Before you know it, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. In the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, it seems that one day suddenly, osmanthus cakes are sold on the street, and the students who go out of school always love to hold one or two copper plates, let the vendors come to a piece, and then bite down, overflowing with the sweetness of the mouth.

There was nothing to do in the yamen, so Wen Zhesang and Song Hanshu copied the county chronicles together, and she also found a time to visit Old Man Wei, this time, no one dared to stop her. The respected old man in Qingfeng County is no longer as dustless as before, he seems to have figured it out, he has half of his body in the ground, and the future situation is to live a day and earn a day.

Wen Zhesang couldn't be idle, as if once she had nothing to do with her hands, she would think of Xie Yikou and the others who had no news for more than ten days in the mountain. She sometimes regrets it, but she also said it at the beginning, because once the news can't get out of the mountains, all Wen Zhesang has to do is wait.

But the days of waiting are not good, she is not like Jiang Weixi, who writes the worries in her heart on her face, and then squats outside the yamen all day long. She had to hide her mind a little deeper, a little deeper, so that no one could see it.

"Sir, you can eat something. This is the osmanthus cake sent by Shantang, and it smells sweet. Dongxue came in with a food box, and there were delicate-looking osmanthus cakes on several plates, which showed that the people who made dim sum had worked hard.

Wen Zhesang glanced at it, "Let's let it go first, Master Song has just left, you can send him some too." ”

Dong Xue wanted to speak and stopped, just looking at her as if she was concentrating on copying the county chronicles, Dong Xue had to swallow the words into her stomach, said "yes" and chased people with the food box.

I don't know what she said to Song Hanshu, Wen Zhesang only saw this little girl smile when she came back, which is about a good thing.

In the evening, Shui Yanwei came over, "Sister Wen, why is she so busy these days that her feet don't touch the ground?" I've been looking for it several times, and Dongxue has come back and said you're busy. ”

Wen Zhesang put down her pen, where was she busy, she only copied a county chronicle all afternoon. But she just smiled, "Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there will be a holiday in the yamen." I heard that there will be a lantern festival in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the past, why don't you go out for a walk? ”

This is the first lantern festival in Qingfeng County in the past four years - when Wang De was in office, he only cared about looting the people's fat and ointment, and he only entered and did not leave, and the people had no money to hold the lantern festival, so this activity was abandoned.

But now the people's days have hope, these days out for a walk, everywhere can hear the people's enthusiasm for holding a lantern festival.

Shui Yanwei had also heard of it, and her eyes lit up for a moment, "Lantern Festival?" The lantern festival in Beijing is a grand scene in the world, and the lantern festival in this county is afraid that it will not be too lively. But I was bored and panicked when I stayed, so I might as well snuggle up to my sister and go out to breathe. ”

The matter was finalized, and Wen Zhesang did not torture himself anymore to copy the county chronicles that he couldn't read, and after finishing the last bit of work, he ordered the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. And those who are on duty during the Mid-Autumn Festival can also receive additional subsidies. It is conceivable that as soon as this news was released, the officials were very happy.

Today, the officials are going to have a holiday after a business trip, Wen Zhesang asked Dongxue to take out the moon cakes that had been prepared long ago and distribute them, so as to make the moon full and the people reunited.

Under the bright moonlight, she listened to the words of obvious joy from everyone, and she watched everyone leave the yamen in groups of three or five, thinking that there would probably be people in the vast green mountains at this time tomorrow, looking at the bright moon like them.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival in Qingfeng County is very lively. Several aunts in Shantang made mooncakes early in the morning, and each of them carried a bamboo basket and went out to the street to distribute mooncakes to the children.

Wen Zhesang gave gifts everywhere, and those who returned the gifts also made Dongxue make a list. Shui Yanwei couldn't help but be a little curious when she saw that Dong Xue could not only read and hyphenate but also write well, "I am also familiar with Dong Xue, I only knew that she knew a few words before, but I didn't expect to be able to write." The people around Sister Wen are indeed different from the maids next to her. ”

She is not burying the summer solstice, but the subordinates in the Gaomen compound are best just obedient utensils. Maids like Dongxue are the most taboo for the masters, such as dealing with ordinary maids, if the master wants them to keep their mouths shut and doesn't want their lives, just poison people, they can't say anything.

However, Dongxue can write, if she is poisoned and dumb, she still has hands, and if she cuts off her hands, she still has feet, which is really impossible to prevent. Moreover, if you know a lot of words, if you see some secret documents while serving, you will lose your life.

Shui Yanwei thinks that she is not as good as Wen Zhesang in this matter.

There were moon cakes and pastries on the stone table in the courtyard, and Wen Zhesang also asked the kitchen to send osmanthus stuffed, but he poured it in a cup and didn't drink it.

Wen Zhisang was quite joking when she heard this, she said: "There are few available people around me, and I want to be lazy on weekdays, which forced Dongxue to put pen to paper." ”

At this time, Dongxue made a list for Wen Zhesang to see.

Suddenly the autumn wind rose, Wen Zhesang looked at the list casually, and when he looked up, he saw that there was a full moon hanging high on the gray-blue sky, but the dark clouds blown by the autumn wind covered half of the moon. Outside the yamen, the cheers of the children could already be heard.

