On the third day, Mrs. Liu sent her mother-in-law to send honey and steamed cakes, and took Li Yuju home to warm her daughter, although Li Danruo said that she couldn't talk to Li Yuju, she could see her eyes full of shy joy, and knew that she was satisfied with her marriage, and the original worries and sadness dissipated in her heart, seeing that the Winter Solstice Festival was in front of her, she had to take care of how to spend this year's Winter Solstice Festival.

Shen Mama often said that the old Beijing people's exquisiteness, if there are five money for the festival, three money for the winter solstice, the remaining two money for the New Year, if there is only one money, then you have to use the winter solstice first, it can be seen that the position of the winter solstice in the minds of the people in the capital, that is rather than the Spring Festival, but also to have a good winter solstice, that is, the court, the Spring Festival should have a reward, the winter solstice is the same, even open the Guanpu, the Spring Festival for three days, the winter solstice is also put for three days, these three days, the streets and alleys of the capital, Especially in the various wine shops and tiles, the lively and festive is a few points better than the Spring Festival, and in a year, it is only slightly worse than the Yuan Xi Festival.

The customs of the capital have been opened to the public for three days, and the ladies of all families, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, can be dressed up beautifully. In fact, in this era, there are no very strict rules of etiquette, that is, usually, the ladies of each family went to the wine shop to charter a private room to eat, and went to those elegant and exquisite flower sheds in the tiles to see the new brocade picking, listen to fresh songs or something, it is not a new thing, this is one of the most satisfying places for Li Danruo in these years.

However, Li Danruo rarely goes out, first, Mrs. Ning doesn't like the ladies in the house to go out for a stroll, and secondly, she often wanders around the market, which is also in the high-ranking families in the capital, but in the end it is not the mainstream, Li Danruo is determined to be a mediocre little woman, and she naturally can't do anything different.

In fact, there is no need to usually think about going out, there are many festivals here, grandly to the market to play, to the wild scenery to see the opportunity to see the flowers one after another, there is a time every few days, the first to the third day of the first day of the new year, the spring day of the government whip spring cattle, 10,000 empty alleys to see the house Yin rolled sleeves and trousers to raise the whip all over the street to drive the cattle, the carnival of the Yuan Xi Festival needless to say, February 1 to pass the neutralization festival, February and a half is the flower festival, this middle to go out to appreciate the spring, followed by the Qingming Festival, March from the beginning of the year, from the Jinmingchi, Qionglin Yuan to compete for the tin banquet beganUntil the end of March, the middle view of the saint is lucky, the army is a hundred plays than riding and shooting, and the garden is put into the gate...... There are all kinds of excitement, and you can't watch it at all.

April is full of Buddhist meetings, dojos, this month Mrs. Ning is the busiest, she loves this the most, where there is a Buddhist dojo, almost the field does not fall, I remember the year when I first entered the capital, Li Danruo accompanied Mrs. Ning to listen to the scriptures the first day, and the next day I went to the Shangqing Palace to dip, and I was surprised and stunned, only to find out later, so Buddhism and Taoism are not distinguished, and they do not care about the subordinates at all, all of them are pious, not only Mrs. Ning, the women and Taoists in the capital are all like this, and it is no wonder that the Jade Emperor often drinks tea and talks with the Buddha of the West Heaven.

In May, there are three festivals in a year, the Dragon Boat Festival is one of them, a busy is more than half a month, into June is Cui Fujun's birthday, and then is the birthday of Erlang God, these two birthdays are celebrated with the fire of the community, outside the door of Wansheng, from eating to selling sticks, slingshots and all kinds of plays, and then to all kinds of juggling, the night of the fight community fire...... It's a huge playground!

In July, there is the Qixi Festival, the Zhongyuan Festival, the beginning of autumn is also a big event, into August, it is time to get up the autumn society, after the Mid-Autumn Festival is Chongyang, the chrysanthemum has not been appreciated, it is going to pass the furnace festival, it snows to enjoy the snow, the plum blossoms are blooming to enjoy the plum, who has a good daffodil, but also to ask someone to appreciate it, and then the winter solstice, the winter solstice has not been cleaned up, it will enter the wax moon to start the year, this year, how to use their own fun? It would be enough for Li Dan to follow the happy festival.

Every year on the winter solstice, Li Danruo is with Li Yuju, and then make an appointment with a few little ladies who usually get along, play for three days, play and wander around the capital, watch juggling, visit all kinds of shops, eat, drink and have fun, and no one cares about money and leisure, it is really happy.

Although Li Yuju got married this year, Li Yuju is also quite well married, I heard that the man who is a little older is more considerate than the young brother, so Li Danruo's mood is not half a point down because of Li Yuju's marriage, still the same as in previous years, relaxed and happy, and full of interest to get up early, first wrote seven or eight letters in a row to make an appointment with the Dai sisters, Hu Langzhong's third lady Hu Xinglin, several cousins of the uncle's family and aunt Li Juan's only daughter, Liu Shiyang's sister Liu Ying, etc., A group of girls sent their mother-in-law to go around in circles to various mansions countless times a day, carefully discussing what to wear, what to eat, and what to play in those three days.

Hu Xinglin knows the most about the popularity of the market, according to her proposal, several people should all dress up in men's clothing this year, this is the most fashionable dress this year, it is said that even the people in the palace come out, and it is also popular to dress up like this, they should also catch up with this new fashion, Li Danruo will be suspicious, and hurriedly let Shen Mama go out to inquire carefully, it is really like this, which makes Li Danruo excited, the matter of women dressing up as men is too interesting!

