The happy life of the devil and the devil

The fire trees and silver flowers are closed, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened.The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes with people.

All the prostitutes are free, and all the songs are full of plums.Jinwu can't help the night, and the jade leaks don't remind each other.

As the end of the new year, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth of the first lunar month, it has always been the last carnival that the people have been looking forward to for a year.There are only these three nights throughout the year, and the city gate is not closed, and Jin Wu can't help it.Even the poorest and poorest people will tidy up and put on the latest and most beautiful clothes. Girls will also wear some hairpins and flowers, and even if they are not good, they will have to root red-headed ropes, and happily go to the street holding hands Look at the lights.

Looking down from the palace gate, there are two imperial streets, one horizontal and one vertical.The Lantern Festival was just around the corner, and whenever Yuan Shao was in Beijing, he would bring the princes, princesses, clan members and nobles to the palace gates to watch the lanterns and have fun with the people.Every show of face, every wave of hand, or some money brocades casually dropped, always caused a tsunami of cheers downstairs. Jingzhao's government servants and Jinwu guards were always sweating to maintain the human wall.

People flocked to both sides of the Royal Street not just to see the emperor.All kinds of ingeniously tied lanterns and floats, dragon and lion dances, even swallowing knives and spitting fire, playing balls on top of poles, all kinds of dramas, just in time for this night, they lined up and passed the imperial road in front of the gate tower. It's just for the king's charm, and to fight for a New Year's lottery.If any team is lucky enough to win the reward, even this year's business will inevitably increase by a few points.

However, during the Lantern Festival this year, the day when the king went up to the tower to have fun with the people was brought forward to the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.Yuan Shao was also a little absent-minded when he went up to the tower to watch the lanterns, and kept turning his head to look at Ling Yucheng, but Ling Yucheng always turned his face away, saying nothing to meet his gaze.The atmosphere between the two of them was so strange that the pair of young girls that Princess Qinghe and Concubine Kang brought up to the tower couldn't help whispering and whispering in private.

The next day is the day of the Lantern Festival.From the moment the sun passed through the middle sky, Ling Yucheng began to fidget, as if there were nails growing on the chair cushion, he got up to grind ink, and then got up to pick up the book, which was spread out in front of him for a long time without turning a page.On this day, the yamen hadn't opened the seal yet, and there was nothing left and right, so Yuan Shao simply chose a comfortable place under the south window, and stared at him with a smile, until Ling Yucheng was hairy all over, so he simply put the book down and stood upright. Standing in front of him, she took a cup of tea and stuffed it into his hand.

"His Majesty……"

"What, regret it?"

"..."

"Who brought me to bet before? The bet is the bet. Who said that the person who said that the Lantern Festival went out to watch the lanterns would lose..."

"His Majesty!"

"Don't dare to admit it? If you don't admit it, don't admit it. My lord has a lot of people, so I just pretend that I haven't made this bet. Tsk tsk, who insisted on making this bet before..."

One sentence made Ling Yucheng's face turn red and white.He played back and forth in the room twice, then suddenly turned around and rushed back to Yuan Shao, shouting: "If you recognize it, you will recognize it! No it's... No it's..."

"What is it?"

"Isn't it just wearing women's clothes and going to the street to accompany you to watch the lights..." As he spoke, his voice became lower and lower, until the last two words were almost inaudible.Yuan Shao sniffed the tea fragrance rising from the cup with a smile, the more he sniffed, the more he liked it. After Ling Yucheng struggled for a long time and couldn't say anything, he got up leisurely, took him into his arms, and by the way, he was still in his arms. He pecked lightly on his red earlobe.

"Okay, okay, if I lose, don't I have to wear women's clothing honestly? It's not because I forced you, I'm willing to bet and admit defeat, it's a rare festival, don't waste time on being awkward."

Ling Yucheng reluctantly nodded in his arms.The bet was thought of by myself, and the bet was made by myself. Although I suspected that Yuan Shao had manipulated the result of the bet, he didn’t grasp the reason after all—after thinking about it, he was still unconvinced, and punched him on the shoulder: “What are you doing for me?” I'm ready! I don't care!"

