Chapter 113: Temple Fair
Emperor Chongzhen, who is virtuous and talentless, has been diligent all his life, determined to prosper, reduce food and withdraw from pleasure, advocate frugality, and is a diligent emperor of the "Rili platform", the reason why he likes to deal with political affairs on the platform is mainly because he has made too many edicts against himself, and he will self-examine at every turn, resulting in him not daring to live in the main hall, and mostly live in Wuying Hall and other places.
Chongzhen Dynasty, many entertainment activities in the palace were basically not held, but only the threshing drama was not wasted, this threshing play is a play to celebrate the harvest after the autumn harvest, every time the palace performed a threshing play, Chongzhen will inevitably be present in person, to show that he attaches importance to agriculture.
Therefore, in the folk, threshing drama is also popular, regardless of the harvest of the year is good or not, the folk will hold a temple fair, starring in the threshing play, there will also be some other entertainment activities, the street will be very lively that night, not only small merchants and hawkers, the most important thing is that those young women who do not go out of the boudoir on weekdays, will come out to play when they encounter the temple fair, in order to find their own wishful husband.
"Big cow, little monkey, hurry up, otherwise I won't wait for you!" Xiao Yue'er urged loudly, the more she waited, the more impatient she became, and continued: "Hey, two big men, going out is more ink than women, Mr. Song went out early, you don't come out again, I will leave first, and I won't be able to watch the threshing show later!" ”
Both the big cow and the little monkey ran out, touching their new clothes with their hands, and Ah Hua squatted on the little monkey's shoulder, looking around.
"Ah Hua, this is a new dress that my wife bought for me, if you stain me, I will be angry!" The little monkey said to Ah Hua.
Da Niu saw the flower-like Yue'er, dressed up in a flowery manner, very good-looking, so he stepped forward and said, "Yue'er, you ...... today." The clothes are so beautiful! ”
When Yue'er heard this, she immediately said with a straight face: "Hmph, do you look good in clothes?" ”
Da Niu suddenly lost his opinion, hurriedly said: "No, no, no, I want to say ......"
The little monkey said with a smile: "Hey, Da Niu, you don't know how to pat yourself on the back and go cool, where is Yue'er's clothes good-looking, obviously people are good-looking!" Yue'er, you know, I've always told the truth! ”
Yue'er became happy at this time, and raised her little head high.
Qin Yiming and Xu Zhen'er also walked out at this time, and when they saw that Song Xiance was not there, they asked, "Where is Mr. Song?" ”
"Mr. Song said that there were a lot of people on the street today, so I went out to set up a stall!" Yue'er replied.
Qin Yiming shook his head and said helplessly: "This god stick, go out to cheat again!" ”
Xu Zhen'er smiled, her jade hand covered half of her face, only revealing her beautiful eyes, and said: "Xianggong, Mr. Song is a good word tester, what did you say, nonsense, let's go." ”
Tonight's Anlu Street is particularly prosperous, crowded with people, bustling, all kinds of small merchants and hawkers, as well as those juggling artists, and bursts of applause from the onlookers.
"There's a threshing show over there, let's go check it out!" Qin Yiming and Xu Zhen'er walked towards the crowd, Xiao Yue'er and the big cow and the little monkey were gone, and they didn't know where they were going to play.
Qin Yiming walked over and saw the rural peasant women who were playing, with hats on their heads and sickles, performing the harvest scene, and the surrounding crowd applauded.
"Hey, it hasn't rained for the past few months, and I don't know how the harvest is going elsewhere?" Qin Yiming saw the wonderful threshing scene, and thought of the matter of farming, he was a little worried, there is no agriculture and no stability, and it is precisely because of the destruction of agriculture that the country will be so turbulent.
Xu Zhen'er knew that her husband was worried about the country and the people, and persuaded her: "Xianggong, the harvest in our Anlu County is still okay, and this is also thanks to the fact that you repaired the ditch before!" ”
"Hehe, the country is based on agriculture, and the people are based on food! The emperor only knows thrift, but if he does not build ditches and rivers, the peasants will have no way to live without food. Qin Yiming said with emotion.
"Xianggong, the emperor has ordered the Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving, to be sympathetic to the people of Suzhou and Hangzhou, I am going to open a handicraft workshop, what do you think?" Xu Zhen'er sensed that there was a business opportunity, and she was ready to expand her business.
As soon as he talked about weaving, Qin Yiming remembered Jenny's spinning machine, so he said with a smile: "Okay, when the time comes, Xianggong and I will invent an efficient loom, and I will name it Zhen'er Spinning Machine, which can be regarded as Xianggong's support for you!" ”
"It's all a joke, Xianggong still has this ability!" Xu Zhen'er smiled coquettishly and grabbed Qin Yiming's wrist.
Xu Zhen'er suddenly saw that Song Xiance was measuring words on the street not far away, so she pulled Qin Yiming's sleeve, pointed in the direction of Song Xiance and said, "Xianggong, Mr. Song is there to measure people's words!" ”
"Sir, give me the word test?" A pot-bellied rich gentleman, holding a handwritten handwriting, ran to Song Xiance.
"Ten taels!" Song Xiance made a black-hearted offer, and his face was expressionless.
The man hesitated for a while, and finally took out ten taels and handed them to Song Xiance, Song Xiance took the silver, immediately smiled, and said, "What words, take a look." ”
"Oh, that's it!"
