Today in Shangyuan, the emperors and queens are all watching the lights on the towers, and the pressure on the guard under the palace city is self-evident. The commander of the Imperial Guard was nervous, and suddenly a subordinate ran over, clasping his fists and reporting that someone was leaving the palace.
The commander of the Imperial Guard frowned when he heard that someone was about to leave the palace. Which master is this, when the palace is the back garden of his home, he actually regards the safety of the forbidden palace as a child's play? But after listening to his subordinates say that person's name, the commander's brows furrowed even tighter. He was stunned for a while, then turned around and went to open the door for the man himself.
Mu Mingtang followed Xie Xuanchen and walked out of the palace step by step. Seeing the many guards around her, she sighed that the emperor was indeed a very cautious person. Based on the rigor of this inspection, you could see his behavior.
Mu Mingtang looked around quietly, Xie Xuanchen noticed Mu Mingtang's movements, pointed to the sentries on both sides and explained to Mu Mingtang: "This is the Imperial Guard Army, all of which are the flag heads of the army, and are incorporated into the Beiwei Army. They serve in the imperial front. They do not belong to any one country, they only listen to the emperor's orders, so they are called the Imperial Guard. They guard the palace city on weekdays, and they serve as ceremonies and guards during celebrations. Just like today, they are responsible for the security of the imperial front. "
Mu Mingtang could not understand what she heard. She asked, "The emperor is on the tower now. Is it okay for them to let people in and out of the city gate?"
"Of course not. There is no civil ban on the three days of Shangyuan, but it must be locked as usual during the ban. The palace gate was already locked at this time, not to mention that the emperor must be protected now."
So, Mu Mingtang listened to Xie Xuanchen saying how strict the ban was, and no one was allowed to enter, while letting the palace door open and taking her out.
Mu Mingtang clicked his tongue in disgust in his heart.
It is so sinful to have privilege.
After Xie Xuanchen left the palace, many people were undoubtedly nervous. When he came out, he had brought a large group of guards. Now that the emperor spoke, the Guards even allocated some to bring it to him. Now they are walking on the street, the iron armor is opening the way, the mighty, it is extremely arrogant.
Mu Mingtang merged into the crowd, and was quickly infected by the festive atmosphere, and looked at the lights excitedly. Today, there are lights everywhere on the street. A series of round lanterns have been drawn on the street to cover the street. The shops on both sides are also hung with colorful lights, which are colorful and lively. In addition to the lights, the street hawkers also showed no signs of weakness, using various novel tricks to attract customers. Mu Mingtang only walked for a short distance, stopped several times, and went to the stall curiously to watch.
Mu Mingtang saw another candy man on the road, and excitedly pulled Xie Xuanchen: "Look, candy man! I haven't eaten a single bite of my candy man, let's buy another one."
It's okay that she didn't mention it. When she mentioned this, Xie Xuanchen snorted coldly, and said, "Isn't it because you didn't eat it, you took it away and gave it away."
Mu Mingtang was funny, and forced Xie Xuanchen to go there: "Well, I shouldn't, this time I invite you, head office, right?"
Xie Xuanchen followed him halfway. A group of imperial guards followed behind King An and Princess An. Their rigid armors were originally incompatible with the surrounding, and now they were holding colorful gadgets, and the style of the painting became more and more strange. They watched Xie Xuanchen and the princess go to buy a candy man. They looked at each other and saw a trace of surprise.
What does An Wang want to do? Is he making noises, or is he deliberately paralyzing his eyes
Mu Mingtang didn't care about the big guys behind her, she and Xie Xuanchen gathered in front of the candy man stand, happily picking out candy man patterns. Mu Mingtang is a monkey, but he has already bought a monkey just now, and Mu Mingtang doesn't want any more monkeys. She watched for a while, then turned to ask Xie Xuanchen, "Are you a dragon?"
"Well." Xie Xuanchen nodded. He and Mu Mingtang were four years apart. One was a dragon and the other was a monkey.
Mu Mingtang suddenly let out an "oh" and said, "Chenlong, no wonder your name is Xuanchen. So I even thought of this."
Xie Xuanchen just shook his head indifferently when he heard it: "Who knows, maybe my father just saw that I was born in the Year of the Dragon, so he named Chen. In this way, it is similar to your Tang."
Mu Mingtang shook her head silently. She knew a lot about her father. The coincidence in Xie Xuanchen's name must be deliberate, but her name was really thought up by her father with a slap on the forehead.
Inspired, Mu Mingtang quickly said to the boss, "I want a dragon." After she finished speaking, she looked back at Xie Xuanchen: "How about you?"
