Sweet Garden Bliss

Life has to go on. Luliu came out of confinement and continued to take over her own shop. Bai Er Er spent a lot of time at home looking after the child. He seemed to have high expectations for this son. As long as he was free, He would come out and go in with his son in his arms, and even when discussing business with clients, he was reluctant to leave the child behind.

"Sister-in-law, I was thinking about it. You always like to take the children around and don't shy away from them. The children are so sensible. If the kid in our family followed me in business and business, wouldn't it be Isn't it natural to be a good businessman when you grow up?"

I have to say that Bai Er Er's argument is still reasonable. At least, the current kid's favorite toy is his father's ebony abacus. As long as he is allowed to pick and pull the abacus beads casually, he will not cry or make trouble. .

Ah Yuan also likes this little nephew very much, but he has a big opinion on the name of the child. I think it took a lot of effort to name the three children in my family. The name of the next generation will be based on the word "生". Neither sound good.

Bai Laoer himself had no idea, the son's name was calculated by the Taoist priest who asked him, saying that his son "five elements lack water", and the name he chose had better be able to bring water.

Which word has the most water?The surname "Bai" can't be changed, and the character "Sheng" in the middle is not popular, so this baby is called "Bai Shengmiao", and three waters are piled together, and "water" is enough this time Bar?

In the end, in order to further replenish the "water" for the child, the nickname was also given this, simply called "Xiao Shui'er".Ah Yuan can only lament that idealism and superstition are too serious!

When "Xiao Shui'er" could sit up, Zhuyang County launched a "baby chair" that can be installed on the beam of a two-wheeled vehicle, allowing children to be placed on the seat and comfortably surrounded by adults go out.

Naturally, the first one to appear on the street on a two-wheeled bicycle was the second shopkeeper of the Bai family. "Xiao Shui'er" giggled and laughed all the way, and accompanied his father to advertise in the county all day .

The carpenters were at work again.Now every time a new product is developed, it can be quickly sold to nearby counties. The joint chambers of commerce in Zhuyang and Qiyang are becoming more and more powerful, and distribution points have been established throughout the Song Dynasty, so there is no need to think about the occurrence of inventory. The problem of slow sales.

At the end of the new year, Sang Qi came to Zhuyang County.Just like the promise he made when the shadow puppet hall was built at the beginning, he would travel the footprints of shadow puppetry all over the country. Now, he has done it, and he has come to return to his master.

"Princess, the past two years have been traveling abroad. I have gained a lot of knowledge. Our shadow puppetry also combines the singing characteristics of different places. The playbook also adopts many legends and stories from various places, and then communicates with each other. Now, it has formed 100 There are multiple playbooks, all here..."

Sang Qi carried two big burdens, one of which was the account book.Another record of profits and expenditures in the past few years in the North and South is the so-called more than 100 playbooks.All hand-written, very precious.

"Hard……".Faced with these two big burdens, Ah Yuan could only utter these two words.

After several years of tempering, Sang Qi's face has become more calm and graceful. He is actually a complex of literati and businessmen. While earning money, he maintains a refined demeanor.

"Now, are you married?" Ah Yuan is a good master, always concerned about the quality of life of his subordinates.

Back then in the capital, the shadow puppet show was just in its inception period, and Sang Qi was surrounded by a few young girls who had a secret heart, all of whom had their own merits.

In the past few years, the girl who started a business with him should have achieved a positive result long ago.

However, this answer still surprised Ah Yuan.

"No—officially married a wife, took in a few people, and gave birth to two children...".

Sang Qi said it in a low-key way. Thinking about the fact that none of the princess’s men seemed to have concubines, she added: “When I returned to the capital, I met Old John, and the matchmaker Xu Guanshi made also took in a concubine. Where's the maid?"

The capital is too far away. Those who have a fief cannot return to the capital casually. It is not easy for Guanshi Xu to guard the princess's mansion. Old John is probably very lonely by himself, so he will not pursue the girl who was accepted...

As for Sang Qi, who has worked so hard, Ah Yuan doesn't intend to impose his own thoughts on him. He must be regarded as a man who specializes in art, and there is no way if a few more girls stick to him and insist on liking him, right?

Zhang Dashan took Sang Qi down to settle the accounts, and A Yuan was delighted to hold the piles of playbooks. There were many stories she had never heard of before, full of the breath of life, and the plots were ups and downs, which made people feel happy. People can't put it down.

From this point of view, on the contrary, Zhu Yang and Qi Yang had the most monotonous plays in the shadow puppet theaters. A Yuan called the guards and informed the owner of the shadow puppetry to come face-to-face with the instructions.

