Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Peony Blossoms (I)
In China in the 21st century, when it comes to peony, the first thing that comes to mind is Luoyang. However, at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of flower, which originated from the Qinling Mountains, swept the entire Chang'an City, and its colorful figure can be seen everywhere in the mansions of the eunuchs and the small courtyards of the farms.
Before the flowers and under the moon, the flowers and young people are looking for the appearance of the flowers and the moon; The little girl in the boudoir is looking forward to the love of the ghost crying and howling; Sao people are everywhere, the preface does not match the words to express the throbbing in the heart, and the peony before and after the wheat harvest is a beautiful landscape in the capital.
Graceful and luxurious, dignified and magnificent, it has become a symbol of auspiciousness and prosperity, and the friendship between the royal family and nobles to give peonies to each other has formed a fashionable and irresistible trend.
The Cheng family, the Qin family, the Du family, the Cui family, and ......, all those who can have a little relationship with the Wang family send all kinds of peony flowers. Even today's saints have jumped out to join in this excitement, the princely dignitaries who can be ranked in the capital have received gifts from the emperor at the same time, and the emperor sent someone to send flowers on the day of the old family's old heart is surging, and the people in the whole house are gathered around the flowers, absorbing the fragrance of the royal family (the peony is not too fragrant, the psychological effect). Steward Qian recalled the last time the emperor sent flowers to the Wang family more than ten years ago, moved a bench and sat about ten meters away from the flowers and howled for a day, no one could persuade him.
The back house of the palace has become a sea of peonies in just a few days, and when you open the door in the morning, you will be dizzy by the colorful colors in front of you, and you have to jump and walk when you go out, so as not to trip over the flower pots. The flowers are really good-looking, they are so good-looking, they are placed in the yard by thousands, and the side effects are quite violent.
The unfortunate second daughter became the first victim of the palace. The more flowers, the more insects, and beautiful butterflies are welcome; The ghostly flies can't be driven away, and it is also counted as a few hard work to catch a few to contribute to the chicken industry; But the respected and praised industrious little bee is intimidating, and the two daughters' flowery dress and fragrance in the unit in early summer have become the object of small animal chasing, and the image of the interpretation of the scene of 'attracting bees and butterflies'.
What to do after being stung by a bee? I couldn't help it. Ying has not returned to enjoy the flowers, Lanling has already left, and the second daughter is reluctant to let the maid move her, saliva, vinegar, and flower water have been tried, but the redness and swelling on her pink little arms are still spreading, and the second daughter's tears of pain swirled, and she bit her lip without saying a word.
"You have to pick the thorn first, and if you pick the thorn, it's good." The money steward taught me experience. But he didn't dare to treat the second lady with his own hands, and he didn't go to death.
"You have to pick the thorn first, and if you pick the thorn, it's good." I came back and said to the second daughter: "You bear with it, I'll pick it for you," and said that he found a thin needle, put the oil lamp on the disinfectant, and moved the second daughter's arm over. "I have a small eye, I can't see the thorns in it, I have to squeeze it out first, it may be a little painful." The second daughter is not Guan Yunchang, and she doesn't play chess next to her, so she had to stuff a sugar gourd in her mouth, and I wishfully said: "Chew a few bites, and it won't hurt if it's sore." β
This is not the case, pain and sore are two different concepts. The process of picking the thorn was very simple, and the second daughter's feeling was painful and sour, and she endured her tears without a sound. This girl is too stubborn, it makes people feel distressed, "The stab is out, it's okay!" I sighed and smeared some soju on her wound, "Tomorrow I will change into a plain dress, or I will bite you." β
The second daughter nodded with tears in her eyes, reached out to me, and put her head into my arms to wipe her tears.
"I'm so interested, it's still bright." Ying didn't know when she came back, one hand on her shoulder, leaning on the door frame yin and yang, "If you want to go out to see the peony, then you have a happy life at home, but the concubine came back early, and I hope your husband will forgive me." β
"What are you talking about?" I was dissatisfied: "It's all the same as you think? The second daughter was stung by a bee, and her arm was swollen, so she hurried over to take a look. β
Ying dragged the second daughter out of my arms, "What a big deal is a bee sting, the upper meeting even picks the honeycomb, and it is nothing if you sting a few times, it will be pitiful." He pulled the second girl's arm and looked at it carefully, and said in surprise: "It's so swollen, how did you do it?" β
"After the sting, there was nothing, just a small red dot, and it hurt to see her. You're not at home, and I don't know what to do, so I asked the housekeeper to know that I had to pick a thorn, and when I came back, it was swollen, and the thorn was finished. I recounted the process to Ying, only to find that the second daughter had climbed into the kang and seemed to be asleep.
