"Lower your waist slowly and release it slowly."

When entering a house on the roadside, Xu Can in front reminded Gu Hengbo to pay attention to his movements.

This Xu Can, like Gu Hengbo, had always been a woman who had never touched the spring water before, and even had a much higher status than Gu Hengbo.

She was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou, South Zhili Province. She was originally the daughter of Xu Zimao, the Prime Minister of Guanglu Temple in the Ming Dynasty. She could be said to have come from a family of poets and writers after becoming an official.

Xu Can herself was also very smart, good at poetry, and good at lyrics. It is said that she was once a famous talented woman in Jiangnan.

Later, in the early years of Chongzhen, she married Chen Zhilin, who was already a famous scholar in the south of the Yangtze River.

When she first met Xu Can in the Young Women's Labor Camp, she learned that he was good at poetry. Gu Hengbo, who was also good at poetry, also started to compare. After a little comparison, she knew that nearly half of her reputation was due to praise.

The courtesan's poetry is obviously not as good as Xu Can's.

In addition, he sympathized with Xu Can's experience and admired him as a person, so Gu Hengbo quickly became friends with him, and now they often work together with him.

Yes, as a fellow prisoner, Gu Hengbo sympathized with Xu Can.

When the capital was breached by intruders, Gong Dingzi and she committed suicide by jumping into a well, but were rescued by the housekeeper.

After his death, Gong Dingzai was completely discouraged and became extremely greedy for life and afraid of death. He served first in Shun and then in Qing Dynasty, and his official career was the same on both sides - first he was awarded the title of Like to Shizhong, and then he moved to Taichang Temple

Shaoqing.

The most shameful thing was that he and a group of officials who had surrendered met the Qing captive army led by Dorgon outside the city gate, but they bowed down and bowed.

Gu Hengbo believed that her family and Gong Dingzi deserved their punishment for being imprisoned, and they had to thank the emperor for their kindness even if they were not killed.

But what happened to Xu Can seemed to her to be a bit unlucky, even unjust.

Her husband, Chen Zhilin, came from a prominent family in eastern Zhejiang, and his father, Chen Zubao, served as an official in Shuntian Prefecture.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Chen Zhilin ranked second in the first class of high school, became second in the class, and was admitted to the Hanlin Academy as an editor.

At that time, the Chen family in Haining had a high reputation and great prominence. Not surprisingly, with Chen Zhilin's reputation and talent, he would definitely achieve a greater official position than his father when he became an official.

However, in the second year when Chen Zhilin was ranked second in high school, something big happened to the Chen family.

When the Qing Dynasty invaded, Chen Zubao failed in his duties as the governor of Shuntian Prefecture. He was dismissed from his post, arrested and imprisoned. Feeling wronged, he committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine.

Emperor Chongzhen was "angry at his ancestor Bao Bao for missing the punishment" and turned his anger on Chen Zhilin. He not only dismissed Chen Zhilin from his official position, but also stated that he would never serve him again.

As a result, Chen Zhilin hated Chongzhen and even the Ming Dynasty so much that he became depressed from then on.

When he heard that the Qing rebels had taken over the capital, Chen Zhilin immediately rushed to the capital as quickly as possible by horse and boat and defected to the Qing rebels.

He is indeed very smart. After arriving in the capital, he quickly found out the details of the Qing captives. Then, relying on his superb flattery skills, he first curried favor with Dorgon's cronies, and then met Dorgon and called him his benefactor.

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He first studied as a bachelor of the Secretariat, and this year he was directly promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Rites.

Chen Zhilin felt that he had established a foothold in Qinglu, and felt that Qinglu would definitely dominate the world, so he sent people to bring Xu Can and other family members to the capital.

As far as Gu Hengbo knew, Xu Can himself was extremely opposed to Chen Zhilin's move to become an official. However, Xu Can came from a scholarly family and was deeply constrained by his wife's relationship. He never thought of using practical actions to resist Chen Zhilin's move to become an official.

I just wrote a few poems to express my depression.

As a result, not long after Xu Can brought the Chen family to the capital, the "Battle of Yangzhou" occurred that drastically changed the world situation...

