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Chapter 268

Tongzhou, the northern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal where thousands of boats gather, is also the largest inland river wharf in the north. The largest grain market, wood market, salt market and boat market in the north are all in Tongzhou. Tongzhou's business development and the prosperity of the people can be seen One spot.As the end of the new year approaches and the chaos of war goes away, boats come and go at Tongzhou Wharf and the streets and alleys in Tongzhou City, crowds of people are surging, and the streets and alleys are very lively.Even more coincidentally, the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month in the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty happened to be the [-]th birthday of Li Jiaguo, the president of the Tongzhou Chamber of Commerce. In order to celebrate the [-]th birthday of the president, countless wealthy businessmen, The civil and military officials and the Li family brothers, who are arty and deliberately befriended, rushed to Tongzhou City early, preparing to present gifts to General Assembly Chairman Li and celebrate his birthday-hate the Donglin Party so much that even the cut eggs hurt Wei Zhongxian chose to do it on this day, of course, to give the Li family brothers a special birthday gift, a special surprise!

Although Li Jiaguo's birthday is on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, there are too many guests and friends of the Li family brothers, including quite a few famous people in the world, so in the past few days, the Li family brothers have held banquets every day and sang operas every night. On the night of the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, Qian Qianyi, the famous new leader of the Jiangnan literary world, and Qian Yushan, led three of the four great sons of Jiangnan and a large number of Jiangnan celebrities, and happened to arrive in Tongzhou to celebrate Chairman Li congratulated him on his birthday, and the Li family brothers did not dare to be negligent, they arranged a feast at home early, set up a theater troupe, accompanied them personally, and entertained these distinguished guests who came from afar.In this way, at night, the flower hall in President Li's mansion was of course bustling with people, with endless silk and bamboo, and it was very lively, catching up with the Donglin Conference that had been banned by Wei Zhongxian's order.

"Brother Shou, it's been a long time!" Li Jiaguo couldn't even close his mouth when he saw that Qian Qianyi was so condescending and attracted so many famous literati and celebrities to support him. He said affectionately with fake hands: "Little brother, at fifty days, actually went to the north for a brother who has worked so hard. I am so honored and ashamed."

"Where is there, brother Shishan's birthday, little brother, why not come to your place to celebrate the congratulations? It's just cold and the road is far away, so I arrived late. Please forgive me, Brother Shishan." Qian Qianyi He was polite on his lips, but he was muttering in his heart, "Damn it, I have given you face so much, and brought so many poets and celebrities who have nothing to do to support you. When you deliver tea to me next year, you must use your relationship Don't let me evade taxes, otherwise, would you be worthy of me?"

After muttering, Qian Qianyi hypocritically pulled Li Jiaguo in front of a group of literati, pointed to three young men among them, and introduced them one by one: "Brother Shishan, let me introduce you, this is the No. The eldest son of Wen Zhen, Meng Wenzhan, Wen Bingwen, and Fu, this is Zhang Dai, Zhang Weicheng, and this is Fan Jingwen, Fan Siren. These three sons, together with Shi Kefa and Shi Xianzhi, are known as the Four Great Masters of the Jiangnan Literary World, and they are also known as the Four Great Masters of Donglin Young master, everyone is talented and talented." Wen Bing, Zhang Dai, Fan Jingwen and others bowed their hands to Li Jiaguo together, with a respectful attitude.

"Fortunate to meet, fortunate to meet, I have admired the names of the three young masters for a long time, and today I can see you, three lives are lucky." Li Jiaguo pretended to salute with fists cupped, and asked Qian Qianyi impatiently: "Brother Shou, where is Mr. Shi Kefa Shi? Why didn't Brother Shou invite him here? If the four princes from Jiangnan gather in Tongzhou, then we... our Tongzhou literary world will be a complete sensation."

"Shi Xianzhi has a good relationship with Ruan Yuanhai. This time Ruan Jizhi returned to office and became the magistrate of the Xuanfu, Shi Xianzhi followed him to take office." Qian Qianyi replied helplessly: "After Shi Xianzhi leaves, I will return to the office again." There is no news, probably because Ruan Jizhi left him in the shogunate, so the foolish brother is incompetent, so he was not able to invite him to Tongzhou." Li Jiaguo, who wanted to gain more face, was disappointed, and couldn't help but muttered in his heart: "Old trash, The head of the four great princes in the south of the Yangtze River has not been invited, and the remaining three have no face? Didn’t say anything, next year your shipping fee will be increased by [-]%!"

