365, moonlight touch autumn
According to the customs of farmers, Mid-Autumn Festival night is to "touch autumn".
"I don't believe in touching the autumn anyway. Even if I don't light the lights, the moonlight is very bright. The wives walked into the melon field or the lentil field. Isn't it clear at a glance?" Sang'er ate the mooncake that he distributed to himself, just took the trick by his grandmother. He divided the Yanzhou mooncake into several parts according to the family members, and each of them got a small tooth, which was regarded as a symbol of Mid-Autumn Festival reunion.
Xiaoxiao also took a bite of the crispy mooncake and happened to eat a small piece of kumquat. She felt a freshness in the sweetness. She took another sip of Beiyuan Tea with orchid fragrance: "Does all the people who have become kisses touch Qiu?"
Huanyan smiled and said, "Actually, women can touch autumn, but everyone is mainly concerned about young wives. According to the old saying, touching melons makes you happy and wise. A further metaphor is that touching melons makes you feel like you are a girl."
No wonder the old lady gave each girl a pair of golden lentils.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was unreasonable: "There is a shelf in the lentil field and you can see it from afar. It is impossible to find a big melon in the lentil field!"
The sisters all laughed.
Zhan Yan said from the side: "The person who touches Qiu can enter whatever he wants~ It's just a lottery ticket, why bother being so serious!"
Soon, I heard that the old lady's table became lively. It turned out that Jin Baodi was clamoring to go to the ground in Xiaotang Village to catch Qiu.
Because the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was hosted by the second wife, I had to stand up and care: "It's seven or eight months old. It's a big deal if I fall or touch it in the dark fields."
Jin Baodi was playing tricks: "If my second aunt is worried, I will accompany me!"
The second wife Jiang turned red: "Why are you still touching Qiu at my age? It's logical that my sister-in-law should be with her!"
Jin Baodi smiled and looked at the girl's table: "Who of you would like to follow me?"
Girls look at me and I look at you, because they are given special meaning at this moment, so they become a little shy.
But the old lady said, "If you have a body, don't take that risk. I'll prepare all the melons and beans."
He saw Qingsi smiled and took out a big pocket of Fuhui. She did not close her mouth, but only pursed the bag, revealing a row of colorful silk ropes: "These colorful ropes are tied with melons and beans. Grandma Big Young Master just chooses a colorful rope to stretch it out~"
Everyone was inevitably curious, and even the girls came over. Yanran was the most naughty and pulled Lichen from the male seat: "Why are you missing the elder brother now? Come on, come on, my sister-in-law is about to touch Qiu!"
Lichen also came over happily: "I remember my mother took out a melon when she touched Qiu and gave birth to Lihuan the next year."
"Sister-in-law wants to touch the melon or the beans?" Han Er asked deliberately.
Li Huan replied directly: "Everything is good!"
After being watched by everyone, Jin Baodi kept smiling with a red face, looking at the row of colorful ropes exposed on the cloth bag, and didn't know which one to choose. It was obviously a coaxing thing, but it made people feel nervous and looked up at her husband without realizing it.
Then Tang Lichen walked over with his brows frowned and stretched the colorful ropes of several colors: "These ears are not arranged in a uniform manner..."
Everyone:...
Jin Baodi was fussed by her husband like this, and she smiled and relieved her nervousness. She walked forward with her big belly and pulled out the bright red colored rope she had just seen.
Then I saw a small melon tied under the red rope.
The old lady narrowed her eyes into a slit and patted Jin Baodi on the shoulder: "It's a boy!"
Everyone congratulated and smiled curiously at the melon: "Why is this melon so small? How did it grow it?"
Xiaoxiao said, "You are so young when you were born, how did you grow up so tall?"
He smiled and covered his mouth and laughed.
"Put all the colorful ropes," the old lady ordered Qingsi, and then looked at Shanniang with a smile: "The third wife, come here to touch Qiu, too."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then the wives congratulated the third wife. The fifth wife's smile was very reluctant, and they had to ask with concern: "When is this a happy event? How many months have you been? Is the third sister-in-law really hiding it."
Shan Niang's face turned red: "The joy pulse that I just diagnosed a while ago has only been two months."
The old lady personally pulled Shanniang over: "Touch Qiu and get a lottery ticket!"
However, this was the first time when Xiaoxiao heard about this, and now she was more excited than anyone else. She looked at her mother and saw that her mother was also looking at her. She smiled at each other and felt very happy.
"I'll invite my father here too!" Xiaoxiao turned around and went to the male seat to find Qian. Seeing that he was drinking tea and chatting with the old man, he saluted his grandfather, "Grandpa, my grandma is asking my mother to touch Qiu!"
The old man suddenly heard his granddaughter call him grandpa. This kind of call for a household child is quite useful, so he grabbed amber peach kernel from the table and smiled: "I will come to my grandpa's yard tomorrow, and I will have something for you."
"Hey! Thank you for thinking." Xiaoxiao responded loudly.
The old man smiled and said to Fan, "Go and accompany your wife. It's good to touch the melon beans," and then touched Xiaoxiao's head, "The beans in our house are all golden beans!"
