Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 115 Distress
The painted boats along the Qinhuai River are also a major feature of Yangzhou.

Nine out of ten people who live close to the Qinhuai River are engaged in prostitute business.

Unlike the tall, spacious and noisy brothels in TV dramas, each of these families only has two or three women, and at least one person can support the appearance of a family.

The Yanyun Pavilion that Hongliu just mentioned is probably one of them.

Because of its proximity to the Qinhuai River, these prostitutes and literati who are looking for flowers and willows prefer to come to the river at night to play on a painted boat.

The river is floating, and the painting boat is hidden and independent.Not only can you enjoy the lights by the river, but you can also tune the piano and play the flute, which has a more melodious sound.

The boat that the emperor and others took with Hongliu was just like Hongliu's sedan chair and her clothes, covered with a thin red tulle.

Chen Wenxin walked into the cabin and couldn't help asking curiously: "Why does Miss Hongliu like Hongsha so much?"

Hongliu was slightly taken aback, and soon her face returned to normal, "I don't hate it. Because there is a scarlet letter in my name, it is also for the guest officials to remember, and it makes Madam laugh."

Chen Wenyi hardly spoke from the beginning to the end, he instinctively disliked the woman Hongliu.

He took a few glances outside the cabin to confirm that the soldiers guarding him were following the other boat, and then he entered the cabin with confidence.

Chen Wenxin thought that he didn't like Hongliu's appearance, so he didn't talk to her, so he let him go.

The little girl came forward to serve tea and snacks, and Hongliu sat beside her, hugging an ebony-colored pipa.

"Red Willow made a fool of herself."

She nodded to everyone, then hung her fingertips high, and slowly plucked the strings.

While listening, Chen Wenxin paid attention to the arrangement in the cabin.

The cabin is decorated with red murals, and the candlelight seems to be mixed with essence, and the fragrance of flowers is overwhelming.

As the painted boat swayed on the Qinhuai River, there were often other painted boats passing by.Leave the sound of clinking glasses or talking, or even the sound of silk and bamboo orchestral strings.

The sound of the red willow's pipa gradually changes from soft and minor to sad, and the stringed sound spreads on the water surface, with infinite grief and touching hearts.

She sang in her mouth: "Long lovesickness, heartbroken thoughts about last night, Zhu Loumeng last night. Singing with hatred, weeping blood and hating now, tonight Shuiguo chanting..."

Whether it's words or music, it's too sad.

Why did Hongliu, who was talking and laughing just now, suddenly become so sad?
Chen Wenyi frowned. He had heard many lyrics and music in the minor key of Firework Land. What is this song?
Why has he never heard of it?
At the end of the song, Hongliu had tears in her eyes, "I'm rude, my concubine lost her composure."

This clearly looks like something sad.

Chen Wenxin was the same woman as her, so she was concerned at this moment: "What's the matter, girl? It's alright, if there's something bothering you, why don't you talk to us about it."

Hongliu shook her head, "I can't help you with concubines."

Her slender arms were wrapped in front of her, which made people feel pity.

These words inevitably made Chen Wen's imagination run wild. Could it be that some bully wanted to grab Hongliu by force, so she was so sad?

Or did she fall in love with a poor oil seller, but the heartless madam beat up the mandarin ducks?

Chen Wenxin began to brainstorm all kinds of big dramas, but there were too many stories about brothel girls in classical novels.

Chen Wenxin said seriously: "Talk about it, if I can help, I will definitely help you."

The emperor took a look at her, and knew that her temperament of drawing swords to help when encountering injustice came up again.

Hongliu forced a smile on her face, "Hongliu thank you for your kindness, I will replace wine with tea here first, thank you all before I dare to speak."

She said and raised her teacup.

Chen Wenxin was the one who couldn't stand being teased by others, so she immediately raised her teacup, wishing she could drink it all in one gulp and let Hongliu speak quickly.

The blue and white porcelain teacup was brought to his chest, but a pair of big hands blocked the mouth of the cup.

It was Chen Wenyi.

He shook his head gently at her, then turned his head to Li Dequan and said, "Butler Li, I still have to trouble you."

Only then did Li Dequan realize that he was always the first to think about whether the food imported by the emperor was poisonous or not.

The emperor thought that he was procrastinating several times and left the dishes cold.

Today it is just a cup of tea, or all the tea is poured from a teapot.

Then Miss Hongliu wanted to drink herself, so how could she be poisoned?

Since Chen Wenyi reminded him, he still needs to check it out as a routine.

Hong Liu saw that he took out a rolled up thick cloth bag from his arms, opened it, and found dozens of silver needles, large and small, stuck inside.

Hongliu's complexion suddenly became ugly.

Chen Wenxin was afraid that she would be overwhelmed, so he comforted her: "Everyone has a lot of rules, please don't be overwhelmed, Miss Hongliu."

Hongliu smiled at her and nodded, her face was still a little stiff.

The teacup she picked up was put back on the table, and when she lost her balance, the tea almost fell to the ground.

Ding--
The sound of metal colliding sounded, and Chen Wenxin felt that the toe of her embroidered shoes seemed to touch something.

Her pair of embroidered shoes is very pretty, the upper is connected by gold threads, and covered with thin pieces of jade, which she jokingly called gold-threaded jade shoes.

She bent down curiously, and a copper coin fell in front of her shoe.

