Gu Sanniang's eyes were staring at the bowl of hot tofu, and she didn't know why, her heart suddenly became sour, but if she wanted to say the reason, even she couldn't understand it.

The two stood opposite each other, no one spoke, Shen Zhuo looked at Gu Sanniang who was speechless, and then looked down at the tofu in the basket, after a while, he said: "There is a student who wants to have a happy event at home, and he grinds two plates of tofu in the tofu workshop on East Street, and his old son just saw me, so he gave me a piece." ”

Gu Sanniang's ears turned red, and she said with a snort: "It's really funny, why are you telling me these things for no reason?" ”

Shen Zhuo's face was full of innocence, and he said, "I see that you have been looking at this bowl of tofu, just when you want to eat it too." ”

"Who wants tofu?" Gu Sanniang's face was even more red, she turned her head and left, not wanting to deal with Shen Zhuo anymore. Shen Zhuo looked at her petite back, and chased after her without thinking about it.

The two walked for half a street one after the other, and Shen Zhuo opened his mouth coldly, he said: "I refuse the Wu family's family affairs." ”

Gu Sanniang's footsteps stopped, she turned to look directly at Shen Zhuo, and couldn't help but smile: "It can be seen that you are confused, where is the girl of the Wu family who is worthy of you, and you want to fall on other people's faces like this?" ”

Shen Zhuo raised his chin, he thought for a moment, and said: "A lifelong event is not a child's play, if you find someone who doesn't like you, wouldn't the rest of your life be like living with a clay sculpture?" If the Wu family wants to hold a grudge against me, they can only let them go, and the matter of sacrificing oneself for others is not used for this. ”

He said it rightly, without the slightest self-blame and guilt, Gu Sanniang was stunned for a moment, and then fell silent.

Shen Zhuo looked up at the horizon in the distance, and said, "It's not early, let's go back." ”

Gu Sanniang nodded twice, and this time she followed behind Shen Zhuo.

Regarding Aunt Sun's kiss to Shen Zhuo, after chatting in the alley for a while, it slowly faded away, during this period, there were also rumors that the woman who came to the door to ask for marriage was the Wu family who sold tofu in the east of the city, but soon some people said that it was the niece who lived in the west of the city.

In a blink of an eye, it is the Dragon Boat Festival, Lixian County relies on a big river, every year to the Dragon Boat Festival, the rich families in the county will give money to hold dragon boat races, and the people of the nearby four miles and eight townships will rush over to join in the fun.

Two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, Gu Sanniang's business in the shop is very prosperous, and there are festivals, but all the people who can get by, in addition to eating and drinking, they have to buy a few new things, especially like the sachets and rouge in her store, which sell much better than usual, the sachets she makes are exquisite and beautiful, and there are many patterns, there are no women and children who don't love, and the rouge gouache, a few of which are even sold out.

A few days earlier, Gu Sanniang asked someone to bring a letter to Dai Chunlin's shopkeeper, she bought a lot of goods, this time she did not go to Tongcheng, but asked Dai Chunlin's shopkeeper to send her goods directly to the passenger ship, and then she went to Liulin Town to pick it up, and it was a day's work to come and go, and she only needed to pay the guys on the passenger ship some money to run away, which really saved her a lot of things.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the business in the shop faded, just because the big guys had to go to watch the dragon boat race, and the first two days Xiao Yezi and Yu Ge'er were making a fuss to see the excitement, so Gu Sanniang arrived on this day, and the shop decided to rest for a day.

There are many rules of the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to hanging calamus and drinking realgar wine, the most anticipated thing is to wrap zongzi, every time at this time, the children get together, always compare whose zongzi is more delicious, yesterday, Gu Sanniang and Qin Damiang's two families together to make zongzi, the three families who live in their yard are all simple populations, so the zongzi is wrapped in two common things, one is jujube kernel filling, the other is bacon filling, women and children love to eat sweet, Shen Zhuo and Qin Lin two big men, I prefer to eat salty.

Early this morning, Gu Sanniang freshened up, because of her widowhood, she was still plain from head to toe, only a bun of Yueniang beans was worn on her bun, and after a while, Xiao Yezi also came out of the house, Gu Sanniang hung a longevity strand on her neck, and advised: "This is a talisman, don't take it off." ”

I don't know which dynasty and which generation of the Dragon Boat Festival to wear longevity wisps for children, saying that they are specifically to protect the safety of children, unless they fall off themselves, they can't take them off at will, it's always a good meaning, Gu Sanniang naturally followed the crowd and prepared a longevity wisp for Xiaoyezi.

In addition to the longevity, Gu Sanniang also embroidered a sachet for Xiao Yezi, the sachet is a pattern of fish playing lotus, and there is also a word 'leaf', which Xiao Yezi specially asked to embroider.

When the mother and daughter were talking, Brother Yu came, and he also had a long life thread around his neck, and when he saw Xiao Yezi like him, he slapped his face happily and said, "Sister has it, and I have it too." ”

Xiao Yezi pointed to his sachet and deliberately teased Brother Yu and said, "I still have a sachet made by my mother." ”

Brother Yu leaned over and glanced at the sachet, then opened his mouth slightly, with a disappointed look on his face, he really wanted to have a sachet.

