Impressions of the Midyear Festival:

The dojo Pudu is a ghost, and the original Yulan ancient meaning exists.

But it's strange that the red note is posted on the door, and Roshan Wine Haiqing Zhongyuan.

Chang'an Miscellaneous Effect Bamboo Branch:

Ten thousand trees are cool and frosty, and the moon is nine bright in the first month.

Children compete for green lotus leaves, and 10,000 silver flowers scatter the fire city.

The above two poems are both poems by Qing Dynasty poets describing the lively scene of the Midyear Festival in July and the Menglan Bon Festival, the whole month of July is commonly known as the ghost month, and there is no festival except Qixi Festival.

After the Midyear Festival, a bug that looks like a plump watermelon seed begins to appear in the market, named Jin Zhong'er, which has long limbs, 4 tarsal joints, and strong hind limbs.

Its tentacles are about 32 mm long, and from the base, they have 3 colors, and the base is ochre, about 5 mm long; white in the middle, about 15 mm long; Black at the front, approx. 12 mm.

Its tail is white. Some specimens have hind wings protruding from their tails, which are slightly shorter than the two tail whiskers. The flattened, oval upper wing veins of this insect are distinctly raised and corrugated. Females are slightly fatter than males and have narrower forewings than males.

The sound of Jin Zhong'er is very peculiar, like a bell, and its sound is "bell-bell-bell"

The production area is very wide, almost every province has distribution, but in ancient times, when Jin Zhonger was mentioned, most of them referred to Yizhou, which was called like a cricket.

Merchants trafficked Admiralty to the capital, people bought it and put it on the pillow to listen to it, the sound was the clearest and clearest, rhyme but not sad, it seemed to be born specifically to belong to the pet of the Guangsha High Hall, so it was described as the name of Admiralty.

In the past few days, the wives of each family have to gather, and the place is set at the Mu family, Aunt Shen has been busy with various things for several days, in addition to the inner house, she has sent silver to the outer kitchen to prepare the banquet of the gentlemen in the front hall.

On the twentieth day of the seventh month, she got up early in the morning, gathered all the stewards, and arranged the details of the feast. The little girl in the upper room ran and said, "Mrs. will wait for grandma to speak."

"You wait a minute."

Aunt Shen hurried over, and saw that the ladies of the family were all in the house, talking and laughing with each other.

Xiao Yushi, who was standing outside, smiled at her and said, "It's good, let's wait for you, the family, to come and draw up the charter."

Aunt Shen smiled: "Oops! I've been clearing my ears for half a month, and now I have to listen to your noise again. You still want to make fun of me as a housekeeper, I don't know that I have really suffered a lot of slander for being in charge, so there is no place to complain. ”

Qingwen laughed and said, "Who dares to ridicule you? Tell me quickly, we'll beat those people tomorrow and get angry for you. ”

"Great." Aunt Shen stroked her palms and laughed, and stepped forward to take Qingwen's hand, "With such a ruthless helper as you, I'm not afraid of anyone." Just go back to Mrs. Ming today, please come to my house to take care of it. Don't let the time come, you also learn to be well-behaved, and shrink your head and refuse to offend people. ”

"Joke! When am I afraid of offending people?" Qingwen said haughtily.

Xiao Yushi pointed at her and laughed: "It turns out that you are the one who shrunk your head, and you are no longer the one with the awl mouth and the knife heart you used to be."

Seeing this, Mu Ningxue said: "As soon as you meet, you will have to fight and ridicule, at such an old age, don't say that one day you turn your face and quarrel, then it will make people laugh."

"I will never dare to turn my face with your grandmother." Aunt Shen smiled and played, "She can beat others for me, how can I not be afraid of her beating me?"

In a word, everyone laughed.

Xu Qinglian smiled and said, "Don't make jokes, I was looking for you to discuss the serious." How to arrange today's banquet, you should have already made up your mind, and say it for everyone to hear. ”

Aunt Shen glanced at her wife and said, "I didn't arrange it much, the banquet was all in the style of the previous wife." Lunch is served in the Shufang Pavilion, because the lotus flowers in the pond have not yet bloomed, so you can enjoy it, and it is cooler than other places. only summoned two female storytellers to serve, playing and singing and singing; Dinner was held in the Liufang Pavilion, and all the tooth card dice, Go backgammon, and all kinds of lottery chips were prepared. As for the amount of these days, I told Mei Nu to remember the number, and wait for half a month to issue a list, and then ask your wives to distribute it according to the shares. ”

Similar to this kind of gathering, most people like the AA system, whether it is a wealthy family or an ordinary family, the reason is probably similar to the reason for sharing the meal expenses when there is no name in the later generations, everyone takes money, no one owes anyone, and no one has a big burden, so it can continue for a long time. Otherwise, in ancient times, the host often brought people down, as little as twenty or thirty people, and as many as one or two hundred, and the rich family would feel unbearable.

Xiao Yushi said: "I just said that I will leave it to her, and it will not be wrong." Okay, it's hard for you, since you've worked hard for many days, wait for the account, and we'll share it for you, and it's a good reward. ”

Aunt Shen shook her head and smiled: "Don't bother you, all the wives and aunts will come down, and I will go door to door to thank you." Now you praise it, just say that you alone will pay for me. ”

"You're underestimating people too." Xiao Yushi smiled and said, "Be careful, I'll do it for you."

At this time, Du Qianqian asked, "Where is the banquet of the old man outside?"

Aunt Shen put away her smiling face and replied: "It's also the same as the banquet in the inner house, in Wangyun Pavilion in the afternoon, dinner in Dali Villa, sitting in Erhai Courtyard, and also calling a group of cappella singers and a few talking red aunts to serve."

