At this point, until the Midyear Festival, Yun Sheng couldn't get out of the gate of Zhang's Mansion for half a step, and Zhang Jiusheng confessed, whoever dared to let her out of the mansion would pack up her baggage and go back to her hometown.

On this day, Yun Sheng didn't know how many times he stood at the gate, and in front of her stood Xiao Catcher Kuaitiewan, who had a good relationship with her on weekdays.

The two of them stared at each other, standing here already with a stick of incense.

"The adults said that they wouldn't let you go out, and they specially called me over to keep an eye on you, for fear that you would run out again if you didn't feel easy." Tie Wan originally had some eight-character eyebrows, but now he persuaded him bitterly, and his face drooped down, like an old lady.

Yun Chang sighed: "I'll go to the yamen to take a look." ”

"My lord said, the yamen is not allowed to go, you must go to Zhang Tong's autopsy room, tomorrow is the Midyear Festival, you just stay honest."

Yun Sheng tugged at his trouser leg and flattened his mouth, but in the end he still turned around, just one step at a time, Tie Wan looked at it and wanted to continue to say something, but after pondering it, forget it, it's useless to say more, just wait for the Midyear Festival.

Fan County is a small place, and small places will have customs that are not available in big cities, or rules that have never been heard of.

The Midyear Festival is an extremely important day for the people of Fan County, women and children can not go to the street if they don't go on the street, one is that women are yin bodies, and they will attract a lot of unclean things, and the other is that children are not involved in the world, and they can see a lot of unclean things.

In the past few days, up and down the Zhangfu, women and children, but all who can do it, are stacking ingots, preparing paper money and offerings, and men are going to the street to buy what they need, and when it comes to the day of the Midyear Festival, they will worship ghosts. Fortunately, there is no new funeral in Zhangfu, and there is no need to go to a new grave, just go to the ancestral hall of Zhangfu to worship the ancestors.

Yunsheng has been in Fan County for so long, he fell asleep in the first two years, and although he was awake in the next year, he spent nearly half of his time in Zhang's mansion, so Zhang Jiusheng saw that her body was recovering well, so he reluctantly agreed to her request and proposed that she be a master of the yamen.

This time, it can be regarded as Yun Sheng's complete understanding of the importance of this day in Fan County.

She sat there, watching the people in front of her, all busy, everyone had something in their hands, only she had empty hands and nothing to do.

And in the courtyard of the ancestral hall of Zhangfu, the old lady has invited a few monks who have attained the Tao, came early in the morning, and the sound of chanting resounded throughout the Zhangfu, according to Tie Wan, a local, this is Pudu's lonely soul and wild ghost, to prevent it from being a disaster to the world, and to comfort the ancestors in the spirit of the sky, hoping that the ancestors will protect the peace of the house and the health of the children.

The smell of fireworks spread all the way from the ancestral hall, drifting to the front yard, at first smelling, just a faint sandalwood fragrance, still acceptable, and then it became stronger and stronger, Yun Sheng covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, and hid in the courtyard farther away from the ancestral hall, so the chanting sound also faded a lot.

Yun Sheng found a quiet place to sit, and Tie Wan followed not far behind her, looking back at the front yard from time to time, and then looking back at Yun Sheng, who had nothing to do, drinking tea and eating snacks.

"I said, you're not going to help?"

Yun Sheng glanced at Tie Wan, pulled the corners of his mouth, and seemed to smile: "Do you think they will let me help?" ”

Tie Wanyi pondered: "That's right." ”

"Eh, Tiezi, I didn't see the adult when I woke up early in the morning, where did he go?" Yun Sheng was bored with melon seeds, and suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Zhang Jiusheng dangling in front of him all morning.

"The adults took someone to the street to give orphans, and they had to give for three days, and they were very busy. So for the past three days, you can stay in the house and don't think about going anywhere. Tie Wan grabbed a handful of melon seeds in his hand and leaned against the courtyard wall and slowly swallowed it.

Yun Sheng frowned: "Shi Gu? ”

"Ah, Shi Gu, that is, worship ghosts, and then after the end of the daily Shi Gu activities, those offerings will be distributed to the beggars, in order to prevent the beggars from grabbing the offerings and rioting, so the adults plan to personally go into battle to supervise, so you may not see the adults for these three days."

"Have there been beggars' riots in the past?"

Tie Wan nodded: "There was a human life, but the one who died was a beggar, without a father or mother, and it was buried with the money paid by the adult." If you want me to say, although we adults are sometimes stupid and don't seem to have a few brains lacking a string, but if we really want to do serious things, we don't drag the mud and water at all, and when we say the east, we will go to the east, and we will say the west will be the west. ”

Yun Sheng listened, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he coughed, but Tie Wan continued as if he hadn't heard it: "Those little rabbit cubs in our yamen, I don't think which one of them was crawling out of the alley box back then, didn't they follow us adults in the end?" You can talk about our head, shut down the head, that temper, that is called a grumpy, say arson, say beat people, but when you meet our adults, they are like chicks, and they don't fart. ”

"Who set the fire?" Suddenly, a slightly thick voice sounded from behind Tie Wan.

