The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

The seventh day of July is a traditional festival that has been passed down since ancient times. It is called Qixi Festival and Qiqiao Festival. In Yunyan era, it was Chinese Valentine's Day and it was generally celebrated by young men and women.

But in the Northern Song Dynasty, this was a grand festival for the whole people carnival, men, women and children will participate, so Yun Yanhui would not equate it with modern Qixi Festival.

It was on the seventh day of July, but the festive atmosphere on the street was very strong three to five days earlier. The children were holding lotus plants, lotus leaves or unopened lotus in their hands.

On the night of the seventh day of July, "begging for cleverness" was everywhere. Women had various activities, such as piercing needles by looking at the moon and so on, and it was a seven-hole needle. Women make all kinds of delicate objects, boys write poems, one begging is skillful, and the other is literary talent.

Zheng Ping took Shuangyi and Xiaobao to participate in the activities organized by the neighbors in the nearby old residence. Yun Yan returned. He rejected Zhao Yunchu a few days ago. Today there are other things to do, and he told Zheng Ping a long time ago. It's fake.

Early in the day, Yun Yan went back to the monk's place.

Today, he has a business with these brothers to do together.

Earlier, Yun Yan returned to plan to make money, so he put his idea on the Qixi Festival, a national carnival festival.

On the night of the Qixi Festival, the whole Bianliang will be extremely lively. The rich and wealthy Jiecailou is magnificent, but what is even more eye-catching is the most beautiful scenery in Bianliang, that is, the various brothel and prostitutes in the city.

On this day, the place that Bianliang people call Yuanjie will display all kinds of exquisite and luxurious festive items. Chiguoguo's show off wealth, of course, may also be an alternative to attract customers.

The big houses are inside the high walls, and ordinary people can't see them, but everyone in the courtyard can see them. Not only can they see exquisite objects, but they can also see beauties.

In addition to the neighborhood of Yuan Street, there are also very lively surroundings around Washe.

Speaking of the important point, among these festive items, the most popular one is the "mo drinking music", which is a clay doll, usually made of a boy holding a lotus leaf, a lotus or an unopened lotus. Looks like.

During the Chinese Valentine's Day, the children holding lotus leaves and other things are actually imitating the music, which can be counted as ancient cosplay.

In previous years, there were many Mohele sold on the market during the Qixi Festival in Bianliang, and many of them were expensive and sold for several thousand dollars. Although it is a mud doll with a wooden base, people can decorate it with expensive items such as gold, silver, jewellery, ivory, jade, and so on, which is very popular.

What Yun Yanhui cooperated with the monks of the lay talkers was just to sell things and drink for fun.

To say that during the Qixi Festival, the streets are almost everywhere selling grinds and drinks, but Yun Yanhui happens to be doing this kind of mass business. There is no gold and silver decorations. He still wants to sell at high prices. Of course, it is because he has a lore. Skill!

-The image of Mo He Le comes from Buddhist scriptures. Ya is the son of Shakyamuni, one of the eight tribes of the Heavenly Dragon. Why did you pull a lotus or lotus in your hand? Because this represents auspiciousness, holiness and so on in Buddhism!

Yun Yanhui couldn't believe it. Why didn't the monks in the Daxiangguo Temple come to do the business of Moxiele? Is there a better way to sell this thing than a monk?

Even if the streets are full of fun, but the streets all over the streets are not more "qualified" than the ones we sell.

Yun Yanhui said hello to the abbot in advance, and he and the monks pooled the money to make a group of banquets, put them in the temple, and received chanting and incense under the Buddha's eyelids. More importantly, those who came to worship the Buddha. It can also be seen, which is equivalent to advertising in advance.

Of course, Yun Yan didn’t respond too much to everyone’s stupidity. When he ordered Mo Drink Le, he did not ask the craftsman to make lotus and other things, but bought a batch of lotus bowls in the temple. Today, they It is to insert the lotus leaves of the bowl lotus into the hands of Mo Drinking Le.

In fact, he also saw a bowl of lotus in the monastery, and made a decision to sell it on the Qixi Festival.

At this time, the bowl lotus was only found in Suzhou, and it was only seen in wealthy families. It was a rare thing in Bianliang. These in Daxiangguo Temple were also cultivated by the monks who managed the flower garden occasionally.

-In the temple, a lot of flowers are needed to enshrine Buddha statues and hold celebrations, so it has its own super-large flower garden, which will attract many flower viewers.

Usually when people see the bowl lotus, they may at most think it is very elegant and cute, but its size is very suitable for Moyule. The effect of combining two swords.

In short, the lotus leaves of this bowl of lotus can be said to be the finishing touch. This is why Yun Yan returned generously to put Mo Drink Le in the Buddhist temple as an advertisement, and was not afraid of plagiarism after other monasteries knew about it.

Because there are Buddhist temples everywhere, even if Daxiangguo Temple is a royal temple, this point will not change, but the bowl lotus is unique, and there is only enough here!

Not to mention, there is not much money to buy a bowl of lotus, it is definitely the lowest price. Yunyan Huidu talked to the monks in the flower garden. This bowl of lotus leaves will not be fresh for many days. If rich people want to keep this unique after buying it back, they must go to Daxiangguo Temple to buy a bowl of lotus... This is another one. The business may even directly drive the popularity of bowl lotus cultivation in Bianliang.

Of course, it can almost be concluded that the deal they are doing is a one-off business, and they can only do it once this year, but it doesn't matter.

When setting prices, Yun Yanhui also directly set the price of Mo Hele with lotus leaves at a consistent price, and Mo Hele with lotus leaves added five hundred words, because the number of lotus flowers is smaller. This made other monks uneasy, and they were a little afraid that they would not be able to sell them.

