Qing Jialu

The Lantern Festival is also known as Shangyuan Festival or Yuanxi. Every year on the [-]th night of the first lunar month, men, women, and children will come out of their homes to watch lanterns, guess riddles, and make wishes. The streets are brightly lit and lively.

In the past two days, Xiao Yi's cold poison was completely suppressed, and his hands and feet also regained their strength.Now that it was the night of the Yuan Dynasty, Xiao Yi had been bored in Xiyuan for the whole winter, so he could not sit still, so he discussed with Shen Jia early on to go out of the palace for the festival.

Eunuch Chen was listening with a worried expression on his face, trying to dissuade Xiao Yi, "Your Majesty, if there are people bumping into each other on the street, what will happen?"

"Eunuch, relax, I will personally protect His Majesty." Shen Jia assured.

"Furthermore, there is Jin Yiwei following, what can happen?" Xiao Yi also said.

Seeing their husband and wife singing together, Eunuch Chen had no choice but to agree.

After dinner, Xiao Yi and Shen Jia changed into cloth clothes and Confucian clothes, dressed like scholars going to Beijing for an exam.The fourth year of Qingjia was originally the year of the big exam, and many candidates had already entered Beijing, and their attire was following the trend.

Shen Jia seldom saw Xiao Yi who was dressed as a scholar, so his eyes lit up, and he gave him a peer salute with a smile: "Brother Weiming!"

"Brother Changqing!" Xiao Yi replied.

Then, the two laughed.

"Your Majesty, don't you wear a sword?" Eunuch Chen looked left and right. It was strange to look at the literati's attire with a sword.

But Xiao Yu never left his sword when he went out, so he could only frown and ask the master what he meant.

Xiao Yi gently stroked the long sword "Zhi Ge", then looked at Shen Jia, "Forget it, I don't take it. I believe Shen Changqing can protect me well."

Shen Jia smiled proudly after hearing this, but Eunuch Chen was taken aback.He knew that his master had never had any sense of security, and he only believed that the sword and power in his hand could protect him. Unexpectedly, one day, Shen Jia asked Xiao Yu to put down the sword.

"Don't worry, I will risk my life to protect you. We won't go to the Zhuangyuan building this time, and there will definitely be no more assassins."

When the two were ready, they quietly slipped out of Xiyuan in a carriage.When they got to the street, the carriage couldn't squeeze in anymore, so Shen Jia supported Xiao Yi and watched the lanterns slowly with the flow of people.

"It's really lively." Xiao Yi hasn't come out for a long time, and now he feels kind to strangers.

"Brother Weiming, do you want to guess the lantern riddles?" Shen Jia invited him with an expression eager to try.

"Okay." Xiao Yi gladly accepted the challenge.

Many shops selling lanterns on the street have lantern riddle guessing activities, and if you can guess correctly, you will get a lantern.Xiao Yi and Shen Jia compete to see who wins the most lanterns.

The two of you guessed a question, and I guessed a question, and there were several rounds in turn.I saw that the merchant's face was getting darker and darker, and there were more and more lanterns held by Jin Yiwei dressed as a servant behind him.

After all, Shen Jia was born in the imperial examination and was much better than Xiao Yi. After a competition, Shen Jia won.

"If you keep guessing, the merchant will drive people away." Shen Jia was worried that Xiao Yi's legs would not be able to stand for a long time, so she pointed to a restaurant not far away, "Let's go over there and have a seat."

"Okay." Xiao Yi happened to be tired too.

The two of them paid a high price and asked Xiaoer to arrange a private room on the top floor, where they could sit on a high place and have a panoramic view of the grand occasion of the capital.Shen Jia ordered two bowls of glutinous rice balls and a jug of Tusu wine.Seeing that Shen Jia was going to drink again, Xiao Yi smiled and said, "Don't get drunk again."

Shen Jia remembered what she did when she was drunk last time, and couldn't help but blushed slightly, "It's the holiday tonight, so it's okay to have a few drinks."

The food and wine were served quickly, and after Jin Yiwei tested the poison, he was sent to a private room.Then he went to sit outside, without disturbing them from drinking.