Gu Sanniang glared at Xiao Yezi, and then said to Brother Yu'er: "Don't listen to your sister's words, Aunt also prepared a sachet for Brother Yu'er." ”

"Really?" Yu Ge'er's face was happy, Gu Sanniang took a sachet from the sewing basket, embroidered with a lion rolling hydrangea, Yu Ge'er sniffed it, and smiled sweetly at Gu Sanniang: "It's so fragrant." ”

"Do you like it?" Gu Sanniang asked.

Brother Yu nodded: "I like it." ”

At this time, I saw Shen Zhuo also coming from the opposite side, he stood at the door, and said to Gu Sanniang and the two children in the house: "Dragon boat rowing is about to start, if you go late, I'm afraid you won't be able to occupy a good position." ”

Gu Sanniang saw him coming, looked in the sewing basket, and turned out a magpie Dengmei's sachet, she handed it to Shen Zhuo, and said, "For the holidays, take the naughty child." ”

Shen Zhuo took it, he looked at Gu Sanniang directly, with a shallow smile on the corner of his mouth, Gu Sanniang was looked at by him like this, she panicked, she quickly lowered her head and took out a few more sachets, as if to say to herself, and as if to Shen Zhuo: "Qin's family also has it, although Xiaoyue can do it, it is more or less my heart." ”

Shen Zhuo's smile deepened, he looked at Gu Sanniang, but still didn't speak.

Gu Sanniang was embarrassed by him, so she threw the sachet into the basket and turned around and went into the kitchen.

But she said that Gu Sanniang had cooked breakfast, and when she came out, Shen Zhuo and Yu Ge'er's father and son had already returned to the East Chamber, she glanced at the opposite side and beckoned Xiao Yezi to eat.

This time to see the dragon boat, except for Qin Lin who wanted to be on an errand, the people in the courtyard of the Qin family had to go together, just wait for the three families to clean up, Zhu Xiaoyue locked the courtyard door, and their group of people went to the place where the dragon boat was racing.

This season is lukewarm, adults and children are wearing thin shirts, and you can see pedestrians on the road, all of whom go to watch the dragon boat race like them, and some acquaintances meet and chat a few words.

After walking for a long time, their group arrived at the river of dragon boat racing, only to see five or six colorful dragon boats moored side by side on the river, those racers were gearing up, just waiting for an order to start the race, and then look at both sides of the river, there are people coming and going everywhere, the stall owners who sell food and daily necessities in the market are shouting hard, this dragon boat race has not yet begun, and many women are willing to wander around.

Gu Sanniang looked around and said with some surprise: "This year seems to be more lively than in previous years." ”

Aunt Qin said: "But no, I heard that the Yang family of rice merchants spent a lot of money, saying that they must get the leader flag of the dragon boat this time." ”

Every year the dragon boat race is the county's wealthy households, this year's rare event, in order to please a good fortune, each family is full of energy, want to win the first back, at this time on the opposite bank set up a high platform, placed on the pergola, this pergola is reserved for the county lord and those rich people to watch the place, just wait for them to arrive, the game can begin.

It didn't take long for Aunt Qin and Zhu Xiaoyue to see Uncle Qin Lin's family in the bazaar, her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took their little brother to talk to their relatives, leaving only Gu Sanniang and Shen Zhuo with their two children.

Last time in Tongcheng, it was because of the excitement that caused an incident, this retrospective Sanniang and Shen Zhuo just took the children to find a vacant land with few people, who knew that when the sun gradually rose to the top of their heads, even the vacant land where they stood was crowded with a lot of people, watching and seeing more and more crowds, Gu Sanniang held Xiao Yezi's hand tightly and advised: "Don't let go, otherwise you should lose it if you are not careful." ”

Xiao Yezi said: "Mother, don't worry, I know the way home." ”

At noon, I don't know who shouted 'The dragon boat race has begun', everyone heard this sentence and rushed towards the river, Gu Sanniang and Xiao Yezi didn't want to go forward, and they were forced to be swept away by the crowd, Shen Zhuo was not much better, he and her were separated by a few people, not only to take care of Brother Yu'er, but also to look at Gu Sanniang, for fear that their mother and daughter would be stepped on.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the dragon boat race began, only a gong was heard, the dragon boat on the river was like an arrow off the string, the drum beat was urgent and urgent, the crowd on both sides of the river shouted together, the first was indeed the dragon boat of the Yang family, the dragon boat followed by only half a boat body, a few dragon boats you chased me, no one let anyone, in the end it was the Yang family who was the first to sound the gong and drum, and the crowd on both sides of the strait shook the sky for a while, as if he was the first person to dial the leader.

After the dragon boat race, everyone still gathered in place and didn't leave, it turned out that the county magistrate wanted to give a silver reward to the dragon boat of the leader, which is also an annual practice, Gu Sanniang saw that it was almost over, she was about to go back with Xiao Yezi, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, Xiao Yezi, who was pulling her, was gone.