Chapter 56: The Robbery of the Spring Festival (2)

"Okay, you have the final say! Ah Shi, are we going to stay here with this room full of things, or are we going to move to Baili Mansion? Si'er crossed his waist and looked at a room full of boxes and boxes, not knowing where to start.

"Pick up some spices and take them with you, and you can give them away when you turn around." I handed her a box of spices beside me.

Si'er took a cloth bag and put a small baggage, and counted it: "Spices, dried fruits, plus a moon-white silk you like and a bundle of blue embroidery thread, see if you want to bring anything else?" ”

"Take out the dagger that Gongzi sent back to me!"

"What are you doing with it?" Si'er took out something wrapped in red cloth from the cabinet, and when he opened it layer by layer, it was a dagger with gems given by Gongzi Li a few months ago.

"This dagger is good-looking, but there are so many gems on the handle, and there are some awkward hands in it." Si'er handed me the dagger.

"The blade of this dagger is said to be made of cast iron, and it is harder and sharper than ordinary bronze swords. You can carry it on weekdays for self-defense, and in case you run out of money outside in the future, you can also cut off the gems and exchange them for something important. ”

"Then you can take it! Everything is sorted out, let's go back quickly, the coachman of Baili Mansion must be in a hurry. ”

"Well, let's go!" I straightened my belongings, looked around my room, and walked out.

When I returned to Baili Mansion in the evening, I gently stroked the jasper ring given to me by Gongzi Li by the candlelight. In that dream on Moya Mountain, I clearly saw this jade ring hanging on A-Niang's waist. It's just that in the dream, A-Niang hangs on her waist is a double-ring pendant, and the one in my hand is just one of the double-ring pendants.

The legend of the prince fox of Zhou, I have only read it in books. The jade pendant in my dream, I thought it was just my imagination after reading the paper. Even if there really is such a nine-tailed double-ringed pendant in this world, it cannot be exactly the same as what I saw in my dreams. But now, this tentacle warm jade ring is lying in the palm of my hand, and the only explanation I can think of is that I really saw this jade pendant on A-Niang before I was four years old, or heard her describe the appearance of this jade pendant.

"It's so late, why haven't you slept yet? Tomorrow I have to get up early to go to the altar to worship spring! Si'er stood up and asked in a daze.

"Well, I went to sleep." I put the jade ring on the red rope and tied it to my chest, got up, blew out the bean lamp on the case, and climbed into bed.

Si'er muttered twice and put his foot on my lap, I lay on the bed and stared at the beam on the roof, and muttered, "Si'er, do you know? My aunt may never have ever told me the truth. ”

"Hey, when I was a child, who didn't lie? If you ask a word, you will lie if you can't answer, you will scold if you can't deceive, and if you scold and ask, you will beat, all the same, all the same......" Si'er replied in a daze.

I touched the jade ring on my chest and bent the corners of my mouth, turned around and hugged the warm and lovely person beside me, and fell asleep.

Jumang is the god of plants and trees, the god of life. From the king of Zhou to the princes of various countries, after the end of each year, they should choose a day to lead the ministers to the Dongfang Ming Hall to worship the god of Mang, in order to seek smooth weather and full valley in the coming year.

Today is the day when Qin Bo sacrifices to the god of Mang. It is said that a few days ago, 25 ox carts were used for sacrificial vessels, animals, wine, and spices, and they were transported three times to the east gate.

Juan has been begging Hongyao to take her to watch the ceremony together, for her who is about to become a concubine, if she misses this time, she will never have the opportunity to participate in the sacrificial ceremony of the Qin State again, because as a concubine, she cannot participate in the sacrifice of her husband's family before her death, and she cannot enjoy the sacrifice of the temple after her death. Unfortunately, Silk suddenly came to the red news last night. It is a great sin to participate in the sacrifice with an unclean body, and Hongyao can only leave her in the house, so only me and Hongyao are sitting in the carriage today.

"Sister, how did Childe and you get acquainted?" Hongyao looked at the scenery outside the car and asked casually.

"When Childe came to the General's Mansion to look for the general, he met a few times occasionally." I bowed my head and replied.

"I've only met a few times, but it's no wonder that anyone who sees someone like my sister will take it to heart. Although Leigh is my cousin, he thinks I love to cry and doesn't like me when I was a child. Last time at the night banquet in the Prince's Mansion, it was the first time I saw him so attentive to a girl. ”

The prince's night banquet, she is also there?

I bowed my head and was silent, and Hongyao said: "Father Qing mentioned it to me a long time ago, saying that there is a noble girl in Wufu who is literate and smart, and she is smart and beautiful. At that time, I thought I had to meet you. Unexpectedly, now the two of us are going to marry together as sisters. ”

"The little girl is afraid, even if she arrives at the prince's mansion in the future, the noble girl is the wife, and Ah Shi is the concubine. There is a difference between master and servant, and they dare not forget. ”

"Hahaha, very good, you are so polite, and you are not in vain for General Wu's upbringing." Hongyao was very satisfied with my answer, she lifted my long hair behind me, and said softly, "Although your hair is beautiful, it is too long, so you can cut it after the Son's Mansion!" ”

She's going to cut my hair? I suppressed the panic in my heart, leaned over and said, "Respectfully! ”

Being a concubine is not so much to serve the husband as to serve the housewife. The red medicine has been around her mother Ran Ying for many years, and her kung fu in controlling the concubine must have been perfected. If I really marry with her to Gongzi Lifu, I'm afraid that I will tremble in the future and live my life with promises.

Singing and dancing with witches, Qin Bo took his sons and ministers to religiously burn incense and worship the god of spring under the blessing of Qin Taishi. The huge bronze dome was filled with sacrificial livestock, the exquisite square statue was flowing with fragrant wine, and the ladies were standing on tiptoe around the outer circle to look inside, and I was squeezed by the crowd and staggered, so I simply retreated.

The fact that the prince did not appear today shows that the Qin army has not yet withdrawn from the border. If this continues, by the time Wu Feng returns, I will probably have been pushed into Gongzi's mansion. At that time, even if I have the ability to fly, I can only bow down in front of Hongyao and be a cowardly concubine for a lifetime. And that's not the future I want.

I sighed as I walked away from the crowd, and before I knew it, I came to the edge of Weishui. Weishui was an important waterway for the Qin State to communicate with the Central Plains. After the end of the year, the weather in Qindi warmed slightly. By this time, most of the ice on the river had melted, leaving only some broken ice chips floating under the shade of the trees on the riverbank. The white reeds on the shore flutter in the wind, and occasionally a few gray mallards emerge from them and jump into the slow-flowing water.

I stood on the shore and folded a newly sprouted reed bud and bit it in my mouth, the spring of Yongcheng has come, what is the situation of Lintao thousands of miles away? It is said that in the wilderness of the northwest, there are many bandits, and the Rong people are rampant, and my reason tells me that it will be a stupid decision to go to Wu Feng without authorization. But my heart can't wait to go northwest, if not for anything else, but for an answer.

I was hesitating here, but suddenly I heard an exclamation in my ears, and when I turned my head, I almost fell into the water in fright.

On the bank of the river, among the white reeds, a woman with a disheveled hair was running towards me screaming. Chasing after her was a young man with a sword and a fierce face.

"Help!" Before the woman could run a few steps, she was pushed to the ground by the black-faced young man behind her, and then two tall men came out of the reeds on the shore, and without saying a word, they put the woman into a sack.

What is this doing?! Abduction?