Xie Xuanchen thought for a while, and said, "Then I want Haitang."
Mu Mingtang was surprised: "Can you still do this?"
Xie Xuanchen looked at the stall owner: "Can't you?"
Although his tone of voice was calm, the glance in his eyes was frightening. The stall owner dared to say no, he hurriedly nodded: "Yes, yes."
Xie Xuanchen nodded with satisfaction and answered Mu Mingtang's question just now: "Look, you can do it."
After Xie Xuanchen finished speaking, he raised his eyebrows and looked at the stall owner: "Don't make a flower to fool me, you must make it look like a real begonia."
The stall owner was so frightened that he couldn't say anything, only nodded his head. The stall owner felt a little bit of agility in his nervousness, knowing that he would be Mu Mingtang first. Mu Mingtang was the first to get the candy man. She looked at the transparent and bright dragon in front of her, and sighed very much: "It's so good, I don't even want to eat it."
At this time, Xie Xuanchen also got his own Begonia flower. He looked at the sugar man in front of him, turned around twice, raised his eyes and looked at the stall owner suspiciously: "Are you really not fooling me?"
"Lang Jun was wronged, but the little one really did begonia."
Mu Mingtang stood beside him and had bitten off the dragon's beard. Hearing Xie Xuanchen's words, he replied, "Yes, that's Haitang."
Xie Xuanchen then lowered his head and stared hard at the begonia flower condensed from sugar, his expression becoming more and more confused. Is there really a difference? Why can't he see it
The two got the things and signaled to the guards behind to pay. The candy man stall owner got a large amount of money and immediately burst into laughter.
Although the beautiful gentleman was difficult to serve, the reward was very generous. Their income from this order has exceeded that of setting up a stall for one night.
Mu Mingtang walked for a while holding the candy man, turning Xie Xuanchen next to his elbow, pointing and asking, "What is that?"
Xie Xuanchen looked up and saw that someone was performing an illusion. Behind the man stood a potted tree with colorful lights hanging on it. He kept shouting to the people around him to attract popularity, and then he said something in his mouth.
Mu Mingtang looked puzzled and asked Xie Xuanchen, "How did he do it?"
"I don't know." Xie Xuanchen also looked at it for a while and said truthfully. Mu Mingtang glanced at him helplessly: "You still said that you are not outdated, look, you don't know what is popular now."
Xie Xuanchen was speechless this time, and he really realized that he seemed to be behind, and he didn't quite understand the new tricks in Tokyo now. Xie Xuanchen thought about it too. The Tokyo in his memory was still before the age of fifteen. After he forcibly joined the army at the age of fifteen, he was either busy fighting or usurping the throne, and he never paid attention to the entertainment projects in Beijing.
The results of the dead branches in winter really attracted many people. The stall owner attracted enough attention, and finally changed his voice and recommended his own plaster to the onlookers. Mu Mingtang realized, but still felt shattered.
It was to buy plaster.
They both felt speechless and continued to move forward in tacit understanding.
I just walked and walked like this, and before I knew it, a long time passed. During this period of time, the journey was much longer than usual, but Mu Mingtang didn't feel tired, and it was even easier than listening to the Queen Mother in the palace.
She was not less interested, and when she passed a lantern riddle stand, she suddenly became interested in guessing lantern riddles. Mu Mingtang took a fancy to a beautiful palace lantern, which is very elegant in workmanship, but can only be taken away by guessing the lantern riddle correctly.
Mu Mingtang had to stop thinking, Xie Xuanchen walked behind Mu Mingtang, glanced at the lamp, and said, "Buy it if you like it, why bother."
Seeing what this was said, Mu Mingtang glared at Xie Xuanchen in disgust, and said, "No, if you can't figure it out, we'll just rely on money to solve it. It looks like we're a sloppy mess."
Mu Mingtang's tone is like that of a private school master, teaching students who are not good enough and do not work hard. Xie Xuanchen blinked, glanced at the lamp again, and sighed helplessly: "Okay."
As he said that, he gave an answer to the shopkeeper of the lamp shop. The shopkeeper was shocked and suspicious, stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly came out to get the lamp for Xie Xuanchen.
Xie Xuanchen shoved the palace lantern into Mu Mingtang's hands, and Mu Mingtang was shocked by this development. She stayed for a while, then turned her head to look at Xie Xuanchen in disbelief: "You know?"
"Just guess."
Mu Mingtang stayed for a while, and sadly found that she was abandoned. The companion she thought was not her companion, she was the only one present at the scene.
Mu Mingtang was very sad and angry, and finally turned his anger to Xie Xuanchen: "Since you guessed it, why did you start talking about spending money to buy it?"