Li Danruo hurriedly asked Mama Shen to buy seven or eight pieces of various long shirts according to the size, and brought them back with a brain, and tried to show them to Mrs. Ning and her mother one by one, and asked her to see which one she wore more like a man, and she must choose a dress that looked like a man and was unrecognizable, Mrs. Ning listened to Li Danruo's request, laughed more than once, watched her try it one by one, pointed to a brocade gown embroidered with peach blossoms on the bottom of a pink pine flower and smiled: "That's it!" This is good, this pink peach and pine flower, it is the color of the little girl's house, and then borrow the sheep fat jade belt with your eldest brother to use, this is good, I tell you, that wearing men's clothes can make people can't distinguish between men and women, wearing women's clothes, you can't tell the difference!"

Li Danruo laughed out loud, laughing straight up, Mrs. Liu also laughed out of tears, finally stopped laughing, pressed the corner of her eyes with a handkerchief and said: "Mother's words can be said to the bones." Yang finally stopped laughing, pointed to Li Danruo, who was dressed in men's clothes, looked at Mrs. Ning and Mrs. Liu, and said with a smile and helplessness: "I don't understand, why does this make my sister wear my brother's clothes?" What about my brother? Dressed in two? And the skirt that was in bloom last year, I don't like it either, the good cloth is cut into strips, and then sewn together one after another, this color is sandwiched with that color, and it is not wearing a hundred clothes, it is not good-looking and ruined. ”

Old Madam Ning pointed at the Yang family and smiled: "That's because you're old!" When you were young, did you wear those dozen dresses? I also think it's a mess, what about six or eight skirts? Li Danruo hurriedly smiled: "What the wife said is right! But if those sixteen dresses were made of silk yarn, they would be so beautiful! The one my mother said is also good-looking, it's called a mid-color skirt, especially the dark pleats, it's the best! Standing is a color, as soon as you move, the color in the pleats is revealed, beautiful trance eyes, this skirt, the color matching is the most important, and the color is contrasting, and it has to match, this top, the sister-in-law has the best eye, the skirt that I helped me match last time, no one doesn't say good when I wear it! This year's men's clothing looks good too! Auntie, look at it, I'm wearing it, is it better than the eldest brother? ”

Mrs. Liu smiled and nodded, and Dai smiled beside her: "Let your eldest brother and them look better than you, it's too difficult for them." The crowd laughed again.

On the morning of the winter solstice, Li Danruo changed into the extremely glamorous long shirt, really borrowed the mutton fat jade belt from Li Yunzhi and tied it, hurriedly swallowed a few mouthfuls of food, and took a small hat in green clothes, Wei Zi and others dressed as a small maid, Shen Mama took four or five sturdy women who went out with them, and four or five long entourages were attached behind, and followed the excited Li Danruo out of the door.

Approaching the evening, although the sun is still hanging very high, not far from the old Fengqiu Gate in the Beizhou Bridge Night Market, all kinds of food have already been put out, Li Yunzhi bought Baoxuan fried ginkgo, and bought Baosheng fried chestnuts, handed it to Xiaoxiu and Xiaogui, Xiaoxiu and Xiaogui just finished eating a string of roasted deer breast, Xiaoxiu hugged the hot ginkgo, looked up at Li Yunzhi and smiled: "Uncle don't buy it, I'm full, keep this for tomorrow." Xiaogui licked his lips: "The deer breast is so delicious!"

"Still not eating? If you want to eat it, let's buy it again. Li Yun smiled hurriedly, and Xiaogui shook his head again and again: "I'm full, I'll eat again next year." Li Yunzhi laughed: "Okay! It will be fast next year, and Uncle will take you out again in the first month, and buy deer breast to eat. ”

"I've been shopping for most of the day, you should go back quickly, don't let the house remember you." Li Yun, who was looking back and forth at the families eating on both sides of the road with his hands behind his back, looked at his younger brother and smiled, and Zhang also urged: "That's it, you go back quickly, everyone has a lot of rules, and it's not good to go back late." ”

"It's okay, everyone in the house went out to play today, the eldest brother and the second brother said they wanted to play all night, it's okay, let's go over there, go back after dinner, and I'll take the eldest sister and the second sister out tomorrow."

"Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, your eldest sister and second sister's house have been entertaining guests for the past three days, and they can't get out, we're separated, otherwise I can't come out, and I'm busy under the stove!" Zhang smiled, Li Yun nodded in agreement with his daughter-in-law's words and continued: "Ming'er, don't go out to shop, if you're fine, just study at home, Ming'er and your sister-in-law are not free, a bunch of things in the shop, you have to clean up quickly, a day is a day's money, Xiaoxiu and Xiaogui also have to help." ”

Li Yunzhi exhaled lightly, nodded and said with a smile: "Then let's go shopping more today, go back later, and let Xiaoxiu and Xiaogui have a good time." ”

While he was talking, in the Jin family wine shop next to him, he was dressed in a green coat and a small hat, and he ran to Li Yunzhi with light steps, bent half of his knees and arched his hand: "Third master, the fourth lady asked you if you were shopping alone?" The four ladies are eating snacks inside. Li Yun was stunned and was about to answer, Li Yun in front of him opened his eyes widely, and while desperately waving his hand at him, he squeezed his eyebrows and motioned to Zhang, Xiaoxiu and Xiaogui to quickly dodge.