Chapter 45: The Temple Fair (I)

Zhao Xiuqin paused, stroked the cheek of the mermaid with her rough hand, and persuaded: "Since you can't figure it out, you can't think about it, then don't think about it, life is always content and happy in the world, and you always worry about certain things, isn't this deliberately difficult to get along with yourself?" ”

She was born in a peasant family when she was a child, and she has been helping her family do all kinds of rough work, so the skin on her hands is very rough, and there are many calluses, rubbing on her cheeks, giving people an uncomfortable feeling, but Fang Tian is smiling and does not dislike it.

The words are not coarse, and if you think about it carefully, what Zhao Xiuqin said is not unreasonable.

"It's okay for my mother to say, I don't want to do it, just think it's just a dream, remember it, remember it, just don't remember it, just don't have this dream, shut myself in the house all day and meditate, it's really hard to get along with myself."

Zhao Xiuqin couldn't help but laugh when she heard the music: "You are right, you stuff yourself at home all day long and don't go out, sooner or later you will have something wrong." ”

Fang Tian disagreed with this, among the scattered memories of his previous life, there were still modern people's old-fashioned speculations about ancient people, they felt that their daughter was the existence of staying at home, and before being reborn, Fang Tian himself also thought so.

"So many official ladies have stuffed themselves in the house and don't go out, so I haven't seen them become stupid."

Zhao Xiuqin glared at her: "The official lady, or the daughter of a rich family, is the same as us, even if people don't leave the house, they can eat and drink well, if the children of our small peasant families stay at home, sooner or later they will starve to death at home, and they always stay at home and are very bored, how do you know that the young lady of a big family will definitely have no market to go out and wander around?" ”

Suddenly remembering something, Zhao Xiuqin sighed and frowned: "Girl, you said that strange dream, I can't remember it now." ”

"It's not that I can't remember, or I've forgotten a lot, and that's why I've locked myself in my room and written all day, just thinking that I can write down the weird things in my dreams."

Fang Tian lowered his head slightly when he spoke, his eyes were half lowered, and his white and delicate hands slowly stroked the dried ink marks, like the last autumn rain before the cold winter, his movements were very gentle, as if he was carrying infinite affection.

"Since you have forgotten the content of that dream, have you also forgotten how to prepare the Rausch perfume?"

Zhao Xiuqin thought of this possibility, and suddenly felt a chill down her spine, if it was okay before, before Fang Tian messed around with himself, whether he could do it well, or whether he could do it, the consequences everyone in the Fang family could afford it, they felt that no matter how much they failed, it was a problem that Yin Liang could solve, it was a big deal to be tired and do more work, Fang Tian was happy.

In the past, only when their family had hope for Fang Tian, this kind of thinking could indeed be continued, but now it is different, Zhao Qi personally came to send flowers a few days ago, and in order to show his sincerity, he also gave Fang Tian a stack of silver tickets.

Thinking of this possibility, Zhao Xiuqin was very painful, she had seen the stack of silver tickets in Fang Tian's hand, that was a price that their family would never afford to lose, you must know that their family was so poor that they couldn't afford to pay for the Wang family's fabric.

Fang Tian was stunned when he heard this, shook his head with a smile and said: "How dare I forget this kind of thing, this is an important formula that can make our family rich, I definitely don't dare to forget it, I quickly wrote down all these things when I found out that something was wrong earlier." ”

Fang Tian took out a piece of paper with two or three lines of small characters written on it from the messy table like a typhoon, held it in both hands, and handed it to Zhao Xiuqin like a baby.

When Zhao Xiuqin was still young, there was a relative at home who was literate, and she was very diligent when she saw that she was cute and diligent, so she often let her come to her house to play.

When she took the piece of paper that was said to be written about the preparation of perfume from her daughter's delicate hands, and unfolded it in front of her eyes, she only felt dizzy: "What are you writing here, why can't I understand it?" ”

Zhao Xiuqin turned the paper up and down, left and right, no matter from which angle she looked, she couldn't recognize what words were written on it, the font glyph and the words she knew seemed to have many similarities, but they were very different, not to mention that the strokes of this word were much less, and the pen seemed to be different from the usual.

Zhao Xiuqin squinted her eyes and looked at her daughter's hand, with a puzzled look on her face.

Fang Tian finally remembered that something was wrong, she was holding the pen in the wrong posture, and the words she wrote on the rice paper were all modern simplified characters. Fang Tian, like many modern people, uses simplified characters cleverly, and traditional characters can only be read but not written.

Fang Tian thought for a while, and finally came up with a passable reason: "This is not ordinary penmanship, I am calligraphy, oops, mother, you don't care about such trivial details, I write my own words, I can understand it myself, and the words I write are not understood by others, this is a good thing, in the future, our family's business will become bigger, and it will be prosperous, in case a few thieves see red eyes and want to steal the formula back, put it in their pockets and take it home, open it only to find that they don't know a word, how interesting it is." ”

Fang Tian's words were described vividly, and Zhao Xiuqin couldn't help laughing when she heard it.

