My life skills in Daming Liver

The Mid-Autumn Festival has become a very grand official festival in the Ming Dynasty.

There is a legend that when Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled, he agreed on the time of the uprising by presenting moon cakes to each other. Therefore, since the Ming Dynasty, there has been a custom of giving moon cakes to each other on Mid-Autumn Festival.

In addition to giving moon cakes to each other, worshiping the moon god is also an important ritual of Mid-Autumn Festival.

In the back house of the magistrate, Fang Zhifu led his wife, a son and a daughter to worship the moon god, and then the whole family surrounded the gazebo while drinking and admiring the moon.

Fang Ruolan's younger brother was only ten years old, and he was already sleepy after a while. Mrs. Li put a cloak on his son, and the family continued to sit in the pavilion and watch the moon.

There is also the habit of staying up late during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The longer you stay up late on this day, the longer you will live.

This is also the reason why the old lady had a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the Grand View Garden in the Dream of Red Mansions.

Children get tired easily, but in the end they couldn't stand it any longer, and the servant sent the son back to the room.

The remaining family of three began to talk about homework.

Mrs. Li said in a good mood: "Lan'er, you didn't come last time. Our Quyi Club has already started rehearsing "The Peony Pavilion". This Mrs. Li Tongpan's family is really good at singing, and she sings well!"

Fang Ruolan's mouth twitched, her good poetry club was robbed by her mother and turned into an opera club, every time Mrs. Li would drag her to join.

Mrs. Li is in a happy mood. Recently, she feels that rehearsing plays is much more interesting than playing horses.

Fang Zhifu is also very supportive of his wife's cultural undertakings. When the wives get together, they can always find out all kinds of news, and they can also unite the friendship of officials' families.

Fang Zhifu stroked his beard and said: "This Su Ze is indeed talented. I sent his play to the same year, and he also praised Su Ze's literary talent in his reply."

Mrs. Li sighed and said: "It's a pity that Su Ze is not a Jinshi. If he is, I can betroth Lan'er to him."

Fang Ruolan's ears turned red immediately.

Fang Zhifu didn't notice the abnormality of his daughter, but was again made blood pressure high by Mrs. Li's words.

"Jinshi? Is it Chinese cabbage for you to be a Jinshi? At Su Ze's age, if he can win the exam, he can promise Lan'er to him!"

Mrs. Li still said unwillingly: "Ju Ren? Is my Lan'er worthy of a Ju Ren?"

Fang Zhifu said: "Jinshi? How many 20-year-old Jinshi have you seen? Don't you want to keep Lan'er until she is 30 years old to marry? Even if she is a 30-year-old Jinshi, she will marry a girl in her teens. !"

Mrs. Li immediately got up and said, "Did you speak your mind? You want to take a teenage concubine too, don't you? Do all your men love teenage girls?"

Fang Zhifu flicked his sleeves and said, "It's unreasonable!"

The two quarreled for a while, and finally Fang Zhifu left in a huff.

Although Mrs. Li defeated her opponent, she was a little tired. She yawned and said:

"This Su Ze is really good. If he can win the exam next year, he will be barely qualified. Mother should go back to bed."

Fang Ruolan stood up, greeted her with a blessing, and after sending her mother away, she took the maid to tidy up the gazebo.

Fang Ruolan's ears were still red, and when she recalled the few times she met Su Ze at Huimin Pharmacy, she felt a little turbulent in her heart.

In the letter returned by my uncle, he also praised Su Ze's article.

Fang Ruolan has been close to her uncle since she was a child. Although his uncle is only a candidate in the imperial examination, his knowledge is far superior to that of Fang Zhifu.

Looking at the full moon in the sky, Fang Ruolan went back to the room, changed into men's clothes after thinking about it, and walked out of the mansion with the maid.

"Miss, are you really going to steal food?"

Fang Ruolan blushed, she also knew about such a folk custom from her uncle's letter.

Unmarried women in the folk will go out to steal onions on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, implying that they can marry a good husband.

Fang Ruolan had never done such a thing before. Going out at night to steal green onions from other people's yards gave Fang Ruolan a thrill of doing bad things.

Quietly walking out of the side door of the magistrate's back office, Fang Ruolan recalled which family planted green onions.

All the nobles in the city live near the magistrate's yamen, so naturally no one grows onions at home.

Fang Ruolan suddenly thought of the several acres of land opened by Hai Rui in the county school. Didn't the weird county school teach grow vegetables? steal from him!

The government office is not far from the county school, and Fang Ruolan is not conspicuous walking on the road with a maid who is also disguised as a man.

There is also a tradition of women's night parade during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Some women from ordinary families simply wear women's clothing to parade at night, and they look generously at the young men they see along the way.

Fang Ruolan disguised herself as a man, and couldn't see clearly in the night, so she received a lot of winks.

