Chapter 145 A beautiful woman steals food?

Author: Fat Bird Goes First

Chapter 145 A beautiful woman steals food?

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 giving each other mooncakes. Therefore, starting from the Ming Dynasty, the custom of giving mooncakes to each other during the Mid-Autumn Festival began.

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

In the back house of the magistrate, Magistrate Fang led his wife and son and daughter to worship the moon god, and then the family gathered around the pavilion to drink and admire the moon.

Fang Ruolan's younger brother was less than ten years old, and he was already sleepy after just staying up for a while. Mrs. Li put a cloak on her son, and the family continued to sit in the pavilion and admire the moon.

There is also the custom 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 held a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the Grand View Garden in Dream of Red Mansions.

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

The remaining three members of the family began to talk about their daily life.

Mrs. Li said in a good mood: "Lan'er, you didn't come last time. Our folk art club has already started rehearsing "The Peony Pavilion". Mrs. Li Tongpan's family is really good at singing, and she can sing it with style!"

Fang Ruolan's mouth twitched. Her good poetry club was snatched away by her mother and turned into an opera club. Mrs. Li had to drag her to participate every time.

Mrs. Li is in a happy mood. Recently, she feels that rehearsing is more interesting than playing horse-drawn games.

The prefect Fang is also very supportive of his wife's cultural undertakings. When the ladies gather together, they can always find out all kinds of news and can unite the friendship between the officials and their families.

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

Mrs. Li sighed and said, "It's a pity that Su Ze is not a Jinshi. If he were, Lan'er could be betrothed to him."

Fang Ruolan's ears immediately turned red.

The prefect did not notice anything strange about his daughter, but Mrs. Li's words made her blood pressure rise again.

"Jinshi? Do you think that Jinshi is nothing? If Su Ze wins the imperial examination at this age, you can marry Lan'er to him!"

Mrs. Li, however, said unwillingly: "Juren? Is my Lan'er worthy of a juren?"

Magistrate Fang said: "Jinshi? How many twenty-year-old Jinshis have you seen? Don't you want to keep Lan'er until she is thirty before getting married? Even a thirty-year-old Jinshi wants to marry a teenage girl.

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Mrs. Li immediately became energetic and said: "Have you spoken your mind? You also want to take a teenage concubine, right? Do you men all love teenagers?"

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

The two quarreled for a while, and finally the magistrate walked away.

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

"This Su Ze is really good. If he can win the imperial examination next year, he will barely pass. Mom went back to her room to sleep."

Fang Ruolan stood up, said a thousand blessings, sent her mother away, and took the maid to clean up the pavilion.

Fang Ruolan's ears were still red. She recalled the times she met Su Ze at Huimin Pharmacy, and her heart was slightly disturbed.

In his letter back, his uncle also greatly praised Su Ze's article.

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

After looking at the full moon in the sky, Fang Ruolan returned to the room. She thought about it, put on men's clothes, and walked out of the mansion with her maid.

"Miss, do you really want to steal food?"

Fang Ruolan's face turned red with embarrassment. She also learned about such a folk custom from her uncle's letter.

Unmarried women among the people will go out to steal green onions on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which means that they can marry a good husband.

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

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

The people living near the magistrate's office were all noble people in the city, so naturally no one planted onions at home.

Fang Ruolan suddenly thought of the acres of land opened by Hai Rui at the county school. Didn't that weird county school teacher grow vegetables? Steal it from him!

The government office was not far from the county school, and Fang Ruolan was inconspicuous walking on the road with her maid who was also dressed as a man.

The Mid-Autumn Festival also has the tradition of women's night parade. Some ordinary women simply wear women's clothes and parade at night. They will look at young men generously when they see them along the way.

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

However, the streets today are not too dark. Rich people have set up tile towers in front of their homes. On the small towers made of tiles, flammable objects are placed. The flames are lit so high. This is Fujian area.

According to the unique folk custom, the flames of the tile towers symbolize rising heights. The larger the family, the larger the tile towers.

Fang Ruolan finally reached the edge of the county school. She walked around and touched her chest nervously.

The county school was dark and dark. Hai Rui removed 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 show off.

The structure of the county school was similar to that of the government office, and Fang Ruolan finally found the farmland in the backyard.

at the same time.

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

Is this hometown Changningwei or the hometown before traveling through time?

The two places overlapped, and Su Ze felt a little weak.

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

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

Now that the county school is empty, Yanping Fuxue is not willing to crowd into the county school. The professors of the Fuxue have moved into a temple 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 giving lectures.

There were only a few county students living in the school building. Su Ze saw someone sneaking behind the county school, where Hai Rui lived. Could it be that someone had sneaked into the county school to steal something?

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

"Who!"

Su Ze raised the torch high, so frightened that Fang Ruolan stepped on the air and let out a cry of surprise.

When Su Ze saw the movement, he rushed over immediately. The torch illuminated instantly, and he saw a pale and pretty face exhaling in pain.

Isn't this Mr. Fang?

Su Ze looked at the food in Fang Ruolan's hand and immediately understood that she had stolen it.

Su Ze also knew about the custom of stealing vegetables during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but he didn't expect that the daughter of the magistrate would hate getting married so much?

Su Ze had actually guessed Fang Ruolan's identity a long time ago. Who else could influence the young woman in the government office besides Fang Zhifu's daughter?

When Fang Zhifu and his family first entered the city, Su Ze saw Fang Ruolan near the Chenghuang Temple.

"Master Fang?"

Fang Ruolan wished she could crawl into the ground in shame. She wanted to ask herself why she had to go to the county school to steal vegetables by some strange coincidence.

This time I was caught stealing food and my leg was twisted. It was really embarrassing.

Su Ze still had some emotional intelligence and said, "Master Fang wants to see Hai Jiaoyu? Jiaoyu has gone out to admire the moon."

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

"Wait, you have a sprain."

Su Ze instinctively reached out and grabbed Fang Ruolan's ankle, and then used a muscle-aligning technique to grab it. His "Medicine" also reached Level 2. He knew that Fang Ruolan's bones were not injured at the first touch, so he used a slight force to pull her ankle.

Stretched a bit.

Fang Ruolan's face turned completely red. Su Ze acted instinctively, but in this era, women's feet were not something that other men could grab casually.

Fang Ruolan was so caught by Su Ze that her whole body went limp and weak, and she felt like she could no longer stand.

"Ask Huang Tiju to prescribe a plaster tomorrow. The swelling will subside in a few days."

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

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

Fang Ruolan pointed to the main entrance of the county school. Su Ze helped her up. Thinking that men and women were not close to each other, he handed Fang Ruolan the wooden stick in his hand and held a torch and sent Fang Ruolan to the main entrance of the county school.

Fang Ruolan's maid was hiding by the door. When she saw Fang Ruolan limping out, she quickly went to greet her.

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

Su Ze said calmly: "Mr. Fang sprained her foot. Let me 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 up 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 embarrassed 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 the official daughter Du Liniang and the scholar Liu Mengmei?
To be continued...