May 5, Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival is an official statutory holiday issued by the Han Dynasty, and this day is also known as the Dragon Boat Festival and the Daughter's Festival.

For example, today, all industries are prosperous, and the local government also organizes dragon boat races on this day, trying to heat up the festive atmosphere, and those merchants are taking the opportunity to stir up.

Watch the dragon boat race during the Dragon Boat Festival, drink realgar wine, and eat zongzi, buns, garlic, chicken, and oil fruits.

Every household gets up early and inserts mugwort leaves and changpu on the doors and windows, and wears five poisonous spirit talismans. Especially in the area of Beijing, it is more customary to decorate the little girl during the Dragon Boat Festival, and she is extremely beautiful. And the daughters who are married will also return to their parents' homes during the Dragon Boat Festival, so they are also used to calling the Dragon Boat Festival the Daughter's Day.

Although this year's Jingshi has changed the Shuntian Mansion Yin, the newly appointed Mansion Yin is still Xiao Gui Cao Sui, and the city's business philosophy has not changed. On such a lively day as the Dragon Boat Festival, Jingshi did not let it go, and it was very lively. Not only organized the counties and towns, as well as the commercial banks to establish dragon boat teams, and carried out the Beijing Dragon Boat Competition on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the major newspapers and periodicals also coincidentally made a special edition of the Dragon Boat Festival, what is the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, and some also held a poetry essay contest to commemorate Qu Yuan.

Merchants are still engaged in holiday promotions.

In the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is getting hotter, but it is as prosperous as ever.

Liu Jun especially vacated the night of the Dragon Boat Festival, changed into civilian clothes in the evening, and left the palace with the guards. In the courtyard of the vegetable market street, wormwood and changpu have already been inserted at the door, and you can smell a unique smell of wormwood, realgar, garlic and so on from a distance.

Lina is now a big boss, more than 30 German hotels have been opened, and chain stores have opened in Gyeonggi and opened in Nanjing, Luoyang, Lushun, Dalian, Qingdao, Yingkou, Yangzhou and other places.

There are more than 30 chain stores, and the number of employees has exceeded 1,000.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, Lina sent out thousands of yuan in bonuses. Officials and students can take a break during the Dragon Boat Festival, but in the catering industry, holidays are the busiest time for business. Therefore, Lina's shop can only be compensated, and employees who work overtime on every holiday can also get double pay.

The restaurant now has a dedicated management team in charge of operation, and the number of new stores is increasing at a rate of almost two or three per month.

All day long, she was at home, buying the freshest mugwort leaves and changpu, inserting them into every door and window with her own hands, and also wrapping zongzi with her own hands. Fried oil fruits, boiled salted duck eggs and eggs, fried hemp flowers

When Liu Jun came in, Lina's face was full of joy.

"Sorry for the delay." Liu Jun's routine lies.

Liu Jun's current identity has changed from the original Hanlin editor to a senator in the House of Representatives, and his grade has jumped to the fourth grade, and his official position is higher, so he is much busier with his work, and he often has no time to go home. I often have to work overtime.

Lina never said anything about it, but she knew in her heart that it was definitely not that simple. The biggest possibility is that the husband actually has another family outside, and he may just be an outer room.

This is normal.

A man as good as he is, young. But he has already held a high-ranking position, how can he marry a Xiyi widow? However, Lina had already figured it out, the Han practiced monogamy and multiple concubines, and it was normal for men to have many concubines. It is even common to have an outer room in an external private house.

He didn't want to show himself in front of his wife and concubine, and she could understand that.

As a result, the husband often comes back only once or twice a week. Every time, she can only stay for one night and half a day, and she is used to it, and she will not explore anything. As for where his home was, what his wife looked like, how many children he had, and so on, she would not look for it until one day he told him all this.

Now she is very satisfied with this life, and her life is very fulfilling. Every week, he always finds a night or two to spend with him.

"Your salted duck eggs taste very authentic, look at the red egg yolk, direct oil, awesome, you are a natural foodie." Liu Jun washed his hands and looked at the Dragon Boat Festival set meal brought by Lina, and couldn't help but praise it.

The dumpling leaves are torn apart, the ham dumplings are fragrant, and the glutinous rice and ham are soft and salty, and they are delicious.

For some reason, when he was in the palace, Liu Jun's appetite was always average, but every time he came to this small courtyard, his appetite was always very good. Lina is worthy of being a woman who runs a restaurant, and she can always capture his appetite very accurately.

