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Chapter 115 Want to Know the Desolate Thoughts of This Night

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    [1] "Tamping Clothes - Part Three" [1] Lin Shibi. Poetry

    The boudoir Guanshan piece moonlight,

    ? Lovesickness is endless;

    To know the desolate thoughts of this evening,

    Please listen to the intermittent sound of the night.

    Yu Meipan made up her mind to find her sweetheart.

    Taking advantage of the fact that the maids and servants were all asleep, she hid the secret from her tightly guarded mother, escaped Ruyan and Xia Lian who were inseparable, walked out of the room alone, passed the courtyard door, and quietly came to the street.  superior.

    Half of the moon hung in the sky, and there was silence all around.  Only under the white dew, those yellow leaves are still falling quietly.

    Yu Meipan didn't dare to take the main road, but chose to walk in the wilderness.  The mountain road twists and turns, the road goes up and down.  She was physically weak, plus she was scared.  After a while, he was panting and out of breath.

    She thought in her heart that if she wanted to catch up with her senior brother, she would have to run at full speed Her footsteps involuntarily accelerated a lot, like a galloping horse galloping in the wilderness.

    However, where will the senior brother rest?  He will definitely live in those small shops in the wilderness, because senior brother is a person who 'lives' and will never waste money. He wants to save money to marry me!  He said that after the new year, he will marry me and go home.

    Yes, I just looked for him in those small roadside shops It can be expected that the current senior brother must be in the room of the inn, so worried that he has nothing to say, living the long night that feels like years.

    Meipan walked through village after village, leaped over hill after hill.

    Dulang, where are you sober tonight?

    While hesitating, a village inn suddenly appeared in front of him.  Meipan thought, Senior Brother probably lives here!  She stopped galloping, got down, raised her jade hand, gently knocked on the door, and softly shouted: "Open the door, open the door!"

    Seeing the lights lit in the room, he responded: "Who is knocking on the door? Is it a human being? Tell me who it is; if it is a ghost, please leave immediately!"

    Mei Pan knew it was the senior brother's voice as soon as she heard it, and thought: Humph!  How dare you take me for a female ghost!  He said, "Brother, it's me~"

    The people in the room quickly opened the door, and it was the elder brother.

    When Senior Brother saw Mei Pan, he was overjoyed and said, "Oh, sister Pan, it's you, why are you here?"

    "I was really worried, so I followed."

    "Does mother know?"

    "I came here specially to go with you while my mother and Ruyan were asleep."

    Wan Sheng hurriedly hugged Mei Pan in his arms, hugged her into the house again, and said: "Sister Pan, it's rare that you are so affectionate, why should I repay you, senior brother? Ah, look, your clothes are all hooked.  It's broken, the embroidered shoes are covered with dew and sand, and your little golden lotus must have blisters too This, why don't you make my brother feel distressed!"

    Meipan coquettishly said: "It's all for you, and I don't care about the long journey, it's rough and hard to walk~" Then, whispering softly in Wansheng's ear, "I miss you so much¡ªI can't sleep  , I can¡¯t even eat. You see, how much weight have I lost?

    Every time I see flowers bloom and fade, it always arouses the sadness of youth that is easy to fade.  How can I bear the cold mandarin duck pillow, the cold embroidered quilt, the lonely phoenix, the loneliness and desolation You and I were originally a reunion and bright moon, but they were covered by dark clouds. It is sad to think about it.

    ?I think the most bitter thing in life is parting. I have pity on me. I travel long distances alone and suffer so much. What is it for? Isn¡¯t it because I can be with you forever?

    If my elder brother doesn't let my slave follow me, and suffers all kinds of worries and sufferings like this, it's better to cut off all kindness and justice!  "As he said, he fell into Wansheng's arms and sobbed.

    "Sister Pan, why do you say this? I think my sister's kindness to me is as deep as the sea, and my love to my sister is as heavy as a mountain. How can I break my friendship? Tonight, my sister came to meet me and wanted to elope with my brother. I couldn't wish for it! However,  Going to Chengdu, traveling thousands of miles, trekking in the mountains, sleeping in the dew and eating in the wind, my younger sister is a body of gold, with golden branches and jade leaves, how can I withstand the fatigue of the journey?"

    "Brother~, I don't love heroes, nor do I envy extravagance. I only want to be with you¡ªto live with the same clothes, and to die with the same acupoints."

    "Even though my sister is steadfast, my brother really feels uneasy." Speaking of this, the two couldn't help but embraced and wept.

    At this moment, someone shouted loudly from outside: "Look to the left, look to the right Just now I saw the young lady crossing the river, but now I don't know where she is hiding Light up the torches  , search carefully"

    As soon as he heard the rough voice, he knew it was Butler Yu's voice.

    The little doorman Yu Lu said: "I can see clearly, Miss, she walked into this shop?In order to be soft and ironed, so that clothes can be tailored, it is called "tampering clothes".

    The second is to put the first-washed dirty clothes on a stone slab and beat them with a pestle, remove the muddy water, and then wash them to make them clean, also known as "pounding clothes".

    Before the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the cultivation of cotton was not popular in China, and usually only silk and hemp could be used for clothing.  Of course, silk fabrics can only be worn by nobles, and ordinary people mostly wear hemp.  The most obvious defect of Ge linen fabric is that the fibers are too hard and uncomfortable to wear, so it needs to be pounded to make it soft and smooth before wearing.  This is what Li Bai said in "A whole month in Chang'an, the sound of thousands of households pounding clothes". The purpose is to hammer the clothes to make them soft and smooth.  Only the women who made military uniforms would go to the riverside to pound clothes collectively, and the sound of pounding clothes at that time was indeed shocking.

    Daoyi is generally carried out at night.

    Due to the poverty of life in the old days, even the oil for lighting lamps was a considerable expense, so we should save as much as we can.  The activity of tampering clothes does not require too much light, and can be carried out only if the outline can be seen clearly. The moonlight can meet this condition, which is the fundamental reason why ancient women chose to tamper clothes under the moonlight night.

    The above-mentioned custom of pounding clothes and decorations is more popular in the north, but in the south, especially in Puxian, it is generally only popular in the city. In the countryside below the county seat, it is basically pounding and washing clothes.

    Women generally make clothes in autumn.

    In classical poetry, the bleak sound of the anvil and pestle is also called "cold anvil", which often expresses the melancholy mood of conscripts leaving their wives and hometown.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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