Idle courtiers

Chapter 177

The two of them walked more than a thousand steps, their bodies became hot from walking, and their muscles and bones were also active.

Soon I got into an alley on the side of the street, about three miles long.But I saw pavilions, terraces, pavilions, Zhuhu embroidery buildings, Yingying and Yanyan in front of me.In the wind, the sound of silk and bamboo is coming incessantly, and the fragrance of cosmetic powder is in the air, so I don't feel cold anymore.

Pansi Cave, Daughter Country, or a Dream of Red Mansions?
Zhou Nan roughly counted, there were at least thirty huggies, and he lost his eyesight.

When it comes to the quantity and quality of brothels, Yangzhou ranks first.Otherwise, there will be no such poems as "Yangzhou dreams once in ten years, and you will get a good reputation as a brothel."

However, when Tang Shunzhi was in the palace, Old Tang was a standard gentleman with extremely strict rules.He is also a person with moral and cleanliness, so everyone dare not make mistakes.During Zhou Nan's stay in Yangzhou, he really didn't dare to go to that kind of place.

As for the brothels in Huai'an, they are actually relatively simple. How can Ruyi be compared to the three-mile pink demon formation here?

"Dongguan of Ming Dynasty." Zhou Nan commented in his heart.

As for the girls here, the quality is also very high.It's not about appearance, the key is that people's cultural quality is very outstanding.

You think, who can be qualified to enrich the woman here who is not born in the mansion of a high-ranking official and aristocrat, and has a long history of family education.

Entered the largest family among them, and spent two taels of silver on the tea wall.Zhou Nan and Wang Ruoxu went into another abode on the second floor and ordered a table of wine and food.

While drinking, the bustard brought two women over.

These two women are all nobles in the building, one is holding a pipa and the other is holding a toothbrush.

After speaking a few words, Wang Ruoxu's youthful anger broke out, and he sang: "Golden cups with wine chips, persuasion endlessly, heavy jade will fall after dusk."

The old man's voice had fallen, and he sang this line hoarsely, and the two women pursed their lips and snickered.

After Wang Ruoxu sang this line, he raised his head to drink up the urn of wine, and asked with a smile, "You are making fun of me for my bad voice."

The two women obviously knew him very well, and they said: "My lord's singing is really not very good, you finish the lyrics first, and we sisters will see how to compose the music."

Wang Ruoxu pointed at Zhou Nan: "Zimu, little friend, it's your turn to pick it up."

Zhou Nan knew the name of the song he sang just now. After traveling to the Ming Dynasty, he mixed up on the scene, and he naturally made up for the entertainment methods of cultural people such as singing poems, echoing, and couplets. Years of classes.

Then he sang: "Private hand in hand, eyebrows are sad, fragrant and thin. The spring night lasts for a moment, how can you untie the hibiscus button in front of people, and look forward to the feast when the lights are dim, and the palace pot is full of lotus leaks."

Wang Ruoxu's voice is really ugly, others ask for money for singing, but he sings like hell.Zhou Nan simply sang all the lyrics of this song, so as not to be tortured by Lao Wangtou's five-tone insufficiency.

Hearing the second half, the beautiful eyes of the two women lit up at the same time.

Wang Ruoxu's eyes were also shining brightly, he called out wonderfully, and then said to the two of them, "Do you know who he is?"

The woman holding the pipa asked: "May I ask who is the gentleman?"

Wang Ruoxu said with a smile: "Didn't you two sing all day 'how much hate the west wind blows, and the eyebrows can't be blown away.' 'It seems that this star is not from last night, for whom will the night be exposed."? Now everyone is in front of you, why? do not know."

"Ah!" The woman holding the pipa was overjoyed and asked anxiously, "Could it be that you are Zhou Zimu, a Huai'an talent? It's a great honor to be able to sing Mr.'s new work today."

Zhou Nan was amazed: "How do you know my name?"

Wang Ruoxu: "Little friend Zimu, after I returned to Beijing, I also sang your works with others. Everyone here loves your poems to death, and praises you as the most romantic person in the world. Haha, today's " Everyday High" must be passed on to the world, and the old man also needs to sign it. Haha..."

At this time, there was a tooth puller knocking lightly, and another woman sang softly: "Golden cups with wine chips, persuasion endlessly, heavy jade falls after dusk. Hand in hand privately, eyebrows are sad, fragrant and thin. The spring night lasts for a moment and the sky lasts forever How do you untie the hibiscus buckle in front of people, looking forward to the feast when the lights are dim, and the palace pot will be drained of lotus flowers." It turned out to be piercing clouds and cracking stones, with a good voice.

At this time, someone shouted: "Good words, I can tell who it is, it turns out to be Wang Ruoxu, a master of poetry."