"Why didn't you bring your parents here?"

"I went back to them in the morning, and they came over to sit for a meeting in the afternoon, and when they saw that you were busy with work and didn't have time to come back, they sat back and went back." Lina sat on the side, smiling as she watched Liu Jun eat the food she had prepared with great appetite. As he spoke, he picked up a salted duck egg and cut it for Liu Jun.

"I'm so busy at work, I'm so embarrassed." Liu Jun said a little embarrassed, this lie is too much, Liu Jun also feels unconvinced, but he doesn't want to reveal his identity, if it is revealed, it will definitely be difficult to maintain this warm and ordinary life now.

"Lina, there are some new villas in the western suburbs, both row and detached, all of which are very beautiful. I've signed up and paid a deposit, so let's go over and pick one one day. Liu Jun said that buying a villa seems to have become compensation.

Lina shook her head, "I think it's very good here, and I'm used to living here, the yard is not big, but it's peaceful." I'm used to getting along with my neighbors, everyone is very good, and today everyone has sent some zongzi salted duck eggs and so on. ”

"It's okay, we buy a villa in Xishan, and we go to live for a few days every year when we are free, which is considered a vacation, and we usually live here. I like it here, too. Liu Jun said.

The two sat together and had a sumptuous Dragon Boat Festival dinner, and Liu Jun proposed to go out shopping.

Kyoshi is a city that never sleeps, and at night, the street lights are turned on, and people who have worked all day during the day come out, and the streets are bustling with activity.

"Okay." Lina replied with a smile.

When she was about to go out, Lina suddenly grabbed Liu Jun.

"I have good news for you."

Liu Jun looked down at her, looking at her appearance, he suddenly felt a premonition in his heart.

"I took my parents to Beijing Normal Hospital for a physical examination yesterday, and then I also saw the doctor by the way, and the doctor told me that I had it."

"Great." Liu Jun smiled, "Is it confirmed, how many months?" ”

"It's been more than two months."

"Lina. Do you prefer boys or girls? Liu Jun reached out to stroke her lower abdomen, but it was only more than two months now, and it was still flat.

Lina had been paying attention to Liu Jun's expression, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that he was indeed happy when she heard the news of her pregnancy. Ever since she felt that her husband still had a family outside, and she was probably just an outer room, she was very concerned about some things about the main room and the outer room, and she had also heard about many husbands hiding in the outer gold house, and finally being found by the main room, and then bringing someone to the door. Those outer rooms that are hit by the main room are generally miserable.

"I like both boys and girls, but I like girls more, and girls are more close to their mothers."

"I'm the same, boys and girls like it the same, boys are naughty, girls are cuter. But whether it's a boy or a girl, that guy is lucky, he hasn't been born yet. already has a net worth of hundreds of thousands, and our German hotel is such a big business, and it will be his. ”

"No, it doesn't have to be all his." Liu Jun said again.

Lina's heart trembled.

"We're definitely not going to have more than one. I have to give birth to seven or eight of him, so that the children will not be lonely and lonely, and have company. ”

Lina couldn't help but slap Liu Jun on the arm, "You treat me as a sow." Seven or eight were still alive. But when he said this, his heart was full of sweetness, and he couldn't help but fantasize about the lively scene of the family when he and his husband had seven or eight children.

"It seems that we have to work hard to make money, and strive to open a hundred German restaurants for him. All the sons and daughters will be able to own shares. ”

With this good news, the mood of the two became better and better, and when they went out, they met several neighbors next door who were also invited to go to the night market together, and several men rarely saw Liu Jun, and they also politely invited him to join them. The neighbors all know that this neighbor is a high-ranking senator, and he rarely comes back once, but when he is at home, he will not put up a fight with them at all, and often pulls them to drink tea, smoke and chat, and talk about their own life and work, and everyone has a good impression of Liu Jun.

"Let's go to Qianmen Street together, and after shopping, we will go to the food stalls for supper, and I will have a treat." Liu Jun said to the neighbors with a smile. These neighbors who live in the streets and alleys of the vegetable market are just ordinary people, including those who set up stalls in the vegetable market to sell vegetables, those who kill pigs in the slaughterhouse, and the carpenters who open their own carpentry shops.

Seven or eight families, except for the old and young who stayed at home and were reluctant to go, a group of adults with a bunch of children and dozens of people formed a vast team.

