Because of the rain, the ox cart didn't go very fast, but fortunately the road was wide enough for the vehicle behind them to pass by.

The rain is light rain, in fact, it does not affect the vision, but the sky is very cloudy, and the dark clouds seem to be pressing on the top of the head, which makes people very depressed to watch.

Ugly and gold also came out, it was one thing to not want to come out before, and it was another thing not to be able to come out, and it was strange to be aggrieved in the space for two or three days.

Jin is in front of the car, Jin Yang and Chouchou are in the carriage, because even if a piece is stretched out on the top, there will still be rain on both sides, so it is most appropriate to sit in the middle to catch the car, so that it will not be caught by the rain.

"You said that the stone statue in the lake over there suddenly disappeared, why didn't the people over there react? Wouldn't you think of something else? ”

Qian Yan asked Ugly Ugly.

I went to a few people to check the movement before, and no one paid attention to it after that, which is a bit abnormal.

It is said that there was no entertainment in ancient times, and everyone knew that there was something abnormal, and everyone would discuss it, and even cause many conjectures, and the more it spread, the more outrageous it became, and there was no period of time that could not be calmed down.

And as if this had never happened, Aunt Xiao, a first-hand witness, also told her family about it at dinner yesterday.

Li Laifu even said that the stone statue has been there for many years, maybe the stone below has finally been soaked and will sink to the bottom of the lake.

I didn't think it was strange at all, as if I had expected such a day.

Ugly: "The stone statue has been there for many years, except for arousing the curiosity of some young people, there has not been anything harmful to the people around it, so everyone slowly stopped paying attention to it."

As long as it doesn't affect life, it doesn't matter to the people nearby whether it disappears or not, that's why it's so peaceful. ”

Tilt Yan nodded, "I see, by the way, what happened to those bandits?" Have any other accomplices been tried? And did the government collude with the bandits? ”

Chou Chou shook his head, "No, those were all wiped out before, and the government did not tolerate it, it was directly reported to the state government, and when the approval from the state government came, those people were beheaded and displayed to the public."

Oh, by the way, the lair of those bandits has also been tried, and it is actually in a mountain not far from the county seat, where there is a village of more than a dozen families, and the strong men have all become bandits.

The officials had already arrested the old and weak women and children in the village, and even if they did not participate in the robbery and murder, they were all insiders, so they were all locked up.

Because the order was timely and the official messenger acted quickly, he caught the other party off guard, so he didn't slip through the net. ”

Qian Yan sighed with emotion: "Those bandits are really hidden in the village, I didn't expect that a village is full of bandits, it is estimated that it is like those human traffickers in later generations, and the people in the same village may have started to cover each other, and slowly saw the benefits, and began to join the same stream." ”

Ugly nodded, "That's it, robbery is faster than farming and doing business, and there are two of them, as long as you cross the bottom line, you will fall deeper and deeper, and it will be difficult to get out." ”

Jin Yang also said: "Our road is considered peaceful, it is said that it was even more chaotic at the beginning of the founding of the country, and there were people everywhere who occupied the mountains as kings, and now many of them have been exterminated." ”

This is true, the Song Dynasty has been established for more than ten years, and after many places were taken over by new officials, they would exterminate the bandits in the jurisdiction and establish their authority in turn, as long as they succeeded, it was also their own merit.

The three of them walked and chatted all the way, because the carriage door was open, and the gold sometimes got involved, only the ingots were either eating snacks or sleeping.

They didn't stop for lunch, they ate the baked cakes with braised pork, which they bought in the northwest before, and they kept it in the ugly space, and they took it out as if it had just been made.

Aunt Xiao prepared for them "glutinous" and steamed bacon jerky, the word "glutinous" was not a beautiful word in later generations, but in ancient times it was a food.

"Zhou Li Zhenren" mentions an idiom "glutinous bait and powder", bait is a lumpy food steamed from rice, and 飺 is a cake-like food made of rice.

"Glutinous" is a pot-like thing made of rice, because it is roasted and dried, so it is very durable, but the method is more time-consuming, and it seems that it should have been prepared before.

In the "Chinese Chu Language", it is said that "a basket of 糗", and the ancients used small bamboo baskets to carry it as dry food for going out.

