In the 115th round, the land is frozen for thousands of miles, and the flower cellar is full of spring

The poem says:

On the head of the cloud sideburns, the hairpin is fragrant,

Broken flowers are awkwardly buckled, bright and fragrant.

This poem is mainly about the grand occasion of people's hairpins at that time, in Youzhou City, those big girls and little daughters-in-law, a kind of hairpin craze is popular, that is, those fragrant flowers, such as jasmine, gardenia, hosta, etc., with hairpins in the hairpin, or pinned to the buttons of clothes, became the fashion of people at that time. In the streets and alleys of Youzhou City, those flower sellers who pick flowers and pick flowers, shouting through the streets and alleys, sell all kinds of hairpin flowers to people's hands.

There is also a kind of flower sellers, some of them push a wooden wheelbarrow, put a big basket on one side, the basket contains all kinds of potted flowers, these potted flowers are generally in full bloom, the flowers are still dripping with water droplets, beautiful and fragrant, bright, those aunts and aunts who love beauty, are willing to spend money to buy a pot, put it at home, pleasing to the eye.

Those wealthy families, are personally by the housekeeper to go out of the horse, drive the cart to the flower field to pick flowers, what season to buy what kind of flowers, spring is coming, all kinds of melon leaf chrysanthemum, moon flowers, and those dazzling flowering plants, has become their best choice. If it is May or June, the fiery pomegranate and the fragrant Milan jasmine night orchid will make them take out a lot of silver and pull it back to the house, small flowers are placed indoors, living rooms or study, large flowers are placed on both sides of the shadow back wall, or on both sides of the door, and some are placed in the corner or under the eaves, so that the room and courtyard are arranged elegantly and fragrantly.

If they encounter red and white ceremonies, flowers have become a fashion for them, or they have become a symbol of their status, especially in some festivals, arranging flowers and fighting flowers, and it has also become the fun of those families and children, they will gather together, for a kind of flower, collect a lot of varieties, the color is purple and red, and the posture is strange.

The Qingming Festival in spring, even if people enjoy the season of flowers, it has become an important activity for people, if you go to the homes of those kings and grandchildren, the first and second grades, all kinds of flowers are placed in a strange and beautiful way, after returning from the outing, enjoying their own flowers, it has become another fun for them, and the praise of flowers in various poems is also endless. There are also some exquisite people who will choose those edible flowers among these flowers, cook a variety of flower delicacies, and entertain distinguished guests.

There is also an important flower activity festival, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival, people will put all kinds of flowers, especially their own home flowers, put together, in the color, the size of the flowers, varieties and so on, the selection of the flower leader, also known as the Oiran competition, generally held in the neighborhood, all kinds of Oiran competition, covering different range of personnel, the size is not the same, has become a grand event to welcome the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Double Ninth Festival is a festival dedicated to chrysanthemum competitions. Because the varieties of chrysanthemums are particularly many, the colors and flower types are even more strange, in a variety of atmospheres, the chrysanthemum has become their greatest pleasure, first of all, than the variety, to see which one has collected the rare varieties, especially the green chrysanthemum, the black chrysanthemum, become the best product, if anyone collects these varieties, it will be passed on as a good story for a while. The second is the art chrysanthemum competition, these competitions are mainly than the modeling, mainly the competition of small chrysanthemums, all kinds of cliff chrysanthemums, bonsai chrysanthemums, Dali chrysanthemums, the shape is unique, pleasing to the eye, especially those for many years of old piles, will make you have the feeling of old trees and new branches, not only the artistic atmosphere is particularly strong, but also will become a symbol of the level of raising flowers.

Folk flower activities of appreciating flowers, led to the vigorous development of flower production, the loess port area in the south of the city has become the main distribution center of various flowers, when the flowers bloom, people who buy flowers are in an endless stream, especially in the spring of the outing activities, come here to enjoy the flowers and buy flowers has become a kind of people's demand. This is also a sign of national peace and security.

The largest amount of flowers is still the palace, those eunuchs who purchase flowers, because they purchase flowers all year round, they have become experts in flowers, and they are particularly particular about the varieties of flowers and the shape of flowers. There are many particulars about which flowers bloom and when, what kind of standards can be recognized by the royal family, and what kind of flower pots are used, and even the official kiln will specially fire flower pots for special use in a certain place in the palace. No matter what kind of flowers you buy, you must put this special flower pot on the outside, which is more simple and elegant, in line with the atmosphere of the palace.

