Today's along the river, if you want to choose the busiest place, then the first recommendation is Jingkou. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On the 40-mile-wide river, the sails are like dense forests, and the shore and shore are almost overcrowded. The continuous bamboo row pedal almost extends to the center of the river, many horizontal cables are intertwined like many cobwebs, and a large number of container goods are crawling like ants on the river.

On the shore, the mountain-like large warehouses are shoulder to shoulder, and many mansions spread along the wide galloping road all the way to the Jinling Tomb and even the Dantu. The scenery here is very different from the side, the ox carts running on the galloping road, all with a smell of fire, there is no shortage of people holding the abacus in one hand, and quickly calculating in the other.

There are also many strong people staying in the bamboo hut for them to rest, holding a piece of meat and hu cake in one hand, holding a bamboo kettle in the other, and keeping their eyes on the recruitment office where the housekeepers enter and exit.

Most of the snack shops outside the bamboo shed are taken care of by women, without powder or hairpins, but their faces are infected by this hot atmosphere, and they are delicate and beautiful. Nowadays, there is a proverb in Jingkou Zuo that ten hectares of paddy fields are not as good as half a restaurant. If there are three or four women in the family, they can sell food as a bar, and at the end of the busy day, the wooden box is full of large and small amounts of money.

The smallest amount of the alliance banknote is one, a few inches square, more than a hundred dollars, and it is common around Beijing, and can buy any merchant alliance property. The green banknote paper is quite tough, not afraid of oil and sweat stains, like a freshly peeled bamboo skin, and it is very convenient to carry. Once it circulated in the market, it was quickly accepted by the general public, and it was much simpler than the copper coins of different weights and intricacies, and even the illiterate people could clearly calculate the day's harvest.

These busy figures on the street, whether they are peddlers and pawns, or well-dressed, cannot be underestimated. Even if it is a ragged coolie, if you dig deeper, it may be a small landlord who owns more than a dozen acres of land, and there are tenants in Huiji who take care of the fields for him, and the annual harvest is transported here by the big ship of the merchant alliance. Perhaps none of these people have seen their own fields with their own eyes, but before the end of the year, there are always assets in the house.

When you look at the street, from people to things, there is almost a sense of urgency, and it is rare to see the leisure figure of taking Ji leisurely.

Some newcomers to Beijing, when they see such a scene in front of them, often have to pause and sigh, lamenting that the world is declining day by day, and they are chasing profit and treachery. Anyone who has been here for a long time will scoff at this kind of emotion, and even some women who sell wine occasionally have to refute with pride, "I can't wait for this state, Jiangdong may be half cold and hungry."

And those who are emotional, after staying here for a long time, often also integrate into this atmosphere, and there seems to be a thread involved in busy affairs every day, and they no longer have time to sit and sigh. In such an environment where the status quo of existence can be changed as long as you work hard, no one will respond to any meaningless generalizations or tragic remarks. Over time, I will feel bored.

There is another greater feature of Jingkou, which may be the only case in the entire Jiangdong and even the whole world, that is, there is no official office.

Jingkou is under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou Thorn History, but Xuzhou Town is in Guangling on the other side of the river. Originally, there were still some positions to govern the people and supervise the army here, but as the land price became more and more expensive, the directors of the various government offices found that the profits from leasing out the government offices were enough to lease a large cross-courtyard in the mansion of the business alliance, and there was even a surplus, so they also moved the government offices into it.

Jingkou stands out from the crowd, and in the eyes of outsiders, it should be an extremely eye-catching existence, but it is rarely attacked and slandered by Taiwanese. Not only that, even if the people who are full of regional discrimination, many people who live in Gyeonggi come to Jingkou and try to restrain that faint arrogance, but if there is any criticism here, it will inevitably be criticized by the local people. Because Jiangdong pays taxes, half of it is out of this, and if Jingkou is not chaotic, Jiangdong will be safe for a long time.

Located near Da Hyeon Mountain in the southwest of Jingkou, Shangmeng Mansion is a large manor with a large area of more than ten hectares. Many buildings and houses are scattered and distributed among them, and the folk gimmick is called "Yetai", which means the city of Tai in the wild. Those who come and go in it are either rich or expensive, and perhaps in a loft where the lights are lit up at night, there is a discussion going on that will determine the price fluctuations in Beijing in the coming months.

In the core area of this Yetai manor, there is a separate courtyard, and there is only a concise and concise "Shen" character on the archway in front of the courtyard. This is the exclusive residence of Shen Ke, the president of the Business Alliance, and most mortals must restrain their laughter when they go here, so as not to destroy the purity of the president.

In the early morning, Princess Xingnan got up and sat in front of the window in good spirits. She has been in Jingkou for a few days, except for the day when Chongyang went out to watch a hundred folk operas, most of the rest of the time she stayed in the courtyard, lazy and didn't want to move. Although she is sexually happy and lively, since she left the capital, she has not been interested in anything, even if it is something that she was very interested in in the past, she now feels that there is a little less bright color.

The clansmen still have to buy and collect goods in Jingkou for a period of time, probably really idle and boring, Princess Xingnan suddenly remembered that she had been in Jingkou for a few days, and had not yet gone to see her uncle Yu Tiao, so she ordered her servants to prepare a car and go out to Yu Tiao's residence in the same garden.

