"During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls;

By asking where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. ”

This Du Mu's "Qingming" is very suitable for the current scene, drizzling, strange to say, not a drop of rain has fallen in the previous two months, today Qingming has a misty drizzle falling, there is no sign at all, yesterday was still sunny and shining.

This drizzle is the greatest blessing from God to the people of the Tang Dynasty who have experienced drought, and how many times have they begged for such weather in their dreams.

Lin Fan, who was a little tired of this rainy weather, was full of joy today, he got up early in the morning, and the rest of the family also got up early, his mother got up the earliest, and when Lin Fan got up, she had basically finished preparing the sacrifices.

This year's sacrifices were rich and varied, and my father was happy when he looked at the two large baskets of sacrifices, and how the sacrifices also showed the wealth of a family, some of whom did not even have a bowl of rice.

The stove is cold, there is no charcoal fire, since the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival are close together, you can't eat hot food on this day of Qingming, you have been used to it in previous years, Lin Fan does not feel uncomfortable.

The father carried the two baskets of cold sacrifices onto the ox cart, sat on the old cow and waited for Lin Fan and the others to come up, Lin Fan and Xiaoxue climbed on the cart early and waited, the mother was the last to come up, and the grandfather did not leave, staying at home to watch the house.

The ox cart slowly drove in front, Wangyun ran in the back, its speed was faster than the old cow, rushed to the front of the old cow and sniffed in the grass and didn't know what it was sniffing, most of it was playing, after playing for a while, I saw the old cow approaching and quickly ran a few steps forward, and then continued to play after throwing the old cow a few streets.

Qingming tomb sweeping is a big event, every household has to go to the grave to worship their ancestors on this day, the ox cart on the road, some walk, the rich people take the carriage, Anyang has not, Yayu Township also has a family in Yu'an every year to worship the ancestors are accompanied by a carriage.

Lizheng's car is also an ox cart, but it is larger than the Lin family's ox cart, it is pulled by two cows, Xiao Fat is lying on the spacious ox cart and greets Lin Fan from afar, Lin Fan glanced at his car, I really envy this fat man, a person lying on the ox cart with Erlang's legs crossed is more comfortable than lying on the bed, and there is a piece of chicken leg in his mouth.

Seeing him take a bite and sneak a glance at the appearance of Lizheng in front of him, he was obviously stealing food, and I don't know who taught him, what the ancestors didn't eat was eaten by a junior first, no big or small!

Lin Fan glanced at it with disdain and then withdrew his gaze, he didn't want people to know that Xiaopang's behavior was taught by himself.

Almost every family has children in the car, adults are to use the Qingming festival to let the children know how to be filial piety in the future, this is an important festival, most of the big families on this day will not force the family to keep the maid servants for the festival, usually will give them two or three days or a day of vacation home to worship their ancestors.

Some time ago, the children who were sold into slavery in Yayu Township basically returned home, and they chattered about their life in a big family around their parents, there were happiness and bitterness, of course, adults know in their hearts that there is a lot of bitterness, and children just don't want to make adults sad when they talk about happy things.

Many mothers are preaching all the way with their children, but there is no such thing on the Lin family's side, Lin Fan and Xiaoxue are very well-behaved and sensible, and adults don't have to worry about it.

In Du Mu's "Qingming" poem, the scene of "pedestrians on the road want to break their souls" is not visible here, and there are lively scenes all around, in the excitement, Lin Fan saw a woman from Tianli again, she only had a son in her car, and the daughter who was sold to the Wang family did not come back, and a mouthy woman next to her asked the woman with a smile: "Xiaozhu mother, why didn't your family go home, didn't the palace have a holiday?" ”

The woman smiled and replied, "The palace is busy, Qiaoqiao is capable, the palace needs her, and she can't pull away." ”

The mouthy woman said: "You are still blessed, I can sell my daughter to a big family like the Wang family, I don't have this life, Xiao'er carries water all day long in a small official's house, alas, life is hard." ”

The woman smiled happily and proudly, yesterday she went to the palace to ask if she could let Qiaoqiao go home for a Qingming Festival, because the children in the neighbors had returned home, and Qiaoqiao had not returned, so she came to the door to ask the reason.

She didn't expect Qiaoqiao to be so capable, the palace of Nuoda couldn't leave her, and the palace housekeeper gave her three times of money, saying that she was very satisfied with Qiaoqiao, and she wanted to buy Qiaoqiao out, and she would be a person from the palace in the future, and the woman could not see her again.

A girl sold for seven yuan, which is the highest price in Yayu Township, the woman is very satisfied, a big girl in Tianli has not had such a high gift money for marriage.

"What a blessing, it's not the same, it's not a slave or a slave to others." The woman said this, but her heart was full of pride.

The mouthy woman shook her head and said: "How can it be, the treatment of big families is different, you see that your family is skillful, and you can't be busy, which shows that the Wang family attaches great importance to it, maybe you can marry the palace housekeeper as a concubine in a few years, even if you marry a servant, you will live in the Wang family, it is better than marrying a neighbor for a lifetime." ”

The woman's mouth was grinning, she looked around, and whispered to the mouthy woman that Qiaoqiao sold it at a high price, and the mouthful woman was so surprised that her mouth opened wide, and she flattered her two sentences, thinking that her son only sold for the same amount of money, she sighed, and she began to hate a little bit why her belly was so unhappy that she couldn't give birth to a girl.

"You don't have to be sad, although your son can't sell consistently, but he can come back to see you more often, you see, he can come back to worship his ancestors during this Qingming Festival, my family Qiaoqiao can't do it, now she's afraid she's busy with the royal family's sacrificial ceremony... It's a pity, it's basically impossible to see Qiaoqiao in this life."

"Although you can't see Qiaoqiao again, but it's only temporary, she is in the palace, as long as you want to see it, just go and take a look secretly, your daughter will have to marry sooner or later when she grows up, they are all other people's people, there is no pity, just treat it as a child daughter-in-law raised by the Wang family."

The mouthy woman thought for a while and continued: "The Wang family cemetery is not far from here, maybe you can meet Qiaoqiao on the road later, Xiaozhu and his mother, you can steal the fun, and find such a good big family." ”

The woman waved her hand politely, but the smile on her face was full of pride, touching her belly, she was really proud of herself, and she was able to give birth to such a well-behaved and capable girl.

Later, Qiaoqiao gained a foothold in the Wang family, and when she grew up, she secretly saw her and asked her to take out her private money to help her mother's family... Thinking about the days to come, the woman's heart blossomed again, she believed that it would not be long before her family would be a big family in Tianli, and it was also possible that she would also have a head and face in Yayu Township.

The Lin family's ox cart walked down another path, and Lin Fan couldn't hear the women's nonsense chatting with the mouthy women, and he wanted to avoid them for a long time, and he despised the act of trafficking children for his own profit.