Chapter Twenty-Six: The Grass Fighting Conference
Li Huizhi doesn't know much about the grass hairpin, only that it was originally due to superstitious activities, just like the Chinese New Year, which was originally intended to avoid bad luck, but after living a life, it shifted to the lively side, and in the Tang Dynasty, it was already shown as fighting wealth on the side. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It is said that a princess also participated in the court grass fighting - of course, more advanced, higher than the folk kind, in order to win the competition, she searched the whole country for exotic flowers and plants, and it is said that after she found some kind of exotic grass in the South China Sea, in order to prevent others from copying her ideas, she destroyed all the leftover local unique grass!
So Li Huizhi had to sigh, if everyone is like this, in modern times, people will still look at Mao!
Or maybe she should have destroyed all the things related to flowers and plants, then maybe she didn't have to participate in any more grass hairpins, how good!
Li Huizhi lay quietly on the bed, quietly recalling, and finally probably remembered the clip of Fangguan, Douguan and Xiangling fighting grass together in "Dream of Red Mansions". It's only because those names are so interesting that I can remember them. This one says "Guanyin Willow", that one is "Podocarpus", and some people say "Junzi Bamboo" and "Canna". It is not only a flower name, but also a neat battle. Very interesting. -- At first, fighting grass was just a fight for who was more than whom, who was bigger than whom, and then it was upgraded to say the name of the flower, say the alias, guess the name of the flower, and then it evolved into a play on words. In short, there are many varies.
Later, it seemed that Douguan said "sister flower", and Xiangling was ridiculed by everyone for missing her husband Xue Pan to "husband and wife". In fact, Xiangling is a poor girl, although the ending that Mr. Gao continued to write was very caring for Xiangling, but after all, her personality became a little less like her.
It's far away, it's far away, where do you want to go? There is no eyebrow at all about fighting grass hairpins! Do you have the heart to think about those useless? It is said that this year's Doucao hairpin flower is personally sponsored by the prefectural order of this county, and all the celebrities and rich daughters of this county are there, so it is impossible not to face it positively.
Li Huizhi knew that she couldn't help but participate - because Miss Li had never lost in grass fighting over the years, although she didn't dare to say that she had won the top spot year after year, but at least she had a high ranking, just look at the various flowers and plants in the front yard and backyard! In a word, my starting point is very high.
Li Huizhi lamented, not to mention those who have not seen outside, she can't recognize these flowers in the front yard and back of this courtyard.
Datang's fighting grass is very different from that in "Dream of Red Mansions". After all, it is also so many years behind.
Li Huizhi has no confidence at all, firstly, because of the lack of words, and secondly, she can't say most of the flower names in the Tang Dynasty, and there is a big difference between the ancient flower names and the current flower names. What do you do to play with people? And just for the name of the flower is still pediatrics, how many unknown halls are still in it, and it is said that there are still "Wendou" and "Wudou" called, who knows what to prepare?
Headache! It seems that it is a lost contract. The reputation of Miss Li's generation of Kao is about to be lost in her own hands.
Unexpectedly, such a non-governmental activity was participated in this year. Li Huizhi thought darkly, could it be because there was a war in the north, and the country needed money and grain from the south to supply to the north, so she remembered at this time that she wanted to have a good relationship with the local rich businessmen so that she could ask for it at any time, right?
Who has money or not, you can see it when you have a hairpin: a rich person can start preparing since last winter, planting hundreds of strange flowers and plants, waiting for the arrival of the day of the hairpin, pulling a large cart to drag to the competition site, decent and magnificent. The poor man's home can only pick up some wild flowers by the river, and those who have to worry about how to fill their stomachs will have the money to buy some strange flowers and wait for them!
No wonder Miss Li's small yard is full of all kinds of flowers, it turns out that there is this purpose! But it's too wasteful, isn't it?
Li Huizhi thought about it alone, thinking about it again and again, but she still couldn't think of what she could do, and she stumped a modern scholar.
But she thought of something else: if on the day of the competition, all the celebrities and rich people in the county were present, as well as officials, why not take out the good tea signed by Lu Yu to promote it? When those people watch the game, they sit and watch how boring they are, and they will inevitably eat some melon seeds and snacks to pass the time, and when they are thirsty, they can't drink some tea?
She was very excited about the idea, and as soon as the next day dawned, she quickly discussed it with the master.
The old man's eyes widened as usual: what is this daughter's head in? How can you always think of something different? But after thinking about it, I also think it's always a good thing. The war in the north, the grain sellers and ironworkers in the south are doing very well. However, the business of those who sold tea and cloth was much worse, firstly because the sales channels in the north were interrupted, and secondly, because the imperial court's taxes in the south had also increased, which was also expected in order to support the northern battlefield. People have less money in their hands, and they start to save on the tea they drink. If you don't eat, you will starve to death, but if you brew tea a few more times, you won't die, so the tea business will also be poor.
