Chapter 80: A fly in the ointment
On the fifteenth day, the family made moon cakes early, and selected a round and green watermelon from their own sand, and picked apples, pears, persimmons, chestnuts, peanuts, and red dates...... Washed and placed on the table in the yard.
Zhang personally carved the big watermelon into a lotus shape and respectfully placed it, worshiped the moon god, and began to divide the moon cakes.
At this time, mooncakes have always been eaten by a family. The knife is in charge of the housewife, and several people are divided into several parts, and there can be no more or less points.
Zhang sighed after dividing the moon cakes, "I don't know what your father and your brother are busy with, it's time for it, and they won't come back!" ”
The Mid-Autumn Festival of the Great Zhou Dynasty is a festival second only to Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Chengfang and Liu Yongan have not returned at this time, and no matter how good Zhang's temper is, there will be no complaints.
However, this year's situation is indeed special, Haozhou has experienced an unprecedented earthquake, and as a prefect, it will be a little busier than usual.
Wang Jing was about to comfort Zhang, but someone laughed: "Who said we didn't come back, aren't we coming back?" ”
The person who spoke was Liu Chengfang, who was followed by Liu Yongan, and he also carried half a basket of longan in his hand.
Brother Bao saw Liu Chengfang and threw himself at Liu Yongan.
Liu Yongan threw his younger brother away and caught it again.
"Brother, I have kung fu now, I can fly to the tree to pick dates!" Brother Bao proudly offered the treasure.
Everyone laughed and began to eat mooncakes. Zhang was pregnant and couldn't eat too much longan, so he ordered everything to come out and send it to the other three rooms.
Not long after, Hongying came and called Wang Jing to go to the street to see the lanterns.
Brother Bao naturally wanted to follow, and pulled Liu Yongan again, "My brother only cared about studying in the first two years, and he didn't take me to see the lanterns, and the third brother took me there!" The third brother also bought me a big rabbit lamp last year, which is beautiful. "The implication is that you have to buy me a lamp this year.
Everyone laughed and went out.
"In the whole Haozhou, the most beautiful lanterns this year are only in our Xinglong Town, and the earth dragon has an impact everywhere, and we seem to be unconscious here. Those families in Fucheng are looking for the fourth uncle to build a house here. Liu Yonghui said.
Wang Jing said: "Have you discussed it?" ”
Liu Yonghui: "The fourth uncle said that he didn't care, and if he wanted to move over, he would discuss it with the pavilion chief here." ”
Wang Jing smiled secretly: My father is probably trying to make a fortune for the people who want to prosper. However, this is understandable, even in the previous life, isn't there compensation for demolition? What's more, the land of Da Zhou is privately owned, and whoever occupies the good land must also need to be compensated.
"In this way, there is still a drama, I remember that the second aunt also bought forty acres of land in the west of the village last year, and went back to her and told her to sell it later."
Liu Chenghui said: "Okay! When she bought it, people laughed at her, saying that the land was close to the Zhuangzi, and the crops were easy to be harmed. ”
Liu Yongan said: "Now that Xinglong has become a piece of fragrant bait, even Luming Academy wants to merge with our Tongzi Academy." ”
Liu Yonghui said: "That's not to see how well our academy is arranged, but to ask where the landscaping experts are invited." As he spoke, he winked at Wang Jing deliberately. He is the son of the head of Tongzi Academy, and Wang Jing instructed the gardener, so naturally he couldn't hide it.
Liu Yongan patted him on the shoulder, "That girl seems to be beckoning to you." ”
Liu Yonghui said: "Let's go together, the first thing people see must be Liu Sanyuan, how can I have anything to do." ”
Wang Jing looked at Liu Yongan's direction, but saw Zhao Yanran and a strange girl, looking at them and laughing.
"Miss Zhao is over there, let's go over." She said.
As soon as the people on both sides converged, plus the maid and the mother-in-law, it was also a large group.
All kinds of lanterns are lit up one after another, dazzling and beautiful.
