On the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Qixi Festival is also called the Qiqiao Festival.

It is a festival for all the daughters who have not left the cabinet, on this day, the daughters have to get up early to freshen up, dress up, thread needles, wear bright new clothes, and eat begging fruits. Make some gadgets to show your hard work. Worship the Cowherd and Vega, begging that you can also get a good marriage.

As a result, the annual Qiqiao Festival, whether it is the Southern Chen, the Northern Wei, Rouran, Dangxiang, these Central Plains countries, or foreign countries such as the Wa Kingdom and Goguryeo, is also the same.

The unmarried girls will become industrious on this day, dress themselves up well, and pray to the Cowherd and Vega that they can find the Wishful Husband.

In Xiao's house, the little girls got Mrs. Xiao's permission, and they all put down their work to make their own small gifts for the begging festival, hoping to meet the man they like and conclude a good relationship.

Cai Wei also hurriedly ran to Xiao Mingyue, took a seven-colored needle and thread, and said with a smile to Xiao Mingyue, "County Lord, today is the Begging Festival, the County Lord has to make some gadgets!"

"It's like this every year, it's weird and boring. If this begging festival is really so experienced, how can the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl only meet in a year! Cai Wei, or you can embroider it yourself, I won't embroider!" Xiao Mingyue said to Cai Wei.

When Cai Wei heard this, she hurriedly put down the seven-colored needle and thread in her hand and said to Xiao Mingyue: "That's not good, the county lord's marriage is a top priority!" Besides, the old general and his wife told the slave a few days ago that this year, it is important to let the county lord embroider something well! Whether it's a sachet or an embroidered handkerchief or something else, you can't omit it!"

Xiao Mingyue listened, frowned, and asked Cai Wei, "Okay Cai Wei, can't you spare me?!"

Cai Wei coughed twice, and said righteously: "County Lord, don't blame the slave maid for this matter, the slave and maid are all for the good of the county lord!" Besides, the county lord has embroidered it, maybe a good marriage will come!"

Xiao Mingyue heard this, and muttered: "Nonsense, where will there be any good marriage."

Cai Wei smiled and said, "County Lord, the gift from Your Majesty and Master Yuwen arrived yesterday!" There is also a gift from King Rouran, and this morning Li Gongzi personally sent something over!"

Xiao Mingyue listened and asked Cai Wei: "Your Majesty and Master Yuwen are like this every year, but there is one more Li Xuan this year, so what did he send over?!"

Cai Wei listened, pointed to a wooden box next to the dressing mirror, and said: "This is early in the morning, Li Gongzi sent it, it was sent very early, and it was received by the housekeeper!"

Xiao Mingyue thought in her heart, not knowing what Li Xuan had given herself.

Last time, it was the fish eye of the big fish in the North Underworld, and I still don't know how to return that favor.

Now I don't know if I've sent something again.

Curious, he let Cai Wei quietly open it.

"I don't know what he sent early in the morning, Caiwei, open the box!"

"Yes, County Lord!" Cai Wei's heart was also full of curiosity.

"Squeak!" The box was opened.

What caught the eyes of the two was four stacks of brocade pads.

"Oops! The county lord is an embroidered papa!" Cai Wei said happily.

"I'll see." Xiao Mingyue took the box, only to see that there were four stacks of embroidered handkerchiefs of various colors, when Xiao Mingyue opened it, each embroidered handkerchief was embroidered with all kinds of lotus flowers,

There are budding buds, lotus flowers in full bloom, and residual lotus flowers in autumn and winter.

There are 12 colors such as snow white, coupling color, smoky blue, crimson color, Herds, red red, silver red, dawn and so on.

The embroidery workmanship is also from the best embroiderers.

Xiao Mingyue thought in her heart, although this embroidery and fabric are precious, they are also easy to obtain, but the patterns on it are novel and chic, thinking that they are all the scenery that he and Li Xuan saw when they were boating and enjoying the lotus, but he didn't expect him to paint all the scenery of the lotus, and let the embroiderer embroider it, thinking that Li Xuan's intention was quite sincere.

"Then put it away!" Xiao Mingyue instructed Cai Wei.

"County Lord, it seems that this Li Gongzi really understands the county lord's thoughts!" Cai Wei smiled.

Then Xiao Mingyue looked at the gifts sent by Chen Xian, Yu Wendi and others.

Chen Xian sent a concubine-colored dress, and Yu Wendi sent a string of green agate bracelets, Xiao Mingyue looked at it, and asked Cai Wei to put it away.

Cai Wei asked, "Won't the county lord give it a try?"

Xiao Mingyue thought for a while and said, "Do you want me to try them all or just one?" It's not appropriate, right?!"

Cai Wei listened to it and felt that it was too, after all, today is the Begging Festival, the day when the daughter's family is looking for a good husband, if Xiao Mingyue tries it, it is really against the original intention of this festival.

If you try only one of them, it will be an injustice to the other person.

"County master, the slave and maid will accept it first, and when the county lord wants to try, the slave and maid will bring it again!" Cai Wei said.

