The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

The Lantern Festival is also a major festival that Song people value. Around the Lantern Festival, lanterns and festoons are everywhere, and everyone watches the lanterns, and most of them gather in Daxiangguo Temple.

Colorful ropes are drawn above the market to hang "street lights".The types of these lanterns are all kinds of strange things, all kinds of materials and shapes, and they fully display the wisdom of the people of the time.

Ouyang Xiu has a very famous poem. The first line is: On the night of Yuanyuan last year, the lights of the flower market were like day.

How many lights are there during the Lantern Festival?They have turned Bianjing at night into daytime.

And setting off fireworks is also a very important entertainment. At this time, there are already many kinds of fireworks, and the big ones can be set off to the sky. The bluish white Sai Yueming, purple like grapes, and colorful, bloom over Bianjing.The small ones can be taught to children to hold them in their hands, and they can be placed in various shapes such as pear blossoms, apricot blossoms, and chrysanthemums, which add light to the night in Bianjing.

Yun Yanhui had already agreed, if Shuang Yi learned how to cook well, she would take her to watch the lanterns during the Lantern Festival.

Shuangyixuebaian couldn't kill anyone, but on the fifteenth day, he was finally able to steam steamed buns without stuffing, and because of his strong hands, the noodles were well kneaded, and they were especially chewy.Seeing hope, Zheng Ping was willing to let her go.

The Lantern Festival lasted for five days and sixteen nights, and the women went out to get rid of all kinds of diseases.Walking the streets together, walking to the city gate, and touching the nails on the gate, the implication is to eliminate all diseases.At the same time, it is also a time for beautifully dressed women to go shopping together.

So on the [-]th night of the first lunar month, Yunyan went home separately, Zheng Ping went to see Baibing, Fu Yunfeng wanted to take Xiaobao to watch Baixi, and Yunyan took Shuangyi to watch the lanterns.

There is a poem describing the lights of the five days of the Lantern Festival one by one. It says that on the first day, the lights on the night of the thirteenth are "new lanterns connecting Jiumo", on the fourteenth night it is "the lights are getting better than the night", and on the fifteenth night it is "Jiuqu lamps and candles smoke the sky", sixteen nights is "the second time to look at the old legend of lamp customs", and on the last day of seventeen nights, the lamps should be burned down, that is, "try to burn the lamps like daylight".

That is to say, today is a good time to watch lanterns on the last day, except for the old customs and all kinds of diseases.

Yunyan took Shuangyi back to the lantern market, only seeing that the lights were bright everywhere, she chose a lotus lantern for Shuangyi and held it in her hand.This is bamboo split and tied with hemp rope, bent into the shape of lotus petals, pasted with paper, lighted, and decorated with cattail grass and festival flowers beside it.

Shuang Yi has a girlish heart at these times, seeing the new lights researched this year, she smiles brightly.

Although Yun Yanhui is younger than her, but her temperament is much more mature, when the two walk together, people who don't know the inside story will think that they are a well-matched young couple and cast envious glances.

Those who know each other will know that it is siblings traveling together.

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Today, the Nine Sons and Mothers Hall and the East and West Pagoda courtyards of Daxiangguo Temple are all lit with candles, and there are many music sheds.

In fact, the largest shed belongs to the royal family. Every year during the Lantern Festival, officials from the royal family and clan will visit the Daxiangguo Temple to watch the lanterns and have fun with the people.Today is the sixteenth, the official family has been here for a day, and will not come tonight, but the shed must still be there, and other nobles of the clan will use it.

Yun Yan was thinking back, wondering if Zhao Yunchu would come on such a day.Most of the time these years, his family has avoided it. After all, the prince is "sick", and the princess has come here once or twice, and if she comes, she will bring Zhao Yunchu with her.

Thinking about it this way, Zhao Yunchu really appeared.

There were a lot of people in the Lantern Festival, Yun Yan heard someone calling her, and when she looked back suddenly, she saw Zhao Yunchu's smiling face in the crowd.The two looked at each other, and Yun Yan waved back to him.

Zhao Yunchu took some effort to get out of the crowd, followed by a servant.It was only at this time that he could see that he was carrying a sheepskin lamp in his hand, and he thought he was trying so hard just now to protect the lamp.

This thin sheepskin is engraved with the characters of the Three Kingdoms, and the light inside is softly reflected, making the patterns clear, which is a very labor-intensive lamp.

