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Volume 3: A Thousand Poems of Autumn Se 13, Lantern Festival 4

Nian Liang just wanted to find a "bodyguard" to prove to the second lady that he was safe. As a result, as soon as the slogan of the sixteenth to enjoy the lanterns came out, a group of bodyguards came out of Hulala.

Miss Seven also wanted to go out to play, so she still pulled out the guise of accompanying the guests, carried the Ji family out, and first asked Ji Zheng's family, saying that her aunt and wife had not gone to enjoy the lanterns on the 14th, and she would make up for it today. Ji Zhengshi knew her thoughts, smiled and said that she was old, so she didn't want to join in the fun, and promised Ji Lingshu to go out with her. Asked Ji Songshu and his wife again, they said that they had been there the day before and would not go again, Ji Songshu wanted Wen Shu, and Ji Qi's family wanted to serve her husband Wen Shu, so they only asked their sister to go with them to have fun.

Miss Seven was not interested in Ji Qi's family, and she was quite disdainful of her behavior of being so virtuous that she "served her husband Jun Wenshu like a maid", so she threw away her hand, pulled Ji Lingshu away, thought about it, and called Miss Five, Miss Six, and Miss Nine, who had not been out for 14 days, to go with her, so that she could talk to her grandmother and mother. Sure enough, the old lady allowed them, and asked them to bring fourteen, and the twelve and thirteenth masters naturally wanted to join in the fun. Coupled with the serious bodyguards Jiu Ye and his wife, okay, let's make a whole tour group.

Men ride horses, women ride in cars, sick people are exempt from the exception, and they also ride in cars.

Ninth Grandma, Ji Lingshu and Miss Seven have a car, and the other three young ladies have one, Xia Xiaoman and the maids are sitting in a few cars behind them, and Grandma Nine wants to recruit Xia Xiaoman to come over and share the car with her because she sees that the car is not good.

Xia Xiaoman was busy refusing and refusing again, not to mention that he only served the leader when he got into the car, he said that he could barely write a few words with a brush now, and he had not yet gotten rid of the illiterate hat. In a car with this group of talented and wealthy doctors, you have to pretend to be deaf and dumb when you listen to them chanting, and you have to die of depression. It's fun to come out and enjoy the lanterns, who is looking for awkwardness?! Although her car is not as good as the master's car, it is much more comfortable.

Between the two compartments, Nian Liang came to relieve the siege and asked Xia Xiaoman to follow him in the car. Xia Xiaoman couldn't be happy. If you must serve people, it is better to send it to your own leaders. Grandma Nine looked. smiled heartily, and then did not let it again.

Nian Liang didn't use a wheelchair and asked someone to carry him into the car. The carriage has also been transformed, and the seats inside are no longer longer and wider, like a small bed, half of the seat surface of the carriage to ensure that the legs can be straightened when sitting in the year. It is covered with thick bedding cushions, and the backrest pillow set on the top, in Xia Xiaoman's opinion, it is a soft sleeper.

Xia Xiaoman sat down in the new year, took off his shoes and sat on the "bed", and also arranged himself in the same way, with a foot stove under his feet and a quilt on his legs. stretched his arms and legs, leaned on the pillow next to him, it was extremely comfortable, and he sighed in his heart, it was good to be rich.

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In the ordinary streets of Daqin, there is a wooden pole on the high ground every few zhang away. The fire of the iron basin hung above it was used as a street lamp. Generally, it only takes the middle of the night when the husband carries a ladder to add firewood and pour lamp oil, and the whole night can be lit.

In the usual quiet night, although such a street lamp is not as bright as the street lamp in Xia Xiaoman's world, it is also more effective and can illuminate a road surface. However, in the festive days of the Lantern Festival, at night there are lights in every house, orchestral everywhere, extremely bright and noisy, and the light of the street lamps is particularly weak. As dim as the stars on this full moon night. Wait to enter Wing Lok Street. The street lamps were completely submerged in the splendor, and they were not very carefully discerned. There was no trace of it.

