This day is the Lantern Festival.
As soon as the sky darkened, a large number of strings of lanterns were lit up on Longmen Street in the capital, and the crowd was bustling with joy and excitement.
"Look, isn't that tortoise lamp pretty?" Lu Xiao pointed to the front with great interest.
"Well, pretty." Qiu Yutong was absent-minded.
While he was perfunctory to Lu Xiao, he was secretly thinking, the third senior brother lives in Juanlian Hutong, which is not far from Longmen Street, and it is just after turning the third alley in front, but Lu Xiao followed him closely all the way. Can't get rid of it.
The two were strolling casually on Longmen Street. Before they knew it, the sky was getting darker and there were more and more tourists. The lanterns that were lit up one after another were all-encompassing, including rabbit lanterns, tiger lanterns, crane lanterns, goldfish lanterns... There are strings of lamps hanging on the side of the street and above the head in large pieces, a piece of brilliance and splendor.
In addition, there are more exquisite birthday lamps holding peaches, Zhong Kui ghost-hunting lamps, Chang'e flying to the moon lamps, Zhang Guolao riding a donkey lamp... The most bizarre is the revolving horse lamp. The paper-cut generals in the lamps are riding horses. After chasing, lifelike, very interesting.
The streets are bustling with pedestrians, men and women's skirts are fragrant, and there are those who beat gongs and drums, and those who sell cakes on stilts. It is very lively.
"Rabbit lamps, tortoise lamps, one for five cents, three for ten cents!"
"Buy pastries! Freshly baked glutinous rice cakes! They are delicious and sweet!"
"Candied haws! Sweet and sour candied haws!"
"Oh, girl, give way, you are blocking me from watching the lantern!"
"Let's go, let's buy candied haws, let's go over there to see!"
It is exactly "Thousands of doors are unlocked and thousands of lights are lit, and the capital is moved in the middle of the first lunar month. Three hundred wives dance with their sleeves, and there is the sound of words in the sky for a while."
Qiu Yutong sighed in his heart. This year's Lantern Festival seems to be much more lively than five years ago. The city is full of lights and festoons, and it is a scene of prosperity.
Lu Xiao's five years of hard work were not in vain.
Thinking of this, Qiu Yutong couldn't help but glanced at the young man beside him. Lu Xiao was looking at a lantern in the distance with ecstasy. Thousands of lights were reflected in his pitch-black phoenix eyes, exactly the same as five years ago.
Thinking of the Lantern Festival five years ago, Qiu Yutong couldn't help laughing.
At that time, on a whim, the old emperor took advantage of the Lantern Festival to re-open the sutra banquet in the Daning Palace, and invited the most famous Confucianist in the world to give lectures. This was originally a good opportunity for the princes to show themselves, but when Lu Xiao heard that Qiu Yutong was going to Longmen Street to watch the Lantern Festival, he would come with him no matter what.
Qiu Yutong really couldn't hold him back, so he had to cut a paper puppet and let that paper puppet go to listen to the sutra feast instead of Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao was only eighteen years old at that time. Although he was calmer and more mature than his peers, he was still a young man who was not as weak as a crown. He dragged Qiu Yutong and walked under the bright lanterns, almost unable to hide his excitement.
"Master, look at that lamp, does it look like Chang'e?"
"Master, look, this lamp can move, isn't it a treasure in the cultivation world?"
Qiu Yutong was dragged around by him for a while, Lu Xiao suddenly paused slightly, and stood still in front of a lantern booth.
Qiu Yutong wondered, "What's wrong?"
Lu Xiao pointed to the notice posted on the booth: "It says, as long as you guess the lantern riddles on the lantern, you can take the lantern without spending money."
Qiu Yutong couldn't help laughing, this kid is quite frugal!
The proprietress of the booth smiled and said, "You two, do you want to guess lantern riddles?"
"Well... let me take a look first." Lu Xiao looked at the lanterns on the booth.
