Chapter 40 Chinese Valentine’s Day begging for lanterns, no one is taking advantage of it to ask for marriage

"Okay, put it on!" The fifth sister put on the thread after a lot of effort. She breathed a long sigh of relief and shook her sore hands, "I can't compare to the sixth sister. I don't know how difficult it is.

How could things be so easy..."

Just then, the sixth sister twisted the thread into her hand. Before she could see what was going on, she had already sent the thread into the pinhole. The fifth sister, who was much slower every year, was doing better again.

Surprised.

The night of Chinese Valentine's Day is very lively. In addition to the ordinary people's begging activities, those wealthy people even put on extravagant displays, with tall buildings and wide courtyards, feasts and laughter.

The clear moonlight left half a roll, and the lanterns in the sleeves were lingering around. Silver needles were made of plain cloth, begging for clever threads, and watching bullfights and magpie bridges being pulled. Of course, a market is indispensable on a day like this, and the whole Lin'an city was not as lively as usual.

"Mom, let's go over there and have a look, shall we?" The lanterns over there are really beautiful, blowing in the breeze, not to mention the home of a young lady of Seventh Sister's age, even those words in her forties

People will also be deceived.

The flowers are hidden between the vertical and horizontal lines, and the candlelight reflects the paintings on the sulu, and the surrounding ground and walls are stained with mottled light and shadow, just like the scorching sun filtering through the sieve, sprinkling beautiful colors on the world.

The shadow seemed to have been painted with ink, which only attracted the seventh sister to reach out and grab it, asking the other sisters to smile along with An's face.

The seventh sister was running and jumping at the front, holding fruits in both hands, taking a bite from the left and a bite from the right, but she still had no intention of stopping, and her eyes were scanning back and forth on the signboards on the roadside.

As for the other two sisters, they only walked beside An, seeing that the latter did not dare to stare at the whereabouts of the seventh sister's son without any distraction, for fear that someone would deceive her if she didn't pay attention.

"Mom, I want to eat this!"

The mother and the two sisters were all afraid that the seventh sister would suddenly stop and refuse to move, so she must be interested in something else and want to pester An to let him go!

As soon as she heard the seventh sister speak, An was stunned for a moment, and then she heard the vendor's flattering words: "This deer breast is very fresh, and my wife knows that it is also a rare item in Lin'an City..."

"Young lady has good eyesight, and she fell in love with this deer breast at a glance. She knows the goods very well. She will be rich and powerful in the future. Even if she can't pursue her own career, she can still marry into a good family!"

When An and Wu Jie'er heard these words, they thought they were glib - most of the deer breasts sold in Lin'an City were fake, and ordinary people and celebrities had all been fooled.

It is a pity that such incidents are not only repeated in Lin'an City, but also many hawkers use the dead horse meat as deer breasts and deer deer for the sake of small profits. It is true that they made a lot of money, but their moral character has also been lost.

few.

Anshi pulled her seventh sister behind her without any hesitation. Although her words were polite, there was no smile in her eyes: "No need, I just came out after dinner at home. Let's talk another day."

"Mother..." The seventh sister was still young and could not understand what An meant. She poked her head out from her mother's side and wanted to say something, so she asked the latter to cover her expression with her sleeves.

Fortunately, the seventh sister was also very discerning, and knew that her mother's attitude was different from usual. She only waited until she was getting farther and farther away from the hawker, then raised her head and looked at An, wanting to ask for an explanation.

"That deer is a rare thing, but where do you get so many of them to make jerky? I'm afraid it's the old meat that can't be sold!" The mother was worried that her sisters would be deceived in the future, so she added, "

In the future, don’t let me be deceived by such sweet words and spend your life in vain.”

"This counterfeiting thing has been really annoying since ancient times!" An Ji looked at the book and scorned the hawker's actions. "Nowadays, those who are serious about craftsmanship have to do so many bad things because of these deceitful people, so that others don't care.

trust……"

Nowadays, more and more people are selling dog meat under the guise of intangible cultural heritage and culture, and doing shameful things for money. The more An Ji sees it, the more he resonates with it, but he has no choice. After all, he wants to change the market environment.

It doesn't happen overnight.

①The lantern refers to the accompanying picture in "Song Rhythm: Hangzhou in Poetry" and the Southern Song Dynasty Li Song's "Viewing the Lantern Picture"

②Hawkers sell fake references to "Eating in the Song Dynasty: The Song Dynasty on the Bite of the Tongue"

③For the Qixi Festival, refer to "Tokyo Fenghua Lu" and "Meng Liang Lu"; "Metamorphosis on July 7th - Starting from the Golden Dolls of the Southern Song Dynasty collected in Quzhou Museum" is from Cultural Relics World Issue 04, 2021, author Hao Yating.
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