After listening to the narration, Ying giggled, grabbed the second daughter's foot and neck and dragged it over stiffly, slapped the second girl's buttocks a few times, and said with a smile: "Call you to do it!" β
Yes? was a little confused by Ying's actions, and wanted to stop it, but found that the second daughter had a strange expression on her face, her eyes were closed, her small mouth was deflated, and her nose was wrinkled hard.
"This girl. As long as the concubine is not at home, she will become a sperm! Ying saw that the second daughter was still not subdued, "Still pretending! Becoming a fine! Call you to be...." Kept poking and pinching on her. The second daughter writhed around itchyly, and finally couldn't help but giggle, covered her head with a pillow towel, and crawled aside and pretended to be dead.
"What are you two messing with?" After reading the doorway, it is estimated that he was played by the second daughter again. But the redness and swelling on her arm was real, and she couldn't tell it.
"Husband, it seems that he is an honest man. Hehe..."Ying looked at me with a smile, with pity in her eyes, "This girl looks honest at home, and she goes out to bandit." Seeing that she stung the bee dozens of times, she didn't even understand the reason for picking a thorn? She obviously waited for the stinger to be screwed in (after the bee sting, the bee sting left behind entered the skin like a small drill) before she ran to cry out for pain, picking an empty person. He pulled the second daughter who was pretending to be dead over and kneaded the dough and tossed it.
"Okay, okay," seeing that the second daughter was out of breath by Ying, "she still hurts, don't toss a few times." Take advantage of the blooming beauty, tomorrow ask someone to send out all the peonies, such a large backyard is stuffed, if you are not careful, you have to sting again. Let's just keep a few pots to watch. β
"En," Ying nodded, "Then the Cheng family will send it to the Qin family, and the Cui family will send it to the Du family." Although this flower is beautiful, it can't live if it is filled with pots, so it has to be sent quickly. β
"Why?" I don't know anything about floriculture.
"Peony is like this, you have to touch the ground and eat meat flowers." Ying kicked her shoes and pulled the second daughter over to lean on, "Just like the second daughter, she looks handsome, and she can't live without the flesh." I heard them say that before planting peonies, we must first bury the dead sheep and dead dogs, so that the flowers can bloom brightly, and the more yin and vigorous the place, the more beautiful the peonies will be. β
No wonder, finally understanding the true meaning of the pink skeleton. The ground is as beautiful as red pink, and the skeletons buried in the ground are all skeletons, or there is a saying that 'peony flowers die, and ghosts are also windy', and the femme fatale agrees. "Don't plant peonies in our homes, it's uncomfortable to step on the corpse every day for morning exercises."
"No, the concubine doesn't like such flowers. When it blooms, it is proud, it is all big and bright, and the leaves make the flowers invisible, and even forget their duty; When the flowers recede, it is generally rotten grass and grass, a mess, and it is not as beautiful as the duck's foot tree. Ying tightened the second daughter who wanted to crawl away, and said with a smile: "The girl thinks that the concubine is talking about her, and she is not happy." In fact, our second daughter is just like the 'wall creeper' on the garden shelf, she doesn't say anything on weekdays, and when people bloom, it is light and wilting. Other flowers are defeated, and those who look at the flowers are gone, and only we're 'wall creepers' can silently entangle things, and they are tightly entangled, and they can't run away. Twisted it on the second daughter's waist, "Second daughter, isn't it?" β
"Listen to you, that's the truth." Ying's words are comfortable to listen to, and it is my blessing to marry such a mother-in-law. Small temper, cautious, but I understand in my heart that my body is weak and hard in my bones, "Madame is afraid that it is Lamei, weak and strong." β
"Hehe......" Ying laughed happily, "Xie Fujun praised." He took my hand and clenched it tightly, "Actually, the concubine has no flower, and she has no flowery temperament, and she doesn't dare to compare with Lamei." Lamei is too hard, just open in winter, dare to come out of this, dare to recruit people to evaluate, the concubine is less than this energy. In the garden, the duck's foot tree planted by the husband in the spring is growing well, and the concubine is it. People are green, we are also green; People are yellow, we are also yellow, on weekdays, the melon grows upward, looking at the yard at home, looking at the creeper next to it, watching the early husband practice martial arts, it will pass overnight, what do people want to live? All satisfied. β
"Gua Po Niang," hugged Ying over, and couldn't say anything anymore. Those who listen are strong, "The creeper is coming, too." The two daughters got up and snuggled together, and the family of three was silent, all stupid and didn't know what to move.
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Recommend "Reloaded: Rebirth in the Other World", good, good book, the starting point of the famous author - Desert Lonely Smoke, dedication.