Mosquitoes are buzzing. Autumn mosquitoes bite the most severely. If you don't catch it, you won't be able to sleep tonight.
Hu Shanwei got up to catch mosquitoes. He lit an oil lamp and covered it with a lampshade that had an opening on the side that looked like a swan's neck. Mosquitoes, like moths, liked to fly to warm places.
Hu Shanwei held up a lamp and waited for a mosquito. After a while, a mosquito really flew over. Hu Shanwei held the lamp closer and shone it. The heat from the burning oil lamp sucked the mosquito into the lamp.
The difference between humans and other life forms is that humans can control their instincts and desires, just like this mosquito, which is instinctively attracted to the light and then loses its life.
Hu Shanwei used this to warn himself to control himself and not indulge in desires, so as not to be dragged into a place of no return. Even if it was a dream, he had to restrain himself. The pillow that appeared out of thin air last night was really too dangerous.
The next day, Mu Chun came to Xiaoling early to help her feed the deer. Unfortunately, he was not able to control the deer skillfully, resulting in another patch of flowers being trampled by the deer, which was exactly what he wanted.
Mu Chunle went to the flower market and bought the corresponding flowers for replanting. He wanted to try the same trick again and touch Sister Shanwei's fingers in the soil, but this time Hu Shanwei cruelly refused, "You caused this trouble yourself, go and deal with it yourself, I don't care about you anymore."
If it happened again like last night, Hu Shanwei was worried that he would not be able to resist Mu Chun's temptation and might break his rules, so his expression was indifferent.
Mu Chun was stunned: Why is Sister Shanwei so hot and cold
Mu Chun chased after her and grabbed her sleeve, "You are unhappy, what did I do wrong?"
It's not that you are wrong, it's that I have evil thoughts about you. Hu Shanwei couldn't say the truth, "I am busy making a grass nest for the new green peacock today, so I don't have time to help you plant flowers."
"That's easy." Mu Chun called Shi Qianhu, Chen Xuan and other subordinates, "I'll leave the car decoration to you. I have other things to do."
After arranging this, Mu Chun ran to the pond to find Hu Shanwei and helped her build two straw huts, saying: "I have come a long way to give wives to these two male peacocks, and by the way, I have given them a wedding room. I wish them happiness and hope they will lay precious eggs soon."
Hu Shanwei couldn't help laughing.
Facing the cunning, unscrupulous, and passionate Mu Chun, Hu Shanwei's defense line that he had built with great difficulty last night suddenly collapsed again: I was just daydreaming and dreaming - dreaming is not illegal, right? How can I take dreams seriously
Seeing her smile, Mu Chun became more diligent. When he caught a glimpse of the red mark on her neck, it was like a firecracker going off.
Last night, Mu Chun had an indescribable dream. He dreamed that Hu Shanwei ran away at night holding a pillow, and she met him in the hydrangea bushes. They were not even wearing shoes, and their snow socks rubbed against the moss. He and she slept on the grass and flowers, tightly leaning on each other, and slowly and passionately. The little dimple at the collarbone finally drank to its heart's content and quenched its thirst. It was an absurd night.
I came here early today, but I saw the rouge marks on Hu Shan's neck, as if a dream reappeared: the scattered hair on the pillow, the slippery moss on the socks...
Hu Shanwei felt that Mu Chun's gaze was getting more and more presumptuous, and it fell on her collar. She looked down and saw half a mosquito bite on her neck. She adjusted her collar to cover the indecent red mark, "Qiu, it was a mosquito bite. What are you looking at? Hurry up and work."
Muchun thought that my soul must have been possessed by Qiu Mosquito last night.
The two huts were built, and Mu Chun was very satisfied with his craftsmanship. "This is the Xiaoling Mausoleum, otherwise I would have pasted a wedding character on it."
At dusk, the two newly arrived green peacock brides were washing their feathers in the pond. Hu Shanwei used the sound of his flute to call the green peacock groom who had been wandering around all day.