"Hmm." Xiao Mingyue nodded slightly, and looked at herself in the mirror again,

Then groom yourself a little bit.

Ah Cha ran over for some reason, hugged Xiao Mingyue's arm and said, "Auntie, what is the Begging Festival?!"

Cai Wei put away the gifts, walked over with a smile and said to Ah Cha: "The Qiqiao Festival is a festival for all unmarried daughters in the world!"

Ah Cha listened and asked, "Then do I also want to celebrate the Begging Festival?"

Xiao Mingyue smiled when she heard this, and said, "Well, Ah Cha, you are still young, of course you don't need to celebrate this festival, when you reach the year of cardamom, you can live this festival!"

"Ah Cha also heard that everyone wants to make a purse today, what about the bag? What is my aunt going to do?!" Ah Cha looked at Xiao Mingyue and asked.

"Auntie hasn't thought about it yet! Why don't you help your aunt come up with an idea?!" Xiao Mingyue leaned over and looked at the Ah Cha Dao with an expectant expression.

Ah Cha crooked his little brain and thought about it, and said, "It's better to play a purse!"

Xiao Mingyue bowed her head slightly when she heard this, in agreement, and said, "Okay! Ah Cha is a very good idea, then my aunt will play a purse!"

After finishing the makeup, Xiao Mingyue used dark green winding threads to make a pair of purse wraps, and embroidered a camellia and apricot blossom on them respectively.

"Cai Wei, this embroidered apricot blossom is for you!"

Then he gave the embroidered camellia to Ah Cha, "This is left to you, and when you grow up, you can find a good marriage!"

"Thank you, auntie."

Seeing Ah Cha leave excitedly with the yarn, Cai Wei couldn't help but say to Xiao Mingyue, "County Lord, why don't you embroider an object for yourself?!"

Xiao Mingyue smiled and said: "Some things may not be sought, on the contrary, if you don't ask for them, you may 'unintentionally insert willows and willows'!"

Subsequently, Pei ordered Xiaohong to send a beggar fruit, and told Xiao Mingyue to eat one.

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At dusk, the market is also very lively, and the unmarried girls have come out of the house, begging for the good fate of "the willow tops on the moon, and the people make an appointment after dusk"!

The market is also full of fireworks, juggling lion dances, riddles, and various snacks.

Young men and women all come out to admire the moon and look forward to the encounter.

On this day, the daughters will come out, so the unmarried men will also come out to find a good match.

Originally, Xiao Mingyue didn't plan to go out, but her parents and brother and sister-in-law did everything they could, so she had to take Cai Wei and Ah Cha to the street.

When I got to the street, Ah Cha was very excited, looking east for a while, looking west for a while, and I was very curious about everything.

Xiao Mingyue originally planned to take Cai Wei and Ah Cha back after a simple stroll, but she didn't want to meet Li Xuan.

Li Xuan said that he was also bored, so he came out to hang out casually.

"How could there be such a coincidence, you already knew I was going to come out, right?!" Xiao Mingyue stepped forward and asked.

Li Xuan shook his head, "Not only your Central Plains begging festival, but we also have Goguryeo!" I can't just come out and hang out?!"

Cai Wei and Ah Cha listened, glanced at each other, and smiled secretly.

Cai Wei poked Ah Cha and said, "Ah Cha, you didn't say you wanted to eat it just now."

Sugar people and candied fruit? Let's buy it!"

Ah Cha understood, and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, I want to eat the biggest Zhang Feitang man!" And plums, apricots, white peach preserves, Aunt Caiwei, let's go buy it! Beware of any later, you won't be able to buy it!"

After the two finished speaking, before Xiao Mingyue nodded in agreement, they disappeared.

"Hey! You ......?!" Xiao Mingyue also couldn't do anything about two people.

"They've all run away, and we've finally met, let's go shopping together, right?!" Li Xuan said to Xiao Mingyue.

Xiao Mingyue wanted to refuse in her heart, but it would be too rude to think that it would be rude to refuse like this, and besides, she had just received something from someone in the morning.

He nodded and said, "Okay."

The two of them walked along the street, and in addition to the vendors selling things, there were young men and women in pairs.

Xiao Mingyue turned her head to Li Xuan and said, "Thank you for sending the embroidered handkerchief in the morning!" I...... I loved it!"

Li Xuan looked at Xiao Mingyue and said with a smile: "If you like it, I soiled your handkerchief while swimming in the lake a few days ago, I went back to wash it, and I always wanted to return it to you, but I always felt that it was not appropriate, so I drew some patterns and let people embroider on the embroidered handkerchief!"

"Those embroideries are vivid, you must be very good at painting!" Xiao Mingyue looked at Li Xuan and exclaimed.

Li Xuan lowered his head and smiled, and then replied: "Where, it's just that the embroidery is good!"

Then I saw an acrobatic troupe performing acrobatics not far away, and there were many people watching around, all clapping and applauding.

"Let's go over and have a look, shall we?!" Li Xuan proposed to Xiao Mingyue.

