When the moon was on the laurel branches, the Yan family's dinner had been set up in the back garden, full of two tables, surrounded by sixteen red lacquered pear wood brass lamps, with glass lamps on them, illuminating the radius of dozens of meters into a bright golden glow.

Enjoying the starry night and eating delicacies, the Yan's family spends this year on Qixi Festival.

It's romantic.

But there's nothing new about it.

There are two tables, one table for men and women, except for the old lady Yan, the rest of the masters are not present, and the rest are all young masters.

The dishes on the table are also the usual dozen or so, and the words spoken are also repeated old words, but the ladies are all wearing new clothes made in the house for the change of seasons, and they are sitting there in groups, fragrant and sweet.

"Seventh sister's clothes are so beautiful today," Yan Ba girl glanced at Yan Qi with a smile, "It's just that this style doesn't seem to be made by the embroidery lady in the house, could it be that it was made in the shop outside?"

Everyone's eyes were on Yan Qi's body, and saw that she was wearing a long ice silk dress dyed with Tianshui blue, and a cage skirt with a transparent gauze texture on the outside, and on the cage skirt was a large piece of snow-white and elegant pearl plum embroidered with a delicate and soft white silk pile。

This dress is very provocative, it can't stand up when it's short, it looks weak when it's tall, it becomes more and more bloated when it's fat, it feels shabby when it's thin, it's out of style when it's black, and it's too cool and thin when it's white.

But why is it so weird, this dress can be worn just right by this Yan Qi, it is not like a person looking for clothes, but a person looking for clothes, properly closing his body, wearing a clear breath that penetrates his bones and skin.

Yan Wu's eyes immediately stared at Yan Qi's dress, and when she heard her say "yes", she couldn't help but raise two thin eyebrows: "Who made such a dress for your silver?

"Of course, the embroidery work of the embroiderers in the house is first-class," Yan Qidao, "just like the food at home has to be eaten, and the snacks sold outside can also be eaten, and the hairpin on the fifth sister's head I remember was also bought by the eldest aunt from a scale of gold shop." ”

"I-" Yan Wu didn't expect that Yan Qi'er, who had always been like a cotton sleeve, would suddenly turn into leather today-although soft but strong, she couldn't react for a while, "My hairpin was bought by my mother, how can this be the same!"

"I also have a mother's pain, although it is far away in the sky. "Yan Qidao.

Miss Yan Wu was stunned, why is this topic a little wrong, obviously talking about whether she should buy things outside without permission, why did she suddenly turn to whether she has a mother's pain or not?

Old Mrs. Yan didn't care about the bickering between the two children, children, where is there anything that is not noisy, but this topic made her slightly stunned, and she couldn't help but stare deeply at Yan Qi's face a few times.

A child with a mother's pain is a treasure, and a child without a mother's pain......

The second son was far away at the border and had not returned home for nearly ten years, and it was all the meat that fell from his mother's body, teaching her how not to want to, how not to hurt? The old lady was a little sad, thinking that the second son was in pain without his own mother in that difficult frontier, and he might not be able to live a difficult and bitter life, and how he looked like a little withered grass, and this heart softened into mud.

Pushing oneself and the other, whose child is not the mother's heart?

"Okay, Sister Meng is a sister, don't always make trouble with your sister," Mrs. Yan spoke, beckoned Yan Qi to her side, grabbed her hand and looked up and down for a while, and took off an extremely watery ice jade bracelet from her wrist and put it on Yan Qiqin's gloves, "This bracelet is just right for your skirt, go back and teach your aunt to let someone plug in your silver filigree hairpin, and this body will be considered alive." ”

…… The opportunity to love her children and grandchildren did not forget to pull her daughter-in-law to bleed, and this old lady was also naughty when she came home.

Mrs. Yan smiled beside her and replied, this little bit of blood is no different to her than being bitten by a mosquito, not to mention that this mosquito is already old, even if it bites, it can't bite deeply. turned his head and asked someone to clean up the remnants of the table, put melons, fruits, snacks and tea, and then began to watch the stars and enjoy the night seriously.