Soon, the grooms with halos on their feathers flew back in pairs. As the sacred birds of the Xiaoling Mausoleum, they were provided with food, lodging and assigned wives, and their treatment was very good.
Hu Shanwei and Muchun were looking forward to seeing how the four green peacocks would pair up, and they projected their suppressed emotions onto the animals.
Unexpectedly, when the grooms saw two more of their kind in their territory, they no longer felt happy about their marriage. Instead, they became alert and chirped warnings to their new brides. The feathers on their buttocks opened up frequently and stood up, indicating that they were in a fighting state.
The two female peacocks traveled thousands of miles to get here and established a deep friendship along the way. When they saw each other provoking them, they huddled together and vowed to fight for this excellent territory.
The groom attacked the bride first, stretching his neck and pecking at her, starting domestic violence.
Hu Shanwei and Mu Chun had planned everything, but they had never expected this outcome. They said in unison, "Let go of your wife!"
Mu Chun waved a bamboo pole to separate the fighting peacocks, but unfortunately all four peacocks were injured to varying degrees, and their bright feathers were pecked out and scattered in the lotus pond.
The green peacocks are taking practical actions to resist feudal arranged marriages.
Hu Shanwei was at a loss as to what to do but to move the bride and a straw hut to a small pond in the north to prevent them from continuing to fight. If they got sick from the fighting, Emperor Hongwu would probably have to chop off her head and offer it to the gods on the anniversary of Empress Xiaoci's death.
Muchun took off his shirt and jumped into the pond in the south wearing only his pants to salvage peacock feathers one by one, clean up the battlefield, and "destroy all traces" to avoid being noticed.
While picking up the feathers, he lectured the groom: "A man hitting a woman, do you have any shame? Ah? I came all the way here to choose a wife for you, but you don't know how to cherish her. You chased her away. Do you two plan to be bachelors for the rest of your lives?"
"I'm telling you, there are only these two green peacocks in the entire capital. Why are you so picky? Do you really think you are a phoenix? Ugh!"
Mu Chun spat out the pond water and looked under the basin-sized lotus leaves to see if there were any peacock feathers. "Don't like her? No feelings? That's not a big deal. Feelings can develop slowly. Beating someone just because you don't like them? That's not a reason. It's a purely moral issue. You two bastards, if the emperor wasn't anxious to lay his eggs, I would have stewed you bastards who beat your wife in a pot..."
After Hu Shanwei settled the injured, frightened and helpless bride, he returned to the south, just in time to see Mu Chun scolding the two grooms so much that they were ashamed (scared) and hid in the reeds and refused to come out.
Seeing Hu Shanwei coming, Mu Chun floated out of the water, shirtless, with his hair floating like water plants, looking enchanting and seductive, like a koi in the pond that has turned into a spirit.
Hu Shanwei turned around and said, "The Xiaoling Mausoleum is a quiet place. How can you let your hair be disheveled and your clothes be untidy? Put on your clothes quickly."
Hu Shanwei tried his best to erase the naked carp spirit from his mind, but that night the carp spirit still appeared in his dream forcefully.
The duckweed in the pond cannot cover the lotus flowers in full bloom in the autumn light. Fishes play on the lotus leaves in the east, fishes play on the lotus leaves in the west, fishes play on the lotus leaves in the south, fishes play on the lotus leaves in the north. The carp spirits play with the lotus flowers, making them sway violently. The red clothes fall off and the golden stamens shatter. The fragrant green petals on the branches of the acacia are scattered in the autumn waves.
Have a good night.
When I woke up the next day, there was light rain and strong wind outside the window, and the sound of rain hitting the banana leaves was audible.
Haitang just came back wearing a bamboo hat and a straw raincoat. "I've already fed the deer. I saw you were sleeping soundly on a rainy day, so I didn't wake you up. This morning, Lord Mu sent two baskets of hot buns to go with the porridge. They're still warm in the pot. Do you want to take them out or lie down for a while? It's really autumn when the rain comes. Even I want to take a nap."