At this time, Fan Jingwen, who once passed the Jinshi examination and resigned on the pretext of illness, suddenly said: "Mr. Shouzhi, Shi Xianzhi did not stay in the shogunate of Ruan Jizhi, but in the shogunate of Zhang Haogu and Zhang Zhongzheng, the famous former detectives." Middle. The younger brother has a close relationship with Shi Xian. He told me in a letter last month that he admired Zhang Xiantai's literary talent and martial arts. Said, he benefited a lot."

"Zhang Haogu?!" Qian Qianyi and Li Jiaguo's faces changed together, and at the same time they snorted coldly. Qian Qianyi also pretended to be disdainful and said: "Shi Xianzhi is really confused, and he voluntarily gave up for a shameless castrated dog." Fame and official career, has he forgotten how his mentor, Zuo Guangdougong, died tragically in the Zhenfusi Prison?"

"Everyone has his own aspirations, and we cannot force Shi Xianzhi to make his own choice." Fan Jingwen sighed, and then said with longing envy: "But to be honest, I am actually very envious of Brother Xian. After the Tanhua shogunate, he followed Zhang Tanhua to block the rebels in the west, conquer the Tatars in the north, and seek slaves in the east. He spent the night on the battlefield with gold and iron horses. This life is not in vain!"

"Hmph!" Qian Qianyi and Li Jiaguo snorted again, their faces even more ugly.But after Fan Jingwen made this headline, Wen Bing, Zhang Dai and countless literati over there opened up the chatterbox together, and they all echoed and said, "What Brother Si said is very true. The only thing I regret now is that why didn't I resolutely throw my pen to join the army? Going to fight the enemy side by side with Tanhualang and make contributions to the country?" "I heard that Zhang Tanhua is only 25 years old this year, and he has already established such achievements. I am two years older than him, but I have achieved nothing so far. Compared with him, it is simply nothing. I’m ashamed to death.” “It’s a pity that I was unable to attend the last Donglin Conference in the fifth year of Tianqi, and I was unable to witness Zhang Tanhua’s demeanor with my own eyes. Now that I think about it, I really regret it.” “Ha, I’m lucky , I participated in that Donglin Conference, and I saw Zhang Tanhua with my own eyes. He really is like a tree facing the wind, and his hero is extraordinary! Although there were many outstanding people in that Donglin Conference, Tan Hualang seemed to stand out from the crowd. Get on!" "Really? Apart from being extremely talented, Tanhualang is also born so handsome?"

Every time the literati exaggerated about the young master, Qian Qianyi and the Li Jiaguo brothers looked ugly, but the Jiangnan scholars who had already worshiped the young master Zhang to the extreme were still talking endlessly, and never left us with three words Master Zhang Haogu was both civil and military, suave and suave, Qian Qianyi and Li Jiaguo brothers couldn't stand it anymore, coughed quickly and prepared to stop the conversation and let everyone sit down.But at this moment, an immature singing girl with a pipa in her arms suddenly interjected, and asked timidly: "Masters, is Zhang Tanhua really as handsome as you say?"

"Get lost, you, the little bitch, are you the one to talk here?" Li Jiaguo thought it was his singer who interrupted, and broke out in a burst of unbearable restraint.Wen Bing, Fan Jingwen and other scholars over there were taken aback, and quickly explained: "Mr. Shishan, don't get angry, this girl Yang Aier is the maid of Yang Wanyang, a rookie in Jiangnan who has been trained by Miss Yang, and Miss Yang As sisters with her, if Mr. Shi Shan offends her, Miss Yang Wan will not play her new lyrics and music tonight in a rage, wouldn't it be a great loss for us?"

"Damn, these hungry ghosts!" Li Jiaguo also knew Yang Wan's weight in the hearts of Jiangnan scholars, and offending her was tantamount to offending most of the Jiangnan literati. German writers wrote books and composed songs to scold their ancestors for eighteen generations, and they have been infamous for thousands of years—for example, the unlucky couple Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, and Li Jiaguo’s father Li Sancai is also a super expert in this area.In desperation, Li Jiaguo had no choice but to forcefully laugh and said: "It turns out that he is a senior disciple of Master Yang, that old man is really rude, I thought it was my singing girl talking nonsense here..." Speaking of this, Li Jiaguo suddenly came back to his senses Surprised, he hurriedly turned to Qian Qianyi and asked, "Brother Shou, so Miss Yang Wan has also come to Tongzhou?"