Xiaoxiao happily followed her father to the old lady. Seeing Shan Niang standing there calmly, the family of three looked at each other, Shan Niang chose a golden rope, the color was very similar to the full moon in the sky tonight.
More than a dozen pairs of eyes present were staring at the golden rope in Shanniang's hand, and the atmosphere was much more tense than when Jin Baodi touched Qiu just now.
Jin Baodi is her first child and is still young, so it’s good to touch melons and beans.
Shanniang is already a woman in her thirties and only has one daughter, Xiaoxiao. The old lady naturally hopes that the third room will find a melon this time.
Xiaoxiao looked up at his father. Seeing Qifan, he looked calm and whispered to bite his father in a low voice: "What if my mother is another daughter?"
Qifan smiled and said, "Then name the girl Tang Lele~"
"..." Xiaoxiao was very satisfied with his father's attitude, but he was hoping that his mother would give him a younger brother after all, it was ancient and a wealthy family. No matter who he considers, it would be good to add a boy.
Suddenly, my father whispered again: "Whether it is a man or a woman, I won't want this fetus after giving birth, otherwise your mother would have worked hard."
Xiaoxiao was moved, and looked at his father's black eyes and said directly what he thought: "I hope it's a younger brother!"
Qifan just smiled but said nothing.
Among the wives, Ruan was really happy for Shan Niang. First, the two of them became angry, and second, Ruan already had her own son Xiaoqian, so she didn't care about other people having children.
The second wife Jiang's smile was always distant, and she couldn't tell what she was thinking in her heart for a while.
The expression of the fifth wife Zhen Shi couldn't help but write it on her face. She was anxious and certain that she was only three and five had no children now. She was hurt again in order to give birth to twins, so she could only hope for Aunt Sun... I originally thought that Shan Niang was with her company, and the three rooms were always in front of the fifth room, but now...
There was a hint of bitterness in Zhen's smile. When she looked at her twin daughters, she couldn't help feeling a deep sense of powerlessness.
"Huh!" As everyone cheered, Zhen thought to himself that it was a melon. For a moment, she felt a little blurred in front of her, so she hurriedly wiped her eyes with a veil while it was not ready.
Zhen was too lazy to look over there, and her ears were full of congratulations, as if even the men had come.
The old lady had never been so happy. She said yes and then said rewards. She heard Tang Qifan say, "It's not too late to reward you when you are born."
Only then did I hear the exclamation in the crowd clearly, it was actually a pair of melons!
The three houses actually touched a pair of golden melons.
Zhen took a deep breath and could hardly stand. She wanted to support her daughter to calm her mind. Unexpectedly, the two girls came to the front to congratulate others and asked for rewards to the old lady. She was really heartless.
Until a pair of small hands grabbed his hands: "Are you tired of your mother? Let's go there and have a cup of hot tea."
Zhen touched the child's hair, and the cold silver hairpin was still the one I didn't want to wear. Alas, this child with a belly-separated appearance became the most considerate one.
"My good boy, please sleep with me tonight."
Keju blinked and understood vaguely that this was the legitimate mother who wanted her father to sleep in her mother's room, so she nodded obediently: "Keju warmed her mother's quilt."
"You are less than nine years old, so how can you do it for you to come to Wenxi?" Zhen smiled and peeled an orange for Keju with his own hands.
Keju has never been treated like this before. She put an orange petal in her mouth. It was so sour, but she kept saying it was sweet.
If you want to be heartless, Smiling is really worthy of her reputation.
At this moment, a few girls held Fuhui's pocket in their hands, and everyone was playing. The unmarried girl was just cultivating blessings and wisdom, regardless of anything else.
Swaner was the first to smoke, but it was tied to each melon and bean. Everyone praised her for her "dual cultivation of blessings and wisdom"!
Zhan Yan only hit one lentil and flattened his mouth.
Seeing that his mother was so cute, Yanran felt relieved. Seeing that the royal blue string beside her pocket looked beautiful, she picked it up and saw a pair of big lentils.
Everyone called Huanyan to smoke again. Huanyan was a big girl after all, and she was a little embarrassed and refused to smoke.
So everyone went to find Xiaoxiao again. After searching for Xiaoxiao for a long time, they found out that Xiaoxiao and her classmates had made an appointment to go to the moon.
"Fifth sister doesn't wait for us~" Yanran shook a pair of spring butterflies on her head. "In the past two years, many southern merchants have come to Kyoto, and the moon has become a custom!"
Huanyan smiled and said, "My fifth sister is serious when she goes to the moon. After all, Aunt Third is from Jiangnan, and Sister Wu is half a southerner."
The old lady finally felt sorry for Shan Niang's body and did not allow her to go out to walk on the moon at night. So her sons and daughters-in-law kept talking around the old man who watched the moon and ate melons, just waiting for the moon palace to burn the moon palace to send the moon god away.
Of course, the old man and the pregnant woman couldn't stay up all night, so the young and strong guarded the old Moon God. If he felt bored, he would play a few cards and drink a few cups of wine, and the old Moon God wouldn't mind.
Chapter completed!