Chapter 284: Shangsi
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The light rain was moist and dripping, and it was about to stop in the evening.
Heaven and earth have been renewed.
Looking far away, there is still a thin layer of rain and mist between the mountains, like a light veil wrapped around the mountainside, revealing a fog, just like Lu Shuo's state of mind at this time.
With a "snap", he closed the window from the inside, and also isolated the sound of rustling leaves outside.
Lu Shuo sat cross-legged on the Luohan bed, slowly turning the pages of the book in his hand, but he couldn't read it.
He pinched the bridge of his nose, sniffed the incense lit in the room, and closed his eyes to think about things.
The two spies sent by the Lu Mansion have already returned to Beijing.
Thinking of this, Lu Shuo was a little melancholy.
This time, I sent these two people out, but I didn't find anything.
Wei Zhao's family is only a farmer, which is convenient and easy to check, and the secret agent is the first to get the results.
But the results were not satisfactory.
Because the result of the investigation turned out to be nothing!
Wei Zhao is an authentic farmer, and the spies secretly inquired about many people, and they all unanimously said that Wei Zhao grew up in the village since he was a child......
Even when he inquired about the owner of the bookstore, the owner said that Wei Zhao had been copying books to make money for a long time, as a way to subsidize the family.
Copying books may be said to be deliberately covered up by Wei Zhao, but he grew up in the village since he was a child......
Lu Shuo clearly remembered that the Wei family was destroyed in the fifteenth year of Yuanfeng, and it was only ten years from now, but Wei Zhao was already seventeen years old......
If calculated in this way, Wei Zhao should have been seven years old when he moved into the farmer's house, why would the people in that village say that he grew up in the village?
Lu Shuo only felt that Wei Zhao's life experience was becoming more and more invisible! He couldn't help but ask himself, could it be that he was wrong before?
And Xue Ning.
According to the secret agent's report, Xue's father was a jinshi in the sixteenth year of Yuan Feng, and had held several official positions in other places before coming to Weizhou.
Although Xue's father is a Zhizhou, he is very low-key in Weizhou, and he can be regarded as an honest person, which is completely different from Xue Ning's high-profile manner, Xue's father is steady, and he has hardly made any mistakes in Weizhou in the past few years.
At least according to what the secret agents found, except for the search of Taoshan Academy and the coercion of Yuan Zhongdao to accept Xue Ning as a disciple, Father Xue did not make the slightest mistake.
This is even more bizarre!
A person who has always been low-key would do something that threatens Confucianism! And he also connived at his eldest son not to learn and offend his classmates!
It's ridiculous!
Besides, how did Father Xue, who wanted connections and had no connections, money, but no money, know that Taoshan Academy was hiding outlaws?
So weird! So many mistakes!
Lu Shuo would rather believe that everything before was his guess wrong than believe that these are the facts.
There is something strange, and maybe Yuan Zhongdao himself knows it......
Everything was like a fog outside the window.
Lu Shuo put down the book in his hand and sighed softly.
These strange things don't seem strange to others, but for those who know the details, they are full of loopholes.
Because of this, although nothing can be found out for the time being, there is one thing that Lu Shuo has determined, that is, these two people must have something to do with the Wei family......
As for what was implicated, he didn't know, and he wasn't in a hurry to know, so much so that when the secret guard said that he wanted to continue to inquire about Father Xue's previous appointment, he also stopped it!
It's useless to be anxious! Let the two of them go to investigate and risk being discovered, and if they investigate too much, they may be caught by surprise.
He still has to stay in this academy for a long time, and he is not in a hurry.
What is the mystery, let's take it one step at a time.
Thinking about these clearly, Lu Shuo's heart calmed down again, and he took a sharp breath of the aroma in the room, and then opened the page again to read.
As he was watching, there were suddenly two knocks on the door outside.
"Enter!"
Zhu Yi shook her skirt before she walked in slowly, holding a letter in her hand.
"It's a letter from Jingshi?"
Zhu Yi nodded and handed the letter to Lu Shuo.
The letter was about Lu Xin and Miss Gu, Lu Shuo opened it and took a general look, and he had a rough idea in his heart.
"No matter!"
He put down the letter, feeling a little irritable.
The letter was full of elders, but it can be summed up in one sentence: The Gu family and the Lu family have been arguing constantly, and there is still no conclusion.
Zhu Yi saw that Lu Shuo was impatient, did not persuade, and did not help complain, only poured a cup of tea for him, and then smiled lightly, and said: "Young master, don't think about these things for the time being, the day after tomorrow is the Shangsi Festival, seeing that this rain is dripping and dripping...... Listening to the people outside, the banquet is still going to be held as scheduled, so we have to be prepared, just in case ......"
Lu Shuo drank a cup of tea, his heart was much calmer, and then listened to Zhu Yi's pleasant persuasion, the irritability just now was temporarily put aside by him, he nodded and said, "It's supposed to be like this, so as not to rain suddenly and be unprepared!"
Zhu Yi smiled and nodded, and said what he was going to prepare in a few words, asking for Lu Shuo's opinion.
Lu Shuo nodded and said, "Just do what Sister Zhu Yi said......!
Zhu Yi responded with a smile, and bent down to retire.
As soon as she walked to the door, she heard Lu Shuo behind her: "Wait!"
Zhu Yi looked back suspiciously.
"Take my soft sword with you!"
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In March, in September, the handmaiden game was lifted.
Shangsi Festival, also known as Spring Bath Day, also called Daughter's Day, is fixed on the third day of the third month of the summer calendar every year, and is the festival of stepping out of spring in the twilight of spring.
Lu Shuo has been in ancient times and has participated in the Shangsi Festival every year, but this year is the first time to celebrate the festival with the gentlemen and classmates of the academy.
The location of this year's festival of Taoshan Academy is selected in the back mountain, there is a large piece of relatively flat slope, the grass is green, the bamboo forest is dyed, the peach blossoms are beautiful, the stream is surrounded, and there is a clear stone pond not far away, which is very suitable for the festival.
A few days before the festival, the academy had already sent people to clean up and decorate the place, so when the group arrived here, they were immediately infected by the festive atmosphere.
"Those who are in the twilight of spring, the spring clothes are ready, the crown is five or six, and the boy is six or seven, bathing, dancing, and returning. ”
The "Analects" recorded in the "Analects" is free and easy, but Lu Shuo's experience is not very good.
Just because the first ritual of this festival celebration was to bathe and wander in a stream with all the classmates in the college.
The sky is blue and white, bright and clear, half-naked, all the naked men are together, and the demons dance together.
I feel drunk just thinking about it!
Purification is a custom of the Shangsi Festival, which has been passed down for a long time. It refers to the day of the Shangsi Festival on the third day of the third month of March, when people meet to bathe and wash at the water's edge to ward off disasters.
Of course, this is an ancient tradition, and when it was handed down to the Great Qi Dynasty, due to the development of civilized and progressive etiquette, the tradition of outdoor bathing has gradually been replaced by elegant activities such as washing feet and watering on the forehead.
Because of this, Lu Shuo was shocked when he heard that everyone was going to go to the pool to bathe.