But I saw a man dressed as a scholar barging in, followed by an anxious old bustard: "Young Master Zhu, the two girls are accompanying guests, you can't go in, you can't go in!"

When Wang Ruoxu saw the man, he waved to the bustard: "Friends I know, let me have a seat, you can go down!"

The man who came was in his early thirties, he was a bit ugly, his jaw was protruding, and his five mountains were facing the sky. He sat down carelessly and said to Wang Ruoxu: "Master Wang, I just saw your back and knew you were going to this place. And here you come. Last year I asked you to give me all the poems you wrote so that I could print them into a book, would you like it or not. It just so happens that I will stay in Beijing this time until the end of the Chinese New Year before Shanxi, so we just happen to do this."

After speaking, he took the wine glass and drank five or six glasses without rest, and then waved his chopsticks to keep picking up vegetables, as if he had been reincarnated from a hungry ghost.

He was only wearing a Confucian robe, which had been washed white and looked shabby.He has no fame and looks like an ordinary person, but he is so rude to Wang Ruoxu.

Master Wang, however, was smiling and not angry.

Zhou Nan's heart moved: This person's surname is Zhu, so he is a child of the royal family.By the way, his looks like the Five Sacred Mountains clearly carry the genes of the old Zhu's family!
Sure enough, he guessed right, Wang Ruoxu introduced, "Zimu, let's get to know him, this is Mr. Zhu Congjian Zhu, the second-class Fengguo general in the Datong Dynasty's palace. For two days, discussing poetry and prose, you can be regarded as a fellow."

When Zhou Nan heard that this man named Zhu Congchi was General Fengguo, he was terrified. He hurriedly stood up and bowed his hands together: "Your Majesty Zhou Nan, I pay my respects to Mr. Zhu."

As mentioned earlier, the royal families of the Ming Dynasty were all knighted.The emperor's sons were named princes and county kings.

The eldest son of the county king inherited the title, and the other princes who did not inherit the title were demoted to the rank of general of the country.The son of General Zhen Guo was demoted to Lieutenant Zhen Guo.

General Fengguo is one of the titles of the Ming Dynasty royal family.Located under the general of Fuguo and above the lieutenant of Zhenguo, he is the great-grandson of the county king.

Zhu Cong came from Dai Wang's mansion, he is the Zhu family whose roots are upright and Miaohong.

The names of the children of the old Zhu's family are in accordance with the regulations. Every five characters are named according to the order of fire, earth, gold, water and wood, followed by radicals.For example, Ming Renzong's name is Zhu Gaochi, who is the fireside of the senior generation.His son Zhanji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, was the descendant of Zhanzi's generation.In the back, Yingzong Zhu Qizhen and Daizong Zhu Qiyu are the Jinpang of Qi's generation.

Today's Emperor Jiajing's name is Zhu Houcong, which is next to the word fire.This Zhu Cong is next to the word "Shui", he is a generation higher than the emperor, a proper Uncle Zhu Huang!
The fiefdom of the Dai Wang was in Datong, Shanxi. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the invasion of the northern nomads, he sealed six princes in the North and established a shogunate, which was called the Six Founding Kings.Among them, the most powerful one is King Yan, who was later Chengzu.

The first generation of kings had a violent personality and looked down on the then emperor Jianwen. He was very close to Chengzu and was cut off by the court.

At the time of Jing Nan, Dai Wang resolutely stood on Chengzu's side, paid money and sent troops, and made great achievements.Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, the royal line was quite trusted by the court.

"Oh, it turns out that this person is the Zhou Nan you mentioned, Mr. Wang. I don't think he's very good!" He got drunk quickly after drinking on an empty stomach. Waving: "Don't be too polite, feel free, feel free."

Lord Wang gave Zhou Nan a wink, meaning: Sorry, this person has this temper, don't worry about it.

Zhou Nan smiled and sat down.He is an eighth-rank petty official, and he is still precarious.He is the No. 11 Feng Guo general who was enshrined by the clan, and the difference in status between the two is too great.

Wang Ruoxu asked: "Why did Lord Zhu come to the capital so early this time? It's only October, and there are still two months before the Chinese New Year."

"Chinese New Year, what year is it, we can't eat anymore, who can control so much. According to me, it would be better if the imperial court abolished my title, and let us be free." Zhu Congxi scolded his mother : "The Ministry of Rites owes me three years of salary, and I'm almost at the point where the whole family can eat porridge. If they don't send back a lot of the salary owed this time, I will not go back to Shanxi. There are traitors in the court, and the Ministry of Rites most."

Zhou Nan was confused when he heard this: The royal family's salary and etiquette department dared to owe it, and it has been owed for so many years, how courageous it is!

(End of this chapter)