The spring is cold and windy, and the dry permafrost after the snow is formed into lumps by icicles, and the carriage is bumpy when driving. The air is filled with the faint fragrance of gunpowder from firecrackers. The river water that had just thawed was rushing, and the sound was crisp and loud, which was heart-shattering.
Lanterns are hung in front of every house, big and small, with different patterns and shapes. The lanterns are bright or dark, far or near. Looking from a distance, they look like lanterns hanging on the horizon. It is very beautiful to light and knead them one by one.
There were many pedestrians on both sides of the road, and the maids held lanterns, swaying in the slightly cold spring breeze, and the ladies shyly smiled, lowered their heads and hurried forward, fearing that others would look at their faces. The son of Xunchun holds a small fan in his hand, looking at the women coming and going from time to time, his appearance is very chic.
Fire at thirty, lamp at fifteen, the old saying is true. It's been half a month since the Spring Festival, and now it's the Lantern Festival, and the atmosphere of spring is strong. This is the beginning of a year of prosperity in this city full of flowers.
Along the moat that has just melted ice, the river is gurgling and flowing, and countless lanterns are floating on the water, shaking slightly, in different shapes, some are lotus flowers, or peonies, competing for beauty and beauty. The reflections of the lamps are reflected in the river, and each lamp is a shadow, above and below the water, reflecting each other, just like the stars falling in the water, which is unparalleled in beauty.
This is the Flower God Lantern Festival that is widely spread in the north. Legend has it that every year at the beginning of the Lantern Festival and the beginning of spring, the ladies in the boudoir write their wishes on paper, and then put them in special lanterns, so that they can flow downstream and flow with the waves. If you are picked up by a talented person with a heart, you are a person with a destiny. The legendary flower god will bless the young lady who has become acquainted with the lantern for a hundred years of happiness and marriage.
This legend has been passed down for thousands of years. Indeed, several famous couples were made together, and for a while, the Flower Lantern Festival and the Lantern Festival became the unique scenery of the Lantern Festival in the north.
This year's Lantern Festival came early, and the river ice edge first melted. It was terribly cold, but the young masters waiting to fish for lanterns by the river were densely packed and in an endless stream, overwhelming the crowds along both sides of the river.
An eleven or twelve-year-old boy in satin silk was holding a long bamboo pole with a small iron hook hanging on it, and with two or three strokes he would pull up lanterns one by one, attracting talented people from both sides of the bank. They burst into admiration and envy. Most of these sons came empty-handed, even with tools in their hands. He didn't prepare so well, seeing that the little brother was only eleven or twelve years old, he kept picking up the lanterns that Miss Shang had put down. In my heart, besides admiration, I still admire: Whose young master is this, so far-sighted, it's amazing!
A large carriage slowly woke up from a distance, heaving up and down on the bumpy road.
The two horses pulling the cart were breathing hot air from the mouths of the horses in the bit. Although he is a servant of the world, he has a handsome body and extraordinary heroism. The back compartment is huge. There is some dust covering the outside, and one can tell at a glance that it has traveled from afar.
The carriage jolted for a while, and a woman's soft cry came from inside the carriage: "Hey, what are you doing, you're crushing me."
Another male voice said: "Oh, I'm sorry, the carriage is too bumpy, I didn't mean it. Hey, what is this soft thing? Wow. There is another one here..."
"You, get down!" The two women in the carriage shouted together.
The curtain of the car was pulled open hastily, and a smiling man with healthy skin was pushed out of the car by two pairs of small hands.
He shook his green shirt, flipped his cap, and said with a smile: "Why are you ashamed, it's just carelessness. Although you are in good shape, you don't need to be so domineering. Come down as soon as you get down. Anyway, you are tired from the car. It’s also good to take two steps for exercise.”
