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"If you can't finish drinking the fountain of forgetfulness, I won't let you be like smoke" Qin Mu hummed a song and left the flower hall, the twilight outside had begun to come to the earth, and lanterns were lit everywhere in the back office.

He turned the corridor on the left, and the garden behind him was brightly lit, in addition to Yang Zhi and Yun Qiao'er, even Chen E and the three concubines were there, and several people seemed to be burning something.

Qin Mu turned the rockery curiously, stepped forward and asked, "Lady, what are you doing here?" ”

"Oh, the husband thinks he forgot that today is the Xia Yuan Festival, the concubine saw that the husband was talking about official business with Ma Yongzhen in the flower hall, so she didn't dare to disturb, and she brought Qiao'er and them to worship the ancestors." Yang Zhi got up and explained with a smile.

"Today is the Xia Yuan Festival?" Qin Mu was a little stunned and muttered to himself.

In China in the 21st century, most people still know what day it is, many people are not sure what day it is, and most Chinese people have never heard of it.

One thing we have to admit is that later generations of China are not as good as South Korea and Japan in inheriting Chinese traditions, and after some festivals and customs were introduced to Korea and Japan, people have continued to follow these customs until the 21 st century, while Chinese have forgotten these traditions of their ancestors.

The origin of the Xia Yuan Festival is related to Taoism. Taoism has three officials, the heavenly official, the earth official, the water official, the heavenly official blessing, the earth official forgives sins, and the water official relieves misfortune.

The birth days of the three officials are the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and the fifteenth day of October, and these three days are called the "Shangyuan Festival", "Zhongyuan Festival" and "Xiayuan Festival".

Xia Yuan Festival, is the water official to solve the doom Yang Valley Emperor to solve the doom, legend has it that on this day, the water official according to the investigation, recorded the heavenly court, for people to solve the doom.

The Taoist people erect a pole outside the door, and the yellow flag is hung on the pole, and the words "Heaven and Earth Water House", "Wind and Rain", "National Peace and Peace", "Disaster Elimination and Blessing" are written on the flag; At night. Three sky lanterns are hung on the top of the pole, and three officials are needed to make dumplings.

On this day, the imperial court had a ban on slaughter and a postponement of the execution date.

The folk want to worship their ancestors on this day, fold the red and green paper for the fairy clothes, fold the tin foil for the silver ingot, put it into the bag of white paper paste, write on the front "I sincerely say that the treasure of the underworld, the color clothes are offered on a certain body to accept", the next book "the descendants of a certain hundred worship", the back of the book "a certain year, a certain month, a certain day to seal", commonly known as "gold and silver bag". Incinerated after prostration.

Qin Mu looked at the burned gold and silver wrapped in fairy clothes, and said with some shame: "Fortunately, there is a lady who remembers, for the husband." ”

"Husband doesn't have to be like this, you are busy with official business, you rarely have a moment of leisure all day long, it's understandable if you don't remember, these things should be taken care of by the concubine, this fairy clothes and gold and silver bags have been burned for the ancestors of the Qin family, husband can rest assured." Yang Zhi smiled gently. Comforting Qin Mu in a soft voice.

Her virtuous appearance was Qiao'er next to her, and she couldn't help but pull her sleeve and said, "Sister Zhi'er, you're good, it's good anyway."

"Steal my lines." Qin Mu raised his hand and flicked it on the little girl's forehead. Then he smiled at Yang Zhi: "Since you have worshipped, hurry back to the house, the frost is heavy after dark, and it is easy to catch the wind cold after staying for a long time." ”

"Don't stand still. Let's go back to the house. Qin Mu turned around and said a word to Chen E and the others, and then took his lady's hand back to the house.

Qiao'er followed beside her and asked, "Childe, Brother Ma, are they leaving?" Sister Dong. Why didn't you come with Childe? ”

Thinking that he had made Dong Xiaowan moan just now, he said a little embarrassedly: "Well, your big brother Ma, they just left, and your sister Dong is cleaning up that bowl and chopsticks." ”

"Hee Hee Boy's heart is empty, Childe must have done something bad."

"How can you dare to slander this official, and see how this official governs you." Qin Mu picked up the little girl, carried it on his shoulders and went to the house, just like a bandit snatching a big girl back to the mountain.

Qiao'er was not afraid of him, she smiled coquettishly, Yang Zhi followed behind and felt a little emotional, Qiao'er was also twelve years old (according to her own words), and she was very beautiful, in this era, literati doctors liked this kind of cardamom beautiful girl the most, probably only Qin Mu would treat her as a child and be spoiled.

Qin Mu put Qiao'er on the couch, raised his hand and slapped her ass twice, as if he suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Lady, it seems that my husband has seen you studying the piano score, and I think that the lady's piano skills must be not bad." ”

"Childe, my sister not only plays the piano well, but the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all very good, but the son was not in Ganzhou a while ago, and my sister didn't have the heart to teach others."

"Qiao'er, don't talk nonsense. Don't listen to her, concubine"

"Don't be modest, get the piano quickly, and listen to the piano for your husband." Qin Mu smiled, slapped Qiao'er's ass twice, and said arrogantly, "I don't believe it, without Butcher Zhang, I have to eat hairy pigs." ”

Qin Mu's second half of the sentence made Yang Zhi secretly surprised, but she was very wise not to ask anything, and took the piano with a chuckle.

