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The Winter Solstice Festival was a very important festival in the Song Dynasty, and Elder Meng recorded it in "Tokyo Menghualu": Jingshi is the most important festival. Although he is talking about Bianliang before Nandu, but it is also the same in Lin'an today, both officials and people, attach great importance to this festival, and even have the saying that "the winter solstice is like a year".

On this day, Shaoxing Mansion, although the shops are closed, there are traveling merchants and hawkers selling along the street, plus the monkeys who play the trick of shaking the goods, and it is very lively in the area of the City God Temple.

Huo Chongcheng carried a string of sugar gourds and walked down the street in a big way, followed by two Zhuang Ding idlers.

"Da Lang, we're tired of seeing the bustle on the street, there's a cabinet room ahead (Note 1), why don't you go in and try your luck today?" An idle man said bored.

Huo Chongcheng glanced at the idler, and then looked at another idler: "The two of you have three or two copper coins, and you have to keep them, and others don't know about the cabinet room, you two have been at my house for a long time, why don't you know the details?" If there is more money and burns hands, it is also considered to accumulate yin virtue by giving to beggars, what do you do in that cabinet room? ”

The two idlers were reprimanded by him, a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, but they were all smiling, and none of them were embarrassed. Huo Chongcheng turned around and walked two steps, gritted his teeth and said, "When I came out today, I should have taken my father's face and not go to the cabinet room." ”

The two idlers just followed him, and did not say much, and as they walked through the cupboard, one of the idlers lifted the curtain that covered the door, and suddenly the characteristic heat and noise of the cupboard rushed out. Huo Chongcheng's body trembled, his two ears moved, and his nose twitched again: "I said I wouldn't go to the cabinet to close the box, but I never said that I wouldn't go to the cabinet to see the excitement, so I just relied on the two of you." ”

As he said this, his steps were extremely fast, and he turned and went into the cupboard, and the two idle men of his retinue laughed and followed in.

After half an hour, the three of them were pushed out, and Huo Chongcheng was sweating on his forehead with blank eyes, and even the tip of his nose was steaming upward.

"I said that if I don't go in, I won't go in, I just listen to you two bastards!" Huo Chongcheng complained: "If I go back today, if my father knows about it, I will have to be grounded for half a month!" ”

The two idlers were also pale and depressed: "The little one just wants to have a good time, but the big man loses all the money in his pocket and takes all the money from the little one!" ”

Huo Chongcheng was stunned, and then laughed: "Yes, yes, it's my fault, if it weren't for my own good betting, how could you two talk about it?" A manly man, if it is his own fault, he has to admit it, how can he blame others! ”

He looked around as he spoke: "I will definitely pay back the money of the two of you...... Hey? ”

He saw a group of mermaids coming, and the one who walked at the end was Zhao and Ju, who had a one-sided relationship.

Since that time to escort Li Ye to Yuzhang Villa, Huo Chongcheng has not seen Zhao Heju again, and now that he has seen it, his heart moved, and when he remembered something, he smiled and beckoned: "Zhao Dalang, Zhao Heju!" ”

Zhao and Ju, who have seen the prosperity of later generations, originally had no interest in the excitement of the small Shaoxing Mansion, but the children who accompanied him had never been, listening to their chatter, Zhao and Ju were quite happy in their hearts. He brought these children out to let them experience more of the world and understand more about the Jiangnan customs, only in this way will they truly have a sense of belonging to Jiangnan.

When he heard someone call him, he was stunned for a moment, somehow someone would know him. When he saw Huo Chongcheng, he suddenly felt that he also had the heart to make friends with this young man, so he smiled and beckoned: "Brother Huo, you are also here?" ”

Huo Chongcheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he smiled and arched his hand: "Zhao Dalang, it's rare to meet you outside, I heard that you rarely go out of the village." ”

The two of them were as noisy as adults, and the real adults who followed them couldn't help laughing. Huo Chongcheng looked around while talking to Zhao Youju, and saw that Zhao Youju's entourage was only as young as Zhao Ziyue, and there was no old age, and his heart was even more happy. When he saw Li Ye, he also nodded, as if he had forgotten the festival with Li Ye at the beginning.