"Okay, okay, just leave it to me--" Yuan Shao repeatedly agreed.Of course, he didn't want to suffer from his hands, he patted and rubbed, and he was willing to let go only after he took advantage of it, allowing Ling Yucheng to struggle away from his arms.

It is said that they are willing to gamble and lose, and that the empress wears women's clothes, so embarrassing, absolutely no one should know, no matter whether Xuanjiawei belongs to or the maids and servants are the same-naturally, after changing clothes and dressing up in the palace, then If you swagger out of the palace, don't even think about it.As soon as it got dark, the emperor and empress hurriedly filled their stomachs, jumped out of the wall like thieves, and disappeared into the vast crowd under the watchful eyes of the Jinwu guards on duty.

As soon as they left the palace, the two split into two groups, twisted and turned, and finally successfully reunited in a secluded inn.Yuan Shao closed the door and took a deep breath, put down the two big bags in his hands, one on the left and one on the right, and then he and Ling Yucheng looked at each other with rouge, gouache, hairpin and ring jewelry.

"Do you know how to use these?"

"Anyway, I don't know..."

Clothes can be bought, jewelry can be bought, rouge and gouache can be bought, but how can this be used-do I have to go outside and call a lady who combs my hair?After considering the feasibility of asking someone to wear women's clothing and go out on the street without makeup, or ask someone to comb his hair and make up, and finally silence him, Yuan Shao had to cough and make up his mind:

"You put on your clothes, and as for these—"

He bravely waved his hand to the table:

"I'll come."

How hard can it be to dress up as a woman?At least Ling Yucheng said that compared with the court clothes on the grand ceremony, the difficulty of folk women's clothes is not worth mentioning at all.At this point, he stretched his head and retracted his head, and changed his clothes quickly. When he sat in front of the dressing table, Yuan Shao had already spread all the hairpins, rings and jewelry on the table, and picked up a wooden comb from it.

"Speaking of which, this is the third time I comb your hair." The comb made of boxwood is naturally not comparable to the tooth comb in the palace, but in this night and under the candlelight, there is also a kind of warm color. Gently move through Ling Yucheng's hair, combing from the top of the head all the way to the tip of the hair.The jet-black hair spring water usually flows from between the fine teeth of the wooden comb, Yuan Shao couldn't help but take a handful, wrap it around his fingertips and play with it carefully:

"At that time, your hair was not so long..."

After saying a word, Ling Yucheng who had just changed into women's clothes suddenly fell silent.Those two situations are still vivid in my mind. The first time was to cut off the hair with a sword at the top of the city, and broke away from the motherland with the feeling of "cutting off the hair to replace the head"; Yuan Shao asked for another name, so that he could bid farewell to the past and enter a new life.

The first time my heart was extremely cold and painful, and the second time was just the euphoria of the sea and the sky, but it was also accompanied by lingering soreness.The reasons are different, and the mood is also different, but the care and tolerance of the person behind him, just like the warm fingertips running through the hair at this moment, will never change.

Unknowingly raising their heads, the eyes of the two met in the mirror, and they couldn't help smiling slightly at each other.With his eyes glued together, Yuan Shao slowly leaned over, and placed a soft kiss on the top of Ling Yucheng's hair. Then, a pair of arms wrapped around his shoulders and neck from below, pulling him to bend down even deeper, away from those smiling eyes. , The slightly opened lips are getting closer, closer...

After a long time, Yuan Shao picked up the wooden comb again and began to fight against Ling Yucheng's hair again.After being raised for so many years, the black hair that used to be cut off obliquely, the shortest point reaching the shoulders has already hung down to the waist, black and shiny, and the light can be seen.Such a good hair can be played with countless tricks by a skillful combing lady, but what is rare is that it does not need a wig at all, but it falls into the hands of a person who knows nothing except using a hairpin crown or a hair scarf. inside--

"Ouch!"

"Don't move, it's gone again!"

"Could you please stop dragging..."

"Chaizi, chaizi! I told you not to move, it fell again!"

"If you don't know how to plug it in, don't buy so many! What is this, a comb? Why does the comb need to be plugged in?"

"Don't just look around, I can't help you pick it up with your precious hands!"

