Xie Yu is now famous in Yan County, everyone knows that this Hou Ye is insatiable, and there are even more good people who secretly rumor that they deliberately blackmailed the Zhang family, whether it is true or not, anyway, when he goes out now, he has to bring a few more entourages.

Although the reputation is not good, but the benefits are very unexpected, not only to solve the problem of meat for soldiers, but also to pull away a whole car, worth 10,000 taels of gold and silver treasures, only hate Zhang Yu, the patriarch scolded at home, and there was really nothing to do, and ordered his nephew and daughter to strictly prohibit going out.

In the blink of an eye, five days have passed, to the time of the summer solstice, this county from the beginning of Wu State, there is a fighting egg, the custom of calling people, the so-called fighting egg, is to boil the egg before lunch, can not be broken, put it in cold water to cool it down, the hardness is there, the tip of the egg is the head, the egg round is the tail, packed in a small bag woven of twine, hung on the chest of the child, when fighting eggs, the two sides hold the egg to touch the head, or the tail, the broken one is the loser, the winner challenges one after another, and finally divides the high and low, the winner of the egg head is the king, The winner of the egg tail is Xiao Wang, and the proverb "Lixia has eggs on the chest, and the child does not boil (zhu) summer." ”

It means that when the summer is empty, the child will not have a slight amount of hot food, tired limbs, and gradually emaciation.

And this is the custom after lunch. The custom of "weighing people" on the day of the beginning of summer is mainly popular in the south, which originated in the Three Kingdoms period: according to folklore, Zhuge Liang is related to the story of Meng Shu and Liu Adou.

It is said that Meng Shu was subdued by Zhuge Liang, and after returning to Shu, he obeyed Zhuge Liang's words. On his deathbed, Zhuge Liang instructed Meng Shu to visit the Lord of Shu once a year. On the day of Zhuge Liang's request, it happened to be the beginning of summer this year, and Meng Shu immediately went to worship Adou. Since then, every summer, Meng Huo has come to Shu to visit. A few years later, Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Shu Kingdom and abducted Adou.

And Meng Shu did not forget the trust of the prime minister, and every year Lixia led troops to Luoyang to visit Dou, and every time he went, he had to weigh Adou to verify whether Adou was treated badly by Emperor Wu of Jin. He threatened that if he treated Adou badly, he would raise an army against Jin. In order to accommodate Meng Huo, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty cooked glutinous rice and peas into Chinese rice for Adou to eat on the day of the beginning of summer every year. Adou saw that the pea sticky rice was glutinous and fragrant, so he doubled down and ate it.

Meng was weighed in the city, and each time he weighed a few pounds compared with the previous year. Although Adou didn't have any skills, but with Meng Shulixia's actions, Emperor Wu of Jin didn't dare to bully him, and his life was quiet and happy, and he was blessed and long-lived. Although this legend is different from historical facts, what the people hope for is a peaceful world of "peace and happiness, happiness and longevity". Lixia scale people will bring blessings to people.

Therefore, when the summer solstice comes, it is the most grand festival in Yan County except the Spring Festival, everyone will go out to see the children fighting eggs, there are several places in the long street to call people, saying that only ten cents at a time, people want to be auspicious, on this day everyone will have to weigh a name, in order to bring themselves good luck this year.

The city is so lively, how can Xie Yu be idle, so he took his own soldiers out to hang out, just saw a large number of children on a street corner after the victory of the egg, was named the king, Xiao Wang, happy in his heart and wanted to be called, who knew that just walked to a place called people, he met Zhang Wanting on a narrow road.

This Miss Zhang's family is an anxious child, how could she stay in the house on such a holiday, so she ran out secretly, and after playing for a while, she wanted to call herself to sweep away her bad luck, and the ghost made her come to the same place with Xie Yu, and suddenly the two stared at each other.

