Baochai didn't wake up until noon on the second day. On the third day of the day, he was originally visiting relatives in various families.However, the branch of Shen's family had visited years ago, and the in-laws also visited yesterday. Except for Shen Yu who went to the old man's place to accompany and entertain grandfather's old friends, the others stayed at home for a good rest.Baochai yawned and went straight to lunch, and had nothing to do in the afternoon, and she couldn't do needlework during the first month, so she had to take out her pen and ink and quietly copy the scriptures to pass the time.

The scriptures are all familiar by silence on weekdays, so Baochai wrote them quickly and well, and after a while, he copied out a few boards of jade paper folded into butterfly wings.Shen Shiying'er came in to take a look and once threw a few pieces of orange peel into the smoker to smoke the house, and immediately the room was filled with the sweet and fragrant orange smell.After a while, when Shen Yu came back from the main courtyard after finishing her work, Bailu was taking the satin to help paste up the two scriptures that had been copied, and left them as gifts for future rituals or elders' birthdays.

Shen Yu walked into the room and looked at Baochai's face first, but she didn't think there was anything wrong with her complexion, so she sat down and took the tea from the servant girl while drinking and said, "Do you feel better? I've seen you for a few days. I'm very tired every day, and when the fifteenth day comes, I will ask the old doctor Xu to come to see my grandfather's pulse. I just want to be safe." Baochai hung up the brush and nodded seriously. : "It's all right, I'm pretty good, it doesn't matter if you don't get a diagnosis. When I was at home, I had cough and wheezing a few times when I was young, and I never did it again when I grew up. In the past few years, I haven't even had a headache. It's not a big problem if you think about it." Seeing that she spoke firmly, Shen Yu could not help but relax her eyebrows and said: "It's good if I really feel better. The ban will be lifted on the fifteenth night, and I will take you out for a stroll to see Dengshan."

Xue's family has been in Beijing for four or five years. Among them, Guang Guoxiao met twice, and during the two years when he lived with relatives, he never went to the fifteenth lantern market.I only heard outsiders say that the two lamp mountains of Suzaku and Bronze Camel are really like mountains and seas, but I have never seen them with my own eyes.As soon as Baochai heard this, she became energetic, leaned forward and said, "Shangyuan appointed a great deal, and I haven't seen Dengshan yet. A few years ago, my family invited people to make some occasions. The lantern market is very interesting, so we must go." Shen Yu replied with a smile: "Sure, I will go to see the lantern on the fifteenth day, and ask Dr. Xu to come to see the pulse on the sixteenth." The two discussed it and decided to blow the wax early to rest.

On the fourth day, Shen Yu accompanied Mr. Shen to visit a few friends. On the fifth day, the family welcomed the God of Wealth.In the blink of an eye, it was the fifteenth day, and Baochai got up very energetic early in the morning, changed her clothes, and called the old housekeeper and several daughters-in-law to come in to arrange the family affairs for the year after the New Year's Eve.Seeing her high spirits, everyone was happy to serve her. Before lunch, they set the tone for travel, cooking, sewing, and shopping.

After a hasty lunch, Shen Yu went to inform Mr. Shen, and promised to bring him fresh food, and the couple changed into ordinary clothes and took loose silver to prepare to go out.Dengshan can only be seen well at night, so Shen Yu took Baochai to the Town God's Temple to watch the opera.Because it is in front of the gods and Buddhas, most of the high stage dramas are about loyalty, filial piety, righteousness, propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame to persuade people to do good.Just when Shen Yu was protecting Baochai and squeezed in, two red boxes were piled up on the stage to act as a sedan chair, and a Tsing Yi sat on it, babbling and singing "Golden jade slave beats a weak lover with a stick".This Tsing Yi has a slender figure, brows and eyes full of affection, and his appearance is exquisite, and his voice is like a delicate bird, as if he is too weak to wear, even when he scolds Mo Ji as a "thief".After waiting, a group of boys in costumes of maids and maids came up and surrounded and beat the flirtatious Lang Mo Ji, and the audience cheered endlessly, and some good things insisted on pinching a copper coin and throwing it on the stage.

The stage in the Town God's Temple is no different from ordinary ones. It is about two or three feet above the ground, facing the golden body of the City God. The singing and beating are not just for watching with the common people, but for honoring the City God and enlightening him by the way. All peoples.Such a high platform, how can ordinary people throw copper coins on it?Many people stopped after trying a few times. Shen Yuzheng was going to touch a copper coin and throw it away. The crowd asked Baochai to pull his sleeves behind his back and stand in a place where there were few people.