Selling moon cakes, selling fruits, selling snacks, selling rabbits, selling shoes and hats, selling miscellaneous things, juggling, storytelling, singing...... The whole nine yards.
There were also children running around with lanterns and smiling smiles.
The big girls and the little daughters-in-law took advantage of this time to drill the wheat straw stacks and meet their lovers privately.
Before coming out, the adults in the family will first warn their children not to go to the person's secluded place, so as not to see things that they should not see.
The customs of the Great Zhou Dynasty are much more open than those of previous dynasties, as long as the men are unmarried and the women are not married, there are lovers who look at each other, and there are not a few people who make a private decision for life on this day.
In order to help Liu Yonghui create an opportunity to be alone with the beauty, Hongying said to Wang Jing and them not long after leaving: "I want to eat fried chestnuts with sugar, Sister Zhao, let's go buy them together, Sister Jing, you go first." ”
Wang Jing knew that she didn't mean to drink, so naturally she was not polite to them, but only ordered: "There are a lot of people, don't bump into them." ”
Bao Ge'er wanted lanterns.
"I want Li Ji's lanterns, their lanterns there are the most exquisite, and you can guess the lantern riddles, it's fun!" He said.
Li Kee is the largest merchant of Haozhou Mansion of this generation, and every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he will use lantern riddles as a gimmick, attracting a large number of customers to watch, and by the way, driving other industries.
"If you can guess all the lantern riddles, you can also get a hundred taels of silver." Bao Ge'er said.
His fascination made Wang Jing want to laugh, so he teased him: "Brother Bao wants to win the one hundred taels of silver?" ”
"I dreamed last night and I've already won twice!" Brother Bao smiled with crooked eyebrows.
This greedy little one!
Brother Bao also knew that Wang Jing was laughing at her, and hurriedly added: "Even if I can't win, my brother can win, my brother is the best!" ”
Wang Jing deliberately poured cold water on him: "That's Sister Hongyun's shop, my brother has won too much, and Sister Hongyun won't bring you good things when she comes back." ”
Bao Ge'er said: "I only said that my brother could win, but I didn't let him have to win." ”
It seems that something that is still a red cloud belt is much more attractive than a hundred taels of silver.
"I want that." Bao Ge'er pointed to a carp lamp with a skeleton made of copper and inlaid with gauze and silk.
The subordinate who followed hurriedly handed over a tael of silver.
The young man at the lamp shop took it, and read the riddle hanging on the lamp with a smile: "A voice exhales joy, anger and sorrow, and the ten fingers shake the ancient and modern reasons." ”
Liu Yongan and Wang Jing looked at each other and smiled, neither spoke, and looked at Brother Bao together.
The little guy scratched his ears and cheeks for a long time, but he didn't come up with it.
Wang Jing was about to tell him the answer to the mystery, but unexpectedly, a hand had already been placed on the lantern.
"Puppet show!" She said quickly.
The voice was like heaven, ethereal and ethereal, tactful and melodious, very pleasant to the ear.
She was so beautiful that when the young man heard her say the lantern riddle, he quickly took off the lamp, handed it directly to her, bowed down and said, "Girl, this is your lamp." ”
"What is her lamp, obviously we saw it first!" A delicate voice shouted, and couldn't help but say, pounced and was about to rob it.
Liu Yongan was afraid that the girl would be unfavorable to Wang Jing, so he suddenly protected her behind him.
"We gave the same money, and whoever guessed whose it was first." He said.
But I heard a deep and clear male voice say: "The girl might as well give us the lamp, how about I change this lamp for you?" ”
The man is in his early twenties, with a majestic figure, distinct facial features, dark and deep eyes, and the whole person exudes a wild and evil atmosphere, and holds a beauty lamp in his hand.
A bewitching and delicate beauty, but there are a few spots on her face.
The riddle of this lamp clearly reads: Xi Shi produces smallpox
Mystery: A fly in the ointment
Where is this to change the lamp, and it is almost the same as wanting to use this lamp to ridicule her. (To be continued.) )