The Mid-Autumn Festival is full and people are not round. As early as hundreds of years ago, during the Great Wei Dynasty, some people in the Jiangnan area sang a poem, "The moon bends and shines on Kyushu, a few families are happy and a few are sad, a few couples are in the same tent, and a few are floating outside." During the first Mid-Autumn Festival after the war, the people were displaced, but the scene described in the poem was just right.

The government office, the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner dispersed early. Jiang Anyi bought a table of sumptuous wine and food, and invited Shi Qingjian's family to come, but Xin Fei and Siyu went on a business trip a few days ago, and there was no hostess in the house.

Jiang Anyong wanted to talk to his brother, but after staying for a while, the wine surged, Jiang Anyi asked him to go back to his room to rest, and sat alone in the pavilion to make tea and admire the moon. The moon is in the sky, cool as water, it is inevitable to think about people when you see the moon, thinking of your wife and children, mother and sister at home, the world says that it is good to be an official, and there is also the pain of being an official, even the wife Xinfei who is with her side does not know where she is.

Although Jiang Anyi didn't ask, he knew that Xin Fei and Siyu had gone to arrest the gang of rebels from the Yuan Tianjiao, and they made a move at the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, and the timing was good, but it was a pity that the husband and wife could not reunite. Jiang Anyi suddenly remembered the Xiangfei flute that Xin Fei gave him, and in the flute box, he was running around and working hard, and he had already put aside his leisure and elegance.

The flute sound rose leisurely in the back office, and Jiang Anyi blew casually, it was longing, sorrow, affection, and prayer, and the moonlight flowed into everyone's ears like a clear spring, and their hearts ......

The people on duty in the palace were fascinated by what they heard, and suddenly the sound of the flute stopped, and everyone didn't know why. In the pavilion, Jiang Anyi got up happily, only to see that under the moonlight, two fairies floated in, it was Xinfei and Siyu who came back. After a journey of three hundred miles, Xinfei and Siyu rushed back from the Kurqi Desert to reunite with their families.

A lover held his hand in the moonlight, which was a beautiful thing, but Xin Fei and the others were covered with dust, and Siyu shouted: "Uncle, quickly put the food on the table, I ran all afternoon, and I was almost starving to death." ”

Add wine and return to the lamp to reopen the feast, An Yong and Shi smiled and poured food and wine, Xin Fei and the two gobbled up after washing, it seemed that they were really hungry. Jiang Anyi thoughtfully poured dense fruits for them, and the honey fruits made on the eighth day of the seventh month were still fresh after more than a month.

Siyu drank all the juice in the bowl in one gulp, and said while pulling the pear meat in the bowl: "What kind of bullshit envoy is new, the shelf is really not small, pointing fingers at the senior sister, the senior sister is too lazy to care about him, so she simply gave him the command power." This time, the rebel party of the Yuan Tianjiao was arrested, and the stronghold of the small village next to the Kurqi Desert was discovered by Qin Ziyan, and the envoy took away most of the credit alive, saying that he was strategizing, as if he was an unpredictable prophet. ”

Jiang Anyi had no good impression of this strange envoy, and as soon as he came, he pulled himself out of the matter of arresting the Yuan Tianjiao, nominally because he was afraid of delaying the government affairs of Huazhou, but in fact everyone knew that he was afraid of stealing credit. Pouring another bowl of honey fruit juice for Siyu, Jiang Anyi poured half a glass of wine for Xinfei, and asked thoughtfully: "How many casualties have been killed or injured in this operation?" ”

"There are no casualties", without waiting for Xin Fei to answer, Siyu responded eagerly, it seems that Xiao Nizi is suffocated, and she can't wait to vomit.

"Early yesterday morning, that Wang envoy asked General Mei to surround the village and arrest all the people in the village. Several Yuantian Sect disciples were found through the disk, and they confessed to transporting supplies for the Yuantian Sect bandits lurking in the desert. Envoy Wang was overjoyed, and under the leadership of those people, he touched an oasis in the desert at night. Ambushed until the third watch, and launched an attack in one fell swoop, but as a result, there was no one in the entire Green State except for a few grazing horses. ”

Siyu gloated as she described the extremely depraved appearance of Envoy Wang, Xin Fei smiled and did not make a sound, and the silver bell-like voice made the moonlight much brighter. Jiang Anyi gently held Xin Fei's hand and said softly: "There should be a lot of things to do over there, why rush to come, it's the same when you come back in a few days." ”

Jiang Anyong also looked at his daughter-in-law with a heartache and said, "I haven't seen you for a few days, I've tanned a lot, if only I could go for you." ”

Siyu was a little moved, and said coquettishly: "Envoy Wang was furious, arresting and scolding whom, just like someone else deliberately went against him and let go of the traitor." General Mei argued with him and left with his soldiers, but the confessors didn't dump him at all, and left for a reason. Senior sister and I thought that today was the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I was too lazy to worry about him, and Qin Ziyan and Qin Ziyan hurried all the way and finally came back before the second watch. In the backyard, I heard the uncle playing the flute, it's so good, what is this song called? ”

Xinfei sings and dances very well, Siyu and others are naturally very familiar with musical instruments and singing and dancing when they follow her, and the tunes that Jiang Anyi inadvertently plays are just random and have no tracks. Seeing Jiang Anyi scratching his head in embarrassment, Xin Fei stood up with a smile and said, "Mid-Autumn Festival, how can there be no singing and dancing, Jiang Lang, you play a song, and the concubine will sing and dance as a king." ”

The flute sounded happily, and under the moonlight, Xinfei and Siyu were like two dancing butterflies, beautiful and made people forget their thoughts and sorrows.

