Nanjing City, Red Bean Pavilion.

Compared with last year, Qin Huai's eight Yan, Li Xiangjun and Dong Xiaowan, are getting thinner and thinner.

"Sister, you're in a daze again." Dong Xiaowan, who was dressed in green clothes and holding a needle and thread in his hand, said softly.

Li Xiangjun sat alone by the window in a daze, and there was also a female red needle and thread on the table under the window, and she was carrying a half-embroidered fan in her hand.

It can be vaguely seen that the embroidery on the top is a handsome man, this person is standing at the head of the city in a purple python suit, not like a scholar, but with a war knife at his waist, it looks nondescript at a glance.

On the wall opposite the table hangs a calligraphy painting, in which a man sits in the attic with a folding fan in his hand and talks with the scholars.

If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind and sad fan.

Li Xiangjun doesn't know how many times he has read this poem in his heart, yes, if life is only as first seen, but sometimes, it is better not to see it at first sight.

Why wait a year and not see your lover? If you can't see each other, why bother with their fate?

"It's stuffy in the house, let's go out for a walk with my sister." Li Xiangjun ignored Dong Xiaowan's teasing, put down the front in his hand and got up.

The area of the red bean pavilion is not large, covering an area of several acres, but the pavilions and pavilions between the courtyards are everything, with the attainments of Jiangnan craftsmen in the garden, and the staggered and compact are not compact.

Since October last year, Liu Hong gradually lifted their lowly status for them, and the second daughter has lived in the Red Bean Pavilion for nearly a year.

If the ancient Qinglou woman can be redeemed by the rich, even if she is a concubine, it is better than spending her precious youth in the drunken gold fan.

Generally, the concubines of Kenna Qinglou women are all copper-smelling businessmen, and if they are favored by a son or an official family, it will be a blessing from the previous life.

In this era when feudal etiquette kills people, such things are generally passed on as good stories among the people, such as Qian Qianyi's Liu, such as Hou Fangyu's Li Xiangjun, and then Dong Xiaowan.

It's just that history was intercepted at the moment when Liu Hong gradually arrived, and Liu Hong's words in Xiaoxiang Pavilion gradually fought against Confucianism, criticized current politics, and Kuang Fu Sheji's words left an indelible impression on Li Xiangjun and Dong Xiaowan.

The key is that Liu Hongjian is not just talking on paper, in the past two years, the king of Anguo County has been fighting outside and inside, saving the people of Li from fire and water, turning the tide of the tide, and supporting the building to collapse, these deeds have long spread all over the country.

In front of Liu Hongji, whether it was Hou Fangyu, who shouted hard every day to serve the country, or whether he ventured to open up Xinjiang, all became bleak.

But what really moved the second daughter was not exactly these, what really made the second daughter unforgettable, but what Liu Hong gradually chanted casually that day.

is such a prince who can settle the country at the top and talk and laugh at the bottom, and he actually removed the two of them from their lowly status.

The Teaching Department is not the same as the Qinglou, if there is silver in the Qinglou, you can redeem yourself, and the Teaching Department directly belongs to the household department, and it is not easy to use it even if you have silver without a certain ability.

Their original life trajectory was just to smile as a piano blogger in the teaching department, and grow old lonely when they are old.

But all this changed because of Liu Hong, Liu Hongjian rescued the second daughter from the shackles with a word, and another sentence Jiangnan Hongru Qian Qianyi gave the elegant and chic red bean restaurant to their two daughters to live.

The young prince fell in love with them, and in the first few days, the two girls were indeed both happy and uneasy in their hearts.

But time slowly passed, and that expectation slowly transformed into waiting, waiting, which is really the most torturous word.

For a year, they had thought that the young prince would come quietly on a breezy night, and then embrace them in his arms.

Over the past year, how many times have I been looking forward to it in the attic, and the pear blossoms have thanked the spring red.

Over the past year, on the banks of the Qinhuai River, there have been thousands of sails, and the slanting veins and veins have been long.

They know that maybe they will never see that person again in this life, maybe that person just takes pity on their plight and rescues them from the sea of suffering, maybe...... He didn't think anything wrong about them.

In the past year, Hou Fangyu and Mao Xiang came to the Red Bean Pavilion for three days to ask for a meeting, both of them are fathers, their ancestors are court officials, and they are both meritorious and famous, and they are even more outstanding in learning.

