(21) Cold food

"Yan'er, that Liang Ji is really hateful, today someone actually played in the court and said that Liang Ji has the kindness of Zhou Gong to the Han family, and his heirs are now all marquis, then his wife Sun Shou should also be named the king of Yi, his wife is charming and debauched by nature, how can there be a virtuous act, how to seal her?" On March 30, Zhao Yan and Liu Zhi met again in the Liwu Marquis Mansion, and the two of them did not see each other for half a month, and their thoughts became stronger, and Liu Zhi told Zhao Yan about the affairs of the imperial court.

Zhao Yan was silent, but her face was slightly red, it turned out that she heard Liu Zhi mention the general's wife Sun Shou and thought of the chatter between the two in the tea shop a few days ago......

"This janitor of the Liang Mansion is really a good errand, if you want to see the general, you must first take care of the servant who guards the door, brother, I made five hundred taels of silver the day before yesterday to send the treasure in, but I still haven't seen the general, my silver! It's all my hard work! A middle-aged man who looked like a wealthy businessman sighed.

"If the wealth goes, you can ask for it again, if your life is gone, you can't ask for it back, but the younger brother heard about one thing, saying that the wind warrior Sun Fen lost his life just because he offended Liang Ji." The other person is dressed as a craftsman, and he is also in his thirties.

"Oh? What the virtuous brother said, but the Fufeng Dafuji Sun family? "The rich businessman looks strange.

"How can there be anyone else, I heard that the general gave the scholar Sun Fen four horses in the Western Regions, but borrowed 50 million silver from him, although the scholar Sun Fen is so rich that he is a stingy person, and he only lent Liang Ji 30 million after many prevarications, and Liang Ji is the person who will repay him, this scholar Sun Fen really blinded the lard and dared to offend him. Liang Ji complained to the county government that Shisun Fen's mother was a slave who used to guard the warehouse in the Liang Mansion, and stole ten hundred white beads and a thousand catties of purple gold from his house, so he arrested and tortured the brothers of Shisun Fen's family, beat them to death in one night, and received all the 170 million property of the Shisun family to the Liang Mansion...... "The craftsman said in a small voice, and the tea shop was noisy, no one paid attention, but Zhao Yan sat next to the two, so he could hear it clearly.

"There is such a thing, and this Shisun family has so much money...... Hey, brother, do you know why this general only loves money but not beauty? The rich merchant sighed and rejoiced, and suddenly remembered something and asked the man.

"Why did my brother say that?" The craftsman looked at the rich merchant rather strangely, as if there was some mockery.

"But it's the foolish brother who has sent beautiful women to the Liang Mansion several times, but he didn't accept them in the house, so he changed them to jewelry, thinking that this person is not beautiful......" The rich businessman said reasonably.

"If you think so brother is very wrong, this Liang Ji is not only not what Liu Xia Hui, but is the evil ghost in the color, his father Liang Shang once gave Emperor Shun a beautiful woman as a concubine, this woman's name is Youtong Period, this Friend Pass Period but because of trivial things angered Emperor Shun, Emperor Shun abolished it out of the harem, but because it is not a big crime, and returned it to Liang Shang, Liang Shang where dare to keep her, he married this woman, who knows that Liang Ji fell in love with the beauty of this friendship period, and snatched her back, at that time Liang Shang died of illness, that Liang Ji lived with Youtong in Xicheng during the filial piety, It was all a joke at the time. The craftsman said.

"And why is that?" The rich merchant was even more confused when he heard the craftsman say this.

"Brother Chang came from Jiangnan, I don't know, although this Liang Ji is lustful, his wife Sun Shou is notoriously jealous and extremely cruel, although this Liang Ji is arrogant and domineering outside, but he is very afraid of the inside, this Sun Shou said east, he dare not go west. said this, that Sun Shou knew about the friendship period, so he sent the servants in the house to snatch the friendship period home, cut his hair bald, cut his face, and then let people whip him, and he also wanted to write and report to Emperor Shun, then Liang Ji was afraid, and begged Sun Shou's mother to kowtow again and again, and Sun Shou gave up. But Liang Ji still had an affair with Youtong Period, and gave birth to a son, named Liang Boyu, which was known by Sun Shou, Sun Shou asked his son Liang Yin to kill all the Youtong period family, but Liang Boyu was hidden by Liang Ji in the wall and escaped with his life...... "The craftsman is more and more detailed.

"How does my brother know so many secrets?" The richer businessmen also became more and more curious.

"I waited a long time to walk outside, and I couldn't hear anything, so Liang Boyu sent it to my brother's uncle's house, so I ......" The rich merchant nodded, only to know that most of the sources were true.

"Then I wonder what the general's wife has preference?" The rich merchant rolled his eyes and said to the artist.

"Haha, what is my brother talking about, to say that this Sun Shou is not only charming, but also very debauched, that Liang Ji was born with a hunchback and eagle shoulders, and that Sun Shou wants to find some beautiful men to pass the time, and the housekeeper of the Liang Mansion, Qin Gong, was born handsome, so he fornicated with him, and also blew the pillow wind to Liang Ji, so that the Qin Palace was promoted to the Taicang Order, and since then the Qin Palace is a dog fighting human power, and it cannot be ...... for a lifetime" The craftsman knows what the rich businessman thinks, and it is self-evident.

"Haha, if the foolish brother is developed in the future, he will not forget his brother's kindness today......" After that, the two raised their glasses and stopped talking about it......