The carriage hadn't gone far, and Karan stopped. The man next to the carriage yawned, and was startled when he saw the dense crowd on both sides of the river. Damn, what is this for? Heideng is blind, let's go fishing together
The curtain on the carriage window was lifted, and a beautiful little face stretched out, with a sweet smile on his face, he looked at the crowd in front of him carefully, and said curiously: "Sister, what are the people in the capital like?" So strange? It’s cold and it’s dark night, what are they doing around the river? Hey, there are so many lanterns on the river, it’s so pretty.”
The other woman also poked her head out of the window, her cheeks were jade-like, her mouth was slightly red, her eyes were moving, and she was looking forward. She looked at everyone, and then said: "Oh, is it the Lantern Festival today? We've been traveling for so long, and we've even forgotten this good time. This is probably the legendary Flower Lantern Festival It is said that as long as an unmarried woman puts down a lantern on the upper reaches of the river and writes your wish on it, if a loving son picks it up below, it will be the flower god as a matchmaker.
The younger woman was pleasantly surprised: "Really?" She took a sneak look at the man walking beside the carriage, and said softly: "Then I'll go and put one on, and ask that bad guy to pick it up."
The older and beautiful woman chuckled and said, "What else do you want him to choose, you just have a good relationship with him for a hundred years, and it will be tedious to make so many twists and turns."
The young woman groaned, blushed, and got into a mess with her sister in the carriage.
Someone walking by the car heard these words and suddenly realized that these people were here to fish for lamps, no wonder they were all so wretched and their eyes were shining. However, this activity is good for exercising these young ladies who are not working hard.
He glanced around and saw an eleven or twelve-year-old boy who moved quickly, picked up four or five lamps in a short while, took a look at the envelope in the lamp, and threw the lantern on the ground with a snort. side. The more and more lanterns were spoiled, it was the hearts of all the beautiful and affectionate ladies, and the young men who watched beside them swallowed their saliva anxiously.
Damn, is it reasonable to come here to fish for lanterns at such a young age? At such a young age, that thing hasn't even grown hair yet, yet it's really unconscionable to want to engage in these romantic activities. He spat hard, and walked forward with a smile. With a kind smile on his face, he said: "Brother Dong, hello. Wow, it's amazing, you can pick lanterns and play at such a young age. Can I play with you?"
The young masters around saw a servant approaching him, and they immediately felt contemptuous. Whose family servant is so ignorant of etiquette, and he doesn't even talk about etiquette, justice, and shame, and even deceives his children.
"Sister, he has done bad things again, and you don't care about him?" The young woman in the carriage pulled up the curtain, took a look, and snorted.
The elder sister said with a smile: "He has done bad things once or twice. He can be controlled. Our family needs to find someone who can control him. It is too difficult."
The younger sister said: "I think it's my sister, you don't want to take care of it. This bad guy travels all the way from Jinling to the capital, and he has to find a way to do some bad things every day. If no one is watching, he doesn't know what evil he is going to do?"
The elder sister smiled and said, "Evil? When he does evil things on you every day, I think you like it very much. Don't think that I didn't see anything when I fell asleep."
"Sister..." The younger sister flung herself into her arms in embarrassment, not daring to speak.
The elder sister pressed her nose helplessly and said: "You. At such a young age, let him do bad things to you every day, what will happen in the future? Didn't I give you a knife for self-defense? If he bullies you again You, just stab him with a knife, heck, don’t say I taught you, he likes to take revenge on me…”
The two sisters were talking and joking in the carriage, and someone over there had already shyly approached the child and said, "How about it, little brother, do you agree? Hey, you don't talk. I'll take it as if you agreed. Well, this It's a tael of silver, as long as you pick up ten lanterns, the tael of silver will be yours."
The child snorted and didn't speak.
Has personality, which I like. He chuckled, picked up the white money, waved it in front of the child, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "See, this is white money, ten lanterns are worth one tael of silver, what a bargain."
The child looked at him contemptuously, took out an ingot of ingots from his bosom, which was as much as four or five taels, and tickled his little finger at him and said: "Hey, this is five taels of silver, as long as you pick up a lantern, This silver is considered to be my reward for you." The surrounding crowd burst into laughter.
