Chapter 50 The forty-eighth chapter is full of ears, and the silk is as straight as hair

Yan Wei was stunned, which son did she have an affair with?Young Master Sui?He once said that he wanted to marry himself, but the situation at that time was not possible.Son Cong?It seems a little ambiguous, but when I think of Xiongying, I feel unspeakable discomfort. Even if I was holding back hard before, I wouldn't be so hungry... Thinking of this, I blushed again, and secretly blamed myself: "What? Hungry and unscrupulous... such a girl shouldn't even think about it..." Yan Changchu stared at the expression on Yan Wei's face carefully, as if he was judging what she was thinking.

Yan Wei raised her eyes and saw her father staring at her intently, her face became even redder, and she said coyly, "Father! What are you talking about, how could such a thing..." Yan Changchu let out a long breath, and said: "It's fine if you don't have it... I really regret that I shouldn't have involved you in it. I didn't expect... you would be involved so deeply..." The father and daughter took the Suu country and came to the Jiang country. Yan Wei finally wore men's clothes. She has been wearing men's clothes for a while now, and she just thinks that men's clothes are very convenient for every gesture. Even if she behaves outrageously in the public, a teenager will not make people look sideways.

As soon as you enter the territory of Jiang State, you will feel that it is very different from Yang State.The climate is warm and humid, with more water and fewer mountains, wetlands all over the place, rivers and harbors criss-crossing, ships shuttling like weaving, a variety of delicious aquatic products, and freshness everywhere. Yan Wei looked carefully at the Jiang Guo people, and it was as she had heard before, that the women were smart and the men were weak.Unmarried women all let their hair loose, and the long hair, which I don't know how to maintain, is as flowing as silk and as smooth as a waterfall.On their heads, they all wear a half-moon-shaped hair ornament, which seems to be made of thin bamboo strips as the bone and light silk as the face, huge, gorgeous and light.Married women wear their hair in a high bun on the top of their heads, and wear earrings of various colors on their ears, but most of them are gold, silver and pearls, and few of them are made of jade.

Looking at those men again, Yan Wei was a little puzzled, she turned her head and asked her father, "Didn't it be said that men in the Jiang country grow beards after they get married? But some people seem to be nearly thirty, but they haven't grown beards yet. What's the matter?" thing." Yan Changchu smiled and said: "The customs in Jiang country are different from ours. In Jiang country, when a man is fourteen to sixteen years old, he will leave home to study for ten years, and then return to his house to marry a wife. Therefore, men in Jiang country are usually in their twenties. In our country, girls are sixteen to eighteen, and men sixteen to twenty. They must marry, otherwise they will be taxed heavily."

Yan Wei said: "According to me, Jiang Guo's rules are better. People can get married whenever they like. Why force others to make things difficult for them?" Yan Changchu said: "You don't know, my Yang country is small and the people are poor, natural disasters are frequent, surrounded by powerful countries, we must vigorously multiply the population, so that we can have usable soldiers. Under such laws, it takes Jiang Guo two generations to reproduce. , our country can reproduce for three generations..." Yan Wei lowered her head and thought about it, she always thought it was weird, like a farm raising chickens, ducks and livestock, she felt uncomfortable for a while, but seeing her father's calm expression, she took it for granted, and felt that it was nothing. He opened his mouth and asked again: "But Li Qichen is not young anymore, and he hasn't married a wife yet. His father is still the prime minister!"

Yan Changchu responded in a low voice: "Oh?" He turned to look at his daughter's expression. Yan Wei pretended not to know that her father was looking at her, she just stared at the ground three feet in front of her, without raising her head, and continued on her own, "I heard that his elder brother Li Tengchen is not married either..." Yan Changchu sighed: "That's right, there is no good general in the country, and only Li Tengchen can be a high-ranking officer. Years of wars and the inability to have women in the army must have delayed his life. Then Li Qichen probably did not get married because his seniority was orderly, or Is it also because of Weiwei's duty? It is said that many of his chief servants are over twenty and unmarried."

Yan Wei sighed softly, thinking of Lu Jin again, married, pregnant, so what?Husband left home to join the army, separated for at least three years, and when he came back, the child was already running around.If there is a woman married to Li Tingchen, I am afraid that the day of reunion will be far away, what is the difference from being a widow? This is a big town on the border between Jiang Country and Su Country, quite bustling and lively.Yan Changchu seemed to be very familiar with the road, and led Yan Wei through the streets and alleys, to the door of a house, pushed the door and entered.

This is an empty house, but it is very clean, the stove is spotless, firewood is piled beside the stove, and the brocade mattress on the bed is not damp. Yan Wei blinked and asked, "Father, did you already know this place? Is this the pre-arranged foothold?" Yan Changchu pondered and said: "It was said that there was someone here to respond and report the news..." Yan Wei said: "Maybe it's something temporary and I went out? We might as well wait." Yan Changchu still looked restless, paced back and forth in the room, finally stopped at the door, turned around, and said to Yan Wei: "We have arrived in Jiang Country, let's go buy some clothes and change."