These tea piles are also bad at home, and it's good to do this kind of sponsorship and promotion, so let's go and discuss it with the prefectural magistrate - these things were unthinkable before.
It's finally the fifth day of the new year - Li Huizhi still hasn't come up with anything. But the day is so inevitable that it will not wait for you, whether you are ready or not.
The eldest girl and the second girl are simply in Saimei, one is more exaggerated than the other, with the head in it, the one in the hand, and the one on the body, all flowers!
The busiest person this day is Xiaoyu. First of all, she had to prepare clothes and makeup for the young lady - the young lady couldn't do anything at all. On such a grand day, she can only wear light makeup! Is her hand crippled?
So Xiaoyu had to make up for her again. The young lady was still squeaking beside her: "Don't be too thick, be lighter, lighter, the kind that can't be seen at a glance in the crowd!" Alas, don't be so red! ”
After serving the young lady's makeup, she wore it around like a flower butterfly. Li Huizhi thought while knocking on the watermelon seeds, what is Xiaoyu busy with? Because of this period of leisure, her skills in knocking watermelon seeds have improved by leaps and bounds. In the past, I couldn't knock it out no matter how hard I tried. Li Huizhi is a little regretful that there are no sunflower seeds. There is no way around this, the sunflowers that were only introduced in the middle of the Ming Dynasty are only for ornamental use, and she wants to eat them now? Sorry, no!
Just when Li Huizhi was concentrating on her melon seed art, Xiaoyu ran in panting: "Miss, look, is this okay?" Do you change it again? ”
Li Huizhi turned her head to look, and was stunned, and her neck almost twisted. It turns out that Xiaoyu actually knows how to arrange flowers! And plug it in so well! It's just art.
She held a very artistically woven flower basket in her hand, and in the shape of the flower basket, Xiaoyu inserted all kinds of flowers and plants together according to the size, shape, and color. Whether you look at it from a distance or near or not, this is art, and it is simply a beautiful enjoyment.
What did Xiaoyu just say? Let yourself change? Ohgod, how can you have this talent?
Through Xiaoyu's introduction or complaint, Li Huizhi learned from the side that in the past, Miss Li never let Xiaoyu interfere in these things, and at most helped to play a fan on the side. It's all handled by Miss Li. This flower basket was also prepared by Miss Li years ago, otherwise where would she find such a peculiar thing?
However, because Miss didn't know why this year, she was probably hurt by the marriage, so she refused to do anything, so Xiaoyu had to force herself. She roughly got one according to what Miss Li had mentioned before. Of course, the finished product is naturally far worse than what Miss made. She thought humbly.
Li Huizhi couldn't help but sigh, Miss Li is really a well-deserved talent! The girl is so good-looking, if the young lady is on it herself, what will she be? Li Huizhi was a little indignant: Why can people have other people's memories when they cross over, but they don't even have a little bit? This TM is not fair!
I wore a dress that wasn't too eye-catching, and I went out like this. If you don't have anything to show off today, you have to keep a low profile.
The road is not very far, it will be there in a while, which is the garden of the Zhang family borrowed by Master Wei. - Yes, this Zhang family has a spiller!
The Zhang family is a wealthy family on the rich side of the county, mainly selling rice. In fact, it was similar to the Li family, but since the war in the north, his family's business has obviously improved. Not to mention the sudden emergence of a large number of refugees from the north, let's just say that the imperial court, in order to cope with this battle, how many more soldiers were recruited? Increasing the demand so much, and then raising the price a little, is enough for the Zhang family to make a fortune. Although he also had to donate a little to the imperial court, it was only a drop in the bucket for his profits.
There have always been people who have made war money, and this can also be counted as one of them.
I have to say that Li Huizhi is still convinced, in an era when there is no telephone, no WeChat or even radio, people just have a way to find the meeting address quickly and accurately.
The Zhang family's garden is naturally incomparable to the Qingyuan, but it is also spacious enough, and it is no problem to open a grass fight. Zhang Qiaorong's home today, she is naturally extremely proud, and she has long been waiting there with how rich and rich she is.
As soon as Li Huizhi appeared, it caused some people to scream - that basket of flowers gave her a lot of points, and Miss Li was the most thoughtful in this regard. The Zhang family's splash rolled his eyes: Hmph!
Making such a special flower basket, coupled with such an artistic flower arrangement, will make anyone with eyes feel beautiful. But today it's not for aesthetics, it's for beauty, so this beauty creates hatred.
But soon the venue ushered in other people's exclamations, Li Huizhi took a look, dwarf ma! True Nyima is vulgar! Someone really used a car to pull a cart full of flowers! Is it really good to pull such a beautiful flower in such a way with a car?