Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 12 Pegasus Chasing the River Lantern

Chen Xianglai nodded in astonishment, she knew that the place where she was now was called Beiliao, but it was not a real country, but the fiefdom of the king of Beiliao.

At that time, the king of Northern Liao followed the emperor of Liao to conquer the country and made great military exploits. The emperor of Liao split the soil and sealed the king, and granted the northern territory to the king of Northern Liao.Later, through the efforts of two generations of Liao kings, the land was expanded to the north, making the territory of the Northern Liao almost equal to that of the Southern Liao.

The next two generations of Liao emperors were weak and incompetent, unable to suppress the strong rise of the Northern Liao Dynasty, so that the current situation of one country with two points was formed.

Chen Xiang has a rough idea of ​​these things from hearsay, but she clearly knows that this Liao Kingdom is not the Liao Kingdom in Chinese history.

And the reason why she was stunned was not because she was worried about the stalemate of Nanbei Liao, on the contrary, she was happy.

Through these days of observation, she found that the climate here is the same as the place where she used to live. The reason why rice cannot be grown in Beiliao is because the planting technology is backward, but she is a modern person with advanced agricultural technology. In this year, the accumulated temperature exceeds 2000 It is easy to successfully grow a season of rice in a place with [-] degrees Celsius.

It seems that I am going to make a fortune!

Thinking of this, Chen Xianglai couldn't help snickering.

Xianglai Niang looked at her daughter in surprise, and said, "Xiang'er, what's wrong with you, why are you smiling so strangely?"

Chen Xianglai was worried that his mother would be frightened, so he quickly put away his strange smile and said, "Mother, in this case, let's plant rice in the field behind the house?"

Xianglai Niang was even more surprised, and said: "Xiang'er, what are you talking about, rice can't be grown in the southernmost part of Beiliao, what can we do here?"

Xianglai said: "It's okay, mother, I will do it if I say so. I can shorten the growth cycle of rice...Mother, you and second aunt can help me dig the ridges of the fields. They are all ready this year, so you can save effort tomorrow."

Xiang Lai Niang has never heard of such a fresh term of growth cycle, but she can understand the literal meaning, but she feels more and more uneasy in her heart, saying: "Xiang'er, what's wrong with you? Why do you do things that your mother doesn't know about? "

Xianglai said mysteriously: "Mother, don't worry, I dreamed of a fairy a few days ago, and he taught me what I do!"

She knew that her mother might not be able to believe these words, but she really had no other explanation, and she didn't want to hold back her talents and live a hard life without earning money.Besides, based on her understanding of Xiang Lai Niang these days, she knows that she will never tell others about her huge changes, so that people will regard herself as some kind of demon and burn her on fire.

The facts were as she believed, Xianglai Niang stared at her blankly for a long time, and finally said: "Well, since Xiang'er is sure, let's plant it, mother believes you."

Xianglai's mother promised her daughter to plant rice and would help. The two mothers did what they said, went out of the house to the warehouse to find a shovel and a pick, and went to the field behind the house to start digging the ridges.

The second aunt who was picking vegetables in the garden with Tianlai came out and asked, "Sister, Xianglai, what are you two digging?"

Xianglai didn't want to let everyone know about it, so she replied, "It's okay, Second Aunt, we just dig ditches to release water from the fields."

The second aunt really believed it, so she brought a shovel and came out to help.

In this way, the family of four began to work in this field.

The initial work of building a rice field is very heavy, and the field has to be plowed and raked after the ridges are piled up. In this day and age, everything depends on manpower, and the four members of Xianglai's family are weaker than each other. Chen Xianglai reckoned that this might not work The work is enough for the four of us to stay busy until the end of autumn.

It was already midsummer when she came, and it was already early autumn after the tossing and dividing the house and digging the ridges for a few days.

The calendar used here is the same as the lunar calendar in the previous life, and it passed the office in a blink of an eye.

Listening to her mother and second aunt talking about life, Chen Xianglai suddenly remembered that it was almost the Ghost Festival.

In my previous life, there was a grand lantern festival on the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, and all kinds of river lanterns were put into the river. I watched them float away along the water, hoping that they could bring a piece of grief to the deceased relatives.

Although releasing river lanterns is a form of paying homage to the souls of the dead, the river lanterns of various colors illuminate the river mightily, and the bustling scene of the crowd has long since diluted the sadness in it, making it a special festival.

Although this world also has the theory of being innocent, but it is nothing more than going to the relatives' screen to pay respects, and there is no such thing as lighting up lights.

Chen Xianglai missed the days of his previous life. On the day of the Ghost Festival, he made three river lanterns with straw and waste cloth, and brought Tianlai to the riverside at night.

During the day, when Xianglai was making it, Tianlai kept asking her sister what she was doing, Xianglai only said that it was for him to play, and now it was finally time for him to play it.

Chen Xianglai squatted beside the surging river, first lit a river lantern and put it into the water, and slowly pushed it forward.

The current on the bank of the river is not too fast, and the river lanterns float forward slowly.

Tianlai looked at the river lanterns flickering in the night wind and said with a smile: "Sister, this is quite fun!"

A bitter smile appeared on Chen Xianglai's face, but he didn't say much, he held up the other two river lanterns and said, "Just put these two points on for fun."

Tianlai didn't know what to say, so he happily lit the two lamps, and then put them into the river with his small hands.

The three river lanterns slowly drifted away one by one, Chen Xianglai looked at the front one and thought to himself: "Presumably at this time, relatives in that world are also setting off river lanterns for me. There is a spirit, let the two lights meet, and send my comfort and blessings to my relatives over there, I hope they will not be sad for my death, and I will live a good life here."

She put this lamp for herself, but she prepared the other two lamps for her predecessor Chen Xianglai and Shen Wanlu who died in vain.No one in this world knows that the real Chen Xianglai is dead, only I mourn her silently in my heart.

Both Chen Xianglai and Shen Wanlu are relatives of Shen Tianlai, so he should be the one to put the river lantern by himself.

She was thinking here, when suddenly she heard Tianlai beside her shout in disappointment: "Sister, my two lamps are sinking!"

Chen Xianglai looked around in search of fame, and sure enough, he saw that the two lamps released by Tianlai were slowly sinking into the water, and only his own lamp was still drifting away with the current.

She was slightly surprised, wondering if this thing is really so effective?According to the folklore in my hometown, the sinking of the river lantern represents the reincarnation of the dead soul, and the dead soul who can float far away on the river lantern is the one who ascended to the fairy world and no longer suffers from the mortal world...

Thinking of this, she smiled wryly again, and said to herself: Although my soul is immortal, is this a fairyland?This mortal suffering is worse than the previous life.

She and Tianlai are here looking at the river lantern with a lot of thoughts, but there are a few people on the north bank of the river.

Several of these people stood respectfully at the back, and the one in front was closest to the river, facing the surging river in melancholy.

(End of this chapter)