In fact, Xie Yu is also helpless, to paralyze Zhang, Gu Jiajia, this gentleman's temperament has to pretend to the end, Zhang Wanting just bumped into the muzzle of the gun inexplicably, the so-called suffering a loss and growing a wisdom, this time, he will not do anything stupid impulsively, and obediently blessed the courtesy: "Wanting has seen Master Hou." "In my heart, I really greeted the eighteenth generation of Xie Yu's ancestors.

Xie Yu squinted his eyes and smiled, in fact, he liked the straightness of this unruly young lady very much, and his mouth did drop and said, "What's the matter, did you come out of the house to find Lang Jun?" ”

Zhang Wanting was angry when she heard this, her character was completely unexcited, and she immediately said angrily: "I have heard for a long time that all the scholars of Xie Mansion are knowledgeable and extraordinary, and Master Xie is full of anger, how can his conduct be so unbearable." ”

"Hey! Isn't this marquis chic? Seeing the other party scolding him, he was happy in his heart.

If it weren't for the gap between the two, this greedy marquis had blackmailed the Zhang family for a lot of money, how could Zhang Wanting curse the other party, seeing that the other party was still in that kind of squirming style, she couldn't help but say evilly: "Wanting still has something to do, so I will retire first." ”

"Slow down~" Xie Yu said with his nostrils facing the sky.

Zhang Wanting said strangely: "What's the matter with Master Hou?" ”

"Didn't you come out to play, you go up and weigh it, this marquis looks at how heavy you are!"

At this moment, even the maid brought out by Miss Zhang turned her head with a "hum", and secretly said in her heart that this son was frivolous.

Zhang Wanting couldn't help blushing and said angrily: "Don't deceive people too much. Then he departed.

Xie Yu laughed, stepped forward and grabbed the other party's hand and said: "You don't call it a name, if you don't call it, this Hou Ye will immediately ask someone to greet you through the door, hehe, disgusting you." ”

Zhang Wanting's hand was held by the other party, and her heart was as disgusting as swallowing a fly, and when she heard those words, her heart suddenly burned with anger, how could this look escape Xie Yu's eyes, and hurriedly said: "If you dare to kick Benhou, I will really marry you, and Zhang Lao will not refuse." ”

She knew that if this villain came to the door to propose, her father would definitely agree, the other party was a top-notch leader in terms of family background and future, how could the Zhang family fight, thinking of this, looking at the name, she shed tears aggrievedly, and Xie Yu's moving appearance couldn't help but soften, and threw down the other party's hand and said: "Oh, I'm just joking with you, why did I cry my nose, okay, okay, don't weigh it." ”

"Then will Master Hou go to propose?" Zhang Wanting stopped her tears and said softly.

"Hmm~~ This idea is still there."

"Ah~you~" These words immediately made Zhang Wanting nervous, and her bright eyes began to watery again, she grew so big, no one had ever bullied her like this, she just wanted to swallow the other party alive in her stomach to relieve her hatred.

"Hahahaha, it's still a joke, look at you nervous, farewell, farewell." Xie Yu saw that it was uncomfortable to play this young lady, and left her with his own soldiers in his heart.

Zhang Wanting stomped her feet hatefully and said: "How can there be such a bastard in this world, it really insults the reputation of the Xie family, shameless man, hum~"

midnight

The heat of the day has slowly subsided, the cool breeze is quietly blowing all over the earth, the Lu family's grange is still busy piling up the rice dried during the day, and a few stewards are busy sweating profusely, opening their clothes and directing the servants of the clan to be busy everywhere.

The Lu family, the Wu country with Lu Xun and Lu Kai as the representative of the rise of the family, after a hundred years of recuperation, has become the most powerful family here in Linhai County, the main vein of the clan, there are hundreds of people in the side branches, to this generation, Lu Yan became the head of the family, this person is decisive in doing things, and has great ambitions, leading the clansmen to keep the whole family in order, and people are praised.

"Quick, pile over there, the haystacks are laid, yes, cover up, damn, hard, if it rains and wets the grain, take you and ask." The steward of the grange carefully examined the grain stacks, and from time to time picked up the fallen grains of rice and put them into the burlap bag hanging on the right side of his body.