Compared with last year's war, the life of the people of Huazhou this year is better, first, the court exempted agricultural taxes, encouraged reclamation, and also funded farm tools and seeds. The second is the new history of Jiang Thorn, so that the county orders of the counties to teach the people to make honey fruits, ordinary people have no surplus food, can not afford to buy clay pots and honey, but melons and fruits can be sold, and even sold for two or three more than in previous years, which makes the people who did not grow melons and fruits very regretful.

Wuyun County is located in the southeast of Huazhou, the war did not affect here, Wuyun County is rich in honeydew melons, the yield per mu is about more than 1,000 catties, in previous years, the common people planted melons to be difficult to sell, most of them only planted a three or five points. There is a family surnamed Tian in Yantou Village, South 30 Li, Wuyun County, newly cultivated an acre of land, all planted melons, this year's climate adapts to the growth of melons, to pick in July, the old man Tian estimated, there are at least 1,200 catties of melons in the field.

The harvest is not necessarily a good thing, the old man Tian took his two sons to pull melons to the county seat to sell, the result is that the streets are full of honeydew melons, two pennies a pound is rarely cared for, the first four hundred catties of melons are only sold for two hundred and seventy-three yuan, the whole family is full of honeydew melons these days, or eat half and throw half.

Looking at the heartache of the old man in the golden melon field all over the ground, he knew that he should have listened to his wife's persuasion, and most of them planted wheat. The son who went into the city to sell melons came back at night, and a cart of melons went out and a cart of melons came back, Tian Laohan sat in the corner of the house and sighed heavily.

After pouring a stomach of cold water, the eldest son squatted beside him and said, "Dad, I heard the people in the county talk about it, saying that in two days, the county yamen will teach everyone to make honey fruits from melons and fruits, and that they can keep melons and fruits for a longer time, should we also go and see?" ”

Tian Laohan said in a long voice: "Yu Cunzheng also said this in the village today, the melons in the field can't be sold, maybe it's a way to make honey fruits, I'll go with you to see it then." ”

On the tenth day of the first month of August, the crowd of people who came from Yasi Township in Wuyun County was so crowded that Old Man Tian and his eldest son could not enter the door of the county government at all, and those who were put in were famous officials and wealthy businessmen in the city, and mud legs like Tian Laohan were blocked out of the door. At noon, the people in the yamen came out, all smiling, and the Bai Xian Ling, who was sending off the guests, smiled even more happily, and Jiang Tingshi's selfless dedication to the honey-making fruit party was sold by him at a price of twenty taels of silver for fifty-seven houses, and one thousand one hundred and forty taels of silver easily went into his pocket. Looking at the crowd of black girls outside the yamen, Bai Zhiguang was full of pride, as long as Wuyun County could produce honey fruits and pay commercial taxes, I believe that Jiang Tingshi would not care who made these honey fruits.

After a delay for half a day in vain, Tian Laohan and his son returned home sullenly, but in the evening, a large number of horse-drawn carts came to the village to buy melons, three cents and a pound of melons, and they were open to buy, and the prices of other melons and fruits were higher than the market price.

It is simply the god of wealth falling from the sky, Tian Laohan's family went to the ground to collect melons, 880 catties of melons were sold for 2,640 yuan, holding heavy copper coins, the family smiled from ear to ear, these money is the largest income in recent years. Looking at the carriage that was full of loads, the man with slow hands and legs beat his chest, eager to run to chase the carriage.

With money, the whole family can improve their lives, Tian Laohan's mouth squirmed for a long time, and he still didn't say anything against it, holding his little grandson and sitting on the stone in front of the door, smelling the fragrance of the pancakes in the house, he couldn't help but kiss his little grandson's young face, and the wrinkles on his face exuded joy.

More than a moment later, another team of carriages entered the village, laughter and laughter resumed, and the second son ran back and told Tian Laohan that this time it was actually the price of seven yuan and two catties, which was better than the price just now. There are still more than 200 catties of unripe melons in the field, Tian Laohan did not let his family pick them, and the unripe melons were sold to others, sorry for his conscience. Tonight, the village is full of joy, and every household has some copper coins in their accounts, and this year's situation is good.

After eating half of the cake, Tian Laohan gave the remaining half to his grandson, and the child ate more, because he was old and might go into the loess one day, and he would be wasted by eating such good grain. Turning around in the melon field with his hands behind his back, now the melon is sold at a price, this field is going to be watched at night, he feels shallow, keep it at night, forget the two sons, if the market of melons and fruits can always be good, Tian Laohan is also counting on the two sons to add a grandson to the family.

In a few days, the convoy of melons and fruits is endless, and even the most wooden farmers know that the market of melons and fruits is optimistic this year, and this wave of rising market is related to honey fruits. The last 230 catties of melons sold for 5 cents a catty in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and bought 1,150 copper coins.

The county seat came to recruit the steward, saying that Li Yuanwai's family recruited women to make honey fruits, and gave 30 copper coins a day, and more than 30 people went to the village at once, and the two daughters-in-law were also moved. Tian Laohan remembered the matter of selling melons, and said with a thin face: "Don't worry, wait for two days." ”

The two sons are in a hurry, 30 wen a day, 60 wen for two people, a lot of money can be earned in ten days and a half months, a few new things can be added to the family, and a piece of clothing can be pulled to make a new dress for the child to wear during the New Year. But Tian Laohan's thin face was long, and the wrinkles seemed to be engraved on his face, and the two sons and daughter-in-law were in a hurry, and it was not easy to let the old lady speak secretly, so they had to go in and out in front of Tian Laohan with a long sigh.

Two days later, the recruiter came again, this time the salary was fifty wen a day, and in the admiring eyes of his son and daughter-in-law, Tian Laohan nodded proudly.