The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 92 Li Guoxian’s Love and Sorrow
Feng Menglong also loved to play with flowers, but unlike Yuan Wuya, he was very affectionate. He had relationships with at least four famous prostitutes in his life, and ended up being hurt every time.

The most famous one is the story of Feng Menglong and Hou Huiqing, a famous prostitute in Suzhou.The two had a compatible temperament and pledged each other to each other. As a result, Feng Menglong's net worth was not enough, and Hou Emily was finally bought by a businessman. Feng Menglong was completely devastated when he heard the news. He wrote thirty "Poems of Separation and Resentment" and published a collection of poems.

In the original history, it was not until Hou Emily was bought by someone else that Feng Menglong would wake up and stop going to the brothel. That was more than ten years later.

In this regard, Wang Wenlong naturally advised Feng Menglong to be more realistic.

This guy always likes to spend a lot of money to fall in love with famous prostitutes, but he doesn't have the wealth to redeem himself. He gets hurt every time he talks. Isn't this because he is full to support himself?
If we really want to talk, can't we find someone who can redeem ourselves?

Finally, Ye Zhou was doing nothing on the sidelines when he saw Wang Wenlong looking at him.

He was taken aback.

Ye Zhou felt that he did not go to brothels very frequently. He was not a hungry ghost like Yuan Wuya. He was not short of money. If he really liked it, he would redeem his body and come back. If he could afford it, he did not think that he would be there at all. There's something wrong with this.

But he didn't expect that Wang Wenlong looked at him with the most solemn expression.

Ye Zhou touched his mustache and said strangely: "What's wrong with me?"

Wang Wenlong: "You are the richest during the day, but in the future when you take a concubine, you must at least know whether the other party has a husband's family."

Ye Zhou was stunned, but everyone laughed instantly, feeling that what Wang Wenlong said was ridiculous.

However, Wang Wenlong repeatedly asked Ye Zhouze to agree, and did not board the ship until Ye Zhouze nodded in agreement with a puzzled look on his face.

Wang Wenlong knew that Yuan Wuya, Feng Menglong, and Ye Zhouze, the three best friends, all had anecdotes about this kind of thing, and each had their own clever tricks. Among them, Ye Zhouze's story was the most exaggerated.

More than ten years later, Ye Zhouze was invited to visit Bianliang and formed a poetry club with others.

This guy saw a beautiful woman in Bianliang and was very attracted by it, so he spent money to make her his wife and concubine.

Later one day, Ye Zhou was surrounded by a man from Bianliang, calling for friends and companions. When he asked, he found out that the beautiful woman he wanted had a husband, and Lu's husband was causing trouble for her.

A generation of composers were beaten to death.

This thing is so weird that no one would believe it.

When he came to Suzhou from Fujian, Wang Wenlong and Ye Chengxue staggered along the way and were not in a hurry. However, since they were going back now because they had servants from Xu Shupi's family on board, Wang Wenlong couldn't let others follow them for too long, so he hurried on. , specially hired a fast boat to go upstream from the Fuchun River.

Xu Shupi also lent his own lanterns and signs to Wang Wenlong.

No ships dared to trouble Wang Wenlong all the way out of Zhejiang under the Xu family's lantern, and they sailed smoothly when they encountered Chao Pass.

This is also a tacit understanding between the tax inspectors and the local scholar-bureaucrats. If Wang Wenlong really wanted to make a profit from it, he could hide some goods in the cabin, because there would be no tax deductions along the way, and shipping to Quzhou would be very profitable. These days, scholar-bureaucrats in many places rely on this kind of business to make money.

Naturally, Wang Wenlong didn't have so many thoughts. Xu Xueju was in a hurry. He rushed towards Quzhou in a hurry. He rode through Xianxia Pass and turned to Fujian's river boat. This time he went down the river, so his speed was much faster than before.

In less than ten days, Wang Wenlong rushed back to Fujian from Zhejiang.