In order to appear royal and luxurious, the winter flower arrangement has become the biggest problem. In the northern land, it is often the north wind blowing, the snow is drifting, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting, except for the pine and cypress, the earth is gray, bare, basically there is no landscape to see, so it is more important to put flowers in the royal inner courtyard. Due to the destruction of years of war, especially the second northern expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong besieged Youzhou City for several months, and the edge of Youzhou City became a battlefield full of flames, which was a huge destruction to all things around the Sorrowful City, and also destroyed the flower industry, especially some unique flower raising technology. Although the recovery is very fast after drying, due to the loss of the winter roasting technology, for decades, in the palace of Liao, after the Spring Festival, except for some daffodils imported from the Great Song Dynasty, there are no flowers to put out, although some herbaceous flowers were later restored, but large flowers and plants, no longer appear in the palace, which made the emperor and the queen mother very unhappy, because of this matter, the eunuchs of the procurement office were often reprimanded, saying that they were not effective. Therefore, the eunuchs who went out to buy flowers this year put their main energy on this, so that the queen mother and emperor can enjoy the flowers in winter and can no longer be scolded.

Therefore, these eunuchs, who have broken the traditional Pan Li, want to expand the scope of procurement, in addition to those traditional suppliers, to find gardens that have the ability to hire flowers during the Spring Festival, so this year's team to purchase flowers is larger than every year, and there are many special personnel. Turned a lot of places, but also found a lot of flowers, no one dared to take the task of offering flowers for the Spring Festival, those traditional flower suppliers, when it came to this matter, are flashing, dare not socialize.

Huang Gonggong, the chief eunuch of the procurement office, has been scolded by the emperor and the queen mother every year because of this matter, and this year he was determined to find a garden that could share flowers during the Spring Festival, so he disguised himself and did not wear official clothes. The little eunuch who came out with him saw that his face was not good, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak.

When chatting with a traditional peanut, a flower seller suddenly came, and when he talked to the owner of the garden, he inadvertently talked about Wang Liu's garden, because he had never heard of this garden, Huang Gonggong pricked up his ears and could listen.

Boss, "Brother Pan, why did you buy so little flowers from me this year? Have you found a good place again? We have been a customer for many years, and we have to take care of my business more." ”

Pan Laoqi, "Boss Ma, not a brother, I don't take care of your business, buy flowers now, who doesn't know that Wang Liu'er's flowers are good, if you want to say that in this neighborhood ten miles and eight villages, it turns out to be your family's flowers, and they are the best to raise, take your flowers to sell, and they can be sold at a good price." Since Wang Liu began to raise flowers, the flowers are better than your family, and the flowers are earlier than yours, everyone buys his, and they all make a lot of money, I always buy flowers from your family, I always can't compare with others in terms of price, your family's flower style, should also learn from others, decades of unchanged, I think if this continues, your flowers will be less and less. ”

Boss Ma, "I'll lower the price for you a little more, you find a few more brothers to come over, I promise you to sell it at a good price, and ask my brothers to help me more." ”

Pan Laoqi, "I didn't say it, as long as your flowers are at the same price as his flowers, I will come to buy yours, who will let us have a friendship for decades, but if people have flowers that you don't have, then I can only buy him, Boss Ma, you can't blame me, we are doing business, don't we all want to make some hard-earned money? Who doesn't want to take out the flowers that are easy to sell and make money, do you say this is the reason?"

Boss Ma, "Yes, yes, I will give you more profits when the time comes, and you can help me take more goods, and it will not be in vain to waste our decades of friendship, okay?"

Pan Laoqi, "It must be." ”

Pan Laoqi, after loading the goods from Boss Ma, pushed the cart and left. After looking for a short distance, two people suddenly stopped him.

"It's hard work, Seventh Master" Huang Gonggong walked over kindly, "How can you sell this flower for your old man?"

Pan Laoqi wondered, how can I buy these flowers while guarding the garden? Hey, if someone spends money to buy me, I will sell it, no matter how much he has. "This uncle, I have been selling flowers for decades, you have to buy it sincerely, I will leave if it is advantageous, you give a price, you are a connoisseur at a glance, as long as I don't let me lose money and make money, I will sell it to you." ”

Huang Gonggong, "Can you send me home?" I am from the prince's mansion in the city, and I will give you a piece of the money and foot money spent, and you can tell you a price. And I'm going to set your flowers for a long time in the future. ”

Pan Lao Qi saw that this was a big buyer, and he must not be lazy, "I came in for one or two silver, as long as I don't lose money, you look at it, I will send it to you, I know the palace, and they often buy my flowers." ”

Huang Gonggong, "I'll give you two taels of silver, this deal is okay." I'll be sent to the palace in a moment. Now I'm going to ask you something, what's going on in Wang Liu's garden?"

