After the Dragon Boat Festival, it is a serious summer, the temperature rises, mosquitoes breed, and it is easy to epidemic plague. The ancients called the fifth day of the fifth month of May www.biquge.info "evil day", thinking that on this day, the evil man was in charge, and the five poisons came out together, so every household hung wormwood, inserted a pu sword in the door, wore pomegranate flowers, and drank realgar wine.

Lin Xiaomei prepared the things for the Dragon Boat Festival early, and Ye Wenma, who didn't have a Dragon Boat Festival in a serious way, where would she know how to prepare these.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Ye Wen came to Cheng's Mansion at the invitation of Cheng Chumo. In order not to snub Lin Xiaomei, she also invited Princess Runan and Mrs. Cheng Chumo and other ladies and princesses to get acquainted with each other.

When I came to Cheng's house, I saw that on the gate of Chengfu's aconite, there was a large bunch of garlic and wormwood braided into a human shape, and the leaves of the calamus were repaired into a sword-shaped, upside down by the door, and there were long five-colored silk threads wound into wisps, fluttering with the wind.

When he entered Cheng's mansion, he was welcomed into the courtyard by Cheng Chumo, and when he entered the courtyard, he saw that there were only two or three young men in the courtyard, including Cheng Chuliang. The remaining two were a little familiar, as if they had come to Chengfu last time during the Shangyuan Festival, and Ye Wen also stepped forward to say hello one by one quite politely.

Then Cheng Chumo took Ye Wen to Li Zhen's mansion to meet the fox fairy. This fox fairy is in this environment full of evil spirits, and it is more difficult for those demons and monsters to exert their mana than usual, so the righteous and awe-inspiring demon hunting envoys have come out one after another, and Li Zhen used this as a gimmick to attract righteous and awe-inspiring demon hunting envoys to come to hunt demons, such as Ye Wen and several young people beside him.

When he came to the Li Mansion and explained his intentions, the servants of the Li Mansion went in to report, Ye Wen looked at the gate of the Li Mansion, the layout of the gate of the Li Mansion was similar to that of the Cheng Mansion, and there was nothing new.

"Cheng Da, you're here, everyone is waiting for you." Ye Wen and they chatted outside for a while, and Li Zhen hurriedly came out to greet Cheng Chumo and Ye Wen in person.

When I entered the Li Mansion and came to the hall, I also saw a lot of guests, including Yu Chi Baolin, Li Dejian, Li Dexian, etc., almost all of the people who came to the Yuan Festival in Cheng Mansion last time, and Cheng Chumo was the latest to come. It seems that Cheng Chumo waited for Ye Wen to come before going to the Li Mansion, which delayed a lot of time.

After everyone came, Li Zhen began to instruct the slaves and maids to set up a case, and brought some zongzi horn millet and pu wine crispy dumplings up, and it seems that Li Zhen also prepared a lot of wine and food for the Dragon Boat Festival. After some politeness, everyone took their seats.

After everything was settled, the guests and hosts drank and laughed happily. In the end, the wine was hot, and the most uncontrollable guest finally salivated and said to Li Zhen: "I heard that Da Lang Xinna's lady is knowledgeable and looks like a fairy, can you please come out and let the foolish brother and others meet you?" ”

Li Zhen was not surprised, he smiled, and happily ordered the slave to invite the lady to come out to meet the guests.

After waiting for a while, Ye Wen and the others were talking happily, and behind the screen, two columns of maidservants stepped out in turn, and in the middle of them were surrounded by a beautiful person, and bowed to the full house of guests.

The visitors got up one after another to return the salute, and responded with a long bow of "Ladies and daughters". Li Zhen also stood up, introduced the identities of the guests one by one, motioned for the woman to sit beside him, and invited the guests to return to their seats. Looking at it twice, the woman has a beautiful demeanor, expensive clothes, elegant manners, and ordinary noblewomen, only a pair of beautiful eyes are as bright as autumn water, and occasionally her eyes wave, seducing people's souls.

She didn't come out empty-handed, the two columns of attendant maids were holding vermilion lacquer plates in their hands, and some brocades, incense, flowers, and people were piled up on the plates, and they were given to the visitors one by one. This "fox fairy" also saluted the guests one by one, and in front of Ye Wen, a maid in a red dress presented a plate of gifts, and her hostess said: "The bride is on Ye Lang to continue her life." ”

The maid in the red dress put down the lacquer plate, picked up the bundle of rope threads made of red, green, blue, yellow, and white silk threads on the plate, and wrapped it around Ye Wen's arm with her own hands, Ye Wen was a little shy, to say that Ye Wen was still wearing a life-sustaining wisp for the first time, and it was still a beautiful woman for Ye Wen to wear, but she was also a step behind Lin Xiaomei, if it was Lin Xiaomei's maidservant.

After Lin Xiaomei married Ye Wen, Ye Wen also wanted to buy a maid for Lin Xiaomei, after all, Ye Wen was also an official no matter what he said, Lin Xiaomei didn't say anything, and others would gossip. As for the so-called equality of all people in later generations, Ye Wen does not have so much power, and he can't change the status quo, and Ye Wen will not treat them badly if he buys maidservants, and it is much better than going to those official eunuchs who treat slaves and maids as inappropriate.

However, Ye Wen went to the market a few times, not to mention the smaller ones, and he couldn't let Lin Xiaomei take care of them in turn. The larger ones were picked up early, and the remaining crooked melons and cracked dates were cheap, but Ye Wen would not take them home. In the future, Ye Wen will have to live in Chang'an, and he can't afford to lose that person, so Ye Wen can't find a good maid for the time being.

The maid in the red dress smiled, her bright eyes flowed, the fragrant wind hit people, and she retreated as lightly as a cloud.

What's the deal with "life extension"? "Continuing life" does not mean "accepting life". The five-colored silk thread that the maid tied to Ye Wen, also known as "Zhu Suo", "Longevity Wisp", "Life Continuation Wisp", etc., is the most common Dragon Boat Festival weariness ornament in the Tang Dynasty, which is generally hung on the door, hung on the bed, and wrapped around the arm, saying that it can prevent being caught by evil ghosts or injured by blades. Later, the meaning of the word expanded, and all the gifts given to people during the Dragon Boat Festival were collectively referred to as "continuation of life", and "bride Shangye Lang continued life" means "I, who have become a daughter-in-law of others, send you these gifts to wish you a long life and a hundred years old".

After giving the life-sustaining gift, the whole team vibrated the clothes, and the sound of silk and bamboo started, dancing in columns and columns.

Ye Wen was also watching with relish from the sidelines, needless to say, the "fox fairy" was naturally a complete beauty, no wonder Li Zhen used it to show off. Moreover, the red-dressed maid next to the "fox fairy", that is, the one who had given Ye Wen a life-sustaining thread just now, was only a step behind his "fox fairy", and she was also a beauty, while other maidservants were more than a step behind.

Ye Wen saw that the woman in the red dress had her hair combed and her hair combed, her eyebrows were bent, her lips were delicate, her low-cut undergarment revealed a large area of snow-white skin, and the light gauze and wide sleeves fluttered with the dance, soft and graceful, blurry and drunk. I had to sigh again: It's really cheap for that Li Zhen.

And Ye Wen's every move at the banquet was watched by the dancing "fox fairy". The reason why she paid attention to Ye Wen was because she had heard rumors that Ye Wen would take pictures before. As a young and handsome woman, who doesn't want to take a picture of her beauty, and wait for future generations to take it out and make a thought.