Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and Kyoto is getting more and more prosperous every year. It is only after noon at this moment, and the streets and streets in the city have become extremely crowded.
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Xiaohuan poked her head out of the kitchen and said, "Uncle, I want to eat sesame stuffing, and Second Miss also wants to eat sesame stuffing."
The small kitchen space is not very big, Li Yi is making Lantern Festival, Ruoqing is helping at the side, Tsundere Lolita is not helping at the other side, and Yongning is running around in it, the place seems a bit crowded, and the others just want to If you want help, you can't come in.
Li Yi waved his hand to show that he knew.
Yongning approached Li Yi, and said sweetly: "Brother, Xinyi wants to eat candy."
Li Yi had glutinous rice flour in his hands, and he tapped some on the tip of her nose, and said, "I can only eat two candy fillings. If there is tooth decay, it will hurt very much."
Yongning thought for a while, looked up at him, stretched out three fingers, and said, "Can three be okay?"
Seeing her pitiful appearance, Li Yi could only nod, "Three is three, no more..."
"Yeah!" Yong Ning nodded vigorously, worried that Li Yi would repent, so he hurried to Shou Ning's side and stared at him with wide eyes.
Tsundere Lolita was holding a small sieve and kept shaking it. Inside the sieve were Yuanxiao and glutinous rice flour. The Yuanxiao that was shaken out in this way was round and round. She never tired of this job.
After shaking for a while, she walked over slowly, looked at Li Yi and said, "Sir, can you wrap some bean paste stuffing, I will bring it to my father when I return to the palace in the afternoon, my father likes to eat bean paste stuffing most .”
Li Yi smiled at her, and said, "Sister Xiaoqing is already preparing stuffing, let's make stuffing together later."
Tsundere Lolita immediately became happy, Yongning walked to her side, looked at the small sieve in her hand, and whispered: "Sister Huang, can you let me play with this..."
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The Lantern Festival is to be eaten at night. It is still early now. Kyoto is the most lively and bustling day of the year on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Yongning and Shouning spend most of their time in the deep palace, and they will go back at night. Naturally, this event cannot be missed. Chance.
After lunch, Li Yi took the two of them to the street.
Compared with the crowds at night, it is better during the day, because the highlight programs such as lantern festivals and fireworks do not start until night.
On the street, there are vendors selling all kinds of snacks, street juggling performances, and displays of all kinds of contraptions... The two little girls couldn't keep their eyes open.
Li Yi looked at the bustling crowd, the rows of shops, and the endless stream of hawkers on the street, and felt deeply how much changes had taken place in Kyoto in the past two years.
I bought a sugar figurine for Yongning and Shouning to represent their zodiac signs, and casually asked the old man who sold the sugar: "Old man, how is business today?"
The old man grinned and said, "Business is good. I used to sell the goods for a day, but today they are sold out in half an hour!"
Li Yi looked at the sugar figurines in their hands, and said with a smile: "My old man's craftsmanship is good, this sugar figurine blows lifelikely, and it's not surprising that the business is doing well. I think life at home should be good, right?"
The old man shook his head and said: "The old man has spent his entire life playing sugar bean, and it has only been in the past two years that his life has gotten better. If His Majesty hadn't been sympathetic to us people and cut taxes three times, the old man would have froze to death and starved to death at home in the winter of the previous year." it's..."
The clerk at the tea stall on the side curled his lips and said, "Old man Zhang, you are still selling miserably here. You are a sugar blower. This year, you built new houses for your two sons and married new wives. Next year, your sugar man shop It's almost opening, what do you think you have to cry about?"
The old man frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "The old man has this year because of His Majesty's benevolent government. It's not that he hasn't had a hard life, but Wang Erlu, you boy, caught up with the good policy from the beginning..."
Tsundere Lolita finished eating the sugar figurine, licked her rosy mouth, shook Li Yi's arm, and said, "Sir, I still want to..."
Li Yi looked at Yongning on the other side, and found that she was also looking at him eagerly.
He nodded, looked at the old sugar seller, and said, "Old man, two more."
The old man took two more sugar figurines. When Li Yi paid the money, he waved his hands, looked at Yongning and Shouning, and said with a smile: "The little baby is so handsome, today is a good day. The old man gave these two sugar figurines to them." …”
Li Yi handed the sugar figurines to them and said, "Thank you, grandpa."
"Thank you grandpa..."
"Thank you grandpa..."
The two little girls said something obediently, and the wrinkles on the old man's face stretched out, like a blooming chrysanthemum.
Li Yi held the hands of the two little girls and stood on the street. The sounds of yelling, selling, talking, and arguing entered his ears, together with the pictures in his eyes, weaving together the embryonic form of a prosperous age.
It's a pity that the people who weaved it with their own hands couldn't see the birth of this prosperous age.
"Unfortunately, His Majesty's body..."
"Oh, everyone is saying, Your Majesty is afraid..."
"Oh my God, why can't you just open your eyes and see..."
The old man and the guy were still chatting, the proud loli bit the candy figurine in her mouth, lowered her head, and whispered, "Sir, let's go home."
Li Yi nodded, took their hands, and walked in the direction they came from.
On the small stall, the old man finished chatting with the guy next door, he glanced casually, and looked at the extra ingot of silver on the table, his expression stunned.
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When walking into the yard, Tsundere Lolita suddenly looked up at him and said, "Sir, when I return to the palace later, you will give me a good wine. Father said that the wine in your house is the best..."
"good."
Li Yi nodded with a smile, suddenly the tip of his nose became cold.
He looked up at the sky, and Yongning's crisp voice came from his ear, "Brother, it's snowing!"
Boom!
From a certain direction, a dull bell rang.
Once, twice...
This voice came from the east, one after another, resounding throughout the capital.
Kyoto, at the gate of Goulan somewhere.
"It's broad daylight, where is the bell ringing?" A big man murmured suspiciously, seeing the middle-aged man beside him suddenly stop, turned and walked outside, wondering: "Fifth Master, what's the matter, no Have you seen a play?"
The middle-aged man shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid I won't be able to listen to the show today, let's go back..."
On the streets of Kyoto, the noisy long street gradually became quiet with the ringing of the bell.
Someone asked, "How many times did the bell ring?"
"Forty-five."
Forty-five, the number ninety-five, the bell rings forty-five, the sound of a great funeral.
One person faced east and knelt down slowly.
Beside him, a second person faces east and kneels after him.
Three people, ten people, a hundred people, a thousand people, ten thousand people...
All government offices in Kyoto, officials and dignitaries, no matter their rank or status, walked out of the guard room, walked into the courtyard, and knelt facing the east.
At the gate of the palace, the guards guarding the city put down their weapons and knelt down slowly.
In the whole of Kyoto, at this moment, there is only one echoing bell.
In the Li family, the palace guard who was kneeling on the ground stood up, walked in front of Shouning and Yongning, and said hoarsely, "Your Highness, it's time to go back to the palace."
In the fifth year of Jinghe, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival.
In the fifth year of Jinghe, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when the first snowflakes fell on the tip of Li Yi's nose this winter, heavy snow fell continuously in the thirteen prefectures of Jingguo.
In the fifth year of Jinghe, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor died.