Chapter 80: The Holidays
Counting it, the dream just now was the third appearance of the Purple Mansion Immortal. Since the last time I told Huang Dalang that if you want to do big things, you must first make money, in a blink of an eye, I haven't seen you for more than a month, but I don't want to see you again for this matter today, Huang Dalang still has a lot of questions to ask, but who called Wan Chunnu to disturb.
On the way back to the city, Wan Jinbao still sat with the driver sensibly, leaving the space in the car to his sister and future brother-in-law. After being woken up by Wan Chunnu, Huang Dalang also remembered what happened in the dream just now, so he asked: "Chunnu'er, how did you think of going to Anguo Temple to listen to the vulgar lecture today?" β
Wan Chunnu was stunned for a moment, a little confused: "Today is the August Festival, and there is a saying in Anguo Temple!" β
Huang Dalang shook his head, knowing that he was asking the wrong question, he thought about it and asked, "Recently, there are monks in your family?" β
Wan Chunnu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Yes! Last month, during the Midyear Festival, there were monks from Dinghui Temple who came to pray for blessings, to speak, my father was worried that the waves would make trouble, and in recent months he did not let the slave family and Gorou go out, but today he was allowed to go to Anguo Temple to worship the Buddha. β
"That's it, there's a ghost!" Huang Dalang was sure in his heart, remembering what he had secretly heard with a few monks from Dinghui Temple that day, and then thinking of the recent looming monks from near his home, he also understood that today's seemingly coincidental trip to Anguo Temple should actually be a bureau.
After entering the city, he got off at the door of the old store, Huang Dalang comforted Wan Chunnu a few words, and promised to find a reason to visit his father-in-law in person in a few days, and then entered the store.
The old man who was gossiping with Kong Bo at the counter looked at it, but he looked at his son with a smile, and said with a smile: "I said that I would come to the store early in the morning, but I calculated to sneak out to mess around. β
"Daddy! Don't make a joke, I'll ask a serious question! Of course, Huang Dalang was not angry when he was teased by his own old man, and hurriedly changed the topic and said: "I just went to Anguo Temple to worship the Buddha with Wan Chunnu, but I found that there were monks peeping, did my father find out?" β
The old man frowned when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "If you don't say this, I don't care, I think there are indeed monks who spy on my house, and I always feel that no matter where I go, there seem to be monks everywhere." β
With the old man confirmed, Huang Dalang was also sure, so he said: "Dad, this matter should have something to do with my master, you continue to pretend not to know, I'll go home and find someone to discuss first." β
After saying that, Huang Dalang turned around and went home, on the way he passed by a street tea house and saw a young monk sitting and drinking tea, but remembered that he had seen him when he went out with the old man before, and a word flashed in his mind: fixed whistle!
When I walked not far from my own street, I saw a monk walking on the side of the street, and naturally I thought of a new word: swimming whistle!
Returning home with a heavy heart, he was just about to go to the Sun brothers to discuss the matter, Huang Dalang suddenly felt a little dizzy in his head, but in a daze, he walked back to his room and fell asleep. slept until the afternoon, and then was called up by the old man and Yao Erniang, and after changing their clothes, the family of three went to their uncle's house to have a family banquet together.
After all, it's a festival, even if it's important to make a living, it should be put aside, and the family should have a reunion dinner.
During the banquet, the old man and his uncle solved the mess in the morning, and saw that the old man had figured out how good it was to upgrade the foot shop to a main store, and the uncle's mood was naturally better, but the cousin who was sitting next to him kept staring at Huang Dalang and poked the bowl with chopsticks to vent his anger, which made Huang Dalang feel a little uneasy in his heart, until he was about to finish eating, he couldn't help but whisper and said, "Cousin, how about I take you to enjoy the lanterns at night?" β
"Don't go!" Cousin Yu'er pouted, glanced at Huang Dalang with the whites of her eyes, and said angrily: "Cousin just take the concubine surnamed Wan, and it's done." β
"Shhh Huang Dalang listened to the big head, turned his head to look at his old man and Erniang, and thought that Kong Bo and Erniang would definitely not cheat him, so the only broken mouth who could leak the news was his own old man, so he could only admit defeat and said: "I was wrong, I didn't know it in the morning, if I knew, I would definitely bring my cousin with me." β
"Go, go! Who is rare! Yu'er reached out and pinched Huang Dalang's thigh, and said viciously: "Hmph! If it weren't for the aunts who also went to Anguo Temple to worship the Buddha today, would my cousin recognize it? β
Huang Dalang thought to himself how he was seen by his aunts, but he was not an old man, but he quietly defended: "The conscience of heaven and earth, I only came back from a month ago, and today I am the first time to see her, and besides, this family matter has been said, and it is not a big mistake to see her, I am not sorry!" β
Yu'er pinched it again, and said evilly: "It's not rare!" β
Seeing the two little ones muttering during the banquet, Yao Zheng coughed and announced the end of the family banquet, and the old man and Erniang were going back to the store to take care of them as usual, so Yao Zheng took his aunt and aunt, Yu'er and Huang Dalang to the street to enjoy the lanterns.
When it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, we have to mention that it is written in Elder Meng's "Tokyo Menghualu" that during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Bianliang, Tokyo, all stores sell new wine, re-connect the faΓ§ade with colorful buildings, and draw drunken fairy brocade. The people of the city compete for drink, and before noon, there is no wine in every house, and they drag down their sons. At that time, the crabs were new, and pomegranates, pears, dates, chestnuts, grapes, and oranges were all newly listed.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the nobles in the city decorate the pavilions, and the people compete to occupy the restaurant to play the moon. The silk fence is boiling, close to the residents of the inner courtyard, and the sound of sheng is heard in the middle of the night, as if outside the clouds. Children in Luli frolic all night. The night market is in Khotan, as far as it is known.
Although Huangzhou is not comparable to Bianliang, but the size still has a street, Bianliang's horse street is famous all over the world, this Huangzhou street is not Huangzhou's horse street?
Therefore, at this time, the street is also full of lights, whether the shops on the street sell goods from the north and the south, or the tea liao liquor shop or the main store flower building, all decorate the door face with colorful silk. All kinds of snack stalls in the street are also spread along the street, but the stall owners of these stalls are retail investors who only come out to make some small money during the New Year's holidays, because more than half of the famous snack stall owners in Huangzhou City have been recruited to Shihui Street.
Then there are two pairs of houses on the street also pull up colored ropes, hanging colorful lanterns with poems and riddles, some lanterns painted with various patterns, just for the occasion to please. There are also some lanterns under the red paper marked hanging red, if you can match the above words or guess the lantern riddle, you can take it off to find out the problem of the merchant reward, earn a holiday celebration.
Huangzhou City is indeed not big, but the counties under its jurisdiction such as Huanggang, Huangpi and Macheng are counted as Wang County on Huainan West Road, and now the summer and autumn taxes of a year can add up to more than 600,000 yuan, which shows that this place is still relatively rich. Of course, it is not as good as Bianliang in Tokyo, just a Bianliang city is said to be able to collect two or three million yuan in taxes a year, which shows how rich the Great Song Dynasty was at this time.