Outside, it was freezing cold, and the cold wind was blowing one after another, and the air was swollen with cold and dryness.
Inside the house, it is another scene, the right ear made "dial the xia offering", this is the most popular food in the cold winter, make the bottom of the pot with hare meat, put it in the wind stove pot, the soup is boiling, such as the surging river snow, the red rabbit meat slices swing frequently in the steamer, such as dialing the sunset, so it is named "dialing the xia offering".
Yan Niang doesn't eat meat, and after drinking a bowl of porridge, she sat at the table to help Xun'er pick up vegetables.
After drinking a few bowls of soup and eating a few large pieces of meat, Xun'er finally couldn't stand it anymore, and screamed to go out for a few laps to digest it.
Jiang Xixi put a cloak on him, put on a fur hat, and went out with him.
As soon as the two left, Cheng Muyou and Yan Niang were left in the house, Cheng Muyou poured a glass of wine, and poured the cup in front of Yan Niang full, and then raised a glass to her, "Xun'er, this kid has been working harder and harder these days, reading every day until the early hours of the morning, this is all the credit of Mrs., I respect Mrs. for a cup." ” Yan Niang picked up the wine glass, raised her head and drank all the contents of the cup, then supported her cheeks with her hands, and played with the remaining rice grains in the bowl without a match, and unconsciously smiled on her lips, and said softly, "It's been a long time since anyone drank with me, the guy in the right ear, drunk unconscious, drinking with it is the most boring."
In this way, there are some advantages to marrying an adult, at least I have one more drinking friend. ” "Drinking buddies?"
Cheng Muyou repeated, and said with a smile, "Okay, I can be a lady's drinking friend, and I'm also content." ” After saying that, he drank the wine down, wiped it casually on his lips with the back of his hand, and then said, "Can Mrs.
Motha figure it out?"
” Yan Niang stared at the hot air coming out of the furnace and shook her head slightly, "The mana of that demon path is so strong, I don't believe that a small insect will pose a threat to him." ” "But has Madame ever heard the phrase 'a moth has a son, and a moth wins or loses'?"
Yan Niang looked up at him and said softly, "Moths have males and no females, and there are no offspring, so they catch moths and feed them as righteous sons."
Accordingly, the adopted son of the descendant is called the son of the moth. ” Cheng Muyou shook his head, "It's just a folk legend, Tao Hongjing, a physician in the Southern Dynasty, didn't believe that the moth had no children, and was determined to observe it himself to distinguish the authenticity."
He found a nest of moths and found them to be both male and female.
And these moths take the larvae of the moth back to the nest, and use the poisonous needle on their tail to stab the moth half to death, and then lay eggs on it.
It turns out that the moth is not a righteous son, but the food of the offspring of the moth. ” Yan Niang shrugged her shoulders, "Whether it's a righteous son or food, what does this have to do with that person?"
” "I can't figure it out for a while, but I always feel that this matter is not so complicated, maybe the truth is in front of us, but we can't touch it."
Cheng Muyou said slowly.
Yan Niang drank another glass of wine, picked up the empty cup and shook it at Cheng Muyou, "The things in the world are most afraid of the word forcible, since you can't figure it out, then let go of it first, it's better to have fun in time, my lord, no, the officials also drink it." ” The bottom of her cup is empty, Cheng Muyou has to follow along, Yan Niang has always liked refreshing people, plus today I drank a few more cups, there are a little too many words, rubbing the cup along the stroke Cheng Muyou said, "Speaking of the son of the moth, I think of one thing again, that Yangzhou, the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, there are many moth girls." ” "Moth girl?"
Yan Niang snorted, "Yangzhou has always been the settlement of the two Huai salt merchants, these salt merchants are rich and luxurious, and their extravagance is comparable to that of the royal family, and their wealth has also fed a large number of industries that live next to them, and the 'Moth Girl' is one of them." ” "The moth girl refers to the adopted daughter?"
Yan Niang raised her head and smiled at him, her eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and she looked a little more enchanting than usual, "Adopted daughter?
Yes, the rich businessmen did claim that these girls were their adopted daughters. ” Cheng Muyou heard the deep meaning of her words, "She claims to be an adopted daughter, but in fact" Yan Niang played with the cup, and there was a hint of chill in her voice, "In Yangzhou City, a girl born in a poor family and has a good face will be adopted by a tooth wife when she is seven or eight years old.
After Ya Po bought the young girl back, she would specially ask someone to learn her appearance, demeanor and body shape, and teach her singing and dancing, needlework, and even the secret art of the room. ” "Of course, all this painstaking cultivation is aimed at finding a good buyer and selling for a good price in the future.
By the age of eleven or twelve, these 'moth girls' have matured in all aspects, and at this time, they will be recommended by the women who raise them to the nobles, sons, and wealthy businessmen who are willing to pay for them. ” "To buy an adopted daughter, it usually costs a hundred taels of silver, and the biological parents of this woman get no more than one or twenty taels of silver for selling the girl, and the rest is paid to Ya Po.
And the women who were adopted by others, if they were lucky, they enjoyed all the wealth before their color decayed, and if they were unlucky, they were killed by their wives and thrown into wells.
In the end, the remaining moth girls were even more pitiful, they would be sent to Fireworks Willow Lane, and the bank of the Qinhuai River was their final destination. ” The fire under the stove pot was extinguished, and the soup gradually condensed into a ball, Cheng Muyou looked intently at the broth that was slowly cooling down, and said in a low voice, "I only know that the moth is pitiful, and my children are eaten as food by the moth, but I don't know that in this world, there are women as pitiful as them, no, they are more pitiful than the moth, the moth is only eaten, but they are tortured by humiliation, and in the end they still can't find a way to live for themselves." ” Yan Niang drank another glass and sneered, "The Buddha said that all living beings are suffering, birth, old age, sickness and death, love and separation, hatred, and can't ask for it.
It's just that these girls have tasted much more pain than ordinary people," she shouted at the door, "right ear, add some charcoal fire, and the pot will be cold." ” The right ear answered, and he walked into the house with a charcoal basin, put the reddened charcoal under the stove pot with a tong, and fanned it a few times, but the charcoal fire was not strong, and the pot could not boil.
It was a little anxious, so it simply lay down and blew at the charcoal, but the fire did not rise, and his face was blackened by the soot, which made Yan Niang laugh.
Cheng Muyou was so anxious that he scratched his cheeks when he saw his right ear, and hurriedly said to it, "Don't worry, the fire is not so easy to burn, you go and get some vegetable oil and sprinkle it underneath, and the fire should be raised." ” The right ear promised to walk outside the house, but before he crossed the threshold, he heard Cheng Muyou's voice sound behind him again, but this time, his voice was tense and dry, like a taut string.
"No, how did the fire fire start so fast?"