Moisturizing things silently.
Dive into the night with the wind.
When spring happens.
Good rain knows the season.
It was still early spring, when it was warm and cold, and every time at this time, Baochai's illness would attack, so she didn't go to Daiyu for several days.
On this day, after breakfast, Baochai was sitting in the kang, lying on the small kang, drawing patterns with Ying'er, and suddenly heard someone say: "What is my sister doing?" ”
Baochai looked up and saw Daiyu lift the cotton curtain and walk in staggeringly.
Baochai hurriedly smiled and gave up her seat, "My sister is here, hurry up and go to the kang to do it, it's warm here." ”
Daiyu sat down on the kang and said, "I heard that my sister's illness has occurred again in the past few days, but I don't know what happened?" ”
Baochai said: "This is ** sick, and I don't feel anything, but I have some wheezing." Just eat a cold incense pill. ”
Daiyu said: "But I have always heard that my sister's 'cold incense pill' is a magical pill, can my sister let me open my eyes?" ”
Baochai smiled: "It's just like an ordinary pill, it's just a trivial formula." Ying'er, you go and bring the cold incense pill that you took out this morning, and let Miss Lin take a look. ”
Ying'er agreed, and after a while, she took a cold incense pill and held it in wax paper and handed it to Daiyu.
Daiyu took it, and a strange and cold aroma came to her nose, "Yo! What is such a strange pill made of? ”
Baochai smiled and said: "Last time, Sister Zhou also asked like this, in fact, "there are all kinds of medicinal materials, and now they are easy to obtain, only the word 'coincidental' is rare: 12 taels of white peony stamens that bloom in spring, 12 taels of white lotus stamens that bloom in summer, 12 taels of white hibiscus stamens that bloom in autumn, and 12 taels of white plum stamens that bloom in winter." These four stamens were dried on the day of the spring equinox of the following year, and they were ground together with the last medicine. and the rain of this day shall be twelve pennies,......
If it doesn't rain on that day, what will happen? ”
Baochai smiled: "Sister Zhou also asked like this, so, there is such a coincidental rain there, so I have to wait if there is no rain." The dew of the day of the white dew is twelve dollars, the frost of the day of the frost is twelve dollars, and the snow of the light snow is twelve dollars. Mix these four kinds of water thoroughly, mix the pills, add 12 coins of honey, 12 coins of sugar, and pills the size of longan, put them in an old magnetic jar, and bury them under the root of the flowers. If you are sick, take it out and eat a pill, and send it down with 12 points of cork decoction. ”
Ouch, it's really a dead person, **Is there such a 'coincidental' thing? Daiyu smiled.
What did the two sisters say? So interested! Without waiting for Baochai to answer, Baoqin opened the warm curtain and came in.
Daiyu hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "My sister is here, I was talking to my sister about her cold incense pills." ”
Baoqin said: "Speaking of my sister's cold incense pill, it is made by the prescription given by the gods in the sky, how can there be such a tricky prescription in the world?" Everyone laughed when he said that.
Baoqin said again: "Hey, by the way, today is the Rain Festival, let me tell you about the customs of the Rain Festival, right?" ”
Daiyu and Baochai both agreed, and Daiyu said: "Don't talk about it yet, wouldn't it be more lively to send someone to invite Yun Yatou and Brother Bao to listen together." ”
Baochai said: "But, why did you forget about them." Xiangling, you go and invite Bao Er Ye and Miss Yun here, and say that our Qin girl wants to tell you about the monuments. ”
After a while, Baoyu and Xiangyun came together, each holding an oil-paper umbrella, and Baochai and Daiyu asked, "Is it raining?" Today's rain is really the right time. ”
Baoyu said: "It's not raining much, and the drizzle is like silk." ”
Xiangyun said: "What monuments does Sister Qin want to talk about?" Come on, I can't wait. ”
Baoqin said: "I traveled to many places when I followed my father in business, and the customs and habits of each place are different. ”
Say it! Say it! Xiangyun sat down next to Daiyu and said.
Baoqin said: "That year, my father and I passed through the Sichuan Long area, just in time for the rainy season, that day was also drizzling, we walked on the slippery mountain road, suddenly, an old man led a boy to his father, the old man let the child bow to his father, and called 'godfather'. The father was baffled, and when he asked, he found out that they would lead the child out of the house during the rain festival, and recognized the first pedestrian he met on the road as his godfather, which was called 'bumping and sending it'. ”
After Baoqin finished speaking, Baoyu and Xiangyun both clapped their hands and said, "Interesting and interesting, let's talk about one more." ”
Baoqin said: "There is also a custom of rain in western Sichuan, and on this day, the married daughter will bring gifts back to her parents' house to visit her parents. A woman who has given birth will bring stewed pots of meat to thank her parents for their nurturing grace; For a woman who has not yet given birth, her mother will sew a pair of red pants for her and wear them close to her body, hoping that she will conceive and have a child as soon as possible. It's called 'going back to the mother's house'. ”
As soon as Baoqin finished speaking, Xue Pan came again, "Yo, you are all here, what are you talking about?" So lively! ”
Baochai said: "Qin'er told us about the customs of the rain festival. ”
Xue Pan said: "Speaking of the customs of the Rain Festival, I also know a few, let's talk about our ancestral hometown in the south." Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there has been a New Year in Wu and Yue.
Ten. 3. The 14th "Bu Gu" customs, put the glutinous grain into the pot and stir-fry, and the grain and rice are white. The more rice flowers that burst out, the better the harvest; And the less rice that bursts out, it means that the harvest is not good and the price of rice will be expensive. This is called 'Rice Color'. ”
Daiyu said: "The same people from the south, Brother Xue has been wandering outside is different, I don't know that there is this custom." ”
Baochai and Baoyu said: "We haven't heard of it either, and sure enough, my brother is well-informed." ”
Xue Pan heard everyone praise him, his heart was proud, and he was about to say a little more, when Caiyun said: "Mrs. said that the meal is ready, and I invite the girls to eat." ”
Let's go. Daiyu got up and took Baoqin's hand to eat with everyone in the outhouse, and did not forget to ask Baoqin to talk to her about the customs of various places when she had time.