"Tie Suo Festival" is a very important day of the year for the people of the Dawu Dynasty, and there are many particulars about this festival.

One is to wear a colored rope wreath on the wrist of the child, in order to dispel evil, urge auspiciousness, and take blessings, and secondly, the elders should give each other junior dragon ornaments or Pixiu jade pendants, implying blessings and ardent expectations for the juniors.

Wearing dragon ornaments has the meaning of praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits. Pixiu is the most prosperous and wealthy, symbolizing good luck. Every family prepares gifts in advance on the day of the "Mooring Festival" and sends blessings to each other.

The palace, the hall of hearings.

At this time, it was time for the dinner, and the hall was already full of two large tables of banquets, plum blossom cake, black truffle, Canglan River crab, Canghai wrist sea squirt, lion head, etc., all kinds of delicacies were dazzling, and people were dazzled to see it.

There are several servants of the palace standing next to the banquet table, and they are carrying a white jade pot of elixir to pour wine into the wine cups of the hosts on the table, this kind of wine is a specialty of Yanxia County, "drunk flower yin", a mouthful into the stomach, the wine is fragrant, there is a faint spicy taste, and the aftertaste is far away.

Wang Xiong, the old man of the palace, who was sitting at the head of the banquet table, picked up the wine cup on the table and said a few words of blessing the festival with a smile.

After everyone finished speaking, they started to eat with chopsticks.

Although Zhao Ting didn't have any appetite for these meals on the table, Wang Xiong beside him kept serving Zhao Ting while talking to Zhao Ziqi.

The dishes were all put in the bowl, and Zhao Ting didn't want to eat it, so he picked up a piece of tender meat of Canglan River crab Baihuahua and put it in his mouth, and swallowed it.

Halfway through the dinner, Wang Xiong seemed to suddenly remember something, put down his chopsticks and said with a smile: "Hey, look at my memory." ”

After that, he took out a palm-sized square purple wooden box from his arms, opened it, and took out a blue jade pendant from it.

"Come, Ting'er," Wang Xiong smiled and put this jade on Zhao Ting's neck, "This is a gift from my uncle to you, as the saying goes, a gentleman is like jade, and my uncle hopes that you can be like this Blue Star Jade, no matter how the years change, you will never forget your original intention." ”

Seeing this azure jade pendant hanging on Zhao Ting's neck, Zhao Ziqi's face on the side suddenly changed slightly, and he dissuaded: "Uncle, the preciousness of this blue star jade is not too much to say that it is worth a city, how can you give it to Ting'er easily?"

"Eh, what are you talking about?" Wang Xiong's eyes widened, looking a little unhappy, "It is precisely because it is precious that it is worthy of my Wang Xiong's nephew." ”

Zhao Ziqi saw that Wang Xiong's face was straightened, and he didn't want to upset him, so he immediately stopped talking, and instead took out a jade box from his arms, and took out a jade jade pendant with a Pixiu carved pattern inside.

"Junwei, this is a gift from your uncle for the "Tethering Festival", Zhao Ziqi smiled and hung this Pixiu jade jade pendant around Wang Junwei's neck, "Uncle hopes that you will have smooth sailing and fortune in the days to come." ”

"Thank you, uncle. ”

"Uncle Xie. ”

After the two juniors received the salute and thanked them, they sat back in their seats.

Touching the "Blue Star Jade" worn on his chest, the touch was warm and smooth, exuding a faint warmth, Zhao Ting secretly said in his heart: "Isn't this the "Blue Amber" in "Amber"? Why is it priceless?"

Although he thought so, he didn't ask.

From the uncomfortable look on his father Zhao Ziqi's face, Zhao Ting could judge that the value of the "blue crystal jade" given to him by his uncle Wang Xiong must have far exceeded the value of the Pixiu jade jade pendant that Zhao Ziqi gave to Wang Junwei.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Ziqi will be a little embarrassed, after all, the worth and assets of the Wang and Zhao families are not much different, but look at Wang Xiong's shot, and then look at him Zhao Ziqi, in comparison with the two, doesn't it seem that he is very stingy?

Of course, this is not Zhao Ziqi's stinginess, but he didn't expect Wang Xiong to take out this "Blue Star Jade" that has been treasured for many years and give it to Zhao Ting.

Seeing that Zhao Ziqi had an absent-minded look, he didn't answer the words, and Zhao Ting suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

He turned his head quietly and glanced at Zhao Si outside the hall.

Zhao Si quietly walked over and whispered in his ear, "Master?"

"Si'er, what about the "merman teardrop"?" Zhao Ting asked softly, "Take it." ”

Zhao Si nodded, took out a square wooden box from his arms, handed it to Zhao Ting, and then turned around and walked out.

Zhao Ting stood up, coughed lightly, and said to Yi Yi, who was sitting at another table and was taken by the grandmother of the mansion to eat: "Cough, Yi Yi, come, come here first Uncle Zhao." ”

Seeing Zhao Ting calling Yiyi, the old lady walked over with Yiyi in her arms.

Zhao Ting opened the square wooden box in his hand, pinched the white teardrop with a faint cold light with two fingers, and said to Yi Yi with a smile: "Is this pearl good?"

Yi Yi was silent for a long time before he spoke softly, and his voice was immature: "Okay...... Pretty. ”

"Isn't it pretty? Zhao Ting smiled and stuffed the merman's teardrops back into the wooden box, and at the same time, a black mist that was imperceptible to the naked eye slowly seeped out from Zhao Ting's fingertips and poured into the white teardrops.

After doing all this quietly, he slipped the wooden box into the pocket outside Yiyi's little skirt and instructed, "Take it with you." ”

Yi Yi nodded her little head obediently and didn't make a sound.

"Go ahead. ”

......

The dinner soon came to an end, and after Zhao Ting gave the "merman tears" to Yiyi as a compensation, Zhao Ziqi's face became normal, talking and laughing as usual, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves for a while.

After the meal, Wang Xiong and Zhao Ziqi took the lead in going to the study of the palace to talk about things, leaving only some juniors who had not eaten enough, chatting and laughing while eating and drinking at the banquet.

"I'm full," Wang Junwei, who was at the dinner table, took out a silk brocade handkerchief and wiped his mouth, stood up from the table, and said with a smile: "Cousin, my little concubine is still waiting for me...... Hehe, brother, I'm going first, you must eat and drink well......"

Looking at his smug smile on his face, Zhao Ting couldn't help but be a little speechless, he was about to say something, but Yi Yi at the dinner table on the side had already walked over with small steps, and his fleshy little hand gently pulled the hem of Wang Junwei's robe.

"Daddy, can you sleep with Yiyi at night?" Yiyi raised his head and looked at Wang Junwei, his big black eyes blinking and blinking, revealing a pleading look.

After listening to Yiyi's words, Wang Junwei's face suddenly darkened, and he said patiently: "Yiyi, you are three and a half years old, not young, you have to learn to be independent, you know?"

Yiyi's mouth was deflated, a look of disappointment appeared on her red face, her voice was soft and glutinous, and she begged again: "But Daddy, in the past two days, Yiyi always feels that someone is hiding under Yiyi's bed in the middle of the night, Yiyi is a little scared, and he can't sleep alone......"