"What you make is the money of the rich. Consistency is nothing to them. Besides, is the incense of Daxiangguo Temple still very valuable?" Yun Yanhui was very calm, and he still felt that the price was low. Well, if it's not that they don't have enough capital, they can buy more luxurious drinks, and the price will double.

The monks rubbed their hands and were very excited. If all this batch of Mo Drinks were sold tonight, each of them would have made a lot of money. Brother Yan is still clever, and unexpectedly came up with such a good way to take everyone to send another sum.

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The sky is getting darker, and the carnival of Qiqiao Festival is about to begin. This night, Tokyo is bound to be bustling with three shifts and five shifts.

The monks were divided into several pairs, and they would go to some of the most prosperous places in Bianliang, and some would go directly to the prostitution building and sell them to them. Today, we have been divided into groups. Some monks perform in the day and some perform in the evening. Those in the night shift will help plant the lotus in the daytime, and the night shift will sell the mojito. The cost will be paid out, and the income will be divided equally in the end.

A group of Yunyanhui and Huichong went outside the Dongsong Gate. There is also a washhouse here. These days, because monks are opening up markets, many washhouses and Yunyanhui have dealt with, including here.

Along the way, you can see that in addition to selling mills and drinks, there are also various objects, such as yellow wax painted mandarin ducks, fish, turtles and other small animals. This is called floating on the water. There are also flowers and melons carved into various patterns, sweet seasonal fruit food "Smiley". If you buy a pound, you will also get a pair of little men in armor, called General Fruit Food. Not to mention the most famous double-headed lotus in Beijing, this is artificially made, very real and delicate.

Yun Yan replied with emotion, this is almost the same as the modern Chinese New Year, and the children wear new clothes specially.

Yun Yanhui and Hui Chong greeted Washe early, and they arranged everything for fun, and immediately attracted a lot of people to watch.

The chubby Mo Drinking Le boy stands on the painted hollow carved wooden seat, holding a piece of lotus leaf or lotus the size of a child's palm in his hand, and it is not fake, it is a real lotus leaf/flower, but it’s shrunk. How many times, it only matches the size of Mo Drinking, it's so cute!

I asked the monk again, it turned out that he had been enshrined in front of the Buddha in Daxiangguo Temple and received incense.

Since it was enshrined in front of the Buddha, it was so cute and exquisite, and there were a few affordable ones to buy on the spot. Even if I can't afford it, I'm willing to take the child to look around for a while.

There is a large flow of people. Even if the price is set high, there are many people who buy it. Hui Chong happily collects money as a monk. It is expected that the sale will be sold out tonight and there will be time to play elsewhere.

They didn’t put much effort on this. Yun Yan went back to do all the pre-orders. They might have been busy all day, but the profits were quite good. How can Hui Chong not be pleased? .

Yun Yan sat back at the stall, because the business was so good that he didn't even need to shout, and Hui Chong didn't ask him to work. He was like a mascot. He also had a lotus leaf in his hand, which Hui Chong had just bought for him. It was said that the children on the street held it in his hands. This is a custom. If you don’t take a piece of it, people think how abused the family is. .

Yun Yan put the lotus leaf on his head and looked up at the juggling in the distance. Suddenly a familiar figure appeared in front of him. Upon closer inspection, it was Zhao Yunchu who was pulling the crowd and squeezing over, with a person still in his hand.

Zhao Yunchu squeezed from the crowd and reached the front of Yunyan's back to their stall. The person being pulled by him also staggered, stood firm and held his hat, but one leg was dragged.

This person was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and his face was somewhat similar to that of Zhao Yunchu. Yun Yan recalled that he had seen him in the temple once or twice. He should be Zhao Yunchu’s brother, but Zhao Yunchu is the youngest son. There are many older brothers. He doesn’t. I remember which one it was.

"Why are you here?" Yun Yan asked back, putting the lotus leaf down.

"I met the brothers in the monastery at Zhuquemen. They told me that you were here, and my brother took me to find you." Zhao Yunchu still held a box in his hand, and said disappointedly, "I wanted to send a mill. Drink for you..."

As a result, I saw that they were selling mojo.

Yun Yan couldn't help but laugh when he turned back.

Then he saw Zhao Yunchu's brother next to him and said with a sullen look: "What is it that I brought you here? You forcibly dragged me here, okay? Your brother broke my leg, and you are still doing this to me! "

Just as the leg was wrong, it turned out to be broken, Yun Yan replied.

But Hui Chong couldn't help it anymore. He also knew Zhao Yunchu's brother, "Why did you break your leg?"

Zhao Yunchu's brother said faintly: "Oh, don't mention it, Dad caught me working as a book boy in the study, and interrupted my leg. After several dozen days of raising it, I just got off the ground."

Yun Yan replied: "..."

Hui Chong took a slow step and covered Yun Yan's ears, but Zhao Yunchu's ears were not covered. Fortunately, he was also ignorant. Hui Chong said in a speechless voice, "Can you not pay attention to the crowd? "

Yun Yan slowly pushed Hui Chong's hand away, his face was indifferent, as if he didn't understand anything. In fact, he was drunk in his heart, and from this, he suddenly remembered which brother Zhao Yunchu was.

Zhao Yundi, well-known inside Daxiangguo Temple, not only has the habit of breaking sleeves, but also always can't control his mouth. He was once caught by the abbot for molesting the little monk in Daxiangguo Temple, which made the princess feel embarrassed and chased out three streets...

In a sense, he is also a tough warrior, no matter how many times his leg is broken, he does not change his style.