"Drinking glutinous rice balls, drinking wine, watching lanterns, and guessing lantern riddles during the Lantern Festival." Shen Jia said to Xiao Yi while tasting the wine while looking out the window, "I almost forgot, we haven't set off lanterns yet to make a wish. "

"Okay, after we finish eating, we'll go to put up lanterns." Xiao Yi smiled, he didn't expect Shen Jia to have such a strong sense of ritual.

But Shen Jia said: "What wish does Wei Ming want to make?"

Xiao Yi was really taken aback by the question, he looked at the brightly lit street, at the bustling people, "Hai Yan He Qing, Guo Tai Min An."

Sure enough, this wish was in line with Xiao Yi's temperament.Shen Jia curled her lips, she knew that Xiao Yi was a person who had no desires or desires.

"Brother Wei Ming, won't you ask me about my wish?" Shen Jia asked again.

"What wish does Changqing have?" Xiao Yi asked following his words.

Shen Jia looked at him with a smile, her eyes full of affection, "First, I wish my husband a thousand years; second, I wish my concubine a long and healthy life; third, I wish that I will be like Liang Shangyan and see you again every year."

Xiao Yi's face was flushed by Shen Jia's love words, for so many years, only Shen Jia made his heart beat faster.

"Twilight, are you drunk?" Seeing Xiao Yi's face suddenly turned red, Shen Jia thought he was drunk, "Today you drink less than I do."

Xiao Yi didn't refute, just looked at him with a smile.

"I feel like I'm drunk too." Shen Jia wiped her face, feeling like she was floating in the air, half-drunk, suddenly happy after drinking.

Seeing this, Xiao Yi snatched Shen Jia's wine glass, "Then don't drink it, and don't let someone carry you back then."

"Okay, don't drink anymore." Shen Jia followed good manners and suddenly became interested in poetry again, "Paper and pen, I want to write poetry."

"You want to write poetry?" Xiao Yi didn't realize it all at once, Shen Jia's thinking was too jumpy.

"I want to write lyrics." Shen Jia jumped again.

"You want to write lyrics?" Xiao Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"I want to write a song." Shen Jia changed again.

"Okay, okay, I'll grind ink for you." Xiao Yi was convinced, thinking, is this the romance of a literati?

Xiao Yi called Jin Yiwei and asked them to ask Xiao Er for pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and removed the bowls and chopsticks from the table.This movement attracted the attention of others.Hearing that someone was going to write a poem, many literati and elegant guests came to their private room to watch.

With so many people watching, Jin Yiwei was a little worried about the safety of His Majesty and Elder Shen Ge.But Xiao Yi was only worried that Shen Jia couldn't write poems, so he would be ashamed.

After everything is ready, wait for Shen Jiashi to get excited.

Shen Jia was not stage-frightened at all. He rolled up his sleeves, dipped his pen in the ink, looked out the window, and after pondering for a long time, he waved the pen and ink wildly on the paper.

Everyone flocked up to read Shen Jia's writing, and someone shook their heads and read out, "Tonight, when the spring lights are on, the daughter of Yanjing is walking on the moon."

Those who couldn't see in the back row immediately applauded when they heard the poem recited in the front row.

"What's next? Have you written it?" Some people couldn't wait for the second half of the sentence.

And after Shen Jia wrote the first half of the poem, he put down his pen again. He looked left and right to find his wine glass, but Xiao Yi snatched it from him, so he had to pick up a jug of wine, and took a big gulp directly to his mouth.

"You can hold a lot of alcohol." Someone began to praise, "My dear brother has the wind of Li Taibai, a poet."

Xiao Yi, who was hiding at the side, twitched the corners of his mouth, he was going to be completely drunk now.

Shen Jia wiped her mouth, put down the jug, and picked up the pen to complete the work in one go.

I saw him write: the lamp shakes the pearls and colorful Zhang Huawu, and the moon disperses and the Yaoguang fills the purple city.