Naturally, he obediently followed his daughter-in-law's strength and walked. Seeing people everywhere, he first went out to the City God's Hall to offer incense, and then found a stall selling mutton soup and sat down: "Now people are rushing to the City God's Temple. I’m afraid I could step on my shoes. Sit down and eat something first, and then leave after the people disperse.” On the far stage, Xu Yuanwai and his wife came out to support Mo Ji with their adopted daughter, and they went with the couple again. After talking together, the two had just released their previous suspicions and reconciled as before, and at the end, they naturally raised the case and replaced each other.

Baochai was sitting there warming her hands with the mutton soup. Seeing this, she just hummed the word "heh" from her nose and said, "This is Mo Ji, he looks like a scholar. When he married Jin Yunu that day, he didn't dislike Ren Tuan." The background of the boss, you have to wait until you are successful and famous, and then look back and dislike the reputation of the old man. I don’t know where the fruit of the previous four seasons and the pen and ink of the saint have been fed. The killer secretly pushes people into the water and loses money. The most hateful person has to press hard to tell the two to reconcile before giving up, completely ignoring the law. Let me say, if the case of killing a wife is so vague in the world It’s fine to live a life of mud, and in a hundred years, the world will be full of men. It depends on where to find a wife, haha.”

Shen Yu had never seen her speak so sharply before, and without getting angry, she asked with a smile, "So what?" Baochai sneered, "Since women's lives are worthless, those foolish men and women must only want to let their sons go. I am willing to support girls. I heard that there is a custom in the village now that when a daughter is born, she is drowned and strangled directly or not buried alive in the backyard. Since ancient times, the world has been calm and harmonious, and every boy must have a girl. There are fewer and fewer women, and there are more and more bachelors. Naturally, those who are courteous and privately traded with human beings are repeatedly prohibited. The more girls are sold as objects, the lower they are for people, and the common people are even less If you are willing to give birth to them, you will not be full of men as time goes by, and everyone has fulfilled their wishes, so why not beautiful." Shen Yu knew that what she said was ironic, so she didn't argue, she just asked: "Then grandma thinks this is ridiculous?" What should I do?"

Baochai said: "Isn't a wife a human being? Isn't killing a wife a murder? Besides, killing a wife is worse than killing others. It can be called the most insane. You know that woman has a sallow face and rough hair, but don't kill her." Forgot that it was this yellow-faced woman who served her parents-in-law and raised their children. Those peasant women had to grow vegetables and raise chickens. Even if they were resting, they tried their best to save some needlework and sell some money to subsidize the family with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. Such a person, diligent Three to five years of hard work, hard work without credit, and no outrageous actions, let him be so lightly said to kill, so people are more wolf-hearted than others. Even if we don’t read the law, we know that we owe it If you don’t kill, you don’t have to pay for your life, but you still can’t escape the crime. At least it’s about him who has been around for ten or eight years, so people know how powerful it is. Even if there is no Jin Yunu, he may not be compared to him. I had a bad time as a girl."

Shen Yu clenched her fists in front of her mouth and laughed, fearing that Baochai would be even more annoyed when she saw her, she hurriedly nodded her head and said, "Yes, yes, grandma is good, you should take care of him for a few years before you know how good life is. Don't be angry, use some mutton soup to prepare to leave, and when the sky gets dark, Dengshan will light up." Baochai lowered her head and slowly finished the soup in her hand as she said, and Shen Yuhui got up and the two got up and went out along the flow of people head away.Next to the Town God's Temple is the Gongyuan, today is not the day to worship the most holy teacher, who knows who offered some incense and fruit snacks to save face with the saint.More people are either stumbling over the scented stalls on the roadside, or staring at the shops full of lanterns and can't turn their eyes away. There are still a group of people who are going forward, which is also going straight to the two streets of the bronze camel and Suzaku. Interchange at the Light Mountain and go.

As the night gradually fell, candles were lit on the stalls on the street and in the shops on both sides. The candles were full of light, and there were many tourists. After all, it is not as comfortable as walking freely.Shen Yu supported Baochai's back with one hand and pulled her sleeve with the other, fearing that the crowd would disperse, she stepped forward a few steps out of the alley, only to feel a bright light in front of her eyes.No more than those paper lanterns made of paper from small households, these lantern mountains really attract attention like Qionglouyuyu rising from the ground.Dengshan is also built by people. Most of them are 24 filial piety, Tang monks learning scriptures, beautiful scenery of four seasons, and stories of gods and Buddhas.

