As soon as the wedding day of the eldest girl's marriage passed, Shang Chengcheng discussed with Lianniang and planned to go to Lijiazhuang in the mountains to send him the grain, cloth and money distributed by the warehouse to Shanwazi. Lianniang didn't say anything about entering the mountain, but just let him eat five-flavor porridge at home after the eighth day of the lunar month.

"Laba Festival?" Shang Cheng was a little stunned, "Laba porridge? ”

When I was a child, every time on the eighth day of the lunar month, my mother would boil a big pot of gruel, which contained peanuts, ginkgo red dates, lotus seeds, raisins and other delicious things, and also put red ponds, and the aroma of porridge could be smelled from a long distance, and it was full of aftertaste when drinking.

"What laba porridge? It is five-flavor porridge. Lianniang smiled and corrected his mistake. In the past, there was no such rule, and the monks and masters in the temple gave people 'Buddha porridge' on this day, because the porridge put pine nuts, walnuts, milk mushrooms, persimmons, chestnuts, millet, beans and seven kinds, also called 'Seven Treasures Porridge', and later there was a person who wrote a poem of "Drinking Seven Treasures Porridge in the Great Buddha Temple", and there was "Monk Buddha Porridge through the Heavens, and then drinking it to get Baishou Spring", only to become a rare thing one by one, who doesn't want to get "Baishou"? But on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, there were many people going to the temple, and there were few Buddha porridges, so people gradually boiled this seven-treasure porridge at home. But mile, after all, Buddha porridge is something eaten by Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and our people can't compare with the Buddha, so there is no bean millet in the porridge, which is called five-flavor porridge. "She has read a lot of books with her grandfather and father, and she has heard a lot of anecdotes, and she talks about these things.

Shang Cheng stroked his cheeks and nodded. It seems that this five-flavor porridge is Laba porridge, but it is just a different name in different eras.

Lianniang is sitting cross-legged at the kang table picking walnut kernels, the broken shell residue of walnuts is scattered for half of the table, and there is also a small half bowl of peeled walnut kernels. She worked an iron walnut for a long time, but she couldn't break the shell, and put it in her mouth when she was in a hurry, Shang Cheng said in his mouth, "Be careful of broken teeth" Reached out and took it, put it in the palm of her hand, cracked into several petals, and put it on the table very proudly, saying: "Mother-in-law's family is just small strength, what else will you do besides biting your teeth?" I went and gnawed the tree at the door. Really, don't use your brain! If you can't get the way to live, let the man do it, otherwise what will you do if you marry me? ”

Lianniang glanced at him with a smile and said, "Just pinch a walnut and see what you can do?" ”

Shang Cheng clenched his fists and flexed and stretched his arms twice, his muscles and bones clicked a few times, and he looked up and said proudly, "That's." How's this going to work? Not bad, right? killed two evil wolves with his bare hands, and executed the living Zhang of Quzhou with his bare hands. The Venerable Master on the rivers and lakes sent a nickname: Yixian Shang Monk! ”

Seeing the man boasting about himself, Lianniang was so happy that she couldn't even pinch the walnuts in her hand, and she laughed crookedly, and it took a long time to hold back a smile and say: "Sure enough, it is the monk of Yixian County, but this monk doesn't know the Buddha porridge on the eighth day of the lunar month, and he also calls the Qibao porridge Laba porridge, and I don't know how to do the monk in Jiazhou in front of you......"

Shang Chengdeng's words were stopped, he opened his mouth for a long time, and his mouth was hesitant for a long time, but he couldn't shake out a sentence in the end.

Lianniang's words were just a casual joke, and Shang Cheng could cover up the past by making a few jokes; Or if he doesn't say anything and makes a melancholy and sentimental posture, Lianniang will naturally think that it has aroused his heart, and will immediately find another topic to amuse him. But he was suddenly silent, Lianniang was a little curious, peeking at him, only to see that his face was so red that it seemed to be dripping blood, the cyan veins on his forehead also burst up, the wings of his nose opened very widely, and there was a faint sweat on the tip of his nose, and he immediately knew that he had said the wrong thing.

Yikes! How can I forget everything when I'm happy? She immediately regretted it.

She fell in love with Shang Cheng at first sight. Since she saw Shang Cheng for the first time on the grain field in Huojiabao, she can no longer forget this tall and swaggering young man, no matter where he is, no matter what he does, his shadow always flickers in front of her eyes, so that she gradually becomes unthinking because of this, and people are also a little in a trance. Her heart was seen by his brother and sister-in-law, and then he looked for clues and interrogated him; Her mother also knew. They also went out of their way to ask the seventeenth aunt about Shang Cheng's character, and when they heard that this later life was a foreigner and a foreigner who had been a monk and was greedy for the prosperity of the world, they immediately advised her not to do stupid things. But she didn't want to hear that. Not only did she not listen to her brother and sister-in-law's advice, but she also begged her mother to find a matchmaker for her seventeenth aunt. In the end, she got her wish and entered the merchant's door......

