April 8 is the birthday of the Buddha, on this day many believers in Jinling will take out green beans and soybeans several liters, stand in the market and wait for the monks to pass by, the master declares the Buddha's number to reach out and pull it, and then the beans are cooked, scattered to the people, called the beans, meaning to tie the fate of the next life, very lively.

Jinling Huanggu Temple is the place of blessing of the Queen Mother, since the beginning of the twelfth year of Hongxi, every year from the first day of April, open the temple for half a month.

Early summer and April is a good time to go out of the city, there are countless tourists, and every day red women and green men crowd the road to Huanggu Temple. The cool breeze outside the city, the willow wheat waves, the sunny weather and the good scenery of green mountains and green waters, make the visitors feel relaxed and happy, and wash their hearts.

There is a clear sky, the wind is smooth, and the literati praise the Huanggu Temple and say "the victory of the suburbs of Cheng".

Now according to the record in the "Jinling Wenkao", Huanggu Temple is located in the north of Xiaojia Village, built in the second year of Hongxi, expanded twice in the sixteenth year of Hongxi, and expanded twice in the second year of Xuande. The temple gate is the bell and drum tower, the palace of the heavenly king, the palace is the longevity pavilion, the heart pavilion, and then the meditation hall for the widow to spend her old age in peace.

Behind the hall, there are rockeries, gardens that imitate the imperial garden, the rockery is the Guanyin Palace, the lower is the Jizo Palace, there is the Buddha Hall of Amitayus on the left side, there are three temples on the right side, and the back is the courtyard wall and the back building.

There are farmland, vegetable gardens, waterwheels, wharves, canals, etc. around the temple, and Xuande is connected to it for three years.

In the food of the season in April, the northerners will pick the elm money leaves, wash them and steam them, and use sugar and flour, which is the famous elm money cake, and the south has rose cakes, in addition, from Jinling to Hebei, there are also vine cakes made of vine flowers.

April is also a good time to eat anchovy, anchovy is the best taste of the Jiangnan water treasures, since ancient times for the tribute thing, and pufferfish, saury is equally famous, known as the "Yangtze River three fresh", but today, anchovy has become an endangered species.

In April, asparagus and cherries were put together, and the ancients believed that the taste was the most luscious.

"Asparagus flies when it is raw", "Purple cherry ripe wheat is cool".

The wheat first ripens in April, and people make noodles and stir-fry them, mix them with white sugar and eat them, which is the famous cold fried noodles in the north.

In April, the flowers are in full bloom, representing the purple color of the flowers, sweet and lovely roses, although they are not yet a symbol of love, but they are also widely loved by the women of the boudoir.

The most popular is known as the morning view, the most flavorful peony, the ancient people highly respected the peony, almost no less than the peony.

At this time, the vendors will shout along the street: "Roses for cakes, roses for cakes!"; And the broken branches must be peonies with buds to be released. Among them, the most famous are Concubine Yang and Silly Bai.

At the end of April, because of the flowers, the sentimental literati and ladies are easy to increase their melancholy, and the only thing that can relieve the boredom is the gentle sound of the warbler, such as the yellow bird with drums and springs, listening to the beautiful call of the yellow bird bird, there is the joy of fighting wine and double oranges.

It's a pity that you can only listen to it for about a month, and the oriole will fly away. The ancient poem "Yellow Chestnut Leaves Singing Mulberry Beauty", which means that the yellow oriole is calling, indicating that the mulberry is about to ripen.

In short, the fourth month of the lunar calendar is the most beautiful month in ancient times, from south to north, from west to east, the whole land of China is full of birds and flowers, if this month is beautiful and beautiful, it basically means that the whole year will be smooth and rainy.

Officials will take the lead in incense to pray for the peace of the country and the people, light yì rare famous daughters, everyone is beautiful, in April will go out to play collectively, and their moving figures can be seen in major temples.