Imagine that the ancients were ready to go far away, carrying a burden, carrying a small basket in their hands, putting "glutinous" in the basket, hanging a money bag in their waists, and carrying an oil-paper umbrella.

It's no wonder that the farthest place many people have ever been to in their lives may be a neighboring village, and it is too difficult to get out once.

This can be eaten directly, or soaked in water to eat, or boiled with other food, if you eat it directly, you have to have good teeth, and your teeth are not good to bite.

And the taste is very ordinary, that is, it can fill the stomach, and if it is not accompanied by some oily or watery jerky or vegetables with a strong taste, it is really difficult to swallow.

So they put it away first and ate the baked bread they had saved before.

Today is the twentieth day of the first lunar month, and I don't know if there is anything to say here, there are a lot of people on the road when it rains, not only those who are driving cars, but also a lot of pedestrians, because they are carrying flat shoulders, most of them are wearing clothes, and there are few people with umbrellas.

Qian Yan used her divine sense to investigate, and the bamboo basket they picked was some food, and nothing else.

It's no coincidence that it's no wonder that their carts are pulled or shoulder-carried, and they are loaded with grain, which means that today should be a festival about food.

She asked them directly, if they knew what kind of festival the twentieth day of the first lunar month was.

As a result, the gold really knows that the twentieth day of the first lunar month is called the Mending Heaven Festival, and in some places it is called the Heavenly Piercing Festival.

This festival is mainly spread in the Guanzhong area and among the Hakka people, but some are set on the 23rd day of the first month.

There is also a story about the origin of this festival in ancient times.

It is said that in ancient times, one day suddenly the sky and the earth suddenly collapsed, the volcano erupted, the flood was mighty, the beasts pounced on the refugees, the giant eagle took the children, and the people were in dire straits.

It turned out that there was a hole in the sky and the sky leaked, which led to these disasters.

Thanks to Nuwa Niangniang's refining of the multicolored stones, it filled the gap in the sky, saved mankind, and enabled the people to survive.

In order to commemorate the great deeds of Nuwa Niangniang, people set the twentieth day of the first lunar month as the festival of mending the sky.

The day of the Mending Heaven Festival also reflects the importance of women in family life in ancient times, and it is the only festival in the folk festival where the women of the family serve as sacrifices.

On this day, people commemorate Nuwa Niangniang's rescue by soaking in hot springs, filling granaries, eating pancakes and spring rolls and other customs and activities, and entrust the people's wishes to have no worries about food and clothing.

In addition to the Mending Heaven Festival, there is also a festival related to it on the twentieth day of the first lunar month, that is, the Warehouse Filling Festival.

There is also a legend about the origin of the Warehouse Filling Festival.

It is said that a long time ago, there was a severe drought in the north one year, and there was no harvest in the fields, which made the local people starving, and the imperial court did not care about the life or death of the people, and refused to open a warehouse to release grain for disaster relief.

However, an official who was guarding the royal granary at that time could not bear to see this scene of starvation, so he opened the granary privately.

This incident happened on the 25th day of the first month, so in order to commemorate this warehouse official, people called the 25th day of the first month the warehouse filling festival.

On the day of the Warehouse Filling Festival, people will worship the prince of Cang and pray for a good harvest in the coming year.

The twentieth day of the first month is called the small Tiancang, and the twenty-fifth day of the first month is the big Tiancang.

"Filling the warehouse festival", on this day, the granary at home should be filled, which means that the family does not have to worry about eating and drinking, and there is more than enough every year.

In ancient times, people would get up early on this day, draw barns of different sizes with sifted plant ash in their yards or threshing floors, and put grains in the barns, symbolizing the good weather and abundant grains in the year.

In addition to this, there are some other customs and activities on the twentieth day of the first lunar month.

For example, in the hot springs of Lishan Mountain, legend has it that Nuwa Niangniang saved mankind by refining colorful stones to make up for the sky in Lishan Mountain, and the red mountain stones behind the Xiuling Stone Urn Temple in Lishan Mountain are the traces left by Nuwa Niangniang when refining colorful stones.

People think that the hot springs were formed by absorbing the spiritual power of Nuwa Niangniang. Soaking in the hot springs in Lishan can not only wash away the dirt on the body, but also have the effect of fitness and longevity, and can also make the body and mind completely relax in this outstanding place.

