Matters in the northwest Junggar still need to be decided by the Second Saint, but at least there will be no friction in recent years.
Turgut will not give up his ancestral pasture just like this. After receiving assistance from Daqi, he will definitely have one last encounter with Junggar. If he wins, he will stay where he is. If he loses, he will move westward.
Junggar will also spend several years digesting the new territory, and then the land that was eaten by those small tribes will also have to be taken back. In addition, Turgut is gone, and the Kipchaks are starting to fight with Junggar. , calculated this way, Junggar will not have any friction with Daqi within six or seven years.
But even so, Da Qi could not do nothing. Jia Hui thought about it and began to write some military orders himself and sent them to the Anxi Protectorate.
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The seventh day of July is the Qiao Qiao Festival.
There are quite a lot of origins of the Qiqiao Festival. Even if you go to the Hanlin Academy and ask those old Hanlins who have been there for decades, they may not necessarily explain all the origins of this festival clearly.
However, this does not affect the fact that Qiqiao Festival has become one of the legal holidays in Daqi.
This is a festival for girls.
It's a pity that the girl from the Jia family who came with the eldest brother-in-law is only one to welcome the spring. The children from the second house are all in Rongguo Mansion in Luoyang. This kind of excitement will not be associated with Tanchun.
But you won’t be lonely in the Spring Festival. After all, Daiyu, Xiangyun, several girls from the Shi family, and even Wang Xifeng are here.
Fortunately, I had some extra items prepared.
Although the important rituals of the Qiqiao Festival are held at night, there are also many interesting activities during the day.
Fun activities at my daughter’s house.
However, Jia Hui also enjoyed some of the projects.
"Quick, quick, second girl, bring the box over quickly, I found a big one!"
In the corner of the courtyard wall, Jia Hui excitedly waved to Yingchun to come over.
"Come on, come on." Yingchun, whose face was a little pale, walked to her eldest brother uneasily, handed him the small box in her hand, and then quickly covered her eyes with both hands, looking at Jia Hui from time to time if she wanted to see but didn't dare to look. Look at the side of your hand
"Haha, look, second girl, look, is it big?" After some manipulations, Jia Hui excitedly raised the small wooden box and showed it to Yingchun, which scared Yingchun and took a few steps back.
However, Yingchun still saw what was in the small box.
A little spider.
Spiders like to be clever.
A custom that came into being very early on. On Chinese Valentine's Day, girls' families would capture some small spiders alive and put them in small boxes.
On July 7th, each person catches a spider in a small box and waits until dawn to open it; depending on how dense the spider webs are, it is considered a coincidence. A secret person speaks more skillfully, and a rare person speaks less skillfully.
It’s just a pain for the spider.
The activity was quite interesting, but everyone in my daughter's family is more or less afraid of bugs, especially Yingchun, so for the first time, Yingchun acted coquettishly towards her elder brother who seemed to be omnipotent.
Help, must help! My fairy-like girl is acting coquettishly towards me. If I don’t help her catch ten or eight of them, it will be a big deal! You deserve to be so coquettish about my girl!
Ever since, before dawn, Jia Hui had already started sweeping the courtyard with more than a dozen small wooden boxes drilled with breathing holes the size of needle holes!
Seeing that her eldest brother was going to look for spiders again, Yingchun bit her lip in confusion. She could tell that her eldest brother hadn't had all the fun yet, but he had already caught thirteen.
"Brother, we've caught thirteen of them and the boxes have all been used up. Is this too much?" After struggling for a while, Yingchun decided to dissuade the eldest brother.
"Ah, it's full? That's okay, I won't catch it anymore." After hearing the girl say that the box has been used up, Jia Hui stood up reluctantly, still not satisfied.
Hey, that’s fun!
When I have time in two days, I will go to the yard again and make sure to catch more bugs and make specimens for fun!
Jia Hui suddenly remembered that he seemed to have learned the art of making insect specimens in his previous life.
I don’t know how much I can still recall after so many years.
"Okay, you can pick a small wooden box and bring it with you, and leave the rest to Siqi. Let her look after the remaining twelve boxes. Wait until tomorrow is tomorrow. Anyway, you can pick a net to weave by then. Just take the densest ones and compare them with them."
"Ah, but isn't this fraud?" Yingchun opened her mouth and looked at her eldest brother with an expression of disbelief.
The eldest brother is actually teaching himself to cheat!
"What's the matter? Your little sisters are all very strong-tempered. Maybe they all do the same thing. It's okay." Jia Hui said to Yingchun with a smile, and saw the two people on Yingchun's head. Zongjiao wanted to touch it, but when he thought that his hands were still stained with dust, he gave up the idea.
