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    Since ancient times, Yangzhou has been a good place for people to visit.

    Every year in March, literati, princes and grandchildren from all over the world come here one after another, adding more feasting and feasting to this intoxicating world.

    [1] "Wind into the Pine. One Spring's Long Fee-Shangque" by Yu Guobao. Ci

    In spring, the scenery of Slender West Lake is picturesque.

    The afternoon sun is quietly sprinkled on the lake, reflecting a little bit of wave light; the gentle breeze wrinkles the lake water, blows the boats, and even makes tourists drunk.

    The cruise ship shuttled across the lake, and the boat lazily supported the pole and swung the oars lazily.  Princes and brothers, ladies and ladies, or leaning on the fence to play, or looking out of the window, or drinking and composing poems, or singing and dancing

    There is a colorful boat passing through a cluster of pointed lotus leaves, rippling in the center of Slender West Lake.  Du Shiniang sat alone on the bow of the boat, looking at the distant scenery.  Her maid Ruyi walked out of the cabin and put a cloak on her.

    In the cabin, there were messy laughter and loud shouts from time to time.  This is the joke between the current prince "Iron Pot" and a few women in the world.

    After arriving in Yangzhou, the eunuch Wang Buhua told Ji Xu in private: Mr. Tie came out to relax because he was run on by his stepmother at home.  This handsome little wild horse has fulfilled Mr. Tie's Yangzhou dream.

    Where does Ji Xu know what "Yangzhou skinny horse" is?

    So, he thought of Jia Zhengli and entrusted him to invite some girls out to swim in the lake.

    Jia Zhengli soon made an appointment with one of the best women in the world in Yangzhou: one was Xie Yuelang, the headliner of "Zuiyilou", the other was Du Shiniang, the oiran of "Fengyajian", and the other was the little celebrity of "Qunyuyuan".  Xu Susu.  The three women belong to different age groups, different styles, and each has been in the limelight for several years.

    After Du Shiniang came to the boat, she found out that Ji Xu, a talented person from Sichuan, was asking them out, and she was accompanied by a group of handsome men.

    When Ji Xu saw through Du Shiniang's mind, he whispered a few words in her ear.  Shi Niang was disappointed and stopped showing her love to Mr. Tie.  Seeing Mr. Tie's laughing voice and Xu Susu's flirting nonsense, Du Shiniang felt unspeakably disappointed and lonely.

    The cruise ship deviated from the center of the lake and moved towards the shore of the lake.

    On the shore, the willows hang low and the flowers bloom like brocades, but for whom are these delicate flowers blooming?  Du Shiniang shook her head, staring at the clear lake water, lost in deep thought.

    Suddenly, an unmanned boat without a cover swam over lightly.  When he got closer, he saw a person lying on his back in the golden sunlight, with a flagon, a copper flute, and a book beside him But that person neither drank nor played the flute, nor  She didn't read the book, but put her hands on her head and sang something loudly there Du Shiniang couldn't help but feel that she was unrestrained, that leisurely, that intoxicated in the scenery of lakes and mountains, and that state of ecstasy.  He casts his attention

    Shi Niang listened quietly, and found that what he was reciting aloud was a poem, which seemed to be:

    "I spent a lot of money on shopping in the spring, and I was drunk by the lake every day.

    Yucong used to know West Lake Road,

    Arrogant hissing past, in front of the Gu restaurant.

    The flute and drum are in the fragrance of red apricot, and the swing is in the shadow of green poplar.  "

    "The painting boat will go back in spring, and the rest of my love will pay for the water and smoke of the lake!" When Du Shiniang heard the man chanting this sentence, her heart fluctuated.  She couldn't help but carefully looked at the man lying in the boat - he was wearing a light blue dress, and the head scarf and belt of the same color looked extraordinarily unpretentious; he was a young scholar with delicate features and gentle manners

    [2] "Wind into the Pine. One Spring and Long Fee-Xia Que" by Yu Guobao. Ci

    ? The warm wind is ten miles away, and the sky is beautiful, and the flowers are pressing down on the temples and the clouds are partial.

    ? draw a boat to take the spring back,

    ? Remaining love to pay, lake water and lake smoke.

    Tomorrow, I will help the disabled and drunk again, and come to find Huatian on Moshang.

    The young scholar also seemed to feel that someone was watching him, so he turned over and sat up from the boat.  He looked towards Du Shiniang, and met Du Shiniang's eyes.  Du Shiniang's cheeks flushed red with his piercing, scorching gaze, and she lowered her head involuntarily.

