In the blink of an eye, he had already stayed in Wei Xiaobao's house for half a month.
This day... night falls,
Outside Wei Xiaobao's house, a group of guards surrounded a carriage and drove slowly out of the street.
Sitting in the carriage were naturally Lin Pingzhi and Duolong.
And this time Lin Pingzhi was relatively happy.
Because this time he was going to the place he had always wanted to visit. In addition to some literati, there were also many dignitaries there.
But Lin Pingzhi didn't care about these. What he cared about was that he could fulfill one of his wishes.
It was already evening. Lin Pingzhi, who was sitting in the carriage, looked at the street outside. At this time, both sides of the street were lined with lanterns.
Many vendors were shouting, but the pedestrians did not stop, but rushed towards his favorite place... It is said to be a poetry and singing session held by Liu Rushi...
But now, he is thinking about his current situation.
In fact, he really doesn't have much desire for the Forty-Two Chapters, because he knows the approximate location of the treasure, but there must be some inside information that he doesn't know about. Now the problem is that he must get the Forty-Two Chapters. From Shuang'er, he went to find Shuang'er after talking to Su Quan. He could clearly feel Shuang'er's alienation intentionally or unintentionally... When he talked about the forty-two chapters of the Sutra, his words were full of vigilance... .
So now the problem is back to the original point, how to make Shuang'er trust her... She can obviously feel that Shuang'er is doubting herself now...
Soon a commotion interrupted his thoughts, because there was a lot of excitement outside the carriage.
Looking at the colorful boat in front of it, it was even more crowded with people.
Although not everyone is eligible to board the boat, the street along the river has become a night market...
There are all kinds of vendors, and there is an endless stream of pedestrians.
There are young men and women dating again, and there are also relatives and friends gathering here after dinner, and more of them are people who eat melon, because just the name Liu Rushi can make countless literati and dignitaries crazy about it.
There were even many literati standing by the river, looking at the luxurious and lively flower boats in a daze, and secretly complaining about the unfairness.
This time the formation was also very lively, with four or five flower boats connected together...
The flower boat was even more decorated with lights and colorful, and there were constant shadows of people, making it look very lively.
Several large wooden boards were laid out on the way to the flower boat, and there were several guards guarding the entrance.
At the entrance behind the guard, there are dedicated people verifying the identities of people boarding the ship... Of course, this is to prevent some people with ulterior motives and the majority of the public from getting on board.
This shows how grand this poetry conference held by Liu Rushi was. Not only some literati and poets came here, but also the families and children of high-ranking officials.
Lin Pingzhi also sincerely lamented that Liu Rushi was very powerful for being able to mix up to this level. In fact, think about it. According to records, Liu Rushi was not only one of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai, but she herself was born as a thin horse. This The thin horse is not the thin horse in "Tianjingsha", but a delicate woman with a slim figure and a weak willow who was specially trained for the wealthy families in the Jiangnan area. Moreover, there are three, six or nine grades of thin horses. The main basis is "thin, small, sharp, curved, fragrant, soft and upright".
Shouma with the best qualifications needs to participate in training in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Because these top horse slimmers will be sold to wealthy families and can cater to the interests of wealthy families. Because of the intermediate level of thin horse, they need to participate in accounting management training. As for music, chess, calligraphy and painting, they do not need to master it. As for the thin horse with the least qualifications, he only needs to learn cooking and some tailoring skills.
Don't think that the cultivation of thin horses is a charitable act that allows these women at the bottom to enter wealthy families and live a fairly good life. On the contrary, the cultivation of thin horses is to satisfy the perverted desires of these wealthy families in the Jianghuai area.
These skinny horses have gone through very perverted devil training before entering these wealthy families. They often go through a lot of inhuman torture. At the end of each day, they don't even have enough to eat, just to keep them thin.
Liu Rushi was such a miserable woman under the rule of the feudal dynasty. In terms of origin, she came from a scholarly family. If everything went as usual, she would have received a good education from her family and married a talented man from a local noble family. couple. But history has not been satisfactory. I received some education at an early age. Later, something unexpected happened to her family, and Liu Rushi was trafficked by human traffickers.
In the first year of Chongzhen, she was adopted when she was less than ten years old. Under the guidance of Xu Fo, a famous prostitute in Jiangnan, she became a prostitute from then on. Historically, in 1639 AD, fourteen-year-old Liu Rushi was discovered by Zhou Daodeng, who was dismissed from his official position. Seeing her talent and good looks, Zhou Daodeng decided to buy her home and make her his concubine.
Liu Rushi was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting because of her early education and the teachings she received from the famous prostitute Xu Fo when she was a geisha. Coupled with a naturally good face, Zhou Daodeng liked this concubine very much and often personally taught her poetry and painting. Being favored by Zhou Daodeng does not mean that Liu Rushi's life has improved. On the contrary, Liu Rushi's relationship in this family is unprecedentedly tense.