One was muttering, the other was in a state of exasperation. The two people who usually put on a full set of armor and ran around the school grounds for a few times would not take it seriously. Now they were sweating profusely in the cold night of the Lantern Festival.

After finally combing a bun that is neither straight nor slanted, but still a little bit down, and plugged in seven or eight hairpins, hairpins, Huasheng border flowers and so on, the red candle in front of the dressing table has already burned half .Yuan Shao took a few steps back and looked up and down, then sighed and said, "It is said that the falling horse bun looks like this..."

Ling Yucheng: "..."

In fact, it was not tied tightly, and it was combed crookedly to one side!

Having said that, looking at the various fragments of jewelry that fell all over the table, and looking at the countless broken hairs entwined on the boxwood comb teeth, Ling Yucheng didn't have the courage to say to Yuan Shao: Let's take this hair bun apart and do it again. once!God knows, apart from bundling it into a bunch and then tying it up, other buns with double rings, Lingbo buns, peony buns, spirit snake buns, all kinds of buns with beautiful names and actual shapes are said to be good. It's a mess that can't hold up at all, it's just a mess...

Let's stop here, finally we can meet people, right?

After getting his hair done with great difficulty, Yuan Shao held the balm box on the table with one hand, pinched Ling Yucheng's chin with the other, and looked at him carefully by the candlelight.After watching it for a long time, he sighed with great regret:

"The eyebrows are black without painting, and the lips are red without puffing... This is simply because you don't like the color of makeup! How can I paint it for you?"

"..."Your Majesty, you must remember that the next line of that poem is "Sweep the moth's eyebrows lightly towards the Supreme", right?Ling Yucheng's chin was pinched in his hand, and he couldn't speak well, so he could only work hard to practice the magical skill of "I'll kill you with my eyes".After rolling his eyes for a long time, he finally hoped that Yuan Shao would let go, so he quickly pushed him away, grabbed the fat box and threw himself in front of the mirror:

"I will do it myself!"

"Yo...you still know how to put on makeup?"

"I can't make it easy!"

Relying on learning makeup before—well, it is indeed the foundation left by learning Yirong, Ling Yucheng quickly brushed himself over and over again.Fu Fen Shi Zhu, drawing eyebrows and lips, not asking how beautiful the painting is, but only asking acquaintances not to recognize him when they bump into each other.After a while, the dust settled, the eyebrows and eyes were still the same, but they completely changed under the heavy makeup.

"Look, look, what a stunning beauty, she just paints you with only four or five points of color." Yuan Shao sat beside him and kept shaking his head and sighing: "Why bother? Why bother? You have to mess yourself up Like a country girl... I have to make fun of people when I take it out, don't I?"

"...Your Majesty is afraid of being laughed at, so let's not go out tonight." Ling Yucheng threw down the paint that was last swept across his cheeks, leaned back, and leaned on the back of the chair to send a voice transmission to Yuan Shao: "Anyway, I am a woman dressed as a woman." I wore it too, and His Majesty has seen it, even if Your Majesty refuses to go shopping, you can’t say that I reneged on a bet...how?"

"Okay! So we're here tonight?"

"Don't! I'm going out with His Majesty!"

Do this or that with him in any inn outside the palace, the key point is, still wearing women's clothes... Ling Yucheng hurriedly jumped up and dodged to the door.

He would rather go shopping!

"Wait, you still plan to call me Your Majesty on the street?"

"..."

"Tell me, what should you call me outside? Huh?"

Yuan Shao pressed on every step, Ling Yucheng stepped aside, and the two of them moved forward and back in the room like butterflies, avoiding east and west.After all, Ling Yucheng still missed a move, and Yuan Shaolian threw him on the head of the bed, half of the bed curtain outside fell down, and the man in the shadow whispered in his ear, and he could only prop up half of it unwillingly. body, hooking fingers to signal Yuan Shao to come over.

"Why, you have to stick to your ear before you're willing to say it? - Ouch! Let go!"

After repeatedly grinding Yuan Shao's teeth on his ears, Ling Yucheng was satisfied to let him go.As for Yuan Shao's previous questioning, Ling Yucheng held his ear, and said viciously:

"I'll pretend to be dumb when I get out!"

