[Lou Cheng] 24 solar terms

[Lou Cheng] 24 solar terms

Author: This heart is shocked

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Search keywords: Protagonist: Minglou, Mingcheng┃Supporting role: Mingjing, Mingtai┃Others: Pretender, Loucheng

【[-]】Winter Solstice

Abuse was not there from the start.

The childhood memories are actually not clear, and he doesn't want to spend too much effort to recall them, but Mingcheng still remembers that before all the darkness and pain appeared, Aunt Gui really exhausted all her efforts in treating him.

At that time, she was just a young woman with no other means of earning money. She could only live on the salary from the Ming family. It is barely.What's more, she still firmly believes that Ah Cheng is Boss Yu's biological son, and he should be the same young master as Ming Tai. Although she can't raise him as well as the Ming family, she is willing to save and give him money. The best of all.

Therefore, Aunt Gui seldom took him to the Ming family. She helped the Ming family herself, but she was extremely reluctant to be regarded as the son of a servant. Usually at home, even if Ah Cheng was sensible, she had to help with some housework. She also refused, and only often said to Ah Cheng that getting ahead, becoming a high-ranking official, and being a big boss were the serious things he should do.But how can she get ahead? She has never studied, and she never thought of sending Ah Cheng to study, so she couldn't tell why in the end.

Ah Cheng likes to go to Ming's house very much, and being often left at home by Aunt Gui makes him feel novel about everything outside, not to mention that Ming's house is different from the neighbors he sees every day.The new-style building, the large courtyard, all kinds of strange decorations, and the owner of this house all broke the poor imagination in his mind and presented a brand new world in front of him.

Sometimes, especially at the end of the new year, the Ming family has a big business, and there are so many things to prepare. Aunt Gui is so busy that she can't get away. Even if she is reluctant, she has to take Ah Cheng with her.After Ming Jing took over the business of the Ming family, he has not been home for many years. Ming Tai is still young, and Ming Lou does not seem to be able to take care of others, so most of them are sent to Ming Tang to be taken care of by his mother and wife. In the Ming family, only Young Master Ming was alone for most of the time.Aunt Gui knew that the young master only liked to stay in the study and study all day long, so she told Cheng to play outside the house as much as possible, and never go in to disturb Minglou.

Ah Cheng nodded obediently, walked away from the main entrance consciously, and walked around to the back of the house. He was not very lively, so he just turned around, found a clean place by the wall, sat down with his knees hugged, stared at The ant nest in the corner was in a daze.Unexpectedly, after sitting for a while, he heard a dim voice coming from behind, with a gloomy tone. Ah Cheng only vaguely heard what seemed to be saying "rice", "a bowl of vegetables", "a bowl of steamed fish", he couldn't help but Confused, I thought silently in my heart, is this person hungry, so all he is talking about is what he wants to eat?Then why do you still feel unhappy when you think about eating?Not to mention that he ate it, even if he thought of having fish and meat to eat, he felt very happy in his heart.

Unable to understand, Ah Cheng became curious, got up and patted off the grass clippings on his body, saw a window on the wall, stood on tiptoe, and peeped through the gap to look inside quietly.

— into a pair of pitch-black eyes.

Ming Lou, the young master of the Ming family, was sitting behind the desk, holding a pen in his right hand and a scroll in his left hand, and looked straight over.The eyes of the young Mr. Ming are very dark, very bright, and very sharp, as sharp as a sword drawn out of its sheath. A Cheng only showed one eye in the gap of the window, but he felt that at that moment he never From top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, everything seemed to be cut open and seen through by Minglou's sharp sword-like gaze.

Ah Cheng was taken aback, but Minglou suddenly stood up, walked over to open the window a few steps, and said with a smile, "Is it Ah Cheng? Why don't you come in, isn't it cold outside?"

Ah Cheng looked at him, opened his round eyes and tried hard to recall Aunt Gui's usual address, moved his lips: "...Elder, young master..." He was a little nervous, eager to explain that he didn't mean to disturb His back was sweating all over and he could only stumbling out a few words, "I, I didn't want to eavesdrop..."

Minglou saw that his eyes were a little red, and quickly said softly: "I didn't mean to blame you, don't be afraid." He rubbed Ah Cheng's hair, it was soft and soft, and said, "You stand here because you like to listen to Am I reading?"

Ah Cheng glanced at him from under his eyelashes, nodded, then shook his head: "I don't understand...but it seems very interesting..." He hesitated for a while, seeing that Minglou didn't intend to blame him, so he asked him cautiously: " Can the young master teach me?"