Pan Laoqi, "What are you asking about? We flower sellers, everyone knows who you ask, it's not a difficult thing, what do you want to know? I'll tell you everything." ”

Huang Gonggong, "I haven't heard of it in this place, there is a Wang Liu, where did he come from?

Pan Laoqi, "If you want to say this Wang Liu'er, I really know his details, you see that I am sixty or seventy years old, I have followed my father to sell flowers since I was a child, at that time Wang Liu's family was around here, and the most famous flower raiser, and their family specially sent flowers to the palace, their family's roasting flower technology is a must, their garden, ordinary people are not allowed to enter, for fear of being stolen by others, cut off their family's big business." Fifty or sixty years ago, the Song Dynasty besieged Youzhou City, and also destroyed Wang Liu's garden, and since then the technology of roasting flowers has been broken. Wang Liu's father lived his whole life by ordering out the garden. In addition, this kid is a notoriously lazy man, and it is strange to say, two years ago he married a daughter-in-law, this kid can run from time to time, this daughter-in-law is really capable, and earned a lot of money after a year of work, and then ransomed their garden, and built a house, and raised flowers, and the flowers raised by others are indeed good, their flowers are taken out, and they sell very well, so we all hold back, as long as their family has new flowers out, we will all grab it, I am old, I can't rob those youngSo I bought a lot less flowers from their house. ”

Huang Gonggong, "Did you say that their family originally sent flowers to the palace?"

Pan Laoqi, "This is true, when I was a child, I saw their garden, and their family has a flower cellar for roasting flowers, but people don't let me in, I just watched from afar, his grandfather's generation is a famous flower style, especially the flowers baked during the Spring Festival, who doesn't know in this ten miles and eight villages?" Wang Liu must have this technology, looking at his posture, it must be baked flowers this year, but there is no one in their palace, we are all holding this treasure now, and we will definitely be able to sell it at a good price when the time comes. ”

When Huang Gonggong heard this, his eyes turned green, "Seventh Master, do you want to do this deal? If you really want to do this deal, now you can take me to their house, and you will be left alone to do this deal, and I won't tell you that I came out of the palace to buy Spring Festival flowers, and if he can bake flowers, let you do this deal alone." ”

Pan Laoqi, "My lord, is what you said true? Let's go to Wang Liu now, and I'll take you there now." ”

Ling'er and Wang Liu have already cleaned up the flower cellar, the flower blanks have been prepared, and the other flowers are no longer raised, and the garden is very quiet here. Today they are fertilizing the flower blanks, and Pan Laoqi is here with people.

Wang Liu, "Seventh Master, such a good day, why didn't your old man go to business?"

Pan Laoqi, "Didn't I come to you to do a deal?" I want to make a big deal with you, I'm afraid that you don't have that skill, I'm afraid that you don't dare to do it, as long as you can meet my requirements, I'll give you a deposit now, let's write a note, I brought Mr. Huang today, he can be a guarantor for us, do you dare?"

Wang Liu, "As long as you are doing flower trading, no, I Wang Liu dare not do it, do you want to buy roasted flowers for the New Year? You take a look, my flower blanks are all ready, my flower cellar has also been repaired, as long as you pay me a deposit, I promise to give you the best flowers during the New Year, not to mention selling them in ordinary people's homes, even if they are sold in the palace, they will make a lot of money." ”

Pan Laoqi, "How much deposit do you want?"

Wang Liu, "I want a deposit of 7 percent, if I can't do it, I will double the compensation for you." ”

Pan Laoqi, "Okay, this is a flower list, you can take a look, can you make it?" If you can, let's ask Mr. Huang to write a document for us now, and I will give you the silver in two days." ”

Wang Liu, "There is no problem with the things on your list, let's just write the paperwork, and you can send me the deposit in two days, and then you can please do it." ”

On the twentieth day of the lunar month, the north wind was howling, the snow was falling, and thousands of miles of ice were frozen, Pan Laoqi drove a carriage covered with a cotton quilt, and there was a carbon basin in the shed. Ling'er and Wang Liu had been waiting in the garden for a long time, and when they saw them coming, they led them to the door of the flower cellar and covered them tightly with quilts.

Huang Gonggong looked around, and the snow was covered with ice for thousands of miles.

Wang Liu took Pan Laoqi and Huang Gonggong into the flower cellar, and the two of them were stunned by the scenery in front of them.

Precisely:

The flying snow is severe and cold, and there is no spring in the cave.

Huang Gonggong was overjoyed, much better than he expected, Pan Laoqi was even more confused by the strange flowers and wonders of the second monk, Huang Gonggong's face changed, and he thought about it, if you want to know what will happen next, please listen to the next decomposition.