Food in the Song Dynasty: My System Connects Mountains and Seas

Chapter 157

Not long after Wen Shu left, Father Wen came down from the grave.He sat cross-legged in front of the tomb, looked at the mottled and weathered tombstone, and sighed softly.

"Yunniang, 16 years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Aning has grown into a graceful young lady, and she is a young lady who can marry, but this child's marriage is always not going well. You know how to bless her. That piece of gold I've kept the locks and the swaddles until someday."

Before he finished speaking, Wen Shu's voice suddenly came from the forest behind him: "Father, father, come quickly!"

Hearing the voice, he was a little anxious, and mistakenly thought that his daughter was in some danger. Father Wen quickly swallowed the words, got up and ran back.

But when I ran into the woods, I realized that there was no danger. The man who was crying was standing in front of two small yellow trees, smiling and waving at him.

"Father, look, what did I find?" Wen Shu pointed to the ground excitedly.

Father Wen glanced at it, and said angrily, "You shouted so urgently, just to show me this."

"That's right, Dad, look, how rare this tree is, and the yellow leaves are the only ones at this time of year."

Father Wen shook his head, turned around and walked back.

"Hey, Dad, don't go, this tree is calm, help me carry one."

Father Wen ignored him and went out of the woods without looking back.

"Hey dad"

Seeing that her father was about to run away, Wen Shu squinted and smiled, picked up the tree on the ground and chased after him.

The total of the two Tianzhu trees is less than catties, which is really easy for Wen Shu who can carry catties. I just said that to tease her father.

Back in front of the grave, Father Wen broke some twigs from the willow tree and threw them into the basket he brought, intending to take them back to insert the door.Hearing footsteps behind him, he looked back and saw his heartless daughter carrying two trees uphill with "difficulty".

Really brought it back?

Father Wen shook his head helplessly, dropped the stick in his hand and turned around, unloaded the tree from her shoulders, carried it to his shoulders, and said, "Go back."

"Father, leave one for me, I can carry it." Wen Shu hurriedly said.

Although her father is strong, and he ate two huaimu fruits that she gave under the guise of the Hou's mansion, his strength has increased a bit, but it is still far behind her.

It was a long way back on this trip, and it was so painful to carry two trees back home like this.

But her father didn't listen to her at all, he carried the tree on his shoulder, turned around and left, and said: "Don't be dumbfounded, quickly follow with the basket."

Two quarters of an hour later, on the official road on the return journey, there was an endless stream of people and horses and horses coming and going to worship and sweep. Among them, the backs of an old man and a young man carrying yellow trees on their shoulders attracted the attention of many people.

One of the children pointed in their direction in amazement and shouted: "Mother, mother, look at that tree, it's yellow, so beautiful."

The woman beside her smiled and nodded, "It's really rare, and I don't know where I dug it from."

The person next to him heard the words, and then said: "I saw them turn down from the sunny slope ahead, it should be there."

"True, false, I often go to Xiangyangpo, and I haven't seen this kind of yellow-leaved tree."

"It is estimated that it grew up in a remote place."

"Hey, I happen to be free, why don't we go and have a look too. When I passed by them just now, I smelled a strange fragrance, which seemed to come from those two trees."

"Really!" When the people around heard it, they immediately became interested, "If that's true, then it's a precious tree, go, go, go, go and have a look."

Just when everyone was surprised and amazed at the Tianzhu tree, Father Wen, who had distanced himself from everyone, also asked Wen Shu in a low voice: "Where did you find this tree?"

"Ah? Just...in the woods." Wen Shu, who was walking silently behind him and helping to lift the branches, was stunned for a moment, and immediately replied.

"Really? I often go to that forest, why haven't I seen it?"

Facing his father's soul torture, Wen Shu didn't blush, and said calmly: "That's because you didn't go in, and I was attracted by a rabbit to go in, so I don't think the rabbit didn't catch it in the end." and saw these two trees."

