Chapter 138 Xinghua Lantern Festival
In the blink of an eye, it is the Lantern Festival, which is what they call the Shangyuan Festival.
The Lantern Festival of the Great Song Dynasty has seven days of holidays for these officials, in fact, it is quite good to be a minor official in the Great Song Dynasty, and the state attaches great importance to the welfare of official documents, and it is not an exaggeration to say with a high salary. Officials have a high social status, a lot of money, and plenty of holidays and rest, and the return of a ten-year cold window is simply not too cost-effective.
The Tang Dynasty began the Lantern Festival with a three-day holiday, lifting the restrictions of the curfew and allowing people to go out to enjoy the lanterns, called "night". Even women who are not able to go out on weekdays have been liberated, and they can go to and from the bustling crowd on the streets.
Since ancient times, this festival has been full of romance and poetry, so Zheng Ruoying saw such a good opportunity, pulled down her face and begged Liang Chuan, and brought them over to join in the fun. Let's ask which girl doesn't have spring.,It's hard to go out on weekdays.,And fantasize about meeting the young handsome.,In addition to this opportunity, there's no second time in a year.。
The folk custom of the Great Song Dynasty, during the Shangyuan Festival, piled up the Ao Mountain, the mountain stacked with colored lanterns, like the legendary giant Ao shape, also known as "Yu Mountain". The Ao Mountains in small places and small villages are generally piled up in the place of the city god or the ancestral hall, which is the place of everyone's spiritual sustenance.
Xinghua is a large place, and this kind of pile is larger and more magnificent than other places. Every year's Lantern Festival, a vacant land in front of the county government is the most lively, stay until the night, here thousands of lanterns are colorful and hanging flowers, fire trees and silver flowers, look at it, you can't see the sky full of stars, all are a brightly lit place, like a city that never sleeps.
Liang Chuan is now very idle during the day, and he keeps chopping wood every day, repeating the chopping wood, but now there is a change, he now generally splits the wood, and then flattens it as much as possible, and will not cut it into a small root, because after cutting it into a plank, it can be made into a sand table, and it can be processed by Zhao Jinyu to make a sand table.
Practicing the axe is not a matter of a day's cold, it has to be a long-term meticulous work, and hard work can only succeed. Li Chuyi just looked at him every day, and didn't give much guidance, in his opinion, the basic skills were not enough.
If you don't split enough during the day, you will continue to make up for it at night, and you will be able to rest every day, and you will not be able to rest if you don't finish it.
On the day of the Lantern Festival, because he had promised Li Chengfu early to go to Xinghua for a trip, there were many servants in the county, and now he feels more and more that it is not okay for these landowners not to visit them.
Liang Chuan completed the chopping target early, and now he is getting more and more hands-on, the breathing adjustment between chopping firewood is very good, and at the end of the day, he will no longer be tired and half dead.
After half a day's work, I didn't sweat much.
He asked Yi Niang to find him the cleaner clothes, which he bought during the Chinese New Year, especially for social gatherings. Wearing new clothes, although it looks more spirited, it still has a strong rural atmosphere. Liang Chuan really doesn't like the kind of large-sleeved round robe worn by literati, and it is quite inconvenient to move. That's all I need for my own decent clothes.
It doesn't matter, it's not a blind date, it's just a show in the county, why are you dressed so beautifully. What's more, a person's temperament does not depend on clothes, and the spirit can add a lot of points, uh. Forget it, it's still not self-consoling.
Everyone is also eager to go to Xinghua to see the lively atmosphere, after all, there is only one chance in a year. But Liang Chuan didn't agree this time, because of the smallpox virus, Liang Chuan now doesn't want everyone to go to crowded places, in the era when there are no medicines and no antibiotics, infecting a litter of people will die.
Everyone didn't understand Liang Chuan's hard work, and they pretended to be angry on the surface, but in fact, everyone respected Liang Chuan's opinion, the owner said that he would not be allowed to go, that is, he could not go, there was no room for bargaining, and everyone knew who his own owner was, and he was definitely not the kind of person who ate meat and did not let everyone drink soup.
The people in the village have gone to Fengshan, today's Fengshan is also very lively, more lively than the Spring Festival, children carry small paper lanterns, the east shines on the west, a little satisfaction can make them happy for a long time.
After lunch, Liang Chuan left for Xinghua. Different times, different customs, everything is new to Liangchuan, maybe no one will play these lanterns in the future, but in the eyes of the pure people, these are fun.
When I walked to the intersection of Fengshan Road, it was the last time Jiang Li stopped people at the entrance of the township to save his grandson, and there were two small guys standing far away. Looking at Da Pan, it looks like Zheng Ruoying's family, but looking at people from a distance, it is very familiar and familiar.
The two of them were like waiting for someone passing by, Liang Chuan got closer and took a look, this is fucking, it's Zheng Ruoying and Zheng Yuzhi who are dressed as men! The two of them were wearing the clothes of the guy who was in their grocery store at the time, and they were looking at Liang Chuan with a smile on their faces.