"Also?" Song Xiance looked at it, thought about it, and said: "The predicate helper, the one who cares, the book in this boudoir?" ”
The man immediately said: "Yes, yes, I can't read, this word was written by my wife, my wife has been pregnant for a long time, and she has passed the birth period early, but she can't give birth, this doctor has no problem, and Mrs. asked me to take her words out to test." ”
Song Xiance nodded, took a puff of dry smoke, choked the man's face was red, kept coughing, and continued to crepe: "Is Mrs. Ru thirty years old in her Chinese New Year's Eve?" ”
"Yes, yes, sir, what a god! I wonder how Mr. found out? ”
Song Xiance replied with a smile: "Dismantle with the word also, the top is three and the bottom is one!" ”
The man nodded, convinced at this time, and asked, "I don't know if Mr. thinks I can move home, I want to take my wife to another place to beg for a life recently." ”
Song Xiance continued: "Gai is also a pond with water, and a horse is a gallop, but now there is no water in the pond, and there is no horse in Lu Chi, so you can't move!" ”
The man nodded heavily, as if he remembered something again, and was about to ask, Song Xiance said together: "The parents and brothers of the Zunge should have no survivors. The property of the Zun Pavilion is easy to be wiped out, and the word plus soil is the land, and now I don't see the soil but also see it, isn't it? Is there a fallacy? ”
Qin Yiming was worried about Song Xiance when he heard this, this god stick, after reading a word, he blew it there, saying that people have died of their relatives, and they are still poor, so they are not afraid of being beaten up? Where is the city management camp, hurry up and arrest Song Xiance back, so as not to be damaged!
Unexpectedly, the man suddenly knelt on the ground and said, "Sir, you are really a god, you have said it all!" ”
This is Qin Yiming's hanging heart before it landed, and the next thing made Qin Yiming want this man to beat Song Xiance hard.
Song Xiance shook his head and said, "Hehe, it's just a trivial matter, what's so difficult about this?!" Didn't you just say that your wife was pregnant and didn't give birth? I have a miracle medicine here, fifty or two, do you want it? ”
"Yes, of course!" The man was overjoyed and immediately pulled out the silver.
Xu Zhen'er exclaimed: "Mr. Song is really amazing! ”
Qin Yiming looked disdainful, and said: "Hmph, I still think that the person who invited the god stick to ask for it, it doesn't look like it, hey, this god stick sells fake **, Zhen'er, let's go shopping elsewhere, often floating in the rivers and lakes, sooner or later he will be stabbed, let him ask for more blessings." ”
"What is the Xianggong talking about, if Mr. Song's is made of ginseng powder, this ginseng powder will naturally be ...... The internal fire is vigorous, where is what fake medicine! Xu Zhen'er became shy as she spoke.
"Huh? I always thought it was a fake drug, no wonder it's so expensive, why don't I get two too? Make up for it! Qin Yiming laughed evilly.
"Don't, bad guy!" Xu Zhen'er shook off Qin Yiming's hand and walked away quickly.
Qin Yiming and Xu Zhen'er came to crowd out again, it was very lively here, it was a place to guess the lantern riddle, Xu Dingwang was here, standing under a lantern, scratching his ears and cheeks, thinking hard for a long time, obviously stumped by the lantern riddle, there were also many scholars around, as well as those warblers and Yanyan who were showing off their flowers, all the scholars wanted to show their talents at this moment, in order to attract the attention of some people, but they didn't guess it after holding back for a while, and the old man who came up with the riddle under the lantern riddle was very proud.
"Sister, brother-in-law, are you here? Brother-in-law, can you guess too? Xu Dingwang saw that his sister and Qin Yiming were coming, so he came over to greet him, he felt that Qin Yiming was also talented, so he invited Qin Yiming to guess the lantern riddle.
"I have a room, half of which I rent with the Wheel King. Sometimes a ray of light is shot, and the demons in the world dare not do it. What could it be? Qin Yiming muttered, and he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Xu Zhen'er looked at it for a while, then suddenly pulled Qin Yiming's sleeve, smiled, and said, "Xianggong, I guessed it!" ”
Everyone around was shocked, and they all looked sideways at Xu Zhen'er, and everyone was waiting for Xu Zhen'er to reveal the mystery.
Xu Dingwang was shocked at first, and then looked disbelieving.
Xu Zhen'er's willow eyebrows jumped, her beautiful eyes were tender like water, and after thinking for a while, she said: "I have a boat, one person rocks the oar, and one person leads it." When you go, you will take the cable, and when you come, you will return the oar. ”
"Wonderful! Better than my puzzles! The person who came up with the puzzle was next to the lantern, an old man in a long robe, touching his long beard, and couldn't help but exclaim at this time.
Everyone pondered for a while, and the scholars scratched their ears and cheeks one by one, and exchanged their heads and ears.
"Sister, what's the mystery to the ground? Tell me! Xu Dingwang whispered.
At this time, a wonderful voice came.
"I have a piano, the strings are hidden in my belly, and I will play it immediately and play all the songs in the world!"
Everyone is looking for prestige, and she is a shy beauty, this person is none other than Kang Shengnan, Kang Shengnan's flower and moon appearance, it is not an exaggeration to call it a peerless beauty, thousands of charming, even more Xi Shi, at this time Kang Shengnan was looking at Qin Yiming with affection, the two looked at each other, Kang Shengnan was embarrassed for a while, and looked away for a moment.
"Wonderful, the three fans all refer to the Trojan horse, but the puzzle of these two girls is even better!" The old man revealed the mystery, and the surrounding crowd suddenly realized that they deeply admired these two women.
Xu Zhen'er walked over magnificently, took Kang Shengnan's hand, and said, "It's a good moon night, my sister has come out, just swim with us!" ”
"Others are afraid that there is gossip when they see it!" Kang Shengnan was a little worried.
"Afraid of what? Sooner or later, it's a family! Xu Zhen'er said with a smile.
Kang Shengnan glanced at Qin Yiming and nodded shyly.