In the middle of the night there was a rumbling of thunder, although it was rainy in the summer, it was too much rain this year, and a torrential rain poured down, and the wind blew off the pole that supported the window, and a soft sound fell to the ground, and it was more harsh to listen to in the still night than the thunder far away in the sky.

Shi Ju and Danzhu slept soundly, and the raccoon slave quietly jumped on Shi Gui's bed and woke Shi Gui up with one paw. The cat was very timid, and it woke up first when there was any movement.

Shi Gui slept in a daze, opened his eyes hard, his ears were full of the sound of rain, and it took a long time to struggle to hold up his eyelids, and the wind blew in with the rain, and the room was suddenly cold.

The raccoon slave meowed and got stuck in his throat, and took his hairy head to top Shi Gui, Shi Gui turned over and didn't want to pay attention to it, but it wanted to drill into Shi Gui's chest, Shi Gui couldn't, and looked at it with lightning, and sure enough, the wooden pole fell into its nest, and it had no place to stay, which woke Shi Gui up.

Struggling to sit up, he got out of bed with his shoes on and touched the rolling pole, there was a glimmer of light in the rain, Shi Gui went to the window, and happened to see the window in Ye's house being pushed open by a hand.

In the middle of the night, this movement looked a little terrible, Shi Gui called the cold wind to stir up a layer of goosebumps, rubbed his arm to close the window, and saw that the hand was holding something, and a lightning bolt outside illuminated the courtyard as if it were day.

Shi Gui Dingqing took a look, only to see that there were two eighteen Liuliu lotus lamps lit at the door of the house, and it was not only a glow on the ground, but the hand that was still stretched out from the window was holding such a bowl-shaped lotus lamp, and the flames in the lamp were blown by the wind and were sometimes bright and dark, but they were not extinguished in the end.

Shi Gui looked at it in a daze, but he didn't take it to heart, closed the window and drove the raccoon slave out of bed, retracted back into the bed, rolled the thin quilt on his belly, and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

The second day was still so hot that people were anxious, as if there had never been a rain at night, Danzhu woke up early in the morning, saw the window closed, and said strangely: "Which one closed the window, such a hot day." ”

"It rained so hard at night, and it was windy and lightning, and you slept like a pig, so I was embarrassed to ask why the window was closed. Shi Gui sat up, rubbed his eyes, the light bamboo had already opened the window, opened his head to look out of the window, where there was still half a trace of moisture, the branches and leaves were all dry, and he sighed at Shi Gui: "Where has it rained, look at how hot it is outside, it's still early in the morning." ”

She said and lay down on the bed again, Shi Ju pushed her up: "Why didn't it rain, I heard it, and the raccoon slave also screamed, if I didn't cover you with a blanket last night, you would have had a stomach upset." ”

Only then did Shi Gui know that Shi Ju was also awake, sat up and brushed his teeth with willow branches dipped in green salt, spit out with saliva, and combed his hair and combed up the double rings: "That's you, you won't wake up when it thunders." ”

Danzhu only believed that it had really rained, not to mention the shade at all, but it was hotter, her hair was thick, and she couldn't wait to grab the top of the sky and comb it up, take the grate and grate, and lazily get up to get cold porridge, and when she came back, she was already sweating, and said with her tongue: "Who do you guess I saw?"

Shi Ju took out the porridge, poured some hot water and mixed it, her stomach couldn't stand it when she was cold, and asked casually: "Who did you see?" ”

This day is not cool in the morning, the sweepers of the courtyard get up early, do the errand early, the sun comes out just to hide, only Song Mian is one, and he is also reading in the pavilion during the day, reading sweating profusely, but he will never undress and take off his crown, sweat and heavy clothes, all of them can be wrung out of the water, and he is also pacing and reading.

He is still studying in the pavilion in the snow in winter, the Song family is used to it, and because he has this tenacity, the old lady Song values him more and more, Song Jingtang went back to prepare for the exam, and the old lady Song took Song Mian with him and took him to meet people to receive articles and articles.

Shi Gui could occasionally see him in the old lady's house, and when the two eyes met, they turned back again, which was regarded as a greeting, only knowing that he was studying in the pavilion in winter, but he didn't know that he was still reading in the summer.

Danzhu snorted his teeth: "You didn't see it, your back is wet." "What a scholar, it's worse than the coolies on the dock, those who still wear short fights, but he still has a long shirt on his body, Danzhu can't figure it out, and shakes his head again and again: "Say that he reads stupidly." ”

The heat wave was rolling outside, and he felt hot through the curtains, he just went to the pavilion to study, and he didn't know how to find a shady place, Danzhu shook his head: "This young master, I don't know if it's because his brain is too good, or if his brain is not good at all." ”

Shi Ju laughed: "Don't we also have one in the house, have you forgotten?" The one in the house is Shi Gui, the paper that Ye Wenxin left for her has already been written, and the front side is used once and the reverse side is used again, and the book is full of copies, Jinli passed under the window, watching her make a bed full of paper, and muttered that the ink smells heavy.

Shi Gui ignored her, but at this time, paper was expensive, she wrote so much, it was already full and there was nowhere to write, if she wanted to practice calligraphy again, she had to buy it outside, but which girl's girl still bought paper.

I haven't written for three or four days in a row, and the ink strip is still half, Shi Gui's hands are itching, and when he heard Shi Ju say this, his idea hit the lotus lamp: "Or are you smart, why didn't I think of it first?"