"There is an incense case under the rockery over there, and you girls who want to talk quietly to the weaver girl will go over and say," the old lady said with a smile, and gave her daughter-in-law a bite to make the old man feel very good, and turned her head to ask another daughter-in-law, Mrs. Yansan, "You can have fun in the house?" ”

Mo Drink Le is the son of the Buddha Shakyamuni, and when it was transmitted to the Central Plains, it became a kind of clay puppet to worship the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, also known as "incarnation", and this thing is used to pray for the birth of a boy.

Mrs. Yan San nodded with a look of shame on her face and said, "I have offered it, but I still asked for it from Tete in the temple...... I saw my sister-in-law also go to burn incense that day, is it Puji Temple?" said and deliberately looked at Mrs. Yan.

"It's just to go to repay the vow, the lord returned safely from the island, and he should go to the Buddha to burn a few incense sticks. Mrs. Yan said lightly.

"Speaking of which, sister-in-law should really let go of the matter at hand and take care of her body," Mrs. Yan San said with a smile, "The further back...... The more difficult it is, seeing that Sister Chun will turn sixteen years old in two months...... "What this means is that your daughter should get married, and you are not in a hurry to have a child, is it difficult to wait until you have a child with your daughter?"

Yan Er girl was originally sitting next to the quiet drinking tea, heard the words and got up and walked away with a few sisters, involving these things, children should not listen, a few sisters went to the incense case under the rockery, worshiped a Vega star, and asked someone to take a needle and thread to play needle and beggar, and finally Yan Wu girl won the first Kui, proudly despised a few sisters one by one, and played hide and seek, because it is said that when Han Gaozu, there was a Xu Jieyu in the palace who gave birth to a pair of skillful hands, and could carve the raw water chestnut into a variety of strange flowers and birds to present to the emperor, and the emperor put these gadgets in the palace at night casually placed on the corner of the table in the palace for the palace maids to find in the dark,This kind of game is called "Lan Ye Dou Qiao",Playing hide and seek is probably what it means.,Whoever can catch people blindfolded,Whoever is a clever person.。

Yan Er girl does not play these children's games with the children, she walks alone to enjoy the laurels in the distance, and the rest of Yan Wuyan 6 Yan Qi Yan 8 take their own group of girls to find a wide place to play hide and seek, rock-paper-scissors, Yan Liu's girl catches it first, and she touches her hands carefully as soon as she blindfolds her eyes.

Yan Qi mixed in a group of sisters and girls and followed Yihu La to run over, ran and ran into the Qili Xiang Flower Gallery next to him, and a person stood in the depths of the flower gallery, respectfully hanging his hands and waiting, as if he knew that Yan Qi would run here, Yan Qi walked over and greeted him: "Appointment girl?"

"......," Yizhi said respectfully, "Master, please go out of the door." ”

"Let's go. "Yan Qidao.

Follow a branch through the flower gallery, have been running to the root of the wall of the back garden, over the wall, the carriage is parked outside, get on the car through the street and alley, the night market outside is lively, the people are noisy and laughing, but the carriage only chose the cold path to go, but it is not far away, and it is not long before turning onto the Fengtang Street of Tianxiangtai Pavilion Road.

Fengtang Street is a small street, next to the street are white walls and black tiles of houses, the high courtyard wall covers a qiē sound and lights, only the plain yellow lanterns under the eaves outside the door emit a warm and clear light, reflecting the golden petals of Tianxiangtai Pavilion, forming a hazy light path.

The carriage stopped at the end of the light road, an ordinary house from the outside, with two words inscribed in familiar handwriting on the door: Shuifu.

The family's surname is Shui?

A branch pushed the door in front of him, leading Yan Qi in, facing a large white marble stone screen, embossed with a koi carp, and there are two poems: Wuyun Shu rain is connected from afar, and the ancient dragon is chanted between the waves in the cool night.

Although the two sentences are sentences in the same poem, they are the sixth and eighth sentences of the original poem.