Wen Zhesang moved for a while: "It seems that the lantern festival has begun." ”

"yes, I didn't expect it to be so lively." Shui Yanwei said.

Both of them were attracted by the bustle outside, and went out after eating a pastry or two to cushion their stomachs. There is a bright moon in the sky, and there are all kinds of lanterns on the ground. Dong Xue followed the two and introduced: "I heard that the Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns would not be so lively, but the county has not held a lively event for three years. ”

As she spoke, Wen Zhisang's hand happened to touch a white rabbit lantern, which was the most popular among children, and the patterns on the rabbit's body were also depicted in a festive and cheerful manner.

Suddenly, a half-grown child shuttling through the crowd bumped into Wen Zhesang, who was not as tall as Wen Zhesang's waist and looked to be only seven or eight years old. The little girl wiped her nose, apologized, and then looked at the white rabbit lamp for a moment.

"Do you like it?" Wen Zhesang raised the white rabbit lamp on the mobile phone and asked her.

The little girl clenched the corner of her clothes embarrassedly, "I like it, but my mother said that we can't afford it, and when the lantern festival passes, if there are people on the street who don't want lanterns, pick one up and give it to me." ”

Her face was shy, but her eyes were so big and there was a clear light.

Shui Yanwei leaned over and asked her, "Why can't you afford it?" Are you having a bad time? ”

"We're doing well!" The little girl's answer was surprising, she seemed to be afraid that the two would not believe it, so she opened her hands and gestured seriously, "We couldn't eat before, but after the county magistrate came, we had food every day, and my father went to the field every day to be busy, and my father said that if there was some food left at home, he would change new clothes for me and my aunt." We also moved, and it used to be raining in our house, and it was very cold in winter, but now our house is warm, and no wind can blow in! ”

The purest childish words are always the most convincing. Shui Yanwei smiled and bent her eyes, like a crescent moon, which made the little girl look straight. Shui Yanwei turned her head to look at Wen Zhesang, "When I was in Beijing, many people said that Sister Wen would run this trip in vain, but now that I see it, I know that this place has indeed changed a lot." ”

Wen Zhesang's expression relaxed a little after a few days, she handed the white rabbit lamp in her hand to the little girl, and said with a smile: "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the moon tells me that every child must have a gift, and this is yours." She blinked, "It's our secret." ”

"Really?" The little girl's eyes lit up, "But I, my aunt said...... Yes! A-Niang, I saw A-Niang! ”

Wen Zhesang took the opportunity to look over, and there was indeed an anxious woman outside the crowd, and she happened to look over too, but she couldn't see the short little girl through the crowd. Wen Zhesang stuffed the white rabbit lamp into the little girl's hand, "Let's go find your aunt." ”

The little girl nodded happily, she was just about to get into the crowd, when she was suddenly picked up by two hands. She looked panicked, but the man didn't mean to hurt her, just held her in his arms, squeezed through the crowd and walked a few steps to her aunt.

"Let's go, go to the river." Wen Zhisang saw the separated mother and daughter reunited, her eyes showed a little stunned, she knew that Wen Zhi would soon follow them, so she didn't wait for him, turned around and went to the river.

There are lotus-shaped lanterns floating in the river, some of which sink as soon as they enter the water, while others can float and float until they reach the shore at a certain point, or sink as well.

There is a bridge over the river, and there are a few red lanterns hanging on the bridge, in fact, the flaming red lanterns always make people have bad associations at night. But at this moment, the voices are boiling, and no matter how cold the night breeze is, it can't extinguish everyone's enthusiasm, except-

"My lord, there is a case." Wen Yan was supposed to stay at the yamen tonight, and there were people coming and going on the street, and there were boiling voices everywhere, and I don't know how long he looked for it before he found Wen Zhesang.

After a while, Wen Zhesang and the others rushed back to the yamen.

The first person to find the body was a hunter, surnamed Wang. He claimed that he had gone up the mountain to hunt a few days ago, and that he had planned to go down the mountain yesterday to go home, but he met a lonely old wolf in the mountains, and he thought he could hunt it, but he broke his leg during the chase and was almost buried under the old wolf's mouth. However, although he escaped with his life, he had unknowingly taken the wrong path, and when he finally found the right way to go home, he inadvertently glanced into the bushes, and this glance almost scared his soul away.

"Adult, the little ones don't dare to touch that thing, they came to the yamen as soon as they got off the mountain, and they didn't go home!" Although Wang Orion's clothes were tattered, the wounds had been bandaged in the yamen.

Wen Zhesang nodded to indicate that he knew, "Do you remember where you found the body?" ”

Wang Orion touched the bruise on his forehead, and after a long time, he said, "Little one remembers...... It should be in the cypress tree, right, wrong. That place is a pass, if you want to take a shortcut in and out of the county, you can go there, and it was occupied by the bed bugs of the Eagle Village before, and the small one didn't plan to go there to hunt, but it was bad luck...... Alas, bad luck! ”

Wang Orion grinned and sighed, Wen Zhesang asked him some more questions, and after getting the answer, he asked Dongxue to give him some silver as a reward, and Wang Orion's face was a little better.