live in Jiangdu for a long time, and they can be transferred to other places after serving as officials, so they are fishermen floating on the sea, concentrating on fishing with nets and rods, and how they are under the sea has nothing to do with them.

Next is the Jiangnan family magnates headed by Li Shidao and others, they have been rooted here for many years, with deep roots, not to mention small fish and shrimp, even the fishermen on the sea are not afraid at all, and the slightest action can make the sea suddenly ripple, and even turn over the river and the sea, overturning the fisherman's fishing boat, but there is still a line away from the real turning over for the clouds and covering the hands for the rain, so it can only be Jiao instead of dragon.

As for the real dragon, what is a dragon? It can be big or small, the big one soars in the universe, and the small one hides in Sumeru; it can bend and stretch, and if it bends, it will judge the time and size up the situation, and if it stretches, it will thunder and strike. Compared with Jiao, the dragon shows no traces, and even small fish and shrimp don't know whether the dragon really exists, but in fact, the dragon does exist, and it is dormant in the depths of the seabed.

After the weathered man entered the city, he went straight to a luxurious mansion, and after seeing the owner of the mansion in the main hall, he asked straight to the point: "A huge Jiangdu, who is the real Buddha?"

The owner of the mansion was a tall old man dressed as a rich man, took a sip of tea, and said: "In this place of Jiangdu, there is no Buddha and Bodhisattva who saves suffering, only a dragon that eats fish and shrimp for 30,000 catties a day. ”

The man asked, "Is it a Jiao?" or a dragon?"

The rich merchant said: "Jiao is a dragon, a dragon, a winged dragon, called a dragon, horned, said to be a dragon, hornless, said to be a dragon." The so-called dragon is Jiao, the so-called 100 years for the snake, 500 years for the Jiao, 1000 years for the dragon, all the dragons are from the Jiao, in the Jiangdu City, there is a real dragon living behind each Jiao. ”

The man asked again: "If you want to see the real Buddha, you have to pass through the temple gate first, and if you want to see the real dragon, what should you do?"

The rich merchant said with a smile: "The real dragon is not something that can be seen if you want to, otherwise what do they do with so many Jiao? If you want to see a real dragon, you have to see the dragon first, I don't know which real dragon the guests want to see?"

The man was silent for a moment, and slowly spit out two words, "Sword Sect." ”|

The rich merchant's face changed slightly, and he said softly: "Then you have to go to see Xu Gongzi." ”

"Which Xu Gongzi?"

"Naturally, it is Xu Gongzi of Ronghuafang Gongsun Mansion. ”

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Xu Gongzi is naturally Xu Beiyou, a big gentleman in the eyes of outsiders.

No one cares how much Xu Beiyou has paid so far, they only know that this Xu Gongzi who came from the north is the righteous son of the second assistant of the dynasty, and is the descendant disciple of Mr. Gongsun, so it becomes natural for Xu Beiyou to have today's status in their eyes.

If I have a Lao Tzu like him, how can I do it, many people who think they have never met this sentence often hang this sentence on their lips, so Xu Beiyou has become a child of anointing Liang lying on the merit book of the elders, and even those who came from the north were also rumored to have come from the imperial capital.

Now everyone in Jiangdu City knows that there is an additional Xu Gongzi in the city, and he is a son of a family from the imperial capital, which is very powerful. In other words, Xu Beiyou has finally gained a firm foothold in Jiangdu, and he can be regarded as the number one person.

At this time, he was in the Qianjin Building, and he did not spend a lot of money, but wanted to meet a guest who had been introduced by the Chinese.

Qianjin Building, the first-class courtyard in Jiangdu, is not only a simple place to run a leather and meat business, but also a place for many dignitaries to socialize.

Some guests who are not familiar with each other, Xu Beiyou is not good for him to go directly to Gongsun Mansion, so he arranged it here, after all, this is an industry under Aunt Qin's name, and Mrs. Luo's people are responsible for taking care of it, which is half of her own territory.

In addition to Xu Beiyou, the host, there are two accompanying guests, namely Guo Hanxuan, the big shopkeeper of Duobao Pavilion, and Li Shidao, who is the middleman this time, as for the guests, it is said that they also came from the north, but it is not the north of the northwest, but the north of the north of Zhili.

In addition to a few of them, there are four women who accompany the guests, Luo Fu is not in the Qianjin Building today, but the person in charge is very discerning, knowing that the relationship between this Xu Gongzi and the owner is not ordinary, and the four most outstanding Qingqi people in the building are sent over.

Four Qing people, needless to say, must be a first-class beauty, the key is also versatile, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are just idle, even poetry, calligraphy and etiquette are also ordinary, Xu Beiyou never thought that this gentle woman next to him could talk to him about Zhang Jiangling's Chen Liu, and she also had quite an opinion, which couldn't help but make Xu Beiyou quite shocked.

What is the place in the south of the Yangtze River? It is scholars and scholars, many scholars may not love gold and silver, but it is difficult not to love women, especially this kind of red-sleeved incense and night reading drama, it is difficult for these literati to refuse, such a Qing people, who doesn't want to marry home to be a beautiful concubine?

But since it is a Qing Qi person, it must be a show of art and not a body, Qianjinlou is no better than those second-class houses that sell dog meat with a sheep's head, the rules are very large, saying that Qing Qi people are Qing Qi people, like today, accompanying wine is almost the limit, if you want to go further, sorry, you have to ask the big owner Qin Mumian and the second owner Luo Fu about this matter, as long as these two nod, you can do whatever you want.

Fortunately, Xu Beiyou and the three of them are not hungry ghosts, and calling a woman to accompany them is only a slight adjustment, Xu Beiyou didn't even touch the woman, and after a short shock, there was no longer half a ripple in his heart.

This is not to say that he is pretending to be Mr. Taoism, nor is it that he is not good at women and men, but because Han Xuan once taught him to have two precepts of wine and sex, and now that he has broken the vows, he does not want to break the last precept as well.

The woman who is responsible for accompanying Xu Beiyou has the best appearance among the four Qing people, her flower name in Qianjinlou is Su Qingnu, and she has heard of this Xu Gongzi for a long time, but she never thought that she would have an intersection with this very mysterious Xu Gongzi so soon.

Su Qingnu can also be regarded as a large number of readers, and it can be seen that this Xu Gongzi is not the restraint of a young child, nor is he pretending to be high, but he is really determined, and he has no other thoughts about himself.

In her opinion, such a man is the most terrifying, since ancient times, how many heroes have fallen on the gentle couch of women? If a normal man can be indifferent to a beautiful woman, how ruthless should it be?

Such a man kills people without blinking.