Liang Chuan looked at the two of them, and was shocked, sure enough, they were thieves, and they wanted to join in the fun. "What are you two going to do with this outfit?"
Zheng Ruoying knows how to be well-read, and she knows the general situation, and she generally doesn't mess around, but she hasn't forced her to marry at home recently, and the days are peaceful, and the two festivals are so lively, her calm heart suddenly came alive again, and she began to fool around with her mother-in-law cousin.
Zheng Ruoying's pretty face has been raised and raised again in a year since she went to Qingyuan County to buy sugarcane for several days last time and was tanned by the sun, a layer of embarrassed blush appeared on her white and tender cheeks, and her eyes didn't dare to look directly at Liang Chuan, and she said timidly: "Liang Chuan, you can take us to Xinghua to watch the lantern festival." My cousin and I have been waiting for you here all morning. Promise to stand behind you obediently and not cause you trouble! “
Liang Chuan didn't even look at it, he didn't think about it, he didn't stop and continued to walk directly to Xinghua, and refused without thinking about it at all: "I said no, it's not good." "Two people are like children, you can't give them a little fantasy, they think there is still a chance.
As soon as Liang Chuan left, the two of them stuck like gummy candy. Xiao Xiaobu followed behind Liang Chuan.
Liang Chuan thought that after sending two people, they would go back obediently if they were wronged, but he didn't expect the two people to follow, and there were still decent ones, just like the two servants of Liang Chuan's family.
Liang Chuan walked more than ten meters, stopped and turned around and said: "Two eldest ladies, you better go back, don't follow me anymore, today Xinghua is mixed, there are all kinds of people, I can't take care of you two aunts and grandmothers, in case we run into a pervert or something, how do you let us face your father." ”
Zheng Yuzhi said arrogantly: "Hmph, we are all dressed as men, who will be interesting to us?" You obviously don't want to take us! ”
Liang Chuan was so angry that Tianling Gai wanted to fly, and said helplessly: "Do you really think that you are pretending to be very similar, you go to look at the bronze mirror yourself, is there a master whose face is whiter than the owner, your hands are as thin as tofu, and there is not even an Adam's apple on your neck, as long as people are not blind, you can see that you are a woman dressed as a man!" ”
Zheng Ruoying and Zheng Yuzhi looked at each other, and laughed out loud and said: "Cousin, you still said that no one can see us in disguise like this, hahaha, it turns out that they seem so obvious, what should I do, oh, your hair is scattered, I'll give you a tie." ”
Two women pretending to be men actually laughed at each other and pulled each other's hair on the dignified avenue (official road) in broad daylight, and passers-by looked extremely goosebumps.
"Enough for the two of you!" Liang Chuan couldn't stand it anymore, his voice increased by several decibels, and he couldn't help but roar.
The two little girls were yelled at by this voice, and they also stuck out their tongues in a ghostly manner, and instead of walking back, they pretended to continue to follow Liang Chuan's ass.
I can't get rid of it, and I can't persuade him to go back, Liang Chuan shook his head, yes, Liang Chuan had a plan and said: "Since you want to come, then you two have to pretend to be a little more like, follow me, don't go away." ”
When the two girls saw that Liang Chuan was willing to bow his head, they immediately smiled, and the two little birds followed Liang Chuan like people, looking like a proprietor followed by two small followers, but Liang Chuan was the bodyguard in front of the road.
Liang Chuan led the two girls straight to the east gate.
"Liang Chuan, oh no, are you taking the wrong road, this is the way to my house, look at the lanterns are not in this direction!"
"Do you still dare to question your host, is there anyone you do like this? Keep up, don't talk nonsense, wait for someone to see the clues, and come to trouble you, then I can't protect you! Liang Chuan said coaxing and deception.
Zheng Yuzhi pouted, and she endured it for the sake of the lantern.
The three of them walked to the Zheng Mansion at the east gate, Liang Chuan rushed directly into the Zheng Mansion, and the two of them reacted at this time, Liang Chuan wanted to find Zheng Zuliang and lock them up! Liang Chuan found the people of the Zheng Mansion and asked, "What about your lord and wife, the head of the family called someone casually." ”
The subordinate looked at Liang Chuan, thinking to himself where did you come from, dare to call our old lady to the ground, and said coldly: "The old man went out early in the morning to go to the Lantern Festival, and the lady also went to Fengshan Province to kiss, but he was not there, go and go." The subordinates blasted Liang Chuan out at once.
The two girls saw Liang Chuan come back with a gray nose, and looked at Liang Chuan with a smile, Liang Chuan knew that the two of them had already made a small abacus, and they were all prepared, no wonder they all had an expression of no worry.
I have no choice but to take these two girls for a walk.
"Let's talk about it, you have to listen to my orders, I will help you carry it if something happens, if you are bold and foolish, you will carry it yourself, Master Zheng is estimated to be at the Lantern Festival, don't embarrass him!"
The two of them looked at each other and smiled, and said in unison, "Yes, master." ”