When night falls, candles are lit everywhere in Tongcheng County.
July 15th is the Ghost Festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival. It is said that the palaces of the earth and the earth are not closed on this day, and ghosts can go out freely. Every household offers incense and paper money to their ancestors. Tongcheng will not open the door tonight.
Curfew, there were many people on the street, fires were everywhere, and smoke was filling the air. When my parents paid homage to their ancestors, they kept chanting, thanking their ancestors for their blessings, and asking them to get more money to use back home.
The family burned paper money, and Pang Yu took a river lantern to the Ximen Shuiguan and set off the river lantern with her parents. Setting up the river lantern is also called "illuminating the dead". It was first used to comfort the innocent souls in the water.
It has become a custom of the Hungry Ghost Festival.
Ximen Shuiguan is also crowded with people. Everyone is holding lanterns or river lanterns. The streets are brightly lit, and you can even see the word "Yimin" on the city head clearly. Children on the river bank
Laughing and fighting, Danlang selling snacks and cakes along the street turned into a night market.
Pang Yu directly found a place with few people, squatted on the riverside and placed a river lantern. The waterway at Shuiguan was full of lantern shadows, flowing along the waterway to the outside of the city.
This waterway originates from Zoumaling and Pingfeng Ridge in the northwest of the city. The confluence of the streams is called Maojia River. It enters the city from the East Shuiguan in the north of the city, crosses the Tangqian Bridge of the county government to the west, and ends at the south side of Yimin Gate.
Shuiguan leaves the city.
Residents in Beicheng put lanterns along the river, while people in Xicheng gathered near Shuiguan. There are many kinds of river lanterns, including red, white and yellow. There are more and more river lanterns in Shuiguan, and the shadows of all kinds of lights are reflected
In the water, through the thin smoke of burning paper money, the entire river is dim and colorful, like a river of lights slowly flowing out in an illusion.
Pang Yu was mesmerized for a moment, as if he was in a dream or outside a dream. It was not until most people had dispersed that Pang Yu closed his eyes and clasped his hands, "Dear ancestors... I don't know where you are, but please
Bless me to live a good new life, always strive to win, and be a good person at the same time... By the way, I can make more money. I really can't live without money. Please also bless my parents. The main thing is
If you still have time to protect your biological children in your last life, I will also protect your loved ones in this life."
While I was praying here, I suddenly felt pain in my ear.
"Ouch, go to hell, who the hell..."
"You stupid fool, you still dare to curse? Try to curse again!"
The pressure on his ears loosened, and Pang Yu could turn around to look. He saw a girl in a white dress, with two buns on her head, eyebrows like willow leaves, and eyes like paint, standing in the flowing light.
Beside the river, reflecting the warm yellow soft light of the river, it looks like a pretty fairy beside the Milky Way.
"Fairy?" Pang Yu rubbed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he found that the fairy had her hands on her hips and looked at him with an evil look on her face. Her image immediately fell into the mortal world.
"What does this beauty do for you?"
"I haven't seen you talk like this in a few days. You don't need to flatter me. I am a beauty. Let me ask you, who told you to go to my house to break off the engagement?"
Pang Yu pointed at the fairy in surprise, "Are you Aunt Liu's daughter?"
"How dare you pretend that you don't know me." The fairy's almond-shaped eyes widened, she quickly waved her right hand, and skillfully grabbed Pang Yu's ear.
"We just met! Be gentle, gentle, it hurts!"
"Why don't I bother you? I still want to focus on the point. You usually just go around the city and fool around, but you dare to break off the engagement. Who told you to break off the engagement?"
Pang Yu's ears ached, and he took the opportunity to grab the fairy's hand and said, "Aunt Liu didn't force us to do that. She came early in the morning. I resisted at the time, but Aunt Liu said that if she didn't retreat, she would find Anqing."
With the help of that relative in the government, I can’t even become a slave."
"It's not even my mother's fault. What's more important, Zaoli, is me. You can't agree to my mother's wishes. Otherwise, where can I find such an obedient person as my husband?"
"I don't want to either. I didn't know you were so beautiful..." When Pang Yu thought of the money he got, he couldn't bear to return it. It only took a thousandth of a second to compare the money chain in his mind.
and the importance of beautiful women, he immediately changed his words and said, "But I think you deserve better. What's the point of you looking for a fool like me? It's all for your own good."
