The sand is like snow in front of Huile Peak, and the moon outside the city is like frost.

I don't know where to blow the reed pipe, and I recruit people to look at the hometown overnight.

Du Wu had been in the prison cell of the county government for almost half a month, and this half month was the most unforgettable half month in his life, and he had asked himself more than once whether he had done something wrong in his previous life to fall to such a point. was exiled to a place where he couldn't return home, and was inexplicably sentenced to death, and he was beheaded in half. Although he has been constantly thinking about how to overturn the case these days, no one in the entire county jail is willing to deal with him. Even if he shouted out his throat or said something that sounded strange to the jailers, the jailers did not want to come and take a look, it was so stinky that they ate and drank in this small space of only a few square meters, and they only thought that the prisoner knew that he was about to die and was insane. This kind of thing is no longer unusual.

The prison where Du Wu is located is a special prison for death row prisoners, and it is full of death row prisoners who have been sentenced to be executed, because they are death row prisoners, they have lost the value of being used, and the county lieutenant and jailer don't even bother to ask for bribes, because they know that these death row prisoners are already dead people, and if you ask him for it, he will not give you a penny. Therefore, when dealing with these death row prisoners, the jailers generally stay away, and if they can't die, they don't care about anything else. I don't know what happened today, but when it was almost noon, a jailer came over and delivered a bowl of rice to each cell.

Under Du Wu's careful questioning, a jailer shouted impatiently: "What do you ask, you still have to ask so much for food, straight lady thief, let Lao Tzu come to deliver food, it will stink to death!" ”

Du Wu took the bowl and found that it was covered with a bunch of grass, and the blades of grass were pestled into the bowl, and in the bowl was actually half a bowl of millet porridge, Du Wu, who had not seen normal food for half a month, was overjoyed, and swallowed the porridge into his mouth when he opened his mouth, and after swallowing, he felt more and more hungry, and he didn't think much about it, he licked the bowl with his tongue, licked and licked, and suddenly his nose was sore, and tears fell in large pieces. When had he ever been so downcast!

"It turned out to be the Dragon Boat Festival." Diagonally across from a cell, a hoarse voice like a broken gong came to me.

"Dragon Boat Festival? Hey, as a prisoner, you shouldn't expect to have zongzi to eat. Du Wu sighed.

"Zongzi? What's that? Broken Gong asked suspiciously.

"Zongzi is Zongzi, wrapped in Zongzi leaves, inside are rice dumplings, the north will put bean paste or jujube paste, and the south is meat dumplings, what, don't you eat zongzi here?"

The hoarse voice floated over again: "This scholar always says something that people don't understand. The Dragon Boat Festival is such a festival for the purpose of dispelling diseases and disasters. This day is called "Evil Moon and Evil Day", and from this day on, summer has officially arrived, because the weather in the north is hot and dry, people are prone to illness, and plague is easy to epidemic. In addition, snakes and insects begin to infest, and it is easy to bite people, so the people in this place are also called Dragon Boat Festival Poison Day. I saw the wormwood on the bowl, this is used to prevent the five poisons, the five poisons are long worms, scorpions, centipedes, geckos, toads, Dragon Boat Festival, to prevent the harm of the five poisons. Generally, to draw a picture of the five poisons in the house, that is, to draw five kinds of poisons, and then use five needles to prick the five poisons on the body, and they are stabbed to death as poison. So, in this place, there is a custom of not mentioning the May. ”

Du Wu was fascinated by this, and hurriedly asked, "What is not lifting May?" ”

Broken Gong coughed lightly, and then said: "Don't mention the meaning of May, that is, the baby born on the Dragon Boat Festival on May 5, both men and women can not be raised, once raised, the man will harm the father, the woman will harm the mother, and the official will not take office in May, unlucky, can not be promoted, and will not build a house in May, it will make people bald, so at this time, the daughter who has been married will also go home for the holiday, called hiding the Dragon Boat Festival ......"

"What about children born on the fifth of May?"

Breaking the gong and babbling about it, but was interrupted by Du Wu, maybe after being imprisoned, he had a rare opportunity to show off his knowledge in front of people, he was very angry, and said loudly: "If you are beaten to death or thrown into the mountains, what else can you do, do you want to harm your family?" ”

Du Wu opened his mouth wide and didn't speak for a long time, it was really difficult for him to connect the Dragon Boat Festival in later generations with the Dragon Boat Festival of the Han Dynasty. The Dragon Boat Festival in later generations, it was a three-day holiday, these three days people are spent in the carnival, people with cars are jammed on the free national highway, people without cars or take cars or high-speed trains or planes, all over the world to play. The old man teased his grandson, the children flew kites on the lawn, the couples held hands to watch the midnight movie, the supermarket was full of discounted zongzi, Taobao and Jingdong would also take the opportunity to reduce the price of promotion, thinking of this, Du Wu couldn't help but feel sad again.

The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown, there is no dragon boat, and zongzi is rarely eaten, and Shandong people eat boiled eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. He remembers when he was in elementary school, the Dragon Boat Festival did not have a holiday, when he went out in the morning, his mother would stuff two boiled eggs into his school bag, and when he arrived at school, he would find that some students hung a bundle of iris at the door of the classroom, and during class, the Chinese teacher would let the students go on stage to talk about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, and then everyone giggled and laughed with colored pens to draw grimaces on the eggs, and then exchanged with each other, and eliminated the eggs in the recitation of poems of "Qu Zi's soul is still there, and the customs of Chu Township have remained to this day". The skillful classmates will also make a tumbler out of eggshells. On this day, the teacher is generally more lenient, which makes many naughty students secretly make small movements under the desk. When I got home, my mother had already wrapped dumplings, and in Shandong, as long as it was a festival, I would eat dumplings, and Du Wu could eat a large plate every time, then wipe his mouth and run out to play with his friends.

Thinking about it, tears moistened my eyes. At this time, the sky has darkened, and the noisy cries on the back wall of the yamen have disappeared, I don't know who played the flute in the distance, and the distant flute sound entered Du Wu's ears, Du Wu couldn't help but feel sad and sobbed in a low voice.

"That Confucian student, don't cry, look at the point, unless you catch up with the amnesty. By the way, they're all mortal people anyway, so I'll tell you about it, what is chess, how do you play it? ”

Suddenly, there was a rustling accompanied by the sound of iron shackles hitting iron railings from all directions, Du Wu thought about it, sighed, and then opened his mouth faintly: "Okay, anyway, it's a person who will die, and I don't care about one more crime." I'm going to tell you what chess is and how to play it. According to legend, Xiangqi was invented by Han Xin, Marquis of Huaiyin. Hanshin, do you know it? It is Han Xin, who repaired the plank road in the dark, and helped our Emperor Gao to make great achievements, and was finally forced to commit suicide by Empress Lu. ”

"It is said that after Han Xin was imprisoned, he remembered that he followed Emperor Gao to fight with Xiang Yu for the world......

The cold moonlight shone down from behind the clouds and shone on a jailer who was already fascinated by his hearing.