But today’s streets are not too dark. Rich people have set up tile towers in front of their houses. There are flammable things on the small towers built with tiles. A unique folk custom, the flame of the vata means that it is getting higher and higher, and the larger the family, the larger the scale of the vata.

Fang Ruolan finally walked to the side of the county school. She went around the county school and touched her chest nervously.

The county school was pitch black, Hai Rui turned off the lights in the county school to save money, Fang Ruolan's personal maid was timid, so Fang Ruolan left her at the gate of the county school to let the wind go.

The structure of the county school is similar to that of the yamen. Fang Ruolan finally found the farmland in the backyard.

at the same time.

Su Ze walked around the street, and the lively scene of Mid-Autumn Festival made him feel homesick.

Is this hometown Changningwei, or the hometown before crossing?

The two places overlapped, and Su Ze was a little bit depressed.

In addition, when he was walking on the road, he was always watched by those women who wandered at night, so Su Ze returned to the county school dormitory soon.

Su Ze, who was just about to rest, suddenly heard some movement in the county school.

Now the county school has been vacated, and the Yanping prefectural school is unwilling to squeeze in the county school. The professors of the prefectural school live in a monastery in the north of the city.

Yanping Academy also moved out of the county school, and now they only come to the county school when they give lectures.

There were very few county students living in the school building. Su Ze saw someone sneaking up to the county school where Hai Rui lived. Could it be that someone sneaked into the county school to steal things?

The more he thought about it, the more likely it was. Su Ze went back to the house, picked up a wooden stick, found another torch, and followed Fang Ruolan into the backyard.

"who!"

Su Ze raised the torch high, Fang Ruolan was so frightened that he stepped on the ground and let out an exclamation.

Seeing the movement, Su Ze rushed over immediately, the torch was lit up instantly, and he saw a pretty pale face exhaling in pain.

Isn't this Mr. Fang?

Su Ze looked at the food in Fang Ruolan's hands, and immediately understood that she was stealing food.

Su Ze also knew about the custom of stealing vegetables during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Didn't expect the magistrate's daughter to hate marrying so much?

In fact, Su Ze had guessed Fang Ruolan's identity a long time ago. Besides Fang Zhifu's daughter, there was no other young woman who could influence the government.

When Fang Zhifu's family first entered the city, Su Ze saw Fang Ruolan near the Town God's Temple.

"Master Fang?"

Fang Ruolan wanted to get into the ground ashamedly, she really wanted to question herself, why did someone go to the county to learn how to steal vegetables.

This time I was caught stealing vegetables, and my foot was twisted, which is really embarrassing.

At any rate, Su Ze still had some emotional intelligence and said, "Mr. Fang wants to see Hai Jiaoyu? Jiaoyu went out to enjoy the moon."

Fang Ruolan also borrowed the donkey from the slope, supported her ankle and said, "Isn't Hai Jiaoyu here? Then I'll go back."

"Wait, you're sprained."

Su Ze instinctively stretched out his hand, grabbed Fang Ruolan's ankle, and then used a muscle-strengthening technique to grab it. His "medicine" has also reached Lv2, and he knew that Fang Ruolan's bones were not injured, so he slightly squeezed her ankle. Stretched a bit.

Fang Ruolan's face was completely red. Su Ze acted instinctively, but in this era, women's feet are not something other men can casually grab.

Su Ze grabbed Fang Ruolan so much that her whole body became weak and weak, and she felt like she was going to be unable to stand up.

"I will ask Huang Tiju to prescribe a plaster tomorrow, and the swelling will subside in a few days."

Fang Ruolan hummed like a mosquito, and Su Ze realized something was wrong.

He quickly let go of his hand and said, "Where's your entourage? I'll take you out."

Fang Ruolan pointed to the main entrance of the county school, and Su Ze helped her up. Thinking about whether men and women would marry each other, he handed Fang Ruolan the wooden stick in his hand, and took Fang Ruolan to the main entrance of the county school with a torch.

Fang Ruolan's maid hid by the door, saw Fang Ruolan limping out, and hurriedly went up to meet her.

But when she saw Su Ze beside Fang Ruolan, the maid looked strange.

Su Ze said calmly: "Mr. Fang sprained her foot, I'll take her back. Where do you live?"

Fang Ruolan's personal maid was quite clever, and reported a location near the prefect's yamen.

After saying this, Su Ze held the torch, and the maid supported Fang Ruolan, and walked along the road to the government office.

Along the way, the more Ruolan thought about it, the more ashamed she became, and the more she thought about it, the more confused she became.

She suddenly remembered the plot of "The Peony Pavilion". Isn't the Peony Pavilion the love story between Du Liniang, the official daughter, and Liu Mengmei, the scholar?

Du Liniang is the daughter of the prefect, isn't the prefect the magistrate?