Shen Yu protected Baochai and went forward along the flow of people. At the bottom of the largest lamp mountain, he saw all kinds of flowers, plants, animals and palace lamps in the style of the inner court hanging on poles and hanging out of the wall.Many officials who came to Beijing in advance to prepare for Enke also invited their friends to come out to enjoy the lanterns, and they were guessing some lantern riddles here in order to win some prizes and please those "confidantes".Many people were accompanied by prostitutes dressed in red and green to serve them, all of them were flushed with pride and complacency, as if they were about to go to the Golden Palace tomorrow.

It turns out that the lantern riddles here were created by the doctors who ordered the Imperial Academy to make these lanterns. They also asked the House of Internal Affairs to supervise the production of these lanterns. They were specially asked to put them out on the fifteenth day for the people in Beijing to guess the riddles. happy meaning.It is said that Wen Wu is the first and Wu Wu is the second, and there are also sayings that literati are inferior to each other, but it is not that the young students are gathering more and more fighting spirits against each other, and they want to separate themselves.There is a hexagonal revolving lantern hanging on the highest point, and when it is lit, it looks like a vivid red flying at night.Shen Yu frowned when she saw it, but didn't say much. She pointed to a huge lotus lantern that was a little shorter by one shoulder and said, "It's a pity that I didn't see any peonies tied into peonies today. Is the lotus lantern possible?"

Baochai gave him a sideways look, and said with a half-smile: "You really can guess all of them? It's hard for me to see the first one!" She was right. The ones that come out are not out of clichés by citing scriptures every sentence. As far as Shen Yu's well-regulated knowledge is concerned, at most he can change to the small rabbit lamp at the bottom. It is basically useless to try to guess the one above.Shen Yu grinned and said with a smile: "I can't guess if there is a grandma. Grandma has read poetry and books and has a sharp eye, but the whole family knows it. It must be a joke to go out for a stroll and go back empty-handed. It must be a joke." Please show me your skills, Grandma." She said with a playful smile and winked her eyes, which made Baochai angry and funny.

But since we are out to play, it would be nice if we can exchange for some new gadgets without spending money.Now Baochai supported Shen Yu and stood forward again. After hearing the rules and looking at the appearance of all kinds of lanterns from bottom to top, he went slowly to the inner officer who kept the stall and took out the money and said to him: "Please trouble me. My wife, this is guessing money."

The eunuch took the silver from Mingmianer, then transferred Baochai and stuffed a gold box into his palm. The eunuch took it away expressionlessly, and raised his chin to Shen Yu in a blink of an eye: "Please!" Baochai Seeing that Shen Yu started scratching his ears and guessing lantern riddles, the first three floors were fine, and Shen Yu really wanted to move the books in his grandfather's study one by one to search on the spot. Seeing that he was about to sweat, Baochai laughed He leaned over and whispered the answer to his ear.This time it became very powerful, almost bouncing up from the fourth floor to the eighth floor.Further up is the revolving lantern, but Shen Yu didn't guess, pointing to the largest lotus lantern on the eighth floor and said: "Please, just change that."

Some of the onlookers shouted: "Hey? Why don't you guess, instead of the red Fuye running at the top, brother, you have to go to school today?" Shen Yu turned around and stared fiercely. With a glance, he took the lotus lantern that had been taken off and said, "Brother Emotion will be happy that my sisters will not be able to run away with others at night."

The man ate the choke, rubbed his nose and laughed dryly, and stopped talking, but Shen Yu's eyes were rather unkind to the fans around him.Baochai hid behind him and tugged at his sleeves, and then Shen Yu snorted and backed out of the crowd, holding the lotus lantern and supporting Baochai, and walked back along the road.It was almost three o'clock in Xu o'clock at this time, and the business of the roadside stalls became more and more popular. Shen Yu picked and bought sugar piles, crystal dumplings, jujube cakes for the old man, and made an appointment with two braised pig's trotters and put his two ears on the table. hand.Baochai led him with one hand and the lamp in the other, and walked slowly towards the gate of the house in the west of the city.The surrounding lights were brightly lit, and there was a whole world of glazed glass, and snowflakes were blowing up in the air in perfect harmony with the occasion.