Shuangyi looked at Zhao Yunchu, but jokingly said: "You come to return our brother Yan's scarf?"

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yun Yanhui lent Zhao Yunchu his scarf and umbrella, but he never had time to return it when Yun Yan returned home, so Shuang Yi said so.

The scarf is now hanging around Zhao Yunchu's neck, he touched it and said, "That's right, I forgot to bring the umbrella."

"Forget it, it's just an umbrella." Yun Yan waved her hand back, "Did you come two days ago? Where's the princess?"

"My mother didn't come, and I didn't come two days ago. This year, my house still doesn't watch the lanterns. I came out by myself." Zhao Yunchu said, "I didn't expect to see Brother Yan when I came here. It's really a fate."

Yun Yan replied relaxedly: "Then let's swim together."

Shuang Yi smiled and said nothing, what is the fate, Daxiangguo Temple in Yuanxiao is full of people, but you can recognize Brother Yan from the crowd at once, it is a forced fate.

The boy opened the way ahead, and the three of them walked side by side to watch the lanterns.

Zhao Yunchu asked: "Brother Yan, why don't you see the lantern in your hand?"

Even in Shuangyi's hand, it is just the most common lotus lantern.

"I didn't see anything I liked." When Yun Yan returned to modern times, he also liked to play with it when he was a child. At that time, many of them were plastic electronic lights. In fact, they are far less interesting than the current lights, but he is already old.

"Let's buy one, come to the Lantern Market to see the lanterns, how can we not buy one." Zhao Yunchu said, "Which one do you like, I will give it to you."

In front of the place where the lights are bright, there are performers. The performers climbed to the top along the bamboo poles, hung the lights on it, and won rounds of applause.

Yun Yan's gaze wandered up in a daze, and when he saw an animal series among the street lamps, he pointed to the bear lamp among them and said, "That one looks good."

It's not bad, but it's just for decoration. If you want to buy it, you don't know where to find it in the lamp market.

Shuangyi urged: "Let's just take this one off."

Zhao Yunchu: "How can I pick it off! Oh, I asked the boy to find out where it is sold."

"Wait, if you can't take it off, it doesn't mean others can't take it off." Shuangyi stopped him, rubbed her hands, and glanced at the surrounding furnishings, knowing it well.

Shuangyi took a few steps to the side, without running up, she climbed up the lamp pole, jumped up halfway, grabbed the eaves of the second floor, straightened her waist, rolled up, and then passed the street lamp lightly like a flying swallow. walking on the rope.

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

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

The little lady stooped to get a lamp, and then she didn't go back the same way, but jumped directly from the two floors, her body was as light as a leaf, after landing, the lamp in her hand shook a few times, But it is not destroyed.

After a while of silence, the onlookers applauded loudly!

Shuang Yi proudly walked up to Yun Yanhui, handed him the lamp, and smiled at Zhao Yunchu.

Yun Yan took the lamp back, unable to hide her smile, "See if you can."

Shuang Yi made a grimace, and turned around to clap her fists at the enthusiastic onlookers.

Yun Yan went back to visit Zhao Yunchu again, only to find that the child's eyes were red, and she was speechless, "Why are you crying?"

"I'm not crying." Zhao Yunchu said in a crying voice.

Yun Yan replied: "..."

Zhao Yunchu is sad!He blatantly said that Brother Yan would buy any lamp he wanted, but Shuang Yi lost face in front of Brother Yan. The more he thought about it, the more ashamed he became, and the more he thought about it, the more grief and indignation.

Yun Yanhui also figured out the joints, and felt that the two of them looked like children, especially Zhao Yunchu, why was he only tall but not caring, so he said: "You lower your head."

Zhao Yunchu lowered his head before asking: "Why..."

Yun Yan raised her hand back and rubbed his eyes for him, "Look at your poor energy, can you compare with 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 highly praised it, even in his martial arts gym, there is no one who can match Shuangyi.

Zhao Yunchu felt Brother Yan's fingertips gently rubbing his eyelids, so he took advantage of the situation and said coquettishly, "I want to blow my eyes."

Yun Yan flicked on his forehead, "It's not sand, what are you blowing, are you a little girl?"

Unexpectedly, Brother Yan's tender moment was so short, Zhao Yunchu didn't dare to be a monster anymore, he stood obediently beside Yun Yanhui, and said with a smile: "Brother Yan, let me carry the lamp for you."

He took the bear lantern from Yunyan's hand, and he was so attentive that the servant wanted to cover his face when he saw it.

