Chapter 10 Willow-leaved verbena

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, due to the continuous natural disasters of the boundless sky this year, the war is everywhere, the people are panicked, in order to pray for peace, this year's Dragon Boat Festival is particularly lively, early in the morning through the courtyard wall, you can hear the hustle and bustle of the streets outside the house.

The little peach still bathed me in wormwood, wearing a blue full-breasted skirt, a long-sleeved cherry pink gown, and the hairstyle was a don't hair, with a small lock of hair in the bun, hanging down on the side of the ear, and then inserting two lotus hairpins, a standard children's hairstyle.

I was very unhappy with this, and I said, "Little Peach, change your hairstyle." ”

Little Peach looked innocent: "Miss is so small, I'm afraid it was too mature before." ”

I don't know what it means, but when I think about it, it's like an empowerment, and the implication is that you will comb this hairstyle in the future, Miss. That's it! I hurriedly waved my hand: "No, no, no." Just once today! ”

Little Peach looks like something to be discussed, I really can't wait to grow up quickly, I have never felt that growing up is such a painful thing. I think when I went to work every day, I was full of emotion when I encountered setbacks, and I knew that I would study hard when I was a child...... It would be nice to go back to when I was a child, and I didn't have to worry about earning money and thinking about what to eat next...... As a result, God is now as I wish, but I have a kind of better than growing up, and I can do whatever I want.

People are always so dissatisfied.

This is the first time I have been out of the Prime Minister's House, and it can also be said that it is the first time I have been shopping in ancient times for so long.

As soon as I got out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, there were a sea of people.

I opened my eyes wide and saw the street full of stalls and festive and peaceful people, and I couldn't believe that I could shuttle through this thousand-year-old street that I could only see in books and TV.

Little Peach looked at me as if it was not easy to control, and was afraid, grabbed my sleeve and whispered: "Miss, there are many people, pay attention to good words and deeds." ”

I looked up at her, the same double bun, two butterfly hairpins, pink narrow sleeves and short gown, lake blue skirt, a fifteen-year-old girl, but as thin as twelve, and feeling stunted. couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Don't worry, little peach, you must pay attention to your words and deeds, and don't leak your identity." What will you call me in a moment? Miss He, right? Remember. ”

Naiyi, Nai, Nai, Nai. It's the same as me.

Along the Dragon Boat Festival atmosphere, there are pharmacies with freshly picked herbs to brew herbal tea, to dispel heat and detoxify, set up a long table to spread the public, the crowd in front of the shop is like a dragon, a large number of people queue up in an orderly manner, waiting for the bowl of herbal tea to drive away evil and avoid the heat.

There are many stalls on both sides, there are paintings, selling rouge gouache, jewelry and ornaments, as well as all kinds of hand-embroidered purses, pu fans, hawkers selling rock sugar gourds along the street, and occasionally children chasing and shuttling through the crowd, looking at it, a peaceful place.

This boundless heavenly dynasty followed the original capital of the Liang Kingdom, according to my observation today, this is the Yueyang of Hunan, why is it so inferred? Because Qu Yuan, the person who mourned the Dragon Boat Festival, died in the river, many people chased and rescued, and when the people chased to Dongting Lake, they still disappeared, so they rowed a dragon boat on this day every year to commemorate it. Unfortunately, that place is here, and there is also a statue of Qu Yuan on the edge of Dongting Lake, which is later used as the origin point of the annual Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat competition. Although the Dongting Lake here is not called Dongting Lake, but Yunmeng, Yueyang here is not called Yueyang, but Tiandu.

In modern times, after graduation, he interned in the hospital, and later went to work in the clothing industry, which was completely unrelated to what he studied, and has never had time to travel.

The lake is wide, the "eight hundred miles of Dongting" said, I am quite shocked, I don't know how the modern Dongting is, but this ancient cloud dream, but it is a vast smoke and waves, water and sky. The crowd is unimaginable.

Little Peach said that there was a totem festival here.

There were many long rows of long tables on the lake, and the tables were full of all kinds of zongzi, and I saw them throwing the zongzi into the river water, saying that it was to sacrifice to the dragon god. A rapid drum sounded, and several rows of canoes depicted in the shape of dragons, each with a number of people sitting on it, were racing on the water, and they were also sacrificing to the dragon god, and they played and competed by themselves, so happy.

"Miss, Miss, there are dragon lantern dance shows and grass fighting competitions over there." As he spoke, he pulled me forward, and said on the way, "If you are in the slave's hometown now, the most interesting thing is to shoot willows and play polo." ”

To be honest, I really don't understand a few of these programs. Little Peach is a person from Jinzhou in the north here, and when I heard about Jin, I thought of Shanxi, maybe it was that piece. And I am also a standard northerner in modern times, not far from Shanxi, Xi'an, Shaanxi, the Dragon Boat Festival is as simple as eating a zongzi and bringing a sachet, where do these rules come from.

Now it's really like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and everywhere has become a rarity.

"Miss's favorite thing in previous years was this grass fighting competition." Little Momoko pointed to a crowded platform not far away and said to me. If it weren't far away, I'm afraid that if I walked in front of me, with my height, I wouldn't be able to see any platform at all.