Tie Wan didn't react yet, but said, "Eh, master, why do you ...... your throat?"

When he turned his head, his eyes suddenly widened, and his first reaction was to turn his head and plan to run first, but Guan Chu grabbed him by the collar and almost strangled him.

"Who did you just say, chick?" Guan Chu's voice was cold, but the corners of his mouth were raised.

Tie Wan turned his head and smiled: "My little chick, my little chick, boss, why are you here?" Why don't you know me? ”

"I'm going to let you know, can I still hear what you're saying?" Guan Chu had a lot of strength, let go of his hand, pushed Tie Wan out a few steps, and then clapped his hands in disgust.

Tie Wan didn't dare to say anything, and seeing that Guan Chu didn't plan to do anything to him, he hurriedly took a few steps back and said to help the people of Zhang's mansion fold the ingots, and ran away.

When Yun Sheng saw it, he finally laughed.

Guan Chu looked bored: "Laughing fart, laughing?!" ”

"Why are you here? Shouldn't I be orphaned with adults? Yun Sheng smiled.

"My lord is afraid that you are worried, so let me come and tell you that I won't be back for dinner tonight. Also, this is what the adults asked me to bring to you. Guan Chu said, taking out a stack of paper bags from his arms.

Yun Sheng was stunned and took it: "What is this?" ”

Guan Chu shook his head: "I don't know, the adults didn't let me open it, I said that I have to let you see it first, if it doesn't agree, then let me take it back and get it again, it's still too late." ”

I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in Zhang Jiusheng's gourd, Yun Sheng opened the paper bag, and the cushion was quite heavy, Zhang Jiusheng was careful, wrapped several pieces of paper, but when he opened it, it was only two white candles and a stack of paper money.

Guan Chu was stunned: "What did the adults ask me to send this?" It happened to be the Midyear Festival.,These things are sold everywhere.,I thought it was a treasure.,Hiding along the way like a thief.。 ”

But Yunsheng's eyes were sharp, and he rummaged around at random, and he saw the things printed on these two white candles and paper money, this is an impossible mark in Fan County, Guan Chu has lived in Fan County since he was a child, and it is normal that he has not seen it, and it is thanks to him that he has not seen it.

Yun Sheng wrapped the things again, hugged them tightly in his arms, and grinned at Guan Chuyi: "Go ahead, tell the adults, I have kept the things, it's good." ”

Guan Chu didn't quite understand the meaning of this dumb riddle, and when he got up and walked out of the yard, his hand was still scratching the back of his head, he wanted to ask, but he didn't know whether to ask or not, his brain hurt when he thought about it, so he simply stomped his foot and didn't ask, said goodbye to Master Zhang and Mrs. Zhang, and went to find Zhang Jiusheng.

Yun Sheng, on the other hand, walked back to his house with those things in his arms.

I have to say that Zhang Jiusheng is a twelve-point concern for Yunsheng. I don't know if he carved it, or if he specially found someone to engrave the words "eldest grandson" on the bottom of the white candle, and on those paper money, a double layer of imprints was also used, which looked rough and couldn't see anything, but as soon as you touched it with your hand, you could find out those two words, which were also "eldest grandson".

She originally thought that during this mid-year festival, she could only hide in the room by herself and worship secretly.

But now, Zhang Jiusheng sent these.

His eyes suddenly moistened, Yun Sheng rubbed his hands, sniffed, and sat down against the door with those things. She was sad, she was moved, there was bitterness and sweetness in her heart, she remembered that when she was at home before, her father loved her brother and pet, and although her mother died a few years early, she did not feel that she had lost her mother's love at all.

And now, Yun Sheng didn't realize that she didn't seem to have ever told Zhang Jiusheng that her surname was Changsun.

On the day she woke up, she just told Zhang Jiusheng that her surname was Yun, she came from a big family in the capital, offended the powerful, and the family died tragically, and she had to flee from Beijing.

As Zhang Jiusheng said, he did come back very late tonight, but as soon as he came back, he went to Yunsheng's house first, and when he saw that the lights in her house were dimmed, he just took a sneak peek out of the window, and saw that Yunsheng was really lying on the bed and falling asleep, so he stepped lightly and quietly returned to his house.

In the dead of night, Zhang Jiusheng had just wiped his face and hung his coat on the hanger, when he heard the knock on the door sound softly.

Outside, it was Zhang Qiye.

"Brother, don't sleep yet?"

Zhang Qiye took a letter in his hand and nodded slightly: "Go in and say." ”

Zhang Jiusheng turned sideways, looked outside, and turned around to see that Zhang Qiye had opened the letter, and said to himself: "It was sent by Jiatongguan, let's read it together." ”

"So late, so urgent?"

"It's always good to know earlier and be prepared. What's more, doesn't Yunsheng also want to know? Zhang Qiye had slender fingers, spread out the letter, since the first time he saw Yun Sheng, he had already made connections, not only in the rivers and lakes, but also in the court, he had already figured out Yun Sheng's origin.

It's not all for Yunsheng, it's also for the future of Zhangfu, their survival.

"It's just brother, I don't want her to know yet." Zhang Jiusheng hesitated for half a minute and said in a low voice.