This screen is both high and wide, completely covering the inner house behind it, a branch took Yan Qi to go around this screen, turned the screen wall, and the situation in front of him suddenly broke into view - where is there any inner house, square courtyard walls on all sides, from this end to see that end, not only the house, but also dug out a big pit on the ground, it is also square, the bottom of the pit and the four walls are neatly paved with white marble large square stones, and then filled with a pool of clear water.

Around this white marble clear water pool, there is a low bamboo fence erected around, and a bamboo frame glass covered floor lantern is erected every few meters, which reflects this big clear water pool sparkling, clear and golden cool. Behind the bamboo fence is paved with a piece of smooth and round white stone, on the stone beach is a screen of calamine stacked into the Xiuqi rockery, according to the wall planted dwarf pine and maple, this pine is like green mist, this maple is like a red cloud, lined with the white stone under the foot, clean and bright rhino, clear and elegant.

On the opposite side of the pool, there is a blue yarn cabinet near the pool, a shelf made of bamboo, covered with green and transparent cicada wing yarn, under the bamboo mo, next to a pot of jasmine that is blooming fragrantly, next to the jasmine squatting barefoot, is fiddling with flower branches there.

Yizhi stopped by the screen, Yan Qi walked through the light and shadow by the pool alone, and asked him when he came to his side, "Spending money again?"

"If you don't like it, you can still sell it. This one would have planned, "Do you like it?"

"I like it," Yan Qi turned his face to look at the pool in front of him, "Why don't you raise fish?"

"Raised one. The man stood up and put his jasmine-stained hand over the head of his little niece, "I'm going to play with you." ”

I've sent eagles, I've sent elephants, and now I've sent a water house.

This is because he knew that she liked to swim, so he bought a house with high courtyard walls, demolished the house, dug a pool, stored clean water, and swam here, not afraid of being seen.

Every inch of land in Kyoto is expensive, and the value of such a small mansion can be bought five or even ten times as much as elsewhere, but the one who sent the house did not take it seriously, and the one who received the house was not flattered, as if it was not a house but a small handkerchief bought from a street stall, a small thing that was as big as a sesame seed, and even the eyebrows were not worth picking.

"There are shark clothes in the blue gauze cupboard. Yan Zike pointed to the top of the bamboo tree. The shark suit is the swimming suit of the ancients, made of shark skin, slippery, light and neat.

"Can you bring a friend to play?" Yan Qi asked.

"You're in charge. Yan Zi Ke said, took out the door key from his bosom and handed it to her, the brass key also had a key ring on it, and a small crystal goldfish was tied to the ring, and the fish's belly was full of a pool of blue transparent water.

A series of fireworks suddenly bloomed in the night sky, a large red Kong Ming lantern rose in the distant sky, the night market of Qixi Festival is not much more lively than the New Year, many places in the city even opened a hundred opera performances, a branch from the outside after a little back to report, said that there is a team of dancing lantern troupe on the street, while dancing the lantern while parade the street, the only way back to the house has been blocked by the tourists, probably have to make trouble for a long time before dispersing.

The uncle and nephew were not in a hurry to go home, and sat in the blue gauze cupboard while shaking the fan to enjoy the cool while watching the stars and the night.

"There's something weird about this maple tree. Yan Qi pointed to the maple tree planted along the courtyard wall.

"There is a small island nation east of the East China Sea," Yan Zi told Yan Qi, "and the tree species was bought from the small island country and is called the 'Four Seasons Flame Maple,' and the leaves are red from spring to autumn." ”

"Have you been there?" Yan Qi asked.

"Been there when I was younger. Swallow said.

"I'm not old now, how old is I young?"

"Hehe......"

"Did you go with Hyun Ho Liuzheng?"