"That's it, don't be burdensome anymore, provoke the gossip of the imperial history, you go and arrange it." Du Qianqian nodded, and said: "Those who serve the banquet inside and outside must also be assigned to the head, so there is nowhere to be lazy."

"Yes." Aunt Shen agreed, didn't forget to look at Lu'er standing in the bush, and turned around and went out.

In the dead of night, Shen Tao once again hugged the futon and sneaked into Zheguixuan. After squatting for half an hour, Sun Huixin walked slowly with heavy makeup.

The two held hands, Shen Tao held the shoulders of the beauty, sniffed the rich fragrance on each other's body, and carefully looked at her dress.

Sun Huixin was tickled by his neck and said, "Don't be so childish. What happened to what I told you the day before yesterday?"

Shen Tao said excitedly: "I wrote to my mother, and she replied, 'Your father once said that he wanted to hire the second miss of the Sun family, since you want to hire the eldest lady in your heart, you must have a better appearance and temperament, and it is the same, wait for me to tell your father slowly.' What do you think? It seems that this matter is eight points certain. ”

Sun Hui was overjoyed, stretched out her hand to hug her lover with affection, and said: "Good brother, even if your father didn't follow and hired my sister, I gave it to you, and I have to learn from Emperor E."

For her, it is indeed sincere, although sisters marrying each other will provoke gossip, but it is not without precedent in ancient times, and of course it is too wishful thinking.

Shen Tao knew that it was unlikely, why did the Sun family marry their two daughters to him? Because he is the second son, he married Sun Huiruo because he valued the scholarly family of the Shen family, and it was also because of the friendship between the two families. And Sun Huixin will choose a wealthy businessman with a considerable family background, or an official family with a stake in the business field, in short, the appearance is standard, and the naturally charming Sun Huixin is an important weight in the hands of Master Sun.

Fortunately, Sun Huiruo's appearance is not bad, and the age difference is only a few years old, it is nothing more than an old-fashioned temperament, as long as Shen Tao's father changes his mind and asks a matchmaker to ask for Sun Huixin to hire Sun Huixin instead, then Master Sun should agree immediately.

Therefore, Shen Tao said with great confidence: "As long as you and I are strong-hearted, why worry about this matter?" My mother loves me the most, and my father listens to my mother the most. ”

Hearing his affirmative tone, Sun Huixin became more and more happy, and took the initiative to untie her clothes with a smile at the moment.

After a while, Shen Tao passed through various channels in the past two days, knowing that his pencil seemed to be one size smaller than that of a normal man, he attributed it to the fact that he had not grown up yet, for fear that the beauty would not be used, and said breathlessly: "Now I am still young, and when I grow up in the future, you still have a lot of wonderful things."

Sun Huixin's apricot eyes were confused and said: "You look at the front first, in the imperial examination in the coming year, Mr. will be stricter, but I am afraid that you will not dare to come, so naturally you will have to wait until you are old in the future."

Sun Tao thought about it, stopped his movements, and said with a bitter face: "Ask my sister to allow you to enjoy the day, if you can't, won't you suffocate me?"

"It's not right during the day." Sun Huixin frowned and said: "It's better to find a room with no one in the outer house, make an appointment, and see each other every three or four days."

"It's not hard." Shen Tao said happily: "It's best to talk about it every other day, your house has a lot of spare rooms."

"Once every other day? Oh, you light, I'm afraid you'll hurt yourself. ”

"Afraid of what? I'm young and strong, so it's okay to go ahead. ”

Laughing with each other, Shen Tao went crazy again, saying that although he belonged to the short gun clan and his combat effectiveness was average, he was young and energetic after all, and he had at least two trysts each time.

Sun Huixin is quite satisfied with his aspect, and she has no experience in other families anyway. At this moment, Jiaojiao was panting, and said pretending to herself: "It's the fourth watch, don't you rest and rest?"

Shen Tao laughed and said: "I want to sleep, but this little monk is not dependent, he is still looking for trouble inside."

"Phew!" Sun Huixin smiled and raised her hand to hit him, her legs quietly lifted, and she hooked the man's waist.

The next day, while Mr. went out to meet friends, Shen Tao and the three of them asked for a table of wine to eat, among which Wu Daiyun had a good amount of wine, and said: "After so many days of restraint, the three of us must drink heartily, come, everyone takes turns to fight and eat until Mr. comes back!"

He pulled Sun Jiang and shouted five and six to draw a fist, Sun Jiang lost in a row, drank six or seven glasses of wine, and was already half drunk. Shen Tao had the intention to get drunk with him, so he went to a tryst at night, so he secretly colluded with Wu Daiyun, so Sun Jiang quickly got drunk, and he danced and played drunk at the wine table, making it dark.

In the evening, the gentleman's servant came back and relayed the teacher's words that he would stay at a friend's house for two nights and asked them to study their homework.

At this time, Sun Jiang was lying on the kang, and when Wu Daiyun heard this, he immediately got up and said, "If Mr. doesn't come back, then I'll go home."

Shen Tao smiled: "You are not married, and there is no sister-in-law at home, what can you do when you go back?"

"Take advantage of the opportunity, I'm going to go to the canal in the county, and if you like to play, go with me."

Wu Daiyun grinned, "The Chaozhou Gang, Yangzhou Gang, Yinzhu Street, Qingfangli, and the large and small painting boats on the river in the county are now under my father's control, who dares not to flatter when they see me?" If you want a few sisters, just a few. Let's go, follow me to open my eyes and satisfy my cravings. (To be continued......)