"You're here to play at the City God Temple?" He patted Zhao Heju on the shoulder: "I know that there is a lively place, do you dare to come?" ”

Zhao Youju smiled slightly, Huo Chongcheng was smart and precocious compared to teenagers of the same age, and this radical method made it easy, but in front of him, it was not pleasing to him. Huo Chongcheng, who was a little furious by his smile, said again: "Yes, you are only this big, and it is not where you go!" ”

The child's family, since he was sensible, he was afraid of being looked down upon, Huo Chongcheng only said that if he said this, Zhao Heju would definitely have a rebellious heart, and he wanted to go with him to take a look. Unexpectedly, Zhao Heju just arched his hand: "Since this is the case, Brother Huo will ask for it, and I won't go." ”

Huo Chongcheng lowered his eyebrows slightly, and looked at Zhao Heju carefully, and from Zhao Heju's expression, he could see that the other party had seen through his intentions, and he was a little frustrated: "That's it, this kind of trick is really useless to you." ”

Zhao Youju smiled slightly: "Let me guess what Brother Huo is thinking." ”

Huo Chongcheng's heart moved, and he looked at Zhao Youju, but he heard Zhao Heju ask in a slow voice: "Brother Huo lost money in the cabinet room?" ”

Huo Chongcheng's face immediately changed.

He prides himself on being clever and smart, and has always been above the top, the last time Li Ye stole melons, he planted it in front of Zhao and Ju once, and he was still not convinced, and today he failed to lure Zhao and Ju to the cabinet room, and it was only because of Zhao and Ju's strict family education. But with a single sentence, Zhao Heju saw through his whereabouts, and vaguely, he also pointed out his intentions.

He wasn't surprised if someone like his father saw through it, but he was surprised and curious and vaguely jealous to see that he was a child a few years younger than him.

"How do you know?" Huo Chongcheng believed that Zhao Youju didn't see him come out of the cabinet room, so he asked.

Zhao Heju smiled and didn't respond, Huo Chongcheng's heart was itching, and he remembered that incident again, so he said: "If you tell me, I will tell you something, this matter is related to the safety of your Yuzhang Villa!" ”

At first, Zhao Youju only thought he was bluffing, but after a while, he found that his expression didn't seem to be terrifying, so he explained: "It's easy to say it, do you see those two people?" ”

Following Zhao Heju's signal, Huo Chongcheng turned around and saw the two people being pushed out of the cabinet room, with a sneering expression on their faces, and their eyes were staring wildly, as if they could pick up copper coins on the ground. Zhao Heju said again: "When I first saw you, your two entourages were like this, and I thought they lost miserably in the cabinet room." ”

In fact, Zhao Youju still has nothing to say, he has seen a lot of students who throw their money in Internet cafes or game machine halls in later generations, and when they come out of Internet cafes or game machine halls penniless, they are all like this.

"I see...... Huo Chongcheng raised his eyebrows again, remembering that he was also so embarrassed when he came out, and he was ashamed in his heart: "I don't gamble anymore, I am so embarrassed!" ”

Zhao Heju smiled and said nothing, Huo Chongcheng was a little discouraged, feeling that he was always restrained in front of this Zhao Youju, and it seemed that nothing could escape his eyes. He swallowed: "I'll tell you that, if you can't handle it, just come to me!" ”

(Da Lang entered the cabinet shop, and all the old ways of the later generations were displayed, Guan Po won seventeen in a row, and the owner of the cabinet shop lost so much that he was colorless, and there was only a pair of calf nose shorts left on his body, and when he saw that Da Lang collected the money and was about to leave, he pounced on Da Lang's feet and begged repeatedly: "Guest officer, you can win this silver money, only this recommendation vote, I have to vote for "Da Song Golden Finger", you can't take it too!) Da Lang was stunned, laughed, didn't want money, took the recommendation tickets and left--rank officials, and see if Da Lang hid those recommendation tickets in his own bookstore. ）