Dong Xiaowan wordlessly tidied up her clothes, and let out a long sigh faintly, in order to take off the family, she endured the humiliation and succumbed to Han Zanzhou, and came to Changsha, knowing in her heart that her body would be occupied by Qin Mu sooner or later;

It's just that she couldn't forgive her reaction just now, under Qin Mu's caress with all kinds of tricks, her body couldn't help but react, and this reaction was unprecedentedly strong, so that she almost forgot where she was, and the embarrassing moans blurted out, she really wanted to die.

Dong Xiaowan returned to the bedroom alone in a daze, her heart was in turmoil, and at this time, she suddenly heard the sound of a piano coming from next door, Dong Xiaowan knew that this was the tune of "Gull and Heron Forget the Machine".

The sound of the piano is light and eternal, the fingering of the person who caress the piano is delicate and skillful, and the piano skills are extraordinary. The artistic conception is vividly expressed through the sound of the piano;

After listening, people feel as if they are in the pastoral forest, listening to the pine wind and streams, the night birds and insects, and the heart becomes pure and innocent, natural and indifferent

Dong Xiaowan was originally a person who loved the piano, and her heart longed for the secluded life between the mountains and rivers and white clouds

Early the next morning, as soon as Qin Mu entered the second hall, he called Huang Lianshan over.

"What do you command?"

"This official wants to set up a new department, well, called the Department of Commerce, and it has been decided that Xu Yingjie will be in charge, and your scout battalion must fully cooperate with Xu Yingjie and build the bank as soon as possible." Qin Mu then explained to him in detail how the bank operated, and Huang Lianshan wrote them down one by one.

Qin Mu continued: "In order to make things easier, the scout camp will be renamed 'Singles' House in the future."

"Singles' House?" Huang Lianshan's eyes almost didn't fall out.

"Do you remember how we used Cheng Erhu to carry out anti-treacherous schemes? In the future, try not to recruit people who have families to drag them down, understand? ”

"Yes, sir."

"I want you to recruit a group of dead soldiers immediately, remember, it must be brave people, they don't need to engage in intelligence work, the only task is to lurk and assassinate."

There were too many civil and military generals who surrendered to the Manchus in the Ming Dynasty, such as Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, etc., and so on. The destructive power of these traitors is more terrible than that of the Manchu Iron Cavalry, without these people acting as tigers and aiding the abuse, it is almost impossible to control the whole of China with the Jurchen people alone, kill, must be killed!

Qin Mu handed a list in his hand to Huang Lianshan, and said in a deep voice: "Some of these people have already surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is more difficult to assassinate, but I don't care what means you use, you must arrange for the dead to infiltrate and assassinate these people by all means;

In addition, most of the people on the list are still officials or generals of the Ming Dynasty, and you must also arrange for people to lurk around them in advance, once they surrender to the Manchus in the future, the civil officials will be assassinated immediately, and the military generals will wait for my order You don't have to ask too much, just do what the official says;

If this matter is done well, it will be worth 100,000 elite soldiers in the future, so you must find ways to handle this matter well, and you can use money to buy the people around them, and you don't need me to teach you all kinds of means, right? How much money does it cost, even if you report to the official, as long as you are sure, even if it is a few million taels, the official will not hesitate to do it. ”

Throw a few million taels?

Huang Lianshan couldn't help but be stunned, which also made him understand how much Qin Mu attached importance to this matter, how dare he slack off again, he looked at the list that Qin Mu gave him, there were more than twenty-six people;

Among them, there are Xu Dingguo, the chief soldier of Henan, Liu Zeqing, the governor of Zuo, the prince and the prince, Liu Liangzuo, Guangchangbo, Qian Qianyi, etc., Huang Lianshan knows that it is not easy to arrange people to lurk around these big people, but Qin Mu has already said that he will do whatever it takes, and he has to hurry up and respond awe-inspiringly.

"In addition, you also have to arrange a group of people to go to the Jiangnan area to rob the house, you heard it right, that is, to rob the house, to select those who are not benevolent to the rich, harm the people and enrich themselves, on the one hand, you can raise funds for the singles' house, on the other hand, it can cause a certain panic in Jiangnan, so that those rich people feel that it is not safe to hide their money at home, which is conducive to our bank circle money."

Huang Lianshan thought for a while and said: "My lord, I'm afraid this matter is a little troublesome, Jiangnan is not better than other places after all."

"If Jiangnan is as chaotic as other places, do I still need you to plan? Now that there are countless refugees flowing into Jiangnan, you can start from this aspect, organize thousands of people to do this, and the end of this matter must be clean, except for you, all the people involved must not let them know that they have anything to do with the official and the bank. ”

"Yes, sir." Qin Mu's words gave Huang Lianshan a big hint, it is not difficult to set up a peripheral organization among the refugees

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PS: There are still a few days to go before the New Year, have all of you gone home for the New Year safely? Well, I wish you all a safe and happy New Year.

Well, the end of the month is here, everyone has a monthly pass in hand, don't forget to support Haoyuan, let Haoyuan also have a happy New Year. (To be continued......)