After several times of commotion, let alone "the head of the willow on the moon", when the two slipped out of the inn, the full moon had already moved to the middle of the sky.There is no need to count on people making appointments after dusk—well, no matter how late it is, as long as it’s not too late for the next morning, it’s still after dusk, right?

Turning into the alley behind the inn, Yuan Shao immediately lowered his voice: "Short! Is there a 'woman' as tall as you?"

Usually, I don't think that with his hair combed like this, and a few hairpins inserted in a random manner, Ling Yucheng looks as tall as him!What's the use of wearing only women's clothes, such a tall and powerful person walking in the crowd, is he afraid that he will be recognized too slowly or something?

Ling Yucheng's face immediately darkened.Annoyance to annoyance, he actually knew that what Yuan Shao said was right, but—"It's too ugly to be bent over!"

"Can't you squat down a bit? The skirt drags all the way to the ground. Who will see if you have bow legs underneath?"

...That is to say, we will practice dwarf skills all night tonight?Ling Yucheng took a deep breath, already feeling his knees started to hurt.

No matter how much they quarreled, and how many reasonable and unreasonable conditions Yuan Shao promised, when the two walked on the street, what others saw was a tall man, and the man who followed her husband in small steps was only as tall as her husband. shoulders wife.Walking on the street, this pair of handsome men and women attracted many people to look back. There was even an older girl and younger daughter-in-law pretending to pass by them unintentionally, throwing a handkerchief or a silk flower. .Naturally, Deng Tuzi's whistle is also indispensable...

Ordinarily, the busiest place in the entire capital is undoubtedly the imperial street at the gate of the palace, but the two of them walked away from each other from the very beginning.What a joke, all the princes, high-ranking officials, and aristocrats of sufficient status in the capital set up a lantern hill along the imperial street to compete for splendor, lest they be compared by others.I also built high and low light sheds for my children to call friends and accompany them. Is it possible to go to this place?

Fortunately, there is enough fun to watch even if you don't go there.Yuan Shao pulled Ling Yucheng for a few steps, and picked out a huge peach blossom lamp in front of him. The pink lampshade was made of something, it was crystal clear at first glance, and the gentle fragrance of peach blossoms blew away with the wind. Countless people were surrounded by three floors and three floors outside. They stood on tiptoes and stretched their necks in amazement.

Going around this circle, there is another revolving lantern with the height of half a person. Several generals in full armor are riding on BMWs.A little boy was sitting on an adult's neck, and stretched out his hand to touch the general on the lamp, but the adult grabbed his hand and howled in disbelief until the adult handed him a bunch of candied haws stop crying...

After only walking half a street, Ling Yucheng already felt that his eyesight was not enough, looking around all the way, just being led by Yuan Shao.Suddenly the person beside him paused, Ling Yucheng hurriedly stopped, poked a furry thing in front of his eyes, and almost stood up straight reflexively.

"Yumei, Xueliu, Naomoer, silk flowers and grass flowers! My son, buy a flower for the little lady!" The little boy stopped in front of the two, holding a bamboo basket, with a bright smile and a clear and crisp voice, "This year's new silk flowers, the little lady will look good on her head!"

do you want?

do you think i will?

In the blink of an eye, the eyes of the two were crackling, and they fought for an unknown number of rounds.The little boy raised his face unconsciously, and continued to introduce crisply: "Master, all we sell are the most fashionable designs this year! Yumei is ten cents each, Xueliu is five cents a bunch, and the moth A pair of eight cents, long time, forever! Buy a pair of jade moths and two bunches of snow willows to give away a pair of moths, or if you want grass flowers! Buy one for the little lady, you can see all over the street Aren’t your little ladies walking around with flowers of the latest style!”

"I——I want all these things!" Yuan Shao almost bit his tongue, but fortunately he made a big turn in time, took out a small silver ladle from his purse and threw it out, rummaged through it in the basket, He randomly picked a silk flower that was pleasing to the eye, and flicked it with his fingers.

I flash!I flash!I flash again!

"Oh, is this one still not to your liking? Or you can pick and choose for yourself~~~~" Seeing the third silk flower that was shot towards the bun was flashed away by Ling Yucheng again, Yuan Shao grabbed him maliciously Come over, and chuckle in his ear: "If you flash again, you won't know what it looks like after all the beautiful ones are picked out!"