"How many times have I told you, don't go deep, why don't you listen. Fortunately, it's a rabbit, if it bumps into a jackal, it will be a good life."

"Don't worry, Dad. I didn't dare to go too deep. I just went in a little bit more than usual. When I went down the corner slope inside, I didn't go any further. The two trees were hidden at the bottom of the slope."

Father Wen half-believed what she said, so he turned around and wanted to ask her why the tree had a fragrance, but he couldn't help being startled when he saw that the girl was dragging the tree fork that fell behind him with her hands half-raised.

He said how he walked more and more lightly, because someone was dragging him behind.

Just lifting it all the way, isn't your hand sore? He thought about it, so he asked the same question.

Unexpectedly, Wen Shu pouted and said: "That can't be helped, who told Dad not to give me a piece, you carry it all the way back like this, it hurts me to see it."

this kid!
Father Wen couldn't comfort himself, and thinking about what he had just said before the grave, he couldn't help but sigh again.

"Carrying a tree to grind your shoulders, your little lady's skin is tender. If you carry it all the way, the skin on your shoulders will be torn. Daddy's rough skin and thick flesh are not in the way. Don't hold your head behind you, it will hinder my walking."

"How can it be? I'm going the back way, and I don't go ahead, so why am I hindering you?"

"Anyway, it's not good, you hurry to the front."

"I don't, unless you give me one."

"It's almost here, what's the score, if you go faster, I'm here."

"You're talking nonsense, it's still eight or nine miles away from home."

The father and daughter bickered as they headed home. Father Wen still carried the two Tianmao trees on his shoulders without giving in, and Wen Shu also supported them behind him.

After doing this all the way, half an hour later, when the father and daughter arrived at the house, Wen Shu's hands were already sore.

It's not that those branches are heavy, but it's really difficult to maintain the posture of lifting them up. Her father is very stubborn, and he is afraid of crushing her, so he refuses to give her a tree.

As for her, because she was afraid that her father would know that her strength had grown again and be even more worried, she didn't dare to tell him that she could already bear four hundred and five catties.

As a result, her father forcibly carried it all the way, she forcibly lifted it all the way, she was tired, and her father was also tired.

Shaking her head helplessly, Wen Shu went to the main room and poured two bowls of tea, one for herself and one for her father.

"Quack~quack." The fat-stealing bird by the well called out at this moment.

Wen Shu took a glance and saw that the two eggs she threw on the ground in the morning had disappeared. She smiled and asked, "You want to drink water too."

The fat-stealing bird paused, then nodded slowly.

This action shocked the father and daughter in the distance!
Wen Shu was fine, after all, he had already prepared in his heart.But it was the first time that Father Wen saw such a human bird. He stopped drinking the water and went to the well with a bowl in his hand, and then put the bowl in his hand in front of the fat-stealing bird.

But the fat-stealing bird looked at the bowl with big round eyes, then at Papa Wen, and finally turned its head and refused to drink.

Father Wen was taken aback, wondering what the bird was thinking?
However, Wen Shu had some understanding. She stopped drinking water and brought the half bowl of water left in her hand to the fat-stealing bird.

The fat-stealing bird still glanced at it, then turned its head away.

Now, both father and daughter understood.

Heh, co-authoring this bird dislikes them!

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　　Today's reading tips:
　　The Cold Food Festival falls one hundred and five days after the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, which is two or three days before the Ching Ming Festival.

　　In ancient times, the Cold Food Festival was a day for worshiping ancestors and sweeping graves, while Qingming Festival was a day for spring outings. The two gradually merged into one until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

　　Normally, the Cold Food Festival falls on the eleventh day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, but because I keep track of the dates in the Gregorian calendar, the timeline is a bit messed up, so the cold food in the text becomes the seventeenth day of March.

　　But the correct one is March th, hereby explain.

　　There is another allusion about the origin of the Cold Food Festival, but due to space constraints, I will not say more here, and friends who want to know can Baidu by themselves.

　　
　
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