May was a hot day, with a thunderstorm at noon. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Between the lightning and thunder, it is like destroying flowers with your hands. A lot of peonies in front of the windowsill were knocked down, and the flower garden was a mess, which was in response to the sentence of green, fat, red and thin.

Because the rain did not fall through, the afternoon sun was together, but the heat was even more sullen. Xia Yuzhi was afraid that someone would suffer from heat stroke, so he asked the attendants to buy some ice and prepare it in everyone's room to cool off.

Later, Mrs. Taishou picked out some fresh melons and fruits and sent them to the post station in person, and asked Murong Wei and Chu Zhaohui to say goodbye by the way. Plums, watermelons, peaches, grapes and other items are freshly picked, and they are put in baskets with freshly drawn well water, and in the hot weather, they are good things to quench thirst.

Mrs. Taishou wore a thin Hangzhou silk curtain embroidered with lantern patterns in crow blue, revealing the snow-white mid-coat stand-up collar inside, and the white jade pipa button was tightly sewn. The long green silk half-white hair is tied in a low bun, and only a cloisonné hairpin is hairpinned on the bun.

The hairpin is the process of roasting blue, and it is still exquisite, but the veins of the firing rich and immortal patterns are shallow, and it is not a fashionable pattern today. An outdated hairpin is inserted into Mrs. Taishou's hairpin, which looks a little shabby.

Thinking about this, Mrs. Wu guarded the breeze on his sleeves, and Mrs. Taishou's life was a little stretched. Murong Wei's gaze swept away from her bun, thanked the other party for his kindness, and gathered with everyone in Chu Zhaohui's main hall to enjoy melons and fruits.

Thinking about Luo Pujia who stayed on the boat, Murong Wei was not easy to ask, so she ordered a few fruit bowls to be sent to the ship. He Xia Yuzhi said: "The weather is hot and humid, and there are about thunderstorms. Mr. Guangfu stayed on the boat and refused to come down, so he sent the fresh fruit to taste, so that the girls on the boat could also eat fresh. ”

glanced at Xia Yuzhi, Xia Yuzhi knew that she was concerned about Luo Pujia, and nodded to indicate that she understood. So he ordered some melons and fruits to be delivered to the ship himself.

Su Duhan volunteered to accompany him, so naturally he had to chat with Su Guangfu secretly.

Mentioning that Mama Luo is always a bad thing for him, Su Duhan compared his hand to Su Guangfu in a knife posture, and his handsome face was full of anger. He said fiercely: "This person can't stay, and he has repeatedly done bad things." The princess has her by her side, and she can't really use me. ”

Su Guangfu also had a hint of gloom in his eyes, counting that the carrier pigeon that flew to the imperial city should have returned a long time ago, he had already waited for an extra day, and there was still no movement.

Hearing that Chu Zhaohui had already been moved, and Murong Wei agreed to Su Duhan to go to the border city, and it was ruined in the hands of a slave, Su Guangfu's heart was furious, and he gritted his teeth with hatred.

Because the carrier pigeon has not returned for a long time, I don't know if the trip to the imperial city is going well, so I can't calm down to deal with Mama Luo at this time. Su Guangfu comforted Su Duhan and said: "As soon as the matter of the second elder of the Zhou family is over, we will return to the imperial city, and immediately order the people in the palace to do it." Even if she is a corrupt person, she will naturally not be allowed to live. ”

For fear that the carrier pigeon would be intercepted, Su Duhan was not reluctantly worried, and hesitated: "Sir, if you don't have some people to go back and take a look, you must not make any trouble." If something happens at this moment, it will be to startle the snake. ”

The two quickly exchanged opinions and said a few words, and Xia Yuzhi had already sent the melons and fruits to Luo Pujia and Zi Mo, conveying Murong Wei's concern, and urging Su Duhan to go back.

Su Guangfu sent Su Duhan out, smiled gently and innocently, and greeted Xia Yuzhi with his hand.