The more Fang Ruolan thought about it, the more her heart beat wildly. She often secretly looked at Su Ze who was holding a torch in front of her on the road.

It's a pity that Su Ze just hurried on with a torch, without looking back.

The maid also noticed something strange about her young lady. Could it be that my young lady has an affair with this Su Ze?

No, the personal maid grew up with Fang Ruolan, so she knows that her lady is clean and self-sufficient.

The three of them had their own thoughts, and finally arrived near the mansion. Su Ze cupped his hands to bid farewell to Fang Ruolan, and the maid helped Fang Ruolan back to the back house of the mansion.

After reaching the boudoir, Fang Ruolan calmed down. She hurriedly summoned the maid to guard what happened tonight.

It was only at this time that Fang Ruolan realized that the green onion was tightly grasped in his hand.

Su Ze returned to the county school with a torch. It was already late at night, and there were fewer and fewer people wandering at night on the street.

Looking at the bright moon in the sky, I have an appointment to visit Xiong Yue tomorrow, so let's go back and sleep well.

When he returned to the county school, Su Ze couldn't sleep.

Light the oil lamp, open the book, "Book of Songs", "Guanju".

After chanting it once and closing the book, Fang Ruolan's figure flashed in Su Ze's mind, and Lin Mojun from Changning Weizhong came to mind again.

Forget it, let's sleep.

What happened today dilutes Su Ze's nostalgia, but instead has other thoughts.

However, Su Ze suppressed these thoughts. He was pressed for time, so he didn't have time to think about it.

This grand Mid-Autumn Festival event has become the most lively event in recent years.

Perhaps the common people had a premonition that the situation in Fujian was getting worse and worse. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there would never be such a peaceful day, so they rushed out to celebrate.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the situation in Fujian deteriorated again.

The Japanese pirates who broke through Jianyang set fire to Jianyang City. The paper and ink engravings in the printing workshop outside the city were all ignited.

Jianning Mansion was besieged for half a month, and the prefect of Jianning sent people to break out of the siege for help several times, but no guard in the whole of Fujian dared to send troops to rescue.

Jianning Mansion, like Yanping Mansion, has the Commander Si Jianning Wei with a staff of 5,000.

But the 5,000-person Jianning Guard was blocked in Jianning City and dared not fight.

The Dusi Yamen of Fuzhou Prefecture is in charge of the Fujian military, and the Fuzhou Left, Middle and Right Sanwei under the Dusi Yamen has a staff of 15,000 people, but no one in the Dusi Yamen knows how many soldiers there are capable of fighting.

In fact, Fujian is also considered a strategic location. In Fujian, there are not only the land guards under the jurisdiction of the Dusi Yamen, but also the guarding thousands of households under the jurisdiction of nine Haidao Yamen (renamed Beiwoba Zongsi Yamen in Jiajing year).

But even so, facing the arrogant Japanese pirates under the Jianning Mansion, no one in Fujian still dared to fight.

Blessings and misfortunes never come singly, the land war here is not good, and the sea war is also very difficult.

When the ships of Zhendongwei and Dajin Qianhu were patrolling the sea, they encountered King Lu's fleet and were chased by the Japanese pirate fleet, losing five lucky boats of 200 materials.

After this battle, the guards along the coast did not dare to go out to defend the sea, and Fuzhou and Quanzhou, the two big cities by the sea, were completely plunged into panic.

But in this panic, Yuegang became the most prosperous port in this storm because there was no coastal guard to smuggle it. A large number of ships entered and left Yuegang. A bustling smuggling base.

However, the prosperity of Yuegang will not last long. With the arrival of Japanese pirates, all kinds of bandits are everywhere, land transportation is almost cut off, and businessmen are less and less afraid to go out. What is the use of safety in Yuegang alone? Was robbed.

The ones entering and exiting Moon Harbor now are big merchants who want to make a last fortune, and some foreign merchant ships who specially come to buy goods at this time.

No one knows how long King Lu's attack on Fujian will last. If there is a full-scale war, the trade will definitely be cut off. At that time, you will not be able to buy anything you want to buy.

After visiting Xiong Yue and delivering medicines, Xiong Yue's mother's illness was due to years of hard work, and the doctor at Shaw's Medical Center also said that she should rest.

But Xiong Yue's mother was worried about the tea garden at home, so Xiong Yue could only take care of his mother at home and take care of the tea garden with his father.

Xiong Yue euphemistically expressed that he might not go to the county school to study in the future, and everyone recalled the days and nights when they talked about their ambitions when they first started studying, and they all sighed with emotion.

The situation was tense, and Hai Rui also suspended the classes at the end of August, urging Su Ze to go back to Changningwei as soon as possible.

When Su Ze returned to Changningwei, another bad news came.

The Japanese pirates had been attacking Jianning City for a long time, so they simply scattered to plunder other towns, and a group of Japanese pirates also came to Yanping Mansion.