As the carriage left Huizhou City, there were pear trees in twos and threes full of white flowers on the roadside. Shangguan Yanran took a deep sniff and said, "The fragrance is so sweet!"
Qi Ying said with a smile: "Of course it is rare for Miss Shangguan to smell this fragrance when she is in the south of the Yangtze River. The fragrance of medicine in Huizhou City is the fragrance of pear flowers."
Shangguan Yanran leaned out of the car window and held open the pear blossoms blown by the wind with her hands, shouting loudly: "Sister Qi, what a beautiful pear blossom." Shangguan Yanran actually caught a white five-flowered flower in her jade hand.
The pear blossoms had green and yellow stamens with a little star pattern. She reached out and handed the pear blossom to Qi Ying.
Qi Ying saw Shangguan Yanran happily holding pear blossoms like a child, and she took away a lot of the sadness in her heart. She took the pear blossoms and said: "When the wind blows, the pear blossoms on the tree will be like raindrops made of white jade."
The flowers are also falling down, so pear blossoms are also called Yuyu or Qingyu."
Xiang Xiaotian smiled in the carriage and said: "Silly girl, there are only a few pear trees here. When we enter Yicheng tomorrow, the mountains and plains will be filled with pear trees more than ten feet tall. When the wind blows, they will be really beautiful. If you can leave more.
When the pears are ripe, I will make sure you have enough to eat."
Qi Ying continued: "Dangshan County is the most famous for pears here. The fruit has a large core, a small yellow color, and is bright and beautiful. The skin is thin, juicy, crispy, and sweet. It also has the effect of quenching thirst, promoting fluid, reducing phlegm, and moisturizing the lungs. If Shangguan girl likes it, why not wait?
It’s been a few months.”
Shangguan Yanran pouted her little mouth and said aggrievedly: "Of course I want to wait a few months to eat your Dangshan pears, but this time I am here to pay homage to Brother Xiang's mother. After that, we have to go to Shandong Mansion for business.
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"Shandong Mansion? Isn't that already under the jurisdiction of the Jin people? Aren't you afraid of being harmed by the Jin people when you go there?" Qi Ying followed her father and always had some resentment towards the Jin people, so she heard what Shangguan Yanran said.
Going to Shandong Prefecture can’t help but make me a little worried.
Chen Mengsheng sighed and said: "Just because I once met a woman in Huzhou Prefecture who was misunderstood by her husband and had an affair with someone and died in vain, I have promised to clear her death. However, her husband's remains were given away by the traitor.
Go to Shandong Mansion, so I can only go to Shandong Mansion to defend Miss Ye Shuang'er and save her husband into reincarnation." Qi Ying also saw Chen Mengsheng's power in the cave of Golden Buddha Temple, but she did not expect him.
With such great ability, can he still go to the rescue of the dead?
Xiang Xiaotian said happily: "Miss Qi, you don't have to wonder. My brother is definitely not a liar. Everything he said is true. You will naturally know it in the future. Anyway, my brother and sister-in-law are not human beings. They are both
God! After traveling for a long time, Miss Qi must be hungry, right? This is some dry food bought in Huizhou Fuzhong, so the girl will make do with some food first, and after walking forty or fifty miles, she will enter the mountain road. Everyone
Let's all take a nap first." To be honest, after Qi Ying came out of the Golden Buddha Temple, she paid homage to Qi Changshui and she really hadn't eaten anything. She thought of her while holding the meat pie and water bag given by Xiang Xiaotian.
Dad, only his father would always care about her. But now, there is no chance of seeing each other again. Qi Ying took advantage of eating dry food and lowered her head to quietly wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes...
Sure enough, as Xiang Xiaotian said, the carriage was bumpy and difficult to move as soon as it entered the mountainous area. No matter how skilled the driver was, he could not withstand the rugged mountain road. The four people in the carriage were shaken and tossed up and down until the sun set.
It was slightly flat, and the four of them, all with aching bones, sat on the carriage board and began to take a nap. Only the carriage driver was accustomed to traveling at night, and was still racing tirelessly through the dusk.
