The transaction ended that day. After the banquet, Chen Kai checked into the post house as usual, and the next day he wandered around the city as usual, buying some locally produced goods.

However, the siege of the city lasted for a long time. As Sanshui was captured by the Qing army, the input of raw materials decreased and the goods became more and more expensive. Not to mention, the pawnshop business was getting better and better, and more and more people were reduced to abject poverty. Chen Kai

The acquisition task of this trip was barely completed after a whole day of work.

At nightfall, Chen Kai turned around and went to Xianlin Alley near Wuxian Temple. He turned into a place called Haixuetang, knocked on the door, and gave his name, but was told that the owner

not at home.

After leaving the greeting note, Chen Kai returned to the post house. In the streets and alleys, there were a few more beggars than the last time he came. Thinking about it carefully, it was probably Du Yonghe who arrested a large number of beggars to compensate.

What happens after the payment is made, otherwise I'm afraid it will cost a few more cents.

It has been seven months since the siege of Guangzhou began in early March. Although traffic has not been completely cut off, business in the city has been sluggish and prices have risen, which is inevitable. This is nothing for a large family, but for a small family

Those who work in small businesses have already spent all their limited savings. If they can no longer make a living, they will be left begging on the streets.

While walking on the road, Chen Kai thought carefully, but before he had gone very far, he saw a middle-aged man holding Qin walking out of a pawn shop. The man looked like a bohemian man, and he was wearing the same clothes.

Not considered poor, but I don't know why I end up in a pawn shop or something like that.

This man passed by Chen Kai. The next second, Chen Kai suddenly turned around and asked him, "But Mr. Kuang?"

The middle-aged man turned his head and looked at Chen Kai with confusion on his face. Seeing this, Chen Kai immediately stepped forward to introduce himself, but the middle-aged man still thought about it for a while before vaguely remembering Chen Kai.

"A low-ranking official from the seventh rank of Zhongshushe can't recognize a high-ranking official like Magistrate Chen."

For a magistrate who was promoted from the fourth rank to a magistrate with only one county in his hands, Chen Kai was really ridiculed by the phrase "big official in the border area".

After that, the middle-aged man turned around and left, as if saying anything to Chen Kai would stain his saliva. This man was so rude, even Chen Kai's followers were outraged. However, Chen Kai didn't take it seriously.

, instead he chased after him and directly blocked the middle-aged man's path.

"I have heard for a long time that Kuang Sheren has a legacy from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. When I saw it today, it turned out to be a well-deserved reputation. However, it seems that Kuang Sheren has some misunderstandings about me."

"Misunderstanding?" The middle-aged man frowned, pointed at the beggar on the roadside, and asked Chen Kai: "Didn't those poor people who were forcibly taken into the camp by Du Yonghe sell them to you? What's in it?

Misunderstand!"

"So that's what happened."

Chen Kai shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then explained to the middle-aged man: "How do you know that I, Chen Kai, are not saving them? How do you know how the people who left Guangzhou with me are living now and whether they have enough to eat?

Isn’t it better to live a better life than begging and sleeping on the streets?”

"Why, if I was bought by a stranger like you, why don't you serve me as a slave?!"

For this reason, Chen Kai knew that he had no way to prove it to the middle-aged man, but since he had brought the topic here, he was naturally ready to reply to his words.

"How are you a foreigner? You, Kuang She, lived in Guangxi back then. How did Miss Yungan treat you, a foreigner? In other words, I, Chen Kai, am also a foreigner living in eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian. Why do you think so of me?"

As soon as Yun Gen's name came out, the middle-aged man's expression suddenly changed. When he calmed down, the indignation passed, and he bowed to Chen Kai and apologized for his preconception. But for Chen Kai as a human being

The act of offsetting the payment still expressed serious dissatisfaction, and he was unwilling to say anything more to Chen Kai.

"How do you know I'm not saving the people of this city by doing this?"