Confucius Temple in Nanjing City, Qixia Temple at the west foot of the middle peak of Qixia Mountain, Jiming Temple at the eastern foot of Jilong Mountain, Jiangjun Mountain and Niushou Mountain Yumai Broken Arm Mountain, Longquan Temple between the two mountains, Eagle Peak Temple in Bailuzhou, Xuanzang Temple of Jiuhua Mountain in the north of Xuanwu Lake, the most famous Linggu Temple in Zhongshan, and Hongjue Temple in Zutang Mountain.

There are 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, and how many buildings are in the smoke and rain.

Taishan Temple, Fangshan Dinglin Temple, Tushi Temple, Relic Pagoda, Dabao'en Temple, Huayan Temple, Changlu Temple, Linggu Pagoda, Qingliang Temple, Pujue Temple, Haihui Temple, Tianlong Temple, Flower Temple, Tianning Temple, Shifo Temple, Jinghai Temple, Jingming Temple, Wuxiang Temple, Fayun Temple, Yanhua Temple, Baogong Pagoda, Jinli Nunnery and so on.

The temple Taoist temple is an ancient tourist attraction, attracting a large number of tourists all the year round, about burning incense and worshiping the Buddha is equivalent to the entrance fee, although it belongs to the feudal superstitious activities, but it can also play a role in persuading people to be good, prospering domestic demand.

The better life is, the more enthusiastic people are to travel, and at the same time, there is a significant increase in cases such as molesting women, quarrels, abductions, thefts and robberies, so few local governments will like April.

It's easy to say that you're tired of running for the sake of maintaining law and order, but what you're most afraid of is that a major case with a bad impact will happen, and if there are several cases in a row, you probably won't be able to keep the black gauze hat on your head.

This happened recently near Jinling, which caused some conservative officials to criticize the imperial court's suppression of the foot-binding atmosphere, and Xu Hao couldn't help but cry and laugh about it.

The reason is that there is a guest from Korea who sells beads from the Korean country at the Bixia Yuanjun Temple outside the city, named Jin Yue. This man was unusually handsome, because since the Qin Dynasty, the people of the Central Plains generally looked down on backward Korea, and prejudiced that the women there were extremely prostituted, that is, they did not care much about the relationship between men and women.

However, Jin Yue's hometown is located at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, and even the people of the country have always thought that the customs there are like those of the undisciplined Wa Kingdom. It is conceivable that in such an atmosphere, a beautiful man like Jin Yue naturally has countless North Korean women who are infatuated with him, which can be said to be taken and carried.

Jin Yue is like an idol star in later generations, with many fans in his hometown, because his family is engaged in selling beads, so people give him a nickname, called idol. (It's definitely not a small hairpin's fabrication, there are similar records in ancient anecdotes.) )

Jin Idol went to Jinling with his parents to sell beads, he had nothing to do, and deliberately lived in Bixia Temple.

In April, there is an endless stream of male and female pilgrims who come to the temple to burn incense, and he walks back and forth in the main hall every day, taking the opportunity to peep and admire the beauties of the kingdom and feast his eyes.

There is a local celebrity named Huang Shangqing in Jinling, and his wife's surname is Zhao. Last time, he won the top three in the imperial examination, and last year he was released to the county governor of Hebei.

I didn't want my wife to get a sudden illness, and in less than a month, she died. Huang Shangqing was very distressed by this, and finished the funeral with tears and tears.

Middle-aged widowed, now lonely, really lonely, Huang Shangqing thought that it would be better to continue a lady. Because he thought that Yangzhou was famous for his thin horses, he decided to go to Yangzhou first, and after marrying Xuxian, it was not too late to rush to Hebei.

Dare to love him not only for the sake of thin horses, but most importantly, he wants to find a three-inch golden lotus, and small-footed beauties are becoming more and more rare.

In Yangzhou, the matchmaker searched and searched, the time was tight and the task was heavy, but he only heard that the daughter of Cai Jiansheng in Osmanthus Lane was not only born with a peerless appearance, elegant and extraordinary, but also wrapped her feet since she was a child.