"But..." When Jia Hui said this, Yingchun was a little moved, but his own morals still did not allow him to cheat in the competition, and he was very entangled.
"Hey, don't worry, big brother will tell you quietly, this is what everyone does!"
"Ah?" Yingchun looked shocked.
"Hehe, I can't believe I'll tell you something quietly. In the past, your sister-in-law did the same thing when she competed with her little sisters during Chinese Valentine's Day.
Every Chinese Valentine's Day, she would ask me to catch more than a dozen spiders for her to keep for later use. Before opening the box, she would pick out the one with the densest weaving and take it away to compete with others."
Yingchun opened her mouth in surprise, she didn't expect such an elegant and dignified sister-in-law to be such a person!
"Oh, I seem to have heard someone talking bad about me."
A Rouyi with clear joints and as white as jade suddenly appeared between the brother and sister, covering Yingchun's little face, and took her into his arms.
"Second girl, tell me, who said bad things about my sister-in-law just now?" Li Wan smiled and stroked the down on Yingchun's face. He was so frightened that Yingchun's little face turned around because he felt guilty after hearing about his sister-in-law's glorious deeds. White.
Hehe, so cute
Yingchun's timid appearance on the verge of shrinking into a ball successfully aroused Li Wan's interest, so the paws rubbing Yingchun's face changed from one to two.
"Well"
"Oh, okay, okay, it's getting late. Daiyu Xiangyun and the others should be here too. Let's go to Yingchun and go play with your little sisters." At the critical moment, your brother must be reliable and see Yingchun. His little face was about to be rubbed by his mother-in-law, and his eyes turned red. Jia Hui fended off Li Wan's hands with both hands and successfully rescued Yingchun.
"Here, take this. This is just the biggest one. I guess the one with the densest mesh should also be the densest one." Jia Hui lifted up the dozen or so small wooden boxes he had been carrying in his hands and looked at the marks on them. , handed one of the small boxes to Yingchun, and became intoxicated by Yingchun's sweet "Thank you, brother".
Hehehe, my sister is so cute
"Hey, wake up, wake up quickly, the saliva is going to stay!"
"Ah, what?" Jia Hui, who was awakened, quickly took out the handkerchief from his arms and was about to wipe it on his mouth, but found that Li Wan was looking at him with a narrow smile.
"Okay, now that you have become more capable, you dare to tease me!" Jia Hui was furious and stretched out his hands to do the trick, but Li Wan, who was well prepared, cleverly dodged it.
The couple, who grew up together as childhood sweethearts, chased me and played around in the yard for a while, as if they were teenagers again.
. . . . . .
"I won, I won, hurry up, Yun'er, I'm willing to admit defeat, hurry up and call my sister!" Seeing that the needle she threw into the basin was a coincidence, Daiyu happily hugged the pouting Xiangyun, and in her Her ears kept telling her to admit defeat and call her sister.
At this time, Xiangyun only felt that this person was very noisy
A needle tests a skill.
This project is a variation of the Chinese Valentine's Day custom of needlework and begging for skills. It originates from needlework but is different from needlework. It is a popular Chinese Valentine's Day custom.
The so-called test of skill is to prepare a basin on the day before Chinese Valentine's Day, place it in the patio, and pour "Yuanyang water" into it, that is, mix the water taken during the day and the water taken at night.
However, most people just mix river water and well water and pour it into the basin. Only people like high-ranking officials, wealthy businessmen and squires have the ability to do this in an original way.
The basin and water should be left in the open air overnight, and then exposed to the sun during the day on the next day, the seventh day of July. You can "test the trick" at noon or afternoon.
After the water in the basin was exposed to sunlight for half a day, the flour remaining in the basin began to ferment and stick, and a thin film formed on the water surface. So I took a sewing needle and gently placed it flat on the water surface.
The needle will not sink, and a needle shadow will appear under the water. If the needle shadow is a straight line, it means that the "begging for skill" has failed. If the needle shadow forms various shapes, some are curved, or thick at one end, thin at the other, or other Graphics are "quick".
Somehow, even though the needles placed by the two of them were only two inches apart, the pattern created by Daiyu's needles was more complicated than that of Xiangyun.
"It doesn't count, it doesn't count. I acted abnormally just now and didn't throw it well! I want to throw it again!" After saying that, Xiangyun reached into the basin to take out his needle, but unexpectedly a delicate hand caught it. Her slender wrist was blocked, preventing her from moving forward. There was only three inches between the tip of her finger and the needle, but under the tight grip of this slender but powerful hand, it was as if there was a Milky Way across it.