Yongle Street is more than ten miles away, the lanterns are more than thousands, extremely new and ingenious, strange and strange, all-encompassing, the gold and blue shoot each other, the splendid intermingle, the treasure light is bright, shining like day. There are all kinds of stalls on both sides of the road, skilled craftsmen, thaumaturgical abilities, singing and dancing, which is dizzying.

It's a peaceful and prosperous scene.

Xia Xiaoman's eyes didn't know where to go, the juggling tricks that she had only seen on TV or even in books were all presented in front of her, hobs, fire-swallowing, and boulders in her chest, she knew that some were just a trick, but when she really saw it, she couldn't help but marvel.

And those who tame animals, monkeys, birds, and snakes are not new, and they still look at those who play fish. The stall set up a one-person high platform, on which there is a large wooden inlaid glazed basin, the basin is half a foot high carved and hung with the dragon gate, the fish man stands next to the basin, with a bamboo whistle in his mouth, as soon as the whistle sounds, a whole golden red fish suddenly rises, head and tail bow, jumps over the dragon gate, and then enters the water.

Xia Xiaoman looked a little stupid, but when he saw it, he smiled and said, "Do you want to get out of the car and take a look?" Then he said, "The man who is following the car outside has some loose money in his hand, so you can ask him to reward him with some fish." ”

Xia Xiaoman looked at the circle of people around him, shook his head and smiled: "There are so many people, you can't squeeze in, and it's better to see clearly on the outer circle than on the car." I just think it's fresh...... Why is this fish so obedient......"

Sea lions, seals, and dolphins can be trained, and this goldfish can also be so obedient? It seems that the fish brain capacity is not so high...... This fish has also become a sperm?

Nian Liang smiled: "Didn't you see it? ”

Xia Xiaoman was stunned for a moment, and he was really tired, and hurriedly said: "I didn't see it, what's going on?" ”

Nian Liang shook his head and smiled: "I was also curious when I was young, and I did everything possible to ask the man to buy fish and buy a whistle, but at the beginning he insisted on not selling, and I didn't allow it until I paid a lot of money." When I went home and tried to play with my brothers, nothing worked, and the fish lay at the bottom of the water and did not move. Lao Ba is in a hurry, so he grabbed it out and pinched it, and then threw it into the water. I've been sorry for many days, and I've been very annoyed by the recklessness of the old man. When the teacher heard about it, he told me that the fish man had a wire in his hand, and the fish was really a puppet, and the line moved the fish, but it was just to come out to coax people and make some money during the festival. ”

Xia Xiaoman estimated that this was the case, and with the permission of the New Year's forgiveness, he picked the curtain and poked his head out to take a closer look, because of the light, he still didn't see where the line was, and he could only see the clue from the unnatural movements of the fish when he fell into the water,—— the fish could always splash a large splash every time it entered the water, and it was indeed like a puppet puppet falling into it stiffly.

When she came back, she couldn't help but sigh: "This is also a technical job." It's really brilliant. ”

Nian Liang listened to her praise and smiled. asked her to pick up the curtain of the car and shouted to the little servant Zhige: "Zhige, go and reward the clever fishman Baiwen money." ”

In this way, he also became interested, walked for a while, and saw the training bird with a grimace, so he pointed to the bird and said: "Although it takes some effort to train this red-beaked bird, it is not difficult. Every grain is teased. With a little time, it can be trained. Speaking of which. Our six spirits can also discipline the church. ”

Xia Xiaoman watched the finch flying around dexterously, and before his mind turned back, he asked, "Who is in our family?" ”

Nian Yuqi said: "Liujo, isn't it the name you gave?" Why, forgot?! ”

Xia Xiaoman remembered the crested red head that jumped up and down, and said with a smile: "I really forgot." But. What do you think...... Can you teach it to be a flag? ”

She always felt that Rojo was so arrogant that she was a mess, and she held her head high every day, putting on an unstoppable posture, which made her cry and laugh. Train such a proud bird to hold the flag?!

Well, though, it's hard to say. After all, Rokujo obediently went into the open cage for food, and refused to fly away. I guess you can be obedient and obedient because of the food.