Ming Lou poked his head out to look at Ah Cheng's stature, and then gestured at the size of the window, expressing his regret: "It seems that people really can't take shortcuts." He retracted and patted Ah Cheng's shoulder, "Go Come in through the main entrance and come to my study." Ah Cheng glanced in the direction of the kitchen, remembering Aunt Gui's previous advice, Ming Lou saw through his thoughts at a glance, and pretended to be serious and knocked on the top of him with a scroll : "What to watch, do you still want to learn? This family, but I have the final say."

Minglou asked, "Have you learned how to read?"

Ash shook his head.

Minglou looked at his watch and felt that today is not a suitable time for formal enlightenment. He glanced at the calendar on the table, and simply pulled Ah Cheng to sit down on the sofa in the study, and asked him, "Do you know what the day will be in six days?" Is it?"

Ash looked at him blankly.

Minglou thought about it, and asked in a different way: "Does Ah Cheng like glutinous rice?"

Ah Cheng's eyes are bright, round and moist, like some kind of small animal: "I like it!"

Minglou clenched his fist and covered his lips, suppressed the corners of his mouth that could not help but continue to induce: "Then, when will Ah Cheng usually eat glutinous rice?"

Ah Cheng blinked his eyes: "Winter, winter." He half-raised his small face and thought for a while, then nodded affirmatively, "Yes, it is winter, and there will be little red beans."

"Then do you know why you eat this in winter?"

Ah Cheng looked at Minglou, then at the calendar: "Is it because of the day that the young master asked just now?"

Ming Lou touched the top of his hair, and his eyes showed approval: "Ah Cheng is really smart. The winter solstice will be in six days, and the winter solstice is one of the 24 solar terms. In the past, this day was the beginning of the year. The sacrifice is the same as our current New Year. Eat red bean and glutinous rice, because according to legend, plague ghosts are most afraid of red beans. If you eat red beans, you will be free from disease and disaster and healthy in the next year. , This is the same purpose as we set off firecrackers to drive away Nian Beast. Do you understand Ah Cheng?"

Ah Cheng nodded vigorously, and looked at Minglou with sparkling eyes: "The young master knows a lot of things."

"There is a house of gold in the book." Minglou laughed, "If you study hard, you will naturally know."

But Ah Cheng felt a little depressed all of a sudden, lowered his eyes and did not answer, Minglou asked him: "Aren't Aunt Gui sending you to school?" He shook his head blankly, Minglou thought for a while, then smiled and said to him: "How about this?" In the future, when Aunt Gui comes to work, you will also follow, and I will teach you, okay?"

"Thank you, young master!"

"But in this case, don't call me Eldest Young Master anymore. Since you are learning to read and write with me, you should call me Mister."

"...First, sir...?"

"Come on, don't stutter, speak clearly, and call again."

"gentlemen."

"Ah Cheng is so good."

"Then, sir, can you tell me more about the winter solstice?"

"The winter solstice is where the qi of the final store comes to the extreme. The first time, the earthworms form; the second time, the horns of the moose dissolve; the third time, the water springs move..."

"Sir, what does this sentence mean?"

"This sentence means that on the day of the winter solstice, the yin qi that has been stored for a whole year reaches its peak state. Then, before and after this solar term, there are several special phenological phenomena..."

"Sir, what is phenology..."

The two tones of calm and brisk are intermingled with each other, fluctuating low and low in the quiet winter day, composing a moving movement, which still echoes gently in the memory after the yellowing years.

"We have the darkest days ahead of us."

"Sir, don't worry too much."

Mingcheng gently closed the window, turned around, and showed a gentle smile to Minglou, just like the corners of Minglou's lips curled up to him when he passed the window. "I still remember what my husband taught me, when the cathode reaches, the yang begins to grow, so it is called the winter solstice."

"Everything is going to be alright, isn't it?"

Minglou looked at him and laughed.

"Yeah, the new year is coming."

[[-]] Osamu

Aunt Gui cleaned up the kitchen neatly, and steamed a basket of red bean and sticky rice in the pot.

Ah Cheng grabbed the edge of the stove, stared eagerly at the white gas escaping from the pot, and swallowed hard.

Aunt Gui was amused by him: "Ah Cheng, are you hungry?"

Ah Cheng looked at her, then at the pot, and tried to open his eyes wide: "I'm not hungry."

"Aren't you really hungry? Ah Cheng, do you want to eat glutinous rice?"

"I want to!" He responded reflexively, and immediately went on to say: "But, but I'm not hungry... wait for mom to eat..."

Aunt Gui touched his face and said affectionately: "Ah Cheng is such a good boy! Mom is going to visit the dean of the orphanage, can I cook some noodles for you to fill your stomach first? Cheng Sheng glutinous rice to eat, so that Xiao Ah Cheng will be mediocre for the next year