The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty - Chapter 48

The Lantern Festival is also a big festival that Song people attach importance to. Before and after the Lantern Festival, lanterns and festoons are everywhere, everyone watching the lanterns, and most of them gather in Daxiangguo Temple.

Colorful ropes are pulled over the market to hang “crossing lights”. There are also “light bridges” on the moat, and there are “light poles” as high as tens of meters. The types of these lanterns are all sorts of weird, all kinds of materials, shapes, and show the wisdom of the times.

Ouyang Xiu is very famous for his poem.

How many lights are there during the Lantern Festival? Bianjing at night has become like daylight.

Fireworks are also very important entertainment. At this time, there are many kinds of fireworks. The larger ones can be set off in the sky. The blue and white moonlight, purple like grapes, colorful, blooming in the sky above Bianjing. The little ones can teach children to hold them in their hands and put them in various shapes such as pear blossoms, apricot blossoms, and chrysanthemums, which adds light to the night in Bianjing.

Yun Yan agreed in the morning. If Shuangyi learns food well, he will take her to watch the lanterns during the Lantern Festival.

Shuangyixuebaiyan was not deadly. On the fifteenth day, he could finally steam steamed buns without stuffing, and because of his strong hands, the noodles were well-mixed and he was particularly chewy. Zheng Ping saw hope and was willing to let her out.

The Lantern Festival lasted for five days, and on the 16th night, the women went out for a long walk. Walking in the street together, walking to the gate, and touching the nails on the gate, the implication is to eliminate all diseases. At the same time, beautifully dressed women go shopping together, which is also a time to show their grace.

Therefore, on the 16th night of the first lunar month, Yun Yan went home separately. Zheng Ping went to see all diseases, Fu Yunfeng wanted to take Xiaobao to the show, and Yun Yan took Shuangyi to watch the lantern.

The lanterns on the five days of the Lantern Festival are described in a poem one by one. It is said that on the first day, the lanterns on the night of the thirteenth night were “new light and lanterns with nine mosses”, the fourteenth night was “lights are getting better than the night,” and the fifteen nights were “Nine Qu lanterns and candles smoke the sky”, Sixteen Nights is “the second time to read the old traditions of lanterns.” On the last day of Seventeen Nights, the lamps should be burned out, which is “try to see the burning lamps as white days.”

In other words, today, apart from the old customs, it is actually a good time to watch the lights on the last day.

Yun Yan took Shuangyi to the Lantern Market, only to see the lights were shining everywhere, and chose a lotus lamp for Shuangyi and held it in his hand. This is when the bamboo is split and tied with twine, bent into the shape of a lotus petal, pasted with paper, lighted up, and decorated with poppy grass and knotted flowers on the side.

Shuangyi also has a girlish heart at these times. Looking at the new lamp researched this year, she smiles.

Although Yun Yanhui was younger than her, her temperament was much more mature. When the two of them walked together, people who didn’t know their inner affair would think they were a pair of well-matched young lovers, and cast envious eyes.

And the people who knew each other knew that it was the two brothers and sisters traveling together.

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Today, the Nine Son and Mother Halls and the East and West Pagodas of Daxiangguo Temple are all lit up with candles and many music sheds.

In fact, the largest shed is the royal one. Every year on Lantern Festival, hundreds of officials and ministers from the royal clan will visit the Daxiangguo Temple to watch the lanterns and enjoy the people. Today is sixteen. The official family has been here for a day and will not come tonight, but the shed is definitely still there, and other clan nobles will use it.

Yun Yan was thinking about it, this day, I don’t know if Zhao Yunchu will come. Most of these years, his family has avoided. After all, the prince is “ill”, and the princess has been here once or twice. If he does, he will bring Zhao Yunchu with him.

Thinking about it this way, Zhao Yunchu really appeared.

There were many people on the Lantern Festival, Yun Yan heard someone calling him, and suddenly looked back, he saw Zhao Yunchu’s smiling face in the crowd. The two looked up, and Yun Yan waved back to him.

It took Zhao Yunchu a bit of effort to get out of the crowd, and there was a small servant behind him. At this moment, he could see that he also had a sheepskin lamp in his hand, thinking that he was struggling to protect the lamp just now.

This thin sheepskin is carved with the characters of the Three Kingdoms, and the light and soft inside are reflected, making the pattern distinct, which is a very labor-intensive lamp.

Shuang Yi glanced at Zhao Yunchu, but joked: “Are you here to return our Yan Ge’er’s bib?”

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yun Yan lent Zhao Yunchu his scarf and umbrella, but he never had time to pay Yun Yan back home, so Shuang Yi said this.