I rely on, more attractive than me? The capital is really different, even children are so dragged. He was very thick-skinned, and he didn't care about everyone's ridicule. He gave a thumbs up and said, "Brother Dong, you really have a personality, I like it. Why don't we make friends, my name is Lin San, what's your name?"
"Lin San?" The child frowned, shook his head and said, "This name is ugly enough, it's vulgar. If you name it, you won't be much knowledgeable."
This little guy looked like a little adult, and he talked for a long time, but he didn't say his name. Lin Wanrong chuckled nonchalantly and said, "That's right, my name was given by someone else, it's messy and filthy. I don't know what kind of elegant name you have, little brother?"
The child looked at him vigilantly and said, "Why do you ask my name? Hmph, eight out of ten people who are close to me are plotting against evil spirits. Look at your wicked eyes, you don't look like a good thing. Could it be that you want to kidnap and sell me? Tell you, master, I am not a vegetarian! I can kill cats at the age of three, and tear apart leopards at the age of five. I just slaughtered a tiger with my bare hands a few days ago. Do you want to abduct me? Be careful that my fists do not recognize anyone!" He stretched out his hand and shook Shaking his small fist, he looked like I was a muscular man.
Lin Wanrong was stunned for a long time. Damn, I finally met someone who is even more shameless than me. He is still so young and has great potential and future. He smirked twice and said: "Brother Dong is really powerful. Okay, okay, I won't ask your name anymore. Tell me, what are you doing with these lanterns? Do you really want to find a sister to be your wife?"
The boy let out a disdainful voice: "Looking for a wife? What are you doing looking for a wife? You think everyone is like you, thinking of a wife every day!" Everyone burst into laughter, Lin Wanrong was sweating profusely, this boy really saw it right. Well, I came to the capital to find a wife. The two sisters felt embarrassed when Lin Wanrong talked to the child, and couldn't help hiding in the carriage, covering their lips and chuckling. The elder sister said: "If you are called bad, there must be someone who can scare you."
"Since you're not looking for a wife? Then what are you doing with other people's lanterns?" After listening to the two of them talking, one of the surrounding audience couldn't help asking.
"The lanterns don't have any ghostly meaning." The child said, "I picked up forty or fifty lanterns, and they turned out to be some love words written by young ladies. It's so ugly. I want to find some pastries with the right taste. , I didn’t even find it.”
The sound of countless sons falling to the ground! This goddamn little guy got stabbed. Fishing for these lanterns is actually looking for pastries, and throwing away the erotic words written by the ladies, it is really devoid of conscience.
Lin Wanrong laughed loudly, he didn't like such pornographic words at all. This little kid is very interesting, people can't help laughing.
Seeing the hostile eyes around him, the child showed no fear at all, pulled Lin Wanrong's sleeve and said, "Lin San, you're not bad!"
"What's good?" Lin Wanrong asked strangely.
The child said solemnly: "These people want to pick a lantern to find a young lady. They are really vulgar and superficial. Although your status is low, you are different from them. If you don't pick lanterns, you don't laugh at me." The character is not bad. Then I will tell you my name. My name is Li Wuling. If someone bullies you in the capital in the future, you can report my name. I guarantee that no one will dare to touch you. "
Oh my god, so awesome? Lin Wanrong secretly smiled and didn't take it seriously, but listen to his previous sentence. On the contrary, he realized that this child is not that simple. I saw that Li Wuling was born with a tiger head and a tiger brain, and his pupils were pitch black. The eyes are flickering, very clever and cute. Thinking of his strange reason for picking lanterns, Lin Wanrong couldn't help laughing and said, "Brother Dong, did you pick up these lanterns for snacks? Did you get tricked by someone?"
Li Wuling snorted: "Yesterday I heard people talking about this flower magic lantern festival, so I asked my grandfather what the lantern festival was for. The old man was busy at the time, so I pestered him a few times, and he said it was to deal with greedy ghosts. The lady from the family made some cakes for the river god. Hmph, the old man dared to lie to me. I will compete with him immediately to let him know how powerful I am."