She and Shang Cheng have been married for some days, although Shang Cheng has to go to the county to work for a living, although the little couple is really together for not much, but the time they are tired of being together is not small, and she gradually realized that there are many secrets hidden in her man.

Her uncle once told her that the man she picked for herself was very different from ordinary people in terms of mind, courage and knowledge, but it was a pity that he had never read and was illiterate, otherwise he would definitely be able to make a career. After passing the door, she also had such thoughts, but every time she quoted the topic towards reading and literacy and taking the merit test, he didn't yawn and talk about things another day, until one day she went to her aunt's house to talk, came back a little early, opened the curtain at the door of the inner room, and saw him sitting in front of the window, holding an open book and frowning and thinking......

That book was a copy of the "Draft of the Crane Ming Hall" copied back by my grandfather. This book is also called "Manuscript of the History of the North and South", which is about the history of the Later Jin Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty, and it is a story in the middle of the middle.

She didn't alarm him at the time, and she didn't mention it later. After that, she never mentioned letting him read and write. She learns one of her man's secrets—he is literate. Not only can he read, but he can also write, and sometimes he is alone under the eaves thinking about things in a daze, and his fingers will unconsciously scratch the ground. She had quietly glanced at the words he wrote on the ground, some of which she didn't even recognize, and even if she did, some of them didn't know what it meant—she didn't know what "steel" was, she didn't know what "glass" was, and she didn't know what "electricity" was...... She knew that her man had countless secrets in his heart, and that what he wrote was ......

The words he wrote on the ground were so beautiful that they were so comfortable to look at.

She never told anyone about it, she just kept it in her heart. Sometimes she also secretly guesses what her husband is hiding and what his identity is. Will he be just like the lyrics in the playbook, a wronged son of an official eunuch, or an emperor and nobleman who has fallen to the people? After he went through hardships, he was wronged or the fog cleared, just like the Kunpeng mentioned in the book, spreading his wings and shaking 90,000 miles?

But it immediately occurred to her that when he soared above the Nine Heavens, he would definitely no longer look down on him, the daughter of a farmer's family. So she hoped that he would not have the same good luck as in the playbook, and he would not meet any dignitaries, so he had to continue to be his own man. When he was not at home, her mind was always imagining these inconsistent things, making her mood fluctuate for good and bad, and sometimes when she was happy, she would giggle alone for a long time, and when she was distressed, she would sit on the kang and wipe her tears......

Fortunately, the most feared thing in her heart has not happened until now, he is still her man, and he will sit there in a daze, and sometimes he will draw horizontally and vertically on the ground.

"Jiazhou isn't it called 'five-flavor porridge'?" She was clever enough to find a ladder for the man to climb down from his embarrassing situation.

“…… Yes? …… Right! Right! We all put the Buddha there ...... Buddha porridge is called Laba porridge. ……”

"Laba porridge, Laba porridge," Lianniang muttered the new term twice, "It's still Jiazhou people who are smart, and this name is much more apt than Wuweizhou." ”

"yes, yes...... They're smarter than us," it seems that Shang Cheng doesn't know what he's talking about.

"Didn't you say you were going to bring something for Brother Shanwazi? Ready to go? ”

Shang Cheng then remembered that there were still big things to do.

Although the Lijiazhuang and Huojiabao in the mountains are only twenty or thirty miles away, most of the roads are rugged and winding mountain roads, and now it is the coldest season in winter, the mountains are covered with snow, and the mountain roads are even more slippery and difficult to walk, and it is even more difficult for him to enter the mountains once. He discussed with Lianniang, and felt that since the two families were good, then this trip should not only be for the objects distributed by the delivery house of the mountain baby's family, salt, soybean oil, tribute noodles, needles and threads that cannot be bought in the mountains, these odds and ends must be prepared for the mountain baby's family, the female doll likes flower clothes, and the dyed color of the flower cloth should be torn two pieces, as well as the dolls' favorite candy and all kinds of bits and pieces...... The two of them also carefully prepared a New Year's gift for the eldest brother of the mountain baby, and even the three dolls of his eldest brother's family also had a gift, a snake made of bamboo knots, a wooden duck that would flap its wings when dragged on the ground, and a rattle.

On the afternoon of Laba, the seventeenth aunt asked Erya to come over and asked the two of them to come over to eat porridge, and Liu Laozhu's father and daughter were also called by Huo Shiqi. Huo Shiqi, who was already vibrating, set up two tables of banquets in the dining room of his new home, lit four red candles, and then he heroically asked two tables of three families and nine people to raise a glass together to celebrate this year's Laba Festival.