Although it was overcast all day yesterday, it still didn't rain on this morning. The sky is still gray, with a slightly cold spring breeze, giving people the illusion that mountain rain is coming.

In this year's Jinling City, although because of the relationship between King Luo Yan and "raising money for the Jiangnan Poetry Society", the atmosphere was a little light before the Qingming Festival. But when Qingming arrived this morning, the atmosphere of "pedestrians want to break their souls" suddenly became lively! It seems that everything before was an illusion.

Although there are no more stalls and vendors selling incense paper in the city, the few incense paper shops have all broken the threshold! The so-called Qingming is like this, some people want to take advantage of this to feel nostalgic for the season, some people want to worship their ancestors, but some people want to use this to turn a sum of silver...... I'm afraid, this is the reason why people look down on businessmen!

It's also strange to say, this Luo Haotian this time the original incense paper vendors in Jinling City can be said to be cornered, but the incense paper in Jinling City does not seem to have decreased, the people who walked on the street early in the morning, whether they were rich and noble men in gorgeous clothes, or ordinary people in cloth clothes, were holding a stack of paper in their hands, rolling incense, and went out of the city one after another.

This may seem strange when you think about it, but if you really look closely, it's not really true. Because the rich and noble never lacked things like incense paper, and even if they were, they were all sent by those incense paper shops, so the disappearance of the stall vendors had no effect on them.

And the poor people, those who have to find a way to eat, are not in the mood to worship any ancestors at all, and even worse, I am afraid that they don't even know that today is Qingming...... Therefore, after this back and forth, those who are willing to spend money to buy incense are only ordinary people!

Although they are not as good as those big families, they can be regarded as well fed and clothed. Although I may not even have been to the graves of my ancestors on weekdays, I always have to burn some incense during the Qingming Festival.

And these people who are willing to pay for incense, in today's special circumstances, are divided into two factions: those who are willing to spend silver, or those who attach importance to ancestor worship, are willing to spend more silver and buy some incense paper from those shops at a high price. And those who are reluctant to spend money, or who are not interested in such things as worshipping ancestors, will not go to the shop to buy, but cut a few blank pieces of paper by themselves, and curl up some unknown herbs as incense......

In addition to these ordinary people in Jinling City, because of the proximity of the Jiangnan Poetry Society, those talented people from other places will also take some incense paper, on the official road outside the city in this foreign land, or by Mingyang Lake...... Burn a pile of ashes and go to comfort their ancestors...... This feeling of "being alone in a foreign land as a stranger" can't help but make them think about it, facing the weeping willows on both sides of the official road, or the lake water of Mingyang Lake, chanting two poems with additional lyrics......

What is it like: During the Qingming Festival, the willows are worried, and they think about the lake...... and other sour sentences, one after another. I don't know if they are expressing their thoughts about the dead, or if they are trying to express their sorrow for the new words here.

And on this official road in the south of the city, where people come and go, and the incense is smoking, there is a carriage at this time. The body is gorgeous, holding brocade satin and hanging with jewels. It's just that the car is parked on the side of the road at this time, and the driver is sitting in the car, looking at the talented people not far away who are burning paper and incense on the side of the road to remember their ancestors, and listening to them say some poems that they don't understand......

The beauties in the car will take advantage of the absence from time to time to open the curtain and look in the direction of the gate of Jinling City......

And along this official road, enter Jinling City and go straight to the road for four or five miles, which is the Qingfeng Pavilion on the first floor of the south of the Yangtze River. Because of the Qingming Festival, this Qingfeng Pavilion is also a lot colder today. In the hall, there are a few talented people from other places, who think they are different and are unwilling to learn from others to burn paper and incense outside the city......

Upstairs in Qingfeng Pavilion, Baihua was lazily lying on the edge of the window, looking at the somewhat gloomy weather and some foggy distances, with a trace of inexplicable sorrow on his face......

It wasn't until a long time that she seemed to be a little curled, so she sighed softly and left the window: "Lotus leaf, let's go to Yangzhou!" ”

The lotus leaf standing behind her heard it, was stunned for a moment, and then nodded silently......

In the bamboo courtyard of the Lin Mansion, Lin Yingyue finally finished eating, and Brother Shi did not answer her question after all. Because of Shen Wei's words last night, plus what Lin Yingyue said just today. It seemed that things were going in the direction he expected! So, he chose to be silent.

Lin Yingyue didn't ask anything, as if Shi Yuan hadn't said anything before, and she hadn't heard anything. According to the custom, she also went to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors of the Lin family. So after eating, seeing that the time seemed to be almost up, she got up and walked towards the ancestral hall of the Lin family.

The ancestral hall of the Lin family is rarely open on weekdays, except for the Lin family, when something major happens, all the clansmen will discuss it together in the ancestral hall. In addition, on Qingming or other important days, the ancestors and grandchildren of the Lin family will enter the hall to worship their ancestors.

And this ancestor worship is also different from the usual deliberations, when the ancestral hall is deliberating, those personal maids and family members can enter the ancestral hall. And when worshipping ancestors, only the descendants of the Lin family can enter. So Lin Yingyue left Shi Yuan in her room...... Of course, Brother Shi is not "lonely", because Qingshuang and Qinglu can't go with them.

"You say! What are you going to do today? Not long after Lin Yingyue came out of the room, Qinglu asked Shi Yuan. When he saw Shi Yuan hesitating about accompanying his young lady to Yangzhou today, he actually wanted to ask, but was secretly stopped by his sister, and now as soon as Lin Yingyue left, she couldn't wait to ask.

"That Qinglu sister...... I seem to ...... Didn't say I wouldn't go to Yangzhou, right? Brother Shi sat at the table, casually looked at the account book on Lin Yingyue's desk, and replied casually.

When Shi Yuan said this, Qinglu couldn't help but be stunned, and after thinking about it carefully, he didn't seem to have answered this matter.

Seeing Qinglu's face hesitating, Brother Shi smiled secretly, then looked at Qingshuang and said, "By the way, Sister Qingshuang, why didn't you see Lin Xu's kid today?" ”

Qingshuang, who was cleaning up the dishes on the table, was stunned for a moment at first, because she didn't adapt to Shi Yuan's sudden change of voice and calling her sister, and then she replied: "Miss asked him to go to a new workshop yesterday, and he came back very late, maybe he was too tired......

"That's what it looks like!" Brother Shi listened to the explanation and nodded silently. It looks like everyone was busy all day yesterday......

(End of chapter)