It's just that whether it is Li Xiangjun or Dong Xiaowan, they all find that they can no longer tolerate others in their hearts, even if the man forgets them, even if they will never see each other again.

The two girls are both twenty and two years old, and they are old girls, and now they no longer expect anything, but they just want to rely on the fact that they can still move now and earn more money for backup.

They don't have to go to the singing and dancing sheng flute anymore, and there are no maids in the red bean hall, and the second daughter embroiders some needlework such as group fans and brocade pads on weekdays, and then entrusts someone to sell them in the market.

With the name of Oiran, the business of the second daughter is really good, many scholars come to visit, just to be able to buy a collection, over the course of a year, Liu Hong gradually handed over to them a thousand taels of silver, but there are hundreds of taels more.

In the small pavilion in the center of the courtyard, Li Xiangjun stroked the piano, and Dong Xiaowan held a pipa.

A huge osmanthus tree next to the pavilion is like a cover, it is the autumn afternoon, the cool breeze is blowing, the fragrance of flowers is bursting, the sound of the piano is swaying, and there are countless grievances.

"Miss Li-Miss Dong-Miss Dong, are the two girls okay, Xiaosheng is here to visit!"

Suddenly there was a shout from outside the courtyard.

"Sister, Nahou and Mao are here again." Dong Xiaowan pouted and put down the pipa in her arms.

For more than half a year, as long as Nanjing Guozijian finished class in the afternoon, Hou Fangyu and Mao Xiang would come to the Red Bean Pavilion to pay a visit, but every time they were turned away by the officers and soldiers sent by Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa failed to enter Beijing as he wished, but he also mixed in Nanjing, and the current Ying Tianfu Yin also served as the garrison of Nanjing, which was a grasp of the military, politics and finance.

When Liu Hong gradually left Nanjing last year, he specially asked Shi Kefa to take care of the two girls, Li and Dong, and then he threw his hands away.

"Master Bing, I don't have any other intentions, I just want to see the two girls, let me wait in!" At the entrance of the Red Bean Pavilion, Hou Fangyu and Mao Xiang nodded and said again.

"No one is allowed to enter and disturb the two girls without Lord Shi's order, please go back to the two sons!" The two captains with knives on duty at the door were very polite.

Hou and Mao are not ordinary children, Hou Fangyu is the son of Hou Sui, the former head of the household department, and his grandfather is also the boss of the Donglin Party, and Mao Xiang's family is not bad, and the officials on duty naturally don't want to offend.

It's just that Shi Kefa gave them a strict order that no one was allowed to enter without the permission of Li and Dong, otherwise they would bear the consequences.

In terms of military discipline, Shi Kefa has always recognized anyone, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to lead the famous Yangzhou Ten Days to resist the Qing army, and the two officials naturally knew that Shi Kefa's temperament did not dare to slack off.

"It's a little meaning, I hope the soldier will be accommodating." Mao Bijiang was lively, and he directly took out ten taels of silver from his waist.

"What do you mean by that?" The two lieutenants were immediately anxious, and accepting bribes was a serious crime.

Now the imperial court has raised the salaries of the soldiers and never defaulted, and the officers and soldiers stationed in all walks of life care about their jobs.

"It's not interesting, on this hot day, the two of you can go to the side wine shop to drink two glasses of wine, which is invited by the younger brother." Mao Bijiang said with a look of what you know and I know.

"The two sons should go back, without Lord Shi's order, the little one categorically didn't dare to let the two sons in, and I hope that the little ones will be embarrassed again."

"Ahh You two good dogs, don't think that my son is afraid of you, believe it or not, I just need to write a letter to my father and let you wait for ......."

Hou Fangyu saw that these two soldiers didn't eat hard and soft, and he had already been angry, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Shi Kefa, who suddenly came.

"Believe it or not, the old man also wrote a letter to your father, and then it will be seen whether my subordinates are responsible, or the two of you will eat the board!"

PS: The online text is full of huge earthquakes, half of them are banned, and only one book of many author's friends is closed, and there is only one left, and the grief is all over the wilderness, and now it can't be described from the neck down, and the author group is even more miserable and miserable, I originally wanted to write something interesting next, but now Hanhan is very entangled.