There are hundreds of large and small lanterns hanging on the stalls, most of which are made of gauze and silk, and there are also a few glazed lanterns, all of which are very delicate. Each lantern has a small note on it. Write a short riddle.
Lu Xiao stared at a pink silk lotus lantern for a long time, then suddenly bent down and said something softly to the proprietress.
"Okay, I won, take it away." The proprietress smiled and took off the lantern and handed it to Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao lifted the lantern, looked at it carefully, and smiled at Qiu Yutong with his lips pursed, as if he was a little embarrassed.
"What's the matter?" Qiu Yutong secretly laughed in his heart, this kid took other people's lanterns for nothing, and now he knows how embarrassed he is!
Lu Xiao lowered his eyes in a panic, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a while, he hesitated and handed the lantern to Qiu Yutong: "Master, this is for you."
"Give it to me?" Qiu Yutong took the lantern, and looked at the note on it curiously, "Wine is intoxicating and hurts autumn, and the speaker is speechless, do you know it? Xiao'er, what is this riddle about?" what?"
Lu Xiao held back, not daring to say anything.
Qiu Yutong read it again, then shook her head: "This is not right."
The proprietress laughed and said, "My lord, the things of ordinary people are so particular. The answer to this lantern riddle is..."
Before the proprietress could finish her words, Lu Xiao had already dragged him out of the booth: "Master, there are sugar figurines over there!"
"Sugar man?" Qiu Yutong originally wanted to ask the answer to the riddle, but when he heard that there was a sugar man, his attention was immediately diverted.
…
"What's wrong?" Lu Xiao's voice brought Qiu Yutong back from her memories.
He thought with some regret, in fact, that lotus lantern is quite beautiful. It's a pity that later he and Lu Xiao went to buy sugar figurines from the sugar figurine Zhang. There were too many people queuing up, and the lantern was accidentally crushed. Lu Xiao was still sad for a long time.
Thinking of the sugar man, Qiu Yutong smelled a faint sweet caramel fragrance again, and couldn't help but cheer up: "Go over there and have a look."
Lu Xiao looked at him with lowered eyes, and couldn't help but raise one corner of his mouth slightly: "Okay."
Sugar Renzhang's booth was crowded with people.
The two of them put in a lot of effort, but in the end it was Lu Xiao who was the better at it. He managed to break through from a group of aunts, and got the last little sugar figurine before the sugar figurine Zhang closed the stall.
only one.
Qiu Yutong looked helplessly at the sugar figure in Lu Xiao's hand, her gaze almost mournful: "..."
"It looks a bit tired, but suddenly I don't want to eat it anymore." Lu Xiao sniffed the little sugar figurine lightly, "Why don't you just throw it away."
Qiu Yutong was in a hurry: "Don't waste it, or... uh, let me help you eat."
Lu Xiao looked at him and pursed his lips, as if he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.
Qiu Yutong stared at him, a little annoyed: "What do you mean?"
"Well, help me eat." Lu Xiao quickly handed him the little sugar figurine, and pulled him to continue walking, "Come on, let's go ahead and guess the lantern riddles."
Qiu Yutong held the sugar figurine and was dragged forward all the way by him. The strings of bright lanterns beside him retreated one after another. For a moment, it felt as if it had passed away, as if it had returned to many years ago.
All the way was brightly lit, Lu Xiao pulled Qiu Yutong and stopped in front of a lantern riddle guessing booth.
He pointed to a pink silk lotus lantern hanging on the booth, leaned over and said something to the proprietress, who nodded and took down the lotus lantern with a smile.
"Here." Lu Xiao handed the lotus lantern to Qiu Yutong.
Qiu Yutong took the lotus lantern with some hesitation, and looked down at the small note on the lantern: "Drinking wine hurts autumn, and the speaker is speechless, do you know it? This lantern riddle seems to be similar to..."
He paused, and didn't say the latter sentence "same as before".