"I'll get up now." Hu Shanwei got up and put on his clothes. He couldn't sleep any more. If he slept any more, the absurd and beautiful dream would probably continue. After all, Tang Seng couldn't resist the deep love of the Queen of the Kingdom of Women and indulged his seven emotions and six desires. Mandarin ducks live together and butterflies fly together. The spring scenery in the pond is intoxicating. What royal power and wealth, what precepts and rules, none of them exist.
Breaking the precepts in a dream does not count as breaking them.
Hu Shanwei comforted herself and calmed down. After washing up, she sat in front of the dressing table. Haitang combed her hair. "You look good today, rosy. You don't even need rouge."
Hu Shanwei didn't dare to face the bright-eyed self in the mirror. "I slept so comfortably on a rainy day, so I naturally felt better."
Go ahead and pretend. I’ll see how long you can keep pretending.
Haitang pursed her lips tightly, trying not to laugh. She remembered that it rained last night. She was worried that Hu Shanwei in the next room would not close the window to keep cool at night, so the rain would come in. So she got up to help her close the window.
Neither the lightning nor the thunder could wake up the person in the bed. Haitang heard her mumbling Muchun's name in her sleep, just like the mumbling she had when she had a high fever and was stabbed by the silkworm mother that year.
Hu Shanwei was thinking about the female green peacock that had just moved here, so after dinner he went to the pond with an umbrella. From afar he watched Mu Chun, wearing a bamboo hat, grabbing the male green peacocks on his left and right to "apologize".
Thinking of the erotic dream he had last night, Hu Shanwei was unable to face Mu Chun for a moment, so he turned around and wanted to leave.
After taking two steps, I stopped. In the end, I couldn't bear to leave and couldn't help wanting to see him. Reason and emotion were fighting, and reason was losing step by step.
Mu Chun was nagging at the entrance of the thatched cottage: "Two... girls, they know they are wrong and have come to apologize. Please forgive them. If you don't forgive them, you can't get married; if you don't get married, they can't lay eggs; if they don't lay eggs, there will be no little peacocks; if there are no little peacocks, you will have to trouble Madam Mingde to send a pair of new peacocks to the capital, which is a waste of money and labor, don't you think?"
When the two female green peacocks smelled the noise made by the rival pair yesterday, they felt something was wrong and huddled in the grass nest, refusing to come out and unable to answer Muchun's questions.
Muchun said: "If you don't object, you accept the apology."
Mu Chun let go, hoping that the peacocks would make peace after a fight in front of the bed. However, he underestimated the scumbag peacock in his hand. He had no intention of apologizing at all. Once he was freed, he immediately fluttered his wings and flew away.
The pair of peacocks were bulky and could not fly high or far. They flew and stopped, and soon returned to their nest. They cleaned the water droplets off each other's feathers, showing their deep brotherly love and ignoring the female peacock.
"It's no use bowing your head to apologize." Hu Shanwei said: "Beasts also have their own tempers. Don't be impatient."
Mu Chun said flatteringly: "You know these beasts very well, just like you know me."
Hu Shanwei: Fortunately, the real Muchun is different from the Muchun in my dream. The Muchun in my dream would not say such stupid things.
Because they left a bad impression on each other when they first met, the four green phoenixes in the Xiaoling Mausoleum eventually formed pairs in a special form: one pair of lilies and one pair of geese.
Everyone should guard their own pond, not invade or interfere with each other, and live in peace.
"Don't worry." Mu Chun comforted Hu Shanwei, "I heard from Madam Mingde that green peacocks go into heat in the spring and lay eggs in early summer. By then, we won't need them to match up, they will pair up on their own."
Hu Shanwei felt guilty, and when he heard this, his face turned red and he left in anger.
Mu Chun was left standing there. Recently, Sister Shanwei's attitude towards him became more and more strange. She was like ice and fire, hot and cold, and her attitude changed as fast as turning the pages of a book. Was what he said just now wrong? No.