"Tonight and Hexi, the spring lights are bright, and the daughter of Yanjing is walking on the moon. The lights shake the pearls and colorful Zhang Huawu, and the moon disperses and the Yaoguang fills the purple city." A young scholar thought about it for a long time, and clapped his hands in praise, "This poem writes about today's Shangyuan. The grand occasion of the festival, according to the situation and the situation, the rhetoric is gorgeous, brother Taiwan has a good literary talent."

Shen Jia looked at him with slightly drunken eyes, and cupped her hands indiscriminately, "It's too famous, I dare not take it."

"Brother, I'm waiting for a candidate who will go to Beijing this year for the exam. Seeing that you are talented in writing, and you want to make friends, can you go to the private room next door to talk about it?"

It turned out to be Juren, Shen Jia glanced at Xiao Yi, and saw Xiao Yi nodded slightly.

"Okay." Shen Jia replied with a smile.

Under the leadership of the young scholar, the two went to another private room.Xiao Yi saw that there were still two people sitting inside.

I only heard that the two were still discussing Shen Jia's poems, and when they saw the person coming, they hurriedly got up to greet them.

"My surname is Du, my first name is Huan, and my name is Zichuan." The young man who invited them introduced himself and introduced two companions, "This is Brother Xue, and this is Brother Guo."

Brother Xue and Brother Guo cupped their hands and said, "I don't know what to call you two?"

Shen Jia said: "I'm sinking into Changqing, this Brother Xiao."

"So it's Brother Shen and Brother Xiao, please sit down quickly." Du Huan greeted warmly.

Du Huan asked the shopkeeper to add two bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses, Xiao Yi thought that if he drank again, Shen Jia would really be carried back to the palace.

"Brother Xiao, Brother Shen, are you also the Juren who went to Beijing for the exam?" Du Huan asked.

Xiao Yi was thinking about how to answer, but Shen Jia, who was drunk and confused, said: "Yes."

Xiao Yi: "..."

"Where are you two from?" Du Huan has always been keen to inquire about the powerful figures in this year's exams, but he has never heard of anyone named Shen Changqing.

Shen Jia told the truth: "I'm from Fujian, and it's very remote there. Where are you from?"

"The three of us are all from Zhejiang," Du Huan said.He looked at Shen Jia, he didn't expect that such a talented person could be produced in such a remote place.

"Zhejiang is good." Shen Jia said drunkenly, "It is said that there are a lot of talents there, and the three of them should be very good if they can be selected. This time, they will definitely be named on the gold list."

"I borrowed a good word from my brother." Du Huan was a little happy when he was told, most of the people were intriguing, and there were very few people like Shen Jia who sincerely wished.

Brother Xue and Brother Guo also asked enthusiastically: "I don't know which inn you two will stay in. If Brother Shen and Brother Xiao are free, I'd like to visit and ask for advice."

Xiao Yi didn't answer, turned his head to look at Shen Jia, and said in his heart, I'll see how you make it up.

Fortunately, Shen Jia still had the last bit of reason and did not reveal her identity.He smiled and said, "I didn't stay in a hotel, but stayed at a relative's house. It's not convenient. Where do the three of you live? I will definitely visit when I have time."

"We're in the Zhuangyuan Building, there was a champion there, so we hope it's auspicious." Du Huan said, then cupped his hands, "Then we'll wait for Brother Shen to drive us."

"It's easy to say... easy to say." Shen Jia felt that she was going to die, and said to the three intermittently, "I drank a lot today, and tomorrow, tomorrow... definitely, definitely, talk about it."

After finishing speaking, he fell into Xiao Yi's arms and fell unconscious.

Xiao Yi was speechless for a moment, so he could only smile helplessly at the three of them, and helped him escape from the restaurant quickly.

Sure enough, as Xiao Yi expected, Shen Jia was carried back to the palace by Jin Yiwei tonight.

The author says:

"Yuan Xi Xing" [Ming] Zhang Juzheng

Tonight and Hexi, the spring lights are on, and the daughter of Yanjing is walking on the moon.

The lights shake and the pearls color Zhang Huawu, and the moon disperses and Yaoguang fills the purple city.