"Of course, brother Shishan is an elegant man. How can an elegant man celebrate his birthday without Miss Yang Wan's wonderful and refined piano sound? The old man spent a lot of effort to invite Miss Yang Wan to Tongzhou. Ah." Qian Qianyi twirled his goatee and smiled without blushing.Unexpectedly, Yang Ai'er, who was eleven or two years old at that time, suddenly interrupted and said: "My sister heard that Zhang Tanhua won another big victory in Xuanda, and he may return to the capital to report victory, so my sister came to Tongzhou to see if there is any Good luck, see you next to Zhang Tanhua. Otherwise, my sister doesn't want to go north in such a cold day."

Before the words finished, the hall was already full of laughter. Qian Qianyi, whose hypocrisy had been exposed, blushed, and quietly glanced at Xiao Yang Ai, who was only eleven or twelve years old but had a beautiful face, and secretly vowed that one day he would Push down this little Luoli, and teach her the crime of offense severely on the bed.Yang Aier rolled her big innocent eyes, and asked timidly with a little shyness: "My lords, my lords, is that Zhang Tanhua you mentioned handsome? Is he good enough to accompany Sister Yang Wan?"

"Miss Yang Ai'er, just put your mind at ease." One person stood out from the Shilin crowd, but it was Zhang Cai from Taicang, who was the first to attack Young Master Zhang in Donglin Academy. Zhang Cai smiled at Yang Ai'er: "Zhang I've seen Tanhua, he looks like Pan An in appearance and Song Yu in appearance, it's not an exaggeration to say that he is the most beautiful man in the world, he can definitely accompany your sister Yang Wan." Everyone laughed, and one after another go along.Yang Aier believed it was true, nodded her head and said seriously: "No wonder sister Yang Wan wrote more than 100 pieces of music for Zhang Tanhua, and she calls Zhang Tanhua's name in her dreams."

"Ha, what else is there?" Zhang Cai was very happy, and quickly asked: "What about Miss Yang Wan? Where is she? I must ask her face to face, is she already deeply in love with Zhang Tanhua? "

"Sister Wan is still freshening up on the flower boat at Tongzhou Wharf, and she will be here soon. I came first to show Sister Wan the way, so I'll go back to the flower boat to urge her." Yang Aier agreed crisply, holding the pipa again Jumping and running out, Zhang Cai, Wen Bing and others over there burst into laughter again, saying that they must ask Yang Wan for a while. The students sat down and changed the subject to talk about other romances.

Leaving aside the stinky wine and meat in Li Jiaguo's family, let's just say that after Yang Aier ran out of the gate of Li's mansion, it was already dark, and snowflakes had already paved the street full of sedan chairs and carriages. Parked far away, I could only run across the street to get on the sedan chair. I never thought that when Yang Aier ran across the street, a few young men suddenly walked out at the corner of the street. It was dark and the road was slippery. He crashed into a young man's arms all of a sudden, so that the young man almost couldn't stand still, he could only hold Yang Aier into his arms with his arms, and then managed to stand still.

"Ah!" Amidst Yang Ai'er's exclamation, the other men beside him had already laughed lewdly, "Master, what a blessing, the little beauty took the initiative to throw herself into her arms, and the beauty is not shallow." "I just said, like For a rascal and dissolute person like Mr. Zhang, a trip to Tongzhou is bound to have an affair."

"My lord, I'm sorry." Yang Ai'er was ashamed and wanted to struggle out of the young man's embrace, but the young man shamelessly hugged her a little tighter, looked at Yang Ai'er from the corner of the street with a lantern, and said with a lewd smile: " You are a little younger, but you are really good-looking, little sister, look at your appearance, are you a girl from that yard? Do you want me to redeem your body for you, young master, and take you home to eat delicious food and drink spicy food?" The voice did not finish. , A young man who looks like an unscrupulous servant came over, and said with a lewd smile: "You really look good, little sister, you can follow my young master? Our young master has nothing else in his house, only money that can't be used up." You can't finish the flowers, if you follow my young master, you will have endless glory, wealth and delicacies in this life." Another young man with a fleshy face simply suggested: "Master, since you like this little girl , then what is the redemption? Why don’t you just grab it back?”

"Ah!" Yang Ai'er, who was so frightened out of her wits, screamed again. When she looked at the young man carefully, she found that although the young man was not too ugly, he was still a little boy with a soft face. With a sick look, coupled with Yang Aier's already familiar with that lewd and vulgar look of a swinger, he looks just like a rich local young master whose body has been hollowed out by wine and sex with the filthy money in the family!Frightened, Yang Aier subconsciously bit the rich man's arm with her small mouth. The pain made the rich man let out a scream and his arm loosened. Yang Aier took the opportunity to struggle out of his embrace, screaming He screamed: "Help! Help! Flower picker—!"

