Chapter 20: Tanabata
"Why does the Holy Lord hold a competition?" The county lord of Nanping asked.
"The emperor's daughter is also worried about getting married." Yan Siye handed her the belt.
The county lord of Nanping was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Also, the fifth princess is twenty, she doesn't decline, and the sixth princess, seventh princess and eighth princess are not easy to marry." Yan Tongzhu is only twelve years old, no matter how he points to marriage, he can't point to his head, and the county lord of Nanping is quite willing to join in this fun.
Because of the emperor's edict, the nobles of the various provinces in Beijing are also looking forward to Liqiu, they can not only watch their brothers compete for glory on the field from the stands, but also take the opportunity to see how the men of other families are and prepare for family affairs.
"If I knew it, I wouldn't be in a hurry to marry Zhizhi." Mrs. Yan San was actually not too satisfied with her second nephew, but she just retreated to the next best choice.
"The family matter has been decided, if you say this kind of thing, if your sister-in-law hears it, what will she think?" Yan Sanye said unhappily.
"I'll just talk to you, how can my sister-in-law know." Mrs. Yan San pursed her lips and squinted at him.
"Okay, it's a foregone conclusion, don't read it." Yan Sanye was impatient to listen to this nonsense.
On this afternoon, Imperial Physician Qiao came to ask Mrs. Yan and the county lord of Nanping to ask for a safe pulse, Yan Hagi was touched by the light of the two, and they were also checked together, Imperial Physician Qiao smiled and said: "Miss Twelve's body is much better than before, and there is flesh on her hands and face." ”
Old Madam Yan and the county lord of Nanping were overjoyed, "I've bothered you." "In fact, since I was born in Yan Hagi, I have been helped by Imperial Doctor Qiao to recuperate my body.
"There, this is the duty of the lower officer." Imperial Physician Qiao said with a smile.
After saying a few more polite words, Imperial Physician Qiao said goodbye and left, Yan Hagi took out a small mirror and took a photo, it was really as Imperial Physician Qiao said, her face was fleshy, her lips were red and her teeth were white, and she was more and more beautiful.
On the morning of the seventh day of the seventh month of July, Yan Qi and Yan Zhi carved flower melons were sent to the He family and the Jiang family respectively. After breakfast, Yan Qin, Yan Qian, Yan Miao and Yan Ying went to Wei's house and begged with Wei Liniang's sisters.
The subordinates were busy drying bedding and clothes, and Yan Hao, who had nothing to do, slipped to the outer courtyard to find Yan Tongming, avoided the little guy guarding the door, picked up the door frame, and shouted inside: "Ninth brother, ninth brother." ”
Yan Tongming was not in the room, Yan Hagi pouted, climbed over the threshold, and began to sweep, she was two years younger than Yan Tongming, but Yan Tongming could go out at will, but she couldn't, it was so unfair! Yan Hagi decided to scavenge all the treasures that Yan Tongming had collected in order to make up for her injured little heart.
"Look left, look right, turn up, turn down, there are a lot of treasures here." Yan Hagi hummed a messy song while twisting his little ass to find something. Find a thin bamboo-woven cicada cage, a glazed porcelain lion, and a box-mounted noodle figure.
Yan Hagi put these three things on the couch, and was about to look for things and take them away, when he accidentally saw the book pressed under the brocade mat. When I took it out, it was a novel, and I flipped it over, and it read: There is a Weaver Girl in the east of Tianhe, and the son of the Emperor of Heaven is also. Every year, he works hard and weaves into a cloud brocade clothes, and his appearance is flawless. The emperor took pity on his solitude and promised to marry the Hexi Morning Glory, and then abolished the weaving after marriage. The Emperor of Heaven was angry and ordered to return to Hedong and meet once a year.
Look, at this time, the Weaver Girl was still married to the Cowherd by the Emperor of Heaven, but there was no private matching; If you hire a wife, you will be a concubine, and even the fairies in the sky must abide by the rules and precepts of heaven. Later generations changed the mythological story to the extreme, which is outrageous.
This book seems to be good, take it away together, and Yan Hagi returns with a full load.
As soon as Yan Hagi left, Yan Tongming came back, and soon found that the gnatwood cage, the glazed porcelain lion, the box-mounted noodle and the novel were gone, so he quickly called the little guy in, "The fourth master has been here?" ”
"Nope." The little guy shook his head.