"I really planned to buy it directly. Later, you said you wanted to guess lantern riddles, so I took a look."
Unexpectedly, Mu Mingtang became even more angry after hearing this. She glared at Xie Xuanchen angrily and said, "Shut up, I don't want to listen."
Xie Xuanchen felt very wronged. Although he practiced martial arts in the army and was famous for his combat power, he was impatient with the greasy and crooked style of Yin Feng Ning Yue. But he also asked a private school teacher to teach alone since he was a child, and his literary background is not bad.
Just not famous.
To blame can only blame him for being too good-looking and too abrupt.
Mu Mingtang arrived casually, and it counted wherever he went. There were people carrying things along the way and beauties accompanied him. Mu Mingtang had a very pleasant shopping experience. But on the contrary, the experience of the Janissaries behind him cannot be considered wonderful by any means.
They swayed back and forth between laxity and vigilance, constantly trying to figure out what King An was trying to do. Until one night passed, each of them carried big and small things in their hands, and all of them were the elite guards in the army. Finally, it was confirmed that King An came out to accompany the princess to go shopping, to please women.
It is the truth in despair and anger.
Mu Mingtang was hungry when she was shopping. When she saw someone buying chestnuts on the side of the road, she tugged at Xie Xuanchen's sleeve, but didn't speak. Xie Xuanchen understood. The two of them were crossing the street when a cart suddenly passed behind them. The axle didn't know what was wrong, and it hit a stall on one side. The goods were scattered all over the place, blocking the entire road.
The carts collided so hard that the lanterns on the railings were hung. The lantern was paper-pasted, and when the light ignited, it burned.
There was a sound of firefighting around immediately, because the city was densely populated and fires occurred frequently, and every household had water prepared, and each neighborhood had a well for firefighting. Just a lantern, so many people around looked at it, it was quickly extinguished.
This small fire is not a problem, but the commotion it brings is very big. After the cart collided with the stall, the road was blocked, which happened to stop the guards behind Xie Xuanchen and Mu Mingtang. Afterwards, everyone shouted again and again that there was a fire, many people ran out, and many people took water to put out the fire, and the scene was very chaotic.
No matter how powerful the Imperial Guards were, they didn't have wings. There were too many people on Shangyuan Festival, and the crowd was so crowded that it was impossible for the Daluo Immortal to get through. The leader of the Imperial Guard just watched as Prince An and Princess An were blocked by the crowd. When they rushed over, they were no longer visible.
The face of the Janissaries changed immediately.
In fact, if Mu Mingtang heard the voice of the Imperial Guards, she would definitely shout that she was wronged. This time, they really just came to go shopping without any plans. Even the seemingly sudden congestion on the streets just now was not their fault.
I just don't know if I say it, whether the Guards and the Emperor believe it or not.
When Mu Mingtang and Xie Xuanchen noticed that the cart passed behind them and hit the roadside stall directly, they knew that the situation was different. A lantern in the back was still on fire, and many people ran out. The chestnut stall saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly shouted in their ears: "It's on fire, run!"
Xie Xuanchen and Mu Mingtang were crowded by the crowd and went out a lot. In this way, they and the guards were out of sight.
When they finally arrived at a more spacious site, they had merged into another block. The chestnut peddler wiped the sweat on his head and sighed like the rest of his life: "Fortunately, I ran out, but fortunately it was just a false alarm."
The hawker said with a simple smile, and looked at Mu Mingtang and Xie Xuanchen naively: "If you don't die, you will have good luck. Langjun and Niangzi originally wanted to buy chestnuts, and the youngest has a fate with Langjun and Niangzi. Well, how much Langjun buys, the small one will be 30% cheaper for you."
Xie Xuanchen looked at the hawker with an inexplicable smile. Mu Mingtang didn't panic at all, and even sighed in his heart.
How naive. Mu Mingtang guessed that they were targeted for a long time. I am afraid that when they were in Xuandemen Square, these people would be tempted.
After all, Xie Xuanchen and Mu Mingtang came directly from the palace, and even Huangkou Xiaoer could guess that their identities were either rich or expensive.
It's hard for them to follow this way. I'm afraid these people determined that Xie Xuanchen's identity is not cheap, and he is indeed a royal family, so they made up their minds to do it. What's more unfortunate is that Xie Xuanchen's beautiful and innocent appearance probably gave them some wrong hints, so they made the decision to lead the guards away and leave Xie Xuanchen and Mu Mingtang alone.
Mu Mingtang felt pity for the person in front of him. Did they think that the group of five big and three thick guards was to protect Xie Xuanchen
Not at all, the guards are actually protecting these assassins.