    At this moment, that Wang Buhua stuck his head out of the cabin, and shouted in a soft voice: "Shi Niang, Shi Niang, why did you escape from the banquet and escape outside? Why don't you come in and drink this glass of wine, and give me another drink?"  Let's write a good poem, let my young master appreciate it!"

    Concentrated Du Shiniang was startled by Wang Buhua's shout, and reluctantly responded, before she could stand up, the iron man was already holding a wine glass, and came out drunk.Girls with first-class qualifications will be taught "playing the piano and flute, reciting poems and writing, drawing Go, playing Shuanglu, wiping dominoes, and all kinds of obscenity", as well as fine makeup skills and body training.

    Girls with second-class qualifications can also read and play some music, but they are mainly trained to be financial and accounting talents, who know how to keep accounts and manage affairs, so as to assist businessmen and become good assistants.

    Girls with third-class qualifications are not allowed to read and write, but only learn some female celebrity, tailoring, or "fried and steamed crisps, cooking stove food, arranging fruits, and their own skills", and are trained to be qualified housewives.

    Of course, all these painstaking trainings are for the purpose of finding a good buyer in the future and selling it for a good price.

    In the sale of "skinny horses", they are picked and picked like commodities.

    Let¡¯s take a look at the description of Zhang Dai, a writer of the Ming Dynasty, in the article "Tao An Meng Yi": Go to the house of the thin horse, sit down, drink tea, and the toothmaid helps the thin horse out.

    Said: "Girl pays homage."

    Said: "Girl go up." Go.

    Said: "Turn around, girl." Turn around and face Mingli.

    Said: "Miss, let me take a look with your hands." She peeled off her sleeves, hands out, arms out, and skin out.

    Said: "Miss, look at the husband." In a blink of an eye, he peeked out.

    Say: "How old is the girl?" Say how old, out loud.

    Said: "Walk again, girl." He pulled his skirt with his hands and pointed out.  But look at the toes

    Zhang Dai then introduced the method of identifying small feet, as well as a series of processes of detailed selection, payment, and door-to-door delivery.  Look at the skinny horse's face, hands, arms, skin, eyes, voice, toes, etc. one by one.

    And the situation of those skinny horses who were not selected was even more miserable.  They were homeless and sold into Fengyue places.  Every evening, they put on rouge and powder, dress coquettishly, go in and out of alleys, wander in front of teahouses and restaurants, which is called "station gate", under the moonlight in front of the lamp, their faces are pale, and they have no human appearance.  Some of these poor skinny horses who "stand off" can't find customers until night.  Finally left sadly.

    Zhang Dai wrote: At night, I had to go, quietly stalking like a ghost.  Seeing the old bustard, starving and flogging, you don't know it.

    Mostly skinny horses are slender beauties who are raised and sold as concubines and maidservants of rich families If you are lucky, you will enjoy the wealth before your color fades. If you are unlucky, you will be killed by the wife of a rich family  , Throwing into a welleven reduced to a wandering warbler.  Yangzhou Shouma is a history of blood and tears of women in the old society.

    (3) Ending

    Most of the "thin horses" are children from poor families, who were bought by human traffickers when they were seven or eight years old.  After that, what awaited them was a long concentration camp-like devil training period.  The thinness of "thin horses" is due to both natural frailty and deliberate "hungry".  According to innate conditions, "thin horses" are divided into grades and grades.

    Not all "skinny horses" can successfully marry into rich families.  In the end, some of the remaining "thin horses" had to be sent to the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion.  On the banks of the Qinhuai River, most of the singers of "Yangbang" are from "slender horses".  And those "thin horses" who are "fortunate" to be taken as concubines by officials, wealthy businessmen and noble sons may not necessarily live a happy life ever since.

    There was a woman in Yangzhou who was also born as a thin horse, and finally became a noble concubine. She had many talents and was presented to the emperor. The emperor also loved her very much and named her Tian Guifei.  At that time, Yangzhou changed the name of the alley where she was born to Tianjia Alley to commemorate the imperial concubine.

    Why!  Yangzhou skinny horse, these poor women.

    Fate is in the hands of others from birth: parents can abandon them because of poverty; the owner of the boat treats them as commodities in order to earn money; even if you are lucky enough to become a concubine of a rich family, you have no status at all.

    They have been unable to control their own destiny since they were born, and they are like duckweed floating in this world, which makes people sigh.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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