Yujo's wife and children are all in the capital, and as for Jingkou, there are only a few concubines. When they learned that the princess had come to visit, the women were so frightened that they rushed to welcome the princess into the courtyard. Knowing that her brother-in-law had not returned, the princess subconsciously wanted to leave, but the concubines of Yu Tiao were afraid that they would be blamed for their lack of etiquette, so they urged the princess to stay for a while, and two of them were so anxious that their eyes were faintly red.

Seeing this, Princess Xingnan didn't want to leave directly, anyway, she would sit down when she went back, so why bother these women anymore, so she patiently entered the room and sat for a while.

Each other's identities and interests are different, and the concubines of Yu Tiao are restless in the lower chief, not knowing how to respond to the princess's inquiry. When Princess Xingnan saw them like this, she also felt awkward in her heart, so she let them go their own way, and waited here alone for a while. The women were also relieved when they heard this, and after leaving, they hurriedly asked people to go to the city to inform Yu Tiao.

The princess sat in the reception room for a while, and at last she was bored, and got up and strolled under the porch.

Yu Tiao is now one of the most powerful people in Jingkou, so his courtyard in the Yetai Manor is also beautifully furnished, richly decorated, and ingenious, much more ingenious than many Gaomen garden villas in the capital. But Princess Xingnan's own Shen Garden is the crown of Jiangdong Garden Villas, so she doesn't care much about the scenery in the garden.

When walking through the study room, there were several servants sweeping and dusting. Due to the continuous rain and humidity in the past few days, many documents and slips have also been carried out to dry. There were a few sturdy soldiers standing next to them, their eyes wide to prevent others from touching those simple documents. Seeing the princess here, she hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Princess Xingnan also saw this scene at home, when many confidential documents of her family Shen Zhezi were removed, almost the three inner and outer three floors were guarded, and no one was allowed to approach. Although there is occasionally curiosity in her heart, if it weren't for Shen Zhezi taking the initiative to show her, the princess wouldn't have asked.

So after arriving here, the princess made a detour from a distance in order to avoid suspicion. At this moment, a gust of wind arose, and suddenly blew away a stack of papers placed on the stone platform, and more than a dozen of them fell in front of the princess like snowflakes.

Princess Xingnan took a step back and motioned to a few maids around her to pick up the scattered documents and return them to the Yu family. As soon as she turned her eyes, she saw that there were still a few letterheads scattered on the flower branch next to her, so she raised her hand to take them down, and was about to hand them back to Cui Ling's little lady beside her, when one of the letterheads shook off, and a few lines of handwriting suddenly fell into her field of vision, and her pretty face suddenly changed.

Cui Ling's little lady had already stretched out her hand halfway, and saw the princess's face tense and unfolded the letter to read it carefully, although there was an accident in her heart, she was still in front of the princess. Several members of the Yu family hurriedly stepped forward, and she scolded with great momentum: "Stand down!" ”

The letter in the princess's hand was so long that she could tell at a glance that it was in her uncle's handwriting. Because the queen mother admires her uncle too much, the princess practices calligraphy by comparing it with her uncle's penmanship. However, the contents of the letter shocked her, especially the content of her husband's family, which made the princess even more indignant.

After reading this letter, the princess's whole face sank, and she pointed to the documents on the stone case and said in a deep voice: "Get me all those letters!" ”

"Princess, don't, my Saburo ......"

"Get down!"

The princess immediately repelled the Yu tribes who had stepped forward to stop them, and took up some of the letters herself, and then walked into the previous reception room, and sat down in the middle of the table to rummage through them one by one, mainly selecting the letters sent by the eldest uncle to the younger uncle.

After a while, Yu Tiao hurried from outside the courtyard, and before he entered the door, he smiled and said: "It's rare for a young lady to pass by and remember to come to visit my uncle, I am also ...... to your family Wei Zhou."

As he was talking, Yu Tiao walked into the room, and saw the letters spread out on the table in front of the princess, his brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and before he could speak, Princess Xingnan had already raised her head, sat in the seat with an aggressive gaze, looked at Yu Tiao and sneered: "How is my uncle to my family Wei Zhou?" Is it also impatient to rob my family property and swallow up my family's assets? ”

Hearing this, Yu Tiao was puzzled, he and Shen Zhezi made a contract, almost everyone in Jiangdong knew it, and they didn't understand what the princess meant. But he was a little dissatisfied with the princess's behavior of reading his letters, and stepped forward with a dry smile and said: "Why did Xingnan make such jokes, I have more friendship with Wei Zhou than my closest relatives, how can I have such evil thoughts?" ”

As he spoke, he turned around and prepared for the letter to be put away. However, Princess Xingnan waved her hand and slapped the case, and shouted angrily: "I only know the sinister nature of people's hearts today!" Uncle, you and uncle conspired, the evidence is conclusive! Even if my family has abundant family assets, what harm does it do to your family, you should be impatient to invade my family! I didn't see it with my own eyes, but I didn't know that my uncle was such a bad relative! ”

As she spoke, she threw the letter she had accidentally seen earlier at the feet of Yu Tiao, who was so reprimanded and slandered by a junior that she was especially dissatisfied, and when she bent down to pick up the letter and take a closer look, her face suddenly showed a complicated color, surprise and embarrassment, and she lowered her head and didn't dare to touch the girl's sight. He's been running around lately, and he doesn't know when the eldest brother has passed the message here, or if it's still so damaging!

"What else does Uncle have to say? Although my uncle's family is a close relative, I am the wife of the Shen family, and when I see this evil thought today, I will never be kind to each other in the future! ”

Princess Xingnan stood up in the middle of the banquet and pointed to Yu Tiao.