As he was walking, a flame as high as a person suddenly rose from a corner of an official's footsteps beside the road, and suddenly a person shouted: "It's amazing! It's flooded!" The people walking nearby were startled. Big jump, no matter whether they collided with officials or not, they all ran away in a panic like headless chickens.Shen Yu hurriedly supported Baochai and retreated to the wall as soon as possible to protect her between the wall and himself, and supported the wooden board behind her with both hands to separate the fleeing crowd with her back.

The fire was not too big, and the soldiers of Wucheng Bingma Division had already prepared sand and waited, and they extinguished the flames after three times and five divisions. At this moment, Baochai suddenly pushed Shen Yu and lifted his chin to let him look at the alley on the right. : "The sedan chair over there is so strange, it seems to be waiting for people to go in. Huh? Why is there another young nun helping that girl to go in? Something is wrong!" Shen Yu changed his expression after only one glance, and shouted After the fire was extinguished, the soldiers who were evacuating the crowd took off their badges and showed them to him: "Perhaps there was a kidnapper Tete who set the fire. You ask some brothers to come over and touch it with me to have a look." Baochai was worried again, thought for a while and said, "Forget it, come with me."

It would definitely not work to let Baochai go back by himself, and besides, he was worried about these unknown soldiers, if he couldn't save others and let his wife go in, Mr. Shen would absolutely not agree.Right now, saving people is like putting out a fire, and if you take a few steps slower, the aunt and the sedan chair will be lost, so I have to make a compromise and take Baochai to catch up.

Fortunately, both of them changed into convenient clothes today, Baochai pondered for a while and raised her head and said: "If that aunt is really a kidnapper, I'm afraid there are accomplices guarding the alley. If you rush in like this with someone, at worst you will tear up your ticket and run away. Today Where are you going to chase after such old people outside? How about I walk ahead and pretend to twist my foot to ask for help, and you follow behind quietly to see if it is right, what if I wrong a good person again?"

Shen Yu thought for a while and nodded, "That's fine. I'll watch you from behind, and I'll keep you safe, so I can find out the truth as soon as possible." After finishing speaking, Baochai raised her hand to touch the beaded flowers on her hair In a blink of an eye, he leaned against the wall and moved step by step towards the entrance of the alley where the sedan chair was stored.Shen Yu led a few soldiers into the crowd in an instant, and it looked as if the young couple broke up.

Baochai seemed to be moving slowly, but actually moved extremely fast, holding the lamp in one hand and leaning on the wall with the other, turning three times and turning twice into the alley, when she saw a sedan chair with a blue cotton curtain in front of her, she was overjoyed and rushed over to help the sedan chair Yan'er said to a young aunt who was standing by, "Little master, my family lives in the west of the city, may I trouble you to give me a ride?"

That nun is indeed a kidnapper, originally looking for a beautiful girl of twelve or three poles from a good official's family to start her, she specially designed a curtain to fish in troubled waters to trick her out, she persuaded her to get into the sedan chair, and ran away before turning around. Another, more beautiful version of me came to my door.The kidnapper glanced at Baochai up and down and thought, it's a pity that he was married before, but in their business, most of them kidnap clean and tidy girls from officials and sell them far away to be concubines. Since they are concubines, they don't care. It's not a young girl, or even such evil people deliberately spoil the girl first and cut off their will to survive, and then it will be much more convenient to bring a muddleheaded person to act.

When she saw Baochai, she smiled and said: "Grandma, if you don't mind, please get on the sedan chair and squeeze. Our wife also ordered me to take our girl back. How about sending our master first and then you?" Seeing her approaching, Baochai suddenly felt that the smell of this man was strange, and he seemed to have smelled it somewhere before, so he suppressed his doubts and said calmly: "It's okay, my husband and I went out to look at the lamp, and I just had a little The candles were burning on the fence at the other people's house, and they separated in fear, and I will send it to my house sooner or later, and I will thank you very much." The aunt pretended to knock on the sedan window and said to the inside: "Girl, let's go to this grandma. Is it convenient?" The girl sitting inside replied in a soft voice: "Okay, it's convenient for others, please come up this grandma."

The author has something to say: make up the chapter that was missing a few days ago~

Don't worry, everyone, you won't be able to go away!

In addition, girls, please be vigilant.Although you may not be as valuable as giant pandas, you are still very, very, very precious. Remember not to trust others, especially those who beg you to go to remote places under various banners, and don't give traffickers any opportunity.

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