The fairy snorted and let go, "You can speak this time, but I want to find you, a stupid person. Who is smart enough to listen to me? Even if my mother forces you, you are still not allowed to retreat. Tomorrow
Go and beg my mother."
"Then Aunt Liu must not agree. She broke off the engagement yesterday. I think she is very happy."
"Why are you so happy? I cried all night last night, saying that you defrauded me of more than thirty taels of silver. Anyway, you have to beg my mother not to cancel the engagement."
"What nonsense? You only have twenty-one taels, is it possible that Aunt Liu is like me and has to take kickbacks even to cancel the engagement?" Pang Yu was about to say anything more when he suddenly saw Aunt Liu appearing behind her with a gloomy face.
On the river bank, he quickly kept silent and winked at the Liu family fairy again and again.
When the fairy turned her head and saw Aunt Liu, she immediately put away her evil spirit, with a gentle and respectful face. She went over to hold Aunt Liu's arm, her voice was so gentle that it could melt away stones, "Mom, please slow down, the river is slipping."
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Pang Yu watched the fairy's performance and felt that this woman would definitely become a drama queen in future generations.
Aunt Liu didn't hear their conversation, but she was in a bad mood whenever she saw Pang Yu. Her face turned even more gloomy and she gave Pang Yu a look. Pang Yu wasn't angry either, but just smiled and said, "Aunt Liu is here too."
Put out river lanterns.”
Aunt Liu didn't look at Pang Yu and said to her daughter: "Girl, don't talk to irrelevant people. What will the neighbors look like when they see you?"
"Well, my daughter knows."
The fairy responded in a low voice and helped Aunt Liu to leave. When she turned around, Pang Yu saw a black birthmark on the fairy's cheek near her right ear.
Pang Yu looked at the backs of the two of them, covering her ears that were still aching, "Damn, such a beautiful woman doesn't know how to be gentle. She has learned all the three obediences and four virtues, but she is so beautiful.
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The next day, Pang Yu slept until he woke up naturally. He dug out the five taels of silver that he had reserved on the bed. He held the white silver in his hand. Although it was less, Pang Yu felt that he was in better spirits than yesterday.
Several times, even the pain in my head no longer hurt, and then I thought of the beauty last night.
"I didn't expect that this idiot has such a beautiful wife. He can't even drive her away. She just has a bad temper. How about giving back the money and getting a beautiful wife back?"
Pang Yu stared at the money on the bed for a long time, "Fifty taels of silver is not enough. I have to find a way to make money quickly and marry this beauty back. What can I do? This ancient thing is useless."
Nope."
Pang Yu shook his head twice, put the fairy thing behind him, put a few small silver pieces in his arms, and then walked to the patio with satisfaction.
Mom is making medicine. I don’t know which doctor she is getting it for. The service of Pang’s medicinal material shop is quite good. It not only sells medicinal materials, but sometimes the doctors are too busy.
Help them cut it and pound it, then take it and use it directly as medicine.
When she saw Pang Yu coming out, she said, "When I opened the door in the morning, Jiao Guozha came to the door and asked if your injury had recovered. He said that it was about a lawsuit with the Zhou family. The shopkeeper of the Zhou family was still in jail.
.If you can move around, let him know so that he can arrange the announcement."
Jiao Guozhao was Pang Yu's sworn brother. The two had known each other since they were children. They were both on duty at the Yamen. They had visited him a few days ago and were helping him with a lawsuit against the Zhou family.
Pang Yu immediately became energetic after hearing this. He slapped a pillar and said, "I'm talking about how to make money. Lawsuits are money. If you beat the Zhou family to death and chase me all over the street, I'll go to the Yamen right away."
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My mother stopped me and said, "Oh, don't worry, just eat your breakfast and go."
Dad shouted in the main room: "A few days ago, I also felt that Zhou's family was really hateful, but now I think in my heart, as a father, you suddenly became literate. Maybe that stick took away the evil barrier, maybe it's
It's a blessing in disguise, I heard that I'm a foreigner again, so don't embarrass others too much."
Pang Yu ran to the table, picked up the porridge and drank it in two gulps, "I know!"