"Call a few cars!"

With so many people and children, Liu Jun thinks it's not bad to call a few cars.

"Coachman!"

At the corner of the street, Liu Jun shouted, and someone immediately came.

"Official, do you use a car?"

"There are no bigger cars, there are dozens of us, and it is better to have a two-story carriage, call three or four."

At the mouth of the streets and alleys, those who pull carts and wait for customers, small shop owners, and even passers-by, etc., many of them are dressed up as people from Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and the guards and pro-army, and even many people have been disguised here for a long time, responsible for protecting the courtyard.

When the emperor has a request, he naturally has to do it with all his might.

Jingshi is now very developed in transportation, there are a number of public carriage lines that run through the whole city, and there are also a lot of rickshaws, of course, there are also a lot of horse-drawn taxis, as well as a lot of special sightseeing carriages in the city, double-decker, can accommodate twenty or thirty at a time, and the public carriage is somewhat similar.

The cost of renting a carriage is not expensive, many businessmen or scholars who come to Beijing like to make an appointment with a few friends, rent a sightseeing carriage, and visit Beijing, especially at night, take a big carriage to tour the capital at night, which is very cool.

It's like taking a flower boat on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing.

Soon a big carriage came, and Liu Jun asked for three cars at once, which was enough for hundreds of people. There is also a small bar on these sightseeing carriages, there are maids and men, both tea and wine, if necessary, you can also pay to call a song, and the local tyrant can also directly call a music class to play to help the fun.

The evenings of the Dragon Boat Festival are cool, and the streets are even more lively.

Colorful lanterns, Ambilight.

Shops and stalls, merchants shouted hard to attract customers.

As soon as the carriage approached Qianmen Street, Liu Jun heard the sound of a roadside stall selling very uniquely, which attracted his attention.

"Shuntian Tongzhou, Shuntian Tongzhou, Saibei Leather Shoe Factory has closed down."

"The largest leather shoe factory in Suncheon, Saibei Leather Shoe Factory has closed down. Boss Huanghe, who eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, owes more than one million gambling debts, and runs away with his concubine. We had no choice but to take leather shoes to pay for wages, and the original price was more than 500 or 600 leather shoes, all of which were only 200 yuan. ”

"All leather shoes, leather cows, sheepskins, camel skins, all sell for only 200 Wen, Huang He Wang Ba Dan Wang Ba Dan Huang He, you are not human. We have worked hard for you for more than half a year, and if you don't pay your salary, you pay us back our hard-earned money! ”

"Give us back our hard-earned money!"

This shoe-selling stall was surrounded by a large number of people, all attracted by the unique shouting of the stall owner. Some came for cheap leather shoes, while others sympathized with the shoe worker whose boss had run away.

Liu Jun couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

"Let's go and see if it's really leather boots, we can buy a few pairs, and it can be regarded as a help for him." Brother Wang, who killed pigs in his neighborhood, said.

Everyone agreed, so they stopped the car and pulled aside, and everyone got out of the car to see.

There was more than one stall owner in that stall, but more than a dozen people, and there were a lot of leather shoes piled up next to it, and they told everyone that they were all workers in the Tongzhou Leather Shoe Factory, and they had worked for the boss for more than half a year, and they didn't get a penny of wages, but the boss suddenly ran away, leaving only some shoes and materials and tools in the factory, and they had no choice but to sell these things to offset their wages.

The shoes they sell are all leather shoes, and those who know the goods say that they are indeed genuine leather shoes, and the leather is good. Although such leather shoes are not old brand shoes, they are all genuine leather after all, so it is normal for a pair of five or six hundred yuan to be normal. Now it is only sold for two hundred wen a pair, and it is definitely a bloodletting sale.

There were many onlookers, many people who bought, and more than a dozen men selling shoes were busy, and the people who bought shoes lined up. Wang Tuhu and they completely believed the situation of these shoe sellers, and their sympathy and the heart of picking up cheap made them not care about shopping, and they all competed to pick shoes. Not only for myself, but also for my wife, for my parents, and for my children.

Liu Jun looked at it for a while and stepped aside.

"Borrow a fire!" Liu Jun pretended to borrow fire and walked towards a person on the side of the road.

The two approached, Liu Jun took out a cigarette and borrowed fire, and faced the man on the other, "Check them out immediately and give me the results tomorrow." (To be continued.) )