"What a powerful little chili pepper! It hurts me to death!" The young rich man screamed while covering his arm that was almost bleeding from Yang Aier's bite, while the young men next to him were laughing, covering their stomachs and laughing, "Flower picker? The description of little sister is really apt." Yang Aier was not polite, and while waving her pipa to prevent the young master from approaching her, she yelled, "Help, flower picker! Official, poor master, come and catch the flower picker!" what--!"

"Flower pickers? Are there flower pickers?" There was a scream from the depths of the street, and several patrolling Tongzhou guards rushed over with water and fire sticks.Seeing that the situation was not good, the young rich man quickly ran away and shouted: "Run, I will lose face if I get caught!" Several companions of the young rich man laughed and followed closely. Run away without a trace.After a few guards came over to ask about the situation, they quickly chased after them, shouting, "Catch the flower picker! Catch the Jiangyang thief!" The servants of Li's mansion over there also rushed over after hearing the call for help, and they were already so frightened that they cried Yang Aier took her back to the mansion and handed it over to Qian Qianyi and others.

"Miss Ai'er, don't cry anymore, don't be afraid, master, I will protect you." After taking Yang Ai'er back, Qian Qianyi, who had been coveting Yang Ai'er for a long time, took the opportunity to put Yang Ai'er on his lap and sit down, while squinting. Caressing Yang Aier's immature face, he pretended to comfort him: "Don't be afraid, the flower pickers dare not touch you with the master here. Don't be afraid, let the master hug me and you'll be fine." As he spoke, Qian Qian Yi even forced Yang Aier into his arms.

"No need, Ai'er, thank you, Master Qian." Yang Ai'er was so ashamed, she quickly broke free from Qian Qianyi's embrace and jumped off.Zhang Cai, Wen Bing and others next to them discussed in a hurry: "I never imagined that there would be such a rampant flower picker in Tongzhou City at the foot of the emperor. They would dare to moles the women on the street. It is simply lawless!" "Yes, if he dares to do this in Jiangnan, if he is caught, he will have to be soaked in a pig cage!" "I don't know if the Tongzhou government officials have caught him. If he is caught, the Tongzhou officials must deal with him severely!" "It's best He should be eunuched and sent to the palace to wash the toilet for the rest of his life!" "Good idea, don't send him eunuched to Canshi, use a hammer to eunuch!"

"Everyone, everyone." At this time, a self-proclaimed romantic scholar stood up and said loudly: "The flower pickers are rampant in Tongzhou, and Miss Yang Wanyang is coming here again. Miss Yang Wan's celestial beauty, why not make that flower-picking thief definitely have malicious intentions? I suggest, how about we all go to the pier to meet Miss Yang Wan?"

"Good idea, protecting a beautiful woman on a snowy night is a good story!" Another scribe who pretended to be romantic also shouted, and other literati echoed, rushing out of the hall to meet Yang Yang, who is known as the most beautiful woman in the south of the Yangtze River. Miss Wan, Yang Aier was also afraid that Yang Wan would really bump into the flower picker who didn't look like a good thing at first sight, so she quickly followed her out.Only Qian Qianyi, Zhang Cai and others respected their identities and sat still. As the hosts, the Li Jiaguo brothers could only send a few servants to greet them, and stayed behind to entertain other guests.

Thirty or forty literati left the Li Mansion and headed straight to Tongzhou Wharf in the wind and snow. After arriving at the Wharf, Yang Wan, who had just finished washing and dressing up, was first surprised when he saw so many people running to greet him, and then heard After Yang Ai'er cried and told about her encounter with the flower-pickers, Yang Wan was even more surprised, thanked everyone, and told the boatman to take good care of her flower boat.During this period, dozens of literati, in order to win the favor of beautiful women, had to flatter them in every possible way, show off their talents and talents, and there were so many tricks that it is impossible to describe them one by one, so I will skip it here.

"Sister Wan, didn't you say that Zhang Tanhua used his soldiers like a god and was upright and honest?" In the sedan chair, Yang Aier raised her teary face and asked Yang Wan curiously: "Since Zhang Tanhua is so powerful, why are there so many flower pickers in Tongzhou? Want to snatch me away on the street?"

"Silly sister." Yang Wan laughed dumbfounded, patted Yang Aier's beautiful hair and said with a smile: "Zhang Tanhua has successively served as a military officer in Jinzhou, governor of Jimen, and governor of Xuanda. Tongzhou is under the jurisdiction of Beizhili and has never belonged to Zhang. Tanhua has been in charge of it, and there are flower pickers in Tongzhou city, how can he be blamed?"