Of course Yan Wei was very happy when she heard that she was going to buy new clothes. Along the way, she saw that Jiang Guo, regardless of whether he was a scholar, a farmer, a businessman or a businessman, wore silk clothes, and even the most common brown clothes had embroidery. She had long been envious.But when he saw his father standing at the door with an uncertain expression on his face, his tall figure blocked the sunlight, and the room was dark, he suddenly felt that the world of adults is so complicated and difficult to understand, even his father seems to hide many secrets that he does not know .At that moment, the excitement suddenly faded, and he only responded in a low voice: "Yes."

Yan Wei thought again of the deerskin short jacket that Tong Shu bought for her. The grassy yellow base was covered with dark brown spots. After wearing it for only two days, it was stained with her own blood at Young Master Heng's place. It's like a dying deer; later it was covered with lice and fleas in the prison; later, it was replaced by the son, and it was never seen again... People often use the metaphor of fighting for power, but this deer is even more Like ordinary and helpless people in the world, tossed and fiddled by the hands of fate, gradually getting old and sick, and finally entrusted to a pile of loess, forgotten by the world, as if it never existed...

After going out, the scorching sun is warm, the sky is clear and blue, and the trees are full of autumn leaves, making people feel better gradually. Turning the corner of the street, I saw a peddler selling sachets, holding a huge bamboo branch. The bamboo branches were full of sachets of various colors. The sachets were set off by green bamboo leaves, which looked like a tree full of flowers. Just listen to the peddler chanting: It sang about the manufacturing process of the sachet. Although the voice was hoarse, like fog, but the tune was mellow and pleasant. Seeing Yan Wei's father and daughter approaching, the peddler hurriedly stopped singing, and greeted, "Come and buy some sachets! The top-quality Jiang Guo embroidery contains all kinds of spices and medicines. Anyone who comes to Jiang Guo will buy them." Take the last few back!" Yan Changchu smiled: "How do you know that we are not from Jiang Guo?" The peddler looked Yan Changchu up and down, then glanced at Yan Wei, and said with a smile, "Your clothes and hairstyles don't look alike, are you from Su country?" Yan Changchu coughed lightly and nodded.The clothes on both father and daughter were bought in Sukuni, and this peddler has very poisonous eyes.It's a good thing that people didn't recognize him as Yang Guoren, but he still had to dress up and make people think he was Jiang Guoren. When the peddler saw Yan Changchu talking to him, he began to persuade him again: "Master, look at this fabric, handwork, and embroidery. They are all top-notch! There are also spices and medicinal materials in it, which can clear the lungs." There are those who are angry, those who avoid evil, those who are fragrant and enlightened, and those who are clear-eyed and clear-minded..." He babbled and took a few sachets from the bamboo branches and stuffed them into the hands of Yan Changchu and Yan Wei. Yan Wei took a closer look at the sachet in her hand. It was made of ivory-coloured silk, inlaid with seven-color field hunting ribbons, with light gold ties and tassels on both sides, and weeping willows and flying swallows were embroidered on both sides with lock stitch.The shape of the sachet was an ordinary pocket, similar to the one Yan Wei made before, but the lower corners were pleated, making it plump and round.It's such a small thing, it's really exquisite.Smell it carefully, there is a fragrance of flowers. Seeing that Yan Wei was quite interested in the sachet, the peddler quickly introduced: "It contains dried peach blossoms. Wearing it, it will look like spring all year long! It's good luck for peach blossoms! Hehe..." Yan Wei was a little moved by hearing this, and looked up at her father, only to see Yan Changchu holding a sachet on his nose and sniffing carefully, while his other hand stretched out to pick another sachet on the highest part of the bamboo branch. Seeing this, the peddler quickly picked it up on tiptoe, handed it to Yan Changchu, and said: "Which one do you want, just point it to me, and I will help you get it." Yan Changchu pointed to the sachet at the end of his nose and said, "I want something like this, with medicinal ingredients in it instead of spices." "Okay!" The peddler took off several pieces with flying hands, and stuffed them all into Yan Changchu's hands. Yan Changchu put them to his nose one by one and sniffed carefully.Seeing her father like this, Yan Wei seemed to have ulterior motives, so she also took one, put it to her nose and sniffed it, distinguishing the medicinal ingredients in it. Yan Changchu sniffed the sachets one by one, returned them to the peddler, and said, "We still have to go to Zeyi, I'm afraid there are better ones there." The peddler was very anxious when he heard this, and said: "My goods came from Zeyi, they are all the same thing, and when you arrive in Zeyi a few days later, it is just in time for the Autumn Society Day, when everyone will have a party in the garden. A married woman prays for a child, and an unmarried girl wants to give a sachet to her sweetheart, how many times will the price be multiplied at that time!" Yan Wei found it interesting, so she blurted out, "Isn't that the same as the March 18 Nuwa Empress Sacrifice?" As soon as the words came out, Yan Wei immediately knew that she had said something wrong, and stood there tongue-tied.