Zhao Yan recalled this incident and secretly spit in her heart, and said to Liu Zhi after a moment of silence, "Brother Zhi, it is better to give her this Yijun first." ”

"What! Why? Liu Zhi was surprised.

"Yan'er recently read the Tao Te Ching, and one of the sentences said, 'If you want to go, you must fix it; If you want to take it, you will give it. If you want to destroy it, you must first learn it. "If the power of the Liang family is at the extreme, and then it can only turn to decline, and all the previous disadvantages will burst out, and then get rid of him......" Zhao Yan said with a straight face, but it was the truth she realized over time.

Liu Zhi looked at Zhao Yan in a daze, and didn't speak for a long time, until he was in a daze, and said, "I didn't expect that my 'Yan'er' would have the talent of Queen Dou, Xiaosheng admires it." Arching his hands jokingly, he waved at Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan was embarrassed by him, and suddenly said, "I just chatted with you, but I forgot about ...... business."

After that, he took out a purse from his arms, first hid it in his hand, and said to Liu Zhi, "Brother Zhi, Yan'er embroidered badly, the last time I saw the colorful phoenix embroidered by Mrs., I wanted to follow the example of the east and embroider a golden dragon for Brother Zhi, but I only did it in a hurry, and I didn't have the craftsmanship of Mrs., don't laugh at me......" said even more ashamed.

"What a good thing, show it to me!" Liu Zhizhi is what Zhao Yan embroidered for himself, but he didn't see it clearly, he held Zhao Yan's soft and boneless little hand with both hands, and gently broke it open, and saw that the black background of the purse was quite solemn, and the embroidered golden dragon was even more majestic.

Liu Zhi really couldn't put it down after seeing this purse, and kept praising Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan was also very happy when she heard that Liu Zhi liked it, and only smiled at Liu Zhi's happy expression, "It's not early, Yan'er has to send it to Mrs." Saying that, Zhao Yan took out an embroidered handkerchief from her arms, which was embroidered for the beautiful woman.

"The daughter-in-law has not yet passed the door, so she has curry favor with her mother." Liu Zhi laughed on the side.

Zhao Yan was shy by him and ignored him, only took the embroidered handkerchief to the inner room to see the beauty, the beautiful woman saw that Zhao Yan actually embroidered the embroidered handkerchief for herself, and saw the meticulous embroidery of the pattern to know that this girl had spent a lot of effort, nodded and praised, Zhao Yan humbly excused herself, and the three chatted in the house for a while Zhao Yan also returned to Cao's house.

A few days later, it is the cold food festival, every family prohibits smoking and fire, only eats cold food, according to legend, it is designed to commemorate the Spring and Autumn Period Jie Zi Tui, when Jin Wen Gong was a son and Jie Zi Tui went into exile, Jie Zi Tui cut the meat to fill the hunger of the heavy ear. When the Duke of Jin Wen returned to the country, he asked Jie Zi Tui to be an official, but Jie Zi Tui did not love fame, so he lived in seclusion in the mountains with his mother, and Wen Gong burned the mountain to lead Jie Zi Tui out, who knew that Jie Zi Tui could not come out of the tree, and was burned to death with his mother. Duke Wen of Jin regretted it, so he ordered to ban smoking and cold food on the day of Zitui's death, and sacrificed Zitui.

Cao Mansion has long prepared cold porridge, cold noodles, cold syrup for the people in the house to eat, and there are more cold snacks such as snake rabbit, noodle swallow, etc., all made of pasta, such as the "snake rabbit", which is made of jade rabbit and snake shape from the dough, and the snake is coiled on the rabbit, the rabbit is Jie Zi Tui, and the snake is the mother of Zi Tui, the two are not separated from each other, implying filial piety to the deepest.

"Sister Yan, look at how similar that rabbit is!" Cao Song pointed to the "snake rabbit" and said to Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan also smiled and looked at it, and nodded yes, "Sister Yan, let's go and fold the willow branch and hang it on the door of the mansion, or did Cao Fu tell me!" Here, Zhao Yan was dragged to the backyard by Cao Song before she finished reading.

Since that day, Cao Song listened to Zhao Yan and the emperor behind the rockery, although he had not finished listening to what Zhao Yan said, he always felt that Zhao Yan was going to leave him without knowing when, and this month he was sticking to Zhao Yan every day, no matter what he did, he had to be with Zhao Yan. Zhao Yan also noticed that Cao Song was different from before, but for some reason she always felt that she owed something to this little brother, and seemed to feel that she would be separated from them soon, so she was inseparable from Cao Song.

"Young master, come down quickly, we will go back to Qian County soon!" But it was Cao Fu who commanded the servants on the side, and said to Cao Song, it turned out that after this cold food, it was Qingming, and the people in Cao's mansion wanted to go back to Peiguo's hometown to worship their ancestors, but the time was urgent, and it was inconvenient for a large number of people to accompany them, so they had to leave Zhao Yan and others in the mansion.

"Sister Yan, that Song'er left first......" said Cao Song, but tears flowed from her eyes, Zhao Yan smiled and comforted Cao Song while wiping her tears, "It's not that we have been separated for a long time, I will come back in a few days, Song'er is a man, how to learn from a woman crying nose." ”

"Sister Yan, you must wait for Song'er to come back!" Zhao Yan wondered how Song'er could say such strange things, but seeing that he was serious, she only nodded in agreement.

But seeing Cao Song walking out of the house, he ran back and hugged Zhao Yan tightly, Zhao Yan stroked Cao Song's head and comforted him several times, and Cao Song followed his father and Cao Fu away in a carriage.