The bib was hanging around Zhao Yunchu’s neck. He touched it and said, “Yes, I forgot to bring the umbrella.”

“Forget it, just an umbrella.” Yun Yan waved his hand back, “have you been here two days ago? Where’s the princess?”

“My mother didn’t come, and I didn’t come the first two days. This year, I still don’t watch the lights. I came out by myself.” Zhao Yunchu said, “I didn’t expect to see Geyan Yan when I came.

Yun Yan replied with ease: “Then swim together.”

Shuangyi smiled and said nothing. What’s the destiny? Daxiangguo Temple on the Lantern Festival is full of people, but if you can recognize Ge Yan from the crowd, it’s a forcible destiny.

The small servant opened the road in front, and the three of them walked side by side to admire the lights.

Zhao Yunchu asked: “Brother Yan, why don’t you see the lantern in your hand?”

Even Shuangyi’s hand is the most common lotus lamp.

“I didn’t see anything I liked.” When Yun Yan was a kid, he also liked to have fun when he was a child. At that time, many of them were plastic electronic lights. In fact, they were far less interesting than the current lights, but he was already past his age.

“I’d better buy one. Come to the Lantern Market to see the lamps. How can you not buy one?” Zhao Yunchu said, “Which one do you like, I will give it to you.”

There was a performer in the brightly lit place ahead, and the performer climbed to the top along the bamboo pole and hung the lamp on it, winning bursts of applause.

Yun Yanhui’s gaze drifted away blankly above. He saw an animal series among the street lamps, and pointed to the bear lamp among them and said, “That one looks good.”

It’s not bad, but it’s decorated. If you want to buy it, I don’t know where to find it in the lamp market.

Shuang Yi urged: “Let’s take this off.”

Zhao Yunchu: “How can this be taken off! Alas, I asked Xiao Si to find where to sell it.”

“Wait, you can’t take it off, it doesn’t mean that others can’t take it off.” Shuang Yi stopped him, rubbed his hands, glanced at the surrounding furnishings, knowing it.

Shuang Yi walked a few steps aside without running, so he climbed up the light pole and jumped up. Halfway through, he jumped up and grabbed the eaves of the second floor. He stood up and turned up, and then was as light as a swallow crossing the street lamp. Walking on the rope.

The people below were in an uproar and stopped and looked up at her.

Not far away, the performer just climbed to the top, but found that there was no applause. Looking back, everyone was looking at the little lady who was stepping on the rope higher up.

The little lady shortly took a lamp, and then did not go back the same way. Instead, she jumped down from the two-story building. Her body was as light as a leaf. After landing, the light in her hand shook a few times. But it is not extinguished.

After a while of silence, the people onlookers applauded!

Shuang Yi walked to Yun Yanhui a few steps proudly, handed him the lamp, and smiled at Zhao Yunchu again.

Yun Yan took the light back and couldn’t hide his smile, “See if you can.”

Shuang Yi made a grimace and turned around and clasped his fists to the enthusiastic crowd.

Yun Yan went back to see Zhao Yunchu, only to find that the child’s eyes were red, and he was speechless, “What are you crying for?”

“I didn’t cry.” Zhao Yunchu said with a cry.

Yun Yan replied: “…”

Zhao Yunchu is sad! He uttered a big talk, and bought whatever lamp Yan Geer wanted, but Shuang Yi lost face in front of Yan Ge. The more he thought about it, the more ashamed, the more grief and anger he thought about, and he couldn’t bear it for a while, and his eyes were blushing.

Yun Yan also figured out the joints, and felt that these two are childlike, especially Zhao Yunchu, how come he is only long and not long-hearted, so he said, “You bow your head.”

Zhao Yunchu lowered his head before asking, “What are you doing…”

Yun Yan raised his hand back and rubbed his eyes, “Look at your pitiful energy, can you compare to Shuang Yi? She has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, climbing high and low.” There is another sentence, extremely talented, Fu Yunfeng also praised him energetically, even in his martial arts hall, there was no one who could match the double right.

Zhao Yunchu felt that Ge Yan’s fingertips were rubbing on his eyelids, and he took advantage of the situation and said coquettishly: “Blow your eyes.”

Yun Yan flicked on his forehead smoothly, “It’s not in the sand anymore, what are you blowing? Are you a little girl?”

Unexpectedly, Yan Ge’er’s warmth moment was so short that Zhao Yunchu dared not be a demon again. He stood beside Yun Yanhui honestly, and said with a smile: “Brother Yan, I’ll help you carry the lamp.”