After carefully putting the basket down and opening the cover, Xu Can and Gu Hengbo breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that none of the food inside was spilled.

Immediately, Gu Hengbo couldn't help but look around - as one of the eight beauties of Qinhuai, she relied on her cleverness when she was a child, not just her beauty and talent.

This place was originally supposed to be the residence of an official or nobleman, but now because it is on the street, it has become a property for patrolling soldiers.

There are many empty houses in the city now, so no one feels it is a pity that such a mansion has been reduced to a temporary resting place for criminals.

In the second room where the two of them were, there were five garrison soldiers sitting around a coal stove, warming themselves and resting. A pot of hot water was boiling on the stove.

"The coal stoves here can heat hot water, and they asked us to carry them here. They must be sincerely working hard for us." Seeing this, Gu Hengbo couldn't help but cursed in his heart.

Seeing other prisoners and women delivering meals coming in one after another carrying baskets and putting them away safely, Gu Hengbo said with a smile: "Several military masters, all the meals needed by the prisoners here have been delivered. How many of you are here?"

Want to check it out?"

The team leader among them didn't answer, but came directly over and opened the baskets one by one to check the food inside.

Although these meals are for the prisoners, they must do the routine work. As for the meals for the soldiers, it is the responsibility of the camp kitchen and is separate from the prisoners.

Gu Hengbo noticed that when the team leader was inspecting the food, he looked at the women from time to time, especially her and Xu Can, as if he could see inside them through the bloated clothes.

But the corps commander did not dare to take any further action.

Some of the women stared at the team leader, and their eyes looked wrong.

It's not that prisoners live apart from each other and can't bear the loneliness, but that some people want to dedicate their lives to please the officers and even officials, not to mention getting rid of their status as prisoners and out of the sea of ​​misery, at least they can get some care.

But no matter what these women think, they just dare to think about it, and no one really dares to do it.

It's not that she's afraid of damaging her reputation - when all her family members have been demoted to the Qing Dynasty, and some are even slaves with three surnames, what good reputation does the mistress have?

They are afraid of being caught and beheaded!

Last month, when these female convicts first worked for the supervision of the Ming army, some of them boldly hooked up with an officer in charge of the post.

As a result, the report was quickly reported, and the officer in charge and the guilty woman who had hooked up with him were beheaded together in public!

The charge is that the two violated military law, disrupted military morale, and intended to undermine military discipline. They were extremely heinous!

From then on, neither the New Army officers nor the women in prison dared to engage in any shady transactions.

They have all seen how ruthless military law is.

Therefore, even though Gu Hengbo was once a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, he thought he could win over most men, and he wanted to escape from the sea of ​​misery with his talent and beauty, but he did not dare to act rashly.

As for who is loyal to Gong Dingzi?

She originally married Gong Dingzi as a concubine because of Gong Dingzi's good reputation, family status, and the huge amount of money he spent on her.

Now that Gong Dingzi not only lost everything, but also made her a prisoner, how could she still be loyal to Gong Dingzi?

Besides, she is not the royal wife, but just a concubine.

In addition, when Gong Dingzi wanted to serve in the Qing Dynasty earlier, she had persuaded him, and even used a rope to persuade Gong Dingzi to commit suicide together. However, Gong Dingzi refused to die, and even claimed to the outside world that he was humbled to serve in the Qing Dynasty because he could not bear her death.

I almost didn't make her angry to death.

Since then, there has been a huge gap between her and Gong Dingzi, and their relationship has also broken down.

"Okay, the food looks fine, you can go." The captain's voice brought Gu Hengbo back to his senses.

Gu Hengbo immediately saluted and said, "Here comes Mr. Lao Jun."

Just ready to leave.

Xu Can, who rarely spoke to other men, suddenly pointed to the table and said, "Master Jun, is that the rumored copy of the Daming News?"

The captain looked surprised and said, "Why, not only are you literate, but you also know the Ming Dynasty Newspaper?"

Xu Can said: "The guilty woman is indeed literate. I wonder if the military master can lend this "Da Ming Bao" to the guilty woman to read?"
Chapter completed!