Zhou Daodeng's family is full of wives and concubines, and they are full of intrigues and intrigues in order to compete for favor. Zhou Daodeng's kind of wives and concubines saw that their husband only loved Liu Rushi, so they secretly harmed Liu Rushi. Zhou Daodeng died not long after Liu Rushi entered the house. The remaining wives and concubines took this as a reason to expel Liu Rushi from the house.
For Liu Rushi, being kicked out of his home was not a big deal. She soon returned to her old profession and continued her career as a geisha. Unlike other geishas, Liu Rushi is independent this time. He prepared a painting boat and traveled around the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, reciting poems and painting with the guests.
Soon, Liu Rushi became a famous prostitute in the Jiangnan area, and later generations spoke highly of her. Yu Dafu called it "the first of the eight beauties of Qinhuai". After the Qing Dynasty took over the Central Plains, they commented on Liu Rushi in their literary work "Child Slips": "She was more beautiful than the Six Dynasties, and she was deeply in love with Ban Cai." Liu Rushi was so famous in the Jiangnan area because of his skills in chess, calligraphy and painting. Mastery on.
In calligraphy and painting, Liu Rushi is very accomplished. His calligraphy and painting have always been treasures that later generations can't put down, and they praise his works with "the iron fist holding the silver hook, once collecting the wonderful traces". Liu Rushi was undoubtedly the pioneer of that dynasty. Although Liu Rushi, as a geisha, has a low status, she can only make a living through her beauty and talents.
However, she was concerned about national affairs and relied on her rich connections to talk to some groups at the time about her views on the current government. But in love, Liu Rushi's life was not satisfactory. Liu Rushi had a total of three husbands in her life, but in the end she still did not get the happiness she wanted.
The first one is Song Zhengyu, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. This man is talented and charming. Coupled with his love at first sight for Liu Rushi, Liu Rushi decided to commit himself to her for life. However, due to the obstruction of traditional concepts at the time and the fact that Song Zhengyu was a typical "mama's boy", Liu Rushi cut off the seven strings of the guqin with a knife, and the whole thing was cut in two.
Liu Rushi's second husband was Chen Zilong, a famous Fushe tycoon in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and one of the leaders of the anti-Qing and Fuming movements. At that time, there was a lot of commotion in Songjiang Mansion and the expulsion of Liu Rushi. Chen Zilong relied on his influence to help Liu Rushi get out of the siege. From then on, the two people's interactions gradually became more frequent.
Chen Zilong was very motivated. Facing the Ming Empire's internal and external troubles, he very much hoped to change the current situation of poverty and weakness in the country. This coincides with Liu Rushi who likes to talk about politics. In addition, the two often recited poems and painted together, and they lived happily. The two even openly lived together. Liu Rushi fell in love with Chen Zilong and thought she had found her soul mate. But the good times did not last long, and the two had to break up due to interference from Chen Zilong's family.
After Liu Rushi's love affair with Chen Zilong was forced to end, the two still maintained contact. It was not until 1646 that the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty movements led by Chen Zilong failed, and he eventually jumped into the river and died for his country. Liu Rushi was very sad and could not let go for a long time.
Liu Rushi's third husband was Qian Qianyi, later the right minister of the Ministry of Rites of the Qing Dynasty. This person is one of the leaders of the Donglin Party and once played a central role in the struggle against the Eunuch Party. He is thirty-six years older than Liu Rushi, completely a generation behind him. However, when Liu Rushi faced a crowd of suitors at that time, she chose to marry Qian Qianyi, which was the best choice she made without lowering her standards for choosing a spouse. In the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, 1644 AD, the Ming Dynasty regime with its capital in Beijing was overthrown by Li Zicheng's Dashun regime. The Ming Dynasty was declared destroyed. The next year, the entire bureaucracy in Nanjing was officially put into operation under the organization of some powerful officials in the court. King Fu Zhu Yousong ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in the crisis, reorganizing the Ming Dynasty, and it was known as the Nanming regime in history. Liu Rushi's third husband, Qian Qianyi, served as the Minister of Rites of the Nanming regime with Liu Rushi's support.
However, even though the Ming Dynasty still had millions of troops at this time, bureaucratic corruption and internal struggles made the situation of the Nanming regime, which was already in crisis, even worse. Soon, the Qing army captured Yangzhou City and Nanjing City was in danger. As a Han woman who cared about politics, Liu Rushi was naturally unwilling to live in the face of foreign invasion and persuaded Qian Qianyi to commit suicide by drowning to show his loyalty.
But Qian Qianyi refused on the grounds that "the water is too cold to enter." Liu Rushi was very disappointed, so he jumped into the river alone and prepared to commit suicide. Qian Qianyi's behavior was not cowardly on his part. In fact, throughout the Ming Dynasty, countless scholar-bureaucrats chose to grovel and surrender to the Manchus when faced with the Manchu invasion.