He took the bear lantern from Yun Yan back, and made Xiao Si so diligent that he wanted to cover his face when he saw it.

Yun Yanhui took them to the middle of the moon and wanted to send Zhao Yunchu back.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yunchu refused to leave, “Brother Yan, let me spend the night at your house. My eldest brother has always been singing songs every night. My yard is right next to him, and it makes me unable to sleep.”

Shuangyi: “I don’t have any extra rooms in my house.”

Yun Yan also said, “It’s okay to spend a night at my house. If you don’t want to go back and sleep at Zen Master’s place, your mother will definitely agree.”

Zhao Yunchu said, “Just sleep for one night… for the holidays, brother Yan… Sister Shuangyi, please…”

Yun Yan looked back at him with a straight face. Although Zhao Yunchu used to forcefully arm his hands and leaned on his shoulders, he was a clingy kid who admired him, but he was not so clingy that he would go to their house to sleep.

Zhao Yunchu shook his fingers and said, “I met Zheng Ling in the palace during the festival a few days ago. He said that he slept with Yan Geer for the night on the fifth day of the day…”

Yun Yan replied for this reason. Zhao Yunchu and Zheng Ling have always disliked each other, and occasionally compare each other, but it is really naive to compare to this. Besides, Zheng Ling is his nephew, but Zhao Yunchu is not.

So Yun Yan said coldly: “I want to sleep outside in the donkey shed.”

It hurt Zhao Yunchu’s heart, and suddenly the whole person went down.

But how can I say that there is no way to the world? Just when Zhao Yunchu’s heart was cut by a knife, a group of potential fire teams passed by, with buckets and other things in their hands, and there were too many people. Zhao Yunchu couldn’t dodge, and ran into the opponent.

Zhao Yunchu was fine, but the man flew out, spilling the bucket in his hand, and splashing water on Zhao Yunchu.

“Oh!” The man screamed in pain, and he had to apologize to Zhao Yunchu when he got up. The cold weather splashed all over his body, and he wanted to know how uncomfortable he was. His captain was already calling him, so he had to pick up the bucket and continue running.

This submarine fire brigade is Bianjing’s fire brigade. The buildings in the middle of Beijing are mostly brick-wood structures. Once they catch fire, they will suffer heavy losses. There have been several large fires before. Therefore, we attach great importance to fire prevention and fire fighting, and we have submarine fire teams on duty. , Patrol, and build a building with hopeful fire to observe at a high level, and to detect the fire in time.

Now that the Lantern Festival is lighting up everywhere, this is the period when fires are high. The submerged fire team is at the busiest time, thinking about where the fire started again, and going to fight the fire.

Zhao Yunchu was also unlucky. His young man jumped in a hurry and was pulled back by Yun Yan. He took off his coat and put it on Zhao Yunchu, asking Shuang Yi to carry him and go back to his house.

Home is always sitting in hot water, not far from here, with Shuangyi’s skill, it didn’t take long for Zhao Yunchu to be there, and he quickly asked him to take off his damp clothes and take a hot bath to get rid of the cold.

When Yun Yan came back one step later, Zhao Yunchu was already sitting in the bathtub.

Shuang Yi was still trying to cook Hu spicy soup, but Yun Yan saw it back and his face changed drastically, “Okay, I’m coming…”

Shuang Yi let go angrily, “Tell him to **** craft.”

You want Zhao Yunchu’s life, what a grudge? ?

Yun Yan thought back to her heart that fortunately, Zhao Yunchu didn’t know the inside story, but she might still be moved now that Shuangyi is actually a good person.

Zhao Yunchu weakly shouted inside: “Brother Yan, can you come in…”

Yun Yan walked back in, “What are you doing?”

Zhao Yunchu: “I am scared alone.”

Yun Yan didn’t believe it at all, “You won’t be afraid when you read the scriptures yourself.”

“…” Zhao Yunchu was speechless, and had to be depressedly silent.

Because Zhao Yunchu was bigger than him, Yun Yan went back to find a set of Fu Yunfeng’s clothes, and when Zhao Yunchu finished washing, he asked him to put it on. It was barely fit, and then he drank a bowl of hot Hu spicy soup to quench the cold.

During this period, Zheng Ping, Fu Yunfeng, and Xiaobao all returned, indicating that it had already begun to rain and snow outside.

It was raining heavily this night, Zhao Yunchu looked at Yun Yanhui weepingly, not wanting to go back, Zheng Ping couldn’t bear it anymore, Yun Yan had to leave him overnight.

Zhao Yunchu happily sent the young man back by himself, and by the way told himself in the house that he had been frozen and rested for one night before going back.