Yunyan took them back to swim to the climax of the moon, and wanted to send Zhao Yunchu back.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yunchu refused to leave, "Brother Yan, let me go to your house to spend the night, my elder brother always sings every night lately, my yard is right next to him, so noisy that I can't sleep."

Shuang Yi: "I don't have any spare room in my house."

Yun Yanhui also said: "It's okay to spend the night at my house, you don't want to go back there and sleep with the Zen master, your mother will definitely agree."

Zhao Yunchu said incredulously: "Just sleep for one night... It's the holidays, brother Yan... Sister Shuangyi, please..."

Yun Yan turned to look at him with a serious face. Although Zhao Yunchu forced him to hold hands and lean on shoulders before, he was just a clingy child who admired him, but he was not so clingy that he wanted to sleep in their house.

Zhao Yunchu snapped his fingers and said, "A few days ago, I met Zheng Ling when celebrating the festival in the palace. He said that he slept with Brother Yan on the fifth day of the lunar new year..."

This is the reason Yunyan wrote back. Zhao Yunchu and Zheng Ling have always disliked each other, and occasionally they would compare each other, but it is really naive to compare to this.Besides, Zheng Ling is his cousin, but Zhao Yunchu is not.

So Yunyan said coldly: "Sleep outside in the donkey shed."

Zhao Yunchu was so heartbroken that his whole body went limp all of a sudden.

But how can we say that there is no unparalleled road, just when Zhao Yunchu's heart was pierced by a knife, a group of diving teams passed by, with buckets and other things in their hands, there were so many people, Zhao Yunchu couldn't dodge in time, and bumped into each other.

Zhao Yunchu was fine, but the man flew out instead, the bucket in his hand spilled, and the water splashed on Zhao Yunchu.

"Aw!" The man cried out in pain, and he had to apologize to Zhao Yunchu when he got up, and he knew how uncomfortable it was to be splashed with water in this cold weather.His captain was already calling him, so he had to pick up the bucket and continue running.

This submerged fire brigade is the fire brigade of Bianjing. The houses in Beijing are mostly brick and wood structures. Once a fire breaks out, the losses will be heavy. There have been several major fires before, so we attach great importance to fire prevention and fire fighting, and there are always submerged fire teams on duty. , Patrol, and built a hopeful building to observe the fire from a high place and find the fire in time.

Now that the Lantern Festival is lit up everywhere, it is a time of high incidence of fires. The fire diving team is at its busiest time, thinking that there is a fire again, and they have to fight the fire.

Zhao Yunchu was also unlucky, his servant jumped up and down, Yun Yanhui pulled him away, took off his coat and put it on for Zhao Yunchu, and asked Shuangyi to carry him back to his home.

There is hot water at home all the time, not far from here, with Shuang Yi's skills, it didn't take long to carry Zhao Yunchu on his shoulders, he quickly asked him to take off his wet clothes, and soaked in boiling water to dispel the cold.

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

Shuangyi was still trying to cook Hu spicy soup, when Yun Yanhui saw it, her face changed greatly, "Okay, I'll come..."

Shuangyi let go of her hand resentfully, "Tell him to taste my craft."

You want Zhao Yunchu's life, how much hatred? ?

Yunyan thought back to her heart that fortunately Zhao Yunchu didn't know the inside story, maybe she is still touching Sister Shuangyi, but she is actually a good person.

Zhao Yunchu called weakly inside: "Brother Yan, can you come in..."

Yun Yan walked back in, "Why?"

Zhao Yunchu: "I'm afraid alone."

Yun Yan didn't believe it at all, "You don't have to be afraid if you recite the scriptures yourself."

"..." Zhao Yunchu was speechless, so he fell into a depressed silence.

Because Zhao Yunchu was bigger than him, Yunyan went back to find a set of Fu Yunfeng's clothes, and after Zhao Yunchu finished washing, he asked him to put them on, and they barely fit, and then drank a bowl of hot spicy soup to drive away the cold.

During this period, Zheng Ping, Fu Yunfeng and Xiaobao all came back, saying that it was already raining and snowing outside.

It was raining heavily that night, Zhao Yunchu looked at Yun Yanhui with tears in his eyes, and Zheng Ping couldn't bear to go back, so Yun Yanhui had to let him stay overnight.

Zhao Yunchu cheerfully sent the boy back by himself, and told the mansion that he had been exposed to the cold and would rest for a night before going back.