Lu Xiao looked down at him: "What's wrong?"
Qiu Yutong hesitated for a moment, then shook her head: "It's nothing."
"Really? Really nothing?" Lu Xiao said softly.
For a moment, the atmosphere was vaguely weird.
"Let's go." Qiu Yutong shook her head, trying not to think too much, and Lu Xiao didn't say anything. The two of them walked slowly along the long street with lanterns in their hands.
"Ouch!" A man exclaimed, then turned around, raised his eyebrows and asked, "How did you get there? Didn't you see this young master?"
Qiu Yutong said apologetically, "Sorry, it's too crowded."
The person who was bumped was a young man, about twenty-five or six years old, with a fairly handsome face, but his face was very pale, and with the swollen bags under his eyes, he seemed to have been hollowed out by wine.
"You..." He stared blankly at Qiu Yutong, completely stunned.
Lu Xiao frowned, pulled Qiu Yutong away and wanted to move forward: "Don't pay attention to him, let's go."
But the man grabbed Qiu Yutong's arm: "Don't go! Which yard are you from? Don't follow that kid, go with me, I'll pay double the money."
Qiu Yutong was taken aback for a moment, and then realized - dare this person treat him as a young lady? !
Although the appearance of this body is relatively soft, and Lu Xiao is so sticking next to him, and there are indeed quite a few girls and young men on Longmen Street tonight... But, how does his temperament seem to be selling himself? Even the second senior brother, who was the most taciturn, admitted that when he was full of murderous aura, the coercion was almost suffocating.
The man still held him tight: "How much is it? Make an offer."
Qiu Yutong was so angry that she almost laughed: "You..."
Lu Xiao grabbed the man's wrist, pulled his hand off Qiu Yutong's shoulder, and said solemnly, "Get lost."
The man's wrist was pinched and rattled, and beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead. He stared at Lu Xiao and said in a trembling voice, "You, who are you? You, do you know who I am? My eldest brother is Li Zhiyuan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials!"
Lu Xiao stared at him, and suddenly smiled: "Li Zhiyuan? I don't know, Li Zhiyuan still has a younger brother like you?"
Looking at Lu Xiao's expression, Qiu Yutong knew that "Li Zhiyuan" was going to be in trouble. He was about to say something, but the man suddenly saw some savior, and shouted loudly: "Big brother! Big brother! I'm here, Someone hit me!"
A tall man in brocade clothes led a few servants and walked over through the crowd. He frowned and said, "Li Jiang, what trouble have you caused?"
Li Jiang pointed at Lu Xiao: "Brother, he hit me!"
Li Zhiyuan raised his eyelids and looked at Lu Xiao: "You hit..."
His voice suddenly became hoarse, and he was dumbfounded.
Lu Xiao leaned over slowly, and whispered in his ear: "Li Aiqing, you are capable, and I will not make things difficult for you. However, if your younger brother still wants to survive, you'd better send him out of the capital tonight , never come back."
Li Zhiyuan bent down slightly, trembling and whispering: "My minister obeys the order."
"Brother, what are you talking to him about?!" Li Jiang was still arguing beside him, Li Zhiyuan straightened up, and then waved his hands fiercely, "Tie up this little bastard!"
Li Jiang was stunned, and grievously shouted: "Brother!"
"Young master, this..." The servants looked at each other, not daring to make a move for a moment.
Li Zhiyuan said angrily: "Didn't you hear that? Bind this useless bastard to me!"
The servants glanced at each other, and the leading servant hugged Li Jiang: "Second young master, I offended you."
Afterwards, the servants rushed forward and tried to tie up Li Jiang, "How dare you!" Li Jiang struggled desperately, like a live fish out of water, and the scene became a mess for a while.
The author has something to say: It's about lantern riddles: When you're intoxicated with wine, you'll hurt your autumn.
The word worry hurts the autumn is "heart", and the words and words are "joy", which means "my heart pleases you, do you know?"