As soon as the matchmaker came to the door, Cai Jiansheng saw that this was a new Kezhi County, a famous person in Jinling, with a capital hukou, and an unlimited future, so he naturally felt good.

Cai Jiansheng really looked down on the salt merchants and merchants who broke out in Yangzhou, so he asked again and again: "If I marry Xian, I will agree, if I let my daughter be a concubine, I will never accept it."

Under the matchmaker's repeated assurances, Cai Jiansheng, who felt reliable, discussed it with his wife and agreed.

Because Huang Shangqing was in a hurry to take up his post, he prepared a dowry the next day, with a dowry of three hundred taels, and hired someone to send it to Cai's house. Cai Jiansheng was caught off guard, and he didn't have time to make a dowry, so he generously took out five hundred taels of dowry silver.

On the night of the candles in the cave room, Huang Shangqing was very satisfied, his wife was really charming, the pair of small and pointed golden lotus was so cute, the pink and snow-white body was really promoted to get rich and change his wife, and the two of them were like fish in water along the way.

When he returned home, he feasted all his relatives and friends for several days, asked his relatives to help take care of the family, and then entrusted all the big and small things in the house to Cai's care, and after a few days he left.

Let's say that the Cai family who stayed in Jinling, the Cai family is not a scholarly family in Yangzhou, and it is the most open place, and they have been used to playing everywhere since childhood. Now that I have arrived at the Huang family and become the wife of an official, I am restrained in my every move, and I am not used to it anyway, after all, I am young.

In April, she was so quiet that she asked the lady in charge, "Where should I go?" It's really boring at home. ”

The woman said: "Bixia Niangniang Temple is very lively, not far from our house, most of the people who go are women, it is very suitable."

In this way, Cai's dress is like a flower and jade, and he came to the temple in a sedan chair, burned incense to the mother in the main hall, worshiped four times, and then walked around the places of interest in the temple, and only planned to go back after noon.

When he left, he was seen by Jin Idol, and he was shocked for a while, so he followed the sedan chair all the way and followed him to the gate of the Huang family in a trance.

wants to be an 'idol star' like Kim Aidou, who casually hooks his fingers in his hometown, and some enthusiastic 'fans' happily throw him into his arms, so he is extremely narcissistic and conceited, comparing himself to North Korea's Pan An Song Yu.

Seeing that the beautiful lady walked in, the stunned Jin Aidou inquired nearby, and learned that the old man of the Huang family had taken office, leaving Mrs. alone at home, Yangzhou people.

Back in the temple, this night idols tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, thinking that they were in North Korea, and also played with many women, but I have never seen such an elegant Chinese beauty, if I can sneak into the inner house to meet, even if it is just a few words, then after I return to North Korea, I can also boast that I have made friends with the official wife of the suzerain, isn't it a big fortune Smecta?

In this era, no matter how beautiful the famous prostitute on the Qinhuai River is, it is not worth bragging about returning to China. It's like being beaten in the chest by thousands of Chinese people for a few female drama stars to marry in South Korea in later generations, and it is really not worth it.

As for the dignified official wife, Jin Aidou returned to North Korea after the incident, and the emperor was far away, so he was not afraid.

In these years, the Koreans believed in the Buddha more than the Ming Dynasty, and even though the Korean state was caused by a vigorous campaign to exterminate the Buddha by the words of the emperor, the only belief of the majority of the Korean people was Buddhism.

Of course, Bixia Niangniang belongs to Taoist immortals, but for Koreans who worship the Heavenly Empire, it should be more spiritual.

Early the next morning, Jin Aidou ran to the main hall and knelt down, and pious self-complained: "Disciple Jin Yue, because she sold pearls with her parents, I met Mrs. Huang yesterday, and I was intimidated by her. The disciple is obsessed with telling the gods, if there is a marriage in my life, the beggar will give me a spiritual sign. If there is no fate, the next lot will be given.

With anticipation, he took the lottery holder and shook it, shook out a stick, picked it up and took a look, Jin Idol's face suddenly turned green, and he signed it.