All right. Maybe it's not a proud bird at all, and Shang Ken bends his waist for five buckets of rice. However, the truly arrogant bird is "not more than the sycamore, not the practice is not eating, and the water is not drinking". Or is it that "Lian Shi Liquan" can't impress it?

Seeing that she didn't believe it, Nian Liang said with a smile: "After a while, I will ask the bird to buy some flags and grimaces, and go home and try it." As he spoke, he pointed to the fighter on the side and said, "This kind of fighting sparrow is the best to teach, and it is easier than the rank flag." It is mentioned in the "Fuxi Miscellaneous" that this finch is good for meat, and only Xiao wraps the skin of the finch in meat to feed it, and after a long time, it will 'look at its finches, and then want to fight and eat it'. ”

Xia Xiaoman listened. I saw two finches fighting over there. It's already flying around, and it really can't wait to eat the other party's posture. I couldn't help but shudder, it seems that training eagles and dogs to bite people is also like this, the food is wrapped in the clothes of the enemy, and when it meets the enemy, the eagle dog only thinks that the food is under the clothes, and it will be pecked and bitten when it goes up......

Well, sure enough, food is always the best primer, and with the temptation of food, the animal doesn't care about anything else, and Rokujo is "bowing its proud head", and this fighting finch is cannibalism. If survival comes first, and animals do not have the so-called moral constraints, what about people......

With the temptation of silver, people dare to do anything.

"People die for money, birds die for food", is by no means a lie.

Nian Liang was originally on the rise, but seeing that Xia Xiaoman didn't have a smile on his face, he was full of disgust, thinking that she was disgusted, so he took her over with a smile and said with a soothing smile: "We don't buy the fighting sparrow." Just buy some flags first......" he said and went to shout to hold Ge.

Xia Xiaoman's body twisted a little uncomfortable, and he struggled slightly, seeing that he didn't mean to let go, he found a comfortable position to nest on his own, and only said: "Come on, don't teach the six rules." You're not going to let it go at any time? When you're trained and it's flying again, isn't it a waste of effort? If you want to train, you might as well buy a training that you don't plan to let go. ”

She remembered that they had said that they had never raised birds and beasts, and asked him with a smile: "Aren't you too lazy to raise birds?" Do you want to train birds now? But the fun of raising six is coming? ”

Nian Liang's smile was a little stiff, looking at the silver carp playing lotus hairpin on her bun, he sighed for a while and said, "I have also raised ...... Like the puppet fish...... After that, I only felt that life and death were impermanent, and I was sad in vain, if I didn't raise it, I would have less fun, but I would also be less sad, but it would be clean. ”

Xia Xiaoman also sighed, she also had the experience of failing to raise animals, and she also left an indelible shadow.

She raised goldfish when she was a child, because the tap water used directly to change the water poisoned the fish to death with bleaching powder; Then I raised a little chicken, stupidly filled a deep dish made with dumplings and millet and water, but the chicken fell into the water, wetting most of the feathers, I don't know if it was a cold or what, so I fell ill, and died within two days.

When the fish died, it was fine, only turned white silently, and two days of her sadness passed; Before the chicken cub died, she cried a lot, and found a medicine box to bury it solemnly, and then refused to eat chicken products for a long time, and it took a year or two to ease up.

From then on, they did not dare to raise anything, because they could not afford their life.

Life and death are impermanent. Sad in vain. She felt the same way. However, she does not raise birds and beasts is unwilling to bear the responsibility of "master", not to turn her own family into a Buddha, the pursuit of nothing happy and worry-free, her life creed also has "life must be happy, do not make the gold bottle empty to the moon" This sentence.

She took a breath, smiled, and patted Nian Liang with her hand. Said: "That's what I said. However, since sooner or later you have to let six go. Then train it, let it be in our house for a day, and bring us a day of happiness. ”

If you can, you won't provoke, so as not to be unable to afford the consequences. But since you've already provoked, why don't you find more happiness before disappearing?

Sooner or later I have to leave. There's no need to be sad now. Happiness is a day, and unhappiness is also a day, so why not be happy and happy every day?