She stretched out her hand to pick it up, and looked at the words on it carefully, it seemed that it was not Kangxi Tongbao.

Could it be Shunzhi Tongbao?

It doesn't look like...

In any case, she couldn't tell which dynasty's copper coin it was, so she handed it to the emperor, "Look, master, what kind of Tongbao is this?"

The emperor only glanced at it, and his expression changed instantly.

A killing intent burst out in his eyes.Then instantly overturned the table and threw it in the direction of Red Willow.

Hongliu seemed to have been prepared for a long time, she avoided the splashed utensils on the table, and quickly retreated to the back of the cabin.

At the same time, the emperor shouted to Chen Wenyi: "She is Nanming's rebellious party!"

The reason why Chen Wenxin didn't recognize that copper coin was because it was a Yongli Tongbao minted by the small imperial court of Nanming!

Chen Wenyi didn't dare to go forward to chase Hongliu, he was afraid that leaving the emperor and Chen Wenxin hard to resist.

The red willow must have been poisoned in the cup, seeing that Li Dequan was going to test it with a silver needle, he dropped the Yongli Tongbao in a panic, showing his flaws.

It's impossible for her to have only one trick.

Sure enough, there was the sound of water around the boat, and the boat was shaking.

In the cabin, they felt many people climbing onto the boat, and the sound of metal clashing of swords.

Chen Wenyi was the first to get out of the cabin and whistled, but saw that the boat of the soldiers guarding behind him had long since disappeared.

It seems that this is really a long-planned assassination.

Its purpose is obvious, to be the emperor.

Chen Wenyi's expression turned pale, and he stepped on the hand of a man who was climbing up.

Then, with a hook, he kicked the gangster in the armpit and kicked him into the river.

This one went down the river, and many more have come up.

The emperor escorted Chen Wenxin and Li Dequan out of the cabin, the cabin was so small that they couldn't even spread their arms and legs during a fight.

Chen Wenxin didn't panic as imagined, the two men she trusted the most were by her side, no matter how big the danger was, she would definitely be able to overcome it.

She looked around, and the other boats on the river were far away, and this was a remote river channel.

They were listening to Red Willow playing the pipa in the cabin just now, but they didn't realize that the boatman pushed the boat here unknowingly.

The soldiers who followed their escort must have been led away by the gangsters.

Two gangsters with knives rushed forward, Chen Wenyi was the first to strike with a sword, and the swords clashed with a clang.

The knife was much heavier than the sword, and under this blow, it was knocked to the ground by the sword energy.

The other man with the knife was stunned for a moment, and when he tried to swing the knife again, he had already lost the opportunity.

At the same time, several villains climbed up from the side.

Those villains seemed to have a very clear goal, and all their moves were aimed at the emperor.

Li Dequan was guarding the emperor like an old hen, he didn't know martial arts, and he was an eunuch, his fighting ability was not much stronger than Chen Wenxin.

On the contrary, the emperor couldn't let go of his hands and feet, so he simply told him to avoid it.

Chen Wenyi stabbed with a sword, and stabbed a villain who was slashing at the back of the emperor's neck with a knife.

With Chen Wenyi by the emperor's side, she was relieved a lot.She looked into the cabin and saw the flickering red candles exuding the fragrance of flowers, so she thought about it.

She looked left and right, and found that the boat was small, and although there were a large number of those villains, it was not easy for them all to come up for a while.

Taking advantage of Chen Wenyi and the others fighting, she quickly walked into the cabin and burned the red yarn with candles.

Yarn is the easiest to catch fire. Seeing that the fire ignited, she simply threw the candle on the ground.

Although the river course here is remote, and it is night, others can't see or hear the fighting here.

But once it catches fire, the boat they are on will be the most conspicuous place on the entire Qinhuai River.

Thick smoke rose from the cabin, and Chen Wenxin stared into the smoke all the time.

She was afraid that some villain would take the opportunity to board the boat from behind and risk going through the fire to assassinate the emperor.

The fire was so strong that almost all the ships on the Qinhuai River saw it.

There was a painted boat coming quickly, presumably it was aboard the soldiers.

Seeing this, those villains became murderous.Seeing that the emperor and Chen Wenyi were hard nuts to crack, they simply went to Chen Wenxin.

Seeing that the situation was not good, she relied on her shortness and dexterity to dodge.

Fortunately, Chen Wenyi and the emperor were always watching her to prevent her from being hurt by bad guys.

What is the origin of this short man, worthy of Kangxi's personal protection?

The leader of the villain was wearing a black scarf, only showing a pair of goshawk-like eyes.

His expression suddenly became clear.

It turned out that this short man was the key!

This man doesn't seem to know martial arts, he looks like a frail scholar.

However, both the emperor and the man with strong martial arts were protecting him, which weakened their overall fighting power.

The emperor seemed to be aware that this was not good, he gave Chen Wenyi a wink, and the latter nodded knowingly.

Chen Wenyi protected Chen Wenxin, while the emperor avoided the front and took the initiative to assassinate the enemy.

The fire grew bigger and bigger.

There are fewer and fewer places to move around on the boat, and the fights are also much more cramped.

The guarding soldiers were already approaching the boat, and seeing the situation was bad, those villains all jumped into the water.

As soon as those people jumped into the water, they disappeared completely like mud cows into the sea.

(End of this chapter)