“To use people as goods is to save people?”

The middle-aged man didn't believe it, so Chen Kai simply didn't explain it, and just dragged him towards Haixuetang. But the middle-aged man's momentum had declined, and seeing Chen Kai being so persistent, he simply didn't resist, and simply said

One after another, I returned to that place.

"master……"

The old servant guarding the door had never seen such a scene before, but the middle-aged man didn't say anything. He just entered the house with Chen Kai and Chen Kai's entourage. The two went straight to the study, and then dismissed the servants.

The middle-aged man is called Kuang Lu, a famous talented man in Guangzhou. He has a wild and unruly temperament, quite similar to the style of Ji Kang in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In his early years, he used to answer the exam in Zhen, Xing, Cao, Zhuan and Li five-body characters. The result was considered "violating the rules".

He was deposed because of the system", but he acted as if nothing had happened, laughed wildly and walked away. Later, he participated in the provincial examination several times, but he "lost his reputation". "So he indulged in alcohol, or wandered around the city with disdain, so he was quite a man of etiquette and law.

Hatred".

On Yuan Dynasty night in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Kuang Lu and her friends rode drunkenly and rode horses to visit the lantern night market. They happened to encounter Huang Xi, the magistrate of Nanhai County, who was patrolling the honor guard. Kuang Lu was drunk and did not avoid it. Instead, he wrote a poem to ridicule "riding a donkey and accidentally hit Hua Hua".

"If the horse is lost, the old man is also trapped." This caused a big disaster and was forced by the county magistrate to flee to other places. He successively visited Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili, and even went to Beijing, which lasted for five years.

It was not until Huang Xi was convicted of taking bribes that he was able to return to his hometown.

"Have you met Yan Niang?"

Kuang Lu's voice was trembling, and she was no longer as unruly as before. The word "concern" appeared on the face of a forty-seven-year-old middle-aged man who never bothered to hide it, and Chen Kai couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

"I have never been to Guangxi, and I have never seen that girl from Yun'an who is as beautiful as a man. I just heard someone tell a romantic love story on the way south. I don't know if it is true or not. But now it seems that when

It’s absolutely true.”

"You!" After hearing this explanation, Kuang Lu pointed at Chen Kai, but was unable to exert any force. In the end, she just sighed: "You are indeed Chen Kai and Chen Jingcheng who defrauded Chaozhou. What a mouth you have, Che Renzhong died.

It’s really not unfair.”

When Kuang Lu was living in Guangxi, he worked as the chief secretary of a Yao female chieftain. It is said that he also had a relationship with the woman named Yun Gan.

Chen Kai didn't know whether this was the case, but in his early years he had heard a saying that the number of words a scholar wrote for a woman could prove how deeply he loved that woman. The novel written by Kuang Lu was called "

This is because the book "Chi Ya" in the Ming Dynasty version of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" contains as many as three descriptions of Yun Gan Niang. In Kuang Lu's writings, Yun Gan is a woman who knows military skills, is as beautiful as a goddess, and has a family.

A Yao woman who hides treasures. Although she does not express love, her deep affection is evident.

"I take it as a compliment from Mr. Kuang to me, Chen Kai. Of course, it would be even better if I could replace my deception with wisdom."

Facing such a bohemian person, Chen Kai also let go. Unexpectedly, Kuang Lu's eyes lit up with such pretense. When interacting with others, it is unpleasant to say that someone is serving food, but different people use different words to express their feelings.

It is correct to respond with the attitude.

One has the legacy of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the other is simply a new youth who has come through the past, and has a disdainful attitude towards the rules and regulations of feudal ethics. Especially Chen Kai, who was originally a little tense when he was following Zheng Chenggong, but at this moment

In front of Kuang Lu, he also let himself go, which almost scared Kuang Lu.

Within a few words, the two of them were talking about each other, and soon the topic returned to the original point, about Chen Kai using the people in the city as payment for goods.
Chapter completed!