Yicheng is built against the mountains. Most of the people in Yicheng are busy planting pear trees in the first half of the year, and in the second half of the year they go into the mountains to hunt and get meat to survive the winter. Chen Mengsheng's carriage was parked in the pear forest outside Yicheng.
Shangguan Yanran was stunned by the large pear forest. Chen Mengsheng paid the money, set up the carriage without saying a word and returned to Huizhou. Shangguan Yanran pulled Qi Ying through the pear forest, as if they were two forest trees.
Like beautiful flowers and butterflies in the sky. Xiang Xiaotian shouted in terror: "Girl, come back quickly. Yicheng is not a county town. There is not even a city gate building. Tigers, leopards, and jackals might be hiding in the woods.
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Shangguan Yanran was so frightened when Xiang Xiaotian said this that she and Qi Ying came back. The four of them walked in the forest for more than half an hour. Shangguan Yanran suddenly said: "Brother Xiang, your Yicheng is not only beautiful with pear blossoms,
Even the girls are so smart."
"Girl, what are you talking about? What girl?" Xiang Xiaotian asked strangely.
Shangguan Yanran pointed with her hand at the pear forest in front of her. There was a woman wearing a white dress standing under the pear tree. Ana's figure was stacking several stones on the ground. The beautiful woman stood on the stone tremblingly and took off her long dress.
The belt was thrown over the pear branch and tied into a knot...
Qi Ying shouted: "No, that girl wants to hang herself!"
"Canopy", "whoosh" Chen Mengsheng's thunder and fire and Xiang Xiaotian's sharp arrows were fired almost at the same time, and the branch as thick as a bowl broke with the sound. The girl sat down on the ground and cried with a sound that was heartbreaking to hear.
, Chen Mengsheng and four others hurriedly stepped forward to help.
The girl said angrily: "Why don't you let me die? Do I have any grudge against you?" As soon as the girl opened her mouth, her voice was as sweet as the oriole's cry in the empty valley.
Xiang Xiaotian said displeased: "Girl, what are you saying? Are you telling us to just watch you die?"
Chen Mengsheng grabbed Xiang Xiaotian and said to the woman in a friendly manner: "Did the girl encounter any unsatisfactory difficulties? Since ancient times, the only option is death. As long as you live, there is always something you can think of." The girl sat on the ground and looked like a girl.
The crying became more and more sad.
Xiang Xiaotian poked Chen Mengsheng and said: "Go, go, go. You are not as good as I said. Look how you made other girls cry! Fortunately, there are many of us. If you are alone, go
Other people would think you had caught her."
Shangguan Yanran looked at the embarrassed Chen Mengsheng and said, "Senior brother, you and the eldest brother should step aside. This girl is scared when she sees you."
Xiang Xiaotian pulled Chen Mengsheng aside and said to himself: "Brother, the weather is really good today..."
Shangguan Yanran walked up to the girl, took out a silk handkerchief and said, "Sister, please wipe away your tears quickly. I wonder what I call my sister?"
The woman in white held the orchid in her hand and took the silk handkerchief and wiped away her tears. She smiled bitterly and said, "I don't even know what my name is!"
Xiang Xiaotian's eyes widened and he said softly: "Brothers, we have met someone who is so heartless again. How can there be anyone in the world who doesn't even know his own name?"
Qi Ying stepped forward and said, "I just heard the girl's voice when she spoke, and I saw her gesture of holding a silk handkerchief with her orchid jade fingers. I guess she is a disciple of the Li Sect, right?" As soon as Qi Ying finished speaking, the girl looked up.
She hesitated and nodded.
Xiang Xiaotian laughed and said: "What do I think? Girl, are you here to look after the pear orchard? What is this? My brother sold fish by the Qiantang River back then..."
Shangguan Yanran stepped over in embarrassment, and Xiang Xiaotian shouted: "Oh, brother, if you don't take good care of your wife, she will go to the house and tear down the tiles!"