"Oh, so that's how it is." Yang Aier suddenly realized, and smiled wickedly: "Sister Wan, I just heard someone say at Master Li's house that Zhang Tanhua looks like Pan An in appearance, looks like Song Yu, and even Mr. Zhang Cai from Taicang is such an arrogant person, he is full of praise, so it seems that Zhang Tanhua is absolutely worthy of you. After tomorrow, we will go to the capital to find him, okay? I will save my sister you every day Think of him, think of him."

"Ghost girl, come to make fun of your sister again." Yang Wan feigned anger, tapped Yang Aier's forehead lightly, and said sadly: "I don't know if he still remembers me. It's been more than three years. I have written a letter, and I have never visited Jiangnan to see me. Perhaps, he has forgotten me long ago."

"How is it possible?" Yang Aier said confidently: "Sister Wan, you are such a beautiful person, how could Tanhualang forget you? In my opinion, he must be like my sister, who always reads her name in his dreams, but I was so busy with work that I couldn't spare time to see my sister."

"If that's the case, that would be great." Yang Wan sighed inwardly.Just at this time, in the snowy night outside the sedan chair, a clear and clear voice suddenly came and asked loudly: "May I ask you gentlemen, the person sitting in this sedan chair is Miss Yang Wanyang from Jiangnan?"

"Why is this voice so familiar?" Yang Wanfang's heart skipped a beat and her breathing almost stopped.Yang Aier's complexion also changed drastically, and she hastily poked her head out of the sedan window to see that the wealthy young master who had molested her earlier and threatened to snatch her away was stopped in front of the sedan, with five or six accomplices behind her.Seeing this, Yang Aier subconsciously screamed again, "The flower picker! That's him, he's the flower picker!"

"The flower picker has really come!" The literati escorting Yang Wan were furious, and subconsciously rolled up their sleeves and rushed over, shouting loudly: "Catch the flower picker, catch the flower picker!" There was also a shout, "The flower picker is here, over here, brothers, catch this flower picker!"

"Stop!" Yang Wan screamed, pushed Yang Aier away and rushed out of the sedan chair, crying, "Stop all of you! He is not a flower picker!"

All the literati were stunned, and when they all stopped, something happened that stunned Yang Aier and all the literati. Yang Wan suddenly tore off the white fox fur shawl on her body, with tears in her eyes, and walked step by step towards the place where she couldn't see it. The young master of the local rich man who looks like something good.The young master of the local rich man smiled slightly, and said softly: "Wan'er, I haven't seen you for more than three years, how are you?" Hearing this kind greeting, Yang Wan could no longer restrain the excitement in her heart, shedding hot tears, He rushed to the rich young master with strides, opened his arms, hugged the rich young master, cuddled in his arms and wept loudly.

"Silly girl, why are you crying?" The young rich man put his arms around Yang Wan, patted her thin shoulders and said with a smile, "Didn't I come to see you? I just heard that you also came to Tongzhou, so I immediately I came to see you." Speaking of this, the young master of the local rich man added embarrassingly: "It's just that your maid seems to have misunderstood you as a flower picker."

"You are a flower picker! You are still a heart thief!" Yang Wan said surprisingly, choked up and patted the rich man's chest and cried: "You stole my heart, but you haven't come to see me for more than three years, let alone Just a few words and half a letter made me miss you every day and night, miss you, think of you..."

"Aren't I too busy with official and military affairs? In fact, I am also..." The young rich man was about to argue shamelessly, but there was a sound of wind next to him, and a heavy iron chain covered his head, strangling him immediately. On the neck of the young master of the local rich man, some people cheered loudly: "I caught the flower picker! Brothers, take it back quickly and ask for rewards. The case of molesting the widow Cao in Lijiazhuang five days ago and the case of peeping at the big girl taking a bath in Qingshi Street nine days ago , [-]% of it is also done by this flower picker!"

"Crack!" The young master of the local rich man stood up from the crowd, slapped the Tongzhou government official's face fiercely, and roared, showing his Jinyiwei waist badge: "Blind your dog's eyes! This lord is a famous man!" Governor Xuanda, Wu Qingbo, You Shilang of the Ministry of War, Zuo Fudu Yushi, Taichang Temple Minister and Zizhi Shaoyin Zhang Haogu and Zhang Xiantai, dare to arrest him as a flower picker, be careful, you masters will not be able to eat and walk around! "

"What? He is Zhang Haogu and Zhang Xiantai who killed the Jiannu and Tatars to the point of bleeding?!" Those loyal servants in the Tongzhou government screamed like pigs.Although Yang Aier had already made some preparations, she couldn't help but her eyes darkened, and she passed out in the sedan chair on the spot...

Note: Who is Yang Aier? It is estimated that many friends will guess it immediately, so I won't be wordy here.

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