Invincible, Lin Wanrong was sweating profusely when he heard it. This little guy is probably the overlord at home, even his grandfather doesn't look down on him.
"Look quickly, look quickly, the flower magic lamp..." A shout came from upstream.
"Flower magic lamp, flower magic lamp..." The young masters on both sides of the strait also exclaimed together, their voices mixed with excitement. The two ladies hiding in the carriage couldn't help but look out when they heard the yelling.
"Flower magic lamp, what is a flower magic lamp?" Lin Wanrong looked at Li Wuling and asked strangely.
"You ask me, how do I know, I'm a kid!" Li Wuling rolled his eyes.
Damn, I met a thorn, Lin Wanrong smiled and looked upstream. I saw a lantern walking slowly on the upper water surface. The lantern was taller by one person, and it was made into the shape of a beautiful woman, with a delicate expression, a smile on her face, and fluttering skirts, vivid. There is a layer of faint yellow light all over the body of this beauty lantern, and there are dozens of small flowers around it forming a lotus shape. From a distance, it looks like a fairy floating in the lotus.
Is this the magic lantern? Lin Wanrong was also secretly amazed when he saw it, not to mention the idea of the flower magic lamp, just to make this person-high lamp float on the waves without falling over, that is a big problem, not something ordinary people can do.
"What flower magic lamp? Look at me and fish it up." Li Wuling said disdainfully.
People on both sides of the river have long been attracted by this magnificent flower lamp, and many people have knelt down to worship. Only Li Wuling and Lin Wanrong are not afraid of anything, anyway, it's the lamp put by the upstream lady, pick it up and have a look.
The place where Li Wuling stands is the narrow part of the river, and it is the best place to fish for lanterns. He stretched out the bamboo pole, aimed at the direction where the magic lantern was coming, and gave it a hard hook. Although the flower lamp is tall, it is very stable in the water, Li Wuling has little strength, the flower lamp was slightly tilted, but it was not hooked.
Lin Wanrong had sharp eyesight and quick hands, took the bamboo pole and pulled it hard, and then hooked the beautiful lantern over.
After the lantern landed on the shore, Lin Wanrong carefully looked at the bottom of the lantern, and saw that there was a fixed lamp base on a circular bracket underneath. Dozens of small wooden wheels were tied to the bracket, which could change direction arbitrarily with the impact of the water flow. When the lamp comes from upstream, the wheels follow the direction of the water flow, so to hook the lamp over is actually to change the direction of the wheels, and naturally the force required is greater.
The design of this mechanical structure is ingenious, and Lin Wanrong couldn't help but nod when he saw it. There are really capable people in Jingzhong.
Seeing that the flower magic lamp was picked up, everyone gathered around one after another. The eldest lady and the second lady who were hiding in the car couldn't help but move lightly, and stood beside Lin Wanrong.
These two women are graceful and beautiful, even more beautiful than the fairies in the painting. The onlookers were stunned when they saw it. Even Li Wuling, the little gibberish, was a little dazed.
Damn, can you see my wife? Lin Wanrong was upset and protected the two ladies behind her. He coughed lightly and said, "Brother Jin, what are you going to do with this lantern?"
Li Wuling wiped his eyes and said: "These two elder sisters are really beautiful. Lin San, is this your wife?"
This question was a good question, Lin Wanrong laughed and said: "Almost." Xiao Yushuang blushed, but the eldest lady pinched the flesh around his waist hard.
"Lin San, why do you look so weird?" Li Wuling said.
Nonsense, to be tortured by this chick, the pain is my flesh, and I still have a smile on my face. Can you not be weird? He laughed and said, "Dong Li, don't talk nonsense, quickly see if there is any pastry in this lamp. I'm a little hungry too. After dinner, I'll go home and sleep with my wife."