Listening to this, she secretly said in her heart, there are really many ancient customs and festivals, especially after the New Year, there seems to be a festival in this New Year.

Later generations don't seem to have these anymore, of course, there may be some places, but they are not known to everyone, and they may only be inherited in a small area, at least not like the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other popularization, almost the whole world knows.

Of course, it is also because the productivity in ancient times was too low, and there were many problems that could not be solved by manpower, such as illness, natural and man-made disasters, so they could only be pinned on the ancestors and gods, so there were so many sacrifices.

Yes, traditional festivals are actually made of sacrifices, just like the Spring Festival is to welcome the new year, and there is also to drive away the New Year beasts.

The Dragon Boat Festival is to worship Qu Yuan, the Mid-Autumn Festival is to worship the moon, and so on......

It seems that when she goes back in the future, she will study these traditional festivals carefully, some of them are really interesting, and each festival will have a legend in it.

When the rain was lighter, Qian Yan and Yuan Bao opened the window on the side of the carriage and looked at the pedestrians on the road.

After noon, it seems that there are fewer and fewer people, not as many as in the morning, when they should all go out to carry grain to the threshing floor, or to their own yards.

After noon, there will be less of it, and there may be a wave before dark, after all, if you pick it out, you have to pick it back, and you can't put it outside on a rainy day.

To be honest, this is really pious enough, even when it rains, he is willing to pick up food.

You must know that food is very precious no matter when it arrives, and if it rains to pick out the food, if it rains, it is easy to sprout or mold, and it will be wasted at that time.

Just because of such a festival, they will still risk wasting food in the wind and picking out the food for a walk, which can be seen that this ancient value was attached to sacrifices and festivals.

They really have a sense of ritual and life than the people of later generations, and they are more enthusiastic about each other, unlike the indifference of later generations.

The future is much higher. Sure enough, at about five o'clock, when they walked to a place where there were more villages, they met another wave of people, who were carrying food back home.

After this wave of people passed, basically there were no pedestrians on the road, and at this time the rain turned out to be heavy, from small rain to moderate rain, it seems that this weather is quite open to those villagers, otherwise such a heavy rain will not only food, people will be watered.

By this time, it was almost dark, and even if they had sense, they could not see the potholes under the puddles on the road clearly, and they did not plan to continue on their way.

Change found a relatively hidden place nearby and entered the space, and after entering the space, Jin Yang dried the water on the carriage, and it was convenient to have this little sun.

The old ox also let it go to the lake to eat grass and drink water, and did not feed it all day, and was already thirsty and hungry, so he trotted all the way away.

Because it was humid outside, even if there were fire spirit stones, they were all open at the time with the carriage doors and windows, and Qian Yan felt slimy.

So as soon as I finished dinner, I took another hot shower and changed into comfortable pajamas before resting.

Before resting, he also told Chougou to let him look outside, if there is rain tomorrow, they will stay in the space for another day, and they will not brave the rain to hurry.

Not to mention that you can't catch up with many roads in the rain, the road is slippery in the rain, and there are many mountain roads here, so if you encounter any landslides and the like, it will be troublesome.

And today, don't look at the whole day's journey, in fact, they really haven't gone far, and they have just walked thirty or forty miles.

In the middle, I only passed through one town, and the others were some villages, so it can be seen that I basically didn't go far.

As soon as I got up the next morning, Chou Chou told Tilt Yan that the rain outside not only did not stop but also fell heavier, it rained moderately all night last night, and the rain turned into heavy rain in the morning.

Not only that, but the temperature has also dropped, from more than a dozen degrees to a few degrees, depending on the situation, the temperature may even drop.

Qian Yan said with some worry: "This is going to be a cold spring, will there be another disaster?" ”

Ugly nodded, "It's possible, the past two years have caught up with a Xiaoice period, not only the temperature in winter is low, but the spring cold will also be very serious, the north side should still have some experience, the south side will be more serious, basically can drop below zero."

Once it drops below zero, it will rain and it will become freezing, just like winter, or even worse than winter.

In this ancient world, as long as there was a disaster, it would be difficult to recover, at least for a long time, and it was really fatal. ”

(End of chapter)