Yan Tongming breathed a sigh of relief, "Who has been here?" "The eldest brother is in the palace, the second brother is in the academy, and the father didn't come, is it the mother?
"Miss Twelve has been here." The little guy replied. When Yan Hagi went out, he didn't avoid people and let the little guy see it.
Yan Tongming patted his chest, "It's Xiaoxiao, that's fine." "My sister took the rest of the things, but the novel, I had to get it back, and if my parents knew that he was leading my sister to read miscellaneous books, his ass would suffer.
Near evening, Tang Zhi asked someone to send a jade box to Yan Hao, and the hollow carved jade box contained a happy spider; Spider should be coincidental is the custom of the year, this dynasty to see the spider web sparse to judge, dense words are more clever, scarce words are less.
Yan Hagi handed the jade box to the licorice, "Put it on the shelf." ”
Although Yan Qin and the four of them went to Wei's house, Yan Qi and others were still there, so the picture of the Qixi Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl was hung in the moon garden, and melons and fruits, wine cakes, vegetables and dried meat were placed on the incense table. On the willow tops of the moon, the young lady who had dinner, accompanied by the maid, arrived at the moon garden one after another.
After worshipping the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, Yan Qi beckoned her sisters to sit down, "It's night, drink tea, you can't sleep well at night, let's drink honey." ”
"Listen to the second sister." The younger sisters answered obediently.
The maidservant girl sent honey water, everyone drank honey and ate snacks, sat bored, maybe a little bit of showmanship, Yu Fangfei smiled: "We have also read a few poetry collections in the school, today's Qixi Festival, it is better to connect poems to help Yaxing." ”
"Sister Twelve and I haven't been enlightened yet." Yan Hong was not happy.
Yu Fangfei choked and ignored these two little cousins, what should I do?
"We won't, we can listen to the sisters' poems, and we can have fun." Yan Hagi is empathetic and authentic.
Yan Qi said with a smile: "In order to make the two younger sisters happy, let's join the poem, since it was proposed by Cousin Yu, then Cousin Yu will start with it." ”
Yu Fangfei glanced at Yan Hagi and said, "Then I'll throw bricks and lead jade, 'Morning glory, the Han girl of the Kyaukyao River.'" Slender hands, zaza lanes. ’”
"This poem is suitable for the situation, I want to think about it." Yan Qi put down the cup, "'Stop the shuttle to borrow crickets, and leave the clever spiders.'" ’”
"'Begging to look at the galaxy, both and Qiluo. It's not too small, it's just that the moon is bright. 'I'm right, right?' Yan Rui smiled.
"Yes, that's right." Yan Qi and Yan Zhi both laughed.
"I don't understand." Yan Hong pouted.
"My sisters are all Qixi poems, you just listen to them obediently, I don't understand it now, and I'll understand it when you're older." Yan Hagi stuffed a hibiscus cake for her.
"Oh," Yan Hong was soothed by the pastry.
"'It's too much to give, and it's a good time to sleep.'" Yu Fangfei replied before Yan Zhi.
Yan Qi thought for a moment and said: "'At that time, Tian Hai was resentful, and the dream of the world was separated by the west wind. ’”
"'The hall is deep and the heat is less, and the sun sets and the night breeze is clear.' Yu Fangfei connected again.
Yan Zhilian said: "'The Queqiao wave is out, and the dragon car is flying out. ’”
In the back, Yan Rui, who was a few years younger, had to withdraw, leaving only Yan Qi and Yan Zhi to compete with Yu Fangfei; Yu Fangfei has liked poetry and books since she was a child, her father has never had a son, raised her as a son, she is in the boudoir, often goes out to participate in poetry meetings, comes to Yanfu, holds back for so long, today finally caught this opportunity, I can't help but be a little forgetful.
"Cousin Yu really can't read less poems." Yan Qi said with a smile.
"I didn't read anything, so I picked something interesting and memorized it." Yu Fangfei said modestly.
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In her previous life, Yan Hagi and Yu Fangfei became good friends because Yu Fangfei was a talented girl like her, but in this life, Yan Hagi was not a talented woman, so she couldn't talk to Yu Fangfei.