With a feather fan in his hand, a scarf on his head, and a calm walk, Su Guangfu looks like an elegant literati, quite a bit of Mr. Kong Ming's taste. Xia Yuzhi politely returned the salute and honored Mr. Ju.

After talking about each other's hardships, the three of them casually chatted about the dragon boats on Taihu Lake, which seemed to be very harmonious.

Recently, Xia Yuzhi has always been far away from Su Duhan intentionally or unintentionally, Su Guangfu wanted to find some answers from the eyes of the young man in front of him, and he didn't want to answer a few times, but the other party was frank and frank, without a trace of omission.

It is reported that on the fifth day of May every year, the Taihu Lake Dragon Boat Race hosted by the local government is very lively.

Hearing Su Guangfu's praise, Xia Yuzhi was also afraid that he would always be far away from Su Duhan to provoke him to be jealous, so he followed Su Guangfu's words and pouted Su Duhan and said: "It's better to come early than to come by coincidence, let's tell that Wu Taishou, how about trying your skills too?"

Su Duhan is also a teenager, and he has the heart to compete. He clapped his hands and responded: "Hundreds of boats compete for the stream, and the brave wins when they meet on the narrow road, and the third brother and I also take advantage of the excitement." ”

It's a narrow road to meet, Xia Yuzhi's secret way is not just to say that the two people who have returned to the imperial city separately, just to see who has the best skills, can seize some opportunities.

The two resigned from Su Guangfu, and when they went back, they asked Chu Zhaohui for their consent to go down to participate in this year's dragon boat competition. Afraid that the arrangement would not be in time, he immediately sent a message to Wu Taishou and asked him to arrange it first.

There are only two days left, and the eight dragon boats participating in the competition have finished painting the last layer of painting, just waiting for the fifth day of the new year to hang the red silk and light the dragon's eyes to go down to the lake, but the deputy envoy of the prince and Jin Wuwei suddenly opened his mouth to finish.

The people below passed the news to the government office, and they had just been busy with government affairs for a day, and Wu Taishou, who was floating and idle, complained bitterly.

Originally, after dinner, just after being waited by the lady to change clothes, the Taishou husband and wife sat on the bamboo and rattan rocking chair next to the stone table under the old locust tree in the courtyard, and were drinking tea and enjoying the coolness.

Hearing this, Wu Taishou fanned the banana fan in his hand, and the cool breeze suddenly changed to hot air, and the sweat on his forehead trickled out again, showing a helpless smile to his wife.

Since the noble man has this interest, he cannot refuse. It's just that time is pressing, and the eight teams participating in this year's dragon boat competition have already been decided, all of which are sponsored by local businessmen, and there is no need for the government to pay money.

Now there is another one, and the time is in a hurry, so it can only be contributed by the government.

The account book remembers clearly, Wu Taishou understands that the money in the official treasury has bottomed out, and careful planning is still insufficient, and such a thing suddenly appears, which is inevitably a little disappointing.

I still discussed with my wife, and I could only use the little private treasury I had left.

Over the years, I have made up for my son's shortcomings, and the savings in my hands have been used almost completely, and if I continue like this, I am afraid that I will not even be able to keep my dowry and silver, which is the last dignity for my daughter to marry.

Mrs. Wu doesn't feel sorry for these external objects, but parents always want to leave some support for their children.

Looking at the second courtyard with few lights, thinking about her son's depressed expression, and then thinking about her daughter's careful euphemism, knowing that she couldn't add any more chaos to her husband, Mrs. Wu gritted her teeth and nodded, took the key herself, put on a gauze shirt, opened the private warehouse, and took out fifty taels of silver with white flowers.

Due to the urgency of time, Taishou hurriedly put on another jacket and returned to the front yard to find the staff to arrange. After listening to the idea of the staff, a group of strong and well-trained soldiers were selected from the government office, and they were temporarily arranged with the two of them, and they paid the craftsmen overnight, asking the craftsmen to hurry up and make a dragon boat that could compete.