"Who did this?" The steward grabbed a pile of rice grains scattered on the ground, grabbed them in his hand, and poured them from one hand to another, "Whew." Whew, in order to blow the dust-stained grain clean, his brow slightly furrowed, and his face was full of pity.

"Bhoo, belch, grandpa, grandpa, this is a small one." A servant with thin eyes and a smirk came over.

"You kid, you don't care at all, come, pout."

"Hey! Master, let's clean it up and put it away, the body is skinny, and my parents will be hurt if you beat me. The servant laughed and scratched his head, hoping to get away with it.

The steward blew the rice grains clean, carefully put them into the bag beside him, raised his eyebrows, and said: "What, I learned to flamboy, I am afraid of being punished, so I will do things well, I am afraid of the punishment of the master, okay, pack up the bed, and go back to your house where the wind is blowing everywhere." ”

The servant was dumbfounded, if he was removed from the steward's name, this would really be laughed to death by the clansmen, how would he raise his head to be a man in the future, he turned his back with a sad face, lifted his clothes, revealed the round fat and tenderness, and said pitifully: "Master, you are old, oops~" Before the words were finished, his body was kicked to the ground, and he gnawed the mud with his mouth, and stroked it again and again.

"Hmph~ let you kid not care, what good food, just waste it like this, don't go out to take a look, how many people outside are hungry every day." After punishing the servant, the steward muttered, his eyes did not dare to relax in the slightest, and he looked around, he was really a good and conscientious steward.

The lights were still bright, the huge harvest was put into the stacks one by one, and in the dark night a hundred meters away from the village, a pair of eyes were observing, and they got up from the ground as lightly as a tanuki, and quickly ran towards the rear.

"Report ~ the grain has been put into the stack." Those eyes were standing in front of Ma Wenbiao at the moment, and they clenched their fists and said.

"Can you observe carefully?"

"There's no going to be wrong, head." The shrewd eyes that had changed their name nodded affirmatively.

Ma Wenbiao calmly looked around and whispered to the generals beside him: "Burn down the Grange, don't leave a single one, take as much money as you can, limit it to half an hour, and retreat after the matter is completed." "Concise, clean, careful and careful orders for everyone to clench their fists in unison and pass the order.

"Let's go." Ma Wenbiao waved his hand coldly.

Hundreds of black shadows in the four fields neatly drew their waist knives, and quietly and slowly unfolded into an encirclement, killing into the Lu family's Grange.

"Kill~" In an instant, the shouts of explosive shouts suddenly rose, which caught the entire tired Grange off guard, and the ragged people who jumped over the wall from all directions killed people when they saw them, without mercy.

The steward took off his shirt and was washing, and when he saw such a thing happening, he shouted in shock: "What a good man, this is Lu Shitian"

The open mouth of "poof" fell with its head, and the headless corpse with its bare body fell to the washing porcelain basin with a pop, and the blood and the dim water blended together, and were illuminated golden in the flames rising everywhere.

The crowd scattered in fright, and a small number of private soldiers in the village rose up to resist, but it happened suddenly, and the other party observed for a few days, the general direction, the number of people were clearly felt, any way to escape was blocked, and even the side of the well seemed to be deliberately arranged with manpower, which shows how fine the arrangement is.

Lu's Grange is suffering from the baptism of plunder, people have fallen, how can these mud-legged people be the opponents of the generals who have been training for days, even if someone escapes by chance, what he has experienced, what he has seen, is only the ragged man shouting foul words to rob everywhere, this obvious bandit action, is bound to make this big family based in Linhai County for hundreds of years experience a brutal killing.

The blazing flames set fire to each of the two stacks of grain, and scattered the newly harvested grain about, and all sorts of goods gathered here and there, as if they had fled with nervousness, were thrown everywhere, and as the whistle sounded for retreat, several men ran swiftly towards the south, throwing the looted things as they ran, and ran for miles away, before suddenly turning and heading north.