Shangguan Yanran spat: "Senior brother, Brother Xiang doesn't know anything, so why bother to file a complaint first? The Liyuan disciples are opera singers, and he said they are here to watch the Liyuan."
"Haha, she's an opera singer, not a gardener? Let me tell you, how come there's a pear gardener after just a few years away from home?" Xiang Xiaotian scratched his head and said sheepishly.
The woman in white clothes gradually stopped crying when Xiang Xiaotian made such a joke and said: "This little girl is a hard-luck person. She was abandoned by her family in an inn in Jian'an Mansion before she was three years old. So she really doesn't know her last name.
Who was I named? Later, luckily a theater troupe passed by, and someone adopted me and gave me the nickname Lihua. Misfortune lies where blessings depend, and blessings lie where misfortune lies. Unexpectedly, it was because of me that in the future,
It will cause endless disasters, so it would be better for me to die in my infancy..."
In the eleventh year of Shaoxing, Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, signed the Shaoxing Peace Agreement with the Jin Dynasty. He even shamelessly asked the people to praise him. Among the people, he was even more wantonly plundering the people. The people were living in dire straits, and there were many lamentations. In order to avoid the heavy exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the people put down their hands one after another.
They all came up with ways to survive. Some entered the temple and became monks, some left their hometowns to escape, and some simply learned to be actors when they had no other choice. In the Southern Song Dynasty, no one wanted to do anything if there was a stutter in the family.
When it comes to singing in an opera, the actor's status is extremely low, and it is a low-level profession.
The actors who sang in operas were worse than those who performed in brothels. In Lin'an City at that time, there was a troupe named Ziyuexuan supported by a high-ranking official and the Prime Minister Qin Hui. However, a few years later, Qin Hui's notoriety spread far and wide. There was a leading role in Ziyuexuan.
The boy's name was Yao Jinsheng. He couldn't bear to see Qin Hui's scandalous behavior of betraying his country and seeking glory, so he left Ziyuexuan with his three-year-old son. In order to ensure three meals a day, Yao Jinsheng worked as a sidekick in a theater troupe.
One year, the troupe went to Jian'an Mansion to sing for the county magistrate. After the troupe was over, the troupe checked into an inn. However, they heard the innkeeper cursing. After asking about it, they found out that someone had left a newborn baby girl in the inn.
In those days, many girls were abandoned after giving birth. It was not easy for Yao Jinsheng to bring up a boy. His wife packed him up and left because he was poor. But Yao Jinsheng was born with a gift.
He was kind-hearted and saw that the baby girl would definitely die if there was no one to feed her, so he begged the boss of the troupe to adopt the child. Unexpectedly, the boss said that he would adopt you, but the troupe would not give another free mouth to eat.
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Yao Jinsheng kept silent, adopted the baby girl and said goodbye to the theater troupe. From then on, he carried the baby girl on his back in restaurants and teahouses with his son standing next to him as a performer to survive...
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(Among the Three Religions and Nine Streams, an actor is not even considered to be in the ninth tier. Confucianists in the Han Dynasty believed that the Xia Dynasty advocated loyalty, the Shang Dynasty advocated respect, and the Zhou Dynasty advocated literature. They compared the moral norms of loyalty, respect, and literature advocated by the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties with those of the Zhou Dynasty.
Etiquette and decoration can be summarized as Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. "Nine streams", "Hanshu·Yiwenzhi" says that the nine streams refer to: Confucianism, Taoism, Yin-Yang school, Legalism, famous schools, Mohists, strategists, miscellaneous schools, and farmers.
.(Later, the people divided the "nine streams" into the "upper nine streams", "middle nine streams" and "lower nine streams" according to their social status. The "upper nine streams" were: emperors, sages, hermits, child immortals, and literati
, warriors, farmers, workers, and merchants. The "middle nine streams" are: civil servants, doctors, ministers, painters (painting sellers), scholars, chess players, monks, Taoists, and nuns. The "lower nine streams" are: masters, yamen
Poor, rising scale (weighing hand), matchmaker, pawn, time demon (kidnapping and witch), theft, theft, prostitution.)