I pulled the little peach in the crowd one by one, until I squeezed to the front, a circle of children who are almost the same as me or even younger, after watching it, I finally understood what is the grass fighting competition, it turned out to be similar to what I thought, I don't remember that Bai Juyi once had a poem "dust or grass fighting, all day long", that is, this grass fighting makes people very happy. However, it is also true that children hook each other with petioles, pinch and pull each other, and those who break are lost, and then change to another leaf to fight......

I saw two people on the stage, a total of six groups of dolls. The winner enters the next round and is eliminated until the last two people, and these two dolls continue to compete for the tenacity of this petiole at this moment, next to them are some friends who are helping, shouting that so-and-so will kill him! So-and-so, hurry up, hurry! This Naichi is also a little doll, and it is natural to love these children's games. But I really don't appreciate the joy of this kind of competition, a good young man of one hundred or twenty-five......

"Little Peach, let's go." With that, I was ready to withdraw.

Little Peach hurriedly grabbed me: "Miss, it's going to be over soon, aren't you waiting?" ”

What the? Isn't it?

Seeing that my face was full of surprise, Little Peach then said, "Miss, don't you think that this grass is just like this?" ”

My expression betrayed me, and I did think it was that simple.

Little Peach covered her nose and smiled: "Miss, I forgot my favorite." This is just a small fight, for martial arts. This is the best-looking fighting grass but Wendou, the two report each other's flower names and grass names in the form of battles, and the requirements are literally appropriate, and there is no far-fetched, and the more is the winner. ”

I raised my eyebrows, this seems to have both plant knowledge and literary knowledge, and it can definitely be called the Juxianglou of a literati and ink writer in the Dragon Boat Festival. It turns out that this Naiyi still has such Yaxing, and he actually likes this adult thing.

I asked Momoko, "Can we participate?" ”

"No, miss. Because ......" Little Peach wanted to speak and stopped.

"Because of what."

"Because this Wendou must prepare the grass and flowers you want to fight! Miss, you don't have a single grass or flower! Besides, today is the last one......"

What the? Do you still have to point to things? Doesn't that mean that even if you can figure out how to deal with the other party's grass name or flower name, you still have nothing to lose? I was dumbfounded, could anyone really pick so many things for this bucket of grass?

And after the start of the competition, I found out that I really underestimated the wisdom and leisure of the ancient literati, these individuals are absolutely crazy, I heard that many of them are specially in the suburbs before the Dragon Boat Festival arrives to pick flowers and plants, and just for this battle, and this scene on the stage, has reflected this explanation.

Peaches explained to me: "In the past, this fighting grass was mostly women, but now it has evolved into a literary gamble of literati and ink writers, this literary fight has been held for five consecutive days, and Duanyi has begun, and the selection has been carried out layer by layer, these two people must be the winners, and today is the last literary fight." When the young lady came last year, she said that if she had the opportunity in the future, she would have to fight against the young master in white, but unfortunately the young lady has forgotten all of this now......

Young master in white? I have been thinking outside the sea, listening to the little peach's words, I will withdraw my attention, the young man on the stage is wearing a white robe, wearing a wide-sleeved robe of the same color, broken hair is tied high, a few strands of broken hair slide down the cheeks, fine and playful, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, the first time I saw this ancient beautiful man, it was inevitable to be a little excited, look at this chic and uninhibited mold, must be from an extraordinary background.

At this time, he was pulling out a tree I knew from a shelf of flowers and plants behind him, and said, "Gentleman's Orchid." ”

I looked at the green-robed man who was fighting with him, and it was a coincidence that my mother had planted this thing, and it was actually a canna!

This canna with Junzi Orchid is indeed a perfect match.

I saw that the man took out a purple-red umbrella-shaped flower from the shelf behind him, each of which grew on the top of the stem, and the leaves were slender like willow leaves, and the stem was square......

It just so happens that I also know this thing, I have never said that I was divorced, and the reason why I resigned from the hospital and quit doing it has nothing to do with it, and one of the exterior scenes of my wedding photos was with this piece of purple long-stemmed flowers as the background......

"Willow-leaved verbena." I couldn't help blurting out, the green-robed man was stunned, but he still couldn't resist the joy in his heart: "That's right, willow leaf verbena."

No wonder he is so happy, this willow-leaved verbena should have been born in South America, it is said that in ancient times at this time, there should not have been this kind of flower, but this person did not know where to get it, it seems that this man in white will definitely be defeated.

I didn't think about it, but the man in white turned his eyes to me, probably because I called out the name of the flower just now, he was very surprised, and wanted to take a few more looks. But I felt that the voice was very small just now, except for the green-robed man who was quite close to me, he shouldn't hear the white-clothed man, right?

"Miss, do you recognize you?" Of course, Little Peach also heard it, she was closest to me, and she was also surprised, "This flower slave has never seen it before, it's obviously a flower, how can it be called grass?" ”

I didn't know how to explain it to her, so I said, "Master Wu has seen it there." ”

Little Peach is still wondering, and she is probably meditating on where Master Wu is.

I saw the man in white carefully studying the flower and grass stand behind him, looking for a way out, I no longer had any hope for him, but I wanted to know who this person was, so I asked the peach next to me: "Who is this person." ”

Little Peach came back to her senses and replied to me: "The slave doesn't know, but in this annual fight in the grass, this young master in white has won the championship three times in a row, I'm afraid I will lose this time." ”