"Well, taking advantage of the summer vacation, we took a merchant ship to the island country to travel business, about ten days of sea trip, halfway through the East China Sea Islands, those islands are much larger than the islands of Qiandao Lake, one of them only has rocks, layered, the color is like a rainbow, looking at it from a distance, reflecting the clouds above the head, the sea under the feet, and even the light of the stars, like a glass fairyland. He said, 'If we have the chance, we will go to the island and build a house, and we will dig a hole in the rock without wood or bricks, and we will dig the mountain into an arc, and stand on the ground at both ends like a real rainbow, and the body will be arched in the air, and the house will be dug on the rainbow arc, and when the boat of the sea will see us from afar, it will think that we are immortals who live on the rainbow.'......"

"It's great, it sounds like Danxia landform. ”

"What is the Danxia landform?"

"It's a rock formation like a rainbow. ”

"Oh, isn't it taken from Cao Pi's "Poems in Furong Pond": 'Danxia sandwiches the bright moon, and Huaxing comes out of the clouds'?"

"That's it. Are all those islands like this?"

"There are a lot of strange things, each with its own characteristics. For example, there is a huge geyser on another island, every few moments will spew out dozens of meters of spring water, everyone calls that island whale island, but then we met a real whale on the sea, first there was only one, suddenly jumped up from the sea, fell back heavily, everyone was surprised and laughed, was around the side of the boat to see the rare, suddenly two or three more jumped out of the sea, and then more and more, there were hundreds, one after another, set off the waves that covered the sky and the sun, everyone was frightened, frantically escaped on the deck, the crew desperately rowed, but could not get rid of those whales, hundreds of whales just chased us all the way, forming a majestic whale team behind themEveryone hid in the cabin, only the three of us stood at the stern of the boat and saw this rare spectacle from the beginning to the end, Hyun Hao only cared about laughing, and was almost thrown into the sea by the bumpy waves......"

"It's majestic! There are whales as a sea guard. ”

"For this reason, Xuan Hao wants to change the word to 'whale'. ”

"What should I say?"

"Du Fu's "Drama is Six Quatrains" has clouds: 'Or look at the jade orchid, the whale is not caught in the blue sea', which means that the talent is magnificent. ”

"Why didn't you change it later?"

"The stone in the Sanyou Cave has been engraved with the word 'Xuanhao'. ”

"It's true that it's not good to scratch again. ”

"Because there are too many strokes of 'Whale', it is laborious to engrave. ”

“……”

"It's also thanks to the blessing of the whales, there were pirates in that area from time to time, but they taught us to cross safely. ”

"The scourge of pirates is more dangerous than the whales. Didn't you encounter any more danger after that?"

Although it has been avoided, natural disasters are inevitable. The most thrilling thing was the storm, a huge merchant ship was like a remnant leaf in the storm, thrown high into the air by the huge waves, and when it fell to the surface of the sea, many people were stunned, and the captain and the crew gave up their resistance and resigned themselves to fate with the mast, so the three of us went to the barn, opened all the good wine and spirits on board, and then sat on the deck with the altar to drink...... When we landed on the island, the captain grabbed us and claimed three thousand taels of silver, and while he turned around and counted the broken jars, we ran away, and he chased us for more than a dozen streets with his crew......

"Did you catch up later?"

"Then we hid in the paddy fields, covered from head to toe and lay motionless in the fields, when the captain and crew ran past us and did not notice them. ”

"It's a good idea, like a chameleon. ”

"Chameleon?"

"An animal that looks like a lizard has a body color that changes depending on the environment around it, for example, it will turn green when lying on a tree, and brown and yellow when it lies on a dead branch, which can play a good camouflage role. ”

"Oh, interesting. If you lie on a rainbow rock, will it become a colorful color?"

"Probably not, it's probably going to be confused if there are too many colors. ”

"Oh. Why does it change color?"

"It seems to be related to the skin, just like when a person is shy, his face will be red, when he is afraid, his face will be white, and when he is frightened or stimulated, his skin will change color. ”

"Oh, that's it. An An knows a lot. ”

"yes. ”

"Hehe......"

"What did you do on the island?"

"Then we went to the tallest tower in the area, and when we stood on the top of the tower and looked down, we saw a wonderful place, and we got down from the tower and went straight to that place......

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