On the tenth day of the eighth month in the sixteenth year of Hongwu, Empress Xiaoci held a small funeral (the first anniversary of her death).
On that day, the Hongwu Emperor wore plain clothes and a black rhinoceros belt, held a memorial ceremony in the early morning, suspended court for three days, and banned music and slaughter in the capital for three days. The Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace and the princes in the capital first went to the Xiaoling Mausoleum to pay homage to his stepmother.
On that day, all civil and military officials wore plain clothes and black horn belts and performed the ceremony of consolation. The women of the capital city wore plain clothes and entered the palace to perform the ceremony of offering incense.
The next day, Emperor Hongwu personally visited the Xiaoling Mausoleum. Concubine Guo Ning, Concubine Guo Hui, Concubine Da Ding and other concubines in the harem all accompanied him here, burned incense at the tablet of Empress Xiaoci, and their cries shook the sky.
Emperor Hongwu was still thinking about holding the phoenix eggs, so he went to the pond to see the green phoenix and asked, "Why are there only one pair?"
Emperor Hongwu could not tell the difference between male and female, and thought that the insects he caught and ate in the pond were a male and a female, but in fact they were still the pair of male phoenixes.
Hu Shanwei said: "The other pair flew to Sun Quan's tomb early in the morning."
Zhongshan is a Feng Shui treasure land, and many celebrities are buried here. Emperor Hongwu took a fancy to this place and built a mausoleum for himself and Empress Xiaoci. In order to show respect for Sun Quan, the great ruler of the Three Kingdoms, he specially changed the Sacred Way of Xiaoling (the road for carrying the coffin into the tomb) into a curved road, breaking the tradition. He did not dig up Sun Quan's tomb to make way for himself, but protected it well.
In the past, all the monarchs’ shrines were straight, but Emperor Hongwu was not bound by any rules. Heroes admire heroes, and for this reason alone, Emperor Hongwu was an admirable monarch.
Emperor Hongwu took a look and found something wrong. He pointed at the green peacock's feathers and asked, "Why are the feathers not as lush as before?"
It was because of a fight. Hu Shanwei didn't dare to tell the truth, "In autumn, the phoenix begins to shed its feathers and prepare for winter, so its feathers are not as beautiful as before."
Mu Chun touched his head guiltily, "My hair also fell out a lot in autumn and winter. I didn't expect Fenghuang to be the same."
Ji Gang nodded and agreed sincerely, "What a coincidence, I am the same. I combed my hair this morning and it fell all over the floor."
Emperor Hongwu pointed at the two of them and said, "You two should take good care of yourselves. You are so young, don't become bald before you get married and have children."
The two of them hurriedly said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern."
After a short rest at noon, Concubine Guo Ning indeed came to Hu Shanwei's residence.
Hu Shanwei looked flattered and bowed quickly, "This house is simple, why did your Majesty come here?"
Concubine Guo Ning walked over quickly and held her hand. "No need to be polite. You have been guarding the Xiaoling Mausoleum, raising deer and feeding phoenixes, cleaning the shrines, and your hands holding a pen have become rough from being busy. This is such a pure and filial act that I admire you very much. I am here to invite you back to the palace."
The author has something to say: White moonlight and white rice grains. Red roses and mosquito blood.
I will send out 100 red packets tonight to comfort all the little angels who have to go to work tomorrow.
There is also a 100-point red envelope prize question: Hu Shanwei's mosquito-sucking lamp uses the siphon principle to kill mosquitoes. This kind of lamp is used to illuminate mosquitoes in ancient novels, and it does not really "illuminate". So the question is, which of the following famous unearthed lamps does not use the siphon principle
Haihunhou Bronze Goose and Fish Lamp
Changxin Palace Lantern by Dou Guan, Wife of Liu Sheng, Prince of Zhongshan
The treasure of the Nanjing Museum: the Eastern Han Dynasty silver-inlaid bronze bull lamp
Vermillion Bird Lantern at the Tomb of Liu Sheng, King of Zhongshan