She was in a much better mood suddenly. Turning his head to look at Nian Liang, he said seriously with a smile: "Have fun and be happy." ”

Nian Liang was stunned for a moment, then pulled the corners of his mouth, shook her hand, his eyes were full of smiles, and said: "Okay, tell me to come back with Ge Maijingqi, and hand over the six to you for training." ”

Xia Xiaoman's face immediately turned cloudy. Rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that you said that you were going to train the birds, and this turn of work was thrown on me again? I want you to train, I'll have fun. Okay, that's my job! If you know it earlier, you won't pry it, don't you find trouble for yourself.

She pouted. muttered: "Yes, if you want to train, you should come, I am clumsy, and the training is not good......"

Nian Liang held her hand tightly, dragged it to the side, laughed sullenly, and said, "It's okay to be clumsy, don't you also say that you just want to have fun." Then he let go of his hand and told her to pick up the curtain and call for Ge to buy it.

Xia Xiaoman rubbed to the side of the "bed" and stepped on his shoes. Bow down to pick up the curtain and shout Ge. But when he saw that the carriage had stopped, he answered with a voice from outside. Before she could speak, she said first: "Master, aunt and grandma, the ninth master has sent food from the ground." ”

Xia Xiaoman turned around to look at Nian Liang, and Nian Liang smiled: "It's hard for the ninth brother to think thoughtfully, call in." ”

The ninth master's little servant actually held a food box and handed it in, first said hello, and then said, "Sixth master, this is not what my grandfather bought." It was the seventh master who bought it and invited his grandfather and aunt to try it. ”

"Seventh Master?!" Xia Xiaoman's hand to catch the food box paused, and at the same time, he heard Nian Liang behind him also ask.

Xia Xiaoman glanced back at him, and saw that his brows were tightly knit and his face was calm, so he still took the food box, because he knew that Qian Shi was the henchman of the ninth master, so he said, "Come in and talk back." As he spoke, he handed over the food box and Nian Liang, and sat back beside Nian Liang.

Qian Shi also had to be instructed by the ninth master, and knew that the sixth master was going to ask, so he got into the car and knelt in front of the "bed".

Nian Liang opened the food box and saw that it was a bowl of rice balls, a plate of soap cakes, a plate of leeks, a plate of various colors of roasted meat, and a plate of candied fruits, and said lightly: "It's complete, it's really thoughtful." Because he asked, "Where did you touch the Seventh Master?" ”

Qian Shi replied: "Back to the words of the sixth master." The seventh master came from the side of Wuli Lane, and he brought food when he came. said that he was drinking and feasting from there, thinking that the grandparents and ladies were here to enjoy the lanterns, so he came over with a supper by the way. He paused and said in a low voice: "My grandfather has explained, and the little one has just taken a closer look, the seventh master is like eating wine, although he is not drunk, he has the smell of alcohol on his body." It's just that the brothers who followed the seventh master didn't seem to have eaten and drunk. ”

Nian Liang nodded, asked him to thank the seventh master and the ninth master on his behalf, and sent him away. Then he turned his head to Xia Xiaoman and said, "What do you say Lao Qi has the idea?" ”

Xia Xiaoman shook his head, it was a chance encounter before, and people don't talk about chance encounters today, but today I don't forget my brothers and sisters when I eat and drink, and I specially brought a supper,—— although it is not yet time to eat supper. Who knows what he had in mind? Who is worthy of his please? Ji Lingshu? Is he really going to give up the whole garden? People die for money, birds die for food, what are the old and seven?

"Maybe ......" She opened her mouth, feeling that there was no reason to reasonably explain Lao Qi's unreliable behavior, so she chose to shut up again.

Nian Liang pondered for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Man Niang, Cai Zao and Cai Ai are the geese who come back to the house, you go back and tell them privately, and often go back to the wild goose to return to the house...... If so......"

Xia Xiaoman knew in his heart, nodded and responded, "I understand." Guaranteed to be done, you can rest assured. ”

If you can't control the goblins, can't you control Tang Seng......

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PS: I'm also depressed. Why is progress so slow? I want to be fast, too...... It's stuck here...... Scratch the wall ||||

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