"You want to die, dare to say anything?" The eldest lady put more strength in her hands, her face was as red as the haze in the sky, and she whispered in his ear. The orchid-like fragrance that exhaled made Lin Wanrong's heart itch.
Li Wuling nodded, and checked in the magic lantern. Of course there are no pastries, but it is true to find another paper ball. The little devil was naturally very disappointed, he didn't even look at the ball of paper, he threw it to Lin Wanrong and said, "You hooked this lamp back, naturally only you read the letter written by the lady."
Feeling a sharp pain in the thin flesh on her waist, Lin Wanrong smiled wryly and said: "Miss, I did this unintentionally, so don't be blind. Or else. Let me show you, I won't. Anyway, it's useless to watch." .”
Xiao Yuruo's face was bright red, she took a peek at her sister, and hurriedly snorted: "You are the only one who likes nonsense. Yushuang, let's ignore him and let him get his own way."
Xiao Yushuang hummed, and said strangely: "Sister, what's wrong with you, your face is so red."
"Really?" The eldest lady covered her face, and her heart jumped: "Maybe it was the wind. Anyway, it was Lin San's fault, so we just ignore him."
Li Wuling saw that the ball of paper was held in Lin San's hand, but the expression on this man's face was both sweet and painful, so he couldn't help but said: "Lin San, do you want to read it or not? If you don't read it, you should throw it away earlier, so as not to save your wife Jealous."
For the sake of my wife's status, I don't care about this little thing like you. He chuckled, and opened the paper ball, only to see a line of small characters written on it: "Dragon Dragon Dragon, when will you come to attract the phoenix?"
This sentence is like a poem and a couplet, only half a sentence, which makes people confused. Li Wuling leaned over his little head and glanced, sneered: "What kind of dragon and phoenix, what kind of lady is this, she is very conceited."
It makes sense, these young ladies will have their hearts higher than the sky, and have sweet dreams all day long, just like Ning'er in the past. Fortunately, I conquered the talented girl Luo with my boundless charm, otherwise she doesn't know how long she will suffer.
"Cong Chong Chong, specializing in folding phoenix dragons!" Lin Wanrong laughed and wrote a few words, which seemed to be a reflection of himself.
Li Wuling is a big kid, nodded and said: "Lin San, that's a good answer. It's nothing for a dragon to conquer a phoenix, but it's a skill for a worm to conquer a phoenix."
Lin Wanrong stuffed the note back into the lamp, and the two of them put the flower lamp back into the river. Seeing the beauty of the lamp god continue to float downstream, Li Wuling smiled and said, "Lin San, you are a good person. After entering the city, Master Ben treats you to tea. Now I’m going back to ride a horse, see you some other day.”
horse riding? Riding a horse with a black light? Isn't this old little place all lunatics? Li Wuling walked far away, but he was still in a daze. The capital is really different, I see this kind of talent
When turning back to the car, Yushuang smiled and said, "What is written on the flower lamp that made you delay for so long? Sister, is that the question?"
"Damn girl!" The eldest lady blushed and turned her head away hastily.
Lin Wanrong secretly scratched the palm of the eldest lady, and said seriously: "It's nothing, it's the flower god who blessed us!"
"Blessings for what?" the eldest lady said softly.
"Bless us to have a happy marriage for a hundred years and to have a son soon!" Lin Wanrong said with a grin.
The two girls poohed at the same time, the second lady thought she was talking about herself, her heart was pounding, the eldest lady had a ghost in her heart, her face blushed, and she hurriedly said: "If I talk to you a few words, there will be no serious one." I'll punish you to go into the city."
It is unnecessary to enter the city. While the few people were talking, the carriage had already slowly driven under the city wall. Standing on the shaft of the car, Lin Wanrong looked at the vermilion lacquered city gate and the two bright red characters above the city gate, feeling excited in her heart: "Jing Xuan, here I come!"
Alas, in the fire test of New Delhi, ask for a few monthly passes! It's not easy for me either.