Chapter 33: The Festival of Beggars
Yang Jinrong came by carriage. This carriage is not as low-key as Yun Qi's carriage, but extremely gorgeous, with many ribbons floating on the vermilion wooden carriage, and two small glazed palace lamps hanging on the eaves. The wall of the car is paved with broken gold to create a splendid spring picture of a hundred flowers blooming in summer, which is brilliant in the sunshine, and it is very beautiful.
If it weren't for the fact that there was a maroon horse-drawn cart in front of him, Hua Xiyan would almost have thought that this was a sedan chair.
Thinking like this, Hua Xiyan shook his head helplessly, and followed Yang Jinrong into the carriage with his skirt.
"Go to Main Street." Yang Jinrong gave an order outside, and then the carriage drove in a whirling motion.
"This begging festival is really lively!" Yang Jinrong lifted the curtain on one side, looked at the many pedestrians outside, and said in surprise.
Hua Xiyan nodded: "Except for the Spring Year, this begging festival is lively." Yi County is just a county seat, and if you talk about people, it is much worse than Hongnong. ”
Yang Jinrong pursed his lips with a disapproving expression: "Hongnong is big, but it's still nothing fun." ”
It's really child's nature! Hua Xiyan chuckled: "That's Miss Yang Hongnong for a long time, if you really talk about it, there is nothing fun in this Yi County." ”
"Not necessarily!" Yang Jinrong lowered the curtain, turned his head, and looked at Hua Xiyan with sparkling eyes, "How good it is to have Sister Hua to play with me, Sister Hua, do you want to go to Hongnong with me?" ”
Hua Xiyan didn't expect Yang Jinrong to say this, a pair of beautiful eyebrows frowned almost invisibly, and asked rhetorically: "In what capacity did I go to Hongnong with you?" ”
Yang Jinrong lowered his head and thought for a moment, and replied: "As a guest, our family will definitely treat you as a guest." ”
Hua Xiyan smiled, thinking that Yang Jinrong was too simple after all. If she didn't have any reason to run to the Yang family, she might be criticized. People are terrifying, she has seen it in her past and present lives, let one mouth, the ability to reverse black and white is great.
Besides, the Yang family is a family of sleeves, and she is the daughter of a small poor family, so if she goes, she really doesn't expect any good hospitality.
"How's it going, Sister Hua?" Yang Jinrong's apricot eyes widened, and he looked at Hua Xiyan with longing.
"The main street is here, Miss Yang, please!" Hua Xiyan didn't say much, but changed the topic directly, and made a gesture of invitation to Yang Jinrong, which was very decent.
Yang Jinrong pouted, last time at the first banquet, she also knew Hua Xiyan's temperament, if she didn't want to speak, it was definitely not salty or light, no one could hear one more word from her mouth, for fear of provoking disgust, Yang Jinrong didn't say more, and got out of the car very obediently.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the whole main street is lit up with lights, and countless ribbons flutter in the upper room, among which the red rope is the main one. From time to time, there were red boxes on both sides, and it was vaguely obvious that someone had written something and put it in, and then put it reverently.
Seeing Yang Jinrong's face full of curiosity, he asked Xia to explain aloud: "They are begging for Yue Lao, and legend has it that they wrote their wishes on red paper and put them in this box, and when Yue Lao passed by, they would help them realize their wishes." ”
"It's really interesting." Yang Jinrong smiled and nodded.
"Doesn't Hongnong have this tradition?" Asked Xia and then asked.
Yang Jinrong shook his head and said softly: "On our side, during the Qiqiao Festival, people go to the Yuelao Temple to worship, and rarely pray to the street like this. ”
"We also have the Yuelao Temple here, but it is overcrowded every time it comes to the Begging Festival, so people have such a tradition of wishing on the street, which can be regarded as a remembrance for people." Asked Xia Shushu to explain familiarly.
"That's good." Yang Jinrong looked at the beaming appearance of the people on the side, and couldn't help but show a heartfelt smile.
She looks very pure, her cheeks are red, her apricot eyes are sparkling when she smiles, and her whole person is beautiful and moving.
"There's a shop here, let's go check it out." Yang Jinrong pointed to a shop on the side, holding Huaxi cigarettes and walking towards that side.
Huaxi Yan raised his head, and the three big characters of "Mingzhen Pavilion" came into view.
Thinking of what appeared at the Zhudi banquet, Hua Xiyan couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Thinking that the Sun family is so shameless, under all kinds of designs, it is to make this Zhen Ge carry the black cauldron, but I don't know how this Zhen Ge is now.
When she walked in and took a closer look, she couldn't help but be surprised.
This Zhen Pavilion is still full of customers coming and going, and the people in the store have the same expressions on their faces, and they don't seem to have any bad influence because of the matter of the first banquet.
It seems that the power of the person behind this Zhen Pavilion should not be underestimated, Hua Xiyan thought.
I'm afraid that the Sun family is very aggrieved now, and originally wanted to calculate her, but it turned out that it was easy to pull down the competitors, but they had no impact, and it is estimated that the Sun family is really going to vomit to death now.
I just don't know how to give an explanation to the people when the trial begins? Hua Xiyan thought with interest, although this Yi County is small, it is really a place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden.
Yang Jinrong took a fancy to a set of coral gold bracelets, the coral beads are precious red shan, uniform color, translucent and natural, bright luster, carefully look at the coral texture is distinct, there is a sense of fall in the hand, it is obviously the best jewelry.