"..." Can you punch him in the face in the street?Can you?

In the end Ling Yucheng still desperately resisted Yuan Shao's fists, and didn't add a few more things to his head.It's just that after this time, Yuan Shao didn't know whether it was to express his dissatisfaction, or if he suddenly opened his mind, he dragged Ling Yucheng to wherever the excitement was, he also wanted to guess interesting lantern riddles, and he also wanted to buy snacks he hadn't seen before.

After a while, Ling Yucheng was dragged by him with one hand, and the other hand was miscellaneous, including two lantern poles, a purse tassel, and three strings of unknown snacks—God knows, not at all. tasty!Just as Ling Yucheng wanted to find a place to throw away his things, Yuan Shao had already stretched out his head, and took a bite of his hand where he had bitten...

"..." He stared and pulled hard.

"What? Oh, you want that lamp? Wait a minute, it's for lantern riddles, let's go across the street..."

In such a bustling crowd, it is still a bit difficult to cross the flow of people against the trend.The two moved back and forth, making twists and turns, and finally squeezed across the street. Before they could take a breath and look at the puzzle, their eyes lit up, and a huge golden humanoid object stood in front of them, making them unable to open their eyes at the same time. Come:

"Yo~~~~ What a beautiful little lady! I don't know how old the little lady is, where does she live?"

Was... Molested?

From a teenager to a young man, Ling Yucheng, who was very used to being molested and experienced, his first reaction was to beat him back.The two lanterns that he had been holding in his hand were thrown towards each other, together with the strange snacks strung together in a string, the humanoid object on the opposite side was smashed and screamed.It was only when he had to add another kick that he suddenly realized: what are you doing with him, since Yuan Shao is there, he should be the one to take the lead in such matters!

Thinking of this, he shrank and flashed behind Yuan Shao.Only then did he see the benefits of squatting lower: the guy in front was tall and broad-shouldered, like a wall, and he was blocked tightly without any effort.For some reason, the more Ling Yucheng thought about it, the more amusing it became. He buried his head on Yuan Shao's back, laughing silently until his whole body trembled.

The young man who opened his mouth to make fun of others has been smashed into a fool.The little lady is very beautiful, and the lantern is also very beautiful, but when the lantern in the hand of the little lady smashed towards her head and face with flames, it didn't feel good at all... Not to mention there are a few strings of unidentified objects with a scent of oil .Moreover, the little lady was obviously frightened, and shyly hid behind her husband after smashing the things, trembling from the bead on her head to the exposed half of her sleeve...

"boom!"

An infinitely enlarged fist is his last consciousness.

"Who dares to touch my young master!"

"Master! Master, wake up!"

"Catch a robber—kill—"

Chaos immediately broke out in the lamp market, Yuan Shao turned his head to look at Ling Yucheng, the two nodded at each other, and walked into the crowd hand in hand, running wherever there were more people.After a few steps, seeing Ling Yucheng running stumbling while maintaining his height, Yuan Shao simply grabbed him by the waist, put his arm around his waist, and put his hand on his knees, scurrying twice, and disappeared after a few steps silhouette.

"let me go--"

Being hugged in such a way in public, even though he knew that no one would recognize him, Ling Yucheng immediately got goosebumps all over his body, twisting left and right in Yuan Shao's arms, struggling to get down.As soon as he moved a few times, he was slapped: "What a twist, quickly retract the shoes! Look at your big feet!"

Ling Yucheng: "..."

After fleeing in embarrassment for a long time, the two stopped in a secluded alley.Ling Yucheng landed on both feet, and Yuan Shao looked at each other, you put me on your back, I put you on your back, and suddenly burst into laughter at the same time.

"You were forced to run around by a few servants... Puff hahahahahaha I can't do it..."

"Painting like this is actually being teased by someone! Hahahaha!"

"what do you mean!"

"I made a mistake, oh--ok, ok, you are naturally beautiful, if you paint like this, you are the number one beauty in Daliang, oh--you murdered your husband..."