These playbooks are wealth, maids who can write well can start copying, Zhu Yang and Qi Yang both have to learn new plays, life is rich, and spiritual food is also very important.

Sang Qi had probably developed an occupational disease. When Ah Yuan went out to pick up the children, he heard the boy asking the guards about the anecdotes of Zhuyang County. Mark it in a small notebook.

The wealth of more than 100 playbooks is accumulated in this way, right?

In the next few days, the parents who picked up their children outside the "Happiness Garden" also got acquainted with Sang Qi. They talked nonsense and talked a lot about rare and strange things. I guess it won't be long. With time, a new playbook can be reborn.

During the time when Sang Qi lived temporarily in the princess's mansion, the children were also very happy. When they came back from the kindergarten, they would immediately gather around him, pulling at the corners of their clothes to ask about the customs of each place, and all kinds of strange stories and legends...

"When I was in Yuncheng, I once saw 'Black Wind'. I was walking on the street, and the vendors and pedestrians on both sides suddenly disappeared. It was dark in front of my eyes, and my face was hurt by the wind and sand. I don't know. Dare to move casually, relying on memory, groped for the body of a willow tree, and clung to it tightly, so as not to be hurt, the 'black wind' blew for half an hour... ".

"Is there really a 'Black Wind'? Uncle Sang Qi, is that a man-eating monster coming out? Are you scared?"

"Aren't you just scared? Some were riding a carriage or riding a horse. When it got dark suddenly, they bumped into each other involuntarily. Some rushed off the bridge and fell into the river!"

Sang Qi waved to the princess who approached and wanted to be quite lively, and continued: "Later, some people said that it wasn't that the black wind monster came out, it might be that some experts set up an altar to change their fate against the sky. , and some people said that they heard the cry of a woman... ".

When the ancients were unable to explain some uncommon natural phenomena, the most common argument was to attribute the natural phenomena to myths, connect them with gods or monsters, or attribute them to wise monks and Taoists.

"What is the method of setting up an altar? What is changing one's life against the sky?" Song Haohao was so frightened that his heart trembled wildly, and he couldn't control his curiosity, so he stared nervously and asked.

Sang Qi is also half-knowledgeable: "I don't really understand, it seems that there were indeed Taoist priests offering sacrifices to the sky outside Yuncheng that day. Standing on the nine altars respectively, the ones taken are 'Nine Nine Return to One' and 'Change Fate Against Heaven'...".

A woman with the same birthday?Ah Yuan, who had just come to listen to the excitement with the children, twitched her eyebrows and clasped her fingers together: "Sang Qi, Yuncheng, where are you? When did this happen?"

Her voice was a little hurried. Although the story of Cailian being taken captive has not been short in the past, she is now married and about to have a child. Her nerves were still tense.

Sang Qi didn't dare to talk nonsense like telling a story, and thought about it carefully: "In less than a month from now, I rushed from Yuncheng to Zhuyang County, because I was worried that I would encounter the 'black wind' again. ’, I didn’t dare to stay there any longer.”

"Are you sure about the saying of 'ninety-nine return to one' and 'changing fate against the sky'? Did you see it with your own eyes and hear it with your own ears?" A Yuan wished he could grab Sang Qi's collar and ask.

"No—not sure—I met a passer-by on the way out of Yuncheng. He told me swearingly, and said that he was in a hidden place outside the city for convenience. He came, he didn't dare to move, and later he heard someone talking about the sayings of 'Ninety-nine return to one' and 'Change fate against the sky', and also said, 'It was hard to get together nine women with wonderful birthdays, sir The Lord's fate will definitely be changed'... I don't know if he made it up or not. Looking at his embarrassed appearance, he was really frightened. After he escaped, he longed to talk to others. "Sang Qi could only tell what he heard and remembered, after all, he didn't see it personally, so he couldn't guarantee anything.

But, that's enough.

A Yuan called Zhang Dashan into the house: "You go to Qiyang to find the general, or A Wenying, one shadow and two Wu Lu, and repeat the story told by Sang Qi—no, let Sang Qi go with you !"

The soldiers are very fast, and Ah Yuan had no time to explain, so he sent Sang Qi to the horse. Fortunately, this kid is not a novice on horseback riding. Zhang Dashan stepped on the horse and pulled Sang Qi's rein at the same time, ignoring whether he had eaten dinner or not. , Is it dangerous to drive at night, so I ran away happily...

According to the few words left by Bai Chengguang, they have been running around for a long time, running around like a blind man groping for an elephant, but they couldn't find any trace of the group of tomb robbers. After hearing Sang Qi's description, A Yuan suspected that those people It has already moved to the "Yuncheng" place, and it is possible to build a base camp there. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

ps: Thank you Baili Qianhun for the pink ticket!