In particular, a small gold pendant is hung below, carved into the shape of a colorful phoenix, with fine workmanship and extremely exquisite.
The most important thing is that Hua Xiyan can see at a glance that it is a real thousand pure gold.
With a knowing smile on his lips, Hua Xiyan took Yang Jinrong to the Golden Jade Hall not far away.
The guests of the Golden Jade Hall were no less than those of the Mingzhen Pavilion, and as soon as the two of them entered the door, someone also greeted them very warmly.
"Two young ladies, please!" It was a middle-aged man who greeted him, but he was not the same person as the person he had seen on the day of the last feast.
The decoration of the Golden Jade Hall is extremely gorgeous, the treasures are all made of Nanmu Terrace, and the white jade is carved into a beautiful box with all kinds of exquisite and precious jewels, just looking at it, this decoration alone costs a lot of silver.
It's a pity that this predecessor has come here so many times, and he didn't know that this was the Sun family's industry. Hua Xiyan thought about it, and the sarcastic smile on his lips was even worse, I don't know if it was a shameless deception of the Sun family, or a sad sigh for the former body that was really wrong.
"This shop is really good, much better than many of our shops over there." Yang Jinrong looked at the jewelry in the store carefully and sighed.
The shopkeeper is also a discerning person, seeing that Yang Jinrong is dressed in silk and satin, and his behavior is everyone's demeanor, so he also replied with a smile: "Our master spent a lot of money to make this shop, which is to give everyone a place to buy jewelry, otherwise in some small shops that look shabby, you don't worry about buying it, right?" ”
Hua Xiyan didn't look at the jewelry, but chatted with the shopkeeper: "Listening to the shopkeeper's words, it has helped to run this shop for a long time, and it seems that the sound of this shop is so prosperous, and the shopkeeper's painstaking management is also inseparable." ”
The shopkeeper's Hua Xiyan's dress is very plain, not as gorgeous as the young lady next to him, but he is also well-behaved, and naturally he is also a well-educated little jasper, so he said: "This young lady is tormenting me when she says this, I have only been here for four or five days, if you look at the merits, it is all the credit of the shopkeeper in front." ”
I have been to this shop with Sun Muyang many times before, but this person didn't recognize her, which can only mean that this person is not the shopkeeper who rose from this store, or that this person is not from Yixian County.
The shopkeeper laughed, if the person in front of him was really as good as the shopkeeper said, why not do it? I must have made some mistake and was dismissed. ”
The shopkeeper's face was confused, without the shock and panic that Hua Xiyan expected, looked at Huaxi Yanqing's eyes, and said, "Actually, I don't know what the specific situation is. It's all about doing work, where it's not doing, and when someone calls me here, I come here. ”
Hua Xiyan's eyebrows raised slightly: "It seems that the shopkeeper is a non-local?" ”
The shopkeeper nodded: "I was from Ye County, Jizhou before. ”
"I see." Hua Xiyan nodded, looked around, and then asked, "Every time I came before, it was the previous shopkeeper who received me, and last time I told him that I wanted to come here to get a set of butterfly warm jade heads, do you know about it?" ”
The shopkeeper shook his head: "I didn't come here to hand over to the person before, so I didn't know, and I didn't see the head of Butterfly Nuanyu in the store." ”
Hua Xiyan showed a very anxious look, and couldn't help but stomp his feet again and again, looking extremely annoyed: "How is this good, I can use that noodle to be of great use." ”
The shopkeeper pondered for a moment, and then said tentatively: "I do know where the shopkeeper's home is, or I will give the premises to the young lady, and the young lady will ask how about it?" ”
Huaxi's smoke eyes flowed, and he nodded randomly: "In this way, it will be troublesome for the shopkeeper." ”
The shopkeeper wrote a line of address on a piece of paper after a short time, and after reading it, Hua Xiyan thanked him again and again, and walked out of the Jinyutang.
The street was full of people, Hua Xiyan pulled Wen Xia to a secluded place around the corner, lowered his head and whispered a few words to Wen Xia.
Wen Xia's expression was stunned at first, and then turned into a natural one, nodded heavily at Hua Xiyan, and ran away in a hurry.
Hua Xiyan re-entered the threshold of Jin Yutang, and saw Yang Jinrong tiptoeing and trying to look around, and showed a bright smile after seeing her.
"Sister Hua, I've been looking for you for a long time, where have you been?" Yang Jinrong ran over from the crowd and asked intimately with Hua Xiyan in his arms.
"It's too stuffy inside, just go out and breathe." Hua Xiyan replied with a light smile, and then asked rhetorically, "How?" But what do you like? ”
Yang Jinrong took a few boxes from the handmaid behind him and placed them on the table where he was resting, opened them one by one, and a piece of brilliance poured out.
"That's it, Sister Hua, how about it?"
Hua Xiyan picked up a few pieces of jewelry and looked at them carefully, carefully identified, his eyes paused for a moment on a jasper point and emerald gold step, and then covered his eyes.
"Yes, it's all in good condition."
Yang Jinrong happily closed the box and asked the maidservant to settle the silver.
Looking at the endless stream of guests, Hua Xiyan couldn't help but sigh, this gorgeous appearance, I really don't know how many people have been deceived. And this prosperity, I don't know how long it will last?