As soon as she smiled, Fang Tian knew that she had barely passed this level, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Fang Tian put the paper with the perfume preparation method in the drawer, and asked as he moved: "Mother, didn't you say a few days ago that a distant relative had something at home and wanted to go to their house to help for a few days, why didn't you go today, is something wrong?" ”

Zhao Xiuqin raised her eyebrows and sighed: "You girl, just now you said that you are forgetful, so when you write things down on paper, I still don't believe it, it turns out that you are really forgetful, you forgot what you promised me yesterday?" ”

Seeing Fang Tian's slightly frowning and puzzled expression, Zhao Xiuqin said helplessly: "You promised me yesterday that you would accompany me to the temple fair today." ”

As soon as she heard her say this, Fang Tian also remembered, yesterday she was anxious to ask where the valley where rare orchids might grow, Zhao Xiuqin told her the location, and then said that the next day was the day when the temple fair was held, and asked Fang Tian to go to the town with her tomorrow.

"This year's temple fair at the Nameless Temple in the north is different from previous years' temple fair, originally this temple fair was not going to be held until next spring, due to a vision from the sky, it was only a few months in advance. You have also been to the nameless temple, there are many white lotuses planted in the small lake behind the temple, those lotus flowers should have bloomed in midsummer, and now in late autumn, they should have fallen long ago, but the lotus flowers in the lake are still blooming, and people who have seen them come back and say that the flowers are blooming better than in midsummer! ”

"How can such a strange thing happen?" Fang Tian listened to this, and his face was surprised.

Even in previous lives, I had rarely heard of similar things happening, after all, the reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao has different seasons, unless someone has spent a lot of money to transform the climate and environment, it is impossible for flowers in the natural environment to bloom and not fall.

Zhao Xiuqin's voice became louder and louder because of her daughter's questioning: "I can still make up the things that I know for a hundred miles, I can't make it up and deceive you, this matter even alarmed the imperial court, and the families of many big officials came to see it, and some people in our village also went to see it, and they all said that the white lotus bloomed very beautifully, and it bloomed better than in summer." ”

Hearing such a strange thing, Fang Tian couldn't help but feel a little curious: "This is probably a rare thing in a hundred years, and I want to see it too." ”

Zhao Xiuqin was waiting for her words: "Let's take Ah Xiao with us, the temple fair is lively, many people will take their children out and about, he should also like it." ”

Fang Tian nodded, put down the things in the hut and hurriedly went to find Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao has never liked to go out and walk around, he is more precocious than his peers, and he can't play with them at all, so he rarely goes out and walks around. He had been in Fang's house for so long, and the only thing he showed great interest in was Fang Tian's flower garden.

When Fang Tian walked out of the door, he saw Lin Xiao squatting motionless in the flower garden, staring at something, and he was distracted. He was wearing the new clothes that Fang Tian had bought for him in the town some time ago, and he seemed to cherish the clothes on his body, and when he squatted in the flower garden, he held all the parts of the clothes that might fall to the ground in his arms.

Fang Tian was afraid of scaring him, and called his name softly, Lin Xiao suddenly came back to his senses, turned his head to look at her, his eyes were as bright as stars: "Sister! I'm looking at the flower you planted, and I always feel that it seems to grow slower than normal buds, I don't know if it's my delusion. ”

What Lin Xiao said was the black seed that Fang Tian bought back at the bazaar once, Fang Tian didn't have hope when she planted it, she never expected that those black seeds that had been stored for many years did not lose their vitality in the slow passage of time, but actually grew delicate buds after planting a few days later.

"It's already a miracle that it can take root and sprout, and as for slow growth, just let it be, don't worry."

Fang Tian half-squatted down and joined Lin Xiao, and the shadow of a sprout was also reflected in her black and white eyes.

Fang Tian majored in agriculture in his previous life, and in books, he had seen countless flowers and plants in reality, because he had already recognized all the varieties of flowers, but he didn't expect to be planted in the end on this tenacious black seed.

Fang Tian narrowed his eyes and carefully examined the new shoots, thinking of similar young shoots in his mind, he could never think of what kind of flower this was.

couldn't think of it, so he simply didn't want to, Fang Tian rubbed Lin Xiao's head and asked him, "The weather is good today, do you want to go outside to play?" ”

After all, the child is just a child, and no matter how precocious he is, he can't extinguish his nature, so when he heard Fang Tian say that he wanted to go outside to play, he nodded without hesitation.

Before going out, Zhao Xiuqin inspected it, and said with a straight face that Fang Tian was dressed too casually when he went out.

Fang Tian was wearing an ordinary dress, no powder, and only a hairpin that had been inconspicuous was pinned to her bun, this was this dress, which made Zhao Xiuqin quite dissatisfied: "Do you think this temple fair is really just a temple fair, Ah Xiao wears so casually that it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what a married woman like me wears, but you are still a little girl who has not left the boudoir, why do you dress so casually?" ”

Fang Tian and Lin Xiao looked at each other, stunned for a while before they figured out the trick.

In ancient times, women practiced staying at home, or girls who had not left the boudoir could not go out at will. Since you can't go out at will, there are some troubles about marriage, such as whose daughter looks like a fairy, how beautiful she is, and who doesn't see outsiders for a long time, who knows if it's ugly?