Although the lotus lamp is wax paper is also paper, it is more difficult to ink, it is not easy to write, but it is the paper sent to the door, it is not possible to copy the side of the above, there are always two sentences of the Tibetan scriptures, Shi Gui quickly combed his hair and quickly sharpened the ink, held the pen in his hand, and laid out the corners of the wax paper that had not been folded into the lantern, and wrote the Tibetan scriptures in the heart of the petals.

Because of copying the scriptures, the hand will be slow, a word is wrong, the whole paper can not be wanted, these days in addition to the paper lamp there is nothing to do, the Song family to put the river lantern in the Midyear Festival and more than three hundred, the girls have to idle hands are not stopped, the housekeeper has to point which folds more, and there is a reward to receive when handed over.

You can't eat meat in July, and if you don't give some desserts, you won't be able to stand it. The folded river lamp was hung under the corridor, red, green, yellow, the whole corridor was full, Shi Ju folded Shi Gui into a lamp and hung it outside their door, Chun Yan'er swept her eyes, saw the words written on it, and asked if she knew that it was the Dizang Sutra, knew that it was written by Shi Gui, and nodded at her: "You have a heart." ”

Shangyuan lanterns in the Yuan water lanterns, the courtyard pool should also put river lanterns, only the river lanterns that are released out can't flow outside, just playing, for the little girls to play, these lamps are serious to put in the river.

Shi Gui wrote the stack of Shi Ju, both of them were rewarded, Shi Gui had to light the lamps at night, and knew that the Ye family really valued these lights, but it was too late to write, and in the evening, he sent all these stacked to the housekeeper's mother-in-law, and Shi Gui's two lamps were accepted by Chunyan.

The girl in the courtyard can only watch people go out, and they all go to the side of the small pond pavilion, with a full of lights floating on it, and stirring the pond with bamboo poles, those lights float around, each of them turns in circles, but the candle flame on the top does not go out, which is a good kung fu.

The pool couldn't stop laughing, but there was no movement in the two courtyards, the old lady had already lit a butter lamp, and Jingzhongguan also started to do the rituals, and Ye's eyes didn't close all night, and even Yu Rong Zezhi folded a lot of lamps and sent them, and released them together during the Midyear Festival.

Song Yintang went to Qixia Temple two days earlier, and recited the scriptures for this uncle in front of the Bodhisattva, although he had never seen this uncle, but he had been friends with him for a long time, and he not only read the Four Books and Five Classics, but also the articles of this uncle.

At this time of year, the old lady is not in a good mood, Song Yintang has known since he was a child, if he can recite two more scriptures at this time, although the old lady and the Ye family do not say anything, they are happy in their hearts.

In addition to burning scriptures in the temple, Zhongyuan is a big festival, in addition to the folk tent performance even asking for the mother, the city god out on patrol, but also set up a seventy or eighty feet of Dharma boat, put it on the river, light the fire and push it out, all the way to send those lonely ghosts who sit on the boat to the Jizo King Bodhisattva.

Even the palace has to do a big job, the boat is in the liquid pool, the inner supervisor holds the lotus leaf, the lotus leaf is lit with candles, and thousands of glass lotus lamps are put down, and the inner prison has to wait for the lights to go out and secretly salvage it, this thing is made inside, and it is worth a few taels of silver.

July is the Ramadan month of the Song family, but just caught up with the Ji people, the Ye people can't go, only give gifts, although Ji is released, but he was promoted, Guangdong political envoy right senator, sent to the richest place in the south.

The saint of this position was promoted and promoted for him, although it was a flat adjustment, and it was much more profitable than being a foreigner in Beijing, but the old lady Song frowned more and more, and took a few vacations because of the bitter summer, how many years in Guangdong has been run by the Yan family, and he sent Master Ji to go, but he wanted to fight with his son-in-law.

Old lady Song didn't want Ye Yiqing's reply more and more, so she looked at the Ye family's feelings, and couldn't put the whole family in, at this time, it was still by sea, and when the salt was transported, the Ye family couldn't keep it.

has already asked the Ye family to take care of it once, although the mistake was made by his son, but he has made up for the leaks of many years, and his mud feet are deep, and at this time, there is still such a mess of unclean things on his own body, but he can't get involved in the Ye family's troubled water again.

When Ji Shunying left Beijing, the sage specially sent someone to send a bowl of ice soup to relieve him from the heat, and the prince personally went to deliver it, but this bowl of soup did not pass the prince's hand, so he asked the inner supervisor to send it, and the front of the Song family was not clean for many days.

In the blink of an eye, the red lotus in the pond in the courtyard bloomed into a piece, the sound of cicadas was dimmed, and people were also sorrowful, there were few people in the courtyard during the day, August 15 was Shi Gui's birthday, because the days were easy to remember, but many people knew that Mrs. Zheng came to the Mandarin Duck Pavilion early, saying that she was going to take Shi Gui home and give her a bowl of longevity noodles.

Chunyan promised her a half-day off, Shi Gui packed up some things, and was about to go back to the Zheng family's courtyard, when Danzhu hurriedly came in and pulled her: "Someone from your hometown is here!"

Shi Gui had been looking forward to it for so long, and she had already lost hope, and when she heard this, she couldn't come back to her senses in a daze, and Danzhu pushed her: "Hurry up!" She came back to her senses, turned around and ran outside the courtyard gate.