"Okay, let's go over and see." Xiao Mingyue nodded.

The two of them stepped forward and squeezed inside, only to see a shirtless man with a mouth spewing flames, about to perform his unique trick.

Next to him, a monkey was holding a tray and collecting money around.

Xiao Mingyue and Li Xuan looked at it for a while, saw Li Xuan smiled lightly, and then took out a piece of silver and handed it to the little monkey, and he also gave the little monkey all the broken silver he had brought on his body, and the little monkey was very psychic towards the two.

After leaving, Xiao Mingyue asked Li Xuan, "Did you just see that the person who breathed fire in his mouth was holding paraffin wax?!"

Li Xuan nodded and said, "Isn't the county lord also seeing it!"

Xiao Mingyue said casually: "This kind of acrobatic stunt can't be practiced without ten or eight years of kung fu, even if it is a Mengren, with his hard work, we have to spend money to reward!"

Li Xuan nodded and said, "I think that monkey is very cute, it is a psychic monkey, if it can receive more rewards, its life will be better!"

Xiao Mingyue looked at Li Xuan and felt that he was really kind.

As the two walked along, they saw a man wearing a blue-haired red-faced mask walking over, walking quickly towards Xiao Mingyue from a dozen steps away.

Xiao Mingyue was taken aback by this person, and Li Xuan stood in front of Xiao Mingyue.

"County Lord, don't be afraid. Someone must be pushing for narrowness. Li preached.

The masked man looked at Xiao Mingyue, then at Li Xuan, who was blocking in front, and said to Xiao Mingyue in a low voice: "This girl looks handsome, she has just been taken by my son-in-law, come with me!"

"Who are you? What rude!" Li Xuan said angrily.

"Ignorant shaft, please get out of the way! It's none of your business here, I'm going to take the handsome girl behind you!" The masked man said.

"Don't you think about it!" Li Xuanhui said.

"In public, why are you wearing a mask, your voice is a little familiar, why don't you take off your mask and let me see your true face?!" Xiao Mingyue stepped forward and questioned the man.

The man laughed twice, and then took off his mask little by little in front of them.

"Yuwendi?!" Xiao Mingyue exclaimed in obvious surprise.

Li Xuan looked at Xiao Mingyue and then at Yu Wendi.

said to Yuwen Di without humility or arrogance: "You are Yuwen Taishi?!"

Yu Wendi looked at Li Xuan and said: "I won't change my name, I won't change my surname, Yu Wendi, the Taishi of the Northern Wei Dynasty, is also!"

Li Xuan said again: "It turns out that Master Yuwen is still childlike, and he almost scared the county lord by the child's trick of promoting narrowness!"

Yu Wendi sneered and said to Li Xuan: "I think Mingyue was not scared by me, the person who was scared was you!" Plum...... Declare...... The prince of the Goguryeo kingdom who escaped from the kingdom?!"

"It's not that I ran away, I left the palace in a bright way, and I'm no longer a prince from now on!" Li Xuan emphasized.

"Oh...... I see, then you are a common man, then I don't need to be polite to you when I see you, Yiwei, take people away!" Yu Wendi called Yi Wei next to him, and Yi Wei quickly came over and picked up Li Xuan and left.

"Let go of me! Why are you arresting me?!" Li Xuan struggled, but Yiwei's arm strength and wrist strength were amazing, and the light work was extremely fast, and while speaking, he took Li Xuan all the way and ran away, disappearing.

Xiao Mingyue looked in the direction where Yiwei and Li Xuan left, then looked at Yu Wendi, and said with a happy smile: "How did Taishi get free time to come here?!"

Yu Wendi looked at Xiao Mingyue, his eyes were crooked with a smile, and he grabbed Xiao Mingyue's hand and said, "I remember that today is the Begging Festival, although the gift has been delivered, I have to come and see you in person!" Otherwise, what if I get kidnapped by that little white face?!"

When Xiao Mingyue heard this, she couldn't help but bend over and smile, and then pointed at Yu Wendi and asked, "Yu Wendi, you shouldn't be jealous, right?" Isn't it?!"

Yu Wendi nodded, shook his head again, and then got up and walked forward slowly, Xiao Mingyue followed.

Grabbing Yu Wendi's arm, he asked, "Yu Wendi, shouldn't you come to Huaizhou City to see me because of this?"

Yu Wendi walked forward, looked at Xiao Mingyue and said, "Didn't I tell you!" I've missed you for a while! "

"Then what did you let Yi Wei do to arrest Li Xuan?!" Xiao Mingyue asked.

"Don't worry, you won't do anything to him, just invite him over for tea, sit down and chat! Doesn't he have a bad idea of you? I'll have to see if he's worthy?!" Yuwen Di said.

"He's just a kid. Shall we go and see the stars? Is it good?!" Xiao Mingyue asked with a smile at Yu Wendi.

"Okay!"

After speaking, Yu Wendi took Xiao Mingyue's hand and got into the carriage and went straight to his mansion