"This is not possible. One person only has one chance. We have already agreed! I am willing to admit defeat!" Seeing that Xiangyun was trying to cheat, could Daiyu repay it after hearing this? He hurried forward and grabbed Xiangyun's wrist. With a flick, Xiangyun was thrown onto the couch. He looked at him with a blank expression. He was so slender and thin that it seemed like he could be blown down by a gust of wind, but in fact he could. The strange girl who easily pushed herself onto the couch
Indeed, I don’t even dare to show off my temper!
What if I lose my temper and make Sister Lin unhappy? What should I do if Sister Lin punches me in the face?
I'm afraid the Chinese Valentine's Day every year is the anniversary of my death, Miss Shi, right?
This is just a title, isn't it? call!
"Sister Linlin."
"Hey, sister Yun'er." After hearing that Shi Xiangyun finally changed her words, Daiyu laughed happily, stretched out her hand to help Xiangyun up, and patted Xiangyun's clothes that were a little messy when she was turned over on the couch. Then I helped her tidy up her slightly displaced head and face.
Around the basin, Wang Xifeng and several sisters from the Shi family were frightened by Lin Daiyu's unintentional tricks. Their faces were a little stiff with fright.
This, Sister Lin, ah no, Miss Lin won’t get violent and hurt someone, right?
"Hey, Brother Hui, what did my niece grow up on? Why is she so strong?" Hearing the noise from the girl, Shi Nai, who was afraid of something happening, quickly looked over and saw Dai Dai with his own eyes. The scene where Jade overthrows Shi Xiangyun.
"Ah, just eat normally. But I did teach Daiyu some archery skills." Jia Hui, who was talking to Wang Ziteng, heard his cousin ask him, thought for a while and replied.
"No, it's archery. Daiyu has a daughter at this age. She should be using a small soft bow now, right? Isn't this thing just barely able to hit the target?" Shi Nai didn't believe it.
"Yes, Taiwei, how could the little soft bow allow Daiyu's niece to develop such strength?" Wang Ziteng, who was next to him, had just caught a glimpse of the scene where Daiyu overturned Xiangyun just now.
"That's natural. That kind of soft bow is a toy for children's enlightenment. It's good if it can make the arrow hit the target, but..." Jia Hui nodded to express his agreement with the two people's ideas, but then looked at Shi Nai and said in a different tone Change, "Didn't Xiangyun tell you to my cousin a few days ago? Daiyu can already use her hands and feet to shoot a stone bow."
"What? A stone bow? Darling." Shi Nai, who was originally a little surprised by Daiyu's strange power, was really shocked this time.
A one-stone bow, even those guard soldiers may not be able to draw a one-stone bow!
Although she uses both hands and feet, Daiyu is only seven or eight years old now!
"Lin Tanhua and cousin Min really gave birth to a good daughter." After organizing for a long time, he couldn't find the right words to describe it. In the end, Shi Nai could only praise Lin Ruhai and Jia Min.
"Oh, I asked you to study hard but you didn't. You said you had to work hard to earn a title by yourself. It doesn't matter whether you study or not. It's enough that you can write military orders yourself. Now, you won't even praise me if you praise me! "Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding looked at his second brother Shi Nai with contempt.
"Hey, back then, when my eldest brother wanted to inherit the title and interact with noble relatives, he naturally had to learn these things. But if we didn't have to work hard for our own futures, then I would definitely have to practice more martial arts. How could I have time to learn this? Do you think so?" Shi Nai looked at Shi Ding with dissatisfaction.
"No, I have a reputation as a scholar, don't confuse me with a blind person like you!"
"You boy"
Shi Nai, who couldn't stand up to Shi Ding, became so angry that he threw himself on Shi Ding and started to fight with him.
Jia Hui also turned around and started watching the fun.
The two are brothers, and today is also a holiday. They both have a sense of proportion in their hearts. The two of them were just having fun, but they didn't even get slapped in the face!
"Lieutenant, Taiwei?" Just as Jia Hui was looking at him with enthusiasm, Wang Ziteng came to Jia Hui's side again.
"Uncle Shi, the affairs of the Shangzhi Qinjun are really not under my control. You have also stayed in the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army. You should also know that the power of appointing and dismissing the Shangzhiqinjun is held by the emperor, right? If you If you really want to join the Zhiqin Army, then you should take the exam in two days." Jia Hui's expression changed. Not even a quarter of an hour after Wang Ziteng entered his home today, he began to gather around him to inquire about the Zhiqin Army. Even getting worse, he wanted to directly recruit him into the direct army.
Oh, if it weren't for the fact that today was a holiday and he was afraid of disturbing the interest of his younger sisters, he would have invited the prince out long ago!
Sigh... The date for the results of the interview is getting closer and closer, and now I can't concentrate on anything...
(End of chapter)