Just after returning to Fuzhou, Wang Wenlong asked his servant to send the gifts home, and he first went to Xu Xueju's place to return to work. Xu Xueju had just written to Wang Wenlong more than ten days ago. Seeing that Wang Wenlong came back so soon after replying to the letter, he felt that his letter was taken seriously. Quite satisfied.

After Wang Wenlong returned home, he first asked the engraver to bring the letters sent by people who had been away from home for the past few days, and sat down to reply one by one.Wang Wenlong is now a famous figure in Fujian and a staff member of Xu Xueju. He has been away from home for more than a month. Half a basket of letters has been piled up at home. Some are asking him to meet, some are asking him to do things, and more are invitations to some literary conferences and Letters about poetry.

Wang Wenlong looked at the names of these characters, and responded carefully to some he recognized, and scribbled a few sentences to others he didn't recognize. There was also a letter from Li Guoxian.

Opening the flower note, Li Guoxian introduced to Wang Wenlong in the letter the situation of the cultural gathering between the sisters.

She introduced several women in her boudoir’s comments on Wang Wenlong’s poems and essays, and even copied a good one among them, and added her own comments in detail below.

Wang Wenlong picked up the letter and read it for a while, then spread it out and wrote a reply to Li Guoxian.

After writing it, Wang Wenlong read it through and suddenly felt that his letter was too intimate.

Wang Wenlong could see what Li Guoxian meant, but Li Dan obviously didn't want his daughter to marry him. In a woman's marriage in this era, it was almost impossible to disobey the orders of her parents. If she left thoughts about Li Guoxian, she would be It hurt her.

"Hey, I almost made a big mistake..."

After thinking again and again, Wang Wenlong tore up the original letter paper and wrote a new, vague reply.

He deleted all the concern for Li Guoxian and the explanation of his recent situation in the original letter, and just discussed literature with Li Guoxian.

"Sister Xian?" Cao Hui patted Li Guoxian on the shoulder, "I've been here for a long time, why don't you greet me?"

Li Guoxian just returned to reality from fantasy and stood up quickly.

"Are you interested in Mr. Jianyang?"

Cao Hui has been in the room for a long time, and Li Guoxian was only focused on reading the letter. Cao Hui had already seen the envelope Li Guoxian put on the table, and the three words Wang Jianyang on the envelope.

Li Guoxian's beautiful face turned red instantly: "What did sister say? I don't know that."

Cao Hui thought for a while and warned Li Guoxian: "At your age, there are some people who like romantic scholars, but marriage is ultimately the order of the parents and cannot be disobeyed. What's more, if Wang Jianyang was really interested in you, he would have asked for it long ago. If the matchmaker is here, if both parties have no intention of doing so, why bother?"

"I...I..." Li Guoxian felt sad and helpless.

She also knew that Wang Wenlong was not of great use value to Li Dan. If Li Dan wanted to invite Wang Wenlong, he would at best spend a lot of money on bribes, and it was impossible for Li Dan to marry her to him.

In this era, there is no such thing as free love. Even if Li Guoxian musters up the courage to find Wang Wenlong on his own, the affair between the two will not be praised by the mainstream, but will become a big scandal.

Even if Wang Wenlong really ran away with Li Guoxian, then even if he abducted a good woman, Wang Wenlong would be caught and punished by the government. Even if he had a child, the government would probably force the two to separate in order to correct the folk customs.

This kind of thing has happened more than once in this era.

It would be better if Li Guoxian's family was weaker. With his own strength, Mingshi might be able to get on the bus and pay for the ticket, forcing his wife's natal family to recognize the marriage.

However, the Li Guoxian family was so wealthy that it was completely impossible for them to suffer such a dumb loss. It would not be over until Wang Wenlong was tortured to death.

Blocked at both ends, the two seemed destined to have no chance of being together.

(End of this chapter)