The two of them lowered their voices as they spoke to each other, gradually starting from bickering and fighting, from pushing and shoving to entanglement, and gradually the two shadows merged into one.Hurrying footsteps outside the alley, a group of young brides passing by talking and laughing, took a look into the depths of the alley, blushed immediately, spit softly and walked away quickly.

After a long time, the two parted reluctantly. Ling Yucheng raised his head and was about to speak, when suddenly there was a jingle, and the golden hairpin with curly hair fell straight to the ground.Yuan Shao hurriedly bent down to pick it up, and finally picked it up in his hand, his eyes went dark, a waterfall of black hair covered his entire vision, only a few pearls and gold hairpins in his hair shone brightly.

Yuan Shao: "..."

Ling Yucheng: "..."

"I got separated from the maid, and I asked the proprietress to help my nephew find a lady who combs my hair." Fortunately, this kind of rhetoric was not suspected.When Ling Yucheng stepped into the middle of the street again, the twisted and shapeless bun had turned into a majestic peony bun, and the pile of jewelry that Yuan Shao bought finally found its place, the most luxurious golden phoenix walk Shaking on the hair bun and trembling, several rubies of different heights are dazzling at the end of the tassel hanging from the mouth of the phoenix.

This five-point beauty immediately turned into a seven-point beauty, so that in just half an hour of shopping, they repeated the classic scene of beating a dude twice, and then escaped victoriously.Before they knew it, the shadow of the tall city wall had shrouded the two of them. After arguing and laughing for half the night, they finally felt empty stomachs and raised their heads side by side, only then did they realize that they had reached the foot of the imperial city.

"Already come here." The two of them temporarily rested in a very small Lantern Festival stall with only two tables, but it was wiped extremely clean, and the two cracked table tops were spotless.Yuan Shao looked at the endlessly laughing crowd in front of him with inexplicable eyes, and his low voice transmission was full of melancholy, "Remember when you first arrived here, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, did I take you to look down on the city wall?"

Ling Yucheng didn't speak, just nodded.Although so many years have passed, the scenes engraved in the memory are still fresh.At that time, the lanterns were far from as bright as they are now, and not far from the gate of the palace, the streets and houses were already plunged into darkness...

But in today's Shangyuan Festival, joy and light have overflowed to the bottom of the city wall, and even flowed out of the city.

"Thank you for your hard work." Before he knew it, a powerful big hand had covered his palm, and he clenched it tightly with strong warmth, "For so many years..."

Is it hard?

For so many years, with you by my side, I have never felt hard work.

When I tried my best to hold it back, what was beating in my heart was the lights of the Lantern Festival shining on the whole city, or the laughter overflowing on the faces of every citizen?

In a few years, this kind of light will spread to every corner of Beiliang...

The two of them leaned together quietly until the water in the pot boiled and boiled, and two bowls of freshly cooked Yuanxiao were brought in front of them, they were reluctant to let go of their clasped hands.One with the left hand and the other with the right hand picked up the soup spoon at the same time, scooped up a Lantern Festival and bit it lightly, the pure black filling flowed out, steaming, sweet to the bottom of my heart.

The old couple selling the Lantern Festival has been busy. The wife is wrapping the Lantern Festival one by one in the corner. The husband cooks, serves, collects the bowls, collects the money, with neat hands and feet, and a smile on his face.Both of them have gray hair, and they seem to be busy with their own business, but they look at each other from time to time, and they look at each other and smile every time their eyes meet.

Even this small Lantern Festival stall hung a lotus lantern, and the candle flame danced gently, covering the two tables with a layer of warm red light.In the center of the long table where Yuan Shao and the others were sitting, a small candlestick was set up, and half of the dragon and phoenix candles silently swallowed the flames. In the long quiet night, it seemed that the old couple's newlyweds had been reflected all the way to their white heads now.

At that time, what were they doing during the wedding ceremony?

Watching him angry and hurt with cold eyes, trying to suppress his arrogance, let him pack up his pride and be a loyal courtier... They have wasted so much time.

"Feel sorry……"

"It's nothing..." The eyes of the two fell on the same flower candle, and there are some things that can be understood without words. "if only……"

As long as they are always together, they will definitely hold hands like this until the end of life.

The author has something to say: Happy Lantern Festival everyone!

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Have you eaten Yuanxiao yet?Is it black sesame stuffing?