"Nope." Jin Aidouxin, who had a bitter face, said that Niangniang didn't understand my Fanbang dialect, so I'll say it again.

As a result, it was signed again, and Jin Aidou was so angry that he scolded "Peasant Woman Smecta", and started again; Again, or down.

"Fuck you."

The angry Jin Aidou came to a curse from the Han people, and angrily picked up the skewer on the ground, and immediately smiled happily, dancing with his hands, which made the pilgrims next to him look sideways.

"Hard work pays off, haha!"

Jin Idol is like a treasure, and the seventh stick reads: "In the past life, they were married, and now they are wired; The mouth is like a bottle, and don't spit in front of people. ”

During this period, Koreans, who had read books, had no obstacle to their ability to read Chinese, and they were more Chinese than Chinese.

The overjoyed Jin Idol was excited, and he covered his mouth for fear of being known, so he was busy kowtowing and knocking on the statue of Niangniang, his head banging on the green bricks, and vowed: "If Niangniang becomes a disciple, I am willing to offer a hundred taels of silver as a sacrifice."

The first half of the sentence was in Korean, and the second half of the sentence was in the Ming official dialect, and he was afraid that his dirty wish would anger Bixia Niangniang, and a lightning bolt would kill him.

Running back to the room in a hurry, he had already come up with a clever plan, the so-called clever plan was a rotten and tried and tested strategy in ancient times, that is, disguised as a woman selling things, under the pretense of selling pearls, and mixed into the inner house.

It's okay to pretend to be a nun, but you have to shave your head. Kim idols are self-sustaining and self-contained, see some Korean male idols in later generations.

But soon Jin Aidou encountered a problem, he didn't know that Daming had become no longer popular in terms of foot wrapping over the years, how could he hide his big feet? Even if ordinary women don't wrap their feet, they are not so big, and they can see through it at once.

After thinking about it, I decided to sew a pair of embroidered shoes by hand, borrow the beads of color and decoration, and use a montage technique, plus lower the skirt as much as possible, and be careful when walking.

So he hid in his room and embroidered for three whole days, then went to a ready-to-wear shop, bought a long green silk white shirt and skirt, as well as a shirt, a bun, a wig bun or something, and bought a box of rouge gouache.

With the package, he chose to be in a secluded ancestral hall near the Yellow Mansion, and at noon this day, he dressed up while no one was putting on makeup, not to mention, if he didn't look carefully, he was a handsome little daughter-in-law.

After looking at the reflection in the canal for a long time, there was no flaw, and Jin Aidou, who was very satisfied at the moment, was bold, carrying a basket of various beads, holding a string of good pearls in his hand, and walked slowly step by step towards Huangfu.

Just in time for April, when the government patrols were at its most intense, and the three sects and nine streams did not dare to cause trouble, who would have thought that a foreign youth would be so bold?

A team of patrolmen passed by in front of the Huangfu Gate, and the two gatekeepers chatted absentmindedly, and when they saw a young woman selling things coming over, one of the housekeepers' eyes lit up, and they pushed the other with a smile.

The two of them stared at the white faces, the breasts with steamed buns, and the twisted buttocks, forgetting to even ask, and just letting people in.

The frightened Jin Idol never thought it would be so easy? In my heart, I even called Niangniang really effective, and she deserved to be the oldest god in China.

In the final analysis, the Huang family is thin, a simple scholarly family, no family property, and located outside Jinling City, the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven are pure, and there are few chickens and dogs stealing, women like to visit each other, and the people don't take it seriously.

In this way, Jin Aidou walked to the inner house step by step, and he didn't see anyone. The woman in charge of the door was squatting under Liu Meng on the opposite side and was enjoying the coolness, and a mother-in-law was standing on the side fanning her fan, also chatting.

"What for?"

"Wheat beads." Jin Aidou replied softly.

"Let's go inside."

"Thank you, sister-in-law." (To be continued......)